This is a list of interesting stuff from this past week that I didn’t get a chance to write about.

• What if we didn’t bail out the creditors? – Tyler Cowan on what we could have expected had there been no bailout for Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. (Marginal Revolution)
• Brave New World of Digital Intimacy – Clive Thompson on how Twitter and Facebook updates are changing the way we understand the lives of others. (NYT Magazine)
• SideTaker: Crowdsourcing Your Private Disputes, With Hilarious Results – Jason Kincaid on a new website that lets you ask the world who is right about all the stupid crap you fight about in your relationship. (TechCrunch)
• Three Great Social Contractarians: Hobbes, Locke, and … Blackbeard? – Peter Leeson on why criminal organizations form terrific social contracts. (Freakonomics Blog)
• Mexico Supreme Court orders Wal-Mart to stop paying workers in store vouchers – Oh, Wal-Mart… the first step to reforming your image is to stop doing ridiculously evil shit. (via reddit)
• The Hottest Rhetorical Device of Campaign ’08 - Juliet Lapidos on the reversible raincoat, or the “antimetabole” for you rhetoric geeks. (Slate)
• The dream for a human capital agenda - Edward L. Glaeser writes in on the Boston Globe’s Op-Ed page on why investing in human capital is the best thing we can do for the future. (via Economist’s View)
• How to cheat at everything – A con man reveals some of his tricks in Intelligent Life Magazine. (via kottke)
• Study firmly shows no connection between measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism – Will people finally stop believing this now? (via reddit)