economics
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"Admit it. You stereotype people by their email addresses." How Hunch user demographics break down by email domain. [via swissmiss]
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"I've argued that the ultimate endpoint for Digital Rights Management (DRM) is the pay-per-swing hammer." MetaFilter member adipocere takes DRM to its logical end.
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"A single meta tag to control prefetching reduced our DNS queries by 350 million per month." Wow, if you use subdomains extensively this is something to watch out for.
Paul Bausch
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"...none other than Corvallis stands out as the top city in the country for innovation — after you account for its size. New York is merely average." Some theoretical physicists are looking at new ways to measure the creative output of cities.
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Awesome vintage terminal emulator with a hilarious incentive to purchase. [via
waxy]
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And apparently the Web is for complaining. [via
seanyboy]
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Some auto-generated ebooks based on top Stack Overflow questions in various categories.
Paul Bausch
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Bruce Sterling on Flipboard. "I would counter that what this thing really massacres is weblogs. Flipbook makes weblogs look archaic, much more than it makes magazines look archaic."
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I always wondered about those people at library book sales with scanners. Now I know. [via
TYWKIWDBI]
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A browser extension that blocks all of those annoying 'Like on Facebook' buttons.
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This work by a Slovenian painter in the early 20th century is eerily similar to our own century's
Jim Woodring.
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Learn the constellations the 1940's Navy way!
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I don't care what science says, Mexican Coke is better! (Glass bottles alone are better.)
Paul Bausch
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"My process of interviewing people is I do not interview people," said the cheerful Hustwit. "I'm trying to get them to forget that they're being interviewed." Also, signs of increased interactivity: "Are you a robot?" [via glass]
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In a perfect world their jobs would depend on their accuracy rather than their ability to produce entertaining content. [via long now]
Paul Bausch
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"Indeed, these days posting words, photos, and videos online is sort of like getting tattoos. Think ahead, because they're going to be around forever whether you want them or not."
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"It would have been a lot cheaper if we had a policy where the CEO of any sufficiently large investment bank was paid $100 million per year direct from the U.S. Treasury. In return for this guaranteed payout, he or she would forgo any numbers-based compensation..."
Paul Bausch
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"The Federal Government now controls what were -- up until last month -- vast private assets. These are extreme -- truly radical -- changes to how our society functions. Does anyone have any disagreement with any of it or is anyone alarmed by what the consequences are -- not the economic consequences but the consequences of so radically changing how things function so fundamentally and so quickly?"
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Lawrence Lessig gives one of his trademark presentations about Palin's experience compared with past Vice Presidents.
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A startup that wants to help people raise money for their projects. (via Waxy, who's on the board.)
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Oregon's Peter Defazio on the bailout.
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Robert Reich rants about the bailout. And he's right.
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Representative Marcy Kaptur from Ohio on the bailout: "Real reform now, or nothing."
Paul Bausch
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Nice update of the Washington Post tax plan comparison graph that went around a while back, weighted by population.
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"Mount your iPhone or iPod touch as a wireless drive on any Mac, Windows, or Linux computer." Cool, I've been wanting this feature for the iPhone. [via ckohtz]
Paul Bausch
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looks better than parallels for running a single Windows app on OSX. (though I can't get this beta version to run.)
filed under: mac, software, productivity
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Marc Hedlund just started a blog for his personal finance startup
filed under: weblogs, economics
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