Archive for February, 2007
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Are there any people left in Boston with common sense?
Boing Boing: Boston police blow up traffic counter chained to lightpost:
Mark Frauenfelder:
Thanks to the Boston Police bomb squad, this is one traffic counter box that won’t get a chance to kill anyone. Link
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
Kinky Quote
Been meaning to put this one up for a long time, but just found the book while packing. It’s from page 23 of
“Kinky Friedman’s Guide to Texas Etiquette: Or How to Get to Heaven or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worth” (Kinky Friedman)
Years ago, my mother had a little sign on her desk…. It read: [...]
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
Postage Rates over time
After seeing this news item, and as a means to procrastinate my packing before the movers arrive, I decided to see what the inflation-adjusted price of a stamp was.
This is cost of mailing a one-ounce letter by First Class mail. I got the rates from a list compiled by Andrew Dart, and did the [...]
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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Wanna rent my place?
Craigslist: Duplex on unique, secluded Buell Court
2/2 Upper half of duplex on wooded courtyard.
Near to Downtown, Montrose, Museum District, River Oaks; walk to restaurants, coffee shops, night clubs.
Built in 1930, restored in 1993.
Master bedroom has walk-in closet.
Smaller bedroom has built-in bookshelves, own bath.
Master bedroom, study, and balcony have ceiling fans.
Master bedroom, living room, and study [...]
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Why the trade deficit doesn’t matter
Cafe Hayek: The Economic Meaninglessness of Political Borders:
Sheldon Richman, of the Foundation for Economic Education, firmly grasps what Adam Smith meant when that Great Scot wrote in The Wealth of Nations the following wise words:
In the foregoing Part of this Chapter I have endeavoured to shew, even upon the principles of the commercial system, how unnecessary [...]
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Turning Ethiopia into the breadbasket of East Africa
Market approach recasts often-hungry Ethiopia as potential bread basket | csmonitor.com
From famine under socialism to becoming a grain exporter under the free market.
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
Wheel of Food
Wheel of Food:
David Pescovitz:
Unsure of where to go for lunch? Spin the Wheel of Food, a silly-fun interface for Yahoo! Local created by Jim Bumgardner. (He also made a Wheel of YouTube and lots of other experimental interfaces for online data from sources like Amazon and MagazineArt.org.)
Link to Wheel of Food, Link to Baumgardner’s Coverpops [...]
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
I’ve been waiting for this for years!
From Café Hayek:
Hmmmm:
What a world we live in. At Midomi, you can hum or sing a few bars of a song and it will find a recording of the song for you along with a bunch of amateur renditions. It’s a great time waster and a way to amaze your kids. It actually works which [...]
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
“That’s not a hair question.”
wbztv.com - CBS4 Boston Video Archive
Treating the press with the respect they deserve in this situation.