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“New Zealand experienced one of the more radical experiments in economic...”
– John Gray, 1998
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Students Pay High Price for Freedom →
An excellent article in the Herald today about looming VSM. This is just a terrible idea.
Decide for yourself.
"The answer to all our problems is bound up with... →
hipsterlibertarian:
This is from a Mises Institute fundraising email. Not typically the most quotable sort of document, but I thought this was good.
Cat vs Internet →
More Oatmealy goodness. Well worth a look.
FaceTime Calls May Be Cheaper Than You Think
A few months back, I performed a very unscientific trial of Apple’s new FaceTime service on mobile internet connections; comparing the cost of a FaceTime call on a data connection with a traditional voice call over the mobile network. What I found was quite surprising.
Okay, so I made a 43 minute call which used 74MB of data. That works out at less than 2MB/minute (1.72MB), sent and...
Using Location-Based Services to Visualize Spatial... →
Emergent social networking applications which take advantage of location-based services such as Foursquare, Facebook Places, and Google Latitude, present opportunities to aggregate data and analyze social patterns.
This research report is interesting in itself, but also provides an indication of what will follow. Exploring the relationships between geographic elements and social life, using these...
How to pet a kitty →
The Oatmeal’s guide to the protocols surrounding human-cat contact. Absolutely hilarious. Check it.
Come on now, Twitter, keeping Wikileaks off... →
“Don’t tell me “the sky’s the limit”. We left footsteps...”
