Tag: economics

Music Monday – “Darlin’ I had the best intentions/But I dug myself a hole/With a modern invention”

Another in the long list of “Things I Should Post About” is a in-depth exploration of my own views on copyright, piracy and the impact & actions of

Purple Cows & Public Libraries

Recently finished Seth Godin”s book “The Purple Cow” which has a main premise that businesses should no longer do mass marketing to the big bulge that is the

Saccharine Sunday – 90 Days With AIDS

“A woman with AIDS is filmed briefly, every day, for 90 days, and the changes she undergoes are dramatic. The very end may make you weep, but perhaps

50 Foods Under $1 per lb

Sure, they're counting on some store specials in this list but the point they make about the healthiest foods that you can eat often being the cheapest is

Friday Fun Link – Apple's Eight Steps to Beat Microsoft & Google

Apple Study: 8 easy steps to beat Microsoft (and Google) View more presentations from Ouriel Ohayon.

The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly

Would you believe four turns?  (And if you don't, make sure you read the comments for even more inspired ideas!)We started to wonder about what the shortest THEORETICALLY

Parody Is Not An Infrigement of Copyright (Watch It While You Can)

I wrote about this meme before.  Turns out that a couple years after these parodies gave their German-language art house film some international attention, the people who made

Friday Fun Link – America's Most Amazing Libraries (April 16, 2010)

Our friends in the US are celebrating National Library Week which leads to awesome posts like this one from HuffPo on that country's most amazing libraries.Of course the

Music Monday – "Everything moves real slow when it's forty below"

Stolen from my Facebook status update last night: “Congrats on joining the rest of the developed world, USA!  Now you just need to get rid of the death

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