Tag: economics

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

The Saskatchewan Party Government – Now With Over 100% Incompetence!

100% is a good mark if you're taking an accounting class, not so good when it reflects how wrong you were with your budget predictions.  I wrote about

Google Donates Two Million Dollars To Wikipedia, No Strings Attached

With Google announcing a two million dollar donation to Wikipedia, I wonder, “did I predict the future nearly four years ago?” “I don't know if any two technology

My iTunes Library Is My "Pending" List – I'll Pay Everybody Eventually…

…when I win the lottery or become a multi-billion dollar corporation, whichever comes first.  (And why is the Alanis song, “Ironic” an ear worm that just burrowed into

Dauphin's Great Experiment: A Living Wage For All (in the 1970's )

I love ideas that are revolutionary: “Cheques were issued based on family size and income. That is, the minimum cheque would presume the recipient had no other source

Conservative? I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means

So it was just announced that the Sask Party, which initially projected potash revenues to be $1.9 billion will actually only bring $109 million to provincial coffers (a

10 Most Ridiculously Overpriced iPhone Apps

Because who wouldn't pay one grand for a single graphic of a red diamond that doesn't do anything else except prove that you have too much money?

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