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The Economist (1987) via Paul Krugman

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:06:36 +0100

The Economist (1987) via Paul Krugman

3G iPhone under the hood

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:44:59 +0100

3G iPhone under the hood

breakdown of the iphone 3G’s $173 manufacturing cost

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:19:18 +0100

breakdown of the iphone 3G’s $173 manufacturing cost

The Onion on the future of videogaming

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:51:23 +0100

The Onion on the future of videogaming

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might..."

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:31:31 +0100

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well have not at lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

- J.K. Rowling at her Harvard Commencement speech

A bike meant for the city

Wed, 28 May 2008 16:56:05 +0100

A bike meant for the city

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Mon, 26 May 2008 22:42:51 +0100

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"I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, “That’s not fair.” When she says that, I..."

Mon, 19 May 2008 00:19:39 +0100

“I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, “That’s not fair.” When she says that, I say, “Honey, you’re cute; that’s not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that’s not fair. You were born in America; that’s not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don’t start getting fair for you.””

- P.J. O’Rourke [source] [tip]

"The hands, Dario says, are everything. With them, cooks express themselves, like artists […]..."

Sun, 18 May 2008 13:25:25 +0100

“The hands, Dario says, are everything. With them, cooks express themselves, like artists […] Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.”

- Bill Buford in Heat

"American gasoline is also dirt-cheap compared with gas in other countries. British motorists are..."

Sun, 18 May 2008 11:38:10 +0100

“American gasoline is also dirt-cheap compared with gas in other countries. British motorists are currently paying about $8.38 per gallon for gasoline. In Norway, a major oil exporter, drivers are paying $8.73. In 2007, out of the 32 industrialized countries surveyed by the International Energy Agency, only one (Mexico) had cheaper gasoline than the United States. Last year, drivers in Turkey were paying three times as much for their gasoline as Americans were. The IEA data also show that in India—where the per capita gross domestic product is about $2,700 (about 6 percent of the per capita GDP in the United States)—drivers have been paying more for their diesel fuel and gasoline than their American counterparts.”

- Robert Bryce on how gasoline is cheap [source]

"On Sunday, Oxfam warned that the death toll in Burma could reach 1.5 million without massive..."

Wed, 14 May 2008 13:25:01 +0100

“On Sunday, Oxfam warned that the death toll in Burma could reach 1.5 million without massive humanitarian intervention. To arrive at that figure, Oxfam used the U.N.’s 100,000 estimate as a base. Then they used research from previous natural disasters and demographic analysis (children and the elderly are less likely to survive, etc.) to predict that 15 times that many people could die from typhoid, malaria, dengue, cholera, and other diseases.”

- Juliet Lapidos talking about how organizations estimate natural-disaster death tolls

"if there is any one nigh unto universal institution that can be found in the developing world it is..."

Tue, 13 May 2008 16:51:23 +0100

“if there is any one nigh unto universal institution that can be found in the developing world it is that of religion, it is the “church.” In places where there are no roads, no phones, no sanitation, no infrastructure whatsoever there exist networks of profound depth and breadth, already entrenched in peoples lives, that can serve as the vehicle of transmission for development projects which otherwise would take years to accumulate the credibility necessary for adoption - networks of faith. Other than those groups partnering with faith communities to take on the herculean task of hospice care for those suffering from AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa I haven’t been able to find many examples of this or even many instances of a call for this type of partnership at a grassroots level.”

- the author of an awesome blog talking about how religion can benefit development

"Private philanthropy is 50 percent greater than government assistance, and remittances are twice as..."

Tue, 13 May 2008 12:59:54 +0100

“Private philanthropy is 50 percent greater than government assistance, and remittances are twice as great as private philanthropy. Religious organizations give about a third as much as the entire U.S. government.”

- Chris Blattman on the results from the CGP’s 2008 Index of Global Philanthropy [source]

Last.fm + iPhone + YouTube = Time Killer

Tue, 13 May 2008 12:12:31 +0100

Last.fm + iPhone + YouTube = Time Killer:

joelaz:

From your iPhone, go to http://icanhaz.com/musicvideos and click on the edit field to enter your Last.fm user name, then click “run”. You’ll see a list of some of your favorite tracks from the last few months. Bookmark that page for future reference. Then click a track and the video will open up in the iPhone’s native YouTube player so you can watch the video full-screen.

Powerset and the hijab

Tue, 13 May 2008 06:50:00 +0100

Powerset and the hijab:

Powerset
A powerful contextual-semantic search engine (right now only searching wikipedia and freebase)
Loving and Leaving the Head Scarf
What hijab’s revolving door says about the religious…

Stamps and pc ethics

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:25:00 +0100

Stamps and pc ethics:

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Sun, 11 May 2008 20:10:41 +0100

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-11)

Sun, 11 May 2008 19:16:29 +0100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-11):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr

Law schools and another look at the kindle

Sun, 11 May 2008 06:12:00 +0100

Law schools and another look at the kindle:

Social and socioeconomic

Sat, 10 May 2008 06:03:00 +0100

Social and socioeconomic:

Pain and inequality
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