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Rosscott, Inc. » Archive » Bike lane indicators get...

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:54:38 -0400

Rosscott, Inc. » Archive » Bike lane indicators get straight to the point – Boing Boing

Fake freeway sign in LA finally taken down

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:13:59 -0400

Fake freeway sign in LA finally taken down

Australia goes to the polls 澳洲選舉難分勝負 (via NMAWorldEdition)

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:48:45 -0400

Australia goes to the polls 澳洲選舉難分勝負 (via NMAWorldEdition)

Wondermark » Archive » True Stuff: Shaving as...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:31:26 -0400

Wondermark » Archive » True Stuff: Shaving as Barbarous

The Enterprise of Community: Market Competition, Land, and Environment

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:31:07 -0400

The Enterprise of Community: Market Competition, Land, and Environment:

I’m not sure that I want what is being advocated, exactly, but it sure is interesting to think about. The basic argument is: landlords increase the value of their land by affecting the social/physical environment of it, or in other words by attracting good neighbors and providing various useful services (or making sure they’re provided). As the size of land holdings go up, the power that the landlords wield increases, and potentially these landlords might being to provide the sorts of public services that are traditionally provided by government, and get a tax reduction for themselves and their tenants. The problem, I think, comes when you take this to an extreme; you quickly get feudalism again, with all the resulting problems. But perhaps you could do Feudalism 2.0 which didn’t actually suck, in the way that Democracy 2.0 seems to be sucking less than the first go-around.

Rainbow - today and tomorrow

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:40:13 -0400

Rainbow - today and tomorrow

"Jerry: Today’s guests are here because they can’t agree on fundamental philosophical..."

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:43:55 -0400

“Jerry: Today’s guests are here because they can’t agree on fundamental philosophical principles.”

- The Jerry Springer Philosophy Show

"My father once played me the song The Night Chicago Died. I was a kid and he explained to me the..."

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:06:25 -0400

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My father once played me the song The Night Chicago Died. I was a kid and he explained to me the events that inspired the song. I ask him—I was only eleven or twelve at the time— how a few men with guns could over-power a large crowd. “Couldn’t they just jump them?” I asked.

“They were too worried about getting killed themselves,” he told me.

”

- Darren Greer

Slow motion lightning strike

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:22:02 -0400

Slow motion lightning strike

Valley Girl Contest

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:51:15 -0400

Valley Girl Contest

Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects With All That Private/Final Bullshit Removed

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:57:23 -0400

Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects With All That Private/Final Bullshit Removed

Record Tripping - A Bell Brothers Game

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:22:43 -0400

Record Tripping - A Bell Brothers Game:

Short, and not very hard, but I really enjoyed the way they integrated the music/sound.

"Disallow: /harming/humans Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders Disallow: /harm/to/self"

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:55:07 -0400

“Disallow: /harming/humans
Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders
Disallow: /harm/to/self”

- http://www.last.fm/robots.txt

Arthur Benjamin’s formula for changing math education....

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:04:50 -0400

Arthur Benjamin’s formula for changing math education. The TL;DW takeaway is: current high school math curriculum is designed as a buildup to calculus. While calculus is indeed useful, most high school students will never use it. Instead, we should put probability and statistics at the pinnacle (and I’d throw in basic logic as well), since it is frequently and directly applicable in everyone’s lives.

Jonathan Drori on what we think we know

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:57:29 -0400

Jonathan Drori on what we think we know

lip balm commercial (via hojimbo)

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:35:31 -0400

lip balm commercial (via hojimbo)

Fleep

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:39:02 -0400

Fleep:

A comic in which a man trapped in a telephone booth uses logic to handle his situation.

Terror Island

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:15:43 -0400

Terror Island:

“some photos of chess pieces don’t want to buy groceries?”

Vexillology

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:59:53 -0400

Vexillology:

is the scholarly study of flags.