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The economics of free in practice…

Friday, January 25th, 2008

If three graphic designers can recreate d-day for practically free…

Hollywood, you’re proper fucked!
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Green tech means $$$ too…

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

I can’t understand why the greenies keep building a false dichotomy between looking out for the bottom line and being clean — they both mean green…
Saving energy means saving money — you couldn’t ask for a better selling point, especially as energy prices continue to climb. We don’t need alarmism to lower our carbon levels […]

Can group motivations be sufficiently, efficiently selfish?

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Going way back to 1946, from Economics In One Lesson…
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics […]

The resurgence of the $2 bill…

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

This is pretty interesting stuff (words I doubt I’ve ever uttered when discussing monetary policy). My vote’s for the first reason given for why the two-buck is back in fashion — currency inflation…
In 2005, depository institutions ordered $122 million in $2 notes, according to Federal Reserve statistics. That is more than double the average […]

Rambling semi-coherently since 2006…

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