Category — General

SeeFree®:

cool, if it is real.

War Profiteers Card Deck:

everyone should know who is making money from horrific deeds.

New Scientist Breaking News – Why it is hard to share the wealth:
They found that while the income distribution among the super-wealthy – about 3% of the population – does follow Pareto’s law, incomes for the remaining 97% fitted a different curve – one that also describes the spread of energies of atoms in a gas (see graphic).

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this fits my argument about most power law analysis… they ignore the facts to fit the curve, sure they seem to fit the curve, once the data is ignored, when analyzed more precisely using more representative indicators the power law thesis tends to collapse.

George W. Bush Presidential Library:

the first part is pretty funny, the last is old news.

Phil Bradley: Finding what you need with the best search
engines:

this is a good short overview.

City Pages – No. 1?:
The United States is 49th in the world in literacy (the New York Times, Dec. 12, 2004).

The United States ranked 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).

Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the earth. Seventeen percent believe the earth revolves around the sun once a day (The Week, Jan. 7, 2005).

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yep, but they can still get on the internet…. well, some of them, we aren’t very well ranked there either.

Wooden Laptop, Computer Portatili in Legno:

if you have the money…. why not.

Tinderbox 2.4:
Tinderbox 2.4 is now available! It’s got tons of important new features:

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good news

Fore-edge painting:

these are cool

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Debt-Peonage Society:
Warren Buffett recently made headlines by saying America is more likely to turn into a “sharecroppers’ society” than an “ownership society.” But I think the right term is a “debt peonage” society – after the system, prevalent in the post-Civil War South, in which debtors were forced to work for their creditors. The bankruptcy bill won’t get us back to those bad old days all by itself, but it’s a significant step in that direction.

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this is where our senators are wrong…..