Archive for July, 2008
great firewall of china
China doesn’t seem to be able to get out of its own way regarding media censorship during the Olympics.
Here is an excerpt from a news article:
China’s decision to reverse a pledge on allowing unfettered web access proved an embarrassment for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which had repeatedly said foreign press would not face any [...]
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Tags: absurdity, censorship, china, olympics
think like al qaeda
If I was an al-Queda leader, I would be staying up day and night planning a spectacular attack on western financial interests.
The global financial system is clearly in the most precarious shape since the Great Depression. It’s easy to imagine some kind of attack aimed at pushing it over the edge.
I sincerely hope this is [...]
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bernanke and bush
Bush and Bernanke were both on camera at the same time the other day. It is too funny to watch their respective characterizations of the state of the economy.
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kudos to pickens
I’m really glad to see T. Boone Pickens trying to jumpstart a dialog on national energy policy.
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Tags: economy, energy policy, oil
Presented without comment: the cover from the March 30th 2002 issue of The Economist, captioned “The Houses That Saved The World.”
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exciting
As a private pilot, this is an exciting development.
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sms ripoff
I’ve always thought that mobile phone carriers’ charges for text messages were the ultimate ripoff.
This blog puts this into perspective. The author has calculated the SMS data transfer charge to be $1,497.97/MB.
Compare that to the $60/month I pay for unlimited data on my Blackberry.
To put this in perspective, if you apply the SMS pricing to [...]
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