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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Banned in China
Supposedly davegottlieb.com is blocked by the Chinese Internet censorship regime — kind of awesome if true. I tested it with this site, which is made by filmmakers so perhaps not to be trusted. I think the Berkman Center may have … Continue reading
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Macro Critique of “Buy Nothing Day”
“Buy Nothing Day” is an anti-consumer “holiday” that is supposed to fall in November (I believe it coincides with Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, though the Wikipedia article is bizarrely vague). Buy Nothing Day is supposed to be a … Continue reading
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Fun fact: fluoride-free toothpaste
Tom’s (of Maine) toothpaste is not fluoridated. That’s quality you can abbreviate, scramble the initials, and program into your CRM-117.
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Ego-less Boinging
A common complaint about Boing Boing is that the writers are such tireless self-promoters (a common rejoinder is that it’s their blog — it’s theirs and it’s a blog — but let’s leave that aside). Sometimes it’s claimed that Cory … Continue reading
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More Google hilarity: jewish movie villains!
This post about (now-Sen.) Jim Webb’s paranoiac conspiracy worldview (as channeled by David Brooks is pretty high up in the Google results for jewish villains movies and a couple people have got to my site from that search.
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War on drugs propaganda
Breakdown of the contents of a government propaganda poster about marijuana (most but not all of the analysis seems right). It is really frustrating that the government spends million dollars paying dumb hacks to Google for misleading statistics (this poster … Continue reading
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Courts and command economics
Hypothesis: the problem of nuisance remedies is hard because it reduces to the economic calculation problem. (The Coasean “solution” works by exploiting the one known solution to the economic calculation problem, the market solution.) Questions: – Is this too obvious … Continue reading
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Hitler and the humanities
Informative little essay at Slate, with a hint of the truth.
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