Monthly Archives: August 2009

Unicode table for you

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.ftrain.com/unicode ❦

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BBC NEWS | Business | Murdoch attack on dominant BBC

Stumbleupon Review of : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8227915.stm The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. In this case, however, it fell on its head.

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http://twitter.com/fireland

Stumbleupon Review of : http://twitter.com/fireland Johua Green Allen wins Twitter. Gorgeous out today. I'm gonna sit under a tree, take off my shoes, huff some Lemon Pledge and fight with the centaur who lives in my hair.

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Website Optimizer Tricks

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.gwotricks.com Question Test everything. It doesn't make nearly as much difference as you'd think, but statistics is fun.

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There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human…

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.alternet.org/rights/142171/there_are_more_slaves_today_than_at_any_time_in_human_history One hundred forty-three years after passage of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and 60 years after Article 4 of the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights banned slavery and the slave trade worldwide, … Continue reading

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Language in Thought and Action – Wikiquote

Stumbleupon Review of : http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Language_in_Thought_and_Action Such complicated and apparently unnecessary behavior leads philosophers, both amateur and professional, to ask over and over again, "Why can't human beings live simply and naturally?" Often the complexity of human life makes us look … Continue reading

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Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_craigslist?currentPage=all The long-running tech-industry war between engineers and marketers has been ended at craigslist by the simple expedient of having no marketers. Only programmers, customer service reps, and accounting staff work at craigslist. There is no … Continue reading

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Eurozine – Debt: The first five thousand years – David…

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-08-20-graeber-en.html What follows is a fragment of a much larger project of research on debt and debt money in human history. The first and overwhelming conclusion of this project is that in studying economic history, we … Continue reading

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Twitter + Dinosaur Comics Mashup @ idefex.net

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.idefex.net/projects/qwantztwitter Dinosaurs tweet.

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::: Early Advertising of the West, 1867-1918 :::

Stumbleupon Review of : http://content.lib.washington.edu/advertweb The real reason Summers always seemed so much better in the past? Beer goggles.

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