I've been looking for something like this for ages. Seems like Mahattan real estate is totally screwed.link » tags: [maps] posted via Wists: permamark
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2006 March
"The artist took 10 days to create the mini-masterpiece using a single rabbit hair as a paintbrush."link » tags: [weird] posted via Wists: permamark
Craig Newmark has a proposal to counter Goodmail. craigblog: a big advance for spam and phishing fighting? The problem with Craig’s proposal – that authorized, digitally signed email passes through spam filters – is that it doesn’t create a sender ‘cost’. This therefore cannot be a true cure against spam, since spam is a product of almost zero cost for the sender. As we are seeing, costs are always introduced in any marketplace, and with email being free to send, the self-emergent cost, in dealing with spam, is passed to the receiver. The postal service did not grow exponentially until it switched from a receiver to a sender pays model, and US cellphone use lags other developed nations because both call sender and recipients pay. If neither sender and recipient pay, as with email it seems that the recipient ends up paying. So the Goodmail solution plays into the way…
The total output growth of the global economy "in just the three years from 1995 to 1998 is estimated to have been greater than the total growth in the 10,000 years before 1900".link » tags: [books]
When I got home this evening, my wife was all happy because she had made a CD for a work colleague’s parents. They had to be conferenced in on a call so they could play a sample to find out who a song was by, they liked it so much. Whereas I had been writing the misanthropic anti-religious rant below. Sometimes I am such a miserable git. So I’ve put a strike through the post – and am listening to the CD, and its making me happy. When others do stupid things in computing people say RTFM – read the fucking manual. For some people the bible is their manual but they clearly haven’t read it. CNN has a piece on mutual funds run by religious extremists which pose as ‘socially conscious investing’ a phenomenon which originated with anti-Apartheid groups. These funds, such as the Timothy Plan, have strange priorities….
More evidence that religion in America is a potentially dangerous disease: “Today’s atheists play the role that Catholics, Jews and communists have played in the past they offer a symbolic moral boundary to membership in American society” “From a telephone sampling of more than 2,000 households, university researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in
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Squint and you can just make out… a couple of grasping hands?link » tags: [weird] posted via Wists: permamark
V for Vendetta will have Fox Newsites foaming at the mouth, their legacy as bitparts in a modern day Dr. Strangelove. And the challenge – that there is no such thing as a freedom fighter, on the same weekend that Gerry Adams dines at the White House. link » tags: [movies] posted via Wists: permamark
Did Digg get spammed to help ramp Sun's Stock?link » tags: [news] posted via Wists: permamark
Boing Boing quotes Alan Moore (Creator of V for Vendetta) as saying that the real polar opposites in politics are not right or left but fascist vs. anarchist – i.e. how much government you have. This clearly does make the political scale less abstract, but the problem is that Anarchy is by definition not really a political stance but an apolitical one. As another web bubble brews, there was a definite Libertarian smell in the atmosphere at South by Southwest. By any logical definition of anarchy, Libertarianism is just an erm ‘politically correct’ term for anarchy. On the right Libertarianism is pretty simple – its about gun nuts. But it seems that on the left, Libertarianism is often the choice of former liberals who have made lots of money and choose a cause which allows them to support rights which don’t cost them anything. For ‘Liberaltarians’, supporting the right to…