Interesting Links for 12-10-2010
If you do this in an email, I hate you - Yup, really, I do
I know I'm awful at replying to stuff generally. Some 'features' of email really do make that even less likely
(tags: funny email internet)
Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four
They've given Hans Rosling a series on t'tellybox. This is very cool. Why did no one tell me?
(tags: statistics video Hans+Rosling)
My god, it's full of stars! Best waste of money ever?
I want it. I like utterly pointless things
(tags: 2001 toys)
FT.com / Weekend columnists / Tim Harford - Why we have got our work cut out creating jobs that matter
Economic growth is a continual process of job destruction, jobs are a cost, not a benefit, of any investment or expansion. We need to make sure that the jobs we create, the jobs the economy creates, are actually useful, productive jobs. Figuring out how to do that? If I knew that, I'd be a very rich man...
(tags: economics)
Heh - it's Govt regulation, not an unfettered free market that makes Times Square garish
If the corporations had their way, every street would be like Times Square, right? That's the dystopian nightmare future in so many SF films. Except it's not unfettered capitalism that makes Times Square garish and ugly, it's the building regulations of the special midtown district.
(tags: NewYork planning advertising freedom)
Open-source mobile phone tech - dirt cheap, easy to build, and very very cool
Want to build a mobile phone transmitter in your bedroom? Not legal to turn it on, obviously, all the bandwidth is accounted for, but a good backup
(tags: opensource openbts technology communication)
Top 10 Lost Technologies : Top 10 Lists
Note, Coade Stone is not on here. That's because, despite what the gorgeous Ms Coren said on Only Connect the other week, the formula for that was never lost.
(tags: technology history)
The danger of a single story - The African narrative is limited and blinkering
Simply amazing presentation (as we've come to expect from TED), makes the point that we know so little about many parts of the world that relating to it is difficult. I probably know more stories and facts about one city in the US than the whole continent of Africa. That's Not Good.
(tags: video africa)
Worker-Run Factories in Argentina Continue to Thrive, Boosting the Economy
Mutuals are good. Nuff said.
(tags: mutualism cooperatives economics)
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