Interesting Links for 24-9-2011

[andrewducker]

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  The Great Prosperity of 1947-1979, and The Great Recession of 1980-now
  (tags: politics economics statistics visualization)
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  Father photoshops Ewoks into holiday snaps to persuade his daughter they are real.
  (tags: photography ewoks)
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  The Car Is Dead. (Is it too early for headlines

Comments

[andrewducker]

It has taken them _ages_ to get there with them. I assume that the automated systems just weren't up to it when they started.

[strawberryfrog]

The Thames cable car is over-budget because it's a completely ludicrous idea.

[andrewducker]

It could have been a well-planned and budgeted ludicrous idea though.

[a_pawson]

It's over budget because they deliberately left out several major costs from the original headline budget figure to make it easier to persuade people it was worth doing.

[ninebelow]

Great Regression, not recession. An important distinction because it shows that even when the economy was doing well, people weren't benefitting from it.