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links for 2010-02-02

• iPad - 2005
  PG: The limits of product naming.
  (tags: humor videos apple)

links for 2010-01-28

• Proof That Small Spaces Work || Prova de que lugares pequenos funcionam (hat tip to Raphael Moras)
  "One clever man has thought up a fantastic solution to parking his car (which is 1 meter 49 centimeters wide) in his tiny garage (which is 1 meter 55 centimeters wide). How does he get out with only 6 centimeters to spare, you might ask. Check out the video and see the very unexpected solution for utilizing our small spaces to the fullest."

links for 2010-01-25

• VideoCrunch - Watch the PSP Go unassembled and reassemble itself
  PG: This must've taken a while...
  (tags: videogames psp sony videos)

links for 2010-01-21

• Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee
  PG: From an anonymous Facebook employee. Interesting, and slightly scary at the same time.
  (tags: design technology facebook culture security web privacy interviews)
• Haiti Earthquake Survivor: "My iPhone Saved My Life"
  "Apple’s iconic smartphone has been known to win hearts and minds, but can it also save lives?"
  (tags: iphone apple internet mobile technology)

links for 2010-01-20

• Meet Your Governor... Jerry Brown
  "Attorney General Jerry Brown is California's acting governor this week. An unusual set of circumstances made it so." (Hat-tip: Rick Murray)
  (tags: california government jerry+brown)
• First-Person Tetris
  Mind-bending. (Hat-tip: Vincent Ferrari)
  (tags: humor videogames tetris)

links for 2010-01-17

• 1934 Sears Catalog.
  Some nostalgia for you all.
  (tags: nostalgia commerce design retail fashion sears)

links for 2010-01-16

• Remember When Casualties Mattered?
  PG: Here, Vincent examines media bias in casualty reporting. Reminds me of when Larry Elder pointed out that, just going by the media reports, you'd have thought that Bill Clinton solved homelessness.
  (tags: politics bias media warning+labels)
• 100+ Fart-prank Videos by Jack Vale
  PG: This one's for you, Paul...
  (tags: humor videos farting)

links for 2010-01-15

• Class War
  "Bigger government means more government employees. Those employees then become a permanent lobby for continual government growth. The nation may have reached critical mass; the number of government employees at every level may have gotten so high that it is politically impossible to roll back the bureaucracy, rein in the costs, and restore lost freedoms."
  (tags: opinion libertarian government)

links for 2010-01-14

• William Burroughs’s Stuff
  PG: A great writer as viewed through his photographed possessions.
  (tags: william+burroughs photography literature)
• FedEx Fail
  "When it absolutely, positively has to get... to Canada after two trips to Paris..."
  (tags: fail fedex humor)
• Peter Backus Uses Math to Explain Girlfriend Woes
  "In the paper Backus summarized that on a given night out in London there is a 0.0000034 percent chance of meeting a woman that meets his criteria and who is also interested in him. That makes his odds of finding a girlfriend only about 100 times better than finding an alien."
  (tags: math science humor relationships)
• Who Wants to Tax a Millionaire? - Reason Magazine
  "As income taxes increase on very productive people and small businesses, they will be less willing to hire or keep employees. The top tax rate on business owners who pay taxes as individuals, as opposed to corporations, is now 35 percent. It is already scheduled to rise to 39.6 percent on January 1, 2011, and under the House bill it would rise even higher, to 45 percent on taxable income of $500,000 for singles, $1 million for couples. With state taxes, some combined rates could exceed 55 percent."
  (tags: opinion economics libertarian)

links for 2010-01-13

• Who Wants to Tax a Millionaire? - Reason Magazine
  "As income taxes increase on very productive people and small businesses, they will be less willing to hire or keep employees. The top tax rate on business owners who pay taxes as individuals, as opposed to corporations, is now 35 percent. It is already scheduled to rise to 39.6 percent on January 1, 2011, and under the House bill it would rise even higher, to 45 percent on taxable income of $500,000 for singles, $1 million for couples. With state taxes, some combined rates could exceed 55 percent."
  (tags: opinion economics libertarian)