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links for 2009-08-31

• British MEP Daniel Hannan on the NHS, Enoch Powell, and His Libertarian Plan for Britain
  PG: "The great thing about the Internet is that it disintermediates the message."
  (tags: daniel+hannan politics britain videos)

links for 2009-08-29

• Forest Service warning linking tortillas and Tecate to armed pot growers called profiling
  Our war on drugs at work: "A federal warning to beware of campers in national forests who eat tortillas, drink Tecate beer and play Spanish music because they could be armed marijuana growers is racial profiling, an advocate for Hispanic rights said Friday."
  (tags: worthless+nanny+state+organizations drugs marijuana crime law)
• The Rise and Fall of the Dollar: 1800-2009 - Mises Economics Blog
  PG: Scary... We always talk about loaves of bread being five cents back in the day, but that's just arithmetic that doesn't take purchasing power into account.
  (tags: economics money history visualization)

links for 2009-08-28

• Kennedy liked to joke about Chappaquiddick?
  Psychopath...
  (tags: ted+kennedy politics)

links for 2009-08-27

• Ikea catalog from 1965
  Hat-tip: Dave Coustan
  (tags: ikea nostalgia design)
• Is 'Friending' in Your Future? Better Pay Your Taxes First
  PG: Apparently, the government has found new ways to identify people who might fill White House cabinet posts. "State revenue agents have begun nabbing scofflaws by mining information posted on social-networking Web sites, from relocation announcements to professional profiles to financial boasts."
  (tags: privacy taxes internet)
• Sorry, in the game of In-and-Out, you're OUT!
  "Leave it up to Santa Rosa, home of some of the funnest moments in unfunded public outrage, to come up with a new one – this time a group of concerned citizen is protesting the opening of an In-and-Out based on … air quality concerns."
  (tags: worthless+nanny+state+organizations california food restaurants)

links for 2009-08-26

• The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine
  "Cheap, fast, simple tools are suddenly everywhere. We get our breaking news from blogs, we make spotty long-distance calls on Skype, we watch video on small computer screens rather than TVs, and more and more of us are carrying around dinky, low-power netbook computers that are just good enough to meet our surfing and emailing needs. The low end has never been riding higher."
  (tags: design economics technology)

links for 2009-08-25

• Whatever You Do, Please, PLEASE Don’t Search for Jessica Biel
  "More precisely, if you Google Jessica Biel, you have a one-in-five chance of landing at a website that contains some sort of online threat: spyware, phishing, viruses, trojans, spam, and the like."
  (tags: security celebrity jessica+biel)
• RoyalTea, DemocraTea & StripTea || Chá com a realeza, democratas e dançarinos.

links for 2009-08-24

• POTUS Tracker | The Washington Post
  PG: An interesting representation of the President's schedule.
  (tags: visualization calendar barack+obama)

links for 2009-08-21

• Mickey Rooney discusses twitter with Ben Stiller
  PG: Okay... Wasn't expecting this...
  (tags: videos twitter ben+stiller mickey+rooney)

links for 2009-08-16

• Brazil TV host turned politician 'ordered killings to boost ratings' World news | The Guardian
  "A Brazilian politician who fronts a popular television crime show is being investigated for allegedly ordering a series of executions in a bid to boost his ratings."
  (tags: brazil politics media television)

links for 2009-08-15

• I'm not making this up...
  "During a ceremony featuring bare-chested women, fresh goat’s blood and a tribal king, [Jesse] Jackson was bestowed with the ceremonial title of royal 'dignitary' while visiting the village of Krindjabo in the Ivory Coast this week."
  (tags: weird jesse+jackson)
• Motorist gets a lift in Sturgeon Bay
  PG: The photo says it all.
  (tags: weird photos cars)
• Sin bins for worst families
  "The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes. They will be monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals."
  (tags: politics government privacy britain law worthless+nanny+state+organizations)