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How come a jillion-million dollars doesn’t seem to be doing the trick?
The problem would appear to be the small issue of the fraction in the fractional reserve system or in other words, the difference between the amount of real money the US government has to hand and the amount of mo...
links for 2008-10-09
"That One" 08 - John McCain - Barack Obama 08 Gordon Bennet, a music video (tags: thatone) That One T-Shirts, sweatshirts, shirts, bumper st...
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Orange RockCorps - social capital generator or surface-only branding?
Just saw Tim’s piece on the Glasshouse blog on Orange Rockcorps and understanding the value of the social capital.
links for 2008-10-07
Hack the Debate // Current this looks good :-) (tags: obama election2008)
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BBC News egging the pudding a tad?
OK so the news late last night was pretty horrific. Yes, we’re all setting up barter economies and I’ve started planting vegetables, but the thing that really did it was the BBC art department.
Did he really say this?
Frankly, it's easy for me to go to washington and be somewhat divorced from people's day to day challenges--John McCain 9/11/08
Henry Paulson’s transparent shell game
Have been catching up on US writers recently, and having just come into the office to discover our parent company is to be nationalised, I’m hoping those sleepless senators listened to voices like Joseph Stiglitz
links for 2008-09-25
'Alan Knight on the wiki way to stakeholder assurance''Johnnie Moore on the limits of social media'
Linkage,
The Peters projection on Googlemaps
I’m repeatedly amazed at how Google maps manages to generate an accurate overlay to satellite photography. I wonder is the photography manipulated in some sort of matrix to make its xy coords mathematically predic...
Techno-bollocks,
links for 2008-09-16
Facebook | 1,000,000 Strong Against Sarah Palin Come on, you know you need to join the "say no to Palin" movement (tags: usa election palin) ...
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links for 2008-09-11
Graphic Novel Reviews—American Widow and Alan’s War Gotta make sure jed sees this - it's La Guerre d'Alain translated into English:-) (tags: BD jed art) ...
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Google -- bête et méchant
Have just got off the phone with Ohna and it seems that Google/Youtube’s behaviour is even more absurd than I thought…
Not Evil Google tramples my sister out of convenience
Well it used to be Big Oil or Big Business but we really are seeing the emergence of Big Copyright
Online VAT registration
So my accountant tells me I need to make sure and complete my VAT registration. Don’t worry he says, you’re an internet consultant so you’ll have no trouble…
links for 2008-08-21
Developer's Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code Gordon Bennet this is just fantastic! (tags: charts, maps, apis, graphics)
Linkage,
Movable Type 4.2 is here (and well worth the wait)
Wow, I thought I’d be playing with RC5 for a while before getting the final release but no, the real thing is here. Go grab yourself a copy
O2’s adventures in electronic customer self-care (ECSS)
OK, I think O2 wins this donkey’s current “Edge du Jour” tag.
It’s survey time again folks
Yes, the A List Apart guys are running an improved version of the survey they did in 2007. It’s good to feel one’s industry is maturing, it somehow helps when trying to make plans for the future:-)
CU-1's shiny new Lamy ABC fountain pen
CU-1 has been learning to write these past few years and I was buying stamps at a stationners in Farnham when I came across this pen. I first heard it mentioned by Richard Binder and since then have thought it wou...
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4.2rc4
Well I’ve been running the iPhone plugin for movable type for a while now but had never used it in anger.
Wordpress v. Movable Type
Disclamer: We’ve had a bit of an ongoing debate on this one with Anil fanning the flames as he tries to support the MT cause. I should disclose that I’m a member of the Six Apart Professional Network and also a 6A...
Vikings v. Aliens
So Charlotte wants me to spread the web2 love re ex-classmate Dirk Blackman’s new production Outlander and why not? (that’s our in-house Viking H on the big-boy climbing frame over there on the left for our family...
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This is the modern world
You know it doesn’t get more cutting edge than this. First, after much stress and waiting, I jailbreak my iPhone and go in search of hot software. Great, open, free liberating productivity apps here I come and lo,...
Techno-bollocks,
Glasshouse gets into personal branding
I’ve been trying to get Nick interested in personal branding after listening to @garyvee at Seed3. Gary made a bunch of interesting points and got me thinking about how Nick should develop on her work so far as a...
Family,
Eat updated
I think the nice man who went in search of my Identity theft woes last week would have liked me to update my previous post.
US Court forces Google to release your private history data
Please immediately tell this person (details updated, thank you Peter)
