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Economists v. Historians on the New Deal and the Great Depression 
Alex Tabarrok via Marginal Revolution on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Writing at The Beacon Jonathan Bean nicely reminds us of Robert Whaples survey of economists and historians on questions in economic history. Among the questions that Whaples asked members of the Economic History Association to expre
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Pizza Time Manager Fires Employee Who Complained About Subfreezing Work Conditions [Bad Employer]
Alex Chasick via Consumerist on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Well that was quick: the Pizza Time employee who told reporters that the store's manager had shut off the heat and was making them work in a subfreezing store, was fired. This guy really is a terrible boss. According to King5, which broke the original story, the employee was
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Next Generation Space Toilet
Alex via Neatorama on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Leave it to Japan to fiddle with the adult diaper technology and develop the next-generation space toilet. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has teamed up with engineers from the private sector to complete the project in the next five year:
Clean and easy to use,
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The $700 Billion Rabbit Hutch
Alex via Neatorama on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Recall the surprising news that banks can’t account for how they are using first tranche of the $700 billion federal bailout fund? Well, luckily, Freakonomics blog reader Gannon Hubbar
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Eating a Tuna Eyeball
Alex via Neatorama on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Jesse of Flee Alaksa likes to eat strange things. How strange? How about this: a tuna eyeball!
I was at the grocery store and I got the urge to eat something new. I looked around and I didn’t really see much until I found a food that could look back. It was only a hundred y
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Evolution of Technology Ad
Alex via Neatorama on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Evolution of Technology is a jaw-droppingly creative ad on the "evolution" of steampunk robotic dinosaurs to modern androids. It’s developed by Scholz&Friends Group for the German electric store Saturn.
Laughing Squid blog has the clip:
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Objectified, a Documentary of Industrial Design by Gary Hustwit
Alex via Neatorama on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
How do the things that we buy become things in the first place?
Documentary filmmaker Gary Hustwit (who also did Helvetica - yes, a film about the typeface) takes a look at product designers and their indus
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Error'd: Nothing To Smile At
Alex Papadimoulis via The Daily WTF on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
"That's nothing to smile at, Brett," writes David Robinson, "EntityName parsing errors are serious business."
(currently live at NBC Sports)
"That's okay," Zack notes
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Caption Monkey 54: Mr. T and Nancy Reagan
Alex via Neatorama on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Photo: Mary Anne Fackelman/The White House - via The Sly Oyster
Hooray! It’s time for
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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Confirmed for Spielberg's Tintin
Alex Billington via FirstShowing.net on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Here are the things you need to know about Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg's Tintin
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The incredible power of Social Technology
Alexander van Elsas via Alexander van Elsas's Webl on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
My good friend Steven Hodson has written an excellent post called The impossible dream - Social Technology. Steven is, rightly, concerned about the fact that many people in society are not part of the freedom and conversation social media technology has brought us. Steven writes:
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Curly Skateboard by Loren Kulesus
Alex via Neatorama on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Too bad this gorgeous IPSVM skateboard exists only in Loren Kulesus’s design. Given its intricacy, I’d wager that the only loop-d-loop you’ll see with this skatebard is in its design:
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Canine Treadmill
Alex via Neatorama on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
I don’t know whether to call this American ingenuity and laziness: behold the Canine Treadmill that lets the dog walk itself indoors. You can set the speed, distance, and incline to give your dog the right amount of exercise.
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The Brave New World: More Digital, Less Physical
Alex Iskold via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Yesterday, I was with my wife in the L'Occitane store. The shelves were filled with fragrances, soaps, lotions: all sorts of handcrafted beauty products. It occured to me while looking at the labels that I have no idea how these products were made. I am reasonably versed in chemistry, but the process
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Me Adiciona?
Alexandre Fugita via startupi on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Muita gente já conhece o MeAdiciona.com que é um serviço que lista todos os perfis de um usuário em diversas redes sociais, além de outros tipos de contato como seu telefone e links para seu perfil em serviços web, alg
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Inauguration Bound...
alex via AlexRudloff.com on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Yep.I'm going.I make my political thoughts pretty well known, but I also try to make it known that a phrase like "country first" isn't simply a campaign slogan. There are a lot of us out there who actually mean it. Obama is a brilliant politician who inspires hope in just about anyone within ear shot, and despite probable disagreements between the "right" and the "left" over the ne
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Milky Way Now 50 Percent Larger, Astronomers Discover
Alexis Madrigal via Wired: Top Stories on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
New, more precise measurements of the Milky Way indicate that it's 50 percent more massive and spinning 100,000 miles an hour faster than previously thought. Scientists presented the discovery at the American Astronomical Society meeting.
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Eloping Kids’ Plan of an African Wedding Foiled by the Police!
Alex via Neatorama on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
Mika and Anna-Lena wanted to elope to Africa to get married where it’s warm, but the couple’s plan was foiled by police. It’s a good thing, too, since the two lovebirds are only five and six years old!
The budding lovebirds, identified as Mika and Anna-Len
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Picasa for Mac
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
Picasa borrowed a lot from Mac's elegance and simplicity, but it was only available for Windows (and emulated in Linux). Mac users can now finally install a native version of Picasa from picasa.google.com/mac/ and enjoy one of the most easier to use software for photo management.From the
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