links for 2009-08-18
On 18 August 2009 with 3 comments
-
This clear-winged butterfly looks like a Photoshop job, but it's just a defense mechanism of semi-invisibility through camouflage.
-
"Here’s a self-enforcing protocol for determining property tax: the homeowner decides the value of the property and calculates the resultant tax, and the government can either accept the tax or buy the home for that price." Very clever.
-
Seven press releases in which tech companies announce what turned out to be famously terrible ideas, complete with the original glowing language in which the companies praised their own brilliance. Circuit City's layoffs, AOL/Time Warner's merger, the launch of Vista, and more.
-
Well, there goes that. We're back to voodoo like polygraphs, I guess.
-
The Times points out that, when examined, most supposed federal-spending boondoggles are nothing of the sort, with some notable exceptions. As a bonus, the origin of the word "boondoggle" is provided—and the etymology is something that linguists would never guess.
3 Comments