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I loved this post from Marginal Revolution, arguing that studying economics makes you happier. Item #2 on the list is probably the best in terms of framing how happy most people should be. In an alternate universe, I could have a job I hate, earning little more than minimum wage. Instead I do satisfying work [...]

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According to one poll, more 19-29 year olds would vote for Stephen Colbert for President than would vote for Rudy Giuliani or Fred Thompson.

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Yesterday I pointed to Ed Felten’s post on Comcast’s blocking of some BitTorrent traffic, wondering what it meant for net neutrality. Today he weighs in with his answer to that question.

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Tim Bray had this to say about bridge blogs:

The part of my function where I relay issues and concerns and discoveries from the developer community into Sun is much more important than the part where I talk to the world.

I prefer to deal with companies that respect me enough as a customer to [...]

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One sentence on virtual gifts on Facebook:

To date, users have exchanged more than 20 million virtual gifts, paying up to $1 for each, making them one of the site’s most successful revenue streams.

Some of the gifts are designed by Susan Kare, creator of the icons for the original Macintosh and many of the [...]

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Comcast is silently blocking a certain type of BitTorrent traffic in a malicious way. The link is to Ed Felten’s explanation of how Comcast’s blocking scheme works.

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I think there’s a great misapprehension in the copyright industry that cost is the killer feature for online file swapping. That is to say that people use these services because they enable to get things they want without paying for them. I’m not arguing that isn’t the case for some people, but there’s also more [...]

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This is the first entry in what hopefully will be an entertaining ongoing series, The URL says it all:

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/10/kucinich_had_a_ufo_encounter_according_to_friend_shirley_maclaine.php

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I learned a new term today — bridge blog. A bridge blog delivers the message of one community (country, organization, company, etc.) to an external audience, making that community more accessible to outsiders. James Governor points out that this was one of the most powerful functions of Robert Scoble’s blog when he was at Microsoft. [...]

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Apple just announced its results for the quarter that ended on September 29, and, um, wow did they put up some huge numbers. The one that stuns me is 2,164,000 Macs sold in the quarter, 400,000 more than they’ve sold in any other quarter, ever. (As John Gruber points out, a lot of people would [...]

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