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An intriguing read: [www.slate.com] Starbucks Economics Solving the mystery of the elusive “short” cappuccino. By Tim Harford […] The difficulty is that if some of your products are cheap, you may lose money from customers who would willingly have paid more. So, businesses try to discourage their more lavish customers from trading down by making…

If so, then you want Synergy2 (so long as you are on a secure network) – it works like the classic X2X and although the config file syntax is a little baroque – all symbolic names and so forth – it supports cut-n-paste and overall seems to do a good job. Plus it gives you…

Being somewhat of the “just because we can do it doesn’t necessarily mean that we should do it” camp, I am mildly disconcerted by the following: [news.bbc.co.uk] Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that glow in the dark. They claim that while other researchers have bred partly fluorescent pigs, theirs are the…

This bit of corporate politics has been passed around as internal folklore for years – more than a decade, even. In some ways it’s sad to see it published. It used to be nice to have a little secret.

Via Geoff, a pair of fluffy 1D20 for your mirror. Shouldn’t they be pink though? And with a sunshade band across the top, spelling out SHARON — GANDALF?

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Later in 2002, having cut my teeth on the first video, I decided to try for something a little more ambitious: to illustrate the concepts of Defence-in-Depth and highlight some of the technical security issues that you’ld encounter in a modern “Enterprise” Compute Network. [ webpage ] [ quicktime ] [ 19Mb ] So –…

http://newsbusters.org/node/3454 read the report watch the video read the masthead …and now you will understand the comments It’s a surreal experience unless you remember to do point 3. Really. As for Letterman it’s a shame – he’s hardly a heavyweight. I really really really really really really really really really really really long to put…

Awwww… [news.yahoo.com] @COLUMBUS, Ohio – Police aren’t sure how else to explain it. But when an officer walked into an apartment Thursday night to answer a 911 call, an orange-and-tan striped cat was lying by a telephone on the living room floor. The cat’s owner, Gary Rosheisen, was on the ground near his bed having…

Really, the only thing I can say to this is “WTF?” [news.bbc.co.uk] Non-paying parents may be tagged Parents who fail to pay child support money could be tagged, Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton said. Mr Hutton said the idea was being examined as part of reforms of the powers of the Child Support Agency.…

Geoff wrote me up: Arguments and relativism Step 1. Go to Alec’s blog and read this fine piece on the frustrating tendency of people to turn arguments about substantive issues into debates about how we feel about these issues. Step 2. Go to Edge.org and read through the pieces that were submitted in response to…

…and whilst we’re on the subject of the P-word, I was vegetating in front of the television over the Christmas break, and decided that – from my personal perspective – the deepest, darkest, outright sexiest woman I have ever seen act is Elizabeth Taylor in her lead role in Cleopatra. It doesn’t matter to me…