Included in the blurb for the google reader making its way to the iphone is:
... iPhone and iPod Touch owners know how powerful having a full-featured browser is.
I cannot work out American car design; it has always produced distinctive cars but you have to be blind to the absolute stinkers that get produced along with the classics. There are some cars that just do not look right. The American Ford Focus is such a car.
Writing to the desktop and taskbar without asking is so 2001.
Don't recall being asked if safari and quicktime could write themselves there. Apple supposedly prides itself on its out of box experience OOBE. Fails miserably in this instance. I had to delete it off the desktop too.
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Yesterday, Bio-Diesel was $4.76 per gallon. That's the bad news. The good news is I can drive a long way on one of those gallons and I make an OK salary.
The economy is not on the hop.
Via ucb:
The hop shortage became noticeable around July, when a market glut and hop reserves stored in extract began dwindling.
The bulk of U.S.-grown hops are produced in the Yakima, Washington, area. Farmers weren't getting a profitable return and got out of the market, switched crops or went bankrupt. The same was happening in Germany, the world's No. 1 hop-growing country.
In the United States alone, there were an estimated 515 hop growers in 1950; 75 in 2000 and just 45 today, Ward says. In 2006, about 2 million pounds of hops were destroyed in an S.S. Steiner warehouse in Yakima, equaling about 4 percent of the U.S. hop crop.
All the while, beer sales are increasing worldwide by about 1 to 2 percent annually. The craft brewing industry is growing yearly by 12 percent. That economic reality is pushing hop growers back into the fields.
As someone notes in the article, "The cure for high prices is high prices."
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Very insightful article by John Quiggin.
Spartan coin was iron rods - ie rusty nails.
Domain Tasting is not consistent with private property.
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John Barrdear in exploring the self-affirmation stereotypes of left and right produces a quote from Karl Rove where Rove argues he enjoyed policy more than politics. Count me in amongst the skeptics, especially after reading an article like this on the politicisation of the justice department. Read more »
Five ways you can tell you are in Melbourne, not Sydney.Sally of Sydney Daily Photo has a sequence of posts on the differences between Melbourne and Sydney.
Currently reading; War and Liberty
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Workchoices and judicial activism in striking it down? Wouldn't that have been judicial conservatism, not activism? Read more »
The Federal Government should never have gotten the power over Industrial Relations. It mostly hinged on the definition of 'constitutional corporation' along with the ignoring of the head of power (xxxv) which is an explicit grant of power that limits a broad reading of constitutional corporation.
Very interesting packaging design blog.
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If statistics on popular searches are anything to go by, it looks like many people aren't bothering with that inconvenient "www" and ".com" and are just going straight through Google.I do that. Apparently someone has already argued for the dropping of the .com on the internet. Not sure what that would leave for .org or .net sites.
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Currently reading; A War Like No Other.
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Defn: When a bug is fixed or expedited based on who found it rather than its technical merits or impact.
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