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Impressive new UK coins. (One problem with the unified design is that it doesn’t deal very well with coins being added or removed from circulation, … gulfstream/2422Differences in consumption per person are much less dramatic than differences in income (in the US): “If we look at consumption per person, the difference … gulfstream/2395
“To this end, Chen has taken steps to ensure that future monkey sex at Yale occurs as nature intended it.”—do monkeys understand money? gulfstream/1767
Leonard Cohen possibly broke. gulfstream/1832
Measuring poverty: in the US, the poverty line for the last 40 years has been set at three times a (very minimal) food budget. This approach has many … gulfstream/2045
The shapeless official website of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffet’s $136bn (+ $25bn in B stock?) holding company. The Message from Warren Buffet … gulfstream/2081
The ATM (cash machine) at the DNA Lounge gives out receipts which are headed “SHOPPING IS NOT CREATING / YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU OWN”. gulfstream/2216
Interview with the designer of the pre-Euro Dutch bank notes, complete with revelations of secret embedded features. gulfstream/2224
People don't think rationally about money. This stuff is all extremely interesting. gulfstream/652
Little piece (book review) on indexes and indexing. Good books have good indexes. (I really want to write "indices.") Robert Latham, editor of the … gulfstream/713
Pleasant Nick Hornby summary of the World Cup goings-on. He tries to argue that some of the footballers view the World Cup as “an … gulfstream/857
This is kinda crazy: some dotcom companies are repurchasing their own shares for less than their cash value. (The “cash value” of a share … gulfstream/949
US$100m was recently bequeathed to Poetry, which currently operates with four staff and an annual budget of US$600,000. One writer quips, “That’s … gulfstream/975
What rules govern a “just society”? Political philosopher John Rawls believed that a thought experiment known as the “original position” … gulfstream/979
The New Yorker will apparently make money this year (i.e. 2002), for the first time since 1985. Experts in magazine finance are unconvinced. … gulfstream/995
Paying for Moveable Type: “… I feel that $65 is insignificant compared to the value I’ve received over the last nine months.” … gulfstream/1008
A decidedly Orwellian turn: the Economist reacts to the DCSD’s poorly written anti-Lomborg judgement (see bottom). (Lomborg has taught me not … gulfstream/1012
“Why are we in space?” The Stennis Space Center FAQ explains that NASA’s funding represents a penny out of every dollar in the U.S. … gulfstream/1061
Great James Surowiecki piece on the Policy Analysis Market that specifically deals with the moral objections: “Let’s admit there’s something … gulfstream/1229
Tipping your way into fine restaurants. “Outside, I realized I had just witnessed the gold standard. The maître d’ turned down the money when … gulfstream/1411
The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act makes it illegal for foreign nationals to promise to contribute money to candidates—?! gulfstream/1478
On coaching Indian call-center operators to be more, uh, American. After I got some cards stolen in St Petersburg, I called American Express to … gulfstream/1515
Web site for London’s (fairly hard-core) campaign to get people to not give money to beggars. “Don’t give to people begging on the street; … gulfstream/1521
The Long Tail: in an Internet economy, you can make money by selling stuff most people don’t want (e.g. Bollywood films)—because you can find … gulfstream/1594
Total asshole awards. (Gold is the money.) gulfstream/1852
Justgiving collects money for charity, but their fees (5% of donation) are more than PayPal’s… gulfstream/1864
(1) The US apparently has a long-standing policy that any food aid must be purchased in, and shipped from, the US. (And is alone among large donors … gulfstream/1907
Julian Dibbell makes $11,000 selling items on Ultima Online, asks the IRS if this is taxable income, or what. They don’t know, and suggest that … gulfstream/1937
The Red Cross is apparently running an ad that ridicules almost all well-meaning attempts to “save the world”—except donating blood, … gulfstream/1944
“There’s no substantial business today in charging companies money for the privilege of indexing one’s book …” I do so enjoy Cory Doctorow’s … gulfstream/1976
Even Homer’s brain knows that “Money can be exchanged for good and services.” Looks like he’s gonna be able to avoid having to declare this as … gulfstream/2057
The sad story of Nauru: in the 1970s, the people of Nauru were amongst the richest in the world (the whole island is basically phosphate); now the government … gulfstream/2065
“More broadly, the data the company gets from transactions could help it improve the way it chooses which advertising to show to which users. Google … gulfstream/2101
The Indian Medical Association is apparently conducting an investigation into three doctors who were evidently captured on camera offering to amputate … gulfstream/2156
Wow, art conservators take their jobs really seriously: to fixing Steve Wynn’s ripped Picasso they’s (may) attempt to match up individual fibres. … gulfstream/2180
Improbable news from the IHT: Google handles just 1.7% of Korean web searches—a search engine called naver.com (which apparently delivers Google Answers-style … gulfstream/2300
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Move close to where they live. "You need to move into a rich environment," says Ginie Sayles, a Houston marital consultant and author of How to Marry … quotes/473Fortunately the turnout was very low, ensuring that we can continue to be free of the corrupting influence of money. -- Jamie Zawinski, on the the fortunes … quotes/448
That's why you don't see many employers buying insurance that covers smoking cessation programs or the various expensive drugs that can help people to … quotes/397
"Saving for well-done" is a time-honored tradition dating back to cuisine's earliest days: meat and fish cost money. Every piece of cut, fabricated food … quotes/385
"What is it?" he'd [Bigfoot] tell them on the phone, playing the confused dumbo for a while before the metal jaws clamped shut. "I don't pay quickly … quotes/379
... a while back, I went to a writers' conference. I was making chitchat with another writer, a critically acclaimed literary novelist who taught at a … quotes/367
There had been a period at the beginning of the five years she [Nastasya Filippovna] had lived in Petersburg during which Totsky had not spared any money … quotes/295
Reserving government contracts for domestic companies violates international law, of course. It seems like just the other day that Donald Rumsfeld was … quotes/289
No matter how hard it is to make money out of Linux, it's much harder to compete against it. -- Andrew Tridgell quotes/245
Whom can I talk to? Get advice from? No one. A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money. And I won't take advice, even if I want it. … quotes/160
The most terrifying realisation is that so many millions in the world would like to be in my place: I am not ugly, not an imbecile, not poor, not crippled--I … quotes/158
Why did Western Europeans come to dominate the world? Historian Paul M. Kennedy, in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987), says western Europe … quotes/130
Did you ever read what they call Science Fiction. It's a scream. It is written like this: ``I check out with K 19 on Aldabaran III, and stepped out through … quotes/35
Then to the office a little, and so to Lumberd street to borrow a little money upon a tally, but cannot. Thence to Exchequer, and there after much wrangling … pepys/206
So putting all together, we are, and are like to be, in a sad condition. We are endeavouring to raise money by borrowing it on the City; but I do not … pepys/205
... to Harman's house, and took him to a tavern hard by and we to discourse of our business, and I offered 500l. And he declares most ingenuously that … pepys/194
Perticularly, he [Mr. Eveling] intertained me with discourse of an Infirmery which he hath projected for the sick and wounded seamen against the next … pepys/184
Thence, mighty merry and much pleased with the dinner and company, and they with me, I parted; and there was set upon by the poor wretches, whom I did … pepys/166
Up---and this day being the day that, by a promise a great while ago made to my wife, I was to give her 20l to lay out in clothes against Easter, she … pepys/145
This morning I begun a practice which I find, by the ease I do it with, that I shall continue, it saving me money and time---that is, to Trimme myself … pepys/105
I am also somewhat uncertain what to think of my going about to take a woman-servant into my house in the Quality of a Woman for my wife. My wife promises … pepys/76
The want of money puts all things, and above all things the Navy, out of order; and yet I do not see that the King takes care to bring in any money, but … pepys/51
What right have I to write on prudence, whereof I have little, and that of negative sort? ... I have no skill to make money spend well, no genius in … emerson/11
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