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This post is…

Felhad — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:33:39 +0000

…different than the previous top blog post.

Suckage Equilibria

jYopp — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:04:20 +0000

Here’s a really great quasi-philosophical post.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?bid=349&bpid=23992

For those unfamiliar with the Malthusian trap, it’s the phenomenon that (at least in pre-industrial times, and possibly for us again eventually) humans can reproduce more than fast enough to suck up any additional resources in our economic system.

In Malthus’ day, improvements in agriculture would add N previously non-existent calories to the community foodstock, but as soon as those calories were available, people would reproduce in greater numbers, producing new people who required at least N×c additional calories, where c is significantly larger than 1. The cycle was severe enough that people starved, or were so malnourished they fell prey to childbirth or minor blood loss or the common cold. So, life sucked because everyone had to spend all their time and energy growing food — it’s simply the equilibrium state of the system. That is, it was … until the Black Death gave us our modern economy and rising standards of living.

Test Post for iPlay4e

Animeted — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:09:53 +0000

Here is a test to see if I can embed iFrames inside of a blogpost, for a character widget.

Economies in Everything: The Human Soul

Animeted — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:00:57 +0000

Hey guys, read this on an economic blog and thought it was very interesting:

http://mosnews.com/weird/2009/06/22/soullatvia/

Apparently, some Latvian private company is giving out small loans requiring only one piece of collateral: // cue dramatic music//

YOUR SOUL!

The Voynich Manuscript

jYopp — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:49:47 +0000

To anyone who doesn’t read XKCD daily, the target demographic for today’s comic is precisely, Elmer.

http://xkcd.com/593/

Dice-o-matic

calane83 — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:39:59 +0000

I first read about this on Bruce Schneier’s blog, believe it or not. Pretty cool.

Awesome Videogame Wallpapers

jYopp — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:59:07 +0000

This guy on DeviantArt has (apparently) painted high-quality scenes from some of the greatest SNES-era video games as desktop wallpapers. Mario, Sonic, Metroid, Legend of Zelda, Megaman, etc. are all represented.

Wallpaper Collection (1280 x 720)

Wall-E case mod

calane83 — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:47:53 +0000

This is incredible.

World’s Metalest Tip-of-the-Day

calane83 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:30:21 +0000

I was using Sam Spade, and I got this:

Awesome.

Pub evacuated after Monty Python prop mistaken for grenade

calane83 — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:11:50 +0000

Here:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/03/holy_hand_grena.html

and here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5018294/Pub-evacuated-after-Monty-Python-prop-mistaken-for-grenade.html