This year
Will Steacy Blog: The Facebook Effect
Corporate taxes paid on profits fell to 12.1% in fiscal 2011. Companies on average paid 25.6% from 1987-2008.
2011
I AM PELLE | Pelle Martin
2010
Japan’s Farmers on the Rise? - Japan Real Time - WSJ
Although the number of people starting new farms fell overall, those in the under-39 age group rose by 6.9%. That suggests the current popularity of farmers’ markets, organic food and “sustainable living” in cities like Tokyo and Osaka is spurring some young people to head for the countryside, supported by grants from the farm ministry and help with agricultural know-how from organizations such as Refarm.
Better Gmail Firefox add-on
2009
Desktop drapes: GNOME wallpaper manager
Number of On-demand Titles Topped Traditional Books in 2008 - 5/19/2009 7:21:00 AM - Publishers Weekly
The number of new and revised titles produced by traditional production methods fell 3% in 2008, to 275,232, but the number of on-demand and short run titles soared 132%, to 285,394. The on-demand and short run segment is the method typically used by self-publishers as well as online publishers.
The Kitchen
Well before Soho became SOHO, there was the West Village, an urban network of lower and middle class dwellers, merchants, craftsmen, intellectuals and artists in the infrastructure of city parks, small restaurants, cafes and theaters. In time, this cultural stronghold of the Lower West Side fell into decline and one of the last flagships of the performing arts was, for a short time, located at the Mercer Arts Center, an assembly of small theaters facing Mercer street in what was the old Hotel Central.
Grid Based Design Toolbox | Fuel Your Creativity
My pachislo machine will not power on. what's wrong?
2008
The Mobile City » Blog Archive » Locative media and the situationists
:) Gauche caviar et Sofa RevolutionWhat struck me was that locative media practitioners often refer back to the situationists as some kind of ancestors, as if they’re working in the same vein. …
But that, to me, seems to be where the similarities end. As alive-and-kicking situationist muse Jacqueline de Jong pointed out during the evening, the situationists wanted one thing above all else: to destroy and disrupt our cushy society. They were sick of it, vowing never to work a day in their lives. They probably would have laughed if they had seen that their ideas had been cherry-picked for ripe concepts. The derive, the detournement. All simple concepts that they purposefully packaged in complex and artistc jargon. And we fell for it.
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Bleak New Batch of Data on Economy - NYT
2007
In Freiburg - Travel Images
In Freiburg - Travel Images
Python instead of Matlab for plotting?
Mary fell back on her papa, and begged him to take hers
Va. gunman's family feels hopeless, lost
Ingenious Iranian PR and Diplomacy - Releasing British Sailors as "Easter Gift"
Elementary My Dear Watson - Music Bands Led Zeppelin
Python, Ruby, Testing




