[Globalization and Robots Edition]
Lessons from the 1000 years of history of trade and war - “One striking feature of today’s international economy is that, as in the 19th century, regions with very different factor endowments are being drawn into closer contact with each other, as what used to be known as the Third World opens [...]
Wired on coffee for The Enlightenment, and drugs and body enhancements for the second Enlightenment.
UN Data opens up to the public - Massive database now available online
Treasury Dept confiscates domain names of Brit travel agent who booked Cuba tours - Appears the Wikileaks seizure might have been only the first of many attacks on global [...]
Cal State University fires Quaker for inserting “nonviolently” into loyalty oath - Boing Boing
Canada Stuck in the Slow Lane on Traffic Shaping Debate - Michael Geist
Nine Inch Nails Uploads New Album on Torrent Sites - TorrentFreak
Predictify Prediction Market Platform Launches with Freakonomics - Mashable
Canada v. Israel: A United Nations military observer sent e-mails home to Canada reporting that Israel was bombing schools and waging “a campaign of terror against the Lebanese people” shortly before he was killed by an Israeli bomb in Lebanon.
Beautiful ad for the Madrid Metro — The city as seen from the underground. [via Kottke]
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Put options on your gadgets
New Wave in Yugoslavia at Wikipedia? Fantastic.
Totally Spent: New York Times
The only way out of the recession? Give lower and middle income earnings more buying power, permanently.
Potomac Primaries: Obama Steals Clinton’s Base
INFEST WISELY | a lo-fi sci-fi movie in seven episodes
Brighter Planet · Home · Fight global warming and build a clean energy future - new visa card
Future overlord Freebase takes in $42 million.
More reasons why we need to be moving towards a decentralized Twitter.
Calgary’s just released Economic Development Strategy - Rather progressive report outlining recommendations for the future of Calgary. Like most sensible reports they receive, the City government will likely ignore it.
The origins of the Federation of North American City States - Speculative social fiction from All About Cities
Original SimCity goes open source! - Blast [...]
A New American Holy War [Newsweek]: “The skirmish pits Huckabee against Romney in a story of hardball politics and high-minded history, of shadowy slurs and noble principles.”
Wired on the human brain’s unused sensory capacity “Figure out how to change the sensory data you want — the electromagnetic fields, the ultrasound, the infrared — into something [...]
