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Schpatz Lager: 2011.02
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A full-bodied blog with a smooth finish. Thursday, February 24, 2011. More on income inequality, this time from Robert Reich. He speaks about this particular issue frequently. I've been a big fan of his ideas for changes to the tax code for years. A Brief Bit on Inequality. I've been getting more and more frustrated with American politics lately, and this. Particular set of infographics from Mother Jones really helps to drive home one of the issues that really concerns me most: rising inequality.
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Schpatz Lager: The Disposable Society
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A full-bodied blog with a smooth finish. Monday, June 16, 2008. The developing world seems to have one advantage that we may lack: repair culture. The developed world has lost this, as more and more consumables are made to be disposable. Everything we buy is built with a short life-time and minimal durability. It leads us to ask:. Is disposability stifling innovation, or does it help to drive it? In some ways, the technology industry is to blame for the loss of this repair culture. Continually increa...
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Schpatz Lager: 2007.08
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A full-bodied blog with a smooth finish. Monday, August 27, 2007. Damn it, I'm slow! Ok, so I have been reading (honest! Only I'm a bit slow. I've been also doing a little bit (and the operative word in that sentence is "little") bit of writing on the technical. I'll get there eventually. I have been spending an inordinate amount of time reading blogs on these sorts of subjects. I'll post up a decent list shortly. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). How circular is "Lousy at describing myself? Just Out of Town.
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Schpatz Lager: Oh, the Hilarity
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A full-bodied blog with a smooth finish. Friday, December 19, 2008. Oh, the Hilarity. One of the most brilliant XKCD's I've seen in a while: flow charts .explained via flow chart. Update: Clicky, clicky! I think this is awesome. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). How circular is "Lousy at describing myself? View my complete profile. Just Out of Town. Oh, the Hilarity. Prepare the Tin Foil!
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Schpatz Lager: Prepare the Tin Foil!
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A full-bodied blog with a smooth finish. Thursday, December 11, 2008. Prepare the Tin Foil! Is crazy: scientists in Japan have developed a way to read the visual information of what a person is seeing directly from their brains. Subjects were showing simple 10x10 pixel images, like the ones on the left. The subject's visual corteces were monitored via a fMRI. The resulting images of activity were analyzed by computer, and the images on the bottom were reproduced. Hat tip to BoingBoing. Just Out of Town.
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Schpatz Lager: 2006.12
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A full-bodied blog with a smooth finish. Saturday, December 02, 2006. A Return to Essays. For a year now, I've been only writing on my travel blog. Things have returned to the Ordinary, so I plan to return to writing essays on random topics of my interest. Most of my thinking in the past few months has leaned towards the philosophical. I've been reading a lot of Wikipedia. Entries on various philosophers and theirs ideas in an effort to introduce myself to the field. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Schpatz Lager: 2006.03
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A full-bodied blog with a smooth finish. Thursday, March 23, 2006. Lure of the Eye. For anyone who owns a Mac PowerBook of a more recent incarnation, there is a little white LED on the front, set into the button for opening the laptop screen. This little white light pulses in slow, methodical time when the laptop is sleeping. It is like a siren's song, drawing in the user towards that button. Wake the Eye, is all it is asking. But the Eye sleeps. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Schpatz Lager: 2008.12
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A full-bodied blog with a smooth finish. Friday, December 19, 2008. Oh, the Hilarity. One of the most brilliant XKCD's I've seen in a while: flow charts .explained via flow chart. Update: Clicky, clicky! Thursday, December 11, 2008. Prepare the Tin Foil! Is crazy: scientists in Japan have developed a way to read the visual information of what a person is seeing directly from their brains. The resulting images of activity were analyzed by computer, and the images on the bottom were reproduced.
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Schpatz Lager: Rallying Cry
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A full-bodied blog with a smooth finish. Wednesday, October 08, 2008. In an effort to help this burgeoning meme along:. 8220;I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.”. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. The idea of using this is as a Democratic rallying cry is a powerful one. We get the government we pay for: cheap out and we get cheap results. We buy our education, infrastructure, and protection through taxes, and as we can see, the no-taxes world has dreadfully reduced all of these things.
