Seth Roberts thinks Priceless ads are the American haiku, and I'm inclined to agree with him. My favorite was printed in the Harvard Crimson a few years ago:
Four bleacher seats: $400 Twelve beers: $40 Two Yankees Suck T-shirts: $40 Getting arrested: $200 Knocking out a Yankee fan's teeth: priceless
Happy 5th anniversary, Gmane.
From now on, instead of
talking about making a site accessible, I'm going to talk
about keeping a site accessible.
— Jeremy Keith
I would suggest that the rate at which countries grow is substantially determined by three things: their ability to integrate with the global economy through trade and investment; their capacity to maintain sustainable government finances and sound money; and their ability to put in place an institutional environment in which contracts can be enforced and property rights can be established. I would challenge anyone to identify a country that has done all three of these things and has not grown at a substantial rate.
— Larry Summers, quoted on Bayesian Heresy
The Internet weighs about 2 ounces.
- hober:
someone should name a webserver thbpbbhttpd
— during a work chat about lighttpd