Month: October 2007

[A field guide to the strange icons on many electronic devices](http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazine/15-10/st_symbology). Given that they're trivial to forge, I don't really know what benefit a lot of these provide…

[8 years of cert pool memos from the US supreme court](http://epstein.law.northwestern.edu/research/Blackmun.html). The Blackmun archive is the gift that keeps on giving for Supreme Court nerds.

[The line of succession to the British Throne](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_succession_to_the_British_Throne). Sadly they seem to have to omitted me, but I'm sure they'll fix it in the next edition. First Australian…

[The 1869 entrance exam for MIT](http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/exam/). Actually, it's surprisingly easy. About grade 10 level on average, I think.

For this exciting election season: [The ALP pre-election advertising from 1996](http://clubtroppo.com.au/2007/09/30/i-can-do-that/). Taxpayer funded, too.

The 2007 prize goes to [Hurwicz, Maskin and Myerson](http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2007/press.html) for their work on mechanism design theory. While the work (which I'm not familiar with, so I'm just working…

*Annoucements*: * The Government announces a [$34 billion, five year tax plan](http://budget.gov.au/2007-08/myefo/html/02_part_2.htm) to dramatically reduce income tax rates. * No significant announcements from the ALP. *Polls*: [Newspoll](http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/files/newspoll-15-oct.jpg): ALP…

[A Clockwork Planetarium](http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/08/out-of-this-world-richard-mille_22.html). Simply beautiful design. All the gears and cams exposed to show the true workings. There's something about analogue devices that I suspect means they'll never…

Need to make your PowerPoint presentation more annoying? [How to embed YouTube videos in your next presentation](http://lifehacker.com/software/video-demonstration/embed-youtube-clips-in-a-powerpoint-presentation-292182.php). Please, for the love of humanity, use this only for good,…

An early theme in the election is the Union links of the ALP. But [do we care about unions?](http://clubtroppo.com.au/2007/10/10/union-power-polling-and-electoral-campaigns/): 41 per cent of those polled in 2004 said…