Month: October 2007

If you invested $50,000 in Apple ten years ago [today you would have $1 million](http://bucknerd.blogspot.com/2007/10/big-apple.html). That's a return of 2,273 per cent. Apple is, by the way, on…

From the [Marginal Revolution comments](http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/10/from-the-commen.html): >Do relative status and income matter more than absolute? If this were true, then most immigration would be from rich countries to poor…

[Wal-Mart's total area is larger than Manhattan Island](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/10/walmarts-total-area.html). Of course, Wal-Mart's [total turnover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart) of $350 billion is actually only around a third of New York's Gross State Product,…

[Boom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_barrier). Chuck Yeagar breaks the sound barrier.

The [new Star Trek movie has a budget of $150 million](http://www.darkhorizons.com/news07/071012a.php). As Dark Horizons points out, this means it will need to make twice as much money as…

There's been a lot of speculation about how prominent Costello will be in the coming election campaign. The [team](http://liberal.org.au/team/) page of the official Liberal party site splits the…

*Major annoucements*: * John Howard: Announces an election for November 24. His narrative: experience and economic success versus an inexperienced, union dominated opposition. * Kevin Rudd: Stresses "new…

[A Jacuzzi party on Mont Blanc](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/jacuzzi-high/mont-blanc-jacuzzi-party-at-15711-feet-was-low-on-oxygen-high-on-booze-309708.php) (4,807m above sea level). It's safe to say that there isn't a great long list of reasons to do this, other than…

[Scan Cafe](http://www.scancafe.com/): we ship your slides and negatives to India for scanning. This is a brilliant idea, and very cheap (24c a slide, 19c a negative). Unfortunately it's…

[Apple's directory of applications for the iPod Touch and iPhone](http://www.apple.com/webapps/). I've just recently acquired an iPod Touch, and there are a lot of useful little applications in this…