Month: November 2007

*Announcements*: [ALP regional policy](http://alp.org.au/media/1107/sperd200.php) and a couple of small packages of older policies from the coalition ([Water](http://liberal.org.au/about/documents/UrbanWater.pdf) and [Clean Energy](http://liberal.org.au/about/documents/CleanEnergy.pdf)). *Polls*: [Galaxy marginals](http://www.pollbludger.com/731) ALP 52 (a swing of…

[Taking the computer desktop metaphor too far](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/11/turn_your_walls_into_a_de.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890). It's a nice image, but I doubt it would be very practical - you'd continually be shuffling folders on and off…

[Who would win in a fight, a penguin or a lemur](http://kev.elbowroomdesign.com/26/who-would-win-in-a-fight-between-a-penguin-and-a-lemur/). What's most impressive is the length of the analysis here. Well, that and the correctness of the…

[A map of Australia like the ones in the front of the Lord of the Rings books](http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/204-one-ring-to-rule-them-all-mate/). I take slight exception to the 'Witch Realm of Canbrar' bit,…

[A new electronic book reader from Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/B000FI73MA/ref=cm_taf_title_featured?ie=UTF8&tag=tellafriend-20). Kinda interesting. But not available in Australia. And probably won't be for some time, given the reliance on EV-DO. I do…

[TV networks want to ensure you can't fast forward adverts too quickly](http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/networks-want-to-nobble-fast-forward/2007/11/19/1195321672583.html?s_cid=rss_news). If fast forward is outlawed, only outlaws will have fast forward buttons! Actually, the big problem…

Another quiet day in terms of policy. The Coalition had a [Forestry policy](http://liberal.org.au/about/documents/Forestrywebversion.pdf) and that was it. 5 days to go.

[CEO facts](http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/09/facts-about-ceo.html), including the fact that if their wife dies their company's value falls by fifteen per cent. It's easy to look at the salaries of some CEOs…

[One US company has improved productivity by banning email on Fridays](http://lifehacker.com/software/email/companies-limit-email-use-to-boost-productivity-294026.php). About one-fifth of the actual solution, I think.

[New research shows that richer countries *are* happier](http://andrewleigh.com/?p=1584). I'd always suspected the answer to the Easterlin paradox was that we just couldn't measure happiness well enough, but this…