Exasperated Calculator: Star Trek & Economics
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Preservation
[The Library of Congress is looking in to how to preserve video games for the future](http://kotaku.com/gaming/feature/the-library-of-congress-loves-video-games-313328.php). Anyone who’s tried to run old games on a modern PC knows what some of the problems can be there. Now imagine trying to find a working Coleco…
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Causes of the American Revolution
[Benjamin Franklin](http://21stcenturycicero.wordpress.com/fraud/how-benjamin-franklin-made-new-england-prosperous/): >The Colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament, which has caused in the Colonies hatred of England and the Revolutionary War. Monetary policy is more important than most people…
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Facebook coverage
According to the advertising system, Facebook has around 1.5 million members in Australia, or over 7% of the population… (The US has 20m/6%, Canada 7.4m/22%, the UK 6.4m/10% and NZ 200,000/5%). If you want to see some numbers for yourself, just look at the [Facebook Flyers](http://www.facebook.com/flyers/create.php).
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Election07: 386 edition
*Announcements*: Coalition announces [$4 billion in increased benefits for seniors](http://www.smh.com.au/news/economy/4b-for-pensioners/2007/10/23/1192941038909.html?s_cid=rss_news). *Polls*: [Newspoll](http://www.pollbludger.com/639) ALP 58-42. *Other*: [Wayne Swan and Peter Costello to debate](http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/23/2067041.htm). Including worm. 32 bitty days until the election.
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Prepare your brain-soap
[Steve Ballmer of Microsoft describes his relationship with Bill Gates as ‘Husband-Wife’](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/microsoft/ballmer-describes-relationship-with-gates-as-husband+wife-brings-wrong-images-to-our-minds-310740.php). My brain my never be the same again…
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Obvious joke omitted
[The journal *Economic Inquiry* has appointed a humor editor](http://www.standupeconomist.com/miscellany/). Check out the rest of the linked site – some good routines from the guy. Although I don’t think he’ll be on *Last Comic Standing* any time soon.
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Caretaker fun for AGs
[DIY Vampire Fangs](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/10/diy_vampire_fangs.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890). Bit too complex for me, but could be fun if I ever decide to go to a halloween party. (Which, in turn, would more or less require me to be in the US, as thats the only place I’ve ever seen Halloween ever treated ‘all out’)
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Make your own box
[Templates for make it yourself boxes](http://www.ideem.it/). Might be handy next time you’re wrapping presents.
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Robert Hooke
[Scans of Robert Hooke’s notebooks now available online](http://darwin.gruts.com/weblog/archive/2007/10/19a/). I think [Robert Hooke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooke) is fascinating. A brilliant mind who would be one of the most revered scientists ever if he hadn’t had the misfortune to live in the same time and place as a more brilliant scientist in Isaac Newton. (And then compounded that misfortune by…
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Dematerialisation
[More people play online game *World of Warcraft* than are employed in the farm sector of the US](http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/03/farm-fetish.html). The linked article makes a reasonable point about the mythology of living on the land, but I think comparing a hobby to a way of life is somewhat misleading. Some, of course, would claim that Warcraft *is*…