Exasperated Calculator: Star Trek & Economics
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Cute Fluffy Ducks
 Spring is still too far away.
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Alternative accomodation
[A tent designed to look like a car with a cover over it](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cheapskates/car-tent-makes-willful-homelessness-seem-like-some-creative-choice-272046.php).
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Perfectly formed candy
[Candy shaped like burgers](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/27/tokyos_tiny_perfect_.html).
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Geographic dominance
[Interesting article in wired on Google Maps](http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-07/ff_maps). Apparently maps are a “tool of dominance”.
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40 years old
[ATMs turn 40 years old this year](http://www.reason.com/blog/show/121116.html). This means that ATMs had already been around for 9 years when I was born…
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Scooby Doo or Scooby Woo?
[Apparently Scooby Doo episodes now have actual ghosts, rather than evil land developers in masks](http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/06/the_corruption_of_scooby_doo.php).
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On jogging
For the past few weeks I have been trying something that I’ve never done before in my life – jogging every day.[^1] All through High School I was always the least enthusiastic about the annual cross country, greatly preferring sports that required a bit less in the way of actual physical exertion. And ever since…
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Is the Sun an alien?
[No!](http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/). There are some very, very strange things on the internet…
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Corn fields, driving and cocaine
[A picture that shows what happens when you mix the three](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/25/drug_addled_driver_m.html).
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What’s on that pole?
[A guide to the contents of your power pole](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6735420).