March 2009
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The “Raiders” Story Conference →
Via Metafilter: In 1978 George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan spent five consecutive nine-hour days hashing out the characters and plot for Raiders of the Lost Ark. The 125-page transcript of their meetings, unreleased before now, details their insane talent and techniques for populist storytelling.
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The Idiot’s Guide to Destroying the Economy: a... →
Think destroying the mighty economy of the United States is too big a job for you? Relax. Anyone can do it. A friend sent me a handy-dandy no-fuss 12-step program for wreaking financial havoc among even the world’s most advanced economies.
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“Simple Guidelines for Workday Quality Over... →
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Schumpeter vs. Keynes →
With the world economies currently experiencing a wicked downdraft that is correcting the malinvestments of the past decade, the new crop of Keynesians are stumping loudly for reflation. Such was the case in 1933 during the first Great Depression. “Discussions arose in many countries about public inflationary measures as a way to stop price slides,” McCraw writes. “Having...
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The Heritage Foundation & Wall Street Journal:... →
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“Squashed Philosophers” →
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“Shut up about Chavez the killer” Venezuelan... →
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“The contradiction shared by most superheroes: They cannot live ordinary lives...”
– Roger Ebert
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“A hundred years ago, liberal theory warned against the central bank on grounds...”
– Lew Rockwell
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“Perón had the distinction of turning Argentina into a Third World country when,...”
– Anthony Daniels, The New Criterion
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“No, thanks”. Banco norte-americano devolve... →
“Nós recebemos os depósitos em nossas 450 filiais e fazemos empréstimos para pessoas que podem nos pagar de volta. É assim que sempre tocamos nosso negócio”.
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“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via devilduck)
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The good news is reality exists. The bad is it’s... →
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104 Ways to Hilariously Ruin the Watchmen Movie →
(via aleatorio)
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Ars Technica: “Study: free markets superior to... →
Our economic system is based on the expectation that markets can provide optimal solutions more efficiently than monopolies, with one glaring exception: patents, which are structured in a “winner takes all” manner. A study appearing in today’s edition of Science suggests that markets might work here, too.
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The Cult of Done Manifesto →
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“I have heard arguments about whether it was Milton Friedman or Gore Vidal who...”
– Christopher Hitchens
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The Creation of Money →
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Academic Earth →
Via Lone Gunman: “The site currently includes lectures from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale on topics ranging from Entrepreneurship to Law, and Economics to Psychology.”
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“After a lifelong diet of stories about garishly clad people with powers and...”
– Adam Rogers, Filming the Unfilmable: Behind the Scenes of the Watchmen Movie
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Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes,... →
Yes, we have had knockoffs of American superheroes originating in this country and presumably in other parts of the world, but they’re not natural to this environment. They’re an alien species. And I’ve thought about it and wondered why that was. And I wonder—perhaps this is being too simplistic, I don’t know, but I wonder if the root of the emergence of the superhero in...
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“Zack Snyder’s Watchmen is the most incredible feat of “faithful adaption” fail...”
– Adam Narkiewicz, The Quietus (via goldenfiddle)
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Jerusalem Syndrome →
Between 1980 and 1993, 42 visitors to Israel experienced a peculiar psychotic episode with seven consistent clinical stages.