Quick Links
The New Yorker on why the current massive spikes in oil prices are not related to speculators, as many people seem to be indicating. The American Congress is hard at work promising a quick fix by reigning in speculation, we should have reason to believe that there won’t be an easy solution to the problem. Via Big Contrarian.
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Shneiderman’s Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design
Simple and quick.
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Some supposed upcoming hybrid cars from most of the major manufacturers. Aside from the Prius, this crop is mostly still-rather-bad hybrid SUV’s and unrealistic concept cars, which generally have no bearing on what comes to market (case in point: the “green” Hummer O2 concept from last year, which was ridiculous beyond words, and yet garnered much attention).
Tags: Links, Long Term Thinking
July 7th, 2008