Month: July 2009
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Atlas Shrugged Miniseries
Oh noes, some morons are planning to create a Atlas Shrugged miniseries! Gawker does a nice job summing up the story: Charlize Theron would like to star as … Dagny Taggart, the lady who runs her brother’s railroad and enjoys violent sex with secretive entrepreneurial geniuses. But there is a problem: the book has not…
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Free: R.I.P.
Wow! In a strange turn of events, Chris Anderson got it all wrong, while Malcolm Gladwell got it right. What’s that? Free. Chris Anderson thinks it is the future of price; that companies should give their products away free and find other, magical ways to generate revenue. Gladwell roundly criticizes this idea; it’s worth reading…
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Vitamin Lead: All Natural Component in your Nutritional Supplements
Stephanie Rodgers of the Mother Nature Network reports on a recent study of lead content in popular multivitamins by Consumer Labs. According to the news summary (the report is subscription only): Of the 300-plus children’s vitamins and prenatal vitamins tested for lead, only four were found to be lead-free. Those include TwinLab Infant Care, Natrol…
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The Taxman Cometh via Ticketing!
You’ve probably heard that California is in trouble financially. No one wants to cut services and at the same time, no one wants to pay taxes. So what do you do? Ticket ticket ticket! And raise the fines for those tickets. In the years I’ve lived in California, I’ve never seen so much traffic enforcement.…