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Cutting the Middle Class in Two
Chris Espinoza on the 99 Percent:
Those who argue that a flat tax is a fair tax miss this mathematical fact. A flat tax accelerates the fall into poverty of the lower middle class by increasing fixed expenses so that a surplus is impossible, and it falls into the noise of the fixed expenses of the wealthy and simply shifts the floor, but not the steepness, of the logarithmic wealth curve. It would cut the middle class in two.
( Via @gruber. )
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Abandoned Cement Factory that was turned into a house by Ricardo Bofill. The factory has 30 silos, underground galleries, and massive engine rooms. The factory included many inexplicable elements like stairs that climbed to nowhere, reinforced concrete structures which sustained nothing, and random bits of iron hanging in the air.
(via orientaltiger)
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LIGHTBOYS will reproduce your original polaroids by expanding your photos onto 35 or 42 inch wide prints that are interchangeable in the POLABOY LED lighted frame.
(via orientaltiger)
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View From Nowhere
Jay Rosen:
In pro journalism, American style, the View from Nowhere is a bid for trust that advertises the viewlessness of the news producer. Frequently it places the journalist between polarized extremes, and calls that neither-nor position “impartial.” Second, it’s a means of defense against a style of criticism that is fully anticipated: charges of bias originating in partisan politics and the two-party system. Third: it’s an attempt to secure a kind of universal legitimacy that is implicitly denied to those who stake out positions or betray a point of view. American journalists have almost a lust for the View from Nowhere because they think it has more authority than any other possible stance.
( Via @gruber. )
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Chillmark on mHealth 2011
But what these start-ups really need is to simply focus on addressing the age old question: ‘What’s in it for me?’ These companies need to stop the whining and do their homework defining the value proposition for not just the consumer, or just the doctor, but think more broadly of the impact their solution may have on the delivery of care, and how each stakeholder may benefit. Unfortunately, as these conference clearly showed, the mHealth market is still heavy on hype and little on substance.
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Piet Hein Eek plastered the lofty foyer walls of a new building entirely with the the doors of the previous building: old timber doors, bathroom doors, office doors, front doors and back doors to preserve the memory of the buildings.
(via orientaltiger)
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The Contents of Kris Donegan’s Road Bag
I’m the guy that carries a flashlight. And a Leatherman. And a lot of other stuff.
The more I travel, the more I value preparedness. I spend half of my year away from my home, working or on the road, so I decided to take what I think I might need with me. I guess you could call it a possibles bag, but I don’t have survival stuff in it, and it isn’t designed to get me through 3 days of SHTF situations like a bug out bag. It’s just the things I find myself needing on a regular, or semi-regular, basis. Just this weekend I made a second guitar strap out of a length of 550 cord. Rope! You can always use a good length of rope, so I have a little in my bag. And, it came in really handy. The other stuff is useful on a dark stage, or when you flew in and your tools are still on the bus… etc. So, for the curious, here’s (mostly) what’s in it right now.
1. Sigg water bottle
2. Cliff Bars
3. Whole almonds
4. Tobacco Pipe
5. Pipe Tobacco
6. Matches
7. In-ears
8. Reading glasses
9. Phone charger
10. Spare keys
11. Ear plugs
12. Pens
13. Nail clippers/file
14. Passport
15. Flashlight
16. AA batteries
17. Cigar tin with sewing kit, 550 cord, extra matches, a lighter and a knife sharpener
18. Bandana
19. All Access passes
20. Change
21. Bottle opener
22. Wallet
23. Leatherman
24. Binder clip
25. Laptop sleeve
26. Toothbrush
27. Toothpaste
28. Band-aids
29. Neosporin
30. Advil
Carrying a bag was a bit of a pain at first, but now I couldn’t go back to pockets if I tried. It’s too useful.
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Valletta Ventures: The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX for the iPad
Any LaTeX user with an iPad has had the same thought: I want to use my favourite document creation system on my favourite device. Despite everything I am about to say about the LaTeX codebase, there is nothing like it for composing beautiful documents, and the iPad is the most beautiful platform…
Sad Bernard.
(Source: vallettaventures, via supervenes)
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EU Officials Conclude Water Might Not Prevent Dehydration
Another WNA find: a three-year investigation by a group of 21 scientists concludes that there’s not enough evidence to prove that drinking water prevents dehydration, so bottled water companies will be prohibited by law from claiming otherwise. Said a Member of European Parliament, “This is stupidity writ large. The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart, and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true. If ever there were an episode which demonstrates the folly of the great European project then this is it.”
( [Via Mr. HIStalk.] (http://histalk2.com/2011/11/19/monday-morning-update-112111/) )
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