[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- What the Pho? The Nine Funniest (Phonniest?) Pho Restaurant Puns
- [GOOD - Zak Stone]
…proper pronunciation is essential for seeing the humor in phở restaurant name puns, which have become quite trendy on the phở scene. Check out this slideshow of the some of the punnier (and phởnnier) phở restaurant names from around North America.
[Bilingual puns always rock. -L]
- Haiti: Responding to the Cholera Outbreak in Petite Riviere
- [Doctors Without Borders (MSF)]
MSF is treating hundreds of patients with cholera-like symptoms in St. Marc and Petite Riviere in the Artibonite River region of Haiti.
…How is treatment progressing in Petite Riviere?…
…Do you have a sense of whether the outbreak is slowing down?…
…Are patients coming in early enough to get treated?…
…How is MSF working with the Ministry of Health and with other organizations in Petite Riviere?…
…What will the team do next?…
- FindMyOrganizer.com – Find Professional Organizers, Home Organization, Office Organizing.
- [U.S. only]
- How to Plan, Plot, Write and Finish Your NaNoWriMo Novel
- [Suite101: Writing Fiction Articles]
Learn how to use novel structure and plotting techniques to plan and write a publishable NaNoWriMo novel this year.
[This is my skeptical face. -L]
- Pintail Pair
- [Two ducks on water, acrylic, Peter Mathios, 5 X 5 inches. Damn, this is a lovely little piece; the use of the grass as a subtle indicator of scale, and the saturation of the water as a contrast to the ducks' coloring, which reverses the expected saturated foreground / desaturated background. -L]
- Cesar Chavez’s Granddaughter to March for Immigrant Rights at Rally to Restore Sanity
- [Change.org's Blog Network - Gabriela Garcia]
[Jon Stewart's rally seems to be shaping up into a serious thing, which makes me kind of sad. I'd much rather be on the Keep Fear Alive side, playing satirical security theater. -L]
- Points of control = Rents
- [O'Reilly Radar - Jim Stogdill]
Economists use the term "rent" to mean "a return in excess of the resource owner's opportunity cost." That basically means the amount you pay people in excess of what you really have to to get them to do something.
…we didn't have to pay Meg Whitman enough to fund the most expensive campaign for governor to get her (or someone like her) to do what she did. She would have done it for less.
Open source is a really interesting twist in the midst of all this. Software businesses with profit margins greater than the current Treasury yield hate open source because it mostly eliminates rents…
Emerging and effective competition in the area where you are extracting rents will have a non-linear impact on your bottom line.
[This interesting and educational article about the economics of the software industry has implications for all intellectual property markets. Also, it uses the phrase, "a perfectly functioning Schumpeterian system". -L]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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