Category: Economics
Yahoo! News – Armenia makes chess compulsory in schools
This seems like a cool idea, and I imagine would create students more skilled in critical thinking and logic, all good things.
Chris Coyier – Loyalty Cards
Some excellent points here for building a loyalty/reward system.
The Economist – Legal disclaimers: Spare us the e-mail yada-yada
I despise legal disclaimers in email with a passion for the shear useless of them and waste of time and energy required in even seeing them.
Groklaw – The Google Microsoft Fight About FISMA Certification
This is a fun story.
OnStartups – Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
Perfect and beautiful answer to an incredibly hard problem.
The Official Website of Eric D. Snider – Snide Remarks: Leaving in a Huff
This is just an awful tale of corporate stupidity, mis-communication and a company seemingly doing everything possible to make their employees feel awful.
CNET News – Democratic senator wants Internet sales taxes
When this goes through (though possibly not this year) some business is going to make a mint providing a back-end service to know how much taxes need to be applied towards a purchase. Amazon/PayPal/Google Checkout should start building that now, if they haven’t already.
Huffington Post – U.S. House Ignores Internet Reality, Again
If it wasn’t so frustrating you have to almost admire Republicans ability to ignore their own experts or examples when legislating.
NYTimes.com – “Serious”
Serious is making stuff up apparently.
NYTimes.com – Ludicrous and Cruel
I love that term voodoo economics, but in this case it seems to fit so well when you try to understand some of the ridiculous assumptions made.