The average cost of repairs is more than $30,000 per unit. Meanwhile, asshole developers made a killing by reducing the number of rental units. It’s a lose/lose!
Sunlight Foundation project to increase transparency of how a bill becomes a law
The entire town of Wasilla, Alaska, can fit on the world’s largest cruise ship
The people who ran the financial firms chose to program their risk-management systems with over-optimistic assumptions and to feed them oversimplified data. This kept them from sounding the alarm early enough.
I enjoy playing my music loudly on my car stereo. Apparently, women enjoy this also because they become sexually aroused when they see me driving. Oddly enough, when I visit the Native American reservations some of the more sexually promiscuous Indian women attempt to seduce me in their homes. Their intent is to divest me of my earnings. Such actions are unacceptable.
—Translating the late, great Notorious B.I.G. (via Mr. Robert “implodr” Andersen)
Bandcamp, the anti-MySpace publishing platform for musicians, looks awesome
Nice interview from Andy Baio. I particularly like the embeddable visualization enabledy music player. Fantastic work.
I’d probably watch a lot more football if they still made these (I owe SeoulBrother a beer for making my day with this)
On average, in years when the president is a Democrat, the economy grows faster; inflation is lower; fewer people can’t find a job; the federal government spends a smaller share of GDP, whether or not you include defense spending; and the deficit is lower (or—sweet Clinton-years memory—the surplus is higher). The one category that Republicans win is, unsurprisingly, federal taxes as a share of GDP. But it is no trick to lower taxes if you don’t lower spending.
—Michael Kinsley posits that Democrats are better for the economy than Republicans. Fancy that.
Now that is a lot of denim. I’d like to officially propose that the Canadian tuxedo be changed to the Wasilla tuxedo.
Never mind about her not being ready to be president. She wasn’t even ready for this interview.
—Jack Shafer has everything you need to know about Charlie’s interview with Governor Palin.