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Archive for April, 2008

kayak.com

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Why haven’t I been using this all along? It’s an online travel search engine, kind of like priceline, expedia, and orbitz, but with important differences:

it’s free
it’s sexy and ajaxy
it has features like graphs of the best fare over time, so you can see when it makes sense to buy tickets or what the difference [...]

the story of stuff

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

This is a fun video: the story of stuff.
Our current tax structure is not helping anything: we tax income but leave consumption untaxed and pollution not taxed enough. It would certainly reflect my values more, and the values of this video, if we had a consumption tax like the fair tax.
Furthermore, I’m a big [...]