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Entries for Tuesday, November 11, 2008

November 11, 2008

Google Flu Trends

Benevolent data-mining of Google’s search logs — but it does raise the question of what else they can predict… Does Google have “insider trading”-esque omnipotence for the whole stock market, for example?

Recycling is Bullshit; Make Nov. 15 Zero Waste Day, not America Recycles Day

Great piece on the wasteful middle-class-guilt-reduction that _is_ recycling. “Recycling is simply the transfer of producer responsibility for what they produce to the taxpayer who has to pick it up and take it away.”

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