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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Daily Dozen

  1. What is a Netbook? And why should you care?
  2. So your kitchen is tiny. So what?
  3. A sign the global economy is in really bad shape: Mobile phone shipments drop 58% in Japan.
  4. What's better than buying a new car? Not having to step foot inside a dealership.
  5. Why Wiimote's now come with wriststraps.
  6. Robert Higgs and Russ Roberts discuss the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the effect of World War II on the American economy.
  7. Why are "sophisticated investors" so dumb?
  8. Most popular free Windows downloads of 2008.
  9. Property rights on the Moon.
  10. Millennium Falcon Sled: As close as you'll ever get to the real thing.
  11. How to pay off your mortgage early.
  12. How a statistical illusion can make early screening for a disease appear much more effective than it really is.
Posted by Brian Hollar at 8:35 AM
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