Daily Archives: August 1, 2013


It's long past time for the patent system to be gutted

It's long past time for the patent system to be gutted

Nobel Prize-winning economists call for the death of software patents
Dislike of software patents is no longer confined to wild-eyed Redditors and Mark Cuban. The Washington Post points us to two Nobel Prize-winning economists who have recently come out against the v…

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Unfortunately simpleton politicians made a law that requires efficiency to be measured…

Unfortunately simpleton politicians made a law that requires efficiency to be measured in MPG

This despite the fact that every additional mile per gallon saves less gas than the one before. ?

MPG Is Stupid on Edmunds.com
Edmunds’ well-reasoned look at why miles per gallon is far from the best means to measure fuel consumption.


I need help, which was the first automaker to offer factory installed cassette tape…

I need help, which was the first automaker to offer factory installed cassette tape players and when?

Compact Cassette – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Compact cassettes come in two forms, either already containing content as a pre-recorded cassette, …

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