Cheese is almost all flown in from Australia or further, and it's not cheap, ranging from S$20 to S$60 per kilo (S$10/kg is about as US$3/lb). This pale orange stuff was fairly cheap, but the way it was packaged, I couldn't tell what it was. It smelled good, so I bought it, but then I couldn't get it to taste very good. I tried various...
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The One Laptop Per Child project has been interesting to watch; it's not hard to find negative opinions about OLPC leader Nicholas Negroponte and his MIT Media Lab (here's my own, albeit second-hand). Despite a lot of problems and opposition, it's gotten surprisingly far. Recently, a whole lot of shit appears to have hit a whole lot of fans,...
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Three causes of mass death: disease, famine, and deliberate killing. The last is the domain of the leader. (I guess the traditional inclusion of Death in this list violates fourth rule of good categorization systems.)

Speaking of Jim Jones, here's a transcript of part of his final speech:

Please get us some medication. It’s simple. It’s

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Shreekant Gupta, an NUS econ professor.

The drain of CO2 from the atmosphere is negligible. This is a detail I'm still not clear about: if the drain is close to zero, then how can any level of emissions over zero be sustainable? I know that, at this scale, there's a big difference between zero and negligible, and it's important to count your...
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