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• I’m skimming Dave Slusher’s shared items… I’m skimming Dave Slusher’s shared items. Dave doesnt’ Twitter (at least that I know of) - eavesdropping on shared items is at least as good. Yes, shared items and tumble blogs are exactly the same thing - one is a whole lot easier.
• Europe v. US: Taxes v. GDP We’ve got a European vacation in the works and by coincidence, the Marginal Revolution has a nice U.S. vs. Europe comparison thread running. “Further, a recent study has shown that Germans and Americans spend the same amount of time working, but the proportion of taxable market time vs. nontaxable home work time is different. In other
• To Do Before I Die: Get 99 Other People to Speak My Made Up Language While Toki Pona’s minimalism feels too much like Newspeak for my taste, the notion of creating a new common-use language is an intriguing thought. Especially if the language’s biases were deliberate - and I agreed w/ them - from the beginning. Initial thought: a highly technolibertarian version of Dutch. Thanks to: Hobbies in everything-
• Gizmo Project now supports AIM and MSN ‘… Gizmo Project now supports AIM and MSN ‘buddies’. But not both at the same time. If they did, I’d drop Adium. But they don’t so I still don’t have a reason to use Gizmo over my current Skype/Adium combo.
• Are Some RSS Formats More Reliable/Faster than Others? via Twitter, I was asked the above question. It’s a good question, cutting to the core of my ambivalence over the religious wars between RSS, Atom, etc. The flavor of XML a feed is published in shouldn’t matter. Neither to the publisher nor the receiver. Any parser able to handle multiple flavors should be able to