I am very suspicious of some the numbers given in the this article on virtual economies, but it is a fascinating look at the future anyhow. For right now, the populations are just too low and specialised, I am guessing that real money is being made, but some the numbers quoted sound way to high [...]
April 24th: Today in 1800 President John Adams established the Library of Congress. Initially is was primarily legal documents until after the library was destroyed in 1814 by barbarians and was replaced by Thomas Jefferson’s personal library which contained books on all topics establishing a broadbased library of all books.
April 23rd: Today in 1985 in a move still regarded as one of the most braindead in its history the Coca-Cola company launched New Coke. The result was immediate, riots in the streets, cats sleeping with dogs, otters in swimming pools, complete anarchy. By July the company relaunched ‘Classic Coke’ and the world began to [...]
Wired has a great Wikipedia FAQK that really digs into the popular encyclopedia. I don’t view Wikipedia as flawless, far from it, but I do find that most everything I run across has a pretty good grounding in reality. Most times what you get is pretty good, but there are clearly some hot topics out [...]
April 22nd: Today in 1970 the first Earth Day was celebrated. Deciding that a planned one day ‘teach in’ should be an annual event Senator Gaylord Nelson helped to organize what has become the annual reminder of how well we are doing at keeping our enviroment clean. It is a missed opportunity for Hallmark, I [...]
April 21rst: Today in 1863 William Quantrill led a bloody raid of Lawrence, Kansas that resulted in the killing of over two hundred men and boys by his raiders. Several of Quantrill’s raiders went on to infamy as bank robbers including Frank and Jessie James and Cole Younger and his brothers.