Day December 17, 2008

Feeling fleeced yet?

Neatorama has a t-shirt for you As for that $700 billion, it’s sitting in the bank’s coffers. What, you thought the banks would do something even vaguely socially responsible by lending and trying to get the economy moving again? Silly…

Piezoelectric roads

Piezoelectric devices turn mechanical strain into electricity. An Israeli firm is testing them on roads and says they can also be used for railroads and aircraft runways.

What comes after theftocracy capitalism?

John Robb Is financial capitalism as internally flawed as socialism is at its extreme? There’s a good case for that. If it is, will our fate be similar to the Soviets?? I suspect they suffered from a similar problem as…

The end of capitalism

Scott Adams of Dilbert fame on the coming changes Capitalism was conceived before the Internet, and before the gears of commerce became computerized. The system could absorb a lot of con artists because they didn’t have the ability to steal…