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Speculative economics: What does new growth theory say about the demise of the ZENN car?

Awhile ago, I heard a rumour that ZENN, the Toronto-based electric car manufacturer, was ceasing production.  I originally assumed that meant the company was finished.  As it turns out, they are just slowing down until battery technology catches up with our automotive demands.  But what if it had gone under?  Now, it strikes me as [...]

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The evolution of my personal blog.

There are many anti-under-construction movements out there on the internet, and I tend to agree with their inspiration.  Just look at Google, almost everything they have is in a perpetual state of beta testing and updates, but there are no little animated men holding up caution signs to warn you.  Under construction is more-or-less an [...]

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• I am proposing the following Trope definition for Magnificent Bastard at the trope wiki TVTropes.org. You'll have to deal with the Wiki formating characters since you're reading it on my blog. (more...) #
• In World of Warcraft 3.1 they changed the result from a LUA call to UnitAura() from a true/false isMine to a much more detailed UnitId.  This is going to create A LOT of flexibility in future addons people. Imagine a grid that can track every hot and tell you which person cast it. Or addons that highlight the buffs/debuffs on people of your current target. Impressive! (more...) #
• I'm getting sick and tired of these wordpress developers putting tags where they don't belong. It's true that back when I did serious web development, we were using whatever tag would get the job done. I'm talking back in the days of tables being used to design a page layout. I know some of you just gasped, but it's true. However, we don't do that anymore. We have custom tags and CSS files for a reason, but things seem to be reverting back to those dark days. (more...) #