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links for 2007-11-08

think our fuel costs are high?

The average UK price of unleaded petrol passes £1 per litre for the first time, an industry research group says.

…UK£ 1 = 2.0855 U.S. dollars 1 liter = 0.264172051 US gallons I make that about US$7.89/gallon.

Ouch.

The average UK price of unleaded petrol passes £1 per litre for the first time, an industry research group says. [From Average petrol cost at £1 a litre]

UK£ 1 = 2.0855 U.S. dollars
1 liter = 0.264172051 US gallons

I make that about US$7.89/gallon.

interesting

I may be off a bit on my numbers as the car I used is a daily driver but only has 72K miles on it in 9 years. The other thing I found interesting was the idea of a mini-website as an ad: you can interact with it, learn something, make a decision, all without leaving the site you meant to visit or dealing with pop-ups or other distractions.

So I found this ad at Horse’s Mouth.

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Two things I found interesting about it. First, the information it relates and how easy it was to get to. I may be off a bit on my numbers as the car I used is a daily driver but only has 72K miles on it in 9 years.

The other thing I found interesting was the idea of a mini-website as an ad: you can interact with it, learn something, make a decision, all without leaving the site you meant to visit or dealing with pop-ups or other distractions. It doesn’t take you away from your destination.

recycled quote of the day

The real wonder of the conservative enterprise has been its ability to transform the rudimendary desire of a handful of wealthy families to gut the government into a set of public policy ideas that would help to accomplish that goal while sounding appetizing enough to attract large numbers of voters. Rather ingeniously, the simple, easy-to-understand ideas they developed are largely consistent with each other and elegantly link to a broader story line that the conservative movement has effectively sold with remarkable sophistication.

Prof. Holbo reads Greg Anrig’s new book:

The real wonder of the conservative enterprise has been its ability to transform the rudimendary desire of a handful of wealthy families to gut the government into a set of public policy ideas that would help to accomplish that goal while sounding appetizing enough to attract large numbers of voters. Rather ingeniously, the simple, easy-to-understand ideas they developed are largely consistent with each other and elegantly link to a broader story line that the conservative movement has effectively sold with remarkable sophistication. That’s how the right won the war of ideas. It’s also the underlying reason why those ideas are failing. (p. 11) [From Overstate]

The phrase “voting against their own economic self-interest” comes ringing through.

file under: outboard brain

To pull the actual file names from your iTunes music library: grep Location iTunes\ Music\ Library.xml | sed -e ‘s|\<\key\>Location\<\/key\>\file:\/\/localhost\(.*\)\<\/string\>|\1|g’

To pull the actual file names from your iTunes music library:

grep Location iTunes\ Music\ Library.xml | sed -e 's|\<\key\>Location\<\/key\>\file:\/\/localhost\(.*\)\<\/string\>|\1|g'


links for 2007-11-06