Quote of the day 26-March-2011. The power of the washing machine.

Hans Rosling always gives great presentations and this one is really excellent as he discusses energy uses across economic class lines. Using his personal expierence of how the washing machine affected his life, he touches both sides of the issue. The ending sentences are some we should all remember.

“Thank you industrialization. Thank [...]

Jack Daniels and the deficit

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Quote of the day 3-3-11

Russ Roberts has a great short piece Don’t follow the money on the buy local movement at Café Hayek. His ending sentence is the best one line summary of the buy local scene I’ve found.

We have tried buy local before. It is called the Middle Ages.

Murray N. Rothbard’s Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

Rothbard’s massive book on the progression of economic thought is not an easy read and the sheer size of the work is no doubt intimidating to many. Nonetheless, it is a trove of knowledge and insight I recommend to all. Mises.org now has both volumes combined into one EPUB and the 2 volume set [...]

Coolidge on persistence

Known as ‘Silent Cal’, Calvin Coolidge had much to say that was of great value. Quite a few years ago, when I first read his words on persistence I didn’t really understand how powerful and true it was. It is only as I have grown older and seen so many people who had everything [...]

A unique statement on Malthus’s Law by Bastiat

There is more worth quoting in Bastiat’s few short works than in most libraries. Here he smiths what is perhaps the only true application of Malthus’s Law.

The State is also subject to Malthus’s Law. It tends to exceed the level of its means of existence, it expands in line with its means and [...]

Henry Clews Fifty Years in Wall Street

Clews great classic Fifty Years in Wall Street was added to the Free Books page. This is not only an important read but an entertaining one as well. I’ve often wondered if this quote from the book might not be the most important two paragraphs ever written about investing.

But few gain sufficient experience [...]

IBM and Oracle finally get together on OpenJDK

This is something I’ve personally hoped would happen eventually. Having all the big players in the space working with the open source community will help to prevent divergence between the open and commercial implementations. Throughout the Sun/Oracle bumps, Java has remained a popular choice for application development and this action should help continue it’s [...]

Fixing VirtualBox X11 issue with Ubuntu 10.10 guest systems

If you have tried to install the new Ubuntu 10.10 system as a guest on VirtualBox then you know that the guest additions are unable to work with the X11 server version. The good guys at unixmen have posted instructions on dealing with this and the fix is simple and straightforward. If you have [...]

Another video on the great depression

Now available in a single video is Lawrence Reed’s Lessons from the Great Depression. Thanks to Nelsio.

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