Akkam’s Razor

• Congress looks at steel pennies, nickels - May. 7, 2008
  (tags: contrary indicator numbers station signal)
• Innovative Aircraft Seats | Cozy Suite
  (tags: design airlines airplanes seating technology travel)
• Phase Two - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog
  Most current polling nonetheless shows a close race. The poli-sci guys say never mind: polls are all over the place when the GE is 5 or 6 months out, but converge to fundamentals as election day draws near.
  (tags: paulkrugman polisci politics economics)

• The Raw Story | White House admits pre-war e-mails not archived
  “The harm is that we’ve lost a huge piece of history,” says Anne Weisman, a lawyer for CREW. Weisman estimated the total number of missing White House e-mails at “10 million-plus.”
  (tags: emails georgebush whitehouse iraq war preparation backup archive)
• The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master
  (tags: skills men social howto business diy Esquire)
• The Gospel of Consumption | Orion magazine
  Instead, we have allowed the owners of those machines to define their purpose: not reduction of labor, but “higher productivity”—and with it the imperative to consume virtually everything that the machinery can possibly produce.
  (tags: consumerism economics history politics consumption society culture)

• The Decline of the $20 Wage - Blue Collar Workers - Middle Class - New York Times
  The $20 hourly wage, introduced on a huge scale in the middle of the last century, allowed masses of Americans with no more than a high school education to rise to the middle class. It was a marker, of sorts. And it is on its way to extinction.
  (tags: activism life todo)
• Graduates Versus Oligarchs - New York Times
  The idea that we have a rising oligarchy is much more disturbing. It suggests that the growth of inequality may have as much to do with power relations as it does with market forces. Unfortunately, that’s the real story.
  (tags: oligarchy inequality income wages democracy)

• 81% in Poll Say Nation Is Headed on the Wrong Track - New York Times
  81 percent of respondents said they believed “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track,” up from 69 percent a year ago and 35 percent in early 2002.
  (tags: polls country direction sentiment righttrack wrongtrack)
• CQ Politics | Republicans Advance Plan To Ease Primary ‘Front-Loading’
  The plan seeks to improve the presidential nomination process by involving more voters, discouraging advertising-heavy campaigns in big states, and promoting one-on-one retail campaigning where candidates personally interact with voters.
  (tags: politics republicans primary conservatives moderatism)

• Information Architects / Web Trends Startpage
  (tags: map trends web2.0 design web information visualization)
• I-95 in Port Richmond shut down in both directions for emergency repairs | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/17/2008
  Our crumbling infrastructure - a support column at Ann/Cambria and Richmond Street has developed a 4-ft crack.
  (tags: I95 highway structures infrastructure)
• Dolores Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Where does “Blue” end and “Red” begin?
  (tags: color visualization perception words colour psychology design)
• Logomotto
  Mashing-up graphic logos and textual taglines, for intermittent humor.
  (tags: fun logo brands mashup generator humor marketing)

• Pattern Recognition ” Blog Archive ” 2008 State of the Union as Tag Cloud
  (tags: visualization tagcloud stateoftheunion politics data infoviz)
• Weight Watchers-style Points Calculator
  (tags: calculator health nutrition recipes)
• One-Point Weight Watchers Snacks
  (tags: cooking food health diet secrets weight)
• Generic Food Weight Watcher Posts
  (tags: weightwatchers diet food points weight watchers ww)
• Weight Watcher’s Recipe Cards from 1974
  (tags: food recipes cooking retro)
• What you need to know about Weight Watchers…
  (tags: diet weightwatchers points health weight Fitness)

• Day Out: Fishtown, Philadelphia - Rebirth Along the River - Travel - New York Times
  PLEASE don’t let New Yorkers do to Philadelphia what they’ve done to the Poconos.
  (tags: philly philadelphia fishtown nytimes article)
• 12 Steps to Creating a Professional Web Design | Professional Web Design Blog
  (tags: webdesign design tips development usability web webdev)

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• 50 Very Simple Ways to Be Romantic - Dumb Little Man
  (tags: romance relationships love romantic HOWTO lifehack tips)
• Evolution and Religion - Darwin’s God - Robin Marantz Henig - New York Times
  (tags: religion evolution atheism psychology science toread god)

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