X | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 18 2008 | free, lunch, economics, commons
Quoted: The tragedy of the commons is a type of social trap, often economic, that involves a conflict over finite resources between individual interests and the common good. It states that free access and unrestricted demand for a finite resource ultimately structurally dooms the resource through over-exploitation. The term derives originally from a comparison noticed by William Forster Lloyd with medieval village land holding in his 1833 book on population.[1] It was then popularized and extended by Garrett Hardin in his 1968 Science essay "The Tragedy of the Commons."[2] However, the theory itself is as old as Thucydides[3] and Aristotle.[4]
- X | Shared With: Everyone - May 28 2008 | books, online, history, death, free
Here's the PDF http://users.telenet.be/sterf/texts/other/HitMan-Manual_for_Independent_Contractors.pdf
Quoted: Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors. The book portrays itself as a how-to manual on starting a career as a hit man, fulfilling contracts.
- X | Shared With: Everyone - May 27 2008 | web games, games, free
Wow, this game is amazingly addictive. Sort of raiden fighters meets old rpg.
- X | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 14 2008 | wii, free, video
Quoted: TED Talks <a href="/speakers/view/id/204" target="_blank">Johnny Lee</a> demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. A multi-ovation demo from TED2008.
- X | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 27 2008 | science, free, diy, aerogel
cool kid (though i suspect he got some parental help)
Quoted: This year he undertook a more ambitious project for the 2003 Science Fair: he decided to go where noone before seems to have gone, and make aerogels at home without the sophisticated and expensive equipment used and recommended by all authorities on aerogel production.
- X | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 25 2007 | japanese, movies, free, kurosawa
Quoted: Interested in watching some of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s classic films? Several of them, including Rashomon, Ikiru, Sugata Sanshiro, and Stray Dog have fallen into the public domain and are now available for free! You can watch them in their entirety over at Archive.org.
- X | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 07 2007 | video, free, documentary, science, global, warming, dimming
click to playFascinating documentary. Apparently the microparticles emited from combustion are having a net cooling effect on the world (in contrast to the CO2 emmited from the same combustion processes.) Apparently, the mere 3 day shutdown of air traffic in the US caused noticeable climate effects.
Quoted: Global dimming.. Mar 15, 2007. View it on Google Video.
- X | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 06 2007 | video, documentary, free, science, tech, health, jiae
Great page with tons of free documentaries. yay!
- X | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 24 2007 | free, games
Quoted: Fight an infinite army of generated enemy ships.
Enemy attack patterns evolve over time becoming more complex and aggresive. - X | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 17 2007 | free, tv, video
Watch arrested development, on demand for free.
Quoted: Watch Arrested Development on your PC for free! MSN is adding 3 episodes every 3 weeks. Over the next year, all 53 episodes will be available on demand!
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Recommended on-line Pylons training resource.
Quoted: Welcome to the Pylons Book website where you can read all the chapters of the recently published Definitive Guide to Pylons, an open source book written by James Gardner and published by Apress.
The book covers the Pylons 0.9.7 release and is available for free to read here online.
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