Earlier today I learned on twitter that Canada Post, a Federal Crown Corporation in Canada, had filed suit against the owner of geocoder.ca. This company is a small startup that operates a free online geocoding service, presumably as advertisement for services available by the company’s owner Ervin Ruci. Although I was disappointed at the news [...]

A friend of mine recently asked me how an economist might solve the issue of subsidies to the world’s fisheries, which some including myself, think are promoting overexploitation of fish around the world. I kept my response as short as possible (sometimes I get wordy in e-mail) but wanted to expand on some ideas here. [...]

I’m not sure which of these categories I’d fall into…. via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Through the design blog information aesthetics, I stumbled upon an excellent video posted on YouTube by Etérea studios. The video shows numbers and math in nature like Fibonocci numbers and the golden ratio.

Really interesting quote here from Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Chairman Dan Glickman. …What a year! As John said, a 10% lift for the box office here at home…a 30% jump globally since 2005. Reversing a two-year trend, we have more people going to the movies…and more folks going more often…with a hard-core of [...]