2003

Interesting statistics on pizza purchases and tips.

Google news map

Virtual property rights in the online gaming world.

print.google.com. Lets you search for books. It looks like a blank page, but there’s a lot behind it. via New Scientist

Saddam captured. He looks pretty cool, unshaven.

Good discussion on inflation. Talks about how currency used to be a way of exchanging stuff, a way of storing value and a measure of wealth. Today, it’s just a way of exchanging stuff. It’s value keeps changing (inflation or deflation), so it’s not much good for the last two.

Google doesn’t think it’s the top search engine any more. via Anders Jacobsen

Chess Set designed by Karim Rashid, next to the piece I photographed a couple of months ago. They’re identical.

via Markose

However, Apple doesn’t make money on iTunes. It goes to the RIAA and credit card companies.

Update: 24 Apr 2007 — Looks like Apple is making money on iTunes after all. They’ve renegotiated agreements, especially with credit card companies, and make as much as 10 cents per song.

PC iTunes hits 1 million downloads.

Apple also announced a promotion with PepsiCo Inc. starting in February in which 100 million winning bottle caps on certain Pepsi drinks grant the winner a free song.

When I read that, I said, “That’s 99 million dollars!”
Then I said, “No, it costs just the royalty… which may be a fixed cost anyway.”
Then I figured, “Lots of people will buy Pepsi. Maybe Pepsi paid Apple for it.”
Smart move, Jobs.