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Awesome…

For anyone looking to understand this weird obsession I have with the economics of land and natural resources, and to explore the idea that capitalists and communists are both half-right, both half-wrong, and both making the exact same mistake — well, the bible has always been Progress and Poverty. The awesome part is that now, for anyone not masochistic enough to read Henry George’s 599 page economic treatise, you can now read the cliff notes in a quick 39 page pdf.

via Menace of Privilege

Man, Netflix is getting really specific. The first “category” on my homepage is now “Dark Tortured-Genius Dramas”.

On a similar track, I’ve always been annoyed that they only give us 5 stars to rate with, no half stars, etc, and usually when I go to rate one I’m thinking, “well this one’s really a 3.5″, etc… Well it’s almost getting creepy how often their “Average of raters like you” — which does do half-stars — matches how I would have rated had they let me.

And while I’m talking Netflix — I haven’t decided if I like their connection widget I’ve been playing with that posts my ratings to facebook. Or rather I do like it for the ones I want to post, especially now that they’ve added the ability to comment, but I don’t like that it posts everything I rate. And not just the ones I’ve just rented, it posts *everything* you rate. So when they give you a page of recommendations and you go through rating all the ones you’ve already seen it posts those too. I do watch a lot of movies, but not as many as it makes it seem. Seems like it would be simple to add a “don’t post this one” to the little dialog that pops up asking for your comment.