http://www.xkcd.com/980/
A graphical, scaled image of common financial amounts, both abstract and
concrete.
There's a number of interesting observations and tidbits scattered
throughout the chart, the only one I'll note here is this: the EPA values a
human life at $8.4 million.
The line below in quotation marks come from the chart.
"Money: A chart of (almost) all of it, where it is, and what it can do.
This chart is entirely in 2011 dollars. Every value associated with a year
before 2011 was adjusted for inflation using the Consumer Price Index.
Nearly every amount has a cited source - when possible, a scholarly work or
government publication. A list of sources is available at
http://xkcd.com/980/sources/."
Tooltip: "There, I showed you it."
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Boyd's Stuff at DNI
D-N-I.net, formerly Defense and the National Interest, used to host all of
John Boyd's writings online. See links below for details, and for the
writings, stored at the Internet Archive. On the Internet Archive, look at
dates no later than 6 Mar 2008.
John Boyd's writings online. See links below for details, and for the
writings, stored at the Internet Archive. On the Internet Archive, look at
dates no later than 6 Mar 2008.
http://zenpundit.com/?p=3257
http://planetrussell.posterous.com/boyd-dni-and-closing-the-ooda-loop
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.d-n-i.net
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