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Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* People love commenting on, mostly IRL, and reading this series of blog posts. (Courtesy: Personal experience)

* Apple played a significant role in the popularization and death of floppy drives. (Courtesy: Steven Vaughan-Nichols)

* Julian Charriere has an interesting art project in Venice’s Piazza San Marco that involves the coloring of pigeons. Surprisingly, most reports I read don’t bother including a photo. Odd Stuff Magazine (NFI) has a photo with its post on the matter. (Courtesy: NYT)

* There is an annual afro-punk festival in Ft. Greene. It amazes–in good and bad ways–that I only just now learned this. (Courtesy: NYT)

* During the Great Depression, leading US economists proposed the Chicago Plan: separating monetary and credit functions in the banking system and 100 percent backing for deposits. Repeated analysis demonstrates this model would have significant positive affect on the US economy. (Courtesy: IMF)

Things I Learned This Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* James Garfield was the last president to be born in a log cabin. (Courtesy: Candice Millard)

* A woman, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, was the first Soviet citizen to meet a US president. (Courtesy: Wikipedia)

* In 1994, the United States banned the import of China-made assault weapons. (Courtesy: NYT)

Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* The value of a RAID array is significantly diminished when tied to on-motherboard RAID controllers. (Courtesy: Personal experience)

* Whatever you say about dictators, it seems as if they usually marry for love (even if they aren’t faithful). Their wives certainly aren’t lookers. (Courtesy: History)

* Platform shoes were the fourth most sold consumer good in DPRK during 2011. (Courtesy: Arirang News)