Among the things I learned this week:
* A way of looking at haircuts: “What is the ROI on those bangs?” (JK)
* Washington DC has the most Starbucks per capita and is the location of the first East Coast Starbucks, (DCist)
* The Boston Tea Party was planned in a coffeeshop. (National Geographic)
Among the things I learned this week:
* Shakespeare became popular after a publisher disregarded copyright agreements and moved to sell his works for dirt cheap. (Courtesy: Harper’s)
* The tremendous drop in labor share–how much labor is needed to cover the labor costs of doing business–during the past few years and its longer decline. (Courtesy: The Big Picture)
* What it’s like to be in an earthquake. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
* Once you’ve been in a demolition derby, you never watch one the same way. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
Among the things I learned this week:
* Despite the Beastie Boys’ suggestion, Jamaica is not a significant producer of mangoes. (Courtesy: FAOSTAT, nicely displayed on Mongabay.com, and University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences)
* Physiocracy. (Courtesy: Car Talk reference; Wikipedia)
* “Package store” is Northern slang for liquor store. (Courtesy: HD)
* Bitrates of various streaming services:
– Spotify: Vorbis 160kbps with some at 320kbps if a Premium subscriber
– Amazon Cloud Player: MP3 at the rate the file was saved
– Pandora: AAC 64kbps and up to 192kbps, depending on subscription
– Google Music: play back at the quality of the file, except for FLAC, which is played back as mp3 320kpbs
* Lord of the Rings is “fundamentally religious and Catholic work”, according to Tolkien. (Courtesy: Wikipedia and follow up readings).
