General linkiness

[unixronin]

Scott and Scurvy

An article about how the cure for scurvy was first found, then misunderstood, then lost, and how this doomed the Scott expedition to the South Pole.  It wasn't Antarctic weather that killed them, so much as it was scurvy ... in 1911.

Our own Greek tragedy

From about a week ago, Mark Steyn on why the Greek economy is going down for the third time, and why the US is following them down the same road through failure to understand what happened and why.

We Are Not Evil

Magnatune, the first Internet-based record label, is trying to establish a new model for selling music.  This model includes letting you try before you buy, letting you pay what you think the music is worth, and paying artists not the piddling 2% or 3% of receipts that even big-name acts are lucky if they ever actually see from old-school record companies, but 50% of the purchase price.  They even encourage you to make three copies of every purchase to give to your friends, because Magnatune understands that word-of-mouth sells music.  (And books, and...)

And last but not least ...

John Kelly on printers as instruments of Satan.

Comments

[merlinpendragon]

Very interesting reading. I was particularly enthralled by the first two links. THANKS!