Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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ESPN Motion! on the Mac! Could it be? If this works out, I’ll have Motion on the Mac done in 2 months or less from whenever this happens (unless Mindy beats me to it).
August 23rd, 2004 at 11:16 am
Is this for real is this actually happening?
August 23rd, 2004 at 3:09 pm
Rumor is that a Mac friendly motion experience is coming soon, but the integration described in the article linked above is still some time away (and it depends on Apple or Mozilla getting this new plugin API done… in other words, ESPN.com isn’t dragging their feet, it’s just not possible to do the same Motion experience on the Mac as they do on the PC).