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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Didn’t know it had a name… cool.
I’m working on a small project at home where I need to write a small HTTP client. I was collecting a bunch of HTTP headers so I could have a bunch of test data that I can learn from. I was just poking around at Slashdot when I saw this header:
I guess they’re Futurama fans, huh? Keep in mind that this is something that almost no one would see except for programmers debugging HTTP connection issues. Not even their own programmers would see this in any normal working situation. I rarely see or saw the headers that ESPN.com puts out and I spent 2+ years working on an HTTP-based protocol that powers RealTime and FantasyCast.
That’s a hard-core fan.
I didn’t realize it, because I’m apparently not cool enough, but there’s a long tradition of embedding the randomest stuff in HTTP headers. Who knew?
