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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There’s a brave new world coming with HTML 5… this could be scary and interesting all at the same time. Can’t wait for the first client side data storage ad…
Dan Wood pointed out InquisitorX on his blog. Inquisitor is a search plugin for Safari on OS X that adds some neat capabilities to the search box, most importantly the ability to search different sources from the same box with simple keyboard shortcuts.
Dan really likes this app:
Inquisitor: Must-Have add-on for Safari
Check out Inquisitor. A Safari add-on that replaces the Google search in Safari. Wow. Real-time search results. A gorgeous UI. Also you can configure it to search other sites using different keyboard shortcuts. This is what I’ve been looking for. There’s also an online version.
If this is what “Web 2.0″ is about, then sign me up!
