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Social Security Info

Debunking The Conservative Attack On Social Security, has lots of good info about Social Security. Bottom line things are lots better than the hysteria predicts.

Some choice quotes:

“The system is also efficient: the cost of administering Social Security is less than 0.7% of annual benefits, compared to administrative costs at private insurance companies that are on average more than 40 times as high.”



Conservatives, then and now, know it’s far easier to minimize — or eliminate — programs that benefit only the poor.”



This rationale was used in 1981 in arguing for the Reagan tax cuts. The rates were cut–and savings actually *declined*.

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Social Security Info

Debunking The Conservative Attack On Social Security, has lots of good info about Social Security. Bottom line things are lots better than the hysteria predicts.

Some choice quotes:

“The system is also efficient: the cost of administering Social Security is less than 0.7% of annual benefits, compared to administrative costs at private insurance companies that are on average more than 40 times as high.”



Conservatives, then and now, know it’s far easier to minimize — or eliminate — programs that benefit only the poor.”



This rationale was used in 1981 in arguing for the Reagan tax cuts. The rates were cut–and savings actually *declined*.

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PDA

Palm Interface

The Zen of Palm Computing

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PDA

Palm Interface

The Zen of Palm Computing

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Ars Employee Speaks Out

Diary of a Start-Up

the rise and fall of ArsDigita
and lessons from the world of venture capital

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Ars Employee Speaks Out

Diary of a Start-Up

the rise and fall of ArsDigita
and lessons from the world of venture capital

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Too good to be true

Study shows that Oral sex makes pregnancies safer and more successful. Good news for those wanting to be fathers.

[via diveintomark}

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Too good to be true

Study shows that Oral sex makes pregnancies safer and more successful. Good news for those wanting to be fathers.

[via diveintomark}

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Perl XML

Perl, XML, PDF oh my

XML::Handler::AxPoint – AxPoint XML to PDF Slideshow generator

This module is a port and enhancement of the AxKit presentation tool, AxPoint. It takes an XML description of a slideshow, and generates a PDF. The resulting presentations are very nice to look at, possibly rivalling PowerPoint, and almost certainly better than most other freeware presentation tools on Unix/Linux.
The presentations support slide transitions, PDF bookmarks, bullet points, source code (fixed font) sections, images, colours, bold and italics, hyperlinks, and transition effects for all the bullet points, source, and image sections.

And some examples.

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Perl XML

Perl, XML, PDF oh my

XML::Handler::AxPoint – AxPoint XML to PDF Slideshow generator

This module is a port and enhancement of the AxKit presentation tool, AxPoint. It takes an XML description of a slideshow, and generates a PDF. The resulting presentations are very nice to look at, possibly rivalling PowerPoint, and almost certainly better than most other freeware presentation tools on Unix/Linux.
The presentations support slide transitions, PDF bookmarks, bullet points, source code (fixed font) sections, images, colours, bold and italics, hyperlinks, and transition effects for all the bullet points, source, and image sections.

And some examples.