I’m the first to admit that I don’t have a lot of time for Dick Smith…I mean he’s not Gerrard Harvey (of Harvey Norman) bad but he tends on the xenophobic anti-internet side at times.

That said free speech should be extended to all, and despite only very tame innuendo’s in this video, it’s been banned…and it shouldn’t have.

I didn’t find it that bad…be it very kitsch.

Great clip from Duke University explaining how market pricing mechanisms work for the greater good.

(via Catallaxyfiles)

The IPA’s Chris Berg puts up a solid argument in favour of voluntary voting on The Panel.

The only argument he missed is the most obvious one: if we are a free and democratic society, shouldn’t our democracy give us the freedom to choose not to vote?