Category: Quickhit
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Amateur economics
[US blowhard Jim Cramer blows a gasket](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/05/cramer_begs_fed_rese.html) about the US Fed.
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Currency craft
[Turn a coin into a ring](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/coin_rings.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890)
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Don’t tell the ACT Government
[Low cost libraries in the Andes](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/04/mule_library.html)
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Left Behind
[The page-by-page demolition](http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/left_behind/index.html) (start at the bottom. Four years in and 314 pages in so far.
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Blofeld or Blowhard
[James Bond Villain lair or radio station?](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/radio-futurists/polish-radio-station-hq-looks-like-a-badass-scifi-movie-set-285788.php)
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Getting an iPhone
[The hard way](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/true-story/man-goes-through-vasectomy-to-get-iphone-285598.php)
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Demolition backwards
A building [being demolished starting at the ground floor and finishing at the top](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/de_construction/building-demolished-from-the-ground-up-looks-better-than-new-285597.php)
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Discrimination in Star Trek
[The distribution of deaths by shirt colour](http://www.economics.com.au/?p=1016)
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How to tell if Apple rumors are true
[Just look for the cease & desist orders](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/arns-theory-of-apple-rumors-285482.php)
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Frontiers of advertising
[Al Qaeda appears to be running a teaser campaign](http://www.reason.com/blog/show/121722.html)