2 month ago
Richard Rutter : Interesting property search engine - Interface is just search.
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14 month ago
Rod Begbie : Massachusetts Land Records - Search the complete land-history records (mortgages and deeds) for Massachusetts. Find out how badly your friends and family are in debt! #
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16 month ago
nelson : SF real estate map - Good heat map visualization of prices
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16 month ago
nelson : Second Life lawsuit - A test of ownership of virtual property
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16 month ago
Rod Begbie : Redfin - Real estate site that acknowledges that good online search tools means realtors can less-and-less justify their 3% commission. [via] #
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16 month ago
nelson : propertyshark.com - The best online real estate database I've seen yet
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38 month ago
Linkorama : IP Meets Communications - We're moving from the conceit of owning information to the conceit of owning the public internet itself – or, in other words, the conceit of owning flows of information."
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plasticbag : How single people are facing financial meltdown... - It's way way way more expensive to live by yourself, or to buy a home buy yourself, than it is to do so with a partner to share the burden...
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39 month ago
Andy Baio : Weels Fargo buys island in Second Life - cheesy edutainment, but innovative and weird use of the game world
jimray : Wells Fargo Buys 'Second Life' Island - The gamers are going to inherit the (virtual) earth
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46 month ago
plasticbag : 300 islands in the shape of the world - a unique investment opportunity, and also the freakiest fucking thing I've ever heard of... - Mark my words - the aspiration of humankind is to make the real world like Second Life
erikbenson : Have you seen this? The UAE is building a series of Islands in the shape of the world. - I think they're trying to find investors at the moment to build an assortment of communities on these islands.
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47 month ago
philgyford : House Prices (actual prices paid) in England, Scotland and Wales- MyHousePrice.com - Find out how much individual properties sold for a few months ago, for a pound per property.
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51 month ago
Andy Baio : HR 4077 bill passed the House - bill proposes up to 5 years of jail for sharing 1,000 songs or one unreleased album
cobra libre : HR4077 passed the house - go to jail for sharing 1000 songs or 1 unreleased album
Adam Gessaman : HR4077 Passes the House - Shit.
Tom Coates : HR4077 would send you to prison for sharing one unreleased album
Rod Begbie : Bad: HR4077 Passed the House - Fucking hell. This is so Bad and Wrong that I can't even begin to process it. 5 years in jail for sharing 1,000 MP3s?!? [via] #
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53 month ago
Charles Miller : VS COBOL II Reference Summary - VS COBOL II Reference Summary. Just in case this whole Object Orientated thing doesn't work out.
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53 month ago
Charles Miller : Music: copying MP3s, CDs and audio-cassettes - From the Australian Copyright Council, an information sheet, Music: copying MP3s, CDs and audio-cassettes (pdf). In summary, the answer to any given question is "No, that's illegal." Though they do graciously permit "You" to "download and print one copy o
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53 month ago
Charles Miller : Jack Valenti Quotes - Lawrence Lessig celebrates Jack Valenti's good-bye with a list of quotes.
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53 month ago
cobra libre : go, zarquon! (read the comments) - i agree completely, morally if not legally
Eric Meyer : Design Theft: Crossing the Line - When does theft become art, and at what point does it become original?
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