Technology firms have often used April 1 as a chance to play pranks on their customers. Google, for example, is famous for these hoaxes, to the point that its 2004 launch of Gmail (on April 1) was originally viewed as a joke. In a crowded field of 2011 pranks that includes elaborate videos and even browser extensions, […]

Google researchers discover that good management is the key to good management. Also, Slate investigates pickpocketing; how to redistrict the District; and Remy’s new video for Reason​.tv.

“…all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” Photo: Wikimedia “States don’t have rights,” Stephen Green reminds us. “Individuals do. It’s time we went about the business of restoring those rights, without alienating a huge constituency which suffered too long without them.” Green rightly argues that conservatives’ […]

What would Edmund Burke do? Also: using CSS media queries to scale web sites; Europe’s welfare state; and Google’s free web fonts.

Arthur Brooks draws the battle lines in today’s culture war; a good-​​looking transit project in Maryland; must-​​reads on urban policy for conservatives; and how Google destroys office productivity.

Jim Bunning holds the line on spending; the ugly new American embassy in London; Simon Heffer on Gordon Brown; and Google’s algorithm.

Jonah Goldberg points out the obvious flaw in the left’s critique of the filibuster: “Of course the filibuster is undemocratic. This is not some bombshell revelation. And yet in indictment after indictment of the filibuster — and the Senate generally — you hear people level the ‘undemocratic’ charge as if it should be dispositive. The […]

Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from July 6^th to July 8^th.