The secret history of glyphs like the octothorpe; Wizards in red; whether Groupon really works; Rand Paul in action; and yet another political quiz.

How to prioritize tasks; copywriting for sales; the real story of the auto bailout; Facebook marketing; and more.

Photo: Flickr/​​Jason Lawrence How a cab medallion system is counterproductive: it introduces artificial scarcity and distorts drivers’ incentives. Russ Roberts points out that Japan’s fuel shortages are no mystery and that the solution isn’t more regulation. Shortages are a result of price controls that keep a scare product artificially inexpensive. Some fancy CSS work by Josh […]

Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from December 7^th to December 11^th.