January 28, 2003 Two posts

28-Jan-2003

Viridian Note: Venezuela’s Curse A good one. Read it: Far from an anomaly, Venezuela is a classic example of that economists call the ‘natural resource curse.’ A 1995 analysis of developing countries by Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner found that the more an economy relies on mineral wealth, the lower its growth rate. Venezuela isn’t poor despite its oil...
28-Jan-2003

New Header… and I Got A New Job I just made a new header out of some of my old Amiga images – the Katakana script says “Crawford” more or less. Back when Japan was my obsession. The sheep I found in some old Amiga clip art. I added the jet pack myself. The font that says “ARTLUNG” is based on a typography...