INTERESTING: Amazon contest

Monday, January 9, 2012

https://www.createspace.com/abna

Amazon Breakthrough Novel AwardThe 2012 Contest is Here!

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Do you have an unpublished or self-published novel you know Amazon.comreaders will love? Enter your novel in the 2012 Amazon BreakthroughNovel Award for a chance to win one of two $15,000 publishing contractswith Penguin USA and distribution of your novel on Amazon.com.

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Maybe next year. I’ll have one or more of the novels ready.

So much to do; so little time. Argh!

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INTERESTING: Reduce signs; reduce accidents to zero?

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=271482

A sign of movement: Don’t Walk
BY BRUCE KAUFFMANN FOR THE  
Telegraph Herald – Dubuque, IA

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In 2004, the good citizens of Christianfield, Denmark — libertarians to the core — decided to remove all of the traffic signs and signals, including the Denmark equivalent of “Don’t Walk” signs, from their most dangerous intersection. This was done to determine if they would be safer without government intervention, which is what traffic signs unquestionably represent.

“What if,” these citizens asked themselves, “it was up to us, not Denmark’s transportation department, to determine the safest way of crossing an intersection?”

After several months of forgoing government traffic signs and depending on their judgment — including approaching the intersection cautiously — the number of serious accidents dropped to zero.

An isolated, non-representative example? Maybe.

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Maybe we can try “freedom” and “liberty”?

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