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Monday, March 29, 2004 |
RFIDs of the Beast.
The Snopes.com Urban Legends Reference has a great new page detailing
why radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are (for better or
worse) not the "mark of the beast" as prophesized in this passage from the New Testament's Book of Revelations:
"[The beast] causes all, both small and great, rich and
poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their
foreheads. And that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark
or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom.
Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it
is the number of a man: His number is 666."
Link
[Boing Boing] 
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Disneyland jacks up admission at 190% of inflation. The price of admission to Disneyland is going up to $49.75. Frank Boosman points out that Disney is raising its ticket-prices waaay ahead of inflation:
According to Yesterland,
the price in 1972 for a 15-ride ticket book -- the highest-priced
admission back then and so the most apt comparison to today's unlimited
attractions ticket -- was $5.95.
Using this handy calculator
(thanks, NASA!), we can tell that $5.95 in 1972 dollars equals $26.19
in 2003 dollars. That means that Disney's ticket prices are now 1.9
times higher than if they had risen at the underlying inflation rate.
Put another way, if this trend holds, in the year 2035, it will cost
$94.50 in 2004 dollars to visit Disneyland for the day.
Link
(Thanks, Frank!) [Boing Boing]
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© Copyright 2004 William J. Maya.
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