Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-14-2008

• Why Poor Countries Are Poor
  The clues lie on a bumpy road leading to the world's worst library.
  (tags: politics society war travel money wealth poverty)
• Watchmen - the conspiracy theorist's guide
  Fantastically whacko
  (tags: watchmen comics alanmoore)
• Fable 2 - with puppets
  A rather nicely animated choose-your-own-adventure. Well worth the ten minutes it took me to play through!
  (tags: games microsoft fable2 fable)
• Best of 2008: Top 5 Wii Games
  (Noted for my later purchasing)
  (tags: games 2008 wii)
• Scaling memcached at Facebook
  If you've ever wondered what the problems a massive site runs into are like, here's a good place to educate yourself.
  (tags: memory linux networking performance scalability memcached)
• Profitable Until Deemed Illegal
  "In short, swoopo is about as close to pure, distilled evil in a business plan as I've ever seen. They get paid for everything up front, and as they drop ship everything there's no inventory or overhead to worry about. It is almost brilliantly evil, in a sort of evil genius way."
  (tags: economics gambling shopping swoopo)