Emptying my burgeoning browser tabs:

• Jefferson Country, Alabama, teeters on edge of bankruptcy (Bloomberg)
• Latest issue of the always-excellent Chance News (ChanceWiki)
• Nifty bit of code to analytics on your own mail if you're a Gmail user (persistent.info)
• Historical trading and backtesting data (opentick)
• Infochimps.org: Free Redistributable Data Sets of Every Kind (Infochimps)
• The Inefficient Use of Macroeconomic Information in Analysts' Earnings Forecasts in Emerging Markets (SSRN)
• Overoptimism Among Founders: The Role of Information and Motivation (SSRN)

Anyone have any ski resort lift passes around? I'm trying to figure out how many, if any, North American ski resorts give sequential IDs on their daily passes. From looking around at various images online, it looks like some do.

I know, I know, strange request. Humor me.