One year anniversary

Offsetting Behaviour launched a year ago; it's time for a roundup for newer readers. Here are some of my favourite posts and some of yours, as judged by Google.

First, your favorite posts. Google Reader tells me folks especially "liked" these ones:

• Video games and the socialist calculation debate
• Pirates and the Ownership Society: investing in pirate ventures
• Van Halen, and the brown M&M as testing venue quality
• Skepticism and research funding
• Oddities in Australian censorship
• Battling corruption through the zero-rupee note
• Are we sure the terrorists aren't just trying to make us wait longer in airports?
• My rant to ACC about having to pay a self-employment premium
• Poisonous prohibition: putting poison in the alcohol during American prohibition

Google Analytics tells me these are the most viewed, in descending order:

1. Fun searches in Wolfram Alpha
2. Atlas Moment? Not according to Google Search Insights
3. Markets in Everything: The restaurant where you get what the last guy ordered; you order and pay for the next guy.
4. Rent seeking in academia: the costs of vetting NSERC grants is excessive
5. Economics of ticket scalping: Trent Reznor edition
6. IQ and stock market participation: smarter folks participate more and have better-diversified portfolios.
7. My rant against the anti-sweatshop movement
8. The one day a week restaurant
9. Explaining the masthead
10. Gollum psychoanalyzed

And here are a few that I rather liked, but you didn't.

• Game theory, as practiced by the little fishies
• Evidence against the feasibility of a desirable libertarian anarchy
• The Gnomes of Canterbury: how Canterbury economics got its name.
• Against subsidizing recycling
• Print-making in Cape Dorset, courtesy of a cigarette packet
• Economic ignorance in New Zealand
• The various battles with the BERL report, and especially this one.

I'll eventually get around to putting my favourites of these up as a sidebar. It's been a fun year; thanks for reading!