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Flatware was built to be an S3 caching buddy for Tabletop, might prove useful for you: https://github.com/jsoma/flatware

I maintain a library[1] that's pretty popular with the journalism crowd for converting Google Spreadsheets to JSON, and you're exactly right about the risk[2]. Google's been sitting on a bug for over 6 months now because API usage of Google Spreadsheets just isn't important enough to merit a fix[3].

We've sent people off into the caching world[4] to fit it on our end, but your criticism is unfortunately spot-on.

[1] https://github.com/jsoma/tabletop

[2] https://github.com/jsoma/tabletop#okay-wait-weve-got-a-big-p...

[3] http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/docs/...

[4] http://github.com/jsoma/flatware

Tabletop creator here, thanks for mentioning it! It's funny - since my target audience was journalists I never ever ever thought of describing it as "getting JSON from Google Spreadsheets." Looks like it's time to update the ol' README.

The issue isn't the tax burden, it's high rate of tax evasion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/world/europe/italy-tries-t...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/world/europe/italys-new-to...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230375390457745...

The French actually beat Swatch by a a couple centuries - during the French Revolution they spent about twenty years fooling around with metric/decimal time. Ten hours a day, 100 minutes an hour, and 100 seconds per minute (each second ended up about 14% shorter than a "normal" second). They real fun is in the calendar, with 12 months of 30 days each, and rules like "every tenth day is named after a mineral." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar#Deci... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar#Ten_...