Zombie Apocolypse
Apropos the coming end of the world tomorrow the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has produced a few guidelines for the coming zombie apocalypse
He Fell Off The Curb……Honest
I always find the first step to be a right bugger as well………
LinkedIn the Facebook for people with a job debuted last night and has managed to do very nicely for those involved. The entire notion of social media intrigues me since it looks so much like the tech bubble circa 1998/99 with people putting extraordinary valuations on really quite nebulous businesses. The performance of LinkedIn on…
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Apparently according to one group of Christian nutbags the world is going to end on the weekend which is such a bugger because I was planning to go to the flicks on Sunday. Naturally I had to have a look at all the other bonkers predictions people with imaginary friends had made. Fortunately, I didn’t…
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Someone dropped this into my inbox. It is 20 facts about the US housing market generated by Economic Collapse I think everyone in their right mind agress that the US housing market has essentially dropped its guts all over the US economy but these facts are fascinating in the level of damage it has done…
DetailsTim Harford on Unexpected Economics
Tim Harford who does a wonderful series of podcast on the BBC – all of which are available on itunes talks about finding economic lessons in unusual places.
Who Is OPEC?
Greta little information graphic on the make up of OPEC from mintlife
Here Be Monsters
A crewman on a commercial tuna-fishing boat was the first to spot it: something shiny and metallic in the water off the ship’s bow. The crewman alerted the navigator, and the 280-foot San Nikunau slightly altered course to avoid a collision. As the ship came closer, the object revealed itself to be a small boat,…
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Interesting piece on Bobby Fischer the chess grandmaster who moved from God like status in the world of chess to be a friggen mental case in his later years. His descent into wild and irrational behaviour is far from a unique narrative, particularly in chess. The history of the game contains many similar trajectories. As…
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