January 2008
21 posts
Consider this re: Subprime.
The american economy is getting totally hammered with a lot of help from an enormous number of bad loans, called Subprime Loans. The US governement is spending billions trying to shore up the economy and is promising investigations. Consider these not-so-unrelated facts: Ameriquest was one of the United States’s leading wholesale subprime lenders. (Wikipedia) Ameriquest Mortgage was a...
“I really don’t think it is the right thing to do to borrow more money from...”
– Forum commenter on the “stimulus package” in the US.
Being a Rockstar →
For all those whiners about how hard it is to be a public figure.
“At the last moment we switched to non-reflective, u.v. filtering, museum...”
– Presenting: The Sartorialist. Wow, $240 bucks extra for the glass. It does explain, though, why my glass never quite looks like the stuff in museums.
“Irish people are essentially Latin people who don’t know how to dance.”
– Bono, in a quote. Y’know, I think it might be dead on.
“No two ways about it, AT&T lex is buggy. This is partly because ti was the...”
– lex & yacc, John R. Elvine, Tony Mason & Doug Brown It never ceases to amaze me how much critical software is written by summer interns. AT&T lex was crucial to the development of software.
WatchWow.
Early dovetails →
Very very early dovetails. Pretty amazing, they are unchanged in 2000 years.
“Computer people are the last to guess what’s coming next. I mean, come on,...”
– Douglas Adams in 1999. Via an article by Stephen Fry.
Amish Wine Cabinet →
Somebody is very confused about the Amish. Next we’ll have the Catholic Koran Stand.
“This is a different kind of bad than, say, the glossy, homogenous, boring...”
– In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
“Florida cops found eight sets of human remains in the woods of Fort Myers nine...”
– Mystery bones vex cops: Is a serial killer at large?. No, CNN, 8 people just wandered into the same general area and keeled over dead, all completely coincidently. Or a large family wandered, spread themselves out, all died without being able to get help, and mysteriously left no trace of their...
Word of the Day
Sheeple.
In the "Doesn't Get It" sweepstakes
Sony officially hereby wins. Seriously, why on earth should we leave our cozy homes/workplaces, wander to the store, find a card, buy the card, take it home, create an account on a website, log into website, download music when we could just steal it off the internet for free and a lot less effort? Do they actually think making it more difficult to buy then it ever has is what consumers are aiming...
Paris Changing →
Very fascinating view of Paris changing.
Geeks →
Sears, here is looking at you. →
Pretty wild stuff. Would it be fair play to do it to some of their executives?
Britain Drops 'War on Terror' Label →
Nice move. Don’t be givin the bastards credibility. About time.