November 2008
69 posts
“…is a splendid desert—a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is...”
– Mark Twain, about New York (via NY Mag article)
$4.6165 trillion: the bailout in perspective
Jim Bianco of Bianco Research crunched the inflation adjusted numbers. The bailout has cost more than all of these big budget government expenditures – combined:
• Marshall Plan: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted: $115.3 billion • Louisiana Purchase: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted: $217 billion • Race to the Moon: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted: $237 billion • S&L Crisis: $153 billion,...
Vladimir Vysotsky - Moskva Odessa
Dent May - Oh, Paris!
(via impose mag)
Chopin - Prelude No. 23 in F major: Moderato.
...
Bus factor
In software development, a project’s bus factor is an irreverent measurement of concentration of information in a single person, or very few people. The bus factor is the total number of key developers who would if incapacitated, as by getting hit by a bus, send the project into such disarray that it would not be able to proceed.[1]
Getting hit by a bus could take many different forms. This...
Bullion with a Mission →
Bernard von NotHaus’s crusade to establish an alternative to the dollar and challenge the supremacy of the Federal Reserve.
by Barry Harbaugh // issue four of Triple Canopy
Wear Good Shoes: Advice to young photographers... →
When did you first get excited about photography?
Abbas: Upon birth
“Make no mistake, these bait-diggers will turn acclaim into fame. And fish....”
– from the one-sheet for Superchunk’s album No Pocky For Kitty. Oct 1991 (via Matador blog)
A Modest Proposal to the French President...
Putin: I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls.
Sarkozy: Hang him?
Putin: Why not? The Americans hanged Saddam Hussein.
Sarkozy, using the familiar 'tu': Yes but do you want to end up like Bush?
Putin, after a brief pause: Ah, you have scored a point there.
“priceless WTF, a moment preserved: girl bites boy @ No Age show. pic:...”
– Twitter / hudson.lines (via yvynyl) !
Watchnocturnes, a slideshow. watch it with night music, full screen and at fast speed (from flickr).
The Sads - Phoebe Cates this from Prague’s...
John Hodgman interview in The New Yorker →
(via imarks:rkb)
WatchGoing Home from Work: an ode to the late-night taxi.
i made this way back in march but recently revised it. upload_now.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-9) →
Frances
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Deerhunter
The Mountain Goats
Keren Ann
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I’m a P.C.”
– Girl Talk, in ad for Microsoft. uhhh
AC Newman - There Were Maybe Ten Or Twelve...
ATM disambiguation
(my flickr)
ATM or atm may refer to (Wikipedia):
AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
Automated teller machine, a cash dispenser or cash machine
Automatenmarken, (German) a gummed or self adhesive label for postal use
Atmosphere (unit) (“atm”), a unit of atmospheric pressure
Asynchronous Transfer Mode, a telecommunications protocol used in networking
Asynchronous Transfer...
