Obama vs. Berlusconi

Catastrofe is on a roll today.

Frei Korper Kultur

He he he. He he he he. He.

Recession indicators

Times are tough. Actual excerpt from the Dean's newsletter, Stanford University: "The new policy suspends provision of food and beverages from School funds for meetings and other events... Some events will be rescheduled, where feasible, so that they don't coincide with meal times."
And this is from the School of Medicine. Yikes!

Source: PhD Comics

Become something we have never been

We must become something we have never been and for which our education and experience and environment have ill-prepared us. We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

Emperor Haile Selassie III addressing the United Nations, Oct 1963

What to do if you get trapped by a foldable sofa

According to the BBC.

It ain't over till it's over

Yogi Berra, Italian-American baseball champion, "didn't really say everything he said". Nonetheless, what he did say is food for thought.

Micronations

I don't really know what to say, but this is hilarious.

Got some catching up to do

In the past days I was not able to post, so now I condense two interesting Wikipedia links into one article... I hope my 10^23 readers will forgive me

Once Napoleon warned never to ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to stupidity. Apparently this principle is called Hanlon's Razor, somewhat related to Occam's razor.

And here's one of the most amazing Italians of the 19th Century - widely published poet, reformer of morals, daredevil and war leader - at some point he even declared war on Italy!

Time to move on

I like it when Wondermark goes political.

Lego Bible

Are you into Jesus? can you feel the Jesus? or are you simply an old-fashioned Rabbi with the black hat? This website illustrates the Bible with Lego bricks and characters. An indispensable tool to help you and your acquaintances visualize the most salient episodes of the Book.

There's probably no God

Richard Dawkins strikes again

Play the surgeon

Who tells me the English name of the board game where you have to operate a patient wins $1

At what time did my computer crash?

Or, in other words, does Windows have a system log? (Many of my 64,000 readers will make fun of me for such a naive discovery, but lo, after 13 years messin' with computers I did not know. "Event Viewer" in Windows XP is the answer. It records (some) actions by the operating system and other applications, so that you can get an idea of what happened when. In order to start it, do "Start > Run" and type "eventvwr" in the "Open:" textbox follwed by Enter. A window like the one in the picture will open and you'll be able to know that your computer has been functioning at least until 10:11pm yesterday (whew!).

Bushisms

It's old, I know, but it's always funny. The BBC commemorates GW Bush with a collection of his Bushisms.

Keynes' 1933 letter to President Roosevelt

An interesting letter that makes you wonder - Keynes' suggestions were revolutionary back then, and it took a few years (1929-1933) for them to be accepted by governments during the Great Depression. Nowadays, similar policies are enacted much faster but the point is, we haven't improved our knowledge of "what to do in an economic crisis" much in the past 75 years... I'd love to receive comments on this from knowledgeable economists. Or at least people who know what I am talking about... :-)

Jesus riding a Velociraptor

I can't stop laughing. But if you are totally into Jesus, it's even awesomer. Jesus would approve.

A movie that makes you happy

This nice little free movie is more potent than Prozac, and what's most important, it has no side effects... :-) Enjoy even if you are already happy.

(The only downside, but only for depressed people, is that its effect probably wears off after watching 4 or 5 times)

The worst economic forecasters of 2008

• Mark Hulbert on the stock market
• Goldman Sachs on oil prices (Raw in March - Chiseled in May)

To Mr. Hulbert's credit, he did not have a reputation anyways.