Notes from the Surf
Wheelbarrow races never looked so good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvASnyOy5B4
I guess every sport has their Fosbury's.
When a gun is close enough to grab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcz1KGCFdzo
Probably mainly useful for police, bouncers, gangsters, and movie directors.
Thus, for any nondeterministic Turing Machine
http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/computer_science_major.PNG
...the same reason I majored in comp sci =^(
iPhone or Droid
http://xkcd.com/662/
"What if I want something more..."
Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code.html
"even when we gave self-declared atheists the task of swearing on the Bible and we give them a chance to cheat, they didn't cheat at all... If somebody from our in-group cheats... we feel it's more appropriate... But if it's somebody from another group... all of a sudden people's awareness of honesty goes up"
Iraq: "oil company was participating in the drafting of the Iraqi Constitution"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/world/middleeast/12galbraith.html?
"When drillers struck oil in a rich new field called Tawke in December 2005, no one but a handful of government and business officials and members of Mr. Galbraith’s inner circle knew that the constitutional provisions he had pushed through only months earlier could enrich him so handsomely."
Gold: "nothing more than a set of self-confirming beliefs"
http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2009/11/gold-a-six-thousand-year-old-bubble/
"Gold has become a fiat commodity or a fiat commodity currency, just as the US $, the euro, the pound sterling and the yen (and a couple of hundred other currencies) are fiat paper currencies... Remember, fiat money, including gold, is intrinsically useless."
FDIC: Failed Bank List
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
3 failed in 2007. 26 failed in 2008. 124 failed so far in 2009.
Invisible Recovery Outside of Wall Street
http://www.mybudget360.com/lining-up-at-midnight-at-wal-mart-to-buy-food-is-part-of-the-new-recovery-banks-offering-mattress-interest-rates-the-invisible-recovery-outside-of-wall-street/
"The fact that you have people lining up at midnight just waiting to have their paychecks or government checks clear for food is probably something you are not going to see on CNBC but it is happening."
Maoists justified in taking up arms: Arundhati Roy
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/maoists-justified-in-taking-up-arms-arundhati-roy/103902-3.html
"You have an army of very poor people being faced down by an army of rich that are corporate-backed. I am sorry but it is like that."