Steve is Listening (or iPhone 4)
#Some time ago I said that Apple should call their phones simply by numbers in the order they’re released, instead of adding suffixes such as G and GS. Now they do.
Random Musings
Coincidence
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[Y]ou can’t ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence — that’s all anything ever is. Nothing more than coincidence. [...] There are no miracles. There is no such thing as fate. Nothing is meant to be.
— (500) Days of Summer
Sunday with Beethoven
#Web Infinity
#Web has that enormous feeling of infinity — every word and though never lost or erased once it’s up there on the web. Incredible, isn’t it, that feeling of never loosing something you hold dear.
Pāri jumtiem lido kaijas
#by Ainars Mielavs.
US Stimulus Package: $2588 to Every American
#The US Government stimulus package of 787 billion US dollars ($787,000,000,000) divided by the US population of 304,059,724 equals to $2,588 for every American.
Signs which some economists currently call showing recovery are actually signs of increasing amounts of money being poured into the economy. The economy will be on its way of recovery only when Americans will have repayed this loan and generated some additional return on this investment. Read more »
Education, Creativity and Individuality
#TED Talk by Sir Ken Robinson on importance of education and creativity (via a comment at swissmiss)
Global Debt Comparison
#Every Latvian owes $3,766 while every American $22,177 for the amount of public debt its government has accumulated since 1999 — see Global Debt Comparison.
Why do only few economists notice these staggering numbers?
Hey, You’re OK
#You’ll be fine. The good old song from Ze: zefrank.com/chillout
Jill Barber
#Long time favorite — Jill Barber — on video and audio.