And for the cat people among us here is a little Flash interface to intrigue/enrage/terrify your local feline. When the Flash has finished loading just click anywhere on the browser window. Make sure kitty is close by and that your speakers aren't turned up too loud, just loud enough...
From the New York Times:Just hours after leaders agreed to provide nearly $1 trillion as part of a huge rescue package, central banks began buying euro zone government bonds directly on Monday -- an unprecedented move to inject cash into the financial system.
And so here is a handy set of illustrations to help us imagine what $1,000,000,000 actually looks like.
As an on-and-off boozehound myself I've always been interested in the Prohibition era in the United States and I think I might just get on the library waiting list for Daniel Okrent's latest book, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.
The Barnes & Noble Review has an excellent long interview with the author.
JM: Again, it makes you look at Prohibition in a different light. There was a serious issue here. It wasn't just a bunch of zealots ...
DO: Absolutely. This was a surprise to me, too. I thought Prohibition was simply a movement of pinched, narrow people who, as Mencken put it, were worried that somewhere, somebody else was having fun. What I found is that there were very, very good reasons for the movement. The amount of drunkenness -- particularly at the edge of the frontier, in the Midwest, in the rural areas -- was terrifying. Women had no legal rights at the time, and husbands were off getting drunk, drinking away the family money, not doing their work, coming home, hitting their wives, treating the kids badly, sometimes bringing home venereal disease from the prostitutes connected to the taverns. It was a real, real problem.
The evils of booze, Ohio prohibition campaign cartoon. Source -- Ohio State University
A fascinating and frightening "discussion of what actually happened."
I generally can't stand game shows, but I make an exception for Jeopardy!. It's fun to play along and though I almost always lose I always learn something. So I was happy to find the J! Archive:The fan-created archive of Jeopardy! games and players--191,720 clues and counting!
It may be old news, but the headline certainly caught my eye!
I'm working out how I can affirm you nice visitors as "trusted" contributors and how to prevent comment spam from being posted. So please go ahead and leave a comment and we'll see how tech-saavy I actually am!
Update - Well, it seems that the way I have MT set up it has caught one comment spam so far and queued it for "approval" so I was able to delete it. So let's see what happens when a friend of Croz posts! If your comment doesn't appear right away that just means that I have been asked to approve it, but I will figure out how to set it up so that you will be permanently "approved" and your comments will be posted when you write them.
According to this chart--and you can take my word for it--I sport the most trustworthy of beards. I'm not so sure about the relative placement of the Goatee + Moustache, though. I think I would reverse the Goatee + Moustache and the Handlebar.
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Erika Iris Simmons creates lovely portraits using the words, symbols and media that were used by her subjects. Here are some examples of how she does it. Beethoven is simply amazing and, of course, Jerry Garcia is a personal favourite of mine.
Ghost in the Machine - Jerry Garcia Live by Erika Iris Simmons
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Thanks, P.!
Getting too much of it here to keep up with comfortably so I'll set it up for registration. What a drag.
Absolutely brilliant.
Very well done (and probably not work-safe...).
I previously linked to an 18.4 gigapixel panorama of Prague and here is an even higher resolution panorama of Paris (warning: auto-play music).
And seriously, what is up with the giant tortoise on somebody's roof/deck?!
Obviously "Photoshopped" in. Too funny.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, a man of few words:While Mr. Jobs was known to occasionally answer e-mail messages sent to his widely published address before he went on medical leave last year, he now appears to have not only resumed the practice, but picked up the pace. Apple blogs are counting approximately a dozen such messages in the last few weeks -- and those are only the ones that were publicly shared.
Mr. Jobs did not respond to an inquiry about his e-mail habits that was sent to him directly, and Apple would not comment. But every indication is that the messages are being sent by Mr. Jobs himself, and they are resonating throughout the universe of Apple fans to an almost absurd degree.
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