Humour
My Top 10 TED.com talks
1. Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight 2. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything 3. Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds 4. Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions 5. Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn 6. VS Ramachandran on your mind 7. Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny 8. Adam Savage’s obsessions 9. Emily Levine’s theory of... »
BBC NEWS | UK | Police stored DNA with ice cream
West Yorkshire Police have been storing DNA samples from suspects and car crash victims in a freezer also used for ice cream, a watchdogs’ report has said. Full report here: - BBC NEWS | UK | Police stored DNA with ice cream . »
Lest we forget.
photo credit: la picarita Michael Jackson is gone and I’m not sad. I guess that makes me as much of a freak as he was, given the massive media explosion of coverage on a wretch of a man whose megalomania apparently knew no bounds. I will try my best in the coming days and weeks... »
Future Times
Have a look into the furture with a 2020 edition of the Financial Times. Worth a read indeed. To enter the time warp portal, go via this link > »
GBFMYC
Here’s a nice little video piece from the folks over at Visionon.tv from the Undercurrents stable of right-on activism. So as the bankers’ fuckups cause more and more gloom across the planet and the rest of us find out how we are expected to pick up the tab, the situation just gets more baffling... »
On the downward slope… but going forward
And so, as projections for the Irish economy slide from 4% (Jan) to 6/6.5% (Mar), a rate of contraction more than twice as much as the euro area, let us take stock going forward. Hallelujah. »
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