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Archive for September, 2008
Comedy: Bird & Fortune - Subprime Crisis
In one of their greatest sketches from this year the Long Johns describe the key concepts behind the subprime crisis. This is a few months old so they still talk about Bear Sterns as a live company.
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USA: Bailout Driven by Fear Not Fact
Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich suggested the $700 billion bailout package was sending America towards ‘casino socialism, where the only real product is debt.
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Duvet-Dayz: Web Site Problems
As you might have realized due to infrastructure issues at our ISP the Duvet-Dayz web site was not reachable during the last 24 hours. Thanks for popping by again and sorry for the issues.
Below the sad workload diagram of a database server bobbing along without being used and reduced to an expensive heating device.
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The Incredible Lightness of Being: Today Wall Street
I guess there is not much that need to be said on what happened today at Wall Street. We dropped in charts of the leading stock indexes / average (DJIA & NASDAQ) for documentation.
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USA: Scaring people all the way around
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart reminds us of the similarity between G.W.Bush’s big bailout speech and his Iraq invasion speech five years ago.
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Music: Victor Wooten
Just music - the most amazing bassist on this planet.
Victor Wooten, absolutely fabulous.
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Press: Naomi Wolf on S.Palin
Naomi Wolf, who also writes for Huffington Post, has published an interesting opinion piece at AlterNet (link below). If you like her point of view or not, this is definitely worth reading…
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Bail-Out: Fallen Masters
This is definitely our last post for a while on this topic but the video is done so well that we thought you should watch it.
Basically - in essence - what some of those responsible for the crisis might believe that will happen to them in the future. Nothing, they will just carry on enjoying your money.
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Bail-Out: The Nigeria Connection
So we are not the only ones making fun of the great thought through U.S. bail-out plan that in its original form would provide almost absolutistic powers to the U.S. treasury secretary.
There is a great image (link below) on Flickr asking for support in the form of a Nigerian email scam letter
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Advertising: Wario Land destroys YouTube
Some people in the advertising business seemingly have not lost their sense of humor and created a great ad for Nintendo’s Wario Land on YouTube.
Tip: You can drag the items around on screen at the end.
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