Jonathan Jarvis has produced a clear animated explanation of how the credit crisis came about. The work was part of his thesis at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Worth watching.
(via Daring Fireball)
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Ruth unloading her summer tires Ruth ordered her Honda Civic on July 5th, 2008. It was finally delivered yesterday evening. Time to deliver: 231 days or 7 months and 16 days. Difficult to understand that Honda has just closed their factory in the UK, where Ruth’s Civic was manufactured, for four months, when . . . → Read More: Crisis? What crisis? You may have wondered why, when you comment on some blogs these days, you have a little symbol like the one to the left, displayed with your comment. It is because many blogs allow people to define a gravator (globally recognized avatar), which identifies them when they write a comment. The gravator can be . . . → Read More: Gravators Senior US military officials may have committed the biggest fraud in US history, the Independent reports. Fifty billion dollars seems to have gone AWOL (absent without leave) and a total of $125 billion aid for Iraq appears to have been misused: In 2004-05, the entire Iraq military procurement budget of $1.3bn was siphoned off . . . → Read More: US military fraud “bigger than Madoff” The PC is the white box (the black one behind it is a wireless printer server) We had an old Dell PC in the cellar which we used when some piece of equipment insisted on having a firmware update under Windows. However it was quite slow, and having a, ahem, not exactly legal copy . . . → Read More: New toy – an Eee PC |
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