A group over in Europe apparently specializes in high-quality film mashups. This trailer — Arnold Schwarzenegger in James Cameron’s “Hamlet is Back” — is so well done that it’s not entirely clear how they did it. And if you go to their web site, you’ll find such things as Gollum and Smeagol singing a Barry […]
[UPDATED 03/09/07 — 15:41 MST] GE is cutting staff and ending no-down-payment mortgages. [UPDATED 03/08/07 — 07:41 MST] New Century (#2 sub-prime lender) calls it quits; the question now is how long until WAMU, Wells Fargo and Countrywide start to show signs of the financial pressure they are under, too. The unwinding of the Yen […]
This ad wasn’t done by Barack Obama’s campaign — and I suspect that Steve Jobs at Apple won’t be very happy with it [*] — but, boy, it’s certainly effective (or, at least, amusing). Hat tip to The New Editor via Instapundit. ..bruce.. [*] The ad uses footage and sound from Apple’s famous ‘1984’ ad, […]
The always-erudite and readable Mark Steyn traces the surprising and convoluted history of one of the best-known songs of the 20th century: The third take almost collapsed at the outset as the unrehearsed musicians dithered and fished for the key, but once they started cooking, the song was glory bound. ‘Mbube’ wasn’t the most remarkable […]
The first woman to win a Silver Star since World War II: Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester fought her way through an enemy ambush south of Baghdad, killing three insurgents with her M-4 rifle to save fellow soldiers’ lives — and yesterday became the first woman since World War II to win the Silver Star medal […]
No, not on Earth – on Mars. A growing number of people are raising a stink about global warming, claiming that mankind is causing the world we all share to heat, by some claims, to a point that will cause a climatic catastrophe. Now a bit of a hint from Mars: Mars, too, appears to […]
For all of you burka fans out there (short German intro with a song)
In my latest post, I threw around a few terms at the end that may not be well understood. One of them in particular, Yen Carry Trade, is key to the risk our economy is in. Mark Larson from Money and Markets has an excellent write up A real monster behind the market plunge! Executive […]
I found an on-line game, Geosense, which allows you to test your knowledge of world geography by locating specific cities in specific countries on various maps (world map, Europe map, US map, etc.). Your score per city is based on how close you were and how quickly you answered; you play in rounds of ten […]
First off, sorry to all for not posting for such a good stretch of time. If you have been reading my posts here, you know that I have been anticipating some significant changes in the status quo of the US economy. Last summer I started to get the notion that things were out of control […]
