The attached picture was taken at Country Club bar on Saturday 24th November 2007. The patron had been to his bank and was supplied with the only notes they had - $500 ’s !! A beer at Country Club is now Z$1 Million so there are 4 piles of 250,000 in 500’s. Just to remind [...]
Okay, I swear my mind isn’t just stuck on cars, but I ran across this article and thought it interesting… if not a humorous poke at the current financial condition.
As shelter is the largest single expense for most people, the ongoing “Financiapocalpyse” could see more people trading that Tudor for a four-door. As your guides [...]
The Swedish crisis had strikingly similar origins to the American one, and its neighbors, Norway and Finland, were hobbled to the point of needing a government bailout to escape the morass as well.
Financial deregulation in the 1980s fed a frenzy of real estate lending by Sweden’s banks, which did not worry enough about whether the [...]
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And yes the All Caps is necessary, if you have beotheredd to ever read one of the scams. It used to be Nigerians sending fake, “I need to get my money out” emails. But this one that is making the rounds today is sounding too close to the truth…
Dear American:
I need to ask you to [...]
This annual report (for a Croatian food company) ships wrapped in foil, and needs to be baked in an oven in order to make the thermal-reactive ink illustrations show up.
Note it’s only the Recipe Book (2nd additional book) that is needed to be baked to be seen. As a designer I love the idea. It’s [...]
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I was reading an article on Musical Independece Revolution about how a number of bands are skipping past the record labels and selling directly to the fans. Basically doing what has been said they need to do for decades now.
Looks like Radiohead’s latest independent approach to album promotion and sales, basically giving away [...]
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I’ve been saying this was going to happen…
“The SCO Group, Inc. (”SCO”) (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), a leading provider of UNIX® software technology and mobile services, today announced that it filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. SCO’s subsidiary, SCO Operations, Inc., has also filed a petition [...]
To all iPhone customers:
I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.
First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to [...]
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Rufus Pollock, a PhD candidate in economics at Cambridge University, has just released “Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright,” a brilliant new paper on the economically optimal term of copyright. He’s presenting it in Berlin this week, but it’s already online. Here’s the abstract:
The optimal level for copyright has [...]
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In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS.
CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple.
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This is interesting, and a smart idea for Apple. By taking a [...]
