Stream of Marknessness

Tuesday 15th December 2009

“ The cumulative devaluation of the Zimbabwe dollar was such that a stack of 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (26 zeros) two dollar bills (if they were printed) in the peak hyperinflation would have be needed to equal in value what a single original Zimbabwe two-dollar bill of 1978 had been worth. Such a pile of bills literally would be light years high, stretching from the Earth to the Andromeda Galaxy. „

The enormity of Zimbabwe’s inflation

Amazing. I find it hard to believe anyone is still counting.

Quote posted at 23:24

Wednesday 2nd December 2009

rocketboom: gleuch: A few years ago, Rolling Stone magazine added fuel to the music snobbery fire with its “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list. Anyone casually paging through the list would notice that the bulk of the list was comprised of songs from the 60’s and 70’s, just like the music snobs always say. I, however, wasn’t content with the casual analysis. So I punched the list into Excel, crunched some numbers, and found an interesting parallel between the decline of rock music quality and, of all things, the decline in US oil discovery and production. from The Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock, or, Why We’re All Out of Good Songs I just found this. Note that the oil curve doesn’t quite fit with the music quality one, in fact it implies that rock music quality causes oil production, not the other way round. Work that one out…

rocketboom:

gleuch:

A few years ago, Rolling Stone magazine added fuel to the music snobbery fire with its “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list. Anyone casually paging through the list would notice that the bulk of the list was comprised of songs from the 60’s and 70’s, just like the music snobs always say.

I, however, wasn’t content with the casual analysis. So I punched the list into Excel, crunched some numbers, and found an interesting parallel between the decline of rock music quality and, of all things, the decline in US oil discovery and production.

from The Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock, or, Why We’re All Out of Good Songs

I just found this. Note that the oil curve doesn’t quite fit with the music quality one, in fact it implies that rock music quality causes oil production, not the other way round. Work that one out…

Photo posted at 16:08

Monday 30th November 2009

Fox News Makes the Best Pie Chart. Ever. It’s a sad indictment of the kind of garbage that Fox News and its ilk peddle that I’m not sure whether or not this is a genuine mistake, or an attempt to push the gullibility of its audience to new levels and convince them that ‘per cent’ actually means ‘out of 193’. I don’t want to be perceived as unfairly criticising ‘the right’ or anything, and posting this picture looks like a cheap shot, but it raises an ugly point: that people on that side of the political spectrum seem to be living on another planet. Most of this kind of thing happens on the other side of the Atlantic as in this example, but this kind of sensationalist bullshit ‘journalism’ is becoming increasingly apparent in the UK too. I don’t imagine for a minute that they are stupid enough to believe the things they say, sadly though, a lot of people are. Unfortunately these are people who have cast aside the shackles of reason, which is a) why they believe the most outlandish arguments, and b) why you cannot change their minds.

Fox News Makes the Best Pie Chart. Ever.

It’s a sad indictment of the kind of garbage that Fox News and its ilk peddle that I’m not sure whether or not this is a genuine mistake, or an attempt to push the gullibility of its audience to new levels and convince them that ‘per cent’ actually means ‘out of 193’.

I don’t want to be perceived as unfairly criticising ‘the right’ or anything, and posting this picture looks like a cheap shot, but it raises an ugly point: that people on that side of the political spectrum seem to be living on another planet. Most of this kind of thing happens on the other side of the Atlantic as in this example, but this kind of sensationalist bullshit ‘journalism’ is becoming increasingly apparent in the UK too.

I don’t imagine for a minute that they are stupid enough to believe the things they say, sadly though, a lot of people are.

Unfortunately these are people who have cast aside the shackles of reason, which is a) why they believe the most outlandish arguments, and b) why you cannot change their minds.

Photo posted at 15:49

Tuesday 24th November 2009

“ A technique that is also being used here is known as the Hegelian Dialectic, otherwise know in this case as Crisis-Reaction-Solution. It’s a technique by which an agenda can be forced through at a rapid pace. Create a crisis, then after our reaction, offer the solution. The solution this time is near dictatorial financial powers to be given to the IMF. The ultimate aim is to create a new Bank Of The World that we will pay our Carbon taxes directly to, that’s where the whole ‘man made’ Global warming scam comes in. The Bank of the world will form the basis of the One World Government. „

An excerpt from Jim Corr (of ‘the Corrs’ fame) on the Financial Crisis on his completely batty website.

He’s totally nuts!

Quote posted at 10:15

Thursday 5th November 2009

Apple killing Atom support, dreams of netbook hackintoshers in next Snow Leopard release?

I’m not sure what they have to gain from doing this, so I’m going to stick my neck out and suggest that they probably won’t.

Think about it, allowing geeks to use a somewhat crippled version of Mac OS X is a great way of selling Macs.

Text posted at 15:06

Sunday 1st November 2009

» Political woo – Bad Science

Link posted at 20:58

Wednesday 28th October 2009

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Deerhunter - Nothing ever happened

This is not particularly new, but I’ve been enjoying Deerhunter’s Microcastle album lately and this song is probably the pick.

Enjoy!

Audio posted at 12:25

Great cover of Beyoncé’s ‘Single Ladies’ by PomplamooseMusic.

I particularly like the new bridge.

Video posted at 11:54

Tuesday 20th October 2009

Left vs Right (World) | David McCandless & Stefanie Posavec | Information Is Beautiful Lovely and informative infographic from the consistently brilliant Information is Beautiful.

Left vs Right (World) | David McCandless & Stefanie Posavec | Information Is Beautiful

Lovely and informative infographic from the consistently brilliant Information is Beautiful.

Photo posted at 19:57

squashed:

Why can’t we have government backed, electronic currency?

Good question. Banks and credit card companies take a significant cut of every transaction that happens. Why can’t the government set up its own (free and universally available) method of exchanging money?

Text posted at 14:12

“ What other field combines all these arts? Language, math, art, design, function. Programming is clearly in a class of its own. „

djb (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)

Quote posted at 10:13

Monday 19th October 2009

» danieltenner.com — What problems does Google Wave solve?

Good overview of what Google Wave actually is and what it does well.

Link posted at 09:53

Tuesday 13th October 2009

“ It’s sort of like giving a movie an Oscar after watching the first fifteen minutes. It’s a great movie—and I’m pleased with the first fifteen minutes. But it still seems a bit premature. „

Squashed: Breaking News: Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Quote posted at 16:31

Wednesday 30th September 2009

» Is Happiness Catching?

Link posted at 19:32

Saturday 26th September 2009

» Keynes, Explained Briefly (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

Link posted at 12:45

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