I’m ashamed to say that, after I read it at the Motley Fool, it took me fourteen hours to get this joke: “My daughter asked me for some Nikes for her birthday. I said: ‘You’re nine—you can make them yourself.’” I’m proud to say that this one from Radio Two made me laugh instantly: “Who […]
Read MoreI have been asked to bless this Webpage with the Google power of PooterGeek, the most “innovative and resourceful” Website in the World. The aforementioned link is surely the best to follow for Philippine biotechnology, enterprise, and investment conference information. I think casualsavant would agree with me in the comments, using further links to illustrate […]
Read MoreBut close enough to the truth to make me laugh [via The Motley Fool].
Read MoreI seem to have upset the proprietor of Blognor Regis lately. Apparently I “was wetting myself over David Carr’s prehistoric Band Aid rant“. I think the figure of speech he was looking for was “taking the piss out of“. Taking the piss is a traditional British craft that some of the Beavis and Butthead types […]
Read MoreDecember 2004, is turning out to be the sixth consecutive month of falling house prices in the UK. The hysteria has flipped. John Plender in the Financial Times has a word or two to say to those who believe that markets are rational. [Read the article before it becomes subscription only.]
Read MoreOh woe, a university chemistry department is closing. “What is to become of British biomedical research?” whine the great and the good of the scientific and medical establishment. Michael Rees, the head of the BMA’s medical academics committee, is a laugh a line as he cries: “If this trend of closures continues, it will cut […]
Read MoreCatastrophic irony failure: yesterday’s You And Yours on Radio 4 juxtaposed an item about Eliot Spitzer’s deliciously successful strike against price fixing in the US insurance industry with one about how a local authority in the Taunton area wants pubs and bars in the area to introduce a “minimum drink price” scheme to reduce binge […]
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Read MoreI’d like to read this article, or a xerox of it, at least.
Read MoreI’m pretty bearish about UK house prices, but this man has turned his negative predictions into a multi-coloured, shouty-capital, clown-pants Webpage of doom. If you scroll down you can see that, not only with property prices fall off a cliff, but asset deflation will travel back in time, retrospectively reducing previous valuations 😉 [via The […]
Read MoreMy newsagent is so “Cambridge” it’s funny. The top shelf carries American Scientist, “The Magazine of Sigma XI, The Scientific Research Society”—a sort of Scientific American for people who still know how to use a slide-rule; Foreign Affairs, not part of the Richard Desmond empire; and, of course, The Economist, which this week, for once, […]
Read MoreApologies to those of you outside the UK who can’t access this whole article from The Times for free. [Email me if you want more info 😉 ] This education story attracted my attention yesterday: “TEENAGERS in middle-class areas have begun to turn their backs on university, putting at risk the government’s drive to increase […]
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Read MoreBoth normblog and The Daily Ablution currently have posts up about the United Nations Development Programme's chart of “most developed” countries. A commenter at The Ablution points out that all six of the top six most developed countries are constitutional monarchies. Stephen K will be pleased.
Read MoreResearch brings us more evidence that healthy people are healthier and that the rich are getting richer.
Read MoreBy way of apology to Backword Dave, maybe there is some empirical evidence of Bush's economic failure. It just doesn't affect the numbers—or, indeed, the people—anyone cares about.
Read MoreClaire will like this. Yesterday, SlashDot linked to Slate, where Steven E. Landsburg presented an economic argument for executing writers of computer viruses, worms and trojans.
Read MoreTo add to the the skepticism about the unemployment figures, if you’re a middle Englander, or a middle American, the inflation numbers are a bit suspect too.
Read MoreI was discussing unemployment with Leasey the other day and bragging about how low it was under Our Glorious Leader, Purple Tone. The statistics aren’t as good as they look, however.
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