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A place where words are added. Feel free to read them, they are unasked, but free of charge.

24/05/2009

Joseph Stiglitz

A Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel winner talks about development, patent, copyright, health, global warming.

21/05/2009

Are we in control of our own decisions?

"ll tell you a little bit about irrational behavior. Not yours, of course. Other people's."

08/05/2009

TTTP logo, on the cheap

;)

23/04/2009

Flight of the Conchords

"Two minutes in heaven is better than one minute in heaven"

17/03/2009

More of the same

"Most of the Eastern European debt is held by Western European banks. [...] loans by Austrian banks to Eastern European countries are almost equivalent to 70 percent of Austria’s G.D.P. Now, Italy and Austria can’t afford to bail out even their own banks."

13/03/2009

lost in translation

Hillary Cliton, U.S. Secretary of State, gave a "reset" button to the russian foreign minister... the translation was incorrect, and instead of perezagruzka, it was written peregruzka (“overload” or “overcharged”)

07/03/2009

1,$s/^V^M//

Just a quick memo on how to convert dos end of lines to unix ones using vim.

27/02/2009

I love egocentric articles

"Nicole kidman joins MEPs to say NO to violence against women.", is the title of the main article in the European Parliament website (that is very people aware these days, it's becoming as interesting as "the sun").

Great! did she come to the parliament ?

12/02/2009

Of mankind and bikes

Seems that the almost free bikes almost everywhere doesn't work that well in Paris.

03/02/2009

Ordinary racism

Custom officers are "randomly" controlling travellers...