Friday 30 September 2011
long march or sky palace of first heaven
tusken raiders
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, antiques, environment
Thursday 29 September 2011
stempeluhr or casey jones
catagories: ๐ฅธ, ๐ง , labour, technology and innovation
negative reinforcement or forever blowing bubbles
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, America, economic policy, environment, food and drink, health and medicine
Wednesday 28 September 2011
fortune cookie
Recently, when faced with the disclosure that monitoring of its users did not cease after they logged out, a popular social networking utility demurred to give an honest answer. To some degree, the computing public has only just been reintroduced to the concept of a cookie--a prion that is a token of one's visit history and whereabouts that helps the internet function more smoothly.
catagories: ๐ฅธ, ๐ง , lifestyle, networking and blogging
save the date
appellation d'origine controlee and prussian blue
catagories: ๐ง, Europe, food and drink
Tuesday 27 September 2011
sea of green or silent run
Monday 26 September 2011
significant digits
With all the talk and nerves, one would reasonably conclude that Europe and the euro are being assaulted on all fronts not by a debt-burden or over-wrought speculation but rather by a crisis in the currency and partnership itself. European manufacturing and innovation has not been overtaken, and there is no talk of war-mongering--there has been quite a bit of thinking out loud and gloomy scenarios that have been other than helpful and have stoked panic, so I think every possibility on one's mind has already been voiced, inflation is not galloping in the marketplace (other than through shortages caused by environmental changes, like the wildfires in Russia, etc), and the euro, relative to other currencies) has only lost fractional value and is certainly one of the more stable ones. A tenth of a cent in the exchange rate does make a difference to traders and those with dollar denominated loans--or try to out-smart the next moves, like me--being paid in US dollars. The bailout, relief programs of the States are echoed in the plans for a euro rescue fund, having wealthy member countries contribute to a pool credit that will be made available to poorer members on contingency.
catagories: economic policy, Europe
pontifex and bauhaus
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ✝️, antiques, architecture, Hessen, Thรผringen, travel
Friday 23 September 2011
antitelephone
catagories: ๐ก, ๐ญ, ๐, philosophy, Star Wars
Thursday 22 September 2011
marching orders
catagories: America, lifestyle, revolution
up periscope or objects in the rear-view mirror may appear closer than they are
catagories: technology and innovation, travel
Wednesday 21 September 2011
casting stones or papst blue-ribbon
Tuesday 20 September 2011
basta and geldpolitik
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, ๐ง , economic policy, foreign policy
Monday 19 September 2011
ahoy, hoy or pirates' progress
Another fabulist tradition of adventures and incredible yarns has just recently been re-kindled: after publishing its collected stories and taking a two year hiatus, Damn Interesting appears to be returning with more bizarre and engrossing vignettes that are certainly more enduring in terms of scholarship, research and interest than the daily buzz, but it is also a treat to have fresh dispatches from the weird and wonderful.
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ฅธ, holidays and observances, lifestyle, networking and blogging
Friday 16 September 2011
mowgli or babelsberg
fantastic planet
Wednesday 14 September 2011
grading on the curve or trivial pursuit
According to a study (EN/DE) just released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), trends suggest that Germany is on track to make less significant contributions of highly skilled and literate individuals into the workforce. Such talents are of course hard to quantify, and I think it is more troublesome that the brute ignorance and general surrender of the American education system (and the dominant attitudes of a post-education populace) are being underestimated by making light comparisons.
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ช๐บ, ๐, ๐ฑ, networking and blogging
bing bang or urknall
catagories: ๐, ๐ญ, networking and blogging
Monday 12 September 2011
cogitative bias
catagories: America, economic policy, Europe
try to remember that kind of september
catagories: ๐ฅธ, ๐ง , America, foreign policy, holidays and observances
Sunday 11 September 2011
green thumb or fait accompli
catagories: ๐ฑ
Saturday 10 September 2011
confabulation, conflagration
The unprecedented scope of the wild-fires ravaging central Texas is a frightening thing, already in superlative year for natural and man-assisted disasters, though recent record-holders are quickly outdone and not allowed to bask in their glory or infamy for very long. The latest in the series of governors from that state have invited scorn and courted wrath and maybe there is a parallel, close relationship--the ability to peer into his soul, between the current sitting governor and presidential aspirant and the Russian leadership.
Friday 9 September 2011
meritocrazia
catagories: ๐ฎ๐น, revolution
Thursday 8 September 2011
sprachraum or datenwolke
catagories: language, networking and blogging
Wednesday 7 September 2011
guise
catagories: ๐ฅธ, networking and blogging
rettungsschirm or golden parachute
As the banking principalities and condominiums across Europe scramble to prevent a broad loss of faith and strengthen a united front when it comes to the membership or rich and poor participants, the Swiss have quietly made a significant change to their monetary policy and a concession of a measure of their independence.
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, economic policy
Tuesday 6 September 2011
9/11^10
catagories: ๐ฅธ, America, economic policy, foreign policy, holidays and observances, labour, revolution, Star Wars
Monday 5 September 2011
silent haitch
Sunday 4 September 2011
cloverfield 8
FACT: The nebulous and unseen primordial force of nature that destroys New York City (Cloverfield) in the film is actually a rampaging giant Liz Taylor.
catagories: ๐บ๐ธ, ๐ฌ, ๐, economic policy
Saturday 3 September 2011
at the mountain of madness
catagories: ๐ณ๐ฑ, environment, travel