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Six Minutes You Have to Watch
Excellent summary of the current economic situation: This isn’t just a US thing. The US Dollar is (soon to be was IMO) the world’s reserve currency. If you think inflationary pressures and impending sovereign defaults around the world are coincidental to the actions being taken by the US Federal Reserve right now, I have some…
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music update – Gogol Bordello edition
One of my co-workers played Trans-Continental Hustle at the 2010 Automattic company meetup and it blew my socks off. Ever since, I’ve been hooked. Gogol Bordello – Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike Gogol Bordello – Super Taranta! Gogol Bordello – Trans-Continental Hustle Thom Yorke – The Eraser Man Man – Six Demon Bag Liz Phair…
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Banging on a Ketchup Bottle
Nassim Taleb on the latest round of money printing by the Federal Reserve (euphemism: “Quantitative Easing II”): The point is that you may print, print, print or do these devious methods to hide that you’re printing, but it won’t have any effect. Just like a ketchup bottle that you pour and nothing comes out…then suddenly…the…
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DD-WRT Saves In-Laws From WRT160N Poisonous Cache!
Usually, when I buy any gadget of note, I research heavily on the Internet before buying. Product research tends to serve me well, but occasionally I bog down into paralysis of analysis. We spent the last week or so visiting out-of-state with our families. My in-laws networking had fallen into a rather sad state, so…