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May 06 2010
“ Just noticing a similarity...— nihilocrat, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1322209The housing crisis was somewhat caused by people not thinking of houses as places to live, but devices to make money (see: house-flipping).
The long-term growth problem is somewhat caused by people not thinking of jobs as means to create value, but as methods of making money.
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April 06 2010
December 08 2009
Sonagramm lesen
Falls jemand schon immer lernen wollte, wie man entziffern kann was auf einem Spektrogramm gesagt wurde...
November 29 2009
Mono - Black Rain
November 19 2009
“ Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins, and Russian hackers pwn your webapp. ”— RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags - Stack Overflow
March 20 2009
A.I.G. is effectively suing its majority owner, the government, which has an 80 percent stake and has poured nearly $200 billion into the insurer in a bid to avert its collapse and avoid troubling the global financial markets. The company is in effect asking for even more money, in the form of tax refunds. The suit also suggests that A.I.G. is spending taxpayer money to pursue its case, something it is legally entitled to do. Its initial claim was denied by the Internal Revenue Service last year. (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/business/20aig.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss)
March 09 2009
Horray for search engines featuring a "don't give me more than I want" option
March 06 2009
February 25 2009
February 12 2009
“ Coworker #1: When I studied abroad in Germany I was...— Overheard in New York
Coworker #2 (interrupting): Oh, did you see the Great Wall?
Coworker #1: In China?
Coworker #2: No. (laughs) The one in Germany. Don't they have one in Germany?
Coworker #1: The Berlin wall? That's not there anymore.
Coworker #2: Oh. What a shame. ”
February 04 2009
February 01 2009
“ Salzburg war eine invertierte Mozartkugel. Nicht innen grün und außen braun, sondern umgekehrt. ”— Lea Singer, Datum 2/09
January 30 2009
A sense of crisis
January 28 2009
December 21 2008
December 03 2008
November 26 2008
November 18 2008
John Kenneth Galbraith (1929), "The Great Crash"
Nice read, given these "interesting" times...Maybe Soup is currently being updated? I'll try again automatically in a few seconds...




