Captain of our fairy band: Archive

“What people do not seem to understand is that peripheral European countries...”

– Martin Wolf

Jan 30th

Felix Salmon: World hunger and the locavores →

Jan 30th

In other news

EU ready to lift ban on baby eel exports to Asia

Jan 29th

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I remember talking to smart tech/telco people years ago (probably around 2005/2006), when the whole industry was looking for “the next killer app”. The smart people back then said there wouldn’t be a single killer app but rather thousands of them, and that telcos would do well do create an infrastructure where a thousand flowers can bloom. Well guess what. The telcos, not...

Jan 27th

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The iPad will never achieve the kind of market penetration that could save the newspaper or magazine industry. Oh, it’ll be plenty profitable for Apple, I’m sure, but that’s a different threshold. Nevertheless, if I was running a publishing company, I’d put some programmers to work TONIGHT on an iPad app. The app store can handle subscriptions now, right? I for one would...

Jan 27th

iPad or iPhone? Or both? ;-)

Jan 27th

Jan 24th

“Isn’t it funny when you walk into a investment firm, and you see all of the...”

– UBS portfolio manager, quoted on The Big Picture

Jan 22nd

Torchwood, Season 2, "Dead Man Walking"

Jack: Only in suffering do we recognise beauty.
Owen: Yeah, yeah, yeah! Who said that?
Jack: Proust.
Owen (incredulous): You've read Proust.
Jack: Yeah. Well. No. We dated for a while.

Jan 20th

Dubai Debt Crisis Halts Building Of World's...

via The Onion .>

Jan 19th