I am re-reading Anansi Boys, that delicious book by Neil Gaiman; the writer describes it as
If you have to classify it, it’s probably a magical-horror-thriller-ghost-romantic-comedy-family-epic, although that leaves out the detective bits and much of the food.
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The whole story that can be retold as a contemporary political tale, or a cognitive science early myth, [...]
“Colombia is a dangerous country for Americans!”
FALSE.
USA is the dangerous country for Americans. Everything else is just hearsay.
Let’s look at the numbers, please, and then decide which is the worst, most dangerous country; for this, please tell me which country has the largest numbers:
Population per capita in jail? USA.
Deaths by gun? USA.
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Facebook, much maligned social site, is now target of trojans, specifically the Koobface.
But it was due to happen: Facebook as a social application is, by far, the most famous; its users are all connected through some degree of trust, and the constant use of social sites has eroded the security instincts that we all developed [...]
The NBER officially tell us that we are now in a recession:
The committee identified December 2007 as the peak month, after determining that the subsequent decline in economic activity was large enough to qualify as a recession.
via the Big Picture
Check the
Music Maker Relief Foundation, as shown by the csmonitor. I got ot get to see these people.
This could be as well Punxsutawney instead of Winston-Salem, but at least this town has a school of the arts.
Remember the movie directed by Ramis, where Bill Murray wakes up to the same lame February 2nd, never leaving that dreadful town and trapped forever in the hell that small American towns can be?
Of course that [...]
U-blog / loic / Create a company: 2 – Find the best people and trust them
via Jean-Yves
Even though it may be a little self-referential, coming from Forbes , it seems to be specally true of these times:
If fiction can be regarded as a culture’s subconscious, then it’s clear that we are a nation obsessed with the very rich.
And then we have all our cultural icons based on the affluent ones, representing [...]
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