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The world has dramatically changed economically in the last decade – here’s evidence

I found this chart in The Economist to be astounding when I see the changes in GDP shares of the G7 versus the Brics. It’s striking evidence of the shift in purchasing power from the G7…

Not your great great great great ……great grandfather’s Dante

Looks like Electronic Arts is not only playing fast and loose with Dante’s Inferno (according to the NYTimes.com) but with Sony and David Jaffe’s games series, God of War. I can’t speak for that…

What do you have to do tomorrow? Just the impossible

From The Just and the Unjust by James Gould Cozzens. I am aware of this quote from my copy of The Practical Cogitator (page 115). It’s a great quote from a great anthology:

“In the present,…
How to live your life and manage your career by Seneca


On the Shortness of Life, by the Roman philosopher Seneca, is not just a great “book” on how to not waste our lives. it is also something I would recommend to anyone starting a career. Seneca…

Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, and now Big Soda

The U.S. Government looked to tax soft drinks to decrease consumption, saying it was a signifigant contributor to obesity. Soda manufacturers did not want that and countered by saying that…

The Sno-Wovel?!

I have no idea if this works or not, but Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools recommended it, and that’s good enough for me. If you have to deal with alot of snow, don’t like snow blowers, and find…

2 or 3 things I though about while watching “500 Days of Summer”

Someone near and dear to me has advised me — rather forcefully :) – that I watch “The Hangover” and “500 Days of Summer (“500″). Eventually I watched the first (and loved it) and now the…

Friday Night music – Paramore – Use Somebody (Kings Of Leon Cover) – BBC Live Lounge

I love the covers done at the BBC Live Lounge. Here’s another one:

This song hasn’t been out long, but already I’ve heard a few covers of it. No wonder.

YouTube – Paramore – Use…

How to turn leftovers into a delicious pureed soups like carrot soup, parsnip soup, etc

For years I have had a recipe for carrot soup that I have enjoyed making. It has a fair amount of butter, but it is delicious and still fairly light. For my carrot soup recipe, I have the…

The inventive Nouvelle Vague

I love smart new bands that can refresh and recreate older music and make it their own. Nouvelle Vague is such a band. blogTo wrote about them being in Toronto recently, and this lede into the…

The Seven Stages of Moving

Over at John Hamilton’s Life and Times blog is a great post on the stages or emotions you go through when moving from one place to another. As John says:

So you might know about the seven…

More Polish Food – how to make pierogis

Food.about.com has not only a great video on how to make packzkis, but they also have a good video on how to make another polish food:
Pierogis.

If you like traditional Italian dishes like…

Brilliant Brushes-strokes at the New Yorker

The New Yorker has great examples of artists using the Brushes application for the iPhone/Touch, such as this one.

The works are brilliant in themselves, and an impressive display of how to…

A new phishing attack

This one is pretty obvious. The email says:

Dear customer

We regret to inform you that your Bank of America Online Account
has been temporarily suspended.
Your account has been suspended…

Paczkis? Yes, paczkis!


Thanks to Bakers Journal for a great article (and photo) of a great Polish desert: paczkis! (“pronounced “poonch-key,” “pooch-key” or “punch-key”). According to this article,

“on the…