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The Crisis of Credit by Jonathan Jarvis

Naso gave me a link to the following video on YouTube and before I even had the time to watch it, I got positive responses from people I had forwarded it to. Then I watched it too. And while it's a huge oversimplification and representative of only the first things that said "boom", it's nice and cute and the author deserves a link to his site (and not just the YouTube version).

Visit CrisisOfCredit.com and the author's site at JonathanJarvis.com

And here, for your convenience is the Vimeo version*:



The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

* Tip: Press the full-screen button.

Warren Buffett: Beware of Geeks Bearing Formulas

Investment guru admits mistakes

- Buffett was candid about his failings, saying "the tennis crowd would call my mistakes 'unforced errors'.";
- "During 2008, I did some dumb things in investments," he said.
- "I in no way anticipated the dramatic fall in energy prices that occurred in the last half of the year," he added.
- Mr Buffett blamed the sub-prime mortgage debacle on salesmen, ratings agencies and investors who relied on complicated and flawed models.
- "Beware of geeks bearing formulas," he said.

No comment.

David Freedman's Farewell Gift

David Freedman was a Berkeley statistician and a critic of pseudoscience using statistics.
He recently passed away.
Here is an excerpt from one of his books.
On excuses...


About the harm thing...

Via NNT

natalie

Name: natalie
City: Sydney
Hometown: Sydney
Country: Australia
Movies and Shows: Gone With The Wind, The Great Escape
Music: Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, The Cure, Dusty Springfield, Dean Martin, Bach, Al Green, Johnny Cash, Dionne Warwick
Books: Anything written by Oscar Wilde

http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel

http://www.myspace.com/communitychannel

Dream Theater, Back in Bulgaria for 2009 Kaliakra Rock Fest (July 3rd)

Looks like I'll be seeing Dream Theater live for the second time (7 years or so passed already...)

http://www.dreamtheater.net/tourdates.php#kaliakra



(If I'm alive and well that is...)

http://www.kaliakrarockfest.com/

Join the Last.FM groups:

http://www.last.fm/group/John+Petrucci
http://www.last.fm/group/Mike+Portnoy
http://www.last.fm/group/James+LaBrie
http://www.last.fm/group/Jordan+Rudess
http://www.last.fm/group/Kevin+Moore

And the side-project groups:

Mike & Kevin: http://www.last.fm/group/OSI
James: http://www.last.fm/group/Mullmuzzler
Jame': http://www.last.fm/group/Frameshift



Somebody's wearing a Dethklok T-Shirt =)

Money Market Drawdown on September 15th 2008

In response to a CSPAN caller, Representative Paul Kanjorski (Capital Markets Subcommittee Chair) gives his perspective on the bailout.
The especially interesting part (past 2'00") is his description of how the money market drawdown on September 15th, 2008 threatened to collapse the world financial system in 24 hours.
Also... mind the numbers...

This great movie starts to sound like a nice lullaby from today's perspective...

Hilarious Misheard-Lyrics-Interpretation of Meshuggah's Future Breed Machine

Really, really hilarious =)

Meshuggah Misheard Lyrics (Future Breed Machine)

Thrasher Surassa

This Japanese guy is amazing...
Check out his version of
- Heartwork (by Carcass)
- More Human Than Human (by White Zombie)
- Self Bias Resistor (Fear Factory)
or this awesome version of D.N.R. (by Testament) (Here's the original)

Senser - Age of Panic

Remember these times?

Even an MBA

Quake. Earthqake. 15 November 2008. Sofia, Bulgaria.

Подробности за земетресението от 15 Ноември:

Magnitude mb 4.0
Region BULGARIA
Date time 2008-11-15 at 20:08:19.8 UTC
Location 42.57 N ; 23.35 E
Depth 5 km
Distances 14 km S Sofia (pop 1,152,556 ; local time 22:08 2008-11-15)
27 km E Pernik (pop 82,467 ; local time 22:08 2008-11-15)

Източник

Threads
- Dir.bg thread
- dnevnik.bg thread
- dnes.bg thread
- dariknews.bg thread
- vsekiden.com thread
- hardwarebg.com thread
- investor.bg thread

Excerpts:
- karasuliev / investor.bg: "Идиота от съседния блок дето пусна We will rock you лично ше го намера и отстрелям утре"
- at news.bg: "Какво земетресение, просто XYZ тропна с крак."

The weird stuff:
От 12 Ноември: "Екстрасенската Мая Попова вещае нови катаклизми
Докато проф. Димчо Солаков и колегите му сеизмолози спорят ще има ли опустошителен трус в Пиринско или не, екстрасенската Мая Попова се вслуша във вибрациите на тялото си и предрече, че се задава земетръсна седмица.
Феноменката твърди, че в дните между понеделник и неделя ще се разлюлеят южните райони на София. Земетръсни вълни ще тресат целия Югозапад и Черноморското крайбрежие. Мая Попова твърди, че била познала с абсолютна точност последните три леки труса в районите на Якоруда и Банско.
Екстрасенската вещае земетресения и в Тихоокеанската част на САЩ най-късно до седем дни. Добрата новина за българите е, че посочените райони в България ще бъдат люлени от подземните стихии най-много до 4-та степен по скалата на Рихтер. По-тежко е положението при американците, които ще бъдат разтърсени от трус около 6-а степен.
Според последната прогноза на Мая Попова в обширния регион, заключен между Иран, Афганистан и Кипър, се ражда нов земетръсен епицентър, който ще разтърси триъгълника до 12 дни с около 5-6-а степен по Рихтер."
( Източник )

Bill Ackman at Charlie Rose and at VIC

Transcript and Comments Here

An earlier video (well, audio) - at Value Investing Congress:

Chartered Accountancy and Lion Taming

Meshuggah

Коментар из един форум: "Откакто чух Мешуга за първи път преди 3 години всички останали метъл групи ми звучат като караоке."

Този тук е тотален maniac (feat. Music Man Stingray bass)