Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Well, yes, Melbourne Age, leveraging up 10:1 in a risky asset class will let you “retire by 40″ .. if prices go your way. If not, well… what’s this “retirement” thing you’re talking about? Is it like “bankruptcy”?

An astounding scientific discovery has been made in northern Italy, near the town of Maranello: the heretofore unknown red-and-white buck-toothed small-winged duck-billed platypus. The paper will appear in next month’s Nature.

I TOLD YOU I WAS KIM JONG ILL, blared KCNA right on the dot of midday Korea time, sending equities into a tailspin and USDKRW through the roof. The beloved star of comedies such as South Park, 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live … Continue reading →

Is it real? Have CERN researchers finally found the Higgs boson? You’ll find out… on next week’s show. CUT TO AUDIENCE GOING “AWWWW”. Also, you have to wonder whether Nobel-prize-winning particle physicist (and passable limericist) Sheldon Glashow likes being called “Shelly”.

Anthony Bourdain on San Francisco: “it’s a two-fisted drinking town, a carnivorous meat-eating town,” and “anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me”. Hear, hear: Q. Favorite city for eating in the … Continue reading →

Orchard Road, Singapore’s rich-git shopping strip (the three near-identical Louis Vuitton stores within two blocks should give you some idea) has a problem: thousands of starlings like to nest in the trees beside the road and do what birds do … Continue reading →

Ten years ago today, self-described “news for nerds” site Slashdot proclaimed it “lame“; the Register said it “isn’t exactly innovatory“; and Wired (not-so-seriously) said “the only ‘breakthrough’ here is a growing desire to break a 2-by-4 over Steve Jobs’ skull“. … Continue reading →

Last week on Glee: Mike Chang gets an A-minus and his father flips his lid. This week in real life: The couple’s son is enrolled in an elite secondary school and has always done well enough to be among the top ten in his class. … Continue reading →

STOP PRESS: GREECE ACTIVATES RESCUE FUND TO SAVE PROTON BANK… CHEMISTRY-MINDED BANKERS PREPARE LAME TWITTER JOKES… “Greece has rescued the Proton bank!” “Are you sure?” “I’m positive!” Greece will rescue Neutron Bank as well, and they’ll do it for free. … Continue reading →

Presented without comment, from the Chaska Herald: An officer arrived and observed the cat was fine, but was stuck tight in the motor area. Tuna was used in order to entice the cat out. The cat loved the tuna, but … Continue reading →