June 2008
82 posts
“Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end,...”
– Gary Lineker. And can we now please all agree that he got it wrong and ask sports commentators not to use that quote again. Ever.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-29) →
Saint Etienne
The Four Tops
Yasmin Levy
Pet Shop Boys
The White Stripes
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
“By the way, I believe that Congressman Weiner is single.”
– Greg Mankiw on Congressman Anthony Weiner’s call for a special visa quota for fashion models. Economics is the dismal science.
But we are talking about the Italian army here,... →
Finally, Some Good News
The Earth will not be sucked into a black hole, the BBC reports.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-22) →
Pat Metheny Group
Keith Jarrett - Gary Peacock - Jack DeJohnette
Weather Report
Slate Magazine
Duke Ellington
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Firefox 3 Now Controls Scott Eric Kauffman →
delong:
Who writes:
Acephalous:: If you’re the kind of person who likes to open 423 articles in JSTOR so as to bring the CPU of his relatively new computer to its knees, you should download Firefox…
Let me just note that I read this using FF3.
“Federley har ju tyvärr visat sig vara mer av ett koncept än en politiker.”
– Vänstra Stranden on Swedish Centre Party profile Fredrik Federley
“Isn’t Europe a more harmonious entity without the English?”
– A Fistful of Euros on Euro 2008. Soccer, not currency.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-15) →
Elton John
David Bowie
R.E.M.
Pet Shop Boys
Jimi Hendrix
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
“Die Niederlande triumphieren über Frankreich. Warum? Sie haben von allen...”
– Die Zeit explains the reasons for the Dutch success. And I thought modesty was a Hanseatic virtue.
Ich bin ein ... whatever
You scored 7 out of a possible 7 points. Congratulations! You answered enough questions correctly to qualify to become a German citizen.
But shouldn’t the test be in German?
Via Foreign Policy.
Do you know who the Arab-Siberians are? →
No, really.
Player of the match: Slaven Bilic →
Germany 1 - 2 Croatia.
Whoa! The third round will be a lot of fun.
“So whereas I thought that by driving my students hard in my courses I give them...”
– Blogger Creative Destruction on Economics and Political Science.
“Die Franzosen wollten am Sonntag mal einen neuen Reiz setzen und sind mit dem...”
– Frankfurter Allgemeine discovers the real reasons for the French sub-par performance against Romania.
Going Dutch
I hadn’t realised that both Poland and Russia have Dutch managers these days.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-8) →
Bob Dylan
Ambitious Lovers
Saint Etienne
The Beatles
The Tremolo Beer Gut
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
“Es steht im Augenblick 1:1. Aber es hätte auch umgekehrt lauten können”
– Heribert Fassbender. German sport commentator.