This week’s easy of the week is about facing death.
Essay of the Week: 9/4/09-9/10/09
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How fast can you hit the ground?
Since I can’t figure out how to embed it, click on the link.
“The fourth quarter looks brighter”
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9B2GCRO0.htm
Car sales died in September. Everyone was supposed to expect this because the other name for “Cash for clunkers” is “Buy Tomorrow’s Car Today.”
Put these pieces together:
“It was a more difficult month than we anticipated,” Mark LaNeve, GM’s vice president of U.S. sales, told reporters during a conference call.
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GM’s sales plunged 45 percent to 155,679 vehicles in September, compared with a year earlier. Chrysler sold only 62,197 vehicles last month, down 42 percent.[…]
“As expected, the market returned to pre-Cash for Clunkers levels in September,” said GM’s LaNeve. “Fortunately the fourth quarter looks brighter.”
Yesterday was worse than we expected, but we expect tomorrow to be better. It’s the song of the recession.
Posts from the Ethereal Land
Due to upgrade in the software, post from around the Ethereal Land are not being automatically pulled like they use to be. Here is a couple of the more noteworthy ones that have been missed.
Gifted (Chicken Man)
The Empty Couch (The Silverware Thief)
Assumptions make a fool out of you (Ape Man)
Of course, many others are not being pulled. Maybe we will get that fixed one day.
Links For Today
Don’t worry about the swine flue, worry about this.
Who do you think is buying the majority of treasury bonds now? You could make the case that it was better when it was the Chinese who were doing most of the buying.
Living by the sword
A reporter in San Francisco gets bad service on her iphone. One commentor, on the verge of hysteria, points out that a more factually constructed article would compare the service with other phones on the same network (the commentor either misses or choose to ignore the dubious nature of an “informal Facebook survey”).
ATT doesn’t see what the big deal is. Well–maybe not. But then, what is the big deal about the iphone in the first place?
Live by image, die by image.
Links For Today
A French spy movie makes the Russians very mad. Who would have thought?
Three solvable problems put together produce an unsolvable problem.
Everything turned to blood. The video clip is all right, but the pictures further down in the article are really cool.
Another Step Closer to VR
If they work on this concept, it could go a long way towards providing a much more immersive virtual reality. You could walk however you please in order to control your avatar, and the robots would keep you from walking into things in real life.
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Link I found off of Neatorama
Links For Today
Scandalous behavior by school children.
Everyone wants New York’s Governor to go. They should be careful about what they wish for.
This is why you can’t escape from black bears by climbing a tree.
Poem of the Week: 9/20/09-9/26/09
This week’s essay of the week calls to mind Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden” in a very ironic way.