February 2010
10 posts
British MEP's tirade against EU president Van...
The Brits have done it again.This time it was the UK Independence party MEP Nigel Farage who went on a personal tirade of attacks against the newly appointed EU President Van Rompuy. Calling Belgium a “non-country” he kept saying that on behalf of the (majority of the) British people “we don’t know you, we don’t want you”...
European effort to bring the death penalty to an...
The EU is pushing ahead in an effort to end the death penalty by 2015. A goal that would bring the Millennium development goals closer to reality. “More than two-thirds of the United Nations member states abolished the death penalty, by law or in practice,” Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero of Spain, which holds the presidency of the European Union, told the congress. Europe is the...
In memoriam - The Knack's singer Doug Fieger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KnackTheir most recognizable hit - My Sharona http://www.youtube.com/v/h3ADektyDhMAnd some songs that (imho) are inspired by “My Sharona” Hey Mickey - Basilhttp://www.youtube.com/watch#v=y4CyNvEfWoE&feature=related The Ting TIngs, That’s now my namehttp://www.youtube.com/v/A0e9GuYRqKA Posted via email from Joao Rei’s...
[Google Fast Flip] The Smarter You Are, The Less...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: The Smarter You Are, The Less You Click If the latest numbers from online ad network Chitika are anything to go by, then we may well be on our way to the world of Idiocracy. According to the study, which compared click through rates to college education, the less educated your audience, the more likely they are to click through on an...
Ryanair to invest in Lithuanian airport
This is very big, and good, news for Lithuania and all the Baltics. Ryanair is ready to invest in Lithuania, at a time it needs it the most, and no doubt using some of it’s “muscle” to get lower taxes from both the local authorities and the airport authorities. I’d love to see the actual numbers, because I think the calculation of the 140 million dollars is not FDI, but...
Google Maps now has extra Labs features
I hadn’t noticed this before, so it’s news to me. Not sure for how long this has been in the wild already.Some of the Google Maps Labs features are quite useful, like the Drag ‘n’ Zoom, which lets you select an area of the map and Google Maps automatically zooms to it. Others are just pointless like the “back to beta” and yet others are just funny like the...
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Portuguese Finance Minister talks to @richardquest
Here is an interview the Portuguese finance minister gave to CNN’s Richard Quest on his show Quest Means Business. Throughout the interview the minister expresses his feeling that the markets are overreacting to the threat of debt default on the part of Portugal, and that the recent measures taken by the Portuguese parliament to increase spending on regional budgets, that were approved by...
[Google Fast Flip] The Sunshine Coliseum
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: The Sunshine Coliseum By Chris Davis | Wed Feb 3, 2010 09:17 PM ET Here’s an idea for a power plant: the solar-powered sports coliseum. What if you skinned an entire stadium with solar such that it could satisfy its own ginormous appetite for power when filled with spectators, but when idle (which is usually often) its solar panels could...
[Google Fast Flip] Infographics of the Day:...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Infographics of the Day: Obama’s 2011 Budget, Cut Three Ways BY Cliff Kuang Today Yesterday President Obama released his proposed budget for 2011, and the newspapers naturally sniffed out the massive infographic possibility. Here are the offers from The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. The New York Times, naturally, has...
[Google Fast Flip] Dear Rupert Murdoch: Here's...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Dear Rupert Murdoch: Here’s Some Free Online Content That You Don’t Own BY Kit Eaton Today It’s okay, Mr. Murdoch. We think we finally understand why you hate Google and the Net so much—you gave it away in your rant during News Corp.’s finances: It’s because you really don’t get technology—or...