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Monthly Archives: June 2007
Essay on space colonization
June 16, 2007 – 9:45 pm
Science fiction writer Charlie Stross published an essay, titled “The High Frontier, Redux”, on space colonization on his blog. The essay is both interesting and entertaining. Excerpt:
Whichever way you cut it, sending a single tourist to the moon is going to cost not less than $50,000 — and a more realistic figure, for a mature reusable, [...]
GE will not challenge for Dow Jones
June 16, 2007 – 7:02 pm
According to the Financial Times, General Electric is not going to challenge Rupert Murdoch’s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones. GE/NBC was going to make a counter-offer in cooperation with Microsoft, but apparently they decided to not bid on Dow Jones. Rupert Murdoch’s news and media empire is huge already, but if he will indeed [...]
Denison and Porter to Enter German Real Estate Market
June 16, 2007 – 6:39 pm
US investment firm Denison and Porter is going to open its first office in Germany by the end of 2007. D&P has plans to establish an office in the growing real estate market of Muenster, a city in Western Germany.
As the company’s first office on the continent, this is an important step in forming a [...]
Quoted: Robin Williams
June 16, 2007 – 6:23 pm
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” – Robin Williams
Fish Markets
June 16, 2007 – 12:19 pm
Fish markets are somewhat fascinating to me. You walk by all those market stands with tables, boxes and barrels filled with fish, and you see these colors that have an earthy but at the same time aqueous tone. Wherever you turn and look, you see this gory gloom, and you smell the dead fish as it overwhelms your [...]
Movie Quote #2
June 16, 2007 – 11:41 am
[In California]
Annie Hall: It’s so clean out here.
Alvy Singer: That’s because they don’t throw their garbage away, they turn it into television shows.
from: ”Annie Hall” (1977)
Skyscrapers, Sun, Exploding
June 16, 2007 – 11:36 am
Skyscrapers under exploding sun.
Small pixel painting I made with MS Paint in April 2007.
Twin Peaks Intro
June 15, 2007 – 9:07 pm
Twin Peaks (1990-1991)
Has there ever been an intro more beautiful than this one? I doubt it. It’s a pity that the series, directed by David Lynch, was canceled after no more than 29 episodes.
Quoted: Adolf Berle
June 15, 2007 – 8:49 pm
“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” – Adolf Berle
