House prices | After the fall | Economist.com:

The whole world economy is at risk. The IMF has warned that, just as the upswing in house prices has been a global phenomenon, so any downturn is likely to be synchronised, and thus the effects of it will be shared widely. The housing boom was fun while it lasted, but the biggest increase in wealth in history was largely an illusion.

Stanley Kubrick’s Chicago:

Few people know that before he started making movies, Stanley Kubrick was a star photojournalist. In the summer of 1949, Look magazine sent him to Chicago to shoot pictures for a story called “Chicago City of Contrasts.”

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way cool.

OrlandoSentinel.com: News
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BOCA RATON –

In the near future, when a space shuttle returns to orbit, expect Florida Atlantic University’s pride to soar with it.

A video camera recording stunningly sharp images that was largely developed at FAU is set to hitch a shuttle ride as early as next year. Its mission: part science, part safety and part space-age scrapbook.

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they say a clear picture of a dime at a mile.

Why Democrats backed off education budget:

Where’s Waldo?: Waldo the pill-dispensing robot apparently went berserk
this past week at UCSF Medical Center, sending a doctor and patient running
for cover.
Whacked-out Waldo is one of three battery-operated, rolling robots that
dispense pills at the hospital. The other two are named Elvis and Lisa Marie.
All three are about the size of a large TV and are programmed to roam
from floor to floor, distributing medications to nursing stations.
At the end of their rounds, the robots are supposed to roll into the
basement pharmacy for refills.

they are coming for you! no not you…. YOU! no, the one on the right, yes you. don’t move just cause i said the one on the right either.

The Disappeared Feminist:

A woman who cannot get an abortion lives in no less a prison than Mukhtaran Bibi. Her prison may be more comfortable, it may even mimic a sort of freedom. But I repeat. A woman who cannot get an abortion is not free.

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i agree with this….

http://state-machine.org/agency/:

this is pretty cool

Rails Training:

My partner in crime on my Ruby on Rails project, Mike Clark, is teaming up with Dave Thomas to put together a 2-day Rails Training Bootcamp in a city near you. Dave, of course is the principle author of Agile Web Development with Rails and Mike wrote some of the content for the book as well. It’s a great book and, having seen both guys in action in front of a room of people, this will be an excellent class.

If you want to know Rails, and you are interested in attending, go to the Pragmatic Wiki to express your interest.

i’d like to do this. we’ll see. i also want to do the oxford xml school next year

Today’s THV KTHV Little Rock:

An alleged armed robber has just had the beating of a lifetime, at the hands of nearly 30 women inside a Shreveport beauty school.Blalock’s Beauty School instructor Dianne Mitchell says, “Oh, I put something on him baby. He wasn’t coming up out of here and telling nobody he robbed us and got away with it.”