Welcome to random notes, a semi-regular, almost-daily and completely platitudinous collection of text, pixels, links and other finds from the web

Monday, 19th January 2009

On bailing out the banks…

I remember a time when banks lent money to people. Now it’s the other way around.

›› Thomas L. Friedman quoting a lawmaker on the television

Tags:
  • banking, crisis, finance, funny, recession, truth
 
Thursday, 18th December 2008

Dubyah’s flailing logic…

I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system to make sure the economy doesn’t collapse.

›› Outgoing US President George Bush making little sense (as usual)

Tags:
  • crisis, economy, finance, george w bush, idiot, politics, recession
 
Thursday, 25th September 2008

US Treasury on the US$700bn bailout…

It’s not based on any particular data point… We just wanted to choose a really large number.

›› A Treasury spokeswoman confides in Forbes.com

Tags:
  • america, crisis, finance, money, mortgage, treasury
 

Hello

Most folks who visit random notes seem to hang around for about 9.772 minutes on average.

My name is and I just learned that the hash sign is also known as an octothorp. It's exactly this kind of unnecessary information works its way into conversations that scares people away from me. Not that I am really complaining though…

Random Ho-Hum

“…you're a wizard in a blizzard, a mystical machine gun…”

Search Random Notes

Random Categories

Older Random Notes

Random Friends

Archives


Older random notes from 2002 to 2007

Random Tags

· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·

Random Recommendations

Random Finds

  • gublerland
  • Batman & Robin Comic Generator
  • Linkbait Generator
  • MacHeist
  • VIS
  • Andrej Belic / Undersea Photography
  • MindNode
  • jQuery + Google Translation
  • Infants do not appear to learn words from educational DVDs
  • We Have Lasers!!!!!!!!!!
  • Artworklove
  • we make words

Random Consumerism

  • There Is Love in You

    There Is Love in You (Audio CD)

  • Art Direction Explained, At Last!

    Art Direction Explained, At Last! (Paperback)

  • Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists

    Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists (Paperback)

  • What of Our Future

    What of Our Future (Audio CD)

  • Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle

    Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle (Hardcover)

  • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher

    Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)

  • Objectified

    Objectified (DVD)

  • Detail In Typography

    Detail In Typography (Paperback)

  • Emigre No. 70 the Look Back Issue: Selections from Emigre Magazine 1-69. Celebrating 25 Years of Graphic Design

    Emigre No. 70 the Look Back Issue: Selections from Emigre Magazine 1-69. Celebrating 25 Years of Graphic Design (Hardcover)

  • Never Use White Type on a Black Background: And 50 Other Ridiculous Design Rules

    Never Use White Type on a Black Background: And 50 Other Ridiculous Design Rules (Hardcover)

  • Radiohead - Meeting People Is Easy

    Radiohead - Meeting People Is Easy (DVD)

  • Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century

    Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century (Hardcover)

Random Moving Images

  • Nokta .
  • Dan Nocera: Personalized Energy
  • "Make the Difference" : MADSTEEZ
  • GREYCON4
  • Audi "Beauty In Engineering"
  • Forget The Film, Watch The Titles
  • The Bloody Beetroots -ROMBORAMA- official videoclip
  • instrumental video nine
  • The Balance
  • Magnetosphere, revisited (from 2007)
  • Illuminations
  • Ida Walked Away

Random Music

Random News

Random Catenation

Beep. 35 queries. 11.186 seconds.