I'm impressed that the Stratford Shakespeare Festival has a Youtube Channel. This is in addition to the webcast and on-demand video part of their website. Many of the videos are found in both places, such as the interviews about this year's production of Hamlet. Others, such as the Christopher Plummer interview on the production of Caesar and ( Read more... )

Now that Barack Obama is President-elect of the United States of America, perhaps we will soon see a sequel to Obama The Musical.

On the Y-Combinator site, there is some interesting advice for someone who is dissatisfied with grad school but still wants to "find elegant solutions to difficult problems that have wide-reaching implications". (via Michael NielsenI had a dream last night in which someone suggested to me to use a beetle shell for a roof. I looked up beetle shell ( Read more... )

Tomorrow looks like it is going to be an interesting day in the financial markets, because that's when the credit default swaps on Lehman Brothers are coming dueToday, when I checked, the US Treasury Bond 3-month rate was 1.02, though it had been 0.11 last week, and the TED Spread was 2.97, though it had been 4.63 last week ( Read more... )

This morning, I looked at my sunflowers. They looked like they might be getting close to being ready to eat. I thought to myself that later today I would come up with a plan of how to harvest them. Alas, I was too late. When I returned from my walk to pick grapes, the squirrels, surrounded by sunflower seed shells, were eating seeds and looking ( Read more... )

I've been listening to NPR's podcast Planet Money (podcast feed), hosted by the same people who made the documentary The Giant Pool of MoneyToday, they had a guest who said that when monitoring the financial crisis, it is more important to look at what's happening in the credit market than what's happening in the stock market. He mentioned two ( Read more... )

luel_exana, I came across a description of a board game called Cash 'n' Guns, which involves gangsters splitting their loot. It even has a Yakuza expansion. I thought you might be interested.

Apparently mackerel has become a form of currency in United States prisons since the ban on cigarettes. (via marginalrevolution)

A bank robber in Monroe Washington used an ad for laborers on Craigslist to disguise his escape. He told them to show up for a job interview outside the bank wearing construction worker clothing, and he wore similar ( Read more... )

Today I picked some local grapes and ate them and felt very happy. There's nothing quite like eating food while picking it off the plant. It's one of my favourite things to do.

Hassan Almrei is one of the men who have been held in solitary confinement by the Canadian government under the Security Certificate process, without being charged with a crime and without being allowed to see the evidence against him. Today, I contributed to his bail fund. (If you want to do it too, you can write a cheque to Homes Not Bombs, ( Read more... )