Monday, October 12, 2009

These Apartment Hunters Are the Happy Renters

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/realestate/13HUNT.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
When the LeCounts moved in this summer, they felt a huge weight lifted. If anything goes wrong, “we don’t have to shell out more money to have it repaired,” Mr. LeCount said. They no longer worry about parking, but drive right to their door. If they have many grocery bags, they wheel them up in a cart provided by the building.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Need a container ship?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1212013/Revealed-The-ghost-fleet-recession.html
You may wish to know this because, if ever you had an irrational desire to charter one, now would be the time. This time last year, an Aframax tanker capable of carrying 80,000 tons of cargo would cost £31,000 a day ($50,000). Now it is about £3,400 ($5,500).

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Google I/O 2009 - The Myth of the Genius Programmer

Tellement vrai... À voir par tout les programmeurs (et revoir pour ceux qui comme moi ont un gros égo...)

They Might Be Giants - Podcast for kids

Dans le genre vidéo éducationnels pour enfants, le band "They Might Be Giants" a les meilleurs vidéos. Dommage que l'équivalent français n'existe pas autant que je puisse savoir.

Pour plus d'exemples:

http://www.youtube.com/theymightbegiants

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Mes pieds

Nouveau concept de Dr Scholl qui fait des recommendations basees sur la mesure de la pression de la plante des pieds.  Malheureusement, le CF120 recommende n'etait pas disponible...

French: The Most Productive People In The World

http://www.businessinsider.com/are-the-french-the-most-productive-people-in-the-world-2009-8
The real message here is that the French are likely some of the most productive people in the entire world.

France has $36,500 GDP/Capita and works 1,453 hours per year. This equates to a GDP/Capita/Hour of $25.10. Americans, on the other hand, have $44,150 GDP/Capita but work 1,792 hours per year. Thus Americans only achieve $24.60 of GDP/Capita/Hour.