3.15.09: Quote of the Day

A great quote for the Ides of March, a new reminder for the future, especially when the markets and the economy are on the rebound:

Greed is the great amnesiac. When the Dow goes up, no one remembers 1987 or the dotcom bust or Enron or all of the other great swindles perpetrated on innocent people’s life savings by thugs in three thousand-dollar suits.

The above quote is from Christopher Knowles, the blogger of the Secret Sun, a real favorite blog of mine. The guy knows his Jungian stuff, dealing with esoteric themes and hidden purposes behind all that glittering pop culture and the media. Read up all of his past blogs. Mind-blowing, eye-opening stuff.

Robriefs 3.16.2008: Really Cool Stuff!

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to all the Irish-lovers out there.

Don’t drink and drive during the Holy Week.

Robrief no. 1: World’s oldest animation?
A documentary about a 5200 years old earthenware bowl from Iran shown there are five interrelated images depicted on the bowl, which one would hold it up at the eye-level and see a wild goat jumping up and down before a tree, eating its leaves. Wow. At the time it was discovered in the 1970s, the Iranian archaeologists did not realized these images on the bowl were connected in a way and put it away, at least until years later, a leading Iranian archaeologist, working at the site where the bowl was discovered, realized these images were actually connected in a series. Read it all here and see the brief animation.

Robrief no. 2: World’s largest solar roof to be constructed in Dubai
Metaefficient, the optimal green guide blog, reported that the Masdar HQ building will have the largest solar roof in the world constructed first before it will construct the Masdar building itself, providing more energy needs for itself and around than necessary in the heart of Dubai. Pictures are seen here and an animation can be seen at this architecture firm’s webpage (upper right corner at “Launch Project Animation”). Dubai is really outdoing every major metropolitan city in the world with such rapid construction and growth than ever before.

Robrief no. 3: The really great Depression is coming? Not so cool stuff, sad to say.
There’s a run of fears and speculations in Wall Street and the financial districts around the world about a really great Depression, potentially coming sooner than we think. It would make the Great Depression of the 1930s pale in comparison? We shall see. Report from UK’s TimeOnline revealed that the emergency meeting of the US Federal Reserve, the US Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission was held for the first time in 75 years, an indication that is very worrisome to the world’s financial markets.

Robrief no. 4: Newest, hilarious blog: Stuff White People Like.
Hilarious, clever and extremely very popular WP blog.