June 2009
Artist: Estelle Song: Back In Love Album: Shine
I...
Germany Imagines Suburbs Without Cars →
azspot:
Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars.
Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg, near the French and Swiss borders. Vauban’s streets are completely “car-free” — except the main...
Alice In Wonderland 2010
Photos released for first look at Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland with Johnny Depp (The Mad Hatter), Helena Bonham Carter (The Red Queen), and Anne Hathaway (The White Queen). To be released March 5, 2010.
Spinning the Pendulum Back
globaltrends:
Barack Obama is most commonly referred to as the new FDR, laying out a stimulus to save the failing financial institutions and offering a New Deal that saved the country from certain calamity. This begs the questions; however, are Mr. Obama’s actions more comparable to that of the late FDR or his predecessor Herbert Hoover. In history, Hoover gets a bad rep for seemingly doing...
FUCK YOU SALLIE MAE
American Education is Lazy: Blame the Parents,...
globaltrends:
I’m writing this blog in response to an article written in the Economist with which I totally agree.
“The Underworked American: Children are Exceptions to the Country’s Work Ethic”
The average American student spends less time studying, less time in extracurricular academic ventures, less time reading, and less time actually in school than most other advanced countries in the...
California Tightening Its Belt
globaltrends:
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it looks like our governor is finally taking the correct course of action. With the deadline running up at the end of July, California has precious little time to pass a new budget before the state goes bankrupt. Its been decided that California will live within its means: cutting state funding, limiting short term borrowing, and privatizing...
“One day at a time—this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the...”
The Cinematic Orchestra - Work It! (Man With The...
Q-Tip - We Fight / Love (feat. Raphael Saadiq)
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How Many "Sophinie Som"s Are There in the United...
SOM
There are approximately 1,498 people with the last name Som.
This Surname ranks the 17,377 most common in the United States.
There are an estimated 763 Females with the last name “Som”
SOPHINIE
However, the first name Sophinie was not found in our database meaning that you are pretty unique.
SOPHINIE SOM
There are 1 or fewer people in the U.S. named Sophinie Som.
THAT 1 PERSON...
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through....”
– Anais Nin
prog⋅ress [prog-res]
-noun
1. a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage 2. growth or development; continuous improvement.
Jay Z - Dirt Off Your Shoulder
Ladies is pimps...
Interesting fact
globaltrends:
Did you know that four cities: San Diego, LA, SF, and San Jose make up 75% of California’s economic output?
Arist: Foreign Exchange Song: Take Off The Blues...
Chancellor Merkel Speaks Out Against Quantitative... →
globaltrends:
Merkel is the first world leader to speak out against central bank action, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the pressure they’re placing on the ECB to put out a Stimulus Package of their own. Good one, Angela. I was wrong about you.
Hell Yeah!
“Global warming wouldn’t be the worst thing to happen to San Francisco”
– Charles, wondering where the summer heat is. seriously.
A Word To The Wise: FDR Screwed us in Depression I...
globaltrends:
I’d like to take the words from President Barack Obama himself: one of the problems that caused this crash was that investors were only looking at short term gains and not long term viability.
A lot of people don’t know this, or perhaps don’t care to remember, but FDR’s plan for revamping the American economy after the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression that...
Confession #21
One of the main reason why I want to be skinnier? So I can wear really tight clothes.