Tiff Fehr, a Digital Compendium

Earthquake hazard mitigation the Iranian way : Highly Allochthonous The Guardian reports:

Plans for a new capital were first drawn up 20 years ago, but officials only gave them serious consideration after the 2003 earthquake that devastated the south-eastern city of Bam and killed an estimated 40,000 people. Experts warn that Tehran sits on at least 100 faultlines - including one nearly 60 miles long - and that many of its buildings would not survive a major quake.

Japanese fishing trawler sunk by giant jellyfish - Telegraph

ascendingcoherence:

10/31/2009 Family Circus. I would have clipped it for my “Family Circus Wall of Shame” if I was still keeping that up. Billy, I can’t help but notice you are trick or treating alone.  Wonder why?

Better, from Mark Paglia, in McSweeney’s: “Famous Authors Narrate the Funny Pages”

The Family Circus
by William Faulkner

“Incest and miscegenation!” Pa yelled as he entered the room where Billy and Dolly sat. Billy fled through the doorway, too panicked for ratiocination, and wound a peregrinating dotted line around the yard and by P.J., the deaf and dumb youngest brother.

The Recession and the ‘Paradox of Thrift’ - Economix

While it is conceivable that a few percentage points’ decline in consumption could cause a many-fold reduction in work hours, it seems more likely that the reduced consumer spending was mainly a reaction to layoffs and hours cuts. The roots of this recession go a lot deeper than the paradox of thrift.

ascendingcoherence:

Before she traded in the puppies for white diamonds.

Play the pullback in October
How to avoid being a ‘weak hand’
Commentary: Look for cycles where the market offers easy money
[MarketWatch]*

…Will the bull market continue through the month of October? Anyone asking themselves that question might also want to ask a couple of other important questions.

The easy money already has been made. Anyone who is only now considering an investment back into the stock market is late to the game. Smart money investors wait for Johnny-come-lately’s to enter the market again, and then they sell into those weak hands.

Then, the cycle repeats itself when the market declines. The weak hands who bought at the peak end up selling right back to smart money investors when the market troughs. This is the way of the world, this is how Wall Street has always been and unfortunately, it will always be that way. Smaller investors, as a group, will never learn.

Okay, I get it. You don’t have to be…so accurate.

* I dislike MarketWatch’s three-tier headlines and subheads. How about just one accurate headline and some editing?

via www.hewnandhammered.com

The Lava Project - The Long Now Blog That’s a timestamp on *lava*. …Naturally I jump way past the point of feasibility to wishing it included a bokode and my camera/phone could pick it up when I photograph the lava field and digitally overlay lava flow timestamps. Sigh.