april2008

Arts:

Musica Dolce, Camarada

Early Music: Madcap, Red Priest and Angel

Documentaries:

Life in Cold Blood by David Attenborough. Interesting view at the variety and peculiarities of many amphibians and reptiles.

Incident of the month:

Trip to LA with public transportation: train, metro (the city's best kept secret) and bus!

What did we learn:

Loquat, can you tell what it is?

vote here

What caught our attention:

Torrent madness: YouTorrent, pizzatorrent, veoh, truveo, guba, mininova, 56.com, tudou...

Interviews:

Our confusing economy, explained. Terry Gross interviews Michael Greenberger:

Shadow financial system or dark markets based on the so-called complex derivatives which are essentially bets on the directions that certain events will take. According to Warren Buffet they are the economic equivalent of WMD.

"We are rewarding people for sitting in their computers and punching in bets [...]. India and china with their focus on science and industry and building real businesses are going to eat our lunch unless the american public wakes up and puts an end to an economy that praises and makes heroes out of speculators"