Archive for August, 2009

Racist Microsoft?

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

The BBC has a story running about a Microsoft ad on their Polish web-site which has been Photoshopped to change one aspect of the original from the US site. Apart from the translation of the words to Polish, of the three people in the original photo (Asian man, black man, ...

Spark of madness

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

This week's Economist has an article about the possible emergence of a market in house-price hedging derivatives. It's at Housing Derivatives: Spark of Invention and appalls me. Appalls not least because the writer seems to genuinely believe that it's a great idea. Still hungover and bleary eyed from the last ...