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McDonald’s out of Iceland
The collapse of the krona is forcing McDonald’s out of Iceland.
McDonald’s, the world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, arrived in Reykjavik in 1993 when the country was on an upward trajectory of wealth and expansion.
The first person to take a bite out of a Big Mac on the island was then Prime Minister David Oddsson. Oddsson went on to become governor of the country’s central bank, Sedlabanki, a position that he was forced out of by lawmakers earlier this year after a public outcry about his inability to prevent the financial crisis.
Tracy Morgan on NPR
I am not a huge fan of Tracy Morgan or 30 Rock, but below is an engaging and mostly serious interview that makes you think the man never turns off. (via fimoculous)
color correction notes
Before the days of Photoshop. (via)
dear clusterflock
What decade are you stuck in?
for lucy
Lucy was looking for a joke about handjobs and I promised her a story:
In a training class for some new hires a trainer prepared to have her classmates practice using the phone. Before she got started she wanted to make sure everybody had the proper equipment. She stood in front of the class and very calmly asked, “who needs a handjob?”
Stephen King’s Vampire comic
Stephen King will co-author the first five issues of American Vampire, a comic book set in the American West.
The series twists the well-trod vampire legend by allowing the creatures to evolve into a distinctly American creature and will follow the adventures of Skinner Sweet, a sociopathic outlaw in the Wild West who becomes the first American vampire. Unlike European vamps, Skinner is powered by the sun and, true to his native environment, has rattlesnake fangs. Each cycle, consisting of five individual comic issues, will take place in a different period of time in American history, tracing Skinner’s descendants, with Skinner himself as a recurring character.
Dear Clusterflock
What keeps you where you are, instead of pursuing what you are truly passionate about?
Brownie was already taken
cleanliness aroma therapy and morality generosity
Subjects in clean-smelling rooms gave back $5.33 on average. The others gave back just $2.81.
you can take the boy out of Texas
After he arrived, Whitten met with the employees. He says he immediately noticed that they were hostile to his management style and worried they might start talking about him in Spanish.
“Because of that, I asked the people in my presence to speak only English because I do not understand Spanish,” Whitten says.
Some employees were fired, Whitten says, because they were hostile and insubordinate. He says they called him “a white (N-word).”
Then Whitten told some employees he was changing their Spanish first names.
What’s wrong with being racy?
Public Option Annie
From the Billionaires for Wealthcare folks.
Background here.
Galileo’s “optick tube”
Galileo’s “optick tube” magnified a meagre nine-fold and was not even conceived for astronomy.
Indeed, when the gadget was first demonstrated, Venetian senators were so smitten with its military potential that they doubled Galileo’s salary and awarded him life tenure in the city-state’s most prestigious university.
But when, in late October 1609, the 45-year-old Italian mathematician pointed his newfangled instrument — essentially two lenses aligned in a tube — skyward, what he glimpsed would unleash a scientific revolution and a rare “paradigm shift” in thought.
The Good Soldier: Ford Madox Ford (1915)
Well, she was a tortured soul who put her Church before the interests of a Philadelphia Quaker. That is all right–I daresay the Church of Rome is the more important of the two.
(Oxford World’s Classics, 1990: p. 221)
Happy Birthday
Amy.
well
I hope it ain’t the swine flu.
Autumn leaves
from the moderated comments
up urs bitch lol
“Would YOU like to be Queen for a day?”
The shame of not being judged sufficiently pitiful would have destroyed me.
What Cindy just Said
“Oh that’s great, coming from someone who used to jerk off to Petula Clark.”
Philosophy and Pick Ups
On the way to work yesterday i saw a rusted ford pick up with the following written on the back:
‘don’t believe in love – love is hurt’
Clayton said
You don’t swallow your toothpaste? It’s only soap.
In the news
Moscow, Russia (CNN) — A bear on ice skates attacked two people during rehearsals at a circus in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, killing one of them, Kyrgyz officials said Friday.
It is unclear what caused the bear to attack Potapov, 25, …
DWI in motorized La-Z-Boy
The operator of a La-Z-Boy chair converted into a motorized vehicle — complete with a stereo and cup holders — has admitted that he crashed the piece of furniture after leaving a bar in Proctor, Minn., extremely drunk.
