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posted : Friday, February 4th, 2011

tags : logo   identity   horrible   ironic   evolution   creativity   bad   clever   disaster  

posted : Sunday, June 27th, 2010

tags : news   complexity   society   street   public   evolution   internet   style   disaster  


“ But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident… of any sort worth speaking about.
I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea.
I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. ”
— E.J.Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic
via “the black swan

posted : Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

tags : randomness   sea   action   wreck   experience   evolution   ironic   sailing   disaster   daydream  

you are more perfect than Helvetica

is this even possible?

posted : Sunday, November 8th, 2009

tags : helvetica   love   bad   graphics   sea   ironic   disaster  

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Podcast with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007.

Explaining why our usual ways of thinking at events in life are basically wrong.

Also, in 2007: “Globalization creates interlocking fragility, while reducing volatility and giving the appearance of stability. In other words it creates devastating Black Swans. We have never lived before under the threat of a global collapse.
Financial Institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks – when one fails, they all fall.” Spot on.

posted : Sunday, November 1st, 2009

tags : Vision   disaster   taleb   society   suggestions   black   swan   audio   clever   normal   randomness  


“ Scream your lungs out,
wait for laughter -
You don’t have to wait forever;
Where’s the next disaster? ”
— In Flames feat. Lisa Miskowsky

posted : Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

tags : scream   lungs   song   in flames   laugh   laughter   forever   disaster   miskowsky   society  

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