Want to understand the financial meltdown?

Here’s a terrific podcast from NPR’s Ira Glass explaining how greed, conformity and lack-of-oversight made all that money go away. If you prefer a visual presentation, you can’t do much better than this from graphic designer Jonathan Jarvis.

Posted at 5:17 pm on March 7, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: 1 | read on

Here’s a fun blog (Warning: satire alert!)

A blogger calling himself Jon Swift has created a twisted view on the world, obviously aspiring to live up to the master satirist Jon Swift who wrote Gulliver’s Travels, and largely succeeding. He spouts intentionally bizarre, sometimes quite off-putting opinions along the lines of Stephen Colbert, or a more-intellectually-inclined Borat. Included here are his contributions to Amazon.com’s Customer Reviews, all of [...]

Posted at 4:58 pm on January 17, 2008 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Food for Thought | Tagged: , , | read on

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This is the blog of Dan Weltsch, artist and librarian/information professional. The name of this blog, Boodleheimer, comes from a peculiar character of that name that was featured on a kids comedy record called “The Silly Record” by Stoo Hample, which was a childhood favorite of mine in the early 1960’s. When I was young, this record seemed like the funniest thing that ever existed. The material was originally in Hample’s book, The Silly Book (1961), which has recently been re-issued.Here’s a picture of Boodleheimer:This is Boodleheimer!

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