“Get rid of the crappy stuff.”

Steve Jobs’ Advice to Nike: Get Rid of the Crappy Stuff [Video] | Fast Company.

“Take a moment to marvel at the fact that I didn't need to add anything to the story as it has been told in the media. All it really needed was Wally.”

Scott Adams Blog: That Lost 4G Phone 04/26/2010.

According to the story, the first sign of trouble came was about midway through the argument, when Chief Justice John Roberts asked what the difference was “between email and a pager?”

Supreme Court clueless about pagers, texting and e-mails…. | Third Branch.

A couple of years ago the overly good ratings of assets caused a financial crisis. The ratings agencies were widely criticized but no reforms occurred.

Now we have a financial crisis caused by ratings agencies downgrading assets. Why do we still trust their advice? I don’t understand.

“The Spanish downgrade really does ratchet up the pressure on the European Union. Spain's stock market has just closed 3% lower, and financial companies across Europe were hit by a late wave of selling.”

Europe’s financial crisis – LIVE | Business | guardian.co.uk.

The first item on the BBC news this evening is a study by the Institute of Fiscal Studies. So I looked up on Wikipedia.

The article seemed very short and devoid of information. I checked the discussion page…

Conflict of interest

Please note that most of the text of this article was added by the IP 194.66.89.186. Whois resolves this to the Institute for Fiscal Studies itself.

Talk:Institute for Fiscal Studies – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Well I don’t think that anyone predicted this…

General election 2010: poll of polls | Politics | guardian.co.uk.

In the US it’s the banks, in the UK the super markets are too big to fail. 1/7th of all retail sales are Tesco’s.

• The UK economy = about 24 Tescos
• US economy = about 156 Tescos
• Total UK government spending = about 11 Tescos
• Total UK government debt = about 13 Tescos

BBC News – The Tesco – a new unit of measurement

O’Leary said: “Theres no legislation designed that says any airline getting a fare of €30 should be reimbursing passengers many thousands of euros for hotel accommodation. Its absurd. I dont have a problem with everything being grounded for a day or two but there should have been a much faster response by the governments and transport ministers and by the regulators. This is one of these issues we want addressed – why exactly are the airlines expected to be reimbursing peoples hotels, meals and everything else when the governments are the ones who made a balls of this?”

Fury as Ryanair refuses to pay stranded passengers costs | Business | The Guardian

I’ll save you from my O’Leary rant (two Ryanair flights were enough to ensure that I’ll never travel with them again) but…

I can answer this; yes there is a law. You need to pay.

The worst argument is that he doesn’t have to pay because the ticket was cheap. Ever hear of insurance Mr O’Leary?

Clue: it’s an option when you buy a ticket! It’s so important that you select by default.

I’m scared of heights; something that I developed in my 20s and has got worse since.

It’s now at the point that watching this is difficult.

Jumping From Space on Vimeo.

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