“Though primarily a world class museum of Greek and Roman antiquities, visitors to the Getty Villa wishing to merely revel in the experience of being transported to another time and place are richly rewarded.”

Re-Imagineering: Gettyland

I can’t remember much about what was shown in the museum but the building left a life-long impression on me.

Vofafone is apparently but not Visa, Google or Airbus. Funny definition if you ask me!

“Britain’s Vodafone is the world’s largest multinational infrastructure firm, according to World Investment Report 2008 from the United Nations.”

Global infrastructure firms | The Economist

“His urge to give something back grew out of that. It began as a joke, putting home-made salad dressing in an old wine bottle, tying it with a ribbon and giving it to friends. He made more and more, went into partnership, pressed cases on the local grocer, and in two years had a multi-million-dollar business. All profits after tax, more than $250m so far, went to charitable causes round the world, of which his favourite were his 11 Hole in the Wall Camps for children with life-threatening illnesses. There, freed from hospitals, they could “raise a little hell” for a while.”

Paul Newman, actor and philanthropist | Paul Newman | The Economist

“One solution: Nuke entire parts of the system. In short, destroy the system’s network connectivity. For example, credit default swaps ensure that failure will spread through internetworked contracts. Nuke CDS derivatives ($60 trillion or so) by making them illegal. Destroy parts of the network in order to save the remainder — firewalls and firebreaks.”

John Robb’s Weblog: A Real Nuclear Option in Finance

I love it when someone proposes an engineering solution to a political problem. Yes, this makes sense to someone with a systems approach. One small question, who defines where the nukes will fall? In reality it will be those that have spent the least on lobbying.

It’s a bit like asking the turkeys to vote for Christmas.