revelation of silence » mad world http://www.revelation-of-silence.com simplicity - silence - solitude Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:35:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 unattended children … http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/2012/02/01/unattended-children/ http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/2012/02/01/unattended-children/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:14:34 +0000 E. http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/?p=4636

(via Anja M.)

]]> http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/2012/02/01/unattended-children/feed/ 0 business (time) http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/2012/01/31/business-time/ http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/2012/01/31/business-time/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:02:25 +0000 E. http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/?p=4630 Business, from busy-ness:
The etymology of “business” relates to the state of being busy either as an individual or society as a whole, doing commercially viable and profitable work.

See also: business time, flight of the conchords.

]]> http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/2012/01/31/business-time/feed/ 2 shit goddamn … i’m a man, i’m a man … http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/2012/01/26/shit-goddamn-im-a-man-im-a-man/ http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/2012/01/26/shit-goddamn-im-a-man-im-a-man/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:05:35 +0000 E. http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/?p=4616 Clearly the most hilarious song I’ve heard in the last year: “Whorehoppin’ (Shit, Goddamn)” by Eagles of Death Metal.

(If you haven’t figured out yet how the internet works: google “mediafire” and the songname. Arr!)

]]> http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/2012/01/26/shit-goddamn-im-a-man-im-a-man/feed/ 3 superior autobiographic memory http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/2012/01/26/superior-autobiographic-memory/ http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/2012/01/26/superior-autobiographic-memory/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:52:26 +0000 E. http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/?p=4610 A great documentary about people with superior autobiographic memory:

“Do you remember every movie you’ve ever seen?”
- “Sure!”
“And you remember when lots of television shows started?”
- “Anything.”
“60 minutes?”
- “Tuesday September 24th ’68, the first Sunday show was September 19th, ’71.”

And they are not simply one-trick ponies – knowing what weekday was at a given date, or television shows. They remember nearly everything they did and that happened to them in their lives, down to the age of about 10.

“It really makes you wonder why we aren’t the normal ones, but they are. I mean, they can remember barely anything.”

(The six subjects that have been studied so far are not autistic.)

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Must see. I mean it.

]]> http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/2012/01/11/vermin-supreme/feed/ 3 investors donate money to germany http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/2012/01/10/investors-donate-money-to-germany/ http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/2012/01/10/investors-donate-money-to-germany/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:54:14 +0000 E. http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/?p=4532 For the first time in the German history I can remember, investors were so desperate yesterday that they lent €3.900.000.000 to Germany, not only without asking for interest, but actually donating €250.000 so that Germany would accept their money. The interest yield was a negative 0.0122%.

Pretty insane. If someone wants to lend me some money, and I have to pay back less than I received, let me know.

(In comparison, Italy currently pays an interest rate of over 7% when lending money from investors/banks)

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