linkedy links xiv

I'm kinda behind on this blogging thing, but here's some stuff other people have done to amuse y'all

Abtruse Goose - like xkcd good

Lord of the Finances - a First Draft - like this good

More simplified finanical truths - it is ok, really, it is not like Goldman Sachs would destroy the US economy just so their senior partners could get higher bonuses for one more year...

Bear Music - polyphonic rendition of the time series of market prices for the four great bear markets of this century - a real downer

Someone is stepping up the pace on Alpha Cen

- Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists - it ain't me baby, but that's some impressive hair on some of these heads

Chad contemplates the perspiration/inspiration ratio - it is large

iRP

Slow Science
- in my dreams - but I'm far too busy to actually write anything on this interesting idea

On becoming an Iceslave

More earthquakes in Iceland, and Hekla is getting ready to erupt, maybe

I want this

The Amherst Holdings Coup - they sold a bunch of CDS on a crap bond issue, overcovering the issue by a large factor, and then paid a third party to cover the bonds, burning the big boys badly.
Bwahahah.
Hey, I wonder if the Fed and AIG could do that also... they could, but they won't, 'cause guess who is inside the Fed?

Denmark is exposed to extent of 600 billion euros on bank guarantees - very prudent.

Carnivalia:
Space 106
Space 107
Space 108

That will do for now.