1110

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

Joseph Conrad(1857-1924)

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Brazil votes famous (possibly illiterate)

TV clown Tiririca into Congress .http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/10/04/2010-10-04_brazil_votes_famous_possibly_illiterate_tv_clown_tiririca_into_congress.html

Las Vegas hotel guests

left with severe burns from 'death ray' caused by building's design.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315978/Las-Vegas-hotel-death-ray-leaves-guests-severe-burns.html

semifinal pools

1 and 2

1010

Alchemy may be compared to the man who told his sons he had left them gold buried somewhere in his vineyard; where they by digging found no gold, but by turning up the mould about the roots of their vines, procured a plentiful vintage. So the search and endeavors to make gold have brought many useful inventions and instructive experiments to light.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

6 out of 24

iran, tunisia, australia, venezuela, china, canada go home.

sexy orszag

The Office of Management and Budget Director, 41-year old Peter Orszag, the bespectacled, cowboy boot-wearing, double-chic banging star of the Obama Administration is rumored to plan to resign from his position in a few weeks, 

will apple fall?

Apple climbed as high as $292.76 in intraday trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market, giving it a market value of $267.5 billion, the second-highest company behind Exxon Mobil Corp. By 4 p.m. New York time, Apple slipped to $288.92, putting the company’s value at $263.9 billion, less than PetroChina’s $265.5 billion valuation.

0910

Debt, n.: An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver.

Ambrose Bierce

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race.

cycles

fasten your belts

Deadline for Israeli Attack link

Volley Championship Drawing

24 September - 10 October 2010. Men. Italy

0810

Lord help me, I'm just not that bright.
Homer Simpson 

X来自未来 ( X from the future)

predicts, that Holland will defeat Spain  2:1

charts

of some shares intrigue ...

0710

There is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
Ovid 

0610

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss

0510

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)

audcad

ready steady go.