bp, or not bp?

In 2000 BP,  a group of companies that included Amoco, ARCO and Castrol, unveiled a new global brand with a new mark, a sunburst of green, yellow and white symbolizing dynamic energy in all its forms. It was called the Helios after the sun god of ancient Greece.

In a press release announcing the change, the group said it had decided to retain the BP name because of its recognition around the world and because it stood for the new company’s aspirations: ‘better people, better products, big picture, beyond petroleum.’

The Joy of Stats

0111

Spare the rod spoil the child.
English wisdom
Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936)

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Ovid
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

E. M. Forster(1879-1970)

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
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

A child miseducated is a child lost.

John F. Kennedy(1917-1963)

1210

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Gustave Flaubert(1821-1880)

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing.
Homer Simpson
People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.

Henry Fielding(1707-1754)

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid
Trying is the first step towards failure. 
Homer Simpson
He who shows himself is not luminous .
 Lao Tzu

phobia's

A-
Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.

Billionaire Triguboff Remakes Australia Dreams

In 1963, Harry Triguboff decided to challenge the Great Australian Dream of owning a house on a quarter-acre block.

“I looked around and I saw cottages everywhere,” the 77- year-old billionaire said of his decision to start building. “I thought it was time they lived in apartments.”

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