The Intangible Wealth of Nations: Why you’re worth more than you think

Here’s an interesting article I found in Reason Online: The Intangible Wealth of Nations

Also, download the 208 page World Bank report on measuring the wealth of nations:
Where is the Wealth of Nations?: Measuring Capital for the 21st Century

Apparently, each American is worth more than half a million US$…even if he is living in a trailer with no property but his budweiser cans!!!

Filed under: News, Business & Current Affairs, GDP, income, national income, national wealth, per capita, Wealth of Nations

Biggest FOOT IN MOUTH case of 2005

The award clearly goes to:

GLENN MCGRATH before the Ashes: “I think I was saying 3-0 or 4-0 about 12 months ago, thinking there might be a bit of rain around. But with the weather as it is at the moment, I have to say 5-0.”

Source: Wisden Cricinfo

Filed under: Sport, ashes, ashes 2005, cricket, duncan fletcher, english cricket coach, glenn mcgrath, ricky ponting

Best repsonse to a cricketing rant of 2005

The RICKY PONTING rant: “I think it is an absolute disgrace the spirit of the game is being treated like that. [Duncan] Fletcher has known right the way through the summer this is something we haven’t been happy with, but it’s continued. He knows it’s something that has got under our skins and I’ve had enough of it, and I let him know that, and most of his players too. Being here in England they’ve obviously got the resources to just draft in the best fieldsmen that they possibly can at the time. The way they’ve been doing it is just before their bowlers are about to bowl they’ll send them off for a short amount of time to have a bit of a loosen-up and a massage and that sort of stuff, and come back on and bowl. As soon as they’ve finished their spell they’ll do exactly the same thing. It’s within the rules of the game but it’s just not within the spirit of the game, which is what we’re all trying to uphold.”

And the DUNCAN FLETCHER response: “You want to take a run to a cover fielder and get run out, whose fault is that? You know what’s more? All the palaver caused me to burn my toast.”

Source: Wisden Cricinfo

Filed under: Sport, ashes, ashes 2005, cricket, duncan fletcher, english cricket coach, glenn mcgrath, ricky ponting

James Dean: Live fast, die young.

Celebrating 50 years of rebellion. 

In an age of conformity, he emerged as a rebel. Misunderstood by his elders, fate saw to it that he never had to become one of them. By never joining their ranks, he remains forever young. By not fitting in, he continues to find acceptance. By dying at the peak of his fame, he has become immortal. – Michael Deas

Filed under: Media & Entertainment, james dean