The Double A Lounge

Some things I didn’t know.

Fox News Special Report on The Banking Crisis

Some interesting videos about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Brian Cox: What really goes on at the Large Hadron Collider

Big Bang v2.0

NY Times - I Put In 5 Miles At The Office

Losing weight while you work - I like it!  And this would be perfect for the kind of work I do since 80% of the time I am behind a desk.  Don’t know if I could walk the full 8 hours of my shift, but even half of that would burn plenty of calories.  I’d even consider a horizontal bicycle or a stair machine at the desk.  Walk on, I say!

Good simple video presentation about the current financial mess.

Another good article about the current financial mess.  The final paragraph of it couldn’t have been any better said than it is:

In the end, however, there is only so much the government can borrow and so much the government can do. The only other choice is for Americans to finally put their spending in line with their incomes and their need for long-term savings. For any one household, that sounds like a good idea. But if everyone cuts back at roughly the same time, a recession is almost inevitable. That’s a bitter pill in and of itself, involving lost jobs, lower incomes and a big hit to government tax revenues. But it could be serious trouble for regional and local banks that have balance sheets loaded with loans to local developers and builders who will be hard hit by an economic downturn. Think of that, says Dugger, as the inevitable second round of this financial crisis that, alas, still lies ahead.

The fun is just beginning.

Wow…guess it wouldn’t be so bad in Venezuela or Bolivia now would it?  Article

What a great time it is to be a bank or some other financial institution!  The government is essentially handing out money by the bag load to help you out.  While it’s a good thing the government is taking steps to stabilize the economy, we have to consider who it is that’s actually getting the bailout and why.  This article lays out some good points about it.  In the end, we will all pay for it for a long time to come. 

If you’re looking to get the latest on the hurricane or tropical storm action, then stormpulse.com is the place for you.  It gives all the different NOAA advisories and current info, location info, and even allows you to toggle historical data as well.

Should have known someone was going to do this eventually.  It’s always been known that different parts of the country refer to crabonated drinks as either pop, soda, soda pop, etc.  This map was created to show what parts of the country prefer which term.  It’s actually broken down by county in each state.  Some of the trends were surprising, some not.  The state of Alaska seems to be all over the place in that regard.