I like quizes.. The "What is Your World View?" quiz

I like quizes.. Here's one. And here are my results:

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What is Your World View?
You scored as a Existentialist
Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards human accomplishment is immense. Mankind is condemned to be free and must accept the responsibility.

Existentialist   56%
Postmodernist   56%
Modernist   50%
Cultural Creative  50%
Materialist   50%
Idealist   31%
Romanticist   31%
Fundamentalist   19%

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Denmark Utopia, part 1

This is going to be a multipart series. I have no idea how many parts there are going to be but we'll see.

For some time now I've noticed that all news coming out of denmark is positive. Denmark really seems like Utopia.

Here is what the news is this time:

The Keys to Happiness
Which is the happiest country in the world? According to a scientific study by Leicester University in England, it's Denmark.
http://60minutes.yahoo.com/segment/140/happiness

It is somewhat disappointing that I only started this blog a few days ago.. I could have had several parts already about the hotel that started offering vibrators for their female guests, or the striptease from schoolgirls where they started smearing whipped cream on eachother. Ahh.. those were the days..

Watching history happen..

Kosovo declared independence yesterday and I was watching wikipedia getting updated while everything happened. Today I looked at the page for Kosovo again, this time noticing that a flag was added.

Seeing the stars on the blue background I was reminded of a lecture given at Pop!Tech by a guy named Juan Enriquez. He talked about how countries appear and disappear and change in size all the time. The whole talk is really consciousness raising so go watch it if you have the time (its about 30 minutes).

Of course watching a lecture with historical data providing evidence for a trendline is one thing, seeing it in action is quite another.

Stuff mentioned or related:
Maps of war, Padania, Spain, Italy, US, Texas, Connecticut, Nations of the world, Mexico, Maya peoples, Ancestries by county in US, Los Angeles, Amexica, Popular Baby Names in California, English good enough for Jesus, Je me souviens, US States, British Empire, Scotland, National Debt Graph, US Debt Clocks and Savings Clocks, Book buying on Amazon, W. Edwards Deming

Congratulations Kosovo!

Congratulations on getting independence Kosovo!

Poor Americans get help from Bangladesh

American exceptionalism? The American Dream?

Maybe for a few.. According to the financial times the Grameen Bank has opened up a branch in New York to provide microcredit to the American poor.

Don't get me wrong I'm all in favor of helping the poor but shouldn't America, the richest county in the world, be able to take care of its own poor?

Also, providing credit to Americans just doesn't seem like a good idea. The rest of the world was scammed out of a lot of money with the recent housing bubble, does anyone really want to give more credit to people who apparently can't control their own consumption? And do Americans really expect to be able to borrow their way out of debt?

First post! :)

Well, I just created this blog.

I guess I've been thinking about creating a blog for some time now. Whether I have the time to actually put some good content here I don't know. The blog is more a way of venting all the random thoughts that flow through my mind on a daily basis.

Lets see if anybody is interested in reading them.

Hopefully the whole blog experience will be therapeutic.