Jon Stewart Kills Crossfire

At least this is what I'm told.
Humor and ridicule work.

Here is the new treasure -- Harry Potter #6, the 11th HP book. 

One of the many cute girls, this one with a Dark Mark. 

Every Flavor Buns: I got Mak (poppy seed), but there was sour fish, mustard, chocolate, nuts, etc. 

In a fairly crowded little Eurobooks, in Bratislava, Slovakia -- waiting at 1am to buy Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (#6). 

Ready to go 

I'm waiting for midnight with 10 Harry Potter Books; I go to Eurobooks with a bunch of other folk, I come home at 1:30am. 

Harry Potter 1-5 

Eva, Danko, Misko

This is a test of Eva, Danko as Spiderman, Mishko as a peasant at winter carnival. 

Globalization and Nigerian Film

Glenn writes about Polish SW:
In my hobby as a musician and sound engineer, I use audio-processing software made by a couple of Polish software engineers who sell it over the Internet. For $100, I got a program that makes my music sound as good as if it had been run through tens of thousands of dollars worth of vintage sound equipment. And thanks to the Internet, they’re able to deliver the product and take my money with a few clicks of a mouse: no messing with shipping, customs, insurance, etc. For my purposes, and theirs, Poland is as close as Silicon Valley, or next door.

This is also true about Slovak stuff.
Glenn continues:

Many tech-support and customer service calls are now routed to places like Barbados and Bangalore, India.

In both cases, technology has allowed places with intelligent people to offer something worthwhile to the world, where previously those people’s talent would have gone unused.

This is why SW patents might be a bad idea -- to protect the overpaid intelligence in the West from cost competition from the underpaid in the East and South.