Category Humor

Quantum leap of the day

Advertising guy 1: "bla bla bla communications bla bla bla"

PR lady: "Hold your horses, communications is PR, not advertising!"

Advertising guy 2: "Communications is PR AND advertising!"

Bill Bailey

SNL: Space Olympics

The year is 3022 and this galactic sporting event is having some financial issues.
[NBC]

Facial hair style chart

[Thanks Jerry]

What do planners do all day?

[Thanks Johan!]

Viral of the week

Have fun with Wii Fit.

Sci-fi + economics

This is geeky. Those of you that studied economics at university probably know column in the NY Times.
In 1978, when Krugman was an assistant professor at Princeton, he wrote a paper called The Theory of Interstellar Trade. If two planets, for example Earth and Trantor, are engaging in trade of goods that require [...]

Happy holidays

Blog activity has been a bit slow on TPL, but I’ll be back in 2008 with more good stuff. Enjoy these clips by Flight of the Conchords til then and have a nice holiday.

Spoof 1970s educational film

Another reason why we need BBC over here in Sweden.
More episodes can be found on YouTube.

Economists do it with a laugh

Yoram Bauman, the world’s first and only stand-up economist and PhD at Washington University, shows us how economics can be fun.
Via The Economist blog