As recently reported, Avatar now holds the title of highest grossing film of all time. Furthermore, the film has grossed over $800 million more than Hollywood’s previous blockbuster, 2008′s The Dark Knight. Given that the themes and story quality of both films was equally awful, the only explanation (in my opinion at least) is that …
Category Archive: Humour
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2010/01/27/3d-anti-piracy/
Aug
13
2009
Quote of the day: On green shoots
From mouse on the rates blog comes this awesome quote: It looks like Infometrics have been Smoking some “Green Shoots”. Given I work at Infometrics, this quote is going to make its way onto my wall. Bloody brilliant
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/08/13/quote-of-the-day-on-green-shoots/
Aug
07
2009
Cartoon: Night classes
An excellent cartoon from Mike Moreu: The main thing for me is the question of “what is the social benefit”. In part education increases the human capital of the individual, which is something that the individual should pay for, in another part education can be consumption (which the individual should pay for) and in a …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/08/07/cartoon-night-classes/
Aug
05
2009
Cartoon: Retirement planning
Given concerns about future retirement funding, I thought that this cartoon from the excellent Basic Instructions site hit on some important issues:
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/08/05/cartoon-retirement-planning/
May
19
2009
Another infrastructure project
Earlier we discussed the urban regeneration project. Now it appears that the project requires a bailout (ht Greg Mankiw):
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/05/19/another-infrastructure-project/
May
05
2009
A “mum” view on economists
In preparation for Mother’s Day on Sunday it is important to see what mum’s think about economics. Over at www.postcardsfromyomomma.com we get to find out (ht Kids prefer cheese via Marginal Revolution) Backstory: After I got a D on my economics exam. Honey, econ is for boring and ugly people. You shouldn’t be in that …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/05/05/a-mum-view-on-economists/
Recent Comments