Sunday, December 7, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
iceland is melting!
an interesting talk about the literal and economic melting of iceland.
things i never knew about iceland:
1. you can look up their prime minister in the icelandic phone book
2. there are 300,000 people in iceland. that means that the phone book mentioned above is about the size of a regular city phone book. but it has the white pages and the yellow pages and everyone in the entire country.
3. it was in 2007 ranked number 1 on a list whose name i don't know but measured things like literacy rate, absence of poverty etc.
4. they are nowprobably going to switch to the euro, something that was strongly opposed before the economic crisis
5. they make lots of money from fish.
6. four men used to run the major banks in iceland, now four women do.
7. people in iceland can detect even the slightest foreign accent in the icelandic of people who aren't truly from iceland
things i never knew about iceland:
1. you can look up their prime minister in the icelandic phone book
2. there are 300,000 people in iceland. that means that the phone book mentioned above is about the size of a regular city phone book. but it has the white pages and the yellow pages and everyone in the entire country.
3. it was in 2007 ranked number 1 on a list whose name i don't know but measured things like literacy rate, absence of poverty etc.
4. they are nowprobably going to switch to the euro, something that was strongly opposed before the economic crisis
5. they make lots of money from fish.
6. four men used to run the major banks in iceland, now four women do.
7. people in iceland can detect even the slightest foreign accent in the icelandic of people who aren't truly from iceland
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