Saturday, April 17, 2010

I LOVE This Picture

From Sigrún Davíðsdóttir's Icelog; click over and click the image for full-size. Peace and Chaos in the same frame... which is sort of the point this journalist is making. Mainland Europe is in a lockdown, but Icelanders are, for the most part, just going about their lives and largely unaffected. The primary point of her blog is to explore what was going on with the Icelandic financial industry in the time leading up to its collapse... a point of which I was unaware when I choked on my coffee over her closing line:
The word going around in Iceland now is that the last wish of the Icelandic Financial System was for its ashes to be spread out over Europe…

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