Gongol.com Archives: July 2010
Brian Gongol


July 9, 2010

Humor and Good News How can one broke economy lend money to another broke economy?
A very clever satire on the state of international finances. It's funny because it's so true.

Humor and Good News If video games came with super-easy modes
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Aviation News India's busiest airport apparently has no functioning ground radar
Considering it's used mostly to prevent collisions while planes and related vehicles are moving around the airport grounds, that's a pretty spooky situation. The airport has a pretty sweet-smelling "safety policy", but the lack of ground-traffic radar puts its 24.3 million annual passengers at serious risk of death or injury while they think they're safe inside their planes. And, like most airports, it has intersecting runways, making it all the riskier.

Business and Finance Blockbuster arrives (late) to the movie-rental-kiosk business
It seems like a bit of a Hail Mary pass to try to save the company from complete disaster, but good luck to them

News A profile of the man who will probably lead India someday

Water News Guidance for safe flood cleanup

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