I hope Dave doesn’t go down this route if we ever have a flash company shindig type thing.

I guess that’s a group of groovy guys sitting round and “Thinking out of the Box” man!

Nice to know your licence fee money is going to a good cause.

http://jeffreyjmorgan.com/wp/2008/05/the-hand-dryers-secret-handshake/

Or just do the bowling thing.

True black swans are events that come out of nowhere and forever change our perception of the world. 911 is a good example of a black swan event.

Apart from that Taleb talks a lot of sense, he’s one of the few bearish investors/ economists to speak out. Fred Harrison and Joseph Stiglitz are probably in the same ballpark, they are all now vindicated.

Health warning: Reading Fred Harrison’s book can seriously damage your optimism!

I liked your observation on our ‘Discovery Centre.’ Your observation applies to the whole building. The building used to be called Winchester Public Library, and you went in knowing exactly what to expect. It was a nice, quiet place where you could go and borrow and read books, and, yes, some people went in to use the computers. The very name ‘Discovery Centre’ now serves only to confuse. Many people wander in, gawp around, and after it becomes apparent that it is a public library rather than a theme park, walk away. However, it is now unsuitable as a quiet place to read. Computers almost outnumber books, and make all sorts of silly noises, and there is the constant clatter of a cafe… oh, and the age-old very sensible tradition of stamping your books to remind you when to return them has also gone. They issue you with a separate piece of paper, which you invariably lose. So, there you go. The hand driers merely reflect the wider pretentious misinformation and over-design.