Surreal Saturday: American Blugrass On Chinese Instruments (YouTube via Boing Boing)

Saw this first on Boing Boing. Must be heard to be believed...

Excellent NYT Graphic On The Recent Financial Meltdown (NYT Via Boing Boing)

The New York Times is carrying a very well-done graphic (spotted first by Boing Boing) explaining the recent meltdown on Wall Street within the financial sector. The graphic, which, unfortunately, is not embeddable, allows the reader to instantly see why AIG gets a bailout and Lehman Brothers has to file for bankruptcy, for example. It does a remarkable job of explaining quite a bit without resorting to very many words. Worth the look.

(Click on the picture below to go to the full sized, interactive version of the graph)

Serendipity At Work: Psychology Of Intelligence Analysis On World's 5th Most Popular Blog! (Boing Boing)

Talk about serendipity! Within less than 24 hours of singing praises for Dick Heuer's Psychology Of Intelligence Analysis here on SAM, it shows up again but this time listed on the world's 5th most popular blog -- Boing Boing. That ought to drive some traffic to the CIA's website...Boing Boing get nearly 7 million viewers per month.