Tag: switzerland

Swiss typography

there are a lot of contemporary swiss typefaces, in case you thought helvetica was the last word.

Lolwut

Switzerland loves coins

You’d think the swiss are good at handling money. Instead, you have to carry around a coin purse like a medieval idiot.

Real Playgrounds

Kids can have fun in some places

In countries without a safety fetish you get playgrounds with zip lines. That’s my niece lynn. she is 2.

Switzerland workation

ready for 1 month of switzerland workation

includes bringing decent (homebrew) beer to the underserved swiss.

Gullible Swiss

Switzerland doesn’t have a functioning economy. Welcome to Switzerland where you get to pay 57 CHF per person for some brunch. For this steal you have to get your own tap water from a faucet.

Religion in Switzerland

used to be, you could use dress code to separate the designers and architects from the monks. now it is all the same. so confusing!

seen offline in rapperswil, switzerland, and online

Overleveraged countries

bank assets as a % of GDP:

Luxembourg 2461%
Ireland 872%
Switzerland 723%

the US was 80% at the time of the bailout in 2008. this is going to end well for europe.

The Anti Powerpoint Party

it is hard to exaggerate how awesome this is. where is the US version? of course the proposed solution is only slightly better. much better: really think hard if you need to present anything at all.

The Anti-PowerPoint Party (abbreviated APPP) is a political party whose aim is to influence the public with regard to limiting the phenomenon of unproductive use of time in the Swiss economy industry, in research, and educational institutions. Particular attention is being paid to the economic damage resulting from presentations using PowerPoint. The party aims to launching a national referendum to obtain a law forbidding PowerPoint during presentations.

European Bailout

the governments of Switzerland, Germany, France, and the UK should all be sending thank-you letters to 33 Liberty Street if they haven’t already done so: it’s entirely possible that the New York Fed bailed out their banks without those governments even knowing about it.