Weather.com reports that a survey by Insure.com concluded that Idaho has the rudest drivers. The state "is made up of two main types of drivers -- those who are moving so slowly that they're judged to be rude, and the aggressive drivers who speed around them and flip them off."

Joke of the Month
A Russian was riding through the countryside on a bus in Estonia. Not being sure of his location or whether he was headed in the right direction, he asked the bus driver in broken Estonian, "Is Tallinn far?" The Estonian driver replied, "No." Reassured, the Russian returned to his seat and watched the countryside go by. Hours passed. Thinking that Estonia wasn't all that big and that surely they must be getting close to the capital, the Russian once again asked the driver in halting Estonian, "Is Tallinn far?" The driver replied, "It is now."

August 2016 update

British sterling currency took a slight rebound [at the time of writing on Aug 22] since the vote to Brexit but WorldFirst is typical of pundits in describing the Brexit fallout situation as "not too disastrous" [as yet] for the economy or for the currency. But it's still a big whack on pound sterling, although British exports have increased, but enough to compensate?

WorldFirst goes on: "We continue to forecast a fall in GBP:USD to 1.22 by the end of the year as the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates."

July 2016 update

Gabriel Zucman of the Univ of California Berkeley points to their study of wealth distribution in the US showing that the top 0.1% [about 160,000 families] now owns 22% of US wealth, which is as much as the bottom 90% owns.

May 2016 update

Australian television program Four Corners looks at Chinese and other foreign investing into their country in The great wall of money and a related look at the state of real estate in their nation.

December 2015 update

Annual cost of firearm death & injury to the US economy: 235 billion dollars.

"My name is love" former multi-million view Thai movie that keeps bouncing back from deletion, re-added July 2016 & here

Meanwhile the Japanese TV show "Takeshi's castle" that's been deleted so many times somehow manages to survive with uploads of numerous episodes floating around including one of their greatest hits episodes according to UK viewer's requests.

Of course some of the new links on The Quake turn into dead ones as stuff gets erased, but that's why every few months The Quake gets updated.

Sixty two people now control as much wealth as half the rest of the world combined   Oxfam International, Jan 2016

These two programs however have remained remarkably resilient [at least at time of writing]:

West London "10", Liverpool "1", but not necessarily a score that reflects the quality of the respective uk tv offerings.

And although the UK's "Only fools & horses" always gets erased before too long, it's great that uploaders keep returning with "The Bill" so I can catch more episodes whenever time allows, which isn't frankly often.