The person/group which has been painting the houses of the “Viking Raider” businessmen red has predicted a red Christmas. To commemorate the occasion he has published a video on Youtube of his previous work.

The winner of the 35,5 million ISK lottery jackpot from last weekend turned out to be an unemployed, young, single mother who’s just lost her apartment. Good for her.

“Does the government have a secret long-term plan for dealing with the mortgage problem, or are they just incompetents making stuff up as they go along?” - Vilhjalm A. Very good comments from EDA’s readers in response to this story.

A year after the crash, reporter Eric Campbell investigates the tragi-comic saga that saw this nation of 310,000 try to become the new Wall Street. He uncovers not just over-confidence and incompetence but widespread corruption. ‘Some of the ministers from the government had very close ties with these banks and this was never really revealed [...]

Heard an interesting explanation as to why there isn’t and won’t be an overall remittance of loans. The IMF is against such a measure. I’m not sure how that can work as the IMF said it would not interfere in in-state matters but let’s suppose it is true. Then the Progressive Party must surely know [...]

I am relaunching the site and hope you will bear with me for a couple of days while I get my head around this. The reason is that I want to be able to distinguish between my own writing and that of others, incorporate video and photos in a better way. I spent last week [...]