Economics and a flashback to early ’90s internet

This was mentioned yesterday afternoon, but if you haven’t seen it yet, stop what you are doing Right Now and take a peek at Columbia economist Xavier Sala-i-Martin’s website. A brief recap of why this man is awesome:

• Flamboyant wardrobe. Just look at that suit.
• Website is charmingly Geocities-style retro, full of tiled backgrounds and animated gifs, breaks all rules for good design protocol
• Secretly tortured soul yearning after a Nobel Prize
• He cares about you and offers this test to evaluate whether you’ve had too much
• President of the Economic Commission of Futbol Club Barcelona
• Fan of many other oddities Catalan
• Helluva lot of citations (yawn)

In other words, Sala-i-Martin is an all-around badass muthafucka.

Go. Now. http://www.columbia.edu/~xs23