September 2009
26 posts
“Warren Buffet once described bankers in the following terms: “Wall Street never...”
– Fear & Loathing in Financial Products: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Finance via Infectious Greed
From the infamous Ethel Merman Disco Album...
“Synchronous lateral excitation” is my new favorite phrase.”
– Capitalism and financial crashes : The New Yorker
“If there is one group with a proven history of violence, it is bloggers who like...”
– Nate Silver accusess polling firm of fraud | MetaFilter
Google has been ignoring your meta tags for years →
Make that music with your mouth
[ INCREDIBOX ] presents [ THE INCREDIBLE POLO ]
Various Artists - 7 x 7 Beat →
Tasty beats.
“I once pretended that I’d read Rand to impress a girl, but all she wanted...”
– Grover, Grover, gimme your ice cream. | MetaFilter
“Now, granted, having only made it to page twenty-four, I will admit that...”
– Apparently to be a top 50 reviewer on Amazon the key is to abandon even the 50-page rule and go with a 24-page rule.
Amazon.com: Robert P. Beveridge “…’s review of We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel
Intuit To Acquire (Former TechCrunch50 Winner)... →
Wow. Color me surprised and impressed. Mint had been eating Intuit’s lunch and this is one way of solving that. However, this doesn’t seem like an easy marriage.
Will Intuit keep the two product lines going in parallel? It’s a great cash-out but is it the best thing for the product?
“I found that the people I wanted to write about were often people I disapproved...”
– Harry Shearer on moving from writing to acting.
Eight questions for Harry Shearer
Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life... →
I’m sorry - wasn’t the bundling and securitizing of mortgages into esoteric financial products what really kicked the markets in the shorts? So the bundling and securitizing of another type of non-investment financial tool into esoteric financial products will be different how? (Yes I know houses and human lives are somewhat different - it’s the bundling and and packaging that is...
WatchNarrated by Nick Cave? Fantastical + Awesome. The Cat Piano on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Checking the "Feel" of your UI with an Interaction... →
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