December 2011
3 posts
“If we expect to maintain any semblance of “normality,” we must fix the financial...”
– The Book of Jobs | Politics | Vanity Fair
Incredible article about how we got out of the Great Depression and why we might be headed into another one.
November 2011
1 post
December 2010
3 posts
Call Delta right now, and this is what you will...
*”Due to drastic weather conditions we are unable to answer your call at this time. Please hang up and try again later, or go to delta.com Thank you.”* THEN, they hang up on you. BTW - delta.com shows me no available flights to get me home either.
November 2010
1 post
The rise and fall of Hermitage Capital inside...
The manager of Hermitage Capital - which was once the most profitable investment vehicle in Russia tells the story of their rise and fall.
On October 11, 2010, a Bloomberg Business Week article titled Schwarzenegger Says Russia is Gold Mine for Investorssaid that Governor Schwarzenegger met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for the second time in half a year and has embraced the Russian leader’s...
October 2009
2 posts
On My latest Crazy Idea
On my last idea for a business I was told by a friend, “its a tough market for an engineer.” I’m not sure if that was a compliment, or an addition to the list of problems. :)
September 2009
7 posts
How the world really is
squashed:
I read today that 9/11 shocked us from a complacent naivete and awakened us to the way the world really is. The idealists, this editorial asserts, believe in a world of hope and reconciliation while the realists know that the world is a terrifying place full of dreadful people seeking to destroy everything we care about. The realists know that we always need to be vigilant because...
“To the Republicans … we should work together to address any legitimate concerns...”
– President Barack Obama
Think he’ll get any takers?
(via squashed)
I hope so, and if not, I’d really like to know why not?
Who was the congressman who had the, um, audacity...
squashed:
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC). The incident has already made his Wikipedia page, along with the link to the section of H.R. 3200 titled “No Federal Payment For Undocumented Aliens.”
Representative Wilson also brought you such memorable quotes as,
[I find it] just inconceivable and truly incorrigible that in the midst of the war, the Democratic leaders would be conducting guerrilla warfare...
August 2009
8 posts
The River, It Bends.
This river leads from dark to light
So I must say adieu kind friends
But if my ship sails from your sight
It does not mean my journey ends
It only means, the river bends
-I found this on the cover page of a diary that belonged to my mother, about 3 decades ago.
nostrich:
marco:
My combined contribution to...
“They showed up enmasse to scream at their elected representatives in townhalls...”
– Carl Kassell on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell me (via squashed)
White Rabbits - Percussion Gun.
If you...
Twitter and Facebook attacks targeted individual |... →
buyhercandy:
POPULAR social networking sites Twitter and Facebook are under attack from cyber criminals allegedly targeting a single individual.
Online security firm Symantec today said it was monitoring a new wave of denial-of-service attacks against the sites, after a first round last night.
Twitter was taken offline by the attacks for several hours overnight. Facebook and LiveJournal also...
jacob:
Miike Snow - Animal
July 2009
1 post
June 2009
3 posts
George Thorogood - Move It On Over
May 2009
9 posts
The Raconteurs - Consoler of the Lonely
Crabby Ali by Orgone from the Killion Floor....
soulnewyork:
Making Me Nervous - Brad Sucks.
...
April 2009
5 posts
Still need this?
beautifulordinaire:
I am not technically inclined (maybe the understatement of the year) and if someone could help me rotate a video 90 degrees I would be very appreciative and I would even send a thank you package (of something more useful and desirable than broken cookies and such).
If so, let me know - I’m happy to help. Cheers, Mavryx.
March 2009
11 posts
“Paul Graham, Jessica’s husband and partner in Y Combinator, has tackled...”
– I’m somewhere in the middle.I have some ideas around companies that the world needs, that would survive (none of them are going to be the new Facebook, but they would service a need), and that might even make me some coin, but so far I’ve only been motivated enough to get involved in 2....
“I know, I know: everybody is sick of hearing about those AIG bonuses. But bear...”
– Jonah Lehrer, making some excellent points about AIG, inequality, and the human response.
I would post the whole article, but out of respect to your dashboards, I’ve restrained myself. Please go read it all.
Sleep Deprivation - Simian Mobile Disco.
Starts...
Operating System Interface Design Between... →
Screenshots of almost every OS that I’ve encourntered along my path…
I love character encoding!
marco:
Tonight’s goal: Make a simple PHP class.
Input: a URL pointing to an HTML document.
Output: a UTF-8 version, regardless of what encoding it’s really in.
Sounds easy, right?
Nope. Because some pages specify encoding via HTTP header, some specify via meta tag, some specify both but they disagree, and some don’t specify at all. Sometimes, the encoding is specified with an unusual...
Tupac Shakur meets Michael Jackson. :: Who do you...