May 2009
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May 29th
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Will Wave change the online ad business?
Google introduced its upcoming Wave technology/platform today. Very interesting with all kinds of implications — many of which O’Reilly addresses well on his blog. One quote really jumped out at me: In the wave shown below, participants are asked whether they can make it to a party. Responses appear immediately in the wave. That’s the way these things ought to work! No jumping to a website...
May 29th
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“In this economic downturn, it seems truly tragic for a company to nearly go...”
– Ecocomics Great blog on the economies of comic book worlds.
May 28th
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May 28th
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Piracy isn't just free -- sometimes it's just...
TorrentFreak today had an item on a new BitTorrent scanning site called ShowRSS. Sign up for TV shows you like, the site creates an RSS feed, and you plug that into your BitTorrent client, which starts automatically downloading shows as they’re posted. The site knows enough to avoid duplicates and provides a drop-dead easy way to get everything you want to watch, saved in the background, on...
May 27th
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May 22nd
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Ryanair set to charge £5 for online check-in →
Ryanair passengers face a £5 charge per flight to print out their tickets at home as part of moves to abolish check-in desks and increase revenues … In future, anyone who arrives at the airport without a pre-printed check-in card will have to pay a £40 “boarding card re-issue fee”. Is it possible the Ryanair is really just an elaborate university psych project? I mean, the only...
May 22nd
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“[A] friend of mine enjoyed the show but criticized that it is far too simple to...”
– Times Readers Weigh In on ‘The Producers’ in Berlin - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com Finally someone willing to point out the stranglehold the Bavarian lobby has on Broadway. Keep telling it like it is, Franz.
May 19th
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“Do you understand the concept of an average, Mr. Trump?” The WSJ snares a Trump deposition and it’s a goldmine. http://bit.ly/kIFBc
May 18th
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Cliff Asness letter, reposted URL
Got an email from a reader who noted that the Bit.ly URL in my Twitter post about Asness vs. Obama wasn’t working. Anyone who wants to check out the hedge fund manager’s letter can see it here: http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/05/cliff-asness-i-am-ready-for-my.html Cliff’s last line is “I am ready for my ‘personalized’ tax rate now,” which reminds me of...
May 15th
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“Since 1988, we have been offered 8 or 10 2-sigma events. (A 2-sigma event...”
– Jeremy Grantham: The last hurrah and seven lean years » Investment Postcards from Cape Town sadly?
May 7th
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Thin Skin of Copy Editors Part I: Quit it with the threats, already. I meant to write “their”, not “they’re.”
May 6th
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Thin Skin Hedge Funders Part II: Chrysler’s backers say they’re lives are in danger from Net commenters like “Jerkhoff.” http://bit.ly/HnW43
May 6th
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Asness vs Obama. http://bit.ly/tfctR Who knew the hedgies had such thin skin? Apparently they’re all deeply wounded by Obama’s harsh words.
May 6th
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Is the economic death spiral ending? Leading...
The cardinal rule in newspaper reporting is that two data points is a trend. This morning I got one (OK, maybe .5 ) about the economy turning around while dropping my kid off at school. I was talking to someone whose husband makes massive ovens used in semiconductor fabs. This guy looked like death when I last saw him in December. He travels to Asia every other week or so to sell his equipment,...
May 6th
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May 6th
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RT benhammersley: @gtdguy best namedrop ever
May 5th