August 2009
18 posts
Latest essay in WIRED: Why schools must emulate geek culture to reform. One step: destroying “youth-owned culture.” http://bit.ly/wU9jd
“The board essentially speculates on how a borrower might enter a downward spiral...”
– Chief District Judge Loretta Preska of the federal court in Manhattan, in her 47-page opinion ruling against an effort by the U.S. Federal Reserve to block disclosure of companies that participated in and securities covered by a series of emergency funding programs, quoted by Jonathan Stempel in
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I can see how it would happen. RT @1bobcohn “I accidentally rewatched all sixty hours of The Wire recently.” -Hua Hsu, http://bit.ly/s5NIL
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“Mr. Aleynikov, who allegedly downloaded 32 megabytes of information from...”
– Code-Case Judge Rules Against Goldman - WSJ.com
It cracks me up that every time the WSJ writes about this case it mentions the size of the downloads, as if Sergei was lugging duffel bags full of hard drives home each day. (“He definitely didn’t use these bags. The tensilary strength in...
“Jaubert said he heard whispers about Dubai’s darker side — the abuse...”
– As Dubai’s Glitter Fades, Foreigners See Dark Side - washingtonpost.com
I’ve only been to Dubai once, but it didn’t take “whispers” to figure out there was some serious rust behind that gleaming skyline. One morning on my way to do some interviews I watched bus after...
“Michele Davis, a spokeswoman for Mr. Paulson, said that the former Treasury...”
– During Crisis, Paulson’s Calls to Goldman Posed Ethics Test - NYTimes.com
I hear the Hachette Book Group has two of its toughest goons posted outside the former Treasury Secretary’s motel room. If they hear anything but the clicking of his Underwood 11, they’re instructed to do what...
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What was that loud noise? A WIRED explainer
One of the great things about WIRED is that the place staffed by people who are authorities on (and obsessed about) a ridiculous range of subjects. That can lead to some surprising conversations.
Half the time I discuss a story idea with a colleague I end up learning a history lesson about some esoteric part of my article or taken down a rabbit hole I had no idea I was about to step into. Those...
Ha! RT @WaterSlicerRT @laughingsquid “Even Kim Jong Il can’t stop Bill Clinton from coming home with two women.” - @burstein
More from GOOG 10Q (h/t @footnoted): its $193m in student-loan auction rate securities now worth $27m. Expecting 12 more mos of ARS failure.
Google 10Q explains Docs: “formats such as Microsoft Word … [may prevent] our technology from accessing the content.” h/t@footnoted
Fare Compare just tweeted an interesting flight deal: $160r/t Newark from New York. Apparently that’s a 45% price drop. http://bit.ly/HeTCv
Cash for Clunkers Boycotts Jon and Kate
I’ve been playing around with Wordtracker this morning, which is a keyword research service run out of London. The company monitors what people are searching for and sells the results to site owners and anyone else who wants to please the Google gods. (The title of this post, by the way, is a test: does combining the 13th and 43rd most popular recent searches turn into a torrent of traffic?...