December 2008
“Despite recent storms, state surveyors reported today that snow levels in the...”
– Sierra snowpack below normal, surveyors find
2008: The Year the Geeks Took Over →
(via nickdouglas: kayfabe:thelosspeaks:ohryan)
Ted sez:
This article has a humorous bent, but it’s only scratching the surface. We are no longer edglings because we use social networks, tag photos, and send twitters. These are all activities of mass culture. Pocket sized video cameras, handheld game devices, editing photos with funny captions, embedding videos in blogs, are as well main...
Pardon the Interuption
Excuse me why I interupt this blog entry.
If you read this blog via an RSS reader or the Tumblr dashboard, I wanted to give you some updates:
I’ve added commenting!. Click thru to any entry and leave a comment. I’ll be most attentive when you do.
I redesigned my tumblr blog thanks to a sweet-ass template made by Liam Cooke. You should go check out how it looks right fucking now.
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“Scientists have discovered that chimpanzees keep a mental record of helpful acts...”
– Chimps ‘keep mental record of helpful acts’ - Telegraph (via hiten)
The Future of Ephemeral Conversation →
msg:
Lots of great quotes in this article you should just read the entire post.
I agree. Privacy is gone. If you need to be discreet about anything it has to be a conversation by people in the same room, which is also becoming harder to do due to working worldwide. Take a moment to think about the last 5 sensitive discussions you had that you would not want every last person knowing about and...
“After some more of this talk, a different human being comes on the line and...”
– Journalist calls NRA to ask for details about their robo calls stating Obama is packing his cabinet with gun-banners.
“I told my manager to reach out to Pastor Warren and say “In the spirit of...”
– Melissa Etheridge: The Choice Is Ours Now
“In times of adversity, maintaining perspective and an espirit-de-corps is even...”
– Josh Kopelman (via entrepreneurwisdom)
The Bernie Madoff Morality Tale
“My guess is that this is what went down. Even though Madoff Securities was on the leading edge of automated trading, the business itself was becoming less and less lucrative. Everyone had the same computers. Spreads, the difference between the bid price and the ask price that became Wall Street trading profits, began shrinking. And the move to list stocks in penny increments instead of...
Scientists baffled by mysterious acorn shortage... →
Scientists baffled by mysterious acorn shortage
“For the holiday season through December 12, $19.44 billion has been spent...”
– comScore - regarding online sales in 2008 (via fred-wilson)
Ted sez: It’s relatively great news and flat is the new up. But quite a blow to the expected 15% increase the industry was on pace for.
“Living in Dubai is not wonderful and glamorous, as many would have you believe....”
– The Top 20 Reasons Not to Move to Dubai (in no particular order!) By Tia O’Neill
This is a fascinating read. I’ve travelled in the Middle East, lived in 3rd world countries and have always imagined Dubai, with it’s 7 Star hotel to be an entire country of luxury and perfect. Sounds more...
“These errors make us look either incompetent at credit analysis or like we sold...”
– The Reckoning - Debt Watchdogs - Tamed or Caught Napping? - Series - NYTimes.com
I’m still waiting for the indictments to come out on the debt rating agencies. They are not merely publically traded companies, they provide a government recognized regulatory service that they sold out like...
I think the "People You May Know" feature on...
iammattjordan:
insidethebox:
(via acewepeel)
True life.
ELO harmonies always made me dubious as a teen. I...
“The Great Crash of 2008
If this isn’t a Great Crash I don’t...”
– from: Robert Reich’s Blog: The Great Crash of 2008
In response Swerbo sez:
The peak to trough stock market performance from back in the depression was more than 82% down (using monthly S&P500 data). So, actually, we’re still quite a bit away from reaching anything close to those...
