Archive for September 23rd 2008

Oil companies face off with Facebook: Driving becomes passé http://t.co/DfRunf0f /via @StockJockey -> Pettis: Europe’s depressing prospects http://t.co/66Oyv029 -> Methods for Studying Coincidences http://t.co/btjlqyfU /by @arbesman -> The End of Illness with Dr. David Agus http://t.co/ijuAJd6h -> Will let folks off hook. Here is list of open ski resorts: Whistler, Mammoth, Bachelor, Hood, Sunshine, Crystal [...]

Having long ago dated a lovely Dutch girl, I'm really torn on the whole Dutch disease thing – http://t.co/DaRkVxh0 -> Debate today on best cameo ever. It's this: "I loved you in Wall Street". Can there be debate? http://t.co/KjTAZTYS -> I think I'm going to tweet in entish more often. Crazy satisfying. -> The global [...]

Ski industry watching as eastern US resort sues insurer over catastrophe policy payout – http://t.co/9D87veC1 -> Can't believe the gold bugs aren't all over the tragic end of Canadian Tire money. http://t.co/zgi20svE -> Apropos my amorality, I tried the psychopath test earlier today & turned out saner than I thought. http://t.co/84VN3XfG / cc @jonronson -> [...]

Just showed offspring you can find pi to 7 places at position 50,366,472 of pi. Yes, I'm that geeky. http://t.co/qlnYgMJF -> The Floppy Disk icon means "save", & 14 other icons that don't make sense anymore – http://t.co/ZFSXcsTG /via @techmeme -> Strong stuff in Pettis's latest, incl on China wobbles and a collapse in commodity [...]

Dean Potter walks a tightrope over Enshi Grand Canyon – YouTube http://t.co/LbosSSVg -> John Lanchester · Marx at 193 · LRB http://t.co/Pmzp4iqd -> More Wealthy Chinese Said to Seek Exit Options via Investor Visas – http://t.co/A3v6GXMo -> Photo set: 75 Years Since The Hindenburg Disaster – http://t.co/9gkkH2aK -> Neutrinos to Give High-Frequency Traders the Millisecond [...]

This August am again moderating in the annual E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year competition. Always fun. -> Affluent men are out-shopping women online, and it's about luxury menswear, not electronics http://t.co/Mowbp6Wx -> Decline of Tiger Woods QotD: "At least he has his health." http://t.co/UGT8Ul5u -> Facebook IPO now being spun: It's oversubscribed! ( http://t.co/42dKRRqo) There's [...]

Tom Vanderbilt: We doth worry too much about the interweb – http://t.co/JuiojEYF -> Yahoo's Scott Thompson to Dan Loeb: Stop taunting me, or I shall write another memo. http://t.co/9UqGrLge -> VMTs, the Rosenhan study, robots, the Late Heavy Bombardment, favelas, chaparral, & Tomáš Berdych: I may be overdoing things in this deck. -> Your kids [...]

Dexter: You don't understand. I can't walk… they've tied my shoelaces together. / Topper Harley: A knot. Bastards! -> You know, there aren't nearly enough articles & books worshipping at altar of Mark Zuckerberg. Wait, I have that backwards. -> I hope we eventually get a chance to revel in this piece being dead wrong: [...]

Video of the Hugh Hendry, et al. panel from Milken earlier today – http://t.co/tz88R3FK -> Why hub and spoke electricity can't last: Power Failure in West Is Tied to Combination of Errors http://t.co/Omq4bQXW -> I'm sure this will work out fine: the JOBS Act allows hedge funds to market like mutual funds http://t.co/PCfuyWhc /via @StockJockey [...]

Ronaldo vs Nadal playing hybrid tennis/soccer. Super. http://t.co/2hcW4ee1 -> E-P: China’s property boom has peaked, forever – http://t.co/TpqmkWMY -> Gelman: Clueless Americans think they’ll never get sick http://t.co/NIruFil8 -> FT: Stateless and super-rich: who is buying the world's most expensive properties? http://t.co/7spaXO8O -> SciAm: Dairy farm waste may be bigger source of LA smog than [...]

Neil Gaiman interviews Stephen King – http://t.co/q7FvUvLh -> Hell hath no fury like Hobbit fans facing 48fps footage. See here http://t.co/tnQKXg3a & here http://t.co/oz3vyLwL -> Nifty visualization: Realtime consumer spending in Spain during Easter weekend 2011 – http://t.co/tnJQHxOY -> Urban Dictionary word of the day: Splenda Daddy – http://t.co/6tUEdoG3 -> Nocera: My Faith-Based Retirement – [...]

More higher education nonsense: Colleges Confuse Students With Letters Offering Aid That’s Debt – http://t.co/zVJAVI9R -> Tinkering with my soccer ratings vs credit default swaps graph. Yes, it's for a presentation; yes, it's silly. http://t.co/yPJ142Oy -> Your moment of Friday with Excel geekery: Found XY Chart Labeler add-in, which solved my labeling problem – http://t.co/36AG8QgY [...]

Delightful idiocy: Viddy Is Raising $30M At A $370M Valuation http://t.co/6t1pUmMv -> Fascinating chart from new BofA auto report showing pace of technology adoption in cars – http://t.co/OFqeew4H -> Some definitional issues, but still: California cities most densely populated in U.S. – http://t.co/BM792O8P -> Simply gorgeous Yosemite timelapse video – http://t.co/Ly17rmu4 ->

That fame thing / I don't get it: Study show fame hasn't shorted over last 120 years – http://t.co/A35mVw9f /cc @arbesman -> Bring it: IF THE STORM TRACKS AS EXPECTED…IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE THE HEAVIEST RAIN OF THE YEAR FOR SAN DIEGO – http://t.co/1p1glEui -> To a first approximation, all anyone talks about [...]

[1204.3731] Towards Real-Time Summarization of Scheduled Events from Twitter Streams http://t.co/DEDxPm2y -> [1204.3731] Towards Real-Time Summarization of Scheduled Events from Twitter Streams http://t.co/DEDxPm2y /cc @dickc -> One last SW whinge … Dudes, keep your knees inside invisible lines projecting forward from the arm rest. #EndLegSpreading -> Btw, came home from the trip to this in [...]

Today's news on Levon Helm has me playing some classic The Band in background – http://t.co/eSn12leB -> Every day, in every way, Roger McNamee is looking more and more like Jeff Lebowski. http://t.co/CxYSEUkm -> Wish there was Twitter feature where I could block people, report them as spam, _and_ report them to SEC. Latter is [...]

What?! When things were going so well! RT @emilychangtv: RIM said to be in discussions to hire a bank to weigh strategic options -> Interesting to see impact of GDrive ( http://t.co/8vyzQCr1) on Dropbox. My guess: Not much. Latter more like net fabric than mere storage. -> Canadian mortgage market continues tiptoeing deeper into subprime [...]

Utah's famously deep and light powder snow may be much less by 2030 – http://t.co/HKFOYbLl -> How the Titanic Made the Modern Radio Industry – http://t.co/qR27y0VW -> Have the Rich Ever Paid a Fair Share of Taxes? (Part 1) – Bloomberg http://t.co/8ryyURGS -> Google founder Sergey Brin takes some shots at IPO-ing Facebook during latter's [...]

Trying to weave together presentation invol station wagons, Street Fighter IV, 19th c mail systems, LA freeways, and Crying of Lot 49. Yeesh -> Former BestBuy CEO Brian Dunn is spending his time tweeting – http://t.co/YLyS4Zpr /cc @dickc -> Some worried stories stemming from unusual Indonesian quake this week. Here http://t.co/5Q03AhH0 and here http://t.co/hIjl2MZu -> [...]

Today in Strange Bloomberg Headlines: Sunlight Extracted from Cucumbers Reshapes U.S. Energy Debate – http://t.co/A9GmPCoi -> Trailer: I Know That Voice – http://t.co/KQc3ikRj -> I'm assuming there will eventually be a Sony wrecks book, which will complement classic, "Hit and Run " – http://t.co/0tsLdLw5 -> More on that "death and taxes" paper – http://t.co/GrbsajXc -> [...]

Sony to cut global workforce by 10,000 – http://t.co/T5SlmtSN #AppleDeathStarWatch -> Incredible bull-market startup bullshit that reads like parody. http://t.co/Uace05dF -> Dude 1: Rockered, really? Dude 2: Well, full reverse rocker is a noodle. Dude 3: Dude, why ski on days when you'd notice? Dude 4: Oh, yeah. -> Back from week away skiing. Just [...]

Discussion of underlying meteorology: Aircraft encounters extreme turbulence near the Louisiana coast – http://t.co/TKfLRU8Y -> For Sale. 1 br cottage, Valencia CA. $1,799,000. The Dude not included. http://t.co/HHR2sdjZ -> Full space alien day #LastSkiTweetIPromiae http://t.co/hp5u7VHp -> Super chill day. Private mountain. http://t.co/pIwyLJnw -> Morning tracks at Mammoth ♫ soundtracking Janis Joplin "Piece of My Heart" [...]

Bloomberg: Ex-Con Man Says JOBS Law Makes Guys Like Him Rich – http://t.co/icTIkwUo -> Ironies & ignominy: Greece's track & field governing body suspends all operations – http://t.co/YsczPYlv -> Gone skiing for next five days or so. You kids are once again on your own. Keep it clean. -> Time to sell that NYC penthouse. [...]

Crushing debts, economic revolutions, & extraordinary popular delusions? Yup, Britain on eve of Industrial Revolution – http://t.co/CZB6LjaH -> $60m RIMM-founder funded university think tank cancelled over lack of faculty support http://t.co/KwtV0wUM /via @rhh -> Big Questions: Why are fantasy world accents British? http://t.co/tqSpmwUr -> Research QotD: This research was funded by quarters pilfered from the [...]

HIgh fee, illiquid funds have paid off for their managers, but not for pension funds? I'm shocked. Shocked. http://t.co/poafZZSp -> You know you needed this: Metal bands per 100,000 people around the world – http://t.co/vmT5pqrs -> Refuting the Samuelson conjecture: Why China’s growth is good news for western countries – http://t.co/EMoE8bAy -> World-record single storm [...]