Archive for January 18th 2009

From the wonderful BBC reboot of Sherlock Holmes, the superb Season 2 opening Sherlock/Moriarty anti-showdown.

Classic: "Albania, Albania, you border on the Adriatic" – http://t.co/XD6heii9 -> New & remarkable Atlantic photo series: The Civil War, Part 1 – http://t.co/i4xbCYcr -> Among the many iconic images in the Coens' Miller's Crossing: Rug Daniels – http://t.co/Gc41AAC8 -> Contemplating leaving the theme from Miller's Crossing replaying on my fillings on for the rest [...]

World's 25 best ski towns http://t.co/da3Dn71g /via @SullyCNBC -> [1202.1448] Financial black swans driven by ultrafast machine ecology http://t.co/jG7vZPwG -> Screenwriter/director/comedian (Office/Gervais) Stephen Merchant in a Google talk – http://t.co/waUlNJa9 -> Precisely. IPO to follow. RT @ReformedBroker: @pkedrosky She's the Facebook of broken-into foreclosed home rentals! -> Woman charged for breaking into foreclosed San Diego [...]

@Google in Conversation with Stephen Mechant – YouTube.

Yikes. RT @jarsch: Incredible video of a snowmobile almost going over a cliff! http://t.co/zY4LXNLN @pkedrosky would appreciate. -> .@mortgagereports Oh, you're right. Curse you New Yorker paywall! in reply to mortgagereports -> Phineas and Ferb in the New Yorker? Oh, you're so busted! http://t.co/3qPU5iEe -> Photo set: Deep Freeze Spreads Across Europe – http://t.co/sLr9jHXB -> [...]

Me on NPR on stopping the finance “brain drain”.

Strange Bloomberg Headlines: Huggies Price Cut Shows Why Bond Market Backing Bernanke Considering QE3 – http://t.co/CRH83C57 -> 20 Mule Team Canyon – http://t.co/6bz27lIo -> Chancellor: ECB ‘saves’ banks as economies sink – http://t.co/N583wxkg -> Weather Extremes : Where does the Deepest Snow on Earth Accumulate? http://t.co/AgqE2xGq ->

And …. Vinny wins! #BabyNamePostitsOnStreet http://t.co/pXu781R0 -> Artificial Inflation: The True Story of Trends in Sina Weibo. (arXiv:1202.0327v1 [cs.CY]) http://t.co/1s6lSvU8 -> Good question. Not far away. RT @Just1GOLDEN: @pkedrosky who will be the company with a trillion dollar mkt cap first? -> The Kama Sutra, on BBC's In Our Time http://t.co/dSLOp2Ld ->

Cover of current Economist magazine is faux Facebook page. Clever.

Where was I that I missed season 2 of BBC's Sherlock series had started? Is this still 2012, or did I miss that too? -> If only this ran on moose dung, but still: Wood-burning iPhone charger – http://t.co/7garpgnz -> Why the Early U.S. Didn't Go the Way of the Euro zone – http://t.co/YvlypwNa -> [...]

Sht Barefoot Runners Say – YouTube.

QotD: "Piracy is the new radio". — Neil Young http://t.co/Snf7uajT -> Local fun. RT @BreakingNews: California's San Onofre nuclear power plant unit shut down after potential leak – @LANow -> I often misread "the future of content" as "the future of contempt". I'm not so sure anymore that they are different things. -> One interview [...]

/via Earlyups

The Human-Environment Dialog in Award-winning Children’s Picture Books (Source) In Afghan war, rate of post-injury survival rises (Source) Fingerprints of a Monster Quake (Source)

Nicely done Super Bowl PSA ad from my colleagues at Kauffman Foundation.

NYT: Cracking the code in "The Shining", from the Holocaust to faked moon landings http://t.co/40ZrtpQh -> Only now? RT @RWW: Blogging Declines Across the Inc. 500 http://t.co/wriEOPPf -> Bay Area Technology Professionals Can’t Get Hired as Industry Moves On – http://t.co/VNKJlYpn -> California budget problems has state contemplating abandoning a highway – http://t.co/9GPnOB8w ->

w = 2*t, where w = # of glasses of red wine required at home later, and t is time in hours at Dave & Buster's at bday party for 8 yos. -> NYT on the boulevard of busted predecessors that RIM must navigate to make it back – http://t.co/ZSpaFVlv -> Audi's e-tron Spyder Diesel-Electric [...]

What the fk is a "stealth data investment fund", & why is that not as stupid an idea as it sounds? http://t.co/I1A52Prl -> Rick Bookstaber: The Twilight of the Leisure Class http://t.co/fvDXm1PN -> Took this yesterday in BC: What happens when I'm in a hurry to get to fresh powder – http://t.co/yKZjckUk -> Whoa, best [...]

Today went through my annual exercise of unsuccessfully signing up for lunches at upcoming TED. Zero luck. Again. -> IRT @TreeHugger: What happens when a man tries to live solely on those foods advertised on television? http://t.co/DqeLVOr1 -> Vancouver showing off today in vertiginous mid-winter fashion : the Lions loom like volcanic, white sno-cones. Damn [...]

Gaddis, Pynchon, and Mistaken Identity – http://t.co/grt2mvBx -> I'm so damn helpful that sometimes I just want to kiss me. -> Mostly for the title: Econophysics of a religious cult: the Antoinists in Belgium [1920-2000] http://t.co/lkndYLKA -> Photo set: Salvaging the TK Bremen – http://t.co/oiB7U1rj -> "Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just [...]

Favorite anagram for new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins: Shit Enthrones. -> Traveling. Volunteers? RT @jholston: Can @pkedrosky read this and please translate for humanity? TIA. http://t.co/TlAQrvK5 -> Didier's finish at Kitzbuhel this weekend. Such a great moment. http://t.co/d2zG4qH6 -> Retiring Didier Cuche Sets Record at Kitzbühel – http://t.co/V9PwuZm2 -> Imagine if drastic change required. Whew. [...]

Computing probabilities in the license plate game http://t.co/p4B6vOol -> How 1920s Auto Shows Sparked a Color Revolution: Echoes- http://t.co/b8Vmi77k -> Latest SSEC animation of the river of moisture hitting US west coast. Looks weirdly alive. http://t.co/KJIsG5fM -> Writer Michael Lewis in conversation with Graydon Carter, 1/8 – http://t.co/lCeDgtII ->

.@davidhfe Totally glad Wikipedia is back. Its absence on matters like electromagnetic weaponry was palpable. in reply to davidhfe -> You know you needed this: List of electromagnetic projectile devices in fiction – http://t.co/RPPfsjT2 -> Year ago, but … the mystery of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom/Schmitz – http://t.co/DPkuKmC6 -> Whoa, in retaliation for Megaupload bust, [...]

“Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.” – Leo Szilard via THE 60-YEAR JOB: FREEMAN DYSON | More Intelligent Life.

GRL: A recent and abrupt decline in the East African long rains http://t.co/B6wbooiw -> PNAS: Global risk of big earthquakes has not recently increased http://t.co/ff1JcRwb -> Cheap Trick, Surrender. Live at Budokan. And you lovely people thought I didn't care about you. http://t.co/NA08N0aE -> Benford's Law, and worldwide illicit financial flows http://t.co/g6ppa5a5 -> Turntable For [...]