Archive for February 25th 2009

One more Toronto real estate graphic. I'm sure this will work out fine. http://t.co/ZkRiEbJc -> The official bird of Toronto: The construction crane. Remarkable. /via http://t.co/oNInbLB2 http://t.co/47Jvst2g -> Science is finally getting to the big questions: Why do bubbles in Guinness sink? – http://t.co/ZkVgHago -> This week's episode of Game of Thrones reminds me of [...]

This sort of thing tends to happen at turning points — people declaring equities are toast for as far as we can see — but it’s still worth reading. Nikhil Srinivasan, the man who decides where one of the world’s biggest insurance funds places its assets, wants to know why he should invest in stocks. [...]

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. [...]