Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed

• Those were the days when you could travel from Okinawa to Tokyo with a Hattori Hanzō sword as carry-on. ->
• Andre the Giant, Hulk Hogan, and the 25th anniversary of 'WrestleMania III' http://t.co/7hz28XYw ->
• How phrasing affects memorability: The case of movie quotes – http://t.co/JUTjZDVJ ->
• I dig the gallows humor from Yahoo employees. Met one last night in Palo Alto who could do entire dystopian standup act. ->
• Kids get non-linearly more complicated to deal with after age 10. The fun of the challenge wears off quickly. ->

• Best-performing stock today: Intrade odds of Scotus overturning Obama healthcare individual mandate – http://t.co/lkcwSPRu ->
• Whatever your feelings about Obama's healthcare plan, the insurance incoherence of some Scotus arguments today was breathtaking. ->
• Scalia QotD: "… everybody has to buy food sooner or later, so … you can make people buy broccoli" ->
• Idly scanned transcript of today's Supreme Court healthcare hearing. Justice Thomas maintains his spotless record of questionlessness. ->

• At 12.6% to-date, Q1 2012 is merely the 9th best Q1 in S&P 500 history. Best? 1987, which was 24% ytd. ->
• A flood of semi-random twitter spam has been showing up in last 24 hours. Apparently twitter spam algo needs work. http://t.co/q3FbBBUy ->
• I have no idea how/whether this will work, but it's damn clever: Pagerank for deals – http://t.co/98ZsOpVG ->
• Next week: Medical academics prove that many doctors order too many expensive tests. More at 11. ->
• What? Financial advisors sell short-run crap that helps themselves? Never. – http://t.co/PR7AfzDn /via @TimHarford ->
• BBC Start the Week with Werner Herzog and Geoff Dyer on conundrums http://t.co/IY4fFPOE ->
• Never fails to amaze what a transformative difference fat skis make on powder days. Like a different sport. ->

• Pettis: Japan's debt disaster and China’s (non)rebalancing http://t.co/w9Jtthdj ->
• Novak Djokovic: From war to Wimbledon – 60 Minutes – http://t.co/gn3g2EL9 ->
• Elizabeth: Taffeta, darling. Dr. Frankenstein: Taffeta, sweetheart. Elizabeth: No, the dress is taffeta. It wrinkles so easily. ->
• Freeman Dyson on the role of dissidents in science, from Thomson & Tait to Velikovsky http://t.co/G88N6rfR /cc @arbesman ->

• Bill: Pai Mei taught you the five point palm-exploding heart technique? The Bride: Of course he did. ->
• NSFS (Not Safe For Squeamish), but … The species in the feces – http://t.co/jCKgh1GS ->
• Remarkable data on remarkable event: The Historic Anomalous Temperature Event of March 2012 – http://t.co/QkflRwNI ->
• It's now become the contrarian thing: Making the Case for Running Shoes – http://t.co/x7AiQ30L ->
• Completely different scales, but … http://t.co/verN8TIK on track to beat Apple to $1,000 stock status – http://t.co/EBiOEfar ->
• Trulia's 2012 rent vs buy index: Detroit leads buy index, but some surprises too – http://t.co/AnNDfrOI ->
• Pink Floyd founding member Nick Mason talks in the Musicians@Google series – http://t.co/dtlOwDdg ->
• Real S&P 500 price/earnings multiples over time. http://t.co/2B6x1VBW ->

• Playing with new Bloomberg Anywhere app on iPhone. Surprisingly functional. Weird no streaming news tho. ->
• Today in bad timing: "… ticker symbols in the A-BFZZZ range “encountered a software bug related to IPO auctions”" ->
• Sending a passport and a credit card number in the mail? No, I can't imagine what could go awry there. ->
• Pecked to death by blogs: Reed Elsevier puts Variety on block http://t.co/NjiNhzB9 ->
• Climate change may have favored evolutionary shift to human bipedality – http://t.co/WGZ6ylVC ->

• Good thought RT @ssotka: @pkedrosky Bringing in Smaug as security consultant for it? ->
• Eurosport: Athens derby abandoned due to violence http://t.co/KM8MEUqh ->
• QotD: Apple® will not be providing an update on the current quarter nor will any topics be discussed other than cash. ->
• There are days when 8 yo boys fly kites, and days when kites fly 8 yo boys. This was the latter. ->
• Apple to announce … something or another to do with its cash hoard – http://t.co/whEUho34 ->
• You're in a maze of twisty Korean grocery store checkout lines, all alike. Drop kalbi. ->
• Nothing like a bit of walkie-talkie hide-and-go-seek in rain-soaked canyons with my rain-soaked kids. ->

• NYT: Seeking Ways to Make Computer Passwords Unnecessary http://t.co/Y5QcrGVL ->
• Good @kiddynamiteblog analysis: Why Can’t Journalists Who Write Articles About Gambling Understand Math? http://t.co/imwIdBfN ->
• Sort of astonishing: Draw Something hits 30 million downloads, overtakes Zynga on Facebook – http://t.co/HXu0WOUF ->
• Trailer: Jiro Dreams of Sushi – http://t.co/QDu334hO /via @msuster ->
• I just like the Bloomberg headline: Sex-Deprived Male Fruit Flies Turn to Alcohol, Research Shows – http://t.co/j4gvNqkd ->
• What a survey tells you about what mega-fund managers care about — and it isnt't performance http://t.co/i0vgjJYH ->
• Digging La Jolla temps today in major way: Blowing, cold and pouring rain. Bring it. ->

This talk by Bruce Springsteen at the recent SXSW on music and fragmentation  surprised me with its thoughtfulness and insight.

• It's the 124th anniversary of the Great Blizzard of 1888; America’s greatest snow disaster – http://t.co/NNFA12EK ->
• Great read from @andrewchen: What he learned from being horribly wrong about Facebook – http://t.co/pkqDfxv9 /via @mathewi ->
• Good news for United haters: United exit with whimper, City out with bang – http://t.co/i783eUMZ ->
• I sometimes get urge to solve a problem with 2-way data tables in Excel. Problem almost always goes away before remember how to use it. Win. ->
• The U.S. consumer is roughly as important to world economy as all of Asia plus Latin America – http://t.co/akuETjq0 ->
• CBC Ideas: Demon Coal, Part 1 – http://t.co/xgkxDNSk ->