Twitter Digest: 2011-12-15

  • When most people call a learning curve steep they mean it's shallow. Why is that metaphor so mixed up? #
  • My issue with the otherwise v good Tweetbot is the orifice-centric icon. Gives me the willies. #
  • .@Ian_Wilson_ My sense with learning curves is people are tacitly mixing physical and mathematical models. #
  • The Worst Hockey Game Ever http://t.co/5Pr1ZMRB #
  • Fun meetings/drinks/etc yest in San Francisco. Good seeing @dickc, @nickbilton, @medriscoll, @dens, @chrisfralic, etc. #
  • Mirror-world fun how the rise of digital, HD, etc. has created booming business in scratch, glitch, hair insertion filters for video. #
  • La Jolla has more hairstyling &/or plastic surgery startups/yr than any place on earth. #
  • I'm in. RT @EvolveTom: @pkedrosky I demand the ability to crowdsource funding for my next nose job. #
  • Note to reporters: Calling for comments & ignoring me saying that your story is wrong isn't reporting. It's short-story writing. #
  • Trying to close two investments in last week before Christmas was always going to be a bad idea that made me realy grouchy. #
  • .@daytrend I'll name names if article comes out as framed to me. #
  • So there I was, last Monday, thinking … If only FIO were a little cheaper, I'd buy some. I have power. http://t.co/pxVvaTz4 #
  • Butch Cassidy: [to Sundance] Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's GO someplace like Bolivia. #
  • QotD: Amazon is blithely using its rivals’ property as a storefront – http://t.co/HxwF58xA /by @johngapper #
  • The fall of Microsoft's Andy Lees: inside the Windows Phone power shift http://t.co/3wMWijnh /via @paidContent #
  • By my calculations semicolons are going to take out colons sometime in 2012. Death to colons. – http://t.co/r1AyzzN9 #
  • What is going on over at Google+ that I'm newly adding 6,000-16,000 followers a day? #
  • + RT @sorenmacbeth: @pkedrosky So your saying you're nonplussed about the goings on at google plus? #
  • Good follow-up. RT @Revkin: Methane Time Bomb in Arctic Seas? Apocalypse Not: http://t.co/7m83ijVv #
  • So, you're thinking to yourself, "Self, I want to see what it's like to do a 90-foot drop on a kayak". http://t.co/BrFH45On #
  • Back off Kyle Bass & you financial weenies: GnR's Duff McKagan's in the BBC Hardtalk house – http://t.co/Iya5kJV3 /via @joehas #
  • Dear spammers at Smith Publicity: You keep using that word "Unsubscribe". I don't think it means what you think it means. #
  • "Listen we'd love to stand around and chat, but we gotta sit down in the lobby and wait for the limo". http://t.co/TfSMqPxg #
  • Das: School for economists – http://t.co/VTsnHbqL #
  • .@cameronherald at TEDx: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs – http://t.co/9izO2ZEN #
  • Snow drought in west; balmy east – RT @aeroculus: Warm temps in Northeast thwart resorts' snowmaking: http://t.co/PIZCEiub #
  • Latest investment round values online survey co @SurveyMonkey at $1b – http://t.co/cj3fDcVL /via @jason #
  • Shafer: Are you reading the best magazine in America? http://t.co/bDMFdKlU #
  • Simply sublime GoPro HD footage shooting Pipeline barrels. Full-screen bliss, baby. http://t.co/g0H7uzOc #
  • I can now die happy. RT @errolmorris: Thank you, Elizabeth McCracken and Paul Kedrosky. (Isn't Twitter wonderful?) #
  • Evidence of market manipulation in the financial crisis http://t.co/Ed4shoGz #
  • .@georgevhulme I know. I was as taken aback as you were. I mean, it's enough we had a crisis — but market manipulation too :-( #
  • I need to start posting more often with whatever the emoticon is for irony. #
  • Apple and Google mobile grew in 2011, all others shrank – http://t.co/Ls1QswBl #

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Yeah, It’s a Banker’s Dozen

Nice:

Bankers

/via UD

Copyright vs Patents Over Time in Supreme Court Decisions

Copyright vs patents over time in US Supreme Court decisions:

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/via LLE

Google Zeitgeist 2011

Excellent news in the Google Zeitgeist 2011 wrapup of what people searched for (i.e. cared about) in 2011: I knew even less than usual about what the hell these things were.

Zetgeist

GoPro HD: Shotgun Barrels at Pipeline

Take in in HD and blow it to full-screen: Simply sublime Go Pro HD footage of shooting barrels at Pipeline. Incredible stuff.

Twitter Digest: 2011-12-14

  • G&M: Dennis Gartman out of gold, proclaims ‘death of a bull’: http://t.co/Tqt4jMTG #
  • Since touching $15.20 on Nov 28, GRPN has run like scared couponing cat, now up 56%. #
  • Spoke to White House official about this last week, & passing it along: Entrepreneurs in Residence at USCIS. Neat idea. http://t.co/r2N6P070 #
  • More background on White House immigration entrepreneurs program – http://t.co/WETaxEJY #
  • Today in crappy forecasters: JPM chart of sell-side firms whose S&P forecasts were off >10% – http://t.co/mqwZdEFE #
  • Exactly. RT @KeithMcCullough: @pkedrosky horrendous – basically if the mkt is down on the yr, most of them get it wrong #
  • I haven't been offered a Free iPad yet today on Twitter. Can someone please fix that. #
  • NSFW-ish, but I'm fascinated by the ongoing fascination with pubic hair's disappearance – http://t.co/ESa7NYA9 #
  • While NTSB is banning cell phones in cars, I would get right on banning kids in cars. Incredible nuisance. Pretty vistas too. #
  • Kyle Bass doing his patiently Euro-apocalyptic thing on BNN today – http://t.co/brLs67FC #
  • Freakonomics: The statistics of what went wrong – http://t.co/gxo2AmRo #
  • SoCal real estate prices still falling merrily, on increasing volume – http://t.co/FRUUH6FA #
  • Highly liberating. RT @rwrodgers: @pkedrosky I find it odd that Fed rate decisions now make me yawn. #
  • Just reminded what a distraction I find bad drivers. Along with cell phones, kids & pretty vistas, can the NTSB ban those too? #
  • My Google Sync on iPhone @Gmail is newly throwing a "Password Incorrect" error. Given that nothing has changed, wtf do i do? Any Google-ers? #
  • Yes, I do. RT @rklau: @pkedrosky Do you have 2factor authentication enabled for that account? #
  • NYT: Shunning Facebook, and Living to Tell About It – http://t.co/NrI6sYyR #
  • Today in tail risks: Iran army declines comment on military exercises in Strait of Hormuz – http://t.co/moULEBlT #
  • Okay, this out-of-blue @gmail sync password error is making me barking mad. Seems many people have same issue. Google? @mattcutts ? Anyone? #
  • Alert: My iPhone Gmail works again. 3 reboots, 3 password revokes, 1 network reset, 3 account deletes … and a partridge in a pear tree. #
  • Massive cross-Canada drug bust on gang modeled after Marvel comic books – http://t.co/gXhtEKUA #
  • How the fk does @herbgreenberg have 235k people following him on Google+? Can there be that many Louis Rukeyser lookalike fans? #
  • Met two VCs recently who were obvious plastic surgery victims. It's a hard old world when entrepreneurs are 22. #
  • Made it halfway thru Roberts' podcast with Tyler Cowen on Euro before I reached my usual OmigodRobertsisBatshit moment. http://t.co/TIkX55wV #
  • It's alright. It's not your fault. RT @ulpmori: @pkedrosky im 20 :) #
  • Oh-oh, beard goggles: MF Global Employee Says Corzine Knew Funds Were Taken From Customer Accounts – http://t.co/wLHyE4fV #
  • After some obligatory huffing and puffing, Martin Wolf's latest is v good: A disastrous failure at the summit – http://t.co/zy6v88jS #
  • OH: Person 1: Do you want your picture taken with Santa? Person 2: No, I'm going to Philadelphia. #
  • Remind me to remind you lovely people that I have a piece on Bono, Leviticus & debt dynamics in the next issue of Foreign Policy. #
  • [post] US Tax Rates in Three Graphs. Not Boring. Really. http://t.co/I91SKEew #
  • Oodles of metaphors: Pics of China's abandoned wonderland – http://t.co/fhEu8XH6 #
  • Hugely worrisome when you meet random people you know pre-security in SFO. Unrelated: Hi @chr1sa #
  • Note to self: Next time screw appearances — take the Falcon F7X. #

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US Tax Rates in Three Graphs. Not Boring. Really.

Tax policy is numbingly boring, of course, but in his latest JPM note Michael Cembalest sneaks up on the subject with the following three graphs. While they don’t settle the issue of marginal tax rates, they do provide a useful context for why we can’t agree on whether US marginal tax rates are too high, too low, or something else altogether. [-]

Graph 1: Historical top marginal tax rates

Top tax rates

Graph 1a: Top marginal rates, by president – The more partisan version of the above

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Graph 2: Effective top marginal tax rates

Top eff rates

Graph 3: Income for top tax bracket

BRACKET THRESHOLDS

Gundlach’s Latest Musings

The latest from Jeffrey Gundlach / via ZH

12-13-11 JEG Webcast Have and Have Nots – FINAL


US Oil Independence

This is more than a little mischievous, but it’s at least worth knowing that the US is newly a net exporter in finished oil products. /via Bloomberg

Oil trade

Kyle Bass on BNN

From earlier today, Kyle Bass doing his weirdly patient Euro-apocalyptic thing:

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