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"If shelter is not available, lie flat in a ditch or other low-lying area. Do not get under an..."

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:09:00 -0700

“If shelter is not available, lie flat in a ditch or other low-lying area. Do not get under an overpass or bridge. You are safer in a low, flat location.”

- City of Boston - Cyber Security - Tips for Staying Safe Online

"I actually think that there was always an unsustainable feel about what had happened on Wall Street..."

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:37:00 -0700

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I actually think that there was always an unsustainable feel about what had happened on Wall Street over the last 10, 15 years, and it’s not that different from the unsustainable nature of what was happening during the dot-com boom, where people in Silicon Valley could make enormous sums of money, even though what they were peddling never really had any signs it would ever make a profit.

That doesn’t mean, though, that Silicon Valley is still not a huge, critical, important part of our economy, and Wall Street will remain a big, important part of our economy, just as it was in the ’70s and the ’80s. It just won’t be half of our economy. And that means that more talent, more resources will be going to other sectors of the economy. And I actually think that’s healthy. We don’t want every single college grad with mathematical aptitude to become a derivatives trader. We want some of them to go into engineering, and we want some of them to be going into computer design.

”

- Barack Obama (via Signal vs Noise)

Kids by MGMT covered by The Mentalists on their iPhones/iPod...

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:29:12 -0700

Kids by MGMT covered by The Mentalists on their iPhones/iPod Touches.

dlifson: Brad Feld: A Great Time To Launch A Good Startup

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:35:22 -0700

dlifson:

Brad Feld: A Great Time To Launch A Good Startup

"Trust fund kids everywhere are up in arms. And in Palm Beach, Fla., they took matters into their own..."

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:17:44 -0800

“Trust fund kids everywhere are up in arms. And in Palm Beach, Fla., they took matters into their own hands. According to an article in the Palm Beach Post, several teenage boys claimed responsibility Sunday night for festooning Bernie Madoff’s front yard in Palm Beach with toilet paper. The boys said they were “acting in retaliation after they lost their trust funds to the accused swindler” and that their act of toilet-paper justice was sanctioned by their parents.”

- WSJ: Trust-Fund Kids Strike Back at Madoff

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Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:39:14 -0800

Microsoft Help and Support: A Web site cannot set a cookie if the Domain attribute is in uppercase characters and has an odd number of characters in Internet Explorer 7

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:40:37 -0800

Microsoft Help and Support: A Web site cannot set a cookie if the Domain attribute is in uppercase characters and has an odd number of characters in Internet Explorer 7

37Signals: We Sell More Seats Than The Governor

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:12:00 -0800

37Signals: We Sell More Seats Than The Governor

"If you can go back to that time in your mind and remember that file sharing was growing at..."

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:43:31 -0800

“If you can go back to that time in your mind and remember that file sharing was growing at logarithmic pace.”

- (Emphasis mine.) RIAA’s Clay Sherman says lawsuits were the only option. (Courtesy Russell Dicker.)

Obama's Chief Speechwriter, 27, Works on Inaugural Address While Making His Own Transition

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:59:08 -0800

Obama's Chief Speechwriter, 27, Works on Inaugural Address While Making His Own Transition

Thieves get €85 million in jewelry from Paris boutique

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:55:42 -0800

Thieves get €85 million in jewelry from Paris boutique

"BCS DECLARES GERMANY WINNER OF WORLD WAR II US Ranked 4th After determining the Big-12 championship..."

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:08:42 -0800

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BCS DECLARES GERMANY WINNER OF WORLD WAR II
US Ranked 4th

After determining the Big-12 championship game participants the BCS computers were put to work on other major contests and today the BCS declared Germany to be the winner of World War II.

“Germany put together an incredible number of victories beginning with the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland and continuing on into conference play with defeats of Poland, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. Their only losses came against the US and Russia; however considering their entire body of work—including an incredibly tough Strength of Schedule—our computers deemed them worthy of the #1 ranking.”

Questioned about the #4 ranking of the United States the BCS commissioner stated “The US only had two major victories—Japan and Germany. The computer models, unlike humans, aren’t influenced by head-to-head contests—they consider each contest to be only a single, equally-weighted event.”

German Chancellor Adolph Hitler said “Yes, we lost to the US; but we defeated #2 ranked France in only 6 weeks.” Herr Hitler has been criticized for seeking dramatic victories to earn ‘style points’ to enhance Germany’s rankings. Hitler protested “Our contest with Poland was in doubt until the final day and the conditions in Norway were incredibly challenging and demanded the application of additional forces.”

”

- (source unknown)

"At one time, the President and Vice-President were given three-inch-high models of the Washington..."

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:46:57 -0800

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At one time, the President and Vice-President were given three-inch-high models of the Washington Monument to put beside their beds. They had simply to knock them over to summon the guards.

But the models were abandoned after Vice-President Dan Quayle - noted for being clumsy - knocked his over late one night while making love to his wife.

In seconds, the door burst open, the lights went on and Mrs Quayle was thrown out of bed to the floor as bodyguards flocked around her husband to ensure his safety.

”

- What Life Will Be Like For New US President

The Scariest Swimming Pool

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:34:03 -0800

The Scariest Swimming Pool

"Then came Meredith Whitney with news. Whitney was an obscure analyst of financial firms for..."

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:50:36 -0800

“Then came Meredith Whitney with news. Whitney was an obscure analyst of financial firms for Oppenheimer Securities who, on October 31, 2007, ceased to be obscure. On that day, she predicted that Citigroup had so mismanaged its affairs that it would need to slash its dividend or go bust. It’s never entirely clear on any given day what causes what in the stock market, but it was pretty obvious that on October 31, Meredith Whitney caused the market in financial stocks to crash. By the end of the trading day, a woman whom basically no one had ever heard of had shaved $369 billion off the value of financial firms in the market. Four days later, Citigroup’s C.E.O., Chuck Prince, resigned. In January, Citigroup slashed its dividend.”

- The End of Wall Street’s Boom, Michael Lewis

Person A: programming really isnt that hard :P

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:38:09 -0800

Person A: programming really isnt that hard :P
Person B: lol
dont say that too loud
our managers might find out

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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:16:00 -0700

The case of the 500-mile email

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:58:54 -0700

The case of the 500-mile email

Apparently the O is for Creature.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:24:51 -0700

Apparently the O is for Creature.

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Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:50:29 -0700