December 2007
12 posts
The Internet Presents Clark and Michael →
Inside Apple Stores, a Certain Aura Enchants the Faithful
Two years ago, Isobella Jade was down on her luck, living on a friend’s couch and struggling to make it as a fashion model when she had the idea of writing a book about her experience as a short woman trying to break into the modeling business.
Unable to afford a computer, Ms. Jade, 25, began cadging time on a laptop at the Apple store in...
Wear Palettes →
courtesy cpluv
WatchAmerica is today the strongest, the most influential, and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America’s leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.
Eisenhower’s farewell...
WatchFrontline: House of Saud (2005)
DubCorp
If the market potential for a medium to small sized online condom site is $1 -$2 million dollars per year, then the trick is not to try and become the #1 site, which is extremely difficult, but rather to find 25 categories and repeat what you already know how to do. Because for people like me, beating the average guys is easy, it’s beating the one guy who’s better than me that’s damn near...
Finally! Another angry capitalist on tumblr!
Why is it that the exorbitant salaries, golden parachutes and record profits of corporations are justified in the name of capitalism, but these very same people and corporations are protected from the consequences of their greed through federal welfare?
Why are the banks getting $100 billion in bailouts when it was their greed that placed them in this position?
Postponing the inevitable
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“You’re defined as much by what you are as what you’re not.”
Every Workday Needs a Game Plan
Mr. Ellwood advises clients to imagine that they have nothing to do the next day: no e-mail, no phone calls, no meetings, no specific plans. Then he asks: What can you do to accomplish a long-term goal you want to achieve one month from now? This forces people to disentangle themselves from busywork, he said, and to focus on what is really important to their...