January 2009
31 posts
The Book Outline Wiki →
The world needs more smart editorial these days. The problem is, is that that has nothing to do with technology.
Steve Jobs, The Rolling Stone Interview
muxtape take 2 →
Night Fever (G-Pal’s Maybe Not Remix) - Soda...
archtonic →
The quality of any collaborative creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge… whoever has final cut.
John Gruber via garry
naoyafujii's photostream →
recovery.gov →
WatchAnimal Collective - My Girls courtesy kanye
WatchaudioFAMILIES - Pete Herbert mix Nov 08
After the first week of school, I was forced to take a series of multiple-choice tests reading comprehension, basic math, language arts — each of which I failed, having artfully filled every blank with affectionate shades of the color wheel using my Swiss watercolor pencils. That’s when I was ordered to go to special ed.
Introduction, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
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For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people...
The only solution is to forbid money management as we know it.
Semyon Dukach
laura keeble →
The World’s Largest Hedge Fund is a Fraud
November 7, 2005 Submission to the SEC
by Harry Markopolos
The fixable problem isn’t the greed of the few but the misaligned interests of the many.
Michael Lewis, NY Times
Watchrickyv:
A conversation about economics with Nassim Taleb, author of “The Black Swan”
In America, for instance, mortgage-backed securities have fallen far below their fundamental value in thinly traded markets, partly because the people who would benefit most from buying them have no mechanism to do so. Everybody can buy that bond at a discount except that one guy who is most involved with the loan, the homeowner…
A slice of Danish, Economist
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Reckoner - Radiohead (Rune RK Remadoodle Remix)