March 2009
22 posts
WatchNick Cave - Into My Arms. BBC Four Sessions
We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
Walt Disney (via pws)
kato' →
‘I think we will look back in 10 years’ time and say we should not have done this but we did because we forgot the lessons of the past, and that that which is true in the 1930’s is true in 2010,” said Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota. ”I wasn’t around during the 1930’s or the debate over Glass-Steagall. But I was here in the early...
Watchpws:
These guys are so freakin’ good, I can’t get enough of this video.
Managing Asia CNBC Podcast: Muji
‘Jim Cramer a born huckster for the market’ from ‘Frontline Jan 1997: Betting on the Market’.
S&P 500 on Jan 03 ‘97: 748.
S&P 500 on Mar 20 ‘07: 768.
DM Stith →
foldschool →
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs courtesy daring fireball
Gadflies began pointing to excesses. Jaron Lanier, a Valley pioneer, saw behind the Web 2.0 totem of “collective intelligence” an insidious “digital Maoism” that suppressed individuality. Linda Stone, a former Apple and Microsoft executive, observed an unhealthy trend towards “continuous partial attention”, as people spent less time focusing on a single thing or person because they were constantly...
The Big Picture →
Number of times in 2008 that the S&P 500 closed up or down 5 percent in a single day: 17
Number of times between 1956 and 2007 it did this: 17
Harper’s Index
Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable
Robert Stephens (via pws)
The Future of MUJI
MUJI is not a brand. MUJI does not make products of individuality or fashion, nor does MUJI reflect the popularity of its name in its prices. MUJI creates products with a view toward global consumption of the future. This means that we do not create products that lure customers into believing that “this is best” or “I must have this.” We would like our...
Don’t Speak - John Dahlback
WatchJon vs. CNBC
When you borrow a lot of money to create a false prosperity, you import the future into the present. It isn’t the actual future so much as some grotesque silicon version of it. Leverage buys you a glimpse of a prosperity you haven’t really earned.
Wall Street on the Tundra