June 2010
“BP actually told the government last year that it was prepared to respond to a...”
– BP To Gov’t Last Year: We Can Handle A 300,000 Barrels-Per-Day Spill Just Fine (via ryking) (via abcsoupdot)
“To have profitable growth in such a huge market, you find a segment in which you...”
– Reed Hastings, CEO Netflix, slide 11 of Netflix Business Opportunity (via caterpillarcowboy)
May 2010
startupsandstocks asked: Mike, my team is actually in the process of building something similar, except using value investing valuation methods to tell if a stock is undervalued/overvalued. Would you be interested in testing it out when it's ready?
Sorry if you got this question twice, it wasn't clear whether the first one went through. :)
Sorry if you got this question twice, it wasn't clear whether the first one went through. :)
“The Florida Keys, third longest barrier reef in the world, is a dead zone....”
– Phillippe Cousteau (via unburyingthelead, inothernews, dpstyles) (via pdemul)
I’m at Chateau de Hudack (252 E 2nd St, New York). http://4sq.com/9MxjoO
millpondpro:
Please send your prayers to Candace Hopkins, who plays Maggie in “Meet the Mayfarers.” She is in the hospital now, and is not doing well.
Amazing Archival Footage Of A Soviet Nuke Plugging... →
Worth checking out and worth thinking about.
spiers:
From Michael Lewis’s memo to Wall Street executives from “your man in Washington”:
To the mere mention of open, public exchanges for derivatives, you should always respond, “That will destroy liquidity in these fragile and complex markets.” Most people don’t even know what “liquidity” means, or what causes it or why they actually need to have more rather than less of it — or what,...
pegobry asked: Where do you think Blip.tv is in the value chain vis-à-vis Boxee/Google TV? I know you're going to say they're great potential partners, but come on.
startupsandstocks asked: Thanks for answering my question. I have a follow-up: What insight are you seeking from the ability to see earnings (I'm assuming EPS?) and P/E over time? Would this be more to time the market?
“768,000 gallons of oil are gushing into the ocean every day.”
– CNN (via soupsoup)
“A group of BP executives were on board the platform celebrating the project’s...”
– Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via zachrose)
I checked the sourcing on this. It’s from the AP. Wow.
goodbehavior-deactivated2011090 asked: how come you don't allow comments on your site?
quickandcurious asked: Do you have any regrets?
“The key to Apple’s success is that the company often takes the time to explain...”
– Michael Gartenberg, Apple’s secret weapon: consumer education from Macworld
My first Mac included a program on it that taught you how to use a mouse (not that it made that godforsaken hockey puck any better—but, still!).
(via caseyagollan) (via jenbee)
startupsandstocks asked: What website do you use to keep track of your stock portfolio? And what's your favourite feature on that site?
Watchonlinemovements:
With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)
Board meeting in two hours.
“From 2005 to 2006, Atlantic City had the highest percentage increase (25.9...”
– Atlantic City, New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is likely to resist pressure to acknowledge that...”
– China May Shield North Korea as Lee, U.S. Seek Action (Update2) - Bloomberg.com
“In fact, Roubini didn’t exactly predict the crisis that began in mid-2007. As...”
– What Exactly is Nouriel Roubini Good For? - Justin Fox - Harvard Business Review
Justin Fox pens what the majority of academic economists feel: “[Roubini is] a scenario-spinner, not a prophet.” (via jryu)
“Some of Mr. Rumsfeld’s initiatives were controversial, and met with resistance...”
– U.S. Is Said to Expand Secret Military Acts in Mideast Region - NYTimes.com (via Instapaper)
“Over the last several months, Schnur and the well-positioned fellow travelers on...”
– The Teachers’ Unions’ Last Stand (via Instapaper)
“The chairman of BP said that BP was a big important company and the United...”
– CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Carville: Obama needs to tell BP ‘I’m your daddy’ « - Blogs from CNN.com
“The U.S. Coast Guard was the first responder. The Coast Guard’s priority...”
– Take punitive action against BP now - CNN.com
Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré: Take punitive action... →
stevewyshywaniuk:
claytoncubitt:
“The No. 1 rule when dealing with disaster is to figure out which rules you need to break. Rules are designed for when everything is working. A democracy is based on trust. BP has proved it can’t be trusted.
The government needs to change the game and make this a punitive effort. The government has been too friendly to oil companies.
The government should...
“In twelve years, the conventional wisdom held that the PC OEM model and the...”
– Will Price: AAPL vs MSFT -what happened to best-of-breed?
I don’t think conventional wisdom was wrong. What happened is the world changed and Apple’s way of doing things fits the new world better than the old world.
Apple very much lost the PC battle. Sure their current desktops/laptops are...
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“I don’t know a whole lot about fashion, but I know something about taste, and...”
– Sex and the City 2 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
This man. This man.
Love him.
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rosiesiman:
not-a-stacist:
Super smart, companies catching on that consumers will pay attention if you give them something they want for free. Amazing way to sample package goods and improve the consumer experience for travel companies. We pitched something similar years ago for Expedia, but Airlines were still viewing them as a competitor.
“Whoever, being a person employed in any administrative position by the United...”
– 18 U.S.C. § 595 : US Code - Section 595: Interference by administrative employees of Federal, State, or Territorial Governments
So I’ve been thinking a little more about whether an Obama quid pro quo job offer to Joe Sestak would actually be illegal. The law, quoted above, seems pretty vague...
“It will contain all the news on every sphere of human interest, and the news...”
– Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, describing their new magazine, TIME, to potential investors in 1923.
This sums up most of today’s media startups, too. (via zachklein)
Funny. I was reading TIME on my plane today and reflecting on what a great magazine it is.
“The best thing that can be said around search-driven content production is that...”
– Associated Content | Bronte Media (via tedr)
The beatings will continue ... →
rainblog:
The most interesting thing about Rubberhose is the way that it exists at the intersection between cryptography and game theory. The cryptographic method is not important (except insofar as it provides the characteristics required), but you could probably do some interesting analysis of the payoff matrices for the (several) different actors.
One flaw that I can see is that beating...