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Monday, January 30, 2006
Bank Horror Stories
Friday, January 27, 2006
SEX.COM domain name sold . . . . don't you wish you had registered it?
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Representation Bias
Monday, January 23, 2006
Judgemental Bias series
"We typically trade our beliefs about the market and once we've made up our minds about those beliefs, we're not likely to change them. And when we play the markets, we assume that we are consdering all of the available information. Instead, our beliefs, through selective perception, may have elinminated the most useful information." Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. and founder of IITM
Friday, January 20, 2006
If you dug a very deep hole somewhere . . . .
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Kopi Luwak coffee
check out Wikipedia Encyclopedi
These coffees, from Jamaican Blue Mountain to Kona to Tanzanian Peaberry, command a premium price. But perhaps no coffee in the world is in such short supply, has such unique flavors and an, um, interesting background as Kopi Luwak. And no coffee even comes close in price: Kopi Luwak sells for $75 per quarter pound. Granted, that's substantially less than marijuana, but it's still unimaginably high for coffee. click here
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Norman Vaughn climbed Mt Vaughn 3 days before his 89th birthday
Days before his 89th birthday he and his wife, Carolyn Muegge-Vaughan, returned to Antarctica and climbed to the summit of 10,320-foot Mount Vaughan, the mountain Byrd named in his honor.
"It was the climax of our dream," he told The Associated Press in a 2005 interview at his Anchorage home. "We had to risk failure to get there. We dared to fail."
Vaughan continued to seek adventure his entire life. His exploits included finishing the 1,100 mile-Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race six times after age 70. At age 96, he carried the Olympic torch in Juneau, passing the flame from a wheelchair, 70 years after he competed in the Olympics as a sled dog racer.
you learn more at the CNN.com article on his passing last month . . . . .
Monday, January 16, 2006
DARPA and the $2,000,000 un-manned vehicle award
Saturday, January 14, 2006
According to Keith Richards . . . .
Friday, January 13, 2006
Friday the 13th
But how about this for a Friday the 13th event : On Friday, August 13, 1982, the Dow had an historic breakout day, leaping 11 points to 788. (Eleven points is roughly equal to 153 points at today's elevation.) The market never looked back. That was the beginning of the Grand Bull Market that didn't end until the year 2000.
Sedan or Sudan . . . . ah, it was a mistake
from CNN writer Mike Ahlers
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- There's an old saying that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts its boots on. Let it be known that mistakes can travel just as fast -- and just as far. Take the case of Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-California, who at a hearing on Capitol Hill last week spoke about a 1962 nuclear test in the Nevada desert. The test was code named "Project Sedan." Tauscher's remarks were little noticed, until they were transcribed -- incorrectly -- in an unofficial transcript of the hearing. One letter was changed. The "Sedan" nuclear test became the "Sudan" nuclear test.
And the government of Sudan took notice. Less than a day after Tauscher uttered her words, and after they were incorrectly transcribed, Sudanese officials evidently were alerted to the transcript. The Sudanese Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. charge d'affaires in Khartoum and demanded an explanation about the supposedly secret nuclear tests in the east African country . . . . "
you can read the rest of the story at here
Thursday, January 12, 2006
A Million Little Pieces is a million dollar fraud
Now I feel vindicated as the whole world knows that it's a hoax. The publishing industry is now on notice that they cannot be trusted.
Most interesting point is that when Double Day first decided to publish it, the book was offered as fiction . . . . yeah. Then they decided no one was interested in it as fiction so they decided to publish it as non-fiction.
Oprah has a credability problem now too. And she's still standing behind the book's author. duh????
read about it in at CNN.com
check out thesmokinggun.com for more.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Howard Stern
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
iTunes selling at an amazing clip
Monday, January 09, 2006
iPod Users Beware
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Denial
People deny they are in debt and add more
People deny they are getting older by medically trying to look younger and last longer.
People deny the law, breaking it with no compunction. Ever drive the speed limit and get run off the road?
People are denying today like they've never denied before. Think about it.
Common Cold Time
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
The Passenger
"And then there's the simply stunning release, the consummation of both Locke's journey and that of the restless camera. As Locke flops down on a hotel bed to meet his end, the camera pans away and comes to rest gazing out through the barred hotel window. An apt metaphor, this prison that always awaits us at the end, no matter how much we try to escape it. Except, in a remarkable single tracking shot that must go on for a good eight or nine minutes, the camera begins a long slow glide towards the window, pushes through the bars and then makes a circuit of the barren town square just outside the hotel, as the girl wanders about confusedly, a young child throws stones at an old man, and cars arrive bearing the guerrillas, and then the wife and the police—and then it slowly curves back towards the hotel, back through the window, to find Locke dead on the bed. It's brauva filmmaking, as confident and exciting as the famous opening of Touch of Evil, and is probably the only way The Passenger could've satisfactorily answered its central conundrum in a way that wasn't totally despairing. In this shot, in this final release, this ultimate disappearance, this pushing out through the bars, Locke finally yields to the void he'd been trying to escape throughout the film, and only then does he find his salvation, closing the circle and vanishing into it—freedom, at last."
this is a must see film