links for 2008-05-17
Posted on May 17, 2008
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Unboxing a mint Apple //c by an ubergeek :-)
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“For now, the world’s top oil exporter sees no unmet demand for its oil, the official said.” Of course, for the right price.. ($127 now?)..
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Ah the beauty of those Panerai..
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“not warp because of the 1/4 Stainless Steel bottom Hard Anodized Surface ext”. Just what I need.. now what would we do without the internet.
links for 2008-05-16
Posted on May 16, 2008
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Cool list of new features. Nice work.
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Tim’s interview at Stocktickr
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Bill’s charts
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“We are in receipt of your letter with regard to your intention to seek control of Yahoo!’s board of directors.” The whole letter reads like a Nigerian scammer wrote it. via Kedrosky’s
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HPT giving advice to readers on how to avoid blow ups :-)
links for 2008-05-15
Posted on May 15, 2008
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Thus, when Microsoft shows its sales reports, it looks like you bought a copy of Vista. Even if Dell reports the number of downgrading customers, all Microsoft has to do is point to the sales records to show that Vista is the customer favorite.
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pretty neat.
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Sales in China in the quarter surged 18.5 percent to 1.0 billion euros. “Chinese operations registered their best performance since 2001 … in both food and non-food activities,” the company said.
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Beautiful. via maoxian
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ניסינו לדחוף להם כסף בתמורה - לא רצו מאיתנו שקל. מעיין התעקשה, הוציאה כסף - לא לקחו Did hell just freeze over?
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“people usually can not go outside without wearing clothes over it.” NO kidding, maybe that can change? You know, to save the evironment :-) Very appropriate place to launch this product too..
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“He settled on black pants that zip up at the side, where a padlock is slipped through two cloth loops and snapped shut each time a masseuse meets a client.” NOT good for business I’m sure ;-) Proper Javanese massage is excellent btw.
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Scary. I wonder how this works with brokers. IB has insurance above the FDIC $100K but who knows what will happen if the sh*t his the fan.
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Cool. I’m following a few sitcoms these days. Nice way to track new episodes.
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“Our attempts to pursue our goals are often thwarted by the fact that evolution has built our most sophisticated technologies on top of older technologies — without working out how to integrate the two.” LOTS of interesting concepts, if not entirely new.
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“Israel’s population may be just over 7 million. But when you confront terror and evil, you are 307 million strong, because the United States of America stands with you.” Bush and Ulmert look like a cute a couple with matching hats in the pics lol
A brain of its own
Posted on May 15, 2008
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Some interesting concepts and ideas in this artcile. Most aren’t new but some have an interesting twist like the following approach to circumventing our primal instincts.
Does your brain have a mind of its own? - Los Angeles Times
Consider, for example, the difficulty that most people having in sticking to abstract goals like “I intend to lose weight” or “I plan to finish this article before the deadline.” Nice thoughts, but not formulated in terms that your ancestral, reflexive brain might understand. The work-around? Translate those abstract goals into a form your ancestral systems — which traffic largely in dumb reflexes — can understand: if-then. If you find yourself in a particular situation, then take a specific action: “If I see French fries, then I will avoid them.” As Peter Gollwitzer, my colleague in New York University’s department of psychology, has shown, even simple changes like these can markedly increase the chances of success.
If the brain has a brain of its own, might that brain also have another brain of it own… :-)
Jiao Gu Lan Knocks Out KO
Posted on May 15, 2008
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I’m usually a coffee drinker, I can’t start the day without a nice
cuppa. I typically have 5 different kinds of coffee at home, which I
alternate daily. But recently I started drinking more tea. It started
because of the weather. It’s now the “very hot” season, as opposed to
the standard “just plain hot” of most of the rest of the year. So in an
attempt to reduce the amount of diet coke I guzzle daily I started
making ice teas to drink throughout the day. I picked up a couple of
new teas last weekend and discovered a really nice one called Jiao Gu
Lan (胶股兰丸) or in its scientific name: Gynostemma Pentaphyllum. I’ve
been drinking it both hot and cold and I really like the taste. What
drew me to it was the label, which promises you immortality, well
almost.. it says (quoting):
Decrease Cholesterol
Decrease Blood Sugar
Increase Body Immune
Prevent for Cancer
Anti-Oxidant
Tonic
Who can say no to that? :-) In any case, whether this tea does even
10% of what it claims or not no one really knows for sure, but it sure
tastes great and despite having a vested interest in KO they will have
to do without my $.
Firefly installed
Posted on May 14, 2008
Tags: Blogging, Techie | 4 Comments |
Dave mentioned this interesting / cool / creepy tool called firefly which allows people visiting a site to chat between themselves. I’ve just added it as you can see in the banner to the right. Check it out, if as FSM said, you need one more way to burn time :-)
links for 2008-05-14
Posted on May 14, 2008
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Note to self: check out some of this stuff later.
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Indeed, the entire short dollar-long commodities trade seems to be unwinding. Witness the declines in prices of such key commodities as oil, gold and many foodstuffs as the dollar has firmed. GOLD yes, but commoditties? Via tradermike
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Ugly visits the NYSE.
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Includes an RMB alternative to CNY which uses forward contracts and doesn’t carry the ETN risk of the CNY. via Maoxian.
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