January 2011
11 posts
Happy XeDay Playlist, Track #5
“Modern...
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Denying the lure of impulse buys can be difficult.... →
my friend Jac is generating revenue for LearnVest… they get some Tumblr love from Bundle today on how to avoid emotional spending.
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“This is a big surprise. I don’t agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but...”
– Banksy (via banksystreetart)
in other news, you can stream the Oscar-nominated Exit Through the Gift Shop on Hulu.
In other news, Vik Muniz, whose more earnest yet equally entertaining Waste Land is nominated in the same category, appeared in an ad for Itau in this week’s issue of The...
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i made a playlist for sheila’s birthday, and...
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WatchI grew up with Kennedy Democrats forlorn by the hateful violence of the 60s, betrayed by the power-hungry lies of the 70s, and forsaken by the aspirational avarice of the 80s. For the most of my adult life, the best I’ve been able to muster is a cynical if pragmatic humanist approach to politics. I didn’t see Jon Stewart’s comment on the Arizona shootings until this past...
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“…contrary to all the hype and hope, the people in our electronic social...”
– From Robin Dunbar’s op-ed piece in the Dec 26th NYTimes. For more info, check out the wiki entry.
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WatchI really don’t believe Facebook will be IPO’ing this year, despite what Mashable might think. Zuckerberg didn’t want to go public in 2007, and he didn’t have to in 2008 either. What’s mildly amusing is how FBK is doing everything they can to avoid transparent financial accounting while accessing capital markets while at the same time making it increasingly difficult...
“Capitalized media content is amortized on a straight-line basis over five years,...”
– This is from Demand Media’s amended S-1 filing, courtesy of Kara AllThingsD. It’s also extremely risky to assert that this kind of content will be of any value in five months much less five years. Competitive forces of low-cost production and monetization platforms could render their...