Dow 13K and the Second Great Depression   (0)
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Do Your Homework (or Buy an Index Fund)   (0)
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Slamball   (0)
Basketball with trampolines. This is cool. Stolen from Pete. (Quicklink)  •  5:36am  •  

Former Russian Leader Boris Yeltsin Dies   (0)
Heart failure is the official line. (Quicklink)  •  7:13am  •  

Creating a smoke effect in Photoshop   (0)
Tutorial (Quicklink)  •  7:13am  •  

Top Hedge Fund Managers Earn Over $240 Million   (0)
NY Times article. "Raymond T. Dalio, head of Bridgewater Associates, which has more than $30 billion in hedge fund assets, for example, took home $350 million last year even though his flagship Pure Alpha Strategy fund posted a net return of just 3.4 percent for the second consecutive year." That's a complete travesty. On the other hand, "Even though [James Simons] has some of the highest fees in the business — 5 percent of assets under management and 44 percent of profits [!] — he trounces most of his competitors year after year. In 2006, the $6 billion Medallion fund posted gross returns of 84 percent; 44 percent after fees, explaining his $1.7 billion take." (Quicklink)  •  7:13am  •  

Universcale   (0)
Compares pictorially the scale of different objects (from atomic to galactic in scale). (Quicklink)  •  7:13am  •  

Top 15 Unintentionally Funny Comic Book Panels   (0)
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Seiko’s e-ink watch   (0)
Looks pretty. (Quicklink)  •  7:13am  •  

In the New Dating Scene, the Attraction Is a Beautiful Mind   (0)
Washington Post article. (Quicklink)  •  6:04am  •  

Precursors   (0)
Music from a classic game (Star Control 2) remixed. SC2 evokes a lot of fond early high school memories for me (sort of how you associate some songs with certain years of your life)! (Quicklink)  •  6:04am  •  

Moscow’s suburb for billionaires   (0)
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Cool wedding invite   (0)
From Pete. (Quicklink)  •  12:24am  •  

Faceball   (0)
Pictures of people getting smacked in the face with a bright pink beachball. (Quicklink)  •  12:24am  •  

Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners   (0)
Humans best long distance runners in the animal kingdom. "Lieberman said humans likely practiced persistence hunting, chasing a game animal during the heat of the day, making it run faster than it could maintain, tracking and flushing it if it tried to rest, and repeating the process until the animal literally overheated and collapsed." (Quicklink)  •  2:02pm  •  

The law’s an ass   (0)
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Google to buy DoubleClick for $US3.1b   (0)
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Pearls Before Breakfast   (1)
The Washington Post reports on a fascinating social experiment. A world-class violinist playing a $3.5 mill Strad as a busker in a Washington DC train station. How do people react? How much money does he make? This article is well worth the read. (Quicklink)  •  2:44am  •