Light introductory NYTimes article on the fascinating subject of high frequency trading. It's not mentioned in the article but I've read that ~70% of all trades in equity markets are made by these computer programs. There is a real worry about the stability of markets given this situation. And the story of Goldman possibly front running the market is very interesting.
SHOCKER!!! POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN NEW JERSEY!!!
Bribery, peddling of human organs! What next, black market Gucci and Prada bags?!!
Bribery, peddling of human organs! What next, black market Gucci and Prada bags?!!
not a big fan of the contrived nature of reality programming but the colony at least has an interesting premise. how might a group of people survive in a post apocalyptic world?
Jay-Z vs The Game: lessons for the American primacy debate. Great example of serious blog posting that could never be duplicated in the MSM.
beertween
not really twittering much these days but i was engaging with fellow for awhile. he loves him some twitter.
virtual Pete Best?
Tom Watson, at 59 years old, leads the British Open after 3 rounds. Final round begins tomorrow at 7:00am. Amazing stuff.
Tom Watson, at 59 years old, leads the British Open after 3 rounds. Final round begins tomorrow at 7:00am. Amazing stuff.
we were a huntley brinkley family. but i did see cronkite in the audience at an alberta hunter club date at the kitchen in the later 70's. i thought he has in his 90's then (?!). i guess it was that authoritative mustache or his "of previous era appearance" that locked him in as the stalwart anchor man.
the scatter canon is thus carved in stone:
“Black Acid Co-op” is part of the tradition of transformative environmental artworks that fill or otherwise obliterate the spaces containing them. Among its points of origin are “Plein” (“Full Up”),” from 1960, in which the French artist Arman filled the Galerie Iris Clert in Paris with carefully sifted (nonorganic) trash; the eerie environments redolent of communal Moscow apartments with which the Russian artist Ilya Kabakov first made his name in the West in the 1980s; Jason Rhodes’s idiosyncratic massings of objects and material goods; and Gregor Schneider’s labyrinthine reconstruction of the interior of his parents’ home, near Cologne, Germany, inside the German Pavilion at the 2006 Venice Biennale.
WHO are you.....
proof positive that humans are masochistic - squeaky chew toys for dogs. theres got to be more humane (for humans) ways of keeping them entertained that dont inspire thoughts of caninicide in those within drooling distance.
i always like to give credit to msmers when they confront their betters in the blogosphere and elsewhere. here chuck todd faces off with glenn greenwald who took him to task yesterday. sadly chuck is greatly outmatched intellectually. sad for us that is.
Jason Kottke has a great collection of youtube vids about "what fast looks like". I've posted a couple before - these are pretty fun.
also saw adventureland which id rate higher but still left me wanting. sort of a slight coming of age comedy that didnt play directly for laughs.
Mottola (who also wrote the script) and his actors manage to shape the movie into something whole and tangible, capturing, among other things, the shapeless listlessness of summer, especially at that age when you're technically an adult and yet you're left waiting for life to begin.
watched the hangover albeit on the small screen. dont know what the fuss was about. better than average but little more. id agree with the onion review
It's an agreeably unambitious comedy that might be called a romp, if that word didn't imply a little too much energy.
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Goldman Beats Street- Reuters
Goldman Sachs Group Inc said on Tuesday that its second quarter net income rose to $3.44 billion, or $4.93 a share, compared to $2.05 billion, or $4.58 a share a year ago.
very interesting article in Rolling Stone THE GREAT BUBBLE MACHINE
Goldman Beats Street- Reuters
Goldman Sachs Group Inc said on Tuesday that its second quarter net income rose to $3.44 billion, or $4.93 a share, compared to $2.05 billion, or $4.58 a share a year ago.
very interesting article in Rolling Stone THE GREAT BUBBLE MACHINE
