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i just voted, had to sign up to vote but its a landslide:>)
http://www.economist.com/vote2008/
nytree
well if you had money for risks
you could make almost 20% buying and selling today alone
AAPL
96.80 +8.06 (9.08%)
Oct 10 4:00pm ET
Open: 85.69
High: 100.00
Low: 85.00
nobody told me....
Barack Obama has a lot to be Grateful for.
Surviving Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann have signed on to headline a fundraiser for the Democratic presidential candidate next month in Pennsylvania.
Though Lesh, Hart and Weir jammed together at a Deadheads for Obama concert in San Francisco in February, Kreutzmann hasn't performed with all three since 2004, when they toured as the Dead.
But such is the pull that Obama appears to have. Now if he could just exercise his bridge-building prowess in the Middle East...
The Change Rocks event, also featuring the Allman Brothers Band, takes place Oct. 13 at Pennsylvania State University's Bryce Jordan Center. Tickets are $50, $30 for students.
I boldly predict the dow will not go below 4000.
David Byrne + Davies Symphony Hall = Teh Epic Win!
beastmaster
Slide show software for the Mac? I want to do a simple slide show with a bunch of JPEGs. Are there any "comes with" apps that I'm just not seeing? Or is there one I should buy?
prefab sprout?
maisels bowery mansion
Growing bamboo bicycle frames.
One old use of the word “hark” was in hunting with hounds, meaning to turn the dogs back on their course, reverse direction. It was this use that gave rise to the expression “hark back.” It refers to returning in thought to an earlier time or returning to an earlier discussion: “That tie-died shirt harks back to the days we used to go to rock festivals together.”
The expression is not “hearkens back.” Although “hark” and “hearken” can both mean “listen,” only “hark” can mean “go back.”
A federal judge has ordered Dick Cheney to preserve a wide range of records from his time as vice president.
Good of them to warn him because he'll probably be needing new blades for his shredder
Someone is encroaching on Moody's office supply approach. Although I suspect that piece is an homage rather than an original. I think I've seen that image somewhere before.
girls blouse. etymology (literary reference) anyone?
word to the wise.... do not get into an argument with jim over the relative merits of synthetic versus natural decking materials if you are itching for a quick and easy exit from a mutually besotted encounter. i wont mention which jim as i suspect either or perhaps all might take the installation of composites as a personal affront.
bushy-eyed
We'll see what today brings, but I really think that the game is over for the financial markets. Listen for this phrase: mark to market. This is the big fear, and I think why the people running the financial markets keep bailing out (or taking over) these big institutions - because actually unwinding their positions on the open market will expose the real value of these financial instruments, and this will force everyone else to mark to market on their own similar assets. In other words, a lot of the supposed value in these complex financial instruments (like credit default swaps) is overstated by their holders and even though everyone sort of knew this all along no one has wanted to admit it since everyone was making so much money. But we might be at the end in a rather cataclysmic sense. Sure, the fed can just print as much money as they need to keep propping it up, but that gets us hyperinflation which will just be the end from a different direction.
My grand economic plan of having no money is really starting to look good!
quick ~ 50MM for damien, thats a nice weekend...
Damien Hirst's Two-Day Sale Brings in $199 Million
09.17.08
Damien Hirst concluded his sale “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever,” a two-day auction of his latest work at Sotheby’s in London, on Tuesday by bringing in $73.1 million (including buyer’s premium), reports Kelly Crow for the Wall Street Journal. Overall, the novelty of the auction and the artist’s populist appeal helped generate total sales of $199 million. Of the 167 pieces offered during a daylong sale of lower-priced paintings and sculptures, the majority sold near the top of their estimates and only three failed to find buyers. Bidding seemed strongest for the artist’s works featuring butterflies, perhaps because the artist has pledged not to make any more of these works, along with his kaleidoscope-like “spin” paintings. At one point toward the end of the sale, auctioneer Harry Dalmeny flushed out a few more bidders for a pair of spin paintings by reminding the crowd, “They’re running out, ladies and gentlemen.” Hirst says he's not planning any other sales, at least for now. New York dealer Mary Boone says other artists will likely begin organizing single-owner auctions whenever they believe they have reached their peak price levels in galleries or want to try expanding their global audience. But she says artists may also need Hirst’s charisma in order to pull it off: “The circus-like atmosphere of this sale certainly helped him, but Damien has always thrived on being over the top.”
aimed at Houston, passing through tomorrow afternoon.
I need a net connection keep-alive. I've got a new evdo USB gizmo on a Mac. The evdo service times out if I'm not using it. The evdo access manager SW then proceeds to crash and burn. Requiring a force quit, yada yada. Anyone have any ideas for a web app that will keep a trickle of data going? I have been using a certain music web site to keep things going. I suppose I could also use my Sirius account.
(It timed out and crashed while typing the above. Arrg.)
pool to nowhere