...more recent posts
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?!!
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
virtual Pete Best?
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.
Jason Kottke has a great collection of youtube vids about "what fast looks like". I've posted a couple before - these are pretty fun.
TOP STORIES
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
Wanna feel old? Remember that futuristic show from the seventies about Moonbase Alpha, starring Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. It was called "Space: 1999".
"Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're just caveman with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories"
alan kay (Hewlett-Packard exective, Co-Founder of Xerox PARC, etc etc)
more black flies
part of the the under belly of rock and roll has died
DIGITAL MEDIA TREE
10th Anniversary 1999 – 2009
Count the Rings
haunted highline
the british library puts archive of 19th century newspapers online. seems to be some free access, some for a fee.
The unsecret life of plants
Bizarre owl drama
via Birdchick
nicolas posted this to facebook, fascinating:
Francis Hwang's Notes
English language twitterers in Iran
As an experiment, I made a quick Yahoo! Pipe that collects the Twitter accounts listed here. The pipe is here, and it has an RSS feed too. Not sure about how quickly Yahoo! is aggregating these feeds, most likely not any faster than you’d get if you signed up with Twitter and followed all those accounts, but maybe this’ll come in handy if, like me, you’re not much of a Twitter user.
Paragon NTFS 7.0
Daughter throws away mattress stuffed with mother's $1m life savings
Security guards posted at landfill sites in Tel Aviv to keep treasure hunters away
Maev Kennedy guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 10 June 2009 16.16 BST
With the collapse of the world's banking system, an Israeli woman's decision to keep her life savings in her mattress must have seemed like a wise one. But it came back to haunt her when her daughter threw the mattress out – along with $1m (£611,000) stuffed into the lining.
Security guards have been placed on landfill sites in Tel Aviv to keep treasure hunters away, as word spread in Israel of what must be the worst exchange since Aladdin's battered old magic lantern was swapped for a shiny new one. The daughter, identified only as Anat, generously bought her mother a new mattress on Sunday, and got rid of the old one.
Anat, who did not want to reveal her full name, told Israeli radio that she had wanted to surprise her mother. She was shattered wto learn that her mother had banked all her savings in that most traditional of hiding places. She immediately rushed off to retrieve the mattress – only to discover the rubbish had already been collected.
The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot published a picture of the distraught daughter searching through a landfill site, having already tried the three other dumps where rubbish from her neighbourhood could have been taken.
The dump manager, Yitzhak Borba, said that his staff were helping her because she appeared "totally desperate", but the task was complicated by 2,500 tons of new rubbish arriving every day.
The woman nobly said it could be worse: "People have to take everything in proportion and thank God for the good and the bad."