September 2008
62 posts
“I think one of the problems is that Mr. Paulson is a day trader.”
– Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
WatchHere’s another interesting artist in our building who takes her influences from LA and Japanese monsters
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WatchI went to the Dumbo Arts Festival over the weekend and had the pleasure of interviewing almost every artist that’s in our building at 68 Jay Street on my Flip Video. About 25 in total. The first I’m posting is with Ushio Shinohara, a Japanese artist. It’s hard to understand him, but wait till he shows off his work. I also have a video with his wife who’s equally as...
“Think of Wall Street as a no-good brother-in-law who borrowed $500 from you and...”
– Jimmy Kimmel (via simko)
“My dog Alex is a big proponent of wireless technology. At the same time,...”
– Adam Varga
“If you don’t believe in sampling theory, next time you go to the doctor and he...”
– Gian Fulgoni of ComScore (via fred-wilson)
“The record label has to do everything it can to sell the album, but if I didn’t...”
– Mike Skinner
“Let’s say Slate charged its advertisers $30 per 1,000 ad impressions, a...”
– Juliet Lapidos in Slate Magazine
“Those who advocate for a bailout this week often conjure the dismal economic...”
– Rod Smolla in Slate Magazine
“A lot of people used to think that Goldman Sachs ran the US economy. Now we know...”
– John Gapper in the Finacial Times
“If you’re from the future like Warren Buffet, how do you retrieve...”
– Dick Costolo
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can...”
– Alexis de Tocqueville (via hilker) (via mikehudack)
“The truth, I think, is that we can never be completely sure how others will...”
– Christopher R. Edgar’s good reminder to always ask for the order
“Getting married, brb”
– Marco
Don't throw away the context!
fascinated:
When it comes to music, images or video on the web, context is one of the most important pieces of information you can possibly get (next to the item itself).
Who posted/tweeted this piece of content? Where? Why? Those are all questions that context (like a URL to a blog/third-party site) answers for free! And plus, it makes you a decent web citizen.
And yet I repeatedly see...
“What’s the first thing people ask you? Should I see this movie? They don’t want...”
– Gene Siskel quoted by Roger Ebert. “You give out too many stars” - Roger Ebert’s Journal (via nickdouglas) (via adamvarga)
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you...”
– Margaret Thatcher (via jd, mikehudack)
Dockside Bar & Grill (5)/5) on Yelp.com →
Located strangely inside an American Legion, Dockside offers very fast service, outdoor seating across the street from the water, and most importantly amazing seafood. The bar scene is happening if…
“Everybody has time. Stop fucking watching Lost.”
– Gary Vaynerchuk (via trystero) (via david)
“At least we saved Goldman Sachs.”
– Hank Paulson
“What this crisis absolutely requires is that a really futile and stupid gesture...”
– Bluto
“The abuse of “bidding up the market” by speculation based on...”
– The New York Times, October 18, 1930 (via Ritholtz)
“The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against...”
– Thomas Jefferson
"Institutions"
NYT: “As officials at the Treasury Department raced on Friday to draft legislative language for an ambitious plan for the government to buy billions of dollars of illiquid debt from ailing American financial institutions…”
Why are finance companies called institutions? When major tech companies go out of business due to bad management we call them companies. Imagine saying...
“I came to the world with nothing, and I leave with nothing but love. Everything...”
– The Streets via Varga
“The Super Collider did cause huge blackhole… on Wall Street.”
– Jim Cramer (via newsgroper)
Well, this whole free market thing was nice while it lasted before Wall Street got DC to bail it out with our money.
“I have never woken up to bigger gains in my portfolio and they have never been...”
– Howard Lindzon
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Teddy Roosevelt (via Jeff Stewart)
“Don’t just risk your company, risk the entire world of Finance. Modest...”
– Barry Ritholtz (via Dan Primack)
“Many of you will wonder how reliable economists are. In my view, if an economist...”
– Scott Adams
“On social issues, I lean Libertarian, minus the crazy stuff.”
– Scott Adams
Fables of Mingus
fredseibert:
rendit:
The Charles Mingus Big Band presents an interesting set of problems for the jazz snob. On the one hand, it’s a great thing that there’s a group of people out there trying to bring the music of one of the greatest composing improvisors of the American idiom to the people. And, for the present state of the music, gaining some legitimate recognition.
On the other hand,...
“It’s beginning to remind me of 2001-2004. The money is getting scarce and the...”
– Yossi Vardi
“I guess the reason I do it is I that have a Jewish mother. And all my childhood...”
– Yossi Vardi
“Not only can we detect a fraud — you, the user, can detect it, too.”
– Jeremy Stoppelman