My Boldest Prediction Yet (1)
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Write down this time and day, and note that I'm calling a bottom in Pakistan's stock market. In other news, Pakistan has barred stocks from trading below yesterday's close. One more prediction, this won't end well. (Via: Birthday Boy Joseph Weisenthal).
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ambuj said:
andher nagari!
Cows Tend To Face North-South (3)
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[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] Don't be fooled by those big bovine eyes and the mouth slowly chewing cud--cows have a magnetic personality. At least that’s the claim made by German researchers in the August 26th issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Using Google Earth images, the scientists looked down on over 8,000 cattle around the world. And, when grazing or resting, cows tended to face either ...
Is Our Addiction to Saving Money Destroying the Real America? (33)
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Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Paul Michael, Senior Writer for Wise Bread. As a young boy growing up in a gray, rainy seaside town in England, I had a fascination for America; maybe even a love affair. America was the land of opportunity, sure. But it was also vastly different and eccentric (in a good way) from state to state. So when I came to the U.S. around seven years ago, I ...
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What is more American than nostalgia? America has changed, but that doesn’t automatically mean it is bad.America’s economy has evolved along with technology. Wishing for those happy times when most stores were Mom and Pop is also wishing for a time when most people could afford one car only, when long distance phone calls were a luxury, and when foreign grown foods, like pineapple, were almost unattainable. Technology has given us great gains in efficiency. Big chain stores allow traditionally poor people to have products that were impossible to afford in the Mom and Pop days. Take away the chain stores, and you take away some family’s means to buy furniture and supplies for their home. But maybe they would be better living on a farm, growing their own food (just don’t use pesticides!), and unable to afford those Mom and Pop hotels this post so desperately romanticizes.It amazes me to see how many people want those old days back, but don’t realize that the culture they want was only for a small middle class. Today, the middle class is huge, and for some reason it thinks it can have it both ways. A large middle class cannot support a Mom and Pop store economy, because Mom and Pop prices are too high. Take away chains and you take away the middle class that wouldn’t afford it.I think Mom and Pop stores are great, but only if they can make the extra money worth it. I’ll pay for personal service when I need it, but when I am buying a coke at the corner, do I really need to worry about whether or not it’s from a chain? I don’t think so.Think about this. Walmart is actually the biggest Mom and Pop store around. The Walton family still more or less runs the business, after it was started in a little town in Arkansas. If you want Mom and Pop, there is it.
India’s VC investment sees second-highest quarter on record (6)
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Venture capital investment in India grew impressively during the second quarter of 2008. Between April and June, VCs invested a ...
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Vicky said:
Venture capital investment in India grew impressively during the second quarter of 2008. Between April and June, VCs invested a total of $238 million in 17 deals, up 120 percent from the $108 million invested during the same period last year, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. That makes it the second-highest quarter in VentureSource’s records.
India’s VC investment sees second-highest quarter on record (9)
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Venture capital investment in India grew impressively during the second quarter of 2008. Between April and June, VCs invested a total of $238 million in 17 deals, up 120 percent from the $108 million invested during the same period last year, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. That makes it the second-highest quarter in VentureSource’s records. The biggest sector was advertising/marketing, which received $89 million. A lot of that money went to a single deal — ...
Intel CPU raodmap (1)
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Intel CPU raodmaphttp://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://www.canardplus.com/dossier-35-200-Processeur_de_Nehalem_a_Haswell.html&usg=ALkJrhguDp0U6ZI_usD1r-n6gyFWMiGhbw
CAPTCHA’s Can Be Useful, Don’tcha Know (20)
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To some, a web site like Craigslist asking you to verify that you are indeed a human by retyping distorted, nonsensical words is irritating. But the next time you do it, you could be helping to fill in some historical blanks. NPR ran a story yesterday on Luis von Ahn, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the guys who helped develop the CAPTCHA technology. The short version: Efforts to ...
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ambuj said:
from "why didnt i think of this" dept
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Krishna said:
That's a nifty idea!
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Barry said:
This is brilliant!
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vladie said:
много свежо, звучи ми като идеята да се впрегнат бягащите по пътечки във фитнес към генератори на електричество :-)
Random Trivia: Google, Olympics, Climate/Happiness, etc. (3)
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Some random trivia to use in cocktail conversations tonight: China has now won more medals in the current Olympics that it did in the entire 1988 Olympics -- and than in all games preceding '88 combined Swimmer Michael Phelps has won more medals than either India or Mexico in those countries' respective cumulative histories Apple's market capitalization today passed Google's Happiness is closely related to a country's temperature extremes (Source: Climate and Happiness (2003))
Random Trivia: Google, Olympics, Climate/Happiness, etc. (4)
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Some random trivia to use in cocktail conversations tonight: China has now won more medals in the current Olympics that it did in the entire 1988 Olympics -- and than in all games preceding '88 combined Swimmer Michael Phelps has won more medals than either India or Mexico in those countries' respective cumulative histories Apple's market capitalization today passed Google's Happiness is closely related to a country's temperature extremes (Source: Climate and Happiness (2003))
The Obama Tax Plan (7)
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As analyzed by Alex Brill and Alan Viard. Click through to read the thousand words, but here is the picture:
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ambuj said:
note this is marginal tax rate, not the total effective rate
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Aron said:
I don't like it, but interesting...
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jritch said:
This is the best visual representation of the plan I've seen so far
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Data Vortex said:
Obama wants to cut your taxes? No.
Fuzzy Numbers (5)
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Interesting discussion on some of my favorite pet peeves: CPI, Unemployment, NFP, etc. via Chris Martenson's Crash Course.click for video
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ambuj said:
this also explains why india and china see 11% inflation while US reports only 4%!
DIY Self-Watering Garden [DIY] (23)
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DIY web site Instructables details how to keep your plants healthy by building a self-watering planter from a couple of plastic IKEA storage boxes. The concept is simple. Two boxes are nested inside one another; the bottom box holds the water, and wicks made from string carry the water into the top portion, where the soil and plants live. All you need to do is make sure the bottom portion has enough water, and the ...
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David said:
I think I want to keep some plants when I go to cal poly
How to Be Persuasive (13)
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Just posted a book report for Yes! for my buddies at American Express. This is the best business book I've read this year. Please check out my posting here. One of the co-authors is Robert Cialdini; he is The Man when it comes to persuasion and influence. Every entrepreneur, sales, and marketing person should read this book.
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ambuj said:
check out the link given below
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Terence Lo said:
good book and quick read too. I have a copy if you're interested in borrowing..
Luxeed's Dynamic Pixel LED Keyboard fills a void for under two bills (8)
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Filed under: Peripherals For the longest time, Luxeed's eye-tingling keyboards were only available on the other side of the planet. Now, however, the Dynamic Pixel LED Keyboard is finally for sale on US soil. We'll spare you the completely irrelevant Optimus Maximus links -- after all, this thing only allows you to tweak the colors of each individual key -- but those obsessed with lighting up their gaming area without using those boring incandescents will ...
Transmeta Says Nvidia Signs $25 Million License Deal (1)
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Transmeta (TMTA) this afternoon said that Nvidia (NVDA) will pay the company $25 million for a non-exclusive license to Transmeta’s LongRun and LongRun2 low-power computing technology. That’s a little more than $2 a share for each of Transmeta’s 12.15 million shares outstanding. Also, Transmeta said it had Q2 revenue of $366,000, all of that from licensing activities. The company had $1.8 million in interest income in the quarter; Transmeta has $141.8 million in cash. TMTA ...
Why Does Gas Cost $4 or More a Gallon? (5)
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Cool infographic at the Washington Post:click for ginormous graph > Source:Why Does Gas Cost $4 or More a Gallon? REPORTING: Brenna Maloney | GRAPHIC: Todd LindemanWashington Post, July 27, 2008http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/07/26/GR2008072601566.html?sid=ST2008072601558&pos=list
