Trains, once a dying industry, may become fertile ground for investment again (6)
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With transportation costs up, one of the oldest icons of the Industrial Age is once again coming to prominence. Trains are the object of interest in the United States at levels not seen for decades, with some of the most foresightful investors around — including the world’s richest man, Warren Buffet — placing billions of dollars on old-line companies like Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.The reason behind the trend is fairly obvious. Most investors have ...
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ScorpFromHell said:
Heard this somewhere else too & pooh poohed it. May be I shouldn't have!
Trains, once a dying industry, may become fertile ground for investment again (9)
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With transportation costs up, one of the oldest icons of the Industrial Age is once again coming to prominence. Trains are the object of interest in the United States at levels not seen for decades, with some of the most foresightful investors around — including the world’s richest man, Warren Buffet — placing billions of dollars on old-line companies like Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.The reason behind the trend is fairly obvious. Most investors have ...
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ScorpFromHell said:
Heard this somewhere else too & pooh poohed it. May be I shouldn't have!
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Saket said:
for donny!
Underwater photos of sailfish attacking a school of sardines (19)
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Marilyn sez, "Pual Nicklen's amazing underwater photos of sailfish are a stunning series of seriously bizarre-looking sailfish attacking a school of sardines as big as an elephant." In the Whirl (Thanks, Marilyn!)
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Drewcipher said:
I'm not that much of a fish guy, but these photos are pretty awesome.
LinkedIn launches an iPhone app, it’s simple but it means business » VentureBeat (7)
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If the iPhone wants to be taken serious as a business device it’s going to have to have applications other than More Cowbell (the app that lets you simulate playing a cowbell). A definite must-have for business users is LinkedIn, the professional online network. Today, it launched through the App Store. The application itself is very simple. You won’t find all the bells and whistles that social network Facebook included in its app (and is ...
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Oudi Antebi said:
What a cool application! now i can look up people i meet for the first time and learn so much about them....
Tiger Woods’ Jesus Walk Not a Glitch (46)
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It’s fun when you see major companies really begin to understand the nature and cultural ins ands outs of your particular subculture. Despite the fact that YouTube has grown over the last couple years that it’s a little large to be called a subculture, the majority of corporations out there wouldn’t know what to do or where to begin if they see something with the potential to turn into negative publicity surface on YouTube. We’re ...
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Jeffrey said:
interesting...
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Allison said:
Brilliant.
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Angel said:
Chequen el video por favor. Admitidamente es cuestionable si es efecto o no. La neta si alguien puede hacer eso es el ;)
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Joannie said:
LOL this is awesome :)
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Veritas Noctis said:
Tiger Woods is Black Jesus! :D
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Josh said:
Absolutely hilarious, and one of the smartest marketing moves I've seen out of EA, which I usually abhor.
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Tor Erling said:
As much as I may dislike EA some times, this was just genious :)
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Ooble said:
This is the best commercial response to anything, ever. Watch.
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Chris Schrier said:
brilliant!
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Joe said:
yes folks, this is a sample taste of what you can do if you can respond quickly to the groundswell.
Tiger Woods’ Jesus Walk Not a Glitch (48)
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It's fun when you see major companies really begin to understand the nature and cultural ins ands outs of your particular subculture. Despite the fact that
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ghuth said:
Great bit of opportunisitic marketing...
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Joe said:
yes folks, this is a sample taste of what you can do if you can respond quickly to the groundswell.
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Angel said:
Chequen el video por favor. Admitidamente es cuestionable si es efecto o no. La neta si alguien puede hacer eso es el ;)
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GG said:
Well played, EA. Well played.Well, except for you shipping shitty, buggy sports games.
Movies on Hulu (25)
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Some movies Rex didn't realize you could watch in their entirety (for free and in 480p) on Hulu: Metropolitan, The Fifth Element, 28 Days Later, Requiem for a Dream, Lost in Translation, Koyaanisqatsi, and Eternal Sunshine. Me either! Also available are Raising Arizona, Lost Highway, Hoop Dreams, Sideways, Master and Commander, Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid, and Groundhog Day. (link)
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danieltalsky said:
Not bad! There's some good movies in there. I keep meaning to post a page of the decent movies on NetFlix on Demand.
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neal said:
If you haven't checked out Hulu.com, do it NOW.
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Esteban said:
And using a VPN connection to the US you can watch these anywhere in the world.
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Jake said:
Awesome!
Joybubbles, and the history of phone phreaking (6)
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Last year, I posted about the passing of a legendary phone phreaker named Joybubbles. He was a blind and unusually gifted recluse who sought to surround himself in life with things that reminded him of childhood. BB reader Phil Lapsley first alerted us to news of his death, and has since written about what it was like to have the responsibility of cleaning out Joybubbles' home after he died, and the things discovered there. Phil ...
McDonald's medals (13)
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Morgan Spurlock ate McDonald's for 30 days, gained 25 pounds, and had health problems. US swimmer Ryan Lochte has eaten McDonald's for "almost every meal" since he arrived in Beijing and has won four Olympic medals. His fellow swimmer Michael Phelps doesn't eat so healthy either. In a sport where you can win or lose by tenths or hundredths of seconds, I wonder what impact a proper diet would have on their times. (And to ...
Cut your legal fees using Y Combinator’s funding documents (13)
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Startup incubator Y Combinator may have just saved your company a big pile of money in legal fees. The firm just published a set of standardized legal documents that startups can use when raising angel rounds of funding. Y Combinator apparently developed the documents with its attorneys Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and has been giving these documents to the companies it incubates. That has been successful enough that Y Combinator “open-sourcing” them, i.e., making ...
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Leta has recently stolen three of my delicious lip glosses, the pineapple, lime and mango-flavored ones, and this morning she begged me to let her wear the dress with the pockets so that she could take one to school and keep it with her all day. I think several of her friends are also into lip gloss, and just yesterday when I dropped her off she ran right up to one of Her Kids, as ...
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One of my chief complaints about the way iPhone calendar syncing works with MobileMe and iCal is that it’s all-or-nothing — when you turn on MobileMe calendar syncing on your iPhone, all your local iCal calendars appear on your iPhone. I wanted a way to have some calendars appear only on my Mac, for reminders I don’t want to see on my iPhone — something you can easily do when syncing calendars to your iPhone ...
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Apple: You built it, you support it. It's the Pottery Barn rule of standards.
How You Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Continous Integration (2)
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I just had a discussion with a co-Pivot about the resentment that many teams develop about Continuous Integration - especially when the release process requires a green tag from CI, and a broken build is standing in the way. As anyone who has worked with me will attest, I'm hardcore on CI and consider any team which leaves a build red for longer than a workday to be sorely lacking in discipline. OK, OK, there ...
WebVet, The “WebMD for Pets”, Launches (17)
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When you’re looking for reliable information about human medical conditions, you can always turn to health portals like WebMD, RightHealth, OrganizedWisdom or iMedix. But what if your cat has stopped eating or your dog has started losing its hair? You’d probably resort to Googling the symptoms in hope that you could save yourself a trip to the vet. WebVet is a content site launching today that aims to provide a comprehensive collection of articles regarding ...
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Justin said:
WebVet will be the best because it has the best name - just like WebMD has grown so big because everyone can remember that name.
WebVet, The “WebMD for Pets”, Launches (26)
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When you’re looking for reliable information about human medical conditions, you can always turn to health portals like WebMD, RightHealth, OrganizedWisdom or iMedix. But what if your cat has stopped eating or your dog has started losing its hair? You’d probably resort to Googling the symptoms in hope that you could save yourself a trip to the vet. WebVet is a content site launching today that aims to provide a comprehensive collection of articles regarding ...
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Justin said:
WebVet will be the best because it has the best name - just like WebMD has grown so big because everyone can remember that name.
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Commenter Stephen Sclafani figured out that replacing one cookie which YouTube's servers stuff into your browser will get you through to the site's U.S.-blocked beijing2008 channel. I'm watching Argentina vs. Cote D'Ivoire right now. Here are Stephen's instructions, slightly edited (I used to write documentation): 1. Open YouTube.com in your browser. 2. After the site loads, find the option in your browser for editing cookies. Here's the instructions for Firefox 3.0: Click the Tools->Options (Windows) ...Shared by Drew (0)Contribute commentLifehacker (7641) permalink
Former CEO of famously failed internet company Pets.com Julie Wainwright publishes a brutally honest inventory of the life-changing mistakes she's made and how she's moved on from them. After her company and her marriage collapsed (in the same week!) and Pets.com's mascot became a symbol for the dot com bust, Wainwright says: I would like to tell you that I was down but not out. That I just brushed myself off and got on with ...Shared by Aaron R (74) Anthony (0) Arun (0) Ben V (7) Bjorn (35) Bryan (5) Cade (7) Chris (28) Chris (6) Craig Maloney (9) CurtisB (1) Damien (6) Drew (0) Hakim (15) hillary (12) Hisham (23) Jason (3) jay4el (4) jen (4) John (17) John (45) Jon (2) Jon (0) Joseph (0) Keith (7) kidmarmite (37) KingBee (4) kiran (68) Kiwi Nerd (5) Klint (1) Laura Smith (2) Marcus (1) marshall (15) Mike F (460) Noah (36) Nocky100 (6) Pat (59) potentato (25) Punkin (19) Rachael (2) Rob (4) Robert (8) Robert (20) Sherman (13) shueytexas (0) Steven W. Buehler (7) Tangy (6) Tina K.J (10) Twilight (6) Ulises (8) Ullash (23) vinoth (7) War-N (5) wizardElite (6)