Making money twice - 37signals (47)
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A good portion of this industry is still trying to figure out how to make money for the first time (hint: charge people). But for those who’ve mastered that, I want to talk about the next step: making money twice (or three or four times). Making money off original content isn’t hard as long as you aren’t afraid of making money. You can sell it, you can offer subscriptions to it, you can talk about ...
190 Bowery (4)
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Photographer Jay Maisel bought the building at 190 Bowery 42 years ago for $102,000. Covered by graffiti and assumed by many to have been abandoned for years, it's matured into a single family home with 6 stories, 72 rooms, 35,000 square feet, an estimated value of up to $70 million and three residents. (link)
Casino Capitalism (1)
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Almost armageddon! Congressional leaders stunned by warnings Bush presses for quick action on $700B bailout bill Hank Paulson to the U.S. -- Grab Your Ankles! A bailout plan, but will it all work? Congressional Democrats considering the Bush administration's emergency plan countered with their own demands yesterday Foreign banks lobbied successfully over the weekend to be able to sell us toxic debt The fleecing of America Hussman's open letter to Congress The Bailout Bonanza Scorecard ...
"The Federal Reserve, in an attempt to prevent the crisis on Wall Street from infecting its two..." (1)
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“The Federal Reserve, in an attempt to prevent the crisis on Wall Street from infecting its two premier institutions, took the extraordinary measure on Sunday night of agreeing to convert investment banks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. into traditional bank holding companies. With the move, Wall Street as it has long been known… will cease to exist. Wall Street’s two most prestigious institutions will come under the close scrutiny of the US Government.” ...
"The public doesn’t like a blank check. They think this whole bailout idea is nuts. They see fat cats..." (1)
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“The public doesn’t like a blank check. They think this whole bailout idea is nuts. They see fat cats on Wall Street who have raked in zillions for years, now extorting in effect $2,000 to $5,000 from every American family to make up for their own nonfeasance, malfeasance, greed, and just plain stupidity. Wall Street’s request for a blank check comes at the same time most of the public is worried about their jobs and ...
● Remembering David Foster Wallace (17)
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This post is more for me than usual. I've got all these tabs open in my browser and need to close them to get some work done so I'm going to put this stuff here for now to revisit later. Any emphasis is mine. Editors and authors remember at Slate: You didn't really edit David. Instead you played tennis with him using language as the ball. At Harper's, we did three lengthy pieces together -- ...
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Dammit, DFW's death is still really bumming me out.
"Now that you, the American taxpayer, more or less own insurance giant AIG, it turns out that you,..." (1)
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“Now that you, the American taxpayer, more or less own insurance giant AIG, it turns out that you, the American taxpayer, are also the principal sponsor of Manchester United, thanks to a four-year, $100 million sponsorship deal signed in 2006.” - Kevin Drum (via azspot)
The Kirk Report : Bailouts Are Band-Aids (2)
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Though it is difficult to recognize, an economic crisis is a really good thing. It cleans up the system, destroys the excess, and it brings valuations low so that the risk/reward of being an investor is most advantageous. Like always, financial crisis creates opportunity. Yet, it seems, this lesson is lost among all who continue to work against the natural evolution of the market and free market economy. Right now, the government is pulling every ...
The economics of fruit picking (11)
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A British fruit company gave three economists the chance to increase the company's fruit harvest by tinkering with pay schemes of the pickers. The owner had been paying a piece rate -- a rate per kilogram of fruit -- but also needed to ensure that whether pickers spent the day on a bountiful field or a sparse one, their wages didn't fall below the legal hourly minimum. Farmer Smith tried to adjust the piece rate ...
Tip: Using a background image on an image (11)
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Pascal Opitz answered the question "Can you set an image background on an image element?" in simple fashion. All you have to do is make sure that the image is display: block and has a padding. He put up a simple demo that uses a div with an image, and he applies backgrounds to both: PLAIN TEXT CSS: div { background: url('blur.jpg') no-repeat top left; width: 232px; height: 200px; } img { display: block; background: ...
The recent architectural development of NYC (4)
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Not sure I agree with all of it, but New York magazine's interesting piece about all the new development that has been going on in NYC for the past few years is certainly worth a read. In the last 25 years, the city's population has increased by a million people, and another million will be here 25 years from now. The question is not whether to make room for them but how. We could, in ...
Testing SSL in Rails (4)
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Here’s a quick tip for how to test that your application is using SSL correctly. Enabling SSL in tests You can turn SSL on in functional tests like this: @request.env['HTTPS'] = 'on' I have this turned on in my setup method and then override it for tests that don’t use SSL. To turn SSL off, use this: @request.env['HTTPS'] = nil (Via snippets) Testing for SSL redirect To test and see if you users will get ...
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