December 2008
32 posts
2008: The Year the Geeks Took Over →
“The U.S. Powerball lottery drawing of the 30 March 2005 game produced an...”
– Fortune cookie - Wikipedia (via nickdouglas)
“People want information fast and raw from people who are on the scene. If it...”
– Michael Arrington (via tweetip)
“Homme Fatale—a genre of man that New York women have come to know well. Often...”
– Wow…this is actually quite the astute observation
Observer: Beware L’Homme Fatale!
They got the physical advances part wrong, but yeah, watch out for us.
(via nickdouglas)
“The tallest oak tree in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from...”
– From Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Watch…This video contains some profanity, but it is friggin hilarious
“For the holiday season through December 12, $19.44 billion has been spent...”
– comScore - regarding online sales in 2008 (via fred-wilson)
Free Public WiFi
jstn:
Have you seen this wireless network? I see it *everywhere*, and it’s so suspicious because it’s always ad-hoc (meaning broadcasting from a computer rather than a regular access point). I imagined for a long time it was part of a virus; it waits for someone to connect, redirects to a page that exploits some hole in Internet Explorer, scrapes your hard disk and sends your social security...
WatchWild* foreign commercial. They are selling washing machines?
*Contains partial nudity
The Clapper →
Hialrious Video!
Former Bear Stearns CEO Greenberg Says Wall Street... →
i1326:
“There’s no more Wall Street,” Greenberg, 81, said last night in an interview on Bloomberg’s “Money & Politics” television program. “That model just doesn’t work because it’s at the mercy of rumors.”
WatchPeter Thiel interview from November 24, 2008
Chatting with Ben
Ben: Sam, try the chat post
Sam: okay
