December 2009
22 posts
Police Are Said to Have Killed 10 in Iran Protests →
unfortunately buried in the news
Dec 28th
“The guiding myth underpinning the reconstruction of our dangerous banking system...”
– “Wake Up, Gentlemen” «  The Baseline Scenario
Dec 27th
Dec 23rd
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Hey Internet (Google, Twitter, Facebook)…There is... →
Nice piece by @howardlindzon
Dec 23rd
“For the 20-year period ending in 2007, the Los Angeles Lakers’ N.B.A....”
– Are the Lakers a Sure Thing? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
Dec 22nd
Getting Computer Science Into Middle School →
Dec 21st
“We want to do something that’s organic and in the flow of the way people...”
– Dick Costolo, Twitter COO Content-Search Deals Make Twitter Profitable - BusinessWeek ‘Social’ will be monetized. I think Twitter’s going to nail it… and… Facebook will copy it; and that will be the right move.
Dec 21st
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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“I take away the compelling idea that there’s serious evil in the world and...”
– Our President on the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr (a subject that’s popping up all over the place) via David Brooks in Obama’s Christian Realism - NYTimes.com
Dec 15th
“The Internet is a massive content creation machine. We are witnessing an...”
– Why Social Beats Search (by Fred Wilson, kingmaker vc of the social web)
Dec 15th
Dec 15th
Dec 13th
“Remember when that idiot shoe bomber Richard Reid tried to blow up his shoes on...”
– Bill Simmons: Tiger Woods mailbag - ESPN
Dec 13th
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“Right here in your own backyard, an American company creates a brilliant phone,...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs  : A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T A tour de force by Fake Steve. Seriously great material.
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
“There’s no business value in financial safety when the government bails...”
– Lest we forget that deep, structural problems in the U.S. financial regulation regime still go untended to… James Grant Mourns the Loss of the Gold Standard - WSJ.com
Dec 8th
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
“They are asking us to forget about the election results as though people are...”
– Mir Hussein Moussavi Iranian Student Protesters Clash With Police - NYTimes.com
Dec 8th
Dec 4th
“A few bad strangers ruined it for us all”
– George Castanza, Curb Your Enthusiasm Season Finale
Dec 3rd