July 2010
23 posts
June 2010
17 posts
Airline Food is More Disgusting Than You Know |... →
chudson:
Yuck. I fly frequently.
Sawickipedia: Reinforces my decision to buy only packaged foods on planes - thankfully most of them now offer reasonably healthy variants of packaged foods.
“My bottom line: The president can bring Ulysses S. Grant back from the dead to...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - What’s Second Prize? - NYTimes.com
I normally find Friedman painfully simplistic at worst and utopian at best in his writings, but I have to say I agree with his commentary about how to think about what we should do in Afghanistan.
“The United States is to boardroom looting what Nigeria is to email scams.”
– Brett Arends, BP CEO May be Trying to Get Fired, Really (via boutofcontext) (via mikehudack)
Except BP is not an american company - it is British. BP America is the US subsidiary. So not quite sure how this is an example of American board room looting. Even when BP paid off the last CEO - the...
bijan sabet: When someone else's problem becomes... →
rafer:
mikehudack:
This morning I drove to work and a guy in front of me was weaving in and out of traffic. Frantically.
It was pretty clear this guy was late for a meeting, the airport or whatever. And he was creating a headache for everyone else around him. His problem became everyone else’s problem.
…
Rafer sez: Sounds like the way VC-backed startups make product and pricing decisions...
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“I imagine a world where Invite technology is suddenly free. Most people thought...”
– Cogblog » Blog Archive » Thoughts on Invite Media being acquired by Google
Sawickipedia says: Other exchanges giving access to Invite Media aka Google going forward is nuts. Apple was very smart to block Google/AdMob and RMX and AdECN would be smart to cut off Invite/Google.
And if the...
“Mr. Huh said his company, which makes most of its money from Web advertising,...”
– I Can Has Cheezburger Blog Leads to a Web Empire - NYTimes.com
I did it for the lolz.
“It’s not a crime to owe money, and debtors’ prisons were abolished in the United...”
– In jail for being in debt (via mikehudack)
Seriously WTF!?!?!? This is nuts absolutely nuts.
FDA Faulted For Gaps In Food Safety (NPR) →
rafer:
jakelodwick:
The Food and Drug Administration lacks a plan to assess risks posed by certain foods, doesn’t prioritize surveillance and research, and is putting the public’s trust on the line … Basically, FDA doesn’t have enough money or power to do the job.
Hmm, I think if safe food were our priority, we’d want multiple firms ruthlessly competing to deliver the most reliable food safety...
“BP, the very company responsible for the oil spill that is already the worst in...”
– BP Buys Search Engine Phrases Redirecting Users
He who controls the spice controls the Universe.
(via evangotlib
)
Reblog for the reference.
(via mikehudack)
Dune, yeah?
(via caterpillarcowboy)
So who’s got the money to hijack the hijacking and redirect “oil spill” to the Boston.com Big...
“SUPER ANGELS:
Dave McClure, 500 Hats
Rob Hayes, First Round Capital
Aydin...”
– Grow 2010 Aug. 19-21, 2010, at the Vancouver Convention Center
Rafer sez: I quoted the above text out of a marketing email from Dealmaker Media. I bet this will be a good conference. Debbie Landa’s dependable, and I seem to recall that Vancouver is her hometown.
However, the term Super Angel is...
“Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits,...”
– Soaring costs force Canada to reassess health model - Yahoo! News
Sawickipedia: “Free” (ie. indirect taxation-based payments) for health care doesn’t work. It creates a burdensome cost problem only solved by rationing when you remove pricing. Cost reform is necessary in all...