January 2010
54 posts
By George - And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog -... →
December 2009
74 posts
Seriously, Can We Come Up With a Better Name than... →
(via newsweek)
Fair question.
“I don’t have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money...”
– Warren Buffett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via internetsurfwithzachrose) (via mikehudack) (via rebeccalando)
And he turned his money over to the Gates Foundation to fund AIDS research and education, among other things.
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Movies That Should Die With The Decade : NPR →
I think a list of the worst films of the decade is more fun. :-)
Whatever I do, it's probably wrong — High Country... →
Being “green,” which for me means buying local, organic food, is always fraught with indecision. The green choice is almost always expensive, too often prohibitively so, and to my way of thinking, that’s just downright wrong.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
The Swell Season (16)
George Winston (15)
Madredeus (13)
Allen Ginsberg (4)
R.E.M. (3)
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“Stone concluded that Socrates was on the biggest “ego-trip” in history. He...”
– Socrates in America: Arguing to death | The Economist (via evangotlib) (via rebeccalando)
“If you depend on grants each year, then the sunflower project will only work if...”
– Jacqueline Novogratz, in The Blue Sweater, a book about her life’s work
this is such a great point and why i no longer want to be involved in traditional philanthropy. i only want to support projects whose aim is economic sustainability (via fred-wilson)
fred-wilson:
Linus & Lucy - Vince Guaraldi...
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Tea Partiers' Next Target: American Business? |... →
A strike against companies supporting “the leftist agenda” and “funding socialism”? What kind of tea have they been drinking?
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“Mr. President, this is for my friend, Ted Kennedy. Aye.”
– Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) (via Talking Points Memo)
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And The Rest Is Just Noise | The New Republic →
Why the health care bill is the greatest social achievement of our time.
Watchjustin:
blakeley:
This Is Why You’re Fat - The Infomercial
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Shot by the super talented Justin Johnson.
Nice!
“All right… all right… but apart from better sanitation and medicine...”
– - Monty Python’s Life of Brian (see the video here)
via Paul Krugman
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For German Butchers, a Wurst Case Scenario →
As Germans turn to American-style supermarkets, the local butcher—a fixture in their sausage-happy culture—is packing it in.
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WatchThe art of sausage making - Stanley Feder of Simply Sausage. (from Smithsonian magazine)
copycats:
Happy Xmas (War is Over) by The Fray...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
The Swell Season (39)
Neil Young (33)
Grateful Dead (23)
Billy Bragg & Wilco (15)
George Winston (5)
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“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Something the US Senate should remember during the health care debate.
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“Do you know what we call 3.5 million people in NY? The lunch rush at Shake...”
– Jon Stewart
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Watch(via Talking Points Memo)
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Senators Urge Reinstatement of Bank Separation →
Senators Maria Cantwell and John McCain proposed on Wednesday legislation that would reinstate the firewall between commercial and investment banks, and give financial firms a year to break themselves up.
I disagree with McCain on a lot of things but he is right on this one. It seems the senator agrees with Paul Volcker about the financial innovations of the last 30 years.
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“In other words, not only isn’t Mr. Lieberman sensible, he may be beyond...”
– Paul Krugman
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
R.E.M. (17)
Madredeus (14)
Karan Casey (3)
Suzanne Vega (3)
Moby (2)
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The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas - NY Times Magazine →
Gourmet Dirt, Treating PTSD With Tetris, Cows With Names Give More Milk, Bicycle Highways - many very cool ideas.
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New video we made on Thursday night. It’s all improvised!
Download the mp3: j.mp/6vc8c5
Download the video in high-quality: j.mp/5Debe6 (this is the best way to watch it)
If you like it, reblog it!
(also on YouTube)
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Watch“Every time we think we’re out, he pulls us back in.”
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WatchKelly Evans is incorrect when she says that Apple doesn’t buy companies. The company bought NeXT for its operating system, the core of OS X. Well, it got Steve Jobs back too.
The iTunes story is the first third of the video. Other economic stories are pretty interesting.
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The Ecology of Finance →
The financial system needs to start working like a productive ecosystem. It should be characterised by diversity and an ability to sustain specialised and adapted life in the face of external shocks. Instead of a monoculture of mega-banks deemed too big to fail and answerable only to the demands of private shareholders, an ecology of finance would involve a range of different financial...
“I see great compatibility with Irish and Jewish cooking. In both traditions you...”
– Paul O’Connell (NYTimes) (via rebeccalando)
“Like many of you who live in New Jersey, I’ve been following the progress...”
– Bruce Springsteen
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“An object seen in isolation from the whole is not the real thing.”
– Masanobu Fukuoka
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Watch(via Good Stuff NW)
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Help Desk Open for Small Meat Processors →
According to the USDA, the new resource supports the agency’s ‘Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food’ initiative to support small and mid-sized farmers by helping small processors reduce the time and expense of dealing with agency requirements.
(via Kathleen Bauer)