Morrie the Toupee Salesman

After 15 years or so hearing about the need to cut red-tape, government strangling entrepreneurs, etc. I would hope that the phrase used today by the US. Treasury Department will stick in a few craws, though I suspect the talking points have been already worked out to make it look like business as usual rather […]

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“The apartment perk may be this year’s winner for gouging shareholders,” says Timothy Smith, director of socially responsive investment at Walden Asset Management.”
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El Camino, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Symbol, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Believer, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Reading this article in the NYT one thing jumped right out me. No, not the intergenerational shift in news consumption, though that’s part of it. No, not the observation that people in their twenties have way more friends than I do, that’s just common sense. No, it was the sudden intrusion of what’s probably a […]

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“Techmeme is a template for a gazillion me-too bloggers who manage to write a dozen posts a day without ever expressing an original thought. That, depressingly, appears to be a successful business model, at least for now.”
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From one Gary Vaynerchuck. If by “good” he means content-free and by “bad” he means “intelligent,” then I’m 100% in agreement. I’m gonna do the opposite of a hat tip to Scott Beale this time - I want my 2 minutes back, Scott, bill in the mail.

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In this fascinating analysis of the Digg Down page, Nicholas Carlson notices that Micah links to suicidegirls.com. Oh, the horror. But what I find fascinating is that this provides some confirmation for my theory that so-called “professionals” always end up resorting to the same kind of schtick that they have scoffed at the amateurs for […]

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is, beyond all expectations, a wonderful examination of fame, distrust, jealousy, middle age, corruption, and murder. It’s made all the more poignant by Casey Affleck eclipsing his brother’s acting career with this and one other movie.
There’s a comment at the first link that turns […]

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