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Comparing the bear markets

Monday, February 23, 2009

Want to see something really scary?

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Hacking the New Yorker on DVD

Monday, February 23, 2009

I’ve installed version 1.3 and it seems that they’ve disabled the hack that allowed you to point the software to the HD. This was previously accomplished by updating the DiskID field in the Issues table and pointing it to ‘9’ which in turn points to the HD. It doesn’t seem to work anymore. Anybody manage […]

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Snapple improved

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Funny how a step backward is often the best step forward in these times. The Times reports that Snapple is dumping the high fructose corn sweetener for sugar. If they do that, they will have won at least one customer back (me.)

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Why housing is still too expensive

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Yet another example of why The Big Picture is required reading. The graphs provided today of housing value and debt as percentage of GDP and existing home prices vs. median income fundamentally tell the entire story of why housing prices are still too high. The fact that housing value has gone from 170% to  130% […]

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I’m throwing my arms around Paris

Thursday, February 19, 2009

New Morrissey single and it’s pretty damn good…

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How low can you go

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

How much value has been lost? This much…

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Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

The city is messing with your brain. I could have just as easily used a freaking Bee Gees reference.

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Article Skimmer

Monday, February 16, 2009

The New York Times has made no small amount of effort on being a forward looking digital media company. Their site is loaded with special web-only features, blogs, and cool infographics. However, sometimes good ideas can also be found by looking to the past. So, the Times is attempting to replicate the experience of browsing […]

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Harper’s Archive

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Fun with Harper’s magazine…the entire Harper’s index is now searchable online. If you are a subscriber, you can access any issue of the magazine back to its inception in 1850.

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The Gough Map

Saturday, February 14, 2009

The Gough Map is thought to be the earliest roadmap of Britain, dating from as early as 1360.

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