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The Twilight Saga: New Moon (in Lolcat)
MIT notable naming:
1. Volvo garage
2. Random hall
3. Miracle of Science Bar & Grill
4. Mit Museum
5. Royal East
6. Analog Devices
7. Shire
8. Library storage annex (LSA)
9. Smart street
Dell quietly settles shareholder suit… [footnoted.org] -
…around executive/founder insider trading and stock inflation, to the tune of $40 million. And buried it in a 10-Q.
“The survey found that over a quarter — 25.6 percent — of all households either don’t have a checking or savings account at all, or have a bank account but still choose to rely regularly on “alternative financial services” like payday lenders and pawn shops.” — ‘Unbanked’ America [Economix]
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McSweeney's Lists: Captain Blackbeard's College of Piracy - Ye Olde Course Catalogue, Spring '10. -
“ENGL 442: Post-structuralist Decay and the Hermeneutics of Land-lubbing”
McSweeney's Lists: My MFA Workshop Responds to My Twitter Status Updates.
by Tom Gauld
Over Months of Secret Meetings, Comcast Won Over G.E. - NYTimes.com
The NBC Universal Sale, by the Numbers - DealBook
“It was increasingly vulnerable to anything that happened that was out of the control of the people who built and sustained it, and the events of last week certainly qualify. — The “it” in question was the cocoon of studied obliviousness and access peddling that turned Tiger Woods the skirt-chasing, puerile jock into a flawless, shining pitchman. Never expected to have anything to say about Tiger Woods on Numberwang, but this short piece on the complicity between Woods’ PR people and journalists should resonate for anyone who has been alive for the last fifteen-thirty years.
While the summary and link is pretty good, the animated gif takes the cake.
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Geeks trump alpha males on Wall St. [Globe and Mail] -
As CrossingWallStreet said, “This is the kind of story the media loves to write”, replacing “alpha-male”/”locker room” metaphors with “geeks” wielding all that “artificial intelligence”. Digging deeper than the comeuppance and stereotypes, there is a much more interesting shift this article expresses well:
“The difference is anonymity. If you play a game with the same people over and over again, you reach an understanding about what’s acceptable. If the game is completely anonymous, there are no rules between people, there are only rules imposed by the marketplace.”