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Mar 31st

My Manhattan Project - How I helped build the bomb... →

“I asked my colleagues, what was a CDO exactly? Like CMOs, they were structured products, but the underlying collateral was not limited to home mortgages. They could be anything—corporate bonds, subprime-mortgage bonds, swaps, or simply air, like the synthetic CDOs: They could be CDOs underwritten by the bonds of other CDOs, CDOs squared. Chicken, pork, offal, chitterlings, tofu salad, fish...

Mar 31st

If all your questions are answered with questions,...

Mar 30th

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Leslie Stahl warns April 1st could be a weird day on the web…

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Mar 26th

South Park - Margaritaville →

streeter said: Every few months I remeber that South Park is one of my favorite TV shows and start to watch it live again. I agree with Ricky that last night’s was one of those exceptional episodes that cuts to the core of an issue with a clarity and wit that almost no other TV show can muster. rickyv said: Sometimes I forget how amazing South Park is. Then I’ll watch an episode and be...

Mar 26th

Mar 24th

Stop It IMMEDIATELY.

catbird: “Interactive Digital Version” magazines and sites styled to behave like magazines. I don’t want to have to turn fucking “pages” online. Enough already. I’ve been bitching about this since 2001.

Mar 21st

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Mar 19th

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My band was pulled from the depths of obscurity this week to be used for a mock-Audrina encounter on Newsweek’s “The District” (the Obama-fied version of The City). We’ll be playing a few shows on the east coast this summer, I’ll post about that later if anyone cares (ADHD on iTunes)

Mar 19th

Let me take off my blogger skirt and put on my...

tedroden: enjoysthings: I recently spoke with some VC people who gave me some “advice” which I promptly tossed in the garbage (along with any business cards exchanged). They said that I needed to say ‘we’ so that I could “seem bigger … like a real company.” I don’t get that at all, but I think it comes down to this: Many people confuse looking like a serious company with being a serious...

Mar 19th

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Mar 17th

““AT&T is really screwing up,” said Summer Bedard, an interaction designer at...”

– Summer doesn’t realize how much of a superstar she is… via New York Times

Mar 17th

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This was fun, met a ton of cool people here so far, been having a blast. theinterwebs: On Day 3 of SXSW, our friend Peter Kafka (WSJ - Media Memo) met up with Dave McClure, Nate interviewed Mark LaRosa of QuotaCrush, and Alli chilled with the Edopter.com dudes.

Mar 17th

Mar 12th

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Bitch I...

Mar 12th

8-bit Hip Hop Jay-Z — Dirt Off Your Shoulders T.I...

Mar 11th

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streeter: Occasionally we’ll get emails from people saying things to the effect of “marry me!” As I don’t think any of these people are serious I have a “witty” stock response I usually send back. I say, “Sure thing. Just have your parents contact mine about a dowry.” It usually ends there. But this young lady went above and beyond and made this video in response to my joke, totally...

Mar 10th

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