There are consequences at playing near the speed of light.
Perhaps it also causes grey hair and thinning wallets.
Happy April Fool's Day!
Just for Fun
-
Study Shows High Frequency Trading Linked to Cancer
-
Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
What bothers you most about someone else is often a clue about what you don't like about your own circumstances … or, a political cartoonist could point it out instead.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- 10
Billionaire Biographies You Must Read. (Under30CEO) - Lessons
for Data Driven Businesses. (TechCrunch) - The
Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food. (NYTimes) - Desmond
Tutu and The Dalai Lama's Extraordinary Talk On God and Religion.
(HuffingtonPost) - An
Ingenious Way Of Using Google Maps To Tell Where Rich And Poor People Live.
(BizInsider)
- Forbes
Lists the World's Richest People. The Billionaire List. (Forbes) - Singapore:
The World's Richest City. (WSJ Video) - Google
Passes Apple as Top U.S. Mutual and Hedge Fund Holding. (AppleInsider) - Yardeni:
S&P 500 Could Hit 1665 Mid-Year. (BusinessInsider) - Sign
of the Times: Celebrity Mila Kunis Talked Stocks on CNBC. Is that as an
ominous sign for the rally, or just an indication that “dumb-money” is back in
the game? (TDB)
- 10
-
The Countdown of Life – How What You Do Adds Up Over Time
Are you happy how you spend your day?
Do you ever think about how most people choose to spend their time?
As you might guess, average Americans spend 8 hours at work, maybe half an hour in traffic, a few hours watching TV in the evening.
But what if you looked at it another way – what if you added up all those hours over the course of your whole life? The following infographic shows the tally.
That half an hour in traffic adds up to over a year of your life. And those innocent hours of TV? They add up to 9 years for the average American.
"It's not the years in your life that count … It's the life in your years." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Are you giving time to the things you really care about?
-
Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
So there is a new Pope. They probably didn't pick him this way.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- 6
Key Things You Should Know About Pope Francis. (The Week) - How
the Conclave Picks a Pope: By the Numbers. (NYMag) - 5
Things About Popes and Their Names; Like, Why Do They Change Them? (NPR) - Boehner
Turns Down Invitation to Visit Pope. President Obama invited John
Boehner to travel with Vice President Joe Biden to Rome to watch the Roman
Catholic Church install its first pope from the Americas in its 2,000-year
history. (WSJ Video) - How
Rich Is the Catholic Church? Nobody really knows, because religious groups
don’t need to follow regular accounting and disclosure rules. (Slate)
- Lessons
From Past Dow Milestones. (MarketWatch) - Could
the Dow really reach 36,000? Surge greeted by at least one outlandish
prediction (TW) - Secret
and Lies of the Bailout. Taibbi warns the worst may be yet to come.
(RollingStone) - Move
Over, Goldman. College grads are clamoring to work for a different firm
this year. (TDB) - Amazon
Launches ‘Amazon Coins’ In Its First Move Into Virtual Currency.
(TechCrunch)
- 6
-
A View From Above … Making the Invisible Visible [Video from the Space Station]
It is easy to get lost in the admistrivia of day-to-day life. Here is a quick antidote for that.
International Space Station astronaut Don
Pettit lived on the station for about a year, and took many pictures while up there. The results of his innovative photographic work and passion have changed
the way we see earth from space.Next, astrophotographer Christoph Malin took thousands of Pettit's individual photos and animated them, adding clips of Pettit giving a talk about his stay aboard
the ISS and his photography there. He also set it to music, creating a simply stunning time-lapse video.The result is certainly worth watching. So, set aside 16
minutes of your busy day, sit back, and soak this in: “The ISS Image Frontier”."Making the invisible visible" – the ISS Image Frontier from Christoph Malin on Vimeo.
The video presents an interesting perspective of our planet.
Many astronauts, even from back in the Apollo days, talk
about an incredible feeling they get after a few days in space. As they gaze on
the Earth from above, they lose their feeling of borders and nationality. The
Saudi astronaut Sultan bin Salman Al-Saud, who flew on the Space Shuttle in
1985, commented on this, saying ,
“The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day
we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one
Earth.”On a different note, the technique where they create a composite view of a visual time series is facinating. It makes the invisible visible … and has many uses in the big data space as well. Very cool!
-
Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- Shared
Wisdom: Thoughts From Some of the Industry’s Best VCs. (PandoDaily) - How
Slot Machines Raise Our Hopes, Even When We’re Losing. (NYTimes) - Finding
Value in Information Super-Abundance. (Economist) - How
Nate Silver Got It Right. It's not how much data you have, it's what you do
with it. (NYBooks) - Big
Data Can Tell By Your Tweets If You’re a Psychopath. (GlobalMail)
- Small
Hedge Funds Outdo Elite Rivals. (FT) - What
If They Held a Bull Market and No One Came? Disinterest in the Dow's new high.
(WS&T) - Buffett
Picks Douglas Kass as His 'Bear' for Berkshire’s Annual Meeting. (Dealbook) - Could
North Korea Really Nuke the United States? Threat of a "Preemptive
Nuclear Attack" (TW) - As
Budget Cuts Loom, Austerity Kills Off Government Jobs. What effect will
that have on the economy? (NYTimes)
- Shared
-
Check-Out the “People Are Awesome 2013” Video
Watch this video. Lots of it is amazing … Some of it is inspiring.
You will witness flips, jumps, catches and feats that defy imagination (and certainly logic).
What type of person thinks, 'I want to do that' ?
To see which of the segments might be fake, click here.
-
Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Perhaps you've seen the t-shirt before …
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- Washington,
DC, Is No. 1 — at Watching Porn. So they are doing something there.
(Newser) - 20
Tech Trends That Will Define 2013. Selected By Frog Design (Fastcodesign) - Seeking
Cheaper Insurance, Drivers Accept Monitoring Devices. (NYTimes) - Toyota
Unveils a Lexus that Drives Itself. But Says It’ll Keep Drivers in Control
(MIT TechReview) - Getting
the Right Dose of Exercise. Why Four Workouts a Week May Be Better Than Six.
(Well)
- How
Michael Jordan Still Earns $80 Million A Year. (Forbes) - Kass
Gets ‘Summer of 1987 Feeling’. Sentiment and valuations make a strong bear
case (CNBC) - Fed
Action This Year More Powerful Than in 2012. (WSJ) - A
Tax That Could Change the Trading Game. It’s all about ‘Carrots’ and
‘Sticks’. (NYTimes) - Perhaps
You Are Not as Good an Investor as You Think You Are. Many investors have
been behaving as if the bloodbath between October 2007 and March 2009 never
happened. (Wall Street Journal)
- Washington,
-
Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Did you think Beyonce's
Lip-Synced Inaugural Anthem was really a big deal?There is more … This quote from the Washingtonian's Sophie Gilbert says a lot about Washington.
To press seated just below the [inauguration] podium, in front of the 'President's Own' Marine Corps Band, it was evident that the band wasn't actually playing during [Beyoncé's rendition of the national anthem] — even though band director Colonel Michael J. Colburn was conducting energetically and the band members mimicked blowing into their instruments.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- Nate
Silver Can Accurately Predict an Election, but Not a Super Bowl.
(TheAtlantic) - More
N.F.L. Teams Hire Statisticians But Their Use Remains Mostly Guarded.
(NYTimes) - White
House to Texas. "No, You Can't Secede." 8 states told they're
staying in the Union (Newser) - Biden.
'I'm Proud To Be President' … Oops. (Video) - Can
Gadgets Make You Healthier, Stronger, Thinner? Wearable Feedback Devices
Promise to Improve Slouching, Athletic Skills (Wall Street Journal)
- IPO
Lottery 2013. 10 Companies to Watch. (Wired Business) - Cat
Beats Wealth Managers. Moggy shames experts in trading contest. (TheAge) - ICE-NYSE
Deal and the Implication for Derivatives. (FT Video) - Guess
Who Continues To Not "Rotate" Out of Treasurys and Into Stocks. (ZeroHedge) - Hedge
Fund Leverage Reaches 2004 Levels. Holdings exceed cash invested by 153%.
Meanwhile Banks are using 14:1 (AdvisorOne)
- Nate
-
Do You Agree With This List of the 100 Most Beautiful Songs Ever Heard?
A thread on popular net board, AskReddit, posed the question, "What is the most beautiful song you've ever heard?"
The challenge was simple:
Think to yourself, what is the most beautiful song you have ever heard, im not talking about your favourite song, or the most technical, or something that made you cry, I just want to know the song that made you say 'holy shit… I could die to this.'
After thousands of comments, a strong list was assembled and filtered. Ultimately, the 100 most upvoted songs became a public Spotify playlist.
Selections range from classical to punk and from pop to indie. The result was interesting and varied.
Worth a listen.
Here is the List.
