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Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Have you seen how they teach math recently?

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The Complexity of Complexity. (Strategy-Business)
• Computers Projected To Overtake Human Brain By 2020. (ValueWalk)
• This Is How Putin Rolls. (Zero Hedge)
• 17 Essential Mobile Apps for Small Business Travel. (BigIdeasBlog)
• What Democrats can learn from Republicans. (Vox)

 

Trading Links:

• Has Capitalism Reached A Turning Point? (Forbes)
• There’s Rich, Then There's the 0.01%. (Bloomberg View)
• A Peek Inside One of the World’s Most Secretive Hedge Funds. (eFinancial)
• The New Strategic Intent of Corporate Venture Capital. (CB Insights)
• Jesse Livermore's 21 Trading Rules. (Business Insider)

'Schoolhouse Rock' Bill Gets Schooled In 'SNL' Executive Order Skit

What a blast from the past!

 

He's "still just a bill sittin' on Capitol Hill," but Kenan Thompson's recent take on the classic Schoolhouse Rock! character on "Saturday Night Live" had a much harder time than "that sad little scrap of paper" from the original Saturday morning cartoon.

 

 

 

 

 

via YouTube.

 

In keeping with Obama's plan to enact executive actions on immigration reform, the president replaces the Bill with a new Schoolhouse Rock! character: the Executive Order.  In the wise words of this new addition: "I'm an executive order, and I pretty much just happen … and that's it."

 

 

Here is the original "Schoolhouse Rock!" clip.

 

 

 

 

 

via YouTube.

 

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Turkeys don't often have happy Thanksgivings ...

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Are You Doing The Wrong Things Right - or the Right Things Poorly? (Forbes)
• Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy Humanity? Here are 5 reasons not to worry. (Vox)
• A Manifesto for Playing God with Human Evolution. (New Scientist)
• The Divorce-Proof Marriage. (The Atlantic)
• This Website Will Tell You Which Stores Have the iPhone 6 in Stock. (Time)

 

Trading Links:

• Inside The 2014 Forbes 400: Facts And Figures About America's Wealthiest. (Forbes)
• Raising Capital: The Advice Andreessen Horowitz Gives Its Founders. (A16z)
• CyberCriminals Eye Financial Markets for a Better Return On Investment. (FT)
• Banks Agree Not to Blow Each Other Up Too Quickly. (Bloomberg View)
• Images Showing How Surprisingly Small One Year's Worth of Mined Commodities Is. (BusinessInsider)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

We just landed a spacecraft on a comet for the first time.

One reason you should care is that Space Mining will be big business in the near future.

Here are other reasons why it matters.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The Science Behind Jeff Bezos’ Pizza Rule. (Business Insider)
• Why People Love Costco-Sized Portions. (The Atlantic)
• 7 Practical Life Lessons from Albert Einstein. (Lifehack)
• People Really Do Look Like Their Dogs, And Here's Why. (HuffingtonPost)
• Malware Traffic Could Forewarn of International Conflicts. (MIT Technology Review)

 

Trading Links:

• “Internet of Things” Will Become Multi-Trillion-Dollar Market by 2020. (Infoworld)
• US Financial Industry Launches Platform To Thwart Cyber-Attacks . (FT)
• Meet The PayPal Mafia, The Richest Group Of Men In Silicon Valley. (BusinessInsider)
• Organized Crime Pays. (Vice)
• This Man's Job: Make Bill Gates Richer. The Secretive Money Manager Helping Gates' Fortune Balloon to $82 Billion (Wall Street Journal)

7 Crazy Facts That Sound Fake But Are Actually True

A recent Quora post prompted the question, "What are some of the most mind-blowing facts that sound like 'BS', but are actually true?"

This video  presents seven of those crazy-sounding facts.

 

via BI Video on YouTube

Interesting.

Carrot: A Pitch-Perfect Satire of the Tech Industry

This comedy short parodies the type of announcements made by seemingly every start-up in America.

 

It is not hawking a watch or a pair of glasses .... Rather, it is pitching the edible root:

"It's not just a vegetable. It's what a vegetable should be."

 

Well done and funny.  Worth a quick view.

 

 

 

via Introducing Carrot.

 

How funny would it be if Google was a real person you had to talk to?

 Everything you ask Google sounds a lot stupider when you actually ask Google.

Imagine how many people's Google search history is littered with typos, questionable queries, embarrassing visits to malware-infected websites, porn, Facebook, porn, Facebook, basic math questions a 6-year-old would know, juvenile jokes and so forth.

Now imagine if, in order to do those searches on Google, you had to talk to a real life person?

College Humor has posted a series of videos showing what it would be like if Google was just some guy in an office answering all of your life's questions?

 

 

It may be frustrating to be Google ... but it is so much more embarrassing to be ourselves.

Links to the prior two videos are here and here.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Alibaba's IPO debut roared ... and its shares soared 38%. 

 

 

In many ways, the IPO was surprisingly big.

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Can Technology Really Change Your Habits? (FastCompany)
• The 10,000 Hours Myth: Practice Predicts Only 12% of Performance. (Spring)
• The Man Who Created The First Pop-Up Ad Says 'Sorry'. (TheVerge)
• Do Dogs Really Feel Shame and Guilt? (Psychology Today)
• China Says New Supersonic Sub Would Reach San Francisco In 100 Minutes. (Sploid)

 

Trading Links:

• Apple's Secret War Against Samsung is Working. (MacObserver)
• Microsoft Still Doesn't Get Why the iPhone Succeeded. (TUAW)
• The Dark, Disturbing World of the Visa-For-Sale Program. (Fortune)
• U.S. Hikes Fee to Renounce Citizenship By 422%. (Forbes)
• Here's How Much Aid The U.S. Wants To Send Foreign Countries In 2015, and Why. (INFOGRAPHIC)

Surprised Steve Ballmer Went Bonkers In His Clippers Intro Speech?

Here is how new Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer introduced himself to fans in his introductory pep rally.

Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO who's known for his emotional speeches, was quite excited.

He even gave the crowd his email address ([email protected]).

Here is the video.

 

via YouTube.

The best part came at the nine-minute mark, when he told the crowd:

"We're going to be hardcore. HARD-core. HARDCORE! We're going to get better everyday. We're going to be tenacious. Something knocks us down and we're going to get back and keep coming and coming and coming and coming. Did you watch these guys? That was hardcore! Hardcore baby! Nothing gets in our way, BOOM! Keep coming. HARD-core. The HARDCORE Clippers, that's us."

 

Speaking of hardcore ... For the record, Ballmer bought the Clippers for a $2 billion (four times the record sale for an NBA team, according to the LA Times).

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The Monkey Selfie Cannot Be Copyrighted

This monkey took a selfie using a photographer's camera. 

 

 

via Mashable.

It went viral. 

Then the photographer tried to sue to protect the copyright he thought he deserved because it was his camera, his set-up, his planning, etc.

However, the U.S. Copyright Office has settled the recent debate over the so-called monkey selfie, declaring in updated rules that a piece of content produced by an animal can't be registered.

Aren't humans animals?