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Watch as Astronaut Chris Hadfield Covers Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ in Space

Life imitating Art.

Here is a version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.

Hadfield is not only an astronaut, he is a social media star who invited the world to experience space differently by sharing the photos and videos he captured during his stay on the International Space Station.

 

 

With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here's Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World. youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9d…

— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) May 12, 2013

 

 

In the clip, Hadfield floats around the space station singing the 1969 track (with modified lyrics such as, “Ground control to Major Tom, lock your Soyuz hatch and put your helmet on,”) and playing an acoustic guitar while gazing at Earth from space.

Kind of fun to watch.

 

SNL Parody of Early Google Glass Use

Sometimes it pays not to be an early adopter.

Here is a Saturday Night Live parody of early Google Glass use.

 

 

or try this version (because the SNL link was down for a while).

 

 

 

The Google Glass Stare does not seem natural yet.  Not sure how long it will take to get used to.  For example, imagine having someone like this in a meeting dealing with sensitive data. A little creepy?

 

via White Men Wearing Google Glass.

Are you getting a pair?

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Whether it is time to lose weight or gain some new skill or capability ... stop telling yourself you will 'try'.  Here are your options (according to Yoda).

 

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The Future According to Google's Larry Page. (Fortune Tech)
• Questions Loom as Robot Technology Advances. The implications of the robot revolution. (MIT)
• Even the Twitter Elite Say It's OK to Hate Twitter Now. (The Atlantic)
• Is Organic Better? Ask a Fruit Fly. (NYTimes)
• Have We Evolved to Be Nasty or Nice?  (Wall Street Journal)

 

Trading Links:

• Bloomberg Jumps on ‘Twitter A-List’ After SEC’s Social Media Decision. (AdvisorOne)
• Gold’s fair value is $800 an ounce. Is its bear market just beginning? (Mark Hulbert)
• What Five Real Economists Think about Bitcoin’s Future. (TechCrunch)
• The 10 Highest Paid Hedge Fund Managers in 2012. (BusinessInsider)
• Top Fund Managers Took Home Less Last Year. While the average hedge fund made a 6.4 per cent profit for its investors in 2012. (FT)

Dance Like Nobody Is Watching ... But Plan for Bathing Suit Season [video]

Hope you are having a fun week.

It is springtime ... and the gym I go to is starting to get busier.

Reminder: summer is almost here.

The video below shows what happens when you forget that bathing suit season is coming.

 

 

 

On a positive note, the guy on the left is a pretty good dancer.  Love that he plays full-out, dances like no one is watching, and has fun. 

 

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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Some things are harder than others ...

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Clayton Christensen Wants to Transform Capitalism. Interesting insights. (Wired)
• Why Weirdos Outperform Normals. (Linkedin)
• Your Brain Is Hooked on Being Right. (Harvard Business Review)
• Spotify’s Top 10 most viral tracks. Or, proof I'm getting older and more like my father. (Salon)
• Online Passwords. At the height of the cold war, the "secret unlocking code" for America's nuclear missiles was 00000000. (Guardian)

 

Trading Links:

• Dear SEC, This Is HFT "Cheating" At Its Most Obvious. Regards, Everyone Else. (ZeroHedge)
• Computer Algorithms Rely Increasingly on Human Helpers. (NYTimes)
• FBI Joins SEC in Computer Trading Probe. (FT)
• Top 10 Richest Colleges for 2012—The Biggest Endowments. (AdvisorOne)
• David Stockman On ‘The Great Deformation’ and Our Economic Doom. Are these new stock-market records just another bubble? (TDB)

Some Men Can Multitask - Solving a Rubik's Cube While Juggling

Rubik's Cube

I tried to tell my wife that multitasking was a myth (so she shouldn't expect me to be able to do it).

Sure someone could learn to juggle, or even to solve a Rubik's Cube ... but to do both at the same time?

Watch the video.

 

 

 via YouTube. 

Supposedly, the same guy can solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 8 seconds, making him the 48^th fastest cube solver on the planet.

I still can't talk and type ...

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Study Shows High Frequency Trading Linked to Cancer

There are consequences at playing near the speed of light.

Perhaps it also causes grey hair and thinning wallets.

 

Happy April Fool's Day!

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.

 

Lighter Links:

• 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)

 

Trading Links:

• 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)

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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.

 

Lighter Links:

• 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)

 

Trading Links:

• 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)