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Little Drummer Boy by Pentatonix

Not typical of what I'd normally share ... But thought this was well done and timely.

 

 

 

Pentatonix were the winners of season 3 of NBC’s instrument-free music competition - 'The Sing-Off'. 

Also, here's a link to their cover of Royals.

Clever B2B Holiday Card Concept

Thought this was worth sharing.

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Happy Holidays.

Here Are Some Links to Start Your Week

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Elon Musk's 15 Business Lessons. (Incomediary)
• People Window-Shop on Their iPhones, But Actually Buy Things on Their iPads. (Qz)
• 10 Websites That Will Help You Do Your Holiday Shopping. (Lifehack)
• It's Better to Be Imperfect Than Sorry. (Harvard Business Review)
• Talk About Turning the Other Cheek: Kissing an Opponent Draws Foul In WNBA Game [VIDEO]. (BusinessInsider)

 

Trading Links:

• The Richest World Leaders Are Even Richer Than You Thought. (HuffingtonPost)
• QE-infinity Is Not Sustainable: The Elephant’s Gonna Have to Leave the Room. (AllAboutAlpha)
• Will Next Time Be Different? A Report from the 30th Cato Monetary Conference. (Economist)
• You Spent $1.2 Billion Shopping Online on Black Friday. (AllThingsD)
• Cyber Monday Brings In Record $2.29B Online Sales. More than 18% of which was purchased via a mobile device (TheNextWeb)

Alec Baldwin Puts the Fear Into Christmas with Glengarry Christmas Spoof - Elf Motivation

In Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin played a venom-spewing sales manager. His performance burned "Always Be Closing" and "Coffee is for Closers" into a generation's collective unconscious.

In the spirit of the holidays, Saturday Night Live created the spoof Glengarry Christmas - Elf Motivation ("Always Be Cobbling!"). Here it is.

 

Here is the original scene.

 

 

 

Bet that puts you in a festive mood.

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Holiday travel made better for the NSA now that the FAA allows travelers to use electronics during takeoff and landing.

  

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Best Business Leaders 2013. (BusinessInsider)
• Software Patent Reform Just Died In The House, Thanks to IBM and Microsoft. (WP)
• Why Is Turkey Cheaper When Demand Is Higher? - NYTimes. (NYTimes)
• Cyber Monday 2013: Best US Deals and Sales. (Pocket-Lint)
• Temperament is More Important than IQ. (FarnamStreetBlog)

 

Trading Links:

• Apple is Sitting on 10% of All US Corporate Cash. (Quartz)
• Thanksgiving Digest: Mobile 43% Of All Traffic, Over 25% Of All Online Sales. (TechCrunch)
• Credit Card Companies Use Free Shipping as Weapon in E-Commerce Battle. (AllThingsD)
• Putting a Speed Limit on the Stock Market. (NYTimes)
• The Future of Computer Based Trading.   (Magic-Maths-Money)

"Oils" - A Thanksgivukkah Miracle (Royals Song Parody)

Thanksgiving and the first night of Hanukkah coincide this year. 

American Jews get to mix turkey, stuffing, menorahs, and dreidels with a popular song. And what better song than Lorde's "Royals?" More appropriately named "Oils," in honor of the latkas and burning candles of Thanksgivukkah.

So, here is a musical parody of the new mashup holiday, Thanksgivukkah.

 

 

 

Puritans and a different Tribe dancing the the horah while belting back some Manischewitz ... it's a Thanksgivukkah Miracle.

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Hope your week went smoother than the Obamacare launch.

   

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

Lighter Links:

• Why Hiring ‘B’ Players Kills Companies. (VentureBeat)
• Artificial Intelligence Evolves to Another Level. New Stuff from Google & Ray Kurzweil (MIT)
• Improving Predictions: How to Make Better Forecasts. (David Brook)
• A Data Scientist's Real Job: Storytelling. (Harvard Business Review)
• What If Superpowers Were Real? A series of TED lessons explore the science of flight, super speed, invisibility and more. (TED)

 

Trading Links:

• Central Banks Risk Clash of Titans. (Wall Street Journal)
• Top 40 Buffett-isms: Inspiration to Become a Better Investor. (Forbes)
• High Speed Trading Puts Investors On Losing End. (Money)
• A Generational Low in Managed Futures? (AttainCapital)
• Are There More Hedge Funds in the U.S. than Taco Bells? Does that imply fewer winners as more roll the dice? (FiscalTimes)

 

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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

The new red line hurting our government ...

 

 

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

Lighter Links:

• Get Your Team To Fail More – and why that is a good thing. (Harvard Business Review)
• U.S. Says Iran Hacked Navy Computers. (Wall Street Journal)
• That Time Vladimir Putin Beat a U.S. Congressman In a Drunken Arm-Wrestling Match. (Slate)
• Why Your Parents Hate Your Spouse. Hint: it’s all about the genes. (TIME)
• Timelapse of the Imperceptible Effects of Aging Created from Family Portraits. (Colossal)

 

Trading Links:

• The New Forbes 400 for 2013: Facts and Figures on America's Richest. (Forbes)
• How Every NFL Owner Made Their Money. (The Week)
• Derivatives Trading Safer and More Efficient, Says Citadel. (FT)
• Home Prices Surged Across U.S. in July, up 21% in L.A. (LATimes)
• Lessons From Sun Tzu's The Art Of War For Your Trading. (BigTrends)

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The New Grand Theft Auto Videogame is the Fastest-Selling Entertainment Product Ever

GTA V reached the billion-dollar revenue milestone faster than any other entertainment product in history. 

Read that again ... Not only does that make GTA the fastest game to reach that milestone, but the fastest-selling entertainment product of all time.

It took the game only three days to achieve what Avatar, no less than the most successful movie of all times, did in 17 days.

 

With an estimated production/marketing budget of $265 million, GTA V is not only the most expensive video game of all time, but also more expensive than most of today's Hollywood blockbusters.

The two highest-grossing movies in history, James Cameron's Titanic and Avatar, both took considerably longer to pull in one billion. 

For what it's worth, I think is also says something good about the economy and disposable income.

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Faulty Logic: Identifying Logical Fallacies

Sometimes business feels like a debate.  Other times, dinner conversation or a family discussion takes a contentious turn.  In any case, here is a quick primer on logical fallacies.

A logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning. In other words, logical fallacies are like tricks or illusions of thought.  Consequently, they are often used by politicians and the media.

 

 

It is fun to identify which of these certain people (including yourself) use when arguing.

 

TWENTY LOGICAL FALLACIES:

They fall into three main types: Distraction (10); Ambiguity (5); and Form (5).

 

A. Fallacies of Distraction

1. Ad baculum (Veiled threat): "to the stick":
DEF.- threatening an opponent if they don’t agree with you; EX.- "If you don’t agree with me you’ll get hurt!"

2. Ad hominem (Name-calling; Poisoning the well): "to the man":
DEF.- attacking a person’s habits, personality, morality or character; EX.- "His argument must be false because he swears and has bad breath."

3. Ad ignorantium (Appeal to ignorance):
DEF.- arguing that if something hasn’t been proved false, then it must be true; EX.- "U.F.Os must exist, because no one can prove that they don’t."

4. Ad populum: "To the people; To the masses":
DEF.- appealing to emotions and/or prejudices; EX.- "Everyone else thinks so, so it must be true."

5. Bulverism: (C.S. Lewis’ imaginary character, Ezekiel Bulver)
DEF.- attacking a person’s identity/race/gender/religion; EX.- "You think that because you’re a (man/woman/Black/White/Catholic/Baptist, etc.)"

6. Chronological Snobbery
DEF.- appealing to the age of something as proof of its truth or validity; EX.-"Voodoo magic must work because it’s such an old practice;" "Super-Glue must be a good product because it’s so new."

7. Ipse dixit: "He said it himself":
DEF.- appealing to an illegitimate authority; EX.- "It must be true, because (so and so) said so."

8. Red herring (Changing the subject):
DEF.- diverting attention; changing the subject to avoid the point of the argument; EX.- "I can’t be guilty of cheating. Look how many people like me!"

9. Straw Man:
DEF.- setting up a false image of the opponent's argument; exaggerating or simplifying the argument and refuting that weakened form of the argument; EX.- "Einstein's theory must be false!  It makes everything relative--even truth!" 

10. Tu quoque: "You also"
DEF.- defending yourself by attacking the opponent; EX.- "Who are you to condemn me! You do it too!"

B. Fallacies of Ambiguity

1. Accent:
DEF.- confusing the argument by changing the emphasis in the sentence; EX.- "YOU shouldn’t steal" (but it’s okay if SOMEONE ELSE does); "You shouldn’t STEAL" (but it’s okay to LIE once in a while); "You SHOULDN’T steal (but sometimes you HAVE TO) ."

2. Amphiboly: [Greek: "to throw both ways"]
DEF.- confusing an argument by the grammar of the sentence; EX.- "Croesus, you will destroy a great kingdom!" (your own!)

3. Composition:
DEF.- assuming that what is true of the parts must be true of the whole; EX.- "Chlorine is a poison; sodium is a poison; so NaCl must be a poison too;" "Micro-evolution is true [change within species]; so macro-evolution must be true too [change between species]."

4. Division:
DEF.- assuming that what is true of whole must be true of the parts; EX.- "The Lakers are a great team, so every player must be great too."

5. Equivocation:
DEF.- confusing the argument by using words with more than one definition; EX.- "You are really hot on the computer, so you’d better go cool off."

C. Fallacies of Form

1. Apriorism (Hasty generalization):
DEF.- leaping from one experience to a general conclusion; EX.- "Willy was rude to me. Boys are so mean!"

2. Complex question (Loaded question):
DEF.- framing the question so as to force a single answer; EX.- "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?"

3. Either/or (False dilemma):
DEF.- limiting the possible answers to only two; oversimplification; EX.- "If you think that, you must be either stupid or half-asleep."

4. Petitio principii (Begging the question; Circular reasoning):
DEF.- assuming what must be proven; EX.- "Rock music is better than classical music because classical music is not as good."

5. Post hoc ergo propter hoc (False cause): "after this, therefore because of this;"
DEF.- assuming that a temporal sequence proves a causal relationship; EX.- "I saw a great movie before my test; that must be why I did so well."

via Oxford Tutorials

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Other Links

• Objectivity, Subjectivity, and the Fallacy of Self Limits in the Arts (blogcritics.org)
• Logical Fallacies and the Art of Debate (csun.edu)