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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Time flies when you are having fun. 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love. (Brain Pickings)
• Economies of Scale as a Service. (TechCrunch)
• A New Twist That Could Speed the Internet. (Businessweek)
• Peeling Back the Label. 10 things vitamin makers won’t say. (Marketwatch)
• Former Microsoft Exec Aims to Create National Marijuana Retail Chain. What Starbucks has done for coffee he hopes to do for marijuana (Mashable)

 

Trading Links:

• Recognizing the End of the Chinese Economic Miracle. (Stratfor)
• What Happens If the BRICs Sink Like One? (Bloomberg)
• Spain's Jobless Rate Falls For First Time In Two Years. (BBC)
• Tom Friedman: A New Ayn Rand for A Dark Digital Future. (HuffingtonPost)
• Can You Name the One Nation in the World with a Higher Corporate Tax Rate than the United States? (International Liberty)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Summer time and lots of people have vacation on their minds.  The royal baby certainly captured a lot of news cycles.  The future king was born in England at 8 pounds.  What's that, like $12.28 US dollars.

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Trends You Can't Afford to Ignore--From Eric Schmidt's New Book. (Forbes)
• Optimism's Role in Success. The key is to focus on the %-rate you need to succeed. (FC)
• Time’s 100 List Is Packed With Techies. (AllThingsD)
• Why Guys Who Can't Smell Never Get Laid. (Popular Science)
• Data In The Workplace. Google Cares Less About SAT Scores or GPA Because They Have Better Hiring Data (BusinessInsider)

 

Trading Links:

• The Asset Classes Wealthy Investors Love in 2013. (Forbes)
• High-Speed Traders Can Still Buy Peeks at Some Data. (Wall Street Journal)
• Google Logic: Why Google does the things it does the way it does. (Guardian)
• S&P Amazingly Says No One Should Believe Its Ratings Are Independent & Objective. (Qz)
• The Money Side of Driverless Cars. (NYTimes)

'Ho Lee Fuk' - TV Station Pranked Into Reporting Fabricated Names Of Asiana Pilots

A San Francisco Fox affiliate, KTVU, is dealing with the fallout of a major error.

Their report on the deadly Asiana Airlines crash took a turn for the unintentionally offensive when they broadcast the names of pilots in charge of that flight. The mangled Asian-sounding names were, in fact, thinly-disguised expletives mocking the sentiments expressed by the crash victims and their families.

 
 

 

The supposed names of the crash victims broadcast on KTVU included "Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow."

A KTVU anchor later apologized for the error. She said that the names were inaccurate in spite of the fact that a National Transpiration Safety Board spokesperson confirming them.

 

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Should You Eat That [Infographic Humor]

My wife has been away ... and the minimum standards in our house have shifted.

Sometimes my son and I look at each other and ask: "Should I eat this?"

Here are some simple rules to help if you find yourself asking the same question.

 

 via FakeScience.

Well, that certainly gives an answer ... not sure it's the right one?

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A Smart-Ass Father's Day Card

Hope you had a nice Father's Day weekend.

Here is a 'smart-ass' card one of my kids gave me.

 

My son, Zach, and I ate a Hibachi restaurant.

 

 

As part of his Father's Day present, he didn't complain (much) about having vegetables on his plate or that different food items touched each other before getting to his stomach.

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)