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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.

 

 

 

  

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Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

So proud of our 'solution' to the debt ceiling issue ...

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• What a Big-Data Business Model Looks Like. (Harvard Business Review)
• Everything You’ll Ever Need To Know About Gamification. (TechCrunch)
• Google Gives $5M To Build Drones That Hunt Poachers - Forbes. (Forbes)
• The 10 Greatest National Anthem Performances in Super Bowl history. (The Week)
• Compare Cities Instantly With VERSUS IO. Actually, this tool compares many things (Mashable)

 

Trading Links:

• Online Banking Attacks Were Work of Iran, U.S. Officials Say. (NYTimes)
• PIMCO's El-Erian. Game Theory Predicts More Can-Kicking in Washington (AdvisorOne)
• Kleiner Partners' View of the Future of Tech. (Wall Street Journal)
• Own the Robots, Bro, Trust Me. (ReformedBroker)
• Is Quantitative Easing Still Necessary? Direct Benefit versus Gain from the Signal Sent. (Forbes)

A Bad Lip Reading of the NFL

Playoff time is usually serious for the NFL.  This is not.

It is kind of the opposite of one of those old Kung Fu movies where the dubbed words you hear aren't synched with the mouth movement. 

Here it looks like they are saying what you hear ... it's just that someone changed the words.  You could call it "So THAT'S what they were saying ..."

 

 

 via YouTube

JibJab's 2012 Year in Review Video

Oh well ... crazy how fast time flies.  Hopefully 2012 was good for you. 

Here is JibJab's take on what happened.   

 

 

 via: JibJab

 Long Live 2013.

 

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Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Doomsday Planning?

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The Five Cs of Opportunity Identification. (Harvard Business Review)
• SpaceX's Elon Musk: Your ticket to Mars? Half a million dollars. (LATimes)
• How IBM Is Watching How You Shop Online. (AllThingsD)
• Is Sleeping With a Partner Better For You Than Sleeping Alone? (WSJ)
• Why Do Children Think Covering Their Eyes Makes Them Invisible? (Popular Science)

 

Trading Links:

• Smart People Can Make Stupid Investing Decisions. (Forbes)
• Four Common Mistakes about the Fed. (OldProf)
• Fed Likely to Keep Buying Bonds. To combat threats of new turbulence & uncertainty. (WSJ)
• Raging Bulls. How Wall Street Got Addicted to Light-Speed Trading. (Wired)
• Two-Thirds of Millionaires Left Britain to Avoid 50% Tax Rate. (Telegraph)

JibJab Lets You Star In Your Own Gangnam Style Video

Gangnam Style has about a billion views, recently surpassing Justin Bieber to become the number one most-viewed YouTube video of all time. 

So, of course, JibJab got in the game. They’ve launched a Gangnam Style video that you can personalize with your face (or a friend’s face). Here's what it looks like.

 

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

 

Hope you are having a happy and fun holiday season.

Making the Best of What Is

I had the perfect holiday gift planned. We were going to go to Cirque du Soleil's 'Kooza' show. Jennifer and Zach both missed an earlier show because they were out of town. Cirque is magical enough that I didn't mind seeing it again. So, when I saw a daily deal touting "Kazoo La La' at the Cirque Theater, I jumped on it.

On the day of the show, we got dressed up and drove downtown. Our GPS told us to go one way; but I remembered where the show was ... only it wasn't there. Since it was approaching curtain time and we were feeling the time pressure, I followed the GPS to its destination and tried not to argue.

There was a huge line, and very little organization or process (which we thought was very unlike our prior experiences with Cirque du Soleil). Nonetheless, we get to our seats, the curtain rises, and we laugh that someone struggling to do a circus act. Then we start to look at each other, because it dawns on us that the person struggling is not a clown pretending to struggle, is truly someone who's not very good at what they're doing.

To make a long story short, we bought a ticket to see Kazoo La La, which in no shape or form is related to Cirque du Soleil's Kooza.

 

 

Yes, it was disappointing, and we left  at the intermission. However, we had a great time. We laughed at the show and ourselves. Then we took the extra time we had went to marble slab creamery for ice cream.

The point is, it's not what happens, it's what you do.

This is true in trading, in business, and in life. All you can control is how you show up, what you focus on, and what you make something mean. The quality of the experience is still up to you.

I wish you peace and happiness for the holiday season.

Adam Sandler's Hanukkah Song Video

It that time of year again.  Wow, how time flies.

To my Jewish friends, Happy Chanukah.

As a gift to all of you, here is "The Chanukah Song," performed by comedian Adam Sandler on Saturday Night Live.  It became an instant classic, since he first performed it in 1994.

Here is the video.

 

 

 

Here is the Wikipedia post about the Chanukah Song.

He has updated it since then.  Here is Sandler's Version 2.

And, here is Sandler's Version 3.  Hope you enjoy them ... and best wishes for a happy holiday season.

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Steven Colbert's Take on High Frequency Trading

Stephen Colbert interviewed Christopher Steiner, author of "Automate This: How Algorithms Came To Rule Our World".

As you'd expect in a Colbert segment, there is lot's of 'truthiness' mixed in with the humor.

For example:

 

Some say all this computer trading is dangerous, but I say it's actually safer. Because if the stock market ever crashes again, instead of brokers jumping out of windows in a panic they'll simply turn on their computer and see the soothing message, 'error 404, economy not found.'  What's the worst that could happen? 

 

To hear the worst that could happen, watch this video.

 

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Here is a link to Steiner's Twitter feed.

 

Here Are Some Interesting Links to Read This Weekend

The Fiscal Cliff Meets the Mayan Calendar ... Worried?

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Measuring an Employee's Worth? Should You Consider Influence. (FastCompany)
• LinkedIn's Social Mapping Tool. Who Influences Your Career? (Forbes)
• Are You A Psychopath? There is an assessment test if you're curious. (TheDaily)
• 33 Geeky Insults You Can Use (Almost) Anywhere. (Wired)
• How Machines Will Use Social Networks To Gain Identity, Develop Relationships and Make Friends. (TechCrunch)

 

Trading Links:

• Forget the Cliff, 3.8% Obamacare Tax Is Coming. (AdvisorOne)
• Mortgage Rates Drop To Record Lows. (LATimes)
• If Regulators Crack Down on HFT, Does Low Latency Lose Relevance? (TelecomRamblings)
• Iran Cyber-Attacks Against American Targets On The Rise. (Slate)
• Young and Jobless. Unemployment in the U.S. is over 17%. But in Greece 60%; Spain 55%; Portugal & Italy 35%; and France 25%. (WSJ)