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Putting Things in Perspective: Visualization Shows Scale of the Universe

As a trader, I'm surprised by how different the market can look on different time-frames. 

Getting a sense of scale is important.  Sometimes the difference is bigger than you think.

Click the picture to launch a fascinating data visualisation created by Michael and Cary Huang.  It is an interactive virtual scale of our universe that allows you to zoom in and out through space comparing the size and scale of everything from the smallest particles to immense nebulae.

 

 

Very Cool.  Puts things in perspective.

Related articles

• The magnified universe doth magnify the Lord... (numbersleuth.org)
• How journalists can create Guardian-style data visualisations (journalism.co.uk)
• Power View from the Data Visualisation Perspective (slideshare.net)

Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Ignore the man behind the curtain ...

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The Verdict on Business Huddles. (BossBlog)
• 20 of the Best Entrepreneur’s Thoughts in 140 Characters or Less. (Addicted2Success)
• Crappy Idea?  Company Will Print Your Twitter Feed On Toilet Paper. (Geekologie)
• Disney’s Lion King Becomes Broadway’s All-Time Top Earner. (TheDaily)
• How Ignorance Fuels Science and the Evolution of Knowledge. We judge the value of science by the ignorance it defines. (BrainPickings)

 

Trading Links:

• The Most Important Economic Questions for Investors. (Dash)
• The Pendulum Has Swung: Tech Start-Ups are Hot ... (42floors)
• HFT Slows Down in U.S. Ahead of Exchange Action. (FT)
• Global Signals Bode Poorly for Stocks. (Barrons)
• George Soros: Euro Crisis Is Now ‘More Lethal’. Famed hedge fund manager warns of more pain to come. (AdvisorOne)

This Kid's Got Game - Have You Heard About Caine's Arcade Yet?

Hopefully you've had a chance to watch the video about Caine's Arcade. If not, here it is.

What's it about?  Well, a 9-year-old boy, Caine Monroy, built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad's used auto parts store. And while the arcade is about fun, there's no doubt that it is serious business for Caine.  Of course, it is about more than that.

It is inspiring, heart-warming ... and worth a few minutes of your time.

 

 

 
Help Caine's Scholarship Fund:

• cainesarcade.com

Caine's Arcade Online:

• facebook.com/cainesarcade
• twitter.com/cainesarcade

 

Related articles

• 9 Hidden Factors of Caine's Arcade Success (forbes.com)
• Caine's Arcade boy gets $152K college fund check (abclocal.go.com)
• The power of kids, cardboard and creativity (dothegreenthing.com)

Some Fun Links for Your Weekend Reading

Let's start with a cartoon about Reverse Psychology.

 

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

Lighter Links:

• Inside Stanford's Famous Course on Creativity. (Fortune)
• How Data Visualization Turns Scientists Into Storytellers. (Mindjet)
• Wyoming Town with 1 Resident Sold for $900,000. (News)
• Watch Google's Autonomous Car Drive a Blind Man to Taco Bell. (AutoBlog)
• DUI Suspect Sings 'Bohemian Rhapsody' in the cop car. Not a great way to prove your innocence. Classic. (Newser)

 

Trading Links:

• Here is Why Facebook Bought Instagram for Nearly a Billion Dollars. (GigaOM)
• Small Business Owners Optimistic. Things are looking up ... (SmallBizTrends)
• U.S. Stock Correlations Are Down. Waaaay Down. (WSJ MarketBeat)
• Economists Have a Lot to Learn From the Weather. (Bloomberg)
• Trouble in Shipping Turns Ocean Into Scrapheap. The world's biggest vessels are now worth little more than their scrap value. (Telegraph)

Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

As you probably heard, the jobs recovery suffered a setback in March.  With the election coming, this promises to be an issue getting lots of scrutiny.

 

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

Lighter Links:

• 10 Proven Strategies of High-Performance Teams [INFOGRAPHIC]. (Mashable)
• IBM's Quantum Computers Could Change The World. (FastCompany)
• "When Siri Goes Psycho". A Clever Short Film. (Flixxy)
• Ranking the Web's Best 2012 April Fool's Jokes. (Blogs)
• Fruit Flies Use Alcohol to Cope With Sexual Rejection. How evolved do you feel now? (TW)

 

Trading Links:

• Facebook's Value Shoots Above $100 Billion On Its Last Private Trade. (BizInsider)
• Stocks Just Had The Best Quarter Since 1998, So Why Is Wall St. Skeptical? (Insider)
• A Good Sign: Companies May Finally Be Starting to Spend That Cash. (Businessweek)
• U.S. Tax Hackers: Cheating or Beating? (Infographic)
• Groupon's Shares Continue Falling to Close at All-Time Low.  Everyone loves a discount, and yet no one seems to be buying. (AllThingsD)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Here's a bumper sticker slogan that rings true more often than you might want.

 

 

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

Lighter Links:

• Seven Truths about Change to Lead & Live By. by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (HBR)
• Good List of 100+ Useful Infographic Tools & Resources. (DailyTekk)
• A Blast from the Past: The New Use for Dormant Fiber from the Dot-Com Boom. (TD)
• ‘Ender’s Game’ Launches Production Blog. A Great Book for a Movie. (MoviesBlog)
• Five Leadership Lessons from Captain Kirk. Knowledge from the heavens ... or at least from the Starfleet. (Forbes)

 

Trading Links:

• How 9 Tech Giants Traded Just After Going Public [INFOGRAPHIC]. (Mashable)
• Tech IPO Pipeline: 65 + Startups with $100 Million+ Valuations Since 1/11. (CBI)
• New Kinds of Funds for Commodities. (WSJ)
• Why Do Investors Sometimes Make Bad Investment Choices? (KnowWPCarey)
• Billionaire: "All I Know About Investing In Startups I Learned Playing Poker". (Insider)

A Little Monday Morning Motivation

Wow, how time flies!

 

via someecards.com

 

The 1st Quarter of the year is almost in the books.  How are things going?

Spring is an excellent reminder that I was supposed to get in shape before spring.

Here Are Links for Your Weekend Reading

Energy Policy and Green Energy have been in the news recently.  Here is a cartoon poking fun at the situation.  It's called "Feeding the Federal Furnace."

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

Lighter Links:

• The Five Stages of Strategic Grief. (HBR)
• Reid Hoffman's 10 Rules for Entrepreneurial Success. (Entrepreneur)
• 6 Surprising Things Social Media Can Predict. Why to mine social media. (TheWeek)
• Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France. (WashingtonPost)
• DataViz Tool Shows You Gaping Holes In Your Password Security.  Scary Cool. (FastCo)

 

Trading Links:

• Everything That's Wrong With the Economy in 1 PowerPoint Slide. (TheStreet)
• Central Banks' $9 Trillion Is Global Economic Lifeline. (USAToday)
• Bye-Bye American Pie: The Challenge of the Productivity Revolution. (RobertReich)
• School for Quants: Learning to Calculate Our Future. (FT)
• Amazon Faces Taxing Times. After losing the battle to avoid collecting sales taxes, investors may learn why it fought so hard for so long. (WSJ)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

 

 

 

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

Lighter Links:

• Information Avalanche. More Info Doesn’t Always Lead to Better Understanding. (HBR)
• 'Personal Cloud' to Replace PC by 2014, Says Gartner. (Wired)
• The Social Credit Card. AmEx Syncs With Twitter To Turn #Hashtags Into Savings (FC)
• Partners in ‘Slime’: Feds Keep Buying Ammonia-Treated Ground Beef. (TheDaily)
• A Gut-Check for Many Ailments. What's going on in your head may be caused partly by what's happening in your gut. (WSJ)

 

Trading Links:

• Apple Woulda-Coulda Had the Dow at 15,290. (Businessweek)
• Banks and Consumers Are Adopting Tablets Faster Than Expected. (HuffingtonPost)
• How America’s Richest Companies Invest Their Cash. (247WallSt)
• Finance Isn’t as Amoral as It Seems. By Robert Shiller. (Bloomberg)
• Top Secret: The Chinese Envoy’s Briefing Paper on Australia’s Economy. (NakedCapitalism)

Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

 

 

 

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

Lighter Links:

• Here Is Why To-Do Lists Don't Work. (HarvardBusinessReview)
• The Nine Flavors of Windows 8 Show How Microsoft & Apple Differ. (TechCrunch)
• Music Bloodline is a Great Music Discovery Tool for Spotify Users. (Gizmodo)
• Posing the Question: What Is Competitive Yoga? (TheDaily)
• Firefox Plug-in Reveals The Small Army Stalking You On The Web. Try this real-time visualization to reveal the parade of spies tracking you. Cool but Scary. (FastCoDesign)

 

Trading Links:

• Buy-and-Hold Can’t Die. (AlephBlog)
• What’s Behind the High Gas Prices at the Pump? (Mint)
• You Hear That?  It's Quiet ... Too Quiet. (Wall Street Journal)
• David Stockman: 'You'd Be a Fool to Hold Anything But Cash Now'.  (BizInsider)
• Our New Financial Overlord? IBM’s ‘Jeopardy!’-Winning Artificial Brain Gets a Job on Wall Street. (TheDaily)