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Here a Few Links for Your Weekend Reading Enjoyment

Looking for something to read?  Here are some ideas.

Business Posts Moving the Markets that I Found Interesting Recently:

• Man vs. Machine on Wall Street - How Computers Beat the Market. (Atlantic)
• 5 Lies That Economists Are Feeding Us. (Money)
• If Regulation Didn't Kill IPOs ... What Did?  (Fortune)
• Don’t Believe the Chart - Is the US Dollar Dropping Like a Stone? (ZeroHedge)
• NSA Investigating Nasdaq Hack. Was a Nation-State Involved?  (Wired)
• More Posts Moving the Markets.

Lighter Ideas and Fun Links that I Found Interesting Recently:

• What if Peter Drucker Taught Enterprise 2.0 Strategy? (SlideShare)
• Several Things You Can Learn from Tim Ferriss about Power. (HarvardBizReview)
• Meet the Billionaires Who Tweet: Here's what they have to say ...  (Forbes)
• A Study You Can Use:  Infrequent Sex May Raise Risk Of Heart Attack. (NPR)
• A Collection of 60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos. (BuzzFeed)
• More Posts with Lighter Ideas and Fun Links.

Video Captures Obama's Favorite Catch-Phrases

‘Make no mistake,’ Obama is a big fan of his own catchphrases.

This video shows that there’s no mistaking it: “Make no mistake” is President Obama’s favorite catchphrase.

  

Statistics gathered by the Global Language Monitor reveal that Obama has said it 2,924 times since he was sworn into office more than two years ago.

Other signature Obama sayings include: "Win the future" (1,861 times),  “Here’s the deal” (1,450 times), and “Let me be clear,” (1,066 times). In a nod to the tough financial times he has faced, the president’s fifth most popular motto is “It will not be easy” (1,059 times).

 

Related articles

• Charlie Sheen To Copyright His Phrases (now100fm.radio.com)
• Obama Begins Bid for 2012 Re-Election With Video and E-Mail (businessweek.com)

Cartoon Shows How GE's Logo Reflects Its Corporate Values

GE has been in the news recently because of its clever use of tax loopholes.

 

Clever.

Related articles

• General Electric Pays No Taxes Again (bigthink.com)
• Five Ways GE Plays The Tax Game (businessinsider.com)
• Setting the Record Straight on GE's Taxes (fool.com)

Gallon to Gallon - Are Gas Prices Really That High?

Have you noticed gas prices lately? 

As we appraoch $4 per gallon, it's enough to create a different form of March Madness.

 

Gallon to Gallon - Are Gas Prices Really That High?

In response to Sarah Palin's complaints about gas prices, here is a look at other things priced per gallon.

 

That puts things in a different perspective; doesn't it?

Related Articles

• Analysts: gas may soar to $5 per gallon soon (abclocal.go.com)
• Why Gas Prices Rise Quickly but Fall Slowly (dailyfinance.com)
• Good, Better, Best: 3 Free iPhone Apps for Finding Cheap Gas (mashable.com)

Picture of a Person Not Waiting In Line To Get a New iPad

The lines to get the new iPad were long.  Seemingly, everyone wanted one.

Well, not everyone ...

He probably isn't trying to steal Wi-Fi either.

Something to Think About.

Apple stock is at about $350 per share right now. If you had invested in Apple instead of buying that Apple PowerBook G3 250 in 1997, you'd have stock valued at $330,563. 

To see other comparisons like this, read "What If I Bought Apple Stock Instead"?

Related articles

• The Question of the Week; Should You Buy the iPad 2? (lifehack.org)
• First Impressions From An iPad 2 Owner: Should You Wait? [PICS] (mashable.com)
• Apple Offers Video Guided Tours of iPad 2 (mashable.com)

Humor: Generate Your Own Malcolm Gladwell Best-Seller Title

Looking for a new book to read?

Gladwell is usually a good choice.  He wrote Blink, The Tipping Point, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw. 

Somehow his books (and their titles) capture the imagination and a spot on bookshelves.

I showed this to some friends and they thought it sounded interesting. What do you think?

Now, you can generate your own New Gladwell Best Seller.  Try it out.  Yes, the 25 alternatives are fake ... but they're funny.

 

Liquid Sculpture - A Video That Shows Sometimes Less Is More

Shinchi Maruyama throws water from his hands or from glasses and catches the temporary sculptures they make with his camera.

 

Interesting?  Yes.  Artisitc?  Yes.

 

Art?  You be the judge.

Water Sculpture from Shinichi Maruyama on Vimeo.

 Here is an interview with the artist.

via Jason Kottke.

Related articles

• Our World, Slowed Down 1000 Times [VIDEO] (mashable.com)
• Mint Slideshow: Money Sculptures (mint.com)

Bohemian Rhapsody Played on the Ukulele at TED

And now for something a little different.

Jake Shimabukuro strums some big sounds out of the tiny Hawaiian ukelele. 

Here he plays a cover of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”  

 

(Recorded at TED2010, February 2010, in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 7:08).

Click here for a different take on Queen's Classic. It made me smile.

Also, if you want to hear a different use of the Ukulele, try this video from U900.

Related articles

• Jake Shimabukuro, an Un-Hawaiian Ukulele Virtuoso, Is Finding His Hawaiian Side (spinner.com)
• Music Review: A Carefully Honed Image as a Master of the Ukulele (nytimes.com)
• Jake Shimabukuro: "143 (Kelly's Song)" (texasmusicmatters.kut.org)

The Machine Age: IBM's Watson Wins on Jeopardy. What Does this Signal?

Image by Getty Images via @daylife

So, here is a new Jeopardy Question?

"The name of the machine that first won on Jeopardy."
Answer : What is IBM Watson ?

You probably heard that IBM's supercomputer Watson crushed human champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in Jeopardy this week.

Here is a link to The Jeopardy Watson minisite.

Jon Stewart joked last night that "Apparently they have run out of qualified human contestants for Jeopardy."  Video below.

 

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Intro - Watson Competes on Jeopardy
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook

 

The pace of technology is quickening ... The future is so close you can build it.

Related articles

• Hot-Buzzer Topic: Did IBM's Watson Have an Advantage on 'Jeopardy!'? (dailyfinance.com)
• Engineers applaud as Watson beats humans in Jeopardy! (newscientist.com)
• IBM's Watson Gets a Beating on Conan (mashable.com)
• Why Watson's Win Doesn't Make Humanity Obsolete ... Yet (mashable.com)

Cool Video Showing Weather So Cold That Water Thrown in the Air Turns into Snow

This is a cool video.  Watch as boiled water is thrown into the -30°Celsius air ... where it instantly "freezes" and transforms into a snowy fog.  Clearly this is one of the joys of living in the Northwest Territories of Canada. 

 

In contrast, one of the joys of living in Dallas is that water usually splashes rather than freezes.

Usually. 

Nonetheless, on Super Bowl weekend, we have a "man plans while God laughs" kind of situation.  With everyone in town for the big event, we're at a virtual stand-still because ice is so rare, here, that we don’t have sanding, salting or scraping capabilities.

Here is a picture of kids playing Street Hockey on ice skates in front of my house in a Dallas suburb.

Not a scene you see too often in Dallas.