6 days ago
nelson : Wesabe + processing - Interesting use of processing.js to bring beautiful graphs into your financial accounts
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gleuschk : Lyle Lovett sells millions, earns nothing | Entertainment | Reuters - Lyle Lovett says he has "never made a dime" from album sales during his two-decade career, and hopes to rectify that situation when his contract expires.
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nelson : Asset allocation - Interesting disclosure from Leonard Lin about how he's invested. Sensible design.
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2 month ago
Rod Begbie : Bad Science: Money money money money money - Ben Goldacre on the experiments that show that humans are happier with things that cost them more money. I suggest naming this "the Bose effect". #
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2 month ago
deusx : Charlie's Diary: Alternative boondoggles - "Either way, the direct costs of the Iraq war exceed the maximum cost estimate for a manned Mars expedition, infrastructure and all, by 20%"
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2 month ago
gleuschk : Radiohead to Prince: Unblock 'Creep' cover videos: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance - interesting
deusx : Radiohead to Prince: Unblock 'Creep' cover videos: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance - "Prince fans have organized to urge him to relent in his legal fights to control images and photographs of himself."
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2 month ago
Greg Storey : Michael Largent, you sir are no Gus Gorman. - Nice try asshat.
Jeremy Zawodny : Man Allegedly Bilks E-trade, Schwab of $50,000 by Collecting Lots of Free 'Micro-Deposits' - Man Allegedly Bilks E-trade, Schwab of $50,000 by Collecting Lots of Free 'Micro-Deposits': It's Superman III all over again! Heh
Rod Begbie : Man Allegedly Bilks E-trade, Schwab of $50,000 by Collecting Lots of Free 'Micro-Deposits' - Man opens thousands of checking accounts, then links them to E*Trade, who verify each by sending sub-dollar deposits. The richard-pryor-in-superman-3 attack in action. [via] #
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3 month ago
adamrg : The only 7 investments you need - Interesting in the ease of simplification. I'm hoping to start putting a few more dollars into investments in the future, and I'm currently teaching my students about investments and finance.
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3 month ago
philgyford : Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All - New York Times - A paper rebuts the Easterlin paradox (that above a certain level money doesn't make one happier). (via Kevin Kelly)
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3 month ago
Linkorama : If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo - Nice to have lawyers to blog these things for you. Quite interesting analysis.
Andy Baio : Marc Andreessen's guide to the Microsoft-Yahoo hostile takeover - the best explanation I've seen [via]
gleuschk : blog.pmarca.com: If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo - very clear explanation
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gleuschk : The cost of losing | Sidebar: From the top - The Cost of Losing - this interview with Nancy Cantor is completely unintelligible. I have the feeling I'd be outraged if I could just understand what the hell she's talking about
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nelson : Market rate securities problems - Wall Street investment banks mislead their customers, again
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4 month ago
gleuschk : Price of a bottle of beer in Zimbabwe - Worldometers - holy cow, it goes up $10 between the shelf and the cash register
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : Ten Thousand Cents - Mechanical Turkers reconstruct a $100 bill using custom drawing tools for 1 cent per drawing [via]
nelson : 10,000 cents - Mechanical Turk art project to recreate a $100 bill
Rod Begbie : Ten Thousand Cents - Mechanical Turk project where users were paid $0.01 to draw a section of the $100 bill. [via] #
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4 month ago
plasticbag : Hoefler & Frere-Jones have posted a piece contrasting the new UK coinage styles with the new US Five Dollar Bill - God, the five dollar bill is a monstrous horror of crap masquerading as a bank note. I don't know what they think they're doing. Having said all that, my current favourite is New Zealand's currency. Gorgeous.
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4 month ago
jonhicks : New Royal Mint Designs - Gaze upon our lovely new coins!
Rod Begbie : The Royal Mint: The New Designs Revealed - The new UK coinage is wicked cool -- the individual coins are part of a larger picture. [via] #
Cameron Moll : New UK coins unveiled - New UK coins unveiled, designed by 26-year-old Matthew Dent. These not only look really sharp but also function as one design when pieced together. "The Shield of the Royal Arms has been given a contemporary treatment and its whole has been cleverly split [via]
Simon Willison : The Royal Mint: The New Designs Revealed - The Royal Mint: The New Designs Revealed. Matthew Dent’s design for the new UK coinage is inspired—absolutely beautiful. Can’t wait to get my hands on some of these.
Richard Rutter : New British coinage designs - They’re very European, slightly conservative, but I likes em.
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Inside the Demise of Bear Stearns - WSJ.com - The past six days have shaken American capitalism.
nelson : Bear Stearns deal - Day by day account of the negotiation
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5 month ago
nelson : Broker corruption - Great story about how broken the financial services industry is
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nelson : Plutocracy in action - Dollars raised is a proxy for votes in the Democratic primary
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gleuschk : Economic Stimulus Tax Rebate Calculator - three cheers for moron bullshit politicians and an electorate that can be bought for less than the price of a new microwave!
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deusx : Unasked-For Advice to New Writers About Money - "it very often appears to me that regardless of how smart and clever and interesting and fun my fellow writers are on every other imaginable subject, when it comes to money — and specifically their own money — writers have as much sense as chimps
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nelson : e-gold Examiner - Holdings of the freaky virtual currency
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6 month ago
tehu : Financial Crookery: Astonishing Soc Gen Transcripts Emerge.....* - French means funny again - via pmarca
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7 month ago
philgyford : Measuring Worth - Calculators - Tools for calculating things like the current value of historical UK pounds or US dollars.
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7 month ago
gleuschk : Calculate the Value of Your Paper Savings Bond(s) - woohoo power of compound interest (since 1990!)
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