QQ: What is the fastest "0 to global"...
Basically, what brand (company, product, person, any entity that holds a brand identity) do you...
Feb 29th
Everything’s bigger in the UAE
The United Arab...
Feb 29th
$2 barrels of oil
The cost to produce one barrel of oil in Iraq is about $1. In Saudi Arabia it’s $2. Remember...
Feb 28th
This video (click on Cheap Meat in “Latest Video...
Feb 26th
"Communication, not cleanliness, is next...
says Kevin Kelly of Wired, referencing a home in Tibet which has no toilet, outhouse, or designated...
Feb 26th
who loves the sun
if we could capture the energy that we get from the sun in just one hour and turn it into...
Feb 25th
What is OPEC?
A day doesn’t go by without OPEC mentioned in the news. So let’s learn. OPEC is the...
Feb 25th
The human eye has a blind spot where the optic nerve goes...
Feb 25th
I saw this musical last night and it was fantastic....
Feb 23rd
The Dow Jones Industrial Average
You know it’s at 12311, down 116 points from today’s open. But what do these numbers...
Feb 21st
I’m hoping the clear sky holds out long enough to see...
Feb 20th
Watch
The Milgram Experiment
The experiment measured the willingness of an individual to obey an...
Feb 20th
Castro: a “soldier in the battle of ideas”
Feb 19th
a different kind of game theory
Allen Iverson – great basketball player, right? I think most people would say he’s one of the...
Feb 19th
“Thanks to Facebook, we have created an exponential...
Feb 18th
In early Jan, I excel spreadsheeted this list of museums and...
Feb 17th
“like giving a drink to an alcoholic”
— NY Mayor Bloomberg’s...
— NY Mayor Bloomberg’s...
Feb 17th
BYOB part deux: Why I don't buy bottled...
Mainly because I don’t like being taken advantage of. The bottled water...
Feb 16th
don't know much about ...tea
I need to learn about tea: consumer trends, various brands, tea producers, etc. If you’re an...
Feb 15th
I saw The Real Dirt on Farmer John last night. It was great...
Feb 15th
How do you know that what you know is...
I’ve been told that every seven years, human knowledge doubles. In researching that I also...
Feb 15th
Steven Spielberg has decided to withdraw as the artistic...
Feb 14th
Exxon 's 2007 annual profit is largest in US...
Feb 14th
Branding Yourself
What’s a brand? Basically, it’s how your product or service differentiates itself from...
Feb 14th
missing Florida.
Feb 13th
Taryn Simon photographs some of America’s “Best...
Feb 12th
20,000 people buried under Washington Square Park
Just a...
Feb 12th
The studies have been out for years, but a recent NYTimes...
Feb 11th
the orange juice futures market is a better predictor of...
Feb 9th
This was a memo written by political consultant Frank Luntz...
Feb 7th
Sports Illustrated’s Fortunate 50 of 2007 came out...
Feb 6th
Super!
It’s Tuesday. That means if you live in one...
Feb 5th
Poor Philo.
I saw The Farnsworth Invention this weekend....
Feb 5th
the espn of stocks
DC: what is the espn of stocks?me: i'm not sure what you're referring to
DC: like some place where i can see stocks. how they're doing.
DC: read about whose team is doing well. who's hurt. who's not.
me: well, your fidelity account will track the stocks you own. also yahoo or google finance allows you to create a portfolio so whenever you log onto your homepage you can see how your stocks are doing.
me: but the espn is really bloomberg.
Feb 5th
MSFT + YHOO vs. GOOG
Apparently, this comment by Google’s Sergey Brin admitting weakness in the social networking...
Feb 5th
Forbes’ Misery Measure determines the most miserable...
Feb 4th
The Economics of Football
“There has been a trend in the last seven or eight seasons that the team winning the toss in...
Feb 4th
Food inflation in the Caribbean is up 40%, causing the UN...
Feb 2nd
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
I keep getting...
Feb 2nd
US Foreclosure Activity Increases 75% in 2007 with...
Feb 1st