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The lows are so extreme that the good seems fucking cheap

December 26th, 2011 · Uncategorized

 

  • Transaction Infraction: How Bank Practices Increase Overdraft Fees – pewtrusts
  • Growth in the Age of Deleveraging – bankofcanada
  • Obama and the Rule of Law – huffpo
  • Obama and Geithner: Government, Enron-Style – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • 50 Economic Numbers From 2011 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe – theeconomiccollapseblog
  • The Silver Rush at MF Global – barrons
  • Transcript for Ann Barnhardt Interview – financialsense
  • Why The UK Trail Of The MF Global Collapse May Have “Apocalyptic” Consequences – zerohedge
  • A Christmas Message From America’s Rich – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • Complex Systems Institute claims “bear raid” market manipulation crashed the global economy via boingboing
  • Boehner’s office cuts off C-SPAN cameras – rawstory
  • Growth of large private water companies brings higher water rates, little recourse for consumers – statesman
  • Cloward–Piven strategy – wikipedia
  • Hayman Capital Mgmt letter Dec 14
  • Let’s Make The Clawback Risk REAL – market-ticker

     

    2008: Blind, Yet Seeing: The Brain’s Subconscious Visual Sense

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    we are apparently determined to saw at our own necks until all our heads fall off, thus showing those noses who’s boss.

    December 22nd, 2011 · Uncategorized

     


    First Look: Cal-Texas Holiday Bowl Matchup
    Talking Turkey with Burnt Orange Nation: A Holiday Bowl Chat
    Film Study: Check-With-Me Option – californiagoldenblogs
    Snap Shots: Zach Maynard and the Cal Zone Read – burntorangenation

     

  • Proteigon via zefrank
  • Google Zeitgeist 2011


    The MLB Prospect Bubble – rjazayerli   grantland
    The Hitters Who Spent The Most Time At The Plate In 2011 – beyondtheboxscore

     

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    …a true “difference of opinion,” which is not the same as one person telling lies and the other saying, “Wait, those are lies.”

    December 21st, 2011 · Uncategorized

     


      Warren Hellman, financier and philanthropist, dies at 77– sfgate
      RIAA and Homeland Security Caught Downloading Torrents – torrentfreak
      Green Day Secret Show Red 7 – livehappilyevermatt
    Secret Colours – Faust
    Those Darlins – Waste Away
    The Pimps Of Joytime – Blues Wit You

    The Pimps Of Joytime – San Francisco Bound
    The Clean – Anything Could Happen
     M185 – Space Bum Rocket Kid
    Clarence Carter – Back Door Santa
    Pomplamoose – Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

     

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    Propping it up. Knocking it down.

    December 13th, 2011 · Uncategorized

     

  • Supreme Court of Assholedom: The People vs. Steve Jobs – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • The 2011 Good Gift Games Guide – defectiveyeti
  • Mr. Data Converter
  • onegoodmove
  • Sarcastic Font

    Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed [via TED]
    RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms
    Guernica 3D
      Earth: Time Lapse View from Space

     

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    We used to build dams and bridges and, you know, useful things. Now we build armies and crazy people.

    December 12th, 2011 · Uncategorized

     


    A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage – theawl
    Worldwide Feast: 55 Great Global Food Blogs – saveur
    Porchetta At Home – amateurgourmet
    12 Days of Cookies: Salted caramel thumbprints – babycenter
    Celery and apple salad made special – sfgate
    miniature soft pretzels – smittenkitchen
    Magic miso: A guide to Japanese soybean pastes and how to use them – sfgate
    Drinkify – Never listen alone again

     

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    splitting the difference between truth and beauty

    December 7th, 2011 · Uncategorized


      Bill’s Map
    Hard Drugs – Bad Ideas
    Afghan Whigs – Debonair
    Joe South – Games People Play
    Jenny O – Well OK Honey
    Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Blue Green Olga
    Friends – I’m His Girl
    Eric Burdon & War – Tobacco Road
    Keepon dancing to Spoon’s – Don’t You Evah

     

    Film Study: Fake Jet Sweep Play Design
    Film Study: The Kelly vs. Pendergast Chess Match (Part II)   [part I] – HydroTech on californiagoldenblogs
    The University as Frankenstein Monster – thesportseconomist
    MLB Trade Trees
    Inside Baseball: Michael Lewis and Billy Beane talk Moneyball – slate
    Of Bad Mechanics And Torn Testicles; Or, Why I Love Adrian Beltre – deadspin

     

    2009 : My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
    2004 : Don’t believe the hype

     

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    There is more to humour than gags and jokes, and there is more to playfulness than humour.

    December 5th, 2011 · Uncategorized

     

  • A Secret Scandal: the $7 trillion secret loan program – slate
  • We Don’t Make Demands
  • Hank Paulson’s Crony Capitalism – rollingstone
  • Robert Reich: The REAL Public Nuisance [slyt]
  • Federal Judge Pimp-Slaps the SEC Over Citigroup Settlement – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • JPMorgan Sued by BayernLB Over Mortgage-Backed Securities – businessweek
  • Gallery: how the surveillance industry markets spyware to governments – arstechnica
  • $707,568,901,000,000: Banks Increased Derivatives By A Record $107 Trillion In 6 Months – zerohedge
  • Woman Gets Jail For Food-Stamp Fraud; Wall Street Fraudsters Get Bailouts – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • In it for the Money: Occupation – We could all use some good neighbors – annarborchronicle
  • Jim Rickards: Who Will Bail Out the Fed & How High for Gold? – kingworldnews
  • Gadhafi’s Gold-money Plan Would Have Devastated Dollar – thenewamerican
  • [INSERT GROUPON JOKE HERE] – zerohedge
  • The roots of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying – GGreenwald   salon
  • Bush, Blair found guilty of war crimes – presstv

     

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    Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.

    November 30th, 2011 · Uncategorized

     

      A 2005 DrBeeper mix refresh : A set of monochromatic tunes
     
        Monochrome 1: Black   [download]
        Monochrome 2: Red   [download]
        Monochrome 3: White   [download]
        Monochrome 4: Blue   [download]

     

     

    2006 : Picture Day

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    …set in motion long before the first naked ape crafted the first idol.

    November 21st, 2011 · Uncategorized

     


      Does Music Change The Taste Of Wine? – wired
      Doyle Bramhall: 1949-2011 – austin360
    D-PAN ASL Music Video: White Stripes – We’re Going To Be Friends
    Raspberries – Go All The Way
    Dirty Cupcakes – Get Out
     The Horrors – Suffragette City
    Stan Ridgway – The Big Heat – Drive She Said
    Stan Ridgway – Camouflage
      PeelPlayer: listen to every track from every John Peel Festive Fifty

     

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    … if you can listen to this stuff and not piss yourself with shame, you have a serious problem.

    November 14th, 2011 · Uncategorized

     


    Anonymous 101: Introduction to the Lulz – wired

     

  • Imagining A Middle Class Does Not Create One – oftwominds
  • Finally, a Judge Stands up to Wall Street – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • Devastating Analysis of MIRS – nakedcapitalism
  • MF Signs Death Warrant for Short-Term Funding – businessweek
  • Mike Bloomberg’s Marie Antoinette Moment – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • What caused the financial crisis? The Big Lie goes viral. – washingtonpost
  • The World Is Drowning in Debt, and Europe Laces On Concrete Boots – oftwominds
  • Congress: Trading stock on inside information? – 60minutes
    Global economic chaos – OnTheEdge with Satyajit Das

     

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