July 2008
3 posts
The Cheapest Stocks Around
The market is down. Woe as us, right? Well not if you’ve got some money to invest, because now’s the time to check out some cheap stocks. Luckily the Motley Fool did this so I didn’t have to. Here are their cheap stock finds:
Coca cola (NYSE:KO) hit 52 week low*
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) hit 52 week low*
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) lowest PE since 1992
Hansen Natural (NASDAQ: HANS) stock...
This song just started playing on my iTunes and...
June 2008
14 posts
Do you know what's going on in Zimbabwe?
I’ve been following the situation in Zimbabwe since March, and am surprised by a. how little media attention it has received (that is, until Sunday when Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of the election and sought refuge at the Dutch embassy in Harare), and b. how few people to whom I ask that question say yes.
From what I have read/heard/researched, here’s the story:
Zimbabwe was a British colony...
gooneruk:
LEN - Steal My Sunshine
I’m in a...
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I’m a huge fan of The Onion. Its my favorite paper and my favorite source of news. The Onion News Network keeps getting better. I couldn’t stop laughing at their newest, Most Children Strongly Opposed to Children’s Healthcare.
Boyfriend and Girlfriend Discuss "Sex and the...
Boyfriend: Why are you and your friends so obsessed with "Sex and the City?"
Girlfriend: Because the characters are just like us!
Boyfriend: Like the fact that only one of you is kind of attractive?
processed foods (should) keep inflation down
Food inflation is all the rage in the news these days. But here’s something I learned today. Only 2% of the price of processed foods goes to the farmer. In that box of cereal I ate the morning, the actual grain in the box is only two percent of the total value. Well, in Canada at least, where this picture is from (click for larger size).
That’s why Canada and the US have seen such low food...
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Like virtually every red-blooded American who owned a television in the ’90s, it doesn’t get much funnier for me than the late Chris Farley. And the brief Saturday Night Live clip above is from one of my favorite Farley sketches, “Japanese Game Show,” which I thought I knew inside and out.
Then I read The Chris Farley Show a biography of the comedian’s brief life.
I’ll get to the clip in a...
B-List Celebrity Fridays
I’ve been looking around for the thing to do in Madison when the nice weather rolls around. I’ve asked several people and they list activites such as all the bars on the lake or going out to the Dells for the greatest concentration of waterparks in the United States. But one recommendation caught my eye in particular, the local minor league basbeall team, The Madison Mallards.
From...
SocialHistory.js →
marco:
This is ingenious and a little scary. Normally, Javascript doesn’t have access to your browser’s history URLs. But Aza Raskin found a way:
How does SocialHistory.js know? By using a cute information leak introduced by CSS. The browser colors visited links differently than non-visited links. All you have to do is load up a whole bunch of URLs for the most popular social bookmarking...
Another “too cool” song from Jeff Lewis. Jeff...
Barack Obama, John McCain, and The Future of...
Will Facebook be sold within the next year? A question I’ve heard asked countless times over the last, well, few years. So here’s some insight — that could very much depend on who wins the presidential election in November. Currently, the federal tax rate for a capital gain (making a profit from an asset you’ve held for over a year) is 15%. Many suspect that with a Democratic congress and...
Sadly,
many people walk around haunted by a guilt for a world of abundance that they did not create. It’s the paradox of choice (80 brands of toothpaste on the shelves, no means of picking) on a life-sized scale. If you can do anything, if you are blessed with a life in a country where food and shelter are a given, then you are cursed with the responsibility of choosing for yourself what your struggle...
May 2008
31 posts
10 Businesses Facing Extinction in 10 Years
A 2007 article from Entrepreneur.com discusses the odds of survival of ten industries. They are: Record Stores Camera Film Manufacturing Crop Dusters Gay Bars Newspapers Pay Phones Used Bookstores Piggy Banks Telemarketers Coin-Operated Arcades
So Thick.
I found a great article on Yahoo today about the unhealthiest drinks in America. The award goes to the Baskin Robbin’s Large Heath Bar Shake (32 oz). “How bad can it be” do you ask? Great question! 108 grams of fat. That’s over twice the amount of my previous favorite absurd food, Wendy’s Baconator, which only has 51 grams of fat. (Note: The Baconator consists of two 4oz. beef patties, two slices...
My Place in History
This weekend was a big one for the area of Madison, WI. It was Bratfest Weekend, the World’s Largest Bratwurst Festival. An annual festival that features the largest grill in the world, as well as an effort to set the world record for number of brat’s consumed in a weekend. I’m proud to say my 4 Bratwurst, contributed to the world record of 191, 712. The number is quite...
“But the Internet had changed, and my place in it had changed, too: I no longer...”
– Blog-Post Confidential by Emily Gould Excellent piece in this weekend’s Times Magazine, via Becca. (via zachklein)
zachklein - An amazing source for great musicThe...
“Be My Baby” by the Ronettes A great song...
WatchLet the healing begin samreich: Patrick Cassels is hilarious and full of anecdotes. It just didn’t make sense that he didn’t have Tumblr. We pled with him. We reasoned. Jake even organized a petition. But nothing worked. Today we held an intervention. I organized, Ricky hosted, Jake, Sarah and Amanda wrote letters, and Amir and Blake shot it. Ladies and gentlemen: patrickcassels.tumblr.com. ...
WatchPretty Sweet Design Reel by ECAL
What Could be a great Mid-90's SNL Skit
The scene is a college classroom. There are fourteen kids and a handsome 30 year old professor. The class is called “Negotiations.” Professor: All right class. I know I’ve been referencing the final for a while now, not telling you exactly what it is. But today I’m finally going to explain to everybody how the final exam works in this class. Brian: Yeah! Tell us! Professor: Brian, leave. (Brian...
Merle Haggard - Okie from Muskogee
Eye Opening Experience
Those who know at all. know that enjoy the pain of others. Pain is just a general word for it, but in general I get happy when others fail. Thus why I generally love and hate karaoke nights at bars. I love the sight of drunk obnoxious people singing songs, onn that are way out of their vocal range, and two don’t know the words to. I find it hilarious and I like the flops better then the...
Is there a more disingenuous phrase than “good luck with that”? I can’t think of a faster way to come off as a total dick.
The Transplants - What I can’t Describe I...
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Me and Mia Do you...
Karl Malone - Father of the Year →
“The less the men know about the making of laws and sausages, the better they...”
– Otto Von Bismarck
Man accused of trying to cash check for... →
“when the bank contacted the check owner, the woman said she did not write a check for $360 billion.”
The Newest Beats
Below are my two newest favorites/songs of the week. And I as an American Male am proud to say that I listen to Coldplay.
Coldplay - Violet Hill
pile:Maritime - Guns of Navarone
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Global warming, carbon neutral, low emissions, eco-friendly… Are these things important because the health of the Earth itself is important, or because an unhealthy Earth is dangerous for humans? That is: What is your highest value? Man or Earth? If you had to pick one, which would you pick? If what’s best for man is what’s worst for the Earth, would you do it anyway? You cannot have two highest...
Slang Stock Market
I’m shorting the word “douche.” After a strong resurgence in 2005 and showing strong staying power through 2007, its day has come. Lately most of the people I’ve seen use it fit into two categories, or a combination of both: 1) people over 40 who have finally had the word passed down the cool chain from their younger friends and co-workers 2) the “douches” originally being described themselves...
WatchA great Milwaukee tradition. My first trip to miller park was a good one, besides seeing one of baseballs premier parks, I actually caught a foul ball. I’ve been going to Philadelphia Phillies games for years and this has never happened, nor have I ever been close. I was excited to say the least.
April 2008
2 posts
Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken...
WatchI haven’t posted anything in a very long time, and for that I apologize. But I opened my email today to find an email from Miss Natalie. She commented on how she enjoyed my blog, and they got me to thinking I need to make this more of a routine and I will try to make more time in the future for it. So in honor of Natalie, I promised a special post. Here is the latest Michael Showalter...