January 2009
“I seek to follow interesting twitterpeople I don’t know — someone a complete...”
– “Twitteree Recommendations Wanted” par Kevin Kelly dans Cool Tools (January 30th, 2009) (via c0wb0yz)
“La chute de la confiance des patrons des pays émergents a davantage chuté que...”
– Tony Poulter (de PwC) (via buzzle)
“Je ne comprends pas l’esprit de la manifestation de (ce jeudi), c’est comme si,...”
– Laurence Parisot (présidente du Medef) (via buzzle)
“If there’s a problem, fix it. If your job can’t be fixed, quit. How dare you...”
– [Fireside Chat] Seth Godin and Mark Hurst - 37signals
something i came across 2 years ago today.
(via soxiam)
Did JPM Cause Bernie Madoff's Ponzi To Collapse? →
capucha:
Ray Charles- Shake your tailfeathers
“Tout le monde est content : les syndicats ont réussi à mobiliser les...”
– “Une grève moderne ?” par Marc Landré dans Les dessous du social (January 30th, 2009) (via c0wb0yz)
“I’m not going to create a slideshow presentation but I’ll give you the winning...”
– 11 Business Plans For Twitter (via lunchfood)
“The other day i saw a guy on Twitter saying he dropped using Fring (a great...”
– MYBLOG by Ouriel: This is what Israeli startups have to deal with sometimes..
“Jobs never glanced at their presentation,” the article noted. “Instead, he...”
– AppleInsider | iDVD hung out to dry as Apple pushes movies online (via bijan)
“Et là, tu la vois ?”
– Une pancarte brandie jeudi dans une manifestation à Montpellier, en allusion à Nicolas Sarkozy qui lançait en juillet dernier: “Désormais, quand il y a une grève, personne ne s’en aperçoit” (via buzzle)
“Failed presidencies are one of our last thriving industries. If the president...”
– Joel Achenbach (via ayjay)
F*** My Life
bankergonebroke:
Scanning the internet last night for some fun, I stumbled upon the following microblog, called F*** My Life. It is hilarious…
There are a number of short ‘FML’ stories told, with readers voting whether:
1. “I agree, your life is f***cked”
or
2. “You deserved that one”
The FMLs range from sex to work to kids to health… Some samplings are below: (I have overweighted stories...
“These days, though, that optimism is in short supply. The latest evidence is the...”
– Maybe We Should Call Them Venture Pessimists - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com (via fred-wilson)
“Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around...”
– Paul Graham Cities and Ambition (via turquoisebird)
Paul Graham auto-reblog.
“Turritopsis Nutricula is technically known as a hydrozoan and is the only known...”
– Telegraph.co.uk on the recent discovery of a tiny jellyfish capable of reversing its aging process. (via joelaz)
“As for Republican attitudes about sex, well, politically they may come across as...”
– Peter Suderman
“The real shame about the inappropriate utterances coming from royals and...”
– other examples here (via ayjay)
“Don’t ask for anything and don’t complain about anything.”
– Vladimir Putin, quoting the best advice he ever received. He also mentions that his greatest fault is being “too trusting.” As Foreign Policy notes, he certainly doesn’t lack a sense of irony. (via kylebingman)
“If you are “not creative,” if you are the sort of person that gets...”
– Seth
Remember the Titans
The Leveraged Sell-Out:
Teach your children about the days when even uttering the name Morgan Stanley made college students faint. Read them the pre-2008 league tables, and make your sons and daughters memorize them alongside the ones for multiplication. Do whatever it takes to keep the legend of Wall Street as it was truly intended live on. When you think back on investment banking of the early...
Dealbreaker - Ponzi Ponzi Ponzi! →
Gold.
WatchInformation Arbitrage: Learning from Failure - SIIA Keynote Presentation 2009
Tremendous presentation on entrepreneurship, learning from failure and building toward success.
“Jérôme Kerviel a accordé six entretiens à une journaliste du Parisien qui...”
– “Règle n°1 : tu ne parleras plus aux journalistes” par Narvic sur novövision (January 26th, 2009) (via c0wb0yz)
Les journalistes ont un devoir envers la vérité, et s’ils doivent publier quelque chose ils doivent le publier. Mais il y a un moyen très simple pour ça: ne pas donner...
“Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we’d be against it.”
– PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk, in the September 1989 issue of Vogue, Sep 1989
(via atheistramblings)
capucha:
Mathieu Boogaerts- Bien
“How do you know when you’re finished making love?”
– Jackson Pollock, in response to the question ‘How do you know when you’re finished with a painting?’ (via turquoisebird)
When there’s splatter all over the wall, apparently. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
“Today, I foist a new blog called Aid Watch on the blogosphere. The objective is...”
– Aid Watch — Talented economist William Easterly just started this blog, and the first post is already scrumptious.