January 2012
11 posts
“We played the spot once, and when it finished, Jobs said, “It sucks! I hate it!...”
– Behind the Scenes of Apple’s ‘Think Different’ Campaign (via implodr)
The biggest thing that bothers me about the “Cult of Jobs” is that people often seem to mistake the unfortunate, frequently counterproductive, side effects of the personality that made him great for the very cause of his...
December 2011
22 posts
5 Underreported Stories of 2011
joshsternberg:
As we close the books on 2011, here, in totality, are five underreported stories (as put together by me) for Current.com:
More troops commit suicide than die in combat
Big business behind solar power
Food prices trigger revolution
U.S. military infiltrates social media
Number of homeless children highest in American history
Men Shop in Bulk →
youmightfindyourself:
WOMEN shop, men stockpile. That’s one theory, anyway, of how men buy clothes differently from women. If women see shopping as an opportunity, a social or even therapeutic activity, the thinking goes, then men see it as a necessary evil, a moment to restock the supply closet.
At the risk of perpetuating sex stereotypes, the archetype may have been Steve Jobs. When Mr. Jobs...
The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com →
Finding myself at breakfast with a group of lawyers in Oxford four months ago, I noticed that all their talk was of sailing — or riding or bridge: anything that would allow them to get out of radio contact for a few hours.
Other friends try to go on long walks every Sunday, or to “forget” their cellphones at home. A series of tests in recent years has shown, Mr. Carr points out, that after...
You know what's really interesting about this...
A lot people are asking what did Stratfor do to deserve this — as if all hackers are Robin Hood-esque vigilantes that only go after “bad people”.
The roles have reversed: the villain has become the hero, and the victim has become the villain. And I’m not okay with that.
WSJ: Dirty Secrets In Soap Prices →
PARIS—For nearly a decade, executives from consumer goods giants including Procter & Gamble Co. secretly met in discreet restaurants around Paris, allegedly to fix the price of laundry detergent in France.
On Thursday, the country’s antitrust watchdog handed them the check.
The Autorité de la Concurrence slapped fines totaling €361 million ($484 million) on P&G, Henkel AG and...
Super PACs now a force in the presidential race -... →
NEW YORK — The special political action committees that can raise and spend unlimited campaign money while operating independently of candidates have jumped into the presidential contest with an unmistakable message: Game on.
Moody's Downgrades Top French Banks - NYTimes.com →
PARIS — In another sign of how Europe’s debt crisis is rippling through the banking system, Moody’s Investors Service on Friday downgraded the three largest banks in France, and said there was a “very high” probability that the French government would step in to support them if conditions worsened.
Alibaba seeks $4 billion in financing for Yahoo |... →
Blackstone Group and Bain Capital are preparing a bid for all of Yahoo Inc, Reuters reported earlier this month, with Alibaba among its partners for the roughly $25 billion deal. Japan’s Softbank Corp is also part of that consortium.
Documents: ATF used "Fast and Furious" to make the... →
“It’s like ATF created or added to the problem so they could be the solution to it and pat themselves on the back,” says one law enforcement source familiar with the facts. “It’s a circular way of thinking.”
Why The UK Trail Of The MF Global Collapse May... →
With weak collateral rules and a level of leverage that would make Archimedes tremble, firms have been piling into re-hypothecation activity with startling abandon. A review of filings reveals a staggering level of activity in what may be the world’s largest ever credit bubble.
Engaging in hyper-hypothecation have been Goldman Sachs ($28.17 billion re-hypothecated in 2011), Canadian Imperial...
Occupy Darien organizer arrested -... →
DARIEN — The organizer of an Occupy Darien event scheduled for later this month is facing several charges after police said she blocked traffic on the Post Road while intoxicated.
Corzine: I don't know where the missing MF Global... →
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Jon Corzine, the former chief executive officer of the bankrupt broker MF Global, apologized for his firm’s failure Thursday and told a House committee that he doesn’t know where the missing money went.
When Teams Leave, What Do You Do With the Stadium? →
Many cities, though, simply try to cut their losses. In a controversial move in 2009, the state-appointed emergency manager of Pontiac, Mich., sold the 80,000-seat Silverdome, once home to the NFL’s Detroit Lions, for just $583,000. Some residents thought the city got fleeced, but in his resignation later, the manager wrote that the stadium “had been sapping the lifeblood of the city for many...
friday beats, vol. 47 [the...
fridaybeats:
Hello!
we’ve been building up a stash of tracks in the lab for the last few weeks, and from us to you — volume 47.
(wow, we’ve been doing this for a year now! show us some love, and let us know what you want to hear more of!)
start this week’s playlist: http://play.fridaybeats.com/volume/47
friendly fires // hurting
kele // goodbye horses
neon indian // hex girlfriend
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November 2011
2 posts
3 tags
friday beats, vol. 46...
fridaybeats:
Oh, hi!
It’s your long lost friends, OO, Maria, and Sid. We got sucked into the vortex of silly, non-sensical things like… Netflix marathons (paging Dr. Dorian) and halloween costumes (Sun Drop Girl wins this year). But, fortunately, we came to our senses for one more weekend of fresh music for y’all.
(Listen to this week’s track list: http://play.fridaybeats.com/volume/46)
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September 2011
1 post
2 tags
Installing PostgreSQL on OS X Lion
Under Mac OS X Lion, the PostgreSQL one-click installer always fails on the post-install step. Ugh.
If you run this as root (or prefix every line with “sudo”, ick). This will create the “postgres” user and its home directory, initialize the database, and add PostgreSQL to system startup.
dscl . -create /Users/postgres
dscl . -create /Users/postgres NFSHomeDirectory...
August 2011
20 posts
Spoke too soon, water is starting to trickle in to crevices and holes…
Bathroom power dropped, and upon investigating, we found water in the breaker panel. Ugh. Looks like water got in via cracks in the SE service cable.
Now, the area around the kitchen vent has water in it — gotta rip that open to dry out, replace, and re-seal.
2 tags
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friday beats, vol. 43 [the...
fridaybeats:
This weekend, we’re gonna slow up the pace and keep things a little light.
Enjoy this week’s drop: http://beta.fridaybeats.com/volume/43
the chemical brothers // asleep from day
i break horses // hearts
the naked and famous // the sun [nsfw]
mecca:83 // loungin’
diamond messages // liquid summer
knxwledge // lovahorts
bon iver // holcene
suff daddy // deep shit...
friday beats, vol. 41 [the...
fridaybeats:
Today’s playlist is a mix of fresh releases and some nostalgic hits — sort of like an Almond Joy vs. Mounds thing, except combined together with some delicious tracks.
Ok, now I have a sweet craving. brb.
Enjoy this week’s drop: http://beta.fridaybeats.com/volume/41
slow magic // sorry safari http://fridaybeats.com/post/8524766859
sbtrkt // wildfire...