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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Shared Wisdom: Thoughts From Some of the Industry’s Best VCs. (PandoDaily)
• How Slot Machines Raise Our Hopes, Even When We’re Losing. (NYTimes)
• Finding Value in Information Super-Abundance. (Economist)
• How Nate Silver Got It Right. It's not how much data you have, it's what you do with it. (NYBooks)
• Big Data Can Tell By Your Tweets If You’re a Psychopath. (GlobalMail)

 

Trading Links:

• Small Hedge Funds Outdo Elite Rivals. (FT)
• What If They Held a Bull Market and No One Came? Disinterest in the Dow's new high. (WS&T)
• Buffett Picks Douglas Kass as His 'Bear' for Berkshire’s Annual Meeting. (Dealbook)
• Could North Korea Really Nuke the United States? Threat of a "Preemptive Nuclear Attack" (TW)
• As Budget Cuts Loom, Austerity Kills Off Government Jobs. What effect will that have on the economy? (NYTimes)

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Check-Out the "People Are Awesome 2013" Video

Watch this video.  Lots of it is amazing ... Some of it is inspiring.

You will witness flips, jumps, catches and feats that defy imagination (and certainly logic). 

  

What type of person thinks, 'I want to do that' ?

To see which of the segments might be fake, click here.

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Perhaps you've seen the t-shirt before ...

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Washington, DC, Is No. 1 — at Watching Porn. So they are doing something there. (Newser)
• 20 Tech Trends That Will Define 2013. Selected By Frog Design (Fastcodesign)
• Seeking Cheaper Insurance, Drivers Accept Monitoring Devices. (NYTimes)
• Toyota Unveils a Lexus that Drives Itself. But Says It’ll Keep Drivers in Control (MIT TechReview)
• Getting the Right Dose of Exercise. Why Four Workouts a Week May Be Better Than Six. (Well)

 

Trading Links:

• How Michael Jordan Still Earns $80 Million A Year. (Forbes)
• Kass Gets ‘Summer of 1987 Feeling’. Sentiment and valuations make a strong bear case (CNBC)
• Fed Action This Year More Powerful Than in 2012. (WSJ)
• A Tax That Could Change the Trading Game. It’s all about ‘Carrots’ and ‘Sticks’. (NYTimes)
• Perhaps You Are Not as Good an Investor as You Think You Are. Many investors have been behaving as if the bloodbath between October 2007 and March 2009 never happened. (Wall Street Journal)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Did you think Beyonce's Lip-Synced Inaugural Anthem was really a big deal?

There is more ... This quote from the Washingtonian's Sophie Gilbert says a lot about Washington.

To press seated just below the [inauguration] podium, in front of the 'President's Own' Marine Corps Band, it was evident that the band wasn't actually playing during [Beyoncé's rendition of the national anthem] -- even though band director Colonel Michael J. Colburn was conducting energetically and the band members mimicked blowing into their instruments.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Nate Silver Can Accurately Predict an Election, but Not a Super Bowl. (TheAtlantic)
• More N.F.L. Teams Hire Statisticians But Their Use Remains Mostly Guarded. (NYTimes)
• White House to Texas. "No, You Can't Secede." 8 states told they're staying in the Union (Newser)
• Biden. 'I'm Proud To Be President' ... Oops. (Video)
• Can Gadgets Make You Healthier, Stronger, Thinner? Wearable Feedback Devices Promise to Improve Slouching, Athletic Skills (Wall Street Journal)

 

Trading Links:

• IPO Lottery 2013. 10 Companies to Watch. (Wired Business)
• Cat Beats Wealth Managers. Moggy shames experts in trading contest.  (TheAge)
• ICE-NYSE Deal and the Implication for Derivatives. (FT Video)
• Guess Who Continues To Not "Rotate" Out of Treasurys and Into Stocks. (ZeroHedge)
• Hedge Fund Leverage Reaches 2004 Levels. Holdings exceed cash invested by 153%. Meanwhile Banks are using 14:1 (AdvisorOne)

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Do You Agree With This List of the 100 Most Beautiful Songs Ever Heard?

A thread on popular net board, AskReddit, posed the question, "What is the most beautiful song you've ever heard?"

The challenge was simple:

Think to yourself, what is the most beautiful song you have ever heard, im not talking about your favourite song, or the most technical, or something that made you cry, I just want to know the song that made you say 'holy shit... I could die to this.'

After thousands of comments, a strong list was assembled and filtered. Ultimately, the 100 most upvoted songs became a public Spotify playlist.

Selections range from classical to punk and from pop to indie.  The result was interesting and varied.

Worth a listen. Here is the List.

 

 

 

  

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Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

So proud of our 'solution' to the debt ceiling issue ...

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• What a Big-Data Business Model Looks Like. (Harvard Business Review)
• Everything You’ll Ever Need To Know About Gamification. (TechCrunch)
• Google Gives $5M To Build Drones That Hunt Poachers - Forbes. (Forbes)
• The 10 Greatest National Anthem Performances in Super Bowl history. (The Week)
• Compare Cities Instantly With VERSUS IO. Actually, this tool compares many things (Mashable)

 

Trading Links:

• Online Banking Attacks Were Work of Iran, U.S. Officials Say. (NYTimes)
• PIMCO's El-Erian. Game Theory Predicts More Can-Kicking in Washington (AdvisorOne)
• Kleiner Partners' View of the Future of Tech. (Wall Street Journal)
• Own the Robots, Bro, Trust Me. (ReformedBroker)
• Is Quantitative Easing Still Necessary? Direct Benefit versus Gain from the Signal Sent. (Forbes)

A Bad Lip Reading of the NFL

Playoff time is usually serious for the NFL.  This is not.

It is kind of the opposite of one of those old Kung Fu movies where the dubbed words you hear aren't synched with the mouth movement. 

Here it looks like they are saying what you hear ... it's just that someone changed the words.  You could call it "So THAT'S what they were saying ..."

 

 

 via YouTube

JibJab's 2012 Year in Review Video

Oh well ... crazy how fast time flies.  Hopefully 2012 was good for you. 

Here is JibJab's take on what happened.   

 

 

 via: JibJab

 Long Live 2013.

 

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Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Doomsday Planning?

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The Five Cs of Opportunity Identification. (Harvard Business Review)
• SpaceX's Elon Musk: Your ticket to Mars? Half a million dollars. (LATimes)
• How IBM Is Watching How You Shop Online. (AllThingsD)
• Is Sleeping With a Partner Better For You Than Sleeping Alone? (WSJ)
• Why Do Children Think Covering Their Eyes Makes Them Invisible? (Popular Science)

 

Trading Links:

• Smart People Can Make Stupid Investing Decisions. (Forbes)
• Four Common Mistakes about the Fed. (OldProf)
• Fed Likely to Keep Buying Bonds. To combat threats of new turbulence & uncertainty. (WSJ)
• Raging Bulls. How Wall Street Got Addicted to Light-Speed Trading. (Wired)
• Two-Thirds of Millionaires Left Britain to Avoid 50% Tax Rate. (Telegraph)

JibJab Lets You Star In Your Own Gangnam Style Video

Gangnam Style has about a billion views, recently surpassing Justin Bieber to become the number one most-viewed YouTube video of all time. 

So, of course, JibJab got in the game. They’ve launched a Gangnam Style video that you can personalize with your face (or a friend’s face). Here's what it looks like.

 

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

 

Hope you are having a happy and fun holiday season.