Month: March 2009
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Too rich/famous/lazy/boring to twitter
If you don’t have time to twitter, never fear. Noam Cohen mentions the new market for ghost twitterers. I actually was planning to write/rant about twittering fairly soon, but twittering is one of those tools that journalists and geeks enjoy but most of the population views as irrelevant. (At SXSW I did come across several…
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Usual Meta-post about not being dead
I’ve been out of town at South by Southwest for the last week. I’ll be catching up on posts eventually. Suffice to say that going to a tech conference without so much as carrying a laptop or gadget was exhilarating! To start, Forrest Gump in 1 minute. This is a brilliant parody. But as creativity…
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Utterly amazing and horrifying financial scandals!
1. FDIC bailout needed FDIC conveniently stopped asking big banks to pay insurance premiums between 1996-2006. Now because banks are so fragile, Congress will be asked to pay $500 billion for insurance premiums which the bank claim they are too poor to pay. Think about that. They are exempted from paying premiums when the fund…
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www.HSBCcreditcardsucks.com, a Consumer Gripe site
Here’s www.HSBCcreditcardsucks.com , a consumer gripe site about HSBC Bank. Fun fact: they are the 2nd largest bank in the world.
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Lessons from the Wizard of Oz
Teachwithmovies is a company that specializes in school lessons based on films. By itself, it’s a fascinating idea. Here’s a sample lesson for the movie Wizard of Oz. I gotta say: Oz is one of my favorite movies, and the discussion questions from this sample lesson really got me thinking.
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Great Global Warming Video at 350.org
Wow, the 350.org people have produced a great nonverbal video about global warming. (More info) Remember my money quote from a week ago: US produces 6.0 million metric tons annually and EU produces 4.0 million metric tons annually, China+ Taiwan produces 7 million metric tons annually, and both Russia and India over around 1.5 million.…