December 2008
21 posts
“Pressured by the Bush administration to approve the money quickly, Congress...”
– —Where’d the bailout money go? Shhhh, it’s a secret
This is a prime example of media bias. By tacking on the short addendum “Pressured by the Bush administration”, the AP journalist who wrote this story is attempting to channel our feelings in a certain way (the...
Civic Literacy Test →
marco:
(via lfarm)
I got an 85% (28/33). I’m qualified to live here! Yay!
Same. Some of those are actually pretty tough, though most are pretty obvious.
Fuck You, Penguin →
I don’t know why, but every one of these cracks me up.
Proof that I don't belong in business school
The other day, in a meeting with the teaching assistant for my management class, I asked what was meant by an “affiliative” employee.
“Well, that’s someone who is motivated by their desire to be well-liked, rather than by acheivement or power.”
My first thought?
“Oh, so like Willie Loman.”
Watchjakeandamir:
Interpreters
While I’m on an obnoxious reblog streak: best Jake and Amir in a while.
Screen Expansion and Minimalism
Two days ago, I switched the dock on my Macbook to auto-hide. I had always been one of those people that was annoyed by the way it would pop up without warning when you accidentally moved your cursor to the bottom of the screen, but this time I gave in an effort to decrease the distractions on my screen while I was studying slides for a final I had today. It’s amazing the difference having...
simko:
The next time that you’re in a store that carries fragrances, try testing a perfume (or cologne) that you’ve worn in the past rather than one you’re considering for the future. You’ll spend the rest of your day triggering old memories…
This is so true. Works with any scent, and more often for me it’s reverting to an old bodywash or deodorant scent from a few years back (usually on...
war
fiftywords:
They had come as strangers to this place, born on opposite sides of a spinning planet. Their differences were as deep and cold as the rivers they fought across, as immovable as the mountains they battled over, as stark as the stars they died under, gasping the same algid air.
As a student and avid reader of every news/political/financial/entrepreneurial/random article I come across,...
How Short-Seller Jim Chanos Is Profiting From the... →
A hedge fund that knows that how to hedge? What a novel concept!
Related: Study shows upwards of 80% of hedge fund employees never actually knew what the word “hedge” meant (via The Leveraged Sellout)
You know you're from Texas when...
jgh:
You look around on Facebook and everyone you know from high school is already married.
This works for South Carolina too, trust me. Either that or they’re in a small college studying “early education”.
Oh my god, Tour de France 2009 is going to be...
From what I can see by browsing this photoset, Lance is joining an all-star Team Astana for this year’s Tour. Among his teammates are legends Alberto Contador and Levi Leipheimer, as well as lesser-known but solid performers Andreas Klöden and Yaroslav Popovych, all under manager Johan Bruyneel (coach of Lance Armsmtrong’s 7 tour wins and Conador’s single win).
Can. Not. Wait.
