Archive for April, 2008
Why Women Love Shoes
by Lindsay I’m pretty much as happy as a woman can get right now. My day hasn’t been particularly good, I’d love a nap, and the weather’s pretty gray, but none of that matters because I’m wearing a new pair of shoes. I fell in love and splurged – perhaps a bit beyond my means [...]
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We’re all going to be rich!
by Josh I just realized that I have a talent for trading stocks. Not picking stocks — trading them, based solely on the past behavior of the price and volume. Maybe you have one too. Try this website. I warn you: it’s an addicting game. They show you a real chart from the past decade [...]
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Are you beautiful?
by Josh It’s not in the eye of the beholder. Or at least that eye is getting more objective. A new robot from Israel can tell, within a tiny margin of error, whether you are a babe. I think a new “TAU index” should be a requirement for dating sites. No more grainy photos from [...]
Filed under: Business, Fashion, Psychology, Technoutopianism | 1 Comment
who has lapsed into self-parody. by Josh When I read this article an involuntary spasm of derision issued from my mouth that sounded like Nelson Muntz. My coworkers turned their heads in alarm. Not only will Hillary stoop to any debasement to cling a second longer to the electoral stage, but it seems her supporters [...]
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Microtrends = history
by Josh “Mark Penn literally wrote the book on Microtrends, but this election is about a macrotrend.” So said Sir Martin Sorrell of the global media conglomerate the WPP Group to Arianna Huffington last month. Now Godzilla is gone, and it’s time for the pundits to size up his legacy, and the legacy of the [...]
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Tags: hope, Mark Penn, meaningless pablum, Obama, the future
In defense of fighting
by Mike Dob A few months ago (December I think) Esquire Magazine published an article in which the author promoted the practice of punching assholes in the face as a mechanism for maintaining a mannerly society. In a subsequent issue of the same magazine, Chuck Klosterman wrote a piggyback piece putting forward his theory that [...]
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Hot tip
by Josh If I was a betting man (and I am) I’d look very closely at this chart. This comes from intrade.com, the online political futures market. Intrade predictions are startlingly accurate, since people are staking real money, not rhetorical bluster. This graph shows that if Barack Obama’s chances to win Pennsylvania were a security, [...]
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Ikea jive
by achitophel The differences are there, JRO. But perhaps we can come to terms over the Sweedish techno phenonmenon Familjen. Their video here ought to be proof enough. And afterall, if historians and futurists can coexist anywhere, it ought to be at Ikea. PS. This video has more to say about religion than all the [...]
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by Josh Achitophel, you and I are just not gonna see eye-to-eye on this. You are a historian, I am an futurist. You are an antiquarian, I collect robots. You like quaint cottages in the country, I like titanium spaceships on man-made islands in Abu Dhabi. You like yardsalin’ and antiquein’, I like talking to [...]
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by achitophel I’m usually behind the times, and I bet this won’t be an exception. [ed.'s note: yes, yes you are.] There’s a fantastic blog out there called Stuff White People Like. It’s fantastic because it’s cleverly inane, and it’s fantastic to me because it’s designed to appeal to the prejudices and realities associated with [...]
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Rusty Blues
by Achitophel I’ve been going back more and more lately to blues/rock I used to dig in Soulard. There’s something about the busted out Midwest, its rust and exposed chords, that does it well. The Black Keys come out of Akron, if you haven’t already heard them. I like this song (Your Touch), but I [...]
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