Bob Morris: Investing, tech, coffee.

Golman employees to take out trash to prove they aren’t vampire squid

Bob Morris — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:41:35 +0000

For one day, to help feeding the poor. They they go back back and count their bloated bonuses.

Tweetville. Drill-down Twitter lists on a blog

Bob Morris — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:25:26 +0000

Jamie at Intoxination has a neat new app, TweetVille.

I did some upgrades to the new Tweetville application this weekend. It now supports drilldown rooms. How this work is that you can select a root room like Congress and view everyone in Congress. If you want to limit it to one party then you can select that party in the sub-room of Congress. There is also an “All” room now that will show the tweets of everyone being followed in Tweetville.

Baltic Dry Index soars on Chinese commodities demand

Bob Morris — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:05:12 +0000

This obscure index is what ocean shipping companies based their rates on. If it soars, their profits do too. This is hugely bullish for shipping stocks.

Dolphin humps man

Bob Morris — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:58:55 +0000

Seems staged though. Was the dolphin consenting?

Bloomberg plans to become the most influential news organization in the world

Bob Morris — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:26:59 +0000

Bloomberg already has more journalists than NYT or Dow Jones. And while those news organizations consider having walled gardens for all, the bulk of financial news that most of us need is free from Bloomberg. Plus they have a great iPhone app too.

Joan Jett Barbie Doll. I am not making this up

Bob Morris — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:42:11 +0000

Also in the upcoming Mattel “Ladies of the Eighties” series are Debbie Harry and Cyndi Lauper dolls. What, no Cherie Currie???

Happy dogs greet soldiers returning home

Bob Morris — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:44:33 +0000

Mental Floss has more videos.

The longest coffee roast ever?

Bob Morris — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:20:06 +0000

INeedCoffee documents a 60 minute home coffee roast using a popcorn popper! In the world of coffee roasting, a 60 minute roast is quite extraordinary indeed.

Supercomputing handhelds

Bob Morris — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:18:18 +0000

Google CEO Eric Schmidt described his vision of a 100-megabit broadband supercomputer in every pocket.

Schmidt cited an Android application that photographs barcodes, identifies the product, and compare prices online. Another application can take a picture of a menu in a foreign language and translate it.

“The creepiest one of all, take a picture of person — somebody built a demonstration — and we can tell you who that person is,” he said, adding, “By the way, that’s obviously useful if you’re a policeman.”

In a few years we’ll look at our current iPhones the way we view the original PCs now. They were nice for their time, but were toys, weren’t they?

Salsa dancing dog. He’s really good too.

Bob Morris — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:10:41 +0000