Michael Broukhim

Assurance contract

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:53:07 -0800

Cool concept (h/t AK)

A friend of mine is principal at a school in Los Angeles. One of...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:47:20 -0800

A friend of mine is principal at a school in Los Angeles. One of his teachers quit, and the next day he found this on the teacher’s desk. Strangely funny & sad.

Let’s Kill The CPM

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:22:13 -0800

Let’s Kill The CPM

"if newspapers want to survive they should go back to doing what they started out doing —..."

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:59:32 -0800

“if newspapers want to survive they should go back to doing what they started out doing — muckraking, stirring the shit, calling bullshit.”

- The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Why the mainstream media is dying

The decade of Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple All the hyperbole in this...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:53:53 -0800

The decade of Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple

All the hyperbole in this account is completely deserved.

This would be hilarious if it weren’t so tragically sad. I...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:39:08 -0800

This would be hilarious if it weren’t so tragically sad. I feel like I just read an article from The Onion.

…”the device works ‘on the same principle as a Ouija board’”

uy…

Iraq Swears by Bomb Detector U.S. Sees as Useless - NYTimes.com

my life in gmail timestamps. this is the most artistic thing...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:51:55 -0800

my life in gmail timestamps. this is the most artistic thing I’ve ever put on tumblr.

Protests in Iran; chanting: “Obama, Obama, ya ba oona, ya ba...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:52:00 -0800

Protests in Iran; chanting: “Obama, Obama, ya ba oona, ya ba ma,” which translates as “Obama, Obama, with them or with us.”

This is fascinating… not sure what the implications of the persian street potentially turning against Obama might be. One can hardly blame the protesters; Obama can make it exceedingly difficult to know where he stands — by the end of his presidency we’ll know whether that’s his greatest talent or fatal flaw.

Video of Protests in Iran on Anniversary of Embassy Seizure - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com

Creativity and Compression

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:44:11 -0800

Creativity and Compression:

Brevity is lovely. That’s why reblogging is fun. If it’s been said right, why say it again, differently, and worse?

…AK, no H/T? ;) …this was PB inspired, no?

treyblog:

(via adamkatz)

How Google Killed the GPS Guys

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:11:54 -0800

How Google Killed the GPS Guys:

Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model « abovethecrowd.com

"If the odds of picking a particular letter at random are one in 26, doing it over seven selections..."

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:24:00 -0700

“If the odds of picking a particular letter at random are one in 26, doing it over seven selections (the number of letters in question) is (1/26)^7, or .0000000001245. Just about one in 10 billion.”

- ABC polling director Gary Langer, on the odds that the message spelled out in Schwarzenegger’s letter is a coincidence. (via newsweek)

In case you didn’t catch it yet, here’s the image:

"When I play 2K10 or Madden football, I’m like, ‘I’m going to win this game.’..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:15:57 -0700

“When I play 2K10 or Madden football, I’m like, ‘I’m going to win this game.’ That’s the way great teams think, great coaches think, great players think. And we have all the above in this locker room.”

- A priceless quote from Lamar Odom - Lakers return with a certain ring - ESPN

"But my agent said, that wasn’t going to happen."

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:10:14 -0700

“But my agent said, that wasn’t going to happen.”

- Ron Artest talking about his desire to play for the Detroit Pistons. He says they were his top choice because he wanted to make up for what had happened there… lol…

"I completely grasp the pull of radical cosmopolitan values, but I think people who think that the..."

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:45:12 -0700

“I completely grasp the pull of radical cosmopolitan values, but I think people who think that the area west of the Jordan River would be a great place to try implementing them in the short-term are being a bit crazy. It’s not even clear that Belgium or Canada will be able to survive as bi-national entities.”

- Matthew Yglesias » Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace

"California is America but more so … It’s progressive more in the literal than in the..."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:36:11 -0700

“California is America but more so … It’s progressive more in the literal than in the political sense of the word.”

- California: Golden State Is Thriving, Despite Its Woes - TIME

"What’s being interpreted, for now, as an intra-Christian skirmish may eventually be remembered as..."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:13:14 -0700

“What’s being interpreted, for now, as an intra-Christian skirmish may eventually be remembered as the first step toward a united Anglican-Catholic front — not against liberalism or atheism, but against Christianity’s most enduring and impressive foe.”

- Op-Ed Columnist - Benedict’s Gambit - NYTimes.com

"The belief that appropriate regulation can ensure that speculative activities do not result in..."

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:47:27 -0700

“The belief that appropriate regulation can ensure that speculative activities do not result in failures is a delusion… Anyone who proposed giving government guarantees to retail depositors and other creditors, and then suggested that such funding could be used to finance highly risky and speculative activities, would be thought rather unworldly. But that is where we now are.”

- The Consensus On Big Banks Begins To Move « The Baseline Scenario

h/t Prof. Katz

Could it be possible? Real reform of a completely twisted financial industry? Obama should jump on this train; there are few things that he could accomplish that would both be hugely popular and entirely correct than aggressive reform of financial regulation…

Ochocinco plans to form social news network on Twitter

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:36:33 -0700

Ochocinco plans to form social news network on Twitter

"As long as somebody CTC, at the end of the day I’m with them. For all you that don’t..."

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:38:56 -0700

“As long as somebody CTC, at the end of the day I’m with them. For all you that don’t know what CTC means, that’s ‘Cut The Check.’”

- Rasheed Wallace giving his .02 in Bill Simmons’ NBA season preview and 33 most intriguing NBA people - ESPN …excited for NBA ‘09-‘10

How to get marked as spam

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:53:00 -0700

Send me a dumb newsletter that I don’t remember subscribing to with a reply-to of “noreply@dumbnewsletter.com” and an unsubscribe description of:

“If you do not want to receive these DumbNewsletter notifications or would like to change your DumbNewsletter notification settings, login to your DumbNewsletter account, access your Dashboard, click on Member Details then click on Notifications”

I can’t believe I actually went through that process… next time I’m naming names DumbNewsletter…