April 2009
13 posts
Updating My Dictionary
Don’t mind this post. I’m just marking it as the day Obama officially made “hedge funds” and “speculators” into four letter words. Way too broad a brush, but not without reason. From his announcement of Chrysler’s chapter 11 filing:
Now, while many stakeholders made sacrifices and worked constructively, I have to tell you, some did not. In particular,...
Geocities RIP
On the eve of Geocities’ demise, Fred Wilson has posted a fun piece on his view of the company ten years ago when it was getting started. He writes,
… most of all I learned that you can make 100 times your investment every once in a while. And when you do, it’s something special.
But there’s something profoundly odd here. It’s been years since Geocities was a...
Go Jelly!
A buddy of mine, Zoltan Olah, has just launched a redesign of iCyte, a web annotating tool he’s been working on for a year or so. With the launch I learned that they found the designer for the project at Jelly NYC. Go go Jelly work-togethers!
More Squatters Are Calling Foreclosures Home
I really hope the NYTimes does many more stories like this one. This experience is shockingly separate from my own:
Anita Beaty, executive director of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, said her group had been looking into asking banks to give them abandoned buildings to renovate and occupy legally. Ms. Honkala, who was a squatter in the 1980s, said the biggest difference now was...
“Defense experts were also expecting that Boeing’s airborne laser system, which...”
– Holy crap! A 747 that shoots lasers!?!? (Via NYTimes)