Pretty awful video, but the music is good…(I’d recommend buying the song, listening to it loudly on an iPod, and not viewing the video at all).
A great snowboarding tune.
From the June issue of Harper’s Magazine, in the Harper’s Index:
• Social Security number of Todd Davis, CEO of the identity-protection firm Lifelock: 457-55-5462
• Months after he published the number as a dare to thieves that his identity was, in fact, stolen: 13
Priceless.
For the past few months, I’ve assumed that the Major Metro Daily Death Match was primarily a contest between Chicago and Minneapolis to see which major U.S. metro market would lose its daily newspaper first. Of course, every daily newspaper is struggling to one degree or another (most quite severely) and dozens of papers are [...]
I recently came across an amusing and quite insightful story in a book I’m reading at the moment. When B. Dalton was buying other booksellers around the country back in the 60’s and 70’s, a B. Dalton executive traveled to L.A. to talk with Louis Epstein, the founder of Pickwick Book Shops. Towards the end [...]
The visible decline of the dailies probably began 5 years ago with readers abandoning the daily newspapers for better, cheaper, more convenient alternatives. The slow decline in subscriptions turned into a pretty rapid decline and eventually forced advertisers to re-examine the deteriorating value proposition that newspapers offered. The decline in subscription revenue, combined with the [...]
The most recent news surrounding the Cubs is that Hank Aaron, major league baseball’s record holder for career homeruns (Bonds has no business claiming this feat), is leading a group to buy the Cubs. Aaron serves on the board of the Sports Properties Acquisition Corporation (SPAC) which went public in January for the sole purpose [...]
I had the pleasure of hearing a great presentation earlier this Summer by a well-known demographer. Through the course of the hour-long lecture, there were some fascintaing facts that I was somewhat surprised by…
• 3 billion people share 1% of the world’s wealth
• The wealthiest 10% of the world’s people own 85% of the world’s [...]