Month: November 2012

  • A Marriage Is Like an Ikea Kitchen

    “A marriage is like an IKEA kitchen. Bear with me. You fall in love with the showroom display. You put down your money and you get it home and there it is. Completely disassembled. Except that you didn’t get the instruction manual, though you kind of have an idea of how it should go because […]

  • Remember that scary undersea "bloop" noise? At last we know what caused it.

    BLOOP! cc Mezz Remember that scary undersea "bloop" noise? At last we know what caused it. Back in the late 1990s- NOAA's Acoustic Monitoring Project recorded a series of haunting- creepy noises from deep beneath the ocean's surface (you can hear it in the audio above).

  • Juilliard Releases Banned Repertoire List- '12-'13

    "Something had to be done- because shit was hitting the fan. Seriously- how many over-pedaled renditions of Chopin's G Minor Ballade do I need to hear being played simultaneously in the same hallway during my practice break?" Juilliard Releases Banned Repertoire List- '12-'13 This past week- the Juilliard Administration released a list of repertoire to […]

  • Map: Where the Emotionally Challenged Live

    Philippines ranked most emotional country in the world. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-20/map-where-the-emotionally-challenged-live Map: Where the Emotionally Challenged Live "Gallup asked people to say whether life would be better or worse five years from now. The award for most pessimistic goes to the inhabitants of Greece- ground zero of the euro debt crisis. Last year- the people most likely […]

  • Forgetting to shut the door and other lessons at FailCon

    "There are a lot of products being built right now for white guys in San Francisco. White guys in San Francisco have enough products by now." Forgetting to shut the door and other lessons at FailCon It was confession time in San Francisco yesterday. At the annual FailCon event at the Julia Morgan Ballroom- a […]

  • Who Killed Hostess Brands and Twinkies? – Forbes

    Oh wait it was the management not the greedy union workers? NO WAI. STOP. Who Killed Hostess Brands and Twinkies? – Forbes I'm sure you have- by now- heard the news. Hostess Brands- the company that gave us such remembered childhood treats as Twinkies- Ding Dongs- Devil Dogs and other baked foodstuffs that have fallen […]

  • LCD Price Fixing Conspiracy

    FBI/DoJ investigate secret cartel that ran a five-year price-fixing conspiracy to force consumers to pay more for LCD panels. Executives sentenced in Taiwan. LCD Price Fixing Conspiracy Inside a five-year conspiracy to fix prices of LDC panels on laptops- monitors and- televisions.

  • Support Walmart Black Friday Strikers

    Wal-Mart workers planning strike on Black Friday. Support Walmart Black Friday Strikers It's time to take a stand and support the workers who are standing up to live better through an unfair labor practice strike. Walmart workers decided to strike on Black Friday after they were targeted for retaliation for speaking out …