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Bookmarks for November 30th

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Bookmarks for July 4th

  • The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone
    required reading for the 4th of July: "Goldman's role in the sweeping global disaster that was the housing bubble is not hard to trace. Here again, the basic trick was a decline in underwriting standards, although in this case the standards weren't in IPOs but in mortgages. By now almost everyone knows that for decades mortgage dealers insisted that home buyers be able to produce a down payment of 10 percent or more, show a steady income and good credit rating, and possess a real first and last name. Then, at the dawn of the new millennium, they suddenly threw all that shit out the window and started writing mortgages on the backs of napkins to cocktail waitresses and ex-cons carrying five bucks and a Snickers bar."
  • Surreality Only Beginning | TPM
    please file this under "batshit crazy": "It looks like a duck and quacks like a duck. Either Palin is resigning ahead of some titanic scandal (which should emerge in short order if it exists) or her resignation was triggered by an even more extreme mental instability than we'd previously suspected."
  • Travelling Surf Enforcer for Hire (Windandsea to O'side Harbor)
    What I'm selling here is one week of regulation at your break. This includes intimidation and violence against the donkeys sporting SUP's, sponges, Stewart longboards, and funboards…. (via @surfysurfy)
  • Ruins of the Second Gilded Age – The New York Times
    Photo essay with captions by Edgar Martins documenting the recent real estate bust in the United States. "People are present in these images, bit not physically. You trace their action, the destruction they left behind." – amazing.
  • "Nearest Tube" Augmented Reality App for iPhone
    We've been hearing a lot about "augmented reality". Here is a perfect video example of how "augmented reality" will help your daily life. think of this as an simple version of how this concept will change our lives in the future.
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Bookmarks for March 27th

  • The Making of a Narco State: Rolling Stone
    powerful article: "As Mexico descends into brutality and lawlessness, the government itself has become a tool of the drug lords" – Short synopsis: frightengly underpaid police and politicians beg and steal money from narcos. And when the gov't steps up the drug war, things get wild. A lot of people have their hands in the drug pie. If Mexico weren't located next to a country filled with gun-crazy drug addicts, Mexico wouldn't be having this problem.
  • Global currency flies with push from Russia and slip from Timothy Geithner | Business | guardian.co.uk
    China (who is basically single-handedly propping up the dollar by buying our bonds) has signaled that since we are creating so much new currency – which causes inflation, which makes our dollars worth less and their investments worth less – has proposed that an IMF alternative be used as a new alternative to the dollar. This spells the literal end of any American empire that may have been and scares the hell out of me, personally, as a person who deeply believes that the IMF is a shadow world government – as described in Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
  • 43f Podcast: John Gruber & Merlin Mann's Blogging Panel at SxSW | 43 Folders
    if you're in to blogging, writing, or creating anything that deals with the internet, you should listen to this talk from SxSW. amazing and inspirational – "We talked about building a blog you can be proud of, trying to improve the quality of your work, reaching the people you admire, and maybe even making a buck (in a way that doesn’t blow your deal)"
  • The Big Takeover : Rolling Stone
    "The global economic crisis isn't about money – it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution" – great article.
  • PostSurf » Unfiltered Thoughts on Surf Culture:
    PostSurf is possibly one of thee most entertaining and well written surf blogs I've read in awhile. I usually go for the kinda blogs that post sentimental surfing schmata, out of focus trips to the beach photos and shots of newly minted retro kooky surfboards, but I have a soft spot for curmudgeons who like to air dirty laundry. Lewis Samuels can chew up some pixels and despite his irreverent, snarky tone his shit is interesting. Definitely not for everyone, though. He was just fired from Surfline for saying his employer "licks advertisers' balls" among other things. Interesting read. And dude gets like 75 comment per post. damn?!
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Bookmarks for March 23rd

  • 12 new pics from 'Where The Wild Things Are'
    amazing images. nice captions too. i love the look of this film. beware: the USA Today site has a pop-up video ad superstitial with audio that is way too loud and no 'skip ad' or 'sound off' button. Dillholes. But the images are worth sitting through the very annoying ad.
  • Front Fell Off – CollegeHumor Video
    This guy probably lobbies for the banking industry now. ain't nothin changed but the year. [via the baroquely curt 70%]
  • House of Pain at Concepts and The Roxy, St. Paddy's Day 2009
    who knew that House of Pain still play shows. These guys need to get with Muggs and do a flash-back to 15 years ago record. and record it just like they would have 15 years ago. no girls, no drugs, no bling. just crazy redneck irish pride party records. we could use some nondescript party anthems. And i could definitely rock the green House of Pain Adidas campuses.
  • Zombie financial ideas – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com
    Krugman weighs in on the newest bank bailout plan Geithner is about to unveil. In short: Krugman thinks Geithner and Obama have lost the war on ideas. Very sad if he's right. and he's usually right. I'm starting to think that Geithner needs to go.
  • Tweetizen – Easy Twitter Groups
    There are tons of new twit aggregators popping up. Aggregators are sites that collect twits by topic, by following certain people. They usually focus on single topics like design, technology, web development, sports, stocks, etc… Their focus is usually narrow. Twittizen takes a different approach. It marries the twit aggregator idea to crowd-sourcing. Instead of giving you a narrow range of topics, it gives you a framework to home-roll your own aggregator and to share it on your own blog. Great idea!
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Bookmarks for March 20th

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