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Some financial type (attribution on request — maybe): Ben, there is real food for thought in the article below. The submarine in the picture below looks pretty crude. Given the global cash flows generated by cocaine, traffickers should be able to afford much better equipment. And I think we, Tim Geithner, and congress should seriously [...]

Prehistory of The Matrix: Attn net.artists looking for a project: super-8 bullet-time. ( ffffound | jk )

The Twitter vacation autoresponder. ( someone | rr )

A fascist, communist, and religious zealot, all rolled into a single cynical package whose arrival prefigures the country’s descent into civil war? Obama:America::Laibach:Slovenia See?

So if it doesn’t work out, do we also get a “twitter clampdown,” a “twitter bloodbath,” the “twitter terror” or the “twitter archipelago”? http://bit.ly/rtthis

From davidhorvitz.tumblr.com (9 Feb ’09): (booooooom)

Deny pensions to former execs of too-big-but-failed companies. See also: “Troubled asse(t)s,” wherein Credit Suisse Group compensated bankers “with an illiquid group of junk bonds, mortgage-backed securities and corporate loans.” Cf. malus, n., “The return of performance-related compensation originally payed by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect [...]

“is the Detroit of” is the new “is the new black.”

Gordon Pask: Also in ’74: “GWOT ca. 1974,” “1974est guys in the room,” “Just another future song.”

This classification of royal stalkers is generalizable, though proportions may vary by context: delusional (26.9%), amity seekers (16.5%), intimacy seekers (12%), sanctuary and help seekers (8.8%), persecuted (3.2%), counsellors (11.2%), querulants (6.4%), and chaotic (14.9%). (somewhereorother)

Let a thousand flowers bloom.

Kleiman: Cannabis is not “the largest cash crop in California.” That zombie statistic has a history: during the collapse of the lumbering industry in the early 1980s, the Ag Department county extension agent in Humboldt County, which grows timber and pot, was so angry about the suffering he saw around him due to unemployment among [...]

Jonathan Krohn, darling of conservatism: David Devore, dosed up: Just a coincidence?

Heh.

Soros: “We witnessed the collapse of the financial system. It was placed on life support, and it’s still on life support. There’s no sign that we are anywhere near a bottom.” What do you will we get when you cross “bad banks” with countries that are too small to bail out their financial sectors? Bad [...]

Sad day. Video retread of their take on “Surfin’ Bird”: (Phawker | WFMU)

is a bad idea. Think rent. It’s time to retire fire that phrase.

Salmon: Ben Stein sat in on some cabinet meetings in 1974, and learned that high-ranking political officials aren’t always super-smart. This, he seems to think, was not a good thing. He then says that since even very smart people have been humbled by the current crisis, it’s foolish to place too much faith in any [...]

WSJ: Some Credit Suisse Group bankers were left reeling after the bank said it would pay a substantial percentage of their 2008 compensation with an illiquid group of junk bonds, mortgage-backed securities and corporate loans. [...] This year, up to 80% of the stock portion will come via what Credit Suisse is formally calling a [...]

From the Program for the Future Conference comes a mural of “Co-Evolution of Human Systems and Tool Systems,” that is, “the landscape of our era, beginning with 1925, the year of Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart’s birth”: Detail: Subsequent “shifts” include the “Shift from Industrial Age to Information Age” (ca. 1955–1958), the “Shift from Information Age [...]

Google count for “stagdeflation”: 27 Nov ’08: 15,600 7 Dec ’08: 2,090,000 8 Dec ’08: 843,000 10 Dec ’08: 1,590,000 207,440 new attestations per day, on average. [per 27 Nov – 7 Dec increase] [Update: 8 Dec ’08: 850,000 Insert coin to watch Google dance.] See also: “Not so nice neologism.”

Google count: stagflation, 8,460,000 stagdeflation, 15,600 No Wikipedia entry for it. Yet.

Macalope: Speaking of professional trolls, ZDNet’s Robin Harris provides a veritable omnibus of stupid. An omnishortbus, if you will. Google count: 6.