‘Super PAC’ Plan to Link Obama to Rev. Wright - Document - NYTimes.com
I know tactics like this are rampant. It’s just shitty to read, particularly with the degree of personal vehemence in its language.
The online adventures of Tiff Fehr (@tiffehr), a UX engineerette at The New York Times. Feel free to peruse my somewhat popular geek-themed Tumblr, too, if that's your thing.
More personally than the above or below, I document notable adventures (much later than when they actually happen): Oktoberfest '04, Guatemala '08, Europe '10, Wisconsin '10, Middle East '11*. (* in progress)
‘Super PAC’ Plan to Link Obama to Rev. Wright - Document - NYTimes.com
I know tactics like this are rampant. It’s just shitty to read, particularly with the degree of personal vehemence in its language.
A Murder of Crows ~ Full Episode | Nature | PBS
Seattle homesick. Also, crows are awesome. As is @dotsara, who happily DM chatted cross-country as we both watched.
Via @hellbox. Best thing today.
The Einhorn Effect | Crossing Wall Street
David Einhorn, the famous hedge fund manager who foresaw the disaster that was Lehman Brothers, spoke at an investment conference today. When Einhorn talks, traders listen.
Today, he bashed the stock of Martin Marietta Materials. Einhorn called the CEO a “megalomaniac.” This coming from a hedge fund manager.
By looking at the chart below, can you guess when the news hit? Look closely. I bet you can.
As posted by Dan Ariely, due to the ties about ethical behavior.
As the lead bank on your deal, Morgan Stanley is likely to get 30% of the overall take. This means that your closest investment banking “friend” will make a bit more than $200 million from your IPO.
Morgan Stanley and the rest of the investment banks involved will also make sure that their favorite fund manager client “friends” are given lots of free money. Assuming that these “friends” are given 75% of the total number of IPO shares, or a total of 291 million shares, and assuming that the stock does rise from $40 to $50, then these fund managers will collectively, in one day, make $2.9 billion dollars in realized or unrealized profits. That’s right, 2.9 BILLION DOLLARS.
Mark, by now you must be asking yourself the obvious question. “Where and out of whose pocket does this money come from?”
A message from the President/Treasurer/Grand Poobah of Why Not ZoidPAC?, filed at around 2:30 a.m.:
To Whom I May Concern: This memo is primarily intended as a test: I recognize the gravity generally attached to something like the submission of a form to the FEC, but I wanted to confirm for myself that the Federal Elections Comission lives up to its lofty goal of transparency.
It recently occurred to me that as President, Grand Poobah, and (most importantly here, anyway) Treasurer of the Why Not ZoidPAC? Super PAC, I possess the ability to submit these Form 99s electronically and have them displayed publicly at http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?C00514646 . I also understand that these forms are primarily meant as written statements addressing the FEC directly; however, I don’t see how or why I should be limited against using this kind of form to make a publicly recorded note of assorted positions and opinions I wish to share.
I suppose my question to you, the FEC filer reading this form, is: is this OK? I don’t see many examples (any, really) of this sort of thing, but it seems like an intriguing way to submit positions and ideas to the public record on behalf of Why Not ZoidPAC.
Should this be allowed to work, I’d like to address the few hypothetical people who might have somehow discovered this document through the public filing. Hello, to you as well! I suppose this is kind of like a blog post to you. We’ll see.
Whomever may be reading this, thank you for your time.
Respectfully,
Daniel Ben-David
President/Treasurer/Grand Poobah, “Why Not ZoidPAC?
Trying to stay away from Prometheus spoilers (for example, even though I saw a new[to-me] trailer before The Avengers on Friday, I don’t remember any of it beyond gasping and zomg-ing into my beer), but this?
Had to.
Miniature cybernetic David!
Inspired by Albert and Doreen, here’s my mom as a kid. If you don’t know me in person, this is a bit odd because she and I look like twins at this age. She’s currently beachside at their vacation flat in Mexico, sending paggro emails about her digital and assumptive* gifts.
As it should be.
* Dad usually buys her something she’d grump about him buying but says my brother and I conspired with him to buy it for her. My brother and I play along while sending gifts ourselves. A happy mom means a happy, pet-filled set of email forwards.
Earlier this week, a friend of mine took his own life. He was 35.
I keep turning things over in my head, looking up information on the internet and talking with friends to try and make sense of it— not the reason why Jeff took his life. That’s clear. He was bipolar and severely depressed and over the last couple years hit a succession of lower bottoms— I’m trying to make sense of myself.
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Good lord I’m smiling like an idiot.
(Source: nbc.com)