Morrie the Toupee Salesman

The EU privacy people (I’m scared to guess how many there actually are, but I’d guess thousands) have decided that my IP address is part of my personal information.
For some reason they inserted a joke in the middle of the article:
” These exceptions have not stopped the emergence of a host of “whois” Internet sites, [...]

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Black Tuesday is taken.
Update: Now it’s looking like more of a buying opportunity.

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Nice Article

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This was on the top of news.ycombinator.com this morning. It’s an interesting article, and I’m impressed that YC news actually found me something interesting to read on a Sunday morning. Favorite quotes:
“Because I think that in the end the way that you make a ton of money is calling paradigm shifts”
“I’m sure today I would [...]

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Two interesting tidbits on Canada-US relations. With the ongoing fire sale of US companies currently happening, Canada is still the biggest purchaser of US assets.
And on the other side of the border, economists are saying there is a good chance the Canadian economy might not descend into recession as the US does.
So Canada looks like [...]

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Valleywag posted a followup to their article about secret digg moderators. I especially liked their criticism of the capitalization of the inaccuracy warning. Perhaps someone could fix that some day. Andy Beal seems to support valleywag’s accusations.
I suggest that all of you go watch the Broken.

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Met, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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It’s shining out from two sources:
An HBS article on narcissism and leadership, commented on by various people. Unfortunately the article is just an abstract and when I clicked on “Order the Full Article” I got an error.
and I can’t quite parse this phrase from the two people commenting on the original paper – “If self [...]

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After a day of billion dollar acquisitions, we’re back on to the steady diet of banks and financial companies losing billions. Today it’s Merrill Lynch reporting $10 billion in losses. And these guys wanted to be my financial advisors….. geeze.

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