Weekend fun
September 7th, 2006
Turns out the Triangle has more BAs per capita than DC, Austin, Minneapolis, Denver, San Jose…
Check out this ad by NXP, formerly Philips. I clicked through from an ad in the WSJ and was compelled to rubberneck.
Mark Warner is going to campaign in the virtual world Second Life.
…I want to work in advertising. (Via Seth Miller.)
Fortune Magazine opines: “It’s time to examine the clichés that the “experts” – chiefly analysts and economists from realtors and mortgage associations – used to convince Americans that what they’re seeing now could never happen.”
No, actually, that time was last year. In fact, I blogged about shorting housing stocks and newspaper stocks, mentioning then-current prices. In aggregate, those stocks are all down roughly 40% today.
Summer’s gone and the leaves are browning. We collected arrowheads, rattlers, BBs, tennis balls, mosquitos, blisters, sand, pinecones, water bottles, Fawlty Towers, cacti, surfing, double rainbos, chess, spaghetti bolognese and many fish big and small.
We’re lucky to have one of the country’s most vibrant local political blogs, Ruby Sinreich’s OrangePolitics.com right here in our backyard. Last week, our local Weaver Street Market, banned one of the guys who dances on their front lawn. You can see the often-packed lawn, a place we sometimes hang out for lunch, on Weaver Street’s site. Now, Orangepolitics has become the virtual lawn for discussing the pros and cons of the ban.
Adam Lebor has just e-published a novel called Night Hotel. I’ll have to get a new printer cartridge and download the thing.