Christophe Maximin

This is the last episode of a very funny and informative saga a lot of people have been waiting for, enjoy (3 parts):

While I almost agree with Stewart on everything he said here, there was something that struck me; something that was missing, something that I think Cramer wanted to say; something that almost nobody with a career can say on American television:
Even if 90% of financial advisors told to NOT invest in this "fast money making scheme", a big chunk of the public would rush to the advices of the 10% who are saying how to make that quick buck. American, and for that matter, almost everyone on this planet, is somewhat interested into "how to make money quickly".
So what the CNBC can do ? Put itself in a corner where nobody will look at, and say boring stuff like "well, real money is created by work; so you should probably invest into companies which do real work. It is slow, and doesn't make the 30% of the other guy, but in 10 years, you will be happy".
Like Cramer almost said, how can you ask somebody to ask reasonably for years and years when they see people making 5 times what they are making with the same amount invested ?

Are you ready to eat bacon, only bacon, nothing but bacon, for a month ?
No condiments allowed. No syrups, or hot sauces, or pureed vegetables in the form of ketchup. No sauces at all.
Beverages: No juices, no V8, nothing that could be construed as “healthy”. Only water, wine and beer.

Well, this guy is ready. Actually he almost did it, for the month of February:

My hero. More info here.

Mark Pilgrim:

SMIL is a W3C standard; the most recent revision, SMIL 3.0, was just published in December 2008. If you printed out the SMIL 3.0 specification on US-Letter-sized paper, it would weigh in at 395 pages. So don’t do that.

Also:

apparently, a group of interested parties has converted smilies to XML. it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish W3C specs from Onion articles. <emotionml xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2008/11/emotionml"><emotion><category set="humaneDatabaseLabels" name="Amusement"/><intensity value="0.7"/></emotion></emotionml>

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME ?

[Via Aristotle Pagaltzis : He's not making this up]

I was browsing The Washington Post when I saw that headline. I had to read it three times to really understand it, and believe it.

I am really saddened over the death of Tim Russert, early this afternoon. This is so sudden.
Being “political junkie” for as long as I can remember, journalist is really one of the professions I respect the most. I always remember that, if I wasn’t into the Internet business, I would probably be a journalist.
I think every death of a journalist is a huge lost for the society, especially if he is involved into a high quality television show like Meet the Press.

I’ll try not to forget to read his Wisdom of Our Fathers when I have a child, it seems to be really interesting.

I still can’t believe it. Tim Russert will be deeply missed.

Next time, when you don’t know what you’re talking about, just say “I don’t know”, especially if you’re appearing on live television. By the way, this advice applies to everyone, political or not.