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cirox: Mad Men - illustration for the Washington Post by The...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:00:54 -0700

Mad Men - illustration for the Washington Post by The Heads of State

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating..."

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:59:59 -0700

“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”

- Public & Private; Enough Bookshelves - New York Times (via rickyo)

accidentalchinesehipsters: Remember this? Poor-taste botany...

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:57:19 -0800

accidentalchinesehipsters:

Remember this? Poor-taste botany enthusiastic embroiderers strike again, and if the elderly aren’t safe then the young aren’t even safer. The stitching on the jacket is fine. The reason why it was made is a mystery.

Also, this kid (or tiny man) has a glorious head of hair! Chinese baby food is probably engineered to contain 200% of their daily requirements for super vitamins, which are derived from future science and will help them read better during their toddler years.

Seen in the streets of Hong Kong by Cat Shannahan and Tanner McLaughlin.

"What has happened over the past 30 years is the capture of the world’s common treasury by a handful..."

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:11:03 -0800

“What has happened over the past 30 years is the capture of the world’s common treasury by a handful of people, assisted by neoliberal policies which were first imposed on rich nations by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. I am now going to bombard you with figures. I’m sorry about that, but these numbers need to be tattooed on our minds. Between 1947 and 1979, productivity in the US rose by 119%, while the income of the bottom fifth of the population rose by 122%. But from 1979 to 2009, productivity rose by 80%, while the income of the bottom fifth fell by 4%. In roughly the same period, the income of the top 1% rose by 270%.

In his book The Haves and the Have Nots, Branko Milanovic tries to discover who was the richest person who has ever lived. Beginning with the loaded Roman triumvir Marcus Crassus, he measures wealth according to the quantity of his compatriots’ labour a rich man could buy. It appears that the richest man to have lived in the past 2,000 years is alive today. Carlos Slim could buy the labour of 440,000 average Mexicans. This makes him 14 times as rich as Crassus, nine times as rich as Carnegie and four times as rich as Rockefeller.”

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George Monbiot has some stern words for the rich (via birdlord)

Let’s recap that last part for the TLDR crowd: measuring in terms of ability to buy (the time and sweat of) other people, the richest person to live since Jesus is alive today.

(via caffeinated)

CAF Venturesome's Blog: Social investment provides councils with an innovative way to support local charities

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:42:53 -0800

CAF Venturesome's Blog: Social investment provides councils with an innovative way to support local charities:

caf-venturesome:

A pioneering tie-up between the country’s longest running social investment fund, CAF Venturesome, and Oxford City Council has provided a new charity with the finance necessary to launch in the current climate of funding cuts.

The Council has acted as a guarantor to a £115,000 loan that CAF…

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Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:28:35 -0700

"All I mean is that I was very young in New York, and that at some point the golden rhythm was..."

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:21:04 -0700

“All I mean is that I was very young in New York, and that at some point the golden rhythm was broken, and I am not that young anymore.”

- Didion (via rickyo)

Douglas Rushkoff: Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don't get it

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:08:31 -0700

Douglas Rushkoff: Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don't get it:

I really liked this when i read it… and then forgot about it :)

caffeinated:

Great piece. My favorite part:

Anyone who says he has no idea what these folks are protesting is not being truthful. Whether we agree with them or not, we all know what they are upset about, and we all know that there are investment bankers working on Wall Street getting richer while things for most of the rest of us are getting tougher. What upsets banking’s defenders and politicians alike is the refusal of this movement to state its terms or set its goals in the traditional language of campaigns.

That’s because, unlike a political campaign designed to get some person in office and then close up shop (as in the election of Obama), this is not a movement with a traditional narrative arc. As the product of the decentralized networked-era culture, it is less about victory than sustainability. It is not about one-pointedness, but inclusion and groping toward consensus. It is not like a book; it is like the Internet.

mattchewers: The memorial outside Steve Jobs’ house Palo Alto.

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:06:40 -0700

mattchewers:

The memorial outside Steve Jobs’ house Palo Alto.

rickyo: New York Times ad, 10/7/2011

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:06:11 -0700

rickyo:

New York Times ad, 10/7/2011

who does words better than scotty f? yah… i called him...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:05:00 -0700

who does words better than scotty f? yah… i called him that.

"“all too often economics of poverty gets mistaken for poor economics. Because the poor..."

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:17:00 -0700

“

“all too often economics of poverty gets mistaken for poor economics.

Because the poor possess very little, it is assumed that there is nothing interesting about their economics.”

”

- duflo, from poor economics

Beers at laguanitas brewery

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:52:49 -0700

Beers at laguanitas brewery

Little Wars

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:49:15 -0700

Little Wars :

the full title is awesome. this should also be the official title of any book about doing business in corporate land.

bestofwikipedia:

Little Wars is a set of rules for playing with toy soldiers, written by H. G. Wells in 1913. Its full title is Little Wars: a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys’ games and books. Little Wars is considered by some to be the first modern table top war game. It included fairly simple rules for infantry, cavalry, and artillery in the form of a toy 4.7 inch naval gun that launched projectiles, usually small wooden dowels to knock down enemy soldiers. In addition to it being a war game, the book hints at several philosophical aspects of war. (via yeslikethemotorcycle )

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Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:43:55 -0700

Malaysia street food delights installment part 1! i have a gig...

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:34:19 -0700

super yummy pancake thing

that pancake thing while its cooking

this interesting coconut patty

made by cute grandma/granddaughter

Malaysia street food delights installment part 1! i have a gig of photos but only posting the ones i actually ate …

1) the first thing was my FAVORITE it was like this thin pancake with coconut and sweet corn instide, the flavor was good and it was so light and airy to bite into… sooo tasty. also made the street smell nice

2) this one the patty was plain, but good with the sauce. this pair was soo cute and we sent forever trying to communicaitng - flagging peopel down from teh street before we found someone who could translate what it was she was selling….

China stats

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:12:00 -0700

its been a while since I did stats, but it was time, and good way to say good bye to beijing.

China Stats

Number of times ive been able to access gmail in the last 4 days: 3

longest time I was able to stay on gmail once I got in: 5 minute

number of people openly napping at their desk at the IBM China office: 7

number of chinese seen NOT posing in grand fashion for a photograph: 0

number of women with sequence in their business attire at my sales meetings: 3

number of men in this meeting i could school in basketball: 3

number of cups of green tea ive had per day sicne i arrived: 4

number of cups of tea i normally drink a day: 0

number of couples with matching tshirts : 4

number of men who look like an asian version of my uncle: 1. its amazing.

Avg number of floors in most combined Mall / Office tours: 30

Avg number of said mall tours on one street corner: 3

number of times people dove into a taxi as i was giving them directions to my hotel: 3

Avg number of dishes our Chinese hosts ordered per person: 5

Number of people invovled in an open air, drop in electric slide at 9:30pm on a Thursday: 50

Doing Business in China

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:41:54 -0700

At the IBM Office, Beijing

During intros

American Sales Guy, Asia Rep for IBM, hands around his business cards that have both english and chinese.

China Sales Rep Lady: “ooh you have a chinese business card!”

American Sales Guy: “Yah ive worked in Asia for ever, I have ones in Japanese and a few other languages” (very proud)

China Sales Rep Lady: “Next time, you get chinese name. Just like we had american names.”

A few minutes later

American sales guy: i have a dog that is a chinese breed - google it!

Same Chinese Woman: we don’t google, we baidu.

incidently, google/gmail has barely worked here. fb never does. accessing twitter allegedly can get you blocked. in fact, tumblr is the only of my socially networked sites i use that is working….

omg. cuteness explosion.

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:12:38 -0700

omg. cuteness explosion.

avoid mistake to “project high growth rate while undervaluing reinvestment”...

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:10:09 -0700

avoid mistake to “project high growth rate while undervaluing reinvestment” http://on.fb.me/dGTbKh #sofinance #socent