Oct 24
The boy arrived to discover the woman far less attractive than advertised and 10 years older than him, Xinhua said. The boy immediately returned home, lost his appetite, and four days later hanged himself from a tree.
The 79-year-old geneticist said he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really.”. He said he hoped that everyone was equal, but countered that “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true”. He says that you should not discriminate on the basis of colour, because “there are many people of colour who are very talented, but don’t promote them when they haven’t succeeded at the lower level”. He writes that “there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so”.Black people \’less intelligent\’ scientist claims - Times Online
I never expected James Watson to ever… EVER make this statement. So wrong.
AmitC2001: it would be funny if Myspace Tom whipped Zuckerberg's ass
AmitC2001: slaps zuckerberg with his own sandals
FlicknHuck: HAHAHA!
Winamp seem like the Lamborghini of media players passing iTunes (which would be a Daewoo) in the fast lane.
Oct 18
Finkelstein, who had little athletic inclination before taking karate, has now reported significantly increased energy to avoid taking part in activities he doesn't like. "When someone suggests doing something lame, I'm the first one off my feet and headed out of that room," he said. "It feels amazing."
Karate Lessons Give Child Self-Confidence To Quit Karate | The Onion - America\'s Finest News Source
When the Web 2.0 bubble bursts, what will happen to us Twitter/Facebook/addicts? What if these went away? Would they?
about 4 hours ago from twitterrific
Oct 17
"We are almost going back to year 2000-types of errors," said Aaron Kessler of Piper Jaffray. Internet companies, he added, "are buying users instead of revenue and profitability."
Dot-com fever stirs sense of déjà vu - International Herald Tribune
So obvious. So messed up.
In founder Jerry Yang's first quarter as CEO, Yahoo! managed to surprise investors on the upside, sending its stock up 9% so far in early after-hours trading. That followed a 4% drop before third-quarter earnings were announced. On the surface, they weren't much to look at: Net income was down 5% on a 12% rise in sales, to $1.8 billion. But it was better than analysts had expected.
Yahoo! Manages an Upside Surprise, For Now
Hell yea Yahoo!
Another criticism is that Slide is not, at this point, revenue focused. The success of Slide, long term, is ultimately tied to how well we can monetize our service. But it’s important to keep in mind that for a startup at the early phase, being overly concerned with profits can actually be problematic, as Paul Graham notes:“The idea of building something popular then figuring out how to make money from it was born in the Bubble. It sounds irresponsible, but it works. Requiring founders to have a carefully worked out plan for making money is not hard-headed business sense. It’s what hackers call ‘premature optimization.’ The really important thing is to make something people want.” This leaves us with two certainties: 1. Slide has come a long way. 2. It’s hard to predict the future.
Seriously?! This was what they were saying a flipping year ago?! How long do these companies go for without any revenue focus?
“If you are building your business on top of FaceBook, you are not in control of your business”
http://twitter.com/graphingsocial
Jason Calcanis for all the flak he gets, was the only one on that panel that seemed to have any damned sense in him. FACEBOOK WORTH 15 BILLION?! Think about it. I havn’t clicked an ad on there since I signed up 3 years ago! And on top of that! I’ve logged very regularly!
OH HAI INTORNETS! I CAN HAS MONITIZATIONS?! KTHXBYE.