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This is a great visual primer explaining what the heck is going on with the credit crisis:

So by now, everyone knows about Bernie Madoff, the most successful con man in history. His Ponzi ^{1} scheme has left countless investors bankrupt as he stole about $65 billion dollars. Billion.

So just how in the world Madoff made off with all your money? He’s a child and so are we. Here’s the perfect analogy.

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Footnotes:

1. the whole ugly truth [↩]

Julie posted a response to my review of Gran Torino and  I began writing a response.  But the comment became too big, so I turned it into a full post.  Let the discussion begin!

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What happens when the primetime slot erodes, giving way to a new generation of media content consumers? I’m referring to the video iPods, the Sony PlayStation Portables, and other such video on-demand players. (more…)

I told my friends Sarah and Mark that I once dressed as Spiderman for Halloween. Here’s the proof…
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There’s something about a nice mug from which to drink your favorite hot beverage…
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Found the following great article on the topic of — what else? — singleness and identity. But first, a word from Hollywood:
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I was struck by the power of the following image in Batman Begins:
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I love heredity quizzes. Heredity, as in:

A property of a space which is also true of each of its subspaces. Being “countable” is hereditary… (from MathWorld)

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“You hear what you want to hear.”

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For a brief few weeks over a year ago, I was gauging my life in a literal fashion, where others might keep such internal dialogs to themselves. As Homer Simpson adroitly described the phenomenon:

I said the loud parts quiet and the quiet parts out loud.

At least that’s the most eloquent way I can put a rather odd and somewhat embarrassing page of my past: the Life Meters.
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“My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.”
– Albert Einstein

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…that cheeky little bastard!
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