Tumble dans la ville.

GPOY. (via MacSparky - Blog - Geek Automation Chart)

Wed, 23 May 2012 09:57:09 +0200

GPOY.

(via MacSparky - Blog - Geek Automation Chart)

"It’s always dangerous when a CEO suggests positions for an internal hedge fund to take, because the..."

Mon, 14 May 2012 16:37:18 +0200

“It’s always dangerous when a CEO suggests positions for an internal hedge fund to take, because the CEO by definition has no risk manager with enough authority to effectively constrain him. Dimon is powerful and secure enough that he’s not going to lose his job over this. But he probably should. Partly because the bank’s risk-management procedures were so weak that a $2 billion loss could suddenly appear out of nowhere. Partly because Dimon became too cocky, and started thinking that his job was to trade the bank’s billions for profit. But mainly because he’s lost sight of what JP Morgan has to be, in a post-crisis world. Those excess deposits weren’t gifted to Dimon on a plate so that he could gamble them on the CDX NA IG 9. Rather, Dimon’s job is to take those deposits and lend them productively into the real economy. Every extra dollar in the CIO is a sign of his failure to do that. And the $2 billion loss is really just a symptom of what happens when banks get too much money, and don’t really know what to do with it all.”

- Jamie Dimon’s failure | Felix Salmon

bohemea: Madonna by Peter Lindbergh, 1994

Sun, 13 May 2012 21:48:51 +0200

bohemea:

Madonna by Peter Lindbergh, 1994

"MORRISON: Of course, but what I didn’t expect was the amount of hostility. I knew there would be..."

Tue, 08 May 2012 22:50:26 +0200

“MORRISON: Of course, but what I didn’t expect was the amount of hostility. I knew there would be some—maybe even lots—but this is really deranged. For the people who hate Obama, it doesn’t matter what he does. Nothing matters. And the things they say are so retro. I decided that once they have something called the n-word that no one can say, it did the opposite of the word like. Taking the n-word—N-I-G-G-E-R—out of language left a hole. So now there is this flood of other words—Kenyan and no-births—that they have produced in order to fill that hole. The n-word used to say it all. Now there’s this other loaded vocabulary that’s become totally insane. It’s the opposite of like. As in, “I’m, like, ‘Wow … ’” Or, “It was, like … ” Or, “I’m thinking, like … ” Like has taken 90 words out of the vocabulary. They don’t say felt any more. And I get really upset about that. So there’s a word that erases language, and then there’s the erasure of a word that produces a deranged kind of language. That’s startling to me. And the response from the people who dislike Obama is a really visceral dislike. I read a sentence in a newspaper article that said, “The real problem is that here’s a black man in charge of the world.” It’s not a judge or a doctor or the head of a neighborhood—it’s the world. Some people aren’t able to deal with that.”

- Toni Morrison - Page - Interview Magazine

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http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/visited.png (via xkcd: Visited)

Sat, 05 May 2012 12:26:30 +0200

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/visited.png (via xkcd: Visited)

stickastoneinyourmouth: Shirley Ann Manson entering the stage...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:03:15 +0200

stickastoneinyourmouth:

Shirley Ann Manson entering the stage at the first official Garbage show in 7 years.

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**Look who’s back!**

“Dating Fails: My Sense of Reality Has Been Completely...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:05:00 +0200

“Dating Fails: My Sense of Reality Has Been Completely Altered Now But how else will I rationalize girls not liking me? It couldn’t be me! “

As always on the Internets, don’t read the comments unless you wish to lose all faith in humanity.

(via Dating Fails: My Sense of Reality Has Been Completely Altered Now - EPIC FAIL Funny Videos and Epic Fail Funny Pictures)

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Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:48:04 +0200

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This is amazing (via Victorian Newcastle brought to life in...

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:46:15 +0200

This is amazing

(via Victorian Newcastle brought to life in photographic treasure trove | UK news | guardian.co.uk)

"The news about Chase and Bank of America continuing to dominate a market they’ve already admitted to..."

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:39:22 +0100

“The news about Chase and Bank of America continuing to dominate a market they’ve already admitted to feloniously rigging says a lot about the state of modern finance. Bloomberg offered a telling quote from a state official justifying the decision to continue to do business with these criminal banks: “I haven’t found an investment bank that hasn’t had some problem in the last three years,” California Treasurer Bill Lockyer said in a telephone interview. “We do business with them all. I think they provide good service. I think they’ve been highly ethical with us.” This is coming from an official whose state, California, has seen multiple bid-rigging cases in recent years, from Riverside to San Mateo to Sacramento to Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, for starters. So a quote like that is pretty sad. It tells you that the system works fine for state officials and banks — and no one is representing the people who actually lose out.”

- Gangster Banks Keep Winning Public Business. Why? | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

bohemea: Shirley Manson - Bullett by Matt Irwin, Spring...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:07:58 +0100

bohemea:

Shirley Manson - Bullett by Matt Irwin, Spring 2012

Seeing Garbage live on May 16th. Can’t wait.

Branch. (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:08:00 +0100

Branch. (Taken with instagram)

Renewal, over 300 years later. #panama #san lorenzo (Taken...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:06:46 +0100

Renewal, over 300 years later. #panama #san lorenzo (Taken with Instagram at Castillo De San Lorenzo)

Panama (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:41:08 +0100

Panama (Taken with instagram)

Taken with instagram

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:39:08 +0100

Taken with instagram

Brooklyn (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:24:13 +0100

Brooklyn (Taken with instagram)

Night Market (by tumbleville)

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:52:45 +0100

Night Market (by tumbleville)

Freedom. By the way, the site that’s so interested in...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:56:21 +0100

Freedom.

By the way, the site that’s so interested in tracking me is the New York Post.

This is shitty and irresponsible behavior, The Daily What

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:44:48 +0100

This is shitty and irresponsible behavior, The Daily What:

fizztography:

internhack:

About Rihanna and Chris Brown

Some douche on the internet has decided that it is even remotely acceptable to shame a victim of domestic violence for not living up to his or her expectations.

How about you use Google to count the many, many ways in which you’re being a hateful asshole?

I agree the last line is unnecessary, and the tone of the article is insensitive, but I think I understand the point of frustration that the author is coming from.

Chris Brown beat a woman to within an inch of her life and got less than a slap on the wrist for it. He has thousands of followers, a lot of them young women, basically saying it’s just fine that he did it and that they’d let him do it to them. I think it’s perfectly reasonable that someone say to the victim, who some may think is risking putting herself within his dangerous reach again, that “Hey, maybe this isn’t the smartest thing to do. He did almost kill you.”

But yes, the author could have said it in a better way. Let’s not let that overshadow the more important fact (IMO) that Chris Brown is a dangerous man who has shown no remorse, and in most cases of this type of crime that means he does not feel he did anything wrong, and there is a high likelihood that he will someday do it again.

Society’s attitude towards Chris Brown and Rihanna’s attitude towards Chris Brown are very, very different things.

He should not be receiving awards, and nobody should be buying his records. We all agree on that.

But Rihanna has no responsibility towards anyone to cope in a certain way. Domestic abuse affects a survivor’s self esteem, and their very sense of self. Whatever decisions they make in order to move forward is nobody’s business, and shaming a survivor for not conforming to certain expectations in unbelievable.

Rihanna does not and cannot bear responsibility for the decisions and behaviors of the young girls you write about. It is our role as a society to change attitudes towards domestic violence. Placing that responsibility on one person’s shoulders is wrong.

This is shitty and irresponsible behavior, The Daily What

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:11:41 +0100

This is shitty and irresponsible behavior, The Daily What:

About Rihanna and Chris Brown

Some douche on the internet has decided that it is even remotely acceptable to shame a victim of domestic violence for not living up to his or her expectations.

How about you use Google to count the many, many ways in which you’re being a hateful asshole?