From the “Pureeing While Rome Burns” department, we have one of those stories that looks like it came from Idiocracy, The Onion or at the very least one of those “where do you bury the survivors” trick questions – how much pureed fruit, likely infused with high-fructose corn syrup, does one have to put atop [...]
$BAC and The Google+ Pages Free For All
November 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment · all ur bankz, breaking news
Now that the shiny new social network Google+ is open to brand pages, there’s been something of a free-for-all during the time between when a page is built and when it is verified (and by “when”, I mean “if”, as $BAC has a verified page yet this one still stands). Which is, of course, bad [...]
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99 Problems, But Making Bank Ain’t One
October 19th, 2011 · No Comments · links
Move over, Wu-Tang Financial… there’s a new hip-hop finance collab coming down the pike. Warren Buffett’s upcoming series for kids, “Secret Millionaire’s Club,” promises to gives kids advice about money management – and hip-hop mogul Jay-Z, we’re told, has a role: Jay-Z has had a lot of big-time collaborations this year–a record with Kanye West, [...]
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Is Nothing Sacred Any More?
September 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments · breaking news, commodities
Take a break from worrying about PIIGS and worry about regular pigs for a minute. With all the bacon that Jason and I have been eating, we’ve apparently driven the price of pork up so high that there are full-blown pig-rustling operations in existence nowadays. Seriously, though, a combination of increased demand for succulent hog, [...]
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