Day: July 17, 2006
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Book: Wall Street Meat
Andy Kessler has a blog, fortunately. I haven’t read it before, but I’ll take a peek now, after reading Wall Street Meat: My Narrow Escape from the Stock Market Grinder, courtesy of David. As promised, the paperback was a gulp on the airplane this weekend. Juicy, breezy, broken up even across a two-page spread into…
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Book: Silver Kings
Oscar Lewis’s popular history of the Comstock Lode foursome, Silver Kings: The Lives and Times of Mackay, Fair, Flood and O’Brien, Lords of the Nevada Comstock Lode was published in 1947, and then republished in 1986 by the University of Nevada Press. All of which is to say… I couldn’t find a great place to…
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Measure Map is terribly slow, so FeedBurner buys BlogBeat
(I’m making the connection in the headline, even if no one else would.) The blog measurement service Measure Map craaawwwwllllssss. I know… I’ve been using it for months, even before Google acquired the project from Adaptive Path. Today, I read that FeedBurner bought BlogBeat, expressly to beef up their analytics. And I say to myself……
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I love the web, Zidane edition
Saw this last week, but still worth sharing, especially since the Wall Street Journal print edition even felt it amusing to tell its audience about the plethora of Zidane animations. Here’s Anil Dash’s Zidane World Cup Headbutt Animation Festival, a best (?) of compilation. Never let it be said that editors are dead.