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Archives for March 2006
links for 2006-03-31
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This steaming pile of crap sounds more like Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” than “Bourgeois Blues.”
links for 2006-03-29
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The Ascendant Breed of Grown-Ups Who Are Redefining Adulthood.
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The Viking Game.
An’ Patched Up the Crack in the Liberty Bell
Incumbents in the House of Representatives didn’t always have a 95% reelection rate. Take this passage from Davy Crockett’s official Congressional biography:
…unsuccessful candidate for election to the Nineteenth Congress in 1825; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth Congress; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1831); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-second Congress in 1830; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-fourth Congress in 1834; fought at the Battle of the Alamo, San Antonio, Tex., 1836; died about March 6, 1836.
Achilles and the Hare
Today is August 24, 1995. In Redmond, corks are popping out of champagne bottles to herald the product launch of Windows 95.
The media coverage is making you feel uneasy about all the Apple stock in your portfolio, so you pull your brick-sized cell phone out of your briefcase and you call your coke-addict broker. You tell him to dump all your Apple stock and put the money in Microsoft.
Today is March 23, 2006. Your investments have done well over the last decade. Your Microsoft stock has beaten the S&P 500 by a factor of three. You’ve been watching Apple’s share price slide for the last couple of weeks and it has made you wonder how much less your portfolio would be worth if you had lacked the vision to move your money to Microsoft a decade ago.
So you visit Bigcharts.com and you create an interactive chart to satisfy your curiosity.
You feel a lump in your throat as you come to terms with your mistake. As a long-term investment vehicle, Apple has outpaced Microsoft.
links for 2006-03-22
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American fine-art prints from 1900 to 1950.
links for 2006-03-21
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A nice overview of the typographic history from the 1400s through 1800.
links for 2006-03-20
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A cool little hole-in-the-wall in Falls Church, VA that sells used hardware at great prices.
links for 2006-03-17
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Anti-Communist folk-music from the sixties.
links for 2006-03-13
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Free public-domain audiobooks.
