August 2011
8 posts
“You built it.
Congrats.
So what’s your launch strategy?
We’ll...”
Hurricane Irene: New York Transit System Prepares... →
peterwknox:
It takes at least eight hours to shut down the nation’s largest mass-transit system, Walder said. The MTA’s network of rail, subway and bridges stretches from Long Island’s East End to the Hudson Valley and up the Connecticut coast.
The subway system is especially vulnerable to flooding. On an average day, 13 million gallons of water are pumped out of it.
Walder said the MTA,...
Is Ashton Kutcher In Trouble? →
Not if this is still America.
Greatest Songs Of The 1980s →
This is obviously biased in favor of big, popular radio hits. There’s no Minor Threat or Antiheroes. No Operation Ivy or Gorilla Biscuits. But, it’s a good list. And I’m pretty sure I heard all of these songs in Williamsburg last weekend. Gibson.com Readers Poll – Greatest Song of the ’80s 1. AC/DC, “Back in Black” (1981)2. Iron Maiden, “The Number of the Beast” (1982)3. AC/DC,...
“A number of people have asked Lucy and John Carney whether Jay Carney, White...”
– From the Pelham Weekly, the hometown paper where my parents live.
“Everything through the gold window is like a... →
fek:
I wrote about all the batshit noise you will hear should you put your ear to the gold nonsense. Conclusion of second big finance piece: everyone putting money into anything other than bourbon is crazy.
This is a good line: “Gold has proven to be a superman investment. It can leap over buildings and do things that investments aren’t supposed to do. And it’s laughing at us.”
