THIS IS THE CAMERA THAT I RECENTLY BROKE

$55 FOR THE CASE :)

SUSU NOT NUMBER 13 ON THIS LIST ;-)

ONLY IN JAPAN?

"Slightly more than 13 million homeowners with a mortgage were in negative equity at the end of the first quarter. But when including homeowners with less than 20 percent home equity, the “effective” negative equity rate at the end of the first quarter was 43.6 percent, or a total of 22.3 million homeowners. These homeowners likely cannot afford a down payment for a new home or other costs associated with buying and selling a home, tying them to their current homes and contributing to inventory shortages." ... BEN UNABLE TO BAIL THEM OUT?

APPARENTLY THESE APPS ARE USEFUL ... I HAVEN'T TAKEN A CAB IN MANY MANY YEARS SO I WOULDN'T KNOW

HIGH TIME FOR A HIGH VALUE TARGET

"the results cluster into 18 communities according to language and geography. These are colour-coded in the diagram above: the English cluster in white is the largest followed by the Chinese cluster in red, the Japanese cluster in green, and the French in yellow and so on." ... "The biggest bridging site between the Chinese cluster and the rest of the world is Alibaba.com, a business-to-business trading platform based in mainland China. However, the second-biggest bridging site is the Chinese-language version of Wikipedia."

BIOSTIME IS A CLIENT WHOSE SHARES I HAVE BEEN PROHIBITED FROM BUYING :-(

"China's middle class currently stands at around 300 million people or over one-fifth of the 1.3 billion population, a proportion which could rise to over a half by 2030, consultants KPMG said in a recent report." ... NO WAY IS IT THAT BIG, I PUT IT AT 100 MILLION OR SO (about twice the size of Korea)

ANYONE ELSE HAVE A CLAIM TO THESE?

IT HAS DEFINITELY CHANGED THE WAY I USE THE WEB... GFW AND THE DREADED WEBSENSE .. WIKIPEDIA AIN'T BLOCKED

"Those with capital use the constitution's allure to trick those who have nothing into believing that they lived in a fair system, she argued in ideologically orthodox terms. Citing Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin, she predicted chaos for China if the country were ever to come under constituional rule. " ... GOING OLD SCHOOL!

维护、细化中国的发展道路不如尖刻否定它吸引眼球，但这恰是中国复兴路上最需要的坚定与执着。“宪政”这个概念同中国改革开放的现实相比轻飘飘的，正因如此，它在中国落不了地，更生不了根

"Microburst technology applies a quick burst of pressurized air and micro-water droplets to clean deep between teeth where a toothbrush can't reach" ... OH, THERE IS SOME WATER IN THERE

HMMM, AIR INSTEAD OF WATER

Rhino EQ 300 Whole House Water Filter
Adapted for Chinese water systems
Home delivery and fitting included.
UL/ NSF certified, class 1 performance rating.
No electricity, drain, or backwash needed.
Customizable to your water conditions .300,000-gallon (1,135 metric ton), 3 to 5-year certified capacity.
Comes complete with main filter unit, pre-filter, installation kit, shut-off valve and required hardware.
Product Height: 46″ / 117 cm
Product Diameter: 8″ / 21 cm
Product Length with Pre-Filter Install Kit: 27″ / 69 cm
Product Weight: 40 lbs / 18 kg
Max Flow Rate: 0.4 gallons per minute / 1.5 liters per minute

"Tired of bad air quality? Check out our pollution protection range. Can’t find a good cup of coffee? We’ve got coffee machines coming out of our ears. Want to cook more at home? Have a look at our top quality range of kitchenware. Want to be entertained? Check out our lifestyle and leisure section for tickets to the top gigs and imported beers and wines." ... JULIA SENT THIS OVER, WHO IS BEHIND IT??

HIGH VOLUME REVERSALS BUT SHORT-LIVED? ... EXCEPT FOR JO... ODDLY SBUX CONTINUES TO CHARGE $6 A CUP

50 OF 227 ... REMEMBER THIS IS BARCHARTS DATA SO STOCKS ONLY AND HIGHS (not closing highs) ... OUTSIDE REVERSALS, NONE OF THESE WOULD SHOW UP WITH UGLY'S CLOSING DATA (superior)

"In December 1912, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver while alone in his office in Milwaukee. He was aged 36 at the time of his death." ... WHY?

"After graduation, Straight was appointed to the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service in Nanjing and worked as secretary to Sir Robert Hart, the Service's Inspector General. While in the Far East, he worked as a Reuters correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War, bringing him to Korea in 1904. In June, 1905, he became the personal secretary of Edwin V. Morgan, the American consul general in the Kingdom of Korea and American vice-consul in Seoul, Korea.[1] After briefly working in Havana, Cuba, he returned to China in 1906 as American Consul-General at Mukden, Manchuria. While there, he and Ms. Mary Harriman were reportedly romantically involved, but their marriage was prevented by E. H. Harriman, her father.[2] He then went on to work for J. P. Morgan & Co. In April, 1908, Straight was involved in a diplomatic incident involving a Japanese postman's attack on a coolie working for the American consulate whom the Japanese believed to have insulted him: Straight brandished a revolver and sent the Japanese attackers to their government for punishment." ... "The Straights moved first to Beijing, then, having adjudged China too unsafe after the Chinese Revolution, back to the United States in 1912.[4] In 1914, Willard Straight, his wife, and Herbert Croly began publication of The New Republic, a weekly political magazine. In 1917, they helped found Asia Magazine, a prominent academic journal on China."

Following the suicide of former Cornell football player and head football coach Henry Schoellkopf in 1912, his close friend, Willard Straight, donated $100,000 to construct the Schoellkopf Memorial Hall in honor of Henry Schoellkopf. The building was completed in 1913. In response to Straight's generous gift, members of the Schoellkopf family and the Zeta Psi Fraternity donated $70,000 for the construction of Schoellkopf Field in honor of the Schoellkopf family patriarch, Jacob F. Schoellkopf Sr. Schoellkopf Field was completed in 1915

"September 16th, 2007 at 10:30PM
Another Twitter?
How is this different from Twitter?  No 140 character limit?" ... THAT WAS MY FIRST TUMBLR POST ;-)

"Over the past two months, the administrator group in charge of Wuxi Suntech's bankruptcy reorganization received over 600 claims from individuals and companies and in the end the group accepted the claims of 529 creditors for a total of close to 17.4 billion yuan in unpaid debts. This figure includes 7.65 billion yuan owed to twelve banks." ... 2.8 BILLION DOLLARS, HMMM

INSTANT, NO-OVERHEAD BLOG WITH TUMBLR

"Promises not to screw it up" ... I'M NOT SURE THIS LEVEL OF FUNNY IS APPROPRIATE

"In March 2007, Tumblr exploded after Gina Trapani wrote it up on Lifehacker and her post made it to the Digg front page (the first Digg!).

We soon added following and reblogging, which dramatically turned this publishing platform into the social-publishing hybrid that has made it so compelling and unique.

On November 1, 2007, we announced the funding and launched Tumblr’s third major design with lots of new features and architectural improvements." ... IT WAS KARP'S DADDY WHO WAS PAYING MOST OF THE BILLS IN THE EARLY DAYS, I BELIEVE

"As for me, while I wasn’t a “founder” financially, David was generous with my employee stock options back in the day. I won’t make yacht-and-helicopter money from the acquisition, and I won’t be switching to dedicated day and night iPhones. But as long as I manage investments properly and don’t spend recklessly, Tumblr has given my family a strong safety net and given me the freedom to work on whatever I want. And that’s exactly what I plan to do." ... ODD THAT MARCO DIDN'T HAVE A BIGGER STAKE?

STILL HARD FOR NON-NERDS TO ESCAPE GOOGLE'S GRIP

6 DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME ON RUBBISH ... it's almost all rubbish

"Price high

The first lesson, that I think Jarrod got right, is to price high. If you are trying to maximize revenue from a small audience, you need to get the most possible out of each customer, even if that means losing sales.

The middle package was priced at $79 and the highest package at $169. At the very least these packages make $39 seem inexpensive. People will always compare to something else, so you want to control what that comparison is made against." ... NICE POST

"That was before it was known that the Obama DOJ read James Rosen's emails by formally labeling him in court an unindicted co-conspirator for the "crime" of reporting on classified information. This all just got a lot more dangerous." ... SLIPPED DOWN THE SLIPPERY SLOPE AGES AGO

Biggr. That's right, a terabyte.
Spectaculr. Share in full resolution.
Wherevr. Available anywhere you go.

"Wes Anderson has always been know for his nostalgia and attention to detail and his animated film Fantastic Mr. Fox was apparently no exception. According to a comment on the original post these are based on the following real-world watches: “Casio Databank, Rolex Submariner, Casio A158W, Timex Weekender”. And here is an image showing the watches next to their real counterparts." ... I DID NOTICE AND APPRECIATE THOSE IN THE MOVIE (but i hate wes anderson's preciousness)

"ESPN has three major deals set to begin in the next year, including the NFL (up from $1.1 billion to $1.9 billion annually), Major League Baseball (up from $350 million to $700 million annually), and the BCS and major bowl games (up from approx. $125 million to $823 million annually)." ... PROFITABLE BIZ

Loss per diluted ADS was RMB 5.29 ($0.85), compared to loss per diluted ADS of RMB 15.06 ($2.42) in the fourth quarter of 2012
·                  Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the quarter were RMB 2.8 billion ($454.9 million), compared to RMB 3.0 billion ($488.1 million) at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012

PLAYING UP THE CAGE FIGHTING ANGLE BUT WAS DEADLY FORCE JUSTIFIED??

"learned their second language before age 8." ... "This is one of the first clear demonstrations that bilinguals really do have two different sounds systems and that they can switch between one language and the other and then use that sound system." ... WE WILL NOT LIVE CHINA UNTIL ANNA IS AT LEAST SIX

"Heart of Ithaca! What a location! Every season is busy with business and college activities: Cornell University, Ithaca College, summer time tourist for school and wineries to taste, International community. Beautiful Cayuga Lake to dock at for a Sushi lunch and/or a dinner at night?? Absolutely in mint condition. Every thing is like new. About 96 sittings, all the equipment is included. 7 years of successful restaurant owner needs to relocate due to the family. All you have to do is come in and introduce yourself to your new employees... Come & see it, you won't be disappointed! " .. .SUSHI O SAKE ...

"Instead of being regarded as heroes who changed their own destinies, “phoenix men” have long been unpopular in the Chinese marriage market, especially among “peacock girls” – those from urban, relatively wealthy families. Women dislike what they perceive to be the men’s insecurity, fear of failure, penny pinching, inferiority complexes, and prioritization of his extended family over his own wife and kids. These are thought to be traits irreversibly ingrained in his psyche by the time he reaches adulthood." ... CHINESE WOMEN SMART TO AVOID THESE GUYS (and his extended family)

MAC AND CHEESE AND SPAGHETTIOS ... THIS IS WHY YOUR KID IS FAT

“The IWG’s proposed nutrition standards are in direct conflict with established government food policy standards such as the USDA dietary guidelines and the school lunch program.  They would effectively ban the advertising of 88 of the most 100 most popular foods consumed in America, including healthy foods such as cereals, soups and breads.

“In addition, an IWG ban on the advertising of foods and beverages would have a devastating impact on jobs. According to an independently conducted study by IHS Global Insight, the IWG’s proposals could cost 74,000 critical jobs across the food manufacturing and advertising industries, at a time when our economy can least afford it.

BASTARDS TRYING TO KEEP CHEETOS OUT OF THE GRUBBY HANDS OF CHILDREN, FINGERS WILL REMAIN UNSTAINED BY ORANGE

It contains alternate re-ordered versions of all the songs from their first EP Lifesblood, as well as three tracks from their 7" self-titled vinyl released in 2000 and a bonus song, "Call of the Mastodon", which has only appeared on the "9 Song Demo", which originally contained vocals by their previous vocalist Eric Saner.

I was never comfortable with referring to Mastodon as a sludge band, since to me, sludge is the stuff like Grief or Eyehategod, clearly worlds apart from our media darlings here, but at the very least I could understand why that tag got tacked on to them early on. But here? It's gone. They're like mid-era Death where I guess they could be called prog metal if you wanted to call them that, but they weren't really all the way there. I mean, there's still a huge High on Fire groove going on here, plus whatever other stoner and hardcore influences, but for the most part they've just kind of become their own nebulous entity at this point. In fact, mid-late-era Death is actually a pretty decent comparison at times when you think about how frequent the harmonized leads play a central role in the music. Almost every track is crammed full of minor tapping melodies and harmonized runs, very similar to what Chuck fell just a little bit too much in love with around the Individual Thought Patterns era. And of course, Kali is still the drummer, so there are still an abundance of skin pounding theatrics.

Sludge metal is typically harsh and abrasive; often featuring shouted or screamed vocals, heavily distorted instruments and sharply contrasting tempos.

"Beijing taxi drivers turn over a total of 4.6 billion yuan in contract fees to taxi companies every year." ... THOROUGHLY CORRUPT FROM TOP TO BOTTOM

"There are at least 217 foreign certified nurses, including 183 from China, working at private hospitals, mainly in Tokyo, Osaka and surrounding areas, The Asahi Shimbun has found. Most have been introduced by Japanese nonprofit organizations funded by hospitals to help cope with the shortage of nurses in Japan. The list is rounded out by 30 Vietnamese and four South Koreans." ... INTERESTING ... JAPAN FACES A REAL LABOR CRISIS

"A post this week by an anonymous blogger on Sina Weibo claimed the promotion had more to do with Yuan's father than with her skills. Her father, Yuan Qiunian, is a secretary of the commission for political and legal affairs and considered Yangzhou's top security official." ... NO ONE IS ANONYMOUS ON WEIBO, THE QUESTION IS WHY DID THEY LET THE TWEET STAND AND NOT SCRUB IT

"Caixin reported that Yang Kun had approved a 3 billion yuan loan to Wang Yaohui (王耀辉), an investor in Solana Mall, a well-known retail development close to Beijing's Chaoyang Park." ... SOLANA USED TO BE A GHOST TOWN BUT I RECENTLY TOOK BABY THERE FOR HER PICTURES AND THE PLACE WAS BOOMING, JUST PACKED TO THE GILLS

"Police said Yuan's boyfriend surnamed Peng allegedly spread the rumors online to call for Yuan's fellow townsmen from east Anhui Province to "demand an answer" from the market, as he was unsatisfied by the market's handling of Yuan's death. Police have arrested Peng and 12 others, including one of Yuan's former classmates and 11 of her fellow townsmen, who allegedly helped spread the rumors and incited the rally." ... NO DOUBT THEY CAPTURED ALL THE TEXTS SENT BY THESE VARIOUS PEOPLE ... CHICOMS KNOW EVERYONE'S NUMBER (even mine :) )

关于股票停牌核查的公告

2013 年第一季度报告 2013年4月19

FACEPALM FOR NOT CATCHING THIS DOUBLE

INVISTA DIRECTOR

ALSO UNLIKE UGLY'S DATA, BARCHART USES HIGH INSTEAD OF CLOSE (i prefer close)

INTERESTING THAT SPENCER USES GLASSDOOR TO SPY ON HIS OWN COMPANY ... SMART

APRIL 9, 2002

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Tumblelogs  OCT 19 2005

A tumblelog is a quick and dirty stream of consciousness, a bit like a remaindered links style linklog but with more than just links. They remind me of an older style of blogging, back when people did sites by hand, before Movable Type made post titles all but mandatory, blog entries turned into short magazine articles, and posts belonged to a conversation distributed throughout the entire blogosphere. ... minimal commentary, little cross-blog chatter, the barest whiff of a finished published work, almost pure editing...really just a way to quickly publish the "stuff" that you run across every day on the web.

Vox is now closed.

Thank you for your love and support of Vox over the years.

Vox was an Internet blogging service run by Six Apart, which ran from October 26, 2006 to September 30, 2010

November 18, 2008 • ∞

"Twitter had launched just a few months earlier in mid-2006, without any of its current photo or video capabilities, but with a super-simple posting experience similar to what made Tumblr so easy to use." ... "a usable experience for normal people" ... "what made Tumblr so popular early on was that they let people use their own domain name, with a beautiful design, for free. Other free tools were either more complicated, or like WordPress or Blogger, they charged extra to use a domain name and/or constrained the template customization that a user could do."

IF A TERABYTE IS FREE WHY AM I PAYING $25 A YEAR?

"Marissa and her team share our dream to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas" ... WHO CAME UP WITH THIS ULTIMATE CREATIVE CANVAS BULLSHIT?

Fuck yeah,
David

HUH? WONDER WHAT LUCY WILL MAKE OF THAT SIGN-OFF

2 POSTS

"We promise not to screw it up." ... THAT'S CONFIDENCE! ... "David Karp is one of the nicest, most empathetic people I’ve ever met. " ... EMPATHETIC? HE'S A NICE RICH KID (richer now)

"I hit it off with a guy, and, for all that I’ve been burned in the past, I start to think that this one might actually care about me as a person. And then he asks me on a date." ... IT'S CALLED BIOLOGY, DUMBSHIT ... WE NEED TO GET IN YOUR PANTS, THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS ... "But males just don’t want to be friends with nice girls like me. They can’t help it, I guess; it’s just how they’re wired, biologically." ... OH, SHE DOES GET IT ... "I mean, I’d really like to have a true friendship with a guy someday, but it’s so hard to trust and respect them when they never say what they mean—and you never know when you might be relegated to the girlfriend-zone." ... AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN, JUST ACCEPT IT

"January 28, 1999: 9:51 a.m. ET" ... MARKET PEAKED MARCH 23, 2000 ... NEVER FORGET

"Should be a cracker of a game, though. And well worth staying up past the witching hour for (the game kicks off at 2.45am on Saturday night/Sunday morning). The two teams met in a very fiery 1-1 draw back on May 5 as a little warm-up for the main event." ... I WILL WATCH THE REPLAY ON SUNDAY AT THE GYM AND AVOID ALL MEDIA BEFORE WATCHING

"The key to success is knowing that from just a handful of two dollar bills, a garbage bag that can hold all of your belongings, and an extreme insecure desire to be liked, all things are possible." ... ANOTHER VISIT TO THE CONFESSIONAL

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