That’s the byline of an interesting 60 Minutes piece on ‘corporate raider’ Carl Icahn (who was mentioned here before in relation to an attempted takeover of Marvel Comics). Regardless of whatever else you may think of his practices, his commentary on CEO pay in this country is spot on. It’s particularly disturbing when they try …
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The other day I received an interesting letter in the mail. It was an offer from Sprint (my former cell phone provider), offering me $10 for my 4+ year old Samsung A620. I’m not sure if there is some kind of government subsidy involved here (a brief search didn’t turn up anything that seemed relevant), …
Amongst the pirates, that is, with 1,893 people leeching it at the time of the survey. Not sure how to take that…
By way of this Coding Horror article discussing recent CAPTCHA breaks in Yahoo, Hotmail, and Google, I stumbled across the Asirra (Animal Species Image Recognition for Restricting Access) project at Microsoft Research. It’s a CAPTCHA system that uses pictures of cats and dogs, taken from Petfinder, to filter out bots from real people. I decided …
It’s a really great game, in my opinion, held back a little bit by some technical and usability issues. To get those out of the way first: There’s some slowdown on certain maps when a lot of creatures are deployed, which doesn’t seem justified given the perceived GPU load. There’s also some visible tearing at …
A resident in my apartment complex just had all of the tires off of his BMW M3 stolen overnight. The car was left up on cinderblocks — we saw him talking to the police earlier this afternoon. Not a good way to start your Saturday, although I was impressed — he seemed much calmer talking …
Here’s the article. It’s nice to see my alma mater landing a prestigious institution, but, at the same time, I, uh, wish it were a different president. If you weren’t aware, Bush’s connection with SMU is via Laura Bush, who is an SMU alumnus.
The Sam’s Club location down the street from me (of which we are members, due mainly to its proximity) recently opened a gas station. This is great for us — it’s essentially the same distance to the Sam’s Club gas station as it is to the other stations that, until now, we favored. And, naturally, …
Apparently in order to become an executive or work in finance, your humor gland needs to be removed. This article about a prank caller who strikes during corporate earnings calls is doubly hilarious because none of the victims appear to comprehend the motivation for doing such a thing — that is, the joy in simply …
Some people have asked me about how I find travel deals and keep my traveling costs low, so I figured that I would write a little bit about resources that I use and things to watch out for. FlyerTalk and Travel Tools My main resource for travel-related stuff is FlyerTalk, which has excellent forums and …