"Free marketers blanch at the idea of more regulation. But banking isn’t a normal market. Banks create money when it did not previously exist."
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Wooster Collective: Sean Martindale’s FREE
String art by guerrilla gardener Sean Martindale.

Love this!

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Wooster Collective: Sean Martindale’s FREE

String art by guerrilla gardener Sean Martindale.

Love this!

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Amazing pic! Graffiti rules, need to incorporate this into a home at some point in my life.

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Amazing pic! Graffiti rules, need to incorporate this into a home at some point in my life.

Hey @withitchicago this is ridiculous! I mean will you just grab a couple of Bulls tickets and tell me when I need to come home.

U.S. Consumers Finally Getting Religion About Debt
This definitely makes sense given my recent experience in Dallas. Folks are trading wants for needs and finding a new depth of family and spiritual connection that has been latent for the past decade.
Personally, G and I recently closed a credit line from Citibank because we didn’t see the value in outstanding credit from a bank that was nickel and diming us. We also opened an account with Mint last week and have begun a process of digging into our spending habits to figure out where we can improve.
No doubt this will hurt in the short term, but it is the foundation for tremendous success and growth in a global economy.

U.S. Consumers Finally Getting Religion About Debt

This definitely makes sense given my recent experience in Dallas. Folks are trading wants for needs and finding a new depth of family and spiritual connection that has been latent for the past decade.

Personally, G and I recently closed a credit line from Citibank because we didn’t see the value in outstanding credit from a bank that was nickel and diming us. We also opened an account with Mint last week and have begun a process of digging into our spending habits to figure out where we can improve.

No doubt this will hurt in the short term, but it is the foundation for tremendous success and growth in a global economy.

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Biggie by Matt Morris

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Biggie by Matt Morris

Tears, perhaps not, but utterly captivating none the less.

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There a whole boatload of these good ads on youtube. You’ve GOT to watch them. Without showing any other visual besides the Google searches, these spots manage to tell real, human stories. The music helps a bunch. Some of them put a tear in my eye. I love Google!

Tears, perhaps not, but utterly captivating none the less.

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There a whole boatload of these good ads on youtube. You’ve GOT to watch them. Without showing any other visual besides the Google searches, these spots manage to tell real, human stories. The music helps a bunch. Some of them put a tear in my eye. I love Google!

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David Byrne & Fatboy Slim ft. Santogold - Please don’t go

This is an fantastic article on how important it is to dig beyond the headlines whenever statistics are used. Tom Friedman is an excellent synthesizer. In fact his synthesis of our modern times as described in The World is Flat was well done and moved a lot of folks to think in a more worldly manner.

However, we’re now at a point in our history where it’s the details, not the synthesis that matters and on these details Friedman just misses.

"We have expressed our strong disagreement and the seriousness of our disagreement by temporarily ceasing the sale of all Macmillan titles. We want you to know that ultimately, however, we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan’s terms because Macmillan has a MONOPOLY over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for e-books. Amazon customers will at that point decide for themselves whether they believe it’s reasonable to pay $14.99 for a bestselling e-book…Kindle is a business for Amazon, and it is also a mission. We never expected it to be easy! Thank you for being a customer."
Amazon

Vanishing Point on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Thanks to @jessebdylan for linking to this awesome, if not entirely understandable video of visualization coolness.

Feel The Lameness

“John argues that if we aren’t forced to pay $15, writers won’t write good books, the world will go to hell in a handbasket, and Macmillan will collapse.”

Henry Blodget

Henry goes on to break down John Sargent’s, CEO of Macmillan, lame argument about artificially pricing books at $15. Publishers are dead unless they start thinking a lot more creatively about pricing their value add. If their value add is so low that they cannot survive in a marketplace not protected by oligopolic access control to distribution channels, then they probably have a shitty business. The only moats that content providers can build now are the relationships between themselves and their audience.

If I were them I’d probably try and figure out how to provide content producers with great data about their audience. But begging for an artificial price floor is absurd and embarrassing. The result is they’ll go the way of music publishers.

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