Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-11-2008

[andrewducker]

• 8 really, really scary predictions about the economy
  (tags: economics 2008 depression predictions)
• The digested read: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling
  Very, very funny
  (tags: funny books harrypotter)
• Chinese girl gets 'kiss of deaf'
  The chorus of warnings was echoed by the Shanghai Daily, which wrote: "A strong kiss may cause an imbalance in the air pressure between two inner ears and lead to a broken ear drum."
  (tags: weird biology kissing)
• Man's genes 'key to baby's sex'
  Raar! My sperm have The Power!
  (tags: genetics gender)

Comments

[anef.livejournal.com]

Warren Buffett (hope that's how you spell it) refused to buy into dotcoms on the basis that he didn't understand them and didn't want to put the time into researching them. And was widely ridiculed at the time. His point was that some of them were good businesses and would survive, but the vast majority weren't. That seemed very sensible to me.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. If you don't understand something then you have no way of telling whether you're buying a complete fraud.

I remember, at the height of the DotComBoom, seeing the stock price of a telecoms company double purely because it had added ".com" to the end of its name...