Quote of the day: Sometimes a bridge has had so much water under it that it needs to be burned
(A line by Julie, from a discussion about letting go of the past.)
2012-07-27
Entry tags:
- addiction,
- adhd,
- art,
- banking,
- cars,
- clothes,
- cosplay,
- creativity,
- cthulhu,
- drugs,
- economics,
- education,
- epicfail,
- facebook,
- food,
- football,
- fraud,
- funny,
- games,
- gaming,
- geekery,
- geeks,
- gender,
- habits,
- hydrogen,
- investment,
- johnscalzi,
- law,
- links,
- london,
- nealstephenson,
- olympics,
- oxford,
- relationships,
- scotland,
- shares,
- starwars,
- uk,
- viajohncoxon,
- work,
- writing
Interesting Links for 27-07-2012
- De-gendering academic dress at Oxford
- Why Sebastian Coe should be jailed in Scotland
- The British Banker's Association was warned weekly about LIBOR fraud back in 2008.
- Mayor's sustainable Olympic taxis driven on a 130-mile trip to fill up in Swindon
- Men: A good reason to be a decent boyfriend. So you won't be described like this...
- Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be
- Every Cthulhu Game I Ever Played
- Artist draws different drugs and draws self portraits.
I'd love to know how much of the differences is caused by expectations.
- Neal Stephenson on swordplay, space and depressing SF - if anyone can find the whole keynote, I'll be ecstatic.
- This is what addiction to Facebook games will make people do...
God, I loathe this "business model" with a fiery passion.
- Someone with ADHD talks about the habits that make it possible for them to do creative work
- Free school meals for all boost results by up to two months.
- What's A Fair Value for Facebook Stock?
My congratulations to Facebook
For persuading people that their shares were worth 100 times their income, at $38/share. An amazing job, that made them a huge wodge of money. It shouldn't matter to them at all that the price has since dropped by nearly half of that to $22 - they made their money, and I'm sure they're very happy with it.
I have no idea why people were willing to pay that much for shares in a company that could not grow its user base by more than seven times without running out of human beings, can't monetise those users more than a tiny amount without driving them away, and has growth that's been halving every year since 2009. But that's investors for you.
I have no idea why people were willing to pay that much for shares in a company that could not grow its user base by more than seven times without running out of human beings, can't monetise those users more than a tiny amount without driving them away, and has growth that's been halving every year since 2009. But that's investors for you.
I just bought a game on pre-order, for the first time in aaaaaages
Largely because (a) Steam have Borderlands 2 on 10% off if you own Borderlands 1 and (b) The 4-pack is even further discounted, to the point where I basically got my copy for 1/3 off purely because I have two friends and a wife who also love shooting things.
Now I just have to wait until September 18th until I can play this:
*so excited I'm actually going to set the mood on this post*
Now I just have to wait until September 18th until I can play this:
*so excited I'm actually going to set the mood on this post*