Timbits vs RIMbits
Tim Hortons donuts market capitalization just passed that of Research in Motion. Happy day for donut lovers. Not so much for Blackberry lovers. Timbits vs RIMbits.
Tim Hortons Market Cap Chart by YCharts
Twitter Digest: 2011-12-16
Google Zeitgeist 2011: How the world searched – http://t.co/dtMFMeq9 # How US steers oil suppliers away from democracy. Wait, I may have that backward. http://t.co/1ieY8Q3k /via @nouriel # Happy New Year 1998 to S&P! RT @BloombergNews: France braces for cut in AAA debt rating – http://t.co/Esa8T17D # Right. Lucky Canada! RT @HighlySalassee: @pkedrosky so supplying...
Hitchens: 1949-2011
Terrible news, truly, and not made an iota better by being less than unexpected.
Three Nutty Things Worth Reading, Plus the RIMM Product Pecking Order
The MF Global Black Box: A Minute By Minute Breakdown Of The Doomed Broker’s Last Week On Earth (Source) Pair of Robbers Want Only iPhones, No BlackBerries (Source) French banker says UK should be downgraded first (Source) On that second-last RIMM story (full disclosure, I’ve been short all year), here is the precedence of failing...
Following the Bouncing RIMM Analysts
Somehow RIMM managed to disappoint analysts again tonight — not an easy task — so I thought it would be good to look at what the analysts had been saying this year. Turns out they’re dutifully tracking the stock downward. Can we cut s...
Twitter Digest: 2011-12-15
When most people call a learning curve steep they mean it's shallow. Why is that metaphor so mixed up? # My issue with the otherwise v good Tweetbot is the orifice-centric icon. Gives me the willies. # .@Ian_Wilson_ My sense with learning curves is people are tacitly mixing physical and mathematical models. # The Worst...
Copyright vs Patents Over Time in Supreme Court Decisions
Copyright vs patents over time in US Supreme Court decisions:
/via LLE
Google Zeitgeist 2011
Excellent news in the Google Zeitgeist 2011 wrapup of what people searched for (i.e. cared about) in 2011: I knew even less than usual about what the hell these things were.
GoPro HD: Shotgun Barrels at Pipeline
Take in in HD and blow it to full-screen: Simply sublime Go Pro HD footage of shooting barrels at Pipeline. Incredible stuff.
Twitter Digest: 2011-12-14
G&M: Dennis Gartman out of gold, proclaims ‘death of a bull’: http://t.co/Tqt4jMTG # Since touching $15.20 on Nov 28, GRPN has run like scared couponing cat, now up 56%. # Spoke to White House official about this last week, & passing it along: Entrepreneurs in Residence at USCIS. Neat idea. http://t.co/r2N6P070 # More background on...
US Tax Rates in Three Graphs. Not Boring. Really.
Tax policy is numbingly boring, of course, but in his latest JPM note Michael Cembalest sneaks up on the subject with the following three graphs. While they don’t settle the issue of marginal tax rates, they do provide a useful context for why we can’t agree on whether US marginal tax rates are too high,...
