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Spielberg’s Next Movie: ‘Dubai’
LOL. CCTV footage of the al-Mabhouh execution team follows. 8 minutes of people checking into hotels and clearing customs. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Open Source Black Bloc
CTV They go by the name Black Bloc, but even the masked, black-clad protesters who trashed store windows during an anti-Olympic march on the weekend wouldn’t call themselves an organization. Structure? None. With no structure and no purported leaders, they’re … Continue reading
Real World Hollywood Stock Exchange
A friend made a killing in pretend dollars on the pretend part of this game. Maybe this effort to securitize the real world movie business can yield him a real world fortune? For years, Cantor Fitzgerald, a Wall Street investment … Continue reading
What’s Going To Hinder Chindia?
Hilarious. The Economist asked a bunch of CEO’s what would hinder India’s growth vs. China’s. You can see black swans (for them anyway) forming where there is white space on the right side of this graph. Via Kedrosky (who is … Continue reading
Cyber Shockwave + Oil Shockwave
Marc Ambinder is aflutter over this exercise. It focuses on the reaction of cabinet-level officers to the extremely unlikely case of the equivalent of a cyber-nuke attack from the unknown. I’m much less optimistic. Like Oil Shockwave before it, its … Continue reading