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"Out of almost 2,100 diversified retail U.S. stock mutual funds that are open to new investors, just 17 have positive returns for both the past 12 months and year-to-date." Whoa. (via The Big Picture)
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Matt's feeling crotchety, but it's a productive, high-signal:ratio crotchety (nice discussion at hand)
Category: Internet (Page 18 of 40)
Mysteriously and miraculously, del.icio.us began publishing my saved links to my blog again, after several months of unexplained hiatus. Huzzah! Here’s the exciting rundown of my linkbloggin’ activity so far this week.
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Merlin Mann on FriendFeed's "fake follow" button. Interesting, but I like this post for this line: "FriendFeed, which has quickly become the platform of choice for the web’s least interesting narcissists"
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All well and good, but I find it rather insane that MLB is launching this untested on a Thursday in the middle of the stretch drive to the postseason
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Good luck. Any poker players in the office?
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"# State-of-the-art round-the-clock medical care is free, but you have to pay for parking." The rest of this post is equally true
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What a wonderful obit, obviously written decades ago, and left alone. Priceless: phrases like “Living in Manhattan with her sister in a fourth-floor walkup hard by the Third Avenue El”
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Jack is such a climber!
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More love from the Times: “the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we’ve yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell”
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I want Joe O’Neill’s publicist
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Joe O’Neill’s new novel: “masterly”
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Joseph O’Neill’s ‘Netherland’: Post 9/11, a New York of Gatsby-Size Dreams and Loss – New York TimesCongrats to Joe on his “stunning” novel
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“You should be smoking while doing this, with the cigarette perched at enough of a jaunty angle that falling ash may add random colour and texture every time you swear.” It took a little while, but Dean Allen is returning to form
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It’s the little things, isn’t it? This makes me just a bit sad
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The man at the desk to my left answered “yes” to 15 of these (and agreed with the punchline)
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I think the saddest part of this is the second comment
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Two observations: one, Choire is entirely accurate; and two, Choire really needs to get the poker game back together