A lone wolverine discovered in California almost 90 years after the species supposedly went extinct here is apparently searching for a mate that he might never find.
The political consensus may be that President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy has been weak. The judgment of money in all its forms has been overwhelmingly positive, and that may be the more lasting appraisal. One year after U.S stocks hit their post-financial-crisis low on March 9, 2009, the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 Index has risen more than 68 percent, and it’s up more than 41 percent since Obama took office. Credit spreads have narrowed. Commodity prices have surged. Housing prices have stabilized. “We’ve had a phenomenal run in asset classes across the board,” said Dan Greenhaus, chief economic strategist for Miller Tabak & Co. in New York. “If he was a Republican, we would hear a never-ending drumbeat of news stories about markets voting in favor of the president.
Posted on March 10, 2010 and
In this week’s Storyboard podcast, associate editor Joe Brown and contributing editor Mat Honan discuss unloading clips of bullets into body armor, getting lost (and found) in subzero weather in Tahoe National Forest, and siccing a zoo’s most destructive animals on bear-resistant gear.
Posted on March 9, 2010 with 1 note and
The iPhone is in exactly the same position today as the Mac was in 1990. It’s enjoyed massive success in its 2.75 years of existence, with more than 30M units sold worldwide. Despite that success, the iPhone is at a crossroads today, with more open competitors closing the gap. The problem with the iPhone is that it isn’t open—developers and users are extremely limited by the rules that Apple sets on its platform. Unlike the PC, which anyone can expand upon, developers can’t even publish applications for the iPhone without Apple’s permission, and those applications must follow very rigid rules. The iPhone is a walled garden, where Apple keeps the prettiest flowers—the apps that ship with the phone and that people use most—locked up for itself. This severely gimps the iPhone, especially when compared to a fully open platform, like Android.
Posted on March 9, 2010 and
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Today’s edition of “This is not a mashup but we love it anyway, so fuck you.”
Ugh. This made my morning. Adding to my running playlist right fucking now.
The flat white4 is not a magic bullet that can help recover declining coffee sales. The brands are increasingly aware of a new breed of independents and are looking to react. By picking on the flat white they will have made the classic mistake of confusion correlation with causation. Lots of the best shops in the UK offer a flat white (correlation) but they are not successful because they serve flat whites (causation). This is an apparently easy to mistake to make, going by the last broadsheet article about the flat white. Independents know that it is a myriad of things that make them better than the chains, and should be relieved that despite the scrutiny the chains are likely to miss the key factors that give them an advantage.
Branded chains and the flat white
This applies to so much more than just coffee. It’s especially true of the technology industry, where larger companies tend to (often unsuccessfully) ape innovations without really getting at why those innovations were successful to begin with.
Posted on March 4, 2010 and
The back story. What you should know: 1. Farhad is a technology columnist with Slate. 2. Evan and I are both contributing editors with Wired. 3. I have met neither of them in person, but assume both…
Posted on March 3, 2010 with 1 note and
My blog just turned 3!
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Huh? Wha? Tumblr sent me a birthday card for my blog last night, that let me post the above image. It was sweet. Really sweet guys. But, not really accurate at all, Tumblr. I think I started in June, 2006, based on my my archives.
Whatever.
Happy birthday to me. Buy me a shot, or you’re all assholes.
photo by Aubrie Pick
I’m running for mayor. It’s going to be a long, hard campaign, one that’s likely to take a toll on my bank account, not to mention my liver, thanks to all the boozing involved. And to be completely honest, I’m pretty sure I’ll have to cheat to win. (via Foursquare in SF: The Quest for Mayorship | 7x7
My story in this month’s 7x7 is live on the Web. And yes, I did borrow that Olde English mayor’s garb from my close personal friend Prince.
Posted on March 2, 2010 with 6 notes and
Posted on March 1, 2010 and
