The MI6 chief got in trouble after his daughter posted this photo of herself holding a gold AK-47 on Facebook. The day still turned out okay because she nor he had to shoot the AK.
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Not that you should avoid your civic duties, but if you have to get out of jury duty, then claiming to be friends with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is a pretty handy excuse.
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In this recent New York Times article comparing IBM and Apple, I found this item fascinating.
Companies typically try to manage payments so they collect cash from customers slightly before they have to pay suppliers, thus making money by investing the cash before payments are due. Apple collects its cash in 25 days, on average, and pays its suppliers in 85 days — an extraordinary, 60-day spread that generates an extra $1 billion in cash flow a year, estimates A. M. Sacconaghi Jr., an analyst at Bernstein Research.
The New York Times asked their readers "to describe some financial decisions, or purchases, that they wish they could reverse."
I’d not have bought so many young women drinks. — Spofford Torrington
I regret not finishing the six months of college I had left to get my bachelor of science degree to marry a man who turned out to be gay, leaving me childless forever. — South Park Snooki
I regret the very expensive and fashionable eyeglasses. They looked great on me for about five minutes. Something about the shape of the lenses, however, made the progressive quality of the lens hard to adjust to. Even worse, the temple pieces were straight with no curve for the ear, so they would not stay on my head. The thick frames made them impossible to adjust for my slightly misaligned ears. After two months of compliments and constant adjusting, they slid off of my face and under the wheels of a car. — LBC
Naïve in my 20s, I cashed out $12,000 in retirement savings to pay deposits and move-in fees for a new apartment. Had I left it there, it would have been worth about $200,000 at retirement. Oops! — Aaron
Hm, memo to self: Increase my 401K contributions stat.
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The number of Black senators in the new US Senate.
The Supreme Court justices heard arguments on both side of the debate over a law that bans the sale of violent video games. I love that Justice Kagan name dropped Mortal Kombat.
Justice Elena Kagan, the court’s newest and youngest member, seemed to be the only justice with even a passing familiarity with the genre under review, even if it was secondhand.“You think Mortal Kombat is prohibited by this statute?” she asked Mr. Morazzini. It is, she added, “an iconic game which I am sure half the clerks who work for us spent considerable time in their adolescence playing.”
Can someone please photoshop the justices as Mortal Kombat characters? Thanks.
David McCandless analyzed 10,000 relationship status updates on Facebook and charted out the peaks and valleys of break ups over a year. As John Mayer said (yes, I'm quoting him; shut up, I like his music):
No way November will see our goodbye. When it comes to December it's obvious why, No one wants to be alone at Christmas time. And come January we're frozen inside, Making new resolutions a hundred times. February, won't you be my valentine?
And we'll both be safe 'til St. Patrick's Day.
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Sexy bicycle rack on 44th Street and Broadway in Times Square.
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Reddit users are sharing the most expensive mistake they've made. This one (if it's true) is a kick to the nuts.
I met both Carl Page and Larry Page at a party hosted by a Stanford friend of mine in 1998. Carl gave me his card for eGroups and said "we're hiring". Larry gave me his card for Google—a flimsy bit of paper obviously printed by bubble jet—and said "we're hiring".
I said, "Nah, who needs another search engine?" and went to graduate school.
I still have the card.
Kinda lame it didn't say "I'm CEO, bitch."
The French youth celebrate Friday as aggressively as Lakers fans.
I think I've posted this before, but it doesn't hurt repeating: Happy Friday!
Bob Guccione, the founder of Penthouse Magazine, passed away on Wednesday. According to his obituary in the Gray Lady, the first promotional brochure with explicit examples of Penthouse was mistakenly sent to "clergymen, schoolgirls, old-age pensioners and wives of members of Parliament" due to an old mailing list.
The outcry was huge. And there was a $264 fine for mailing indecent materials. But all 120,000 copies of the first issue of Penthouse sold out in days, and Mr. Guccione, a struggling artist from New Jersey who had been knocking around Europe for more than a decade, was on his way to being a tycoon.
Filed under "There's no such thing as bad publicity."
Her milkshake brings all the moguls to the yard: Jay Z, Warren Buffet, and Steve Forbes just hanging out. Listen in on their conversation here.
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Good point.
You know what's uglier than your condo? YO MOMMA.
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They really sure did know how to party back in the olden days. Henceforth all bacon-related items on the Internet must cite 
Spotted this crochet bike sans rear wheel and saddle in Union Square today.
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