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from the business pundit

Pirates!

So, as I scroll through the millions of news sites, trying to get an idea of who is going to start WWIII, (joke) I notice the word 'pirates'.Who doesn't get excited when see an article about pirates?
Anyway, apparently some pirates seized a cargo ship outside of Greece (another reason to move there. More importantly the caption under the image on BBC said that they made around $50m last year. So, I'm thinking, lets get them to become U.S. citizens, tax them for being dirty little thieves and get out of this recession already! Maybe I should think that one out a little more...

Fail

source chicagoist

Cake Pops???

Unbelievable! And amazing. And so easy to make. Freaking diet! From the kitchen.

Times 10 Things

Times 10 thing are really worth a read (Mr. President....). But really, here are the headliners:
1) Jobs are the new assets
2) Recycling the suburbs
3) The new Calvinism
4) Re-instating the interstate
5) Amortality (if you think you know what that means, you're an idiot, because its a recently coined term....)
6) Africa, Business Destination
7) The rent-a-country
8) Biobanks
9) Survival Store (Not at all Y2K related)
10) Ecological Intelligence

Interested? Read the whole thing here.
found through kottke.org

A Blood or a Crypt?

Gothamist wrote a piece about rising crime in Williamsburg. They mention that crime has been rising since last year and seems to be spiking again, now that winter's over.
What caught my eye was that last year there were reports of machete attacks. Really? At first it seems almost laughable. Until you think about the fact that gang members were attacking people with machete's. Its the stuff nightmares are made of. I probably should've said this earlier, but if you are easily squeamish go read something else. Anyway, you can't live in fear.
The gothamist also metioned two gangs, the pretty boys goonies and the trinitarios, who seem to be resonsible for at least some of the crime surge. Which got me interested. Don't worry, its not just an odd fascination with gangs , I'm just interested in everything. So I looked them up.
What I discovered was the two gangs clashings have become serious problems. Now only have they employed machetes as viable weapons but, they are also using screwdrivers and a fighting during broad daylight.
Don't mean to scare you or anything. Its all about the perfect balance of paranioa and trust.
The most interesting tidbit I discovered is that the trinitarios usual tag reads DPL, which stands for Dios (God) Patria (Country) and Libertad (Liberty) which is on the Domnican flag. To me, that humanizes them. They believe in something.
Sources:
NY Post: Pretty Boy Goonies
Trinitarios
Urban Dictionary: Trinitarios

Heavens

'Heavens'- the term for graffiti on rooftops or interstate signs, 'something up really high where it looks like the person almost died doing it.' Also known as giraffiti. - quote: Maria Forde from SF weekly

Andre Jordan

From this kind of awesome blog called a beautiful revolution. He write posts about the girl he's in love with who's with someone else and wonderfully sad everything can be. Plus he wrote a book called Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now. He is Andre Jordan.

Has China Changed?

China is now (again) encouraging its educated youth to go find work in the country. Re-education anyone? Getting flashbacks from Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress? But China's changed right? They are not the evil communists they once were. They don't eat babies now.
Now they do things like pretend to be journalists to catch protester's. And send 11 year old's into the Olympics.
So, really, they haven't changed.

What our parents don't know and what WE don't know

Brian Trimboli

THINGS MY SON SHOULD KNOW AFTER I’VE DIED

I was young once. I dug holes
near a canal and almost drowned.
I filled notebooks with words
as carefully as a hunter loads his shotgun.
I had a father also, and I came second to an addiction.
I spent a summer swallowing seeds
and nothing ever grew in my stomach.
Every woman I kissed,
I kissed as if I loved her.
My left and right hands were rivals.
After I hit puberty, I was kicked out of my parents’ house
at least twice a year. No matter when you receive this
there was music playing now.
Your grandfather isn’t
my father. I chose to do something with my life
that I knew I could fail at.
I spent my whole life walking
and hid such colorful wings.

–from Rattle #29, Summer 2008

While I'm being vaguely sappy, figure I may as well continue.
Do we really have any idea who our parents are? I have hard enough time remembering my fathers birthday, as far as his favorite ice-cream or favorite child hood memory?
Then again, I don't know my favorite childhood memory...
But really, its not even so important who they were, not that who they were is not important, but more that who they were has made them who they are.
You know how your mother flinches every time you play a certain song. Did you ever think there was a reason behind that. A bad memory perhaps? A fight, a break-up?
What about the story behind your dad's favorite sweater? Maybe it was from an old girlfriend, or his uncle gave it to him.
Of course its not like parents are people, psh. Its the biggest disillusionment all children have to through. The realization that there parents are people, only human, just like them.
Who knows, they could tell you something interesting, or something you needed to hear.

*Gag* I think I'm promoting open communication between children and their parents.... : )

AIG

I'm all for most people going about their business as usual. We shouldn't all be constantly stressing about the current recession, it wouldn't do any one any good. However there are a few business' that should be entirely frantic and making changes like there's no tomorrow. AIG, to be specific. Bonus's? Seriously? Have you not heard what small business owners are saying??? Something along the lines of, " We'll be ok, because we know how to get by on less." They are giving big business' advice, simply by stating their MO. Get by on less. OMG. Try it. Then see how quickly we come out of this recession.
Read more about AIG

All the presidents girls

My favorite is the boy, William Rufus DeVane King. All the Presidents Girls.

Untrustworthy Reporters

Chinese police have resorted to posing as reporters to would-be protesters. We can complain about Bush all we want, but he certainly never turned against us. Source Shanghaiist.