F*cking Google It!

Send this to all your dumb friends:

http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=search+engines

http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=Trivia+WWSP

I love America's power structure [end sarcasm]

Dishonesty, Greed and Hypocrisy in Corporate America

[14:47] nearlyhorizontal: Later, although not before our tale is concluded, Harken itself would turn into a company with troubles of its own. But while it appeared healthy, Harken extended generous stock options to the son of President George H. W. Bush. Then the fancy accounting began. Paul Krugman has reported in the New York Times that it involved creating a dummy entity to serve as paper front to then purchase "some of the firm's assets at unrealistically high prices, creating a phantom profit that inflates the stock price, allowing the executives to cash in their stock."

[14:47] nearlyhorizontal: Here is Krugman's description of what happened at Harken Energy, a description which has subsequently been reported all over the nation. "A group of insiders, using money borrowed from Harken itself, paid an exorbitant price for a Harken subsidiary, Aloha Petroleum. That created a $10 million phantom profit, which hid three-quarters of the company's losses in 1989."

[14:47] nearlyhorizontal: Once Harken's stock price was inflated by means of this maneuver - significantly, Arthur Anderson was the accounting firm, and Mr. Bush was on Harken's audit committee - Mr. Bush was able to sell his shares at a large profit shortly before the price of Harken stock dropped substantially. To be specific, on June 22, 1990, Mr. Bush, a director of Harken, sold 212,140 shares for $4 a share, for a total of $848,000. Two months later, on August 20, Harken announced a loss of $23.2 million; on that day its share price dropped 20 percent to $2.375. It closed the year at $1 a share.

[14:48] nearlyhorizontal: This is from this nice article: http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0712-02.htm

Libertarian National Socialist Green Party

http://www.nazi.org/nazi/policy/weise/

Yesterday's school shooter was a forum member.

Now, I don't consider myself aligned with this political view, but it is interesting and I agree with much of it.

A search for intelligent and contemplative

A search for intelligent and contemplative
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=intelligent+and+contemplative&btnG=Google+Search
Yeilds:
This interesting webpage:
http://www.buddhistreading.com/ttwork.html
I admit I have not read it all, but this is interesting nonetheless.

MSNBC - Wife doing well, so Favre will return

Rock on, Brett!
MSNBC - Wife doing well, so Favre will return

Slashdot | When Should You Quit Your Job?

Slashdot | When Should You Quit Your Job?

The self-fulfilling prophecy or Pygmalion effect

The Self-fulfilling Prophecy or Pygmalion Effect:
The self-fulfilling prophecy or Pygmalion effect

Consciously or not we tip people off as to what our expectations are. We exhibit thousands of cues, some as subtle as the tilting of heads, the raising of eye brows or the dilation of nostrils, but most are much more obvious. And people pick up on those cues.

Wired 13.03: The 2005 Wired Rave Awards

The Grey Album [an unauthorized mix of the Beatles White Album]:
Wired 13.03: The 2005 Wired Rave Awards