March 2009

Rums-fucius

by Doug LeMoine on 13 March 2009

Confucius: To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense, aka “Rumsfucious:” As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is [...]

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Kindle on the iPhone / Buy futures in poetry

by Doug LeMoine on 5 March 2009

If I were a derivatives man, I’d go to the Chicago Board of Trade and buy up some poetry futures. Sell frozen orange juice and pork bellies; buy poetry. Why? Because it is the perfect product for small screen reading. People are reading more and more stuff on smaller and smaller screens, everyone knows this, [...]

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