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Archive for January, 2007

Buy low and sell high

Monday, January 29th, 2007

The prices of individual shares of stocks are meaningless. This fact should be obvious, but it turns out the world doesn’t understand. Read more only if you’re ready to learn why, and then be beaten into submission with how silly people can be about such things.

review: Micro Copter Remote Control Helicopter

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

For Christmas, somebody had the brilliant idea to give me this little beauty. It’s a very small, lightweight remote control helicopter. And it’s fantabulous.

Micro X Copter

berkshire hathaway is not in the S&P 500

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Really? It’s the 12th largest US company. That seems crazy.

envbike

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

It’s a hydrogen fuel-cell powered bike, that looks cool and has the following sweet properties:

0-50 in 12.1s
100+ mile range
no transmission
completely silent
you can drink the emissions

a new startup idea

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

I’m sure this idea isn’t original. It’s too obvious. In fact, I’d bet money that somebody is already doing it.
Consolidate the social networks. Write a nice abstract social network layer, and connect all the data into one large, meta, …social internet.
Wired predicts that in 2007, if this doesn’t happen, the social networks [...]

there should be a common-sense green index fund

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

What’s an investor to do if he wants to invest in companies that produce or plan to produce clean green energy? There are a few options out there, but from what I can tell they all suck. Here’s an example: the new alternatives fund. Here are the problems with it:

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