Yet Another Chance for Rich Dudes to Score Hot Chicks -Radar
"Fashion Meets Finance"—the latest match-making event from the minds who brought you the similarly themed "Rich Old Guys With Hot Young Chicks" and "Rich Old Women With Hot Young Dudes" speed dating events—another can’t miss attempt at carefully engineered social Darwinism.
The premise is [...]
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Gawker, paraphrasing a Wall Street Journal article regarding JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, posts Anecdotes Prove Bear Stearns Savior Is A Jerk.
…two of the best anecdotes in the piece do nothing but make him look like a snippy asshole…
Tell us something we don’t know Gawker. You don’t become ruler of the House of Morgan by [...]
Scuttlebutt - Wikipedia
Water for immediate consumption on a sailing ship was conventionally stored in a scuttled butt: a butt (cask or small barrel) which had been scuttled by making a hole in it so the water could be withdrawn. Since sailors exchanged gossip when they gathered at the scuttlebutt for a drink of water, scuttlebutt [...]
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Yep, Monkeys Like Porn Too
Yet another seemingly human-like bit of monkey behavior: apparently monkeys are willing to pay for sex as well as trade juice for porn. That’s right, the world’s oldest profession has made inroads into the animal kingdom — Animal Behavior reported earlier this year that male macaques in Indonesia were known to [...]
What the hell really happened to Crocs?
This pretty much says it all:
Harper’s gets it, why didn’t shareholders? In a word: greed.
Souvenir Sales Climb After Spitzer
The hotel where then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer allegedly had a tryst with a high-priced call girl has been doing a brisk business in souvenirs since news of the scandal broke last month.
At the Mayflower Hotel’s tiny gift shop, people have been snatching up merchandise with the Mayflower logo and the [...]
In NYT article Hard Times, but Your Lips Look Great Leonard Lauder, chairman of Estee Lauder Companies, suggests that lipstick sales are a gauge of the economy with sales increasing as times get worse.
Not only is the lipstick theory plausible, “it’s perfectly consistent with all kinds of economic theory,” said Richard DeKaser, the chief economist [...]
Who Gives a Pork Belly?
The Slice: Episode 14