Category Archives: bookmarks

Questions for Entrepreneurs

February 23, 2009 – 10:59 am

Link:  So, You Want to Be an Entrepreneur – WSJ.com. @JoeWheeler suggested that #8 on the list should be moved to #1.  I think #2 is close, but not quite there.  I think the fallacy is that entrepreneurship is a path to an “easier life.”  The reality is that striking out on your own should [...]

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A modern travel store

February 21, 2009 – 8:55 am

wejetset – store.  iPod travel cases, bright artsy luggage tags and luggage.

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Woot Off Checker

February 19, 2009 – 7:31 am

mywoot.nett. woot-off checker

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ShoutLife.com – a fresh approach to social networking

February 18, 2009 – 2:28 pm

ShoutLife.com – a fresh approach to social networking.  A Christian social network for musicians, authors, etc.

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Rescue America’s retirement – Feb. 16, 2009

February 18, 2009 – 9:22 am

Rescue America’s retirement – Feb. 16, 2009. It’s time to fix the 401(k)

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The Potable Curmudgeon: Gravity Head 2009 “The Liver Olympics” contestants lining up.

February 18, 2009 – 9:00 am

The Potable Curmudgeon: Gravity Head 2009 “The Liver Olympics” contestants lining up.. You can also link to this article via http://bit.ly/gravityhead

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How-tos on the web

February 17, 2009 – 8:03 pm

Howcast posts – Webware – CNET.

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Inside every chief exec, there’s a Soviet planner | Business | The Observer

February 16, 2009 – 10:04 am

Inside every chief exec, there’s a Soviet planner | Business | The Observer.  Macroeconomic central planning failed in the Soviet Union, but every company is a management planning factory. If work is fragmented so that people have no direct line of sight to the customer, people have to be driven by signals from above rather [...]

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The Louisville football program is a disaster from the Card Chronicle

February 15, 2009 – 12:54 pm

The Louisville football program is a disaster – Card Chronicle.  Somebody had to say it.  We’re no longer looking at the glory days any time soon.  The University of Louisville’s best comparison for its current standing  is to their teams of the mid-70s. I could blame a little bit of the turmoil on Petrino, but the [...]

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Will the stimulus actually stimulate? Economists say no

February 13, 2009 – 1:40 pm

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 02/12/2009 | Will the stimulus actually stimulate? Economists say no: “I think (doing) nothing would have been better,” said Ed Yardeni, an investment analyst who’s usually an optimist, in an interview with McClatchy. He argued that the plan fails to provide the right incentives to spur spending. A lot of my [...]

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