Month February 2008

Jake Shimabukuro

Ukelele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro performs While My Guitar Gently Weeps on Conan O’Brien. In what could be called a musical example of disruptive innovation, Shimabukuro is taking the ukelele where it has never gone before.

Obama campaign as “disruptive innovation”

The Left Coaster comments on a recent MSNBC survey showing 53% said Clinton’s attacks were unfair while only 33% thought that of Obama. Hillary’s campaign strategists have proved consistently inept, so it’s impossible to guess what they will try in…

Welcome to the doomer feedlot

From Peak Oil Debunked comes a quite wonderful rant about Peakists, those peak oil adherents who delight in predicting gloom. For those of you just coming to peak oil, you’re going to want to understand the most basic concept of…

Bad mojo in bond insurer land

If the bond insurers split into pieces in an attempt to save municipal bonds (like those issued by where you live) then Wall Street investment banks and the like will be forced to take more multi-billion dollar writedowns. Expect them…