Bitcoin Believers

Click here for a 2-minute primer
on the new digital currency.
[from the N.Y. Times]

Tuesday Tune-up

Green Day, "Stay the Night"

Quote for the Week, January 26-February 1, 2014

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation.  The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
--Will Rogers

Tuesday Tune-up

Lindsey Stirling, "Zelda Violin Duet"

Quote for the Week, January 19-25, 2014

Markets will be permanently efficient when investors are permanently objective and unemotional.  In other words, never.
--Howard Marks, Oaktree Capital

Maps That Morph

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
(or, for that matter, the jet she's flying on)

Tuesday Tune-up

Linda Ronstadt, "Down So Low"

Quote for the Week, January 12-18, 2014

The war between the centrifuge of knowledge and the centripetal pull of power remains the prime conflict in all economies.
--George Gilder

Tuesday Tune-up

Everly Brothers, "Let It Be Me"

Quote for the Week, January 5-11, 2014

Bipartisan means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.
--George Carlin