fiat luxemburg

sometimes I wish I were a soup analyst

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:44:16 -0400

Deutsche Bank (emphasis added):

Campbell Soup Company (CPB.N),USD36.98 Hold Price Target USD36.00: Despite a relatively low valuation, solid [balance sheet] / [free cash flow] and respectable productivity efforts, we question core soup category dynamics. While we recognize other brands (V8, Prego, Pepperidge Farm, Arnotts) are important, investors need comfort U.S. soup can grow for the stock to perform [long-term]. We retain our HOLD opinion.

Can souped-up soup sans cans recoup Campbell’s lost scans?

They should put little handles on the jars.

the time has come

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:56:50 -0400

keyholez:

mortgagez: the govt should just bite the bullet and steal everyone’s children to be raised by robots in matrix-style warehouses
me: yeah, what are they waiting for?

I like imagining the meetings that have taken place up to now about this issue at which it was decided to not yet bite the bullet.

foursquare: Am I mayor yet?

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:24:00 -0400

foursquare: Am I mayor yet?:

We made a quick yet long-awaited tweak to our apps today. When you’re getting close to winning a Mayorship (within 10 check-ins), you’ll now see how far away you are from ousting the current Mayor. You’ll see the count in the post check-in screen when you check into a place.

Now, to be clear, this does not replace Mayorama’s primary function (giving you this information about places you are thinking of going to, not ones you have already checked in at). Nevertheless, why must they do this to me?

(ht leoncrawl)

Most things, it seems.

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:45:00 -0400

Most things, it seems.

My picture (and project) appears on popular technology blog!

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:34:58 -0400

My picture (and project) appears on popular technology blog!

Update

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:10:00 -0400

Update

skyscraper:SkyscraperCity Remember when I liked pictures like...

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:45:13 -0400

skyscraper:SkyscraperCity

Remember when I liked pictures like this for some reason?

"Write Your First Email Line Like a Tweet to Grab Interest"

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:56:00 -0400

“Write Your First Email Line Like a Tweet to Grab Interest”

- [Lifehacker]

Nick Carr isn’t right, but he probably will have been :-(

Join Weeels Tomorrow for Drink Deals and Shared Rides Weeels...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:01:00 -0400

Join Weeels Tomorrow for Drink Deals and Shared Rides

Weeels will be at Sweet Revenge bar in Bed-Stuy tomorrow evening, and we hope you’ll be there too. Drinks will be 2-for-1 from 9:00 to 11:00.

When it’s time to call it an evening we can all use Weeels to get us where we need to go. It’s a great opportunity to try out the service with friends who haven’t used it before, so make sure to bring a few along.

And even if you don’t plan on taking a car home, come by for some good company and some good chats about social transit.

Tomorrow (Wednesday, July 28th)
9:00–11:00
Sweet Revenge
348 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn

Hey, maybe someone will find this useful! Also, this is my job.

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:52:00 -0400

Hey, maybe someone will find this useful! Also, this is my job.

Quite a day!

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:48:55 -0400

Quite a day!

spime: Glass prism with multiscreen iPad app makes objects...

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:26:53 -0400

spime:

Glass prism with multiscreen iPad app makes objects appear 3D to naked eye.

(via cmeinke)

Wait, don’t objects already appear 3D to the naked eye? Do we…do we really need iPads for that?

seedz: Alex Pasternack for Weeels. Song Hia photo. This makes...

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:44:23 -0400

seedz:

Alex Pasternack for Weeels. Song Hia photo. This makes me laugh.

Weeels! Tell everyone!

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:21:00 -0400

Weeels! Tell everyone!

Shanghai, 1990/2010. [Giz]

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:52:31 -0400

Shanghai, 1990/2010. [Giz]

and one day I'll get around to signing up

Thu, 27 May 2010 09:36:11 -0400

groupuscule:

keyholez:

leoncrawl:

adrianeq:

Britney Spears is considering having herself cryogenically frozen …(The Sun).

Has anyone made sure Britney Spears knows about the New Yorker tumblr?

Britney is in good hands…Just so we’re all clear on this: cryonics isn’t stupid.

A small group of marginalized rationalists (think what you want about these people; it’s hard to deny that they’re mostly pretty smart) are trying to convince the others that some people who do not sign up for cryonics are not complete idiots.

I’m going to start using “weird stuff and ontological confusion” as an excuse more often myself!

From One Hanson, here.

Wed, 19 May 2010 11:17:00 -0400

From One Hanson, here.

“Breaking Story”

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:58:42 -0400

“Breaking Story”

Google makes YouTube explaining safe Buzz practices for teenagers

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:58:06 -0400

Google makes YouTube explaining safe Buzz practices for teenagers

Got invite for check.in beta (it’s for checking in to all your various Foursquare-y things at...

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:34:00 -0400

Got invite for check.in beta (it’s for checking in to all your various Foursquare-y things at once). They deal with naming conflicts between different services by a “magical matching process” which, when it fails, asks you to tell it which entries correspond to each other. Pretty good trick and something I sort of embarrassingly hadn’t considered—the repository of checkin-able locations that includes how they are listed across the different services is a huge asset and if the power-users of these services really care enough to use more than one at a time then surely they can be convinced to make their own lives easier by providing the information to consolidate their favorite spots into a single check.in location.

Right now check.in is just foursquare, britekite, and Gowalla (and the last only “experimentally”). Interesting dilemma for other services—opening up an API to allow check.in checkins probably means more users but a lot of those users will have their interactions totally mediated by another application. Raises the question of what any of these companies hope to accomplish in the long term. Also, shouldn’t Facebook just buy this thing if they’re serious about storming the location “market” (is it still a market if maybe no one is really making money yet?).