January 2010
20 posts
Capital Gains Unlimited
popfop:
I am pleased to announce the birth of my first business: Capital Gains Unlimited. We are an investment firm whose primary focus is the perpetual accumulation of capital within all currencies in all time zones all the time always. I will soon have a PayPal account set up on this site so investors can contribute directly.
I whole heatedly support his business model
adventures in typos:
annicka:
i just wrote:
the company has focused on the consumer health & wellness trend in late 2009, enhancing its gun offering in the UK.
i meant gum.
You’ve got guns on the brain. I think I know why
New feature: Significant regulations
openregs:
An often requested feature for OpenRegs.com is the ability to know when a proposed or final regulation is significant (and especially economically significant). We now label every significant regulation as such on the site and in the iPhone app. We also provide a daily feed of significant regs published in the Federal Register. To the best of our knowledge, no government website offers...
Last of the Joseph Heath inspired posts defending...
I just finished the last Joseph Heath book, The Efficient Society (his first), and it kept me thinking about the development of capitalism. One thing that seems to flux-um people about contemporary welfare state capitalism, critics and supporters alike, is trying find a general theory or philosophical underpinning for capitalism. Some efforts have been made (think Herbert Spencer...
A Single Man: A review by a single (young) man
popfop:
I went in to this movie with high expectations and was certainly not disappointed. My initial reasons for wanting to see this were as follows: (a) Colin Firth’s character wears glasses very similar to mine (b) It seemed to have a mid century modern vibe (c) It was directed by Tom Ford who is a fashion designer. Now here are the reasons it was an excellent film…
Stylistically Very...
Sonic Weapon Fence and The Onion AV Club
Sonic Weapon Fence got a mention on an Onion AV Club posting about folks doing things about TV, not on TV.
Their verdict:
The music isn't very good, and the lyrics to the songs are
going to be completely foreign to any non-Lost fan. Lost fanatics,
however, can head to The Mutiny and listen carefully to dissect the
semi-obscure references. Also, shouldn't a truly devoted Lost band
write all its...
popfop:
Chinese Google - Who’s There?
Another...
Last weekend, Asher, Mark and I each did 4 minutes...
Jan 20th - Sonic Weapon Fence at The Mutiny
Important Message:
Sonic Weapon Fence will be playing a show at The Mutiny at 10:30 PM on January 20th. We will be playing songs off our recently released self-titled album and our free Oceanic Six EP.
Come join us, won’t you?
EOM
Trend Watch 2010!
popfop:
Want to know what the hottest trends will be for 2010? Of course you do! Just follow this list and get smart:
In:
1. Forging your own prescriptions
2. Arson
3. Kleptomaniacal socialites
4. Laudanum
5. Wood panneling
6. Social Theocracy (This is where there is global progressive taxation on declared income but no one works because God provides all goods and services. Don’t lie...
Deadly Rich and Effective Taxation
Right after I found out I wasn’t going to retire from KittenApp profits (total, $7 to date!) some friends and I came up with a new, greater get rich quick scheme. We were going to make a new social networking website called “Deadly Rich.” It was going to be great.
The logo was going to be a skull with a snake coming out of the mouth and huge rubies in the eye holes. We were...
Quote from the dinner table
“What is hip-hop? Is that the music with the record scratching?”
- Mama Snyder
Our Artificial Economy
I have this good friend James Hall who visited me around Christmas. In someways James and I are very similar. We’re both skinny tall Lawrence grads, and when we get a bit drunk we like to bullshit about ethics. This last commonality always brings out one way that we’re very different: James is a sincere and deeply believing Christian, and I am not. Sometimes this makes our...