Thursday, July 26, 2001
Amazon.com had Heavier than Heaven, Charles Cross' extensively researched book on Kurt Cobain, on their main page, and that lead me to researching Olympia, Washington and the Seattle music scene of the '90s.
- LOSER, The Real Seattle Music Story
- Detailing the history of punk rock in Seattle from the '50s to the '90s. Amazon link.
- Other Nirvana/Cobain books:
- Come as you are - Michael Azerrad
- Kurt Cobain - Christopher Sandford
- Nevermind:Nirvana - Charles Cross
- Come as you are - Michael Azerrad
Tuesday, July 24, 2001
Some cool technology-related business numbers: Meeker Numbers. Buffet also made the comparison between the auto industry's beginning and the Internet industry's. I don't recall the reference doc, but in one meeting, he held up a list of names, rather long, of auto manufacturers who incorporated at the beginning of the last century. The list was pages long, and that was just the "A's." Now there are 3, and the profit margin is slim.
Monday, July 23, 2001
- George Frost Kennan's Long Telegram (February 22, 1946)
- When tasked to describe the Soviet Union's uncompromising position on the World Bank, George Kennan responded with an 8,000 word telegram which lead to the theory of containment of communism that remained US policy until the collapse of communism in 1989.
- Evidence of the increasing power of corporations in America
- Russian programmer is arrested when he gives a speech in America about the program he wrote to convert eBooks into Adobe Acrobat format.
- Empire
- The world is no longer arranged around the concept of city-states - governments are being taken over by corporations in the global economy.
- Emmanuel Todd
- French sociologist writes about his ideas on the family, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- China Daily
- A letter predicts the collapse of the US economy a month before the dot com bubble bursts.
- Blood, Money, & Greed
- Conspiracy theory book about how the wealthy control the world.
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