@jonward11: best thing u’ll read all day: NYT article from on how local officials in China crush dissent bc Beijing turns blind eye http://t.co/CyTh1eqc
The Great Gatsby Curve, for the States
A back-of-the-envelope attempt to look at the relationship between income inequality and economic mobility in the 50 states.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/the-great-gatsby-curve-for-the-states/
Daily Report: The Reticent Rich in Silicon Valley
At Facebook, ground zero for the nouveau tech riche in Silicon Valley, peer pressure dictates that consumption be kept on the down low.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/daily-report-the-reticent-rich-in-silicon-valley/
ryanchittum May 17, 2012 at 11:46PM
@ryanchittum: JPMorgan’s PR team are slapping backs and smoking stogies after this clinic of a spin job on WSJ page one: http://t.co/PMOvbu2Y
Goldberg3000 May 17, 2012 at 01:09PM
@Goldberg3000: International Olympic Committee rejects idea of moment of silence for murdered Israeli athletes: http://t.co/yPObiJJL
10 Toy-Based Movies Ideas
The soon-to-be-in-theaters movie Battleship proves that no idea is too dumb for Hollywood to make a blockbuster out of it. Could other toy-based movies be far behind? How about a film based on Connect Four?
Milton Bradley’s abstract strategy game transforms into an apocalyptic race against time in this sci-fi blockbuster, starring Ryan Gosling and Rihanna as technocratic dictators (and ex-lovers) locked in a perpetual war of mutually assured destruction and reconstruction on the planet Ouroboros. After erecting, then annihilating, exquisite tech-noir skyscrapers and impossibly high vertical farms using strategically placed death discs, it is left to a brilliant but raunchy elderly mathematician (Betty White) to unite the ex-lovers with a perfect-play strategy inspired by James D. Allen and Victor Allis, who solved the game on Earth in the late ’80s. Catchphrases from the game’s TV commercial — “Here, diagonally†and “Pretty sneaky, sis†— are incorporated into the film’s final moments, when the formerly self-centered Gosling asks the formerly obstinate Rihanna how she would like to be kissed.
Read the premises for nine other toy-based films at Underwire. Link
How Obama’s Gay Marriage Gamble Opened Hearts — and Wallets — in Hollywood
Tina Daunt
The president’s recent revelation has the industry’s gay elite, including Bryan Lourd and Ryan Murphy, ready to spend, spend, spend.
via Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/obama-gay-marriage-support-hollywood-325699?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thr%2Fnews+%28The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Top+Stories%29
joshtpm May 17, 2012 at 09:06AM
@joshtpm: Facebook’s Eduardo Saverin Likely Barred From Re-Entering U.S. http://t.co/TYrhxYzk via @TPM
Investigating JPMorgan Chase
Since the company operates with implicit government backing, its recent trading losses demand an independent inquiry on five specific questions, an economist writes.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/investigating-jpmorgan-chase/
Secret Spitzer e-mails to be public
A judge has ordered the release of Eliot Spitzer’s trove of missives from a private e-mail account that he used as New York attorney general to conduct official business in secret.
The undisclosed e-mails relate to his Wall Street crackdown in 2005, when he extracted hundreds of millions in…
via NY Post: Business http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/secret_spitzer_mails_to_be_public_jnOt8O2NYhtFYxsbUh6VSP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business