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Interested in learning more about Warren Buffett or Charlie Munger? A kind reader (who wishes to remain anonymous) sent in a batch of pre-1977 annual reports for Berkshire Hathaway and Blue Chip Stamps (Berkshire owns ~80% of Blue Chip; Blue Chip owns a variety of companies, including See’s Candy and Wesco Financial). […]
Interesting data from washingtonpost.com regarding the most popular sites on the web. Note that this data measures unique visitors rather than page views. A few observations:
Growth at MySpace, Wikipedia, and Blogger is astonishing.
Google may overtake Yahoo as the #1 site on the web within a year or two.
What’s happening at Expedia and […]
Interesting links from around the web–all focused on E3, the big gaming convention currently underway in LA.
Video trailer for Spore, the new game from Will Wright (who made the Sims).
More on Will Wright.
Miyamoto plays tennis on Nintendo Wii. Miyamoto is Nintendo’s GM; the Wii is their new game console. The […]
Interesting article in Variety about the American Idol phenomenon and its resulting economic impact. Fox wins big as 30 second commercials in the show’s season finale will run $1.3 million (Superbowl commercials cost $2.5 million)–but the show creates many other winners, also: magazines (especially celebrity mags which cover the new stars created by […]
I’m addicted to Chessmaster. It’s not that the game offers the best interface, AI, or rating system (all are very good, but comparable alternatives can be found elsewhere)–I’m hooked on the excellent tutorial, which was designed and voiced by Josh Waitzkin (the subject of the movie Searching For Bobby Fisher). It’s both […]
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