Here are a few special Tim-crafted fyi’s for you regarding BlogShares:
My mathemagic friend, Jason, put together a proof regarding a coming BlogShares bubble (yes, inflation abounds!). If you thought the Bank of Japan or the Fed were bad at creating cycles, BlogShares will be fun (there was a lady who posted on the forum saying that her teenager is now playing the game and is learning so much — if only she knew Bubble Theory).
Seyed (the guy running BlogShares) has started thinking ahead to alleviate some of these problems before they occur. And yea, believe it or not, a ‘Capital Gains Tax’ has been put forth to debate. I don’t think you have to guess which side I’m on in that debate.
And lastly, I’ve been practicing a ‘trick’ that Matthew Davey told me. It’s nothing sinister or even cheap; all you do is buy the stock in one blog over and over till you have a nice egg to sell. Each time you buy some stock, the value grows. You do this on dozens of blogs over a few weeks time and you’re sitting in hog heaven. I went from $17k to $50k in 3 days: Thanks Matt (yea, most of you probably knew it, but practicing it all the time that counts).
Alright, so you’re probably wondering why I haven’t been blogging much lately. Well a couple of days ago I found out that Congress and various other agencies are about to divvy up a pile of pork to companies that manage to encapsulate their business models within the rubric of ‘national security.’ I sat down Monday evening and plugged away at revising the mission statement and long-term plan.
Originally it was: “Collectrix, building blogging communities through the free-market.”
I jazzed it up like so: “Collectrix, building blogging communities for the Defense of the Motherland through funds donated graciously by John and Jane Q. Citizen.”
Then I set to work on what Collectrix offered.
In addition to supporting all the available blogging software, Collectrix now supports “Terrorist-free functionalities,” which include:
- automatic tracking, to make sure the blogger resides within the Land of the Free
- automatic Stasi deployment, to make sure the blogger refrains from using any derogatory or disparaging remarks regarding the State
- automatic denial of service, if the blogger is discovered to be in contact with an enemy of the State, not only will we deny his service but we will help communicate the fastest ways to relocate the blogger to Camp X-Ray
I also had to work on some new Patriotic RSS namespaces, so that any and all messages they post can be easily parsed, tracked, categorized and then acted upon if need be. Here are a few examples of the said namespaces:
[jingoist:rss xmlns:jingoist="http://tips.fbi.gov/RSS"
xmlns:serf="http://www.totalinformation.gov/serf/"]
[jingoist:channel]
[serf:title]I need a Nanny[/serf:title]
[jingoist:description]Who would build roads[/jingoist:description]
[parrot:altdescription]Who would feed me[/parrot:altdescription]
[drone:author]Lemming[/drone:author]
[/jingoist:channel]
I’m happy to announce that after submitting the proposal to the nearest People Understanding Responsible Governance and Enlightenment office, Collectrix was awarded $21 million for this year alone. And the best part of it all, the terrorists lose, because American bloggers are now protected and sheltered from diabolical naysayers, contrarians and civil libertarians.
Lastly, I was told I could earn an extra couple of mil if I come up with a warning mechanism that explains the level of threat each blogger represents to the collective. I was thinking of using a color-coded system to signify what bloggers are truly patriotic and which ones probably should hitch a ride to North Korea. Any thoughts?
About a year ago I bumped this article at SpaceDaily discussing a new ‘theory’ regarding the 99% of matter in the universe that is ‘missing’ – in that it currently cannot be detected through any visible conventional means.
There are several different methods and experiments which being developed to do just that, observe the unobservable (that’s where you nod off): one of these is the MACHO project - Our primary aim is to test the hypothesis that a significant fraction of the dark matter in the halo of the Milky Way is made up of objects like brown dwarfs or planets: these objects have come to be known as MACHOs, for MAssive Compact Halo Objects.
So now you’re wondering, why does a historian care about that? Well, do you know any other active historians that blog either? Huzzah!
Anyways, I’ve had the pleasure to correspond via email with the author of the book showcased several times at SpaceDaily and Space.com and today popped by his site to see what the latest news was Down Under (he’s from Oz). He linked to this cool picture:
Can’t you see the face? Where is Richard Hoagland when you need him?
And yea, if all of his stuff is debunked I can recategorize this post under the ‘Science Fiction’ category and mend any & all mental wounds that occurred.
Though, I probably should stick with establishment thinking more; I mean after all, it brought America high quality public education and PBS.
