jsp.org2011-02-22T04:48:33Zhttps://jsp.org/feed/atom/WordPressjsphttp://www.jsp.orghttp://jsp.org/?p=8792011-02-22T04:48:33Z2011-02-22T04:48:33ZSo, I’ve decided to try “tumblogging” at jsp, briefly. We’ll see how long that lasts.
]]>0jsphttp://www.jsp.orghttp://jsp.org/?p=8722009-03-02T00:22:38Z2009-03-02T00:22:38ZThe $500,000 Limit Is Not Enough — good article from Eliot Spitzer on ways to get crazy CEO pay under control.
]]>0jsphttp://www.jsp.orghttp://jsp.org/?p=8702009-01-30T22:20:03Z2009-01-30T22:20:03ZNow here’s a scary thought: “Nearly all internal briefings in the Pentagon these days are presented as PowerPoint slides. Officials told me three years ago that if an officer wanted to make a case for a war plan or a weapons program or just about anything, he or she had better make the case in PowerPoint—or forget about getting it approved.” — “PowerPoint to the People“
]]>0jsphttp://www.jsp.orghttp://jsp.org/?p=8672009-01-30T06:10:06Z2009-01-30T06:10:04ZUh, wow. Just saw an ad for Hyundai Assurance, a program that lets you return a newly financed/leased vehicle within a year if you “lose your income.” It’s a white-label for a program called WalkAway, a name which has an oddly threatening tone to my ear. Anyway, between this and Chrysler’s new “Employee Pricing Plus Plus,” I wonder how long it will be before they throw in 1,000 shares of the automaker’s stock with each new car purchase.
]]>0jsphttp://www.jsp.orghttp://jsp.org/?p=8642009-01-27T23:21:08Z2009-01-27T23:21:08ZTesco: ‘Wal-Mart’s Worst Nightmare’. Be nice to see somebody put Walmart on the defensive. I like the concept, too (even used the branding as an example in a focus group, as I recall…)
]]>0jsphttp://www.jsp.orghttp://jsp.org/?p=8612009-01-22T19:42:08Z2009-01-22T19:41:33ZImagine a president-elect doing this today: “John Quincy Adams, according to his own letters, placed his hand on a constitutional law volume rather than a Bible to indicate where his fealty lay.” —Slate
]]>0jsphttp://www.jsp.orghttp://jsp.org/?p=8592008-11-20T09:44:57Z2008-11-20T09:44:57ZLetter from Iceland: “Holidaymakers and business travellers venturing ’til Útlanda’, as it is called, found their credit cards refused.” That was just 2 weeks after we returned from Iceland. Good thing it didn’t implode while we were there… (A point of comparison: my credit card statement shows a 23 Sep purchase for ISK28,500 as US$301.93. Under two months later, and the conversion is now US$203.04.)
]]>4jsphttp://www.jsp.orghttp://jsp.org/?p=8572008-11-13T06:19:06Z2008-11-13T06:19:06ZUnited’s Door-to-Door baggage service: save the hassle of bringing your luggage to and from the airport…by spending $149+ per bag to have it FedEx’d the day before? Uh, what? Who thought that would take off?
]]>0jsphttp://www.jsp.orghttp://jsp.org/?p=8552008-11-12T07:06:09Z2008-11-12T07:06:09ZUnbelievable. From Portfolio’s “The End of Wall Street” article: “In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $720,000.”
]]>1jsphttp://www.jsp.orghttp://jsp.org/?p=8532008-11-11T09:50:15Z2008-11-11T09:50:14ZGood stuff: Keith Olbermann’s “Special Comment” on CA’s Prop 8 (video).
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