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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs is pretty good. This post takes a look at how a start-up company is making use of venture capital:

"Lately people keep asking me, Do you think we're having another tech bubble? Like an echo bubble or something?" 

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 "I mean, I'm not 100% sure, but when a) you've got companies with names like "Yelp"; and b) they're having parties at SFMOMA; and c) this man wearing a bra is one of the guests of honor; and d) your PR bimbos are acting like drunken LUGs at a Girls Gone Wild party, and e) it's all being paid for by venture capitalists who are just betting that a bigger fool (cough, Rupert Murdoch, cough) will come along ... well, yeah, you might start thinking that maybe you're in the middle of a bubble type period."

For me, being backstage at the Oscars would probably be the closest thing to observing alien life forms. Sounds like fun.

Using your credit card too much?  The credit card condom can help. 

"It'll be sweeter if you wrap your peter....to pay paul"  . That's what I said to the lady at the store, and she shot me with a cruel look.  She hates me, and I do too.

via SFist.

Yeah, yeah the Superbowl. I wish the NFL would use their imagination and have the game played on the frozen tundra of some open arenas in the midwest. At least once. Now that's football!  And why don't they allow all cities of the NFL the eligibility to host the Superbowl?

But anyway, the television commercials are a big deal. I always find most of them sort of lame, and this year was no exception. The Snickers commercial was a yawner, but it seemed to cause a big uproar as seen here. I guess I'm a big meanie, but the woman's reaction was laughtastic.

The Garmin commercial was the best one, I thought.  Servin' up a sandwich with a slice of Provolone?

...hold on...that's not right ;  If you call out for a roll of toilet paper using a megaphone ( while listening to some tunes and drinking a beer and entering data on the spread sheet) , and nobody hears you, are still sitting on the "Pimped Out John"? 

and when did you know it?  (415) 777-6268   "...selling booze out of the back of that pickup truck with his friends..."  Gavin did make a fortune on wine. Could be.

Mae C. Jemison . via Iowahawk

Pyramid mausoleums in the U.S. 

Ohhhhh you know, someone thought that an old medicine bottle filled with clear liquid was an explosive substance and notified the authorities. The Shasta County sheriff's bomb squad say otherwise. But I guess the people at Fark got a kick out of it.