The orange juice futures market is a better predictor of Florida’s weather than the National Weather Service. A 1984 paper by UCLA finance professor Richard Roll.

There are two electronic items I can’t recommend enough. One is a Blackberry and the other is a Valentine 1. The Valentine 1 is a holy grail of radar detectors. I’ve tried several and never felt more comfortable than when using a V1. They are quite pricy, but if it saves me from one ticket [...]

Whatever happens, the salad days for Yahoo are long gone. 2008 will be the year Yahoo ceased to be one of the big independent Internet heavyweights. They’ll almost certainly become an operating subsidiary of Microsoft, or Google’s whipping boy. And if by some chance the government puts a stop to either deal, they’ll have a [...]

Many hotels in Phoenix, including ours, didn’t sell out for the Superbowl. The reason? The Giants beat the Packers. The Packers were favored to beat the Giants and many Packer fans had booked rooms for the superbowl anticipating a New England vs Greenbay showdown. After the Giants won the NFC championship all our hotels in [...]

Barack Obama […] announced a record-setting month in terms of donations – $32 million in January alone [...], $28 million of that was raised online. [...] Barack’s $28 million in online contributions came from more than 250,000 contributors. 90% were under $100. 40% were $25 or less, and 10,000 people gave $5 or $10 to [...]

Metcalfe’s law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system. The analogy that Wikipedia uses is that “a single fax machine is useless, but the value of every fax machine increases with the total number of fax machines in the network, because [...]