machinists strike last fall crippled Boeing’s production and contributed to a 6.2 percent decline in the U.S. gross domestic product in the fourth quarter. - http://socmoth.tumblr.com/post...
After buying the first in Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series, Ms. Albarella finished it at 1 in the morning. She bought the next installment on her Kindle from her bedroom and began reading right away. - http://socmoth.tumblr.com/post...
The concept that because a book is an e-book it should automatically be priced significantly lower than a paper book is one we don’t agree with, - http://socmoth.tumblr.com/post...
In one case he found the combination to a locked filing cabinet by trying the numbers a physicist would use (it proved to be 27-18-28 after the base of natural logarithms, e = 2.71828…), and found that the three filing cabinets where a colleague kept a set of atomic bomb research notes all had the same combination. - http://socmoth.tumblr.com/post...
jakelodwick: I created this badge to clarify what sort of Tumblr user I am. In the past, I have initiated and responded to personal attacks. I have always felt bad about it, as if I let a vicious, primitive beast take control of me. Posting this badge is my way of apologizing for those mistakes, and for making clear one of my core beliefs: that... - http://socmoth.tumblr.com/post...
Our startup paid its first round of outside investors 36x. Which meant, with current US tax rates, that it made sense to invest in us if we had better than a 1 in 24 chance of succeeding. - http://socmoth.tumblr.com/post...
"Like many startup founders, I did it to get rich. But not because I wanted to buy expensive things. What I wanted was security. I wanted to make enough money that I didn't have to worry about money."
- Jim Norris
one of the reasons i like the jewish faith is that i’m not entirely surprised when i see things like this included
jgb1128 - http://socmoth.tumblr.com/post...
hrrrthrrr:
Self-initiated T-shirt 2009 by Petter Hanberger. It’s a screenprint of the 2009 calendar. A pen is attached to it, so that the owner can fill in one box for each day that the shirt is being used. After one year the t-shirt design is finished. - http://socmoth.tumblr.com/post...