1) SAC Will Not Become A Family Office, President Says (FIN Alternatives) - So there you have it. Despite the fact that nearly all outside capital has been redeemed and the company is left with Stevie's dough, they're not going to become a family office. Glad they cleared that up.
2) This Simple Action Will Dramatically Grow Your LinkedIn Network (Mashable) - This really should be common sense, but you'd be amazed at how many connection requests I get with the canned "I'd like to add you to my network." If you're trying to link with someone you don't know, help them and help yourself.
3) Senators Draft Plan to Abolish Fannie Mae, Shrink Backstop (Bloomberg) - Hey Senators, 2007 called; it wants its great idea back. Clearly this has no shot of ever passing, but a girl can dream, right?
4) How to Survive the Series A Crunch—From Someone Who Didn’t (Sean Percival) - Raising money is hard if you're a start-up, especially after a string of high profile flameouts led to the Series A Crunch. Here's how to power through it.
5) FAT CITY: What can stop obesity? (The Monthly) - If you read no other article today, read this one. It is written by a physician who only handles the morbidly obese and it is a gut-wrenching read. Screw Bloomberg's Big Gulp ban; this article will make you think twice about Super Sizing anything.
6) The most extreme weight-loss method yet? The dieters having a patch sewn onto their tongues to make eating unbearably painful (Daily Mail) - Following on #6, this reminded me of something the Marine Corps used to do with guys who had a drinking problem. They'd make them take Antabuse daily, which would make them violently ill if they touched a drop of alcohol. Trust me when I say those guys quit drinking altogether after the second or third time, so I can see where the tongue patch might make you lose some weight.
7) I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable. (Mother Jones) - You might think this is just another article about 3D pinters, but it's not. This guy bought all the parts to make an AK-47 through mail order and then went to a build party and came away with a fully functional gat. I didn't even know this kind of thing went on.
8) NFL wants more games, possibly a franchise in London (Yahoo! Sports) - YES PLEASE!!!
9) Lawyer trashes Las Vegas luxury suite 'Hangover' style (Las Vegas Review-Journal) - What a jerkoff. I remember my first beer.
Video of the Week:
If this doesn't raise a lump in your throat, you're just not alive. I've been looking for a charity to donate a portion of the proceeds from my upcoming book to. I think I might have found it:
That's it for this week, guys. Enjoy this summer weather, get your tickets to WSO Con (last day to get over 50% off), and have a stupendous weekend!
I was wondering if you were going to include this one: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/06/06/bras-begone-china-clamps-down-o…
I saw you tweet out number 6 the other day and read through it all at one go, and it was a terrific read. Probably one of the most interesting, non-finance articles I've read in a long time. Pretty horrifying actually.
No mention of PRISM?
PRISM happened after this "went to press" and probably deserves a post all its own anyway.
I love this quote from the Fat City article. Finally somebody willing to call a spade a spade and realize Lena Dunham is disgusting swamp monster.
"Battles with our appetites and with our bodies are played out on television, in magazines, in the workplace, in families and in hospitals. Be fat in public and you will be weighed by strangers’ eyes. The most radical thing on television this past year was the ordinarily flawed 70-kilo naked body of Lena Dunham in Girls: little girlish tits above big soft lumps and bumps. How shocking: the protagonist has a paunch and eats cupcakes in the bath. She blatantly displayed her body, a lone counterpoint to the usual stick-insect romantic heroines."
Between that fat article by the Australian doctor and the gun bitching article on Mother Jones I think I mite just be done with the world. Personal responsibility of any kind whatsoever is just impossible these days.
The Fat City article was really intense. Long, but interesting read. Makes me want to have an intervention with my rather obese friend.
Wow the gun article is ridiculous. I can't believe that is allowed.
Great articles Eddie. Put an SB on my ever growing tab.
7 is nothing new. 922(r) rules (which govern the import of long guns with arbitrary"evil features") have long prevented me from enjoying what the rest of offers in terms of firearms. I've never had a "build party" before though. Sounds like a fun time.
There's a documentary floating around on the internet about what happens to animals in China who are kept for their fur (including dogs). It is the most horrific, vile shit I have ever seen. Olivia Munn is there in it. After watching it I couldn't sleep at night.
Yeah man, the shit they do to bears over there is fucking hideous too. Gemma Godfrey sent me a video and I opened my wallet for Animals Asia just to make it stop.
Yep that too. It's either fur or "traditional Chinese medicine". Both completely stupid things.
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