Paul Graham suggests you can only have 1 idea at Top Of Mind (Fo Cus). (more)

A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quagmire (more)

A nice chunk of text and photos about the Bus Lane-s in Paris (and side bits, esp in the comments, about Pedestrian Walk Signal-s).

Lane in Street Traffic for City Bus use. (more)

Simon Johnson is a British American economist. He currently is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Sloan School of Management at MIT... From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, he was Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Johnson_(economist)

aka US Treasury Department

Hacker, NLP trainer (more)

aka Secretary Of The Treasury, head of the Department Of The Treasury (more)

The Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly referred to as TARP or RCP, is a program of the United States government to purchase assets and equity from financial institutions to strengthen its financial sector which was signed into law by U.S. President George W Bush on October 3, 2008. It is the largest component of the government's measures in 2008 to address the subprime mortgage crisis. (Bail-Out during Credit Crisis 2008) (more)

Simon Johnson on Tim Geithner's track record of failure, and blockage of Finance Reform, in response to Geithner's opposition to appointing Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Content Management System (more)

A Calculated Risk anonymous reader provides a Really Bad Scenario of Sovereign Debt default. In the Really Bad scenario, 45% of the countries with large outstanding sovereign debts are in default within a 2-3 year period. As we saw in Part 2B, levels between 40% and 50% of sovereigns in default have been reached five times in the last two centuries, (1830s, 1840s, 1880s, 1930s, 1940s). So, who defaults? A simple method is to choose the 45% of countries with large sovereign debts (over $50 billion) that currently have the highest cumulative probability of default... But then, since this is a really bad scenario, Japan defaults too. This might occur because of a global economic slowdown, a rise in general risk premiums and interest rates raising Japan’s debt service (this could take longer, Japan’s average maturity is 5-6 years), Japan’s banking system being affected by defaults elsewhere in the world, lack of political will to make reforms, or several other mechanisms.

Conspiracy Theory Of The Day: Are men being socially isolated, esp from children? (Men And Women)

HawthorneLabs plans to develop an online Newspaper offering with heavy Personalization. Apollo is quite similar to Pandora in that it uses an algorithm (using factors such as time spent on articles, sources favorited, articles liked/not-liked as well as social elements like Twitter and Facebook mentions and similar peoples’ tastes etc.) to help users discover the best content for them in a variety of categories (Top News, Business, Tech, Sports and so on). The app crawls thousands of the top blogs and news sources on the Web within said categories, ranks them, and clusters related articles together. Starting with a $5 IPad app (one-time cost?).

Three Entrepreneur-s are offering a share of their life’s income in exchange for cash upfront and have banded together to form the Thrust Fund, an online marketplace for such personal investments. (Seed Capital) (more)

a good where 2 units of output are indistinguishable from each other (more)

Steve Blank shows the change in the Exit Plan market for Start Up-s since 1979. (IPO-s have never recovered since the DotCom bubble burst, and M And A has shrunk the past 3 years.) He notes the emergence of Late Stage Private Financing as a new technique. (more)

China's Dagong Global Credit Rating became *the first non-Western rating agency to assess sovereign credit risks countries around the world... Dagong Global Credit Rating issued its first sovereign credit report for 50 countries Sunday. (more)

web-based OutLining tool (more)

An increase in aggregate prices. (more)