WEF: Remember when you made your first $10m?

In one of its blogs the BBC today provides an interesting snippet from a conversation overheard at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

…Two friends talking: “Good call that we stopped him for a chat. He doesn’t know it, but I made my first $10m off one of his companies.”
The speaker has just parted company with [...]

CNNMoney: Darwin Award for Businesses

With its great list of “101 Dumbest Moments in Business” CNNMoney provides a good overview on the 2006 “biggest boors, buffoons, and blunderers” in businesses. Some companies even managed to get more then one entry on the list. When you read through the pages…

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Music: “Superstition” on Sesame Street

Back in 1973 22 year old Stevie Wonder played his famous song “Superstition” on Sesame Street together with Ray Parker Jr. on the guitar, Anthony Jackson on the bass and Olie Brown on the drums. Watch this great moment of TV history online…

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations

Today throughout the US celebrations will be held to honor Martin Luther King Jr. who was murdered 1968 in Memphis. Many things have changed since the march to Washington and his famous speech in 1963, but with the deterioration of civil rights throughout the world’s leading nations latest since 9/11 it is good to be reminded that there was a time not so long ago when people stood up for their rights and did not indulge in indifference to such changes.

A video of his famous speech is available online in full length (link below)…

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Happy Birthday David Bowie

…but we could not let this day go by without saying Happy Birthday to David Robert Jones aka Thin White Duke aka Ziggy Stardust aka David Bowie. It’s his 60th birthday and we still don’t know if there is “Life on Mars” but maybe “Major Tom” will find that out for us. One thing’s for sure we are not “under pressure” to be “Heroes” anymore…

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Video: Gerald Ford tells the story behind his famous “national nightmare” remark

In this video from an never-before-seen 1984 CBS interview former President Gerald Ford tells the story behind his famous “national nightmare” remark. He had requested that this would not be broadcasted before his death…

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Happy Birthday Marianne Faithful

Happy Birthday Marianne, we say in broken English - before the poison. What a road you’ve walked and what a voice. Good luck, good health and we hope we hear many more songs from you…

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BBC: Pictures of 2006

The BBC has now published its selection from the best pictures of 2006. Our favorite remains the picture (no 3) of a bunch of posh Lebanese driving with their new Mini Convertible through the poor suburbs of Beirut that have been hit by Israeli attacks. This picture tells many stories and…

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RIP: James Brown

One of the greatest 20th century musicians is gone. James Brown, the “Godfather of Soul” died last night at Emory Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta after being admitted there on Saturday for treatment of severe pneumonia, his manager, Frank Copsidas, said. With his frenetic singing style and rhythms the “hardest working man in show business” made funk popular to a broad audience and influenced a whole new generation of black music. His live was like a roller coster ride…

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RIP: Joseph Barbera

Thanks for Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones, the Jetsons, Yogi Bear and all your other work that made us laugh so many times.
Yabba dabba doo!

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