Weehouse makes some very nice looking pre-fab modernist housing.

A recent Q&A with Warren Buffett.

Quoted: With Wall Street in chaos, Fortune naturally went to Omaha looking for wisdom. Warren Buffett talks about the economy, the credit crisis, Bear Stearns, and more.

As Sung Park would say, "Holy Poop." John Doerr, legendary VC, took the stage to announce $100 million in fund to develop apps on the iPhone platform. That's a big deal. The iPhone will transform the mobile experience in the next 12 months much more than it has since it was introduced.

Quoted: John Doerr took the stage today at Apple's announcement of its iPhone software developer kit and announced a $100 million fund to invest ...

The 10 minute pitch.

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Remember a couple years ago when Facebook was turning down offers for 1 billion and we were calling them crazy? Yeah, those were those good old days now. Microsoft is reportedly seeking a partial stake which would value the company somewhere around 10 billion. Yowzah!

Barron's has the same investment thesis for EMC that I do, namely that you're getting the VMWare shares at a large discount to the IPO (Barron's estimates it at about 40% discount). Tis is why I picked up shares in EMC the day afetr VMWare's IPO last week.

Quoted: NEW YORK, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Shares of EMC Corp. <EMC.N>, the No. 1 maker of corporate data storage gear, could rise 20 percent or more over the next 12 months, according to a report in the Aug. 20 edition of Barron's. EMC, is the

Our investment club has owned shares in Home Depot for 5 or 6 years. It is really nice to see Bob Nardelli gone and Frank Blake doing everything he can to improve morale and transparency to his investors. It's also nice that he takes less than 25% of the compensation of his predecssor. Finally, perhaps some governance!

Quoted: The chief for the home improvement chain will try to make up for past mistakes by laying out his vision for the future at its annual meeting Wednesday.

Online retail has now been around for 13 -14 years (with Amazon in business since 1995). Growth rates are still high and expected to continue although certain segments are seeing more maturity than others.

Quoted: E-commerce is moving "full steam ahead"and is years away from saturation, with double-digit growth expected for several years, according to an online retail industry report published on Sunday.

This is kind of nice. A full transcript of the Amazon.com Q1 2007 Earnings Call. Instead of spending 40 minutes listening, you can read the whole thing in 5 minutes.

Quoted: So we still think of it as a big opportunity, but you are right; our North America is outpacing international. Certainly as part of that, North America is certainly being helped by Amazon Prime. We are seeing what we -- certainly customers are liking what they see there and that is certainly being reflected in our overall growth rate in North America.