Heard George Soros talking about his new book on NPR this morning.

Quoted: "The idea was that regulators always make mistakes, state interference in the markets just messes things up," Soros says. "And that was a false idea .... Regulators are human and bound to make mistakes, but markets are also human and they are also bound to make mistakes. Instead of markets always being right, they're actually always groping at trying to find out what the facts are. But they never get it right."

On using FeedBurner with Wordpress...

Quoted: It's official. We've signed adoption papers for the popular WordPress plugin that seamlessly redirects requests for an ordinary feed (from self-hosted WordPress blogs) to your super-powered FeedBurner feed. This plugin — a toddler in age, but a prodigy with HTTP requests — will be made available directly from FeedBurner as "FeedSmith." It was originally raised by the multi-talented Steve Smith, who's trusting us to ensure its continued well-being.

Looks like a great site about Wordpress and blogging in general.

This worked pretty well for me although I made one change: I turned on anti-aliasng for all the Microsoft fonts.

Quoted: The first thing I noticed after I made that 'switch' from XP to Linux is the firefox's web fonts. It was way too ugly and extremely unpleasant to the eyes. I

Faving this to watch later. It's available on Netflix.

Quoted: e-Dreams is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Wonsuk Chin, portraying the rise and fall of Kozmo.com, an online convenience store that utilized bike mesengers to deliver goods ordered online within an hour.

I've been waiting for something like this.

Quoted: Amazon DevPay removes the pain of having to create or manage your own order pipeline or billing system. It allows you to quickly sign up customers, automatically meter their usage of AWS services, have Amazon bill them based on pricing you set, and collect payments.

I am going to use this to clean up the html for some of the sites I maintain. The author (Omar Al Zabir, CTO of pageflakes) is one of the best .Net developers around.

Quoted: Convert HTML to XHTML while applying tag and attribute filters in order to produce nice and clean HTML for web posting.; Author: Omar Al Zabir; Section: C#; Chapter: Languages

Quoted: However, it is also an extremely simple piece of software: all of the logic is client-side, there is no security model, failover, backup mechanisms, or persistence (albeit the last one is in the roadmap). But that hasn't stopped the developers from deploying it in all kinds of environments, and here are a few best practices suggested by Brian:

Quoted: Here's the problem. The company/web service creation process needs some kind of end game. The entrepreneurs who spend years and risking a ton need a way to get paid for that effort. And those of us who finance their efforts need to get some return on our investment. We can argue about the magnitude of the return we need and a host of other things, but the fact remains that without a path to liquidity, all the innovation that is being created by the entrepreneur/VC equation will stop happening.
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It turns out that there is another private liquidity market under development called Opus-5.