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10 Charities Overpaying their For-Profit Fundraisers

From Charity Navigation: These 10 charities are not living up to their missions. Each spends more than 50% of its budget paying for-profit fundraising professionals to solicit your hard-earned money. They are ranked by the percentage of their total functional expenses spent on professional fundraising fees. As a result, very little of the charity’s spending…

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Pioneering Study Shows Richest Two Percent Own Half World Wealth

This study also reveals that 1% of the population owns 40% of the wealth and the poorest 50% own 1% of the world wealth. From the report The World Distribution of Household Wealth: The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth according to a path-breaking study released…

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Updates On 11 Spring St- Three Days Open House

This is gonna be helluva partee! Shit I wish I can be there but I will be in India and Hong Kong for work. Fuck! New updates from Wooster Collective: As we begin to receive emails from people from all over the world who are flying in for the Wooster on Spring three day open…

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Net Neutrality

More Info: Save the Internet

Genetic Algorithms and Stocks

In NY Times today there’s a very interesting article about Ray Kurzweil is creating a stock-picking computer using A.I.. Check this out: A Smarter Computer to Pick Stocks by CHARLES DUHIGG from the article: Studies estimate that a third of all stock trades in the United States were driven by automatic algorithms last year, contributing…

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Olbermann on Bush in Vietnam

Olbermann on Bush in Vietnam

Huge Art Party@ 11 Spring Street b4 it turns into yuppies condo

Article From Gothamist, by Jake Dobkin:(original link) We’re been covering the streetart renaissance at 11 Spring Street for the last couple of weeks– new pieces are going up every day, and the new owners of the building seemed to be endorsing the work. Last night, we had a chance to catch up with Wooster Collective,…

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Save Broken Angel!

I have never been to BROKEN ANGEL but it is very important to save something so marvelous like this- an outsider artist/ architect- Arthur Wood’s 30 years of work. The building is located in the Clinton Hill of Brooklyn, and was in Michel Gondry’s film “Dave Chappelle’s Block Partyâ€?. Here’s the newest updates from Chris…

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Mozilla Unleashes Firefox 2.0 Today

Go and get it, among all the improvements, here’s a few very useful ones, more info click here. Built-in phishing protection: Phishing Protection warns users when they encounter suspected Web forgeries, and offers to return the user to their home page. Phishing Protection is turned on by default, and works by checking sites against either…

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Marc Horowitz’s sexy ride

One of my favourite artists and my very good friend Marc Horowitz just did a short film for Nissan Sentra. I saw it tonight while I am eating dinner at home and I almost spray my semi-chewed rice in a projectile way. I can’t believe it! We are so happy for you, Congradulation Burt Dulet!!!…

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