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• Recession: When Models and Bottles become Model and Bottle

  November 5, 2008 in Professional

  Just saw this unconventional “Recession Index” on NY Magazine’s Intelligencer. Some of the more interesting YOY figures:

  # of people spending $2k+ per night @ Marquee: -50% (bottle sales down 10%)
  Average daily late-night subway ridership, midnight to 6 am: +4% (people still fighting for black car vouchers?)
  Average rent for studio apartment in Murray Hill doorman building: -7% (anyone remember [...]

• My Building Featured on The Consumerist

  March 3, 2008 in Personal

  Gotta love Excelsior & Grand!
  Trader Joe’s Will Remove All Single-Ingredient Food From China From Their Stores By April 1
  Photo by Payton Chung

• Updated: iPhone / iPod Touch: The Most Comprehensive RSS Feed Ever!

  November 4, 2007 in Personal, Technology and the Web

  Everything iPhone / iPod Touch, from 40+ sources and BS-filtered!
  *Updated, now cloned 20+ times and way too complicated to fit in a screenshot*

  Yahoo Pipes page
  RSS feed

• Housecleaning: IB Layoffs

  October 29, 2007 in Professional

  First Dow Kim, head of GMI, now Stan O’Neal, CEO, Merrill Lynch is dismissing its top execs left and right. I’ve been a big fan of both, especially O’Neal, being the first non-caucasian CEO of a bulge-bracket and his drastic changes when he took the lead at Merrill in 2002. He was one of the [...]

• Marketing: Wal-Mart Retail Space Larger than Manhattan

  October 11, 2007 in Professional