Former Brocade CEO: Hello, BofA? Yes, I’d Like to Stop Payment on a $15 Million Check.
Another first for former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Greg Reyes. He was the first Silicon Valley CEO to be indicted on federal charges in the options backdating scandal of a few years ago and the first to be found guilty. And on Tuesday, he became the first to have his conviction overturned.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Save Sirius Coalition Having Trouble Saving Sirius
If the Save Sirius coalition hopes to fulfill its eponymous mandate, it may have to do so by other than legal means. Because its lawsuit against Sirius XM has been dismissed.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Retailer: Yahoo Warned of Lower-Than-Expected Refund
Yahoo’s paid search performance may be the fastest growing in the industry, but that doesn’t mean it’s the most effective. In fact, some companies would argue it’s not that effective at all. Companies like BigReds.com, which is suing Yahoo (YHOO) for more than $1 million for click fraud.
The collectibles retailer claims it paid Yahoo’s Search [...]
Friday, January 25, 2008
Société Ridicule
How ironic is it that Société Générale, the French bank responsible for the biggest fraud in investment banking history, was just this month named Equity Derivatives House of the Year by the financial risk-management magazine Risk?
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
