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Ramblings On A Thursday

April 2, 2009 – 6:45 pm

As I’ve mentioned here before and as noted in the about page, I do some freelance web site development in addition to my “day job” in scientific research. I’ve been doing the web thing for a long time. Well, it’s a long time in internet years. To give you some idea, I was designing web [...]

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American Casino – Movie Trailer

March 21, 2009 – 1:39 pm

American Casino movie trailer from Leslie and Andrew Cockburn on Vimeo.
A banker explains that the complex securities he designed were “fourth dimensional” and sold to “idiots.” A senior Wall Street ratings agency executive describes being ordered to “guess” the worth of billion dollar securities. A mortgage loan salesman explains how borrowers’ incomes [...]

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