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  • Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.

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May 11, 2008

May 11, 2008
7:25 Time 100 - The World's Most Influential People
7:23 Talking Mavs: Straight from Mark Cuban.
7:23 GTA IV: Is The Game Really That Good?: To put it lightly, if the other things made for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are called 'games', we have to come up with a new word for GTA IV. I think the word is 'platform'. By every measure, GTA IV is orders of magnitude larger than anything else on the market, including with the critical scores.
7:22 Gründertrip: Minenräumen als Startup-Opportunity
7:21 Fuji Kindergarten: Architects Takaharu and Yui Tezuka joined forces with Kashiwa Sato, one of Toyko's most respected creative directors, to build and brand, a novel kind of kindergarten in Tachikawa, a suburban area of Tokyo. Monocle's Asia Bureau Chief Fiona Wilson reports on the Roof House concept.
7:21 Monocle: design notes: Detailed account on how the Monocle website was done. Very interesting.
7:20 In praise of dual-class stock structures for public companies
7:18 At Rearden Commerce, Addiction is Job One: "Rearden Commerce, is quietly emerging as major force among enterprise startups ... All in all, Rearden now offers its services to more than 1,700 corporations, up from 92 two years ago before signing AmEx as a partner. Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline alone has about 60,000 employees on Rearden. Collectively, those corporate customers have about one million employees using Rearden to book flights, cars, hotels, dinner reservations, baseball games, theater tickets, conference calls, and even ground shipping."
7:16 The last days of Bear Stearns
7:16 Chaos on Wall Street
7:14 What's wrong with Wall St. - and how to fix it