Once and future presidential candidate Mitt Romney trots over to Fortune Magazine to give President-Elect Barack Obama some helpful advice free of charge, peering into the future with his penetrating vision in order to unveil the shape of things to come: I can only hope the President abandons the po ...
So, this is the first time in a couple weeks that one of my predictions hasn’t been within spitting distance of one of the top two movies. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa crushed my $42 million prediction with a $63,106,589 weekend and Role Models bested me by almost $5 million. But hey, this formula is ...
Last Tuesday before the elections I predicted the outcomes. I am happy to report that my predictions were pretty spot on. Logically, this makes me the Nostradamus of predicting elections. I truly believe I have the same prediction power as the man who started rocked this world 450 years ago (and wil ...
While nearly all the players in the solar industry count the recent extension of the U.S. investment tax credit as a win, perhaps no group stands to benefit more from this legislative victory than utility companies. Previously, utilities were subject to an exemption barring them from taking advantag ...
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is one of those books that can completely change the way you see the world. It talks about the unknown unknown, the black swan, the highly improbable unpredictable event that changes the world and which we will we later try to explain away. You believe all swa ...
The Indianapolis Colts (4-4) take on the Pittsburgh Steelers (6-2) today at Heinz Field. The last meeting between these two teams was the divisional playoff game Jan. 15, 2006, in which the Steelers won 21-18, and then went on to win the Super Bowl versus the Seahawks. The Colts have not won in Pitt ...
Part one of this series introduced the idea of following a day in the life of an avatar of the future. What might we see? So far, the avatar has gone full immersion 3D mode and is about to head off to an event. As is today, we must teleport to the event location. You strike a key to change the your ...
Bobby Kennedy’s 1968 Prediction of a Black President. “In Bobby Kennedy’s 1968 Voice of America Speech, he said “Things are ‘moving so fast in race relations a Negro could be president in 40 Years.” { via}
So now that the race is decided, here’s what we have according to FiveThirtyEight.com: Obama: Electoral Count: 365 (fooled me - he took that final EV in Nebraska!!) Popular Vote: 52.3% McCain: Electoral Count: 173 Popular Vote: 46.2 Remember that bonus question about what percent of eligible voters ...
So, here we are, the first full weekend of November. Would you believe this is a big movie weekend? I wouldn’t, but it is the first weekend with a 4,000+ screen movie since The Dark Knight opened back in July. The newest member of the 4,000 club is Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, on 4,056 screens. It s ...
