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2012年5月24日のブックマーク (7件)

  • How Facebook Fucked Up Its Own IPO - The Big Picture

    What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me— nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so. –Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2 Ahhh, th

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    Our story so far: Facebook, a wildly overvalued momentary internet phenomena led by an arrogant 28 year old man-child, decided to treat the process of going public with the same respect they do their users’ privacy, which is to say, with none at all. So they went public more or less unlawfully ove
  • Robert Moog's 78th Birthday Doodle - Google Doodles

    In the mid-1960s, Dr. Robert Moog unleashed a new universe of sounds into musicdom with his invention of the electronic analog Moog Synthesizer. The timbre and tones of these keyboard instruments (true works of art in and of themselves) would come to define a generation of music, featuring heavily in songs by The Beatles, The Doors, Stevie Wonder, Kraftwerk and many others. When people hear the wo

    Robert Moog's 78th Birthday Doodle - Google Doodles
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  • ニュースリリース (2012-05-24):「モナ・リザ」など、仏ルーヴル美術館の館内照明における当社製LED照明の設置について | ニュース | 東芝

    2.契約期間 2012年5月18日~2024年12月31日 ルーヴル美術館「モナ・リザ」「赤の間」「ナポレオン・ホール」について 「モナ・リザ」(1503~1506年) ルネサンス時代の象徴とも言われる、レオナルド・ダ・ヴィンチによる肖像画。ルーヴル美術館のなかで、最も人気のある作品の一つである。その独特の微笑みは「モナ・リザスマイル」と呼ばれ、多くの人々を魅了。ダ・ヴィンチの考案した『スフマート(ぼかし技法)』や空気遠近法などの技法が巧みに駆使された「モナ・リザ」は、その後の西洋絵画にも大きな影響を与えた。 「赤の間」 19世紀フランスを代表する大型絵画を陳列した展示室。ダヴィッド作「皇帝ナポレオン1世と皇后ジョゼフィーヌの戴冠」、ドラクロワ作「民衆を率いる自由の女神」などの大型絵画が赤い壁に展示された様は壮観であり、多くの来場者が訪れる展示室でもある。 「ナポレオン・ホール」 ルーヴル

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    「モナ・リザ」など、仏ルーヴル美術館の館内照明における当社製LED照明の設置について - ナポレオン広場全体のLED照明改修工事も完成 - 2012年05月24日  当社は、2010年から仏ルーヴル美術館とともに進めている照明改修
  • Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

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    The biggest problem with Facebook Inc. (FB)’s botched IPO isn’t that there was no first-day “pop.” Or that the shares went into free fall over the next few days. It’s what it might do to investor confidence. Facebook’s initial public offering shows how broken the process has become, and
  • News

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    SCOTTS VALLEY, CA (BRAIN) Wednesday May 23 2012 2:47 PM MT—Fox Racing Shox will be offering new electronic features on its suspension products, available in September. Fox worked with Shimano to develop the system's electronics, which shares features with Shimano's E-Tube wiring system used for it
  • Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

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    Decades of cliches about European solidarity and the European idea are being held up to ridicule. The argument that Britons, Germans, Greeks, Italians and Spaniards are instinctive cultural partners whose commonalities transcend their obvious differences and historical enmities -- that “Europe”
  • Facebook Shows There's a Sucker Born Every Minute

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    Facebook Shows There's a Sucker Born Every Minute
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    In other words, as underwriters were touting the IPO and increasing its size and price, Facebook was acknowledging that it had either hit a rut or that its most robust period of growth—the kind that might support such inflated valuation models—was over. Here's the upshot of all this: None of the