Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990

An interesting website containing historical images of LA. Here’s how they describe themselves:

From Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled gumshoes to the decline and fall of the city’s streetcar system, the City of Angels underwent a dramatic transformation from 1920 to 1990. This remarkable digital archive offered by the UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections brings together over 5700 photographs from that period. Culled from the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News photographic archives of 3 million photographs, this collection covers topics that include religion, popular culture, urban development, law enforcement, and the entertainment industry. Visitors can browse through a list of subjects or search for specific items of interest by keyword. To get started, visitors may wish to search for “Bud Abbott”, “Oil Wells”, and “Urban renewal”.

Jamaican Dog Sled Team

It appears that the Jamaicans, with the help of Jimmy Buffett, have start a dog sled team. Following in the footsteps of the bobsled team, the dogsled team has a site and a movie. No snow, no problem mon.

Obama Smears

Want to find out if that Obama smear is true? Don’t listen to radio on the right and want to hear the newest Obama rumors? Head on over to the Obama’s campaign smear fighting site for the rebuttals to the smears.

Historical Stock Numbers

I found this site that has historical stock numbers by year for all the stocks in a certain market. This is useful to find betas and other numbers from yesteryear.

Free Business Articles

I just signed up Wharton knowledge website and must say I am impressed. HBR level articles for free. I used them for research for a job interview I have tomorrow.