Reading Roundup (XVI) - Remembering Dot.Gones, Carver Imitators, Chinese Dentistry, etc.

Articles I've recently read with my comments in italics, and other miscellany:

Top 10 dot-com flops, by Kent German.
[This article reminded me of my old Charts from Hell table.]

Where's Gene Marcial When You Really Need Him?, by Jeff Matthews.
["If Barrons' always-bearish, usually wrong Alan Abelson is the stopped-clock that is right twice a day, Marcial is little more than a stenographer regurgitating bad-to-fair ideas with zero insight." Can you see why I added Matthews to my A-list of financial bloggers?]

CNET Buys Metacritic
["The transaction was not material in terms of financial impact or audience size ... Metacritic.com... is visited by nearly 170,000 unique visitors per month." 170,000 Uniques a month isn't material? David Jackson is still short CNET, fwiw.]

Lost in Carver Country, by Greg Ames.
["But Christ. I was dying to write one. My friends were all dying to write one too. A Carver story. We were not ashamed to admit it. And worse, we were reading our meager efforts out in public." Funny stuff. Carver's writing, like Hemingway's, begs to be imitated. via Maud Newton]

I went to the dentist this morning at the Chinese-Japanese Friendship Hospital. Back in 2000, I got a crown done by a dentist in Princeton named Matthew Eisenberg. He did a terrible job, and I've been trying to get it fixed ever since. If you are looking for a dentist in the Princeton area, NEVER go to Matthew Eisenberg, DDS, on Alexander Road -- he does awful work. He probably always wanted to be a butcher, but his parents forced him to become a dentist. Oy!

Anyway, we'll see how this Chinese repair job went. The price was right: 100 kuai for labor, 90 kuai for materials-- that's $23.43. It took about an hour, and the dentist spent the time talking about how western doctors "recklessly" prescribe drugs. I gurgled in agreement.

Dreams Don't Come True On Blue Baidu

Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'till the sun don't shine
Looking forward to happier times on blue baidu -- apologies to Roy Orbison

Eager beavers who bought and held BIDU have had their asses handed to them. All eyes are on Lenny Pisani's magical 0.618 retracement level to see how price acts when it gets there.

BIDU, 5-minute Chart