I am a presenter for the NYC C++ Meetup. All of my presentations can be found here. I recommend you download and view them with Powerpoint, if possible.
jsl::pointer_cast<> is a simple C++ library for casting between unlike pointer types. It is a replacement for reinterpret_cast<>.
Gizmodo has a weekly puzzle. One week's puzzle was about poker. In discussing the solution with the author, he liked an additional poker puzzle I gave him. If you read the solution, Jack gives me credit for the follow-up puzzle.
I couldn't find a good New York Stock Exchange NYSE holiday calendar in iCal format, so I created one. You can add these to Google Calendar, or directly to your iPhone via AddCalendar - AddSubscriptionCalendar: