September 2008
27 posts
The Money Masters - How International Bankers... →
Talk of Armageddon is ridiculous scare-mongering.... →
Anticipation of the bailout will engender strategic behavior by Wall Street institutions as they shuffle their assets and position their balance sheets to maximize their take. The bailout will open the door to further federal meddling in financial markets. So what should the government do? Eliminate those policies that generated the current mess. This means, at a general level, abandoning the goal...
Credit Crunch Takes Bite Out of McDonald's -... →
It prompted Bank of America to halt loans to McDonald’s franchisees. They need the capital to frantically build coffee bars in the chain’s 14,000 locations for what was planned to be an April coffee introduction.
Virtual Road Test →
The Great Financial Do-Over →
I’m more concerned about the overall premise of the bailout. It seems a bailout of Wall Street, written by Wall Street, benefiting nobody but the very people most at fault for the current financial conditions. Essentially, I imagine it like this: Paulson went into a room with some investment bankers. “OK,” he says, “what do we have to do to solve this economic...
'Merchant of Death' in court →
Viktor Bout, dubbed “The Merchant of Death,” has been indicted in the U.S. on four terrorism charges. He was arrested in Thailand on March 6. Though Bout denies any involvement in illicit activities, he is regarded as one of the world’s most-wanted arms traffickers and was purportedly the model for the character portrayed by Nicolas Cage in the 2005 movie “Lord of...
Led Zeppelin plan to audition new singer →
Really…
Griffin Technology: Clarifi →
Griffin Technology: AirCurve →
“It’s a world in which the Chinese state, if it co-ordinated the...”
– BBC NEWS | The Reporters | Robert Peston
Quiet Earth →
All scifi things post apocalyptic. Great site!
iWeathr - iPhone Doppler Radar →
Nice iphone webapp website launch pad.
Amazon Video On Demand →
Tutankhamun :: Atlanta →
iPhone: Reduce backup times →
Extraordinary long backups are caused by an error when an app (or apps) was installed or updated, particularly if you have ever installed or updated using the App Store on the device itself rather than iTunes.
iPhone Apps, iPhone 3G apps and iPod touch... →
TestiPhone.com - iPhone Application Web Based... →
This is a really good web based iPhone simulator.
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Guantanamo Inmate Database →
“I’m very unhappy with the film,” he says. “I never had a...”
– Babylon A.D. Director Describes a Disastrous Production
pzizz - treat sleep problems and increase energy →
The best free white noise generator on the... →