John Paczkowski has a deservedly skeptical article today on how SanDisk’s announcement of the ‘slotMusic’ format, an effort to put individual music albums on microSD cards — so that you can plug an album into your cell phone or other devices that accept microSD cards. John pretty much sums up the problems with this format: […]
Sort of: This stick-figure presentation at Google Docs (warning: explicit language) — which we linked to some months back — still remains the best (simple) explanation of just what went wrong in the global (not just US) financial markets. Think Lehman Brothers, Merril Lynch and Bear Stearns (not to mention Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac!) […]
Friday the blog world was examining this curious press release from NASA: NASA To Discuss Conditions On And Surrounding The Sun WASHINGTON — NASA will hold a media teleconference Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 12:30 p.m. EDT, to discuss data from the joint NASA and European Space Agency Ulysses mission that reveals the sun’s solar wind […]
When the AP published a bundle of her personal information online shortly after her appointment as the Republican VP pick, there were bound to be ramifications. Some of that information helped motivate the delinquent son of a Memphis TN Democrat Congressman to hack Palin’s personal email account. Sadly for this troubled little dweeb he has […]
Congress and the treasury have been working all weekend to rob the US taxpayer of $1.2 Trillion by putting every one of us taxpayers on the hook to repay all of the bad investments their oligarch pals made over the last 10 years, while letting them keep all of the profit. Now word surfaces this […]
OK, after watching this video, I’m having to really rethink my support for Sarah Palin (and the old guy): Heh. ..bruce w..
As I noted earlier, I actually like the underlit photograph of John McCain that moonbat photographer Jill Greenberg secretly shot while taking his photograph for the cover of The Atlantic. S. Weasel has now done her own photoshop of the underlit image: It sort of says, “Vote for me or die.” Heh. And here’s an […]
This has been showing up in various places; I finally watched it and was moved: An observation on the closing song. Back in the summer of 2001, my wife Sandra and I attended the graduation from US Army boot camp (Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri) of our daughter Heather, who had joined the Utah Army National […]
…the sun is blank — no sunspots: This is how the sun has been for the last six weeks or so. ..bruce w..
The Beginning Of The “Big Game”
Several of my friends and relatives have asked me why I am not posting about the financial antics unfolding in real time these days. I hate to post things like “I told you so”, because they don’t really add much to the solution. I am amazed by so many facets of what is happening. First […]
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