I know that the president and the congress have been hard at work trying to perform some kind of economic defibrillation to make sure the US does not slide into recession. At present it looks like Uncle Sam is going to be handing out packages of “free money” to everyone in the country except rich […]
Having taken about 15 months to get to the 100,000-hit mark — and reaching that largely due to our coverage of the San Diego fires in October 2007 — we’ve now reached the 150,000-hit mark in just 3 months. I’d like to think that it’s due to the quality and mix of our entries here. […]
Today is a perfect day to share some facts on the up side of finance. As is usually the case, even in an ugly market not everything is always all bad. For example we are once again to going take a look at Hardtack data on price per square foot. This time we review the […]
Asia markets are picking up again heavily on the down side, with the India down almost 10% at the moment. The Euros are predicting a start at last -3% down from yesterday’s bloodbath. At the moment the Dow futures are off 500 or so points, meaning at open it will be down 500 points immediately […]
Well, so much for containment! It seems that the banks in China were no smarter than the rest of the world, and became investors in the funny money structured investments backed up by questionable loans. From CNN Money: China’s banks feel subprime heat BEIJING (AP) — Shares in China’s banks fell sharply Monday after news […]
While the US took MLK day off in the markets, the other parts of the world traded into uncertainty and doubt. As a result all world indexes ended sharply lower: % Today % YTD FTSE 100 (UK) -5.48% -13.61% DAX (Germany) -6.83% -15.49% Nikkei (Japan) -5.49% -14.36% HANG SENG (China) -7.41% -13.22% Why is this […]
Having seen and reviewed “I Am Legend” (2007) last month, and having re-read the original novella by Richard Matheson, I thought I’d watch the two earlier movies based on that same novella: “The Last Man on Earth” (1964) with Vincent Price, and “The Omega Man” (1971) with Charlton Heston. I now have a much, much […]
Some 18 months ago, I wrote about the Blu-Ray v. HD-DVD format battle and suggested that both formats were a dead-end, and that the real next-generation video media would be based on solid-state storage (e.g., flash RAM). I predicted this was quite a few years away, though. What I forgot is that there’s another optical […]
[Thanks to the incoming links, particularly from io9 and Ace of Spades HQ, two of my favorite blogs; as the saying goes, feel free to look around (and to hit the tipjar over in the right column). Also, the first section of this review is spoiler-free; all the spoilers are in a white-text section at […]
…but this video of outtakes while anchoring in New Hampshire makes her downright likable: Doesn’t mean that I’m going to start watching CBS Evening News, though. I haven’t watched network evening news since David Brinkley retired or thereabouts. Hat tip to Suitably Flip. ..bruce w..
