My daughter Salem and I went to see “Beowulf” last night for her 22nd birthday. I sent an e-mail about it to an acquaintance, and he turned around and asked me if this meant that I thought (a) that “Beowulf” was a good movie and (b) that the motion capture technology used works. I spent […]
Word today from MarketWatch that the CEO of E-Trade is hitting the bricks as part of a $2.55 Billion deal with Citadel to pump enough money into the online broker to keep it running in face of losses connected to their Asset Backed Securities (ABS): NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The subprime crisis claimed a new […]
Stephen Green (a fellow Coloradan) over at VodkaPundit has been putting together his own video questions for tonight’s GOP/YouTube debate. They’re being posted over at PajamasMedia. My favorite so far: Would love to have seen some of these actually used in the debate. ..bruce..
Having lived in and around Washington DC for several years, I’m not a big fan of speed bumps, but…this is great: Hat tip to American Digest (one of the best-written blogs on the web). ..bruce..
An interesting post from the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Bertrand Serlet recalled to his home planet Well it’s a sad day for all of us here in Cupertino. Bertrand Serlet, the friendly cyborg from the future who has lived among us and helped guide our software development efforts with such skill, has been recalled […]
CNet in the UK picked Vista as one of its ‘Top Ten Terrible Tech Products‘ — and the products on this list stretch back many years: Any operating system that provokes a campaign for its predecessor’s reintroduction deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating system that quietly has a downgrade-to- previous-edition option introduced […]
I could spend a lot of time talking about all the things wrong with the BCS football system — the death of traditional bowls, the constant changes and tweaks to the ranking algorithm, and the usually arbitrary and frequently unfair (if not insane) bowl matchups — but let’s let a professional sportswriter take it on: […]
Second post today about the SIV mess. To sum up what has happened so far, HSBC (one of the largest UK banks) has decided to move some of its funky SIVs onto the balance sheets in an attempt to build investor confidence. In response, Citigroup, who has many times more exposure to this garbage than […]
Recessions are interesting things, the most interesting part of which is just how the world financial powers have been able to avoid any significant ones for quite some time. The minor one just after September 11th, 2001 was avoided by the central banks opening up the flood gates and swamping the economies with easy money. […]
Freighters with sails — or, in this case, one very large sail that flies like a kite: A kite the size of a football field will provide most of the power for a German heavy freight ship set to launch in December. The Beluga shipping company that owns the 460-foot Beluga said it expects the […]
