Archive for March, 2011
Satire: CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs
March 24th, 2011Zuck: They “trust me” Zuck: Dumb fucks —Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook Via: The Onion: CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs Research Credit: growltiger
While Libya War Grows, Obama Team Denies It’s a War
March 24th, 2011Via: Wired: It’s one thing to say that the U.S. is right to take action against Moammar Gadhafi. It’s quite another to insist that it’s not even a war. And it’s simply dishonest to do so while escalating the war. But that’s the spin from the Obama White House. While the president travelled through Latin […]
Worst Texas Drought in 44 Years Eroding Wheat, Beef Supply as Food Rallies
March 24th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: The worst Texas drought in 44 years is damaging the state’s wheat crop and forcing ranchers to reduce cattle herds, as rising demand for U.S. food sends grain and meat prices higher. Texas, the biggest U.S. cattle producer and second-largest winter-wheat grower, got just 4.7 inches (12 centimeters) of rain on average in […]
Toyota Tells U.S. Plants ‘Prepare to Shut Down’
March 24th, 2011Via: CNN: Toyota’s U.S. manufacturing arm is preparing for a possible shutdown because of parts shortages from Japan, a Toyota spokesman said. Word has gone out to all 13 of Toyota’s factories in the United States, Canada and Mexico. This does not mean that the plants will stop working, Toyota spokesman Mike Goss said, but […]
Social Computing Data Repository
March 24th, 2011Via: Arizona State University: Social Computing Data Repository hosts data from a collection of many different social media sites, most of which have blogging capacity. Some of the prominent social media sites included in this repository are BlogCatalog, Twitter, MyBlogLog, Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, MySpace, LiveJournal, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), Reddit, etc. The repository contains […]
Peak Doomsday Bunkers
March 24th, 2011*chortle* Via: CNN: A devastating earthquake strikes Japan. A massive tsunami kills thousands. Fears of a nuclear meltdown run rampant. Bloodshed and violence escalate in Libya. And U.S. companies selling doomsday bunkers are seeing sales skyrocket anywhere from 20% to 1,000%. Northwest Shelter Systems, which offers shelters ranging in price from $200,000 to $20 million, […]
Pump Truck with Long Boom Headed to Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
March 24th, 2011…usually used for concrete pouring… Via: Xinhua: A Chinese-made pump truck with a long boom will leave Shanghai for Japan Tuesday after the owner of the troubled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant requested it, according the vehicle’s manufacturer. The vehicle with a 62-meter boom is scheduled to be shipped Tuesday morning. It is expected to […]
15 Dead in New Clashes in Southern Syria
March 23rd, 2011Via: AP: Syrian police launched a relentless assault Wednesday on a neighborhood sheltering anti-government protesters, fatally shooting at least 15 in an operation that lasted nearly 24 hours, witnesses said. At least six were killed in a predawn attack on the al-Omari mosque in the southern agricultural city of Daraa, where protesters have taken to […]
Trading Note: Natural Gas
March 23rd, 2011WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Just in case anyone was wondering what I was doing on that UNG trade: I have a 1% trailing stop following this thing up now. This feels a bit like public participation to me, but who knows… If it keeps running, […]
U.S. New-Home Sales Unexpectedly Fall to Lowest on Record
March 23rd, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Purchases of new U.S. homes unexpectedly declined in February to the slowest pace on record and prices dropped to the lowest level since December 2003, adding to evidence the industry is floundering.
