Recycling egg (5)
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Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John's found these superb recycling egg multi-trash-cans: The Ovetto Recycling Egg is an expensive, dual-slot trash can that, for $250, allows for the separation of plastic and aluminum in one receptacle... a goal which can just as easily be accomplished for the price of a couple $5 trash buckets. But you aren't paying for the function, you're paying for the design, and who amongst us does not want to ...
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Eebs said:
Eeeeeeevaaaaaa.
California: Canary in the Economic Coal Mine (4)
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A piece tonight in the WSJ is painful reading about what is happening in California, the state first and most severely struck by the subprime credit crisis. There is the odd glimmer of light -- like that San Diego real estate shows signs of bottoming -- but it is mostly bleak stuff. With its export businesses, manufacturing sector, professional services and big retail employers, California looks like many other U.S. states, only more so. California's ...
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morgan180 said:
add to these facts that arnold just asked the fed for up to 7 billion in loans to finance the state's expenses since the commercial paper market shut down. there's a lot of pain to come and not just from wall street.
Some Big Movements in Tech (2)
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Some big and seductive moves going on, not least of which in tech, which was heavily beaten in the hedge fund GS VIP unwinding for redemptions. Look at this histogram of top-moving names among the larger cap tech stocks: [Update] So much for that. By the close things had reversed themselves sufficiently such that the number of techs doing wacky things was back to relatively few. What an intraday adventure.
It's Not You. It's Me. Worst Market Returns To-Date (4)
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Just in case you were thinking that it's you feeling worse than you've ever felt with respect to the current decline, it's not. It's the market. Year-to-date, this is now the worst decline in U.S. stock market history. [via Bespoke]
Integrate Remember The Milk's To-Do Cow with Google Reader [Featured Greasemonkey User Script] (5)
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Firefox with Greasemonkey: The Remember The Milk Cow in Google Reader Greasemonkey script integrates web-based to-do list application Remember the Milk with popular newsreader Google Reader. After installing the user script and reload Google Reader, you'll notice RTM's cow-head icon next to items in Google Reader. Clicking the link opens a RTM mobile window with the item's title, the URL for the post, and a default tag ('website') already filled in. This handy little addition ...
What happened to the carry trade? (3)
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Remember when investors would borrow in Japanese yen, at low interest rates, to invest in higher-yielding currencies such as the Australian and Kiwi dollars? For a long time it seemed like free money was just sitting there on the table. Well, two days ago the Australian dollar dropped 12 percent against the yen and the Kiwi dollar dropped ten percent, both in a single day. Calculate that return on a yearly basis and you can ...
Chinese counterfeit chips causing military hardware crashes (23)
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Laws passed some fourteen years ago that govern federal military hardware procurement may have led to significant durability and quality control issues today. Cheaper, it turns out, isn't always better, especially when the products in question are made by companies with nearly nonexistent quality control.Read More...
Highlights from Wired NextFest in Chicago (1)
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I was in Chicago last week for Wired NextFest – it was impressive, beautiful, engaging, and imaginative. While I had fun presenting some of my own work, it was even more entertaining looking at (and trying out) the other exhibits. Here are some of the highlights of the event. Let Me Guide You The GuiaBot is a fully autonomous robot that can take you places. It doesn't just go point to point to though. It ...
Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming, They're Here (7)
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Wired is running a story about the small but vocal, and growing, number of people who aren't waiting for automakers to deliver plug-in hybrids. They're shelling out big money to have already thrifty cars converted into full-on plug-in hybrids capable of triple-digit fuel economy. "The conversions aren't cheap, and top-of-the-line kits with lithium-ion batteries can set you back as much as $35,000. Even a kit with lead-acid batteries — the type under the hood of ...
World Golf Tour Hits Hole-In-One With Rich Multiplayer Flash (19)
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Despite the fact that males have long accounted for the majority of online gamers, there is a surprising shortage of casual online games directed at men aged 25-45. Beyond fantasy football and online poker there is little variety, with nearly every game failing to take advantage of advanced graphics or any interactivity beyond clicking “all-in”. World Golf Tour is looking to fill this gap. The site has launched a free, full-featured Flash game that offers ...
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Liz said:
- 尽管是伪3D的，但是效果相当不俗- 很短的loading-time，大量的online互动成分- 场景数据是用类似Google Street View的方法采集后分析得到的，省人力貌似新一代Web game正在逐渐爬出来...
Gadgets: Ten things that changed if you spent the last five years in hypersleep (6)
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1. Sony finally got it, but still doesn't get it. Sony finally ditched proprietary music files, but still hasn't updated its copy 'n' control development model. And get this: the latest Playstation is getting its rear end kicked by both Microsoft and Nintendo. Nintendo! Sir Howard's obviously tired of wrapping duct tape around the beast and the stock's in the toilet. But then again, whose isn't? 2. No-one admits it, but piracy is mainstream. The ...
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marcell said:
"Cellphones are now offered with reasonable agreements and a diverse set of contractual options. SMS messaging is no longer more expensive than using a satellite phone, and carriers no longer act like a cartel, rationing new cellular technologies to maximize quarterly profits over the long-term competitive well-being of their own industry. Haha, got you. Yeah, they're still a bunch of arseholes."
Celebration Of Smoke Photography and Smoke Art | Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine (45)
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by Tim Mercer and Smashing Magazine Editorial Team Photography is constantly reminding us how wondrous and beautiful the world we live in truly is. It often urges us to take another look at the ordinary things around us in a new light, revealing a quiet beauty in even the most mundane of objects. More specifically, smoke photography, with its alluring images of ghostly wisps of smoke, shows us that we don’t have to look very ...
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Zaki said:
@BalaManian This was really cool. A great share
The Credit Crisis and Social Software - Part 1 - Why we need a return to credit based on social relationships (2)
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I have been quiet recently because events are so terrible that I wanted to be ready to offer some thoughts that might really help. Here is the first of a series that will, I hope, help you see why we are in such a jam now and why social software may offer us a a healthy and sustainable way out. Am I qualified to speak about such things. I think so. I was an investment ...
A SWOT Analysis On America (18)
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I spent 15 years in the States and left in 2006, precisely because I saw the horrifying decline of this great nation. Don't you think, though, that before a turnaround plan you need to do a SWOT analysis? Here's a quick stab at it: Strengths:Bar none, the most diligent, hard-working, dedicated, disciplined and focused people in the world. I've lived on three continents and know what I am talking about. Weaknesses:1. Decay of rationalism. Right ...
Did JPM Cash Call Bring Down Lehman ? (3)
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This continues to become ever more interesting . . ."Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s main lender and clearing agent, JPMorgan Chase & Co., caused the liquidity crisis that led to Lehman's collapse, creditors said. JPMorgan had more than $17 billion of Lehman's cash and securities three days before the investment bank filed the biggest bankruptcy in history on Sept. 15, the creditors committee said in a filing Oct. 2 in bankruptcy court in Manhattan. Denying Lehman ...
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angol said:
wow, if this is true, aaargh!
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