Street Kings

Seeded on Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:36 PM EDT (Bits of News)

Henry Midgley has a couple of kind words to say about the latest Keanu Reeves vehicle "Street Kings" - at least it's better than "Rambo"...

entertainment, reeves, movie, hollywood, rambo, film

Fed likely to cut U.S. rates

Seeded on Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:39 PM EDT (Reuters)

The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to put an exclamation point on its string of interest- rate cuts with a small reduction this week.

business, rate, dollar-recession, inflation, gold, market, depression

Recession Diet Just One Way to Tighten Belt

Seeded on Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:35 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Spending data and interviews around the country show that middle- and working-class consumers are starting to switch from name brands to cheaper alternatives, to eat in instead of dining out and to fly at unusual hours to shave dollars off airfares.

business, recession, inflation, gold, dollar, euro, depression

Zen and the Art of Monetary Mayhem

Seeded on Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:05 AM EDT (Bits of News)

"...Just like the Bank of England, the US Fed seems to have Britney-sized 'issues' with its core stock-in-trade – money itself..."

business, dollar, fed, euro, boe, recession, gold, inflation, silver

Morgan Stanley exec named new Google CIO

Seeded on Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:53 AM EDT (CNET News.com)

Google has found its new chief information officer, CNET News.com has learned: Benjamin Fried, a programmer who rose through the ranks to run much of Morgan Stanley's computing infrastructure.

technology, benjamin-fried, google, news, cio

USD giving up some gains

Seeded on Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:48 AM EDT (FX Hub)

EUR/USD is back above 1.5700 as the Asian market does its usual thing and tries to kill any momentum which the market might have. It's the usual slow death for anyone trying to jump on the overnight bandwagon.

business, dollar, euro, economy, recession, inflation, melt-down

Why is there no new Einstein?

Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:41 AM EDT

I am sure I'm not the only one wondering why there has been no new Einstein? or Newton? for that matter. So what made Einstein so special? Many of Einstein's contemporaries testified that he was not unusually talented mathematically.

Continue reading this entry ...

science, einstein, progress, funding, government

Why an Energy Crunch Could Lead to Booming Profits in "Solid Electricity"�

Seeded on Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:35 AM EDT (Bits of News)

There are lots of reasons why a small company share can go up in price quickly. Usually it's an innovative new product, a new market, or, in some cases, a sudden change in the market value of a good, product, or service.

business, energy, oil, commodity, dollar, recession, inflation

8 Million Golden Reasons

Seeded on Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:28 AM EDT (Bits of News)

The only fun that will be had is when gold, silver and oil go to the freaking moon that you get so rich that can you Super-Size those fries at every meal! Whee!

business, gold, oil, silver, dollar, inflation, commodity

Lessons from another forgotten American occupation

Seeded on Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:33 PM EDT (Bits of News)

Bandit was the term used by America when it occupied Nicaragua from 1925 to 1933 and failed to quash the Sandino Revolt. But where did the American propaganda machine create that term from?

politics

The United States Matters Less and Less to the Oil Market

Seeded on Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:18 PM EDT (Bits of News)

"Does the US matter any more?" The question comes to us from the head of research at Societe Generale.

business, usa, oil, market, inflation, india, china

Learning How to Spell "Inflationary Depression"

Seeded on Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:56 PM EST (Bits of News)

As usual, I take a long pull from a bottle of cheap tequila, use it to swallow a handful of various calming medications, and manage to take a long, soothing drag on a cigarette before my wife yells at me, "What in the hell are you doing out there behind the garage? Put down that …

business, inflation, dollar, fed, bernanke, gold

The First Champion of Homeless Veterans

Seeded on Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:38 PM EST (Bits of News)

It's a very old tradition that repeats over and over again throughout history, where the bravest and most patriotic of the working class get screwed first. It is particularly likely to occur when a republic begins to drift towards empire.

history, war, republic, empire, veteran, usa, rome

Castro Steps Down

Seeded on Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:09 AM EST (Bits of News)

In the middle of the night, Fidel Castro, Cuba's leader, announced that he would not accept the Cuban parliament's nomination for him to return as president, ending 18 months of uncertainty and almost 50 years of continuous rule.

politics, castro, cuba, rule, communism

The U.S. Economy in 2008 with Bill Bonner & Christoph Amberger

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:34 AM EST (Bits of News)

The following was taken from Bill Bonner's appearance on a Special Edition of TFN's Smart Trading Action Alert with TFN president, J. Christoph Amberger. These two well-respected economic observers delve into the U.S. economy in 2008.

business, 2008, us-economy, bill-bonner, christoph-amberger, gold

Why Gold?

Seeded on Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:51 AM EST (Bits of News)

The price of gold hit a new all-time high yesterday of $910 an ounce, and is expected to reach $1,000 an ounce this year. The price is being driven by "growing investment interest, safe-haven demand and strong market fundamentals".

business, gold, dollar, bull-market, peak, why

Chimps More Evolved Than Humans

Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:28 PM EDT (Bits of News)

It turns out that chimpanzees has had more positive genetic changes to its DNA than us humans since we parted from our common ancestor about 7 million years ago, research shows.

science, chimpanzee, genes, dna, evolution, humans

First Hardware to go through Evolution Developed

Seeded on Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:50 PM EDT (Bits of News)

A Norwegian team has made the first piece of hardware that uses evolution to change its design at runtime to solve the problem at hand in the most effective way.

technology, evolution, hardware, robotics

First Haiku Distribution has been Released

Seeded on Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:29 PM EDT (Bits of News)

The Haiku operating system has now got its first distribution, The distribution is called GNU/Haiku 0.1.0 and is being released by Pingwinek, Pingwinek also releases Pingwinek GNU/Linux, and their Haiku distribution includes the base Haiku system, the GCC 2.95.3 compiler, several …

technology, beos, haiku, linux, pingwinek, operating-system

Rad-Away Anti-radiation Drug Steps Into the Real World

Seeded on Mon Mar 5, 2007 11:02 AM EST (Bits of News)

Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals, has now made something very similar to Fallout's Rad-Away.

science, nuclear, fallout, neumune, drugs, radiation

Graphene Transistor only one Atom Thick

Seeded on Thu Mar 1, 2007 12:49 PM EST (Bits of News)

Scientists have created the world's smallest transistor, the transistor is only one atom thick and less than fifty atoms wide.

technology, transistor, graphene, silicon, computers

Robot Swarms Evolve Effective Communication

Seeded on Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:19 PM EST (Bits of News)

Evolutionary robots evolving different forms of communication the help the group perform better when finding food in a myriad of poison. But some robots rather trick others to eat poison to get more food for them selves.

science, evolution, robots, robotics, genomes

450kg Beastly Squid Hauled up from the Deep

Seeded on Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:40 AM EST (Bits of News)

Fishermen in the Ross Sea got quite a surprise early in February when they hauled something resembling the awesome beast Norwegian seafarers in the 12th century called Kraken up from the sea. A creature also featured in the movie success "Pirates of the Caribbean".

science, squid, artic, colossus, giant-squid, monster

LG to Sell HD-DVD/Blu-ray Combo DVD Player

Seeded on Thu Jan 4, 2007 1:17 PM EST (Bits of News)

LG Electronics announced Wednesday that they plan to sell a DVD player that will be able to play both rivaling high-definition DVD formats. This will be the first dual-format DVD player to support both HD-DVD and Blu-ray.

technology, blu-ray, hd-dvd, dvd, high-definition, movies