Entries from September 2008

September 24, 2008

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Stopping a Financial Crisis, the Swedish Way
How Sweden solved similar problem in the early 90's
(tags: sweden mortgage crisis.regulation banking)

Stein Mart Earnings Call, Second Quarter 2008 – Earnings calls
(tags: STEINMART)

Address Map Coordinate (Lat/Long) Finder
(tags: LATITUDE LONGITUDE ADDRESS TECHNOTEBOOK LOOKUP)

September 24, 2008

Stopping a Financial Crisis, the Swedish Way

How Sweden solved similar problem in the early 90’s

clipped from www.nytimes.com

A banking system in crisis after the collapse of a housing bubble. An economy hemorrhaging jobs. A market-oriented government struggling to stem the panic. Sound familiar?

It does to Sweden. The country was so far in the hole in 1992 — after years of [...]

September 23, 2008

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Fifth Grader Suspended For Wearing Anti-Obama Shirt
(tags: obama shirt colorado loons)

Hobbled LHC shuttered for repairs; 'No big deal' say scientists
It's times like this that I'm really glad that opted for the warranty and replacement plan.
(tags: lhc helium)

September 23, 2008

Fifth Grader Suspended For Wearing Anti-Obama Shirt

clipped from elections.foxnews.com

An 11-year-old boy in Colorado was suspended from school after he refused to take off a shirt that read, “Obama is a terrorist’s best friend.” His father says that the school is violating his son’s First Amendment rights.

Daxx Dalton, a fifth grader at Aurora Frontier K-8 School in [...]

September 23, 2008

Hobbled LHC shuttered for repairs; ‘No big deal’ say scientists

It’s times like this that I’m really glad that opted for the warranty and replacement plan.

clipped from www.sciam.com

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) says that it will take at least two months to fix a “large helium leak” into the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile tunnel. The likely cause of the [...]

September 20, 2008

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Brain Sandwich
Yummy!
(tags: brain sandwich)

September 19, 2008

Brain Sandwich

Yummy!

clipped from sand.wich.es

This summer I visited Ferguson’s Pub in St. Louis, pursuing the holy grail of sandwich related journalism: the Brain Sandwich. This massive chunk of beef brain has been increasingly hard to find, due to fears of Mad Cow disease and general disgustingness, but St. Louis remains blissfully willing to [...]

September 19, 2008

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The Newspaper Clipping Generator – Create your own fun newspaper.
(tags: writing web2.0 web tools tool resources online newspapers news newspaper)

September 18, 2008

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0809.1648v1.pdf (application/pdf Object)
(tags: astronomy hubble physics science ufo)

Hubble Finds a Mystery Object
(tags: hubble astronomy ufo)

September 17, 2008

Hubble Finds a Mystery Object

clipped from www.skyandtelescope.com

Don’t get the idea that we’ve found every kind of astronomical object there is in the universe. In a paper to appear in the Astrophysical Journal, astronomers working on the Supernova Cosmology Project report finding a new kind of something that they cannot make any sense of.

Now you don’t see it, [...]