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Archive for September, 2008

How The U.S. Government Engineered The Current Economic Crisis

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

How The U.S. Government Engineered The Current Economic Crisis
Take the current housing crisis that has now spread to the financial markets in general. The cause was too-easy credit that fueled a massive increase in housing prices as people bought houses they couldn’t afford with mortgages they weren’t able to pay off.
Don’t you just love blanket [...]

Who Predicted U.S. Economic Collapse Years Ago? - Articles

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Who Predicted U.S. Economic Collapse Years Ago? - Articles
Have a listen (the first clip on the link above) to the 2008 US Presidential Candidate, who predicted years ago the current financial collapse (and for all the right reasons)…  Here’s a hint, it’s not either one of the candidates who won their corporation’s (oops, I mean [...]

New Newton Running Shoes

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

It’s coming… | The Running Front
Looks like Newton Running is addressing the one functional thing I didn’t like about my current pair of Newts:  they aren’t very trail/off-road friendly.  Now it looks like they will have a shoe that will perform better in those conditions.
By the way, despite the trail issue, I’m about to order [...]

Screen Sharing Extras in OS X 10.5.5

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Apple, why do you insist on taking away useful functionality?  Case in point, Screen Sharing? MacWorld had this really nice tip on adding more power to screen sharing which was so simple to do.  Now, with the latest update, you take it away.  What gives?  What, you think we want to be on a 13″ [...]

U.S. launches all-out attack on credit crisis - Yahoo! News

Friday, September 19th, 2008

U.S. launches all-out attack on credit crisis - Yahoo! News
Yeah, because a problem years in the making will take only a few days to fix…

EA SPORTS : NHL 09 : Home

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

EA SPORTS : NHL 09 : Home
Um, where’s the Wii version?  I love Madden ‘09 on the Wii, but NHL Hockey has always been my favorite, going back to the glory days of the Sega.  Geez, one could easily use the remote and nunchuk to do all kinds of stick handling moves.  Seems like a [...]