Category Archives: The Market

Bahraini Doctors, Saudi Mercs, Nuclear Safety in Japan

While the world’s eyes are turned toward a possible nuclear disaster in Japan, Saudi and UAE mercenaries are attacking – not just protestors – physicians Salmaniya Hospital in Manāma, Al Manāmah, Bahrain. The doctors were trying to care for patients who were protesting and then attacked by soldiers loyal to the Al Khalifa family regime.Continue reading “Bahraini Doctors, Saudi Mercs, Nuclear Safety in Japan”

Disney Interactive Liberates 79 Parking Spaces for Glorious Struggle of Profitability

This just in – this morning Disney Interactive has let go of eighty employees, all but one of whom drove to work. Disney Online (aka DOL) seems to have made the decision to lower its overhead before it moves to its new offices in Glendale.

U.S. Navy Helicopter Crew Suffer Radiation Contamination Flying near Japanese Damaged Nuclear Plant

There are reports that a U.S. Navy helicopter and its crew had to be quarantined for radiation contamination after flying 160 km northeast of the Fukushima nuclear facility. On Saturday the plant suffered from what NHK termed a “hydrogen explosion.” It’s cheap. It’s clean. It’s easy to monitor. It’s too clean to monitor. It’s nuclear power!Continue reading “U.S. Navy Helicopter Crew Suffer Radiation Contamination Flying near Japanese Damaged Nuclear Plant”

Apple-Google Squabble Spreads to LA

The Chiat/Day relationship with Steve Jobs and Apple is nothing short of legendary. That legend goes something like this: Chiat was hired by Apple to create the (also legendary) Ridley Scott-directed, $1 million, only-aired-once-cause-it’s-so-goddamn-special 1984 commercial that introduced the Macintosh line of computers during the Super Bowl. When Jobs was forced out of left Apple, he usedContinue reading “Apple-Google Squabble Spreads to LA”