This from the Consumerist: At the end of 2008, the FDIC’s insurance fund ratio was 0.40% of all insured deposits, far below the minimum 1.15% mandated by Congress. But, don’t panic. The Chinese still want to lend us money. I’m sorry – what? They’re starting to buy fewer treasuries and more oil futures. Well, that’sContinue reading “Don’t Panic”
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Space invaders attack Los Angeles
One could argue that this is the first 8-bit global collective performance art project. It sort of reminds me of the 2007 Boston bomb scare fiasco. But without all that frothy bomb scare aftertaste. Maybe that’s where those Adult Swim guys got this idea. Because Invader started doing this back in 1999. Like MF Doom,Continue reading “Space invaders attack Los Angeles”
Great Depression Shutterings
I found a really great query that searches for companies that went under during the Great Depression. It returns a ton of great results.
GoogleCar Due in October
It looks like a propellerless Cessna fuselage. Designyoutrust.com says it will be arriving in October. The car is being developed by a company called Aptera, but its development is being funded by Google money. Now they just need a dealership network.
TWC Fuels the Fires
Since they’re being such good sports (and Twitter is down for scheduled maintenance right now), I thought I’d go ahead and recap some of the better news appearances Time Warner Cable has made lately. I just want to take a second to state that I know that most of the good people of this companyContinue reading “TWC Fuels the Fires”
QuantumTom 