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Circuit City Files for Bankruptcy

I saw this one coming from a mile away.  Circuit City Files for Bankruptcy.
You can only have shoddy stores and push sales people for so long.    I was in a Circuit City several months back, and vowed never to go again.  Best Buy seems to have the better store layout, and mostly great sales people [...]

Eye in the sky

GEOEye-1 has sharpened Google’s satelite imagery.
Head over to the link above to see the difference - amazing.

World wide rate cuts

The whole world cut interest rates today.
The US Federal Reserve led a co-ordinated round of global official rate cuts today, easing by a half-point, as did the European Central Bank, Bank of England and Swiss, Canadian and Swedish banks.
The Fed said it was cutting its key federal funds rate by 50 basis points to 1.5 [...]

Help for the drunks

Google released Mail Goggles today.
It is supposed to help me you quit sending those late night, booze influenced tirades.  I am sure Brittany Spears will be glad that she no longer receives emails from me late at night on Friday.  As I profess my love for some of that trailer park goodness.
So . . . [...]

Shack sold for chump change.

OK - it’s not a shack.  But it is a very dilapidated old house.
Yahoo! News has an article up about a Saginaw, Mich house that recently sold for $1.75 plus back taxes.
The winning bidder must pay about $850 in back taxes and clean the yard up.  I was not sure where Saginaw was - looks [...]

…back in the USSR

Not sure who will be president of the US come election time.  However, I am afraid they are going to have a lot on their hands.  Russia has really been pushing hard lately flexing its muscles.  Read an article recently that they were re-arming their subs, ships, and planes with nuclear warheads.  A first since [...]

Beijing Olympics 2008

I stayed up last night to watch Michael Phelps swim his way in to history.  It was well worth staying up for.

One Vote?

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