Archive for July 15th, 2008

  • Damn, Toto. Looks like we’re still in Kansas.

    Buckeye Lake Beacon - Police activity reports
    Millersport
    • July 1: Police stopped a driver for going 46 mph in a 25 mph zone on Chautauqua Boulevard. Police then learned that the driver was under 11 suspensions and that his driver’s license wasn’t valid.
    • July 3: Police warned a driver for a traffic violation on Lancaster [...]

  • Paging Jimmy Stewart…

    Customers furious in Day 2 of IndyMac fed takeover
    LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police ordered angry customers lined up outside an IndyMac Bank branch to remain calm or face arrest Tuesday as they tried to pull their money on the second day of the failed institution’s federal takeover.
    At least three police squad cars showed up [...]

  • I smell schadenfreude in the newsroom.

    S.F. officials locked out of computer network
    SAN FRANCISCO — A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco’s new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to deny access to top administrators even as he sits in jail on $5 million bail, authorities said Monday.
    Terry Childs, a 43-year-old computer network administrator who lives in Pittsburg, [...]

  • I love this headline.

    Scientist’s blowtorch weedkiller backfires - Telegraph
    And the picture is a keeper, too.

  • I hear Eye of Newt is undervalued….

    Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In
    “Perhaps the new bubble could have something to do with watching movies on cell phones,” said investment banker Greg Carlisle of the New York firm Carlisle, Shaloe & Graves. “Or, say, medicine, or shipping. Or clouds. The manner of bubble isn’t important—just as long as it creates [...]