Big Monopoly Tour update. Covered half the board nearly – Whitehall, Pall Mall, Northumberland Av, Bow St, Trafalgar Square, The Strand, Fleet St, Piccadilly, Coventry St, Leicester Square, and Bond St. Leaves Marlborough St, Park Lane, Mayfair, the entire first row and most of the stations to go, yet.
Apple Backlash
The Apple backlash proper will occur sometime in March next year: Leopard will be to Tiger as Vista is to XP?
Is the Apple rotten?
Customers ask: Is Apple going rotten? I say it started with that charge for 802.11n. The accountants took over.
Yarr!
Yarr! It be talk like a pirate day t’day! Avast ye!
Google Australian Election Site
Google has gone and set up an Election 2007 site for Australia: hey, thinking of the little guys down under. Props, Google.
In the spirit of one-upmanship
The Yankee Prankee: probably one of the ultimate pranks you can ever pull.
Saltwater on fire!
Man trying to discover a cure for cancer comes up with possible cure for fossil fuels: a way to make salt water burn. You’ve almost got to say “Well why hasn’t someone else come across that already?”
The Ghosts of Markets Past
20 years on: uh-oh. October 18 might be a good day to take a long view (or some extremely good short options).
Pibbin’
Keeping you abreast of the very latest on the net: Pibb is a new AJAXy browser-based IM/IRCesque messaging service. Sign in with an Open ID (e.g. Livejournal username or WordPress.com address) and message away. Get it while it’s hot.
Elementary Economic theory
A quick lesson in elementary economic theory, as it relates to the recent market instability: Gittins succinctly clears up what the central banks have been doing recently, which sounded an awful lot like they were throwing good money after bad.