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Question Questioning the govt redneck_electric_toothbrush.jpg LOL Boycott Beijing True pic of reality... Israel's Nazi-porn problem - Beyond the Multiplex - Salon.com Hmmm Calculated Risk: Housing Bust Goes Global MonkeyBusinessBlog: Boiler Room Great metaphor of FED actions... FED running a boiler room operation to provide a false sense of liquidity that will whipsaw individ. investors jumping into financials. Kerala MP Wahab had entered plane cockpit: Report-India-The Times of India "Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) had said they would file a defamation suit against Wahab for allegedly calling the pilot a "glorified driver" and asked him to tender an unconditional apology." LOL. He left out the bit about the glorified maid Blockbuster Bids Up to $1.35 Billion for Circuit City ``It's an odd move,'' Nick Bubb, a retail analyst at Pali International in London, said by phone. ``Synergies between a video store and an electronics store aren't that obvious.'' DNA - India - Men, beware of gigolo sites - Daily News & Analysis "I thought I had never had sex, so why waste a chance when it was coming with money," said Khanna, who had come from Meerut to Delhi four years ago for studies." LOL. DNA JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER Bugatti Veyron targa confirmed for next year - Autoblog This is one fugly car The Top Drops on Convertible Sales "There are few better illustrations of sheer hedonistic, profligate enjoyment than driving a small car at high speed into the sunset with the top down. It is a supremely selfish, environmentally uncool act. But boy, is it fun." DNA - Mumbai - Booming India draws NRI docs home - Daily News & Analysis Short the USD. The biggest strength of the US is the immigrant smart people. That is ending. BECAUSE THE FED HAS ABANDONED THE USD Lisp as Blub "And there's the problem with Lisp for writing server software. Long lived processes, shared state threading, and garbage collection make it extremely difficult to fail gracefully." The wealthy gardener "Blogging is much the same way. The best bloggers make money, but mostly as a side effect, not as a direct result of setting out to use a blog to make a profit." Hot Chicks with Douchebags: The Kisser For want of tyres, Sukhois grounded-India-The Times of India What else is new Forget US, IITians prefer to stay home-India-The Times of India Short the USD German Tots Learn to Answer Call of Nature - WSJ.com "The birthplace of kindergarten is returning to its roots. While schools and parents elsewhere push young children to read, write and surf the Internet earlier in order to prepare for an increasingly cutthroat global economy, some little Germans are takin Google Maps + YouTube Videos = Local Video White Pages Slowly gogle will start to make money on this... This internets thing is gonna be huge I say... Cassandra Does Tokyo: Collateral Damage "But I wonder: isn't this inflation, and the CEO-like salary deals of players all the stuff of bull-markets? Maybe even one would go so far as to suggest that the business of professional sports is a soon-to-be popped bubble - collateral damage victim of In China, returning to greener pre-plastic shopping tech | Sinobyte: CNET Blog on technology and the impact on China's environment, politics, and international affairs. - CNET Blogs Should be done in Singapore also...