Monthly Archives: September 2008

Apple set for decline, apparently

September 30, 2008 – 10:08 am

Via Wired: Another reason for the Apple selloff: Two banks (Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital) cut their ratings on the stock. “First, PC unit growth is decelerating and the remaining source of growth is increasingly in the sub-$1,000 marker, where Apple does not play” said Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty, in a published note. Oh [...]

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Chemical irritant empties Islamic Society of Greater Dayton’s mosque

September 30, 2008 – 9:04 am

The Dayton Daily News has a story about a terrorist attack on a mosque in Ohio. Entirely coincidentally, an anti-Muslim DVD was distributed to thousands of households in Ohio earlier in the week. Daily Kos has an email account of the attack: She told me that the gas was sprayed into the room where the [...]

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Prescient, if perhaps Obvious

September 27, 2008 – 8:32 pm

Cringely reposts an excerpt from a post of his that appeared two days after 9/11. Right now it seems obvious, but I don’t know if it seemed that way then: ‘To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail,’ wrote Mark Twain. In the current context this means that the organizations charged with [...]

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Paul Newman

September 27, 2008 – 3:32 pm

Sorry to see you go.

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A billion here, a billion there

September 26, 2008 – 11:40 am

It worked. That’s a really large number. Kudos for a job well done. Forbes writes on part of the reason that the American public is so skeptical of the Bush administration’s bailout proposal: In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are [...]

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