Archive for October, 2009
Gold Pullback; Short Term Fibonacci Retracement Levels
October 15th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Gold is finally pulling back to consolidate the recent move. Here are the short term Fibonacci retracement levels for just the breakout move over the last several days. Keep in mind the previous all time high at $1032 now becomes a […]
New Zealand: Proposed Powers ‘Bordering on Police State’
October 15th, 2009Via: Stuff: On the second anniversary of controversial police raids, political activists today told MPs a new bill allowing police greater powers to search and monitor could stifle freedom of speech. Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff also raised concerns and recommended a raft of beefed-up safeguards to better protect people. Parliament’s justice and electoral select committee […]
Harrods to Sell Gold Bullion for First Time
October 15th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Public participation phase? Via: Telegraph: It is renowned for its glitzy clientele and upmarket Knightsbridge location, but shoppers at department store Harrods will from today be able to buy the ultimate luxury accessory – gold bars. From this morning, Harrods will […]
U.S. to Send Up to 45,000 More troops to Afghanistan
October 15th, 2009Via: Telegraph: President Barack Obama’s administration is understood to have told the British government that it could announce, as early as next week, the substantial increase to its 65,000 troops already serving there. The decision from Mr Obama comes after he considered a request from General Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanistan, to send […]
Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein Dies at 61
October 15th, 2009Via: AP: Bruce Wasserstein, the CEO of Lazard Ltd. and a prominent Wall Street dealmaker who helped negotiate some of the largest corporate takeovers in history, died Wednesday. He was 61. The death of the driving force behind Lazard raises questions about the future of one of Wall Street’s top mergers and acquisitions advisory firms. […]
Windows 7: Open Thread
October 15th, 2009There’s nothing worse than this OS vs. that OS threads, but people are asking me about Windows 7. I’ll be very brief, so my head doesn’t explode: Would I pay to upgrade my Windows XP box to Windows 7? No way. Would I avoid Windows 7 like the plague/Vista? No. If I was buying a […]
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October 15th, 2009Thanks to the owner of marvinmolina.com and to Anonymous for signing up for hosting with BlueHost. Cryptogon received $180.
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Facebook – Coke Zero Facial Profiler
October 15th, 2009Cancer in a can and Twitbook. The zombies will love this. Via: Wikipedia: Facial Profiler is a social experiment [1] created and launched in 2009 by Coca-Cola Zero. Taking the form of a Facebook app, Coke Zero’s Facial Profiler uses facial recognition technology to search a database of Facebook users (who have opted in to […]
Benito Mussolini Was British Intelligence Asset
October 14th, 2009Via: Guardian: History remembers Benito Mussolini as a founder member of the original Axis of Evil, the Italian dictator who ruled his country with fear and forged a disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany. But a previously unknown area of Il Duce’s CV has come to light: his brief career as a British agent. Archived documents […]
