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Nifty Toolness

February 7, 2010 · Comments Off 

You might have noticed that there are two 'aggregated feed' doodads in the sidebar (over on the right, right down the bottom).

One of them has all the RSS feeds from ZeroHedge, TickerGuy, Mish's GlobalEconomicAnalysis... and a couple of other analytical sites.

I find it useful to aggregate all of these, so that I don't have to read each feed (or even their headlines) in an RSS Reader.

I use ThunderBird's built-in jobbie... and although I only load headlines, it annoyed me to have to go from ZHs feed (the first feed of the day, always) to TickerGuy's,... [Read the full story]

US

Indicted BofA CEO: If I Go, Bukkake and Hankie Go Too

February 8, 2010 · Comments Off 

Mmmmm... you've got to love it when maggots start trying to eat each other.

Ken Lewis - CEO of BofA at the time of the Merrill Lynch 'shotgun marriage' - has been indicted; everybody who knows anything about the issue knows that Professor Bukkake and Mr-Hankie Paulson are in this up to their foreskins, and now Lewis is threatening to bring the house down on them if required..

Australia

OzRant for Tuesday Feb 9 2010

February 9, 2010 · 5008Leave a Commenthttp://www.marketmentat.com/markets/oz/ozrant-for-tuesday-feb-9-2010/OzRant+for+Tuesday+Feb+9+20102010-02-09+05%3A46%3A00GT 

Ords slightly (0.41%) lower; volume above average and losers dominate breadth stats by 1.3:1: sectors mixed with a slight downside bias. The NZSE50 closed down 0.4% for the day.In Japan, the Nikkei225 is currently trading down 0.9% for the session; Hong Kong's Hang Seng is down 0.2%.The KOSPI has lost 0.8% so far today.

Well, I discovered why the auto-magic posting of daily Ranty-goodness was not happening. It was a change to the way sendmail treated mail that originated within the same domain... and to date I have not been able to figure... [Read the full story]

Politics

The Political System MUST Change

January 10, 2010 · 43Leave a Commenthttp://www.marketmentat.com/politics/the-political-system-must-change/The+Political+System+MUST+Change2010-01-10+03%3A58%3A49GT 

[Note - this was a Draft in my Drafts folder... it is not unalloyed genius, but it would move us 3/5ths of the way to a more beautiful society if implemented... it was originally penned in 2004 and is presented unexpurgated]

To my way of thinking, the "conservative" ending of "neoconservative" is a malapropism which must be corrected if history is to provide a guide as to the reasons behind destruction that these ideologues are intent on wreaking. The inclusion of the "neo-cons" under the Conservative rubric reinforces the misconception... [Read the full story]

SPISpy

DAX Short Panning Out Niiiice

January 18, 2010 · Comments Off 

DAX short entry is panning out, irrespective of whether it was entered based on "Freebie" from Dec 30th (DAX at about 5970) or from this twitter twatt ("DAX might open with a pop... if can get short above 6000 that would be one of the best things evah." - Dec 30th at 8:40 P.M. [DAX was closed... opened and popped above 6000 on Jan 4th]).

As... [Read the full story]

Stuff

Told Ya It Was A White Elephant…

February 9, 2010 · 5007Leave a Commenthttp://www.marketmentat.com/stuff/told-ya-it-was-a-white-elephant/Told+Ya+It+Was+A+White+Elephant...2010-02-08+22%3A59%3A19GT 

So it turns out that the shiny new "Look at how big my erection is" building in Dubai... is closed. Stupid pissing-contest real estate development is an excellent sign of a country that's set to go "phut"... think "Millennium Dome".

Here's the story... Burj Khalifa, World's Tallest Tower, Closed A Month After Opening.