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Current News for September 15, 2008

The considered life hist the mainstream

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:59:14 PDT
The Washington Post has picked up on the lifelogging/lifestreaming/quantified self phenomenon, albeit from somewhat lurid and mocking angle: From the WP’s article Bytes of Life: When San Francisco couple Brynn Evans and Chris Messina heard of a new Web site called BedPost, they registered an account before the site was even out of beta. BedPost was created to map users’ sex lives online — everything from partner to duration of the encounter to descriptive words, which could later be viewed as

Urban v. Rural: a north american trend?

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:11:36 PDT
Are Canadian and U.S. federal elections marked by a division between “city folk” and “high-consumption, low-density rural voters.”?

Tories rethink 7 a.m. news briefings (Telegraph-Journal)

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:05:05 PDT
The Conservatives are pulling back from an election strategy to set the daily news agenda with crack-of-dawn news conferences each day of the campaign.

Global trends drag Sensex down by 338 points (Hindustan Times)

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:48:44 PDT
Tracking weak global trends, the benchmark Sensex on Thursday fell sharply by over 338 points on relentless selling by funds, particularly in oil & gas and power counters.

Fashion Jewelry

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:43:29 PDT
Check out some cool Fashion Silver Jewelry trends at MyJewelrydeals.

Riding the Upward Trends in the Real Estate Business (Washington Post)

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:09:09 PDT
Staff writer Thomas Heath's Value Added column appears Tuesdays on the WashBiz Blog. Most weeks, it profiles local entrepreneurs, discussing how they make money and what they do with it.

TELUS Mobility launches TELUS mobile TV on its national 1X network

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:35:45 PDT
TELUS mobile TV is powered by MobiTV, the world's first network and platform providing live television on wireless phones. clients watch live, real-time programming on seven channels: CBC Newsworld, Fox News, G4 Tech TV, Le Reseau de l'information (RDI), MeteoMedia, The Shopping Channel and The Weather Network.

Weight Wars: The Midwest Spread

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:01:05 PDT
Weight Wars: The Midwest Spread September 15th, 2008 I’ve made dozens of trips to the nation’s vast center, from Texas to Kansas, from Missouri to Wisconsin, and with each visit it seems with each passing year, the center of our nation is slipping deeper into an obesity crisis. I notice more and more people who are well beyond heavy, and are now morbidly obese. I worry for these individuals and for the future health of our nation. This is a disaster movie running in slow motion. I saw a

Good Tidings

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:51:40 PDT
You never know whether Good Bama or Bad Bama is going to show up for a game. We lucked out Saturday night as we watched Good Bama, who had been on vacation against Tulane last week, thrash Western Kentucky 41-7 from our nosebleed seats atop the north end zone. We learned that if you just close your eyes and think cool thoughts, it feels just like you’re sitting in one of those fancy-pants air-conditioned skyboxes. We saw lots of Tide touchdowns from a very balanced run/pass attack (freshman

Fashion Meets Technology: Welcome to the Future of PCs

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:36:19 PDT
These days, you see as many laptops in coffee shops as you do boardrooms. As such, consumers are more and more looking to make a fashion statement with their PCs, and Microsoft is spotlighting the trend this week during the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show.

Spring Trends Buyers Are Betting On (Forbes)

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:09:39 PDT
Designers showed over 5,000 looks this week. We asked buyers which trends will be popular this spring.

HELP NEEDED: spot a CBC banner celebrating rise in stock market

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:24:22 PDT
HELP NEEDED: spot a CBC banner celebrating rise in stock market Written by Joel Johannesen Read Comments/Make Comments (There's 4 so far) Ever seen a “MARKET IN FREE RISE!” banner on the socialists-r-us network? Here’s today’s: (...And look! They’re shocked!) They report is as if they’re not part of it. Their “FREEFALL” verbiage and “SLIDING MARKET” and their latest, appearing as I write this, “SELLOFF IS ON!”, and so on — appear as if the media—particularly this

Risk Trends To Continue Guiding New Zealand Dollar Price Action (Daily FX via Yahoo! Finance)

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:16:07 PDT
New Zealand Dollar price action is likely to follow a similar pattern to that of its Australian counterpart, falling in with broad trends in risk sentiment.


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