Day April 13, 2005

Your daily Crime, er Business report

The federal government indicted 15 current and former New York Stock Exchange traders Tuesday for allegedly cheating investors, and penalized the exchange itself for failing to crack down on the alleged wrongdoing. Pigs at the trough.

Gnomedex: Adam Curry, Dave Winer, more

Dave Winer will also be a keynote speaker at Gnomedex along with Adam Curry.  The focus is podcasting, the max number of people is 300, and it looks to be one amazing conference. I signed up last month. Wheee. (Winer and…

Papal politics

Some Cardinals are calling for John Paul to be canonized. Why so soon? The movement for canonization may be tied to pre-conclave maneuvering. According to this interpretation, it is an effort to build a consensus of like-minded cardinals, or even…

U.S. Asylum sought by Cuban tied to terror cases

Luis Posada Carriles, a CIA-trained Cuban exile implicated in a series of terrorist incidents, applied for political asylum in the United States yesterday, prompting at least one congressman to assert that granting the request would undermine the nation’s credibility in…

Used Prius prices like new

High gas prices, long waits bring used Prius prices above list price of a new model, study says. I have a 2001 Prius, 46 mpg in LA traffic. Long live hybrids! And in other signs of the times, gas is…