Day October 23, 2008

Unsettling anomalies in the markets

(That’s the Department of Treasury seal on the boat.) Weird scenes inside the gold mine today, both in treasuries and in the stock market Treasury securities at “historic levels of fail” Work with me here. This is not intuitively obvious.…

New LED light bulb

Frog Design has created a LED light bulb that screws into regular sockets, uses less power than CFLs (with no toxic ballast), has a desirable light quality – and will last for thirty years. Tip. Clean Technica

It’s over. McCain to skip own election night party

McCain will skip his own election-night party due to “space limitations.” Which is about the lamest excuse I’ve ever heard. George Packer in the New Yorker As for Palin, the incarnation of red-meat, know-nothing Christian nationalism, she turns out to…