Refreshing

Obama: Wall Street ‘arrogance and greed’ won’t be tolerated

Don’t recall hearing much of that during the Bush Administrations, do you?

Oh gosh, that’s reassuring

The president of the Peanut Corp. of America, which is currently under criminal investigation for a nationwide salmonella outbreak, serves on an advisory board that sets quality standards for peanuts.

Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets

So says the Guardian, citing protests all across Europe, with the biggest of them being in areas that used to be communist.

Exactly 20 years ago, in serial revolutionary rejoicing, they ditched communism to put their faith in a capitalism now in crisis and by which they feel betrayed. The result has been the biggest [...]

California legislature does nothing as financial doom looms

California State Controller John Chiang said Friday he will stop making income tax refunds and vendor payments starting tomorrow because the legislature and governor have been unable to decide on a budget.

“Nobody will lend to the state of California today because we have a $42 billion deficit and we have no sound plan [...]

Oopsie. Google says entire net is malware

Google Search even said Google sites were malware. The error happened for about 20 minutes, apparently worldwide.

Update: It was human error

Unfortunately (and here’s the human error), the URL of ‘/’ was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and ‘/’ expands to all URLs.

To their huge credit, Google [...]

LEDs may soon be as cheap as incadescents

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered a way to make LEDs inexpensively. If this goes commercial, then LEDs could become commonplace. Among their advantages, they last for years and use much less electricity than conventional bulbs. .

Japanese sewage plant gets gold from sludge

The sewage plant is recovering 4.2 lbs. of gold (worth about $62,000) from each ton of fly ash they create when incinerating sludge. Being located in an area with lots of metal plating shops helps.

New RSS feed

If you subscribe to Polizeros by RSS, the feed address has changed, as Google, who bought FeedBurner a while back, is moving all FeedBurner feeds to Google itself, promising lots of snazzy new functionality.

The new feed address is

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/PoliticsInTheZeros

However the old feed will automatically forward you to the new one for the forseeable [...]

Marc Drier indicted

Marc Dreier pondering that perhaps the game is over

Former big dog lawyer Marc Drier was indicted Thursday for embezzling client funds and selling fake promissory notes. This law firm, which used to employ 250 lawyers has imploded, the judge refuses to grant him bail, and Canada wants a piece of him too, for [...]

Racism so funny, but so true (by Raymond Burrell)

Racism so funny, but so true (by Raymond Burrell)

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