Twellow. Find Twitter users to follow

With Twellow you enter a search phrase, like “cleantech.” It searchs, then lists Twitter users with that interest. You can view information about, then click to Follow. They also have a hierarchical directory of Twitterers by category, and lots more features too. This is a great way to find people of Twitter with interests [...]

The insanity of water laws

Don’t be using this in Colorado

In Colorado it is illegal to catch rainwater and snow melt in rain barrels because, by law, the water belongs to whoever owns rights to the waterways.

Rain water should “belong” to wherever it falls. Bizarre, unworkable, arguably lunatic laws like those in Colorado are counter-productive. And the [...]

Late nite bread blogging. Really easy bread by Jim

He has a blog, too.

http://make-bread.blogspot.com/

He says about himself:

I have been a working Pastry Chef for over 23 years,but that is only to support my true passion – building a monster in my garage..

Let Turkey and Armenia work out their differences

Washington Note says Congress should not pass a resolution calling the killings of one hundred years ago a genocide. Because it now appears Turkey and Armenia may be deciding to jointly let historians decide what happened.

Besides, we have our own work to do here.

We also need to abide by the Geneva Conventions, outlaw [...]

Bear Stearns fund managers arrested for fraud

DailyMail photo. They say Cioffi was heckled after being arrested

Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, former execs at Bear Stearns did that funky perp walk this morning after being arrested by the FBI on fraud charges. The collapse of the funds they managed, in which investors lost over $1 billion, was one of the [...]

Bernie Madoff is twittering from jail!

It’s on the Internet so it must be true.

http://twitter.com/bernmadoff

A few excerpts:

Quantitative easing, or why I don’t think it’s as rosy a picture as Bernanke paints

Helicopter Ben is back…. (Cartoon by BlueWire Studio.)

He’s saying, ‘we’re fine, folks, be out of this recession in no time.’ Mr. Bernanke is, I believe, attempting to control and manage consumer sentiment and spending with his cheery optimism. But then the Fed takes drastic actions, like this:

Federal Reserve to Buy $1.2T in [...]

XBRL. Increased transparency in financial reporting worldwide

An initiative spearheaded by the SEC (yes, the SEC!) to create an open data standard called XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) for financial reporting is being adopted worldwide.

XBRL, or “interactive data” as the SEC often refers to it, is an open information format standard that enables automated, global sharing of business information as [...]

Madoff’s accountant indicted

David Friehling, the do-nothing accountant for Madoff who apparently never actually did an audit, is now facing 105 years in prison.

Gary Weiss

That’s a lot of time. How much time will it take for him to flip? My guess is “five seconds.”

He was paid $12,000-$14,400 a month. Sue says, that wasn’t nearly enough [...]

Senate support of Cuba embargo has crumbled

So says Havana Note, noting that fifteen senators just signed a letter specifically endorsing agricultural shipments to Cuba. Moreover, in a time when our economy is hurting and Cuba needs food, supplies, and building materials to recover from their devastating hurricanes. only right-wing ideologues would say they should not be able to purchase them from [...]