Ecodrain. Save energy on hot water for showers

The EcoDrain™ is a unique patent-pending heat exchanger which transfers heat from hot shower waste water to cold incoming water. This cuts water heater use by 25%-40%.

This is for showers only. The hot shower water that goes down the drain is used to heat incoming cold water for the shower, thus saving hot [...]

Madoff family forfeiture of all assets likely

Bridgeport CT lawyer Rich Meehan writing in The Cool Justice Report

If the prosecutors prove that the defendant — through his criminal conduct — acquired the assets, the court can order the property forfeited despite the title appearing in Mrs. Madoff’s name. The burden would rest on the Madoffs to prove that the wife is [...]

Twitter goes mainstream

Twitter is now being mentioned in the Sunday funnies, a sure sign it is going mainstream.

And Doonesbury is mentioning Facebook.

Markets soar on Treasury plan

Bloomberg chart. Today

Maybe Doug Kass was right a few weeks back when he called a market bottom or maybe this is just another monster bear market rally. I’m starting to think maybe Kass was correct.

It’s a stock market truism that when everyone is gloomy, then maybe it’s time to get contrarian. [...]

Bill Moyers interviews Mike Davis about socialism

Bill Moyers says he’s hearing so much about socialism taking over America that he had to find a real live socialist to interview. So he did.

Mike Davis is a long time socialist, MacArthur Genius grant recipient, and prolific author. Moyers interviewed him on PBS. Video and transcript here.

Excerpts

BILL MOYERS: You know, [...]

Yet another Perkypants outburst of optimism amidst the nihilism

Christina Romer, head of the White House’s economic advice council says she is “incredibly confident” the US economy will recover within 12 months.

Is there no end to these Happyfaces who insist we are not facing TEOTWAWKI? Don’t they understand that Disaster Chic is what’s going on and that optimism is so not welcome.

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SFist whomps Indybay upside the head over the four dead Oakland cops

SFist

Oh, Indybay.org, you know we like you. Why? Because you’re so hot-headed and loopy; the flipside to zombietime, if you will. But this takes the soy-based vegan carrot cake.

“This” being the deranged lefter-than-thou response of Indybay to the murder of four Oakland police Saturday. They quite seriously said the cops overeacted after the [...]

Twitter, the most important website since Google?

Twitter (and Facebook) are disruptive technologies.

A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is a technological innovation that improves a product or service in ways that the market does not expect,

Disruptive technologies are particularly threatening to the leaders of an existing market, because they are competition coming from an unexpected direction.

Google in particular, is [...]

How to get a free credit report

Use AnnualCreditReport.com. This was set up by the FTC and guarantees you will get a genuinely free report.

From the FTC

AnnualCreditReport.com is the ONLY authorized source to get your free annual credit report under federal law. The Fair Credit Reporting Act guarantees you access to a free credit report from each of [...]

Why Facebook never listens to users and why it won’t start now

Uber-geek Robert Scoble responds to the current furor over the Facebook redesign and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg saying disruptive companies don’t listen to their customers.

He thinks it’s a brilliant decision. Say what? Isn’t it a credo of modern business, especially for tech companies, to listen to the customer and give them what they [...]