Day February 10, 2008

Don’t forget your cell phone in Finland

Text-to-pee service launched In Finland, if you want to use a public restroom, you may have to text “OPEN” to a number on the toilet door, this in an attempt to prevent vandalism by logging the cell phone numbers.

More Debt liquidation

Naked Capitalism blogs about “the dumping of leveraged loans at distressed prices” as reported by the Financial Times, a story not yet picked up here in the States. The credit markets expect another leg down of economic activity, while the…

The cut cables. Internet as weapon.

From John Dvorak at MarketWatch (“an unlikely source of tinfoil” says Peak Energy) The cut cables — originally blamed on ships dragging anchors — look more like a ploy by some intelligence agency to disrupt Iranian commerce, specifically an emerging…