No sooner have I started a new regular blog category than I’ve fallen behind. I blame the plague.
Yes, that’s right, the plague. For three god-awful days I have been trying to figure out how to breathe around a nasty summer flu while sleeping 12 hours a day with my heater cranked to 80 degrees. It’s all over now though, just in time for my sister’s birthday tomorrow. And good riddance. Nothing quite makes me appreciate being healthy like a death rattle for a cough.
It’s October! Here are a few items you should be familiar with and others you may have missed ~
- 20 Rallies About to Reverse, According to the Short Sellers
If the short-sellers are to be believed, and these are the folks putting their money where their mouths are, the following 20 companies are about to take a corrective hit. Of course, nothing is permanent in the market as this week’s spike and rally by ARMH proves but it may be a good day to take your profits. - Rahm Emanuel Gets Warm Send Off from Obama
Obama’s chief-of-staff these last two years bids the White House a fond adieu. He will be running for Mayor of Chicago in the upcoming election. - Meet Pete Rouse, Obama’s next chief of staff
Obama’s pick to replace Emmanuel is starting to look more permanent by the day. Rouse has an almost opposite personality profile from his predecessor but he shares Emmanuel’s “consummate insider” status. - Rahm-a-Done
Of course, not everyone believes Obama’s choice of another insider is the right one for an administration that has seen as much turbulence as this one has in the last year. Joe Klein elaborates for Time/CNN. - World Trade mosque/community center revealed with a CRAZY design
Of course, no small part of that turbulence has whirled around the “ground zero mosque” debate. On a day otherwise occupied with news, San Francisco’s SOMA Architects quietly released the proposed design for the building. It’s actually a really interesting piece of work. - Apple TV jailbreak complete, next step: figuring out how to run apps
Down the way in Cupertino, Apple got a nasty surprise. Their new Apple TV has already been jailbroken and developers are well on their way to making iOS applications run on a television set. Why didn’t Apple think of this first? - San Francisco Giants: Why They Will Win the 2010 World Series
The Bay Area is riding high on the SF Giants imminent first playoff appearance in almost a decade. The influential Bleacher Report apparently thinks they can go all the way. If they do, no doubt rookie Buster Posey will get a good chunk of the credit: San Francisco is 45-27 in games Posey has started at catcher. - Oakland police kill old dog who barked and growled at them
While on the subject of wild stories out of the Bay, Police in Oakland shot and killed an arthritic, 11-year-old yellow Labrador in its backyard Tuesday while responding to a burglar alarm the dog accidentally tripped while her owner was out running errands. On Facebook? Let them know how you feel about it here. - Google Street View now covers all the continents, including Antarctica
Elsewhere in the world, Google now includes a penguin-cam. - First distant planet with Earth-like conditions discovered
A little further out, scientists have discovered an entire solar system full of potentially Earth-like planets for us to settle on. Unfortunately the leading candidate has 1.2-1.4 times Earth’s gravity, making it even more painful to get out of bed in the morning. - UFOs eyed nukes, ex-Air Force personnel say
But to get REALLY out of this world, you’ve got to come right back down to Earth. The political statements at the end might lead some to doubt the group’s intentions but then again – one could come up with far more convincing arguments for nuclear disarmament than “the aliens don’t like it”.The truth is out there Mulder…
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