Michael Gracie 

This choice excerpt brought to you by Deal Journal: Oliver: When the stock collapsed from the high to the low, the public started to blame “the shorts” for that. Is that not a fact? Whitney: I think from a hindside point of view, they blamed “the shorts.” Oliver: They blamed the “shorts,” whereas, as a [...]

DogParkUSA helps you find a “puppy playpen.” (h/t Mashable)

When things get ugly, this kind of stuff starts pouring out of the woodwork: The idea that individuals could not only gain employment in such a sensitive field without having the education that backs up their responsibilities is frightening enough, but how could someone pass a CIA background check with no one discovering the lie? [...]

Forget waiting for “fail to deliver” notices on the short selling of financial issues – some firms are refusing the shorts altogether. It’s a classic case of “you pat my back and I’ll pat yours.” It’s high time the SEC implements the “No-Loss Sale Rule” instead… (h/t Big Picture) Save a trader from a coronary [...]

Does technology create disaster? No, but why don’t climate statisticians have heartburn? Paul Kedrosky crunches the numbers and finds that there were less than 3,000 seismographs deployed in 1932, and more than 23,000 in 2007. His conclusion: Combine the preceding with the fact that the number of seismographs worldwide grew from under 350 to over [...]

Via The Morning Call: Way back in 1953, angler Bill Krauss Jr. decided it would be fun to start keeping a logbook of his trout catches… Fifty-five years and 61,074 trout later, what began as an innocent hobby has become an all-consuming passion for the 71-year-old Lowhill Township resident. Mr. Krauss has released all 60,000+ [...]

Less than a week after Google rolled out Knol, its “Wikipedia killer”, the blogosphere has decided to whip itself into a frenzy. The major cause of the consternation – Google seems to be ranking Knol pages, which are supposed to be filled with content from a never-ending and every-increasing number of “experts”, a bit higher [...]

Last time I touched on WordPress and Feedburner, the topic was how to tweak the Feedsmith plug-in so you could get access to your raw feed with Yahoo! Pipes. This time, I’m making some alterations to the plug-in so you gain access to your raw category and tag related feeds without those requests getting redirected [...]

Pete McDonald asks: What’s worse, an angler who releases more than 90 percent of the fish he catches, or a so-called animal rights organization that kills more than 90 percent of the animals in its care? Who’s doing all that killing? Uh…People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Why am I noting this? Because [...]