16 Dec
Posted by fx in Current Affairs, Gaming (Bush, president, Shoe)
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1 day after the now infamous Bush shoe attack, you can attack him yourself. Game developer T-Enterprise has released a game called “Bush’s Boot Camp” and had this to say
“If you watch the video clip, the Secret Service don’t move to protect the President until the second shoe has been [...]
Japan is now officially in a recession, thanks to its three consecutive quarters of economic decline. Their economy shrunk by 0.1% in this, the third quarter. This follows after Eurozone was declared to be in a recession last week, and the US is expected to follow. Japan’s recession is the first in 7 years, however [...]
29 Oct
Posted by igor in Current Affairs, Newswire (Barack Obama, Freedom of speech, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin, United States, West Hollywood, West Hollywood California)
A Sarah Palin effigy, depicting her hanging from a noose from a the roof of a West Hollywood house, has been covered up by white sheets. Although this is a case of free speech being suppressed, no one at the house has made a complaint with the police, and the sheets are still hiding the [...]
29 Oct
Posted by igor in Business, Current Affairs, Newswire, technology (Central bank, Consumer Confidence Index, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Economics, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve System, United States, US Federal Reserve)
The US Federal Reserve bank has cut its interest for the second time this month, bringing it down another 0.5% to it’s lowest level seen since June 2004, 1%. This has been done in order to spur economic activity among largely stagnant consumers. The rate is used for a number of key measures, including what [...]
29 Oct
Posted by igor in Current Affairs, Newswire (Barack Obama presidential campaign 2008, barackobama, Bill Ayer, Candidate, John McCain, Politics, Society and Culture, United States)
Barack Obama’s $4.5m, 30 minute television ad is to run tonight at 8pm ET. This is evidence enough of the Obama campaign’s cash-flush situation. They have raised much more than the McCain campaign, and seem to be putting it to good use to strech their lead in the polls. Early voting results indicate that Obama [...]
28 Oct
Posted by igor in Current Affairs, Newswire (Gannett, Gannett Company, Jim Hopkins, Newspaper)
While keeping up with all the developments in the of the US’ large corporations that are going through some tough times, it’s nice to find a focused site as opposed to one that attempts to cover all the news out there. In this regard, I stumbled across Gannet Blog recently. it’s written by Jim Hopkins [...]
28 Oct
Posted by igor in Current Affairs, Newswire (Assassination, Barack Obama, Crime, External, Politics, Racism, South Africa, Spree killer)
The ‘Skinheads’ have been getting a lot of press lately, with two of their alleged members being arrested for planning an assassination attempts on presidential hopeful Barack Obama. The two also planned to go on a killing spree at their local predominantly black high school. However, the SWA is claiming that the two were no [...]
28 Oct
Posted by igor in Business, Current Affairs, Newswire (Business, Consumer, Credit crunch, Home, Mortgage, Subprime mortgage crisis, United States, US)
The US consumer index has plummeted to an all time low of 38.0, having begun based at 100 in 1985. This reflects the hard times that have fallen upon the US consumer quite clearly, with the subprime mortgage crisis playing a large role. A number of large corporations have also had rounds of layoffs. Jobs [...]
28 Oct
Posted by igor in Current Affairs, Newswire (Dow Jones Industrial Average, OPEC, Petroleum, Price, Price of petroleum, Stocks and Bonds, United States, United States Economy)
The past few weeks have seen the crude oil price drop from a peak of just over $140 a barrel to the current price of just over $60 a barrel. This has happened as global stock prices have also been dropping drastically, with the DOW below the 8700 level today. Hopefully with will bring some [...]
28 Oct
Posted by igor in Current Affairs, Newswire, computers, technology (Codeweavers, computers, CrossOver, linux, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Windows, Wine)
Codeweavers is a company that develops a proprietary version of Wine called Crossover. It allows one to run Windows based programs on a Linux or Mac system. The company distinguishes itself from other Wine variant producers by returning all its patches to the Wine project.
In July 2008 the company launched the Great American Lame Duck [...]