Dubai Mall, one of the world’s largest shopping centers and a symbol of Dubai’s grandeur, was partly closed on Thursday after an aquarium containing thousands of fish and sea animals started leaking, police and witnesses said.
via Dubai Mall partly evacuated after aquarium leak | Reuters.
An alleged hacker has been hailed as a latter-day Robin Hood for leaking data about the finances of banks and state-owned firms to Latvian TV.
via BBC News – Latvian ‘Robin Hood’ hacker leaks bank details to TV.
“…at least one witness said the animal leaped from the water and dragged the woman in.”
I believe the correct conjugation is “leapt.” That is f-ing gnarly. Can you imagine? At first you’re like, “Wow, Shamoo is smart enough to knock me into the water.”
And then you’re like, ”And now I’m going to die. I guess we shouldn’t keep these animals in captivity and make them do tricks for money.”
Looks like there’s a labor dispute outside the Santa Monica Place construction site. The sidewalks were crowded with surly construction workers blocking pedestrian traffic (Yes, I am trying to jog here).
I wouldn’t exactly call it organized, although they did seem to all know that they didn’t have to work today.
I rarely feel so conflicted and so intensely about a subject as I do about “organized” labor. On the one hand, I really like the 40-hour work week. And I’m glad we don’t have child labor in this country. These are both gifts of the organized labor movement.
On the other hand, the labor movement seems to have run amok in the US. It seems we have created a trade barrier; only, instead of creating it between us and another country, we’ve created it within our own economy as a blockade between the market and one of our nation’s great resources of production.
It makes sense, I just think maybe labor is a little too powerful for its own good. It might be wise to have a better check to better balance it.
Where’s Los Angeles? They’re also missing Detroit, Miami, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia.
How is this impartial when the second most-populous metro area in the country is absent?
How about a latency test? And what good is the backbone’s bandwidth if its radio signal can’t penetrate a single office building wall?
via AT&T Roars Back in PCWorld’s Second 3G Wireless Performance Test – PCWorld.
With about $1 trillion in mortgage securities on its balance sheet, the Fed owns more mortgages than Treasury securities, and it has been a vital source of support for the housing market over the course of the last year.
via David Rosenberg predicts more contraction in economy – Feb. 18, 2010.
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