Busy today...
300! Gold prices surged above $300 an ounce yesterday for the first time in more than two years as investors sought safe havens amid growing market jitters over company accounting standards after the collapse of Enron.
Google swept the 2001 Search Engine Watch Awards! The only categories they didn't win had to do with paid placement -- something they don't do.
"Amtrak is threatening to eliminate train service to dozens of states in a dramatic maneuver aimed at pressuring Congress to double its support." I could care less if Winnemucca wasn't going to be loosing its stop. But it is.
Royalists: "Today is the 50th anniversary of Her Majesty The Queen's ('Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Reams and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith') accession to the Throne. At 10.00 am this morning, The Queen conveyed her Golden Jubilee message."
Google Deluged with Resumes: "Along with processing 150 million search queries a day, the company now finds itself having to handle almost twice its weight in job seekers. On a typical day, 600 resumes pour into the Mountain View, California. offices of Google, which has a staff of just under 300, including a tiny and very overworked human resources team."
Thousands of hotel beds unsold as Olympic countdown begins: "But winter sports fans have been warned that the security effort will mean they can expect to shiver for hours in sub-zero temperatures as they queue to be searched and will only be able to take in two events in any one day. Organisers estimate it will take three to four hours to get between events in the city, and longer to go to sports such as the downhill skiing which are taking place out of town."
Which side of the road do they drive on? An attempt to list which side of the road people drive on around the world, and to find some reasons why.
How to Win World War IV: A very long and interesting commentary by Norman Podhoretz. Its not only a discussion regarding how we'll win the current war, but also what the world can be like afterwards.
The quiet and high-minded National Public Radio airwaves were shattered earlier this week by a name-calling confrontation between of all people tongue-waggling KISS frontman Gene Simmons and soft-spoken interviewer Terry Gross.