Life after Yahoo

For the first time, massive layoffs in the tech sector are being reported in realtime by those in the firing line.  Here is the twittering of former Yahoo employee who has turned his pink slip into a calling card. 

Article in tomorrow morning’s LA Times about twittering the Yahoo layoffs…My kid looks like [...]

Morning news show in virtual freefall

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – To conquer his fear of heights, “Good Morning America” host Chris Cuomo jumped from the roof of an Atlantic City casino Tuesday morning.
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Financial Services Bloodbath

The NYTimes warned of the impending crisis in Credit Default Swaps this weekend.  According to their piece:

Few
Americans have heard of credit default swaps, arcane financial
instruments invented by Wall Street about a decade ago. But if the
economy keeps slowing, credit default swaps, like subprime mortgages,
may become a household term.
Source: nytimes.com via [...]

Britain releases Iraq WMD dossier draft

LONDON – An early version of a British dossier of prewar intelligence on Iraq did not include a key claim about weapons of mass destruction that became vital to Tony Blair’s [...]

Carts of Darkness- Vancouver Premiere

I was first told of this movie by Tracy Friesen at the NFB.  It got its first showing in Vancouver. Check it out if you can.

While on the surface, Carts of Darkness appears to be a simple story of bottle collectors bombing down hills in shopping carts, something you might stumble [...]