The other day, when I was lazing in the winter sun in my balcony with a book, a delivery boy from the gas company drove up on hi bicycle saying that he had come to deliver the cylinder I had ordered the previous day. When I told him that I had done no such booking, […]
The Delights Of Open Source: Al Qaeda’s Recruiting On YouTube, Secret Agents Are Crowdsourcing
An Al-Qaeda-linked group from the Philippines managed to publish excerpts of a recruitment film for over 24 hours on YouTube, raising questions about the merits of online safety. YouTube took the video off the site after pressure from security officials. But is that a bad idea? Terrorists resorting to YouTube surely increase transparency? One way […]
Dow Closes Down 207 Points; Hold Onto Cash
<p>On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at: <strong><font size="4">13,028.92, </font><font size="2"><font color="#ff0000">-207.61, -1.57% </font></font></strong><font size="1"><font face="Verdana">4:30pm 08/14/2007<img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1032&size=1&type=256&uf=8192&time=1dy&freq=1mi&symb=$INDU" /></font></font></p> <p>29 of its 30 components fell, led by big drops in shares of Wal-Mart and Home Depot.</p> <p>The S&P 500 index dropped 26 points to 1,426, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 43 points to 2,499 (<a title="MarketWatch" […]
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