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""It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign," he told The Guardian. "Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.""

"Welcome to Clusterstock! We're yet another site focused on the financial markets. We offer proprietary and third-party analysis, financial models, news, commentary, and aggregation. We're edited by Henry Blodget (yes that Henry Blodget). Henry is a former top-ranked Wall Street stock analyst who was later keelhauled by Eliot Spitzer (yes, that Eliot Spitzer). We're in beta now, which means we still suck. We're working hard, though, and we hope to get better fast. Here's some of what you can find on Clusterstock already: * Detailed coverage of some of the hottest stocks in the market, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Research in Motion. Our coverage includes proprietary and third-party analysis, financial models, smart web information sources, and real-time news. * Detailed coverage of the US stock market and economy. * Simple economy and earnings calendars. And here's what's coming soon: * More sectors * More markets * More stocks We don't

"First, a real-world example, the rescue of Wachovia. The FDIC got Citi to take over Wachovia’s assets and liabilities with a deal under which the feds limit the losses — they will cover any losses on mortgage paper over $42 billion — in return, basically, for receiving a share of ownership, in the form of warrants and preferred stock. No actual money changed hands, which illustrates a fundamental principle: recapitalization doesn’t mean laying out real money, at least initially — it just means having taxpayers take on some of the risk."

"The webinar I gave for Mettler-Toledo on Sept 23, 2008 is now available here as a Flash presentation. It is 19 minutes and covers the Optimization of the Ugi reaction using parallel synthesis and automated liquid handling. The related paper is currently available from Nature Precedings. (authors: Jean-Claude Bradley, Khalid Mirza, Kevin Owens, Tom Osborne & Antony Williams) Thanks to Andrew Lang for the slide with the 3D plot showing the reaction yield space. This is my first time using Camtasia 5 - it lets you zoom into areas of the screen that are under discussion. I think that is pretty handy for screencasts involving web pages, where there can be a lot of small text."

…now the iphone just needs to have some form of added color processing and we have ourselves an iLOMO!