Michael B. Duff

"There was criticism of the American policy of monetary easing, or creating more liquidity," Bruederle said after a meeting in South Korea of finance officials from the Group of 20 economic powers. I tried to make clear in my contribution to the discussion that I regard that as the wrong way to go," he said.

Researchers have discovered that different targeted advertising is being sent to users’ accounts if they have described themselves as gay or straight. The discovery could mean that people who wish to keep their sexuality private may be sharing it with advertisers without their knowledge.

Halloween and geek conventions have one awesome thing in common: They give women an excuse to wear outfits that their own sense of modesty and dignity would otherwise never allow them to leave the house in.

What's been stimulated? Not jobs in Michigan. What's been stimulated has been commodity markets and emerging markets. Because the liquidity just leaks out, and that's why another round of stimulus would not stimulate in the promised way. It would stimulate the wrong things. And those things, commodity markets and emerging markets, are already overstimulated to the point of being nearly bubbles.

Gotta see the pic to get this: "Keanu Reeves, he goes where he is needed."

Blizzard is getting downright Victorian with the Worgen stuff. I want spectacles and a stovepipe hat now.

So far, that sounds like a lot of people. There isn't a shortage on people who are best friends with the salt shaker and hate bitter vegetables. The next test knocks most of those out of the running, though. Supertasters, as a population, are thinner than the average joe. They aren't just put off by bitterness, they don't like things to be overly sweet or fatty, either.

"Hey do you like my iPod, my bank gave it to me…"