Weird Financial News

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Weird Financial News (The Motley Fool)

Weird Financial News (The Motley Fool) 04/16/2004 07:40 AM
The Motley Fool - Lest you be focusing just on the bigger stories in the financial press, such as Apple Computer's (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) iPod profits and PepsiCo's (NYSE: PEP - News) boffo first quarter, here's a brief recap of some recent and weird financial news:

News of the Weird... NOT!

News of the Weird... NOT! 01/02/2005 09:23 PM
Though not the web institution of Jim Romenesko's Obscure Store or as overexposed as Dave Barry's Blog, Chuck Shepherd's NEWS of the WEIRD is a fairly good source for news stories that are... well... WEIRD. And Chuck's the only one who has collected a list of stories that "now occur with such frequency" that they are NO LONGER WEIRD. Quite a resource for judging how our society has changed in the last umpteen years.

In semi-related news, Barry is semi-retiring his weekly column, but we still have AutoDave, the automated Dave Barry column generator. Still, I suspect he did it just to upstage Dan Gillmor's farewell column, as he gives up the old-media columnar life in favor of "Grassroots Journalism".
To Dave Berry, 'Grassroots Journalism' is writing about the brown patch in your lawn directly over the septic tank.

2003 weird news highlights

2003 weird news highlights 01/03/2004 05:56 AM
wacked-out .. wacky

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weird News.com roundup on bl0gs

weird News.com roundup on bl0gs 08/10/2004 03:39 PM
i kind of don't understand what they're doing here

Weird - really really weird - to see
Belle de Jour in a top ten of most
powerful people in UK New Media.
Slightly crack-fueled dreaming for that
particular journo tonight, I fear

Weird - really really weird - to see
Belle de Jour in a top ten of most
powerful people in UK New Media.
Slightly crack-fueled dreaming for that
particular journo tonight, I fear 07/13/2004 08:23 AM
at least according to the woefully misinformed

media.guardian.co.uk/top100_2004/index/0,14656,1247481,0 0.html
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NCBuy Weird News: It's Not Easy Being
Emperor - 2004-08-03

NCBuy Weird News: It's Not Easy Being
Emperor - 2004-08-03 08/04/2004 02:54 PM
Caesar St. Augustine de Buonaparte

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Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full
News Coverage

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full
News Coverage 03/15/2003 07:13 AM
"Business-friendly" Bush administration has kept vital information from consumers that may have prevented some of the hundreds of illnesses caused by food .. "U.S. consumers would not benefit from knowing .. read the whole article .. Reuters

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NCBuy Weird News: Artist Selling His
Snot Ball For $20K - 2004-07-13

NCBuy Weird News: Artist Selling His
Snot Ball For $20K - 2004-07-13 07/13/2004 10:34 PM
Artist Selling His Snot Ball For $20K .. ncbuy

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NCBuy Weird News: World Destruction
Begins Sept. 29 - 2004-07-19

NCBuy Weird News: World Destruction
Begins Sept. 29 - 2004-07-19 07/20/2004 06:20 AM
World Destruction Begins Sept. 29 .. Mark September 29

ncbuy.com/news/2004-07-19/1010116.html
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Other News: Apple Financial Outlook

Other News: Apple Financial Outlook 04/12/2005 11:37 AM
Piper Jaffray continues to be optimistic about future Apple financials....

" Latest News and Financial Information
| Reuters.com "

" Latest News and Financial Information
| Reuters.com " 04/16/2005 02:47 PM

Latest News and Financial Information |
Reuters.com

Latest News and Financial Information |
Reuters.com 05/07/2004 03:41 AM
reuters news rss feeds .. Suweeeeeeet!!

reuters.com/newsrss.jhtml
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"Latest News and Financial Information |
Reuters.com"

"Latest News and Financial Information |
Reuters.com" 04/16/2005 02:47 PM

U.S. Crude Prices Hit 21-Year High (AP
Financial News)

U.S. Crude Prices Hit 21-Year High (AP
Financial News) 07/28/2004 11:48 PM
AP Financial News - Crude oil shot to new highs Wednesday, hitting $43 a barrel in New York, as markets reacted to a threat by Russian authorities to shut down most of the production from that country's largest oil company.

WTO OKs Plan to End Farm Export
Subsidies (AP Financial News)

WTO OKs Plan to End Farm Export
Subsidies (AP Financial News) 08/01/2004 03:36 AM
AP Financial News - World Trade Organization members approved a plan Sunday to end export subsidies on farm products and cut import duties across the world, a key step toward a comprehensive global accord that has been discussed since 2001, trade officials said.

Stocks Higher on Greenspan Economy
Report (AP Financial News)

Stocks Higher on Greenspan Economy
Report (AP Financial News) 07/20/2004 02:27 PM
AP Financial News - A bullish status report on the economy from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan sent stocks moderately higher Tuesday, helping investors overcome a disappointing report on housing construction.

Financial DNA to Hold First Annual
Unbanked Financial Service Innovation
Conference in San Francisco

Financial DNA to Hold First Annual
Unbanked Financial Service Innovation
Conference in San Francisco 06/17/2005 04:31 PM
Market Wire Jun 13 2005 8:02PM GMT

GPS Industries Appoints Key Financial
Executives - Chief Financial Officer and
Corporate Controller

GPS Industries Appoints Key Financial
Executives - Chief Financial Officer and
Corporate Controller 06/22/2004 03:24 PM
BC Technology Jun 22 2004 8:18PM GMT

F.B.I.'s Reach Into Financial Records Is
Set to Grow; House and Senate would
significantly expand the F.B.I.'s power
to demand financial records, without a
judge's approval, from car dealers,
travel agents, pawnbrokers and many
other businesses 11/13

F.B.I.'s Reach Into Financial Records Is
Set to Grow; House and Senate would
significantly expand the F.B.I.'s power
to demand financial records, without a
judge's approval, from car dealers,
travel agents, pawnbrokers and many
other businesses 11/13 11/14/2003 01:20 AM

nytimes.com/2003/11/12/politics/12RECO.html
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World Financial News Network Picks Up
WorldWide Manufacturing -- Independent
Analyst, WFNN Favors Specialty
Engineering Firm with International
Business Concerns and Strong Future
Earnings Potential

World Financial News Network Picks Up
WorldWide Manufacturing -- Independent
Analyst, WFNN Favors Specialty
Engineering Firm with International
Business Concerns and Strong Future
Earnings Potential 06/24/2004 03:29 AM
World Financial News Network picks up WorldWide Manufacturing-- Independent Analyst, WFNN favors specialty engineering firm with international business concerns – a company with strong future earnings potential. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2004]

That Was Weird...

That Was Weird... 07/17/2004 04:40 PM
I just posted a new item, and suddenly there were 22 comments under it -- all from another posting from more than a week ago. I deleted them, but this is just bizarre.

Weird

Weird 11/02/2003 04:18 PM

Reading about it being 71 degrees for the NYC Marathon, I was about to go running today (I did the LA marathon in 1997 and was hoping to do one next year) but was surprised to find the rain just turned to snow and is piling up on the roof and streets. New York? 70 and partly sunny. Oregon? snowing.

World Financial News Network Continues
to Recommend Y-Tel - Independent
Analyst, WFNN Favors Y-Tel – for the
Strong Earnings Future in the
International Telecommunications Sector:
They Provide VoWLAN Industries with
Telecom HUBS Located in Miami, Florida
and Panama City, Panama.

World Financial News Network Continues
to Recommend Y-Tel - Independent
Analyst, WFNN Favors Y-Tel – for the
Strong Earnings Future in the
International Telecommunications Sector:
They Provide VoWLAN Industries with
Telecom HUBS Located in Miami, Florida
and Panama City, Panama. 12/19/2004 03:09 PM
Dr. Joseph de Beauchamp of World Financial News Network started coverage and gives favorable analysis to NetMusic works in the digital music industry: digital music services (DMS), digital jukeboxes, and digital music storage devices. [PRWEB Dec 16, 2004]

The Weird Als of Finland

The Weird Als of Finland 06/30/2004 06:07 PM

Finland has a dance called the humppa, but it's spoken of with the same disdain that disco gets in the US these days. It's for the geezers. I have been told it is something like the German polka only without the lederhosen, which is good since I'm half German and, after a few Straßenfests where people jump around in lederhosen with buckets of beer in their hands barely able to stand up, much less dance, the costumes just don't really add much to the overall aesthetic. I had a biology professor, a Bavarian who was really into opera singing, show up for a lecture in lederhosen and dance a polka for us while we sat there speechless. Everyone thought he was nuts, but I just thought he was hopelessly homesick and I couldn't imagine him doing that dance without the full costume in his usually disheveled professor uniform. I have been spared, so far, the spectacle of drunk Finns hopping around much like drunk Germans to goofy music. So far.

While we were off at the lake for Juhannus, my ear picked up something that sounded a lot like Viva Las Vegas but....not. I was informed that it was a group called Eläkeläiset [the pensioners] who are the humppa song gods in Finland and, well, everywhere else people like to humppa. I fried a few neurons just thinking about an Elvis tune done in humpaa/polka time. I can't describe their music except to say that they are the Weird Al Yankovics of Finland. Sample the Peljätty Humppa [2.2mb] and try to guess the song they are covering and be very, very afraid. It's like Ethyl Merman singing a disco version of No Business like Show Business [yes, she really did...], as it's so bad that it transcends the badness and is irresistibly brilliant. I must have more of their music. The guys actually have a regular band, Kumikameli, but I can't really tell the difference between the samples on that web site and the humppa music so it may be just a nuance only a Finn can hear. :) The lyrics are very clever and, unsurprisingly, the music is popular with the polka loving Germans. There even seems to be an OpenBSD-Humppa connection which does help explain a few things about OpenBSD. Weird Al has done a polka album so perhaps it is time he teamed up with Eläkeläiset and did a humppa album. Disturbing thought. *zot* There went another neuron.

Weird Swing Bug

Weird Swing Bug 06/22/2004 11:54 PM
We ran into a weird issue with Swing today at work. The small class below reproduces this. 1 import javax.swing.*; 2 import javax.swing.event.TreeModelEvent; 3 import javax.swing.event.TreeModelListener; 4 import javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode; 5 import javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel; 6 7 public class Blah extends JFrame implements TreeModelListener { 8 9 private JTree tree; 10 11 public Blah() { 12 setSize(150, 150); 13 setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); 14 DefaultMutableTreeNode root... (294 words)

weird referer

weird referer 01/07/2004 04:31 PM

Recently (but I just noticed it today) I started getting HTTP referers that are a variation of the following: "XXXX:+++++++++++++++++++++++" (the number of plus signs varies). A google search with appropriate terms quickly turned up discussions like this one that suggest that the referer is someone using an anonymizer or internet security product of some kind. Without that information it smells like an attempt at an exploit of some kind... but of what kind (and if so, I've never heard of it)?

Anyone knows about this? Has anyone else seen it? I'm curious. :)

Weird science

Weird science 12/31/2004 04:43 PM
It didn't take long for politicized debate to get roiling over the nature of the tsunami disaster -- some of it rather murky. Steven Milloy of the Cato Institute and Junk Science.com is now blasting environmentalists for "shameless exploitation" as they "surf the tsunami tragedy" in order to bring attention to the problem of global warming. Milloy wants to give the impression that he's navigating through truer waters, but clearly he's looking to ride the wave in a direction of his own:

Weird Cats

Weird Cats 05/20/2004 01:13 AM
Feline medical curiosities. Polydactyly, conjoined-kitty-fu, "freaks of face," cleft palates, and plain old huge. (Not safe for after lunch).

Weird-o SMS behaviour

Weird-o SMS behaviour 02/05/2005 09:13 PM
Outi sent me yesterday a sweet text message about mice. True to the nature of these beasts, that SMS started multiplying: for some reason, T-Mobile (yes, I'm in Germany) has decided to deliver that message to me eleven times within the past 24 hours. Even though it has been sent only once.

It seems that every SMS sent from Finland is replaced by this same SMS message - so if you've tried to contact me, I have only seen a message about a mouse from Outi. Sorry. You gotta try and resend, if you had anything to say (or just email me).

Weirdosity++.

Weird Presents Anyone?

Weird Presents Anyone? 12/25/2003 04:20 PM

Weird sticker on my DSL modem

Weird sticker on my DSL modem 07/12/2004 07:15 PM
I just got my Yahoo! DSL self-install kit in the mail, and the modem has a red sticker on it that reads:

"ATTENTION To maximize connection speed, leave this modem on for 10 days after DSL installation is complete. Please Note: You can use your DSL service during this time. It is not necessary to leave your computer on, only the modem."

Why do I have to leave the modem on for 10 days? Is something inside it fermenting? Email me if you know.

Message from Weird Al Yankovic

Message from Weird Al Yankovic 04/14/2004 03:48 PM
Comedian/musician "Weird Al" Yankovic lost both his mother and father this weekend in an accident involving carbon monoxide poisoning. He's posted a message on his website expressing thanks to fans for their kindness and support in his time of need, and he corrects errors in media coverage on the tragedy. Condolences, and much admiration and respect to Al and his family. Link

Weird and wonderful - the year's top ten

Weird and wonderful - the year's top ten 01/06/2005 09:48 PM
Manchester Online Jan 7 2005 1:48AM GMT

Top Tip: W2K weird popups and blocks!

Top Tip: W2K weird popups and blocks! 02/17/2004 01:15 PM
I just reinstalled W2K and it all seems to be working just dandy, but I get about 100 of these pop ups per day saying 'WARNING: This message confirms your computer is vulnerable to attacks' and 'see www.MessageHackShield.com to fix this' or some site like that (there are several different ones as well as several different sized popups).

Weird 'net problem

Weird 'net problem 11/26/2002 07:26 PM
My Internet connection went down for a little while, and when it came back up, all outgoing SMTP and WWW...

Found, one weird buoy

Found, one weird buoy 01/05/2005 06:31 AM
David Pescovitz: This giant buoy washed ashore in Cocoa Beach, Florida and nobody has any clue where it came from or who it belongs to. From Florida Today:

"There's no identifying marks on it, so I don't know where it came from," said Jeff Galliher, petty officer with the U.S. Coast Guard at Port Canaveral. "It's just a buoy base with a tower coming out of it."

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six apart people have weird names

six apart people have weird names 08/18/2004 02:47 AM
makes me feel right at home

Weird Fields winners

Weird Fields winners 04/04/2005 01:18 PM
David Pescovitz: Undergrad Dan Yuan's image here was first runner-up in MIT's annual Weird Fields contest where students generate psychedelic visualizations of vector fields. (Last year's winner here.) The patterns in Yuan's visualization remind me of the background of a Tim Biskup painting.

To help students understand electromagnetic force fields, Professor of Physics John Belcher and colleagues at the MIT Center for Educational Computer Initiatives developed a computer applet into which students put the mathematical expressions that describe a given field. "It then pops out a visual representation of what the field looks like," he said.

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UPDATE: As the MIT press release and BB reader Tom Zeller point out, the Weird Fields visualizations bear a striking resemblance to sections of Gustav Klimt paintings. Link

Weird color problem

Weird color problem 01/05/2005 10:26 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: (Click thumbnail for enlargement.) Anyone know why the body copy shows in gold in IE on OS X? It seems fine on Safari and Firefox. Please email me if you know the answer. (Also, thanks to everyone for your great design suggestions. As you can see, I've incorporated quite a few of them.)
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