Here's a pretty smart idea, via Microcaps Speculator:  Search over 100 of the top financial blogs at once, without any of the spam blogs (splogs) that clog results on typical blog search engines.

http://microcapspeculator.googlepages.com/home

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Since April Fool's Day is only 2 days from now,  we present what is simply one of the most embarrassing things ever to have an affiliation with the Beatles: "Day in the Decade" Beatles tribute segment from 1977 Rolling Stone Anniversary.

Bleccch!

The author of it writes: 

Beatles tribute from hell! From the Rolling Stone Magazine 10th Anniversary TV special in 1977, found by me on an unlabled Beta tape at a flea market. Featuring Ted Neeley (the guy who played Jesus in "Jesus Christ Superstar"), Patti Labelle, Yvonne Elliman and several others. I'm sure most of them would prefer this never be seen again.

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My own policies are clearly stated here, but I like the description of how to get your comments banned over at boingboing:

Q. What's likely to land me in your bad graces?
A. Since you've asked, here's a nowhere-near-exhaustive list:

1. Spamming. Linkwhoring. Re-posting text you've already posted on a dozen other sites.

2. Making supercilious and unpleasant remarks in a civil liberties thread about how the victim had it coming. This is not to say that victims never have it coming; but there's a species of internet demi-troll that appears to specialize in posting such comments. Try not to look like you're one of them.

3. Making snide comments and insinuations about the editors. That's right out. You don't like one of the editors? Take it up with them in e-mail. If you're going to comment on an entry, talk about the entry.

4. Being nasty to no purpose. (This is the catch-all.)

5. Using unnecessarily exciting language. Making an argument is fine. Making your argument in language guaranteed to make your hearers see red? Bad idea. It practically guarantees that you're going to have a dumb (and therefore boring) argument. And if the argument's not going to be interesting, we don't see the point.

6. Jeering, sneering, condescending, or one-upping when there's been no provocation. Telling people they're naive idiots for caring about whatever-it-is. Like the "I'm bored" pose, it's empty attitudinizing, and it's remarkably unpleasant.

7. Failing to notice that there are other people in the conversation. Posting a remark that's already been made five times and answered six. Coming back and re-posting essentially the same material after a twenty-message thread has discussed your previous comment. Trying to forcibly wrench the conversation onto one of your own pet topics. Posting a stale, canned rant you've posted a dozen times before at other sites. Not coming back to see how others have responded to you.

Why post comments at all, unless you expect to be read? And if you expect to be read, you must know you're part of a conversation. Therefore, you should act like it. Engage with what the other commenters are saying. Read the thread before you add to it.

8. Posting a snotty but otherwise worthless anonymous comment. It's a lot easier to get away with snotty comments if you're a registered user.

9. Dragging in one of those topics that's guaranteed to generate a huge thrash that goes nowhere, like gun control, abortion, or Mac vs. PC vs. Linux. You're only allowed to discuss those if (a.) they're relevant to the entry; and (b.) everyone in the discussion is doing their level best to say something new.

10. This list will undoubtedly get longer.

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Totally addictive:

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via boingboing

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I was recently given a Davek Duet Umbrella as a gift. These are the Rolls Royces of umbrellas, and if you ever need to give a rather lavish corporate gift, they for you.

The frame is "Carbon WindFlex" -- made of a flexible carbon polymer ligaments to prevent breakage or rib distortion in strong winds. Handles are finely stitched, with a black and silver zinc alloy material and polished silver clip.

The umbrellas are extremely well made, very strong, and made with what appears to be high-end materials. They come with an unconditional lifetime replacement guarantee.  Break it, you get a new one. Lose it, and the company allows you to replace it at half price.

The Davek Solo model, with a 43 inch canopy, currently retails for $99. The Davek Duet, with a golf-sized 55 inch canopy, retails for $149. They are carried at high end luxe stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale’s, and Takashimaya.

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Swedish graduate student Emil Ernerfeldt created the program Phun, a 2D physics playground, and has made it free to download for non-commercial use. He demonstrates it in a zenful YouTube video, where he creates devices like cars and piston engines in seconds using simple shapes.

Cool!

via boing boing

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Shown on the same scale as the Earth

All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc. and all the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density.

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A terrible loss, and and even greater waste:

Via Yahoo

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When The Beatles first set out to make “Let It Be” in 1969, they intended a recording that would be a return to a live performance of just the bare necessities of the band, no studio effects or overdubbing of voices or instruments would be allowed. However, caught in the turmoil of the break-up of the band, the album was re-produced by Phil Spector and never released as The Beatles had originally meant it to sound.

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http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid452319854/bctid1465378537

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via Washington Post

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The Daily Show on Bear Stearns:

Stephan Colbert on the Economy:

Aasif Mandvi reports on the Bear Stearns bailout while experiencing gravitational altitude correction:

I talked to guy about 300 feet ago . . .

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Cover of NY Magazine this week is too too funny:

http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/45107/

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Via my pal Kevin DePew, comes this amusing photoshop work:

click to bid!

via Minyanville

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Dry humor at its finest:

FCC Okays Nudity On TV If It’s Alyson Hannigan

OnionNN vis SlateV

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Dude, that's cold:

Source:
Bear fire sale sparks rout
Jack Reerink      
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080317/bs_nm/bearstearns_fed_dc_27

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Another fine flick, The Beatles- Help! The Movie, courtesy of Google Video:

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The Recording Industry Association of America's Top-Selling Albums of All Time*

28 Million
·  Eagles Their Greatest Hits 19711975, Eagles (Elektra)

26 Million
·  Thriller, Michael Jackson (Epic)

23 Million
·  The Wall, Pink Floyd (Columbia)

22 Million
·  Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin (Swan Song)

21 Million
·  Greatest Hits Volumes I & II, Billy Joel (Columbia)

19 Million
·  Rumours, Fleetwood Mac (Warner Bros.)
·  Back in Black, AC/DC (Elektra)
·  The Beatles, The Beatles (Capitol)
·  Come On Over,  Shania Twain (Mercury Nashville)

17 Million
·  Boston, Boston (Epic)
·  The Bodyguard (Soundtrack), Whitney Houston (Arista)

16 Million
·  Cracked Rear View, Hootie & the Blowfish (Atlantic)
·  Greatest Hits, Elton John (Rocket)
·  Hotel California, Eagles (Elektra)
·  The Beatles 1967-1970, The Beatles (Capitol)
·  No Fences, Garth Brooks (Capitol Nashville)
·  Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette (Maverick)

15 Million
·  Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen (Columbia)
·  Physical Graffiti,  Led Zeppelin (Swan Song)
·  Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd (Capitol)
·  Saturday Night Fever (Soundtrack), Bee Gees (Polydor/Atlas)
·  The Beatles 1962-1966,  The Beatles (Capitol)
·  Appetite for Destruction, Guns 'N Roses (Geffen)
·  Double Live, Garth Brooks (Capitol Nashville)

14 Million
·  Supernatural, Santana (Arista)
·  Backstreet Boys, Backstreet Boys (Jive)
·  Ropin' the Wind, Garth Brooks (Capitol Nashville)
·  Bat Out of Hell, Meat Loaf (Epic)

13 Million
·  Purple Rain (Soundtrack), Prince and the Revolution (Warner Bros.)
·  Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston (Arista)
·  Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live 19751985 (box set), Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band (Columbia)
·  Greatest Hits 1974-1978, Steve Miller Band (Capitol)
·  Millennium, Backstreet Boys (Jive)
·  Baby One More Time, Britney Spears (Jive)
·  Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits, Simon & Garfunkel (Columbia)
·  Metallica, Metallica (Elektra)

12 Million
·  Wide Open Spaces, Dixie Chicks (Monument)
·  Yourself or Someone Like You, Matchbox Twenty (Atlantic)
·  No Jacket Required, Phil Collins (Atlantic)
·  Hysteria, Def Leppard (Mercury)
·  Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi (Mercury)
·  II, Boyz II Men (Motown)
·  Abbey Road, The Beatles (Capitol)
·  Ten, Pearl Jam (Epic)
·  Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin (Atlantic)
·  Breathless, Kenny G (Arista)
·  Forrest Gump (Soundtrack) (Epic)
·  Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits, Kenny Rogers (Capitol Nashville)
·  Hot Rocks, The Rolling Stones (abkco)
·  The Woman in Me, Shania Twain (Mercury Nashville)

11 Million
·  James Taylor's Greatest Hits, James Taylor (Warner Bros.)
·  CrazySexyCool, TLC (LaFace)
·  Falling into You, Celine Dion (550 Music)
·  Dirty Dancing (Soundtrack) (RCA)
·  Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin (Atlantic)
·  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (Capitol)
·  Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. II, Eagles (Elektra)
·  Pieces of You, Jewel (Atlantic)
·  Titanic (Soundtrack) (Sony Classical)
·  Candle in the Wind 1997/Something About the Way You Look Tonight (Single), Elton John (Rocket)
·  Devil Without a Cause, Kid Rock (Lava)
·  No Strings Attached, 'N Sync (Jive)

10 Million
·  Fly, Dixie Chicks (Monument)
·  Human Clay, Creed (Wind-Up Records)
·  'N Sync, 'N Sync (RCA)
·  Let's Talk About Love, Celine Dion (550 Music/Epic)
·  Tragic Kingdom, No Doubt (Trauma/Interscope)
·  Life After Death, Notorious B.I.G. (Bad Boy/Arista)
·  Best of the Doobies, Doobie Brothers (Warner Bros.)
·  Dookie, Green Day (Reprise)
·  The Stranger, Billy Joel (Columbia)
·  Aerosmith's Greatest Hits, Aerosmith (Columbia)
·  The Hits, Garth Brooks (Capitol Nashville)
·  Music Box, Mariah Carey (Columbia)
·  Unplugged, Eric Clapton (Reprise)
·  Tapestry, Carole King (Ode)
·  Greatest Hits, Journey  (Capitol)
·  Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin (Atlantic)
·  The Immaculate Collection, Madonna (Warner Bros.)
·  Like a Virgin, Madonna (Sire)
·  Legend, Bob Marley & the Wailers (Island)
·  Faith, George Michael (Columbia)
·  Greatest Hits, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (MCA)
·  Nevermind, Nirvana (DGC)
·  The Lion King (Soundtrack) (Walt Disney)
·  Can't Slow Down, Lionel Richie (Motown)
·  Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, Hammer (Capitol)
·  Daydream, Mariah Carey (Columbia)
·  Van Halen, Van Halen (Warner Bros.)
·  Eliminator, ZZ Top (Warner Bros.)
·  The Joshua Tree, U2 (Island)
·  1984 (MCMLXXXIV), Van Halen (Warner Bros.)

*Through 6/25/2004.

Sources:
Infoplease.com (a hell of pop up ads like no other)
http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0151020.html

See also:
Must-Have Recordings
http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0150519.html

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Via Indexed comes this terribly funny card:

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Freaky, frozen pickle juice:  Pickle Sickle, a/k/a Bob’s Pickle Pops

via NYT

A box of 16 is $17.95 and one of 32 is $27.95 from picklesickle.com.

http://picklesickle.com/order.htm

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Saying that Hillary has Executive Branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle. 
-- JSN

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via Kiko's House

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From one of the comments on our sister blog:

Get ready for Monica-Bill redux
The Media gorging, raking mucks
Oozing glee from all their ducts
Republicans full of tuts and clucks
Leno and Letterman will use it for yucks
Tabloids making beaucoup bucks
As pundits narrate the jives and shucks
Of another Democratic Boy Wonder Deluxe
Who squandered the world for a few cheap...dates.

Good stuff, Jmay!

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Hilarious:

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hat tip: There's this picture I'd like to show you... 

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Can 1/20/09 please hurry up and arrive?

President Bush quietly has claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans' mail without a judge's warrant.

Bush asserted the new authority Dec. 20 after signing legislation that overhauls some postal regulations. He then issued a "signing statement" that declared his right to open mail under emergency conditions, contrary to existing law and contradicting the bill he had just signed, according to experts who have reviewed it.

A White House spokeswoman disputed claims that the move gives Bush any new powers, saying the Constitution allows such searches.

Still, the move, one year after The New York Times' disclosure of a secret program that allowed warrantless monitoring of Americans' phone calls and e-mail, caught Capitol Hill by surprise.

"Despite the president's statement that he may be able to circumvent a basic privacy protection, the new postal law continues to prohibit the government from snooping into people's mail without a warrant," said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the incoming House Government Reform Committee chairman, who co-sponsored the bill.

Experts said the new powers could be easily abused and used to vacuum up large amounts of mail.

"The [Bush] signing statement claims authority to open domestic mail without a warrant, and that would be new and quite alarming," said Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies in Washington.

"You have to be concerned," a senior U.S. official agreed. "It takes executive-branch authority beyond anything we've ever known."

A top Senate Intelligence Committee aide promised a review of Bush's move.

"It's something we're going to look into," the aide said.

Source:
Bush says Feds can open mail without warrant
James Gordon Meek
New York Daily News, Thursday, January 4, 2007 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003508676_mail04.html

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The Beatles first appearance in America, in the Ed Sullivan Show, February 9, 1964.
(10 minutes, 34 seconds)

Performance:
All My Loving
Til There Was You
She Loves You
I Want to Hold Your Hand

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via limpfish:

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I didn't even know there was a video for this: One of Zep's best songs:

Led Zeppelin, in "Over the hills and far away", TV Special. 

Simply awful production values, running concert footage of some song (probably not this one) over the studio version of the tune.

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How wicked cool is this:

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One of the funniest movies ever made . . .

"Pike's Pale, The Ale That Won for Yale."

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Think this guy is at all ta-ta obsessed? :

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Amazingly similar “Experience” between Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln. Look at the following questions, and try to guess which is which:   

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Question:  Name the Presidential candidate:

1)  a lawyer;
2)  an Illinois state legislator;
3)  lost an election  to represent Illinois in the U.S. Congress;
4)  spent only two years in the U.S. Congress before running for President;
5)  risked political damage in opposing a war in which the U.S. invaded a foreign country;
6)  delivered a famous speech on national unity as a candidate to represent Illinois in U.S. Senate, elevating his political career to the national level and paving the way for  a Presidential run;
7)  sought his Party’s Presidential nomination by challenging the establishment candidate, a Senator from New York, also a lawyer, who was widely expected to easily secure the nomination;
8)  was viewed by Party delegates as a talented speaker able to attract moderates and newer voters;
9)  viewed by some in his Party as a better candidate more likely to secure critical states in the  general election as his rivals, especially those with  “experience” had accumulated  more political enemies;
10)  the opposition party was fractured and in complete disarray;
11)  March 4th is a very significant date in his political career;

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Answer:  Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln

1) Obama attended Harvard Law.  Lincoln was self taught and practiced law becoming one of Illinois’ most respected litigators.
2) Obama served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.  Lincoln served  four successive terms in the Illinois House of Representatives;
3) Obama lost his 2000 Democratic primary bid to unseat four-term Congressman Bobby Rush.  Lincoln lost the 1858 Illinois Senate race to Stephen Douglas.
4) Obama was seated in the U.S. Senate in 2005 and announced his candidacy for POTUS in 2007.  Lincoln served one term in the 30th Congress form 1847-49;
5) Obama strongly opposed the Iraq War during his campaign for U.S. Senate. Congressman Lincoln opposed the Mexican-American War, which made him very unpopular at home. He demanded from President Polk, “Show me the spot!” – the exact spot where American blood was first shed. The justification of war was that Mexico attacked and killed Americans inside U.S. territory. Lincoln believed the attack took place on Mexican soil. This earned him the nickname “Spotty Lincoln”;
6) Then candidate for the Senate Obama delivered his famous speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, which catapulted his national political career. Lincoln gave his “House Divided Speech” in June 1858 upon accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate. This speech  is considered one of his best;
7) Against long odds, Obama challenged Senator Hillary Clinton, a lawyer, from New York and is now the likely nomination. Lincoln challenged Senator William Seward from New York for the Republican Party nomination. Seward, also a lawyer, was widely considered the favorite with his vast governmental “experience” first as Governor and then Senator from New York. Seward became Lincoln's Secretary of State.
8) Obama is widely recognized for his orator skills and his ability to attract moderate independents and even some Republicans. Party leaders viewed Lincoln as a talented speaker and more moderate than his rivals, William Seward and Samuel Chase.
9) Obama is viewed more likely to win the “Red states” than his rival. Lincoln’s Western origins made him more attractive to the critical Western States – California and Oregon. His more limited “experience” resulted in fewer political enemies and thus a smoother path to winning the General.
10)  The Republican Party is currently fractured and in disarray. Conservatives are unhappy with John McCain. The opposition in Lincoln’s day was fractured by the North/South divide.  The Democrats held two conventions – one in Baltimore and one Richmond -- and nominated two candidates.  The Northern Democrats chose Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge was the candidate of the Southern Democrats.   Breckenridge carried the South and won 72 electoral votes and Douglas secured only two states, Missouri and New Jersey, totally 12 electoral votes. Lincoln won 180 electoral votes;
11) March 4th proves to be a pivotal day for Obama in which he can secure the Democratic nomination.  On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as the 16th President of the United States.

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Source:  Gary Evans

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The full movie, in its entirety via Google.video:

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Befitting a tropical people in a cosmopolitan city, Manny Vega's work draws on various traditions:

With nothing more than a pair of pliers, thick fingers and boundless patience, he transforms thousands of stubby tiles of stone and glass into glimmering mosaic portraits of poets, drummers, mothers and sons. By the end of the workday, he has to plunge his numb, dust-covered hands into hot water to revive them.

courtesy of NYT

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Source:
In Mosaics, an Artist’s Lasting Impression
DAVID GONZALEZ
NYT February 25, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/nyregion/25citywide.html

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