Archive for August, 2007

Is Fidel Castro Dead?


Now this has come up a couple of times in the last year, but this is one of those weird sort of web stories I love too much. Seems this weekend noted celeb blogger Perez Hilton was postin that Fidel Castro was dead. Apparently rumors around the Miami area has the leader passing [...]

Naked on a Glacier


Harold is a little split on this story today folks.  On one hand, global warming is certain something that almost everyone is concerned about, yet at the same time, Harold knows that even the scientists don’t really understand completely the natural warming and cooling cycles of the earth.
Photographer Spencer Tunick is well known for taking [...]

E85 fuel and asian demand blows milk prices out


One of the things that you learn in buisness school is that sometimes your great idea will have unintended consequences.   Last year, the US mandated that a certain additive in gasoline was to be replaced with ethanol.  Ethanol is made with corn in the US.   The theory was that corn was produced locally [...]

Bourne scores big


Matt Damon has proved that once again a good movie franchise can deliver the goods.  A 24 plus million dollar opening day makes this likely the highest grossing of the three movies in the series.   Almost 46% of the movie going public chose this movie on opening night, which is really huge.
I think that [...]