Monkey see, monkey who?
- After injecting billions into the banking system in the last few weeks, the Federal Reserve Bank cut the discount rate by half a point, driving the stock market up.
- What does that mean, "injecting billions"? The good folks at Slate explain.
- Wal-Mart and Home Depot (The economy's "mine canaries" if you will) report disappointing second-quarter earnings and a rough year ahead. Everybody out!
- Speaking of mines: It's getting worse at the site of the Utah mine collapse. Three rescue workers have been killed trying to find the six workers buried underground.
- Maybe those German scientists didn't break the speed of light after all.
- How I learned to stop worrying and love my girlfriend's dildo.
- Tea Leone spills the beans on 10 things men don't know about women in Esquire Magazine. #9 is the best: "Supersecret: Unless we're blind or have no night-light in the bathroom, the whole toilet-seat thing is exaggerated and meant to control you." I knew it!!!
- And, finally, these guys aren't just monkeying around: The battle to be the world's best Donkey Kong player has been made into a feature-length documentary film.
Have a good weekend everyone.
This article appears in Aug 15-21, 2007.
