I'm all over the grid today, so will spend a paragraph on each thing that caught my eye recently...
The LHC is broken, and all testing delayed until April of next year while repairs are carried out. But in other big science news, SpaceX successfully launched their partially reusable rocket into orbit. They claim once in production, launches will cost 8.5 million a piece. Far better than NASA's 450 million for launching the Shuttle.
Today, the CRTC launched the National Do Not Call List. The website's at https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/, and while it has been very loaded all day, it promises to bring some much anticipated relief from telemarketing calls during supper. No, I don't want a preapproved Discover card! And no, I don't want to join Columbia House!
The market's kind've been in the suck the last few days. With the choice of falling stocks, or a 700 billion dollar bailout which causes inflation, which merely hides the falling stocks. This correction is long overdue, and unfortunately I think it has a ways to go before things get better.
Finally, Ryan Reynolds has managed to provoke the anger of nearly 3 billion men on the planet. The biggest mainstream media story in the last week is that he has taken Scarlett Johansson off the market. See, that's far more important than private investment in new technologies and the stock market, isn't it?
More Thursday....
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