From New York Times Economix blog. The change in home prices for the previous 12 months for 20 US cities from 2001-2008. I took the graph for each city and order them by the change in home prices from Oct 2007 - Oct 2008. The blue bars is each citys data while the gray is the 20-city average. {Click …

FROM SPLASH PAGE: Steven Spielbergs adaptation of the classic Tintin comics isnt having an easy time making it to the big screen. Production is only a month away, but the film lacks all but one cast member: Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock. But Aint It Cool News is reporting that the film finally has …

Looking at it, you'd think it would be hard to miss. But this rare pink iguana, referred to as "rosada," evaded Charles Darwin and many other biologists and explorers when they visited the Galapagos island. Read on for more....

The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. citizens have suddenly become quite thrifty. Usually, frugality is good for individuals and for the economy. Savings serve as a reservoir of capital that can be used to finance investment, which helps raise a nation's standard of living. But in a recessio …

Great info as always from Auto Blog:The U.S. auto industry hasn't experienced a worse year of sales in recent memory, so it's fitting that 2008 should close with December sales data that's no better than the previous disappointing months.The only green you'll see below is next to MINI, which beat ou …

A helpful report out from insurer Aon showing that things in California could be worse: We could get a significant quake along the San Andreas fault. As it turns out, the fault is pretty much a bus tour of the most foreclosure-struck counties in California. It wouldn't take much shaking, to Aon's wa …

Is the Chinese governments web-wide crackdown on pornography, announced today, just about stopping porn? Given larger socio-economic issues in the country, and the wide range of Chinese Internet companies singled out for severe punishment by the Chinese government leading search engine Baidu, forei …

After hilariously bumping Ann Coulter from Tuesday's show for Perez Hilton, NBC's Today asked the conservative simpleton on the next day, an olive branch she accepted with grace and wit. Hahahahahahaaa. No actually Coulter went on Fox's Hannity & Colmes tonight and, reports TV Newswer, said the …

Change.gov, the website where President-Elect Barack Obamas transition team can interact with constituents, just unveiled a neat tool using startup technology through Blist, the simple database for non-experts, the team is sharing its giant list of donors. The transition team was already publishing …

Jerry Beck of Cartoon Brew says: I received several old issues of Cracked magazine over the holidays and noticed this article predicting life in the 21st Century had become surprisingly accurate. "Today's Swinger is Tomorrow's Square," illustrated by John Severin, appeared in the 1974 annual Super …

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ESPN launched its new site design today and all I can say is wow. And its not a good wow, its an awful wow. I cannot separate those advertisements from the content and so I will never visit this site again. Its sad too, because ESPN does have great content when it comes to sports. In fact, I dont th …

It  once might have raised hackles for the Times to carry a display ad on the front page. Now the only scandal is that the paper waited so long. Today the paper carries a front-page ad for CBS. Well, sure. It's hard to be shocked by that after the paper's first mass layoffs, a junk rating …

AnnaLynne McCord of 90210 took her death navel to South Beach this weekend with her boyfriend Twilight star Kellan Lutz. Granted, AnnaLynne is in a bikini, but is she really a celebrity? Or am I just playing God asking that question? I don't like to play God. Except that one time I turned my cat int …

Steve Gillmor has been on a campaign to get Feedburner to wake up and make his Feedburner feed more responsive. I support him in this. Now that Feedburner is pwned by Google, there's something kind of sneaky about a big company that prides itself on keeping its servers up and responsive all the time …

Barack Obama's pick as Commerce Secretary, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, has withdrawn his name after a new political scandal erupted in his home state. CDR Financial Products, a firm which advises states and counties on issuing bonds, won a contract from a New Mexico state board controlled b …

John Travolta and his wife, actress Kelly Preston, released a statement on Preston's official website on Sunday. It is the couple's first public words since the tragic and sudden death of their 16-year-old son, Jett, on Friday. They say: We would like to extend our deepest and most heartfelt thanks …

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