126,000 views? But then, it’s apparently been kicking around since the end of June. How did I miss this?
Update: I didn’t. Now I remember seeing it ages ago. It must have been when I was having trouble posting, otherwise I’d have grabbed it. But opening weekend is as good a time as any to put it out there, eh?
by Ben Heine, via Cold Desert
Does Google know their shit or what? These guys have demographics down to a scary science.
Here is their engineer-enticing display from a recent Star Trek convention.
Google duplicated the bridge of the fictional Starship Enterprise and embarked on a mission in Las Vegas to recruit engineers, at a gathering of cultish Star Trek devotees.
More than 10,000 fans of the Star Trek franchise that began with a television series debut in September of 1966 were expected by organisers to make pilgrimages to the official annual convention at the Las Vegas Hilton.
Oh yeah, this probably marks the only opportunity these guys will ever have to get inside a Hilton.
In fairness, not just for Haliburton and Osama bin Laden, who was discovered to have shorted airline stocks just before 9/11, making himself an estimated $3,000,000.
From Reuters, via Fark.
JERUSALEM, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Israel’s armed forces chief came under political fire on Tuesday after a newspaper reported he sold off a stock portfolio just hours after Hizbollah abducted two Israeli soldiers in a raid that triggered a month-long war.
Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz, acknowledging the sale in comments to reporters, denied any impropriety.
The Maariv daily said Halutz went to his bank branch and sold shares worth 120,000 shekels
($27,460) three hours after the soldiers were seized by the Lebanese guerrilla group on July 12.
Key share indexes in Israel fell around 12 percent at the outset of fighting between Israeli forces and Hizbollah after the abduction. Share prices gradually recovered and now stand slightly below pre-war levels.
“It was my portfolio of shares, on which I had lost 25,000 shekels,” Maariv quoted Halutz as saying.
“It is true that I sold the portfolio on July 12 but it is impossible to link that to the war. At the time, I did not expect or think there would be a war,” he said, according to Maariv.
A day after the abduction, Israeli aircraft carried out a major attack in Lebanon, bombing runways at Beirut airport.
Well again, in fairness how was he to know that Israel would attack Lebanon? He was only the commander in charge of the armed forces and you can ask any enlisted man how clueless the officers are.
BoingBoing‘s caught on, and featured some of the YouTube videos yesterday. Unfortunately, someone’s suggested they check out his blog. It’s a good blog, don’t get me wrong. But it hasn’t been updated since April 25th, which a quick glance would show. It’s still on my blogroll, but my trigger finger’s getting itchy.
This ep is a wee bit inside; it is quite possible there are Canadians who don’t know there is no cod fishery in Saskatchewan. Yep, it’s true; the Saskatchewan cod has been gone for some time.
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