UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture visual activity in human brains and reconstruct it as digital video clips. Eventually, this process will allow you to record and reconstruct your own dreams on a computer screen.
Faster than light particles found, claim scientists | Science | The Guardian
Scientists at the Gran Sasso facility will unveil evidence on Friday that raises the troubling possibility of a way to send information back in time, blurring the line between past and present and wreaking havoc with the fundamental principle of cause and effect.
Microsoft Anti-Malware Tool Mistakenly Snuffs Google Chrome | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
Microsoft’s Security Essentials anti-malware tool has mistakenly identified Google Chrome as a password-pilfering trojan — and actually removed the browser from many users’ machines — but a fix for this rather amusing false positive is now available.
My wife and I have an inside joke for unwanted assistance. We say ‘Stop helping like Microsoft’ – Ed.
California and Bust | Business | Vanity Fair
The problem with police officers and firefighters isn’t a public-sector problem; it isn’t a problem with government; it’s a problem with the entire society. It’s what happened on Wall Street in the run-up to the subprime crisis. It’s a problem of people taking what they can, just because they can, without regard to the larger social consequences.
Weekly Economic Update | LAEDC
THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES:
- Leading Economic Indicator Report for August
- California Home Sales & Prices in August
- California New Home Construction Up in August
- Nonresidential Construction Up 13.6% in August
- The U.S. Current Account Deficit Decreased Slightly in Q2
- Travel & Tourism Spending On the Rise
- Events of Interest
- September 29, 2011: Los Angeles NABE Luncheon with Dr. Marcy Zwelling, Economist and Healthcare Professional
- SAVE THE DATE! November 3, 2011: The 16th Annual Eddy Awards®
- November 10, 2011: 23rd Annual Southern California Visitor Industry Outlook Conference
Pork chopped: Rick Perry takes heat for barbecue blast | latimes.com
“Holy Smoke” co-author John Shelton Reed, a retired University of North Carolina sociology professor, said Monday that people in his state do not mess around with this form of cooking. “Barbecue,” he said, “is the third rail of North Carolina politics.”
Don’t laugh.
Euro Tarp – Why It Will Be A Screaming Failure | ZeroHedge
9x times a problem doesn’t make the problem smaller does it? What could possibly go wrong?
GEEK ALERT: Some technical stuff. Really scary technical stuff. -Ed
The SBA Doesn’t Loan Money | Lydia Mehit
Q. Should I get a loan from the SBA?
A. You can’t get a loan from the SBA, but you can get a SBA loan guarantee. Come again?
Well, first off, the SBA does not loan money, so you can’t get a loan from the SBA.
The SBA guarantees a large portion of the loan made by the bank. This means you have to negotiate two sets of paperwork and get two approvals before you get funded.
Q. What is the benefit of a SBA loan guarantee?
A. An SBA guarantee gives the bank the opportunity to fund a loan that doesn’t meet their commercial requirements. The SBA guarantees the bank will receive their funds even if the borrower, you, defaults on the loan. The guarantees range from 50 to 90% of the loan amount.
‘Governments Don’t Rule The World, Goldman Sachs Rules The World’ | BBC
“This is not a time right now for wishful thinking that governments are going to sort things out,” Rastani said on an interview with BBC on Monday morning. “The governments don’t rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world.”
At first blush I thought, ‘At long last, the truth’ but it turns out that the BBC was likely punked. -sigh- -Ed.
Federal Reserve Seeks Real-Time Monitoring of Social Networks, Bloggers, Forums, and “Influencers”
…the Fed will be able to specifically target information being put out by news web sites and even individual users (in forums or comments) and then respond to that information in kind by either contacting “key bloggers” and “influencers,” or simply ramping up their public relations machine to either discredit the message…
