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A few people have asked me what happened to the daily links posts. When I switched the site's layout I decided to stop having those posts generated automatically. If you visit the site (as opposed to subscribing via email or RSS) you should see (if you have javascript enabled) the links on the main page between the first & second posts. If you're an RSS or email user you can subscribe to the links via one of the following feeds:

• Stocks & Trading Links Only -
• Stocks & Trading Links plus a general interest link every now & then -
• All my links (everything I save to my del.icio.us account -- mainly stocks & technology links) -

• Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis - New York Times
  'What we are witnessing,' says Bill Gross of the bond manager Pimco, 'is essentially the breakdown of our modern-day banking system, a complex of leveraged lending so hard to understand that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke required a face-to-face
  (tags: finance stocks banking credit)
• Subprime Debacle Traps Even Very Credit-Worthy - WSJ.com
  One common assumption about the subprime mortgage crisis is that it revolves around borrowers with sketchy credit who couldn't have bought a home without paying punitively high interest rates. But it turns out that plenty of people with seemingly good cre
  (tags: credit housing realestate subprime stocks mortgage)
• Use ETFs to hedge your bets - MSN Money
  It's possible to buy exchange-traded funds for downside protection, cushioning the blow when your stocks drop. Here's how to build a hedge of your own.
  (tags: etfs stocks investing)
• The dollar's perfect storm worsens - MSN Money
  Europe's inflation is likely to prompt its central bank to raise interest rates -- five days before the Fed is expected to lower them here. That's bad news for the buck.
  (tags: trading currencies interestrates dollar)

• Goldman Sachs: Sell Tech Selectively
  GS is incrementally more cautious on tech fundamentals given the current macroeconomic backdrop.
  (tags: stocks)
• Official Google Enterprise Blog: The past, present and future of email with Google Apps
  some nice new features from GMail. with IMAP, their great spam filtering and this migration tool it's finally time for me to route all my email through GOOG
  (tags: gmail migration email apps todo google for_TM)
• Amazon Can Empty Bookstore Shelves
  The Kindle might just be the iPod of digital reading, according to one author, who predicts the device will improve the publishing landscape for all except retailers (disclosure: I'm long AMZN)
  (tags: amazon books kindle stocks)
• The Virtues of Virtualization
  S&P says spending on virtualization software and services is likely to skyrocket, with VMWare (I'm still long VMW), Citrix, and Dell's EqualLogic leading the race
  (tags: stocks software vmware)
• Banking: This Disaster Was Guaranteed
  Money-back assurances on subprime-linked securities are costing some leading banks billions
  (tags: stocks banking finance)
• Speed up your web pages with YSlow
  YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
  (tags: webdev firebug performance firefox todo tips optimization development analytics deployment scaling tuning tools extension)
• Top 100 best open source mac software — ajaxflakes.com
  Here are some of the most easy to use and useful open source mac tools and gears round the block. See everything from messenger, email clients, writing , listening to music, browsing or even running windows Software on am mac if you like.
  (tags: mac software opensource freeware toread utilities apple)
• TOP 100+ best Free Opensource Software for windows XP and Vista — ajaxflakes.com
  (tags: opensource Software windows free freeware utilities tools toread)
• Analysis of Web 2.0 Design & Layout Trends
  Part 1: Clean, Colorful and Horizontally Divided
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design inspiration layout css web reference gallery HTML toread)
• Top 10 Web 2.0 Designs - Cameron Olthuis
  10 sites that I feel are the best combination of both good design and usability.
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design web inspiration usability reference css interface)
• 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design
  (tags: Web2.0 CSS webdesign generator tools resources Ajax design HTML)

• How to Import Audio CD audiobooks into iTunes « Aldo on Audiobooks
  A great source for free audiobooks is the public library, where they are often available on CD. And there are other ways to borrow audiobooks on CD, such as Kitabe.com and SimplyAudiobooks.com, services that are similar to Netflix, but for audiobooks.
  (tags: itunes Audiobooks howto tutorial podcast tips reference CDs ipod mp3)

• F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts| Book
  looks like a fun read
  (tags: stocks business Internet)
• Wallstrip Chat: Charles Best of DonorsChoose
  Lindsay sits down with Charles Best to discuss Web 2.0 philanthropy, just in time for the holidays.
  (tags: for_TM DonorsChoose)

• 10 Blogs that will make you a better trader : Trainee Trader
  (tags: blogs Trading stocks)
• How Leverage Affects The Individual Trader : InVivo Analytics
  (tags: trading investing money_management finance)
• TraderFeed: Seven (Questionable) Things I Hear From Traders
  If you’re not taking a logical approach to trading success, perhaps your motivations for trading are psycho-logical. That, as the saying goes, is an expensive way to learn hard lessons about yourself.
  (tags: trading)
• Consider Risk First, Then Reward | TheStockBandit.net
  (tags: trading investing risk)
• Download SnagIt for Free - Full Licensed Version
  Great! NOW they give it away for free. (via StockTickr)
  (tags: software freeware snagit free screencapture tools utilities images for_TM)
• Big rally doesn't mean all is well - MSN Money
  Investors have jumped at shadows before and lost out on profits. But not all shadows are cast by imaginary monsters. Earnings reports will get worse soon, so don't get too excited by this week's rally.
  (tags: stocks)
• 14,196 Homes Offered For Sale on Countrywide Financial's Website
  the trend continues higher!
  (tags: stocks housing realestate mortgage credit)

• TraderFeed: A Schematic for Rule-Governed Trading
  Suppose you’re establishing a long position in a stock market index because you think the market is strong and will move higher. Let’s unpack the meaning and implications of your position:
  (tags: trading investing)
• Neogen Corp. (NEOG) | Wallstrip
  Neogen Corp. (NEOG) helps animals, and does it well, regardless of whether or not you’re going to eat the animals…
  (tags: stocks)
• Sexy Time Zones in Ruby on Rails with Timezone_Fu « Hack’d - Great Stuff for Web Hackers
  Working with Timezones in Rails even after you have installed the TZInfo plugin is still a pain in the you know what. (You are using TZInfo, right?)
  (tags: rubyonrails tzinfo plugin timezone time activerecord)
• Add "Google Finance" tab to your iGoogle homepage
  Personalize your iGoogle home page with news, games, gadgets, and your favorite content from around the web.
  (tags: google Finance stocks)

• Getting rich off the subprime mess - MSN Money
  A hedge fund manager has made hundreds of millions for his investors by betting against the mortgage industry. He can't understand 'why more people didn't figure this out.'
  (tags: trading finance hedgefunds credit mortgage)
• 11-27-07 Fair Isaac Corporation (FIC) | Wallstrip
  When factoring Lindsay’s credit score, let’s hope FIC takes video blog stardom into account.
  (tags: stocks)
• 11-26-07 Nike Inc. (NKE) | Wallstrip
  Sometimes, all a team needs is some new kicks.
  (tags: stocks nike)
• Interview with Adrienne Toghraie, Trading on Target
  Adrienne Toghraie is a well known trading coach and founder of Trading on Target.
  (tags: stocks interview)

• Don't Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking
  every site owner and/or blogger needs to memorize this!
  (tags: usability webdesign html Links design blogging tutorial urls for_TM)

• BW Online | May 21, 2001 | Commentary: Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work
  Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!
  (tags: apple business stocks predictions)
• Money As Debt
  Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it ... all » is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out.
  (tags: Money Economics finance documentary towatch credit)
• Why Greenspan blames Russia for the housing bubble - Money Week
  This appears to be Greenspan’s new MO. He’s been traveling all over the country promoting his book, criticizing his successor, and pointing the finger at everyone but himself.
  (tags: finance money for_TM)
• Five Computers are All You Need
  Could there really be only five computer "clouds" you need to do everything you want? The answer is yes, and Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com, Akamai and one of Sun Microsystems or VMWare is all you need.
  (tags: stocks technology computer Internet)

A few people have asked me what happened to the daily links posts. When I switched the site's layout I decided to stop having those posts generated automatically. If you visit the site (as opposed to subscribing via email or RSS) you should see (if you have javascript enabled) the links on the main page between the first & second posts. If you're an RSS or email user you can subscribe to the links via one of the following feeds:

• Stocks & Trading Links Only -
• Stocks & Trading Links plus a general interest link every now & then -
• All my links (everything I save to my del.icio.us account -- mainly stocks & technology links) -

• Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis - New York Times
  'What we are witnessing,' says Bill Gross of the bond manager Pimco, 'is essentially the breakdown of our modern-day banking system, a complex of leveraged lending so hard to understand that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke required a face-to-face
  (tags: finance stocks banking credit)
• Subprime Debacle Traps Even Very Credit-Worthy - WSJ.com
  One common assumption about the subprime mortgage crisis is that it revolves around borrowers with sketchy credit who couldn't have bought a home without paying punitively high interest rates. But it turns out that plenty of people with seemingly good cre
  (tags: credit housing realestate subprime stocks mortgage)
• Use ETFs to hedge your bets - MSN Money
  It's possible to buy exchange-traded funds for downside protection, cushioning the blow when your stocks drop. Here's how to build a hedge of your own.
  (tags: etfs stocks investing)
• The dollar's perfect storm worsens - MSN Money
  Europe's inflation is likely to prompt its central bank to raise interest rates -- five days before the Fed is expected to lower them here. That's bad news for the buck.
  (tags: trading currencies interestrates dollar)

• Goldman Sachs: Sell Tech Selectively
  GS is incrementally more cautious on tech fundamentals given the current macroeconomic backdrop.
  (tags: stocks)
• Official Google Enterprise Blog: The past, present and future of email with Google Apps
  some nice new features from GMail. with IMAP, their great spam filtering and this migration tool it's finally time for me to route all my email through GOOG
  (tags: gmail migration email apps todo google for_TM)
• Amazon Can Empty Bookstore Shelves
  The Kindle might just be the iPod of digital reading, according to one author, who predicts the device will improve the publishing landscape for all except retailers (disclosure: I'm long AMZN)
  (tags: amazon books kindle stocks)
• The Virtues of Virtualization
  S&P says spending on virtualization software and services is likely to skyrocket, with VMWare (I'm still long VMW), Citrix, and Dell's EqualLogic leading the race
  (tags: stocks software vmware)
• Banking: This Disaster Was Guaranteed
  Money-back assurances on subprime-linked securities are costing some leading banks billions
  (tags: stocks banking finance)
• Speed up your web pages with YSlow
  YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
  (tags: webdev firebug performance firefox todo tips optimization development analytics deployment scaling tuning tools extension)
• Top 100 best open source mac software — ajaxflakes.com
  Here are some of the most easy to use and useful open source mac tools and gears round the block. See everything from messenger, email clients, writing , listening to music, browsing or even running windows Software on am mac if you like.
  (tags: mac software opensource freeware toread utilities apple)
• TOP 100+ best Free Opensource Software for windows XP and Vista — ajaxflakes.com
  (tags: opensource Software windows free freeware utilities tools toread)
• Analysis of Web 2.0 Design & Layout Trends
  Part 1: Clean, Colorful and Horizontally Divided
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design inspiration layout css web reference gallery HTML toread)
• Top 10 Web 2.0 Designs - Cameron Olthuis
  10 sites that I feel are the best combination of both good design and usability.
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design web inspiration usability reference css interface)
• 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design
  (tags: Web2.0 CSS webdesign generator tools resources Ajax design HTML)

• How to Import Audio CD audiobooks into iTunes « Aldo on Audiobooks
  A great source for free audiobooks is the public library, where they are often available on CD. And there are other ways to borrow audiobooks on CD, such as Kitabe.com and SimplyAudiobooks.com, services that are similar to Netflix, but for audiobooks.
  (tags: itunes Audiobooks howto tutorial podcast tips reference CDs ipod mp3)

• F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts| Book
  looks like a fun read
  (tags: stocks business Internet)
• Wallstrip Chat: Charles Best of DonorsChoose
  Lindsay sits down with Charles Best to discuss Web 2.0 philanthropy, just in time for the holidays.
  (tags: for_TM DonorsChoose)

• 10 Blogs that will make you a better trader : Trainee Trader
  (tags: blogs Trading stocks)
• How Leverage Affects The Individual Trader : InVivo Analytics
  (tags: trading investing money_management finance)
• TraderFeed: Seven (Questionable) Things I Hear From Traders
  If you’re not taking a logical approach to trading success, perhaps your motivations for trading are psycho-logical. That, as the saying goes, is an expensive way to learn hard lessons about yourself.
  (tags: trading)
• Consider Risk First, Then Reward | TheStockBandit.net
  (tags: trading investing risk)
• Download SnagIt for Free - Full Licensed Version
  Great! NOW they give it away for free. (via StockTickr)
  (tags: software freeware snagit free screencapture tools utilities images for_TM)
• Big rally doesn't mean all is well - MSN Money
  Investors have jumped at shadows before and lost out on profits. But not all shadows are cast by imaginary monsters. Earnings reports will get worse soon, so don't get too excited by this week's rally.
  (tags: stocks)
• 14,196 Homes Offered For Sale on Countrywide Financial's Website
  the trend continues higher!
  (tags: stocks housing realestate mortgage credit)

• TraderFeed: A Schematic for Rule-Governed Trading
  Suppose you’re establishing a long position in a stock market index because you think the market is strong and will move higher. Let’s unpack the meaning and implications of your position:
  (tags: trading investing)
• Neogen Corp. (NEOG) | Wallstrip
  Neogen Corp. (NEOG) helps animals, and does it well, regardless of whether or not you’re going to eat the animals…
  (tags: stocks)
• Sexy Time Zones in Ruby on Rails with Timezone_Fu « Hack’d - Great Stuff for Web Hackers
  Working with Timezones in Rails even after you have installed the TZInfo plugin is still a pain in the you know what. (You are using TZInfo, right?)
  (tags: rubyonrails tzinfo plugin timezone time activerecord)
• Add "Google Finance" tab to your iGoogle homepage
  Personalize your iGoogle home page with news, games, gadgets, and your favorite content from around the web.
  (tags: google Finance stocks)

• Getting rich off the subprime mess - MSN Money
  A hedge fund manager has made hundreds of millions for his investors by betting against the mortgage industry. He can't understand 'why more people didn't figure this out.'
  (tags: trading finance hedgefunds credit mortgage)
• 11-27-07 Fair Isaac Corporation (FIC) | Wallstrip
  When factoring Lindsay’s credit score, let’s hope FIC takes video blog stardom into account.
  (tags: stocks)
• 11-26-07 Nike Inc. (NKE) | Wallstrip
  Sometimes, all a team needs is some new kicks.
  (tags: stocks nike)
• Interview with Adrienne Toghraie, Trading on Target
  Adrienne Toghraie is a well known trading coach and founder of Trading on Target.
  (tags: stocks interview)

• Don't Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking
  every site owner and/or blogger needs to memorize this!
  (tags: usability webdesign html Links design blogging tutorial urls for_TM)

• BW Online | May 21, 2001 | Commentary: Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work
  Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!
  (tags: apple business stocks predictions)
• Money As Debt
  Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it ... all » is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out.
  (tags: Money Economics finance documentary towatch credit)
• Why Greenspan blames Russia for the housing bubble - Money Week
  This appears to be Greenspan’s new MO. He’s been traveling all over the country promoting his book, criticizing his successor, and pointing the finger at everyone but himself.
  (tags: finance money for_TM)
• Five Computers are All You Need
  Could there really be only five computer "clouds" you need to do everything you want? The answer is yes, and Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com, Akamai and one of Sun Microsystems or VMWare is all you need.
  (tags: stocks technology computer Internet)

A few people have asked me what happened to the daily links posts. When I switched the site's layout I decided to stop having those posts generated automatically. If you visit the site (as opposed to subscribing via email or RSS) you should see (if you have javascript enabled) the links on the main page between the first & second posts. If you're an RSS or email user you can subscribe to the links via one of the following feeds:

• Stocks & Trading Links Only -
• Stocks & Trading Links plus a general interest link every now & then -
• All my links (everything I save to my del.icio.us account -- mainly stocks & technology links) -

• Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis - New York Times
  'What we are witnessing,' says Bill Gross of the bond manager Pimco, 'is essentially the breakdown of our modern-day banking system, a complex of leveraged lending so hard to understand that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke required a face-to-face
  (tags: finance stocks banking credit)
• Subprime Debacle Traps Even Very Credit-Worthy - WSJ.com
  One common assumption about the subprime mortgage crisis is that it revolves around borrowers with sketchy credit who couldn't have bought a home without paying punitively high interest rates. But it turns out that plenty of people with seemingly good cre
  (tags: credit housing realestate subprime stocks mortgage)
• Use ETFs to hedge your bets - MSN Money
  It's possible to buy exchange-traded funds for downside protection, cushioning the blow when your stocks drop. Here's how to build a hedge of your own.
  (tags: etfs stocks investing)
• The dollar's perfect storm worsens - MSN Money
  Europe's inflation is likely to prompt its central bank to raise interest rates -- five days before the Fed is expected to lower them here. That's bad news for the buck.
  (tags: trading currencies interestrates dollar)

• Goldman Sachs: Sell Tech Selectively
  GS is incrementally more cautious on tech fundamentals given the current macroeconomic backdrop.
  (tags: stocks)
• Official Google Enterprise Blog: The past, present and future of email with Google Apps
  some nice new features from GMail. with IMAP, their great spam filtering and this migration tool it's finally time for me to route all my email through GOOG
  (tags: gmail migration email apps todo google for_TM)
• Amazon Can Empty Bookstore Shelves
  The Kindle might just be the iPod of digital reading, according to one author, who predicts the device will improve the publishing landscape for all except retailers (disclosure: I'm long AMZN)
  (tags: amazon books kindle stocks)
• The Virtues of Virtualization
  S&P says spending on virtualization software and services is likely to skyrocket, with VMWare (I'm still long VMW), Citrix, and Dell's EqualLogic leading the race
  (tags: stocks software vmware)
• Banking: This Disaster Was Guaranteed
  Money-back assurances on subprime-linked securities are costing some leading banks billions
  (tags: stocks banking finance)
• Speed up your web pages with YSlow
  YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
  (tags: webdev firebug performance firefox todo tips optimization development analytics deployment scaling tuning tools extension)
• Top 100 best open source mac software — ajaxflakes.com
  Here are some of the most easy to use and useful open source mac tools and gears round the block. See everything from messenger, email clients, writing , listening to music, browsing or even running windows Software on am mac if you like.
  (tags: mac software opensource freeware toread utilities apple)
• TOP 100+ best Free Opensource Software for windows XP and Vista — ajaxflakes.com
  (tags: opensource Software windows free freeware utilities tools toread)
• Analysis of Web 2.0 Design & Layout Trends
  Part 1: Clean, Colorful and Horizontally Divided
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design inspiration layout css web reference gallery HTML toread)
• Top 10 Web 2.0 Designs - Cameron Olthuis
  10 sites that I feel are the best combination of both good design and usability.
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design web inspiration usability reference css interface)
• 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design
  (tags: Web2.0 CSS webdesign generator tools resources Ajax design HTML)

• How to Import Audio CD audiobooks into iTunes « Aldo on Audiobooks
  A great source for free audiobooks is the public library, where they are often available on CD. And there are other ways to borrow audiobooks on CD, such as Kitabe.com and SimplyAudiobooks.com, services that are similar to Netflix, but for audiobooks.
  (tags: itunes Audiobooks howto tutorial podcast tips reference CDs ipod mp3)

• F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts| Book
  looks like a fun read
  (tags: stocks business Internet)
• Wallstrip Chat: Charles Best of DonorsChoose
  Lindsay sits down with Charles Best to discuss Web 2.0 philanthropy, just in time for the holidays.
  (tags: for_TM DonorsChoose)

• 10 Blogs that will make you a better trader : Trainee Trader
  (tags: blogs Trading stocks)
• How Leverage Affects The Individual Trader : InVivo Analytics
  (tags: trading investing money_management finance)
• TraderFeed: Seven (Questionable) Things I Hear From Traders
  If you’re not taking a logical approach to trading success, perhaps your motivations for trading are psycho-logical. That, as the saying goes, is an expensive way to learn hard lessons about yourself.
  (tags: trading)
• Consider Risk First, Then Reward | TheStockBandit.net
  (tags: trading investing risk)
• Download SnagIt for Free - Full Licensed Version
  Great! NOW they give it away for free. (via StockTickr)
  (tags: software freeware snagit free screencapture tools utilities images for_TM)
• Big rally doesn't mean all is well - MSN Money
  Investors have jumped at shadows before and lost out on profits. But not all shadows are cast by imaginary monsters. Earnings reports will get worse soon, so don't get too excited by this week's rally.
  (tags: stocks)
• 14,196 Homes Offered For Sale on Countrywide Financial's Website
  the trend continues higher!
  (tags: stocks housing realestate mortgage credit)

• TraderFeed: A Schematic for Rule-Governed Trading
  Suppose you’re establishing a long position in a stock market index because you think the market is strong and will move higher. Let’s unpack the meaning and implications of your position:
  (tags: trading investing)
• Neogen Corp. (NEOG) | Wallstrip
  Neogen Corp. (NEOG) helps animals, and does it well, regardless of whether or not you’re going to eat the animals…
  (tags: stocks)
• Sexy Time Zones in Ruby on Rails with Timezone_Fu « Hack’d - Great Stuff for Web Hackers
  Working with Timezones in Rails even after you have installed the TZInfo plugin is still a pain in the you know what. (You are using TZInfo, right?)
  (tags: rubyonrails tzinfo plugin timezone time activerecord)
• Add "Google Finance" tab to your iGoogle homepage
  Personalize your iGoogle home page with news, games, gadgets, and your favorite content from around the web.
  (tags: google Finance stocks)

• Getting rich off the subprime mess - MSN Money
  A hedge fund manager has made hundreds of millions for his investors by betting against the mortgage industry. He can't understand 'why more people didn't figure this out.'
  (tags: trading finance hedgefunds credit mortgage)
• 11-27-07 Fair Isaac Corporation (FIC) | Wallstrip
  When factoring Lindsay’s credit score, let’s hope FIC takes video blog stardom into account.
  (tags: stocks)
• 11-26-07 Nike Inc. (NKE) | Wallstrip
  Sometimes, all a team needs is some new kicks.
  (tags: stocks nike)
• Interview with Adrienne Toghraie, Trading on Target
  Adrienne Toghraie is a well known trading coach and founder of Trading on Target.
  (tags: stocks interview)

• Don't Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking
  every site owner and/or blogger needs to memorize this!
  (tags: usability webdesign html Links design blogging tutorial urls for_TM)

• BW Online | May 21, 2001 | Commentary: Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work
  Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!
  (tags: apple business stocks predictions)
• Money As Debt
  Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it ... all » is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out.
  (tags: Money Economics finance documentary towatch credit)
• Why Greenspan blames Russia for the housing bubble - Money Week
  This appears to be Greenspan’s new MO. He’s been traveling all over the country promoting his book, criticizing his successor, and pointing the finger at everyone but himself.
  (tags: finance money for_TM)
• Five Computers are All You Need
  Could there really be only five computer "clouds" you need to do everything you want? The answer is yes, and Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com, Akamai and one of Sun Microsystems or VMWare is all you need.
  (tags: stocks technology computer Internet)

A few people have asked me what happened to the daily links posts. When I switched the site's layout I decided to stop having those posts generated automatically. If you visit the site (as opposed to subscribing via email or RSS) you should see (if you have javascript enabled) the links on the main page between the first & second posts. If you're an RSS or email user you can subscribe to the links via one of the following feeds:

• Stocks & Trading Links Only -
• Stocks & Trading Links plus a general interest link every now & then -
• All my links (everything I save to my del.icio.us account -- mainly stocks & technology links) -

• Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis - New York Times
  'What we are witnessing,' says Bill Gross of the bond manager Pimco, 'is essentially the breakdown of our modern-day banking system, a complex of leveraged lending so hard to understand that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke required a face-to-face
  (tags: finance stocks banking credit)
• Subprime Debacle Traps Even Very Credit-Worthy - WSJ.com
  One common assumption about the subprime mortgage crisis is that it revolves around borrowers with sketchy credit who couldn't have bought a home without paying punitively high interest rates. But it turns out that plenty of people with seemingly good cre
  (tags: credit housing realestate subprime stocks mortgage)
• Use ETFs to hedge your bets - MSN Money
  It's possible to buy exchange-traded funds for downside protection, cushioning the blow when your stocks drop. Here's how to build a hedge of your own.
  (tags: etfs stocks investing)
• The dollar's perfect storm worsens - MSN Money
  Europe's inflation is likely to prompt its central bank to raise interest rates -- five days before the Fed is expected to lower them here. That's bad news for the buck.
  (tags: trading currencies interestrates dollar)

• Goldman Sachs: Sell Tech Selectively
  GS is incrementally more cautious on tech fundamentals given the current macroeconomic backdrop.
  (tags: stocks)
• Official Google Enterprise Blog: The past, present and future of email with Google Apps
  some nice new features from GMail. with IMAP, their great spam filtering and this migration tool it's finally time for me to route all my email through GOOG
  (tags: gmail migration email apps todo google for_TM)
• Amazon Can Empty Bookstore Shelves
  The Kindle might just be the iPod of digital reading, according to one author, who predicts the device will improve the publishing landscape for all except retailers (disclosure: I'm long AMZN)
  (tags: amazon books kindle stocks)
• The Virtues of Virtualization
  S&P says spending on virtualization software and services is likely to skyrocket, with VMWare (I'm still long VMW), Citrix, and Dell's EqualLogic leading the race
  (tags: stocks software vmware)
• Banking: This Disaster Was Guaranteed
  Money-back assurances on subprime-linked securities are costing some leading banks billions
  (tags: stocks banking finance)
• Speed up your web pages with YSlow
  YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
  (tags: webdev firebug performance firefox todo tips optimization development analytics deployment scaling tuning tools extension)
• Top 100 best open source mac software — ajaxflakes.com
  Here are some of the most easy to use and useful open source mac tools and gears round the block. See everything from messenger, email clients, writing , listening to music, browsing or even running windows Software on am mac if you like.
  (tags: mac software opensource freeware toread utilities apple)
• TOP 100+ best Free Opensource Software for windows XP and Vista — ajaxflakes.com
  (tags: opensource Software windows free freeware utilities tools toread)
• Analysis of Web 2.0 Design & Layout Trends
  Part 1: Clean, Colorful and Horizontally Divided
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design inspiration layout css web reference gallery HTML toread)
• Top 10 Web 2.0 Designs - Cameron Olthuis
  10 sites that I feel are the best combination of both good design and usability.
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design web inspiration usability reference css interface)
• 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design
  (tags: Web2.0 CSS webdesign generator tools resources Ajax design HTML)

• How to Import Audio CD audiobooks into iTunes « Aldo on Audiobooks
  A great source for free audiobooks is the public library, where they are often available on CD. And there are other ways to borrow audiobooks on CD, such as Kitabe.com and SimplyAudiobooks.com, services that are similar to Netflix, but for audiobooks.
  (tags: itunes Audiobooks howto tutorial podcast tips reference CDs ipod mp3)

• F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts| Book
  looks like a fun read
  (tags: stocks business Internet)
• Wallstrip Chat: Charles Best of DonorsChoose
  Lindsay sits down with Charles Best to discuss Web 2.0 philanthropy, just in time for the holidays.
  (tags: for_TM DonorsChoose)

• 10 Blogs that will make you a better trader : Trainee Trader
  (tags: blogs Trading stocks)
• How Leverage Affects The Individual Trader : InVivo Analytics
  (tags: trading investing money_management finance)
• TraderFeed: Seven (Questionable) Things I Hear From Traders
  If you’re not taking a logical approach to trading success, perhaps your motivations for trading are psycho-logical. That, as the saying goes, is an expensive way to learn hard lessons about yourself.
  (tags: trading)
• Consider Risk First, Then Reward | TheStockBandit.net
  (tags: trading investing risk)
• Download SnagIt for Free - Full Licensed Version
  Great! NOW they give it away for free. (via StockTickr)
  (tags: software freeware snagit free screencapture tools utilities images for_TM)
• Big rally doesn't mean all is well - MSN Money
  Investors have jumped at shadows before and lost out on profits. But not all shadows are cast by imaginary monsters. Earnings reports will get worse soon, so don't get too excited by this week's rally.
  (tags: stocks)
• 14,196 Homes Offered For Sale on Countrywide Financial's Website
  the trend continues higher!
  (tags: stocks housing realestate mortgage credit)

• TraderFeed: A Schematic for Rule-Governed Trading
  Suppose you’re establishing a long position in a stock market index because you think the market is strong and will move higher. Let’s unpack the meaning and implications of your position:
  (tags: trading investing)
• Neogen Corp. (NEOG) | Wallstrip
  Neogen Corp. (NEOG) helps animals, and does it well, regardless of whether or not you’re going to eat the animals…
  (tags: stocks)
• Sexy Time Zones in Ruby on Rails with Timezone_Fu « Hack’d - Great Stuff for Web Hackers
  Working with Timezones in Rails even after you have installed the TZInfo plugin is still a pain in the you know what. (You are using TZInfo, right?)
  (tags: rubyonrails tzinfo plugin timezone time activerecord)
• Add "Google Finance" tab to your iGoogle homepage
  Personalize your iGoogle home page with news, games, gadgets, and your favorite content from around the web.
  (tags: google Finance stocks)

• Getting rich off the subprime mess - MSN Money
  A hedge fund manager has made hundreds of millions for his investors by betting against the mortgage industry. He can't understand 'why more people didn't figure this out.'
  (tags: trading finance hedgefunds credit mortgage)
• 11-27-07 Fair Isaac Corporation (FIC) | Wallstrip
  When factoring Lindsay’s credit score, let’s hope FIC takes video blog stardom into account.
  (tags: stocks)
• 11-26-07 Nike Inc. (NKE) | Wallstrip
  Sometimes, all a team needs is some new kicks.
  (tags: stocks nike)
• Interview with Adrienne Toghraie, Trading on Target
  Adrienne Toghraie is a well known trading coach and founder of Trading on Target.
  (tags: stocks interview)

• Don't Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking
  every site owner and/or blogger needs to memorize this!
  (tags: usability webdesign html Links design blogging tutorial urls for_TM)

• BW Online | May 21, 2001 | Commentary: Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work
  Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!
  (tags: apple business stocks predictions)
• Money As Debt
  Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it ... all » is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out.
  (tags: Money Economics finance documentary towatch credit)
• Why Greenspan blames Russia for the housing bubble - Money Week
  This appears to be Greenspan’s new MO. He’s been traveling all over the country promoting his book, criticizing his successor, and pointing the finger at everyone but himself.
  (tags: finance money for_TM)
• Five Computers are All You Need
  Could there really be only five computer "clouds" you need to do everything you want? The answer is yes, and Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com, Akamai and one of Sun Microsystems or VMWare is all you need.
  (tags: stocks technology computer Internet)

A few people have asked me what happened to the daily links posts. When I switched the site's layout I decided to stop having those posts generated automatically. If you visit the site (as opposed to subscribing via email or RSS) you should see (if you have javascript enabled) the links on the main page between the first & second posts. If you're an RSS or email user you can subscribe to the links via one of the following feeds:

• Stocks & Trading Links Only -
• Stocks & Trading Links plus a general interest link every now & then -
• All my links (everything I save to my del.icio.us account -- mainly stocks & technology links) -

• Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis - New York Times
  'What we are witnessing,' says Bill Gross of the bond manager Pimco, 'is essentially the breakdown of our modern-day banking system, a complex of leveraged lending so hard to understand that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke required a face-to-face
  (tags: finance stocks banking credit)
• Subprime Debacle Traps Even Very Credit-Worthy - WSJ.com
  One common assumption about the subprime mortgage crisis is that it revolves around borrowers with sketchy credit who couldn't have bought a home without paying punitively high interest rates. But it turns out that plenty of people with seemingly good cre
  (tags: credit housing realestate subprime stocks mortgage)
• Use ETFs to hedge your bets - MSN Money
  It's possible to buy exchange-traded funds for downside protection, cushioning the blow when your stocks drop. Here's how to build a hedge of your own.
  (tags: etfs stocks investing)
• The dollar's perfect storm worsens - MSN Money
  Europe's inflation is likely to prompt its central bank to raise interest rates -- five days before the Fed is expected to lower them here. That's bad news for the buck.
  (tags: trading currencies interestrates dollar)

• Goldman Sachs: Sell Tech Selectively
  GS is incrementally more cautious on tech fundamentals given the current macroeconomic backdrop.
  (tags: stocks)
• Official Google Enterprise Blog: The past, present and future of email with Google Apps
  some nice new features from GMail. with IMAP, their great spam filtering and this migration tool it's finally time for me to route all my email through GOOG
  (tags: gmail migration email apps todo google for_TM)
• Amazon Can Empty Bookstore Shelves
  The Kindle might just be the iPod of digital reading, according to one author, who predicts the device will improve the publishing landscape for all except retailers (disclosure: I'm long AMZN)
  (tags: amazon books kindle stocks)
• The Virtues of Virtualization
  S&P says spending on virtualization software and services is likely to skyrocket, with VMWare (I'm still long VMW), Citrix, and Dell's EqualLogic leading the race
  (tags: stocks software vmware)
• Banking: This Disaster Was Guaranteed
  Money-back assurances on subprime-linked securities are costing some leading banks billions
  (tags: stocks banking finance)
• Speed up your web pages with YSlow
  YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
  (tags: webdev firebug performance firefox todo tips optimization development analytics deployment scaling tuning tools extension)
• Top 100 best open source mac software — ajaxflakes.com
  Here are some of the most easy to use and useful open source mac tools and gears round the block. See everything from messenger, email clients, writing , listening to music, browsing or even running windows Software on am mac if you like.
  (tags: mac software opensource freeware toread utilities apple)
• TOP 100+ best Free Opensource Software for windows XP and Vista — ajaxflakes.com
  (tags: opensource Software windows free freeware utilities tools toread)
• Analysis of Web 2.0 Design & Layout Trends
  Part 1: Clean, Colorful and Horizontally Divided
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design inspiration layout css web reference gallery HTML toread)
• Top 10 Web 2.0 Designs - Cameron Olthuis
  10 sites that I feel are the best combination of both good design and usability.
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design web inspiration usability reference css interface)
• 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design
  (tags: Web2.0 CSS webdesign generator tools resources Ajax design HTML)

• How to Import Audio CD audiobooks into iTunes « Aldo on Audiobooks
  A great source for free audiobooks is the public library, where they are often available on CD. And there are other ways to borrow audiobooks on CD, such as Kitabe.com and SimplyAudiobooks.com, services that are similar to Netflix, but for audiobooks.
  (tags: itunes Audiobooks howto tutorial podcast tips reference CDs ipod mp3)

• F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts| Book
  looks like a fun read
  (tags: stocks business Internet)
• Wallstrip Chat: Charles Best of DonorsChoose
  Lindsay sits down with Charles Best to discuss Web 2.0 philanthropy, just in time for the holidays.
  (tags: for_TM DonorsChoose)

• 10 Blogs that will make you a better trader : Trainee Trader
  (tags: blogs Trading stocks)
• How Leverage Affects The Individual Trader : InVivo Analytics
  (tags: trading investing money_management finance)
• TraderFeed: Seven (Questionable) Things I Hear From Traders
  If you’re not taking a logical approach to trading success, perhaps your motivations for trading are psycho-logical. That, as the saying goes, is an expensive way to learn hard lessons about yourself.
  (tags: trading)
• Consider Risk First, Then Reward | TheStockBandit.net
  (tags: trading investing risk)
• Download SnagIt for Free - Full Licensed Version
  Great! NOW they give it away for free. (via StockTickr)
  (tags: software freeware snagit free screencapture tools utilities images for_TM)
• Big rally doesn't mean all is well - MSN Money
  Investors have jumped at shadows before and lost out on profits. But not all shadows are cast by imaginary monsters. Earnings reports will get worse soon, so don't get too excited by this week's rally.
  (tags: stocks)
• 14,196 Homes Offered For Sale on Countrywide Financial's Website
  the trend continues higher!
  (tags: stocks housing realestate mortgage credit)

• TraderFeed: A Schematic for Rule-Governed Trading
  Suppose you’re establishing a long position in a stock market index because you think the market is strong and will move higher. Let’s unpack the meaning and implications of your position:
  (tags: trading investing)
• Neogen Corp. (NEOG) | Wallstrip
  Neogen Corp. (NEOG) helps animals, and does it well, regardless of whether or not you’re going to eat the animals…
  (tags: stocks)
• Sexy Time Zones in Ruby on Rails with Timezone_Fu « Hack’d - Great Stuff for Web Hackers
  Working with Timezones in Rails even after you have installed the TZInfo plugin is still a pain in the you know what. (You are using TZInfo, right?)
  (tags: rubyonrails tzinfo plugin timezone time activerecord)
• Add "Google Finance" tab to your iGoogle homepage
  Personalize your iGoogle home page with news, games, gadgets, and your favorite content from around the web.
  (tags: google Finance stocks)

• Getting rich off the subprime mess - MSN Money
  A hedge fund manager has made hundreds of millions for his investors by betting against the mortgage industry. He can't understand 'why more people didn't figure this out.'
  (tags: trading finance hedgefunds credit mortgage)
• 11-27-07 Fair Isaac Corporation (FIC) | Wallstrip
  When factoring Lindsay’s credit score, let’s hope FIC takes video blog stardom into account.
  (tags: stocks)
• 11-26-07 Nike Inc. (NKE) | Wallstrip
  Sometimes, all a team needs is some new kicks.
  (tags: stocks nike)
• Interview with Adrienne Toghraie, Trading on Target
  Adrienne Toghraie is a well known trading coach and founder of Trading on Target.
  (tags: stocks interview)

• Don't Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking
  every site owner and/or blogger needs to memorize this!
  (tags: usability webdesign html Links design blogging tutorial urls for_TM)

• BW Online | May 21, 2001 | Commentary: Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work
  Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!
  (tags: apple business stocks predictions)
• Money As Debt
  Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it ... all » is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out.
  (tags: Money Economics finance documentary towatch credit)
• Why Greenspan blames Russia for the housing bubble - Money Week
  This appears to be Greenspan’s new MO. He’s been traveling all over the country promoting his book, criticizing his successor, and pointing the finger at everyone but himself.
  (tags: finance money for_TM)
• Five Computers are All You Need
  Could there really be only five computer "clouds" you need to do everything you want? The answer is yes, and Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com, Akamai and one of Sun Microsystems or VMWare is all you need.
  (tags: stocks technology computer Internet)

A few people have asked me what happened to the daily links posts. When I switched the site's layout I decided to stop having those posts generated automatically. If you visit the site (as opposed to subscribing via email or RSS) you should see (if you have javascript enabled) the links on the main page between the first & second posts. If you're an RSS or email user you can subscribe to the links via one of the following feeds:

• Stocks & Trading Links Only -
• Stocks & Trading Links plus a general interest link every now & then -
• All my links (everything I save to my del.icio.us account -- mainly stocks & technology links) -

• Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis - New York Times
  'What we are witnessing,' says Bill Gross of the bond manager Pimco, 'is essentially the breakdown of our modern-day banking system, a complex of leveraged lending so hard to understand that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke required a face-to-face
  (tags: finance stocks banking credit)
• Subprime Debacle Traps Even Very Credit-Worthy - WSJ.com
  One common assumption about the subprime mortgage crisis is that it revolves around borrowers with sketchy credit who couldn't have bought a home without paying punitively high interest rates. But it turns out that plenty of people with seemingly good cre
  (tags: credit housing realestate subprime stocks mortgage)
• Use ETFs to hedge your bets - MSN Money
  It's possible to buy exchange-traded funds for downside protection, cushioning the blow when your stocks drop. Here's how to build a hedge of your own.
  (tags: etfs stocks investing)
• The dollar's perfect storm worsens - MSN Money
  Europe's inflation is likely to prompt its central bank to raise interest rates -- five days before the Fed is expected to lower them here. That's bad news for the buck.
  (tags: trading currencies interestrates dollar)

• Goldman Sachs: Sell Tech Selectively
  GS is incrementally more cautious on tech fundamentals given the current macroeconomic backdrop.
  (tags: stocks)
• Official Google Enterprise Blog: The past, present and future of email with Google Apps
  some nice new features from GMail. with IMAP, their great spam filtering and this migration tool it's finally time for me to route all my email through GOOG
  (tags: gmail migration email apps todo google for_TM)
• Amazon Can Empty Bookstore Shelves
  The Kindle might just be the iPod of digital reading, according to one author, who predicts the device will improve the publishing landscape for all except retailers (disclosure: I'm long AMZN)
  (tags: amazon books kindle stocks)
• The Virtues of Virtualization
  S&P says spending on virtualization software and services is likely to skyrocket, with VMWare (I'm still long VMW), Citrix, and Dell's EqualLogic leading the race
  (tags: stocks software vmware)
• Banking: This Disaster Was Guaranteed
  Money-back assurances on subprime-linked securities are costing some leading banks billions
  (tags: stocks banking finance)
• Speed up your web pages with YSlow
  YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
  (tags: webdev firebug performance firefox todo tips optimization development analytics deployment scaling tuning tools extension)
• Top 100 best open source mac software — ajaxflakes.com
  Here are some of the most easy to use and useful open source mac tools and gears round the block. See everything from messenger, email clients, writing , listening to music, browsing or even running windows Software on am mac if you like.
  (tags: mac software opensource freeware toread utilities apple)
• TOP 100+ best Free Opensource Software for windows XP and Vista — ajaxflakes.com
  (tags: opensource Software windows free freeware utilities tools toread)
• Analysis of Web 2.0 Design & Layout Trends
  Part 1: Clean, Colorful and Horizontally Divided
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design inspiration layout css web reference gallery HTML toread)
• Top 10 Web 2.0 Designs - Cameron Olthuis
  10 sites that I feel are the best combination of both good design and usability.
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design web inspiration usability reference css interface)
• 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design
  (tags: Web2.0 CSS webdesign generator tools resources Ajax design HTML)

• How to Import Audio CD audiobooks into iTunes « Aldo on Audiobooks
  A great source for free audiobooks is the public library, where they are often available on CD. And there are other ways to borrow audiobooks on CD, such as Kitabe.com and SimplyAudiobooks.com, services that are similar to Netflix, but for audiobooks.
  (tags: itunes Audiobooks howto tutorial podcast tips reference CDs ipod mp3)

• F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts| Book
  looks like a fun read
  (tags: stocks business Internet)
• Wallstrip Chat: Charles Best of DonorsChoose
  Lindsay sits down with Charles Best to discuss Web 2.0 philanthropy, just in time for the holidays.
  (tags: for_TM DonorsChoose)

• 10 Blogs that will make you a better trader : Trainee Trader
  (tags: blogs Trading stocks)
• How Leverage Affects The Individual Trader : InVivo Analytics
  (tags: trading investing money_management finance)
• TraderFeed: Seven (Questionable) Things I Hear From Traders
  If you’re not taking a logical approach to trading success, perhaps your motivations for trading are psycho-logical. That, as the saying goes, is an expensive way to learn hard lessons about yourself.
  (tags: trading)
• Consider Risk First, Then Reward | TheStockBandit.net
  (tags: trading investing risk)
• Download SnagIt for Free - Full Licensed Version
  Great! NOW they give it away for free. (via StockTickr)
  (tags: software freeware snagit free screencapture tools utilities images for_TM)
• Big rally doesn't mean all is well - MSN Money
  Investors have jumped at shadows before and lost out on profits. But not all shadows are cast by imaginary monsters. Earnings reports will get worse soon, so don't get too excited by this week's rally.
  (tags: stocks)
• 14,196 Homes Offered For Sale on Countrywide Financial's Website
  the trend continues higher!
  (tags: stocks housing realestate mortgage credit)

• TraderFeed: A Schematic for Rule-Governed Trading
  Suppose you’re establishing a long position in a stock market index because you think the market is strong and will move higher. Let’s unpack the meaning and implications of your position:
  (tags: trading investing)
• Neogen Corp. (NEOG) | Wallstrip
  Neogen Corp. (NEOG) helps animals, and does it well, regardless of whether or not you’re going to eat the animals…
  (tags: stocks)
• Sexy Time Zones in Ruby on Rails with Timezone_Fu « Hack’d - Great Stuff for Web Hackers
  Working with Timezones in Rails even after you have installed the TZInfo plugin is still a pain in the you know what. (You are using TZInfo, right?)
  (tags: rubyonrails tzinfo plugin timezone time activerecord)
• Add "Google Finance" tab to your iGoogle homepage
  Personalize your iGoogle home page with news, games, gadgets, and your favorite content from around the web.
  (tags: google Finance stocks)

• Getting rich off the subprime mess - MSN Money
  A hedge fund manager has made hundreds of millions for his investors by betting against the mortgage industry. He can't understand 'why more people didn't figure this out.'
  (tags: trading finance hedgefunds credit mortgage)
• 11-27-07 Fair Isaac Corporation (FIC) | Wallstrip
  When factoring Lindsay’s credit score, let’s hope FIC takes video blog stardom into account.
  (tags: stocks)
• 11-26-07 Nike Inc. (NKE) | Wallstrip
  Sometimes, all a team needs is some new kicks.
  (tags: stocks nike)
• Interview with Adrienne Toghraie, Trading on Target
  Adrienne Toghraie is a well known trading coach and founder of Trading on Target.
  (tags: stocks interview)

• Don't Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking
  every site owner and/or blogger needs to memorize this!
  (tags: usability webdesign html Links design blogging tutorial urls for_TM)

• BW Online | May 21, 2001 | Commentary: Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work
  Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!
  (tags: apple business stocks predictions)
• Money As Debt
  Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it ... all » is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out.
  (tags: Money Economics finance documentary towatch credit)
• Why Greenspan blames Russia for the housing bubble - Money Week
  This appears to be Greenspan’s new MO. He’s been traveling all over the country promoting his book, criticizing his successor, and pointing the finger at everyone but himself.
  (tags: finance money for_TM)
• Five Computers are All You Need
  Could there really be only five computer "clouds" you need to do everything you want? The answer is yes, and Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com, Akamai and one of Sun Microsystems or VMWare is all you need.
  (tags: stocks technology computer Internet)

A few people have asked me what happened to the daily links posts. When I switched the site's layout I decided to stop having those posts generated automatically. If you visit the site (as opposed to subscribing via email or RSS) you should see (if you have javascript enabled) the links on the main page between the first & second posts. If you're an RSS or email user you can subscribe to the links via one of the following feeds:

• Stocks & Trading Links Only -
• Stocks & Trading Links plus a general interest link every now & then -
• All my links (everything I save to my del.icio.us account -- mainly stocks & technology links) -

• Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis - New York Times
  'What we are witnessing,' says Bill Gross of the bond manager Pimco, 'is essentially the breakdown of our modern-day banking system, a complex of leveraged lending so hard to understand that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke required a face-to-face
  (tags: finance stocks banking credit)
• Subprime Debacle Traps Even Very Credit-Worthy - WSJ.com
  One common assumption about the subprime mortgage crisis is that it revolves around borrowers with sketchy credit who couldn't have bought a home without paying punitively high interest rates. But it turns out that plenty of people with seemingly good cre
  (tags: credit housing realestate subprime stocks mortgage)
• Use ETFs to hedge your bets - MSN Money
  It's possible to buy exchange-traded funds for downside protection, cushioning the blow when your stocks drop. Here's how to build a hedge of your own.
  (tags: etfs stocks investing)
• The dollar's perfect storm worsens - MSN Money
  Europe's inflation is likely to prompt its central bank to raise interest rates -- five days before the Fed is expected to lower them here. That's bad news for the buck.
  (tags: trading currencies interestrates dollar)

• Goldman Sachs: Sell Tech Selectively
  GS is incrementally more cautious on tech fundamentals given the current macroeconomic backdrop.
  (tags: stocks)
• Official Google Enterprise Blog: The past, present and future of email with Google Apps
  some nice new features from GMail. with IMAP, their great spam filtering and this migration tool it's finally time for me to route all my email through GOOG
  (tags: gmail migration email apps todo google for_TM)
• Amazon Can Empty Bookstore Shelves
  The Kindle might just be the iPod of digital reading, according to one author, who predicts the device will improve the publishing landscape for all except retailers (disclosure: I'm long AMZN)
  (tags: amazon books kindle stocks)
• The Virtues of Virtualization
  S&P says spending on virtualization software and services is likely to skyrocket, with VMWare (I'm still long VMW), Citrix, and Dell's EqualLogic leading the race
  (tags: stocks software vmware)
• Banking: This Disaster Was Guaranteed
  Money-back assurances on subprime-linked securities are costing some leading banks billions
  (tags: stocks banking finance)
• Speed up your web pages with YSlow
  YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
  (tags: webdev firebug performance firefox todo tips optimization development analytics deployment scaling tuning tools extension)
• Top 100 best open source mac software — ajaxflakes.com
  Here are some of the most easy to use and useful open source mac tools and gears round the block. See everything from messenger, email clients, writing , listening to music, browsing or even running windows Software on am mac if you like.
  (tags: mac software opensource freeware toread utilities apple)
• TOP 100+ best Free Opensource Software for windows XP and Vista — ajaxflakes.com
  (tags: opensource Software windows free freeware utilities tools toread)
• Analysis of Web 2.0 Design & Layout Trends
  Part 1: Clean, Colorful and Horizontally Divided
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design inspiration layout css web reference gallery HTML toread)
• Top 10 Web 2.0 Designs - Cameron Olthuis
  10 sites that I feel are the best combination of both good design and usability.
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design web inspiration usability reference css interface)
• 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design
  (tags: Web2.0 CSS webdesign generator tools resources Ajax design HTML)

• How to Import Audio CD audiobooks into iTunes « Aldo on Audiobooks
  A great source for free audiobooks is the public library, where they are often available on CD. And there are other ways to borrow audiobooks on CD, such as Kitabe.com and SimplyAudiobooks.com, services that are similar to Netflix, but for audiobooks.
  (tags: itunes Audiobooks howto tutorial podcast tips reference CDs ipod mp3)

• F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts| Book
  looks like a fun read
  (tags: stocks business Internet)
• Wallstrip Chat: Charles Best of DonorsChoose
  Lindsay sits down with Charles Best to discuss Web 2.0 philanthropy, just in time for the holidays.
  (tags: for_TM DonorsChoose)

• 10 Blogs that will make you a better trader : Trainee Trader
  (tags: blogs Trading stocks)
• How Leverage Affects The Individual Trader : InVivo Analytics
  (tags: trading investing money_management finance)
• TraderFeed: Seven (Questionable) Things I Hear From Traders
  If you’re not taking a logical approach to trading success, perhaps your motivations for trading are psycho-logical. That, as the saying goes, is an expensive way to learn hard lessons about yourself.
  (tags: trading)
• Consider Risk First, Then Reward | TheStockBandit.net
  (tags: trading investing risk)
• Download SnagIt for Free - Full Licensed Version
  Great! NOW they give it away for free. (via StockTickr)
  (tags: software freeware snagit free screencapture tools utilities images for_TM)
• Big rally doesn't mean all is well - MSN Money
  Investors have jumped at shadows before and lost out on profits. But not all shadows are cast by imaginary monsters. Earnings reports will get worse soon, so don't get too excited by this week's rally.
  (tags: stocks)
• 14,196 Homes Offered For Sale on Countrywide Financial's Website
  the trend continues higher!
  (tags: stocks housing realestate mortgage credit)

• TraderFeed: A Schematic for Rule-Governed Trading
  Suppose you’re establishing a long position in a stock market index because you think the market is strong and will move higher. Let’s unpack the meaning and implications of your position:
  (tags: trading investing)
• Neogen Corp. (NEOG) | Wallstrip
  Neogen Corp. (NEOG) helps animals, and does it well, regardless of whether or not you’re going to eat the animals…
  (tags: stocks)
• Sexy Time Zones in Ruby on Rails with Timezone_Fu « Hack’d - Great Stuff for Web Hackers
  Working with Timezones in Rails even after you have installed the TZInfo plugin is still a pain in the you know what. (You are using TZInfo, right?)
  (tags: rubyonrails tzinfo plugin timezone time activerecord)
• Add "Google Finance" tab to your iGoogle homepage
  Personalize your iGoogle home page with news, games, gadgets, and your favorite content from around the web.
  (tags: google Finance stocks)

• Getting rich off the subprime mess - MSN Money
  A hedge fund manager has made hundreds of millions for his investors by betting against the mortgage industry. He can't understand 'why more people didn't figure this out.'
  (tags: trading finance hedgefunds credit mortgage)
• 11-27-07 Fair Isaac Corporation (FIC) | Wallstrip
  When factoring Lindsay’s credit score, let’s hope FIC takes video blog stardom into account.
  (tags: stocks)
• 11-26-07 Nike Inc. (NKE) | Wallstrip
  Sometimes, all a team needs is some new kicks.
  (tags: stocks nike)
• Interview with Adrienne Toghraie, Trading on Target
  Adrienne Toghraie is a well known trading coach and founder of Trading on Target.
  (tags: stocks interview)

• Don't Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking
  every site owner and/or blogger needs to memorize this!
  (tags: usability webdesign html Links design blogging tutorial urls for_TM)

• BW Online | May 21, 2001 | Commentary: Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work
  Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!
  (tags: apple business stocks predictions)
• Money As Debt
  Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it ... all » is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out.
  (tags: Money Economics finance documentary towatch credit)
• Why Greenspan blames Russia for the housing bubble - Money Week
  This appears to be Greenspan’s new MO. He’s been traveling all over the country promoting his book, criticizing his successor, and pointing the finger at everyone but himself.
  (tags: finance money for_TM)
• Five Computers are All You Need
  Could there really be only five computer "clouds" you need to do everything you want? The answer is yes, and Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com, Akamai and one of Sun Microsystems or VMWare is all you need.
  (tags: stocks technology computer Internet)

A few people have asked me what happened to the daily links posts. When I switched the site's layout I decided to stop having those posts generated automatically. If you visit the site (as opposed to subscribing via email or RSS) you should see (if you have javascript enabled) the links on the main page between the first & second posts. If you're an RSS or email user you can subscribe to the links via one of the following feeds:

• Stocks & Trading Links Only -
• Stocks & Trading Links plus a general interest link every now & then -
• All my links (everything I save to my del.icio.us account -- mainly stocks & technology links) -

• Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis - New York Times
  'What we are witnessing,' says Bill Gross of the bond manager Pimco, 'is essentially the breakdown of our modern-day banking system, a complex of leveraged lending so hard to understand that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke required a face-to-face
  (tags: finance stocks banking credit)
• Subprime Debacle Traps Even Very Credit-Worthy - WSJ.com
  One common assumption about the subprime mortgage crisis is that it revolves around borrowers with sketchy credit who couldn't have bought a home without paying punitively high interest rates. But it turns out that plenty of people with seemingly good cre
  (tags: credit housing realestate subprime stocks mortgage)
• Use ETFs to hedge your bets - MSN Money
  It's possible to buy exchange-traded funds for downside protection, cushioning the blow when your stocks drop. Here's how to build a hedge of your own.
  (tags: etfs stocks investing)
• The dollar's perfect storm worsens - MSN Money
  Europe's inflation is likely to prompt its central bank to raise interest rates -- five days before the Fed is expected to lower them here. That's bad news for the buck.
  (tags: trading currencies interestrates dollar)

• Goldman Sachs: Sell Tech Selectively
  GS is incrementally more cautious on tech fundamentals given the current macroeconomic backdrop.
  (tags: stocks)
• Official Google Enterprise Blog: The past, present and future of email with Google Apps
  some nice new features from GMail. with IMAP, their great spam filtering and this migration tool it's finally time for me to route all my email through GOOG
  (tags: gmail migration email apps todo google for_TM)
• Amazon Can Empty Bookstore Shelves
  The Kindle might just be the iPod of digital reading, according to one author, who predicts the device will improve the publishing landscape for all except retailers (disclosure: I'm long AMZN)
  (tags: amazon books kindle stocks)
• The Virtues of Virtualization
  S&P says spending on virtualization software and services is likely to skyrocket, with VMWare (I'm still long VMW), Citrix, and Dell's EqualLogic leading the race
  (tags: stocks software vmware)
• Banking: This Disaster Was Guaranteed
  Money-back assurances on subprime-linked securities are costing some leading banks billions
  (tags: stocks banking finance)
• Speed up your web pages with YSlow
  YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
  (tags: webdev firebug performance firefox todo tips optimization development analytics deployment scaling tuning tools extension)
• Top 100 best open source mac software — ajaxflakes.com
  Here are some of the most easy to use and useful open source mac tools and gears round the block. See everything from messenger, email clients, writing , listening to music, browsing or even running windows Software on am mac if you like.
  (tags: mac software opensource freeware toread utilities apple)
• TOP 100+ best Free Opensource Software for windows XP and Vista — ajaxflakes.com
  (tags: opensource Software windows free freeware utilities tools toread)
• Analysis of Web 2.0 Design & Layout Trends
  Part 1: Clean, Colorful and Horizontally Divided
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design inspiration layout css web reference gallery HTML toread)
• Top 10 Web 2.0 Designs - Cameron Olthuis
  10 sites that I feel are the best combination of both good design and usability.
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design web inspiration usability reference css interface)
• 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design
  (tags: Web2.0 CSS webdesign generator tools resources Ajax design HTML)

• How to Import Audio CD audiobooks into iTunes « Aldo on Audiobooks
  A great source for free audiobooks is the public library, where they are often available on CD. And there are other ways to borrow audiobooks on CD, such as Kitabe.com and SimplyAudiobooks.com, services that are similar to Netflix, but for audiobooks.
  (tags: itunes Audiobooks howto tutorial podcast tips reference CDs ipod mp3)

• F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts| Book
  looks like a fun read
  (tags: stocks business Internet)
• Wallstrip Chat: Charles Best of DonorsChoose
  Lindsay sits down with Charles Best to discuss Web 2.0 philanthropy, just in time for the holidays.
  (tags: for_TM DonorsChoose)

• 10 Blogs that will make you a better trader : Trainee Trader
  (tags: blogs Trading stocks)
• How Leverage Affects The Individual Trader : InVivo Analytics
  (tags: trading investing money_management finance)
• TraderFeed: Seven (Questionable) Things I Hear From Traders
  If you’re not taking a logical approach to trading success, perhaps your motivations for trading are psycho-logical. That, as the saying goes, is an expensive way to learn hard lessons about yourself.
  (tags: trading)
• Consider Risk First, Then Reward | TheStockBandit.net
  (tags: trading investing risk)
• Download SnagIt for Free - Full Licensed Version
  Great! NOW they give it away for free. (via StockTickr)
  (tags: software freeware snagit free screencapture tools utilities images for_TM)
• Big rally doesn't mean all is well - MSN Money
  Investors have jumped at shadows before and lost out on profits. But not all shadows are cast by imaginary monsters. Earnings reports will get worse soon, so don't get too excited by this week's rally.
  (tags: stocks)
• 14,196 Homes Offered For Sale on Countrywide Financial's Website
  the trend continues higher!
  (tags: stocks housing realestate mortgage credit)

• TraderFeed: A Schematic for Rule-Governed Trading
  Suppose you’re establishing a long position in a stock market index because you think the market is strong and will move higher. Let’s unpack the meaning and implications of your position:
  (tags: trading investing)
• Neogen Corp. (NEOG) | Wallstrip
  Neogen Corp. (NEOG) helps animals, and does it well, regardless of whether or not you’re going to eat the animals…
  (tags: stocks)
• Sexy Time Zones in Ruby on Rails with Timezone_Fu « Hack’d - Great Stuff for Web Hackers
  Working with Timezones in Rails even after you have installed the TZInfo plugin is still a pain in the you know what. (You are using TZInfo, right?)
  (tags: rubyonrails tzinfo plugin timezone time activerecord)
• Add "Google Finance" tab to your iGoogle homepage
  Personalize your iGoogle home page with news, games, gadgets, and your favorite content from around the web.
  (tags: google Finance stocks)

• Getting rich off the subprime mess - MSN Money
  A hedge fund manager has made hundreds of millions for his investors by betting against the mortgage industry. He can't understand 'why more people didn't figure this out.'
  (tags: trading finance hedgefunds credit mortgage)
• 11-27-07 Fair Isaac Corporation (FIC) | Wallstrip
  When factoring Lindsay’s credit score, let’s hope FIC takes video blog stardom into account.
  (tags: stocks)
• 11-26-07 Nike Inc. (NKE) | Wallstrip
  Sometimes, all a team needs is some new kicks.
  (tags: stocks nike)
• Interview with Adrienne Toghraie, Trading on Target
  Adrienne Toghraie is a well known trading coach and founder of Trading on Target.
  (tags: stocks interview)

• Don't Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking
  every site owner and/or blogger needs to memorize this!
  (tags: usability webdesign html Links design blogging tutorial urls for_TM)

• BW Online | May 21, 2001 | Commentary: Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work
  Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!
  (tags: apple business stocks predictions)
• Money As Debt
  Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it ... all » is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out.
  (tags: Money Economics finance documentary towatch credit)
• Why Greenspan blames Russia for the housing bubble - Money Week
  This appears to be Greenspan’s new MO. He’s been traveling all over the country promoting his book, criticizing his successor, and pointing the finger at everyone but himself.
  (tags: finance money for_TM)
• Five Computers are All You Need
  Could there really be only five computer "clouds" you need to do everything you want? The answer is yes, and Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com, Akamai and one of Sun Microsystems or VMWare is all you need.
  (tags: stocks technology computer Internet)

A few people have asked me what happened to the daily links posts. When I switched the site's layout I decided to stop having those posts generated automatically. If you visit the site (as opposed to subscribing via email or RSS) you should see (if you have javascript enabled) the links on the main page between the first & second posts. If you're an RSS or email user you can subscribe to the links via one of the following feeds:

• Stocks & Trading Links Only -
• Stocks & Trading Links plus a general interest link every now & then -
• All my links (everything I save to my del.icio.us account -- mainly stocks & technology links) -

• Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis - New York Times
  'What we are witnessing,' says Bill Gross of the bond manager Pimco, 'is essentially the breakdown of our modern-day banking system, a complex of leveraged lending so hard to understand that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke required a face-to-face
  (tags: finance stocks banking credit)
• Subprime Debacle Traps Even Very Credit-Worthy - WSJ.com
  One common assumption about the subprime mortgage crisis is that it revolves around borrowers with sketchy credit who couldn't have bought a home without paying punitively high interest rates. But it turns out that plenty of people with seemingly good cre
  (tags: credit housing realestate subprime stocks mortgage)
• Use ETFs to hedge your bets - MSN Money
  It's possible to buy exchange-traded funds for downside protection, cushioning the blow when your stocks drop. Here's how to build a hedge of your own.
  (tags: etfs stocks investing)
• The dollar's perfect storm worsens - MSN Money
  Europe's inflation is likely to prompt its central bank to raise interest rates -- five days before the Fed is expected to lower them here. That's bad news for the buck.
  (tags: trading currencies interestrates dollar)

• Goldman Sachs: Sell Tech Selectively
  GS is incrementally more cautious on tech fundamentals given the current macroeconomic backdrop.
  (tags: stocks)
• Official Google Enterprise Blog: The past, present and future of email with Google Apps
  some nice new features from GMail. with IMAP, their great spam filtering and this migration tool it's finally time for me to route all my email through GOOG
  (tags: gmail migration email apps todo google for_TM)
• Amazon Can Empty Bookstore Shelves
  The Kindle might just be the iPod of digital reading, according to one author, who predicts the device will improve the publishing landscape for all except retailers (disclosure: I'm long AMZN)
  (tags: amazon books kindle stocks)
• The Virtues of Virtualization
  S&P says spending on virtualization software and services is likely to skyrocket, with VMWare (I'm still long VMW), Citrix, and Dell's EqualLogic leading the race
  (tags: stocks software vmware)
• Banking: This Disaster Was Guaranteed
  Money-back assurances on subprime-linked securities are costing some leading banks billions
  (tags: stocks banking finance)
• Speed up your web pages with YSlow
  YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
  (tags: webdev firebug performance firefox todo tips optimization development analytics deployment scaling tuning tools extension)
• Top 100 best open source mac software — ajaxflakes.com
  Here are some of the most easy to use and useful open source mac tools and gears round the block. See everything from messenger, email clients, writing , listening to music, browsing or even running windows Software on am mac if you like.
  (tags: mac software opensource freeware toread utilities apple)
• TOP 100+ best Free Opensource Software for windows XP and Vista — ajaxflakes.com
  (tags: opensource Software windows free freeware utilities tools toread)
• Analysis of Web 2.0 Design & Layout Trends
  Part 1: Clean, Colorful and Horizontally Divided
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design inspiration layout css web reference gallery HTML toread)
• Top 10 Web 2.0 Designs - Cameron Olthuis
  10 sites that I feel are the best combination of both good design and usability.
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design web inspiration usability reference css interface)
• 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design
  (tags: Web2.0 CSS webdesign generator tools resources Ajax design HTML)

• How to Import Audio CD audiobooks into iTunes « Aldo on Audiobooks
  A great source for free audiobooks is the public library, where they are often available on CD. And there are other ways to borrow audiobooks on CD, such as Kitabe.com and SimplyAudiobooks.com, services that are similar to Netflix, but for audiobooks.
  (tags: itunes Audiobooks howto tutorial podcast tips reference CDs ipod mp3)

• F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts| Book
  looks like a fun read
  (tags: stocks business Internet)
• Wallstrip Chat: Charles Best of DonorsChoose
  Lindsay sits down with Charles Best to discuss Web 2.0 philanthropy, just in time for the holidays.
  (tags: for_TM DonorsChoose)

• 10 Blogs that will make you a better trader : Trainee Trader
  (tags: blogs Trading stocks)
• How Leverage Affects The Individual Trader : InVivo Analytics
  (tags: trading investing money_management finance)
• TraderFeed: Seven (Questionable) Things I Hear From Traders
  If you’re not taking a logical approach to trading success, perhaps your motivations for trading are psycho-logical. That, as the saying goes, is an expensive way to learn hard lessons about yourself.
  (tags: trading)
• Consider Risk First, Then Reward | TheStockBandit.net
  (tags: trading investing risk)
• Download SnagIt for Free - Full Licensed Version
  Great! NOW they give it away for free. (via StockTickr)
  (tags: software freeware snagit free screencapture tools utilities images for_TM)
• Big rally doesn't mean all is well - MSN Money
  Investors have jumped at shadows before and lost out on profits. But not all shadows are cast by imaginary monsters. Earnings reports will get worse soon, so don't get too excited by this week's rally.
  (tags: stocks)
• 14,196 Homes Offered For Sale on Countrywide Financial's Website
  the trend continues higher!
  (tags: stocks housing realestate mortgage credit)

• TraderFeed: A Schematic for Rule-Governed Trading
  Suppose you’re establishing a long position in a stock market index because you think the market is strong and will move higher. Let’s unpack the meaning and implications of your position:
  (tags: trading investing)
• Neogen Corp. (NEOG) | Wallstrip
  Neogen Corp. (NEOG) helps animals, and does it well, regardless of whether or not you’re going to eat the animals…
  (tags: stocks)
• Sexy Time Zones in Ruby on Rails with Timezone_Fu « Hack’d - Great Stuff for Web Hackers
  Working with Timezones in Rails even after you have installed the TZInfo plugin is still a pain in the you know what. (You are using TZInfo, right?)
  (tags: rubyonrails tzinfo plugin timezone time activerecord)
• Add "Google Finance" tab to your iGoogle homepage
  Personalize your iGoogle home page with news, games, gadgets, and your favorite content from around the web.
  (tags: google Finance stocks)

• Getting rich off the subprime mess - MSN Money
  A hedge fund manager has made hundreds of millions for his investors by betting against the mortgage industry. He can't understand 'why more people didn't figure this out.'
  (tags: trading finance hedgefunds credit mortgage)
• 11-27-07 Fair Isaac Corporation (FIC) | Wallstrip
  When factoring Lindsay’s credit score, let’s hope FIC takes video blog stardom into account.
  (tags: stocks)
• 11-26-07 Nike Inc. (NKE) | Wallstrip
  Sometimes, all a team needs is some new kicks.
  (tags: stocks nike)
• Interview with Adrienne Toghraie, Trading on Target
  Adrienne Toghraie is a well known trading coach and founder of Trading on Target.
  (tags: stocks interview)

• Don't Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking
  every site owner and/or blogger needs to memorize this!
  (tags: usability webdesign html Links design blogging tutorial urls for_TM)

• BW Online | May 21, 2001 | Commentary: Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work
  Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!
  (tags: apple business stocks predictions)
• Money As Debt
  Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it ... all » is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out.
  (tags: Money Economics finance documentary towatch credit)
• Why Greenspan blames Russia for the housing bubble - Money Week
  This appears to be Greenspan’s new MO. He’s been traveling all over the country promoting his book, criticizing his successor, and pointing the finger at everyone but himself.
  (tags: finance money for_TM)
• Five Computers are All You Need
  Could there really be only five computer "clouds" you need to do everything you want? The answer is yes, and Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com, Akamai and one of Sun Microsystems or VMWare is all you need.
  (tags: stocks technology computer Internet)

A few people have asked me what happened to the daily links posts. When I switched the site's layout I decided to stop having those posts generated automatically. If you visit the site (as opposed to subscribing via email or RSS) you should see (if you have javascript enabled) the links on the main page between the first & second posts. If you're an RSS or email user you can subscribe to the links via one of the following feeds:

• Stocks & Trading Links Only -
• Stocks & Trading Links plus a general interest link every now & then -
• All my links (everything I save to my del.icio.us account -- mainly stocks & technology links) -

• Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis - New York Times
  'What we are witnessing,' says Bill Gross of the bond manager Pimco, 'is essentially the breakdown of our modern-day banking system, a complex of leveraged lending so hard to understand that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke required a face-to-face
  (tags: finance stocks banking credit)
• Subprime Debacle Traps Even Very Credit-Worthy - WSJ.com
  One common assumption about the subprime mortgage crisis is that it revolves around borrowers with sketchy credit who couldn't have bought a home without paying punitively high interest rates. But it turns out that plenty of people with seemingly good cre
  (tags: credit housing realestate subprime stocks mortgage)
• Use ETFs to hedge your bets - MSN Money
  It's possible to buy exchange-traded funds for downside protection, cushioning the blow when your stocks drop. Here's how to build a hedge of your own.
  (tags: etfs stocks investing)
• The dollar's perfect storm worsens - MSN Money
  Europe's inflation is likely to prompt its central bank to raise interest rates -- five days before the Fed is expected to lower them here. That's bad news for the buck.
  (tags: trading currencies interestrates dollar)

• Goldman Sachs: Sell Tech Selectively
  GS is incrementally more cautious on tech fundamentals given the current macroeconomic backdrop.
  (tags: stocks)
• Official Google Enterprise Blog: The past, present and future of email with Google Apps
  some nice new features from GMail. with IMAP, their great spam filtering and this migration tool it's finally time for me to route all my email through GOOG
  (tags: gmail migration email apps todo google for_TM)
• Amazon Can Empty Bookstore Shelves
  The Kindle might just be the iPod of digital reading, according to one author, who predicts the device will improve the publishing landscape for all except retailers (disclosure: I'm long AMZN)
  (tags: amazon books kindle stocks)
• The Virtues of Virtualization
  S&P says spending on virtualization software and services is likely to skyrocket, with VMWare (I'm still long VMW), Citrix, and Dell's EqualLogic leading the race
  (tags: stocks software vmware)
• Banking: This Disaster Was Guaranteed
  Money-back assurances on subprime-linked securities are costing some leading banks billions
  (tags: stocks banking finance)
• Speed up your web pages with YSlow
  YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
  (tags: webdev firebug performance firefox todo tips optimization development analytics deployment scaling tuning tools extension)
• Top 100 best open source mac software — ajaxflakes.com
  Here are some of the most easy to use and useful open source mac tools and gears round the block. See everything from messenger, email clients, writing , listening to music, browsing or even running windows Software on am mac if you like.
  (tags: mac software opensource freeware toread utilities apple)
• TOP 100+ best Free Opensource Software for windows XP and Vista — ajaxflakes.com
  (tags: opensource Software windows free freeware utilities tools toread)
• Analysis of Web 2.0 Design & Layout Trends
  Part 1: Clean, Colorful and Horizontally Divided
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design inspiration layout css web reference gallery HTML toread)
• Top 10 Web 2.0 Designs - Cameron Olthuis
  10 sites that I feel are the best combination of both good design and usability.
  (tags: web2.0 webdesign design web inspiration usability reference css interface)
• 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design
  (tags: Web2.0 CSS webdesign generator tools resources Ajax design HTML)

• How to Import Audio CD audiobooks into iTunes « Aldo on Audiobooks
  A great source for free audiobooks is the public library, where they are often available on CD. And there are other ways to borrow audiobooks on CD, such as Kitabe.com and SimplyAudiobooks.com, services that are similar to Netflix, but for audiobooks.
  (tags: itunes Audiobooks howto tutorial podcast tips reference CDs ipod mp3)

• F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts| Book
  looks like a fun read
  (tags: stocks business Internet)
• Wallstrip Chat: Charles Best of DonorsChoose
  Lindsay sits down with Charles Best to discuss Web 2.0 philanthropy, just in time for the holidays.
  (tags: for_TM DonorsChoose)

• 10 Blogs that will make you a better trader : Trainee Trader
  (tags: blogs Trading stocks)
• How Leverage Affects The Individual Trader : InVivo Analytics
  (tags: trading investing money_management finance)
• TraderFeed: Seven (Questionable) Things I Hear From Traders
  If you’re not taking a logical approach to trading success, perhaps your motivations for trading are psycho-logical. That, as the saying goes, is an expensive way to learn hard lessons about yourself.
  (tags: trading)
• Consider Risk First, Then Reward | TheStockBandit.net
  (tags: trading investing risk)
• Download SnagIt for Free - Full Licensed Version
  Great! NOW they give it away for free. (via StockTickr)
  (tags: software freeware snagit free screencapture tools utilities images for_TM)
• Big rally doesn't mean all is well - MSN Money
  Investors have jumped at shadows before and lost out on profits. But not all shadows are cast by imaginary monsters. Earnings reports will get worse soon, so don't get too excited by this week's rally.
  (tags: stocks)
• 14,196 Homes Offered For Sale on Countrywide Financial's Website
  the trend continues higher!
  (tags: stocks housing realestate mortgage credit)

• TraderFeed: A Schematic for Rule-Governed Trading
  Suppose you’re establishing a long position in a stock market index because you think the market is strong and will move higher. Let’s unpack the meaning and implications of your position:
  (tags: trading investing)
• Neogen Corp. (NEOG) | Wallstrip
  Neogen Corp. (NEOG) helps animals, and does it well, regardless of whether or not you’re going to eat the animals…
  (tags: stocks)
• Sexy Time Zones in Ruby on Rails with Timezone_Fu « Hack’d - Great Stuff for Web Hackers
  Working with Timezones in Rails even after you have installed the TZInfo plugin is still a pain in the you know what. (You are using TZInfo, right?)
  (tags: rubyonrails tzinfo plugin timezone time activerecord)
• Add "Google Finance" tab to your iGoogle homepage
  Personalize your iGoogle home page with news, games, gadgets, and your favorite content from around the web.
  (tags: google Finance stocks)

• Getting rich off the subprime mess - MSN Money
  A hedge fund manager has made hundreds of millions for his investors by betting against the mortgage industry. He can't understand 'why more people didn't figure this out.'
  (tags: trading finance hedgefunds credit mortgage)
• 11-27-07 Fair Isaac Corporation (FIC) | Wallstrip
  When factoring Lindsay’s credit score, let’s hope FIC takes video blog stardom into account.
  (tags: stocks)
• 11-26-07 Nike Inc. (NKE) | Wallstrip
  Sometimes, all a team needs is some new kicks.
  (tags: stocks nike)
• Interview with Adrienne Toghraie, Trading on Target
  Adrienne Toghraie is a well known trading coach and founder of Trading on Target.
  (tags: stocks interview)

• Don't Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking
  every site owner and/or blogger needs to memorize this!
  (tags: usability webdesign html Links design blogging tutorial urls for_TM)

• BW Online | May 21, 2001 | Commentary: Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work
  Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!
  (tags: apple business stocks predictions)
• Money As Debt
  Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it ... all » is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out.
  (tags: Money Economics finance documentary towatch credit)
• Why Greenspan blames Russia for the housing bubble - Money Week
  This appears to be Greenspan’s new MO. He’s been traveling all over the country promoting his book, criticizing his successor, and pointing the finger at everyone but himself.
  (tags: finance money for_TM)
• Five Computers are All You Need
  Could there really be only five computer "clouds" you need to do everything you want? The answer is yes, and Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com, Akamai and one of Sun Microsystems or VMWare is all you need.
  (tags: stocks technology computer Internet)