Tuesday, February 22, 2005

BBC NEWS | Business | Dollar drops on reserves concerns

Here it comes!!!

BBC NEWS | Business | Dollar drops on reserves concerns: "South Korea, which has about $200bn in foreign reserves, said it plans instead to boost holdings of currencies such as the Australian and Canadian dollar.

Analysts reckon that other nations may follow suit and now ditch the dollar."

10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris

This is so cool- it uses RSS, PHP, MySQL, Perl and Flash to aggregate the words and images that are dominating our mainstream news sources. Updates every hour- you can also zero in on specific time periods and view the aggregated data - e.g- 2004, show all year, # 1 hit is "President". Not surprising... Actually for 2004, it s just November and December.

10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris

MSNBC - Aboard Air CIA

Now that's pretty sketchy...

MSNBC - Aboard Air CIA: "Together with previously disclosed flight plans of a smaller Gulfstream V jet, the Boeing 737's travels are further evidence that a global 'ghost' prison system, where terror suspects are secretly interrogated, is being operated by the CIA."