Herb Greenberg has a lengthy repost of an email from a mortgage industry veteran who says that the troubles in the mortgage industry are only beginning:
Sub-prime aren’t the only kind of loans imploding. Second mortgages, hybrid intermediate-term ARMS, and the soon-to-be infamous Pay Option ARM are also feeling substantial pressure. The latter three [...]
Looks like William Saletan is still doing his thing at Slate. I notice he’s off the topic of IQ and race.
Google has struck a deal with AOL that allowed them to add AIM support to Gmail. You can now access AIM from the Gmail Web site (if you’re running the new version of Gmail). I was hoping the announcement meant interoperability between the two networks, but that goal seems more distant all the time.
William Saletan is Slate’s resident science writer, and his long time hobby has been chiding liberals for what he’d probably call elitism. He’s not a conservative writer, rather he’s one of these people who seeks to demonstrate his wisdom by widening his perspective and trying to argue that people on all sides commit the same [...]
Looks like publications that review games play fast and loose with the ethical standards espoused (if not embodied) by most journalists. ArsTechnica explains how game companies manipulate their press coverage:
While gaming may look like a huge, scary industry from the outside, it can be a surprisingly cozy place once you know that world [...]
Let’s say your company was hiring new developers, and the HR department was pre-screening candidates before passing them off to the technical team for interviews. Assuming the résumé passes muster, what’s the one question you’d have the HR person ask to find out whether a developer should move on to the next step in the [...]
All of the big papers today report that the most recent National Intelligence Estimate says that Iran froze its nuclear weapons program in 2003. The assessment is the consensus view of 16 US intelligence agencies. I don’t think that the war party clamoring for an attack on Iran will be discouraged at all by this [...]
Here’s a horror story from the BBC technology department:
The BBC’s infrastructure is shockingly outdated, having changed only by fractions over the past decade. Over-priced Sun Enterprise servers running Solaris and Apache provide the front-end layer. This is round-robin load balanced, there’s no management of session state, no load-based connection pool. The front-end servers [...]
This one’s short. CNET fired Gamespot editor Jeff Gerstmann (a 10 year employee) because he wrote a bad review of a heavily advertised game. I never read CNET anyway, but now neither should anyone else. (via Daring Fireball)
Check out this blog post from Wired editor Chris Anderson. It doesn’t come as a surprise that all of the stuff you see on subscription offers from magazines is totally dishonest, but seeing it all laid out really is impressive.