How to invest in ocean wave and hydropower

Some good ideas for adventurous investors as well as an overview of the field.

StockTwits

Stocktwits is using Twitter to build a niche community around buying stocks. Scoble interviews the founder.

Windows 7 comparison

Easy to understand. Highly useful.

4,000 sf foreclosures in San Diego.

There’s lots of them now. Million dollar+ homes too.

Clever coffee dripper: “Full immersion” brewer

From Sweet Maria’s comes new of an inventive new coffee brewer. You can infuse the coffee and water for as long as you want, then release it into a cup

So you think Twitter can’t make you money?

Amanda Palmer tweeted about her band The Dresden Dolls, got a flash mob going, and the next thing you know, she’s selling t-shirts, having an auction, and then a twitter-invitation only gig.

total made this month using Twitter = $19,000
total made from my huge-ass ben-folds produced-major-label solo album this year = $0

Sometimes you really don’t want to read Twitter

From persiankiwi on Twitter

Insiders dump shares at fastest pace in 2 years

Mish: If insiders don’t believe this rally, why should you?

Indeed.

It’s Bank Failure Friday again

Three more zombie banks were seized by FDIC this afternoon.

The Complete Social Media Douchebag

Dear friend,
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Great news! You’re well on your way to becoming a Social Media Douchebagalready!

DOSbox. DOS emulator for XP and Vista

DOSbox is an open source emulator that will run ancient DOS programs in XP and Vista, including Vista 64.

Among my arcane specialties, I sometimes convert and migrate Clipper database programs to modern platforms. Needed to run Clipper on my Vista 64 laptop, but instead, Vista returned an error message saying it was incompatible with 64-bit.

Found DOSbox, installed it, and Clipper runs fine. And yes, there are probably still millions of Clipper apps out there still running. Seriously.

Hunch. Hot new decision engine

Hunch is getting massive buzz today as a powerful new decision engine. Check it out. If you can. The site is overloaded now and not repsonding.

Cats on a treadmill

Markets strangely flat

Building a base or getting ready to fall? A case can be made for either, but given the unemployment, increasing foreclosures, and lack of good news, I’m thinking the markets will start dropping soon.

Yikes. Here comes hyperinflation

While some still think inflation may not happen, given what the chart shows, how could it not?