Gold. Was yesterday just a correction

Clusterstock asks its readers. What will gold do next?  Gold bugs are a hardy and interesting lot and the comments are lively.

I’m going with the correction then another surge theory. It’s may be a bubble, but has much longer to run.

Study. cell phones do not increase chance of brain cancer

A study in Europe studied brain cancer rates before and after the introduction of cell phones and found no rise in cases.

Client wants free website and pie charts, designer demurs, email ensues

Here’s one salvo by the designer. (Read the whole thing, it’s a hoot. )

Via The Big Picture

Firefox now has bigger market share in Germany than IE

StartUpMeme has more.

Santa meets Burning Man

Tip: Laughing Squid

Windows Black Screen of Death and how to fix it

This isn’t the Blue Screen of Death. It’s worse and caused by Microsoft’s own security updates. PC World explains what happened and how to fix it.

Unbelievable cat-friendly house design from Japan

Read the whole article, lots more photos. The house is amazing.

Sinfest, after Thanksgiving

Supply of Krugerands run out

That’s how strong the demand for gold is.

Man weds virtual girlfriend

No, really, he did…

How the once mighty Borg has fallen

Microsoft once seemed unassailable in their position of power, and people actually called them the Borg.

Today, they’ve fallen so much they want to do a dirty deal with News Corp. in a desperate attempt to pump up their search engine numbers.

Golman employees to take out trash to prove they aren’t vampire squid

For one day, to help feeding the poor. They they go back back and count their bloated bonuses.

Tweetville. Drill-down Twitter lists on a blog

Jamie at Intoxination has a neat new app, TweetVille.

I did some upgrades to the new Tweetville application this weekend. It now supports drilldown rooms. How this work is that you can select a root room like Congress and view everyone in Congress. If you want to limit it to one party then you can select that party in the sub-room of Congress. There is also an “All” room now that will show the tweets of everyone being followed in Tweetville.

Baltic Dry Index soars on Chinese commodities demand

This obscure index is what ocean shipping companies based their rates on. If it soars, their profits do too. This is hugely bullish for shipping stocks.

Dolphin humps man

Seems staged though. Was the dolphin consenting?