Lee Allgood

"Purchases of new homes in the U.S. unexpectedly fell last month, indicating a recovery from the worst housing slump since the Great Depression will be slow to develop." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"Their answer, called Google Wave, was unveiled in May 2009 and is now being tested by thousands of users worldwide. It lets people collaborate in shared discussions, or “waves”, which can encompass many forms of interaction: messaging, notes, comments, collaboration on shared documents and so on. Users can move a slider to “replay” a wave, to see how it reached its current form." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"The British army calculates that it takes seven gallons of fuel to deliver one gallon to Afghanistan." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"Sales of existing U.S. homes rose more than forecast in November, to the highest level in more than two years, a sign housing is gaining strength along with the broader economy entering 2010." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

Keep this in mind the next time you prepare a PowerPoint presentation: When it comes to memory, researchers have known for more than 100 years that pictures and text follow very different rules. Put simply,the more visual the input becomes, the more likely it is to be recognized—and recalled. - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"Burke, 51, “is business-savvy, owner-oriented and keenly interested in Berkshire,” Buffett said today in a statement distributed by Business Wire. Buffett is chairman and chief executive officer of Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"Here is a quiz: Suppose that there is a one-in-1,000 chance that a woman in her 40s with no symptoms has breast cancer, and that 90 percent of the time a mammogram correctly classifies women as having cancer or not. If a woman in this group tests positive on her mammogram, what is the chance that she has cancer? The answer is not 90 percent. It is less than 1 percent, because of the large number of false positive results. (A table showing the math is at nytimes.com/business.)" - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"The strength of the carbon market “hinges more on the U.S. than anyone else,” said Jos Delbeke, deputy director general for environment at the European Commission in Brussels, in a Dec. 18 interview hours after the accord was struck." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"Brown said in an interview with Sky News yesterday that the temperature change on entering the tunnel created condensation that caused the electrical systems in the locomotives to fail." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"Permits for future construction climbed to the highest level in a year, signaling builders expect sales to rise as homebuyers are lured by lower prices, tax credits and mortgage rates near record lows." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"Do the math,” said Safyer, president and chief executive officer at the New York hospital, in a telephone interview. “You give millions more people insurance, and it adds up to a much worse shortage." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"In the words of one, David Rind from the US space agency Nasa, it ‘looks like there were years around 1000AD that could have been just as warm’." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"Forget Big Oil: the new world power is Big Carbon.Truly it has been a miracle of our time that they have managed to transform carbon dioxide, a gas upon which all life on earth depends, into a "pollutant", worth more than diamonds, let alone oil. And many of those now gathered in Copenhagen are making a great deal of money out of it. (For more detail, see my colleague Richard North's blog .)" - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"It is deeply to their credit that this well-researched article appears in the Mail on Sunday, a popular newspaper - Britain's second biggest-selling Sunday - often much derided by the so-called ‘heavies’, such as The Guardian and The Times. Yet, this piece, by David Rose, is better than anything the old broadsheets have managed to publish." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"Six days after Lord Lawson, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the GWPF, called for an independent inquiry into the CRU data affair, it would appear that such a public investigation may now be set up. It will be absolutely crucial that the inquiry is beyond reproach. For this reason, the Global Warming Policy Foundation calls for the inquiry to be carried out by a High Court judge." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"A more serious concern is that they believe in global warming too much and that their commitment to the cause leads them to tolerate poor scientific practice, to close themselves off from criticism, and to deny reasonable requests for data." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"As John Pescatore told the Financial Times, "The security of these cloud-based infrastructure services is like Windows in 1999. It's being widely used and nothing tremendously bad has happened yet. But it's just in early stages of getting exposed to the Internet, and you know bad things are coming." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"Lockhart also said he expects that “hundreds of banks will be taken over.” The possibility comes from troubles in commercial real estate, which lags behind housing in finding a market bottom, he said. “We are overbuilt in many areas,” he said." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"It’s likely that economic growth is going to be pretty sluggish for a while,” Volcker said in a Bloomberg Television interview." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"Just 3 percent of ''smart'' phone users are consuming 40 percent of the network capacity, de la Vega said, adding that the most high-bandwidth activity is video and audio streaming. Several applications on the iPhone provide nonstop Internet radio." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"Reiner said his contacts in the U.S. said Apple is offering an "attractive" deal to book publishers, which he believes implies the tablet will also function as an e-book reader to rival Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle. He said he believes Apple's terms are better for publishers than those offered by Amazon." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"I don’t believe the EPA was set up to deal with a problem of this type, a regulatory challenge of this type,” Cohen said yesterday in an interview in Bloomberg’s Dallas bureau. “Every industrial activity will be affected by the decision." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"None of the bills so far would reduce total health-care costs as a percentage of the economy,” said David Walker, U.S. comptroller general from 1998 to 2008. “If there’s one thing that can bankrupt the country, it’s health-care costs." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

Ben Worsham spoke today about IFL...now I know what it is and does. Very interesting. "The attractively priced IFL processor enables you to purchase additional processing capacity exclusively for Linux workloads, without affecting the MSU rating or the IBM System z model designation." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"It tells us that we have to look beyond lifestyles and diet for the cause and progression of this disease," - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

"this is basically "multi-variate testing for your banner ads." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet

[We should never take for granted our freedom to vote nor the ease with which we cast our votes in the U.S.] "Election violence can be extreme in Maguindanao, where an Islamist insurgency and longstanding clan wars complicate the security situation." - Lee Allgood from Bookmarklet