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Something Short and Weird By Roxie Pell January 6th, 2015 end article header Electric Literature has announced the upcoming debut of its weekly online magazine Okey-Panky, a cocktail of short, experimental writing brewed to cure the Monday blues: Okey-Panky would be dedicated to brevity, eccentricity, and dark humor. It would publish every Monday morning, which…
. Destiny's weapon damage system has been the topic of a lot of heated debate among the gaming industry and its fans. This is especially so during Destiny's Iron Banner PvP event, which claims to take damage equalization off the board. That said, there's still plenty of controversy surrounding the game's PvE material, which has…
Two episodes from “Game of Thrones” will make their IMAX debut later this month. main NEW YORK (CNNMoney) “Game of Thrones” is coming to an IMAX theater near you. HBO announced Tuesday that two episodes from its wildly popular fantasy saga “Game of Thrones” will be getting the IMAX treatment for one week later this…
Wolf Richter www.wolfstreet.com www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The price of oil continues to crash relentlessly. WTI trades at $49.80 as I’m writing this Monday evening, down 5.5% for the day, and down 54% since June 2014. The oil-price plunge is eating into the American oil boom, munching on income statements and balance sheets of drillers that have gorged…
main NEW YORK (CNNMoney) New York City is getting even more unaffordable. The average sales price for a Manhattan apartment rose to a new record of $1,728,831 million in the fourth quarter, up from $1,700,581 in the first three months of the year, according to Halstead Property. Halstead is one of New York City’s big…
For the 4th month in a row, US Factory Orders have fallen MoM. November’s 0.7% drop is worse than the 0.5% decline expected and leads to the biggest yearly drop since March 2013. Capital Goods New Orders tumbled 0.8% as did non-defense capital goods shipments (down 0.9%). Having risen for 3 months, November saw a…
Markit’s US Services PMI missed expectations of 53.7, priting at 53.3, its lowest since Feb 2014 (mid Polar Vortex). From record highs in June, PMI has plunged non-stop for six months leaving Markit noting Q4 growth is looking more like 2.0% than the 5.0% exuberance in Q3. US Services PMI plunges… and along with…
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) If you are a music fanatic and money is no issue, you might want to consider a Sony Walkman. Seriously. Sony’s new ZX2 Walkman costs $1,119.99, and it plays music at a super-high resolution. That means songs on Sony’s new Walkman sound more life-like than the typical CD, MP3 or streaming media…
Platisher — the ugliest journalism word of 2014 — lives on in 2015. (Despite the fact that I can’t hear it without thinking: “Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.”) It survives because it’s useful, describing a very of-the-moment idea: an online outfit that is both a publisher (paying staff or other contributors…
It was less than a week ago when Zero Hedge broke the news that for CNBC, 2014 Was The Worst. Year. Ever. Much to the embarrassment of CNBC, its staunch defender David Rosenberg, and not to mention its advertisers who realized they overspent substantially for the reach they were promised and received instead, the report…