News Digest

Or otherwise known as The New York Times Rip-off.

January 2, Wall Street will be closed in honor of the death of a former President, hint, not Saddam. It's Gerald R. Ford (1913- 2006). The Masters of the Universe in Wall Street kind of get another day off. The launch of the new Wall Street Journal on Jan 2 is inadvertently affected and inconvenienced and hence made fun of by the New York Times.

Microsoft gave out Ferrari to Bloggers. Wait, it's the $2,200 Acer Ferrari laptops not the bank breaking muscle car. Bloggers, apparently have lower or no journalistic standards than real journalists. The laptops are intended for tech bloggers to review Vista that came loaded with the laptops. FOM, or Friends of Microsoft (yes, they even have a acronym for that) sure have benefits.

2006 was the deadliest year for journalists and media workers. 155 deaths were reported by the International Federation of Journalists. As for bloggers, anyone can be a blogger...and the number of bloggers killed in front of their keyboards is ... zero I think. And the number of self important and delusional bloggers who think they are building a rocket ship or something that are changing the world is countless, The Time's ass-kissing Person of the Year issue certainly fans this delusional thinking.

The 60s is the new 40s. Stallone's final (don't bet on it) Rocky movie is swinging in the Christmas and New Year box office. Not surprisingly, the Indiana Jones money making franchise is making a come back (did it ever go away?). The fourth chapter of the Indiana Jones will be released around May 2008. I hope it's not about Jones fighting ED and AD (as in erectile dysfunction and Alzheimer's disease). The last Indiana movie was the 1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I was immensely delighted by the Raiders of the Lost Ark, I even have a LD for that movie.

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Sources: The New York Times, Monday January 1, 2007 paper edition