This page offer answers (via cartoons) to an absurd question :
How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to kill you?

How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You via kwout

This Reuters News announced that the DTCC would published more data about CDS  market. Therefore DTCC published this week data for the week ending 2008-3-10 here: The volume reported is slightly more than $ 30 trillion.

UPDATE 2-CDS volumes drop, DTCC plans more openness | Markets | Markets News | Reuters via kwout

The Daily Telegraph reports that there is a lottery organized  “to sell” a house in Andalusia (Spain) that worth € 1.5 Million. Each ticket for the draw costs 25 €.  The sellers expect to sell 88 000 tickets before the draw (on May 1st 2009). This gives € 2.2 Million. More than the house estimate […]

Reuters News reports that three-month Dollars Libor Rate falls to its lowest value since December 2004 at 2.50625 percent:
London interbank offered rates at the British Bankers’ Association’s daily fixing for these three-month dollars fell 20 basis points to 2.50625 percent <USD3MFSR=>, the lowest since December 2004.

This is good news and shows that confidence is […]

xkcd - A Webcomic - Election via kwout

The New York Times provides this amazing yet simple application, where it is possible to give your state of mind in one word.
I took a snapshot at 4PM ET.
Mc Cain supporters feels :

ELECTION DAY 08 - What One Word Describes Your Current State of Mind? - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com via kwout

And Obama […]

This NPR article is mainly a transcript of the CDS part of this American Life podcast. And I found the explanation using examples very good. I copied below 3 extracts:

Credit Default Swap as insurance: 

Imagine, he says, you buy a bond from Ford for $100.
"You’re holding your bond and you are worried about Ford’s credit. So […]

As it is simple, everything required to use the product is on the front-page:

Memiary, the weightless pocket diary via kwout

I came across Tabbloid yesterday. This new service delivers RSS Feeds content in PDF format by email on defined schedule.

Tabbloid via kwout

BBC Web site reports this funny Email mistake:
When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.
Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated”.

BBC NEWS […]