Yet more gloomy housing news— and potential bad news for the entire economy — from Econbrowser.
Now that I’ve started looking at this stuff, I can’t look away.
Author: Aaron Weber
Carbonated Milk
Aidan reminded me of the existence of carbonated milk. That reminded me of a Salon article titled I come to bury Iamcarbonatedmilk.com, not to praise it. It’s about expired domain names and why people register them.
I seem to remember being around when several absurd names were registered, including assbarn.com and the now-defunct mybuttthemovie.com. The motivation in each case quite simple: it seemed like a good idea at the time because we were very drunk. That also explains a lot of stuff purchased from EBay.
Housing Commentary from the Fed
The Economist’s View analyzes the new Fed report: “The key differences from the last Press Release are: 1. They have dropped the word ‘gradual’ from their description of the cooling of the housing market….”
There’s a house for sale in my neighborhood that Zillow values at $533,000. The asking price is $795,000. It’s been on the market for awhile now with no reduction in price.
Bad news for those of us who live on earth
A huge chunk of the Arctic ice is pretty much gone.
I guess the debacle in Iraq won’t matter so much once we’re all dead.
My Top 10 Sources Pages
New StyleFeeder Features
Hey look, new features: when you add an item, you get room for more detailed notes and a list of all the tags you’ve used in the past.
Jim Moore likes it. He does think that this means it’s becoming a blogging platform, and that being a blogging platform is great. I’m not sure I agree. Having detailed notes is nice, sharing them with your friends is nice, but I don’t know that the world needs another blogging platform any more than I agree with JWZ’s assertion that every application will eventually grow until it can send email.
Did I call it or what?
This is getting a little morbid and a little tasteless, but I am gloating that I was so accurate in my predictions about this weekend’s Boston homicide count.
Maybe it’s because I’m a bitter drunk
But I find it hilarious that Boston’s managed to get this weekend’s first homicide out of the way before 5PM on Friday, leaving time for one more tonight.
Boston: we start our weekends early.
It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged about real estate
It’s been a long time since I’ve talked about real estate. But the number of places in my neighborhood for sale keeps piling up– $500k condos, $900k single-families, that kind of thing. So thought I’d look around to see if there’s any news about that impending real-estate disaster I keep thinking is just around the corner. Remember, I’ve been thinking it’ll happen any day now for at least three years. As my 7th grade history teacher used to say, even a blind pig finds an acorn once in awhile.
Highlights from the last couple weeks of real-estate Jeremiads:
- MSN asks “When will the tsunami of foreclosures hit?”
- Boston Herald: Fewest homes moving since 1995
- National Association of Realtors president can’t sell his own house.
- The Paper Money blog has several good posts, including one about the National Association of Realtors lead economist’s PowerPoint called Reality Check and one on grim numbers from various federal economists.
- The WikiPedia page on the US Housing Bubble is huuuuuge.
I’m feeling kind of optimistic: I might be able to buy a home sometime in the next two years.
I’m tired of these motherfucking laptops on this motherfucking plane
And now for the final Snakes on a Plane reference ever: laptop explodes on plane at LAX.
Secretly Ironic 