Felix Salmon submits: These are desperate times for the newspaper industry, and they're not much better in the world of finance. So it's interesting to see Jeff Bercovici and Jon Fine lauding impressive growth at the WSJ and the FT respectively. Is this a spike due to the credit crunch, which will prove unsustainable if and when conditions return to something approaching normality in financial markets and headcounts on Wall Street and in the City inevitably decline? Or is there a bigger trend hehttp://pfblogs.org/entry/1075058...

Technology providers have a common problem when they attempt to design in ease-of-use. They end up "dumbing down" the device to the point that it is far less useful than anyone originally intended. But truly great products overcome this problem. Take for example your cell phone. When you make a call, you simply want to press that green button and have your call go through clearly and without being dropped. You don't want to know think about complex technology like GSM or voice packets. It's jushttp://www.bigilittletblog.com/blog/2008/0...

The Buckeye Senior Program will host a free health and resource fair from 9 a.m. to noon today at Dr. Saide Recreation Center, 1003 E. Eason Ave., Buckeye.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...

Bastards. A devilish Boston fan working on a concrete crew at the $1.3 billion stadium covertly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under what will become the visiting team’s locker room to jinx the Yanks, two construction workers told The Post yesterday. “In August, a Red Sox T-shirt was poured in a slab in the visitor’s clubhouse. It’s the curse of the Yankees,†one worker said. “Nobody knows about it. It’s in the floors, it’s buried.†Oh well. Let them have their fun. Wake me up when the Red Soxhttp://sayanythingblog.com/entry/red_sox_f...