My Home Improvement Live

Home Depot had a stronger second quarter than expected, but investors should worry about how the home improvement chain will fare when it doesn’t have the benefit of stimulus checks and strong seasonal trends.
The company’s problems have been well known for over a year now as the housing crisis left it–and the rest of the [...]

American Home Mortgage Investment, which was among the largest U.S. providers of home loans before seeking bankruptcy-law protection a year ago, plans to pay unsecured creditors no more than 5.9 cents on the dollar as it liquidates assets.
Creditors whose claims are backed by collateral will recover the full amounts owed, the filing said. Shareholders will [...]

The do-it-yourself home improvement market received a bit of a reprieve in the second quarter from a combination of better weather and fiscal stimulus and that could give a lift to Home Depot Inc. and Lowe’s Cos. in the near term, according to analyst Matthew Fassler of Goldman Sachs.
“Better fundamentals will continue to face off [...]

Vigile writes “Multi-GPU technology from both NVIDIA and ATI has long been dependent on many factors including specific motherboard chipsets and forcing gamers to buy similar GPUs within a single generation. A new company called Lucid Logix is showing off a product that could potentially allow vastly different GPUs to work in tandem while still [...]

I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “In Vermont, US Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier has ruled that forcing someone to divulge the password to decrypt their hard drive violates the 5th Amendment. Border guards testify that they saw child pornography on the defendant’s laptop when the PC was on, but they made the mistake of [...]

Ian Lamont writes “An unnamed source at an American ISP says staff there briefly considered using Deep Packet Inspection to comply with an order from Argentina’s Department of Justice to block access to a local gambling site. The ISP ended up not going that route, owing to the cost, but some engineers at the company [...]

arcticstoat notes an announcement from IBM that, along with technology partners, they have produced the first working sample of a SRAM cell built on a 22nm fabrication process. According to the article, this represents the next generation after 32nm process chips and won’t be in products for some years. “The technology was developed with several [...]

1Up is running a lengthy interview with Bill Roper, founder of Flagship Studios. The game company, known primarily for its Hellgate: London and Mythos titles, announced massive layoffs last month, and is now simply winding down and taking care of a few final issues. Roper gives quite a bit of detail regarding the financial machinations [...]

Not too long ago, I recall us discussing the merits or demerits of electronic voting machines. There’s a whole lot of people who are dead-set on the idea of electronic voting. Turns out, they may have been right. (which, I hope, you will read before commenting here):
The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a [...]

We have a story on STLtoday.com right now. It’s about a terribly unfortunate incident involving a teenager and a bag of…well…feces.
The headline: .
The story goes on to use the word, noting that charges stemmed from “a group of teens throwing a bag of feces on a pregnant woman” in O’Fallon, Mo.
The story has already sparked [...]