Links: Hadron Collider Wipes Out Subprime, Oil Ads, etc.
Today's looking like another meeting-fest, so a few quick links that others may find interesting:
- What is the probability of the Large Hadron Collider destroying the universe? (Overcoming Bias)
- Consumers report feeling worse now than in other deeper economic downturns. Why? (WashPost)
- Big consumer products companies like P&G still lag badly in online ad spending (WashPost)
- Oil industry ad spending is up a whopping 18% y-o-y. Gosh, I wonder why (WSJ)
- U.S. retail gasoline purchases fell 4.7% y-o-y last week (MasterCard)
- 2009 U.S. airline traffic looks like it be back to 1997 levels, post the current cuts (Rick Seaney)
- Current aircraft taxi times now exceed pre-9/11 (BTS)
- Strange story of ten-year-old boy with Tourette's/OCD who thought 9/11 is his fault for not walking on a white mark on road (Neurocase)
- Is LinkedIn worth $1-billion? I know that I'm thinking more like $1.117b (GigaOm)
- Price gouging as a rational response to gas hoarding (FT)
- Prices of rare metals -- many from Africa -- are soaring because of airlines hunting for lightweight super-alloys (FT)
