Results tagged “stockmarket”

• Get yourself a three-bedroom at Longwood Towers for just $860,000. [Globe]
• News flash: budget people are nerds. Nooo. And this makes them incompetent. Um. Huh? And being macho makes you more competent. Okay, now you're just getting nutty. [Herald]
• Stocks are up, no thanks to nerds, apparently. [Globe]

Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-A-Verse, so naturally, we're all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn't officially start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we're up to... Over at Sampaist, spring has more than sprung: it's sweltering! But, as everyone knows, museums are an ideal...

This weekend Bostonist made a little trip over to Wikipedia. We wanted to find out what else had been named “Black Friday.” Turns out that once upon a time it did refer to a stock market crash, one in 1869, like its brothers Black Monday (of 1987 and also 1929), Black Tuesday, and Black Thursday of Great Depression fame. There are a whole host of other Fridays that Black Friday has referred to, but presently, for most US consumers the term refers to the day after Thanksgiving when the Christmas shopping season commences. The neologism this weekend was “Cyber Monday,” coined in the anticipation that people, upon returning to work, would drop their productivity levels and use their work computers and broadband connections to shop online. Bostonist had recently told you about a web-store gone to bricks and mortar, and today we call attention to Lekker. It began as a store, with a door, and has branched out and experienced much of its sucess on the web.