Daily Link Lovin
GOOD MORNING ST101!! How is everyone doing today? Yes it is Monday morning, but come on, has anyone stepped outside yet, it is beautiful! We are set to break 60 degrees here in Michigan, which will make a walk with our bulldog Ruby that much more attractive for this afternoon. I also woke up this morning to find out that I had made it into the finals of the 2007 bloggers tournament, sweetness. The problem is though is that someone has created a nasty bot that votes automatically with different IPs. Basically I am down already by nearly 500 votes, and I have only but finished breakfast! Anyway, gotta send some link lovin over to Derrich for putting the tournament on, check him out! Here are the links for today:
Market Headlines:
- Manufacturing in US fell more than the forecast in March, ISM survey shows
- First Data gets bought out by KKR for $29 Billion, talk about a payday!
- Iran’s Seizure of U.K. Sailors Heightens Risks
- Billionaire Zell will buy Tribune for $8.2 Billion
Blogger Posts and Articles:
- TradingMarkets.com with 7 Stocks to Know for Today
- Kevin talks about a potential trade with a Divergence in China
- Biefing.com reports that there is nothing to get excited about in the market
- WallStrip covers FedEx today, pack it and ship it please?
- Looking for a rate cut? Briefing.com says don’t hold your breath!
- ML writes on Crude/Gasoline price disparity and the 321 crack spread
Random
- Hacker Attacks on Windows Flaws Rises
- Chris and Howard Report a flaw in a major stock ad, wow this is sad…
- Celebrex Drug Ads are set to make a comeback to TV
- New video from The Office, next season should be entertaining!
Those stupid bots! I need to figure out how to fix it for the next run…maybe a “human” check or something.
Either way, this has been a fun contest.
BTW…that smiley is supposed to be
not 
Not sure how that happened.
wow
The contest has been a blast man, thanks again for putting it on! Hopefully people will see that I am still a solid contender for making it all the way to the finals.
As for ideas on how to fix it, your guess is as good as mine. Do they let you view the IP addresses of those who voted? Thinking outloud, you probably need a way for people to sign into a database then vote, so the voting is based on unique user id, not unique IP. That would make a difference!