WHERE ARE THEY NOW? The Cast Of 'The Cosby Show'

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"The Cosby Show" made us all wish our families were better at frequent coordinated group dancing.

And though it wrapped in 1992, the show remains one of the most iconic and relevant sitcoms ever (sweaters aside, of course).

In honor of Malcolm Jamal-Warner's new show premiering tonight, here's what the Huxtables are up to today.

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Australian Ikea Store Builds A Playroom For Men Where Wives Can Drop Their Husbands While They Go Shop

By Sarah Firshein

An Ikea store in Sydney, Australia, has either set retail shopping forward by three decades or set gender equality back by three decades—you decide: they're testing out Manland, which is, as one local newscaster describes it, "basically a creche for husbands and boyfriends with short retail attention spans, a place to hang out while their wives and girlfriends run the aisles of Ikea."

Think ultimate man-cave stuff such as video games, foosball tables, free hot dogs, pinball machines, and oddly enough, no books. (Apparently reading is not encouraged in Manland!) As with Ikea's childcare creche, women dropping off their husbands and boyfriends are given a buzzer. "After 30 minutes, the buzzer goes off, it reminds you that you have to come pick up your man or else, you know, we may have to all the authorities," explains one Ikea sales associate.

Clearly there are a number of loopholes in this whole program, not the least being the fact that it overlooks gay couples. And secondly, when is 30 minutes ever enough time to successfully navigate an Ikea.

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Check Out Where The Baltic Dry Index Is

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The Baltic Dry Index -- which is just an index of shipping rates -- has a lore about it for being a really good economic indicator.

But in reality, it's not much of an indicator of anything beyond... shipping rates. And that's because it's idiosyncratic, moving on its own micro economic factors.

Case in point: Right now the BDI is at its highs of the year!

Here's Lazard Capital on the closely-related Baltic Cape Index:

Dry Bulk: Capesize rates are profitable for now but do not expect such to
be lasting.  The Baltic Cape Index continues to hit new highs for the calendar
year with rates at ~$27,000/day on average on the back of firm Chinese
demand for iron ore and steady demand for coal supported by stabilizing
commodity prices, moderating Chinese domestic inflation and steady domestic
demand despite some overall slowing in export demand.  As well, the Cape
fleet has been experiencing record scrapping this year.  Still, the fleet remains
markedly oversupplied and this condition should exist well in to 2012.  We
have been expecting moderate spikes in Cape rates and we feel this current
moderate spike is not the last spike that we shall see over the next 12 months
(today’s rates are still well below the $40,000/day average rates we say for
Capes in October 2010).  Given that there will likely be spikes in freight rates
despite a slow GDP growth regime globally, the dry bulk market is not nearly
as out of balance as the bears would suggest.

Anyway, one other reason we point this out now is that we frequently hear about the BDI when it's down and stocks are up. People don't bring attention to it as much when it's up and stocks are down.

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Microsoft Just Got Sued For Knowing Where You Are And Where You've Been (MSFT)

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Security researcher Samy Kamkar says that Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 can transmit your location without your permission, writes Declan McCullagh of CNET.

It's the Camera application that seems to be the specific problem -- it sends the phone's location, including latitude and longitude, a unique ID, and nearby Wi-Fi access points -- to Microsoft.

This all happens even when the user hasn't given the app permission to behave in this manner.

It's Apple's Locationgate all over again.

Now there's a class action lawsuit in progress.

This could be an easy fix -- there's no evidence that a single customer has been harmed due to location tracking, and there's still the user option to completely turn off location services. That should disable the transmission of any geolocation data to Microsoft.

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Here's That Video Where Paul Krugman Says A Fake Alien Invasion Would Fix The Economy

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A Keynesian classic from earlier this month on CNN (via FT Alphaville):

Paul Krugman says: "If we discovered that space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the alien threat and budgets and deficits took a secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. And if we made a mistake and discovered that it was fake, we'd be a better --"

Finally Ken Rogoff cuts him off with a quip about Orson Welles.

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