I can't believe I'm posting this, but the "fun" factor can't be denied.  TechCrunch alerted us to a simple little product in an embarrassing post about Google Trends a few days ago.  It's a very basic tool that allows you to flip any text upside down and backwards, then copy and paste it anywhere you please.  Click here for hours of fun!

The market summary chart on Yahoo Finance is showing the Dow at 11,055 right now.  Ouch.  On CNBC today, I caught a story about a man who, due to his bank being in trouble, can only access $171,000 of his $236,000 in life savings because the FDIC doesn't actually insure all of it!  While he knew the FDIC only insures deposits up to $100,000, he thought having separate accounts would get around that.  It didn't.  After going through the worst June since the 1930s, the first two weeks of July have not exactly been comeback rallies, especially now since investment talk in the media has turned from making greater returns to making smaller losses.

To be honest, I grew tired of the Mac vs. PC ads long ago, though I do visit Apple.com every so often to rewatch my favorites.  However, if they want to engage me once again, I'd like to see what they could come up with based on this dated Ballmer video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk

A Yahoo News article out today states that the Dow has officially dropped below 11,000 for the first time in two years.  In other negative stock news, Karen Finerman of Fast Money said last night that everyone is betting so heavily against General Motors that it's actually getting difficult to find borrowable shares to short!  It seems like just yesterday that everyone was getting over the Bear Sterns issue and preparing for the next series of rallies; things look a whole lot different now.

Have a great Canada Day!