Mahalo Blog » Dow Jones http://blog.mahalo.com Official Blog of Mahalo.com Human Powered Search Engine Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:05:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 © eliot@mahalo.com () eliot@mahalo.com() Official Blog of Mahalo.com Human Powered Search Engine eliot@mahalo.com No no http://blog.mahalo.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Mahalo Blog http://blog.mahalo.com 144 144 Best of Mahalo, September 29, 2008 http://blog.mahalo.com/2008/09/29/best-of-mahalo-september-29-2008/ http://blog.mahalo.com/2008/09/29/best-of-mahalo-september-29-2008/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:49:48 +0000 Lelah http://blog.mahalo.com/?p=224 The Wall Street financial crisis was the major news of the day, with the Dow Jones on a turbulent ride, setting a new record for the largest single day point loss ever of 777.68 points, following the rejection of the bailout bill in Congress.

The U.S. Attorney firing scandal is back in the news after an internal Justice Department report was released and a special prosecutor, Nora Dannehy, was named to investigate the possibility of filing criminal charges.

The rocket Falcon 1, funded by SpaceX, reached orbit on September 28.

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, starts today at sunset.

In celebrity news, Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds married in Vancouver, Canada, over the weekend, and Heather Locklear was arrested for drunk driving in Montecito, California.

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