The Egypitan government has pulled Al Jazeera's license in continuing attempts to return to the days of, IDK, carrier pigeon communication.

Yemen protesters marched outside the Egyptian embassy in Yemen, yes, that's an awkward sentence but there are five thousand articles to read and correcting myself takes time. They're also in in the middle of their own protests in demanding their president resign.

Jordan is also protesting at the Egyptian embassy in the midst of a new wave of demands that their president resign.

China blocks the word 'Egypt' from it's search engines. Yeah. That's...something.

Algeria and Lebannon are getting inspired to join in.

Syria isn't being protest-oriented quite yet, but After Egypt, Can Syria Fall Next?

And Tunisia continues to shake up dictators everywhere by by issuing an arrest warrant for their former president while continuing to be revolutionaries.

God. I will never be able to read everything.

vaguely related note )
So market_roulette is sort of--getting away from me.

There's a reason there is no single great and wonderful site to get up to date stock quotes for every exchange in the world. I don't know what it is, but it has to be there, since I can't find one that will give me global range (lots of partial). Which means I'm having to pull from a surprising number of sites.

You would think--theoretically--that I'd conclude that the reason is it's kind of fucking impossible since I can't even get public listings from the Iranian Oil Bourse (did you know they don't take US dollars but do take yen? I'm so going to win at Jeopardy someday) and good luck getting anything on Islamabad Stock Exchange in Pakistan. Cause I'm having problems.

Part of it could be that my Arabic is non-existent, granted, but I'll be frank, that's not the problem here. I don't actually need stock quotes from Pakistan, the Channel Islands, and Tunisia. I mean, really; my participants are honestly not losing out because I can't get a full length company list and stock quotes for the--and wow, didn't see this coming--billion stock exchanges of the world. I used to think I was good at geography. Not since the Channel Islands and Tunisia. And apparently Northern Cyprus may or may not be an independent nation only acknowledged by Turkey, and I'm starting to think in GMT and I'm GMT -6 and why do I say that before I say US Central Time now?

Right, getting back.

So there no single powerful entity that has all the stock quotes of the world (not to mention a complete list of stock exchanges; Tunisia. God). There are amazingly good reasons, I'm sure, like accessibility, ease of use, language barrier, and some countries really don't like other countries to look at their exchanges. And yet, I haven't slept in twenty four hours because I'm a completionist; there should be a single, shining, worldwide site where you can get stock quotes from Japan and Morocco and Lebanon all in one-stop shopping.

The thing is, I know I cannot with the power of the import functions in googledocs create a magical spreadsheet that has every public company, every ticker, and every stock price in the world on every single exchange in the correct local currency with an insta!converter for currency exchanges. I mean, I do know this. I just haven't convinced my completionist instincts to stop leaving an Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and--*breathes*--Greek dictionaries (do not judge; Athens Stock Exchange is awesome) open for when I stumble across another financial site to add to my import list.

I feel this will end either in insanity or possibly, tears at the fact that I cannot learn to read Japanese in five hours to figure out if they have a cvs download function on Yahoo's Japanese finance site. And China's. And India's. And maybe Taiwan's?

I really have no other news. God, that's sad.
Right, so I finished the spreadsheet for anyone who thinks they might want to play market_roulette and oh, there's a community.

[community profile] market_roulette

This will be a paper-only, no-actual-money-needed game to see who can make the best investments in the stock market over the next year.

It's set to moderated for now, so if you said something in my last post, you should get an invite, or just go ask to join. I'll have a public entry up with a (short) breakdown of how this will work,and trust me, it will be as simple or as complicated as the player wants to be. I haven't tried OpenID with comms, so if that works and you'd like to use that, we can test it now, or I think I have a couple DW codes for anyone who doesn't have an account and would like one.

If anyone is surprised I am leaping upon this like a wild hyena, really. First post will be up as soon as I'm done squeeing to myself. Or when I can control the squee well enough to make sense.

ETA:

To play, again, this requires no money investment whatsoever. It will be done on paper only. The first post is here.

If you wish to join, I'll approve as soon as I get the request.

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