The! Biggest! News! of! the! Day! - Not Earnings from Google, Advanced Micro, SanDisk, Caterpillar or 3M

Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...

• Earnings from Google (GOOG)...
• Earnings from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)...
• Earnings from SanDisk (SNDK)...
• Earnings from Caterpillar (CAT)...
• Earnings from 3M (MMM)...
• Earnings from Schlumberger (SLB)...
• Concerns [subscription required] about the "buy-on-the-dip" mentality...
• Skepticism [subscription required] on oil as it is argued "prices are being driven not by the fundamentals of supply and demand, but by a blend of jitters and a flood of speculative cash"...
• "A possible acquisition" of Steven Madden Ltd. (SHOO)...
• Crude oil at $90a barrel...
• The focus on Black Monday and the 1987 crash...

While those are all stories worth watching, I think it is obviously clear that the biggest story is this - Britain to recruit spies from video game: report...according to the article, "One of Britain's intelligence agencies will embed advertisements into popular video games this month in a bid to attract new recruits"...

At first glance you might not think this is worthy of "biggest news" status but before passing that judgment, read the blurb below...

"Alex Rogan lives in a trailer court where his mother is manager and everyone is like a big extended family. He beats the Starfighter Video Game to the applause of everyone in the court and later that day finds he has been turned down for a student loan for college. Depressed, he meets Centauri, who introduces himself as a person from the company that made the Game, before Alex really knows what is going on he is on the ride of his life in a "car" flying thru space..."

That comes from the Internet Movie Database description of a movie made in 1984 - The Last Starfighter. So...either Britain's intelligence agencies are getting their ideas from "less that top-rate" movies from the 80s or there is some sort of alien conspiracy going on. I am not sure which is worse...

I also have a "correction" to make to yesterday's post. Mike wrote in last night with the following..."You really missed the news of the day Nick, maybe you can use this one tomorrow..: Doctors find Toothbrush in woman's nose: I kid you not...huge news.:) "

I guess that is bigger news than office profanity...