Archive | April 27, 2007

Top Abramoff investigator at Justice resigns in wake of scrutiny over … Abramoff ties

You simply must be kidding me. Justice Dept official resigns over investigation connected with Abramoff

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Your thought for the weekend: Why can’t CNN.com tell the difference between a candidate and non-candidate?

You know, if you’re CNN, you could at least try to get it right. Go to CNN.com’s Politics page and scroll down a little. In the right column there’s a box that says WHO’S IN THE RACE? Click on the gallery right under it. There you have “a look at who’s running for president, who […]

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Will alternative payments spell the end of credit cards?

By Martin Bosworth Originally posted at Private Intelligence. Feel free to comment here or there. Although American consumers are currently slow to adopt paying bills by mobile, much of Europe and Asia is extremely comfortable with the process, to the point where the mobile phone industry is working on setting up universal operability standards to […]

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Our electric grid

Look around you at all the things you use that need electricity to operate. Your lights, coffee maker, radio, television, and computer. Your cell phone may have a battery, but it’s useless if the cell tower’s battery dies too. If the weather’s really cold and the power goes out your furnace won’t turn on because […]

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The Paris Review Vonnegut Interviews

Kurt Vonnegut’s dead, in case you hadn’t heard…. So it goes. Vonnegut, the author of counter culture classics such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions, books which were considered required reading to Boomers in college, was 84. The writer Vonnegut most resembles is Mark Twain. Like Twain, he uses humor, increasingly darker as […]

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