September 2008
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Best news story, literally, ever. →
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“The report did not speculate as to why Allen was wearing the cow suit.”
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“I was just in Atlanta yesterday. There is no gasoline in Atlanta, in Charlotte,...”
– Gas shortage continues to plague Southeast - Oil & energy- msnbc.com
OMG, the second time I’ve quoted Gingrich in a week. The world will end soon.
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Hear: The Week America’s Economy Almost...
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Where's my bailout???
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“These are days when many are discouraged. In the 93 years of my life,...”
– John D. Rockefeller, 1929
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“Oil firms are faulted as gas shortage lingers
N.C. governor blames companies...”
– From The Charlotte Observer. Mr. Harris should get a grip. I can’t get a grip; I haven’t had more than a quarter tank of gas in two weeks, and a quarter tank of gas doesn’t last very long. I bet Mr. Harris lives in Raleigh.
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“September 25, 2008
Dear Congress,
As you consider the distribution of $700...”
– An open letter to Congress
No one will even notice that extra little $1 billion the fat cats don’t get. And while we’re at it, set aside $1 billion for the soup kitchens we’re all going to be eating at soon even if the bailout package does go through. And $1 billion for animal...
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[1] SanDisk United States Online Store - SanDisk... →
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collection of amazing music you may have missed →
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Better than Womanizer
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Defragment multiple drives simultaneously with... →
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Smart Defrag is a free disk defragmenting utility from IOBit. There are a few things that set this program apart from other…
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Will American Audiences Accept *Little Britain... →
Shared by Jamie So sad I’ll have to miss this show!
Sure, Saturday Night Live may be experiencing a ratings boost during this election season, but for the most part, American sketch…
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Top Wall Street Executives Made More Than $3... →
“Wall Street’s five biggest firms paid more than $3 billion in the last five years to their top executives, while they presided over the packaging and sale of loans that helped bring down the investment-banking system.” They made how much? And I should bail out the companies dumb enough to pay them?
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“As [Matt Simmons, the chairman of Houston energy industry investment bank...”
– Gas shortages: get ready for more
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“You ”good values people” have had the country for eight years, and done an...”
– Jon Stewart in Entertainment Weekly (via caro) (via siddman)
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“Even as tempers flare and unsuitable words flow over the search for gas, the...”
– Many look for gas, find help
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Del Toro joins vampire invasion of the bookshops →
Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro is set to publish his first novel, joining the current vogue for bloodsucking blockbusters
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Adobe extends Photoshop to mobile phones →
Shared by Jamie Photoshop on your mobile phone. That’s a big “Wow.”
The Photoshop.com Mobile beta lets people with Windows Mobile phones view and upload photos.
(Credit: Adobe Systems)
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MySpace Music launches (yawn) →
Shared by Jamie I’m not very impressed either. Can’t figure out their search, can’t actually get anything to play, just not going to spend much time trying to figure it out.
Filed under: Audio…
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“Lehman and my dad would have been appalled
By Walt Gardner
There’s...”
– From USAToday Big business with some duty to its employees? I watched that die in the late 90s, from a front-row seat. It’s all part and parcel of what’s going wrong, as this commentator notes.
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“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can...”
– Alexis de Tocqueville (via hilker) (via basicwhitetrash)
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Harsh reactions to the bailout →
The entire collection is important, so read it all, but here are a few of my favorites …
“The point is this is one of the most important irrevokable economic decisions we will ever make. Let’s make it in a state of panic.” — Stephen Colbert
“As of now we [journalists] are, as a group, behaving just as we did the last two times the administration sought to rush...
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“It’s just a bunch of zeroes. It’s merely 700,000,000,000, and if you...”
– 700 billion fluffy nothings Mark Morford, SFGate It’s worth reading the entire piece, it really is. Almost enjoyable if it weren’t so true.
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“This is exactly the time when the American people NEED to hear from the person...”
– Barack Obama (via notthatkindagay/peterwknox) (via pinkhotel)
Somebody help me, please! →
I’ve reached a new low in my desire to avoid going home. Help me figure out how to get through this! Three teenagers suddenly appearing in my life are just about to be too much, and I’m almost out of grit to keep going.
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“Posted: Wednesday, Sep. 24, 2008
Gov. Mike Easley is asking western N.C....”
– Easley asks drivers to conserve | www.charlotteobserver.com
My tank, she is on empty. This is getting ready to be a personal problem.
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“From: Minister of the Treasury Paulson
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL...”
– reprinted from (where else?) the Wall Street Journal here
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“Mrs Schofield’s GCSE
You must prepare your bosom for his knife,
said...”
– The poem Carol Ann Duffy penned in response to her work being removed from a GCSE curriculum Mrs Schofield’s GCSE
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New fave website: Untitled Books →
“Untitled Books is an exciting new literary website recommending and selling books. It is the unique link between online sales and independent, intelligent reviewing”
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““Despite her great success, it is known that she suffered from depression,...”
– LM Montgomery, famous author of Anne of Green Gables, killed herself in 1942. How terribly sad. From The Guardian
Microsoft Makes Key Hire in Researcher Danah Boyd →
Microsoft Research has hired social network researcher danah boyd, probably the most high profile academic in the world focused on the emerging web and its social consequences. Who is danah…
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What if the bailout plan doesn't work? →
basicwhitetrash:
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I’m going to go stare at my back yard for a while now. Ohhh the stress.
I simply can’t imagine it could make my personal economic situation much worse, since I’m already scraping bottom. Maybe our economic system would develop some morality.
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“An article in the Medford Mail-Tribune calls attention to the damp town of...”
– From Roadside America
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Ghost Towns →
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Just my kind of thing!
If you want to visit a ghost town for Halloween, make your plans now! Cult Case has an overview of seven of them, including Helltown, Ohio.
Also known…
