Obama Economic Advisor Goes on Offense Against McCain (1)
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A top economic advisor to Sen. Barack Obama cited stark differences between the Democratic presidential candidate’s plan for the economy and that of Republican rival Sen. John McCain on Friday, expressing confidence that voters will side with Obama on what is likely the top issue in the November elections. Goolsbee “As we go forward in the next two months, all we’ve got to do is lay out what’s actually in their programs and I think ...
Foreclosure Effect on Home Prices May Be Small (1)
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Even though data Friday from the Mortgage Bankers Association indicated that U.S. foreclosures hit a record in the second quarter, that won’t necessarily translate into big declines in home prices. (Getty Images) That appears to be the conclusion based on the findings of a trio of economists in a National Bureau of Economic Research paper. “Even in the face of an extreme foreclosure wave such as that experienced in 2007, our evidence indicates that foreclosure ...
IMF Economist Has Optimistic Outlook (1)
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The International Monetary Fund’s new chief economist has a relatively upbeat outlook on the global financial and commodity crisis, though he said the combined threat makes them “tougher” to deal with. In an interview with the fund’s IMF Survey magazine during his first week on the job, Olivier Blanchard said he sees an “optimistic” outcome as more likely. Blanchard “If the price of oil stabilizes, I believe we can weather the financial crisis at limited ...
Friday Photos: The real Walter Reed (1)
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Last night, you may have noticed something odd in the background of John McCain's acceptance speech. Roughly a minute into the Arizona senator's remarks, a fancy-looking building with a nicely groomed lawn popped up on the jumbo screen behind him.I remember thinking: What's that? His spread in Sedona? Why would they possibly want to show that? Turns out, it was a photograph of the Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, California: Whoops. An image ...
AT&T Slaps Family With a $19,370 Cell Phone Bill (9)
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theodp writes "Mama, don't let your babies send e-mail and photos from Vancouver. A Portland family racked up nearly $20,000 in charges on their AT&T bill after their son headed north to Vancouver and used a laptop with an AirCard twenty-one times to send photos and e-mails back home. The family said they wished they would have received some kind of warning before receiving their chock-full-of-international-fees 200-page bill in the mail for $19,370. Guess they ...
Mercs 2 gas giveaway causes 'chaos' in London (2)
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Filed under: Culture While a similar publicity stunt in LA went off with relatively little drama, it appears the Mercenaries 2 petrol giveaway in London was "irresponsible and dangerous," according to local residents. The BBC reports that traffic was gridlocked as drivers waited to get their £40-worth ($70) of gratis gas. The promotion started at 6:30AM and ran until police apparently shut it down. Local residents were quite upset about the traffic and honking the ...
Businesses Can't Hide From 2.0 (61)
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If you were interviewing someone for a position with your company and they admitted that they didn't know anything about the new trends and innovations taking place in their field, what would you think? Likely, what you would think is "next candidate, please." In today's business world, job-seekers are expected to stay current with the happenings taking place in their area of interest. There was a time when those happenings were very much job-specific and ...
Truman Show Delusion (4)
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Originally posted in ct2 This caught my eye: In a NYT piece on the rise of patients pleading that they are stuck inside a very sophisticated reality-TV show -- no, really -- and they want to get out, just like Jim Carrey did in the Truman Show. Another patient traveled to New York Cit and showed up at a federal building in downtown Manhattan seeking asylum so he could get off his reality show, Dr. ...
Update on CIA drug plane owned by “Donna Blue Aircraft, Inc” (29)
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Here's an update on the strange story of the Gulfstream II jet filled with 3.7 tons of cocaine that crashed in the Yucatan last year. The Mexico City newspaper El Universal reports that European Parliament was investigating the circumstances surrounding the plane, which had previously been used by the CIA for "extraordinary rendition" flights. The daily said it had obtained documents from the United States and the European Parliament which "show that that plane flew ...
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Jacob said:
This is some crazy Trevor Paglen shit. Now that I mention it, Paglen sounds a lot like Palin. Duuuuuude.
Lingerie Football League: The Celebrities of Tomorrow - And My Pants (4)
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Since it's Friday and there's a serious celeb bikini drought going on, The Superficial is officially honoring the start of the NFL season by posting pics of the Lingerie Football League. After a week of intense political debate, I felt like we needed to come together as a nation. And I think we can all agree it doesn't get more patriotic than chicks in lingerie tossing the ol' pigskin. Unless, of course, Sarah Palin gave ...
Kevin Kelly on the history of Wired (5)
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Wired magazine went around to interview the founders of Wired. Here's Kevin Kelly talking about Wired and HotWired. (In this video, you can see the back of my head at 1:32. Boing Boing manager John Battelle is in the blue t-shirt across from me.) To celebrate its 15th anniversary, Wired sent a film crew around to some of its former co-founders so we could reminence on tape. They came to my studio this spring and ...
Twitter added nofollow to &8220;www.&8221; links in their Bio field (21)
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Yesterday John Battelle emailed me to ask about Rae’s post. This will be a little inside baseball to some people who don’t live and breathe search and Twitter, but I figured I’d take what I emailed to John, add some pictures, and post it here. Here’s the email: Sorry for the delay in replying; I’m really behind on email because I’ve been talking about Chrome this past week. The short answer is that back in ...
Westmoreland stands by ‘uppity’ remark: ‘It accurately describes’ Obama. (2)
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Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) is standing by the remarks he made yesterday that the Obamas are part of an “elitist-class…that thinks that they’re uppity.” According to the AP, Westmoreland says that he was unaware that the word was offensive: In a statement Friday, Westmoreland - who was born in 1950 and raised in the segregated South - said he didn’t know that “uppity” was commonly used as a derogatory term for blacks seeking equal treatment. ...
South Ossetia recognition watch: Nicaragua stands alone (1)
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Russia's campaign to win international recognition for the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia isn't going as well as they may have hoped. So far only Nicaragua, of all places, has signed on. Belarus and Venezuela were both staunch supporters of Russia during the war with Georgia but haven't yet indicated that they intend to recognize the two regions. Moscow will push its case at a meeting of seven former-Soviet republics today in Moscow.If you're ...
