Obama's Transition Team Includes Contributors, Bundlers and Lobbyists (3)
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Members of Barack Obama's transition team weren't necessarily selected solely on their résumés and expertise--some may have scored positions over similarly qualified individuals because they supported the president-elect by bundling money for his presidential campaign or opening their own wallets to him. And although Obama prohibits registered lobbyists from making financial contributions to his transition, influence peddlers past and present are showing up on the team that's building the foundation for the next administration.The Obama ...
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ckstevenson said:
As the bailout continues to be correlated highly with political donations and lobbying, this stuff should be noted.It'd also be nice to know how this compares to previous transitions.
Selectable Output Control in Make (13)
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MAKE's put my latest column, "Selectable Output Control," online -- it describes a proposal to the FCC to allow broadcasters to shut down parts of your home theater while you're watching their channels, and the consequences for Makers. Chances are, you haven't heard of Selectable Output Control (SOC), a proposed digital TV technology that would allow broadcasters or copyright holders to tag their video with a list of receiver-outputs that were allowed to carry it. ...
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px said:
fuck technology
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ydant said:
Read and be scared. This is real, and it is coming.
Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis (41)
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If you're like most people, you don't really know what's going on with the economy. You know there's something to do with loans and payments and what not, but not much else. Mint (the financial management app) and Wallstats (the guy who does the Death and Taxes poster) put together a "visual guide to the financial crisis" - or a flow chart, rather - to clear up some of those cloudy details. It goes back ...
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Colin said:
finally, the crisis broken down the way I needed it! If only the solution were really so simple.
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Mo said:
must see, don't really know what's going on with the economy or even if u do know :)
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Moah said:
Again, who doesn't like pretty flow charts? Have I mentioned I love oversimplified explanation of complicated problems? Actually this one is not that simplified. I love that HGTV shows like 'Flip that house' are part of the problem.
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Mike said:
The quotes are fantastic.
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Yann said:
I like the Quote from GW Bush : "We got a big problem!" indeed!
Service?Sacrifice?Equity?Honor? (6)
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The Washington Post reports that Representative Peter Roskam (R-IL), during last week's hearings, asked automaker CEOs if they'd work for a dollar a year. Chrysler's Nardelli said yes, GM's Wagoner said "I don't have a position on that today," and Ford's Alan Mulally, who made $21,700,000 last year, said, "I think I'm okay where I am." In the immortal words of Dave Barry, "I'm not making this up." Meanwhile CNN's Kyung Lah reported that the ...
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Scott Sorheim said:
Would be nice to hear of more stories of CEOs willing to sacrifice. This story was an interesting example http://leantech.com/blog/?p=23
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Daltonsbriefs said:
Normally pro-big business Peters beats on auto industry management too, uh-oh they're in trouble now
Michael Jackson picks the name Mikaeel after rejecting Mustafa.... (1)
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... as he converts to Islam at some mansion in L.A.Cat Stevens was there. Maybe he sang this song. blog advertising blog advertising
CNN Corrects Its Pathetic 'Bush Snubbed By World Leaders' Story (1)
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CNN has corrected a bogus story the network's Rick Sanchez pathetically aired Wednesday about leaders at last Saturday's G20 meeting snubbing President Bush as if he had "cooties."For those that missed it, Sanchez played a video (embedded below the fold) of Bush seemingly being ignored by most of the leaders of the free world as they lined up to take a group picture:I want you to look at this video, all right. It seems almost ...
Stanford Prof.: U.S. 'Not in Anything Resembling' Great Depression (2)
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Pulitzer-Prize winning author and professor of history at Stanford University David M. Kennedy told Bloomberg radio Nov. 18 that the current financial crisis bears no comparison to the Great Depression. "Well, we're not yet in anything remotely resembling the crisis, the scale of crisis of the Great Depression." When Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933, 13 million Americans were unemployed. "That was 25 percent of the work force," Kennedy told Bloomberg host Tom Keene. The ...
Naught for Twenty Years (4)
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There was this GM sales VP—a senior job, but hardly stratospheric. As I recall he was to attend a regional sales meeting, and his pre-visit specs called for a refrigerator filled with beer to await him in his hotel room. In this instance, there was no way to get the fridge upstairs, so the enterprising local sales types hired a crane, removed the exec's would-be room window and inserted the refrigerator through said window. The ...
The most important piece of software for an Industrial Designer (7)
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Jason Morris, a professor at Western Washington University's ID program, has just posted up the findings of a year-and-a-half long survey of software requirements for ID jobs, summarized above. Taken from an admittedly small and arbitrary sample--200 or so job postings in IDSA Perspectives--the results point out a few trends worth considering. 1. 2D visual exploration is still the most important, and Adobe is still at the top of that heap. No surprise there. 2. ...
Ann Curry Cites Gross 'Mis-Example' of Climate Change (1)
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The glacier on Mt. Kilimanjaro is melting. If you were watching NBC "Nightly News" Nov. 19 you probably would think that ice is declining because of "climate change."After all, "Today's" Ann Curry said it: "Mt. Kilimanjaro has become a kind of poster-child for climate change. Eighty-four percent of the ice has disappeared in less than 100 years and by 2020, scientists expect as early as that it could all be gone."Not so fast.Despite Curry's "Ends ...
Apple to Mac owners: throw away your monitor if Hollywood says so (68)
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Buying an Apple computer? Get ready to throw away your monitor, over and over again. New Apple hardware is shipping with "HDCP" anti-copying technology that prevents showing some video on "non-compliant" monitors. Best part: the list of "compliant" monitors will change over time: the monitor you buy today can be "revoked" tomorrow and stop working. Slashdot says that Apple's added "copyright protection" to its video. But copyright law isn't violated when you watch a movie ...
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E.C. Mendenhall said:
Ugh. Thank God for the hackintosh.
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ydant said:
For the same reason Vista, newer DVD players, the xbox, the PS3 all do it...
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Chris Nixon said:
Once again Digital Rights Management takes away rights rather than ensuring them. One of the biggest misnomers of all time. This will naver be a problem for pirated material though, so it seems that is the way to go.
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Jason said:
Dear Apple and Steve 'Hipster With A Lot of Advertising Budget' Jobs: go fuck yourselves.
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Tom said:
thin end of the wedge?
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Zubin said:
...and people still like and admire Apple as a company.
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Vi said:
oh WHY? :(
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Devon Campbell said:
I don't understand. As they are trying to rid the music section of iTunes of DRM, did they think it was a good idea to include it in their latest round of hardware for video playback?
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Liz said:
I'm pretty displeased by this. I'd love my Mac products so much more if it weren't for the Apple attitudes on things like this. This is the sort of shit that makes me want to throw out my iPod. But then I think about how much I love my iPod and how sad I would be, and I hang my head in shame.
Cotton Picking Correlates to President Picking (21)
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The U.S. election is over. The post-election analyses begin. The above map shows presidential voting at the county level. The more red a county is, the stronger the support for John McCain and similar for Barack Obama and blue. Below is cotton production in 1860. Each dot represent 2,000 bales. That's some strong correlation. In fact, here is the election map with the cotton overlay: This of course is a case of strong correlation - ...
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Jbud1 said:
This correlation is uncanny.
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Chris said:
Now that is an interesting and awesome use of information.
How Unlikely Was the Historic 11-10 Score? (3)
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You may have heard that the game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and San Diego Chargers on Sunday was the first NFL game in history to end in an 11-10 score. But that, in itself, isn’t a first. Plenty of plausible scores have never happened, and 262 other scores have occurred exactly once. Associated Press Steelers placekicker Jeff Reed’s field goal provided three of Pittsburgh’s 11 points in its historic 11-10 win over the Chargers. Also ...
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Kevin D. White said:
"Did you know that teams win more often when they score 13 points than when they score 14?" This one's for my fellow numerati out there. An absolutely facinating article on the probability distribution of NFL game scores.
Grammy Tech summit keynote: stop whining about CD sales and realize the definition of success has changed (9)
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Ian Rogers, an old-school music-tech geek who runs Topspin, a music/tech startup, gave a hell of a keynote at the GRAMMY Northwest MusicTech Summit, in which he told the most powerful people in the music industry to suck it up, get over the rhetoric about stealing and lost CD sales, and build businesses with the net, not against it. The lamenting we read in the press is not the story of the new music business. ...
Guest Post: Socialism Is UnAmerican by Duane Lester (1)
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The following is a guest post from Duane Lester of All American Blogger, where you can find other great articles. Sign up for their free RSS feed so you don’t miss a single post. What is the spirit of America, and what does it mean to be an "American." Perhaps I am old fashioned, but I think the American spirit exists in the blood, sweat, and tears of hard work, effort and the desire to ...
Obama Voters Demonstrate How Their Views Shaped by MSM (2)
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This is a video that is both extremely funny as well as very sad. It shows how the perceptions of Barack Obama voters were shaped by the mainstream media. We have already seen the vast amount of misinformation displayed by Obama supporters by an interview with them on the streets of New York conducted by the Howard Stern Show and now the How Obama Got Elected website goes into even more detail about how the ...
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David said:
This article angers me because it blatantly ignores the right half of the electorate that was also swindled by television. For example, in Texas, a quarter of the electorate either wasn't sure, or thought Obama was probably a Muslim. Even the whoel Jeremiah Wright issue, a Christian issue, a quarter of teh people were still manipulated into unceratinty about Obama's religion.There are plenty of less informed people to go around when it comes to spot interviews for voting intelligence... on BOTH sides.
How Unlikely Was the Historic 11-10 Score? (2)
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You may have heard that the game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and San Diego Chargers on Sunday was the first NFL game in history to end in an 11-10 score. But that, in itself, isn’t a first. Plenty of plausible scores have never happened, and 262 other scores have occurred exactly once. Associated Press Steelers placekicker Jeff Reed’s field goal provided three of Pittsburgh’s 11 points in its historic 11-10 win over the Chargers. Also ...
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Kevin D. White said:
"Did you know that teams win more often when they score 13 points than when they score 14?" This one's for my fellow numerati out there. An absolutely facinating article on the probability distribution of NFL game scores.
"5 Myths About an Election of Mythic Proportions." (1)
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WaPo's Chris Cillizza's list:1. The Republican Party suffered a death blow....2. A wave of black voters and young people was the key to Obama's victory.... Exit polling suggests that there was no statistically significant increase in voting among either group. ...3. Now that they control the White House and Congress, Democrats will usher in a new progressive era. ... The fact that roughly a third of the Democratic House majority sits in seats with Republican ...
