Ask Slashdot: Should geek-centric magazines still publish paper editions??

Hmmm. Seems like geeks would like the trend of magazines going paperless. The link is to a lively conversation over at the Slashdot web forum on that topic.

Must-Not-Watch TV: CNN's new program featuring disgraced ex-NY governor Eliot Spitzer and ex-Washington Post columnist and RINO Kathleen Parker that is. Who would possibly give a shit what either of those two think about anything?  Rabid Democrats  might like some of the ex-gov's opinions but will the rest of us who aren't really take seriously a guy who cuckolded his wife with prostitutes and  in doing so broke the law (while serving as NY Attorney General  no less) and sent NY state police detectives to dig up dirt on political opponents? I can't say for sure but it seems unlikely. So there's that.
And as for Parker? She wrote a column for National Review before moving to the Washington Post. She's a vapid RINO squish who will likely get tepid approval from Dems and enrage Reps with her David Frum style squishiness. I wonder what demographic the CNN management thought Parker would appeal to? Was Parker & Spitzer supposed to be a kinder, gentler version of CNN's iconic debate format show Crossfire? Now departed CNN chief Jon Klein (who was fired 10 days ago) was the one who cancelled Crossfire and was the prime mover behind the Parker & Spitzer team-up show and without him there to hold the line on cancellation decisions I look for this show to fail fairly fast.

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Ex-CNN anchorman learns the hard way: It's okay to openly trash white Americans on the air, unless they're Jews. That has consequences.

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Economic sadism as TV entertainment - MLive.com
"Hoping to get in on the success of The History Channel hit "Pawn Stars," truTV will debut its new show "Hardcore Pawn" on Aug. 16 at 10 p.m. The show revolves around Les Gold and his Detroit pawn shop American Jewelry and Loan." Sickening.

How Max Headroom predicted the demise of TV journalism back in the 1980's - Wired

99 Weeks Later, Jobless Have Only Desperation - New York Times

Annexing unincorporated areas "for their own good" - LA Times
"The 85-acre unincorporated area of about 1,300 was placed under Huntington Beach's sphere of influence about a year ago by LAFCO in an effort to decrease the number of county "islands" — the generally small, unincorporated areas that were hard to serve, such as Sunset and nearby Rossmoor."

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Guerrilla-style interview tactics make ambushed lawmakers’ blood boil - The Hill (Jordy Yager)
"Medical tourist" dies as a result of botched stem cell therapy - Slashdot

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Why it's all falling apart - Herbert Marcuse
"In the affluent society, the authorities are hardly forced to justify their dominion. They deliver the goods; they satisfy the sexual and the aggressive energy of their subjects. Like the unconscious, the destructive power of which they so successfully represent, they are this side of good and evil, and the principle of contradiction has no place in their logic." (Eros And Civilization, 1966)
Are literary review journals doomed? - Mother Jones
NY Times in yet another plagiarism scandal. - Salon
Two Chinese schools linked to the army are said to be tied to online attacks. - Cnet
"Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh says he wasn't drinking and didn't do anything wrong when he crashed his city-issued car, drove home on a flat tire and waited three days to file a police report." - Detroit News
Nothing untoward going on here. Move along citizen. Move along.
Undercover CEO - CBS Television
WTF were they thinking? Just because your boss is nice guy doesn't mean capitalism is good or that being a wage slave is cool.
What MBA thought of this idea of "customer loyalty"? - Wall Street Journal
"Now, customers must spend $250 to get the same $5 offered by the old $100 plan. It was reminiscent of frequent-flier programs where the 25,000 miles required for an upgrade suddenly became 50,000. An added blow: The points from my old card—I'd accumulated 97—didn't transfer." Sucker!
Cold Steel® Latin Style Machete - 24 inch
Seems like a nice product for a very good price. And a good machete is handier than most would imagine when you really get out there. Handy on boats too. $12.99 + S/H @ Smoky Mountain Knife Works...

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Ex-New Republic, Slate Editor says: Newspaper stories are too long, boring, etc. - The Atlantic
Kill a Communist Official And Become a Local Hero - newser.com
Why Did Air America Fail? - Hot Air
"Listening to Air America was a tedious chore without much payoff..."
NASA's New Space Suit - MIT Technology Review
Getting ready for the return to Luna in 2020.
Secrets of How Meditation Works - Scientific American