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Bee colony die-offs linked to mobile phones? - U.K. Telegraph (via Slashdot.org/)
The last of the typewriter repairmen - Wired
Dissing Steve Jobs' sense of ergonomics & aesthetics in Apple products - Bloggingheads.tv (video)
Pundits Bob Wright & Harry McCracken discuss.
FCC urged to monitor airwaves, internet for "hate speech" - Ars Technica
Google's Chrome browser gains share at the expense of IE & Firefox - CNet
Chrome is awesome for web surfing. Other stuff, like blogging, not so much. I use FF & Chrome on my PC and FF & Safari on my MacBook.
Homeowners blowing off mortgage payments to save up money - NY Times
Evictions and foreclosures take a while, you see. Heh.
Producing MBA's with ethics and compassion - Washington Post
Heh. Yeah, right.

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Screw white working-class voters! - The American Prospect (Alexandra Gutierrez)

The Dems have had it with us! We don't vote for them reliably enough and we're just plain stupid to boot.

"Eighteen months of severe recession have brought to the surface old truths that many chose to forget when times seemed to be good." - Front Porch Republic (Allan Carlson)

"The business cycle has not been eliminated; finance capitalism is by its nature unstable; politically-connected corporations commonly escape market discipline; and there is nothing conservative about the 'creative destruction' of a capitalist economy."

“People routinely mispredict how much pleasure or displeasure future events will bring.” - The New Yorker (Elizabeth Kolbert)
Suspended Animation may be possible soon. - Popular Science

Police may be closing in on Colton Harris-Moore - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Yeah sure. How many times have we heard that before? Anyhow, they'd better capture him soon or he's gonna become a folk hero to people or something. Not the people who's homes he's burglarized over the years though.

An examination of American conspiracy theorists. - Center For A Stateless Society (Kevin Carson)
"In short, both the Baptists and people like Marshall and Olbermann — like conspiracy nuts — attempt to impose meaning on reality by reading a coherent narrative into random and unrelated events."

Banksters & politicians continue to ruin the American economy. - Taki's Magazine (Paul Craig Roberts)

The life & death of the Rolodex - Gizmodo (Anna Grossman)

Some history mixed with nostalgia an obsolete technology.