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The Raw Story | NY Times: Bush signs landmark executive order increasing power over federal agencies“[I]n an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Bush said that each federal agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee” who will monitor the creation of process and procedures and the associated document
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“It would be understandable for Disney to try and protect its interpretations of existing characters, but its application for so-called “word marks” implies something much more than that: it implies exclusive rights to use all those characters.”
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Interesting day today – Judy Miller takes the stand…
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GM has a summit to discuss the effect of PR embargoes and the internet, and invites only those from the print press “buff books” (and not the online publications).
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Generates a color scheme from any image.
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“EACH day’s newspaper, it seems, brings more tidings of unrestrained selfishness and self-dealing and rafts of powerful people saying it’s good for us to be robbed if only we truly understood the system.”
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“Five big trends/themes that are on our radar for 2007, dealing with status, transparency and consumer power, the online revolution, more adventurous consumption, and a shift to participation.”
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“With help from a team of veteran journalists, public interest advocates, and academics, Real News presents an unranked list of the best investigative journalism from 2006.”
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Nice little Wordpress widget that communicates with onlinestatus.org to show your online status.
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GOP’ers in the House are blocking the minimum wage increase unless they get a raise too. This could all be avoided if they indexed the minimum wage to inflation.
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A book review of John Reader’s “Cities”, which in part examines Japanese manufacturing. Rather than the assembly line, independent parts are remixed to produce end-products via distributed manufacture.
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Via Infosthetics.
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Fictional Differences Expressed in Terms of Everyday Items
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Another roll-your-own t-shirt app.
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A 3D world map of economic activity.
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