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Dec 09

Daily Links for December 17th through December 20th

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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 12th through October 14th

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  • Career Voyages – Top 50 In-Demand Occupations – Initially, all of the occupations are displayed in descending order using the Top 50 rating (most desirable to least desirable). You may resort the occupations by clicking on a "Sort by" link in the table header.
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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 7th

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  • Gore Vidal’s United States of fury – Americas, World – The Independent – When did this happen to Gore Vidal? When did he go from righteous – and right – opposition to atrocities carried out by his own government, to justifying any atrocity against it, no matter how extreme? When I ask him, his scowl turns to a sneer, and he says I am ignorant and clearly haven't read anything. I decide to try a different approach. I ask him – if there were more people like McVeigh, would that be a good thing? There is a crack in his hauteur, and he says: "It strikes me as a perfect nightmare. Of course I don't want more people like McVeigh. Since Americans refuse to think about anything, being incapable I suspect of thought, then they're not going to come to any conclusions except mistaken ones."
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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 4th through October 7th

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  • Reward Points: The Real Deal | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice – Reward points programs can turn saving money on the purchases you make seem like a game. But the game you’re playing is more like skee ball than frisbee. Playing for points means you’ll be tempted to buy things you can’t afford just to acquire points. But even worse is the fact that the game is rigged before you even begin. Most people will never acquire enough points to pay for the luxury items they desire. And many reward programs are deliberately deceptive in describing how they work. Not all points are created equal and some are downright worthless. Our guide to reward points programs will teach you the tricks you need to be a points ninja.
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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 9th through September 10th

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  • If You Printed The Internet … | CreativeCloud –
  • Open Letter To The Angry Mob | APOLITICUS.COM – Don’t get us wrong. Individually, you may be top notch. You may be gentle folk who are saavy to the ways of the world. Like the good kid who starts to get bad grades when they hang out with the wrong crowd, you may have just lost your way. You may be dumb by association, or suffer from temporary dumbness. You may have a treatable version of dumb rather than a chronic dumb.

    It is with this hope, and with temporary absence of that guy in the bud hat sporting a “Obama eats puppies and washes them down with kittens” placard, that we offer you a few immutable facts to help you determine whether you are running with a smart angry mob or a dumb angry mob.

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Jul 09

Daily Links for June 29th through July 1st

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  • How Jim Fulton Saved the Space Shuttle | SpaceRef – Your Space Reference – Near a shaded street that winds through Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Pittsburg lay the grave of an Allegheny County native. More than a century ago, on March 1, 1903, James Grove Fulton was born in Allegheny County. Mr. Fulton distinguished himself as a fourteen-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, winning his first election while still in the Naval Reserve, in 1944. A lawyer by training, Mr. Fulton came to be intrigued by science, and in particular manned spaceflight. While in Congress, he also served in the U.S. delegation to the United Nations from 1960 to 1969 as an advisor on space.

    Across his nearly 30 years in the Congress, Jim Fulton was a member of the Republican minority, but still passed many laws and was a popular member of the Pennsylvania delegation. But among his many achievements is one you might not remember.

    Because, you see, James Grove Fulton saved the Space Shuttle. And therein lies a story of politics and compromise.

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9
Jun 09

Newspaper Suicide Pact: (Just) You do it to yourself…

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Lot’s of people linking to this newspaper suicide pact article.  Of course, it will fail miserably and will actually result in more of what they are trying to avoid:

Newspapers that are turning to paywall plans today are gambling on a risky revenue stream that even the experts aren’t predicting will provide a replacement to their lost advertising revenues (their biggest financial problem is the rapid decline in advertising rates, not the slow decline in print circulation). It’s a “well, we’ve got to do SOMETHING” solution, not a logical, do-the-math solution. And since since most media companies are owned by shareholders, the resulting loss of confidence could be catastrophic.  Read more...

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Jun 09

Daily Links for June 3rd

  • What I Learned Today – they’re all gonna laugh at you, they’re all gonna laugh at you – But what you may not have heard was how he was laughed at. Apparently he did not just “elicit some laughter” as the NYTimes cursorily described, he was straight up laughed at. The American press did not necessarily pick up on the importance of this. Instead, they pegged the meetings as successful. But as The Telegraph describes, “US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was laughed at by an audience of Chinese students after insisting that China’s US assets are safe…. The comment provoked loud laughter from the audience…” We’re a laughingstock! A bit disconcerting.
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May 09

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