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• Dan Grossman » WP Calais Auto Tagger
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• Saltire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Commonalities of various flags, religion, and the confederacy!?!
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• Hillary Clinton On Working Class Whites In 1995: Screw ‘em
  Hillary’s advice to Bill after Dems lose Congress in 1994 - “Screw ‘em,” she told her husband. “You don’t owe them a thing, Bill. They’re doing nothing for you; you don’t have to do anything for them.”More…
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• Nick Denton “Pruning” Gawker Media, Ditching Three Sites - Silicon Alley Insider
  You can interpret this two ways. Either [Gawker owner Nick] Denton is dumping three weak sites to concentrate on his strong ones, or he’s worried about the online ad market in the face of a looming recession.
  (tags: gawker blogs media business nickdenton politics statistics)
• When Your Personal Life Is Your Business, Is Everything a Tax Write-off?
  “I hadn’t really thought about bloggers, but they’re basically making their personal lives their businesses,” said John Robinson, an accounting professor at the University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business.
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• Pew Research Center: Financial Woes Overshadow All Other Concerns For Journalists
  I wonder how much their internal concerns filter into their professional work?
  (tags: journalism national local economy)
• The Big Picture | Two Dollars/share, or an “Orderly Liquidation” ?
  This was not a bailout of any sort. What the NY Fed did was allow for an orderly liquidation (at $0.07 on the dollar). The Fed is providing the liquidity for JPM’s Bear unwind, guaranteeing a good chunk of the debt:
  (tags: liquidity write-down marketvalue lehmanbrothers bearsterns federalreserve)

• Think Progress » Correction: ‘We’ve Treated The Arab World As A Collection Of Big Gas Stations’
  Though Abizaid did say “Of course it’s about oil, we can’t really deny that,” it was[[Tom] Friedman who said “We’ve treated the Arab world as a collection of big gas stations.”
  (tags: iraq oil war)
• Our Favorite 100 Blogs 2007 - Our 100 Favorite Blogs - News and Analysis by PC Magazine
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• How Causes Can Animate Companies
  What sets these companies apart? They are anchored on more than just a revenue-creating business model. Each of them has, at its core, an inspiring ideology that is intrinsically linked to the company’s value proposition and competency.
  (tags: innovation strategy)
• Airlines: How To Request Your [US] Homeland Security Travel Dosiier - Consumerist
  If you’re curious about what this record contains, you can request a copy of your file under the Freedom Of Information Act. Unsecure Flight hosts two form letters for submitting this request, along with instructions for doing so.
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• USA TODAY - Bush’s approval rating through the years
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• Understanding USA - Home
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• Put Bush’s ‘puppy dog’ terror theory to sleep - Opinions - NY Daily News
  “Of course, nothing about our being “over there” in any way prevents terrorists from coming here. Quite the opposite, the evidence is overwhelming that our presence provides motivation for people throughout the Arab world to become anti-American terrorist
  (tags: georgebush johnmccain politics terrorism threat richardclarke)
• Post Thumbs plugin - The Blemish
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• Best of: Wordpress Plugins
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• WordPress Compressed All-Inclusive Ping List
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• Search Image Database
  A searchable database of 1200 data visualizations.
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• Search Image Database::Community
  Visualizations of online communities.
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• InfoVis CyberInfrastructure- Software
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• Wordpress Theme Generator
  A live Wordpress theme generator.
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• AutoMeta: Automatic Meta & Technorati Tags for WordPress - boakes.org
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