Lou Dobbs, the longtime CNN anchor whose anti-immigration views have made him a TV lightning rod, said Wednesday that he is leaving the cable news channel effective immediately. via Update: Lou Dobbs to Quit CNN – Media Decoder Blog – NYTimes.com. I’ve got to admit I’ve given up on almost any TV news, probably [...]
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Guess it should come as no surprise, papers were suffering before the downturn in the economy, but its still sad to see. “The Dispatch is reducing the size of its newsroom, laying off 45 people effective on April 3, management of the newspaper announced today.” via The Columbus Dispatch : ‘Dispatch’ announces 45 layoffs on [...]
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“State leaders are determined to connect Ohio’s three largest cities by passenger rail as early as next year, an idea that Gov. Ted Strickland endorsed in his State of the State address Wednesday. The so-called 3-C corridor was abandoned in 1971, a consequence of falling ridership and the breakdown of the national rail network. Columbus, [...]
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Headed out west for a couple days tomorrow and figured I mention a few interesting things I saw recently, so just a hodgepodge post: Coldplay is being sued for copyright infringement for their song Viva la Vida by guitarist Joe Satriani, (see a YouTube video comparison) check out his much lesser known song in comparison [...]
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An interesting article in The Nation that follows John McCain’s efforts to keep information concerning POWs that were left behind in Vietnam from reaching the light of day. The information concerns among other issues the fact that the US may have hundreds of POWs behind in Vietnam who were likely eventually executed as both the [...]
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“the best campaign team in the universe ever,” working out of “ ‘The Daily Show’ news-scraper: 117 stories, 73 situation rooms, 26 news tickers,” and promising to bring “you all the news stories — first … before it’s even true.” (Quoting the current ad campaign for the election coverage of the Daily Show) Is Jon [...]
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Unbelievable finish to the 100-meter butterfly last night with Phelps keeping his quest for 8 golds alive with a miraculous comeback. Cavic who appeared to have the race one was a hair short of the wall allowing Phelps to complete another stroke and hit the wall. Unlike a sprint on the track you gotta be [...]
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The free software movement had a tough choice of whether to appeal a lower court decision that held freely distributed software couldn’t be protected through the use of copyright infringement claims (only contract claims). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. overturned the lower decision saying that despite the traditional [...]
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A crazy story that is just to strange to be fake that is written up in the NY Times. Basically in Missouri a man known as “Sergeant Bill,” went around w/ the local police who he convinced that along w/ him they did not need search warrants to enter their homes because he was a [...]
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So those of you who know me know that I am all for high gas prices. Yes you read that right, HIGH GAS PRICES, see I said it again. Why? Am I nuts? Well since I was lobbying earlier for a $1 a gallon gas tax (on the coat tail of an article by Thomas [...]
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