Month: February 2011
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The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2
Comment from Metafilter about this story about the theft of Half-Life 2’s codebase from Valve Software by a young hacker: I’ll cast the first stone. Fuck this guy. If he was a black kid in Chicago stealing stereos you’d have no problem putting him away, but a white kid doing computer crime and suddenly we […]
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House Votes to Continue Spending Millions in Taxpayer Dollars on NASCAR
House Votes to Continue Spending Millions in Taxpayer Dollars on NASCAR Taxpayer dollars on family planning is a waste- but spending on NASCAR? That's a keeper.
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This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Got this at the Borders bankruptcy sale. 2 economists walk through 800 years of financial collapse and insolvency. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Amazon.com: This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (9780691142166): Carmen M. Reinhart- Kenneth Rogoff: Books
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Struggling Musical To Bring On Co-Director
Bedtime for Taymor. Things are so shitty they're bringing in someone else to clean up her mess. Struggling Musical To Bring On Co-Director In what could be viewed as a vote of no confidence in director/creator Julie Taymor's ability to fix Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark- the producers of the creatively flailing Broadway musical (which […]
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The Science Behind Blue's Clues
From The Onion’s AVClub: The show drew on decades of studies about the success of Sesame Street and other educational programming. For a long time, the conventional wisdom in academia toward educational television held that TV-watching itself was such a passive activity—and the medium so inherently distracting—that there was no way children could derive any […]
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Inside Planned Parenthood
Via Metafilter: I get feedback from our patients, and the common thread that people are surprised at the respect with which we treat them. Over and over, I hear how impressed people are that we’re friendly, we’re clean, we don’t make them feel like bad people for accessing (STI services, birth control, abortion services). I […]
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How to Afford 300,000 Teachers
$5 billion in takehome: Last year, America’s top thirteen hedge-fund managers earned an average of $1 billion each. One of them took home $5 billion. Much of their income is taxed as capital gains – at 15 percent – due to a tax loophole that Republican members of Congress have steadfastly guarded. If the earnings of […]
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Chicagoans Dish on Giordano's Pizza Bankruptcy Filing
There was a always a wait to buy the most notable and expensive pizza in the city and they are filing for bankruptcy. Something else is going on here. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110219/tr_ac/7897238_chicagoans_dish_on_giordanos_pizza_bankruptcy_filing Chicagoans Dish on Giordano's Pizza Bankruptcy Filing