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Month: July 2010

  • Hawaii governor vetoes civil unions bill

    Passed state House and Senate. Hawaii governor vetoes civil unions bill Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle said Tuesday night that she has vetoed a civil unions bill that would give same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples. The state's House of Representatives passed the bill in April.

  • Moral Purity vs Economic Incentives

    A comment from Metafilter: Give me a break.The housing crash can be explained entirely in terms of incentives that were completely out of whack. Implying that we as a society would have avoided disaster if only we still had humility and moral fiber is shrill and useless, and will not help us fix this crisis […]

  • Obama's CEO problem

    "The Federal Reserve recently reported that America's 500 largest nonfinancial companies have accumulated an astonishing $1.8 trillion of cash on their balance sheets. By any calculation (for example- as a percentage of assets)- this is higher than it has been in almost half a century. Yet most corporations are not spending this money on new […]

  • Where the BLINK tag comes from

    "We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text- and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be… Saturday morning rolled around and I headed into the office only to find what else but- blinking text. It was on the screen blinking in all its glory- […]

  • DICE 2010: "Design Outside the Box" Presentation Videos – G4tv.com

    Fantastic explanation of the shake-up in the gaming industry. Farmville- Webkinz- it's all here. DICE 2010: "Design Outside the Box" Presentation Videos – G4tv.com DICE 2010: "Design Outside the Box" Presentation – Carnegie Mellon University Professor- Jesse Schell- dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular "Facebook Games" era.

  • Restoration Of 'Star Spangled Banner' Uncovers Horrifying New Verses

    From the crawl at the bottom: "Francis Scott Key's Kitchen Table Fashioned Entirely from British Spines and Rib Cages Also On Display" Restoration Of 'Star Spangled Banner' Uncovers Horrifying New Verses Susan Eckman from The National Archives comes on Today Now! to share newly discovered National Anthem verses about brutally decapitating enemies during the War […]

  • Schwarzenegger Orders Minimum Wage for State Workers (Except Himself)

    Tighter and tighter: The Schwarzenegger administration today ordered State Controller John Chiang to reduce state worker pay for July to the federal minimum allowed by law — $7.25 an hour for most state workers. The instructions from the Department of Personnel Administration exclude roughly 37,000 state workers in six bargaining units that recently came to […]

  • The last tuna nigiri on Earth

    The last tuna nigiri on Earth I call it a "Republican moment-" one of those surreal and disturbing thoughts that sneaks into my soul every now and then like an unwelcome but insistent visitor- a nasty little thought made of equal parts greed and…

  • BP's New Cover-Up Revealed

    BP is trucking in sand from elsewhere to simply cover up the oil. BP's New Cover-Up Revealed