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09 Jun 2009 15:04

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Biz, Politics: Explaining himself: Why a Boston Globe reporter voted no to cuts

  • They didn’t want more work from us, they didn’t want less holidays, they didn’t want fewer vacations, anything we could have offered besides just our money, they were uninterested. And I feel like they were insensitive to a lot of people who have already sacrificed quite a bit for them.
  • Reporter Scott Allen • A member of the Boston Newspaper Guild who voted no on a 8% pay cut, and since the measure failed, guaranteed himself a 23% pay cut. He claims that The New York Times Co. stacked the cards against employees who hadn’t gotten a raise in four years due to wage freezes. Of course, in the wake of all of this, the paper could close. Scary. • source
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09 Jun 2009 11:10

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Biz, U.S.: Get ready for a flood of bailout money back into the government

  • $68 billion is coming back their way from 10 bailed-out banks source
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09 Jun 2009 11:06

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Culture: Good news, everyone! Futurama is making a series comeback!

  • Word on the street is that Bender, Leela, Fry, Zoidberg and the rest of the crew will be headed back to Comedy Central for a 13-episode run. To celebrate, here’s some Hypnotoad. We’ll be back after the hypnosis wears off. source
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09 Jun 2009 10:58

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Tech: Bloggers who get bored leave a trail of broken dreams behind

  • I was always hoping more people would read it, and it would get a lot of comments. Every once in a while I would see this thing on TV about some mommy blogger making $4,000 a month, and thought, ‘I would like that.’
  • Judy Nichols • Who ran a site called “Rantings of a Crazed Soccer Mom” before she got bored because nobody was actually visiting her site. Nichols isn’t alone by a long shot. 95% of blogs get ditched for similar reasons, or because their authors get too busy. In case you’re wondering, that won’t happen to us. We spend too much time on this to get rid of it. • source
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09 Jun 2009 10:48

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World: Some evil jerk is dropping acid off of buildings in Hong Kong

  • 24 hurt, including a little kid, after someone threw acid source
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09 Jun 2009 10:41

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World: Iran’s women are single as hell, and they’re not gonna take it anymore

Unable to marry due to a bad economy under radical-leaning Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, they may just throw the bum out Friday. source
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09 Jun 2009 09:49

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Biz: Boston Globe workers: Say no to a pay cut, get a much bigger one

  • -8.4% Amount the New York Times Company wanted to cut their pay, per agreement by the union’s guild.
  • -23% Amount the company plans to cut their pay after they turned down the agreement. That’s super-lame. source
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09 Jun 2009 09:43

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Music: Pitchfork gives Dirty Projectors a “make these guys famous” rating

  • 9.2 rating for the indie rock up-and-comers’ “Bitte Orca” source
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09 Jun 2009 09:38

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U.S.: Cali. Gov. Ahnold: Textbooks are heavy. Let’s get rid of them!

  • That’s one $350 million bill he doesn’t want to pay. Governator Arnold Schwartzenegger, looking for ways to save a little money in a huge deficit, is talking about getting kids out of textbooks and onto the Internet instead. And it’s not because the technology is so great. It’s because books are expensive and he has a $24.3 billion deficit to kill. *Whew.* Good luck duder. source
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09 Jun 2009 09:30

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World: Kim Jong Il’s oldest son doesn’t care about politics at all

  • Personally, I am not interested in this issue (succession). Sorry, I am not interested in the politics.
  • Kim Jong Nam • Kim Jong Il’s oldest son, on his lack of desire to continue in the family business as North Korean dictator, where everybody outside of your country hates you because you’re crazy. Wonder why he wouldn’t want to do that. • source
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