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03 Aug 2009 10:52

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U.S.: Timothy Geithner: Middle-class tax boosts entirely possible

  • We have to bring these deficits down very dramatically. That’s going to require some very hard choices.
  • Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner • Regarding how they expect to pay for all of those deficits the government’s built up over the last year or so. Expect the teabaggers to freak out even more at this news. • source
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03 Aug 2009 10:42

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World: Ahamadinejad: Sure, Supreme Leader, I’ll be Iranian president!

It’s official. Ahmadinejad is president of Iran again. All those protests and stuff couldn’t stop it. source
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03 Aug 2009 10:35

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Tech: TechCrunch vs. Apple: The tablet PC wars are about to heat up

  • $400 expected cost of the CrunchPad, a simple-as-heck tablet produced by the TechCrunch dudes source
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03 Aug 2009 10:26

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Biz, Tech: Who didn’t see this comin’? Google’s CEO resigns from Apple’s board

  • That Google Voice thing must not have helped. Google CEO Eric Schmidt is saying “peace out” to Apple’s board, where he was increasingly seen as a weird fit. Between Google Android, Chrome OS and now the Google Voice debacle, the company has been encroaching on some of Apple’s territory. While Schmidt excused himself from discussions pertaining to products that carried “conflict of interest” baggage, there’s only so many of those discussions one can excuse yourself from before it seems weird. Wonder what Fake Steve has to say about this. source
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03 Aug 2009 10:12

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Biz, U.S.: Local, state economies are sure feeling that stimulus money

  • -8.3% decline in local and state spending during the fourth quarter of 2008 – the height of the economic decline. The first quarter of 2009 also saw declines source
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03 Aug 2009 09:20

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Biz, Politics: Columnist: Netflix is killing human interaction, makes you lazy

  • Beyond the mail delays and the botched orders, the lack of human interaction is the big problem with Netflix and its cyber-ilk.
  • Richard Corliss • In an opinion piece on Netflix, and why he doesn’t like it. Despite its huge success (two billion discs served over a decade), it feels hollow and imperfect to him. He specifically brings up the loss of his local video store, Kim’s Video, which closed earlier this year. But more than anything, he criticizes how it makes people shut-ins: “So, O.K., soon there will be no more waiting for DVDs. But it’ll come at a price. You’ll be what the online corporate culture wants you to be: a passive, inert receptacle for its products.” Ouch! • source
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03 Aug 2009 09:11

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U.S., World: A flight from Rio de Janeiro to Houston shakes up passengers

  • 26 injured when the plane shook, causing major turbulence source
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