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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 21 2008 | business, news, iraq
    Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand - New York Times

    You know those military analysts the networks trot out to tell you that we're making progress in the war on terror? Turns out that a number of them are briefed by the Pentagon and have financial interests tied to the war (investments in defense companies). Shocker.

    Quoted: Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 05 2007 | business, politics, news, Dennis Kucinich, democrat
    Truthdig - A/V Booth - Kucinich Asks Himself a Question

    This is great and shows a really fun personality in politics.

    Quoted: 2007/12/03 - Rep. Dennis Kucinich stole the show at the Brown and Black Democratic Forum when he hijacked the format to ask himself a question. - Kucinich Asks Himself a Question

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 29 2007 | hulu, news, Jason Kilar, business
    Hulu Readies Its Online TV, Dodging the Insults - New York Times

    Another Hulu article, this one from the NYT.

    Quoted: Created by NBC and Fox to bring free television to the Web, Hulu plans to begin sending videos to its partners, Microsoft, AOL, MySpace, Yahoo and Comcast.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 27 2007 | music, apple, business, amazon.com, news
    Daring Fireball: More on the Amazon MP3 Store

    A detailed review of the new Amazon MP3 store from one of my favorite bloggers.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 16 2007 | business, books, news, thepugetnews
    Ayn Rand’s Literature of Capitalism - New York Times

    A NYT piece about Ayn Rand's influence on well known capitalists, including Alan Greenspan.

    Quoted: Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,”a glorification of the right of individuals to live entirely for their own interest, influenced Alan Greenspan and others.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 11 2007 | apple, ipod, business, news, iphone
    Apple 2.0: Report: Price Cut Bumped iPhone Sales Three-Fold

    Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster believes that the current 300% uptick in iPhone sales since the recent $200 price drop is "not sustainable." Today, on NPR, however, I heard Steve Jobs claim that they'd sell 10 million of these bad-boys this year. Yowzah! Makes me wonder if Apple has more tricks up their sleeve for this holiday season or if business is just going to be flat out insane?

    To date, iPhone has sold 1 million units in 2.5 months. To put that in perspective though, it took them 2 years to sell 1 million iPods.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 08 2007 | news, business, kaboodle, acquisition
    Hearst Set to Buy Shoppers Site Kaboodle

    Hearst is set to announce the purchase of Kaboodle very soon.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 02 2007 | music, news, business
    Russia shuts down Allofmp3.com - Times Online

    Allofmp3.com was finally shut down.

    Quoted: The music download website whose activities threatened to scupper Russia's entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been shut down.

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    4 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - May 23 2007 | business, investment, news, HD, Home Depot
    Home Depot to Investors: Mea Culpa - New York Times

    Our investment club has owned shares in Home Depot for 5 or 6 years. It is really nice to see Bob Nardelli gone and Frank Blake doing everything he can to improve morale and transparency to his investors. It's also nice that he takes less than 25% of the compensation of his predecssor. Finally, perhaps some governance!

    Quoted: The chief for the home improvement chain will try to make up for past mistakes by laying out his vision for the future at its annual meeting Wednesday.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - May 21 2007 | business, news, bbc, computers, nicholas negroponte
    BBC NEWS | Technology | '$100 laptop' sparks war of words

    Nasty business trying to bring technology to the world's poor when the world's largest chipmaker takes your idea and slashes your prices. Still, if I were Intel, I'd probably be trying to find a way to bring a low-cost computer to the underprivileged and children's market as well.

    Quoted: One Laptop per Child's Nicholas Negroponte accuses chip-maker Intel of undermining his not for profit scheme.

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