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Lately I’ve been thinking that getting an invoice back after you pay your taxes would be awesome- like what you have bought/funded with your money.  I know this would be difficult and take time but I would LOVE to see; this would be the ultimate in accountability.  I am a big believer in higher taxes […]

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So yeah, times ARE tough and the economy does suck.  How do I know?  Like a dummy, I quit my job and am now looking for one.  And it is hard, and I am even having difficulty finding a coffee shop job- and I am qualified in coffee work.  I kind of didn’t believe the […]

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This awesome bank has sent this awesome letter to Congress.  I am so, like, proud of this bank for standing up against the bailout.  I assume that all financial institutions are pro-bailout, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense for anamolies in bailout opinion.

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So there’s a lot of news about “economic collapse” and “federal bailouts” but the terminology, chronology and methodology of these stories is really confusing; laymen like us don’t really understand.  You’d have to have about three degrees to get it and explain it and the people writing the articles aren’t doing a good job- not […]

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U-Haul
Enterprise Car Rental
IKEA
What do these three companies have in common?  Besides the first two, they’re both vehiclular rental companies.  NO ALL THREE!  These three large corporations have something very specific in common.

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I am now recovering from one of the more lengthy and painful periods of being more or less unemployed, and am currently working for a great team at a great startup working on great technologies.
Phew.  It was a close one.
However, before I ended up at my current place of employment, I had the opportunity to […]

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Edit 6/4/08 - Jay from the Switchabit team has again proven to be very helpful and the problems seem at this point to be very creepy indeed, but not Switchabit related.  If Jay’s diagnosis (involving multiple IPs from my router) is correct, then their help has amounted to far more than content distribution hiccups.  Still […]

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This is a debate that will reverberate ad nauseum on the internet until, of course, something is done about it.
A majority of internet users believe that the services and software they use on the internet should be entirely free of charge. We know this, but what we also know is that this argument […]

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Yahoo turned down Microsoft’s offer, as I’m sure everyone in the free world is aware by now.
The Gillmor Gang has organized an emergency podcast, which you can listen to.
800-704-9804. Code to listen 714583#.
They just started (it’s a little after 10PM EST), so feel free to check in like a whole lot of us are.
Preliminary verdict:  […]

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Robots & Empire has just launched a custom google search.
Much like Blackle, this bad boy is black, and does all the Google can do.
The catch?
All revenue generated from search queries will be used to launch a microlending fund for third world nations.
Other individual investors have pledged to match any accrued revenue with dollars of their […]

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