links for 2009-03-20

1382% vs. Facebook's 228%.

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"Steve Martin has offered to pay for an off-campus production of his play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," which was banned from a high school because parents objected to what they called adult content." Pretty cool of him.

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"The US has deported to Austria a former SS man it says was involved in the Nazi killing of some 8,000 Jews, shot in a single day and buried in pits." Even though he can't be prosecuted in Austria due to the statue of limitations ending in 1965.

Chicago Tribune has their top execs and editors on Twitter.

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"Car parts suppliers in the United States are to receive $5bn (£3.5bn) in financing from the government."

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"Crude oil's price has risen back above $50 a barrel for the first time in ten weeks, pushed higher by a weaker dollar and hopes of an economic upturn."

"US lawmakers in the House of Representatives have voted in favour of a bill to levy a 90% tax on big bonuses from firms bailed out by taxpayers."

"Two men who held up a jewellery store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, were themselves robbed as they made their getaway, US police say." That's really funny.