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Signs That Borrow-and-Spend Policies Aren’t Sustainable – NYTimes.com "The rising tab has prompted warnings from the Treasury that the Congressionally mandated debt ceiling of $12.1 trillion will most likely be breached in the second half of this year." Which was raised to that amount under W. Bush. (tags: politics budget debt economy economics obama) With […]

RideCharge – Taxi, Sedan, Shuttle Booking Online Or With Your Mobile Smartphone Looks like a neat system. (tags: iphone iphoneapps business travel mobile) Never store passwords in a database! And another one on the same thing. (tags: password security programming database hashing encryption) Coding Horror: You're Probably Storing Passwords Incorrectly The absolute basics on storing […]

Slashdot | NoScript Adds Subscriptions To Adblock Plus "Apparently, NoScript has taken to adding its own whitelist updates to Adblock Plus — so that the ads on the NoScript page show up — without notifying users." Pretty low of NoScript. (tags: business advertising javascript internet firefox mozillafirefox noscript adblockplus) Daily Show Explains the LHC | […]

Please stop wasting my time… | Carsten’s Random Ramblings "I just want you to get started on your task and get the job done." (tags: technology programming userinterface design) Souter Plans to Retire From Court, Report Says – NYTimes.com "Justice David Souter has told the White House that he will retire from the Supreme Court […]

Shareholders Oust Bank of America Chief as Chairman – NYTimes.com "Mr. Lewis, who helped build Bank of America into the nation’s largest bank, was stripped of his chairman’s title — a stinging blow that leaves his stewardship and legacy in doubt. At a contentious annual general meeting, angry investors held him accountable for what they […]

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Republican senator switches party "US Republican Senator Arlen Specter is to switch sides and become a Democrat. The move would give the Democrats 59 seats in the senate, just one short of the 60 needed to stop Republican attempts to block legislation. Mr Specter said he would not vote […]

Import Your Old Hotmail Messages into Gmail Very useful tip, worked perfectly for me. (tags: hotmail gmail google microsoft email pop3 pop) After 10 Years and 2,000 Deaths, China Still Presses Its Crusade Against Falun Gong – NYTimes.com "In the decade since the Chinese government began repressing Falun Gong, a crusade that human rights groups […]

CQ Politics | An Arbitrary Assessment, an Unusual Significance CQPolitics on Obama's 100 days in office. (tags: obama politics history) Here Comes Twitter Spam And How To Fight It Really, easy solution don't follow the people who spam you and as for @spam is it really that big of a deal? (tags: twitter spam stupid) […]

Pharyngula: Clerical collar fails to instill goodness Religious people like cops and judges and professors, are just people the same as the rest of us. They aren't somehow perfect. (tags: religion ethics logic) Our Towns – In Rockland County, a Clash Over Governance of Public Schools – NYTimes.com "In both cases, the boards voted to […]

GM gets another $2B in taxpayer loans, expected to scrap Pontiac – USATODAY.com "General Motors got another $2 billion emergency loan, the U.S. Treasury department said Friday, and is expected to announce soon it will kill its slow-selling Pontiac brand as it scrambles to slice underperforming units. The first quarter, Pontiac sold just 40,887 cars […]