Monthly Archive for March, 2008

Steve Jobs Apple collage

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on March 27, 2008
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via Gizmodo

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I could see why a cigarette company paying for a cancer study would cast suspicion on said study, particularly when the money is routed in such a way as to hide the company’s involvement.

Disgusting war profiteering story in Times

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The military contracting business is quite depressing at times. To wit: AEY Inc., a company run out of a Miami beach office and headed by a 22-year-old, got a $300 million contract to become the main supplier of munitions to Afghanistan’s army and police forces. How’d that work out?

Since then, the company has provided ammunition that is more than 40 years old and in decomposing packaging, according to an examination of the munitions by The New York Times and interviews with American and Afghan officials. Much of the ammunition comes from the aging stockpiles of the old Communist bloc, including stockpiles that the State Department and NATO have determined to be unreliable and obsolete, and have spent millions of dollars to have destroyed.

Many more infuriating details in the linked article, including ammunition made in China…in 1966.

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Facebook users beware: new phishing scam trying to get your login info.

P. Diddy’s good name cleared

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Last week the L.A. Times published an article about a 1994 attack on Tupac Shakur that linked Sean “P. Diddy” Combs to the attack. The Smoking Gun investigated and says the Times was the victim of a hoax:

The Times appears to have been hoaxed by an imprisoned con man and accomplished document forger, an audacious swindler who has created a fantasy world in which he managed hip-hop luminaries, conducted business with Combs, Shakur, Busta Rhymes, and The Notorious B.I.G., and even served as Combs’s trusted emissary to Death Row Records boss Marion “Suge” Knight during the outset of hostilities in the bloody East Coast-West Coast rap feud.

The Times investigated and have now admitted some of the documents they relied upon were fabricated and apologized.

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Hmm, I thought this was the last season of Scrubs but apparently they might jump to ABC for season 8. via

Close calls

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Via Neatorama

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on March 26, 2008
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A Rasmussen poll says 62% of Democrats nationwide want the primary race to continue. Who are these people? Why haven’t they had enough already? Via Tapped

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on March 26, 2008
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Shot by shot breakdown of the final montage from Season Five of The Wire. Some what interesting, obviously contains spoilers so beware those who haven’t gotten to Season Five.

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Great blog design. (via gruber)