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Best Buy Optimization Is A Big Stupid Annoying Waste Of Money — Meg Marco, The Consumerist

Quirky

Individually-sparked, collectively developed innovation.

Why the Mythbusters won’t do RFID — Adam Savage on Youtube

Supermarket bans Jedi Knight — AOL News

That’s a realm of a different color.

It took me almost four years to change my mind about this, and though I have made peace with the new arrangement it will still take time for me to get used to it. I speak of course of my decision to swap the color assignments of Nature and Market. Ever since summer [...]

The Professionals Who Become Presidents: There was a lawyer, an engineer and a politician… Why do professional paths to the top vary so much? — The Economist

Our Troubled Economy Is a Response to Barack Obama’s Policies — WSJ.com

100 Interview Questions You Should Be Prepared to Answer — Thad Peterson, Monster Staff Writer, InsideTech

Tennessee may reject stimulus aid for jobless — Chas Sisk, The Tennessean

Large U.S. banks on edge of insolvency, experts say — Steve Lohr, International Herald Tribune

I don’t think this situation is new.

The current financial crisis has brought to mind the scriptural passages of Genesis 41 and Genesis 47:13-26, along with the question as to whether it is the biblical equivalent of our current situation. What do you think?

How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis — Kevin Hassett, Bloomberg.com

Gas Prices: The Real Story — Rich, Shots Across The Bow

RI bishop wants US to halt mass immigration raids — Ray Henry, AP on Yahoo! News

Foreclosure fallout: Houses go for a $1 — Ron French, Detroit News

Your laptop is lying to you — Dan’s Data

Daytona Beach cop fired for demanding free coffee — Yahoo News

Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license) — Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

Proverbs 27:13 (ESV)

Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.

Going Postal: Mailing rate hikes pinch small magazines, thanks to Time Warner — Callie Enlow, The New York Review of Magazines