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School Choice Isn’t Enough: Instructional Reform is the key to better schools — Sol Stern, City Journal

Six months on, Vista users still griping
– Jessica Mintz, AP on MSNBC.com

See also these recent articles on Slashdot: Programs Cannot Be Uninstalled In Vista? — kdawson Firefox Now Serious Threat to IE in Europe — CmdrTaco Warning On Office 2007 “Try-Before-You-Buy” — kdawson

Journalists shouldn’t write ad copy
Harry McCracken, PC World

Property Owners Win One
John Stossel, RealClearPolitics

Best Buy Confirms It Has Secret Website
George Gombossy, Hartford Courant

Blog Power: The Top 10 Blog Stories Of 2006
Danny Glover, Beltway Blogroll

Just Cancel the @#%$* Account! — Tom Spring, PCWorld

British Airways backs down over cross ban after storm of criticism — Steve Doughty, UK Daily Mail

Vista DRM is bad for Microsoft — Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing

See also: Today’s blogs posts researched using Netscape [NOT IE7]Danny Carlton, JackLewis.net

Installing the Zune… sucked — Ryan Block, engadget

Never-Ending Stories: How to fix shows like ‘Lost.’
Adam Sternbergh, New York Magazine

A Triumph for Transparency in Government
Sen. Bill Frist, VOLPAC Blog

The Porkbuster Bill passed the Senate!

Even dead people can’t escape AOL
David Sheets, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

GetHuman.com

This website came up in conversation today, but when I checked to see if I had posted it here, it was nowhere to be found. So here it is for your convenience. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a website dedicated to “advocacy for high quality customer service for consumers.” Check [...]

Google’s Coming Clean Over Clicks
Holly M. Sanders, New York Post

Nielsen to rate TV ads in far-reaching move – Reuters

Cancelling AOL – Vincent Ferrari, insignificant thoughts

This apparently happened a few weeks ago, but Drudge just posted about it today, so I’m finally hearing about it. Here’s the original audio that is causing such a stir: The Nightmare of Cancelling AOL – Break.com Here are more links to the chatter about this on the internet: How hard can it be to cancel an AOL account? [...]

Detox Clinic Opening for Video Game Addicts – Fia Curley, AP on Breitbart

Narrow focus draws ‘PG’ rating for Baptist-backed film – Terry Mattingly, Scripps Howard News Service

This movie was rated “PG” for “Promotes God”. The MPAA wants to keep innocent little kids from being accidentally converted to Christianity, I guess. They might want to obey their parents, love their brothers and sisters and respect their neighbors, but who wants that, really?

0% offers? You’ve been ‘optimized’ – Reuters on MSN Money