Thursday, November 06, 2008

Say What!?

This is from a Boston.com article entitled "Obama's To-Do List":

Obama advisers say he may review the department's newly approved guidelines that could let the FBI investigate Americans in national security cases without evidence of a crime, based in part on their ethnicity or religion.


Yeah, you might want to take a second look at those guidelines, right after you remove the swastika flag from behind the desk of whatever numbnuts approved said guideline.

This whole transition scenario reminds me of the time I was hired to take over for an obviously overwhelmed temp worker. The first day of my job was spent hauling fistfuls of documents, contracts and invoices out of where they had been crammed helter-skelter in various drawers. It was scary how long it took to recover from the previous employee's incompetence. Hopefully, Obama will have more assistance than I did since, you know, the stakes are a lot higher.
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Google and Yahoo decide to go separate ways.

Google has decided to pull out of a deal to partner up with Yahoo on advertising services. First reported in April, there was a tentative agreement to share advertising space on web pages but it has been scrapped basically because people are worried that it will lead to Google becoming the new Microsoft. Unfortunately, now Yahoo is more vulnerable than ever to a takeover by Microsoft itself, so there you go. Sometimes there's such a fine line between celebrating diversity and divide and conquer.

In other news...


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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Cool Site of the Day

Found via Reddit's link about an eight-armed creature existing before the dinosaurs by about 300 million years. (Ungoliant perhaps?) A clean, colorful and visually appealing site about science news on the Australian news site, abc.net.au proves that Australians got it going on.
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