Tracking Quotas for October 11, 2008:


(Sep.18.08) -

Frank Herbert: Without Me, Youre Nothing  ---»

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Update: October 8th is Frank Herberts Birthday!
Found: One Old Book by One Frank Herbert.

Browsing through old thriftstore bins on a recent trip to the bay…



(Sep.18.08) -

Bail, Dude, Bail  ---»

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Great Logic:
A reasonable reading of the recent [federal] bailouts [AIG,etc] suggests a simple rule: if a firm is on the verge of collapse and its ties…



(Sep.18.08) -

Early 1970s Soviet Russian poster art  ---»

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Came across a cool little (slideshow + translations) of some interesting reproductions of early 1970s Soviet era poster art over at devtheme. Aside from the warm fuzzy…



(Sep.15.08) -

The Banks  ---»

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- In the News: Big Insurer AIG Seeks Cash, $40 billion bridge loan from the Federal Reserve, as Portfolio Plummets. (update: AIG get Fed Bailout)

- In…



(Sep.13.08) -

David Foster Wallace Funeral  ---»

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… sad, sad, sad. Not enough said. A funereal mood prevails over the day. “Irony and ridicule have become agents of a great despair and stasis in…



(Sep.04.08) -

Brain Cells Memory Location Discovered  ---»

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Exciting news from the AI brain memory research department: Science has advanced another step towards finding our android souls. Maybe now it will be possible to find…



(Aug.30.08) -

Yunnan-Sichuan Earthquake  ---»

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AP reporting (via China’s Xinhua) a 6.1 magnitude china earth quake struck Sichuan province 31 miles southeast of Panzhihua city, a city of over 70,000 near the…



(Aug.08.08) -

The Prisoner  ---»

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yes, the time has come… the prisoner is now a cross-media viral marketing advertising platform for AMC licensed media properties television show. Useless protest attempt involves only…



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