The rising Mississippi River has broken high-water records up and down the Iowa and Illinois shore, cresting as high as 12 feet above flood stage in some places. Estimates place the cost of the damage at over $1 billion dollars, and concerns are rising over crop damage, toxic remnants that were washed into neighborhoods, future [...]
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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Sep 30
Tuesday’s Song: Forever Yours, Sunrise Avenue
Heavy on the guitar, heavy on the drums, with an interesting a cappella harmonic near the end. Sunrise Avenue has done and outstanding job with Forever Yours. Tweet
Sep 30
DRM’d Music/Videos bad for the Environment
Hank Green wrote a very good article over at www.EcoGeek.org that anyone that’s ever purchased digital music should read. We saw the MSN Music store tell customers they were closing their doors (replacing it with the Zune Marketplace), then Yahoo! Music, and now Wal-Mart’s music store. Each one said they were “turning off their license [...]
Sep 29
Your Dollar is Worth 50 Cents, Part 1
That’s what you will be hearing in 1 to 3 years if the government can reach a compromise and pass the $700 billion bailout bill. Actually, you won’t be hearing that, because the government does not want you to know how seriously their “bailout” plan will affect the American economy. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar), in [...]
Sep 29
Bailout Failure Wreaking Havoc on DJIA
Shortly after the Bailout vote failed in the House, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA, DOW) becan to plummet and bounce around spasmodically. Nothing says it quite as well as this graphic, showing the DOW down 666.33 points. Tweet
