Salon notices many other countries have decent bandwidth for less than we pay for the craptacular SBC service here: Next time you sit down to pay your cable-modem or DSL bill, consider this: Most Japanese consumers can get an Internet connection that’s 16 times faster than the typical American DSL line for a mere $22 …
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pilot added to no-fly list
‘No-fly’ action takes pilot’s job: Cape Air pilot Robert Gray said he feels like he’s living a nightmare. … When Gray showed up for work a couple of weeks ago, he said Cape Air told him the government had placed him on its no-fly list, making it impossible for him to do his job. Gray, …
another reason to hate wal-mart
Nutjob at Wal-Mart photo lab calls secret service on high school art project: Selina Jarvis is the chair of the social studies department at Currituck County High School in North Carolina, and she is not used to having the Secret Service question her or one of her students. But that’s what happened on September 20. …
we <3 catie curtis
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who likes harriet miers?
SDIMF tells clear channel to sod off
Oh yeah… Starbucks called a month ago too. We told them to take a hike. San Diego’s independent coffee shops are sponsoring us :)
MSNBC links terror warnings, Bush political trouble
Keith Olbermann writes: Last Thursday on Countdown, I referred to the latest terror threat – the reported bomb plot against the New York City subway system – in terms of its timing. President Bush’s speech about the war on terror had come earlier the same day, as had the breaking news of the possible indictment …
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bush’s solider chat nice and faked up
Bush Thanks Soldiers in Rehearsed Talk: Paul Rieckhoff, director of the New York-based Operation Truth, an advocacy group for U.S. veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, denounced the event as a “carefully scripted publicity stunt.”
apple validates microsoft?
Over on his media center blog, Matt Goyer wrote that Front Row “really validates what we’re doing converging digital entertainment with the PC in the living room.” So you’re saying that a product that “doesn’t even have feature parity with the first version of Media Center” from three years ago validates what you are doing? …
new music is good music
Our friends at the Bonita News took a moment to suggest their local venue book newer, up-and-coming acts: “I’d like to see more up-and-coming, rather than name acts that may or may not still have it,” he says. “Some of the newer people that Myra can count as a discovery.” Floridians deserve good music too, …