What makes this study important is simply this: “virginity pledges” are one of the ways that the government measures whether abstinence-only education is “working.” They count the pledges as proof that teens will abstain. It turns out that this is like counting New Year’s resolutions as proof that you lost 10 pounds.
— Seattle Times
Maybe, just maybe 2009 will be year of the linux desktop!
While the opening up of Solaris has not helped Sun nearly as much as many Solaris enthusiasts had hoped, you could argue that if Sun had not done something dramatic back in 2005, the company would be far worse off than it is today.
— Register Logic
But something positive has also come out of this experience. If the newspaper industry really goes down the pan, I now have a business plan. I will claim to be a former member of the Bilderberg/Illuminati/Council on Foreign Relations/UN/Zionist establishment and write a book revealing the inside story of a plot to form a world government. It will sell millions.
— Gideon Rachman after being ‘contacted’ by Drudge readers
TV has license to kill movies at iTunes, Netflix
But not bittorrent or rapidshare….
ING closes more funds
Our ‘fund manager of the year’ continues to lose its investors’ money. One wonders how terrible a job the losing fund managers will do.
It’s a sad story, in many ways. But it can’t really be undone at this point. If we had wanted to preserve the Big Three, we would have bought more of their cars.
— NYTimes.com
That’s a “normal” downturn idea. The current one seems to be more like “close the gates of mercy, shoot the wounded, and sink the lifeboats.
— Tanta from Calculated Risk
What’s New In Python 3.0
“dict methods dict.keys(), dict.items() and dict.values() return “views” instead of lists. For example, this no longer works: k = d.keys(); k.sort(). Use k = sorted(d) instead” — yeah, let’s not use objects, those are for sissies.