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Fuck the South tells it like it is when it comes to who's a Real American and who isn't. Via Gruber.
- #The End of Wall Street's Boom—Michael Lewis's postmortem of the financial crash. Required reading. (Via Tim Bray)
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The Sacramento Bee has intense pictures of the California wildfires. Via Chuqui.
- #This may very well be the worst joke ever. Sure made me snort.
- #From Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, a beautiful slide show of the paralympics. Warning: Plays music.
- #"Except inasmuch as it can help move aside barriers to finishing the projects that you claim matter to you, 'productivity' is often a sprawling ghetto of well-marketed nonsense for people who really just need a ritalin and a hug." Merlin Mann, on rebooting 43 Folders.
- #John Scalzi has an important message to Democrats. Please listen to the man.
- #Via This Week in Photography, some wonderful photos from the Beijing Olympics.
- #"The Transportation Security Administration says a laptop containing the sensitive personal information of 33,000 applicants to an airport security prescreening program has gone missing.". Via Slashdot
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Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet.
- #I really, really love Basic Instructions.
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Lightning through my camera. That is intense.
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Via [Daring Fireball](http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/07/10/george-will)
Have U.S. Drivers Reached Filling Point of No Return?
- #We The Robots fully understands the muse
- #Seeing images from other planets never gets old. Huge congrats to the Phoenix Mars Mission! Massive respek.
- #The brilliant This American Life program "The Great Pool of Money" is required listening for anybody looking to understand the credit crisis that grew out of the subprime mortgage meltdown.
This is why we have NPR.
I did not know Wizardry was on the books in Florida.
Note to self: Never go to Florida.
