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  1. Why do debit card reward programs prefer using "credit" to "debit" for tx's? I thought they were the same for debit cards.
  2. Damn those Iranians are brave. http://bit.ly/JQpVB
  3. Henry Kissinger, "structurally more optimistic than a couple of years ago," in a fascinating interview with Spiegel http://bit.ly/Ms8zz
  4. HuffPost: "Murdoch Tabloid Hacked Into Cell Phones Of 'Hundreds Of Celebrities And Politicians": Report" http://bit.ly/31qckg
  5. This is awesome: http://lab.andre-michelle.c...
  6. Morgan Stanley set to package more subprime loans as AAA CDOs. http://bit.ly/19bbt4
  7. RT @ezraklein: The most consistent finding in polls is that a majority of Americans have not thought very hard about public policy quest ...
  8. I hate Wordpress. Thank goodness for Advil.
  9. YQL is "enabling for the community as well as good for Yahoo itself." The essence of open-source. What Microsoft never got, or got too late.
  10. Watching O'Reilly webcast on Yahoo's YQL language. Allows querying of any structured web data with SQL-like syntax. Very very cool.
  11. RT @allsongs: Deal reached on internet radio streaming. http://tinyurl.com/nbm8an >> (Keeps Pandora alive, with limits)
  12. Oh btw, my Kindle2 screen died over the weekend, Amazon shipped a free replacement in 2 days. I remain a happy Kindle customer.
  13. Was Google's announcement timed to preempt a Microsoft announcement of progress on Midori (its long-rumored web OS)? http://bit.ly/197yVr
  14. FTR, I've been running W7 on my home desktop for months. It's perfectly fine. But basic things fail, like duplicate dock icons. As expected.
  15. The OS hardly matters anymore, it's all on the web. Which is why paying $100 for an OS w/o instant-on is absurd. http://bit.ly/1a0TbL
  16. Google announces Chrome OS for desktops: Linux kernel, web apps, lightweight. Brilliant. Windoze, count your days. http://bit.ly/PUQNv
  17. RT @ezraklein: OMG, I can think of SO MANY blog uses for this comic! http://xkcd.com/605/
  18. Dark skies and torrential rain at 4pm, again. Boston you suck.
  19. not to nitpick, @SenJohnMcCain, but doesn't that mean a military coup against George W Bush would have been justified?
  20. RT @SenJohnMcCain I regret the military takeover in Honduras, but it's clear President Zelaya was in violation of his country’s constitution