Why do we continue, in 2007, to believe that markets are all about What Big Companies Do? Worse, why do we continue to take advertising for granted as the primary source of the the Bux DeLuxe required to fund technical, social and personal progress?
For example, take this BusinessWeek story, which begins,

 
Imagine your cellphone as [...]

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I saw most of the speech given on Monday by Iranian President Ahmadinejad at Columbia University. I also watched a lot of the coverage that night and the following morning by MSNBC and CNN, and I gotta say, they behaved shamefully, as badly as Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, who introduced Ahmadinejad.
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The new Amazon MP3 Store looks like no previous iTunes Store rival. The music is completely DRM-free, encoded at a very respectable 256 kbps, includes a ton of songs from major record labels, and offers terrific software support for Mac OS X.When you purchase singles, you can download them directly via your web browser. When [...]

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The Best License Plate Ever, originally uploaded by andycarvin.
…and its in Washington D.C.!!!!!!

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Does one of the LG cellphone batteries have a sensor on it to cause cellphone failure after the first touch of water? Even though no significant amount of water has penetrated the actual battery or cellphone itself. That’s what Tim wonders after conducting a little experiment and paper hack following dropping his cell phone into [...]

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Steven Frank:

Ever since Boot Camp appeared on the scene, there have been several comments about Macs being better Windows machines than Windows machines. The weird thing is it’s actually true.

(Via Daring Fireball.)

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ThePirateBay has been digging through the enormous chunk of leaked email from MediaDefender, the sleazy enforcers used by the entertainment industry to fight P2P, and they’ve discovered evidence of illegal sabotage. So they’re suing all the big movie and record comapnies in Sweden:

* Twentieth Century Fox, Sweden AB
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Filed under: Robots

Apparently, robot designers are worried that they’re not creating automatons that are creepy enough, because a team of engineers at Virgina Tech have put something together that will give even the toughest of men chills. The robot in question is the three-legged STriDER (Self-excited Tripedal Dynamic Experimental Robot, not to be confused with [...]

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Yarrr, ‘ello me hearties. You be rememberin’ today be talk like a pirate day? Don’t yer forget it neither. If yer be forgettin how to talk like a pirate there be many many internets places that be explainin it for yer. Or perhaps yer be preferin’ just the Wikipedia article?

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IMG_3887.JPG, originally uploaded by Tuz.
 
Corporation? There as a possessive? C’mon guys, you’re not even trying.
 

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