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This is just heartbreaking. From kcet.org
Foreclosure Alley
For the past few years, the Inland Empire in Riverside County has been one of the fastest growing counties in the state – home to a major housing boom. But now the Inland Empire is pretty much the poster child for the foreclosure crisis. SoCal Connected tracked down [...]

Last month (Sept. 16, 2008) the American taxpayers bailed out insurance giant American International Group (AIG) to the tune of $85 billion dollars. So, asked “what ya’ goin’ do now after the bailout?” top executives said “party it up at the St. Regis Resort Monarch Beach (Dana Point, CA) for a week (September 22 – [...]

Sha Na Na and the Invention of The Fifties
Like most academic articles, it starts a bit dry, but it’s really a fascinating look at how easy it is to create a meme / idea virus that infects everyone…even people who experienced the actual reality in contradiction to the meme.  Philosophically and linguistically, it’s an amazing [...]

To celebrate their 10th birthday Google has brought back their oldest available index dating back to 2001.