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overall music sales during the Christmas shopping season were down an astounding 21% from last year. From the week of Thanksgiving up through the day before Christmas Eve, 83.9 million albums were sold, a decrease of 21.38 million from 2006’s 105.28 million.
Source: variety.com
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Jim Kunstler is not for the faint of heart. Here’s something to think about while you sip champagne this evening:
For the tiny fraction of people who actually pay attention to real events — those, for instance, who know the difference between Narnia and Kandahar — the final hours of 2007 leading [...]
A new video game designed to teach people about the lives of wolves is making headlines today. Here is how the website describes the project:
Learn about wolf ecology by living the life of a wild wolf in Yellowstone National Park. Play alone or with friends in on-line multiplayer missions, explore the [...]
I’m amazed at the stuff that’s making the news today. Here are Yahoo’s most popular news stories:
Stranger that fiction: parallel universes beguile science AFP – Sun Dec 30, 5:58 PM ET
PARIS (AFP) – Is the universe — correction: “our” universe — no
more than a speck of cosmic dust amid an infinite number of [...]
Posthumously, Benazir Bhutto has thrown a grenade of her own back at the current head of state:
NEW YORK – It was a story CNN’s Wolf Blitzer hoped he’d never have to report — an e-mail sent to him through an intermediary by Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto complaining about her security. [...]
WASHINGTON – Sales of new homes plunged last month to their lowest level in more than 12 years, a grim testament to the problems plaguing the housing sector.
The Commerce Department reported Friday that new-home sales tumbled by 9 percent in November from October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 647,000. [...]
Scott Rafer has been facebooking about new things ahead for Feedster. What’s up Scott?
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My god, things are worst than you thought in the US military. You know things are bad when you’re relying on the Canadian air force:
FRESNO, Calif. – The grounding of hundreds of F-15s because of dangerous structural defects is straining the nation’s air defense network, forcing some states to rely on [...]
BETHLEHEM, West Bank – Encouraged by renewed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, Christian pilgrims from around the world converged on Jesus’ traditional birthplace Monday to celebrate Christmas — a palpable contrast to the sparse crowds of recent years.
The diverse mix of people included festive American tourists, clergymen in brown [...]
Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal and and an advisor to NowPublic has started up an interesting new venture. Dries is an exceptional guy and this business will do well with him behind it. Good luck Dries.
Only a few days ago did Dries Buytaert, the Belgian developer behind Drupal, the open-source [...]
