Archive for July 29th, 2008

EPA gets gagged

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“Please do not respond to questions or make any statements.”
1984, Ministry of Informationspeak? No, a line from an internal memo from Environmental Protection Agency sent to all employees who are considering speaking to the press or congressional investigators.
While this is a pretty commonplace practice at many large organizations, both corporate and otherwise, [...]

Is Cuil Cool?

cuilhome2.jpgIs the newfangled search engine Cuil, cool?

Lunchtime giblets: Daily News Round Up

Scrabulous not so fabulous: The game’s up. (Sorry, couldn’t help it.) The makers of the cult Facebook fave, Scrabulous, have folded in the face of a cease and desist orders from the makers of the real Scrabble, Hasbro. Facebook and Scrabulous voluntarily took the game down, so now dorky diehards will have to use Hasbro’s [...]

Breaking News: OMG Earthquake!!!

CNN is reporting that Los Angeles just had a medium-sized earthquake at 5.8 on the Richter Scale. Located about 30 miles east of downtown L.A, it was about 7 miles deep, which means that the quake feels stronger and cause more damage. Over at the P+P home office in  Santa Monica, our wooden one-story apartment [...]

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