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The power of comedy & FOIA

Hat tip to VCOG about NYTimes article:

Through his spokeswoman, Mr. Colbert cheekily responded on Wednesday to questions about his e-mail message to the governor. “I have a comment, but I am sending it to Mark Sanford’s office, so you can get it through the Freedom of Information Act,” he said.

About the Virginia Coalition for Open Government:

We are a nonprofit alliance formed to promote expanded access to government records, meetings and other proceedings at the state and local level. Our efforts are focused solely on local/state information access. While we do some lobbying (within limits imposed by IRS rules), our primary work is educational.

Restructuring debt to equity, FT article by Taleb

More pressure to balance risk vs. reward while investing.

Taleb's latest article FT.com:

The core of the problem, the unavoidable truth, is that our economic system is laden with debt, about triple the amount relative to gross domestic product that we had in the 1980s. This does not sit well with globalisation. Our view is that government policies worldwide are causing more instability rather than curing the trouble in the system. The only solution is the immediate, forcible and systematic conversion of debt to equity. There is no other option.

Financial Times is free to join & it's worth it to view a entire articles that are sometimes blocked with membership.

Check out Soundcloud for uploading, sharing & listening to new tunes

From Music Business & Trend Mongering I saw Soundcloud:

lets you move music fast & easy. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sending & distributing music for artists, record labels & other music professionals.

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We love audio. And we don't discriminate against big files in strange formats, we welcome anything and everything audio. We've made it damn fast to upload and choose who you're sending to, no matter if they're on SoundCloud or not.

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