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Mention grad students; check. Point out ridiculous union stance; check. Post to highly-trafficked, local blog; check.
Get your flamewar over at AAiOR!
Man, I don’t check AAiOR for a couple days and I totally miss out on being called “dense”. Damn.
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Yahoo! has this feature that let’s you put news-type blocks on the front page of your My Yahoo! page. Until today, ZDnet was occupied a five-line block on my page. Then I read this article by Lance Ulanoff.
PC Magazine, ZDNet, can we talk? I know I’m nobody; I don’t rank in the Top Anything [...]

Freakin’ sweet! It’s on the front page. Out 29 April. Go before Slashdot posts it.
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Oh sure, now Iowa has something cool. The 120-foot scroll on which Jack Kerouac wrote “On The Road” is on display for the first time at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. It goes to Vegas at the end of March.
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…well, we don’t know for sure. Get this:
A state agency is investigating whether workplace safety regulations were violated when three Washtenaw County Sheriff’s deputies rushed into a burning apartment building last fall and pulled residents to safety.
Why?
Sheriff Daniel Minzey said he was shocked to learn that someone had filed an anonymous complaint with the [...]

MSC Software, a local software company that makes virtual product development software, is about to lose it. As of March 11, they will be delisted from the NYSE. While this isn’t officially an indication of the value or prospects of a company, it does bring into play some very interesting forces.
Most of the company’s [...]

Reviews have been pouring in the last day or so about the new Dell LCD (to rival the Apple Cinema display). Gizmodo finally has a price: $1,200, which is actually less than I had thought the unit would be. Gizmodo also points out that with Dell’s aggressive pricing and frequent discounts, this LCD could probably [...]