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Businessweek: It's Global Warming, Stupid.
I'm posting this mostly as an entertaining cover, but the article itself is worthy of a read too.

Sidenote: It also includes this handy graph (cropped). Can you find Katrina?

As the medium matures, more and more creators find themselves thrust into the spotlight -- and that means more and more creators have the opportunity to let their bad behavior and personal convictions come between them and their audience.

Where Do Gamers Draw the Line Between Creator and Creation?

Bill Clinton in an interview with Esquire:

One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we've got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well. It is extremely personal now, and you see in these primaries that the more people agree with each other on the issues, the more desperate they are to make the clear distinctions necessary to win, so the deeper the knife goes in.

(via kottke.org)

David Corn in an in-depth retrospective for Mother Jones:

Everything changed...But life often reverts to form, and change is fleeting and not necessarily a guarantee of progress. At some point, the old driving behaviors returned. Americans never did become very well informed about foreign affairs. A political culture of division and spin resumed. And these were all connected—

Associated Press via Yahoo News:

He says the landlord wants him out because "my rent is too damn low."

He's also planning a run for the presidency. I love this guy.

Latest figures from the US Treasury Department show that the country has an operating cash balance of $73.7bn (£45.3bn).
Apple's most recent financial results put its reserves at $76.4bn.

In Apple We Trust.
Source: BBC (via Daring Fireball)