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Ever wonder what computers replaced? Well one of Shorpy’s recent images gives a great example with this excellent image of office workers. Check out the different people! I mean open the open up the picture and take a look at the characters. All gone now, replaced by laptops, or else stuffed in cubicles… Washington, 1923.

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I don't agree with anything we've done in response to 9/11. I have cried for all the deal Iraqis that have been killed because of Bush's bloody oil war.Yet, we still can't tell the difference between corrupt American corporate interests and good, ethical, real America people. Ashamed.

For its vigorous pursuit of copyright extension and trademark protection the Walt Disney Company is often made to be the villain in the war for freedom of expression and artistic expression. I obviously have a dog, or two, in this fight (my content is stolen all the time, but I also license it under a CC license for easier fair use).

For its vigorous pursuit of copyright extension and trademark protection the Walt Disney Company is often made to be the villain in the war for freedom of expression and artistic expression. I obviously have a dog, or two, in this fight (my content is stolen all the time, but I also license it under a CC license for easier fair use).

As the Olympics perform their core task of worsening the disease of nationalism, one might ask: What medal does the United States of America win when it comes to what really matters — the empirical quality of life inside this, human history’s richest, most powerful, most capitalist society?

Yeah she’s only 4′9″ but let’s see you do this: Sports Illustrated That’s the chippy Ms. Johnson during her gold medal balance beam routine (click here for the the full story). After Johnson secured a gold medal in these games, I guess it’s safe to say that the Coca-Cola curse is no curse at all.

From our international banker this morning: The U.S. economy may yet slip into recession, but inflation is an even bigger risk given the “exceptionally” stimulative stance of monetary policy, Richmond Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Lacker said on Tuesday.

Built from Scratch: How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew the Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion 's price decreased by 14% from $13.72 to $11.82 at Buy.com. In the tradition of Andy Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive, this book presents the colorful, entertaining, entrepreneurial tale of a company that grew from nothing to $30 ...

Big business marketing and advertising are much more Pavlovian and much less magical and postmodern than most critics have claimed. If you doubt this, consider how television advertising, the endeavor that funds and delimits almost all the program “content” on US television, actually functions.