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		<title>A Simple Proposal to Save the News: Subscribe the Screen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: May 6, 2009
The new Kindle is out and its not much larger. The NYT article isays they are offering a version of what I proposed before:
&#8220;&#8230;Amazon also said that three newspapers, The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, would begin offering devices this summer at a reduced price to subscribers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s AIG Cost so Far? An Entire Electric Transport Industry, That&#8217;s What.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s way too easy to pick on AIG, and the unfathomable amount of taxpayer dollars that have been flushed down it. The story is, of course, more complex, in that both Bush and Obama administrations have been afraid to push over the first domino in what they fear could be a total banking collapse by.sending [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/204</link>
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		<title>Corrosion, Infrastructure Entropy and NPV Accounting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another really good post at The Oil Drum ( TOD). This time on corrosion of oil and gas infrastructure. Sounds utterly boring, but in fact the discussion quickly spirals into:
Accounting methods which shortsightedly neglect maintenance across all types of private infrastructure, causing future breakdowns and vast repair costs.
The declining maintenance and investment curve of oil [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/202</link>
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		<title>Clever Google Images Trick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you search on some item with a color name, Google will return images with that color as a prominent part.
try
&#8220;motorcycle=red&#8221;
&#8220;chair=brown&#8221;
here&#8217;s more information from Google.
They say &#8220;(you can replace &#8220;red&#8221; with &#8220;blue&#8221;, &#8220;green&#8221;, &#8220;teal&#8221;, &#8220;purple&#8221;, &#8220;yellow&#8221;, &#8220;orange&#8221;, &#8220;pink&#8221;, &#8220;white&#8221;, &#8220;gray&#8221;, &#8220;black&#8221; and &#8220;brown&#8221;)&#8221;
Messing with the URL also works, and produces different results:
http://images.google.com/images?q=bird&#038;imgcolor=red
If I was the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/201</link>
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		<title>This American Life: Bad Banks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A  great episode from This American Life ( thanks Matt) .
bad banks
I&#8217;ve been wondering, probably most people have, just why we need to support these elephantine vampires, The Banks, while they&#8217;ve been run into the ground by sociopaths. I mean, what have they ever done for me? Well this very pleasant episode illustrates what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case for the Four Day Work Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[- a sacrifice we can easily make.
Listening to NPR today ask a pundit about the proposed shut-down of Saturday mail service, I went through the usual 3 steps of techno-guy reaction.
First I sneered at snail mail. Second, I questioned the value of Saturday mail and mail delivery in general. Third I thought of one entity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Value Added, The Standard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the current terrible financial weather on top of many years of very bad management in the USA, we need to restructure our economy, and we need a simple common-sense standard to define what we need and what we should jettison. The standard we need is Value Added.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/193</link>
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		<title>General Motors Wake part two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In part one I laid out the situation with the pending Big 3 carmakers collapse, as I see it. I think its fair to say I am just representing a widespread consensus.
What&#8217;s to be done?


The choices:




The ice floe:
Let them die with the polar bears. Suppliers will crash and burn, and who knows how Michigan will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>General Motors Wake part one</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First lets dispense the cliche&#8217;s:
Whats good for GM is good&#8230;.
GM, which will lose global number one sales&#8230;.
Perfect storm&#8230;.
Too big to fail&#8230;
The Problem:
GM, Ford and Chrysler are spending more money than they take in. The burn rate is fast enough to leave GM penniless in a few months. No one, except possibly the taxpayer, will lend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/191</link>
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		<title>Technologies That Will Change the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when the criminal antics in Washington and Wall St. are too much to bear, you just have to make a list of optimistic things. Some people may want to list how many ways love changes the world, but I go for bits of technology.
Past Examples 
examples of the kind of thing I mean:
Switch from [...]]]></description>
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