Monthly Archives: November 2009

USDOJ subpoenas Indymedia for server logs, according to CBS News. This is the Obama DOJ asking for logs for something from June 2008. The EFF got involved, and the DOJ has dropped the “you can’t tell anyone this subpoena exists” … Continue reading →

KSTP reports 1,250 area janitors were fired when they were found to be undocumented

Hasan seems to have targeted a lot of his coworkers in the psych unit… and women… and officers Did President Obama slip up and refer to the people who died were casualties of war? What war? If you were wondering, … Continue reading →

Apple rejects app because it “ridicules public officials”. Details here. An artist for Mad Magazine put together an app with bobble-heads of all members of Congress. Apple is apparently not wanting to set a precedent when a similar app is … Continue reading →

“Some [white Republicans] are scared of me” – so says RNC chairman Michael Steele, talking to TV One, the TV operation of Radio One, the company that targets all of its programming at African Americans and whose owner strongly supported … Continue reading →

Advanta has filed Chapter 11 according to Business Week. Advanta was an issuer of high rate credit cards to small businesses. The filing will trigger the FDIC to take over the “bank” and probably start a legal fight over whether … Continue reading →

NY Times reports that North and South Korean Navy ships have exchanged gun fire…

Supreme Court and Patents – from the tone of the discussion today, it sounds like the US Supreme Court may throw out the entire concept of a patent on a “business process”, and might even throw out all patents that … Continue reading →

Tropical storm Ida probably isn’t enough to warrant a streaming alert. How is that “lots of hurricanes prove global warming” thing working out?

Connecticut’s Republican-ish governor not going for reelection. Gov Rell fell into the job after Gov Roland made the mistake of laying off state highway workers, who then dropped a dime on him for allowing a contractor to fix up his … Continue reading →

Clear Channel had net operating income of about $28 million last quarter, which was about $10 million less than their interest expense – and that’s without any further writedown of station licenses or goodwill

News Corp vs Internet – Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp will begin charging for its internet content, and related to that he intends to force Google to drop even showing the headline and the first snippet of the story in Google … Continue reading →

Westwood One loses $60 million in 3rd quarter, $50 million was writedown of goodwill. Total value of stock is $111 million (after going up 22% on the good news)

Citadel stock down 60% on the news it is preparing for Chapter 11… See, I wasn’t kidding about penny stock day traders

Gold – $1,107.53 oz