oooh... this is gonna sound GREAT!!!

Pixies at the Ryman!!!

] This is a pretty neat site. You can see what the air traffic
] controllers are seeing and you can hear them talking to the
] jets. Check it out:)

RE: Air Traffic control: Atlanta

This Week's Onion Must-Read

WASHINGTON, DC—After more than 30 years spent hiding in the Los Angeles underground as wanted criminals, the members of the crack commando unit Alpha Team, commonly known as the A-Team, were cleared of all charges brought against them by the U.S. military, an army official announced Monday.

"In 1972, we arrested the members of the A-Team for a crime they swore they didn't commit," Gen. Stephen Lupo said. "They broke out of our maximum-security stockade, and from that moment forth, I thought of nothing but their recapture. However, a recent audit of their file has revealed that the arrest of the Alpha Force members was made in error. The U.S. military deeply regrets the mistake."

According to Lupo, the A-Team members' exoneration will occur before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on Aug. 24.

Just hours after Lupo's announcement was made, Cpt. H.M. "Howlin' Mad" Murdock, the A-Team's pilot, resurfaced to speak with journalist Amy Allen, who often reported on the mercenaries' charitable acts.

"For decades, we've been forced to live in the shadows," Murdock said. "Somehow, we always found a way to help people who had nowhere else to turn, but we operated under the constant threat of recapture. Finally, the nightmare is over."

Onion | US Military Clears A-Team of all charges

] Power utilities have spent millions on business
] technology in the hope that they can make last year's
] regional power outage the last of its kind. Here's what
] they've done so far and what still needs doing.

Keeping The Lights On

] The upshot and point of all this being that the
] Mac's low market share is quite possibly (and quite
] probably in my mind) unrelated to Apple's decision
] not to license the Macintosh

Great article about business strategy, product development choices, and time travel.

The Art of the Parlay, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Platform Licensing and Market Share

] Authorities seized the assets of California Alternative
] High School and asked a judge to stop the company's 30
] schools statewide from handing out "high school diplomas"
] to students dreaming of a better life through education,
] Lockyer said.
]
] The company charged its mainly Latino students $450 to
] $1,450 for a 10-week course based on a 54-page book that
] was riddled with errors, according to a lawsuit filed on
] Monday

Of course, how this is different from public education, where the cost is more than $4500 per PERSON for EVERYONE, is beyond me...

Caveat Emptor

] Lem Barney and Sanders both made it to the Hall of Fame.
] Sims would have been a top candidate had his career not
] been cut short by a knee injury. His career ended in the
] eighth game of the 1984 season, his fifth.

20-20-20

] But that%u2019s exactly what Google%u2019s IPO threatens.
] By moving to an auction format with Google executives
] guaranteed, by the terms of the offer, access to the
] books so they can judge demand for themselves, the Google
] IPO shifts the balance of power toward the company and
] away from the underwriter. The auction format is designed
] to get Google the best price for its shares and to leave
] as little money as possible on the table. There will be
] no guaranteed post-IPO appreciation for investment
] bankers to pass on to favored clients. The auction
] process indeed goes a long way to eliminate the very idea
] of favored clients since the deal will be dominated by
] individual investors who set their own price and demand
] on the Internet. And as if that%u2019s not enough to kill
] any prospects at a post-IPO bounce, if Google sees
] evidence of more demand than expected, the company has
] reserved the right to increase the number of shares in
] the offering.

Good for Google that they have the cache to be able to create this kind of reform. However, I have to say that WHEN the IPO market returns in stride (and it will), most companies will not take this tact, simply because the i-banks will rather say 'no' than risk further degrading their gravy train.

As much as I think this is a relatively small evil in the face of it all, I don't miss this crap that much.

IPO's and Google

] An underlying theme in the march toward home-based care
] is that looming shortages of nurses, doctors and other
] health professionals, combined with mushrooming rates of
] diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and other costly
] chronic conditions will strain the system, forcing
] patients to be better self-managers, health care experts
] say.

Devices spur move to home-based care

] In the current climate of consolidation, independent
] broadcasters simply don't survive for long. That's why we
] haven't seen a new generation of people like me or even
] Rupert Murdoch--independent television upstarts who
] challenge the big boys and force the whole industry to
] compete and change.

This is the original essay from Teddy.

My Beef with Big Media - By Ted Turner