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The Washington Post had a story today on what’s to become of the dot org TLD. If it’s awarded to a nonprofit organization, that organization will receive a $5 million endowment from VeriSign (which agreed to give up dot org and provide the endowment in exchange for locking up dot com).

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You’d have never guessed it, but it looks like Qwest also made a few accounting mistakes, to the tune of $1.16 billion. I wish these companies would just issue press releases saying that they defrauded investors — I imagine the only mistake they made was getting caught.

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I’m not a gadget person. I’m generally 2-4 years behind the technology curve when it comes to hardware of any sort. I love to have the latest and greatest OS and applications on my computer at all times, but when it comes to shelling out the bucks for that new gizmo that everyone [...]

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The New York Times has a more detailed story on the mine rescue today. I’m still utterly amazed at the overall health of the miners when they were found. There’s a ton more coverage at Yahoo News as well.

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Lance Armstrong won his fourth straight Tour de France today. I think he is, by a head and shoulders, the most impressive athlete of his generation. Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan, step aside. Armstrong’s achievements in cycling would stand alone even aside from the fact that he made one of the most amazing [...]

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Amazing news tonight — all 9 of the trapped miners in the Pennsylvania coal mine are alive. All that’s left is to get them out.

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I’ve been corrected by Medley: BBN Technologies is still around, and is a subsidiary of Verizon. Judging from this timeline, it looks like when Genuity was spun out as part of GTE’s merger with Verizon, BBN Technologies stuck around as part of Verizon itself. Don’t you love the world of business?

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The current issue of the NYRB has a review of Globalization and Its Discontents by former World Bank economist and member of Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors Joseph Stiglitz. The review raises more questions than it answers, mainly illuminating the complexities of the debate over globalization. I’d love to be able to dismiss [...]

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I’ve been completely captivated by the horrific story of the 9 miners who are trapped at the bottom of a flooded coal mine in Pennsylvania. There’s no way of knowing whether the miners are alive or dead, and attempts to drill a new shaft down to the chamber where they’re trapped have been [...]

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There’s a huge controversy surrounding the proposed Homeland Security department. Does it revolve around debating whether or not bundling up 170,000 federal employees with widely varying roles and many different kinds of responsibilities will actually make the country more safe? No, of course not. Instead it revolves around how much flexibility managers [...]

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