Posted on September 26, 2008 by wincing.at.light
The best commentary I’ve seen on the proposed U.S. financial sector bailout comes from theseminal.com:
Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need [...]
Filed under: Tempests | Tagged: financial bailout, fiscal insanity, nigerian scam, ur money - I haz it | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 3, 2007 by wincing.at.light
I’m always the last one to find out about stuff (ref., the non-existence of Santa, meningitis is BAD FOR YOU memo, etc). The latest incident in this long list is the SFWA’s (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) copyright infringement debacle with the text file sharing site Scribd.
Why’s and wherefore’s of said [...]
Filed under: Tempests | Tagged: Doctorow, scribd, SFWA, Stross | 6 Comments »