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If this is real --- wow. Glad it's Barack and not Bush to think about how to deal with this. - Bryan Power from Bookmarklet

More evidence to the flu shots are a bad idea camp. - Bryan Power

More evidence to the flu shots are a bad idea camp. - Bryan Power

The only way to do it. Also, works for the inbox. - Bryan Power

The only way to do it. Also, works for the inbox. - Bryan Power

Excellent advice. - Bryan Power

No, because then you have to buy the games all over again. Just send it in and they'll send you a new one. #beentheredonethat - David Cook

The 3 year warranty is *only* on the three flashing red lights. From the link above: # Q: My Console shows three flashing red lights on the Ring of Light. Am I covered for warranty service? A: Microsoft covers repairs for the three lights flashing red on the Ring of Light for a period of three (3) years from the original purchase date of the console. If you are out of the initial three year warranty period, you can still receive console repair service from Microsoft for three flashing red lights for a fee. - Admiral Anika

Corporate insiders have recently been selling their companies' shares at a greater pace than at any time since the top of the bull market in the fall of 2007. - Bryan Power from Bookmarklet

YES!!!!!!!! - Bryan Power

The role of model builders and policymakers should be split. Given the necessity of models in the policy formation process, it would be best, if the policymakers’ judgments about which model to use or when diverge from it are not clouded by previous involvement in the development of one or another of the models that might be employed. - Bryan Power

Interesting approach. - Bryan Power

This is just gross. - Bryan Power

"Unless you're a Warren Buffett or Bill Gates, you're one illness away from financial ruin in this country," says lead author Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., of the Harvard Medical School, in Cambridge, Mass. "If an illness is long enough and expensive enough, private insurance offers very little protection against medical bankruptcy, and that's the major finding in our study." - Bryan Power from Bookmarklet

woot woot! - Bryan Power

Proving scientifically what everyone already knows... - Bryan Power from Bookmarklet

Here's a scoop for you. The Diamondbacks are flagrantly violating MLB rules. They're a pro team, and yet they're giving out full-ride scholarships. Been doing it for two years now! Not to their players. To their fans. It's an idea D-backs CEO Derrick Hall came up with at one game when a season-ticket holder who'd lost everything, even her car, introduced herself. She told him a fan in her section had bought her two season tickets for the rest of the year, even picked her up every game and took her home. And Hall thought, "Why don't we do this for our fans?" So he asked fans to send in applications for scholarships. Soon, his e-mail in-box was swamped. - Bryan Power from Bookmarklet

Throwing a perfect strike was probably the highlight of his achievements while in office as well. It was a hell of a pitch if I dont say! - Bryan Power

Hilarious and sad at the same time. Totally validates Oliver Stone's "W." perspective. - Albert Cheng

McDaniels is toast. Kyle orton!!>!>> - Bryan Power from Bookmarklet

I think we saw the best of entrepreneurship in the '80s. I invited Steve Jobs to my entrepreneurship class at Stanford in 1988 or '89. He was doing NeXT at the time. He said, "We aren't creating computers. We are creating bicycles for the mind." That was his phrase. He said the most efficient locomotive vehicle is a bicycle, and you could create a bicycle for the mind. It just happened to be a personal computer. Now, that way of looking at a business is very different from thinking, We're creating a company so everybody can get rich and retire. If that's how Jobs had seen it, he would have quit a long time ago. Same with Yvon Chouinard at Patagonia. He wanted to make incredible products, but those products would be part of something bigger -- creating a role model for people who wanted to build a sustainable organization. It was a noble vision of entrepreneurship, and a lot of these entrepreneurs shared it. - Bryan Power from Bookmarklet

Wow. McDaniels is just like Belichick.....for the Browns in the late 80's. (benched kosar, fired soon after). - Bryan Power from Bookmarklet

Ponca City, We love you writes "According to a new study, people who played fighting games on their PCs became up to a 58 percent better at perceiving fine contrast differences, an important aspect of eyesight <<--- No wonder I can see so good!!! - Bryan Power

For those to whom this is merely a lot of mumbo-jumbo, let me explain in layman's terms: AIG, knowing it would need to ask for much more capital from the Treasury imminently, decided to throw in the towel, and gifted major bank counter-parties with trades which were egregiously profitable to the banks, and even more egregiously money losing to the U.S. taxpayers, who had to dump more and more cash into AIG, without having the U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner disclose the real extent of this, for lack of a better word, fraudulent scam. In simple terms think of it as an auto dealer, which knows that U.S. taxpayers will provide for an infinite amount of money to fund its ongoing sales of horrendous vehicles (think Pontiac Azteks): the company decides to sell all the cars currently in contract, to lessors at far below the amortized market value, thereby generating huge profits for these lessors, as these turn around and sell the cars at a major profit, funded exclusively by U.S.... - Bryan Power

unless it's a sunday afternoon flight home from vegas, in which case it's worth every single penny. - Bryan Power

I'm 6'3". Middle seat in coach + 6 hour flight == pure hurt. With that, the "upgrade" to the exit row seems like a great deal. - DeWitt Clinton

"But these various policies—lightweight regulation, cheap money, the unwritten Chinese-American economic alliance, the promotion of homeownership—had something in common. Even though some are traditionally associated with Democrats and some with Republicans, they all benefited the financial sector. Policy changes that might have forestalled the crisis but would have limited the financial sector’s profits—such as Brooksley Born’s now-famous attempts to regulate credit-default swaps at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in 1998—were ignored or swept aside." - Bryan Power from Bookmarklet

Better than the British version. - Bryan Power from Likaholix

An annual rite of tons of TV, tons of basketball and a shredded paper bracket. - Bryan Power from Likaholix

First trip to breckenridge: stunning views, great snows, fun little town. Ski town vision played out in every detail. - Bryan Power from Likaholix

Here's my favorite new fact about N.C.A.A. basketball: teams that are behind by one point at halftime are actually more likely to win than teams that are one point ahead. - Bryan Power

A disturbing 50% of Americans say they are only one month — or only two paychecks — or less away from not being able to meet their financial obligations if they were to lose their job, and more than half of these, a startling 28% of the total respondents, couldn’t survive financially for more than two weeks. Even the “mass affluent” — those making $100,000+ in income per year — aren’t immune with more than one-quarter (29%) saying that they couldn’t meet their financial obligations for more than one month following a job loss. - Bryan Power from Bookmarklet

Awesomeness - Bryan Power from Bookmarklet

Dominican loses!!! What an upset!! Absolutely loving WBC... - Bryan Power from Bookmarklet

Just spent a weekend here for a wedding. Awesome breakfast burritos at ChocoBanana, killer climate, whales everywhere. - Bryan Power