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Stuff I saved in my feed reader for the last ten days – 06/15/09

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Technology

  • Uh…Twitter something. [Everyone]*
  • Let’s see…Facebook this and that? [Everyone]*

    • *Editor’s note: we’re now actively filtering out all news related to Twitter and Facebook for efficiency’s sake – the above mentioned groundbreaking highlights were garnered through inference.

    Finance

  • America: Now $8-to-$14 Trillion Poorer [Reason] – It’s very hard for some of us to feel any poorer, but by golly we’re trying.
  • Unemployment at 10% to Depress Consumer Spending, Survey Shows [Bloomberg] – To figure out how to get paid to do surveys that give the same result as that learned in Economics 101 is the real trick to survival.
  • Court Docs Reveal Govt. Likely Forced Chrysler Deal With Minimal Knowledge of Fiat [NewsBusters] – Heck, the government probably forced Merrill Lynch on Bank of America too, so quit the bitching.

    • Fly Fishing

  • England Takes World Fly Fishing Championships [MidCurrent] – Congratulations to Team England. And in other news, the PMs decided this was a good reason to buy all new gear for themselves and bill British taxpayers.
  • To Save Fish, Defeat Them Quickly [Fly Talk] – What the fast-action graphite wielding contingent knew all along.
  • Dress for success applies directly to fly-fishermen [Durango Herald] – Proving once and for all that looking good really does matter.

    • MG signing off (to clean out the rest)

    Inconspicuous Consumption

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    Virginia Postrel:

    As peer groups get richer, the balance between private pleasure and publicly visible consumption shifts…

    Their primary luxuries [become] time and attention.

    You have to cut through the racial typing to get the meat of the issue, and I’m sure some folks will get it right away. But I am curious – if time is the new luxury, why do so many waste it sipping lattes in urban Starbucks?