It’s a sad day for electronics shoppers: Circuit City, the second-largest retailer of consumer electronics, has announced it is forced to close all its remaining 567 U.S. stores and sell all its merchandise. The closing also leaves 34,000 Circuit City employees out of a job. …
Best Buy, the biggest dog in the industry, is still strong.
Note: The Source by Circuit City in Canada is untouched. All 765 stores are open for business. The Canadian economy is much healthier than the American.
The state of Queensland in Australia is offering, “The Best Job in the World,” a six-month stay on Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef with a salary of $105,000.
Job Duties: Stay rent-free in a three bedroom home with a plunge pool and golf buggie. Explore the island. Blog.
Qualifications: You must be able to speak and write in English, and…
“They’ll also have to talk to media from time to time about what they’re doing so they can’t be too shy and they’ll have to love the sea, the sun, the outdoors,” said acting state Premier Paul Lucas.
You can apply at islandreefjob.com. (Though for some reason the site currently seems to be down.)
But a short video called The Hidden Cost of War is more graphic. And succinct.
In 2003, Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is more than 10 times that estimate. So what’s behind the ballooning figures? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme’s exhaustively researched book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, breaks down the price tag, from current debts to the unseen costs we’ll pay for many years to come.
I love the Hunter S. Thompson line so often attributed to the Record Industry:
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”
This week Apple announced that all 10 million songs in itunes will soon be DRM (Digital Rights Management) free. A death sentence for the old model of music distribution.
The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
… Should anyone care that in the process, the iPod has all but killed the music industry as we’ve known it? Maybe not, Steve Knopper writes in “Appetite for Self-Destruction,” his stark accounting of the mistakes major record labels have made since the end of the LP era and the arrival of digital music. These dinosaurs, he suggests, are largely responsible for their own demise. …
This quotation has has achieved the status of urban legend. Here’s the original:
… The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. …
Email addresses that have long been directed correctly, even email addresses that are in my own personal address book, are being flagged as SPAM. See example screenshot below …
Microsoft is simply useless at anything to do with the internet.
A friend of mine just emailed. Her facebook account was hacked this morning and the hacker has been asking all of her friends for money to get home from London.
She is not in london and does not need money.
The hacker is trying to convince “Facebook friends” to send cash.
Rick McCharles 