- Residents’ wait continues at Superfund Site – In 1982, Motorola Inc. reported a leak from a 5,000-gallon underground tank containing TCE at its facility at 52nd Street. TCE is a manmade industrial solvent suspected of causing cancer. In 1989 the area became a federal Superfund Site, which is any contaminated land that poses a risk to public health or the environment.
- Reality Check, Please! | ThatsSoYummy.com – While I was reading The Food Network Magazine, I found a tid-bit I wanted to share with you all.
Restaurant Menus are designed to make you eat more and spend big.
- Holder says Feds will stop medical marijuana raids – War Room – Salon.com – For those of you keeping score at home, add another major policy shift by the Obama administration to the tally. Breaking with precedent set under former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, the Department of Justice will not raid medical marijuana dispensaries allowed under certain state laws.
- Televisionary: Word Salad: The History of the Cylon Race Comes Tumbling Out on "Battlestar Galactica" – Confused about the secret history of the "Old Cylon" race? Let's see if we can work it all out from what Battlestar Galactica has told us thus far.
- U.S. Consumers Driven Away From Drink Spending: Chart of Day – The CHART OF THE DAY shows why. Take-out sales of alcoholic beverages tumbled 9.3 percent in the fourth quarter, the steepest drop since the U.S. Commerce Department started compiling data half a century ago. They sank four times as much as overall consumer spending, depicted by a green line in the chart.
The plunge, which took place as the U.S. recession surpassed the one-year mark, shattered the previous record of 3.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 1991. That decline capped three quarters of falling sales as the U.S. came out of a recession.
- Hulu Gets Nasty, Blocks Boxee Browser From Videos – Old media's war against technology just escalated: Hulu, the Web video site owned by Fox (NWS) and NBC (GE), just blocked Boxee, a Web TV-specialized browser, from accessing its videos. (What's Boxee? See explanation at bottom.)
Specifically, this means that Hulu videos can't be watched on Boxee's new video RSS reader, while Hulu's content will (presumably) still work with other Web browsers and RSS readers. This is sort of along the lines of Microsoft hypothetically blocking Mac users from Hotmail.
- $1.27 Per Share: The General Motors Of 1933 – GM stock dropped 25% today, hitting $1.27 per share during intra-day trading. It's a level not seen since April, 1933. Let's put things into perspective and take a look back at the GM of 1933.
The GM of 1933 and the GM of 2009 are two seemingly diametrically opposite companies connected by only one thing — a stock price. One was exiting the Depression, while today, one is apparently just entering one.
- Pepsi introduces drinks with natural sugar | Markets | Markets News | Reuters – Pepsi Natural, a premium cola made with sugar, natural caramel and kola nut extract, will be sold in glass bottles in the premium or natural food aisles of stores in 10 markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle.
- Signs of Life from the Real Estate Market – BusinessWeek – The Fairfield ZIP code had the biggest annual increase in sales in the fourth quarter of last year, according to a ranking of the 25 U.S. ZIP codes with the most improved sales compiled for BusinessWeek.com by Santa Ana (Calif.)-based First American CoreLogic. California, Florida, Arizona, and Nevada ZIPs dominated the list, as we expected, but Howell, Mich., near Detroit; Woodbury, Minn.; Rio Rancho, N.M.; Humble, Tex., outside Houston; Duluth, Ga., in the Atlanta metro area; and the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, Ill., also showed strong or at least stable sales at the end of last year. We limited the ranking to ZIPs with at least 10,000 households and selected only one ZIP for any given metro area. (If we hadn't done this, California would have taken almost all of the top 25 slots).
- Supercomputer Adds Up, but not in the way The Journal Believes – Well, a few weeks ago, the Albuquerque Journal editorialized in glowing terms about the jobs supposedly being created by the State's $39 million supercomputer. It made me wonder whether the State got ripped off for their computer or whether, as is so often the case, the government officials allowed taxpayers to get ripped off. Well, it turns out that it was basically the latter. After poking around and asking some questions, I discovered that the computer really cost taxpayers $42 million because the State had to "fund the creation of a permanent office, build more college gateways, and hire staff…and design a planned central office for the project and to buy equipment for the gateways on college campuses."
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