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Sprint Nextel is eliminating 8,000 jobs in the first quarter as it seeks to pare costs by .2 billion a year. The company will also suspend 401(k) matches.

Obviously the video starts the highlights…I’ll link to some specifically good clips in the comments.

Worried about someone taking pictures of you surreptitiously? A new bill would require all cell phone cameras to make that shutter-click noise so you’ll be warned when there’s a peeping tom in the locker room with you.

Women who drink coffee or tea during pregnancy may increase their baby’s odds of developing cancer, doctors believe. Experts say caffeine may damage the DNA of babies in the womb, making them more susceptible to leukaemia, the most common cancer in children.

Chief executive’s descrition of internet telephony group as great standalone business fires speculation. Speculation is mounting that eBay, the internet auction website, is preparing to sell Skype, its internet telephone company.

When the Arizona Cardinals meet the Pittsburgh Steelers in Sunday’s Super Bowl, every starting offensive lineman will be a member of the 300-pound club. This super-sizing of NFL players has accelerated in recent years, and some studies suggest health risks are growing. But studies are conflicting on this point.

New Jersey often brings to mind pollution and shopping malls, but it’s an epicenter of artistic talent. Springsteen, Sinatra, Roth, Stephen Crane and Walt Whitman are just a few examples of artistic giants to come out of Jersey. The state is derided for its turnpike, but there’s a reason it’s called “The Garden State.” Great to grow tomatoes, too.

This is what the song would sound like if he’d stayed in West Philadelphia.

Hugh Pickens writes “The chief executive of the British Library, Lynne Brindley, says that our cultural heritage is at risk as the Internet evolves and technologies become obsolete, and that historians and citizens face a ‘black hole’ in the knowledge base of the 21st century unless urgent action is taken to preserve websites and other digital records. For example, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as US president last week, all traces of George W. Bush disappeared from the White House website. There were more than 150 websites relating to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney that vanished instantly at the end of the games and are now stored only by the National Library of Australia. ‘If websites continue to disappear in the same way as those on President Bush and the Sydney Olympics… the memory of the nation disappears too,’ says Brindley. The library plans to create a comprehensive archive of material from the 8M .uk domain websites, and also is organizing a collecting and archiving project for the London 2012 Olympics. ‘The task of capturing our online intellectual heritage and preserving it for the long term falls, quite rightly, to the same libraries and archives that have over centuries systematically collected books, periodicals, newspapers, and recordings…'” Over the years we’ve discussed various aspects of this archiving problem.

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DJRumpy sends word that the US Senate has voted to delay the switch to digital TV until June. “The transition date would move to June 12 from February 17 under the bill that was fueled by worries that viewers are not technically ready for the Congressionally mandated switch-over. It would also allow consumers with expired coupons, available from the government to offset the cost of a converter box, to request new coupons. The government ran out of coupons earlier this month, and about 2.5 million Americans are on a waiting list for them.”

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