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Temptress of Silicon Valley shuts down useless site [Pownce]Yesterday

Earlier this year, Leah Culver appeared on the cover of a tech magazine blowing an enormous pink bubble. But the shrill-voiced San Francisco programmer no longer desires fame — even the modest...

Google's censors really sorry about violating freedom of speech [Censorship]Yesterday

If a YouTube video gets yanked, if a Blogger blog gets deleted, if a website disappears from Google's search results, chances are Google lawyer Nicole Wong had something to do with it. Wong has kept...

Recession officially a year old [Meltdowns]Yesterday

What, now they tell us? A recession is not a recession until the number-driven meritocrats of the National Bureau of Economic Research declare it to be one. And now they have. The current recession...

Cyber Monday crashes an online-shopping tradition [E-commerce]Yesterday

As white-collar workers return desultorily to their desk jobs, they waste time by shopping online. To capitalize on this, a group of online retailers invented "Cyber Monday," a day of Internet...

We can't even afford chicken feed [Meltdowns]Yesterday

The recession has an upside, right? As consumers cut back, austerity trend pieces told us chicken was supposed to supplant beef as what's for dinner. But Pilgrim's Pride, the large poultry producer,...