The Bangus Ultimatum

These are my links for December 30th through January 6th:

• The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World, 2009 – Suddenly they've got the precariousness of creatives, of the underclass, without that gleeful experience of decades spent
  living-it-up.
• visual guide to the financial crisis – Here is a visual guide to help you understand the events leading up to the bailout.
• Ruby on Rails Tutorials | Ruby Pond – gobs and gobs of tutorials, all about ruby/ruby on rails
• When a Phillips is not a Phillips! – wow, never knew how much thought came into the design of screws and screw drivers.
• The Air Force’s Rules of Engagement for Blogging [Updated] — Global Nerdy – wow. these guys really take social media seriously. so why shouldn't your firm do?
• Blood Sugar Control Linked to Memory Decline, Study Says – NYTimes.com – Spikes in blood sugar can take a toll on memory by affecting the dentate gyrus, an area of the brain within the hippocampus that helps form memories, a new study reports.
• The Becker-Posner Blog: Can the United Auto Workers Survive? Posner – posner lashes at unions and their entitlements.
• Web Ink Now: The US Air Force: Armed with social media – In an environment where many corporations are scared witless about social media, here a huge global organization firmly committed to social media communications to spread messages, stories, knowledge and ideals.
• BBC NEWS | Europe | Pope attacks blurring of gender – your infallible pope sez: gender theory is akin to the destruction of ecology. so wrong on so many levels i don't know where to begin.
• The Batman Protocols, a DC Superheroes fanfic – FanFiction.Net – batman indeed is the baddest of the bad
• Before the Music Dies – a documentary film in which filmmakers Andrew Shapter and Joel Rasmussen “traveled the country, hoping to understand why mainstream music seems so packaged and repetitive, and whether corporations really had the power to silence musical innovation.”
• YouTube Video Download Tool – To download a video to your computer, enter the YouTube URL for the video in the box above. It will be downloaded in flv format.

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