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NYTeims (Bagli, “A Whistleblower at the Deutsche Bank Building Is Now an Outcast,” 30 Nov’09): [Marshal Greenberg] is suing the contractors who employed him, Bovis Lend Lease and the John Galt Corporation, accusing them of retaliating against him for telling the truth. Bovis, in court papers, has denied his claims. The kicker: Galt has yet [...]

Dan Pinchbeck, upset at Mark Dery: I do not think that there will be a “multidimensional realm of hyperspace triggered by mass activation of the pineal gland.” That quote was taken out of context, I can only presume intentionally. Onnaccounta this.

The Guardian (formerly known as Teh Grauniad but since displaced by the NY Teims) does a number on HM:

Courtesy of the early Clay Shirky. ( lloyd wood )

Xe: The joint audit by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction and the United State Department of State Inspector General released yesterday does not, as some press reports have suggested, allege that Blackwater was ever complicit in overbilling the United States government for work it performed in Iraq in 2006 and 2007. The audit [...]

Form art lives.

Paul Vixie: To underline our understanding of what DNS is, we must differentiate it from what it is not. The Internet economy rewards unlimited creativity in the monetization of human action, and fairly often this takes the form of some kind of intermediation. For DNS, monetized intermediation means lying. The innovators who bring us such [...]

WIN: Coverage: PC Mag, Ars Technica, CNET. See also: “Litigator as artist.”

Grimmelmann: Your avatar’s arms are never going to be long enough to box with a game god whose software controls arm length. Or, as we used to put it: he who would snack with the Devil must needs use a long spork… ( jotwell | froomkin )

Sorrell predicts an LUV-shaped recession.

One can only hope.