There are a hundred ways to talk about NBA attendance, a hundred ways to distort the truth, a hundred ways to rationalize, pervert, and obfuscate the facts.In the weeks and months to come, the NBA will attempt to use all of those methods. They will load us down with facts and figures that explain how wonderful the league is, how healthy its balance sheets are, and how strong its ratings are.Just remember, when you hear ...

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Last night we were trying to watch House, M.D., and one of those terrible Microsoft "Mojave" commercials came on, which implied that the reason Vista hasn't sold well isn't because it sucks but because consumers don't know you can make panoramic photos with it. That's a feature on everyone's must-have list for a new OS, isn't it? So then we were like, Great, this is what intracranial bleeding feels like. Anyway that reminded us of ...

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed under 8000 today, a five year low, and 24% lower than it stood the day President Bush was inaugurated.  But hey… that’s still better than Herbert Hoover.

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The transcript from the inevitable David Stern press conference to discuss putrid NBA attendance:DAVID STERN: While we’re certainly concerned with flagging attendance levels, I’d like to remind you that the season is still very early. I know the press likes to make a big story out of this, but if you review our attendance figures from years past, you’ll notice that our attendance levels tend to increase as the year progresses and fan interest improves.REPORTER: ...

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The feds shut down three more brothels masquerading as tanning salons, this time in Greenwood, Tukwila and Renton. They're still using that cover story? Come on, people. Now that three more "salons" have bit the dust, we're sure Seattle will move further along the journey towards restoring the shining image of tanning salons as our community's beacons of health and moral rectitude. Also, our condolences go out to the undercover investigators who risked infectious skin ...

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Just two weeks before Amanda Knox is set to go to trial on murder charges, a new witness has come forward, putting the former UW student's alibi in doubt. The new witness claims to have seen Knox in the household supplies section of a store near her home three hours earlier than Knox had said she was there. If the witness is credible (and you have to wonder, seeing as the person waited a year ...

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Because of security reasons, no doubt, the DOD has restricted overseas military use of sites such as YouTube and MySpace for its personnel. Delve Networks and the DOD’s Military One Source have launched TroopTube. The social site allows active duty, guard and reserve military folks and the families to share videos but they will not be able to embed them elsewhere. The Defense Department will monitor what is shown on the site that could be ...

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Barack Obama is almost certain to be the president who appoints the nation's first Chief Technology Officer.In some sense it is shocking that America doesn't have one yet. We have a Chief Medical Officer (the Surgeon General). We have a Chief Safety Officer (the director of FEMA). Yet, we have no Chief Technology Officer (CTO). No one who oversees the nation's increasingly critical digital infrastructure.Every major corporation in America, and countless ...

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Lou Reed- Berlin: Live At St. Ann’s Warehouse (Album Review)The release of an audio version of Lou Reed’s 2006 reappraisal of Berlin, which was staged at St. Ann’s in collaboration with Julian Schnabel as a film documentary, might seem like an odd move unless you’ve seen the painfully dull results – Schnabel desperately trying to inject some excitement into the performance with quick cuts and arty camera angles. I’d say Reed’s Berlin rerun is better ...

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Al Qaeda No. 2 Insults ObamaWith Racial EpithetAlso Insults Powell, RiceSJ comments:sad that American Black revolutionaries, in an effort to return t their roots and divest themselves of the overlay of the slave master's religion, have urned to Islam. While it is true that Islamic and Jewish dogmas both accept the converted as a part of the people, the evangelims of Islam like that of of the Christians has committed a kind of cultural ...

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Fill'er up: CARPE DIEM: $1.45 Gas in Kansas City! Stuff White People Like: Black Music that Black People Don't Listen to Anymore BrothersJudd Blog: WHEN ARE THEY CARBON-DATING THE SHROUD OF DARWIN?: "If you didn't have the relics people might not believe the Prophet had existed." NASA and Google Successfully Test Deep Space Internet @ Universe Today In October, America bought nothing and built nothing.Housing Starts at Record Low @ Calculated Risk. And, in the same month, we became ...

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Rap mogul Snoop Dogg appeared on Martha Stewart Living this week to give her a little vocabulary lesson and show off his cooking skills. Oh, yeah, and he was also promoting the second season of his highly entertaining reality program, Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood. Continue reading Snoop Dogg Brings a Little Shizzle to Martha Stewart Tags: (T), (T), (T), (T), (T), (T), (T), (T), (T) Read ...

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When Trey Parker and Matt Stone decide to pull the plug on South Park, they won’t quietly fade from the scene with a single half-hour TV stint. These two comedy masters will say good-bye in a way the fans can appreciate (and spend a lot more money on): with another big-screen version of the show. Don’t worry, avid Park fans, the show isn’t scheduling to end itself anytime soon. Parker and Stone are ...

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