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• Good summary of what is happening with the sub-prime meltdown at Wikipedia. The New York Times has a good summary about how the safeguards haven't worked and finally over in the comments of Metafilter is a comment that has almost become legendary for its description of what is going on.
  
• Church cancels service over gay Navy vet: While I don't agree with the church's decision, what really bothers me are the accusations that they lied when confronted by the press. via
  
• Whatever happened to "faux" WHA trophy? Bonus question. If you can name the trophy without clicking on the link, leave it in the comments and you will have my eternal respect.
• Wendy, if you love me, you will give this to me for Christmas. Update: That's a lot of money for a low quality replica.
• Speaking of Wendy, she pans Shrek the Third. Although she may just be bitter after spilling her drink all over her feet.
• Change your shirt before you get arrested
• Some studies show that diversity hurts community :: People don't trust people different than they are sadly.
• Guy Kawasaki has the Seven Sins of Solutions :: Leaping to solutions in an instinctive way or intuitive way—i.e. the “blink” method of problem-solving—seldom leads to an elegant solution because deeper, hidden causes don’t get addressed. Watch CSI and House: first they collect the evidence, then diagnose, and then solve. It’s never the guy or the disease you initially suspect.
• The New York Times on the Silicon Valley :: Mr. Steger, 51, a self-described geek, has banked more than $2 million. The $1.3 million house he and his wife own on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean is paid off. The couple’s net worth of roughly $3.5 million places them in the top 2 percent of families in the United States. Yet each day Mr. Steger continues to toil in what a colleague calls “the Silicon Valley salt mines,” working as a marketing executive for a technology start-up company, still striving for his big strike. Most mornings, he can be found at his desk by 7. He typically works 12 hours a day and logs an extra 10 hours over the weekend. “I know people looking in from the outside will ask why someone like me keeps working so hard,” Mr. Steger says. “But a few million doesn’t go as far as it used to. Maybe in the ’70s, a few million bucks meant ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,’ or Richie Rich living in a big house with a butler. But not anymore.”
• Time is on your side
• Spencer Burke has a new book coming out. Out of TheOoze (pre-order on Amazon)
• Lance Armstrong's racing team with dispand :: Apparently because of the shame brought to it because some of it's racers were not doping.
• VIP concert going :: This is a bad thing why? As if rock and roll hadn't sold out long before you did.
• The cost of catching Barry Bond's tainted baseball :: How about a $200,000 tax bill.
• Worst jobs in America
• The Economist shows why blacks and hispanics aren't getting along :: Last year Pew, a pollster, found that one-third of blacks believe immigrants take jobs from Americans—more than any other group. Yet in some ways their views were benign. Blacks are less likely than whites or even Hispanics to believe that immigrants end up on welfare or commit crimes. Latinos, on the other hand, appear to make no such concessions. One survey of Durham, in North Carolina, found that 59% of Latinos believed few or almost no blacks were hard-working, and a similar proportion reckoned few or almost none could be trusted. Fewer than one in ten whites felt the same way.
• The contents of The Homeless Guy's backpack