The Book of Jobs | Politics | Vanity Fair
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/01/stiglitz-depression-201201

The problem today, as it was then, is something else. The problem today is the so-called real economy. It’s a problem rooted in the kinds of jobs we have, the kind we need, and the kind we’re losing, and rooted as well in the kind of workers we want and the kind we don’t know what to do with. The real economy has been in a state of wrenching transition for decades, and its dislocations have never been squarely faced. A crisis of the real economy lies behind the Long Slump, just as it lay behind the Great Depression.

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“Information Wants to Be Free”; The NYT Does Not : CJR
http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/information_wants_to_be_free_t.php

No one would say “groceries want to be free” and use that as an excuse to steal steaks. Or I guess some people might, but those people would be jerks, and also criminals.

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[W]e must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom. Here are the title deeds of freedom which should lie in every cottage home. Here is the message of the British and American peoples to mankind. Let us preach what we practice — let us practice — what we preach.

Winston S. Churchill
"The Sinews of Peace"
5 March 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri
http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/sinews1.html

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So, here's a business-appropriate ringtone I made from the Fed Phones in 24. It starts quiet and gets louder over a few rings. Props to Rogue Amoeba's Fission for making it easy.

@gruber got me thinking about iPad satchels. Here's what I have so far.