The Daily Loper – July 11, 2008
Posted by Lopy in The Daily Loper on Jul 11, 2008
Killed by Chuck Schumer Edition
Todays links of interest:
- IndyMac Bank seized by federal regulators
Have you ever felt a combination of panic and schadenfreude? It’s kinda weird. - Battlestar Galactica Toasters
The only question we have is what took so long?? - Elvis Costello To ‘Spin Plates’ On Sundance
He’ll be hosting his own talk show. We’re about 1000% sure that it will be awesome. - HBO Sees at Least One Big Picture (and Plenty of Shows) in Its Future
But not "Deadwood". Warning: annoying pop-under ad from The Economist. Hate going to the Washington Post website. - Newspapers Plan Corrections Over Iran Missile Photo
Turns out that when a propaganda agent hands over a photo, one should check facts before publishing it as "truth." - Man Sues Publishers For $7M Over Bibles
Emotional distress. - Amazon Kindles Sales as Readers Demand Novels Online
Of course, based on online chatter about the iPhone ereaders, maybe we can change the headline to "readers demand novels online", though, hmm, that’s awkward. How about, "readers do too read ebooks"? - Apple’s iPhone 2.0 update is failing
Yeah, so maybe waiting a week to upgrade isn’t such a bad idea. - InBev Raises Its Offer for Anheuser
So in the end, the very American value of "give us more money, and then we will sell out!!" will win out over all the other ones. - iTunes, activation outages are rendering new and old iPhones problematic
You might want to wait. No seriously, you might want to wait.
