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The good news I stimulated the economy last week: Bought Madden 09 for the Wii. Bad news is I haven’t had a chance to play yet. More bad news, I won’t get to see any Barrack Obama billboards adorn my stadium.

It’s true: In certain undecided states, the Obama campaign is advertising in video games. more

The good news I stimulated the economy last week: Bought Madden 09 for the Wii. Bad news is I haven’t had a chance to play yet. More bad news, I won’t get to see any Barrack Obama billboards adorn my stadium.

It’s true: In certain undecided states, the Obama campaign is advertising in video games. more

Wanna hear something surprising? A good number of the folks who attended DMA08 this week in Las Vegas apparently went to Sin City to….go to the conference.

Some may opine that many DMers were more inclined to park themselves at the slots rather than wander the exhibit hall. But if the results of a survey of attendees yesterday is to be believed, 41% weren’t gambling. more

Before arriving in Las Vegas last weekend for the DMA show, I hadn’t been to Sin City in a long time—14 years to be exact. I was last here to watch Mike Tyson fight—and win—so you know it was quite a while ago. (Tyson knocked out the U.K.’s Frank Bruno in the third round.)

Anyway, Vegas sure has changed a lot since 1996. I’m certainly no expert, but here’s a few tips I’ve picked up on this visit. more

By Larry Riggs

The U.S. Postal Service came out with its five-year plan earlier this month saying in which it said it wants to keep improving service while cutting costs and further automating its operations.

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I visited Amazon.com the other day to buy some music CDs, but was rather alarmed to discover that a lot of the music I love is now starting to go “out of print.” That is to say, no longer available on CD.

It appears that we’ve finally hit the tipping point where online music is starting to kill the CD industry.

But I guess it’s also because a lot of the music I listen to is no longer popular — or even appreciated. You see, I’m one of those old progressive rock fans. Musically, I’m stuck in the 1970s – and a lot of the stuff I get into is pretty sublime (and to most people, quite strange).

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