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Say goodbye to those no-bid contracts for Iraq's oil that western oil companies snapped up earlier this summer:

Iraq Cancels Six No-Bid Oil Contracts

By ANDREW E. KRAMER and CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
Published: September 10, 2008

Insightful article at The Guardian on game developer Cliff Harris. Bothered by piracy of his game, Harris asked gamers why they take pirated versions of games. The feedback works across all types of media.

Brendan Loy links up to a New York Times expose on the men whose talking heads you see from time to time on the news giving you “independent” military analysis:

Some of us have known about this for a long time, but it’s good to see the media finally catching on to the fact that they’ve been had:

To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on televi

Ah Tax season is almost over. I usually write stuff for tax season, but realized that I haven’t’ written anything at all this year. But, let me bring this NYTimes report to the front: IRS Scrutiny of Big Firm Plummeting.

Back in February, Business Tn Magazine published a pro-toll road piece. You know, it was the typical we need to build toll roads to protect the kids. But the article also gave a bit of insight on Bredesen as well as a neat factoid.

A sticky issue for many small employers revolves around who is an employee versus who is an independent contractor.

Although we were directly affected by the two hour outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS), it still wasn’t the end of the world. I read several blog entries and comments about “not putting all of your eggs in one basket” and “how cloud computing was unreliable.” However, what other baskets should I put my eggs in, and how would that make my website or Web application more reliable?