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Monday January 29, 2007

Church: From Fayetteville comes news of a church whose ads are too steamy for local newspapers.

Technology: Ever wondered what slows Windows down? Here is a list of culprits. At the top of the list is Norton, to no one’s great surprise.

Weird: A small town in Alberta is rocked by a two-car collision that killed two sets of brothers.

Music: Bloomberg has an interesting article about U2 and their finances. “This is somebody who’s exceptionally rich taking the opportunity to shift his tax burden to somebody else, but then asking governments around the world to spend that tax take in the way that he would like”

Blogs: It was obviously a quiet weekend on the blog front. I’ll try to have more news from the blogosphere in tomorrow’s A La Carte.


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