Setting aside that they’re both built for Silverlight/Deep Zoom, the similarity of Microsoft’s just-launched PivotViewer control for Silverlight to Duncan/Channon’s 2008 design of the Hard Rock Memorabilia website is striking. (Click the image for full size.)

As I have indicated for some time now, my test for the financial regulatory reform bill is whether it will prevent another crisis. The conference committee's proposal fails that test, and for that reason I will not vote to advance it," Feingold said in a written statement.

Meanwhile, the people who don't have the resources to find out the truth and get it out in front of the public's eyes, your readers/viewers, you're supposed to be working for them — and they're not getting your help. What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan? Is it worth all the bloodshed and the hatred? Who are the people running this thing, what is their agenda, and is that agenda the same thing we voted for? By the severely unlikely virtue of a drunken accident we get a tiny glimpse of an answer to some of these vital questions, but instead of cheering this as a great break for our profession, a waytago moment, one so-called reputable journalist after another lines up to protest the leak and attack the reporter for doing his job.

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