Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

I bought an Alpine CDA-9884 from Best Buys the other day for around $200. When I was looking at receivers I asked the salesperson what was the better makes they had. He immediately said Alpine, and proceeded to tell me of the new feature they had called Imprint which he explained contained a parametric equalizer. He proceeded to demonstrate the feature and I was able to see him adjust multiple band-pass points in 100 Hz increments. I recall thinking that this would be a nice feature as it would allow a degree of application of Fletcher-Munson correction for lower listening levels.

BarCampBanks are a series of unconference events dedicated to "fostering innovation and the creation of new business models in banking and finance".

Ummm... Is it just me or is "innovation and the creation of new business models in banking" how we got into our fubar economic situation.

Here's an idea: do old-style banking right.

While I had previously nailed this number at 45%, Dvorak.org goes with more the 1/3rd number:

One-Third of Americans believe in ghosts, UFOs and George W. Bush

34 percent of [Americans] say they believe in ghosts, according to a pre-Halloween poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos. That’s the same proportion who believe in unidentified flying objects — exceeding the 19 percent who accept the existence of spells or witchcraft.

... the 25 US newspapers who refused to run this comic: