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...every day - with amendments and changes, the current version is up to 941 pages. Nobody wants to sit down and read nearly a thousand pages of legislation for fun. That's where readthestimulus.org gets all Web 2.0 on Congress: it's a forum where anyone who wants to can comb through a few pages of the bill and record their findings in a Google document. Volunteers can do as many or as few pages as they like. "We wanted people to know where their money was going," says Rob Bluey, director of online strategy at Heritage. Bluey says that while...
...similar mission. Late last month, army chief Anupong Paochinda reiterated that it was the military's duty to protect the royal institution and ordered his men to report any possible instances of lèse-majesté, according to local news reports. Anupong also urged battalion commanders to comb the Internet for antimonarchy material. With the military now on the case, Thailand's Internet war room just got a lot more ammunition...
...world of independent music is getting smaller. Or, to put it more clearly, that once-expansive, comb-like maze filled with hidden experiments, sounds, and genres has been excavated and magnified to the point where it no longer has discernible features or points of reference. Iconic labels like SST and K Records, whose mission statement spoke fundamentally to the ethic of “Do It Yourself” and otherwise progress-in-obscurity, have been reorganized—transformed from cultural agents to cultural artifacts—in the shadows of the pseudo-indie juggernauts, Sub Pop and Matador...
...also spurred some twisted behavior. In a vivid, detailed account of the "blood-soaked disaster" that was the American Rocketbelt Corporation, Montandon reveals the underbelly of this single-minded quest. Brawls and lawsuits over "Pretty Bird" - a "cherry red" belt whose "silver tanks shone so brightly you could comb your hair in their reflection" - spiral into a sordid tale of murder, kidnapping and torture. After being sentenced to life imprisonment, one of the perpetrators, Larry Stanley - "paunchy, graying, defeated, and washed-up at fifty-seven" - tallies the price of his dream: "My search for the rocket belt has cost...
...standards across the board meant the safety net she'd counted on for emergencies (a dog-dryer breakdown, say) was suddenly that much smaller. Now, as a precaution, she's cutting outlays, including the money she spends on inventory. "The banks are looking at everyone with a fine-tooth comb," she says. "In terms of the consumer, they're not going to have the same selection or quantity they would have otherwise...