Atlanta losing it’s lakes?

Interesting story from the AJC

Metro Atlanta’s primary water sources — Lake Lanier and Allatoona Lake — are dropping fast and could hit historic lows.

Allatoona is nearly 13 feet below full heading into fall, normally the driest season of the year.

Why Russell Simmons can kiss my ass:

Attention conspiracy theorists: Russell Simmons is an agent. How else do you explain his behavior this year? He spent the early part of the year on radio and television defending ignorant rappers.Russell gave these self-serving, poor product producing, no talent having hacks a pass and wanted us to do the same. He went as far as telling an audience (on Oprah Winfreys show) to think of them as “poets”... Read Lisa's full post on The Jiggarati.com

Gone for Jena: Updated

Metroblogging Atlanta has a very interesting post about the ATL’s Jena response. On a personal note, my wife was there on “Black Thursday” and took some pictures with her phone cam. Hopefully, I can post them here soon.

Update: I have a heck of a time getting the images off her phone. It’s an LG with no bluetooth, so I’m guessing each image had to be mailed from the phone. Anyway, I’ll get to that as soon as I can and maybe have her blog about her experience.

Georgia is the nation’s Canary in the Mortgage Coal Mine

From the AJC

“The number of foreclosure filings reported in the U.S. last month more than doubled versus August 2006 and jumped 36 percent from July, with Georgia among states with the highest foreclosure rates.The trend that signals many homeowners are increasingly unable to make timely payments on their mortgages or sell their homes amid a national housing slumpA total of 243,947 foreclosure filings were reported in August, up 115 percent from 113,300 in the same month a year ago, Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac Inc. said Tuesday. There were 179,599 foreclosure filings reported in July.

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New York Times Ditches Fees For TimesSelect

This one from the Huffington Post made me laugh:

“Pinch Sulzberger’s attempt to put his prized columnists behind a subscription wall on the theory that they were so much better than free bloggers that people would pay for them–is finally so doomed it’s actually dead, dead, dead, as of midnight tomorrow. … You see, it’s really a success story! It “met expectations.” It’s just that online ad growth was so much higher it was more profitable to not charge readers and thereby get more of them! I mean, who could have foreseen that (except everyone else in the industry)?”

It’s nice that poor illiterate bastards like me can now read a quality new source for free. Long live the Street!

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