links for 2007-08-28

• Taiwan’s Acer Agrees to Acquire Gateway for About $710 Million – WSJ.com
  Taiwan’s Acer Inc. said it had reached an agreement to acquire Gateway Inc. in a deal that values the U.S. company at about $710 million and pushes Acer past Lenovo Group Ltd. as the world’s No. 3 vendor of personal computers.
  (tags: acer gateway acquisiton merger deal business computer wsj)
• Army of Dude: Stupid Shit of The Deployment Awards!
  In the future, I want my children to grow up with the belief that what I did here was wrong, in a society that doesn’t deem that idea unpatriotic.
  (tags: article blog corruption essay incompetence insurgent military news war politics iraq)
• Afghan Opium Production Soars By Half In 2006
  The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says illegal opium production in Afghanistan increased by nearly half in 2006 compared to the record harvest of a year earlier.
  (tags: afghanistan opium war taleban terrorism)
• Katrina: Slow As Molasses | Campaign for America’s Future
  You can’t blame West for thinking he didn’t care. But it was likely far more cynical than that. Rove was busy counting votes that day he and the president flew over the city and he undoubtedly knew that an opportunity presented itself if New Orleans were
  (tags: katrina neworleans gop wingnuts racism disaster hurricane politics)

~ by SAP on 28 August 2007.