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[Inside The Blue Talent Triangle] A report yesterday found that on average, the average person spends and average of £21,000 on music in their lifetime. The Uber-Music-Geek however spends, on average £44,000 (mostly due to ordering that rare INXS german remix with the japanese cover notes from eBay).

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[LoopyLibrarian - Librarianship with a Jangle Angle] Leccy on the Heap: Responding to the Christopher Smallwood and research consultancy FreshMinds' report 'The Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the NHS', which called for a full assessment of mainstream complementary therapies, King's Fund chief executive Niall Dickson, said: "This important report highlights the potential contribution that mainstream complementary therapies could make to improving health and reducing the costs of health care. Where the evidence is strong enough, the King's Fund supports the call for the a review of complementary medicines by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

[Carpe Datum] Nuclear vs Solar: The engineers were the implacable ones, just SURE nuclear power was the greatest thing since sliced bread and if it wouldn't work, then western civilization was doomed (I was actually told this by a German engineer I met at Burroughs Corporation once. Such a twit!)

[Reviews.cnet.com] Alpha - Blog.CNET.com - CNET.com: Hang on to your antenna Nobody really thought that Congress would end up enforcing the 2006 turn-off deadline for analog television broadcasts, but now it's semiofficial: the new blackout date will be 2009, according to proposed legislation. At the end of 2008, so the story goes, all TV broadcasters will turn off their over-the-air analog transmissions and leave the spectrum free to be auctioned off--although a good portion will supposedly be used for emergency broadcasts and homeland security.

[Csmonitor.com] Germany says auf Wiedersehen to nuclear power, guten Tag to ...: For example, the average German household today pays an extra 0.4 cents per kilowatt-hour of .Spend Your $.02.

[Blog.searchenginewatch.com] Search Engine Watch Blog: June 05, 2005 - June 11, 2005 Archives: Search, which Icalled the Rodney Dangerfield of no respect in terms of online advertising in 2001, gets an endorsement from Time Warner. If you're still dealing with some marketing department that remains dubious about search -- despite the continued rise in spend -- despite the fact that for a tiny, tiny amount of traditional spend they could discover the power of search themselves -- point them at this quote.

[Grist.org] Germany says auf Wiedersehen to nuclear power, guten Tag to ...: About the only thing most Germans are sure about right now is the dire need to abandon nuclear power, evidenced by the "Switch Off and Rethink" mantra stamped on billboards and in newspapers, buzzing from television sets, and crossing people's lips throughout the nation. And tough policies enacted by the red-green government have laid an incredible groundwork for that move -- not just for Europe's wealthiest nation to become nuclear-free in the next 15 years, but for renewable-energy suppliers to double their output to provide one-fifth of Germany's power within the same period.

[Blogs.sun.com] Constantin Gonzalez' Weblog: At the moment, the Sun Java Workstation W2100z is the fastest Workstation on earth, so I put it on top of my newly-created list of favourite Sun products to the right of this blog. As of today, it comes with two AMD Opteron CPUs (Models 244, 246, 248 or 250), supports true simultaneous 32- and 64-Bit x86-based computing, runs Solaris x86, many GNU/Linux variants, including the Sun Java Desktop System and (yuck!)