Archive for 2008/03/19

BBC NEWS | Americas | Tent city highlights US homes crisis

2008/03/19/1139

RTFA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7297093.stm

The meltdown in the US mortgage market has led to record foreclosures and forced thousands from their homes. In few places is it worse than southern California, where the BBC’s Rajesh Mirchandani reports on an extreme consequence of the downturn, but one that some observers fear could grow.

The population of Tent City has grown rapidly in less than a year

Forty miles east of Los Angeles, on a patch of waste ground, is the place they call Tent City.

WTF.

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Tech Visionary Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90

2008/03/19/0844

RTFA: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143592-c,current…

Science fiction writer, inventor, scuba diver, and visionary Sir Arthur C. Clarke died Tuesday at his home on the island nation of Sri Lanka at the age of 90.

Clarke was best known in popular culture as the author of the story that inspired Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” but his greatest contribution to technology is creating the conceptual framework for geostationary satellites

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