Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-5-2008

[andrewducker]

• Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job
  In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break."
  (tags: politics theonion funny obama)
• China will impose a personal income tax of 20% on profit from virtual money.
  The announcement, which was distributed to local tax bureaus, specifically takes aim at those who buy virtual currency from gamers and surfers and sell it to others at a mark-up. Taxation officials are granted the right to determine the original price of online virtual currency if the individual fails to provide proof of an original price, it says.
  (tags: money online mmorpg china)
• Games 'to outsell' music, video
  The ERA's most recent figures for 2007 show sales of games software at £1.7bn, compared to £1.4bn in music sales and £2.2bn for video revenues.
  (tags: videogames music games uk)
• Hot nanotube sheets produce music on demand
  Very neat piece of tech. Will probably be years before it hits the streets though.
  (tags: music speakers technology nanotech)

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Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job

Already printed out and on my office door...