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How the Justice Department misplayed the steroids investigation. – By Frank Bowman – Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/id/2182069/

“Tomorrow, former Sen. George Mitchell will testify before a House committee about his investigation into performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. When they’re done listening, members of Congress should ask some hard questions about the relationship between Mitchell’s report and the Justice Department criminal investigation that gave him most of his information.”

Claim Your Cash Back From Amazon – 11/01/2008

http://www.fool.co.uk/news/your-money/2008/01/11/claim-your-cash-back-from-amazon.aspx?source=ioowftxt0010011

If you happened to order your gifts from online retailer Amazon, you may have the opportunity to feel pleased with yourself. Why? Because the company offers a “Price Drop policy”. Essentially, this means if anything you’ve purchased in the past 30 days has dropped in price, you can claim the difference back!

Need help managing your Twitter Karma?

http://dossy.org/archives/000570.html

“Basically, it’s a Flash application that fetches your friends and followers from Twitter when you click the “Whack!” button, then displays them for you, letting you quickly paginate through them. By default, the list contains all your friends and followers and is sorted by last update, showing those who most recently updated first. You can sort the list alphabetically either ascending or descending by Twitter ID. You can filter the list in several ways: only friends or only followers, all friends or all followers, and mutual friends.”

The Clashs Mick Jones and Topper Headon reunite after 25 years | News | NME.COM

http://www.nme.com/news/carbon-silicon/33615

Fans of The Clash got a suprise as guitarist Mick Jones launched his new band Carbon/Silicon’s residency in west London on Friday (11 January).

Playing the first Carbon Casino – which will see the band spend the next six Friday nights at Ladbroke Grove pub Inn On The Green – Jones was reunited with Clash drummer Topper Headon, who joined him onstage for the first time in 25 years.