You might enjoy: FederalNewsRadio

I didn’t know I needed a federal news station, but I do.
NCMA started a weekly broadcast on contracting issues.  I went to the website and found not only that archived as a podcast (yea!) but other stories about which I care, like an explanation of who gets Inauguration Day as a holiday (very confusing), and [...]

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SBIR/STTR Solicitation Schedule, GFY09

The DOD Small Business Innovation Research Solicitation 09.1 officially opens next Monday.  NSF and NIH closed this week.
The schedule for all agencies for the new year can be found at:
http://www.sbir.us/schedule.html
They also have links to each agency’s SBIR office so that you can find the latest information.  Thank you Jade Research for keeping this stuff consolidated.

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The Real Cause of Global Warming? The Sun.

The Army Research Office, bless their hearts, has released a study that blames global warming on the sun.  Neat.  (My tax dollars paid for this?) In case you wondered, the Sun is the object that warms and cools the Earth, so I guess it is ultimately responsible for warming.
Way more commentary on Wired’s National Security [...]

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Let slip the dogs of kvetch

Will Wilkinson of the Cato Institute had a wonderfully fun commentary on our current non-recession today on Marketplace Morning Report. It’s short and entirely worth a read or listen.
“With a real recession, we could blame somebody…”

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Handicapped people can crawl…

US currency is lousy if you are visually impaired.  Miserable if you are all the way blind.  Other countries have managed to make currency that is vaguely blind-friendly, but the US Treasury has fought doing the same for six years (even though they redesigned the currency during that time!).  The US Court of Appeals has [...]

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