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mrraven writes, “According to Ronald Reagan’s former deputy secretary of the treasury in this article in Counterpunch, globalization is destroying US I.T. jobs. From the article: ‘During the past five years (January 01 – January 06), the information sector of the US economy lost 644,000 jobs, or 17.4 per cent of its work force. Computer systems design and related work lost 105,000 jobs, or 8.5 per cent of its work force. Clearly, jobs offshoring is not creating jobs in computers and information technology.’” Paul Craig Roberts quotes a number of formerly pro-globalization economists who are now seeing the light of the harrowing of the US middle class. It’s not limited to I.T. Roberts quotes one recanting economist, Alan Blinder, as saying that 42–56 million American service-sector jobs are susceptible to offshoring.

Tennessee defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth was ejected early in the third quarter after he stomped on Dallas center Andre Gurode’s face.

We learned Peyton Manning can run for TDs, the Saints are for real (even in a loss) and Tennessee’s Albert Haynesworth casts a dark cloud over an otherwise noteworthy Sunday, Clark Judge says in his Week 4 Judgements.

Hitting their expected pecking order, Open Season grabbed an estimated $23 million in first, The Guardian swam to a solid second and School for Scoundrels folded…

Eliminated from championship contention, Tony Stewart gambled on fuel
mileage. It paid off — but just barely, as Stewart crawled across
the finish line Sunday to win the Banquet 400 race at Kansas
Speedway.

Game Releases for the Week of 10/1 - 10/7

Hello! Dan here with another week’s worth of video games for your perusal. This week sees the release of the anticipated Scarface game for the PSP, Xbox, and PS2, but next-gen owners will have to dust off one of those systems — unfortunately, it won’t be coming to the 360. Another slow week next week before the real Fall titles start showing up, but stay tuned: Splinter Cell, Tiger Woods Golf, and a new game in some no-name series called “Final Fantasy” will be here by the end of the month.

Xbox 360

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PSP

10/4 Mercury: Meltdown - See game of the week, below.

Joe Mauer became the first catcher to win the American League batting title, going 2-for-4 for the Minnesota Twins on the final day of the regular season to hold off the New York Yankees’ Derek Jeter.

Randy Johnson was optimistic after a bullpen session that he will start Game 3 of the playoffs Friday night.

My God… it’s full of stars!

AICN-DOWNUNDER

Five minutes after the tickets went on sale, I was on the internet hitting refresh every twenty seconds, waiting for the page to come up. It didn’t. I was panicking. See, I like to think the best of people, and in that sense, I assumed the rest of Melbourne would be just like me. I assumed that the moment people found out that Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood would be taking part in a Q&Afollowing a 70mm screening of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY at The Astor, that it would sell out faster than Barry Sonnenfeld.

jehnx writes, “Apparently, Comcast is trying some new tricks to get people to sign up for its version of VoIP, ‘Comcast Digital Voice,’ according to Wang (of WangScript fame). From the blog post: ‘Today my wife received a phone call from a Comcast representative who had called to promote their new “Comcast Digital Voice” service… Ordinarily, we don’t mind Comcast calling us from time to time with new offers… [but this time] they proceeded to tell LIE after LIE in an attempt to convince us that Vonage was not as good as Comcast Digital Voice. Imagine how many people would be scared into using Comcast Digital Voice because Comcast makes them believe that Vonage is insecure and only works when your PC is turned on.’ Is Comcast going a bit far in their techniques to lure in new customers?”