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And another one, also from the local Atlanta Clear Channel outlet (WMAX, 105.3) Yes, the same station where the jocks can't do math.
They're running a promotion around tax time. The deal: enter their contest by faxing them a copy of your completed tax return, and you may win $80.
I'm guessing they could make more than $80 for each return for that social security number and all the other information on your return.
6:15:09 PM 
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Clear Channel communications, the owner of piles of radio stations across the country, was running a 'Win a million dollars' promotion. One of the jocks at the local Atlanta station demonstrated a serious lack of basic arithmetic skills when she came up with this:
So, you like the idea of riding on the Concorde? Over to London in first class? That costs, what, $40,000 a trip? Well, if you win a million dollars from us, you can ride the Concorde every other day for the next 50 years ...
Umm ... do the math. If you assume a 40% tax bite, she may be off by a factor of as much as 600.
6:09:59 PM
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Our useless digital archives, from WriteTheWeb. The BBC created a 'Domesday' project in 1986 to document the state of the empire. Now, 15 years later, this article claims that the discs that were created for the project are unreadable.
It's almost certainly true that the data is completely gone; we're not talking about 60's era magtapes that fall apart when you touch them. But it's probably true that it would take some investment of time and money to get what's off them. It's probably not worth it; even though the original project cost 2.5m pounds.
I'm convinced that Digital Archeology will be a big field in the years to come, given all the multimedia we've created over the last 50 years that requires machinery to decode it.
12:23:52 PM
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