Satellite radio quickly causes changes in traditional radio

According to The New York Times > National > As Satellite Radio Takes Off, It Is Altering the Airwaves, the quick rise of XM and Sirius satellite radio has caused some changes in local radio already...shortening the time of commercials in an hour from 11.7 to 11 minutes and changing of playlists.

I stopped listening to music radio years ago. In the car I listen to mostly news or business, when I'm not listening to the iPod we keep in the car. At home it's a blend of iTunes and Bloomberg Radio.

In the interest of full disclosure, I own stock in Sirius.

Too many drones in the sky

The number of drones (Unattended Air Vehicles or UAVs) in the air over Iraq has increased to 700, causing a variety of problems ranging from stress an d burnout for the drone controllers (pilots? don't think so) to collisions between drones and other aircraft: The New York Times > International > Middle East > U.S. Drones Crowding the Skies to Help Fight Insurgents in Iraq: At a command hub spread among a half dozen dimly lit trailers at this air base just off the Las Vegas Strip, the future is now. Small teams of remote-control warriors nudge joysticks to fly armed Predator aircraft 7,500 miles away. Once the Predators take off in Iraq or Afghanistan for missions, the air crews here take over. Perhaps they could rehire some PATCO controllers to help out.

Ten Reasons why China should move its peg and pull the plug on the US reckless policies

Continuing my education on China and the US economy: Nouriel Roubini's Global Economics Blog: Ten Reasons why China should move its peg and pull the plug on the US reckless policies: it is increasingly in the interest of China to pull the plug on the US as maintaining the peg and accumulating increasing amounts of forex reserves is increasingly costly.