Early Links 14 JAN 09

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/13/news/companies/citigroup/index.htm?cnn=yes

The MSM *finally* notices urban vs rural:

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1871104,00.html?xid=rss-topstories-cnnpartner

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479770,00.html

http://cbs11tv.com/health/condoms.dallas.county.2.906975.html

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D95LQ9Q00.htm

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/13/BUH7158DQN.DTL

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2009/01/12/daily19.html?=doh

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28642573/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28643949/

We've only been saying this for a decade:

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/01/dtv-its-the-ant.html#posts

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/13/2330232

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/13/2055211

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/13/2026258

http://www.slate.com/id/2208441/

Rescan your TV's Monday in STL:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/manufacturingtechnology/story/4233E3217DEECD558625753E000C35AE?OpenDocument

Channel 4's DTV swaps with Larry Rice's DTV. KMOV gets RF 24, Rice's KNLC will continue DTV on RF 14. KMOV will have another interruption later, to replace it's primary transmit antenna on top of it's tower in Lemay. Us geeks have known about this for years. Now, it's hammering time.

Winter blast:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/AAC40AB79AD793B48625753E0005316F?OpenDocument

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/business/economy/14fed.html?_r=1&hp

Suprise! Banks used bailout money to cover their own asses instead of lending it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/business/economy/14bank.html?hp

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17406.html

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17122.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/09/AR2009010903407.html