Eubie's notes

NY Times: For millions, what matters most about President Bush’s tax proposal is how it affects homeowners’ bottom line. If the proposal becomes law, the value of their homes will almost certainly fall.

USA Today: GASTONIA, N.C. — When he logged on to his Ameritrade account earlier this year, George Rodriguez caught a cybercrook in the act of cleaning out his retirement nest egg.

NY Times: The cost for starting up your own podcast may be as little as $10 for a microphone or as much as $30,000 for a well-equipped recording studio.

NY Times: Frightening health news lets people replace immediate dangers with more distant ones. Now I have new worry: Klebsiella, which has become so resistant to antibiotics that they’ve resurrected some that were dropped from use 30 years ago because of they were so toxic.

NY Times: The report says that the unusable equipment is being donated or sold to developing nations as a way to dodge the expense of having to recycle it properly.

NY Times: Increasingly, manufacturers are looking at the automobile as an extension of the home, a place to work and entertain.

NY Times: Dealers are drawing an average of nearly 230 monthly online prospects, defined as people who had winnowed their car choices on other Web sites before clicking through to the site.

NY Times: As kids log 6½ hours a day of screen time, parents worry their social skills are withering. The kids say, LOL!

Washington Post: The District’s red-light cameras have generated more than 500,000 violations and $32 million in fines over the past six years. City officials credit them with making busy roads safer.

Continues the studies and reports mentioned in Jan. — Do red light cameras work?

Wired News: Memeorandum doesn’t just cut through the clutter to highlight the buzz in the blogosphere, it’s changing how some people interact with the web.