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In a rant oddly reminiscent of David Letterman’s relentless jabs at John McCain canceling on the Late Show, Jon Stewart went after, not only Rick Santelli, but also CNBC as a whole on their rather unsound financial advice over the last couple of years.

You’ll fondly remember Santelli’s infamous outburst on Wall Street against Obama’s Mortgage Plan:

Why the similarity? Well that’s because Santelli canceled on the Daily Show after accepting to be on the show as the main guest. Apparently, CNBC views his comments as a distraction and that they would like to move on to “the next big story”.

Well Jon Stewart would have none of that thus launches into this epic take-down of the network:

Vivek Wadhwa of Businessweek notes a fact that many have already suspected – many highly skilled immigrants are leaving the US in large numbers to return to their home countries  for a better life and be close to family.

Why should Americans care?

Because immigrants are critical to the country’s long-term economic health. Despite the fact that they constitute only 12% of the U.S. population, immigrants have started 52% of Silicon Valley’s technology companies and contributed to more than 25% of our global patents. They make up 24% of the U.S. science and engineering workforce holding bachelor’s degrees and 47% of science and engineering workers who have PhDs. Immigrants have co-founded firms such as Google (GOOG), Intel (INTC), eBay (EBAY), and Yahoo! (YHOO).

I think this is one of those issues that’s always going to have an argument on both sides of the same coin – protectionism versus comprehensive immigration reform. Continue reading

An interesting post from Matt Cutts, a Search Quality Manager at Google, explaining (quite well) why Google is not exactly intent on removing pages from their index that may offend you, or perhaps malign your name in one way or another.

So what if a Google search of your name brings up negative results, not portraying you in the most positive light – true or otherwise? You need to be the one defining your identity on the Web – your best defense is a good offense.

Here are a couple of precious tips and tricks from Lifehacker that I think are quite useful.