* What Will Apple Build?
* Fiji Pres Disbands Govt
* CIA Prisons Closed
* D&D Dad RIP
* Rove Vs. Biden

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These are the stories I am most interested in this morning:

• A recent very large order of memory chips from Apple has many in the tech world guessing what’s next. AAPL has ordered 100 million memory chips, each of which is one gigabyte of memory. Industry players say this will likely cause a shortage, and they are scratching their heads over what they could appear in. They do not appear to fit known product profiles. Lead rumor: a low-end iPhone.
• The president of Fiji has disbanded the entire government, including the judiciary, and will install a new one, backed by his defense minister and interim prime minister (who still has his job). On Thursday, the supreme court had ruled against the “interim PM” appointment. So they’re out. President Ratu Josefa Iloilo says a new government will be appointed shortly and will rule for five years.
• Director of the CIA Leon Panetta says the Company has closed all overseas secret prisons and has not detained anyone since he took office in February. The sites, which many say were torture shops, have never been officially disclosed but they are believed to be inThailand, Romania and Poland, along with other locations.
• Dave Arneson, a co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, has died after a two-year battle with cancer. We will miss you, Dave. Thank  you for improving my high school days, and exercising my imagination.
• News flash: Karl Rove does not like Joe Biden. But calling him a “blowhard?” He’s a sitting vice president, dude. More graceful words, please. (Lest you think i am partisan, I would have said exactly the same thing if it were Cheney being talked about while in office. You don’t talk that way about those currently holding the office. Detest the policies, even detest the person, but do not disrespect the office.)

Thanks for reading.

Brad