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Cash Struggle Continues for Clinton, Filings Show — These presidential campaigns are the largest organizations with the biggest budgets with the most important goal either of these people have ever led. It’s fair to judge them on the results: “Mr. Obama is spending 75 cents for every dollar he is taking in; Mrs. Clinton is spending $1.10,” and has about $10 million in debt compared to Obama’s $660,000.

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Monkey Boy’s three-legged race — “Ballmer said he loved when his rivals merged, because whenever the also-rans in any market start teaming up they might as well be waving a white flag. Because it’s over. You’ve beaten them. You’ve driven them to despair. They haven’t been able to beat you on their own; there’s no way they’ll do it together.”

Joyent switches to Dell servers solely because Sun makes theirs so hard to buy — “We’ve talked with all sorts of Sun sales people. They put us into a special group for internet companies. We have made personal appeals to senior executives at Sun (that generally are answered … thanks for that). We’ve passed out bottles of 18-year old scotch. But the fact remains: every time Joyent engages Sun sales, they can’t really sell me something.”

Casualties of the NFL — “An exhaustive investigation — including interviews with dozens of injured vets, evaluations of their medical charts and reports from doctors selected by the league, and conversations with critics of the Players Association in the medical and legal community — reveals a pattern of conduct by the NFLPA that denies former players the money they need and to which their injuries should entitle them.”

Apple Says Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ But Trash — “Apple no longer accepts cash for iPhone purchases…” Well, that’s insanely innovative. A US based company refuses to accept what it says on my greenbacks, “This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.” Soon we’ll probably hear about a new promotion for something like “Leopard Bucks,” which you can purchase from Apple with cash and use them purchase an iPhone.

Why Would Anyone Use Comcast? — We’ve heard they have bandwidth limits, and though they won’t tell you what they are, lots of people have been cut off. Now, we read they are combining with Symantec to filter email, including political content, in a manner that is apparently ripe for exploitation by political opponents.

Scrybe gets venture funding from Adobe, LMKR — “I’ve been on the beta list for some time and have been very impressed with the application they’ve put together.” I have as well, but they’ve taken a pounding for not rolling out quicker. It’s a great app, and hopefully this funding and support from Adobe will allow them to move forward.

The Once and Future Prince · “As recording companies bemoan a crumbling market, Prince is demonstrating that charisma and the willingness to go out and perform are still bankable. He doesn’t have to go multiplatinum — he’s multiplatform.”

Google: You ain’t seen nothin’ yet — “They’re looking to come in and completely usurp the telcos at both the business level and the consumer level.”

5 Reasons Not to Drink Bottled Water — “Bottled water is big business. But in terms of sustainability, bottled water is a dry well. It’s costly, wasteful, and distracts from the brass ring of public health: the construction and maintenance of safe municipal water systems.”

For Pornographers, Internet’s Virtues Turn to Vices — Perhaps the ultimate evidence of how the Internet can be disruptive to established businesses, even those who first profited from it.

Strategic incompetence isn’t about having a strategy that fails, but a failure that succeeds — “The inability to grasp selective things can be very helpful in keeping your desk clear of unwanted clutter. I have developed a very agile selective memory across a wide range of nonvalue-added activities.”