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Unemployment Rate Increases in 29 States in October
Calculated Risk (
From the BLS: Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 13 states registered rate decreases, and 8 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the year, jobless rates increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. ... Michigan again recorded...Time management: How an MIT postdoc writes 3 books, a PhD defense, and 6+ peer-reviewed...
I Will Teach You To Be Rich (
Learn extremely detailed tactics from Cal Newport, an MIT post-doc, on how he's written 3 books, a blog with over 50,000 readers/month, a half-dozen peer reviewed papers -- and still stops working at 5:30pm every day.New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil [Hells Kitchen]
Valleywag () | 11/20/2009 |
Times are tough, and people are sat at home chewing bellybutton fluff instead of eating out or ordering in. What are restaurant owners doing? Some are not paying staff, and others are sending abusive...Magic Mouse Drivers for Windows Now Available [Apple]
Magic Mouse owners lusting for multi-finger gestures on a PC can stop wishing. Some good ol' fashioned hackery pulled Windows drivers from the latest Bootcamp update. You can grab them here , report back with results. [ Uneasy Silence , thanks Dan! ]Goodness. Sarah Palin Favorable Rating 47%… Barack Obama Job Approval Rating 46%
Gateway Pundit () | 11/20/2009 |
Bill O’Reilly reported on the the latest FOX News poll tonight. Sarah Palin’s favorable rating is now at 47%: Meanwhile, Barack Obama’s job approval rating is now at 46%: This was reported earlier on Palin’s rising star. FOX News reported: As Sarah Palin blankets the media on a whirlwind book promotion tour, the former vice-presidential contender is clearly back on [...]) | 11/20/2009 |
COST CONTAINMENT: “We’ll save even more money if we just get these women who are bitching...
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COST CONTAINMENT: “We’ll save even more money if we just get these women who are bitching about pain to hold their boyfriend’s hand or look at a picture of their kid. . . . And those silly Pap tests that had us thinking we needed a pelvic exam every year?The official word has [...]-
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This American Life -- By: Jonah Goldberg
The Corner () | 11/20/2009 |
I'm glad NPR's This American Life is getting some love from NR. I've long thought that it is simply great radio. That it ended up on the right side of a public policy question is nice confirmation of its honesty. "PHENOMENAL! BREAKING RECORDS!" 'New Moon' Doing 'Dark Knight' Midnights
Deadline Hollywood Daily () | 11/20/2009 |
BREAKING NEWS! THURSDAY PM: I've learned tonight from rival studios that Summit Entertainment's New Moon could break the all-time midnight opening record for a motion picture as it opens across North America in 3,514 theaters at 12:01 AM Friday. But can it really beat Dark Knight Friday? The vampire and werewolf pic may also smash the all-time biggest single day and biggest Friday opening records,...- 11
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In praise of Robin Hanson
Marginal Revolution () | 11/20/2009 |
My fondest memory of Robin Hanson is when we interviewed him for a job and, during his on-campus visit, I gave him some papers I had been working on. Later he emailed me back, before getting the offer I might...
Harry Reid Plays Slave Card– Dems Vote to Move Nationalized Health Care Forward
Gateway Pundit () | 2 hours ago | Politics
Harry Reid played the slave card tonight and democrats moved their nationalized health care plan forward tonight. Harry Reid also said it was FREE! It’s fully paid for! The AP rejoiced: Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager [...]-
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Les Miles: "It's My Fault That We Didn't Finish First" In LSU Loss To Ole Miss (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post () | 3 hours ago |
(AP) OXFORD, Miss. — So many unusual things happened in the final 3 minutes of Mississippi's victory Saturday against No. 10 LSU, it got confusing. Even for the participants. *** SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO *** "I don't know what all happened down there at the end," Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt said. "I just know the scoreboard read 25-23 Ole Miss Rebels." Nutt's confusion was nothing compared to what was... -
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AP: McCain says he enjoyed Palin book
Don Surber () | 4 hours ago |
Hmm. I recall that when Mo Udall was in the hospital and about to die, the only politician to visit him was . The Associated Press report: HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — U.S. Sen. John McCain said Saturday that he enjoyed reading running mate ’s new memoir and downplayed any tension between their campaign aides as [...] -
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Baby can wait as expectant dad finishes spacewalk
Examiner () | 3 hours ago |
A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday. -
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Life sought for Amanda Knox in Italy murder case
STLtoday.com () | 4 hours ago |
PERUGIA, Italy — Prosecutors on Saturday requested life in prison for an American student and her ex-boyfriend accused in the fatal stabbing of her British roommate during a drug-fueled sex game — charges the U.S. woman dismissed as “pure fantasy.” In their closing arguments, the prosecutors said Amanda Knox and Italian Raffaele Sollecito should be convicted on charges of murder and sexual violence... Texas QB sets NCAA record for victories
MSNBC.com () | 1 hour ago | Sports
Colt McCoy set an NCAA record with his 43rd career victory as a starter, passing for 396 yards as No. 3 Texas wrapped up the Big 12 South title with a 51-20 victory Saturday night over a Kansas and embattled coach Mark Mangino.
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Levin: More e-mails from Ft. Hood suspect possible
Examiner () | 5 hours ago |
WASHINGTON - The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military officials. No. 4 T.C.U. 45, Wyoming 10: T.C.U. Blazes Its Way to 11-0, With the B.C.S. Still in Sight
New York Times () | 4 hours ago | Sports
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Iran to hold drills to protect nuclear sites
MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines () | 6 hours ago |
Iran will begin large-scale air defense war games Sunday aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from possible attack, a senior military commander says. -
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Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster in U.S.
Hindu () | 5 hours ago |
ATLANTA: Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to the medication Tamiflu, said health officials on Friday. The cases reported at the Duke University Medical Center ... -
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Oprah's Exit: Winners and Losers
Forbes () | 21 hours ago |
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Italy Arrests Pakistanis Suspected of Mumbai Links
Global Security (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | World
Italian authorities say police arrested two Pakistanis Saturday, suspected of helping fund and providing logistical support for last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India that killed 166 people.
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21 Nov 2009 03:56
Joe Lieberman Is Hallucinating
The Plank () | 11/19/2009 |
The Connecticut Senator says that President Obama didn't favor a public plan when he ran for president: It’s classic politics of our time that if you look at the campaign last year, presidential, you can’t find a mention of public option,” Lieberman said. “It was added after the election as a part of what we normally consider health insurance reform — insurance market reforms, cover people, cover...Who Will Be the Next Oprah?
PopEater Music Blog (
Filed under: Gut Reactions , Highbrow Celebrities , TV News With word that Oprah Winfrey will be taking her ridiculously popular daytime talk show elsewhere (see story here), there's a massive void in the broadcast television world to be filled. Winfrey was always the one to score huge exclusive ... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | CommentsDid a Computer Virus Screw-up NY-23 Voting Machines?
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There are new suspicions about the veracity of the election results in NY's 23rd Congressional District. After the election, a recanvassing of the 11-county district had Owens’ lead narrowing to 3,026 votes over Hoffman, 66,698 to 63,672, with about 10,000 absentee ballots to be counted according to the latest unofficial results from the state Board of Elections. In Hoffman's stronghold, Oswego County,...Angry supporters boo Palin for leaving in the middle of her book signing: ‘Quittin’ on...
Think Progress (
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was in Indiana yesterday for a book-signing at a Borders store. One thousand lucky fans with wristbands to meet Palin stood in the rain all day waiting for her to arrive. However, Palin quit the event before she had the chance to sign all the books, leaving 100 supporters out [...]Samsung Omnia II Hits Verizon December 2 for $200 [Samsung]
Gizmodo (
I still don't know why the Omnia II 's 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen is resistive, but the WinMo 6.5 phone will go head-to-head with Verizon's own Moto Droid. Leaked docs suggest it'll be $200 on contract after $100 mail-in rebate. As we noted when we first saw ai.rs video below, the TouchWiz 2.0 UI looks nice, but the resistive touch lag is a shame given the 800Mhz processor. Still, there you have...Foursquare Goes Global With Launch in 50 New Cities
Mashable () | 11/19/2009 |
Right on the heels of Foursquare’s API release , the location-based mobile application and game is announcing another big rollout to cities across the world. Just one month after releasing Foursquare to 15 new cities in the US and Canada, Foursquare is ready to bring their highly addictive game and business-friendly service to 50 more cities. That’s actually twice as many cities as the service was...
YouTube Will Soon Block Access From Set-Top Devices [Media Center]
Lifehacker (
It won't affect your PS3, Wii, TiVo, or other licensed YouTube partners, but Google's streaming video service will start blocking API access to TV-connected devices as of Dec. 2. The COO of set-top box maker Popcorn Hour writes that the firm tried to negotiate with YouTube to retain the service, but YouTube/Google seems to be standing firm—just as the site starts to transition to 1080p video . TV-oriented...- 8
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Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate
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An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent, British climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming research and posted them online. Global warming skeptics are seizing on portions of the messages as evidence that scientists are colluding and [...] -
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Senate Exploring Med School Profs Putting Names On Ghostwritten Journal Articles In Favor...
Techdirt () | yesterday |
We've had a few posts recently about the growing scandal in the pharma and publishing worlds, whereby big pharma companies would produce fake medical journals with the stamp of approval from big publishing houses, to make it look like their drugs had a lot more scientific support than they really did. To make matters even more insane, often the pharma companies would ghostwrite articles, and then get... -
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Sony finally launches PS2 in Brazil (or, welcome to 2000!)
PSP Fanboy () | yesterday | Video Games
We don't live in Brazil, but from what we hear, it's not one of the most gamer-friendly places out there. Piracy runs rampant and whenever any kind of controversial game releases, citizens usually find their government won't let 'em play it. But, hey, things are kinda looking up! Reader Renato wrote in to us saying the PS2 has finally officially released in Brazil and that consumers can get it from... -
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The Brain Chip Cometh, & It Cometh from Intel
ReadWriteWeb () | yesterday |
Our own Marshall Kirkpatrick's dreaded brain chip for controlling computers and mobile devices may be closer than even he suspected. Intel researchers in Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh! - told journalists today that brain implants are harnessing human brain waves to surf the Internet, manipulate documents, and much more. And just a s we told you two years ago, the lucky recipients of these implants will...
Army Goes Rogue, Will Allow Media at Palin's Ft. Bragg Appearance
JammieWearingFool () | yesterday |
You just know this will drive the angry left into further apoplexy. It's absolutely killing them her book is selling at such an astonishing rate and now they'll suffer further seeing her welcomed at a military installation.The U.S. Army has reversed its position and now says it will open Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media despite fears the event will turn into political grandstandingGunman kills 4, self on Pacific resort island of Saipan
Denver Post () | yesterday |
The Pacific resort island of Saipan was reeling today from one of the most violent attacks in its history, when a gunman killed five people, including two small children and himself.-
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Jungle murder gang 'drained fat from victims for cosmetics'
Scotsman.com () | yesterday |
POLICE in Peru have arrested a jungle gang that killed people and drained fat from the corpses to sell for use in cosmetics. -
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“A Collection Of Tax Increases, Cuts In Services For The Elderly And Heavy New Burdens...
Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian () | yesterday |
“A Collection Of Tax Increases, Cuts In Services For The Elderly And Heavy New Burdens For Broke States” November 20th, 2009 Posted By Pat Dollard. WASHINGTON (AP) — Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the majority Democrats’ newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, cuts in services [...] - 10
Manchester City Vs Liverpool live epl match
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Manchester City Vs Liverpool live epl match If you want to watch a classic and enjoyable football match, never miss to watch it live. Be sure this match will be very exciting and competitive. Stay with this blog and enjoy your time
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Top Korean model "DAUL KIM" found dead in her apartment ...
Black Film Society () | yesterday |
, Milan and Paris has been found hanged in her Paris apartment, a police official said Friday. Daul Kim was found dead Thursday by her boyfriend, who alerted French police, the official said. He declined to be named in accordance with policy. Paris police were working under the hypothesis that Kim committed suicide, he said.... The $100 Million Health Care Vote?
Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian () | yesterday | Health
The $100 Million Health Care Vote? November 19, 2009 3:03 PM ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports: What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform? Here’s a case study. On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.” The section spends [...]A Tearjerker Argument for ObamaCare
Moonbattery () | yesterday | US
Here's a tragic tale of the sort of lifestyle that really ought to be coercively financed by others via Big Government: When an ambulance brought Daniel Webb home from the hospital after he hurt his knee in March, paramedics warned...) | 11/20/2009 |
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The best video converter software to convert video audio files perfectly. Aimersoft Video Converter is the best video converter software of all video converters for you to convert video audio files. With this video file converter you can easily convert video to AVI, MPEG, MKV, WMV, FlV, MOV, MP4, 3GP, 3GPP, MPG, ASF, VOB, WMA, [...] Aimersoft Video Converter for Windows originally appeared on appFair.com...
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20 Nov 2009 09:50
Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here’s How.
TechCrunch () | 11 hours ago |
The public debut of Google Chrome OS today has the press abuzz over the potential of the new web-based operating system. And now that it's open sourced, you have the chance to try it out for yourself. Unfortunately, most people aren't ready to undertake the daunting task of actually taking Google's recently open-sourced code and turning that into a bootable computer. So we've put together a step-by-step...-
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Releasing the Chromium OS open source project
In July we announced that we were working on Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web. Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source community and developers. As with the Google Chrome browser,... Opera Mobile 10 for Windows Mobile Brings Turbo, Image Saves and More
jkOnTheRun () | 11/18/2009 |
Opera today announced the beta of Opera Mobile 10 for Windows Mobile devices. The new look and feel is very much like Opera on the desktop or the newest version of Opera Mini. Here’s a listing of what the latest Opera browser brings to WinMo: Intuitive new interface Opera has thrown out the clutter and is [...]Video game sales are to movie box office as house sales are to pet adoptions
Company Town () | 11/18/2009 |
In a culture that has become obsessed intrigued by movies' openings at the box office, it's no surprise that other products, particularly in the world of entertainment, want to compare their launches to those of the biggest films. There's a...Breaking: eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation
TechCrunch () | 18 hours ago |
eBay has just announced that it has completed the sale of Skype , valuing the company at $2.75 billion. The investor consortium who is the buying party and will control an approximately 70 percent stake is a group led by Silver Lake Partners and includes Joltid (i.e. the company founded by Skype's original founders) and "certain affiliated parties", the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and VC...-
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Daily Digest for November 20th
Chris Leckness is a Geek (
Here are the 20 events in my Lifestream for November 20th: Shared TomTom Updates App to Include 1st Gen iPhone and iPod touch GPS Support. ...
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Jobs to The Little App Factory: Name change “Not that big of a deal”
CrunchGear (Technology
The Little App Factory seems to have a big problem on their hands. The company received a letter from Baker & McKenzie, representing Apple, asking that The Little App Factory change the name of one of their most successful applications. Why? It has the word iPod in it. iRip (formally known as iPodRip) was originally written in 2003 at the MacHack developer conference in order to fulfill an obvious...-
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Dems alarmed as independents bolt
Tony Phyrillas () | 11/18/2009 |
Remember all the gloating by Democrats and their media allies after the Obama victory last November? Remember the talk of how the Republican Party was finished? How the GOP will become the minority party for decades? Who's laughing now? It appears that the Democratic Party under the leadership of far-left radicals like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi is on the road to political oblivion. From an article... Think Globally, Tweet Locally
Twitter Blog (Technology
In August we announced that we were working on a new API that would provide developers with the ability to geotag tweets. Today, the Geotagging API is officially available. This release is unique in that it's API-only which means you won't see any changes on twitter.com , yet. Instead, Twitter applications like Birdfeed , Seesmic Web , Foursquare , Gowalla , Twidroid , Twittelator Pro and others are...How Palin Will Help McCain
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog () | 4 hours ago |
The new Rasmussen poll for the 2010 Arizona GOP Primary—John McCain 45%, J. D. Hayworth 43%—will generate a fair amount of buzz. But August is a long way away, and I assume that when McCain gets back to Arizona and...And I Thought The Furor Was Bad Yesterday….
Pub Rants () | 11/18/2009 | Entertainment
STATUS: Who can get work done when there is so much Harlequin gossip flying around? What’s playing on the iPod right now? EDGE OF SEVENTEEN by Stevie Nicks Then today can’t even compare. I think Harlequin has just gotten the smack down. I have not confirmed this rumor yet, but a fellow agent just emailed me to say that RWA revoked Harlequin’s recognized publisher status. Uh… that means no Harlequin...
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FIFA Denies Irish Appeal For Replay Against France
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ZURICH — FIFA ruled out the possibility of replaying the disputed France-Ireland World Cup qualifier on Friday, rejecting an Irish appeal to stage the playoff again after handled the ball to set up the deciding goal in extra time. "In the reply, FIFA states that the result of the match cannot be changed and the match cannot be replayed," FIFA said in a statement. "As is clearly mentioned... Pakistan: 8 Militants Killed In Reported US Strike
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MIR ALI, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least eight militants Friday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said, the second attack this week in an area believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border region. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told visiting CIA director Leon Panetta that any new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan must take...No Replies From Santa
The J-Walk Blog () | 2 hours ago |
Think of the children! Popular Santa letter program ends in Alaska . Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season likely won't get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers. The U.S. Postal Service is dropping a popular national program begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to thousands of letters addressed...Senate confirms David Hamilton for Appeals Court in Chicago
Lynn Sweet () | 2 hours ago |
WASHINGTON--After a stall, the Senate voted 59-39 Thursday to confirm U.S. District Court Judge David Hamilton--who now presides in an Indiana courtroom--to the Chicago based 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps
San Fransisco Chronicle () | 4 hours ago | Entertainment
First mammograms. Now _ in an apparent coincidence _ Pap smears. New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical...End of an era: Oprah ending show after 25 years
Seattle Times (Entertainment
Oprah Winfrey was set to announce Friday that her powerhouse daytime television show, the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire with legions of fans, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air.
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Top SKorean model found hung in Paris apartment
A 20-year-old top South Korean model who was a fashion week regular in , Milan and Paris has been found hung in her Paris apartment, a police official said Friday. -
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Ruling opens door to Katrina lawsuits
Detroit Free Press (
NEW ORLEANS -- A landmark court ruling blaming the Army Corps of Engineers' "monumental negligence" for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina could lead to a new deluge: billions of dollars in legal action from thousands of storm victims. -
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Sources: Giuliani leaning toward run for US Senate
Seattle Times (
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who many Republicans have been pushing to run for governor in 2010, is instead leaning more toward a run for U.S. Senate, according to two party advisers. Gang Killed People For Their Fat: Peruvian Police
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LIMA, Peru — A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged Thursday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics. Medical experts expressed skepticism that a major market for fat might exist. Three suspects have confessed to killing five people for their fat, said Col. Jorge Mejia, chief of Peru's anti-kidnapping...Senators dig in for health-bill showdown
Philadelphia Inquirer () | 9 hours ago | Health
WASHINGTON - Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors yesterday assailed the Democrats' newly minted health-care legislation as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts, and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states.-
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Aimersoft Video Converter for Windows
Software Reviews and Download () | yesterday | Technology
The best video converter software to convert video audio files perfectly. Aimersoft Video Converter is the best video converter software of all video converters for you to convert video audio files. With this video file converter you can easily convert video to AVI, MPEG, MKV, WMV, FlV, MOV, MP4, 3GP, 3GPP, MPG, ASF, VOB, WMA, [...] Aimersoft Video Converter for Windows originally appeared on appFair.com...
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Automatic captions in YouTube
The Official Google Blog (
Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we've introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic translation. Each of these features has had great personal significance to me, not only because I helped to design them, but also because I'm deaf. Today, I'm in Washington, D.C. to announce what I consider the most important and exciting milestone...-
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NPR Shocker: Attorney General Holder Stumped By Lindsey Graham
NewsBusters (
During Wednesday's Justice Department oversight hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stumped Attorney General Eric Holder on what should have been a fairly routine question for America's top law enforcement official. Maybe more surprisingly, NPR reported it at its website. As NPR's Frank James noted, " The exchange started with Graham stumping Holder with a question... Google Chrome OS Press Event
Google Operating System (
Google will announce more information about Chrome OS at a press event that starts at 10:00am PST. Google will offer "an update on Google Chrome OS and provide at the work that has been done thus far, an overview of the technology, and launch plans for next year. Speakers will include Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management and Matthew Papakipos, Engineering Director for Google Chrome OS."...No More Heroes Charging Up For PlayStation 3 And Xbox 360 Release (Update: Scans)
Siliconera (Video Games
In the summer, we broke the news that Marvelous was considering hi-definition ports of their Wii games. No More Heroes will be the first game getting that treatment.Sen. John Kerry's Daughter Arrested!
PerezHilton.com (
Daddy's going to be mad about this one! Senator John Kerry's daughter was just busted earlier this morning on suspicion of DUI!!! Alexandra Forbes Kerry was pulled over for a traffic stop in Hollywood at around 12:40am after the 36-year-old apparently violated a traffic law. The cops then did a field sobriety test and it appeared [...]Why imeem Really Sold Out
GigaOM (
This morning news broke that MySpace, the second-largest social network that’s currently reinventing itself as a music destination, was buying imeem, a free online music service that has been remixed (and remade) more times that ’90s dance anthem “Keep on Moving”. TechCrunch, which reported on the news, didn’t reveal what the deal terms were. I [...]
Republicans Move to Permit Credit Card Companies to Jack Up Their Rates for the Next...
Firedoglake () | 19 hours ago |
Today, on the Senate floor, Republicans objected to a motion by Chris Dodd (D-CT) to immediately take up a bill to move up the effective date on the CARD Act, which was passed several months ago. In the intervening time, credit card companies have been jacking up their rates in what Dodd described as "a last-ditch attempt" to pad their profits until all of the provisions of the CARD Act, which prevents...Google’s Chrome OS Will Be Shown This Week
GigaOM (
Rumors have been swirling for days about the possible delivery of a beta version of Google’s much-discussed Chrome OS this week, as we noted last Friday. I pinged a few people at Google to get some clarity, and while they didn’t provide me with a specific answer as to whether the download will arrive this [...]AOL Also Likely to Eye Sale of MapQuest–Is Microsoft a Possible Buyer?
BoomTown (
Yesterday, BoomTown wrote about AOL's efforts--including hiring investment bankers--to sell its ICQ instant-messaging unit. But that's probably not going to be the end of the shedding of assets at the online site. In fact, according to sources inside and outside AOL, one of the next candidates for sale could be its MapQuest online map service.Normalcy Promised
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It’s a tall order. It’s Andrew Sullivan, coming down off his Palin-induced state of brain implosion, or whatever that was: To Our Readers, An Update This Dish will resume as normal tomorrow morning. We apologize for the lacuna.[*] And I suppose some will say we’ve gotten this book and the issues it raises out of perspective. [...]Fascists Attack Robert Spencer at NYU
Atlas Shrugs (
Ben over at Socialist Watch, a fine young American I met at the Widlers event last month at Columbia, was on jihad watch when Spencer was attacked tonight at NYU: Tonight in New York: The Jihad Still Threatens America. This is very much part of the jihad in America, shuttung up, shutting down the truth tellers. Robert Spencer gets Attacked This evening I witnessed an act which was both disturbing and...Wow: "Leahy: No need to interrogate bin Laden" -- By: Rich Lowry
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From The Hill : If the U.S. captures Osama bin Laden, there's no need to interrogate him, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the chairman of that committee, said that arguments raised by Republican senators about whether bin Laden would be afforded Miranda rights if he were captured was a "red herring." "The red herring that my friend [Sen.] Lindsey...
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Tim Lincecum, 2009 NL Cy Young Winner, Wins Second Straight Cy Young
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NEW YORK — Giants ace Tim Lincecum won the NL Cy Young Award on Thursday for the second consecutive season to become the first repeat winner since Randy Johnson, emerging from one of the tightest votes in the history of the honor. Lincecum led the NL with 261 strikeouts and tied for the league lead with four complete games and two shutouts. The wiry right-hander, nicknamed "The Freak" for his giant... Jayson Williams Plea Deal: Agreement Reached, Source Says
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TRENTON, N.J. — A person with knowledge of the case against retired NBA star Jayson Williams says the former player has agreed to a plea deal that would send him to prison for up to three years for shooting a driver. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the person is not authorized to speak about the case. The person says Williams will plead guilty to aggravated...-
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Jeanne-Claude Dead: "The Gates" Co-Creator, Christo's Wife Dies
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NEW YORK — Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation "The Gates" and other large scale "wrapping" projects around the globe with her husband Christo, has died. She was 74. Jeanne-Claude died Wednesday night at a New York hospital from complications of a brain aneurysm, her family said in an e-mail statement. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he spoke with Christo on Thursday morning... -
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Former Army Secretary, Navy chief to lead Fort Hood review
Houston Chronicle () | 3 hours ago | US
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the 45-day review will look into gaps in how the military identifies service members who might be a threat. Reid: Congress closer than ever to health overhaul
Kansas City Star () | 4 hours ago |
The Senate Democratic leader says Congress is closer than ever to overhauling the nation's health care system.-
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Puerto Rico: "Gay Panic" Defense In Murder Of Gay Teen Jorge Mercado
Joe. My. God. () | 5 hours ago |
Juan Martinez Matos, 25, is being held on $4M bond in San Juan, Puerto Rico after confessing to the decapitation murder of 19 year-old gay teen Jorge Mercado. The killer is claiming "gay panic" after he discovered that Mercado, who was in drag, was a male. Martinez met Lopez while looking for women Thursday night in an area known for prostitution, according to prosecutor Jose Bermudez Santos. Bermudez...
Dungy to lead NFL player advisory forum
Tampa Bay Online () | 5 hours ago |
Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Tony Dungy is taking a lead role in improving communication between the NFL and its players.-
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Obama Says U.S., Allies Discussing Iran Sanctions
U.S. News () | 7 hours ago |
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Iraqi lawmakers trying to break election deadlock
Boston Globe () | 7 hours ago | World
Iraqi lawmakers will vote Saturday on how to break a deadlock over a key election law after a vice president vetoed the legislation, causing a crisis that could delay a national vote scheduled for January. Meow: IBM takes a (feline) step toward...
CUANAS () | 6 hours ago |
Meow: IBM takes a (feline) step toward thinking machines From Yahoo News : SAN FRANCISCO - Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain — an effort that tests the limits of technology. Even the world's most powerful supercomputers can't replicate basic aspects of the human mind. The machines can't imagine a wall painted a different...-
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Dozens of 'extinct' crocodiles found – in a rescue centre
Scotsman.com (
CONSERVATIONISTS searching for one of the world's most endangered crocodile species said they have found dozens lounging in plain sight – at a wildlife rescue centre in C -
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Texas Gov Perry considering rare capital clemency recommendation
Sentencing Law and Policy () | 8 hours ago | US
This new AP article, which is headlined "Texas governor to decide condemned killer's fate," reports on a notable new death penalty development in Texas: The fate of a man facing execution Thursday evening for his role in a fatal robbery...
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18 Nov 2009 19:25
The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It’s Coming Soon
TechCrunch (
The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It's no longer a myth, it's real. The next "super" Android device will almost certainly be a HTC phone that's much thinner than even the Droid or iPhone - The the Dragon/Passion . This is the phone the senior Android guys at Google are now carrying around and testing, at least...Innumerate Al -- By: John Derbyshire
The Corner (
Al Gore on Conan O'Brien's show the other day: Conan : Now, what about … you talk in the book about geothermal energy … Al : Yeah, yeah. Conan : and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that's generated from the core of the earth … Al : Yeah. Conan : … to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution,...Get started with Google Sites templates
Official Google Docs Blog () | 11/17/2009 |
Google Sites makes creating and sharing a website easy. It is powerful enough for a company intranet, yet simple enough for a family website. Today, we’re happy to simplify the site creation process even further with the introduction of the Google Sites template gallery. When you select a template from the new Sites template gallery, your new site will come setup with custom page layouts, links for...A Note To Our Readers
Balloon Juice (
Using my amazing powers of predicting things that a particle board desk could see coming, I expect Sarah Palin to blame the lies in her book on her ghostwriter. Points will also be awarded for the book editor, fact-checking team (I honestly want to know who served on that chain gang) and her moron-to-English [...]Details of Senate HCR Bill Emerge, Reconciliation on the Table
Daily Kos (
Word is leaking out from the Hill about the Senate's HCR bill. The bill will be posted sometime this evening online at democrats.senate.gov . In the meantime, these are the rough outlines that have appeared as various senators spoke with reporters after their caucus meeting this evening. The bill comes in at $849 billion over the next ten years, and is projected to cut the budget deficit by $127 billion...
nec batteryless remote control: we don’t need no stinkin’ batteries
technabob (
How many times have you had to get your lazy ass off of the couch to get up and change the channel because the batteries in your remote died. Well thanks to some fine high-tech minds, someday you may never need to worry about changing the batteries in your remote again. This unassuming looking prototype…Nokia’s Response About Dropping Symbian from Nseries by 2012
the Nokia blog (
It looks like the Maemo marketing team at the Nokia N900 London meetup got a little excited and said something they shouldn’t have. Ben Smith from The Really Mobile Project wrote that the team revealed on Wednesday that Nokia plans to drop Symbian from the Nseries line of devices in favour of Maemo by 2012. [...]I'm reading Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue"
Crunchy Con () | 11/17/2009 |
Got it this morning, and will be reviewing it on NPR's All Things Considered this afternoon. The story so far: Sarah loves Alaska, she loves America, she loves serving "ordinary, hardworking people," she loves tax-cutting, and she loves our free enterprise system. She hates hates hates people who tell her she can't do this or that because she's a woman. A hundred pages in, two things jump out: 1....N.A.S.A., feat. Tom Waits + Kool Keith: "Spacious Thoughts"
Boing Boing (
Watch video: Download MP4, YouTube. Boing Boing Video proudly debuts a new piece from the "great god almighty could it get any more awesome?" N.A.S.A. music project, this one from two personal music heroes: Tom Waits, and Kool Keith. The track is called Spacious Thoughts, and you can pick it up on the project's debut album, Spirit of Apollo (Amazon link.) NASA, short for "North America South America,"...The Google Phone May Be Data Only, VoIP Driven Device
TechCrunch (
Yesterday we wrote about the soon to launch Google Phone , a Google branded Android phone that we believe will hit the market in early 2010. Lots of people are saying there's no way Google will enter the phone market directly and compete with all these handset manufacturers who have bet on Android . Daring Fireball , PC World and InfoMobile are among the doubters. And a lot of people are pointing...-
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Sony Ericsson Is Moving Its U.S. Headquarters To Atlanta; Shedding Other Offices
Moco News (
Sony Ericsson is relocating its North American headquarters from North Carolina to Atlanta as part of a global consolidation that will cut about 2,000 jobs, reports AP . Atlanta was chosen in part because of its proximity to AT&T ( NYSE: T ), one of the company’s largest U.S. customers, and because it’s a gateway to Latin America, said Sony ( NYSE: SNE ) Ericsson ( NSDQ: ERIC ) spokeswoman Stacy Doster....
Oscar Pistorius' Prosthetic Legs Give 10-Second Advantage: Study
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LONDON — The prosthetic legs of double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius give the South African a 10-second advantage over a 400-meter race, according to a new study. Human performance researchers Peter Weyand of Southern Methodist University and Matthew Bundle of the University of Wyoming found that Pistorius, who has been cleared to compete against able-bodied athletes, runs the distance 10 seconds...-
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UN: Free condoms for global warming!
Stop the ACLU () | 2 hours ago | Politics
One of the basic tenets of the global warming myth is population control. It doesn’t matter that there’s almost no one who still believes in global warming, liberals will still try to use it to try to accomplish their own twisted plans. The latest example of this is the UN’s bright new decision [...] -
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Mangini: "I Think" LeBron "Should Come On Down" To Play Football
The Huffington Post () | 8 hours ago |
BEREA, Ohio — If LeBron James truly believes he can help the Cleveland Browns, coach Eric Mangini has an orange helmet waiting for him. "I think he should come on down," Mangini said. The NBA superstar, who was an All-State wide receiver in high school, said Tuesday night that if he put the time and commitment into it, he could be a good football player. Mangini agreed, calling James "a freak athletically"... Johnny Depp earns second "sexiest man" title
Reuters (
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnny Depp was named People magazine's "sexiest man alive" for a second time on Wednesday, joining an elite club of double honorees that includes George Clooney and Brad Pitt.-
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Rare crocs found hiding in plain sight in Cambodia
USA Today () | 6 hours ago | Sciences
Conservationists searching for one of the world's most endangered crocodile species say they have found dozens of the reptiles ... Pa. swim club accused of bias files for bankruptcy
Boston Herald () | 6 hours ago |
PHILADELPHIA - A suburban Philadelphia swim club accused of discrimination last summer after revoking the memberships of mostly black and Hispanic children has filed for bankruptcy. The...
Missouri 15-year-old to be tried as adult in death of girl, 9
kansascity.com () | 9 hours ago |
A police officer testified Wednesday that a 15-year-old girl told investigators she killed a 9-year-old neighbor because she wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone, and a judge ruled the teen should stand trial as an adult.-
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Byrd Shatters Record For Congressional Service
WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor () | 2 hours ago | Politics
Sen. Robert C. Byrd became history's longest-serving member of Congress on Wednesday, earning a formal salute from the Senate and President Barack Obama for his nearly 57 years of service. "I've loved every precious minute of it," the frail West Virginia Democrat, who turns 92 on Friday, said during a day of floor tributes to him, and moments before the Senate passed a resolution marking the milestone.... -
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Spike Video Game Awards 2009 - Voting Open
Voodoo Extreme () | 5 hours ago | Entertainment
It's that time again! Time for the VGAs, otherwise known as the Spike Video Game Awards 2009. The... No Fact Checking In Heaven
Daily Pundit () | 10 hours ago |
AP Turns Heads for Devoting 11 Reporters to Palin Book ‘Fact Check’ - FOXNews.com Reviewing books and holding public figures accountable is at the core of good journalism, but the treatment Palin’s book received appears to be something new for the AP. The organization did not review for accuracy recent books by the late Sen. Ted [...]Afghan capital braces for Karzai inauguration
Seattle Times () | 15 hours ago |
Security forces increased patrols on some streets in the Afghan capital and blocked others entirely Wednesday, bracing for possible militant attacks during the inauguration ceremony that will cement President Hamid Karzai's tumultuous re-election victory.Cruise ship breaks Antarctic ice, nears open water
Seattle Post-Intelligencer () | 15 hours ago | Leisure
MOSCOW -- A Russian icebreaker carrying over 100 tourists and scientists to see emperor penguins in Antarctica has been crunching through pack ice and should reach clear water soon, a shipping official said Wednesday.
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18 Nov 2009 02:40
Explore images with Google Image Swirl, now in Labs
The Official Google Blog (
Back in 2001, to give people a new, quicker way to find images, we launched Image Search . When you do a search for [ eiffel tower ] you'll find an array of images of the tower in the daytime, in black and white, at sunset and more. With Similar Images, which recently graduated from Google Labs , you can click " Find similar images " to narrow your search to, say, pictures of the Eiffel Tower lit up...The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down for Good
TorrentFreak (
Today marks the end of an era, as The Pirate Bay team announces that the world's largest BitTorrent tracker is shutting down for good. Although the site will remain operational for now, millions of BitTorrent users will lose the use of its tracker and will instead have to rely on DHT and alternative trackers to continue downloading.Sen. Sherrod Brown: 'Where Was The Compromise From Their Side?'
Crooks and Liars (
So Harry Reid's holding firm - for now. And you just can't argue with Sherrod Brown: What concessions have the ConservaDems made? The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, met on Monday night with a group of liberal Senate Democrats who urged Mr. Reid not to back down from his decision to put a government-run insurance plan, or public option, in the major health care legislation that he is...Finding the laws that govern us
The Official Google Blog (
As many of us recall from our civics lessons in school, the United States is a common law country. That means when judges issue opinions in legal cases, they often establish precedents that will guide the rulings of other judges in similar cases and jurisdictions. Over time, these legal opinions build, refine and clarify the laws that govern our land. For average citizens, however, it can be difficult...How Microsoft Blew It With Windows Mobile
Gadget Lab (
Microsoft Windows continues to dominate the PC market with a 90 percent market-share stronghold, but when it comes to smartphones, Microsoft is getting beat up worse than a mustachioed villain in a Jackie Chan movie. Windows Mobile has lost nearly a third of its smartphone market share since 2008, research firm Gartner reports. Windows Mobile had [...]Google Chrome OS Will Be Unveiled In Two Days [Rumor]
Surprise ! Friday's report that the Chrome OS "launch" for this week was almost true: Google's OS will be shown in "complete overview" on Thursday. But what does that mean, exactly? According to Techcrunch this isn't really a launch, but rathe a chance to give us a first look at the OS, and for Google to detail their actual launch plans (we've been sitting tight with the "late 2010" projection from...
Buy a PSP Go from Amazon, get $50 credit for PSN store
PSP Fanboy () | 11 hours ago | Video Games
If you were planning on picking up a PSP Go for that special physical-media-phobic someone in your life, you might want to hurry over to Amazon where (today only) the purchase of a PSP Go will net you a bonus $50 to spend in Amazon's PlayStation Network store however you like. Just make sure that the recipient spends their new loot the right way: on the Andy Dick PAIN DLC -- twenty five times! No,...An Iconic Lion for an Iconic Institution
Brand New () | 11/16/2009 |
Few places in New York have the undivided reverence of its inhabitants as the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 5th Avenue and 42nd Street: The New York Public Library (NYPL). From its grand foyer, to its inspiring reading room, to its secluded microfilm archives, to any of its special collection rooms, nearly everyone who has visited has a favorite space they can quickly bend your ear about. But the...-
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Slutty Schoolgirl? Really?
Eschaton (
I thought the Newsweek cover was obviously a poor choice even if right wingers were getting a bit overwrought in their criticisms. But they also include a slutty Palin schoolgirl doll? What the fuck? Of the CNN piece Digby talks about , Wolf Blitzer twittered: CNN Jessica Yellin did a very good report in SitRoom on Sarah Palin and her sexuality -- the fact that she's good looking. Did you see it? Sweet... Burton Vice Mitts keep your hands warm and your (energy) drink cold
CrunchGear (
Living up by Lake Tahoe, I'm always on the lookout for new gadgets and technology for when I go snowboarding. Case in point: the Burton Vice Mitt. Okay, it's a mitt, but what's the vice part? A drink holder, you say?Byrd Will Set Another Record
The Caucus () | 11/16/2009 |
The senator from West Virginia is about to celebrate another milestone in Congress.-
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Making “Open” Easier
Yodel Anecdotal (Technology
Open is at the core of many Yahoo! initiatives and products. Over the past two years Yahoo! has been hard at work to change how we develop products and interact with our developer community. In addition to being avid supporters of Open Source, we participated and adopted community-based specifications such as OpenID and OAuth, and [...]
LeBron James: "I Could Be Really Good" At Football
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CLEVELAND — LeBron James watched the Cleveland Browns get shut out by Baltimore on Monday night and came to one simple conclusion: He could help. "If I put all my time and commitment into it, if I dedicated myself to the game of football, I could be really good," the Cavaliers superstar said before facing the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night. "No matter what team I was on." The Browns have one...-
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Democrats Overcome Filibuster of Circuit Court Nominee
The Political Carnival (
By GottaLaff Finally. Finally. Finally: [Note: Paddy posted about this earlier , so I'm providing mostly background] Senate Democrats beat back a GOP filibuster of the nomination of David Hamilton to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, voting 70-29 to begin debate on the federal court appointee. If you haven't been following this story, let me catch you up: So far, only six of Obama's... -
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Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes
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MARIETTA, Pa. (AP) -- Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.... Police raid New York newspaper offices
CNN (Entertainment
The New York Police Department executed search warrants Tuesday at some offices of The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The New York Post and El Diario newspapers and at a labor union, with authorities saying they were conducting investigations into "business activity."-
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NY police car in accident ahead of Biden motorcade
A police car working ahead of Vice President Joe Biden's motorcade was involved in a minor traffic accident Tuesday evening, but it wasn't part of the procession and the vice president was unhurt. Jerusalem housing plan draws U.S. fire
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (
The White House, which is trying to foster peace talks, says it is 'dismayed' by an Israeli housing panel's approval of a plan to build 844 new homes in a part of Jerusalem claimed by Palestinians. Israel's plan to add 844 homes to a part of Jerusalem claimed by Palestinians drew sharp international protest Tuesday as U.S. officials denounced it as a blow to their already troubled effort to restart...
Jameer Nelson out 4 to 6 weeks with "a knee"
CelticsBlog (
Jameer Nelson out 4 to 6 weeks with "a knee" "The All-Star will have arthroscopic surgery Wednesday on torn cartilage in his left knee, the team said. He is expected to miss four to six weeks. Nelson was injured in the fourth quarter of Monday night’s win against Charlotte. But he finished the game on the court and showed no signs of injury." While never rooting for injuries, it is a little helpful...-
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Colo. man comes home, finds squatter in underwear
Boston Globe () | yesterday |
Authorities in Colorado say a homeowner who was selling his house returned to the property to find a 24-year-old squatter wearing only underwear. Icebreaker with 100 tourists stuck in Antarctic ice
Cave News () | 3 hours ago |
A Russian icebreaker carrying more than 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on a cruise around Antarctica was struggling to free itself from sea ice about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from clear water. A report said neither the ship nor any...Jaycee Dugard's Family: 'Only One Story To Be Told'
Entertainment Tonight () | yesterday | Entertainment
An adult filmmaker reportedly plans to make a movie based on the story of Jaycee Dugard , the alleged rape and kidnap victim who was reportedly held in the backyard of an Antioch, CA man's home for 18 years. But a rep for Jaycee's family tells ET that the idea is "exploitive, hurtful and breathtakingly unkind." "There is only one true and factual story to be told," a rep for the family tells ET. "If...-
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Justin Verlander Finishes 3rd in AL Cy Young Award Vote
Bless You Boys () | yesterday | Sports
Justin Verlander Finishes 3rd in AL Cy Young Award Vote For the second day in a row, a Detroit Tigers pitcher finishes third in voting for a postseason award. The Royals' Zack Greinke won the AL Cy Young Award, receiving 25 of 28 first-place votes. Seattle's Felix Hernandez finished second, getting two first-place votes. Verlander finished a distant third, but did receive one first-place vote. That...
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17 Nov 2009 10:33
Bleg on criminal prosecution of people for transient possession of illegal objects they...
The Volokh Conspiracy (
In a recent case in Surrey, England, a man found a black bag in his garden one evening. He looked into the bag, and found that it contained a shotgun. He took the shotgun into his home, and the next day he called the police, and brought the shotgun to the police station. He was [...]The History of the Internet in a Nutshell
Six Revisions (
While the complete history of the Internet could easily fill a few books, this article should familiarize you with key milestones and events related to the growth and evolution of the Internet between 1969 to 2009.-
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GE CEO Plays Kiss Ass With Obama
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analys (
GE, the financial company masquerading as a manufacturer, has its eyes on the Pot of Government Stimulus Gold . The financial crisis hasn't been kind to General Electric Co. Its stock has lost almost half its value, the government has stepped in to prop up its enormous financial arm, and sales have slumped in core industrial businesses. But Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt now has his eye on a huge new... Another First in the UK
Twitter Blog (
The UK has had an outsized cultural impact on the world. From music to sports to literature... and now – MMS with Twitter. Today, not only has Orange UK turned on Twitter SMS, but it has added a first-of-its-kind special enhancement. Orange UK users can also send picture messages (MMS) to 86444 in addition to text messages because of a site that Orange UK has created called Snapshot . The best part...
The Chron still does not get it (part 4268 of a series)
Red Ink: Texas (
Today, Lynsi Burton steps off into a latrine pit with an unsubstantiated assertion that the GOP created the Tea Party Movement, but has lost control of it. The Tea Party Movement is not, and never was "created by the GOP ". If anything, it was created in response to the GOP as it exists today. The GOP contingent in Congress has over the last few years attempted to move to the left and has become virtually...That Stimulus is So Freaking Awesome it Has Created or Saved Jobs in Congressional...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (
From ABC News: Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 9th Congressional District, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending . At least that's what the website set up by the Obama Administration to track the $ 787 billion stimulus says. There's one problem , though: There is no 9th Congressional District in Arizona; the state has only eight Congressional...Samsung Unveils Android OS Galaxy i5700 Spica
pocketnow.com () | yesterday |
Following in the heels of other Samsung Android handsets before it like the Samsung Galazy i7500 and the Samsung Behold2 for T-Mobile USA, the Korean phone maker has just unveiled the Samsung Galaxy i5700 called the Spica. The Galaxy Spica will be available in Europe, Middle East, and Asia. The phone boasts a 13.2 mm thickness, a DivX support and a Google experience, which means that it won't come...Facebook for PlayStation 3 ‘begins’ this Thursday with firmware update 3.10 (video)
Techno Portal () | 16 hours ago | Other
Okay, pretend to be surprised if you want, but Facebook and PlayStation 3 are coming together, sort of. We saw the tiniest bit of teaser last week via leaked photo, and now we've got details and a release date. Users will have the option of sending status updates for PSN purchases and Trophies whenever the user syncs up the account to the… Continue reading-
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Chris Brown says he’s “kinda chillin’” with relationships
Cele|bitchy () | yesterday | Music
MTV Shows Chris Brown must have some compromising Polaroids of an MTV executive, because the network keeps running happy-go-lucky stories about the controversial singer. It seems like every time Rihanna is interviewed somewhere, Chris’s idiotic blatherings pop up over at MTV. Of course, at the end of every article about Chris, the MTV editors see fit [...] Sprint's HTC Hero Takes Inevitable Price Dip to $100 [Dealzmodo]
Gizmodo (
After the HTC Droid Eris , a rebadged Hero, debuted on Verizon for $100, Sprint's Hero couldn't well sit at $180 and expect to sell—and now Best Buy has stepped up, selling the Hero at $100 with contract. [ Engadget ]
Ship with 100 tourists stuck in Antarctic ice
Arizona Republic (Leisure
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian icebreaker carrying over 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on a cruise around Antarctica was struggling to free itself from sea ice but was not in any danger, a shipping company said Tuesday....Iran says UN watchdog has cleared nuclear program
Seattle Times (
Iran's nuclear envoy denies that the U.N. inspectors tour of its recently revealed uranium enrichment site has turned up any evidence that the Islamic republic is seeking nuclear weapons.Obama, Hu Cooperate, but Divisions Remain
ABC News () | 6 hours ago |
Obama, Hu stress cooperation, but divisions remain on key issues. Stress - Health - Mental Health - United States - PresidentialVonage settles with Indiana, 31 other states
Indy Star () | 6 hours ago | Technology
NEW YORK -- Internet phone service provider Vonage Holdings Corp. has agreed to pay $3 million to Indiana and 31 other states to settle an investigation into some of its business practices.-
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Death toll passes 30 in Myanmar ferry sinking
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Searchers have recovered more bodies from a ferry accident in Myanmar, bringing the confirmed death toll to 31, with about a dozen people still unaccounted for. Ravens Vs. Browns: Baltimore Shuts Out Cleveland, 16-0
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CLEVELAND — For 30 minutes, the Baltimore Ravens were inefficient, unproductive and disorganized. In 17 seconds, they changed all that. Ray Rice scored on a 13-yard run and safety Dawan Landry returned an interception of Brady Quinn 48 yards for a touchdown on Cleveland's next play as the Ravens overcame a horrendous start for a 16-0 win over the hapless Browns on Monday night. The Ravens (5-4) didn't...
Coghlan, Bailey earn rookie of year honors
The Washington Times () | 7 hours ago | Sports
From staff and wire reports Florida Marlins left fielder Chris Coghlan won the National League rookie of the year award in a close vote Monday, and Oakland Athletics closer Andrew Bailey took the AL honor. Coghlan edged Philadelphia Phillies pitcher J.A. Happ, receiving 17 first-place votes and 105 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Happ, the only player picked on...Lawyer: Woman charged in abduction of Elizabeth Smart to enter guilty plea in federal...
Chicago Tribune () | 7 hours ago |
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Seven years after it began, the wrenching saga of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping is expected to move toward resolution Tuesday with an expected guilty plea from one of the two defendants charged in the case.-
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Obama talks to China's Hu
Arizona Republic () | yesterday |
Seeking help with an array of global troubles, President said Tuesday that his closely watched talks with his Chinese counterpart are vital not just for their nations but the world. -
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Chesley Sullenberger flies off the handle over book on Hudson landing
Boston Herald () | yesterday |
NEW YORK - Heroic pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who guided his disabled plane to a safe emergency landing in the Hudson River, says that a new book that plays... -
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Titans Owner Fined $250,000 for Gesture
New York Times () | yesterday | Fine Arts
The N.F.L. has fined Titans owner Bud Adams $250,000 for making an obscene gesture at Buffalo fans while celebrating Tennessee’s victory over the Bills. ) | yesterday |
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16 Nov 2009 19:07
Windows Marketplace for Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1
Windows Vista Blog (
After last week’s news , I’m pleased to tell you that Windows Marketplace for Mobile has today reached another major milestone by adding support for Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 devices. This is an especially proud day for Microsoft because it marks our fulfillment of the Marketplace vision that we put forth only 9 months ago at Mobile World Congress. Last week we expanded the Marketplace experience...On President Obama's Bow to the Japanese Emperor, An Academic Friend Writes That Both the...
Political Punch () | 11/15/2009 |
An old friend -- an academic with expertise about the Japanese Empire, and in general a supporter of President Obama -- sends me the following note, relating to photographs of President Obama bowing to Emperor Akihito of Japan. "This picture...-
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An update to Google Earth for the iPhone
Google LatLong () | 5 hours ago |
Just over one year ago, we unveiled Google Earth for the iPhone and iPod touch . Google Earth quickly became one of the most popular applications in the App Store, and after only six months, was the second most-downloaded free application overall. A big thank-you to the over 220,000 users have taken the time to write a review! Today, we're proud to announce version 2.0 of Google Earth for iPhone. We've... Chamber Of Commerce Solicits Money For Economist Who Will Give Bad Review Of Health Care...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is soliciting funds to pay an economist $50,000 to study health care reform legislation and issue (what the lobby presumes) will be a negative review, providing ammunition to shoot down health care reform in the Senate, according to The Washington Post . The Newspaper obtained an e-mail from James P. Gelfand , the senior manager of health policy at the Chamber of Commerce...-
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Nintendo cartridges throne
MAKE: Blog (
A throne fit for a retro gamer ! This one is comprised entirely of Nintendo cartridges. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Retro | Digg this! Daniel Pearl's Family Disagrees WIth NYC Trial For Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
The Huffington Post () | 11/15/2009 |
The mother and father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl are disappointed with the federal government's decision to try Pearl's accused killer and Guantanamo detainee Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City, according to The Hill. Pearl's father, Judea Pearl, told the New York Post that the Justice Department's decision made him "sick to the stomach." The foundation started by Pearl's...
iPhone home button earrings
MAKE: Blog (
Symbology befitting a Dan Brown novel exudes from these handcrafted iPhone home button earrings . Do they imbibe the wearer with mystical iPhone powers? Does wearing two buttons break Apple's Human Interface Guidelines? You'll just have to acquire a pair to find out. [via iPhoneIndia ] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in iPhone | Digg this!Russia bans Modern Warfare 2, recalls all copies of game
Destructoid () | 11/15/2009 | Video Games
As everybody knows by now, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 includes an incredibly controversial level set in a Russian airport that has generated much discussion. The level has proven to be so inflammatory that the real-life Russia has acted, recalling all copies of the game from stores and effectively banning the title. Infinity Ward has opted to patch the level out entirely for Russian consumers,...SEIU thugs vs. the Boy Scouts — and other related Big Labor antics
Michelle Malkin (
Hey, you know all that high-minded talk from President Obama about calling young people to serve their country? [...] Read the rest »-
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Liz Cheney floats her father Dick as potential 2012 presidential candidate.
Think Progress () | 11/15/2009 |
Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, sat on this morning’s Fox News Sunday panel. The topic turned to President Obama’s respectful bow before Japanese Emperor Akihito, for which the president is being attacked mercilessly by conservatives. Host Chris Wallace aired a videotape of Vice President Cheney choosing not to bow before [...] Somebody just fucking kill me now
Balloon Juice (
Even the liberal Mark Shields misses George W. Bush. SHIELDS: We have a president of real intellectual horse power who is cool, detached and analytical and if anything you can watch the emotional side of him emerge in this whole process. … There’s an emotional aspect, the comforter in chief as well as the commander in [...]Power struggle threatens Pakistan’s leader
Indus Asia Online Journal (
Zardari attempting to fend off maneuvers by military, intelligence [(Extract from the article)...The prospect of a military takeover — long an option in Pakistan — is overblown, say officials in both the government and the military. Kayani is indeed ambitious but he understands the consequences of a military takeover, particularly with regard to continued U.S. military [...]
Janet Jackson In The Spotlight Interview With Robin Roberts (Video)
Bumpshack (
Singer Janet Jackson revealed she is still mourning the tragic loss of her brother Michael Jackson and blames Dr. Conrad Murray for his death in an exclusive interview ‘In The Spotlight’ with ABC’s Robin Roberts, which will air on Wednesday (November 18). Janet stated, “He was the one that was administering … I think he [...]Shaniya Davis, Five-year-old girl used for prostitution found dead in NC
US News & World Report (
The body of Shaniya Davis, the 5-year-old little girl who had been missing since last Tuesday, was found on Monday, November 16. Shaniya’s body was found southeast of Sanford in central North Carolina. Her mother, Antoinette Davis, has already been charged with human trafficking and felony child abuse. Davis had offered her daughter for prostitution. According to [...]Drug makers are raising prices in anticipation of health care reform
AMERICAblog () | 5 hours ago |
Surprise . This may explain why insurance companies like Blue Cross are raising our rates 25% and up a year. In the last year, the industry has raised the wholesale prices of brand-name prescription drugs by about 9 percent, according to industry analysts. That will add more than $10 billion to the nation’s drug bill, which is on track to exceed $300 billion this year. By at least one analysis, it...Obama says world urgently watching US-China talks
Houston Chronicle (
BEIJING — President declared Monday the world is urgently watching for a "meeting of the minds" between the U.S. and China as he meets with President Hu Jintao on the globe's biggest issues — climate change, economic recession, nuclear proliferation and more.-
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Idaho boy, 11, shoots black bear on family's porch
Boston Globe () | 6 hours ago |
An 11-year-old boy shot a black bear on his family's front porch after he said it wouldn't leave. The boy was at his home near Driggs, just west of the Idaho-Wyoming border, with his younger sisters last Wednesday when the bear showed up. The youngster said he couldn't shoo it away, so he went and got his gun and shot ... -
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Panel: Wait until 50 for mammogram
MSNBC.com () | 5 hours ago | Health
A government panel's recommendation is a major reversal that conflicts with the American Cancer Society's long-standing advice. Government - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Cancer - Organizations
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12 Afghans Dead In Attack Targeting French General
The Huffington Post () | 10 hours ago | World
TAGAB VALLEY, Afghanistan — Insurgents fired two rockets Monday into a crowded market northeast of Kabul where the head of French forces in Afghanistan was holding a meeting with tribal elders. The attack killed 12 Afghan civilians and wounded at least another 38, the French military said. Lt. Col. Lionel, who can only be identified by his first name in accordance with French military policy, witnessed... Law a Jackpot for Lawyers Who Wrote It, AP Says
Law.com - Inside Opinions: Legal Bl () | 7 hours ago |
Seattle University School of Law professor Joaquin Avila says he was the primary author of the 2002 California Voting Rights Act, drawing on advice from Robert Rubin, legal director for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, and others. Since then, all of the $4.3 million collected in settlements under the law has gone to Avila, to Rubin's committee and to lawyers working...-
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Clinton would 'look forward' to Palin sit down
Political Ticker () | 13 hours ago |
Clinton would 'look forward' to meeting with Palin. (CNN) - While their fictional personas have teamed up on Saturday Night Live, and Hilary Clinton have actually never met. But the secretary of state said Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press she'd "look forward" to talking politics with Palin over coffee sometime soon. Clinton was responding to [...] -
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Court won't hear complaint about Redskins name
Boston Globe () | 9 hours ago |
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a group of Native Americans who think the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins football team is offensive. Cisco raises Tandberg bid
Indian Express () | 4 hours ago | Technology
US network equipment maker Cisco has raised its bid for Norwegian video conferencing equipment maker Tandberg, backed by holders of more than 40% of its shares, few of whom had warmed to its previous bid.-
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16 Nov 2009 03:46
Sponsorship-supported Crunchpad is alive. ‘Steamrolling’ says Arrington.
Carrypad UMPC feed (
I should have been in bed but I got hooked into an excellent Gilmore Gang videocast (below) this evening. Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, P Rangaswami, Kevin Marks, and Saul Hansell talk a lot about the iPhone and Driod war, discuss the… Related posts: CrunchPad event possibly at the end of this month, unit for less than $300 You’ve probably heard of the upcoming CrunchPad by now.... Crunchpad Specification...-
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Flashback: Obama pretty happy about KSM getting a “full military trial”
Hot Air () | 11/14/2009 |
The latest trip down memory lane from Naked Emperor News and a new entry in the database of things that Obama thought were a good idea before January 20 of this year (see also "winning in Afghanistan"). On a related note, and as a supplement to Ed's post about ... EA job listing hints at online multiplayer for Dead Space 2
Joystiq () | 11/14/2009 | Video Games
If an Electronic Arts job listing is any indication, Dead Space 2 is set to receive a gameplay feature that none of us saw coming -- online multiplayer support. The listing, which calls for the aid of a "Senior Online Level Designer," mentions that the new hire should "be able to work collaboratively with Creative Director and Online Producer to create extremely fun, satisfying and polished multiplayer...-
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Droid experiencing external speaker problems, could be a software issue?
Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (
It’s no reason to panic just yet, but apparently a good amount of people are having trouble with the external speaker on their Motorola Droid cutting out for no reason. It seems to be software-related, and sometimes a reboot fixes it temporarily, but it’s a scary problem for people relying on the handset as an [...] -
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Discretion and financial regulation
Interfluidity () | 11/14/2009 | Business
An enduring truth about financial regulation is this: Given the discretion to do so, financial regulators will always do the wrong thing.... -
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Pacquiao vs. Cotto: Round by Round Results
In Entertainment (
Now there can not be any doubt that Manny Pacquiao is the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, after his display on Saturday with a dominating victory over world welterweight champion Miguel Cotto. Manny stopped the Puerto Rican at 55 seconds of the 12th round at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Pacquiao is [...]
When Some Bloggers Really Should Hang Up Their Keyboards
American Power () | 8 hours ago |
It's pretty interesting when your blog gets picked up around the Internet as "all that is wrong" with the rightroots blogosphere. But that's apparently what happened to some extent with my post yesterday, " Bowing Before Monarchs and Tyrants: Obama 'Restores' America's World Standing With His Head Down - UPDATE: REAGAN DIDN'T BOW!! " A key case in point is Charles Cooper's blog at CBS News. I've included...-
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Observations: Applications - November 15, 2009
The Law of Mobility (
Standard disclaimer: don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out.) More Evidence Suggests That iPhone App Store Doesn’t Really Sell That Much… Smartphone Owners Use Less than Six Applications Regularly GetJar: Can One App Store Please [...] -
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Obama Administration Is Not Being Straight With America Straight On Ft Hood Massacre
The Strata-Sphere () | 11/14/2009 |
For the last week I have been posting about my suspicions regarding the Ft Hood terrorist massacre and how the Obama administration seemed to be in full spin mode, as if they knew something horrible about the incident. The crux of my concerns have been the well established, far left positions held by AG Holder and [...] Far Left Newsweek Attacks Sarah Palin Before Book Release
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In case there’s any doubt where Newsweek’s devotion lies: Via Politico “She’s bad news for the GOP and everyone else, too.” Yeah. She sure looks dangerous.-
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Mommy Bloggers: More Unethical Than Bernie Madoff?
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This little addition just makes it more clear as to how we should be honest in talking with our readers as social publishers. -
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Google Books Settlement Revised
Manga-loid (
Here's an article from the New York Times about the terms of the revised Google Settlement. And here's Publisher's Weekly's report, which includes a handy timeline for what comes next. The revised agreement is now limited to books registered with...
Bruce Springsteen “Hello, Ohio!” In Michigan Flub
The PopCrunch Show (
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen was left shamefaced after he bellowed “Hello, Ohio!” to thousands of fans at The Palace in Auburn Hills, Michigan last Friday night. The Boss referred to the neighboring state several times until E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt whispered in his ear. A visibly embarrassed Springsteen grinned and said such a [...]Obama takes diplomacy to China
STLtoday.com () | 2 hours ago |
SHANGHAI — President is walking a tightrope on his first trip to China, seeking to enlist help in tackling urgent global problems while weighing when and how — or if — he should raise traditional human rights concerns.The president is holding talks today with local politicians and, in one of the marquee events of his weeklong Asian trip, conducting an American-style town hall discussion...Guantanamo detainees getting day in court after long wait
Baltimore Sun (
WASHINGTON (AP) — In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison, sometimes even testifying on their own behalf by video from the U.S. naval base in Cuba.Ahmadinejad says Western pressure empowers Iran
Seattle Times () | 2 hours ago |
An impasse in nuclear talks between world powers and Iran would only hurt the West by making Tehran push harder to advance its technology, according to the latest remarks by the Iranian president.-
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Obama begins China visit with town hall
Seattle Times () | 3 hours ago | World
President Obama kicked off his visit to China with a town-hall meeting today in Shanghai, a rare chance for the Chinese people — university students in the audience and others who sent questions via the Internet — to communicate directly with a Western leader. -
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Boy Kills Bear That Wouldn't Leave Family's Front Porch
DRIGGS, Idaho — An 11-year-old Idaho boy fatally shot a black bear on his family's front porch after he said it wouldn't leave. The boy was at his home near Driggs, just west of the Idaho-Wyoming border, with his younger sisters last Wednesday when the bear showed up. He says he couldn't shoo the animal away, so he went and got a gun and shot it. Doug Petersen, a conservation officer with the Idaho...
Arrest at Walmart leads to charges of racism
Seattle Times () | 3 hours ago |
Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri store and touched off what she calls a racially charged dispute with white customers and authorities, the young black schoolteacher faces a trial that could send her to prison for 15 years.Nation & world: Tiger Woods puts on show, takes Australian Masters
Tiger Woods gave the record crowds at the Australian Masters everything they could have wanted with his victory Sunday, except a definitive answer when he would return. "I promise it won't be as long," Woods said to a warm ovation.-
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Common Grounds for Clinton and Palin?
The Caucus () | yesterday |
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she would be open to having coffee with former Gov. of Alaska. 'Tweeps' primed and ready for launch
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Fingers will be flying when space shuttle Atlantis blasts off today. About 100 of NASA's geekiest fans will be on hand, pecking away at iPhones, BlackBerrys, laptops, and other Twittering gadgets, hoping to be the first to announce "lift off."Study raises questions on cholesterol medications
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ORLANDO (AP) — A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin — drugs that are still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite questions raised last year about how well they work.-
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AP: Iran forms unit to go after opposition on Internet
cyrusfarivar.com () | yesterday |
The Associated Press, November 14 2009: TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has formed a special unit to monitor Web sites and fight Internet crimes, in a clear attack on an opposition that relies almost exclusively on online means to broadcast its message, local newspapers reported Saturday. Police Col. Mehrdad Omidi, who heads the Internet crime unit, said the [...]
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15 Nov 2009 12:34
What is Twitter for? Pimping your blog!
Scobleizer (
At the Blog World Expo a few weeks ago someone asked what Twitter is for and I answered “pimping your blog.” Hey, it works for TechCrunch and Mashable, why not you? Or me. So, I’ve finally figured out that I was clueless because I didn’t have a Twitter account for my blog. When people say they are unfollowing [...]G. Gordon Liddy Says ‘I’m Convinced’ That ‘Barack Obama Is A Muslim,’ Gary Bauer Doesn’t...
Think Progress (
On his radio show today, G. Gordon Liddy hosted former Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer to discuss his Human Events column on the Fort Hood massacre, in which Bauer — echoing his close personal friend Bill Kristol — declared that “[p]olitical correctness has been radical Islam’s greatest asset in its war against America. Let’s execute [...]The worst things startups do
Scobleizer () | yesterday |
I visit a lot of startups, the video here is of Posterous, a company that is doing it right. Usually you can tell immediately whether a startup is really run well (which Posterous is). You’ll have your own ability to “smell” real startups when you go on the Startup Crawl in SF on November [...]-
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NSFW: ‘Tis Pity She’s A Success – Belle de Jour and the Impossibility of Anonymous...
TechCrunch () | 14 hours ago |
So Belle De Jour was real after all. The Internet's most famous anonymous sex blogger - turned best-selling author - turned internationally succesful TV series - has finally outed herself in the UK's Sunday Times. And it turns out she's a character straight from the pages of XKCD . From her interview with the Times' India Knight, we learn that Belle is in fact Dr Brooke Magnanti a specialist in developmental... -
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How Murdoch Can Really Hurt Google And Shift The Balance Of Power In Search
TechCrunch (
I've mostly been a spectator in this whole Rupert Murdoch de-indexing his news sites content from Google circus. First because I didn't really believe he even knew what he was talking about (or h ow much traffic he'd lose ), and more recently because Erick Schonfeld took the story here at TechCrunch. But suddenly this is a fascinating story to me for a bunch of reasons. This may be less about the... Tea Party organizer vows to burn Pelosi and Perriello in effigy
Political Ticker () | yesterday |
Pelosi will be burned in effigy at a Tea Party rally in Virginia next week, the event's organizer told CNN. WASHINGTON (CNN) – The organizer of a "Tea Party" protest in Virginia says he intends to move forward with plans to burn House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Tom Perriello in effigy next weekend at a [...]
"Neutral and Detached”
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog () | yesterday |
Though it is a piece of superficiality worthy of People magazine, the Washington Post's account of the process by which Eric Holder came to make his decision to try war criminals in federal court is a remarkable--if inadvertent--revelation of just...Cold Cash Jefferson Gets 13 Years
Riehl World View () | yesterday |
Thirteen years in prison. We'll see what he serves, but it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A former Louisiana congressman who famously stashed cash in his freezer was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison...AMD breaks 7GHz barrier with liquid helium and nu-metal
CrunchGear () | yesterday |
A while back I went to a fun overclocking event held by AMD , where there was a lot of vapor, some exploding burritos, and some overclocking that got tantalizingly close to 7GHz. It was just an arbitrary number, and they broke a bunch of other records, but they couldn't quite hit that last target. But a few months and I can only guess how much liquid helium later, they nailed it.Obama Takes a Bow
Stop the ACLU () | 15 hours ago |
center> Powerline: Obama’s breach of protocol is of a piece with the substance of his foreign policy. He means to teach Americans to bow before monarchs and tyrants. He embodies the ideological multiculturalism that sets the United States on the same plane as other regimes based on tribal privilege and royal bloodlines. He gives expressive form [...]CAIR Goes A Beggin'
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Other
A friend emails: CAIR is trying to score some cash off of Fort Hood. Classy. Urgent Action: Help CAIR Defend Your Community in Times of Crisis Dear XXX, As-salaamu alaykum(Peace be with you), When a crisis such as the Fort...
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Supply, Demand, and Healthcare Reform
Greg Mankiw's Blog (
Here are some basic principles of supply and demand: If a government policy increases the demand for a service, the price of that service tends to rise. If the government prevents prices from rising, shortages develop. The quantity provided is then determined by supply and not demand. In the presence of such excess demand, the result could be a two-tier market structure. Consumers who can somehow pay... -
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ANALYSIS: Fact check: Palin's book goes rogue on some facts
Detroit Free Press () | 5 hours ago |
Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time. -
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Fort Hood Victims Laid To Rest; Hundreds Of Mourners Turn Out
KIEL, Wis. — Hundreds of people lining the main street of an Indiana town on Saturday fell solemnly silent as the white hearse passed. Mourners waited for hours outside a Wisconsin gymnasium to say goodbye to a soldier who once promised to take down . And in Oklahoma, a newlywed grieved for her husband of nearly three months. Several victims of the Nov. 5 shooting massacre at ,... -
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SAME we can believe in: Obama administration grants Defense Secty. new powers to block...
Boing Boing () | 3 hours ago |
SAME WE CAN BELIEVE IN: The Obama administration has granted Defense Secty. Robert Gates new powers to block the release of 21 color photos showing prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq being abused by Americans. The ACLU sued for release of the images. Federal courts previously rejected attempts to keep them secret. ACLU: "No democracy has ever been made stronger by suppressing information about its own... -
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Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton: The Coffee Summit?
NewsBusters () | 4 hours ago |
had his Beer Summit. Will they call a meeting between former Alaska Governor and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the Coffee Summit? Such seems possible after Clinton's discussion about Palin with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Sunday's "This Week." In fact, the following exchange seems destined to be quite the water cooler subject in newsrooms all over America in the coming... NBC, Broadcast Pioneer, Prepares For Comcast Takeover
The Huffington Post () | 5 hours ago |
NEW YORK — Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast television's decline. Cable TV operator Comcast Corp. is expected to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal, perhaps as early as next week, bringing the network of Johnny CarsonJerry SeinfeldBob Hope, Milton Berle and Tom Brokaw under the corporate control...
Jackpot: Lawyers earn fees from law they wrote
Tampa Bay Online (
Every lawsuit filed or even threatened under a California law aimed at electing more minorities to local offices - and all of the roughly $4.3 million from settlements so far - can be traced to just two people: a pair of attorneys who worked together writing the statute, The Associated Press has found.-
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Obama Urges Congress to Delay Ft. Hood Probe
) | 4 hours ago | US
President Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to "resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political... -
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Serbia's Patriarch Pavle dies; he spoke for Balkan peace
Los Angeles Times () | 4 hours ago |
Patriarch Pavle, who led Serbia's Christian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist revival and called for peace and conciliation during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s but failed to openly condemn Serb nationalism, died today. He was 95. Iran forms unit to go after opposition on Internet
Chasing Evil (
Iran forms unit to go after opposition on Internet: "Iran has formed a special unit to monitor Web sites and fight Internet crimes, in a clear attack on an opposition that relies almost exclusively on online means to broadcast its message, local newspapers reported Saturday...."-
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Water on moon stirs up hope for future outpost
Philadelphia Inquirer (Sciences
LOS ANGELES - Suddenly, the moon looks exciting again. It has lots of water, scientists said Friday - a thrilling discovery that sent a ripple of hope for a future astronaut outpost in a place that has always seemed barren and inhospitable. -
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Dolphins' Porter won't play today
San Fransisco Chronicle (
Less than 24 hours before kickoff, Miami Dolphins outspoken linebacker Joey Porter was ruled out of today's game against Tampa Bay because of a coach's decision. The Dolphins didn't give any information about the reason for the move by coach Tony Sparano....
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