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Washington)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 5:26:27 AM
News quiz: the
Sunday papers
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Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:18:10 AM
Apart from confident
predictions that Andy Murray
was striding towards the UK's
first tennis Grand Slam title in 74
years, what else was in the
Sunday papers?
IPad Hands-On
Review
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 12:37:21 PM
TidBITS has an interesting
overview of the features of
Apple’s new iPad device: Hands-
on Impressions of the iPad.
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Did we forget about love? | Jonathan Bartley
By Jonathan Bartley (World
news and comment from the
Love, of course, is supposed to
be central to Christian doctrine.
should be challenged instead to
demonstrate how exactly that
around the L-word. Hopeless
romanticism without substance?
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
And by love I don't mean vague squares with the other tenets of Love certainly needs defining
Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:19:55 AM sentimentality, but a genuine their faith. How do they and pinning down. St Paul, the
willingness to treat others with reconcile what they are architect of so much Christian
It's difficult for some to equal regard, dignity, concern demanding with such ideas as doctrine, had quite a few things
acknowledge, but secularists and respect – something that
have shown the church how to be both religionist and secularist
inclusion, equality, service,
grace, and honesty, which are all
to say on the subject in his first
letter to the church at Corinth.
more Christian over the equality should be able to agree on.
bill The question: Does faith When I was growing up, we
supposed to stem from it? In the He laid out pretty clearly what he
case of the equality bill they thought true love did, and didn't
trump equality?
used to sing a song in our church clearly can't. look like. It's kind, it's trusting,
Love gets a bad press. It sounds based on words that Jesus is Such an approach may not sit it's truthful, it doesn't defend its
too 1960s to be considered any recorded as using in John's well with some secularists. You own interests, and it always
political use. It's a term of abuse gospel: "They will know we are can't fight fire with fire, or protects, he said. Such things
against liberals. It's privatised by C h r i s t i a n s b y o u r l o v e " . mumbo jumbo with more should be the guiding criteria in
fundamentalists. But it could be Nowadays, as far as their public gobbledegook, some will finding a way forward to the
the key to both making sense of, profile goes, "they" seem more undoubtedly argue. But whilst it happy state we all desire to
and providing a way forward in likely to know Christians by may stick in the throats of some inhabit. And if the demands on
the apparent stand-off in which their ability to negotiate opt-outs, to acknowledge it openly, both sides were subjected to such
some amongst the religious and win rights to discriminate. secularists have shown the ideas, whether you call them
claim that they need to have their But it also highlights how church how to be more Christian "secular" or "religious", we'd be
doctrines protected in law. churches, in demanding that a over the equality bill. They have most of the way there.
Some churches would like to small, selective collection of
c l a i m t h a t r e l i g i o n ' s v e r y their ideas take priority, are
championed the rights of,
predominantly Christian people,
• Religion
• Christianity
banishment from public life is at a c t u a l l y d e n y i n g w h a t i s
s t a k e . B u t t h i s i s t o supposed to be at the heart of
who want to work for religious
organisations and churches, but
• Law
• Equality
misunderstand what is going on. their faith. will find themselves further
The fact that the question "does Churches should be able to excluded if the amended bill Jonathan Bartley
faith trump equality" is posed at determine their own beliefs. But becomes law. In a strange way guardian.co.uk© Guardian
a l l i s a s y m p t o m o f t h e when they approach government they have shown how to love News & Media Limited 2010 |
underlying problem. It is the law to ask for them to be enshrined their enemies – albeit with a mix Use of this content is subject to
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US-Russia arms talks resume

By Luke Harding, Daniel elections. Analysts say that if has made no significant prominent activist who has met Obama administration had been
Nasaw (World news and Obama fails to persuade the concessions towards the Obama Clinton, said. Ponomarev naive in its assessment, he said:
comment from the Guardian | Senate to back a deal, the current White House, either over a complained Clinton had not "I think they were very quickly
guardian.co.uk) arms control "vacuum" may sanctions regime against Tehran offered any criticism of the disavowed of the notion [that
Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:57:38 AM continue. or anything else. Obama's situation in Russia, where Medvedev was a liberal] –
Sixty-seven votes are needed in decision to dump the Bush-era journalists are routinely during the summit itself, in fact."
Geneva meeting works towards the Senate to ratify the treaty, missile defence shield in central murdered, and said the secretary A new Start treaty would face an
finding successor to 40-year-old a n d t h e R e p u b l i c a n S c o t t Europe last summer – an issue of state's short encounter with uphill battle to win Senate
Start 1 weapons reduction B r o w n ' s v i c t o r y i n t h e that had enraged Vladimir Putin, civil society representatives had approval, he added. "The reality
agreement, which expired last Massachusetts Senate race last Russia's hawkish prime minister been a "protocol" one. is that in a hard-fought election,
year week compounded Obama's – failed to elicit any reciprocal Some believe that in its anything can become hostage
Negotiations over a new arms difficulties, emboldening the gesture from the Russian side. eagerness to improve relations with politics. I think the state
control treaty between the US opposition and creating anxiety Obama's tactical silence on with Moscow, the Obama department and the
and Russia resumed in Geneva among centrist Democrats. When human rights issues in Russia administration made key administration will be wary of
today amid growing criticism of t h e t r e a t y c o m e s u p f o r and other repressive former mistakes, in particular in its risking a treaty as important as
Barack Obama's conciliatory consideration, Republicans will Soviet republics, meanwhile, has erroneously "optimistic" this in a political season as
policy towards the Kremlin from be inclined to portray Obama as infuriated human rights assessment of Medvedev. During fraught as we are likely to see
human rights groups and a newly making concessions on defence. defenders. During a visit to his visit to Moscow last July, towards the summer and fall."
emboldened Republican party. "They don't want President Moscow last December, the US Obama held long face-to-face He went on: "If they don't get a
Obama and Russia's president, Obama to score a major policy secretary of state, Hillary negotiations with Medvedev treaty soon, it may have to wait
Dmitry Medvedev, indicated last victory that would lend heft to Clinton, made clear that human while snubbing Putin, in an until next year to ratify."
week that a successor agreement h i s c r e d e n t i a l s a s a g r e a t rights issues would now be unsubtle attempt to boost James Collins, former US
to the Strategic Arms Reduction American statesman in the run- discussed "behind closed doors" Medvedev's domestic prestige. ambassador to Russia under Bill
Treaty (Start 1) could be signed up to the midterm elections," with the Russian government, Since then, however, it has Clinton, said ratification entirely
within weeks. The 1972 treaty said a US official familiar with prompting accusations that become clear that Medvedev is depended on whether it was
expired on 5 December, leaving the treaty talks. "They are going Obama had relegated values to not the liberal reformer that some consistent with the US military's
M o s c o w a n d W a s h i n g t o n to use this as a political football third-tier status. had hoped but part of Russia's nuclear posture review, currently
without an operational arms and play this in a political way "I don't think keeping silent is managed democracy construct, under way, and the military's and
control regime for the first time rather than out of consideration the way to go. At this stage, I in which elections are stage- the intelligence community's
in 40 years. for its merits." would express disappointment managed and dissent swiftly approval of its verification
A spokesman for the US A year after his inauguration, with the Obama-Clinton squashed. Few are in any doubt mechanisms.
mission in Geneva, Michael critics claim Obama has failed to approach," Allison Gill, the that it is Putin who continues to He said the time was ripe for the
Parmly, said today that the realise many of his major foreign director of the Russia office of run the country, and who eventual treaty language to be
delegation hoped "the remaining policy goals, including on Iran Human Rights Watch, said. "I remains the supreme arbiter of judged on its own merits, with
negotiations can be concluded and the Middle East, with his don't think there is any evidence both domestic and foreign few available political "cheap
quickly," but declined to say "reset" strategy towards Russia that pragmatic silence has proved affairs. shots".
when that might be. yet to produce tangible results. particularly effective, certainly in "I think the administration had "It has been negotiated to serve
But even if the sides manage to One of Obama's key aspirations promoting human rights." the feeling that more had American interests. Nobody was
r e s o l v e t h e i r o u t s t a n d i n g was to improve relations with Russian human rights defenders changed in the Russian political playing politics or games with it.
differences over verification and Moscow in return for closer co- concur. "A more definite scene with the arrival of We didn't have artificial
missile defence, serious doubts operation on Iran and its nuclear approach from the Americans Medvedev than was actually the deadlines, and it wasn't set
remain about Obama's ability to programme and the war in wouldn't hurt civil society in case," Sam Greene, deputy
ratify any new treaty ahead of Afghanistan. Russia. You have to speak the director of the Moscow Carnegie US-RUSSIA page 4
N o v e m b e r ' s m i d - t e r m U S So far, however, the Kremlin truth," Lev Ponomarev, a Centre, said. Asked whether the
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Freedom comes before equality | Pope Benedict XVI

By Pope Benedict XVI (World forthcoming apostolic visit to honest exchange of opinion, but the church's magisterium that true meaning and necessity of the
news and comment from the Great Britain, I shall be able to you are actually giving voice to sets us free. Cardinal Newman priesthood. Encourage the lay
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) witness that faith for myself and, the convictions of many people realised this, and he left us an faithful to express their
Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:24:52 AM as successor of Peter, to who lack the means to express outstanding example of appreciation of the priests who
strengthen and confirm it. them: when so many of the faithfulness to revealed truth by serve them, and to recognise the
The effect of some equality During the months of preparation population claim to be Christian, following that "kindly light" difficulties they sometimes face
legislation has been to impose that lie ahead, be sure to how could anyone dispute the wherever it led him, even at on account of their declining
unjust limitations on the freedom encourage the Catholics of Gospel's right to be heard? considerable personal cost. Great numbers and increasing
of religious communities England and Wales in their If the full saving message of writers and communicators of his pressures. The support and
Dear Brother Bishops, devotion, and assure them that Christ is to be presented stature and integrity are needed understanding of the faithful is
I welcome all of you on your ad the pope constantly remembers effectively and convincingly to in the church today, and it is my particularly necessary when
Limina visit to Rome, where you them in his prayers and holds the world, the Catholic hope that devotion to him will parishes have to be merged or
have come to venerate the tombs them in his heart. community in your country inspire many to follow in his mass times adjusted. Help them
of the Apostles Peter and Paul. I Your country is well known for needs to speak with a united footsteps. to avoid any temptation to view
thank you for the kind words that its firm commitment to equality voice. This requires not only Much attention has rightly been the clergy as mere functionaries
Archbishop Vincent Nichols has of opportunity for all members you, the bishops, but also priests, given to Newman's scholarship but rather to rejoice in the gift of
addressed to me on your behalf, of society. Yet as you have teachers, catechists, writers – in and to his extensive writings, but priestly ministry, a gift that can
and I offer you my warmest good rightly pointed out, the effect of short all who are engaged in the it is important to remember that never be taken for granted.
w i s h e s a n d p r a y e r s f o r some of the legislation designed task of communicating the he saw himself first and foremost Ecumenical and inter-religious
yourselves and all the faithful of to achieve this goal has been to Gospel – to be attentive to the as a priest. In this Annus dialogue assume great
England and Wales entrusted to impose unjust limitations on the promptings of the spirit, who Sacerdotalis, I urge you to hold importance in England and
your pastoral care. Your visit to f r e e d o m o f r e l i g i o u s guides the whole church into the up to your priests his example of Wales, given the varied
Rome strengthens the bonds of communities to act in accordance truth, gathers her into unity and dedication to prayer, pastoral demographic profile of the
c o m m u n i o n b e t w e e n t h e with their beliefs. In some inspires her with missionary zeal. sensitivity towards the needs of population. As well as
Catholic community in your respects it actually violates the Make it your concern, then, to his flock, and passion for encouraging you in your
country and the Apostolic See, a natural law upon which the draw on the considerable gifts of preaching the Gospel. You important work in these areas, I
communion that sustained your equality of all human beings is the lay faithful in England and yourselves should set a similar would ask you to be generous in
people's faith for centuries, and grounded and by which it is Wales and see that they are example. Be close to your implementing the provisions of
today provides fresh energies for guaranteed. I urge you as pastors equipped to hand on the faith to priests, and rekindle their sense the Apostolic Constitution
renewal and evangelisation. to ensure that the church's moral n e w g e n e r a t i o n s of the enormous privilege and Anglicanorum Coetibus, so as to
Even amid the pressures of a teaching be always presented in comprehensively, accurately, and joy of standing among the people assist those groups of Anglicans
secular age, there are many signs its entirety and convincingly with a keen awareness that in so of God as alter Christus. In who wish to enter into full
of living faith and devotion defended. Fidelity to the Gospel doing they are playing their part Newman's words, "Christ's communion with the Catholic
among the Catholics of England in no way restricts the freedom in the church's mission. In a priests have no priesthood but church. I am convinced that, if
and Wales. I am thinking, for of others – on the contrary, it social milieu that encourages the his … what they do, he does; given a warm and open-hearted
example, of the enthusiasm serves their freedom by offering expression of a variety of when they baptise, He is welcome, such groups will be a
generated by the visit of the them the truth. Continue to insist opinions on every question that baptising; when they bless, he is blessing for the entire church.
relics of Saint Thérèse, the upon your right to participate in arises, it is important to blessing" ( Parochial and Plain With these thoughts, I commend
interest aroused by the prospect n a t i o n a l d e b a t e t h r o u g h recognise dissent for what it is, Sermons, VI 242). Indeed, since your apostolic ministry to the
o f C a r d i n a l N e w m a n ' s respectful dialogue with other and not to mistake it for a mature the priest plays an irreplaceable intercession of Saint David, Saint
beatification, and the eagerness elements in society. In doing so, contribution to a balanced and role in the life of the church, George and all the saints and
of young people to take part in you are not only maintaining wide-ranging debate. It is the spare no effort in encouraging
pilgrimages and World Youth long-standing British traditions truth revealed through scripture priestly vocations and FREEDOM page 4
Days. On the occasion of my of freedom of expression and and tradition and articulated by emphasising to the faithful the
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US-RUSSIA
continued from page 2

against Obama's Nobel prize,"
Collins said.
Over the last month, the
Republicans have considerably
stepped up their attack on
Obama's Russia strategy,
directing their fire in particular at
Vladislav Surkov, the Kremlin's
chief ideologue. Surkov is
synonymous with the rollback of
democracy during the Putin era.
He visited Washington last week
as co-chair of a new US-Russian
intergovernmental civil society
working group set up by Obama
assistant to Obama and senior
director for Russian affairs at the
National Security Council,
played down the "controversy"
over Surkov.
He said it was better to engage
with Russia, even if there were
"disagreements", than to "sit in
our cubbyholes and not have any
real connectivity with those that
we think we are disagreeing
with".
Some believe Obama has
brought about a marked
improvement in US-Russian
new Start treaty. "If we sign the
treaty, there may be more
progress in other areas; if we
don't sign, we will have a
repetition of the old story – a
nice declaration but no practical
achievements."
Others said Obama's failure to
reap any dividends from his
rapprochement with Russia was
due to a more profound
conceptual weakness: his failure
to define America's role in the
21st century. "The problem is
Obama's foreign policy. He is
go beyond the party-line
divisions," said Ariel Cohen, a
Russia and Eurasia analyst at the
conservative Heritage
Foundation. "In the past, both
Republicans and Democrats were
those who approved. And in
things like nuclear weapons, China to Restructure
responsible politicians do not
trifle."
Its Economy, Boost
• United States Domestic Demand
• Russia
By Connie Madon
• Vladimir Putin (BloggingStocks)
• Dmitry Medvedev
• Barack Obama Submitted at 2/1/2010 10:10:00 AM

and Medvedev.
On 11 December, more than 60
Republican members of
Congress signed a letter urging
Obama to boycott the meeting
until Surkov, Medvedev's deputy
chief of staff, was replaced by
"someone who has not been
involved in establishing
oppressive and undemocratic
policies". They also expressed
concern over Russia's human
rights record.
In an interview with Radio
Liberty, Michael McFaul, special
FREEDOM
continued from page 3
martyrs of England and Wales.
May Our Lady of Walsingham
guide and protect you always. To
all of you, and to the priests,
religious and lay faithful of your
country, I cordially impart my
apostolic blessing as a pledge of
peace and joy in the Lord Jesus
Christ.
This is the text of an address
delivered to the Catholic bishops
relations – at least in tone.
"There have been positive steps.
It isn't a shouting match any
more," Sergei Rogov, the
director of Moscow's Insitute for
US and Canada Studies, said.
Rogov acknowledged there were
disagreements – over Russia's
claim, for example, it is entitled
to a sphere of influence in post-
Soviet countries. He also noted
that trade and investment were
"going down".
The key test, he said, was
whether Obama could deliver a
of England and Wales by Pope
Benedict on 1 February 2010
• Religion
• Catholicism
• Pope Benedict XVI
• Equality
• Law
Pope Benedict XVI
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trying to solve complex
problems without having a clear
strategy of how to position the
US in the new world," Fyodor
Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of
Russian in Global Affairs, said.
Start 1 was approved in 1992 on
a 93-6 vote. Despite the
acrimonious climate in
Washington, some analysts hold
out hope the new treaty will not
get bogged down in domestic
electoral politics, and will be
judged on its own merits.
"The concerns about US defence
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Shows Atomic
Blast, Live
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Stories)
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A Los Angeles TV station our terms for use of feeds. Read|
bootlegs coverage of an A-bomb P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s |
test from the roof of a Las Vegas C o m m e n t s
hotel.
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Markets, China, Recession,
Financial Crisis
China's economy has been
booming. The main driver has
been exports. But as the
developed world has been in a
deep recession, China lost some
of its export business.
Now, it seems the present model
of the Chinese economy is about
to change. Li Keqiang, speaking
at the World Economic Forum in
Davos, Switzerland, outlined the
changes about to occur, the New
York Times reported.
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Scene and heard: Zef

(World news and comment cross Gummo with Scooter?" for Mos Def and Talib Kweli Max Normal.tv(MNTV) crew.
from the Guardian | The band is led by Ninja, the during the 1990s heyday of New Bottle-blonde Visser was also a
guardian.co.uk) latest incarnation of Watkin York backpack rap. Satellite member of MNTV. According to
Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:46:54 AM "Waddy" Tudor Jones, a wiry, members include a number of the band's Wikipedia page they,
tattooed MC and veteran of the local gangsta rappers and a DJ "perform[ed] live wearing three-
This is a sweat-stained South South African rap scene. In an with progeria syndrome. piece suits while frontman Max
African cousin to the UK's own interview with Vice magazine he Die Antwoord are not alone in Normal [Tudor Jones] delivers
white, working-class rap variant. translated zef as "fucking cool" exploiting the hip-hop potential his motivational-speaking-style
It's District 9 donk and described his band as, "like, of Afrikaans patios. Jack Parow, raps to the audience". I asked 'Hershey's Kisses' CD
Language reveals a lot about the 2Unlimited, C+C Music Factory who fills his songs with funny Tudor Jones if Die Antwoord Holders Look Good
culture it springs from, as anyone kind of thing … but a bit more tales of slum strife, has been was another conceptual project, Enough to Watch
grappling with more than 40 gangster, with a street edge". An dubbed the Afrikaans Eminem. if he and Visser had taken on
Finnish variations on the word unhinged hotchpotch of Euro But while Parow has been new, more subversive roles. He Someone Eat
"snow" can attest. Zef is a lurid dance, snap beats and rapid-fire praised for his authenticity, Die declined to answer and politely [Peripherals]
form of South African rave-rap rapping, zef is a sweat-stained Antwoord's credibility is more withdrew his co operation. By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
t h a t h a s g r o w n f r o m t h e South African cousin to the UK's open to interpretation. I They may be the answer, but it
ramshackle Afrikaans suburbs of own white, working-class rap contacted Tudor Jones for this seems Die Antwoord is not Submitted at 2/1/2010 9:59:18 AM
Cape Town. An online glossary variant. It's District 9 donk. feature and, to begin with, he necessarily the truth. Note: these are Hershey's-Kiss-
of zef slang contains 10 words Ninja's partner in rhyme is the willingly answered questions • Urban music inspired CD/DVD stands—not
for "masturbate" and 12 for astounding Yo-landi Visser, about the band and their • South Africa actual Hershey's Kisses—that are
"vagina". whose eerie singing voice and background. That changed when being used to prop up optical
At the forefront of this scene is potty-mouthed rapping pitches I broached the subject of his guardian.co.uk© Guardian media. The latter might work,
Die Antwoord, whose moniker is her somewhere between Liz previous projects. During the News & Media Limited 2010 | but the former will crack that
Afrikaans for "the answer". But Fraser and Peaches. The synth- 90s, Tudor Jones was a member Use of this content is subject to coworker's tooth who keeps
if they're the answer, what's the h e a v y r i n g t o n e r a v e t h a t of Original Evergreens, South our Terms & Conditions| More stealing your desk candy. [
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trio's super-stylised videos, it's by DJ Hi-Tek, though sadly not but left to explore more NerdApproved]
probably "what do you get if you the same Hi-Tek who produced conceptual territory as part of the

Former Lehman Executive Calls for Ouster of High School

Teacher
By Zac Bissonnette McGee, the former head of headmaster should all resign for Ouster of High School
(BloggingStocks) investment banking at Lehman over the injustice. That's right: a Teacher originally appeared on
Submitted at 2/1/2010 10:50:00 AM
Brothers, sent a five-page screed lot of time on your hands, read former executive at Lehman BloggingStocks on Mon, 01 Feb
to the board of trustees at his and look for Skip's complaints Bros. is demanding 2010 10:50:00 EST. Please see
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Blogs The following story is after a teacher referred to at the pep rally, among other Continue reading Former Permalink| Email this|
overflowing with irony. The b a n k e r s a s " s l e a z e b a l l s " . things. Lehman Executive Calls for Comments
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man's lack of irony: Hugh "Skip" letter in its entirety. If you have a upper school principal, and the Former Lehman Executive Calls
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Amazon Revealed: It Hates You, and It Hates Publishers

By Kit Eaton (Fast Company) mind you. Macmillan's CEO and only cares about getting the
Submitted at 2/1/2010 9:38:08 AM stood his ground, and explained right price it wants--which will
his thinking in an open letter, then earn it huge profits from the
There's one clear conclusion and Amazon was forced to average consumer who sees
falling out of the ridiculous " c a p i t u l a t e " a n d r e t u r n merely a lower store price. It
Amazon versus Macmillan Macmillan books to the store. doesn't care about the fleet of
books debacle that played out Simple, eh? Cut-throat business editors that a publisher has to
this weekend: Amazon really politics played out in public, and maintain to shepherd books from
doesn't care about you, in fact it swiftly concluded? Yes. But author's minds into reality, about
kinda hates you--pretty much reading into the matter, it's clear reviewers who sample thousands
whoever you are. that Amazon really cares nothing of submitted manuscripts from
If you're still playing catch-up about the publishing industry, wannabe authors, about artwork,
on the news, this is what about authors, about the book- marketing, and the designers
h a p p e n e d . A m a z o n a n d buying public and about any involved in creating a final
Macmillan books entered into other book seller it knocks out of finished copy of a book--whether
discussions about the prices business. paper or digital.
Amazon charges for e-books This much is clear from the way Perhaps worst of all, Amazon
f r o m t h e p u b l i s h e r , w i t h Amazon comported itself during clearly doesn't care what its
Macmillan pressuring for a the last several days. Firstly it customers think (despite
higher price--perhaps around refused to see eye to eye with a thanking them in the blog post)
$15, which is much more than key publisher--one of its major because it acted to axe
Amazon's strict $9.99 limit. It's suppliers--and preferred to stick Macmillan's texts without
clear the move was inspired by to its bullying tactic that eats into explaining why or giving any
Apple's iPad and simultaneous the revenue of the publisher, and warning. And though it tries to
iBooks launch event, which subsequently authors themselves, portray itself as championing
promises a fairer share, more by basically insisting that it customer rights, what its actually
favorable terms and conditions decide how much to pay them doing is trying to manipulate an
than Amazon, and higher price for their product. Then it entire industry to working how it
points. Amazon, of course, petulantly pulled stock from the wants everything to work,
o p e r a t e s s o m e t h i n g l i k e a Amazon store without warning-- victim, having to "capitulate" to Hmmm. A "monopoly over their squeezing everybody from
supermarket giant does in the meaning the book-buying public demands that it clearly wishes own titles" is the absolute key authors to other booksellers.
food industry--leveraging its was denied access to around one- t h e p u b l i c t o t h i n k o f a s phrase here, because it's plain And the final, most fascinating
huge size to force suppliers to sixth of titles published in the unreasonable. Then it explains dumb. It's like complaining that twist of all this, is that there's
sell to it at wholesale prices. This U.S., with no explanation. that it has to capitulate because Van Gogh has a monopoly over likely to be one main beneficiary
tactic has caused issues in the Then, when Amazon reversed Macmillan has a monopoly over paintings painted by Van Gogh. of Amazon's shenanigans, and
food market, and now its doing its decision, it announced the its titles. Finally it suggests that Amazon here is revealing that it it's one Amazon will deeply
the same in the books market: news with a blog posting from M a c m i l l a n ' s p r i c e s a r e doesn't care how publishers resent over the next year or so:
Amazon refused, and without a n o n y m o u s Amazon unreasonably high for e-books, actually work (a vast and Apple, with its new iPad.
warning pulled all Macmillan spokespersons that contains and it believes other publishers complex system that's evolved [Via Amazon, TechCrunch]
books from its store. That's one some extremely twisty language. w i l l t h i n k d i f f e r e n t l y t o over time, and which really
of the "big six" U.S. publishers, Firstly it paints itself as the Macmillan. seems to function pretty well)
E-reader News Edition Business/ 7

Foursquare Goes Mainstream, Teams with Bravo TV

By Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 9:41:47 AM

Foursquare's fortunes look good

--today it's due to announce a tie-
up with Bravo TV that'll see its
location-based social network
move into a more mainstream
role. But will this experiment
repeat the disaster of Fox TV's
live Twitter event?
Bravo's SVP for marketing
Ellen Stone sums up precisely
why this tie-up is happening:
Foursquare's spiraling popularity
and the chance to increase Bravo
TV customer's engagement with
the channel. "We saw the they'll be rewarded with a special channels efforts at increasing stand to benefit more than mere fun for its customers as well as
Foursquare phenomenon taking badge. That gives Bravo a degree customer engagement. The worst Foursquare badges of honor: acting as a clever PR vehicle.
off [...] Our audiences is always of advertising, it connects example is Fox's dreadful, failed There are plans to have While Fox messed up the Twitter
looking for new and unique Foursquare to a successful TV attempt to get users engaged by sweepstakes and actual prizes experiment, perhaps we'll start
engagements and this is perfect channel, and it'll probably please broadcasting a live Twitter feed coded into the location-based seeing a degree more
for them," is Stone says. Bravo viewers who'll feel a over episodes of Glee and Fringe Foursquare Bravo tips, and interactivity from other TV
The actual workings of the gentle sense that they've --it was disastrous, and seemed advertisers playing along could providers too--after all, the rate
collaboration are pretty somehow taken part in their to turn off many potential also offer benefits like coupons. that mobile social networks are
straightforward, and they'll be favorite shows. viewers of the shows. Luckily The biggest signal sent by this evolving and expanding is
leveraging Foursquare's gaming The idea almost couldn't be the Foursquare plan actually plan is that TV really is changing incredible, and new ways of
elements, centering mainly on simpler, and would seem to be requires users to take part in the in our mobile Internet world. using the systems are emerging
the achievement badges relatively risk-free for both Bravo game, meaning that Bravo's decision to use a very all the time.
Foursquare players compete for. business parties. The only disinterested Bravo viewers or cutting-edge and emergent [via New York Times]
When Foursquare-playing Bravo sticking point is that so far it's Foursquare players probably gaming phenomenon is pretty
viewers visit over 500 special been pretty tricky to integrate won't be affected. fascinating, and it actually seems
locations, chosen to match up social networking into TV And the players themselves directed at generating some extra
with a selection of Bravo shows,

White Goat Turns TPS Reports into T.P.!

By Ariel Schwartz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 6:46:38 AM
Don't like that office memo
from the boss? Think the latest
report to come across your desk
is utter BS? Or do you just have
way too much old paper lying
around in recycling bins? The
White Goat can save you. The
shredder, developed by Oriental
Co. Ltd, turns office paper into
toilet paper. All users have to do
is add water to the mix. The
paper is turned into pulp,
dissolved in water, dried, and
rolled-up into a nice roll of toilet
paper. 40 sheets of office paper traditional paper recycling.
will produce a single roll of toilet Check it out in action below.
paper in approximately half an [Via Popular Science]
hour. If the White Goat is low
energy enough, it seems like an
excellent alternative to
8 Business/ Tech/
Where Does Your City
Rank in the EV
Revolution?
By Ariel Schwartz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 6:50:12 AM
Look out the window. How
many EVs do you see on the
road? Probably none, but that's
about to change in the coming
years as mainstream automakers
begin to roll out their all-electric
offerings. Some cities will catch
on more quickly than others
depending on a number of
factors, including infrastructure
support and overall market fit (a
catch-all term that includes
factors like hybrid sales, traffic
congestion, and air quality). To
that end, EV maker THINK
developed a list of the top EV-
ready cities in the U.S. Is your
hometown on the list? THINK
US EV-Ready Cities Index
Scorecard CityPurchase/Usage
IncentivesMarket FitOverall
Score Los Angeles 5.75 3.75
9.50 San Francisco 5.75 3.25
9.00 Chicago (tie) 5.75 2.15
7.90 New York (tie) 5.75 2.15
7.90 San Diego 5.75 2.00
7.75 Portland 5.55 1.95 7.50
Sacramento 5.75 1.50 7.25
Newark 4.85 2.15 7.00
Seattle 3.30 3.25 6.55
Atlanta 4.85 1.20 6.05
Denver 4.65 0.80 5.45
Boston 2.40 1.90 4.30
Washington DC 0.80 3.05 3.85
Philadelphia 2.40 1.70 4.10
Phoenix 1.70 1.90
3.60
[Via Green Car Congress]
Waste Management Knows
Something Can Be Made
out of Almost Anything
By Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 9:50:00 AM
Filed under: Stocks to Buy,
Waste Management Inc. (WMI)
Waste Management ( WM)
remains well-positioned to profit
from the long-term, secular
recycling and no-waste trends,
and that's the main reason I'm
reiterating my buy rating for the
company's shares, first
recommended on March 25,
2009, at a price of $25.74.
The recession hurt WM's results
in 2009, as the commercial
impact of reduced industrial
output rippled throughout the
U.S. economy. But that's just a
temporary, cycling downturn.
The long-term trend looks very
good for WM, and here's why:
20 million customers, 267
owned/operated landfills, 16
Enough about the iPad already
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:40:57 AM
Amazon loses Macmillan Books
in the Kindle store and then gets
them back, AT&T is paying out
big bucks in an early termination
fee settlement, and Natali goes
the entire show without saying
waste-to-energy plants, 105
recycling plants, and more than
100 beneficial-use landfill gas
projects.
Continue reading Waste
Management Knows Something
Can Be Made out of Almost
Anything
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January's Drop in
Commodities Prices:
Biggest in 13 Months
By Connie Madon
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 9:30:00 AM
Filed under: International
Markets, India, China, Indices,
Market Matters, Economic Data,
Commodities, Oil, Headline
News, Agriculture
Is the world running on stimulus
money or is there real demand
for basic commodities?
What has been happening is that
underdeveloped countries have
been using stimulus money to
stockpile raw commodities. Now
there is a surplus. This, in turn,
has led to a fall-off in
commodity prices.
Continue reading January's Drop
in Commodities Prices: Biggest
in 13 Months
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Diesel Dollars: Two How Apple kills hardware

Experts Eye China innovation
By John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Yuchai (CYD) Submitted at 2/1/2010 6:24:52 AM
forced Asia’s hand. The
company clearly did plenty of
deals with Foxconn and the rest
By Steven Halpern Paul Goodwin, editor of The If there are two things you can
(BloggingStocks) of the suppliers down the line
C a b o t C h i n a & E m e r g i n g count on its Death and the and while folks like LG are
Submitted at 2/1/2010 10:30:00 AM
Markets Report. propensity of Asian electronics making a mint on screens and
C o n t i n u e r e a d i n g D i e s e l manufacturers to capitalize on a other components, they have
Filed under: International Dollars: Two Experts Eye China rising trend. In short, what we
essentially closed the spigot
Markets, China, Newsletters, Yuchai (CYD) buy Asia makes and Asia is very overseas leading companies like
Stocks to Buy Diesel Dollars: Two Experts happy about the iPad. And this Asus and Acer to announce that
Two leading international E y e C h i n a Y u c h a i ( C Y D ) chain of events, in turn, destroys
they won’t try to compete.
financial newsletter editors o r i g i n a l l y a p p e a r e d o n hardware innovation.
This also explains why other
remain bullish on the prospects BloggingStocks on Mon, 01 Feb First we have this AP report
companies just couldn’t get past
for China Yuchai International 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see about accessories makers. We
the resistive touchscreen for so
Limited ( CYD), a maker of our terms for use of feeds. haven’t posted very many iPad
long. Suppliers knew that Apple
diesel engines. P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | accessories since the launch but was sniffing around and so they
Here's recent commentary from C o m m e n t s trust me, we’ve been inundated. kept prices high. As a result we
Nicholas Vardy, editor of The Every accessory and app had almost two years of me-too
Global Bull Market Alert and company worth its salt has manufacturers. Remember when garbage coming out of Samsung,
tasked its befuddled PR flacks to Apple bought up all the Flash Sony, and Nokia until – at long
send us emails with subjects like memory? Well, Apple has also last – the smaller touchscreens
Bad Apple: The 1-Bit “Supertech creates first iPad c o r n e r e d t h e m a r k e t i n are ubiquitous.
Phantom Menace holster for cowboys” complete touchscreens. A few months ago Apple has the industry by the
Stop Motion Movie Review Guy Takes w i t h r e n d e r e d i m a g e s o f I spoke to one inventor who had tail. Heck, they even have the
[Image Cache] ridiculous accessories. Why do a horrible time trying to grab n e w s c y c l e b y t h e t a i l a s
By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
on Avatar [Movies] they do this? Because all they capitative touchscreens for a evidenced by the fact that
By Adam Frucci (Gizmodo) really have to do is make a call project, even at the smaller everyone – including this site –
Submitted at 2/1/2010 9:20:00 AM to a factory in Shenzhen and e l e c t r o n i c s m a r k e t s . is still writing about Apple. But
Submitted at 2/1/2010 10:20:00 AM have a planeload made in a few M a n u f a c t u r e r s k n e w t h a t it’s not all roses and champagne
I like the current wave of weeks. It’s that easy. This ties up something from Apple was about when Apple launches a new
unusual stop motion animation. Remember this incredible 70- resources, however, discouraging to drop so they drove up prices, product and everyone else –
This clip is not as crazy and minute video review of The other manufacturers to try to resulting in a standstill in Lenovo, Dell, and the like –
amazing as the heasploding Phantom Menace? Well, while make accessories for other innovation. knows it but refuses to talk about
Videogioco, but I like its he works on his Attack of the devices. By pricing the iPad at about it.
simplicity. It was recorded using Clones review, he decided to The real beneficiaries, however, $500 on a good day, Apple has
a w e b c a m , w i t h n o p o s t - take on Avatar. It's a much more a r e the component
production whatsoever. [ Pink manageable 20 minutes, but is
Tentacle] just as great. [ YouTube]
10 Gadgets/
War of Words Between Apple and Adobe Heats
Up [Fights]
By Adam Frucci (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 9:54:58 AM
There's been no love lost
between Apple and Adobe for a
while now, ever since Apple
decided to not allow Flash on the
iPhone. But since the iPad was
announced with an equal lack of
Flash, things have gotten ugly.
First, Adobe posted a screed
about how lame it was that
Apple wasn't including Flash on
the iPad. Then, Steve Jobs
himself called Adobe "lazy" and
blaming Flash for most Mac
crashes. Now, Adobe is back to
its Flash blog with another salvo.
First, they address and attempt
to debunk the various reasons
Apple has for blacklisting Flash.
Then, they go for the heart of the
matter:
But I want to be very clear. My
concern isn't just about Flash on
the iPad. It's about a disturbing
trend where Apple is starting to
inhibit broad categories of
innovation on their platforms.
On the iPad, it looks like
developers won't be able to write
applications in Java, .net,
Python, Ruby, Perl, or any
number of other languages
(including Flash). And users
won't be able to install Firefox,
Opera,IE, or any third party
browser. There are countless
other examples of applications
and technologies that Apple
doesn't allow. Why? Apple won't
say.
And innovation isn't just about
technology, it's also about
business models. Developers on
this new platform aren't able to
innovate there either. At best,
developers targeting the iPad are
subject to a 30% Apple Tax in
the App Store. And at worst,
developers invest time and
money building a product that
can never be brought to market,
because the only channel is one
that is centrally controlled and
entirely opaque. In every case,
Apple is a gatekeeper on how
developers are able to deliver
content to their consumers.
Over time, restrictions on
technology and business
opportunity have a chilling effect
on innovation on closed
platforms.
In the end, this is a tricky
situation. On the one hand, Flash
is a relatively insecure and
resource-heavy plugin that
would invariably cause some
problems if used on the iPad. In
a year or so, HTML5 will be
replacing it for most of its
biggest uses, such as streaming
video.
However, it isn't a year from
now, and Flash is still heavily
E-reader News Edition
The ExoPC Slate Tablet
features Windows 7 in a
8.9-inch screen package
By Tablet
(BestTabletReview.com)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 7:36:03 PM
The ExoPC Slate Tablet Here’s
an interesting looking tablet PC
from French company ExoPC. It
features an 8.9-inch 1024 x 600
resolution touchscreen that runs
Windows 7 Pro and uses an Intel
Atom N270 1.6GHz processor.
The ExoPc Slate has 2GB of
DDR2 RAM, a SSD with 32GB
of storage, an SD card reader,
WiFi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth, a
1.3MP webcam and four hours
of battery life. It also has 3 USB
ports, audio in/out, VGA port,
SIM and 10/100 network plug. It
measures 9.84 x 6.6 x 0.83
inches and the battery is
removable as well.
used all around the web. It's just The ExoPC Slate Tablet has full
a fact of life that if you want a netbook computing function
full internet experience right through Windows 7 in addition
now, you need to have Flash. to it’s own onscreen keyboard,
So neither side is entirely right eBook Reader, online radio and
or entirely wrong. But something can run applications (they even
tells me that Apple isn't going to have a dev kit for would-be
cave, and as HTML5 gets rolled developers). We’ll avoid any
out over the next year, they'll comparison talk with another
have fewer and fewer reasons to certain tablet and just say that the
even consider it. Sorry, Adobe. [ ExoPC is set to go on sale in
Adobe] March for $599.
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Wacom goes wireless with their

Intuos 4 graphics tablet Acer: We could totally
By Tablet show connection. The active area ruin your battery and have to
(BestTabletReview.com)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 6:58:41 AM
on the wireless is listed as 8 x 5
inches which is smaller than the
have it replaced (a $39-$49
charge). This could happen if
make an iPad. It’s so
Look Ma, no wires!
Intuos 4 Medium tablet which is
listed at 8.8 x 5.5 inches. The
The Wacom Intuos 4 graphics tablet charges by USB when
you leave the tablet on for a
week or longer which will result
in a battery drain that will make
simps. We won’t, though.
By Doug Aamoth it sees a market for certain types
tablet is highly regarded to be the plugged into your computer and it unable to recharge. The CNET (CrunchGear) of devices, it’s got the
best non-screen pen tablet on the is operational during this time. reviewer also had a few
Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:00:44 AM
comparative advantage of being
m a r k e t . N o w W a c o m h a s When not used for 30 minutes difficulties with Bluetooth able to mass produce products
upgraded their popular medium the tablet will go into a dormant pairing both with Snow Leopard Acer Taiwan president Scott Lin efficiently and at relatively low
model to go wireless via a mode to save battery. Wacom and Windows Vista. told DigiTimes “that designing price points.
Bluetooth connection. rates battery life at up to 18 The Wacom Intuos 4 Wireless an iPad-like device would not I pointedly asked Acer president
The new Wacom Intuos 4 hours but that doesn’t include graphics tablet is available for pose any technical challenges for Gianfranco Lanci back in 2007 if
Wireless graphics tablet takes all constant use. preorder now for $399. Currently Acer, but said such a product his company would produce
the great things about the CNET released a quick review you can find the non-wireless does not fit into Acer’s business some sort of “aPhone,” meaning
medium Intuos 4 — like its on the Intuos 4 Wireless last model on Amazon for around model.” an iPhone-like smartphone, and
2,048 levels of pen pressure, n i g h t a n d f o u n d i t v e r y $320 so having wireless will cost Lin went on to say that it’d be he emphatically said, “No! Big
OLED ExpressKey display that responsive and great to use. The you about $80 more. tough to replicate the mojo that no.” Fast forward a couple years
shows you what function each reviewer found no glitches or Source: CNET via Slashgear Apple has between a device like and we’ve got the Acer Liquid
button will perform and the multi delays (something that we were Leave a Reply the iPad and the iTunes store. smartphone and half of Acer’s
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store.” devices) out of the equation
When it comes to Tag, Microsoft's it I wouldn’t put it past Acer to altogether.
come out with some tablet Acer has no plans for iPad-like
(photos) devices running full blown product, says Acer Taiwan
Windows operating systems, president[DigiTimes]
(CNET News.com) phone's camera, rather than the bar code though. Perhaps even Android,
Submitted at 2/1/2010 4:00:00 AM requiring a separate gadget. Photo by Ina Fried/CNET too. Acer’s a big company and if
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Toshiba Satellite E205 (with Intel Wireless Display) review

By Joanna Stern (Engadget)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 10:46:00 AM
So it's been a long day, you plop
down on the couch, turn on the
TV and grab your the laptop and
a cold beverage. But while you're
watching that re-run of The
Office on TBS you come across
an awesome video on the web -
probably the Engadget Show -
and instead of watching that
expensive 40-inch HDTV you
end up starring at the smaller
screen. Okay, so maybe that's
our specific scenario, but you'd
probably hook up your laptop to
a TV in a number of different
situations if it didn't involve
cables, dongles, and extra
software -- basically if it were
just easier. Well, it's supposed to
be with the $999 Toshiba
Satellite E205 and its included
Netgear Push2TV adapter.
Exclusively sold at Best Buy as
part of its Blue Label program,
the 15-inch Core i5-powered
laptop is outfitted with Intel's
Wireless Display -- what we've
taken to calling WiDi-- which
wirelessly connects the laptop to
any HDTV using the included
Netgear with just the push of a
button. But can you really watch
Hulu on the big screen without
leaving your couch? And is the
E205 even a laptop you'd want to
use in the first place? We've been
"testing" it -- or watching loads
of web video on our TV -- for
the last couple of days to find
out. Read on for our full review!
Gallery: Toshiba Satellite E205
review gallery
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Satellite E205 (with Intel
Wireless Display) review
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Hivision's Android-based PWS700CA netbook gets video

review, may sport sub-$100 price tag
By Darren Murph (Engadget) Benjamin. What makes this one sport sub-$100 price tag
Submitted at 2/1/2010 9:54:00 AM marginally interesting, though, is Hivision's Android-based
the fact that Android is on board; PWS700CA netbook gets video
Oh, Hivision-- always up for yeah, it's not like Google's review, may sport sub-$100
making us chuckle. Just weeks mobile OS is really cut out for price tag originally appeared on
after we spotted the outfit's$149 netbook use, but it sure beats the Engadget on Mon, 01 Feb 2010
netbook with a lackluster Cortex browsing experience found in 09:54:00 EST. Please see our
A9 processor, along comes this: Windows CE. The device you're terms for use of feeds.
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thing out to the masses, but if all i n c h d i s p l a y ( 8 0 0 x 4 8 0 how it fared in testing, and feel Android-based PWS700CA
goes well, it could be sold to end resolution), 720p video playback free to ping Hivision directly if netbook gets video review, may
u s e r s f o r r i g h t a r o u n d a support, WiFi, Ethernet and the

Tea Party Convention Organizers Send Angry Email

(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 1:14:48 PM
One of the problems with
building a movement on a base
of populist rage is that it tends to
attract rage-a-holics who would
rather die than compromise on
anything at all, the kind of
people who will just as easily
turn their rage on each other
when disagreements pop up.
Today the organizers of the
National Tea Party Convention
sent out an angry email
demonstrating this principle, email: National Tea Party
naming and attacking their critics Convention Organizers Push
and revealing some of the ugly Back.
infighting going on behind the
scenes. Dave Weigel has the
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Acer's GD235HZ 23.6-inch 3D display is ready

for your glasses-equipped exploits
By Paul Miller (Engadget)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 9:33:00 AM
You could say 3D has hit the
mainstream computer today (or
something similarly bombastic
and partially untrue), as Acer has
just released its GD235HZ
120Hz LCD, specially prepped
for working with NVIDIA's 3D
while it's going to be great for GD235HZ 23.6-inch 3D display
3D gaming for the next few is ready for your glasses-
months until you grow bored of equipped exploits
Avatar and frustrated by Left 4 Acer's GD235HZ 23.6-inch 3D
Dead 2, the 1920 x 1080 display is ready for your glasses-
resolution is going to really come equipped exploits originally
in handy once the first crop of appeared on Engadget on Mon, South Bay Poles
3D Blu-ray movies starts hitting. 01 Feb 2010 09:33:00 EST. (Little Green Footballs)
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Hitachi, Panasonic and Toshiba to deliver 60GHz wireless

products in 2H 2010
By Richard Lai (Engadget) wireless chips -- which sip little to deliver 60GHz wireless
Submitted at 2/1/2010 10:25:00 AM juice but churn out 7GHz of products in 2H 2010 originally
colossal bandwidth and 1.5Gbps appeared on Engadget on Mon,
The year's 2010, yet we're still of data rate -- in the second half 01 Feb 2010 10:25:00 EST.
leering at the dusty pile of cables of this year. While none of the Please see our terms for use of
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thou?" Well, the folks at Tech- WiGig, it appears that Hitachi
On have got a little update for us: and Panasonic are siding with "embedding the functionality to see some progress here -- we
Hitachi, Panasonic and Toshiba WiGig's extra functionalities like into portable gear" for don't want things to drag on any
are reported to be delivering media access control (MAC), downloading digital content longer, do we?
p r o d u c t s d o n n i n g 6 0 G H z and the latter even envisions from kiosks. Either way, it's nice Hitachi, Panasonic and Toshiba

Stephen Colbert and his iPad at the Grammys

By Steven Sande (The Apple It must be nice to be the faux iPads- this was a working tonight's Grammy Award 31 Jan 2010 22:20:00 EST.
Unofficial Apple Weblog host of your own popular unit that flipped from portrait to ceremonies. Please see our terms for use of
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14 Gadgets/ Tech News/
Video: Meet Palro, Fujisoft’s mini humanoid
By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:21:00 AM
Most of the robots we cover on
CrunchGear have been built for
research or entertainment
purposes, but some of them do
become available for the general
public at some point. And today
we can give you the Palro
Top Ten African-American Characters in Science Fiction
By Lonnie Morgan (Wired Top
Stories)
(Pal+robot)[JP], a soon to be
marketed humanoid developed
by Tokyo-based Fujisoft.
The little guy stands 39.8cm tall,
weighs 1.6kg and boasts a whole
range of features: 20 joints, five
mics, voice recognition, mono
speakers, a 3MP camera, Wi-Fi
IEE 802.11 b/g/n, a USB port, an
Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor,
Every so often an African-
American gets cast in a particular
role, not to get a Black
1GB internal memory, 4GB flash
memory, Ubuntu OS, a gyro-
sensor, a three-axis acceleration
sensor, eight pressure sensors in
his feet, a distance sensor in his
head, and a 7.4V/2,800mAh
lithium ion battery as his power
source.
Fujisoft plans to start selling a
total of 1,000 Palros to research
stereotype on the screen, but
because the actor or actress was
the right fit for the part. They
institutions on March 15 and to
everybody else later (but within
this year). Each of the remote-
controlled Palros will cost
$3,300.
See him dancing and doing
other stuff in the following
(Japanese) video:
Via Game Watch[JP]
were the embodiment of the Here are 10 of our favorites.
character and made us forget
about race as a divisive issue.
E-reader News Edition
Prototype Phone Shifts
Weight and Thickness,
Right In Your Hand
[Concepts]
By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 9:39:53 AM
What if your phone wasn't a
stagnant box with optional
vibration, but a mechanism that
responded to your touch like a
living being? Well, designer
Fabian Hemmert has created
such a phone—albeit in early
prototype form.
During his presentation from
TEDxBerlin, Hemmert
demonstrates how simple
mechanical functions could add a
level of tangibility that's
completely missing from the
phones of today. Imagine a
moving icon that has a shifting
yet subconscious weight in your
hand, or an eBook that shrinks
thinner as you have less pages
remaining.
Hemmert's demos are unwieldy,
for sure, and I'm not so sure
these technologies could be
readily miniaturized. But I'd
certainly love to watch as
someone tried. [ information
aesthetics via Engadget]
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Samsung to mass produce
3.3-inch touch-embedded
AMOLED panels
By Richard Lai (Engadget)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 10:06:00 AM
Need a mystery to keep you
bewildered? Here's one: that
layer of nothingness between the
touch-sensing glass and the
display on your phone. Whatever
that is, Samsung's about to blow
it away with a new 3.3-inch
WVGA AMOLED touchscreen
coming in March. The magic lies
in the on-cell touch technology --
0.001mm-thick capacitive touch
sensors are deposited between
the panel's substrate and the
bottom polarizer film, thus
removing the usual touchscreen
glass cover and the gap that
The Air Force connects
2,000 PS3s to create a
supercomputer
By John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 8:00:00 AM
Did you know that the PS3 was
military ordnance? The Air
Force Research Laboratory has
been given a $2 million to build
a Playstation 3 cluster out of
about 2,000 PS3s. Their goal?
To create a Neuromorphic
system designed to find
examples of images stored in a
massive database using systems
that “mimic human nervous
systems.”
Keeping with the off-the-shelf
mentality, the Air Force is using
f o l l o w s . I f a l l g o e s w e l l , metal shelves found at most
Samsung should be delivering department stores to house the
thinner and lighter phones with PS3 cluster. They are also using
slightly brighter touchscreens in Linux, which is a free, open
a few months' time, or possibly source operating system.
phones in the current package The system will use 300 to 320
but with bigger batteries. Sorry, kilowatts at full bore and about
LCD, but we've got a new crush 10 percent to 30 percent of that
to focus on.
Samsung to mass produce 3.3-
inch touch-embedded AMOLED
Sunday Night Music: Don
panels originally appeared on
Engadget on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 Ross
10:06:00 EST. Please see our (Little Green Footballs)
terms for use of feeds. Permalink Submitted at 1/31/2010 5:45:08 PM
OLED-Info| Korea IT Times|
Email this| Comments Don Ross got a haircut, but it
doesn’t seem to have affected his
stellar finger-picking skills. This
tune is “Klimbim,” from the
in standby, when most
supercomputers are using 5
megawatts, Linderman said.
However, much of the time the
cluster will only be running the
nodes it needs and it will be
turned off when not in use.
via Stars and Stripes
album Passion Session.(The
iTunes Store has it too.)[Video]
An Amazon widget with
samples from the rest of the
album:[Video]
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The Acer GD235HZ 23-
inch LCD monitor is
ready for 3D even if you
aren’t
By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:40:53 AM
In case you didn’t notice, CES
2010 was full of 3D. It was
everywhere and the Acer
GD235HZ is ready to play with
all of it. The 23.6-inch, 1080p
LCD is specifically designed to
work nicely with NVIDIA’s 3D
Vision active shutter glasses, but
of course they don’t come with
it.
The NVIDIA kit costs an extra
$199 on top of the monitor’s
$399 MSRP and require the right
graphics card, too. But if you’re
ready to test the 3D waters, this
option is still less expensive even
with all that extra stuff than
refitting your home theater with
a new 3D display and Blu-ray
player. That is, of course, if you
won’t mind watching Avatar on
a 23.6-inch display. If this
sounds like you, Amazon has the
set available.
16 Tech/
iPad's multifunction appeal and sub-$500 price point a formula
for disruptive technology
By Sang Tang (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:00:00 AM
Filed under: Apple
T minus a little over a month
and a half until retail liftoff of
the Apple iPad and, similar to the
launch of the iPhone 3 years ago,
the device is not without its share
of criticism -- be it the lack of
support for multitasking or the
missing front facing camera (or
any camera, for that matter).
However, it's unlikely that
anything short of a sub-$1,000
multitouch cancer-curing device
could have lived up to
expectations, for the hype
coming into the keynote was of
epic proportions.
Expectations aside, however, the
iPad's price point and feature set
put Apple in a position to disrupt
the low-end notebook computer
market, while also providing it a
foot in the door in the eBook
market as well as traditional print
media.
Though multipurpose in
functionality, the iPad will likely
find its largest appeal in the low-
end notebook computing space,
primarily the sub-11 inch
variants dubbed " netbooks." As
implied in the nomenclature,
netbooks place less of a focus on
raw computing horsepower and
instead aim toward providing an
extremely portable and
affordable means to surf the net.
While the ultra-compact form
factor of netbooks makes them
extremely portable, it brings
compromises -- namely cramped
keyboards that, unless you're an
Oompa Loompa or haven't yet
reached middle school, are
difficult to type on. While the
iPad lacks a built-in physical
keyboard (it's an optional
accessory), its multitouch-
enabled 9.7 inch LED display
provides a clearly differentiated
and, on initial impression, a
superior web browsing
experience.
While still priced at a premium
over most netbooks, the
iPad's$499 opening price point
places it in the pricing pantheon
of affordable computing, as
E-reader News Edition
produces a purchasing
conundrum for the former. At
$499, the device is priced within
reach of the Kindle DX's $489
price tag, while also providing
the ancillary benefits of a
multitouch portable computing
platform.
Such an approach may be the
best way to grow the eBook
category mainstream, and is in
line with Apple thinking. At
Apple's September 2009 special
event, Steve Jobs noted that
while "there will always be
dedicated devices, and [that] they
may have a few advantages in
doing just one thing...general-
purpose devices will win the day
because...people just probably
c r o s s i n g t h i s s u b - $ 5 0 0 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' claim aren't willing to pay for a
psychological purchasing barrier of selling "millions" of Kindles. dedicated device." And while the
increases its attractiveness in While the reading experience on iPad lacks an e-ink based screen,
competing for the mindshare of the iPad -- most notably eye its color LED-backlit multitouch
c o n s u m e r s c o n s i d e r i n g a strain and battery life -- has yet display could provide consumers
netbook. to be thoroughly fleshed out, the with new ways to consume
With the iPad, Apple is also device's other features will help traditional media (newspapers,
looking to make inroads into the m a s k w h a t e v e r e - r e a d i n g magazines, etc.) and traditional
eBook reader market, where it deficiencies it has against media companies new avenues
will be joining Amazon and existing e-ink based offerings. for revenues.
Sony, two of that market's bigger Thus, whatever inroads the iPad But at the end of the day, the
p l a y e r s . U n l i k e t h e i P a d , makes within the eBook reader Apple iPad is a computer and, as
Amazon's Kindle and the Sony market will likely be paved by its such, could possibly serve as a
Reader offer a "book-like" other virtues. substitute for a MacBook or
experience through e-ink A l t h o u g h t h e p o t e n t i a l MacBook Pro purchase for some
technology -- in contrast to the a d d r e s s a b l e m a r k e t f o r a c o n s u m e r s . F o r m a n y ,
LED-backlit screen of the iPad. dedicated eBook reader is likely computing could boil down to
Despite the virtues of e-ink and m u c h s m a l l e r t h a n t h o s e surfing the web (i.e., "checking
carrying hundreds of books with c o n s i d e r i n g a n o t e b o o k my Facebook"), email, and basic
you, eBook readers haven't yet computer, the iPad's $499
IPAD'S page 22
hit mainstream status, in spite of o p e n i n g p r i c e p o i n t a l s o
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Where's the iMag store?

By Michael Grothaus (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 2/1/2010 8:00:00 AM

Filed under: Features, Odds and

ends
You know, at first I wasn't so
impressed with the iPad, but the
more I thought about the ways in
which you can use it, the more
excited I got. As a piece of
leisure technology - something
you just have laying around your
living room like a newspaper -
it's a lot more user friendly than
a laptop or an iPhone.
However, I don't think the iPad
is revolutionary. By now we're
well familiar with multi-touch
devices and apps stores. And let's
face it, ebooks are nothing new.
The iBooks app isn't going to be
breaking any ground, but you
know what would? An iMag
store.
Sure, there's sites like
emagazines.com that offer
browser-based magazines, but
there's no one universal
storefront for emagazines that's
easy to use. Even Zinio doesn't Now, before someone stops me discovered that they came up newsstands, the editor-in-chief Magazines aren't like books.
make the emagazine buying and says"But the Kindle does short in the articles department was sure the publishers would Magazines rely heavily on
experience as easy or pleasurable magazines..." It does, but not that month. In a last-ditch fire him. They didn't. That issue photography, charts, sidebars,
as buy a song from the iTunes how magazines should be done. attempt to fill the space the turned out to be their best-selling page-bleeds, and even cartoons.
store. Can you imaging what an In my first journalism class we editor-in-chief decided to publish issue since the publication E-ink readers like the Kindle just
iMag app might be like? Bjørn learned of how in the early part eleven full-page photographs a started in 1888. People loved the can't give you the magazine
Rybakken, creative director at of the 20th century (I think the journalist had sent him. Before photos and since then, National experience that a full-color
Tangram Design, an Oslo based year was 1913, but can't be sure - that issue, National Geographic has become display can.
design agency, sent me these sorry professor), the editors at Geographic(like all magazines of synonymous with iconic An iMag store could allow you
mock-ups (and you guys know National Geographic were the day) had been what we photography and every other to find and purchase magazines
how I love mock-ups) which got putting the finishing touches on would consider a journal - a lot magazine in the world has used from all over the world, in any
me thinking what the iMag store an issue that was a day away of text articles with few photography as a way to enhance
from going to press when they photographs. When the issue hit and highlight their pages. WHERE'S page 20
might be like.
18 Tech/ E-reader News Edition

iPodcaStudio brings easy podcasting Wil Shipley: Apple

to the iPhone / iPod touch "copied me"
By Steven Sande (The about how to use an iPhone 3GS, By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
Unofficial Apple Weblog Garage Band, and Posterous to Apple Weblog (TUAW))
(TUAW)) do"quick and easy" podcasting. Submitted at 2/1/2010 10:00:00 AM
Submitted at 2/1/2010 9:00:00 AM While that method has the
desired results -- your podcast Filed under: Apple Corporate,
Filed under: iPhone, App Store, has a feed that can be subscribed Software, Bad Apple When
iPod touch, App Review to, and it actually sounds pretty Steve Jobs was introducing the
Podcasting is an art best learned good -- it forces you to stick with iPad last week, a number of us
by experience. In order to be a one website on Posterous to familiar with Delicious Monster
good podcaster, it helps to have a create the feed. Many podcasts had the same reaction during the note that many former Delicious
good speaking voice, excellent are associated with a website, so iBooks demo: "That looks like Monsters employees are now at
topics to talk about (or fun it's important in many cases to Delicious Library." Apple. Of course, you can't say
guests), and equipment and have the ability to upload a Developer Wil Shipley noticed, that this was malicious. In fact,
software to assist you in podcast file to an FTP server. too. Shipley's assertion is probably
recording and editing your That, and my continuing quest In an interview with The correct: They felt that Delicious
podcast. It also helps to make a to make my podcasting as easy Washington Post, Shipley Library's implementation was the
lot of mistakes, since you'll learn as possible, is what got me complained about the striking best and ran with it.
from them. interested in iPodcaStudio from similarity. In a way, it's flattering.
A while back, I wrote a post i P h o n e a p p f o r r e c o r d i n g , Vault Multimedia. iPodcaStudio "But the thing about iBooks is, Something he made has been
about how to use an iPhone 3GS, editing, and uploading your [$0.99, iTunes Link] is an it's a book-reader. So, of course acknowledged by a huge
Garage Band, and Posterous to podcasts easily. While it isn't as i P h o n e a p p f o r r e c o r d i n g , they looked around, found the corporation known for design.
do"quick and easy" podcasting. f u l l - f e a t u r e d a s i t c o u l d editing, and uploading your best interface for displaying Still, it's gotta sting. Shipley
While that method has the eventually be, iPodcaStudio is a podcasts easily. While it isn't as books (Delicious Library's again:
desired results -- your podcast good start at a complete podcast f u l l - f e a t u r e d a s i t c o u l d shelves), and said: yup, this is "But your [designs] aren't really
has a feed that can be subscribed studio on your iPhone or iPod eventually be, iPodcaStudio is a what we're doing." yours. They have lives of their
to, and it actually sounds pretty touch running iPhone OS 3.0 or good start at a complete podcast He notes that he didn't copyright own. So when your designs do
good -- it forces you to stick with greater. Podcasting is an art best studio on your iPhone or iPod the idea of showing photo- change the world, you have to
one website on Posterous to learned by experience. In order touch running iPhone OS 3.0 or realistic books on wooden accept it. You have to say, 'Ok,
create the feed. Many podcasts to be a good podcaster, it helps greater. shelves, and that if Apple had this was such a good idea, other
are associated with a website, so to have a good speaking voice, TUAW iPodcaStudio brings called ahead of time they would people took it and ran with it. I
it's important in many cases to excellent topics to talk about (or easy podcasting to the iPhone / have revealed a secret on one win.'"
have the ability to upload a fun guests), and equipment and iPod touch originally appeared hand, and admitted that the two TUAW Wil Shipley: Apple
podcast file to an FTP server. s o f t w a r e t o a s s i s t y o u i n on The Unofficial Apple Weblog apps were similar on the other. "copied me" originally appeared
That, and my continuing quest recording and editing your (TUAW) on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 "...they can't write someone a on The Unofficial Apple Weblog
to make my podcasting as easy podcast. It also helps to make a 09:00:00 EST. Please see our check unless they got some value (TUAW) on Mon, 01 Feb 2010
as possible, is what got me lot of mistakes, since you'll learn terms for use of feeds. in return. And if they got value, 10:00:00 EST. Please see our
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Before you call "coincidence,"
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Budget omits cap-and-trade revenue, Short on cash,
official says
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 5:46:32 AM
The White House has dropped
projected revenue from a "cap-
and-trade" mechanism to fight
climate change from its new
budget, an administration official
said, bowing to the possibility
that the Congress may not pass
it.
Last year, the Obama
administration forecast revenue
of $646 billion in the years 2012-
2019 from an emissions trading
program that formed the crux of
its proposal to fight global
warming.
The legislation that contains that
proposal is now stalled in the
Senate, and cap-and-trade--
which sets limits on greenhouse
gas emissions and allows
companies to trade permits to
pollute--may be cut from a final
bill if one is passed.
"The $646 billion revenue
projection is no longer in the
budget," the administration
official told Reuters. "Unlike last
year, we do not show an
Tardy Transit? Tweet To The Top
By Keith Barry (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 6:31:00 AM
Riders of San Francisco’s often
infuriating Municipal Railway —
Wikileaks suspends
operations deficit-neutral," he said.
The $646 billion figure a year
ago was based on a presumption
assumed amount of cap- and- that a U.S. law to limit emissions
trade revenue since the exact would be in place by 2012. A
nature of the legislation remains climate law is crucial to Obama's
in flux." efforts to get international
The trading system had been the momentum behind efforts to
keystone to President Obama's fight global warming and craft a
plan to reduce emissions blamed follow-up pact to the Kyoto
for global warming, although he Protocol.
did not mention cap-and-trade The House of Representatives
last week in his State of the has already passed a bill with a
Union address when calling for cap-and-trade component.
c o m p r e h e n s i v e c l i m a t e A Senate version is still in the
legislation. works, but chances of passage
Some interpreted the omission may be hindered by the looming
as a signal that he would not e l e c t i o n i n N o v e m b e r a s
actively pursue a wide-ranging lawmakers fear the repercussions
climate bill this year. White of supporting a measure that
House aides, however, are still some say would drive up energy
w o r k i n g h a r d t o a d v a n c e costs for consumers.
legislation among lawmakers. Story Copyright (c) 2010
T h e o f f i c i a l s a i d t h e Reuters Limited. All rights
administration would insist any reserved.
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known to locals as Muni — have
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What's next? Reaching out
Wikileaks, which has published beyond the group of "human
a n o n y m o u s l y c o n t r i b u t e d rights campaigners, investigative
i n f o r m a t i o n t h a t i s b o t h journalists, technologists, and the
confidential and controversial, g e n e r a l p u b l i c " w h o ' v e
has one thing in common with c o n t r i b u t e d m o n e y s o f a r .
many more-traditional media "We have received hundreds of
outlets: financial troubles. thousands of pages from corrupt
The site has posted confidential banks, the U.S. detainee system,
9/11 pager messages, tangled the Iraq war, China, the UN and
with banks and the Church of many others that we do not
Scientology, revealed inner currently have the resources to
workings of the U.S. military release. You can change that and
base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and by doing so, change the world.
shared snippets of e-mail from Even $10 will pay to put one of
vice presidential candidate Sarah these reports into another ten
Palin. thousand hands and $1,000, a
Now, though, Wikileaks has million."
shut the site down at least Awards it has received "do not
temporarily. pay the bills," the site said. "Nor
"To concentrate on raising the can we accept government or
funds necessary to keep us alive corporate funding and maintain
into 2010, we have reluctantly our absolute integrity. It is your
suspended all other operations, s t r o n g s u p p o r t a l o n e t h a t
but will be back soon," a note on p r e s e r v e s o u r c o n t i n u e d
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WHERE'S
Amazon, Macmillan Fight Over Ebook continued from page 17

language. You could search by with revenue generated from in-

Prices; After Amazon Removes Macmillan title, subject, or even author (a
cool search feature because most
page dynamic advertising (it's
2015 and you decide to peruse a
Titles, It Caves To Higher Prices authors write articles for many
magazines). Indie magazine
2014 issue of MacWorld: the ads
in the iMag MacWorld magazine
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) that when manufacturers tell of ebooks cannibalizing publishers would also now have have updated to advertise the
Submitted at 2/1/2010 2:57:15 AM retailers what the end user price hardcover book sales, which is a wider distribution network - current 2015 iCar) - especially if
is, it's a form of price fixing, but why they're also looking to delay and a chance at a wider audience. the forecasts are correct that
On Friday, there was a sudden apparently not... ebook releases. In fact, in this The magazines could feature there will be 12 million iPads in
realization that Amazon had Of course, what may seem odd case, Amazon was given the videos in the articles, live polls, homes across the world by the
removed books published by about this is that it appears choice of either increasing the and even integrated chat rooms end of 2011. Not to mention 12
publishing giant Macmillan, Macmillan will make less per retail price for consumers on discussing the current article. million potential iPad customers
a p p a r e n t l y o v e r a d i s p u t e ebook under this model. That's Macmillan ebooks, or getting iMag store pricing? Yearly is a hell of a way to get their
concerning ebook pricing. Of because with its old wholesale them many months later. All in magazine subscriptions for subscription rates up.
course, Amazon wasn't just pricing, Amazon was actually all, this looks like publishers $9.99. Single issues for 99 cents. But the best thing about an iPad
removing Macmillan ebooks, but losing money on every ebook hurting themselves, yet again, by There's been countless times I iMag store? No more of those
the physical books as well. After sold. As the NY Times notes: In going against what consumers would have liked to buy a annoying magazine subscription
a bit of back and forth over the the model that Amazon prefers, want in a misguided effort to magazine I don't normally read cards falling all over your lap.
weekend, Amazon caved in and publishers typically collect preserve the way things used to off the newsstand, but the $4.99 TUAW Where's the iMag store?
accepted the way Macmillan $12.50 to $17.50 for new e- be. Yet, in an age when users cover price kept me from doing originally appeared on The
wants to price books, which books. Under the new agency are punishing authors and so. However, if I could get that Unofficial Apple Weblog
means that Macmillan sets the model, publishers will typically publishers who don't treat them same magazine for 99 cents (TUAW) on Mon, 01 Feb 2010
retail price, and Amazon gets a make $9 to $10.50 on new right, this could backfire in a big instantly in electronic form, I'd 08:00:00 EST. Please see our
cut. Previously, Amazon had digital editions. So why are way. buy it in a heartbeat - especially terms for use of feeds.
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title for an annual magazine
Porsche at Daytona subscription. I think most
(Holy Kaw!) Check out this video of the Total coverage of Porsche.* publishers would agree to a
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supplement the lower pricing

Stephen Colbert Shows Off iPad at The Grammys [VIDEO]

By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!) Apple device instead of an presented the award for “Song of Tags: Apple Tablet, beyonce,
envelope to present the show’s
Submitted at 1/31/2010 5:29:22 PM the Year” to Beyonce and the grammys, ipad, stephen colbert
award for “Song of the Year.” team for “Single Ladies.” Kanye
Just when you thought the iPad Colbert then jokingly turned to is surely applauding somewhere.
hype may be winding down, Jay-Z and said, “Did you not get Update: Here’s a video of
Stephen Colbert opened up The one of these in your gift bag?” in attendance, if she finally Colbert’s iPad:
Grammys by pulling out the new and asked his own daughter, also thought he was cool. He then [img via jose3030]
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Social Networks Are Becoming a

Security Risk [SURVEY] Lady Gaga's Use Of
By Stan Schroeder blame on Facebook’s own
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 3:27:40 AM
privacy rules. “When Facebook
rolled-out its new recommended
privacy settings late last year, it
Free Music
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) plays. By contrast, singer Susan
According to a report by was a backwards step,
Submitted at 2/1/2010 6:47:00 AM Boyle tallied only 133,000 plays,
Sophos, malware and spam are encouraging many users to share
despite scoring the No. 2 selling
on the rise on social networks their information with everybody While Beyonce and Taylor album of 2009. And while she
such as Twitter, MySpace, on the internet,” he says. Swift may have outshone Lady has been able to sell music, she's
Facebook and LinkedIn. Interestingly enough (and Gaga at the Grammy's, it doesn't also making a ton of money from
In the last year, 57% of users s u r v e y e d m o r e t h a n 5 0 0 contrasted to some of the reports
change the fact that Gaga has live gigs and corporate deals,
report they have been spammed organizations, discovering that we’ve seen lately), Cluley thinks
become quite a music industry including Polaroid and Estee
via social networking sites, an 7 2 % o f t h e m t h i n k s o c i a l that simply barring access to
sensation. But similar to what Lauder -- which are examples of
increase of 70.6% compared to networks are a danger for their Facebook is not the solution.
we saw with Mariah Carey, the Gaga selling the attention of her
last year. Furthermore, 36% of companys, with 60% of them “Social networks can be an
details behind Lady Gaga's fans, as well as some tangible
users claim they’ve been sent tagging Facebook as the biggest essential part of the business mix
business model success shows goods (such as makeup, similar
malware via social networking security risk, followed by today,” he says, “and the answer
how even today's superstars are to Mariah Carey).
sites, which is a rise of 69.8% MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn. i s n o t t o b a r s t a f f f r o m
G r a h a m C l u l e y , s e n i o r participating in them but to apply embracing more nuanced Again, nothing about this is
from last year.
business models that make use of revolutionary at all. But it again
On the other hand, CEOs of t e c h n o l o g y c o n s u l t a n t f o r some ’social security’ instead.”
free music and focus on selling shows that even today's
companies are concerned that Sophos, says that Facebook is Tags: facebook, linkedin, unique scarcities. When it megastars are figuring out how
their employees’ usage of social the biggest threat because it’s the m a l w a r e , m y s p a c e , s o c i a l
comes to free music, apparently that just selling music isn't the
networks is posing a security risk biggest social network out there, networking, spam, trending,
that's been a huge part of Gaga only way to make money these
for their company. Sophos has but he also places some of the twitter
getting attention: In fact, much days, and, in fact, having the
Chinese 'iPad' Maker How to Play of Gaga's audience got her music music available for free can often
for free, and legally. They have be quite helpful in getting even
Threatens to Sue Games on Your listened to free streams--by the more attention in ways that aid
Apple for Plagiarism hundreds of millions--on the other parts of the business
By Charlie Sorrel (Wired Top
Mobile Phone YouTube and the other online model.
services that Gaga currently Permalink| Comments| Email
Stories) By How-To Wiki (Wired Top
Stories) leads, according to research firm This Story
Submitted at 2/1/2010 5:59:00 AM BigChampagne. On MySpace,
Submitted at 1/31/2010 9:00:00 PM Gaga has had 321.5 million
A Chinese company claimsthat
its iPad knockoff is in fact an
original design that has been
Mobile phones are powerful
enough to do just about anything,
Winter sports across the Commons
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22 Tech/
Steve Jobs Is Not Happy With
Google, Adobe
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 1:23:21 AM
What a time we’re living in.
You can’t even make fun of your
competitors at your own
company meeting without your
words leaking out to the Internet.
Apparently, this has happened to
Steve Jobs, who lashed out at
Google and Adobe at Apple’s
Town Hall company meeting
held at the One Infinite Loop
headquarters. Speaking to Apple
employees, Steve Jobs voiced his
frustration with buggy Flash,
lazy Adobe and Google’s fakery
in the “don’t be evil”
department.
Although these words have not
been (and will never be)
IPAD'S
continued from page 16
productivity apps, such as word
processing and spreadsheets.
However, the slightest footstep
outside of this sandbox demands
more, be it a video editor
demanding more processing
power to render and store h.264
videos or a college student who
needs a torrent or P2P client and
codec support to play DivX
videos. Add to this formula the
iPad's lack of support for
multitasking as well as its
smaller screen display, and the
potential for cannibalization is
likely marginal.
officially confirmed, multiple
anonymous people from the
audience confirmed their
authenticity to Wired.
Here’s a couple of Steve’s
(inexact) quotes from the
meeting: “Adobe is lazy. Apple
does not support Flash because it
is so buggy. Whenever a Mac
crashes more often than not it’s
because of Flash. No one will be
using Flash. The world is
moving to HTML5.”
Yes, many may have found the
iPad announcement
underwhelming. But
expectations aside, the device is
a misfit with its cross category
functional appeal. And it's these
misfit ways that, coupled with a
competitive opening price point,
arm it with great potential to
disrupt multiple categories and
serve as another avenue to drive
growth for Apple.
*Median price of Netbook based
on top 15 best selling models at
Bestbuy.com.
TUAW iPad's multifunction
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Microsoft’s Tag Links
the Physical World To
When it comes to Google, Jobs
is mad at them for trying to “kill
the iPhone.” “We did not enter
the Internet
By Stan Schroeder
the search business,” he said. (Mashable!)
“They entered the phone
business. Make no mistake: they Submitted at 2/1/2010 5:47:23 AM
want to kill the iPhone. We
Paper publications have a
won’t let them.”
problem: they want to link to the
Finally, his most interesting
Internet, but in order to reach the
quote is about Google’s “don’t
destination, the reader must type
be evil” mantra. According to
the link into his browser
Daring Fireball, Jobs simply
manually, which is slow and Tag go far beyond paper
said: “It’s a load of crap.”
awkward. magazines; you can put a tag
Yes, I think we can safely say
Microsoft now offers a solution, almost anywhere: on a wall, a
we were right when we said that
called Tag. It’s essentially a product, or a giant outdoor sign.
a). The iPad and the iPhone
barcode – an optical machine- To be able to “read” tags with
aren’t getting full Flash support
readable representation of data – your phone, you need to
anytime soon, and b). Google is
and it lets paper magazines download a piece of software;
now Apple’s greatest enemy.
create visual links to content luckily enough, Microsoft has
Tags: adobe, apple, Flash,
which can be “opened” simply supported most modern
Google, steve jobs, trending
by pointing your smartphone’s smartphone operating systems,
camera at them. In today’s world including several varieties of
of iPhones, iPads, Nexus Ones Symbian, the iPhone OS,
and other smart mobile gadgetry, Android, BlackBerry and others.
appeal and sub-$500 price point this actually makes more sense Check out CNET’s video about
a formula for disruptive than forcing the reader/user to Tag below.
technology originally appeared type in a link, no matter how [img credit: CNET]
on The Unofficial Apple Weblog short. Tags: microsoft, Tag, Web 2.0
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Students Given Detention Just Ind. Secretary of

For Becoming 'Fans' Of A Page State Making
Congressional Run
Making Fun Of A Teacher (Newsmax - Politics)
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) made fun of a teacher. The Submitted at 2/1/2010 2:29:03 AM

Submitted at 2/1/2010 4:46:30 AM school claims that the page about

the group was derogatory and Republican Indiana Secretary of
We've been seeing more and libelous. Even if we accept that's State Todd Rokita (Row-KEE'-
more stories like this, as various true, this seems to step over the tuh) is running for the House seat
schools seem to overstep the line in a variety of ways. First, being vacated by longtime
boundaries of school property students always make fun of congressman Steve Buyer (BOO'
into the online world to try to teachers they don't like. It's part -yer).
regulate student speech. It's o f b e i n g i n h i g h s c h o o l . Buyer announced Friday that he
h i g h l y q u e s t i o n a b l e a s t o Pretending you can stop that isn't will not seek re-election this fall
whether or not they have the going to change the human and will leave Congress after 18
legal right to do so (and, in fact, nature of teenagers. Second, years because his wife has an
there are cases that suggest that even if the content is libelous, at incurable autoimmune disease.
there's a significant limit to how most, shouldn't the detention Adviser Kevin Kellems said
much schools can even prevent have only been given to those
students from speaking out while who actually posted the libelous Drew Barrymore Announces Monday that Rokita wants to
work on economic and security
on campus as well). This latest information, rather than to issues that directly affect the 4th
case, sent in by reader Keyop, everyone who became a "fan" or Engagement on Facebook District. He says Rokita plans to
post an announcement on his
highlights a high school in "member" of the group?
Syracuse that gave detention to a Permalink| Comments| Email
group of students who had This Story
(or Not?) [UPDATED] Facebook page later Monday.
Purdue University biology
joined a Facebook group that By Stan Schroeder Barrymore publicly announce professor David Sanders, who
(Mashable!) her engagement on Facebook lost badly to Buyer in the 2004

Kristen Bell and Dax Submitted at 1/31/2010 9:01:01 PM

Update: According to other

before anywhere else.
If you’ve been following
Drew’s love life, you know that
and 2006 elections, is the only
Democrat to announce a
campaign.
Shepard Engaged sources, Drew Barrymore is not
engaged. The Facebook status
her fiancé is most probably
Justin Long, star of Apple’s
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24 Politics/
A Watershed Election
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 3:00:00 PM
After the Iraqi parliament
banned 500 candidates from
contesting the March 7 national
elections, Vice President Joseph
Biden rushed to Baghdad to urge
Iraqi political leaders to
reconsider. While the ban has
fueled U.S. cynicism about Iraqi
democracy, such cynicism is
unwarranted, especially now.
The Iraqi parliament's decision
did not wipe out Sunni
candidates. Even the majority
Shia lists are multi-sectarian.
Iraqis say the controversy is
really about rule-of-law and
sovereignty issues. Across the
ethnic and sectarian spectrum--
and even in senior Iraqi military
circles--Iraqis consider it likely
that there will be a Baathist coup
attempt following U.S.
withdrawal, even if they disagree
about its chances of success.
Indeed, it is no coincidence the
current defense minister is
among those banned by
parliament.
The White House and U.S.
embassy in Iraq should be
cautious about interfering in
judicial matters. From an Iraqi
perspective, their law is seldom
as arbitrary as U.S. embassy
whims or U.S. CENTCOM
experiments. The Iraqi system
now works. Already, several
dozen disqualified candidates
have won reinstatement through
appeal. An overly active White
House will fuel Iraqi distrust,
which is already high because of
the perception that the current
administration is hostile toward
Arab democracy. In offices and
classrooms around the holy city
of Najaf, the Shia religious
leadership castigated U.S.
military efforts--singling out
Generals Petraeus and Odierno
by name--to force reconciliation
with recalcitrant Baath party
members. "The Awakening
[Council] model cannot apply to
the Baath," the son of one Grand
Ayatollah said. "If they do not
accept democracy, how can they
govern it?"
Indeed, it is ironic that so many
observers are bashing Iraqi
democracy ahead of elections
that can, more than any previous
polling, cement Iraq's
democracy. In 2005, Iraqi
leaders sought to dominate
society. Shia and Kurdish leaders
used militias to impose through
force of arms what they could
not achieve at the ballot box.
Public reaction against their
abuse of power, however,
overshadowed the short-term
dividends these political
movements sought. In municipal
elections last January and July,
voters punished the Islamic
Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI)
and the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan, both of which used
militias to facilitate corruption
and intimidate constituents.
This trend toward greater
accountability will continue, as
the Iraqi parliament has reversed
the system of closed lists and
party slates imposed by the
Coalition Provisional Authority
and the United Nations.
Previously, party leaders rather
than constituents determined a
politician's success. In the new
system, all candidates must
appear on ballots and Iraqis can
vote for individuals regardless of
where they fall on the slate. No
longer can party leaders fill lists
with family members and corrupt
functionaries and suffer no
electoral consequences. While
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
has a reputation for honesty, the
public will purge many of his
subordinates who do not. One
senior Dawa member predicted
that only 50 percent of
incumbents will remain in office.
Kurdish leader Masud Barzani's
decision to visit Washington last
week also stemmed from the
realization that, given the public
animus toward his party's
corruption and his functionaries'
abuse of power, the number of
seats he controls (and, by
extension, his leverage) will
decline after the elections.
Municipal elections provide a
window into Iraqis' new realism.
Governors took office only after
negotiating power-sharing
agreements. Najaf governor
Adnan al-Zurfi, who governs in
coalition with the ISCI, said his
rivals realize that the electorate
will punish both parties if they
do not cooperate and deliver.
Compare this with the Arab
political norm: While one-party
states and dictators dominate
most countries, Iraqi politicians
debate campaign strategies and
candidate match-ups to
maximize seats ahead of
coalition negotiations. Indeed,
Iraq is now one of only two
Middle Eastern countries where
ordinary people cannot easily
predict their next leader. (The
other is Israel.) Even Iraqi
president Jalal Talabani, a U.S.
favorite, may find himself forced
into retirement after March. "If
Talabani can't even manage his
own political party," one Shia
leader remarked, referring to the
collapse of Talabani's political
support among Kurds, "why does
he deserve to lead Iraq?"
Still, Iraqis are wary and need
international support. Confidence
in the Independent High Election
Commission is low after a
bribery scandal in last summer's
Kurdish elections. Politicians
worry that opponents polling
poorly in specific districts might
deliberately spoil ballot boxes to
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sway results in hotly contested
races. Lack of international
preparation to support electoral
transparency has increased fears
of a repeat of last August's
botched Afghanistan election.
Any election-day chaos might
hamper U.S. withdrawal plans.
Alternatively, successful
elections will allow Iraq to turn a
corner. Saddam will have been
gone a decade when the new
parliament's term ends. As
University of Baghdad students
point out, Iraqis entering the
university will have been eight
years old when Saddam fell. Just
as new generations in Eastern
Europe finally put the past
behind them, so too can young
Iraqis. How sad, then, that when
Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton speaks of the "three Ds--
diplomacy, development, and
defense"--that define Obama's
foreign-policy philosophy,
democracy is not among them.
Michael Rubin is a resident
scholar at AEI.
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(AEI.Org: Articles) Then came Obama's critical allies worldwide. Obama's policy secure, Obama reveals a deep impaired the North's nuclear
Submitted at 1/31/2010 3:00:00 PM linkage: "These diplomatic artificially inflates Russian disdain for the decades of program or even brought
efforts have also strengthened influence and, depending on the strategic thinking that kept Pyongyang back to the risible
In his lengthy State of the Union our hand in dealing with those final agreement, will likely America safe during the Cold Six-Party Talks. Three sets of
address, President Obama was nations that insist on violating reduce our nuclear and strategic War and afterwards. Even more Security Council restrictions
brief on national security issues, international agreements in delivery capabilities dangerously pertinent, Obama's indifference against Iran have only glancingly
which he squeezed in toward the pursuit of nuclear weapons." and unnecessarily. (Securing and scorn for real threats are affected Tehran's nuclear
end. International terrorism, wars Obama described the increasing "loose" nuclear materials chilling auguries of what the next program, and the Obama
in Iraq and Afghanistan, and "isolation" of both North Korea internationally has long been a three years may hold. administration's threats of
even America's relief efforts in a n d I r a n , t h e t w o m o s t bipartisan goal, properly so. Obama has now explicitly "crippling sanctions" have
Haiti all flashed past in bullet- conspicuous--but far from the Obama said nothing new on that rejected the idea that U.S. disappeared along with last
point mentions. On Iraq and only--nuclear proliferators. He score.) Meanwhile, Obama is weakness is provocative, arguing year's series of "deadlines" that
Afghanistan, Obama emphasized also mentioned the increased considering treaty restrictions on instead that weakness will Iran purportedly faced. In
n e i t h e r v i c t o r y n o r sanctions imposed on Pyongyang our missile defense capabilities convince Tehran and Pyongyang response, Tehran's
determination, but merely the after its second nuclear test in more damaging than his own to do the opposite of what they authoritarianism and belligerence
early withdrawal of U.S. forces 2 0 0 9 a n d t h e " g r o w i n g previous unilateral reductions. have been resolutely doing for have only increased.
from both. His once vaunted consequences" he says Iran will What warrants close attention is decades--vigorously pursuing With his counterproliferation
Middle East peace process didn't face because of his policies. the jarring naïveté of arguing that their nuclear and missile strategies, such as they were, in
make the cut. In fact, reducing our nuclear reducing our capabilities will programs. Obama's first year disarray, Obama now pins his
Nonetheless, during this arsenal will not somehow inhibit nuclear proliferators. That amply demonstrates that his hopes on moral suasion, which
windshield tour of the world, the persuade Iran and North Korea would certainly surprise Tehran approach will do nothing even to has never influenced Iran, North
president found time to opine t o a l t e r t h e i r b e h a v i o r o r and Pyongyang. Obama's retard, let alone stop, Iran and Korea, or any other determined
more explicitly than ever before encourage others to apply more insistence that the evil-doers are North Korea. proliferator. Perhaps it would
that reducing America's nuclear pressure on them to do so. "violating international Neither Bush nor Obama have been better had the
weapons and delivery systems Obama's remarks reflect a agreements" is also startling, as administration efforts toward president's speech not mentioned
will temper the global threat of complete misreading of strategic if this were of equal importance international sanctions have had national security at all.
proliferation. Obama boasted realities. with the proliferation itself. any measurable impact. The first John R. Bolton is a senior fellow
that "the United States and We have no need for further The premise underlying these Security Council sanctions on at AEI.
R u s s i a a r e c o m p l e t i n g arms control treaties with Russia, assertions may well be found in North Korea after its ballistic Photo credit: White House
negotiations on the farthest- especially ones that reduce our Obama's smug earlier comment missile and nuclear weapons photo/Pete Souza
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world in four years, so that they moreover, that Russia does not, to the level of wayward boys the 2009. Nor have the measures
never fall into the hands of requiring our nuclear umbrella to debates over whether his policies imposed after that second test,
terrorists." afford protection to friends and are making us more or less about which Obama boasted,

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26 Politics/ Tech Tips/ E-reader News Edition

Not-So-Friendly Fire Marks Primary Season

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Submitted at 2/1/2010 12:26:35 AM former Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich. amid dismal poll numbers. last year to avoid a primary only
Among the races to watch Attorney General Andrew M. to become a Democrat, get
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Brittle Activists
By E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New conservative judicial Reagan cited Justice Byron courts and those who serve on Alito did not like the president
Republic - All Feed) revolutionaries to live by double White's description of Roe as an them," he said in his acceptance making an issue of the court's
Submitted at 1/31/2010 9:00:00 PM
standards without apology. act of "raw judicial power," speech that year. "But let us also truly radical intervention in
The movement's legal theorists which is actually an excellent recognize that some of our politics. I disagree with Alito on
WASHINGTON -- The nation and politicians have spent more description of the court's ruling courts, in their decisions, have the law and the policy, but I have
owes a substantial debt to Justice than four decades attacking on corporate money in the gone too far in weakening the no problem with his personal
Samuel Alito for his display of alleged judicial abuses by Citizens United case. peace forces as against the expression of displeasure.
unhappiness over President l i b e r a l s , c h e e r i n g o n t h e Reagan had every right to say criminal forces in this country, On the contrary, I salute him
O b a m a ' s c r i t i c i s m s o f t h e presidents who joined them in what he did. But why do and we must act to restore that because his candid response
S u p r e m e C o u r t ' s r e c e n t their assaults. But now, they are conservatives deny the same balance." Many conservatives brought home to the country how
legislation -- excuse me, decision terribly offended that Obama has right to Obama? Alternatively, cheered this, too. high the stakes are in the battle
-- opening our electoral system straightforwardly challenged the why do they think it's persuasive As for the specifics of Obama's over the conservative activism of
to a new torrent of corporate handiwork of their judicial to argue, as Georgetown Law indictment, Alito's defenders Chief Justice John Roberts'
money. comrades. professor Randy Barnett did in have said the president was court.
Alito's inability to restrain There is ample precedent for The Wall Street Journal, that it's wrong to say that the court's E.J. Dionne, Jr. is the author of
himself during the State of the Obama's firm but respectful fine for a president to take issue decision on corporate political the recently published Souled
Union address brought to wide rebuke of the court. I know of no with the court, except in a State spending had reversed "a century Out: Reclaiming Faith and
attention a truth that too many one on the right who protested of the Union speech? Isn't it of law" and also opened "the Politics After the Religious
h a v e t r i e d t o i g n o r e : T h e when President Reagan, in a more honorable to criticize the floodgates for special interests -- Right. He is a Washington Post
S u p r e m e C o u r t i s n o w 1983 article in the Human Life justices to their faces? Are these including foreign corporations." columnist, a senior fellow at the
d o m i n a t e d b y a h i g h l y Review, took on the Supreme jurists so sensitive that they can't But Obama was not simply Brookings Institution, and a
politicized conservative majority Court's Roe v. Wade decision of take it? Do they expect everyone referring to court precedents but professor at Georgetown
intent on working its will, even if 10 years earlier. to submit quietly to whatever also to the 1907 Tillman Act, University.
that means ignoring precedents "Make no mistake, abortion-on- they do? which banned corporate money (c) 2010, Washington Post
and the wishes of the elected demand is not a right granted by In fact, conservatives have made in electoral campaigns. The Writers Group
branches of government. the Constitution," Reagan wrote. the Supreme Court a punching court's recent ruling undermined For more TNR, become a fan on
Obama called the court on this, "No serious scholar, including bag since the 1960s, when that policy. Defenders of the Facebook and follow us on
and Alito shook his head and one disposed to agree with the "Impeach Earl Warren" bumper decision also say it did not Twitter.
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The controversy also exposed abortion up to the time the child presidential campaign. "Let us unlimited campaign
the impressive capacity of the is ready to be born." always respect, as I do, our expenditures.

Andrew Breitbart Is Mad About Something [Interviews]

By Hamilton Nolan (Gawker) speaking out on the liberal cantankerous, and when he's
Submitted at 2/1/2010 10:03:46 AM media's railroading of phone tap merely being jocular. Invaluable
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Finally, Andrew Breitbart is Lloyd Grove also gets Breitbart
28 Politics/ Tech Tips/ E-reader News Edition

Double Dip Risk Rises after Inventory Blowout

(AEI.Org: Articles) Blinder's calculations through that it will sell 100 cars next following a spike, the average
Submitted at 1/31/2010 3:00:00 PM the fourth quarter of last year, month and set its production growth rate is just 1.6 percent.
inventories have accounted for accordingly. If sales fall short, More Bad News
W h e n i s q u a r t e r l y g r o s s about 34 percent of historical the unsold cars sitting on the lot To be sure, the inventory story
domestic product growth of fluctuations in GDP since 1947.
almost 6 percent bad news?
represent inventory piling up. is not the only red flag right now. Firefox Mobile 1.0
Inventories are even more The manufacturer will likely The unemployment rate in the
When it looks like what was important during recessions. In respond by cutting output, since U.S. is hovering around 10 Lands on Maemo
reported last week. another paper, co-authored with
U.S. GDP increased 5.7 percent Louis Maccini in 1991, Blinder
it already has enough cars on
hand to meet next month's sales.
percent and has shown little sign
of recovery. In addition, any
Phones [Downloads]
at the end of last year, with more found that 87 percent of the Peek into Future positive effects of the economic By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
than half of that growth--3.4 decline in GDP from the peak to In other words: If we see stimulus are likely dwindling. Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:00:00 AM
percent--attributable to changes the trough of the recession was inventories piling up, firms may On top of that, the tax cuts
in inventories. This astonishing attributable to inventories. need to adjust their future enacted by President George W. Maemo5 Phones: Moving right
impact of inventory has ample Hard to Predict activity downward. On the other Bush are set to expire, and the along from the release candidate,
historical precedent, and the Something that constitutes a hand, sales sometimes jump U.S. deficit is so high that even a Firefox Mobile has arrived in 1.0
b o t t o m l i n e h a s t e r r i b l e small share of GDP can have a unexpectedly, driving inventories subtle swing in interest rates can form on phones like the N900
implications for 2010. big impact on its overall below their desired levels. When have major negative budget that run Maemo. It's got add-ons,
Inventories are a remarkable volatility only if it is swinging that happens, we can expect implications. an AwesomeBar, desktop
corner of the economy. They are a b o u t w i l d l y . I n v e n t o r i e s firms to ramp up production to Given those factors, we might syncing through Weave, and
the goods and materials that fluctuate so much for a simple replenish their stocks. consider ourselves lucky if we pleny more to recommend it.
companies keep on hand to make reason: Predicting the future is Since 1970, there have been experience only the typical Image from jkOnTheRun.
sure that their operations run really hard. nine quarters, like the last one, decline in growth that follows an Firefox Mobile's features are
smoothly. They are the boxes of A firm tries to set its inventory when GDP grew by at least 3 inventory spike. In that case, first listed and explained at a helpful
food on shelves at the grocery level to match expected future percent and inventories -quarter growth in 2010 will be Mozilla page, but to see what
store and the bins of metal parts sales. It must balance the accounted for at least half of that right around zero. If that Firefox Mobile looks like in
sitting next to the assembly line f i n a n c i a l c o s t o f c a r r y i n g growth. The history of those happens, talk of a double-dip action, check out mobile-
in a manufacturing plant. inventoried items against the risk quarters is hardly a favorable recession will ignite. obsessed blog jkOnTheRun's
Inventories were a big part of that customers might not find the sign of what is in store. Such talk probably should begin screenshot tour. You can also see
the story during the worst of this product they are looking for. Inventory spikes make for now. the thinking, and a few action
recession, and that is nothing In good times, inventories are blowout quarters. In the nine Kevin A. Hassett is a senior shots, of Firefox Mobile in
new. In a landmark paper relatively easy to manage. quarters with such spikes, the fellow and the director of Mozilla's own video, ported by
published in 1980, Princeton Demand grows a little bit each average growth rate was 6.6 education policy studies at AEI. the folks at the Android and Me
University economist Alan quarter, and firms have a good percent and the average Photo credit: iStockphoto/Stefan blog to YouTube:
Blinder found that inventories, idea what their future sales will inventory contribution was 4.4 Klein Got an N900 or another nifty
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of the fluctuations in output. wrong, and inventories are often The average growth rate in the Term Extraction. to mention, in the comments.
Since Blinder's paper came out, the first sign that firms are being quarter after a spike was 0.9 Firefox for Mobile Now
inventories have held onto their surprised by their customers. A percent, a whopping 5.7 percent Available on Nokia's Maemo
i m p o r t a n t r o l e . U p d a t i n g car manufacturer might expect lower. In the second quarter Platform![The Mozilla Blog]
E-reader News Edition Politics/ Entertainment/ 29
Beyoncé Holds Back
The Quiet Revolution Tears of Joy Backstage
By John B. Judis (The New battered institutions. In doing so, social and natural science and Croly. at Grammys
Republic - All Feed) he isn’t simply improving the employing the scientific method Reagan chose Thorne Auchter, (ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 9:00:00 PM
effectiveness of various in their decision-making, could the vice president of a
Submitted at 2/1/2010 2:27:00 AM
government offices or making rise above partisanship and construction firm, to head
These days, liberals don’t know scattered progress on a few interest-group pressure. OSHA. Bush appointed a mining
whether to feel betrayed by or issues; he is resuscitating an With wide smiles plastered
Brandeis’s famous concept of company executive to head the
merely disappointed with Barack entire philosophy of government across their faces, ET's Kevin
states as “laboratories of Mine Safety and Health
Obama. They have gone from with roots in the Progressive era Frazier congratulated the
democracy” comes out of his Administration and a trucking
decrying his willingness to of the early twentieth century. Grammy winners after the
defense of state regulation of company executive to head the
remove the public option from Taken as a whole, Obama’s singers hit all the right notes
industry and was meant to Federal Motor Carrier Safety
his health care plan to worrying revival of these agencies is while accepting their awards on
conjure an image of states basing Administration. To lead OSHA,
that, in the wake of Democrat arguably the most significant stage.
their regulatory activities on the he named Edwin G. Foulke Jr., a
Martha Coakley’s defeat in accomplishment of his first year Beyoncé was undoubtedly the
scientific method. For his part, longtime foe of the agency who
Massachusetts, he won’t get any in office. night's big winner, raking in a
Croly often made the progressive had advised companies on how
plan through Congress. On other The regulatory agencies, most of record-breaking six awards out
case for disinterested expertise. to block union organization.
subjects, too, from Afghanistan which date from one of the three of her 10 nominations. Holding
The success of the regulatory Some of the Republican
to Wall Street, Obama has g r e a t r e f o r m p e r i o d s back tears, the emotional "Single
agencies, he wrote, depended appointees weren’t business
thoroughly let down his party’s (1901–1914, 1932–1938, and Lady" said, "I'm trying to hold it
upon “a sufficient popular types, but ideologues or hacks
left flank. in because I can see right now,
1961–1972) of the last century, confidence in the ability of who were utterly unqualified for
Yet there is one extremely were intended to smooth out the looking around, that this is
enlightened and trained their positions. Anne Gorsuch,
consequential area where Obama rough edges (the “externalities,” something that I'll never, ever
individuals … and the actual whom Reagan nominated to head
has done just about everything a in economic jargon) of modern forget. This night is very surreal
existence for their use of a body the EPA, was a rising member of
liberal could ask for--but done it capitalism--from dirty air to for me."
of sufficiently authentic social the Colorado House of
so quietly that almost no one, d a n g e r o u s w o r k p l a c e s t o The other half of the multi-
knowledge.” Representatives, where she was
including most liberals, has d e f e c t i v e m e r c h a n d i s e t o platinum couple, Jay-Z, is not
Many of the last century’s part of a conservative group
n o t i c e d . O b a m a ’ s t h r e e financial corruption. With wide even going to attempt to compete
presidents--from Theodore known as the “House crazies.”
Republican predecessors were all latitude in writing and enforcing with his wife because "she's got
Roosevelt to Jimmy Carter to Michael Brown, whom Bush
committed to weakening or even regulations, they have been 700 [Grammys]." Grateful for
Bill Clinton--subscribed to this appointed to run the Federal
d e s t r o y i n g t h e c o u n t r y ’ s described as a “fourth branch of his win for the "Run This Town"
progressive ideal of regulation Emergency Management Agency
r e g u l a t o r y a p p a r a t u s : t h e government.” collaboration with Rihanna and
based on expertise. But, (FEMA), had previously been
E n v i r o n m e n t a l P r o t e c t i o n That wide latitude could invite Kanye West, he said, "It was the
beginning in the 1980s and commissioner of the
Agency (EPA), the Occupational abuses of power, but the old-time collaboration between family…It
culminating in the presidency of International Arabian Horse
Safety and H e a l t h progressives who fashioned the was like the Jackson Three." As
George W. Bush, the notion of Association.
Administration (OSHA), the regulatory state rested their for the real Jackson lineage, he
scientific administration came Five Filters featured article:
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in business executives, corporate
c o n s u m e r s b y r e g u l a t i n g -the-century progressives-- father's behalf.
lawyers, and lobbyists--the very
business practices. Now Obama believed that the agencies, opposite of the impartial experts
is seeking to rebuild these staffed by experts schooled in envisioned by Brandeis and
30 Politics/ Entertainment/
The Elegist
By Jeremy Dauber (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 9:00:00 PM
All deaths leave a void, but
mourners for Avrom Sutzkever,
arguably the greatest Yiddish
poet of the twentieth century, are
feeling an accordingly outsize
loss. Remembering the life and
reading the work, one is struck
once more by how genius and
circumstance combine to create a
means of expressing the
inexpressible--and in a way that
seems, considering the
circumstances, almost natural.
Born 96 years ago in a small
industrial town about fifty miles
out of Vilna, Sutzkever was
expelled at the age of two from
that town along with all his
fellow Jews by the Russians,
who saw them as potential spies
for the Germans. The next five
years were spent in Omsk, in
Siberia, conventionally exile but
for Sutzkever an inspirational
natural wonderland. Returning to
Vilna in 1920, he encountered
the two loves of his life--his wife
Freydke and Yiddish poetry-- in
the welter of Jewish secular
cultural organizations then
flourishing there, and found
artistic companionship, of a sort,
in the group of intellectuals
known as “Young Vilna,” which
most famously included Chaim
Grade (Sutzkever’s apolitical
poetry tended to raise
objections). Remarkable works
like Siberia and From the Forest
followed, which would have
sufficed to cement Sutzkever’s
reputation in the canon as the
genius who put the lie to the old
claim--noised around by modern
Yiddish literature’s founder, S.
Y. Abramovitch--that Eastern
European Jews didn’t know how
to appreciate the natural world
around them.
And then, in June of 1941, the
Germans turned on their Soviet
allies and invaded Lithuania.
All survivors’ biographies are
filled with extraordinary events;
so much so that the listener
occasionally fears suffering from
becoming jaded. Sutzkever’s
story itself was no less
extraordinary--and just as tragic-
-as the others. He was forced to
dig his own grave at gunpoint;
his newborn son was poisoned
by the Germans in the ghetto
hospital. Less than a year later,
Sutzkever would write a poem
from a child’s viewpoint begging
its mother to:
strangle me with your Mama
fingers
That played
On my willow cradle.
It will mean:
Your love is stronger than death.
It will mean:
You trusted me with your love.
Is there anything more
shattering, and utterly poetic, and
utterly representative of the
raging impossibility of the
concentrationary universe, than
the throwing of the obligation of
the murder upon the loving self?
Sutzkever survived, though, a
survival dependent, in two
distinct ways, on his poetry.
Writing kept him sane and
focused as he hid in a crawl
space for six weeks during the
first waves of the invasion when
men were being dragged off to
Ponar. It also maintained him as
he weathered the rigors of daily
life in the ghetto (where he saved
books and manuscripts destined
for destruction or for future Nazi
museums) and as he led the
impossible life of a partisan in
the Vilna forests, menaced by
Nazis, Polish right-wing
underground forces, and even
anti-Semitic elements in the
Soviet partisan movement he
joined. More directly--if not
more importantly-- Sutzkever’s
poetry had reached Moscow, and
its impact there led to his
salvation by the president-in-
exile of the Lithuanian
government. From Moscow,
Sutzkever would end up
immigrating to Palestine in 1947,
where he would remain for the
next six decades, a prolific poet
and a versatile editor of The
Golden Chain, a Yiddish cultural
journal.
Sutzkever’s particular power as
a Holocaust poet comes from his
uncanny ability to harness both
ends of the poetic spectrum to
achieve his effects. His epic
poem Clandestine City, written
from 1945 to 1947, features little
Jews with enormous emotions
skittering around the “abyss of
sewers” beneath the Vilna
streets. Sutzkever had found his
own Inferno in the cauldron of
Europe, with a tragic minyan
standing in for Dante’s pilgrim.
But he could also write, during
his time in the ghetto, that
Over a pile of steaming horse
dung,
I warm my icy hands.
I warm my hands and regret:
Not enough have I known, have
I listened
To the greatness of smallness.
Sometimes,
The warm breath of a pile of
dung
May become a poem, a thing of
beauty.
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Jennifer Hudson Talks
Motherhood on the
Grammy Red Carpet
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 12:44:00 AM
ET's Kevin Frazier was on the
Grammy Awards red carpet on
Sunday night in Los Angeles,
where stars discussed the
devastation in Haiti and the
night's big Michael Jackson
tribute. Plus, Jennifer Hudson
opened up about motherhood and
bringing her son to the Grammys
-- and ET's Grammy fashion
correspondent Adam Lambert
talked music with Ke$ha!
Jennifer Hudson, who brought
son David to his very first
Grammy Awards show, called
being a mother "the best thing in
the world." Country cutie Carrie
Underwood dished about
squeezing wedding planning into
her busy schedule, while Katy
Perry revealed that she wants her
future wedding to fiancé Russell
Brand to be "about special
friends and not a big hoopla."
Watch the video to see ET's red
carpet interviews with Lionel
Richie, P!nk, Mary J. Blige,
Taylor Swift, the Black Eyed
Peas and Ke$ha on music's
biggest night!
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More Commentary on State of Union Coverage
(Newsmax - Politics)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 2:50:01 AM
Watching Chuck Todd on The
Today Show the morning after
President Obama’s first State of
the Union speech, one would
think that we have a tragically
divided Congress.
If you were linked to Chuck
Todd on his Facebook page
during the speech, then you
would have seen several status
updates about watching
Republicans sitting down during
standing ovations or looking sour
during some of the President’s
policy announcements.
Todd and The Today Show have
completely missed the reality of
Washington’s power game, and
have instead proven to be the go-
to guy and morning show for this
White House. Their consistent
voice for Obama’s hope and
change tour reached its climax
with their report on the State of
the Union speech.
Todd’s report, the lead story for
The Today Show, focused on the
few times in Obama’s speech
where he tried to reach out to the
Republicans. Todd never
mentioned once how Obama
started the speech by blaming
Kobe's late jumper pushes Lakers past Celtics
By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 10:08:10 PM
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Bush for our current problems
and how he consistently blamed
the previous administration for a
banking collapse, large deficits
and an economy in the tank.
For a President with all of the
power in Washington, Obama’s
speech was antagonistic and full
of excuses. Someone needs to
remind Todd that the President’s
party overwhelmingly controls
Congress and could have passed
any piece of change legislation
they wanted this past year.
Why Todd continues to focus on
the minority party is more than
disturbing, it’s biased. The
President’s first year has been a
failure, the worst first year
performance by any President,
and the blame goes squarely on
his own party and his ability to
lead them.
While The Today Show cameras
kept showing the Democrats
standing and clapping for
Obama’s speech and the
Republicans seated, voters were
led to believe that it was the
Republicans fault that this past
year has been a disaster in
Washington.
Not to be outdone by Todd,
Meredith Vieira jumped in to
pile on too. Speaking with Vice
The Lakers' inability to slow
quick guards remains a major
problem for Los Angeles, writes
Dave McMenamin. Story
The Celtics' defense in the
President Joe Biden, Vieira
asked “What risk do Republicans
run if they remain the party of
NO?”
Biden, of course, had an answer
and stayed on message by
emphasizing how when the
Obama Administration took
office they brought America
“back from the abyss”. No one
challenged Biden with the facts:
larger deficits, unemployment at
an all-time high and his own
party controlling all of
Washington.
Todd and Vieira also pointed
out Supreme Court Justice
Samuel Alito’s silent frustration
with being called-out by the
President when he mouthed the
words “No, that’s not true” while
the NBC cameras went to slow
motion to emphasize the point.
But the fact that the President of
the United States was so partisan
throughout his speech, blamed
Bush for his problems and
publicly attacked the Supreme
Court on national television for
their most-recent decision while
they had to sit there and be silent
was never mentioned on-air.
When it was Matt Lauer’s turn
to jump in he also stayed on the
theme that Republicans are to
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blame for this President’s
disastrous first year and low
approval ratings. Lauer
emphasized the “political divide
in congress right now” without
pointing out that if there is a
political divide then it’s because
the Democrats can’t agree
among themselves on what to do
or how to do it.
Since Todd, Vieira and Lauer
obviously don’t understand that
the Democrats have
unprecedented influence in
Congress, here’s a reminder:
there are 255 Democrats and 178
Republicans in the House; and
there are 56 Democrats and 41
Republicans in the Senate.
Todd should start putting the
White House and its party of
power under scrutiny and stop
force-feeding the American
people with the White House’s
message that their first year’s
failure is anyone’s fault but their
own.
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News Corp Pays Half
Billion Dollars to Keep
Case Out of Court.
Nothing to See Here.
[Lawsuits]
By Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 10:23:04 AM
News Corp. has agreed to pay
$500 million to settle three
lawsuits alleging "anti-
competitive behavior" by its
News America unit, which
publishes coupon inserts and
sells in-store ads. A paper not
owned by News Corp also notes
the following bit of context: "In a
separate case that was settled last
year, News America was accused
by another competitor,
Floorgraphics, of corporate
spying. Just as witnesses began
testifying in a federal case in
New Jersey, News Corporation
settled the lawsuit and then days
later bought the company
outright for an undisclosed sum."
The WSJ left that out. Huh.
32 Politics/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition

Newt Gingrich in New Hampshire New Fatah Charter

(Newsmax - Politics)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 12:35:12 AM
Obama will visit the state on
Tuesday to promote his
economic recovery and jobs
(Democratic Congressional
seats) that are vulnerable. If we
still have 10 percent or 9.5
Doesn't Mention Israel
M A N C H E S T E R , N e w agenda.
Hampshire - It's frigid outside About 500 conservatives
but inside the basketball arena, a t t e n d e d S o u t h e r n N e w
percent unemployment in
September, they have a long, At All
long campaign ahead of them," (Little Green Footballs) (Hat tip Kobyashi Maru.)
conservative activists give a H a m p s h i r e U n i v e r s i t y f o r he said. UPDATE at 1/31/10 11:23:49
Submitted at 1/31/2010 11:00:59 AM
warm welcome to former House workshops on "new media for Republicans could also pick up am:
of Representatives Speaker Newt activists and campaigns" and six Senate seats in November, he The Federation of American Barry Rubin throws cold water
Gingrich who lectures them on "Facebook and Twitter for added. That would still leave the S c i e n t i s t s ’ P r o j e c t o n on the idea that this charter is
the importance of social media in political communications." Democrats in charge of the G o v e r n m e n t S e c r e c y h a s more “moderate:” Fatah’s New
winning elections. Conservatives were electrified Senate, but with a narrower obtained an English translation Charter Shows Why Peace
Gingrich spoke at a grass-roots this month by the Republican majority. of the newly revised Fatah Won’t Happen.
communication boot-camp for Scott Brown's upset win in the One poll last October showed charter: OSC Translates the 2009 Following my article on the new
conservatives that aimed to close Senate race in neighboring Gingrich lagging potential Fatah Charter. Fatah Charter, I was sent a JTA
the technology advantage in Massachusetts -- the first time Republican candidates Mike And there are some interesting story about how the new charter
campaigning and fund-raising the Democratic party has lost the Huckabee, Mitt Romney and changes in the new document; is very moderate since it “drops”
that Democrats enjoy -- one that seat in more than 40 years. Sarah Palin -- former governors while it still calls for revolution calls for Israel’s destruction, etc.
helped sweep President Barack The win deprived Democrats of of Arkansas, Massachusetts and and “struggle,” and refers several As I pointed out, the charter says
Obama to power in 2008. their super-majority in the Senate Alaska -- as choices for the 2012 times to the “enemy” of the that the old charter is still in
Gingrich led the House from and stopped Obama's signature Republican presidential Palestinian people, there is no force and nothing in the new one
1995 to 1999 but has not sought healthcare reform legislation in nomination. direct mention at all of Israel, contradicts it. So nothing has
elected office since then. Still, he its tracks. © 2010 Reuters. All rights Zionism, or Jews. changed in fact. It is amazing
never discourages speculation he Brown's campaign used social reserved. Republication or The previous version of the how easy it is for various radical
might seek the presidency. media to its advantage, reeling in redistribution of Reuters content, Fatah charter explicitly rejected Arab and Islamist groups to fool
H e p l a y e d c o y a g a i n o n millions of dollars in online including by caching, framing or Israel’s right to exist. The Western journalists. It always
Saturday. donations. similar means, is expressly question: is the absence of any helps to read a document before
"We are totally focused this year Gingrich said Brown's win prohibited without the prior mention of Israel a sign that the describing it as a breakthrough
at on developing a generation of showed that Obama and the written consent of Reuters. PLO position is softening — or for moderation.
solutions for the elections this Democrats now owned the Five Filters featured article: is it evidence of an even more
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said. "There are probably 80 or 90

Jamie Foxx Raises the Roof with Pre-Grammy Bash

(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 12:10:00 AM
The success of his Grammy-
nominated single "Blame It"
skyrocketed Jamie Foxx to the
roof of the L'Ermitage Beverly
Hills for an intimate gathering
before the Grammy Awards.
The multi-talented artist
declared his love for acting, but
explained the intrigue he finds in
music: "You've got to hustle at
it…You think you've reached a
certain plateau, but you still have
to hustle." Grammy experience.
Two nights before taking the
stage during Sunday’s awards
show, Jamie told ET he wanted
to "taste every moment" of his
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If you need to search within a
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searching for the name of the
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search tools exist, like Google
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Prevent Google Talk on Android Schaub, AFC outduel

from Automatically Signing In
[Annoyances]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 6:00:00 AM
Do you get inopportune IM
chats on your Android phone,
even if you haven't activated the
Google Talk application? There's
a setting in the app that always
makes you available. Here's how
to turn it off.
The Tech Recipes blog points
out the semi-hidden setting in
Google Talk. Fire up the
application, hit the Menu button,
then choose Settings. Un-check
the "Automatically sign in"
option, hit your back button, and
then hit Menu and sign out of
Google Talk. Now you're only
signed in and receiving chats
when you consciously activate
Google Talk.
NFC in Miami Pro Bowl
By Associated Press • Matt Schaub threw two TDs in
(ESPN.com)
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From experience, many Google • Attendance for the game was
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34 Tech Tips/ Tech News/ Entertainment/
Trillian Alpha Brings Its Multi-
Protocol IM to Macs [Downloads]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 4:30:00 AM
Mac OS X: Trillian, the slick-
looking multi-protocol IM client
that kinda-sorta won our Hive
Five for best IM app, has
launched an early alpha for Mac
OS X. It's not close to feature-
complete, but it does look like
Trillian.
Early reports peg the Mac alpha
of Trillian as very rough, and not
on the same level as the well-
known Windows client. Some
preferences are missing, Growl
How the iPad is Changing Interaction Design
By Dana Oshiro
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 7:00:00 PM
Applications that looked
amazing on larger multi-touch
experiences like Microsoft
Surface may have a more
affordable consumer-facing
counterpart. While the iPad has
been widely criticized, many
startups are thrilled by its
possibilities. In mid-November
we featured Paris-based
Pearltrees as a new design
interface for remapping web
information. We spoke to CEO
Patrice Lamothe to hear his
thoughts on the release of the
iPad.
Sponsor
Pearltrees is a new way of
support isn't there, and, as
Download Squad notes, the chat
alert sounds are annoying and
hard to turn off. That said, the
organizing information where
users create mindmap-style
visualizations of their favorite
websites and web-based media.
Each "pearl" or media node can
have multiple branches and
depending on how you want to
arrange your pearls, you can drag
and drop them to any branch
point to suit your needs. Rather
than scrolling through a linear
hierarchy of bookmarks, users
can delve into different branches
of a pearltree. Naturally, this
type of data visualization lends
itself to the touch capabilities of
the iPad.
Says Lamothe, "The idea of
physically touching and moving
items on a screen is in the DNA
of Pearltrees. We won't need to
change much to the interaction
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client has a smooth look to it,
and, while Adium is the well-
Facebook Brags:
tested standard for multi-protocol 35% Adjusted their
chat on Macs, if you're familiar
with Trillian on Windows, you'll
Privacy Settings
probably enjoy the Cocoa-ed By Sarah Perez Rip Torn Not the
version seen here. (ReadWriteWeb) Populist Hero America's
Trillian Alpha is a free Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:40:40 AM Been Waiting For
download for Mac systems only. [Shucks]
Give it a shot and tell us what After Facebook's recent privacy
you think of Trillian's new settings "adjustment," the social By Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
platform in the comments. Help network is now reporting that Submitted at 2/1/2010 9:50:24 AM
Shape Trillian for Mac – Alpha 35% users who had never before
Build Now Available![Cerulean engaged with their privacy Rip Torn was heroically arrested
Studios via Download Squad] for breaking into a bank drunk
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and armed over the weekend.
Sadly, he wasn't launching a
populist anti-banking revolution;
he was so drunk, "he thought he
had been dozing in his home." [
workarounds.
Says Lamothe, "I believe tablets NYP]
can open up an entirely new
field, something I would call FACEBOOK
'casual browsing'. It's a really continued from page 34
simple way to get information, settings took the initiative to do
browse the Web, enjoy content, so instead of accepting the
design to make it suitable for the play games and communicate updated suggestions put before
iPad." with friends. It's something you them by the social network. To
Nevertheless, while Lamothe will do at home, in cafes, during Facebook, this number is a very,
sees the potential in the tablet's your holidays - basically when very good thing. Although
touch interface, the fact that the you have a bit of leisure time. To nowhere near a majority of users,
device does not currently support be the perfect casual browser, the this engagement rate is much
Flash is a problem for the CEO. IPad would need a more open higher than industry averages.
While many argue that Apple's architecture, Flash, a camera and Plus, as Facebook's Director of
omission of Flash support is in a few other features...In any case, Public Policy Tim Sparapani
favor of HTML 5, there's no it's an exciting new way to enjoy points out, "35% of 350 million
denying that lack of Flash would the Web." Discuss users is an extraordinary
hinder the consumer experience. number."
The plethora of pre-existing
Flash apps and sites are FACEBOOK page 35
inaccessible save for Adobe's
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FACEBOOK
continued from page 34
But should Facebook really be
proud here? What about the other
65% of users who blindly
accepted the defaults?
Sponsor
According to an article in
Baynewser, Sparapani said that a
typical engagement rate for users
interacting with their settings is 5
-10%. This information came out
during a recent roundtable
discussion organized by the
F e d e r a l T r a d e
Commission(FTC). The panel's
focus was technology and
privacy. However, Facebook
wouldn't reveal what the number
was prior to December's
appearance of the "privacy
changes" dialog box splashed
across the tops of Facebook
homepages. This dialog box,
something Facebook called its
"transition tool," was where the
company explained the changes
and asked its users to either
accept the new recommended
settings or make their own
adjustments. It was the tool that
thrust the once-private posts
Syfy Updates Fairy Tales for Movie Franchise
By Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 10:00:00 AM
SyFy has been reinventing
things with mixed success. They
have'Battlestar Galactica', their
gold standard, but they also
have'Flash Gordon' and
numerous other bombs. They've
also had mini-series based on
classic tales like 'The Wizard of
from millions of users into the
light, making status updates
public along with friend lists and
Facebook page subscriptions. It
was the tool that made Facebook
function a lot more like rival
Twitter, a social network for
public sharing.
Flipping around the PR spin on
this event, what we're learning
through Sparapani's reveal is that
the vast majority of Facebook
users accepted the new defaults
and then moved on with their
life. However large Facebook's
network may be, however many
millions 35% represents,
however bigger a figure that is
than the industry average, most
would agree that it's not a
number worth bragging
about...especially when most
users have been duped into over-
sharing content that they think is
private. Is 35% Worth Bragging
About?
This raises the question, is
Facebook truly proud of this
change? Surely Facebook doesn't
think that the other 65% actually
Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland'.
Now, they're going to even older
stories by creating a television
movie franchise based on classic
fairy tales. One benefit of this
idea is that nobody is owed any
creator fees as most fairy tales
are in the public domain.
Of course, much like their
previous mini-series such as'Tin will have a modern, adult spin.
Man' and'Alice', these stories For example, 'Hansel and Gretel'
wanted their status updates
public by default? There are
plenty of indications that's not
the case. Outside of the
numerous finger-wagging reports
by tech industry pundits,
analysts, and commentators,
these changes have come to the
attention of the general public in
ways that few other esoteric
reports regarding social
networking settings ever have
before. For example, internet
users have been emailing
around(warning, shameless plug
ahead) this article detailing
Facebook privacy settings so
much that it landed on NYT's
most emailed list for days on end
as the number one story. ( It's
still there now, just further
down).
If users weren't generally
outraged over these changes,
there probably wouldn't be a
petition to sign nor would the
FTC be receiving complaints
about the matter.
Interestingly enough, it's worth
noting that users aren't angry
enough to actually abandon the
social network - at least not in
any significant numbers. They're
just mad. That speaks greatly to
how deeply entrenched Facebook
has now become as a part of our
everyday communication
infrastructure. The company can
essentially bait-and-switch its
millions of users, promising a
private place for online
socialization, then turn around
and open up its network to the
web at large, and they get away
with it. Afterwards, the company
gets to pat itself on the back that
35% of its users were smart
enough to not fall for its tricks.
Facebook, in our opinion, this
isn't something you should brag
about. It's not a move worthy of
praise. Discuss
will now become a revenge flick.
'Little Red Riding Hood' could
very well turn into a copy
of'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'
where Red hunts down
werewolves.
This idea might work, and some
of the movies might even
become backdoor pilots if done
well enough (despite the limited
budget of each). Of course, this
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Willie Mays
is telling his
story
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 10:14:51 PM
Willie Mays, now seventy-eight,
is telling his story in a book
called Willie Mays. The Life.
The Legend. If you’re a baseball
fan, you won’t want to miss this
article about Mays.
He is a neighbor of mine. Ever
year he gives out baseballs and
candy at Halloween. One of the
funniest things that ever
happened to me is when he
handed a baseball to my son (at
the time, about seven years old),
and my son’s response was, “But
can I have a Jolly Rancher, Mr.
Mays?”
(Via New York Times)
More on baseball.
Photo credit: Wikipedia
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concept has already sort of been
done with DC Comics' 'Fables'
series, but using that directly
would involve paying for rights.
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OpEd, Pickups and Renewals,
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Open Thread: What Features Should iPad's

Competitors Have?
By Jolie O'Dell just 16 gigabytes of storage, it's me and quite a few others, I'm
(ReadWriteWeb) not the music/video/photo- toys. A Stylus sure. I'd love to see a device that
carrying device most of us will Our awesome cartoonist, Rob could run Jolicloud, Chrome OS
Submitted at 1/31/2010 12:00:42 PM
need or want. That price point is
Last week, we asked if you essentially a phantom. And when
Cottingham, just wrote this or a lightweight Linux distro.
And as a happy Verizon
Touring Holden
morning that as one who draws
thought the iPad was a flop, and we start to add up all the costs
many of you told us exactly why. for the iPad we'd actually want to
and doodles, he'd appreciate a customer, I'd like to stick with
my current carrier and perhaps
Caufield's New
way to interact with the iPad's
In that comments thread, you have, it makes more sense to
joined us in collective head- scrape together another couple
multitouch screen. Bridging that even work the data charges into
my current plan. Overall, we just
York
gap between the screen and the (Holy Kaw!)
scratching and fist-shaking over hundred dollars and spring for a stylus might even be the graphics want more openness and more
the price point and the lack of top-of-the-line PC laptop - tablet-killer. For a company options. Submitted at 2/1/2010 2:46:34 AM

certain key features. It's clear something a bit more functional, that's traditionally held sway So, what do YOU want in a
that many of us won't be flocking not just a big, expensive geek tablet? USB or other ports? A If you love Holden Caufield, it's
over the design and arts
to the nearest Apple store to pick toy. A Camera built-in WAN card for instant hard not to love New York City,
communities, Apple should've
up one of these gadgets. But For a device that promises to Internet connectivity? More too. The boy is inseparable from
thought more about this part of
there may be alternatives. In the make picture- and video-sharing storage? A faster processor? his city. So, the NY Times takes
its core audience. A Slide-Out
event that a competitor releases a simple and fun, the lack of a Flash? In the comments, give us us on a stroll through the urban
Keyboard
tablet device, what features camera is a great disappointment. your list of must-haves and what spaces that were dear to Holden
This is one of the reasons I'm so
would you want it to have? Give Without a camera, it's true that you expect to pay for them. Who in an interactive map that
glad I held out for my Droid
u s y o u r w i s h l i s t i n t h e there's no ability to snap pics and knows - perhaps a manufacturer associates specific New York
when the Apple fanboys and
c o m m e n t s ; h o p e f u l l y , vids for Facebook or DailyBooth will be able to produce spots and Catcher in the Rye
fangirls were mocking my
manufactures are listening. or talk to others via Skype video something for non-iPad fans passages (with page numbers!).
iPhone-free lifestyle for years.
Sponsor or TinyChat, but users are also sooner than we think. And Holden said we never
Having a physical keyboard
Here's our own wish list of missing out on one of RWW's Check out ReadWriteWeb's full noticed anything.
simply can't be beat, particularly
features that would make us favorite tech trends: augmented iPad Archives. Discuss (via NY Times).
for content creators and
really excited to buy a tablet reality! We wrote a whole post More on books and New York
enterprise users. More Options
from an Apple competitor. A lamenting the fact that this long- City.
for OSes and Carriers
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No multitasking? AT&T? Those
The iPad starts at $500, but with with some of our favorite AR conditions are deal-breakers for

First Down/Fourth Down: Pro Bowl Highs And Lows

By Dan Graziano (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 2:43:00 PM
Filed under: NFL Analysis, Pro
Bowl MIAMI-- First
Down/Fourth Down picks the
winners and losers from the 2010
Pro Bowl. take one sack. Carpenter (filling in for Nate
First Down: Aaron Rodgers. Fourth Down: Norv Turner. Kaeding) missed the kick
This is what it would feel like if Chad Ochocinco begged him to anyway. More: AFC Wins, 41-
he had an offensive line that let him try a 36-yard field goal at 34| Schaub Named MVP| Players
could keep defenders off of him. the end of the first half, but Joke Around
Rodgers was 15-of-19 for 197 Turner refused. In a nifty karmic Jay Mariotti: Time to Put Pro
yards and two TDs in the first home, though, he did manage to twist reminiscent of Turner's Bowl Out of Its Misery
half. To make himself feel at playoff loss to the Jets, Dan
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Indian Authors, Publishers Unhappy What if Flash were an

with Google Books Plan to Scan open standard?
By Jolie O'Dell In the past, Google's book- (Scripting News) and that's probably right (I don't
(ReadWriteWeb) scanning project has come under Submitted at 1/31/2010 9:50:19 AM have a single Flash document on
Submitted at 2/1/2010 12:10:13 AM
the scrutiny of the U.S. scripting.com). But I very much
Department of Justice as well as Interesting collaborative post care about an open Internet.
A group of 15 authors and the governments of Germany and betw Gruber and Scoble. I'd like Yes, that opens me to ridicule
publishers and two organizations France. Federal judge Danny to get into the mix with a 90- from users with little experience
in India have filed a formal Chin is currently presiding over degree turn -- in the form of a w i t h t h e o t h e r k i n d o f
objection to the Google Books the case, which involves a class- question. networking, one that has huge
Settlement. action lawsuit and a settlement of 1. Okay, Apple seems to be Do Not Enter signs everywhere.
The Indian Reprographic Rights more than $100 million for forcing a question. Can they Their naivete is no excuse for
Organisation and the Federation copyright holders whose works force web site producers to kill throwing out the engine that's
of Indian Publishers and these 15 had been reproduced without Flash? been driving innovation. The
individuals join a panoply of publishing entities claims that their consent. 2. It's kind of hard to defend question of where and how we
international entities who have Google's proposed settlement is a The Indian authors and Flash because it's a company- draw the line should be part of
objected to Google's ambitious violation of copyright laws, both publishers have submitted their owned thing, not an open the public discussion.
and controversial plan to scan as internationally and in India, objections to the settlement to standard. BTW, how lovely are open
m a n y b o o k s a s p o s s i b l e because it allows for Google's Chin, who has decided to hold a 3. Now the question. What if standards? I'm writing this post
throughout the world. Though scanning, redistributing and final hearing on February 18, Apple were trying to erase from an American Airlines flight
the search and web app giant's selling books online. Content 2010 to determine whether the something that's not company- from NY to SF. Do you have any
scheme would create a vast creators who don't want their Google Books Settlement is fair, owned? Either a formal or idea how many open standards
online library, it may also work online must opt out of the adequate and reasonable. defacto standard? were necessary to make this
infringe on the rights of content plan themselves; if an author Check out ReadWriteWeb's 4 . F u r t h e r , w h a t i f t h e i r work? Makes the mind spin. And
creators and has involved a does not explicitly opt out, his or archive of articles on the Google alternative were something that it all works exactly the same if I
lengthy international legal battle. her silence is deemed implicit Books Settlement for more was locked-down and owned by fly Virgin America or Air Egypt.
Sponsor consent. information. Discuss a company? Further, what if the In an Apple-designed world how
The coalition of Indian company was Apple? much of this would work? Imho,
This may be kind of a toe-dip. not very much.
Lady Gaga's 3 lessons for the music Apple tries this. If it works, they PS: Adobe might want to
try sticking their whole foot in. c o n s i d e r , r i g h t n o w , v e r y

industry
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 8:14:00 PM
Tonight’s Grammy opener isn’t
Lady Gaga’s only treat for the
music industry. Not to suggest
that there is much obscure about
her, the extreme performer has
three lessons tucked away as
• She’s a digital phenomenon.
• She’s got a 360-degree view.
• She could be the next
Madonna.
Read the full WSJ article.
(via WSJ)
well, according to The Wall More on celebrities and music.
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The end result may well be a quickly, giving Flash to the
networking environment owned public domain. Disclaim all
by one company. Or two or more patents, open source all code, etc
i n c o m p a t i b l e n e t w o r k i n g etc. That would throw the ball
environments. squarely back into Apple's court
Users and website developers and would frame the question
are practical people. We don't right now in its most stark terms.
care about Adobe, says Gruber,
38 Tech News/ TV/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition

Sensors to Help You Get Fit - From

Nike, Adidas & Others
By Richard MacManus 2010 doesn't come with a Twitter
(ReadWriteWeb) and Facebook connection? Sure
Submitted at 2/1/2010 2:26:53 AM
enough, the Nike+ can
automatically tweet and post a
One of the trends we're status report on Facebook.
exploring this year is how the Meanwhile the Adidas miCoach
Internet is being integrated into PACER is a running pacer
everyday objects. Called the device which retails for $140.
Internet of Things, it's seeping The bundle includes a Heart Rate
into some massive consumer Monitor and a "Stride Sensor" -
industries. One of them is
fitness. Many of you have heard
of the Nike+ running shoes, Sponsor
a battery-operated sensor that fits
into your shoe.
The miCoach Pacer can also
Sundays with Seth: A
which send running data to your A recent USA Today article verbally coach the runner during
iPod via a sensor. Adidas notes the increasing usage of their run, "to ensure that they are night of criminal
recently joined the race to web-enabled products that help staying within their targeted
connect your running gear to the you monitor your workouts and heart rate zone."
Internet, with its miCoach give you real-time coaching. The There's an accompanying
activity
system. There is also the Wii Fit Nike+ shoes and iPod system is website, where users can create By Jason Hughes (TV Squad) prescription), while 'American
and innovative web fitness one of the market leaders. training plans, set goals and Submitted at 2/1/2010 4:10:00 AM Dad' mocked the notion of
services like NordicTrack's iFit. The Nike+ shoes come with a monitor their progress. someone becoming addicted to
Keep up, because tracking your sensor that tracks your run, then Let us know if you currently use I'm not sure if it was by bizarre pot to the point they would need
fitness progress on the Internet - sends the data to your iPod. It an Internet-connected fitness coincidence or divine -- by rehab.
via sensors attached to your body even has its own social network. system, especially if it makes use which I mean Seth MacFarlane -- At least 'Family Guy' kept it
or workout gear - is going to And what Web product circa of sensors. Discuss intervention, but all three simple. Drugs weren't an issue
become very popular. MacFarlane episodes this week throughout the entire episode,
were mired in illegal activities. though Meg was certainly acting
Citigroup in talks to sell buy-out division 'Family Guy' saw Meg go from a like she was on drugs. What she
sweet innocent teenaged girl into was really doing, though, was
(Financial Times - US presses ahead with plans to sell was inspired by Paul Volcker, a hardened criminal, Cleveland acting out over years of abuse by
homepage) $900bn of non-core assets to former chairman of the Federal Brown inadvertently became a everyone around her.
Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:08:54 AM
repay debt. Reserve. drug trafficker, while Stan Smith Continue reading Sundays with
The talks come just weeks after Five Filters featured article: found himself overwhelmed with Seth: A night of criminal activity
Citigroup is in talks to sell its US President Barack Obama Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: a drug problem of his own. Filed under: Other Comedy
private equity, real estate and announced plans to prevent PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, And in both 'The Cleveland Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews,
hedge fund investment arms, banks from owning or investing Term Extraction. Show' and 'American Dad,' we Reality-Free
which together manage about in private equity or hedge funds got reminders that marijuana isn't Permalink| Email this| |
$20bn of assets, as the bank under the “Volcker Rule”, which really a drug. 'The Cleveland C o m m e n t s
Show' listed for us where we can
get it legally (with a
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Apple Makes at Least $200 Per iPad Sold: Report

By Darrell Etherington of that cost accounts for the 9.7- margin is a very promising sign
(TheAppleBlog) inch touchscreen display, which of things to come for future
Submitted at 2/1/2010 8:00:07 AM
Marshall guesses costs around Apple customers. Just like it
$100. Apple sees considerable eventually became profitable for
Maybe it’s a hangover from my savings on its own in-house A4 Apple to sell the iPhone 3G at a
days working in electronic retail chips, which run around $15 per subsidized $99 price point as
sales at Best Buy, but I love unit. With a cost of $290.50 and parts became cheaper and
hearing about the profit margins a selling price of $499, Apple manufacturing costs went down,
companies have for their devices. stands to see a profit margin of so too is it conceivable that we
I t ’ s a m a z i n g t o m e t h a t 42.9 percent with each sale. will eventually see a significant
companies like Sony are willing On other models that margin dip in the price of the iPad. If the
to take a hit and sell devices at a ranges from 48 to 55.1 percent, 1G iPad sticks around when
loss in order to sell more giving the iPad line as a whole Apple eventually introduces a
software down the road. Apple is an overall profit-generating 2G camera-equipped model, for
clearly no fan of this kind of power of about 50 percent, a instance, 1G pricing could drop
sales strategy, and the brand new number which assumes that the to a point where it would
iPad is no exception. Wi-Fi models will sell decimate netbook sales.
A new report by BroadPoint considerably more than the 3G- There’s also the possibility that
AmTech analyst Brian Marshall capable devices, a reasonable the iPad will eventually get the
about the cost of production of assumption. Computerworld same subsidy treatment the
the iPad based on the going rate points out that while the number iPhone currently enjoys, though
f o r c o m p o n e n t p a r t s , seems fairly high, it is in fact on Apple doesn’t appear to want to
manufacturing cost and built-in par with Apple’s other hardware go that route with consumers just
warranty repair costs reveals offerings: yet, preferring instead to keep
quite a wide profit margin on a High profit margins are standard the device unlocked and
per device basis. The entry-level for Apple, which earlier in the tear-downs and component inside. We’d rather not just therefore theoretically available
$499 model apparently generates week boasted that its corporate analyses, has refrained from throw numbers at it yet. It does t o a b r o a d e r b u y e r - b a s e .
$208 in profit, while the top of margin for 2009’s final quarter making any estimates about the seem like a gigantic iPod Touch, Subsidies attached to contracts
the line $829 model more than was 40.1%. Some products, in iPad’s cost to build as of yet, which means that although some could reduce the initial purchase
doubles that, raking in $446 per fact, have estimated margins though it does acknowledge that costs would just scale up from p r i c e c o n s i d e r a b l y , a n d I
unit. even higher than Marshall’s iPad there’s reason to believe many the iPod, like the display and the wouldn’t be surprised to see
Marshall estimates that the cost numbers: The consensus for the costs will be similar to those touch screen, a lot won’t. $199 as the cost of entry for the
of making the 16GB Wi-Fi iPhone 3GS is above 60%, for found in the manufacture of the Considering that the iPad is a 16GB Wi-Fi/3G model.
model of the iPad runs around example. iPhone and iPod touch: brand new product just getting
$270.50, plus $20 for warranty iSuppli, a research firm which is We really want to wait until we out of the gate, news that it
costs for a total of $290.50. Most well-known for its Apple product know a little more about what’s already enjoys such a wide profit

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40 Apple/ TV/
Rumor: Jobs Bashes Google and
Adobe, Hints at New Products
By Charles Jade
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:28:55 AM
Secondhand reports of Steve
Jobs at a town hall meeting for
Apple employees have the iconic
CEO telling it like is about Flash,
Google’s “Don’t be Evil”
philosophy, and maybe telling us
what to expect in 2010.
First, the stuff for your inner
rumormonger from MacRumors.
Steve Jobs believes the iPad is
as important to Apple as the
iPhone and the Mac, and that’s
both unsurprising and scary.
Let’s hope it doesn’t become a
“hobby” like the Apple TV. As
for the iPhone, the next model is
an “A+ update” that
Google/Android won’t be able to
match.
Macs are going to “take Apple
to the next level” in 2010, unless
that level requires Blu-ray.
Repeating the tired refrain about
software and licensing being a
“mess,” Apple is apparently
waiting until Blu-ray sales “take
off.” Those, like myself, pining
for a Mac mini with Blu-ray take
a moment to collect yourselves.
E-reader News Edition
Apple and Google would not
compete in the same space.
More colorfully, Jobs
supposedly called Google’s
motto “bulls**t,” maybe. John
Gruber of Daring Fireball reports
a source told him that Wired was
paraphrasing, that Jobs said,
“Don’t be evil is a load of crap.”
Scatological nuance noted.
As for Adobe, there’s less to
dispute. Steve Jobs hates Flash.
Finally, about the whole Lala According to Wired, Jobs once
acquisition, Apple wanted to get again criticized Flash, asserting
them on the “iTunes team,” that it is buggy and it crashes
whatever that means. Macs, and that “the world is
Regarding Google and Adobe, moving to HTML5.” It’s all Review: The Simpsons -
there’s some dispute over exactly g o o d , s o l i d b o i l e r p l a t e
what was said, giving credence execuspeak, but it still won’t get
to the theory of eyewitness me Hulu on my iPad, or will it?
Million Dollar Maybe
fallibility or the theory of As for the company itself, Jobs By Jason Hughes (TV Squad) than we're used to seeing. 'The
inflammatory reporting. Take suggested that while Adobe has Submitted at 2/1/2010 3:07:00 AM Simpsons' has become a very
your pick. great potential, “they are lazy.” crisp production.
According to Wired, Jobs had So, cutting through the rumor (S21E11) This episode featured The main plot this week
h a r s h w o r d s f o r G o o g l e , chaff for the wheat, no Flash for two surprises, though both rather involved Homer ditching Marge
asserting that Apple “did not iPad, no Blu-ray for Mac, and short-lived. The band Coldplay at a wedding because a fortune
enter the search business,” but just four more months until appeared as themselves, and the cookie told him he would be
that Google “entered the phone WWDC and, presumably, the winning character from the lucky that day. From there,
business.” If true, that’s a iPhone A+. "Best. Character. Ever" contest things went into the realm of the
fascinating comment, in that it was revealed. It's so much absurd at a breakneck pace.
could be argued their was, at excitement, even a million Continue reading Review: The
least from Jobs’ point of view, a dollars couldn't top it! Simpsons - Million Dollar
kind of informal agreement that The animation looked a little Maybe
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ABC Greenlights Fred Willard and Exxon profits

Comedy from 'Scrubs' Swoosie Kurtz to Guest fall 23% in
fourth quarter
Writers on 'Chuck' (Financial Times - US
homepage)
By Joel Keller (TV Squad) By Allison Waldman (TV
Submitted at 2/1/2010 9:35:00 AM
Squad) Submitted at 2/1/2010 6:40:25 AM

Submitted at 2/1/2010 11:00:00 AM ExxonMobil, the world’s largest

ABC really loves dealing with
Bill Lawrence and his crew,
don't they?'Scrubs' has been on
far longer than anyone expected,
and'Cougar Town' is now on its
way to a second season. It seems
like Steve McPherson and
company haven't been deterred
by the poor ratings of 'Scrubs,'
since he's ordered a pilot from
two of the show's writers.
'How to Be a Better American' is
about a middle-aged man who
goes on a journey to be a better
man, dragging his unwilling
family along with him. It's a
single-camera comedy that will
be run by Steven Cragg and
Brian Bradley, longtime
members of Team Lawrence;
they will also be writing the
pilot.
No casting news yet, so the
listed western energy group, on
Guest stars can be a good
Monday followed the industry
thing... or a bad thing. Some
trend, as it reported a 23 per cent
shows handle it better than
drop in fourth-quarter earnings
others, incorporating the usually
on lower refining margins, even
familiar stars into the episode(s)
as its production increased nearly
for maximum effect. The recent season as a pair of former spies 2 per cent.
turn by Robert Wagner on 'NCIS' who were romantically involved. Its refining and marketing
was an example of a terrific 'Hart to Hart' was mentioned in earnings had a loss of $189m,
guest appearance. Michael Ausiello's scoop, and he down $2.6bn from the year-
show is more of a concept than Speaking of Robert Wagner, even went so far as to suggest a e a r l i e r p e r i o d , a s d e m a n d
anything else. But it sounds kind you're probably aware that he spin-off. dropped with the economic
of like 'The Middle' in an RV, starred on the much-loved ABC's Continue reading Fred Willard downturn and a move towards
which actually wouldn't be so romantic detective series 'Hart to and Swoosie Kurtz to Guest on energy efficiency and renewables
bad. As long as they don't have a Hart' with Stephanie Powers. 'Chuck' took hold.
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Fantasy Spin: Chris Paul Needs Surgery

By Tom Lorenzo (FanHouse from the game for the next two will have surgery on Monday can convince another owner to
Main) months without using an and an optimistic return is no trade you Deron Williams, Steve
Submitted at 1/31/2010 3:00:00 PM
emoticon. Upside-down smiley sooner than one month from Nash or Rajon Rondo. Even
face, anyone? But that's not my now. Paul missed eight games in then, you're not going to get back
Filed under: NBA Injury Report, style. I'm more of an "ugh" kind late-November, though he's still fair value. So once again you are
Fantasy Basketball I really don't of guy. So ... UGH! in the Top 5 due to his forced to weather the storm and
k n o w h o w t o e x p r e s s m y Word broke that Chris Paul will tremendous skills on both sides hope for the best.
feelings toward Chris Paul's reportedly miss the next 6-8 his left knee on Friday night of the ball. There really is no
imminent surgery and absence weeks after tearing cartilage in against the Bulls. It looks like he way to replace Paul unless you
42 Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition

Mel Gibson Pretty Sure The Na'vi Are Just Jews In Disguise
[Monday Box Office]
By Richard Lawson (Gawker) hair-fucking and space trees. Did Scorpion King, in which she
Submitted at 2/1/2010 10:27:00 AM anyone know that Americans would play an ancient Egyptian
loved hair-fucking and space warrior who's been brought back
If ten years ago someone were trees as much as Americans from the dead by an evil wizard
to tell you that Mel Gibson was apparently love hair-fucking and to once and for all destroy the
going to be killed someday by space trees? We don't even know kingdom of Genovia, hopefully
blue space monkeys, you'd have ourselves. Avatar has taught us slaying its cruel dictator, Mia
figured them just as crazy as he that. For that we should be Thermopolis, in the process.
is, right? Well you'd have been grateful. 6) Legion— $6.8 million
the crazy one! 2) Edge of Relevance— $17.1 Dropping a significant 60% in
1 ) A v a t a r — A b a j i l l i o n million its second weekend, this
doughlars Oh poor Mel Gibson. Well, not documentary about angels killing
Snatching up thirty million more that poor. This thing did well! old ladies is just not connecting
Earthbucks, this thing is just Not many anti-Semitic wallabies with people. Is it that no one
never going to stop. Not ever! In with drinking problems can open cares for Dennis Quaid's muttony
forty years when all of us are a movie this big. Gibson is looks anymore? Has Kate Walsh
either dead or gray and forgotten, maybe the only one who can. Shine on you crazy drunken Jew- *are* terribly romantic. finally angered America with
this thing will still be playing in Russell Crowe hasn't said hating diamond. Shine on. 4) The Tooth Fairy— $10 Private Practice enough for a
the brain-theaters of our youths' anything anti-Jew that we're 3) When in Rome— $12 million million cruel backlash? Has albino
computerheads. No one was aware of, plus he's a great big fat This movie did surprisingly Since quitting professional British person Paul Bettany
surprised when this movie was a person these days, so nobody well. No one actually knows who w r e s t l i n g a n d e n t e r i n g defied the odds and asserted
hit. But aren't you starting to get w a n t s t o s e e t h a t . C a t e Kristen Bell is, and Josh Hollywood as a bulky but himself as *not* an action star?
surprised that it's THIS big? Blanchett? She's a handsome Duhamel is a foot disease one lovable lunk, Julie Andrews has Whatever the mystifying reason,
Titantic made sense, because that woman and oh lord does she gets in North Africa. And yet! had quite a career. But perhaps most mystifying of all things is
was about the Titantic boat and drink and hate Jewish people, but And yet, and yet, and yet. Maybe the seemingly unstoppable buck that we still haven't seen it. Just
all the people that died on it and no one wants to see her artsy women were just starved for a does, in fact, stop here. In two look at the previews. That old
Leo DiCaprio's face looked like movies about arts. Maybe the little romance and, oddly weeks of release, Fairy has l a d y i s C R A Z Y A N D
a baby's buttocks if a baby's only Australian creature capable enough, weren't finding it in the grossed a sad little $26 million, CLIMBING ON THE WALLS.
buttocks could look impossibly of being as drunken and Jew- hair-fucking and grizzled Mel despite its hilarious premise and Plus: many guns. We're going
beautiful even when blue (omg!) hatingly successful as Mel Gibson movies. And wacky realistic fairy wing technology. right now. Sorry, Gabriel!
and dead. Romance and swoony- Gibson is Rupert Murdoch. movies starring people you've Already with an eye toward a
goony stuff mixed with boat- Actually, he probably wins. never heard of about magic comeback, Andrews is said to be
halving special effects? Yes Murdoch really does win every things happening to shrill idiots pondering a sequel to The
please! But Avatar is all about time. But still! Mel does well!
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Sources: New Orleans Hornets' Chris

Paul will undergo knee surgery
By Marc Stein (ESPN.com) need for surgery, saying that test the baseline in the final seconds
Submitted at 2/1/2010 6:23:58 AM results revealed a partial tear to of regulation.
Paul's meniscus and that he When Paul is formally ruled out
The New Orleans Hornets have could miss up to two months. of the All-Star Game, his
lost All-Star point guard Chris This will be Paul's second replacement on the Western
Paul for at least a month. extended absence of the season. Conference roster will be chosen
Sources close to the situation An ankle injury cost him eight by NBA commissioner David
confirmed to ESPN.com on games soon after Byron Scott Stern. Prime candidates to
Sunday that Paul tore cartilage in was replaced as coach by general replace Paul at guard include
his left knee and will be forced to manager Jeff Bower, but the Denver's Chauncey Billups and
undergo arthroscopic surgery. Hornets managed a 4-4 record Golden State's Monta Ellis.
The Hornets are optimistic, during that stretch. Marc Stein is a senior NBA
sources said, that Paul will miss After Paul tweaked the knee in a writer for ESPN.com.
HP Donates Thousands to only one month, including the game Wednesday at Golden
Feb. 14 All-Star Game. But they State, it appears he suffered the
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By Pareene (Gawker)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 10:31:50 AM
McCain campaign to go around
being a big famous successful
CEO who proved that John
Report: Chris Paul Out 1-2 Months
Out in California, former McCain totally understood and
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly cared about business (he doesn't,
After Knee Surgery
Fiorina is running for Senate as a really) but she was actually not By Matt Moore (FanHouse on his left knee to repair a torn
Republican against terrible much of an asset to that hilarious Main) meniscus. The injury is not
liberal Barbara Boxer. And her campaign, even leaving aside the Submitted at 1/31/2010 2:32:00 PM
believed to be season ending,
former company is, for some fact that her tenure as CEO was and because he is not Kevin
reason, donating a lot of money kind of disastrous and the Filed under: Hornets, NBA Garnett Tracy McGrady Andrew
to Boxer. company became much more Injuries Every year we are Bynum, we might be able to trust
B o x e r g o t t h e m a x i m u m valuable once they fired her. robbed of stars, phenomenal that information.
$ 1 0 , 0 0 0 f r o m H P ' s P A C , (She is also now facing a players who fall to injuries; the For the Hornets, a rough season
including $3,000 in the last primary battle from Tea Party- fates denying us their talents as that had recently started to look
quarter of 2009. Fiorina, HP affiliated bona fide conservative randomly as anything in this up just took a drastic turn for the
CEO from 1999-2005 (when she C h u c k D e V o r e , w h o h a s bizarre world. good while longer. Adrian toilet. Join me as we examine the
was fired) received $250 from received $2,400 from HP heiress A few days ago, we were robbed Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports flush.
one HP manager. Arianna Packard herself.) of Chris Paul. And it turns out is reporting that Paul will miss 1-
Carly was paid by the John we've been robbed of him for a 2 months after planned surgery
44 Sports/ Game/
Source: Indianapolis Colts DE Dwight Freeney
has torn ligament in right ankle
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:41:06 AM
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Freeney Injury Update
Indianapolis Colts Pro Bowl
defensive end Dwight Freeney
has a torn ligament in his right
ankle that will make it difficult
for him to play against the New
Orleans Saints in Super Bowl
XLIV, a source familiar with the
injury told ESPN NFL Insider
Adam Schefter.
The Colts were maintaining
Sunday that Freeney has a low
ankle sprain and remained
questionable, which means he
has about a 50-50 chance of
playing.
Team spokesman Craig Kelley
said Sunday night Freeney was
being treated in Florida for a
basketball-type injury.
"He is under the care of our
athletic training staff," Kelley
said. "Nothing we have seen
changes our diagnosis that he is
questionable. He has a third-
degree, low basketball sprain."
A third-degree ankle sprain by
definition involves a complete
tear of an ankle ligament.
Despite the fact that Colts
president Bill Polian has
predicted that Freeney will play,
there are serious questions about
whether he will. Even if Freeney
can, the question then becomes
how effective he can be.
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Freeney, who has been in a
walking boot all week, flew to
South Florida on Friday to begin
a battery of treatments for the
ankle. Freeney has used a
hyperbaric chamber this week to
help heal, a technique he often
uses to try to heal from injuries
quickly.
Freeney is also using a device
called ARP that is similar to a
stem device to move the blood
supply to the damaged ankle.
The ARP operates differently
than normal stem devices, but
ARP has helped him in past
years recover quickly from groin
and hamstring pulls.
Freeney's ankle is said to be
heavily swollen. The torn
ligament is on the outside of his
right ankle, which will make it
difficult for him to pivot and use
his whirling-dervish pass moves
to get to Saints quarterback Drew
Brees. Freeney did not practice
Wednesday, Thursday or Friday
and has not been available to
reporters since the game.
"It's hard to speculate at this
point," Colts quarterback Peyton
Manning said during ESPN's Pro
Bowl broadcast. "Dwight is one
of our best players, we know
that. But all season long Coach
Caldwell has talked about
picking up the bayonet.
Someone's got to step up. If
Dwight were not to be able to go
that would be tough, but
somebody else will step up and
we'll feel confident in whoever
that is."
Freeney injured the ankle
pulling up in an effort to not hit
Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez
late in the fourth quarter of the
Colts AFC Championship Game
win. Freeney didn't hit Sanchez,
but he did injure himself.
"He has had injuries before
where they said [he's] not going
to play and he has come back,"
Colts tight end Dallas Clark said
during the Pro Bowl. "He is a
competitor, he is one of the
toughest guys on our team and I
never expect him to miss
anything."
Freeney will continue
undergoing treatment all week
with the hope of playing. But if
the Colts do not have Freeney,
they will be missing their top
defender, a player that tied for
third in the league this season
with 13.5 sacks.
But Freeney also has a history
of healing fast, including earlier
this season, when he returned
seven days after hurting his
quadriceps -- an injury that some
reports said would keep the
former league sacks champ out
up to three weeks. That was in
late September.
Freeney did not miss a game
until Nov. 29 at Houston, when
he sat out with an abdominal
injury. The only other game he
missed this season was the
regular-season finale at Buffalo
when most Indy starters played
sparingly or not at all.
He finished this season with
13½ sacks this season, the sixth
time in eight NFL seasons
Freeney has had at least 10
sacks.
Information from ESPN NFL
Insider Adam Schefter,
ESPN.com senior writer John
Clayton and The Associated
Press was used in this report.
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EA trademarks
'MySims Sky
Heroes'
By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 10:32:00 AM
According to a new trademark,
EA's surprisingly adorable
MySims are preparing for
another adventure -- after
Agents, Kingdom, Party, Racing,
and the original MySims(the last
of which being less of an
adventure and more of a life).
EA has filed a trademark for
MySims Sky Heroes(and
MySims SkyHeroes), for what
we assume will be a game about
operating a small neighborhood
coffee shop flying flghter planes.
We can safely guess that if this
game does end up being made,
it'll be released for DS and Wii.
And it'll be really cute. Unless
this is to be the "mature"
relaunch of MySims.
[Via Trademork, Destructoid]
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Time to Put Pro Bowl
Out of Its Misery
By Jay Mariotti (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 3:30:00 PM
Filed under: NFL
MIAMI -- Given a choice of
watching the Pro Bowl or
wading with killer alligators in
the Everglades, well, next time, I
promise to think about it. Not
that I really want a next time. If
this event could be held at
midseason, like all the normal
All-Star Games, and if every
player was placed in a
hermetically sealed cocoon to
avoid injuries, and if the mood
was serious and not something
out of Uncle Bob's picnic, then
maybe I'd embrace it.
But what I watched on a rainy
Sunday night, inside whatever
they're calling Joe Robbie
Stadium/Pro Player
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Slowly but Surely,
Crane Triumphs Again
By Mick Elliott (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 1:45:00 PM
NintendoWare Weekly:
Filed under: PGA SAN DIEGO Monkey Island, Alex
-- For a player who had two
career PGA Tour wins in nine
Kidd, Rollway Puzzle
seasons before arriving at Torrey By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Pines for the Farmers Insurance Submitted at 2/1/2010 9:39:00 AM
Open, Ben Crane on Sunday
looked very much like he knew
exactly what he was doing.
There are a couple of interesting
games hidden in an unusually
At least he did until the winning
three-foot putt for par on the
crowded lineup of new Nintendo
downloads. The Tales of
Stadium/Dolphin Stadium these final hole dropped. Monkey Island series concludes,
days, was completely That's when Crane turned Alex Kidd appears in a weird
embarrassing, meaningless, quizzically to caddie Joel Stock, Still, Crane insisted victory did crossover game, and DSiWare
unnecessary and insulting to looking very much like a man not register until final-group features a game that uses the
one's intellect. Give me Rex In suddenly realizing his pants were playing partner Ryuji Imada camera for motion controls. And
The City, Jets coach Rex Ryan, on fire. made it official. somehow, Digital Leisure
flipping the bird at rowdy "You know, I did not know that I "He goes, 'Congratulations,' and released the same game twice!
Dolphins fans at a nearby mixed had won when it was over," I go, 'Did I win?' " Crane said. Find out how that happened (and
martial arts event. Give me Crane said. "I didn't know who "He kind of looks at me. I said, what all the other new games
whether the NFL is headed was playing well. I didn't know 'Did I win the tournament?' He's are) after the break.
toward labor doom, which will what was really going on in front like, 'Yeah.' " Continue reading NintendoWare
be a constant theme this week. of me. I had no idea what was It meant the 33-year-old golf Weekly: Monkey Island, Alex
Give me a debate on whether going on. wallflower did everything the Kidd, Rollway Puzzle
Shaun Alexander belongs on the "I'm thankful I didn't. Someone pros with their own airplanes NintendoWare Weekly: Monkey
league's all-decade team. More said, 'one-shot lead' when we did, only a little bit better. Island, Alex Kidd, Rollway
importantly, give me Dwight were going to the last hole, so I Puzzle originally appeared on
Freeney's torn ankle ligament -- thought he might be right." Joystiq on Mon, 01 Feb 2010
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'The Tester' reality

series debuts on
PSN Feb. 18
By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq)

Over 60,000 PAX East Submitted at 2/1/2010 10:03:00 AM

Mass Effect 2 enjoys attendees expected, around

Sony's PlayStation Network-
exclusive reality series " The
Tester" will begin February 18th.
effective debut in UK 1,000 tickets remaining The competition will have the
above real gamers vying for a
By Alexander Sliwinski been totally eclipsed by
(Joystiq) BioWare's space opera, but it By Alexander Sliwinski week that the show has fewer chance to win a glamorous
still managed a strong debut --
(Joystiq) t h a n 1 , 0 0 0 3 - d a y b a d g e s testing job at PlayStation. Until
remaining. At this point, PAX April 8th, the PlayStation Store
Submitted at 2/1/2010 11:00:00 AM
have a look at our review to see Submitted at 2/1/2010 9:05:00 AM
Mass Effect 2 has warped to the if it's worth the attention. The East has no announced speakers, (for PSP and PS3) will update
every Thursday with new -- and
top of Chart-Track's UK sales rest of the list features the usual Following up on the warning music guests nor sponsors. It free -- episodes of the series.
chart, revealing that Britain isn't suspects, though Dragon Age: that PAX East will sell out, seems like everyone is buying
Should "The Tester"
just about Just Dance(which still Origins has made a return to the Joystiq has learned that the into an expectation that the show successfully sidestep traditional
stepped its way into second top 40. It seems Mass Effect 2 inaugural East Coast edition of will deliver an experience similar employee recruitment and take
place, by the way). Comparing wasn't the only BioWare game the show will have over 60,000 to PAX West -- and you don't off, don't be surprised if Sony
debut weeks, the Normandy casting a spell over consumers a t t e n d e e s . R o b e r t K h o o , want to disappoint an audience announces "Who Wants to be
crew's second outing sold twice last week. President of Operations and Biz this huge.
as well on Xbox 360 than the Source- Mass Effect 2 gravitates Dev for Penny Arcade Inc., tells O v e r 6 0 , 0 0 0 P A X E a s t Our Janitor?" next season.
original did back in 2007 and to No1 [GFK Chart-Track] us that they can't release final attendees expected, around 1,000 'The Tester' reality series debuts
on PSN Feb. 18 originally
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Abbie Cornish on Bright Star and Sucker Punch

By ELLE.com (ELLE News didn’t know his work. When I operates on three different levels: definitely a polar-opposite
Blog) got to London, we had three A reality, which is the psych experience.
Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:52:20 AM
weeks’ rehearsal time, during ward, and then a sub-reality, Did you become tight with
which we did a lot of where the psych ward turns into Vanessa Hudgens, Jena Malone,
Abbie Cornish won over critics improvising, playing, and just an opulent, high-rolling brothel. and the rest of the Sucker Punch
with her standout performance in sitting in that environment and And then there’s this dream cast?
Bright Star(now available on then compressing it back down world, where it’s all action. It’s We all became really good
DVD), which follows the ill- to the original scene. There’s not kind of in the girls’ heads, but friends. The five of us have our
fated affair between Romantic a lot written about her, so the lines blur in the film, so even differences and similarities, but
p o e t J o h n K e a t s a n d h i s [director Jane Campion] really though it’s drifting in and out of we all got along so well, which
neighbor, Fanny Brawne. Next had to create her in the film. We these dimensions, it’s a seamless could be a rare thing. With any
u p , t h e A u s s i e a c t r e s s i s kind of know who her family transition. Even though you’re combination of five girls, who
s w i t c h i n g g e a r s f o r Z a c k was and what happened later on jumping through time and space, knows what will happen?
Snyder’s Sucker Punch, which in her life, but I had to use my the story stays linear. You have another Zack Snyder
bears the tagline “ Alice in i m a g i n a t i o n a n d J a n e ’ s What kind of training did you movie—an animated film called
Wonderland with machine i m a g i n a t i o n undergo? Guardians of Ga’hoole.
guns.” Cornish chatted with Did you go into Bright Star We trained for three months in I voice Otulissa, who’s a
me about Oscar buzz for Bright t h i n k i n g i t w o u l d g e t s o martial arts, and learned how to teenage owl. It was so strange! I
Star, bonding with her Sucker m u c h O s c a r b u z z ? use guns and swords and work went in and sat with Zach and
Punch castmates, and preparing Jane has Oscar buzz because works really hard and everyone on the wires. We did mixed Deb [Snyder] and they showed
to play a teen owl in another that’s something she’s been around her works hard. We shot martial arts—a bit of karate, tae me what the landscapes would be
upcoming Snyder project. through before. She’s the only in one location 90 percent of the kwon-do, wushu, boxing. And like, what the tree was like, and
—Erin Clements female director to win the Palme time, so there was something then they stylized that to our any other mockups. I had an
What appealed to you about d’Or, and she’s won an Oscar. very familiar about going to set characters. My character is image of what she looked like.
playing Fanny Brawne? So for her, yeah, but never for every day. Jane really likes to set strong, independent, a natural And I also looked at owls of the
She had so much life and myself. You don’t really have up that environment where you leader, so in the action world, her same breed on the internet.
presence. She’s such a strong, those preconceived ideas about a feel at ease and it’s more about moves and even the weapons—I I looked in their eyes, and tried
independent young woman, but f i l m while you’re feeling and sensing than u s e a big, heavy to get a sense of what they would
at the same time very sensitive shooting—you’re so consumed thinking. She’s so connected as a broadsword—are more powerful. be like. It was really funny
and delicate. And I respect her by the process of making it that human being and as a director, How difficult was it to transition sitting in the recording booth,
love for fashion, which was how it’s hard to think of the end she’s always there for you and from a period drama to an action flapping my arms about.
she expressed herself. product. pushes you in the right direction. flick? Photo: Getty Images
What kind of research did you What was it like working with Let’s talk about Sucker Punch. I had a year between the two,
do before filming? Jane? It’s the story of five girls who from when I wrapped Bright
I learned more about Keats, It was a very intense experience. band together to escape a Star, so there was so much time
because I knew his name but I We shot six-day weeks; Jane psychiatric ward in the ‘60s. It in between them. But it was

Obama unveils US budget plans

(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:40:25 AM
President Barack Obama on
Monday unveiled budget plans
that would reduce the US
government deficit from 10.6 per
cent of gross domestic product in
2010 to below 4 per cent by
2014.
In cash terms, the deficit would
peak at $1,556bn this year –
even higher than the $1,413bn
deficit in 2009 – then gradually
decline to $706bn in 2014 before
starting to drift up again. The 10-
year cumulative deficit from the
fiscal year 2011 to 2020 would
come in at $8,532bn.
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Protecting Against 'Lone Wolf' at Super Bowl

(FOXNews.com) someone who comes through briefing on how the Christmas information about how to ticket. He said in a telephone
Submitted at 2/1/2010 4:08:05 AM doesn't have anything on them," Day episode could affect conduct an attack on a sporting interview from his San Diego
Ahlerich said. Olympic operations. event using more than one home that he attended 24 of the
MIAMI T h e m a s s i v e , Part of the $6 million or so the For the NFL, security is an suicide bomber, inside the venue first 25 Super Bowls without a
multimillion-dollar security NFL spends each year for Super ongoing issue throughout the and near exits. ticket by sneaking through a
operations for the Super Bowl Bowl security — on top of tax season. Fans aren't allowed to bring turnstile or ducking in a media
and Winter Olympics are being dollars spent by the government Ahlerich told The Associated large bags into the Super Bowl entrance or using connections —
adjusted in light of recent — has been devoted to what Press that five to 10 bomb threats stadium, and 100 magnetometers he says he owned a San Diego
breaches such as the attempted Ahlerich said were "several are phoned in during each — like those you step through at bar popular among football
Christmas Day bombing of an hours of extra training" for regular season — roughly one an airport — will be used to teams — to stroll right into the
airliner and the White House screeners by the Secret Service every other week — but they detect metal objects. There are stadium alongside players.
gatecrashers. and the Transportation Security amount to nothing. Still, he also radiological, biological and "It's extremely difficult now, in
Sports and government officials Administration. He wouldn't say called "improvised explosive chemical weapon detection and light of 9-11 and in light of this
s a y s u c h l a p s e s — w h e r e whether any additional screening devices" — a car bomb or pipe protection devices. But, Ahlerich last terrorist attempt on the
individuals got past guards on e q u i p m e n t w a s a d d e d i n bomb, for example — the noted, plastic explosives attached airplane. Security is getting
the ground — are leading to response to the failed Dec. 25 biggest concern as thousands of to someone's body would elude a tighter and tighter and tighter,"
increased screening efforts at attack on a flight from the people from dozens of federal metal detector, which is why Rich said. "People say, 'Do you
m a j o r u p c o m i n g e v e n t s , Netherlands to Detroit. agencies, including the FBI and nearly everyone entering the think (a terrorist) could do the
including the NFL championship Royal Canadian Mounted Police the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, stadium is subjected to a pat- same thing you do?' I say,
game between the Indianapolis Cpl. Bert Paquet, a spokesman Firearms and Explosives, local down search. 'Possible, but highly
Colts and New Orleans Saints in for the Olympics security task police and two private security "Exceptions would be a police improbable."'
Miami next Sunday, and the force, acknowledged the failed firms prepare for the Super officer in uniform and a player in The security buildup isn't just to
Vancouver Games starting Feb. bombing prompted intensive Bowl. Other primary concerns, uniform, but they're going to be stop rogue ticket-holders. The
12. reassessments. he said, include "the active rigorously screened as well when FBI does detailed background
Extensive ticket-checking "It is definitely an incident that shooter scenario, the chemical they come in," Ahlerich said. He checks on everyone expected to
p r o c e d u r e s a l s o a r e b e i n g has raised our awareness," agent or biological agent paused, then added another work at the Super Bowl, from
implemented for soccer's World Paquet said. "While there's been scenario." exception: "We're not going to parking lot attendants to
Cup, which begins June 11 in no specific credible threat to the Coast Guard Rear Admiral pat down the president of the groundskeepers to beer vendors.
S o u t h A f r i c a . E v e n games, we understand the threat Steven Branham, the federal United States." John Gillies, special agent in
entertainment awards shows are is always there. ... We've coordinator for Super Bowl Used to be, long before the Sept. charge of the FBI's Miami field
taking extra steps, like stricter increased police presence at all security, said Sun Life Stadium 11, 2001, terror attacks, that office, said each year the Super
monitoring of cars arriving at the entry points — the airport, the and environs will be screened for screening wasn't nearly so Bowl vetting process "does
G o l d e n G l o b e s A w a r d s port." bombs and other threats well rigorous at the Super Bowl. It uncover people with background
c e r e m o n y t w o w e e k s a g o . He said more full-body scanners before anyone is allowed inside. wasn't even all that tough to get issues," though he wouldn't
"We're very mindful of the world were being acquired, for use at According to a federal security in without a ticket, or so says discuss specifics.
that we live in," the NFL's vice the airport and possibly some assessment prepared for last Dion Rich, subject of the book, The FBI and Miami-Dade Police
president of security, Milt Olympic venues, to supplement year's Super Bowl, the al-Qaida "Confessions of the World's Department are running separate
Ahlerich, said in a telephone walkthrough and hand-held training manual lists "blasting Greatest Gate-Crasher." centers to collect and
interview from Florida. metal detectors screeners will and destroying the places of The 80-year-old Rich delights in disseminate intelligence, but that
"We put our fate and our use at event sites. While most amusement, immorality, and sin" regaling listeners with tales of might not uncover a person
protection in the hands of that screeners already had completed as one of the terrorist group's walking right into Super Bowls, acting alone — the kind of threat
person on the front lines — those training before late December, missions. That assessment also Olympics, the World Series, the
people that are protecting our the RCMP officers supervising says a jihadist message board Kentucky Derby, the Academy PROTECTING page 53
gates — and being sure that screeners were given an updated carried a posting in 2006 with Awards — all without showing a
E-reader News Edition
Landrieu caper prep: Whole lotta typin' goin' on (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 4:03:10 AM
NEW ORLEANS – Johnny
Angel opened the door to his old,
brick-faced duplex and saw them
all there, typing away quietly on
their computers just days before
their hidden-camera stunt in
Democratic Sen. Mary
Landrieu's district office.
"Man, it was laptop city in this
place," said Angel, known
locally as the front man for the
swing band Johnny Angel and
the Swinging Demons.
Working away were Stan Dai,
24, of the Washington, D.C.,
area, Joseph Basel, 24, of
Minnesota, and James O'Keefe,
the 25-year-old daredevil
videographer known as "the
pimp" since he recorded
undercover visits to ACORN
offices nationwide.
"I had no idea he was the cat
from those ACORN videos,"
said Angel, whose pale face is
framed by a dense, coal-black
pompadour and thick sideburns
that stretch two-thirds the way
down his cheeks.
Angel's roommate, Ben
Wetmore, told him that the three
would be staying awhile.
Wetmore has his own colorful
past that includes an arrest for
trying to tape a speech by Tipper
Gore after police asked him to
stop filming the former vice
president's wife.
While Dai, Basel and O'Keefe
aren't discussing their
relationships or what they did in
New Orleans during the days
that led up to their Jan. 25 arrest,
a more complete picture has
emerged through interviews with
more than a dozen people who
know or met the suspects, and a
review of writings and videos
posted on the Web by some of
the suspects and their friends.
A fourth person arrested, Robert
Flanagan, 24, of New Orleans,
the son of the Shreveport-based
acting U.S. attorney for
Louisiana's Western District,
also has been silent.
Wetmore and O'Keefe are close,
Angel said, but he didn't talk
serious issues with any of them.
"I didn't know anything about
their politics," said Angel.
Angel didn't mind the three
crashing at the house because
they were nice guys. He just had
no idea the three, along with a
fourth man who lives in New
Orleans, would get mixed up in a
scheme that would land them in
jail on a charge of entering
federal property under false
pretenses for the purpose of
committing a felony.
Their respective trips to New
Orleans ended with Angel
driving them to the federal
courthouse, their suitcases
packed, to receive instructions
from court officials outlining the
conditions of their release.
They're free on $10,000 bond
and are scheduled to return to
court Feb. 12.
Angel said he asked the guys if
what the newspaper was saying
was true: Did they really try to
mess with Landrieu's phones?
"They said they couldn't talk
about it, that the judge said they
couldn't discuss the case," Angel
said.
In the days before their ill-fated
visit to Landrieu's office,
O'Keefe and the other three spent
an afternoon mingling with
fellow conservatives at a
luncheon that O'Keefe headlined;
at a bar in the French Quarter,
they watched the New Orleans
Saints earn their first trip to the
Super Bowl; and they spent time
at one of Angel's shows.
O'Keefe, Basel and Dai had ties
to the Leadership Institute, an
Arlington, Va.-based program
that provided resources to their
conservative college
publications. Several years ago,
Wetmore hired O'Keefe to help
establish dozens of conservative
magazines on college campuses.
Wetmore used to brag about his
influence on the younger
O'Keefe after the ACORN
videos made him a star: how he
gave O'Keefe a job, helped him
buy equipment used in his video
projects and counseled him.
But standing in the den of his
Uptown house about a block off
the city's street car line, Wetmore
just stared ahead silently when
asked about O'Keefe and his
other house guests. Did he know
about the planned trip to
Landrieu's office? Is there a
reasonable explanation for what
O'Keefe and the others were
doing? How does he know the
three and when did he meet
them?
The 28-year-old student at
Loyola University's law school
in New Orleans had nothing to
say, only politely saying: "I'll
think about it" as he closed the
front door.
The silence was uncharacteristic
from the prolific — at times
caustic — free-speech advocate
who until days ago had an entire
Web site dedicated to his
research and writings, including
tips on how to shut down
abortion clinics developed as the
leader of a Massachusetts anti-
abortion group. Access to
Wetmore's blogs, research,
writings and speeches on his
Web site became inactive soon
after O'Keefe's arrest.
But material collected from the
site earlier offer some of
Wetmore's insights into O'Keefe
and the in-your-face activism
Wetmore's protege has practiced
— and Wetmore has preached —
behind and in front the camera.
"James O'Keefe's recent work
against ACORN has been
amazing," Wetmore wrote Oct.
16 on his blog after O'Keefe
began releasing videos showing
him posing as the pimp with his
make-believe prostitute. The
videos show O'Keefe and his
sidekick seeking advice from
ACORN staff on how to buy a
house to set up a brothel
featuring underage hookers
trafficked in from Central
America without revealing
illegal income.
"As the person who hired James
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at the (Leadership) Institute, as
well as one whom he turned to
for help during his final weeks
there, I hope to have some minor
insight into the whole context of
the situation," Wetmore wrote.
For his part, O'Keefe called
Wetmore his mentor during his
Jan. 21 luncheon speech here at
the libertarian-leaning Pelican
Institute think-tank, according to
one attendee.
Flanagan only met the other
three the day before the speech,
five days before their arrest, said
J. Garrison Jordan, Flanagan's
lawyer.
Kevin Kane, who runs the
Pelican Institute, said he asked
O'Keefe to speak at the
luncheon, although Kane
declined to say how much he
paid O'Keefe. The institute had
published its own critical
investigation of ACORN and
was impressed with O'Keefe's
videos, Kane said.
Kane and O'Keefe share another
connection: They're both writers
for biggovernment.com, run by
Web site publisher Andrew
Breitbart that last fall was the
launching pad for O'Keefe's
meteoric rise to notoriety
through the ACORN videos.
Wetmore introduced O'Keefe at
the institute's luncheon. Basel
and Dai joined O'Keefe at the
luncheon, and they talked with
people in the audience after the
event.
LANDRIEU page 55
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Child rescue bid raises tough questions in Haiti (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) that wouldn't affect my "Some parents I know have the children. people believe they need to save
Submitted at 2/1/2010 6:13:25 AM decision." already given their children to The children were taken to an our souls and our bodies from
The Baptists' "Haitian Orphan foreigners," said Adonis Helman, orphanage run by Austrian-based ourselves. We need compassion,
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Rescue Mission" was described 44. "I've been thinking how I SOS Children's Villages, where not proselytizing now, and we
The arrest of 10 Americans for as an effort to save abandoned, will choose which one I may spokesman George Willeit said need aid — not just aid going to
trying to take children out of traumatized children. Their plan give." they arrived "very hungry, very people of the Christian faith."
H a i t i h a s r a i s e d a n was to scoop up 100 kids and Haiti's overwhelmed thirsty." A 2- to 3-month-old Two-thirds of Haiti's 9 million
uncomfortable question in this take them by bus to a 45-room government has halted all baby was dehydrated and had to are said to practice Voodoo, a
brutally poor and earthquake- hotel at Cabarete, a beach resort adoptions unless they were in be hospitalized, he said. Workers melange of beliefs combining
devastated country: Could some in the Dominican Republic. The motion before the earthquake were searching for their families animism from west Africa and
children be better off abroad 33 kids ranged in age from 2 amid fears that parentless or lost or close relatives. Catholicism.
under the grim circumstances? months to 12 years. children are more vulnerable "One (8-year-old) girl was Many religious groups run
The Baptists from Idaho were They were stopped at the border than ever to being seized and crying, and saying, 'I am not an legitimate adoption agencies and
waiting Monday to hear if they for not having proper paperwork sold. Sex trafficking has been orphan. I still have my parents.' orphanages in Haiti.
will be tried on child trafficking and taken back to Port-au-Prince, rampant in Haiti. And she thought she was going The arrested Americans include
charges for attempting to take 33 where the children were taken to Without proper documents and on a summer camp or a boarding members of the Central Valley
H a i t i a n c h i l d r e n t o t h e a temporary children's home. concerted efforts to track down school or something like that," Baptist Church in Meridian,
Dominican Republic without Haiti's justice secretary, their parents, children could be Willeit said. Idaho, and the East Side Baptist
official authorization. Guards A m a r i c k L o u i s , t o l d T h e forever separated from family As the poorest country in the Church in Twin Falls, Idaho.
waved off reporters who tried to A s s o c i a t e d P r e s s t h a t a members able and willing to care Western Hemisphere, Haiti is in They are part of the Southern
enter to meet them. commission would meet Monday for them. Bellerive's personal a difficult spot — it needs aid, Baptist Convention, which is
Child welfare groups expressed to determine if the group would authorization is now required for but deeply resents foreign America's largest Protestant
outrage over Friday's attempt, go before a judge. The group the departure of any child. meddling. Many have mixed denomination and has extensive
saying some of the children had was being held at a building "For UNICEF, what is important feelings toward Christian groups humanitarian programs
parents who survived the Jan. 12 where government ministers are is that for children separated that funnel hundreds of millions worldwide.
earthquake. Prime Minister Max giving regular briefings — a from their parents, we do into missions in Haiti. The Idaho churches had
Bellerive denounced the group's maze of dingy concrete rooms everything possible to have their Christian missionaries alone run elaborate plans before the
"illegal trafficking of children" but not traditional cells. Their families traced and to reunite or support an estimated 2,000 earthquake to shelter up to 200
in a country long afflicted by the living conditions were unclear. them," said Kent Page, a primary schools attended by Haitian and Dominican boys and
s c o u r g e a n d b y f o r e i g n Foreigners adopting children spokesman for the group in some 600,000 students — a third girls in the Magante beach resort,
meddling. from the developing world have Haiti. "They have to be protected of Haiti's school-aged complete with a school and
But the reality is that some grabbed headlines recently — from traffickers or people who population, according to chapel as well as villas and a
struggling Haitian parents see Madonna tried to adopt a girl wish to exploit these children." government figures. Church seaside cafe catering to adoptive
adoption as a last-ditch hope for from Malawi amid criticism He said it was possible the groups also run vital hospitals, U.S. parents.
their children. from locals, while Brad Pitt and Americans arrested may have orphanages and food-distribution ___
"My parents died in the A n g e l i n a J o l i e h a v e a had "good intentions but sites. Associated Press Writers
earthquake. My husband has burgeoning multicultural brood. misguided execution." "There are many who come here Carolina Correa in Port-au-
gone. Giving up one of my kids But in Haiti, a long tradition of The Idaho church group's with religious ideas that belong Prince, Haiti, Jessie Bonner and
would at least give them a foreign military intervention spokeswoman, Laura Silsby, told more in the time of the Keith Ridler in Idaho and Rachel
chance," Saintanne Petit-Frere, coupled with the earthquake that the AP from detention that the inquisition," said Max Beauvoir, Zoll in New York contributed to
40, a mother of six living outside destroyed much of the capital group was "just trying to do the head of Haiti's Voodoo Priest's this story.
in a tent camp near the airport and plunged it even deeper into right thing" amid the chaos. She Association, which represents
said Sunday. "My only fear is poverty, have made this issue conceded she had not obtained thousands of priests and CHILD page 53
that they would forget me, but even more emotionally charged. the proper Haitian documents for priestesses. "These types of
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States seeking to ban mandatory health insurance (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) filed or proposed amendments to at the Goldwater Institute in held by the late Edward M. insurance requirement.
Submitted at 2/1/2010 5:28:10 AM their state constitutions or Phoenix, which helped craft an Kennedy on Jan. 19, leaving "They are merely symbolic
statutes rejecting health Arizona amendment on this Democrats one seat shy of the gestures," said Michael Dorf, a
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – insurance mandates, according to November's ballot that has been number needed to break a constitutional law professor at
Although President Barack t h e A m e r i c a n L e g i s l a t i v e used as a model in other states. Republican filibuster. Cornell University. "If this
Obama's push for a health care Exchange Council, a nonprofit "These amendments are a way to Since then, the federal Congress were to pass an
o v e r h a u l h a s s t a l l e d , group that promotes limited manifest grass roots opposition" legislation has been in limbo. individual mandate, and if it is
conservative lawmakers in about government that is helping to federal health insurance But state lawmakers have not. constitutional — which I believe
half the states are forging ahead coordinate the efforts. Many of mandates, Bolick said. "They "We need to move ahead no it is — the express rule under the
with constitutional amendments those proposals are targeted for kind of have a life of their own at matter what kind of maneuvering supremacy clause(of the U.S.
t o b a n g o v e r n m e n t h e a l t h the November ballot, assuring this point. So while some of the continues in Washington, D.C.," Constitution) is that the federal
insurance mandates. that health care remains a hot pressure may be off, I think that said Missouri Sen. Jane law prevails."
The proposals would assert a topic as hundreds of federal and this movement has legs." Cunningham, a Republican from Many Democratic lawmakers
state-based right for people to state lawmakers face re-election. Separate bills passed by the U.S. suburban St. Louis. are skeptical of both the intent
pay medical bills from their own Legislative committees in Idaho House and Senate would impose Since suffering resounding and the effect of the state
p o c k e t b o o k s a n d p r o h i b i t and Virginia endorsed their a penalty on people who don't defeats in the 2008 elections, measures, entitled in many states
penalties against those who m e a s u r e s t h i s p a s t w e e k . have health insurance except in Republicans have seized upon as the " Freedom of Choice in
refuse to carry health insurance. Supporters held a rally at the cases of financial hardship. voter unease over the federal Health Care Act." Some have
In many states, the proposals Pennsylvania Capitol. And Subsidies would be provided to health care legislation to help derided it as "political theater" or
began as a backlash to hearings on the proposed low-income and middle-income revitalize their fortunes. an attempt to merely shape the
Democratic health care plans constitutional amendments were households. The intent of the A USA Today/Gallup poll public debate.
pending in Congress. But instead held in Georgia and Missouri. mandate is to expand the pool of conducted the day after the "We need to do something about
o f b a c k i n g a w a y a f t e r a The Missouri hearing drew people who are insured and Massachusetts vote found that health care," said Idaho Rep.
Massachusetts election gave overflow crowds the day after paying premiums and thus offset about 55 percent of respondents Phylis King, a Boise Democrat.
Senate Republicans the filibuster Obama urged federal lawmakers the increased costs of insuring — including a majority of self- "And the federal government is
power to halt the health care during his State of the Union those with preexisting conditions described independents — trying to do something. It hurts
l e g i s l a t i o n , m a n y s t a t e address to keep pressing to pass or other risks. favored putting the breaks on the our companies and it hurts our
lawmakers are ramping up their a health care bill. The Nebraska The federal bills also would current health care legislation. people to be uninsured."
efforts with new enthusiasm. Legislature plans a hearing on a require many businesses to pay a The poll had a margin of error of ___
The moves reflect the continued measure this coming week. penalty if they fail to provide plus or minus 4 percentage Associated Press writer John
political potency of the issue for Supporters of the state measures employees health insurance that points. Miller in Boise, Idaho
conservatives, who have used it portray them as a way of meets certain standards, though State laws or constitutional contributed to this report.
extensively for fundraising and defending individual rights and details and exemptions vary amendments clearly could bar Five Filters featured article:
attracting new supporters. The state sovereignty, asserting that between the House and Senate lawmakers in those states from Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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measures may be questionable authority to tell states and their Obama and Democratic health insurance, such as Term Extraction.
because courts generally have citizens to buy health insurance. legislative leaders were working Massachusetts has done. But it's
held that federal laws trump "I think the alarm bell has been to merge the two bills when questionable that such the
those in states. rung," said Clint Bolick, the Republican Scott Brown won the measures could shield state
Lawmakers in 34 states have constitutional litigation director Massachusetts Senate seat long residents from a federal health
52 Popular News/
US to resume Haiti victim airlift
(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
Submitted at 2/1/2010 5:53:01 AM
The US will resume emergency
evacuation flights for critically
injured Haitian earthquake
victims on Monday, the White
House has said.
Airlifts stopped last Wednesday
after Florida's governor said his
state's healthcare system was
being swamped.
Doctors warned that scores of
people would die unless flights
resumed.
Meanwhile, some Haitian
children identified as orphans by
a group of Americans who were
taking them abroad may have
parents, it has emerged.
Ten Americans are due to
appear in court on Monday, after
being stopped at Haiti's border
with the Dominican Republic in
a bus with 33 children.
Haiti imposed new controls on
the movement of children
following the 12 January
earthquake that killed up to
200,000 people.
Officials fear that orphans are
now particularly vulnerable to
being abducted and sold for
adoption.
Also on Sunday, the UN's
World Food Programme (WFP)
began a large-scale aid
distribution at 16 sites across
Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince,
aiming to feed two million
people.
Only women will be allowed to
collect the 25kg (55lb) rice
ration, enough to feed a family
for two weeks. The WFP says
food is more likely to be shared
equally within a family if it is
given to the women.
'On track'
White House spokesman
Tommy Vietor said the US had
expanded "access to additional
facilities" in the US and abroad
to treat the earthquake victims.
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He said the hold-up in
evacuation flights had been due
to "logistical issues" rather than
medical costs as had been
reported.
"Having received assurances that
additional capacity exists both
here and among our international
partners, we determined that we
can resume these critical flights,"
he said.
Hundreds of patients with spinal
injuries, burns and other wounds
have been flown on US military
planes to America since the
quake. More than 500 have been
treated in Florida.
Last week, Florida Governor
Charlie Crist warned President
Barack Obama's administration
that the state's healthcare system
was "quickly reaching
saturation".
Mr Crist also asked the federal
government to activate the
National Disaster Medical
System, which usually pays for
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hospital, he added.
Haitian authorities said none of
the children had documentation
or proof that they were actually
parentless.
The 10 Americans, who are now
in police custody in Port-au-
Prince, said they were simply
trying to help the children by
taking them to an orphanage in
neighbouring Dominican
Republic.
The five men and five women,
from Idaho-based charity New
Life Children's Refuge, said the
children had been entrusted into
their care by a pastor whose
orphanage and churches had
collapsed.
Laura Silsby, the group's leader,
said they had the required
clearances from the Dominican
victims' care in domestic
authorities, but admitted they had
disasters.
not obtained the proper Haitian
'Hungry and dehydrated'
documents.
On Sunday, the international
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-
charity SOS Children's Villages
Hayes, in Port-au-Prince, says
said at least one of the 33 Haitian
the regulations are very clear -
youngsters whom the Americans
each case of child adoption must
had tried to take out of Haiti, a
be approved by the government.
little girl, insisted her parents
Even before the earthquake, he
were alive.
adds, child-smuggling was a
Charity spokesman George
massive problem in Haiti, with
Willeit told journalists the girl
thousands of children
thought she was being taken to a
disappearing each year.
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that most worries the FBI's
Gillies and James Loftus, interim
director of the Miami-Dade
Police Department.
"I'm not an alarmist, but we
worry about the lone guy with
the rifle. That's where our
attention is," Loftus said. "That's
the guy who is not e-mailing,
who is not networking."
An Arizona man was sentenced
to a year and a day in prison for
mailing letters to major media
outlets threatening to kill people
at the 2008 Super Bowl. He was
accused of bringing a
semiautomatic rifle and 200
rounds of ammunition to a
parking lot near the stadium; he
did not attack, however, and
turned himself into police.
Loftus said another concern is
someone who might try to use a
false police or firefighter
uniform to gain unauthorized
access. Steps taken to thwart
fake credentials and new
"expertise" being used on bags
carried into the stadium are
among changes Ahlerich said
were made to Super Bowl plans
this year.
He declined to go into details
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but said it's "certainly not
uncommon" that guns and knives
are found and taken away from
people entering a Super Bowl,
"and it'll probably happen again
this year. ... (But) a very key part
of our plan is deterrence. We
want to scare the bad guys away,
and they should be scared away,
because they won't get in."
Unlike the Super Bowl, the
Olympics have been struck by
terrorism. At the 1972 Munich
Games, 11 athletes and coaches
from Israel's Olympic team were
killed after being taken hostage
by Palestinian gunmen. A
bombing in a park during the
1996 Atlanta Olympics killed
one and injured more than 100
and was found to be the work of
an anti-government extremist.
A senior International Olympic
Committee member told the AP
there have been other, less-
serious security threats thwarted
at past Olympics. The person
spoke on condition of
anonymity, citing an IOC policy
of not talking publicly about
security issues.
Another IOC official, executive
board member Craig Reedie of
A small plane has made an
emergency landing on a highway
in the US state of New Jersey,
officials say.
Neither of the two people on
board were injured in the
incident on the New Jersey east of Philadelphia.
Turnpike, about five miles (8km) Turnpike Authority spokesman
Britain, said security concerns
were raised by the ambush of the
Sri Lankan cricket team in
Pakistan last year and the
machine gun attack on a bus
carrying the Togo soccer team to
the African Cup of Nations in
Angola in January.
Detailed security planning has
been under way for Vancouver
since the IOC approved its bid
seven years ago. A security
budget initially projected at $175
million now tops $900 million,
and the force for the games will
include more than 15,000 people,
a surveillance blimp hovering
over Vancouver, and more than
900 surveillance cameras
monitoring competition venues
and crowd-attracting public
areas.
Similarly, security planning for
the World Cup began years ago.
South African police and
military forces are coordinating
efforts for soccer's showcase
event and have conducted
training simulations of chemical,
biological and radiation attacks.
During the World Cup, fans
driving to matches must park
more than a half-mile away; only
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considered key at all events.
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depending on the team or the
individual to execute," the NFL's
Ahlerich said. "We've got a
couple of thousand civilian
security personnel and certainly
a great number of sworn
personnel assigned to this. If
everybody does their job the way
US army
we planned, we'll be just fine.
But if someone doesn't, then equips for
you've got risks associated —
more risk than you would hope."
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draft strategy says.
The quadrennial defence review
- set to be unveiled in
Washington - revises the
previous objective of being
equipped to fight two major
conflicts at any time.
The strategy accounts for threats
such as cyber attacks, global
warming and "hybrid" guerrilla-
style insurgencies.
It comes on the same day that
the US defence secretary unveils
his budget.
Robert Gates' proposed 2011
spending plan comes to more
than $700bn (£440bn), a modest
2% increase, the draft documents
show.
But it avoids the sweeping cuts
to major weapons programmes
seen in last year's budget.
New threats
The Pentagon is mandated by
Congress to review America's
defence priorities every four
years.
The 2010 Quadrennial Defence
Review will show the continuing
evolution of military thinking -
away from conventional warfare
to the increased threat from non-
state actors, like al-Qaeda.
China is still seen as a problem -
but the wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq have forced the US military
to focus on the actual enemy,
more than potential threats. That
will be reflected in defence
spending.
More money will be spent on
special forces helicopters and
drones or UAVs (unmanned
aerial vehicles) - the equipment
the army needs now, rather than
what it might need in 20 years
time.
Robert Gates is lucky - while
President Barack Obama is
putting the squeeze on public
spending, defence will be one of
the few areas of government that
will receive more money.
According to the draft 2010
quadrennial defence review: "It
is no longer appropriate to speak
of 'major regional conflicts' as
the sole or even the primary
template for sizing, shaping and
evaluating US forces."
It highlights "a multiplicity of
threats", including satellite and
cyber attacks, as well as terrorist
groups and the prospect of more
nuclear-armed nations.
But it says the military's top
priority is to "prevail in today's
wars", citing the need to
"dismantle terrorist networks" in
Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The plan allocates new funding
for helicopters, unmanned planes
and special operations units,
which have played a key role in
both conflicts.
It outlines a joint Air Force-
Navy battle plan to counter the
threats from nations such as
China, Iran and North Korea,
citing their increasingly
sophisticated aerial defence and
strike systems.
The report says Mr Gates will
also seek to overhaul the
military's acquisitions system so
the US can get key supplies
quickly to its own bases and
those of its partners around the
world.
The review for the first time
identifies global warming as a
potential trigger of instability or
conflict around the world.
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It was there that O'Keefe
telegraphed publicly that he was
working on a new, secret project
in New Orleans.
The Saturday night after the
Pelican Institute luncheon, Angel
invited the group to watch his
band perform at the Bombay
Club jazz bar near the Quarter.
And the next night, on the eve of
their visit to Landrieu's office,
they returned to the club to
watch the Saints on the big
screen beat the Minnesota
Vikings to win the NFC
Championship.
Basel, a Vikings fan, got ribbed
by the others, Angel said.
The guys weren't big drinkers or
big tippers, said Bennett Sheehy,
the 29-year-old bartender who
served them. Flanagan drank a
mojito and rum and cokes; Dai
preferred Maker's Mark bourbon.
Sheehy served them a traditional
Mardi Gras king cake, brought
out after Angel said he was
hungry.
More than two months before
their trip to New Orleans,
O'Keefe and Basel videotaped
another stunt, this time testing
the patience of administrators at
Washington University in St.
Louis with a fake Russian gulag
built in an open area. The video
mocking college liberals features
Basel, dressed as a gulag guard,
asking a student at one point,
"Don't you have the desire to
have a brotherhood with the
common man?"
Basel, the son of a Lutheran
pastor, worked at one time for a
Minnesota Republican state
senator and for a brief period in
2008 on a dairy farm in Morris,
Minn.
Like the others, Dai also has a
history of political activism. It
dates back to when he brought
conservative political
commentator Bay Buchanan to
his Illinois high school as part of
his work with the Young
America's Foundation, group
spokesman Jason Mattera said.
The Washington-area foundation
develops political activists and
counts as one of its stars Hannah
Giles, who played the prostitute
in the ACORN videos.
Later, Dai's interest turned to
intelligence, a field where he
found work as a government
contractor.
Flanagan stands out from the
others because he didn't share a
background in conservative
college publications. The All-
American pitcher for the
Division III baseball team at
Rhodes College in Memphis,
Tenn., was enrolled last year at
Missouri State University's
Department of Defense and
Strategic Studies, in Fairfax, Va.
He served as a paid Washington
intern for Republican Rep. Mary
Fallin of Oklahoma and also
interned for Sen. Lamar
Alexander, R-Tenn.
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Associated Press Writer Steve
Karnowski in Minneapolis
contributed to this report.
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carry rules, which require cable
operators to carry local broadcast
stations. What was once a cable
monopoly, Cablevision concedes
to the court, "has been replaced
by vibrant competition."
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the court to hear the cable
company's appeal of a Second
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Gunmen have killed at least 14
people at a high school student
party in the Mexican city of
Ciudad Juarez.
Three adults and 11 teenagers
died, while some 20 others were
injured, as the attackers fired
indiscriminately.
Authorities say they are
investigating any links to the
drug gangs that have made
Ciudad Juarez one of the world's
most dangerous cities.
But witnesses said the victims,
most aged between 15 and 20,
had no ties to traffickers.
"It must have been a huge
mistake," Martha Lujan, who
lives in the housing complex
where the attack took place, told
the Associated Press news
agency.
Patricia Gonzalez, the attorney
general for Chihuhua state,
where Ciudad Juarez is located
said: "We have two lines of
investigation and one of them is
linked to drug trafficking.
"We know from witnesses that
the men arrived looking for
someone."
Witnesses said the gunmen
drove up to the house in several
cars late on Saturday or in the
early hours of Sunday.
Scattered bodies
They began shooting at people
from outside the property before
moving inside, and pursued
some of the youngsters trying to
escape over a fence.
The bodies of the victims lay
scattered around the house.
Unnamed police officials told
AP news agency that witnesses
had counted at least 15 attackers.
"The men drove up in four
SUVs, they were well-armed.
They went into the house and
shot at everyone, you could hear
the gunfire all around," said a
neighbour at the scene, quoted
by Reuters news agency.
Ciudad Juarez, straddling a
highly lucrative drug-smuggling
route into the US, is the scene of
a vicious ongoing turf war
between rival cartels.
At least 15 other people died in
the city, on the US border, at the
weekend.
Some 45,000 troops and extra
police have been deployed to
crack down on the gangs in the
city, across the border from El
Paso, Texas.
But the campaign has done little
to curb the bloodletting - more
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some local news coverage. He's
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Research Brief: Bargain Hunters Start With Newspaper and

Magazine Ads
(MediaPost | Media News) Respondents) difference Education(Base: All U.S. adults; 8
Submitted at 2/1/2010 5:15:25 AM Age 34 % of Category Respondents) Radio
Total 31 Gender 2
According to a recent Adweek 18-34 31 Education 2
Media/ Harris Poll, 23% of adult 35-44 36 Total 1
A m e r i c a n s b e l i e v e t h a t 45-54 36 Men 3
n e w s p a p e r a n d m a g a z i n e 55+ Source: Harris Polls, January Women 1
advertisements are where they Newspaper/Magazine 2010 HS or less 1
can find the best bargains. 18% a d v e r t i s e m e n t s Among the genders, women are Some college None- the type of ad makes no
believe online advertisements are 23% more likely than men to say College grad difference
most likely to help them find the 15% newspaper and magazine Newspaper/Magazine 34
best bargains. 10% say direct 16% advertisements, and direct mail a d v e r t i s e m e n t s 32
mail and 12% catalogs, 11% 24% and catalogs are more likely to 23% 35
television commercials, and just 33% help them find a bargain. Men, 22% 36
2% say radio. And, 34% of Online advertisements on the other hand, are more 24% 33
Americans believe the type of ad 18 l i k e l y t o s a y o n l i n e 25% 31
makes no difference when they 22 advertisements are more likely to 23% Source: Harris Polls, January
are looking for the best bargain. 26 help them find a bargain. 20% 2010
When looking for the best 17 There is also an interesting Online advertisements The report concludes that, while
bargains, different age groups 12 educational difference in the 18 newspaper ads are still slightly
have different ideas of where to Direct mail and catalogs media people believe can help 21 ahead of others among all adults
look: 12 them find the best bargains: 16 when it comes to bargain
• 18-34 year olds are more 13 • One-quarter of those with a 12 hunting, online is not far behind.
likely to say online ads (22%) 13 high school education or less say 18 And, online ads lead newspaper
and television commercials 14 n e w s p a p e r a n d m a g a z i n e 29 and magazine ads, as a source of
(17%) are the best places to go 10 advertisements are more likely to Direct mail and catalogs information about bargains,
• 35-44 year olds go online Television commercials h e l p t h e m f i n d a b a r g a i n , 12 among younger, better educated
(26%) 11 compared to 20% of those 11 consumers, who are much more
• 24% of those 44-54 and 17 with at least a college degree. 14 attractive to most advertisers.
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Color E-readers a Hit at Book Fair, to Be Sold Like Handsets
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Submitted at 2/1/2010 2:50:09 AM
Taiwanese e-reader makers
jockeyed to show off new
technologies at the Taipei
International Book Exhibition
over the weekend and said the
emerging model for the devices
is to sell them as part of a
content bundle.
Taipei is a fitting place to show
new e-readers because
Taiwanese companies are
leading the charge for the three
leading e-paper technologies on
the market. They hope to push
down device prices while upping
the ante on features this year to
compete with newcomers such as
Apple's iPad.
Several companies were
showing off devices with regular
LCD screens on board, mostly
aimed at schoolchildren. LCD
screens are less expensive than e-
paper screens and offer color and
multimedia, but use up batteries
faster. The iPad also has an LCD
screen and boasts 10 hours of
battery life, but e-readers can run
for a few weeks without a
recharge.
There is also some debate over
the impact of LCD screens on
eye health.
People who use video screens at
work have complained of eye
strain, blurred vision, headaches
and neck pain, but it is unclear
whether these symptoms can be
blamed on the screens because
similar complaints come from
people in other jobs that induce
eye strain but where video
screens are not present,
according to the American
Optometric Association.
The association called the
symptoms a "growing health
problem" but said that "based on
current evidence it is unlikely
that the use of VDTs (video
display terminals) causes
permanent changes or damage to
the eyes or visual system."
Companies such as LCD screen
maker AU Optronics say LCD
screens are not ideal for eye
health because of the backlight,
and that reading on e-paper using
natural room light is better for
the eyes. AU owns a major stake
in SiPix Imaging, an e-paper
technology developer.
Hiachieve Digital Technology
(HCD) showed off the iWonder
10.1-inch LCD touchscreen
tablet PC aimed at
schoolchildren at the book fair.
The device uses a regular LCD
screen so comic books,
newspapers, magazines, Web
content and more can be viewed
in color as on any computer
screen.
The device was chosen for a
government trial at a few
elementary schools in Taiwan
that starts mid-year, said Jim
Sun, CEO of HCD. Taiwan's
Ministry of Education plans to
distribute e-readers to students
across the island over the next
few years.
HCD has already signed deals
with some private schools to use
the device. It will cost around
NT$15,000 (US$470) each
bundled with "a lot of content,"
he said. Prices differ depending
on content agreements. The
device is being manufactured by
Hon Hai Precision Industry, the
world's largest contract
electronics maker.
Another company showing off
an LCD device for children at
the book fair was Aiptek
International, with its inColor
story book. The device has an 8-
inch LCD screen and comes with
20 multimedia books on board
for NT$6,900 (US$216) in
Taiwan.
The only company showing off
color e-paper screens at the book
fair was Taiwan's Delta
Electronics. The company
displayed its new 13.1-inch e-
readers made with e-paper
technology from Japan's
Bridgestone at the book fair.
Delta plans to start marketing
the new 13.1-inch color
touchscreen e-reader around the
end of the second quarter. The e-
reader is the size of an A4 sheet
of paper, suitable for viewing
business documents.
Bridgestone, well-known for its
tire business, showed the 13.1-
inch e-paper technology off last
year at a show in Japan.
Delta is seeking partnerships
with book, magazine and comic
book publishers, as well as
newspapers, to launch the
devices, said Hui Lee, director of
the e-Paper business program at
Delta. Working together, the
companies will try to offer the e-
reader at a subsidized price if
users pay for a multi-year
content agreement, similar to
mobile phone contracts, she said.
The 13.1-inch e-readers allow
users to write notes on them and
could come with wireless
technologies such as Wi-Fi or
3G once they're on the market,
she said. The price of the device
will depend on agreements with
the content providers.
Several companies displayed
monochrome e-readers with e-
paper technology from market
leader E-ink, which was bought
by Taiwanese manufacturer
Prime View International last
year. E-ink technology leads the
market and is used in devices
including Amazon's Kindle and
Sony's Reader.
The JinYong Reader, designed
by Taiwan's Koobe, will be
launched in April by Yuen-Liou
Publishing Company for
between NT$10,000 and
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NT$12,000 in Taiwan,
depending on a content
agreement, according to a Yuen-
Liou representative. The device
has a 6-inch e-paper screen and
comes with built-in Chinese and
Chinese-English dictionaries.
Greenbook, another Taiwanese
company, will sell its 6-inch e-
reader for NT$8,950 as part of a
content deal. The device was
made by Hon Hai subsidiary
Netronix, which uses E-ink
digital ink technology.
The third e-paper technology on
display at the book exhibition
was from SiPix.
BenQ is using the technology in
its nReader, which carries a 6-
inch touchscreen screen and
went on sale last week for
NT$8,990 each in retail stores
throughout Taiwan. The nReader
comes loaded with 40 e-books.
Taiwanese companies showed
off dozens of other devices with
software to make them more
reading-friendly, including
netbooks, laptops, smartphones
and tablet PCs at the book
exhibition. The show ended
Monday.
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E-Readers and Libraries (The Kitsap Sun)
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for e-readers)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 5:58:00 PM
As the hype over e-readers like
the Amazon Kindle and Barnes
and Noble’s Nook intensifies,
libraries are looking to the
future, and thinking about
changes that would make it
easier to loan books to people
using e-readers. (PHOTO
ILLUSTRATION BY DEREK
SHEPPARD | KITSAP SUN)
As the hype over e-readers like
the Amazon Kindle and Barnes
and Noble’s Nook intensifies,
libraries are looking to the
future, and thinking about
changes that would make it
easier to loan books to people
using e-readers. (PHOTO
ILLUSTRATION BY DEREK
SHEPPARD | KITSAP SUN)
As the hype over e-readers like
the Amazon Kindle and Barnes
and Noble’s Nook intensifies,
libraries are looking to the
future, and thinking about
changes that would make it
easier to loan books to people
using e-readers. (PHOTO
ILLUSTRATION BY DEREK
SHEPPARD | KITSAP SUN)
As the hype over e-readers like
the Amazon Kindle and Barnes
and Noble’s Nook intensifies,
libraries are looking to the
future, and thinking about
changes that would make it
easier to loan books to people
using e-readers. (PHOTO
ILLUSTRATION BY DEREK
SHEPPARD | KITSAP SUN)
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E-book, Kindle, Nook, iPad. prevail. Everyone else is waiting
The marketing hype is for the dust to settle.
bombarding consumers and There’s also the issue of money.
publishers as tech companies Will said KRL’s collection of e-
push the evolution of reading books will build following
from paper to pixels. patron demand — as more
The jury is out on whether e- people ask for e-books, more of
readers will be a dominant force the budget will flow that
that forever changes how people direction. But the different file
read, but there’s a lot of public formats force the library to buy
discussion on buying e-books multiple versions of each e-book.
and e-readers. Given the uncertainty about e-
But what if you’re a Kitsap reader popularity and the
Regional Library user, or an stability of file formats, “we sort
Olympic College student who of have to wait and see,” Jean
doesn’t want to buy your books? said. “We can’t just throw
Can your Kindle get books from dollars down the drain.”
the library? Another issue confronting
Sort of. As the system exists librarians grappling with the new
now, choice is limited, and technology is piracy. Concerns
several technological hurdles are over that issue are among the
yet to be scaled, librarians said. reasons some e-books are locked
That doesn’t mean libraries into certain devices.
aren’t thinking about the Olympic College Dean of
changing technology. Library-Media Ruth Ross said a
“We need to be on the cutting balance must be struck between
edge, but not the bleeding edge,” the need to offer media in
KRL director Jill Jean said. formats that are easy to loan out
Libraries with shrinking budgets on e-readers, and the need to
are mostly taking a wait-and-see make sure authors and publishers
approach to the e-book are still able to make money.
phenomenon, but they have “The good stuff isn’t free,” she
on certain devices. KRL titles, librarians said. You
waded in a little. said, “and the libraries are
“The Kindle, it just works with can also read the e-books on
KRL has about 800 digital titles paying for it for you.”
Amazon’s things,” said Michelle your computer.)
available for loan and Olympic Raschke dreams of someday
Will, who is in charge of buying “There are no institutional
College has about 7,000. having the chance to convince
digital material for KRL’s models set up for these yet,” said
But technology remains a Amazon boss Jeff Bezos of the
collection. Greg Raschke, who is in charge
hurdle. Some e-readers and e- role of libraries in making e-
If publishers and e-reader of a pilot program at North
books match up like square pegs readers more mainstream.
manufacturers eventually settle Carolina State University that
and round holes. “I could convince him that
on a standard file format, lends e-readers to students.
At issue are varying file formats libraries are a great incubator,”
librarians say, lending would be Right now, Google, Apple and
and digital walls built into some
much simpler. (Currently, the Amazon are in a fight to
e-readers, which allow or E-READERS page 61
Sony readers work best with determine which format will
disallow certain books to be read
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Current Crop of E-Readers Compared: iPad vs.

the Rest [Infographic] (Lifehacker)
(Yahoo! News Search Results
for e-readers)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 2:11:58 PM

Developer and blogger Darren

Beckett rounds up a crop of five
e-readers and gives them a short
price and feature comparison
with the newly released
iPad—and rolled the results into
an eye-friendly infographic.
(Click the image above for a
closer look.)
We may have our problems with
the iPad, but that doesn't mean
people aren't interested in buying
it. This comparison pits the iPad the current crop of an e-reader. But convergence experience with any of the other
against other similar devices, smartphones(which includes devices like the iPad are readers listed—in the comments.
highlighting price, screen size monthly fees for a true cost of certainly attractive when they (Note: The JooJoo is still an
and type, storage, input, multi- ownership), but it still offers a can swallow the functionality of unreleased product but is, in
tasking, multi-function, and nice overview of the market if other devices (like e-readers) and theory, more like the iPad.)
connectivity. The chart's not the iPad's piqued your interest. offer a lot more at a similar Send an email to Adam Pash,
perfect (it only compares the Most e-reader enthusiasts would price, so you can be sure that a the author of this post, at
bottom-of-the-barrel iPad, so likely point to the iPad's lack of e lot of people interested in buying tips+adam@lifehacker.com.
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62 Gallup Poll/
Party ID: Despite GOP Gains, Most States Remain Blue
(All Gallup Headlines)
Submitted at 1/31/2010 8:00:00 PM
PRINCETON, NJ -- Rhode
Island and Massachusetts --
along with the District of
Columbia -- were the most
Democratic U.S. states in 2009,
based on their residents' stated
political affiliations. Wyoming
and Utah ranked as the two most
Republican states in the nation.
These results are based on
aggregated data from Gallup
Daily tracking in 2009, including
interviews with more than
350,000 adults in all 50 states
plus the District of Columbia.
Gallup conducted at least 1,000
interviews in every state except
Wyoming (878), North Dakota
(968), Delaware (997), and the
District of Columbia (632).
Gallup interviewed more than
20,000 residents each in
California, Texas, New York,
and Pennsylvania.
Nationwide, party support
shifted in a slightly more
Republican direction in 2009
after a historically strong
Democratic year in 2008.
Overall, 49% of Americans in
2009 identified as Democrats or
said they were independent but
leaned to the Democratic Party,
while 41% identified as
Republicans or were Republican-
leaning independents. That 8-
point Democratic advantage
compares to a 12-point, 52% to
40%, Democratic advantage in
2008.
Thus, even with the reduction in
Democratic strength, the party
still maintained a solid advantage
over the Republicans nationally
last year. It follows, then, that
most states continued to be
Democratic in their political
orientation. (A table showing the
full data for each state appears at
the end of the article.)
It is important to note that the
classification of states reported
here is based on the political
affiliations of all residents, and
does not necessarily indicate
how a state might vote in a given
election. Also, the partisanship
figures include independents
who have a partisan leaning with
each party's core identifiers. This
makes the states more
comparable because the
percentage of independents
varies widely by state, and can
understate a party's true strength
in a state.
In total, 23 states plus the
District of Columbia can be
classified as solidly Democratic,
with a 10 percentage-point or
greater advantage in party
affiliation in favor of the
Democrats. This includes most
of the Northeast and mid-
Atlantic regions, most of the
Great Lakes region, and the
Pacific Coast.
Another 10 states can be
considered Democratic leaning,
in which the state's Democratic
supporters outnumber
Republican supporters by at least
5 percentage points but less than
10 points. These are Missouri,
Kentucky, North Carolina,
Florida, New Hampshire,
Virginia, Colorado, Nevada,
Indiana, and Tennessee.
Four states are solidly
Republican, with a better than 10
-point advantage in Republican
affiliation -- Wyoming, Utah,
Alaska, and Idaho. Alabama
qualifies as the lone Republican-
leaning state, with a 6-point
advantage in Republican
affiliation.
That leaves 12 states that are
competitive, with less than a 5-
point advantage for either party.
Among these 13 states, 6 tilt in a
Republican direction: Montana,
Nebraska, Mississippi, Texas,
North Dakota, and Kansas. Six
tilt toward the Democratic Party:
Georgia, South Dakota,
Louisiana, Arizona, Oklahoma,
and South Carolina.
Party Trends by State, 2008 vs.
2009
As at the national level, most of
the states showed movement in
the Republican direction in 2009,
with a reduction of the
Democratic advantage in 39
states and the District of
Columbia. The greatest
movement toward the GOP
occurred in the District of
Columbia, Ohio, Louisiana,
Montana, and Hawaii. Seven
states showed at least a slight
increase in the Democratic
advantage, while four states
showed no change.
But these shifts were generally
not large enough to
fundamentally shake up the
political map. In fact, the total
number of Republican-leaning or
solid Republican states was
unchanged from the prior year.
Rather, in 2009, there was an
increase in competitive states
and Democratic-leaning states,
and a reduction in the number of
solidly Democratic states, from
30 to 24.
The lists of top 10 Democratic
and Republican states were also
generally similar in 2008 and
2009. The membership of the 10
most Democratic states was the
same in 2009 as in 2008, with a
minor shuffling of the order of
these. The District of Columbia,
Rhode Island, and Massachusetts
topped the Democratic list in
both years.
Last year, Utah ranked ahead of
Wyoming as the most
Republican state, but this year
Wyoming has a slight edge.
Arizona and South Carolina were
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among the top 10 Republican
states in 2008 but were just
outside the top 10 list in 2009.
Texas is new to the list of top 10
Republican states.
Bottom Line
Despite the modest shift toward
a decreased affiliation with the
Democratic Party and an
increased affiliation with the
Republican Party in 2009
compared to 2008, the United
States remained a
Democratically oriented nation
last year. In all, 33 states and the
District of Columbia were either
solidly Democratic or leaning
Democratic in terms of the
political party leanings of their
residents. Twelve states were
fairly evenly balanced between
Democratic and Republican
supporters, and 5 states were
solidly or leaning Republican.
Gallup's "State of the States"
series reveals state-by-state
differences on political,
economic, and well-being
measures Gallup tracks each day.
New stories will be released
throughout the month of
February.
Survey Methods
Results are based on telephone
interviews with 353,849 national
adults, aged 18 and older,
conducted in 2009 as part of
Gallup Poll Daily tracking. For
results based on the total sample
of national adults, one can say
with 95% confidence that the
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maximum margin of sampling
error is ±1 percentage point.
The margin of error for most
states is ±2 percentage points,
but is as high as ±4 percentage
points for Delaware, Hawaii,
North Dakota, South Dakota,
Wyoming, and the District of
Columbia. For the most
populous states, the margin of
error is ±1 percentage point.
Interviews are conducted with
respondents on land-line
telephones and cellular phones.
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In addition to sampling error,
question wording and practical
difficulties in conducting surveys
can introduce error or bias into
the findings of public opinion
polls.
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