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Obama tries to make political mountain out of ant hill

Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row to overcome procedural hurdles. swat back by mentioning the
Washington) The White House insect four times.
Submitted at 6/30/2010 12:45:32 PM released excerpts of remarks Often in Washington, escalating
that Obama will make later rhetoric can signal uneasiness
President Barack Obama and today in Wisconsin in which the that things might not go your
fellow Democrats are trying to president took Republicans to way.
make political hay out of task for opposing the financial The recent death of Democratic
a c o m m e n t b y H o u s e regulatory reform bill. Senator Robert Byrd of West
R e p u b l i c a n l e a d e r J o h n “In fact, just yesterday, I was Virginia means that for
B o e h n e r t h a t m a n a g e d t o stunned to hear the leader of the Democrats it will be more of a
m e n t i o n a n t s a n d n u c l e a r Republicans in the House say struggle to get those 60 votes in
weapons in the same sentence. that financial reform was like the Senate on financial
In an interview with the using a nuclear weapon to target regulatory reform. And for
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, an ant. That’s right. He Republicans the worry is that
Boehner criticized the financial compared the financial crisis to they are going to lose this fight
regulatory reform legislation an ant. The same financial crisis as they did on healthcare
m a k i n g i t s w a y t h r o u g h that led to the loss of nearly reform.
Congress as an overreaction to eight million jobs. The same Who do you think is winning
the financial crisis. “This is crisis that cost people their the rhetorical battle on Wall
killing an ant with a nuclear homes and their lives savings,” excerpts. takes to make sure a crisis like Street reform?
weapon,” he said. Obama will say. “These Americans don’t believe this never happens again. The Photo credit: Reuters/Ali
Democrats couldn’t resist “Well if the Republican leader is the financial crisis was an ant. Republican leader might want to Jarekji (ant walks on wild
pouncing on it. Especially since that out of touch with the They know that it’s what led to maintain a status quo on Wall flower), Reuters/Larry Downing
they are struggling to come up struggles facing the American the worst recession since the Street. But we want to move (Boehner and Obama at
with the votes to pass the people, he should come here to Great Depression. And they America forward.” president’s meeting with
landmark legislation through the Racine and ask people if they expect their leaders in So for the one “ant” mentioned congressional leaders at White
Senate where 60 votes in the think the financial crisis was an Washington to do whatever it by Boehner, Obama managed to House)
100-seat chamber are required a n t , ” O b a m a s a y s i n t h e
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Humor in the hearing room
JoAnne Allen (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 6/29/2010 10:44:14 PM
On day-two of Supreme Court
nominee Elena Kagan’s
confirmation hearing, she didn’t
reveal much about her specific
views on a wide range of issues
over nine hours.
But now we know the U.S.
Solicitor General can be funny.
Very funny.
Kagan repeatedly disarmed
lawmakers on the Senate
Judiciary panel with a quick
sense of humor.
Kagan, who as U.S. Solicitor
General currently represents the
government in cases before the
Supreme Court, refused to take
the bait when Arizona
Republican Jon Kyl asked if she
agreed with complaints that the
court had favored corporate
interests in recent rulings.
“I would not want to
characterize the current court in
any way — I hope one day to
join it,” Kagan said.
“And they said you weren’t
political,” Kyl responded to
laughter from Kagan and the
audience.
Asked by South Carolina
Here's How The Major Indices Ended For Q2
Gregory White (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:04:00 PM
Q2 just ended, and with it a dar
Republican Lindsey Graham
where she was on Christmas
Day, when a failed plane
bombing threatened U.S. lives.
“Like all Jews, I was probably
in a Chinese restaurant,” Kagan
said, drawing more laughter in
the hearing room.
Should Supreme Court
proceedings be televised?
Kagan said it would be “a
terrific thing” to have cameras
in the court.
“The issues are important ones
… I mean, some of them will
put you to sleep,” she said to
laughs.
“It means I’d have to get my
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McChrystal gets to keep his 4 stars Verizon: Tough to Pass

JoAnne Allen (Front Row
Washington) Up Dividend and Modest
Submitted at 6/29/2010 8:41:36 PM

General Stanley McChrystal

will go out with all the benefits
of a four-star general, even
though he hasn’t been in the
position long enough to retire
with that rank.
McChrystal was fired last week
as the top U.S. commander in
Afghanistan. President Obama
relieved McChrystal of his
command after the general and
his aides were quoted in
a“Rolling Stone” article
disparaging the president, vice
president and top White House
advisers involved in the war
effort.
On Monday, McChrystal
informed his bosses at the
Pentagon that he is retiring from
active duty. But whether he’d
get to keep his 4 stars — and get
the retirement benefits that
come with them — was an open
question. McChrystal has been a
four-star general for only about
a year — half the time normally
necessary to qualify for a four-
star general’s retirement
income.
As commander in chief, it’s
Obama call.
“The president believes — and
has talked with Secretary Gates
about this — and we will do
whatever is necessary to ensure
that he, somebody who has
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A Google Maps Mashup Of Google Maps Mashups (GOOG)

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Amazon Acquires Deal Site Woot (AMZN)
Jay Yarow (Business Insider)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:29:00 PM
Amazon has acquired deal-a-
day site Woot.com.
Woot says Amazon will let the
site continue to operate
independently, similarly to how
it lets Zappos and Audible run
themselves.
There's no price on the deal.
The most recent revenue figure
we can find for Woot is from
2008 when the company did
$164 million in sales.
Here's Woot's blog post on the
matter:
Holy crap! Woot has signed an
agreement with Amazon - yes,
the Amazon - to become an
independent subsidiary of the
ecommerce colossus. Woot HQ
will remain in Carrollton, Texas,
and will operate as
autonomously as other Amazon
companies like Zappos and
Audible. More details
forthcoming after we pick our
eyeballs up off of the floor.
Anybody see where Lefty rolled
off to?
And here's a memo from
Woot's CEO on the deal:
Date: Weds, 30 June 2010
From: Matt Rutledge (CEO –
Woot.com)
To: All Woot Employees
Subject: Woot and Amazon
I know I say this every time I
find a picture of an adorable
kitten, but please set aside 20
minutes to carefully read this
entire email. Today is a big day
E-reader News Edition
in Woot history. This morning, I moderators, as before. And
woke up to find Jeff Bezos the also, Woot’s previous and
Mighty had seized our magic always-in-effect privacy policy
sword. Using the Arthurian will still be just as always-in-
model as a corporate structure effect, so don’t worry, there are
was something our CFO had no plans to suddenly give up or
warned against from the very merge your forum data.
beginning, but now that’s water Q: Is Snapster leaving?
under the bridge. What is A: Are you kidding? He’s out
important is that our company is the door about ten seconds after
on the verge of becoming a part that check clea- that is to say,
of the Amazon.com dynasty. Snapster will continue as
And our plans for Grail.Woot Woot.com CEO, just like
are on indefinite hold. before, and the rest of our staff’s
Over the next few days, you not going anywhere either.
will probably read headlines that Woot and all our various sites
say “Matt Rutledge revealed to will continue to be an
be monstrous pseudo-human independently operated
creation of Jeff Bezos.” You company full of horrible, useless
you were office furniture. Jason Toon will finally be
might even see this photo products and an untalented
Nevertheless, don’t worry that released from that Mexican jail
making the rounds. Rest assured jerkface writing staff, same as it
our culture will suddenly take a owned by Zappos honcho Tony
that these rumors have nothing ever was.
leap forward and become Hsieh. No, don’t lie, Tony,
to do with our final decision. Q: Will the Woot culture
cutting-edge. We’re still going we’ve seen the paperwork. And
We think now is the right time change?
to be the same old bottom- we need a powerful ally in case
to join with Amazon because, A: Amazon is interested in us
feeders our customers and Steve Jobs finally breaks down
quite simply, every company because they recognize the
readers have come to know and and comes after us for all our
that becomes a subsidiary gets value of our people, our brand,
love, and each and every one of Apple jokes over the years.
two free downloads until the end and our unique style of deep-
their pre-written insult macros Don’t think of it as a buyout;
of July, and we very much need tissue, toxin-releasing massage.
will still be just as valid in a think of it as NATO!
that new thing with Trent And they don't want to start
week, two weeks, or even next I will go through each of the
Reznor’s wife on our iPods. changing things now. Amazon's
year. For Woot, our vision above points in more detail
Other than that, we plan to hoping our nutty Woot steez
remains the same: somehow later, but first, let me get to the
continue to run Woot the way continues to grow and develop
earning a living on snarky top 5 burning questions that I’m
we have always run Woot – (and perhaps even rubs off on
commentary and junk. guessing many of you will
with a wall of ideas and a them a little). They’re not
We are excited about doing this have.
dartboard. From a practical looking to have their folks
for all sorts of reasons. One, our TOP 5 BURNING
point of view, it will be as if we come in and run Woot unless we
business model is so vague that QUESTIONS:
are simply adding one person to ask them to, which incidentally
there’s no way Amazon can Q: F1RST!!!!
the organizational hierarchy, you can do by turning off the
possibly change what it is we’re A: Okay, that’s not a question,
except that one person will just bathroom lights and saying the
truly doing: preparing the way but it is a good place to mention
happen to be a billion-dollar word “Kindle” three times; a
for the rise of the Lava Men in that our forums will still be
company that could buy and sell AMAZON page 10
2012. Also, our deal means that policed by a team of
each and every one of you like
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Interview: Blip Boutique's Mary Fagot, Creative Force Behind

Robyn's Killing Me Video
Addy Dugdale (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:23:44 PM

The oil spill is killing me. My

suitcase is killing me. But
mostly it's Robyn's interactive
twideo that's killing Twitter
users. The firm behind it is Blip
Boutique, an LA-based
collective led by James Frost--
the guy behind Radiohead's
House of Cards video and Mary
Fagot, ex creative director of
Capitol Records.
Mary spent the last year at the
Hyper Island school in
Stockholm to boost her skills in
interactive and digital art
direction, and through that met
Thomas Bjork, who was The way it started out was direction, and there are so many it's good for, and the more channels--the mainstream,
working at a production Robyn and I gassing on the song good studios and shops and people that become familiar where artists give people what
company in Stockholm called and how funny it is, and then agencies there. I was for three with the tools with which they they want, and where people are
Stopp. Stopp had been playing spontaneously we started talking months at a place called North consume and participate in free to tell the producers of the
around with anaglyphic 3D, so about this is killing me and that Kingdom, which is revered as media online, the more it makes music what they do want, and
after discussing how to make the is killing me, and that the tops in quality, and figured sense to give them a voice in the they'll be serviced. But I still
text 3D and the content spontaneous human need to out how to do storytelling online creative aspect of delivering think that artists will have their
interactive, so that people could gripe stuck with me, so I said to for advertising. They're really content online. So it really made own voice. It's the way they
send in their own gripes, she, Robyn, 'we should do a text- ahead." sense here--the song was perfect connect with the people who are
Thomas, Robyn and the based video that is all about What does the Killing Me video for this, not only to have this interested in that voice will
developers at Stopp Web put it gripes', and so that was the start signify for the future of the one-way voice of Robyn saying change. It's healthy and good."
together. of it." medium? what's killing her, but to have Why aren't there more
FastCompany.com got on the Do you think that Sweden is "When James and I came this communication where interactive videos like this?
phone with Mary, who's the way ahead of everyone else on together about four years ago we people come back and say "The record labels aren't asking
creative brain behind the 3D the digital and interactive media wanted to explore what was what's killing them. It was the for it. There's a long history
code-based extravaganza to talk front? going to be next. For a while perfect opportunity." with broadcast video and
about the concept. "Yes, I do. It's sort of evident that was video on the web, but Have we arrived at an age projecting an image for MTV
FASTCOMPANY.COM: that Hyper Island is 13 years that passive experience where where pop stars and their art are and that's a very controlled
Whose idea was the video? there, and it's always been about you watch is not satisfactory. It's crowdsourced?
MARY FAGOT: "It was mine. digital media and interactive art not using the Internet for what "There will probably be two INTERVIEW: page 11
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How Honeywell Is Redesigning The Skies For Quicker,

Greener, Less Painful Flying
Cliff Kuang (Fast Company)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:50:22 PM

Bob Smith, Honeywell's CTO,

talks with FastCompany.com
about the technology that will
soon control the skies overhead.
If you’ve flown on an airplane
anytime recently, at some point
you probably sat in seat, bolt
upright, uncomfortable and
thirsty, as your airplane sat
idling on the tarmac—only to
hear the captain’s voice crackle
overhead: “Well, folks, we’re
currently number 35 for take
off. It’s gonna be awhile.” You
probably blamed lots of things:
the sluggish airline people; the
overcrowded skies and
airplanes; and the bankrupt
airlines.In truth, none of those
are really to blame. It’s actually
the way we control and route
planes, a patchwork quilt of
methods inherited from the
1930s. Fixing the problem isn’t
about building more airplanes or
airports. It’s a design problem,
rooted in the way we model the
skies overhead. “The
inefficiencies we have today
cause damage to the
environment, and they put the
airlines in trouble,” says Dr Bob been furiously devising a airplanes are controlled and all the aircraft safe, they have to shortest route from A to B,
Smith. Honeywell's chief solution, with technology that flown.Right now, the skies fly at fixed distances from each given Earth's curvature. Instead,
technology officer. “So what will let planes fly closer, above you seem limitless, but other.That poses myriad they’re routed onto the sky’s
you need is to rethink how we timelier, and smarter. Though air traffic controllers cordon problems. For one, every equivalent of out-of-the-way
use airspace.” Engineers and it's only trickling out now, by them off into a bunch of straight airplane should be flying a
designers at Honeywell have 2015 it will define the way lines from point A to B. To keep distinct, curved path—the HOW page 9
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At A Startup, Is It Better To Go With Your Gut Or Analyze
All The Data?
Eric Paley (Business Insider)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:21:00 PM
Micah Rosenbloom and I had
an endless debate at Brontes
about whether Blink or
Moneyball was more relevant
to the founder’s skill set. Blink
argues that instincts are
incredibly powerful and would
suggest a more gut driven
entrepreneurial style. Moneyball
chronicles how Billy Beane
outflanked all other major
league General Managers by
largely ignoring instinctual
decision-making (scouting),
instead using data to make
decisions. We thought of this as
a spectrum where Micah leaned
toward the Blink side and I
leaned in the Moneyball
direction – probably a good
combination. I’d argue that I’d
“Blink” to form a hypothesis,
but use Moneyball analytics to
decide whether to execute that
hypothesis and how much to
invest in testing the hypothesis.
As a seed stage investor, I think
about this debate frequently. I
think there are early stage
startups that are designed as
more “Blink” style startups that
are hugely successful. I don’t
know the true story of the
founding of Facebook, but my
guess is that Mark Zuckerberg
didn’t start by getting his
thoughts into a PowerPoint,
Business/ 7
doing market research or very improbable as an investor
creating a financial model. It to share his instincts about what
almost seems laughable to would work in social
suggest such a thing. He was networking. Peter Thiel was a
coding in his dorm room, had genius for making the first
conviction about something investment in Facebook, but
users might want and built a consider that the investment was
minimum viable product to see made after Zuckerberg amassed
how they reacted. This was the evidence of hundreds of
furthest thing from a designed thousands users with a
business. 100% on the Blink astoundingly viral trend line. It
side of the spectrum. was still a big and early bet, but
Not to put the companies even it wasn’t made solely on shared
in the same stratosphere, but at instincts. Arguably, at that
Brontes we were largely a point, an investor could take a
designed business. We used our Moneyball approach to
instincts to figure out where to analyzing whether the user
look and then did a ton of traction would continue.
market research and put together Eric Paley was the CEO and a
However, I think it is dangerous solely on instinct. Even in a
a detailed plan in mid 2003. If co-founder of Brontes; he is
to look at extreme outliers to highly iterative lean startup
you look at that plan today, the now a Managing Partner at
draw conclusions, and despite methodology (which I deeply
business greatly resembles the Founder Collective. This post
not being Facebook, I’m not support), I view the analysis of
plan. We made pivots along the was originally published on his
sure I'd change my approach the the data to make quick iteration
way, based on customer data, blog, and it is republished here
next time. decisions as a Moneyball skill.
and became much more with permission.
My feeling as an investor hasn’t I’ve invested in businesses that
sophisticated in our assumptions Join the conversation about this
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Moneyball approach. While I bet. The Blink model requires
2003. Certainly some Maverick Founder Over A
value instincts, I think our me to either absolutely share the
businesses lend themselves to Sedate One
instincts can greatly bias us and instinctual conviction of the
more instinctual management • Why Leaders Should Always
that the fly-by-the-seat-of-your- founder, which is rare, or ask
than others, as iteration cycles Act Confident, Even When
pants approach to the founder to create evidence
can vary. They Don't Really Know What
entrepreneurship statistically not in market analysis, but in
Which is better? I really can’t They're Doing
results in failure at an actual user traction metrics.
say. If you compare these two • Great Leaders Are Respected,
overwhelming rate over the Imagine investing in Mark
companies, I’d rather be Mark Not Loved
Moneyball approach. It Zuckerberg when he had the
Zuckerberg and the valuation
suggests to me that the founder first prototype for
math is about 1 to 250 in
may not listen to user data and TheFacebook.com and no user STARTUP, page 10
Facebook’s favor thus far.
pivot quickly based on facts, but traction, it would have been
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Missed Chinese Connections: Why You'll Have to Hook Up

With Asian Army Hotties the Old Fashioned Way
Addy Dugdale (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:07:55 PM

Security issues have forced the

Chinese military authorities to
clamp down on their troops'
Internet use. As well as a
moratorium on blogging, the 2.3
million military personnel are
forbidden from using online
dating sites, personal websites
and even visiting real-world
Internet cafes. As opposed to
those in Second Life,
presumably.
The cyber-rules--just one part
of a lengthy edict from the
Communist Party's Central
Military Affairs Commission--
are brief, yet to the point.
According to AP:
Seeking marriage partners, jobs
or making friends through the
public media is not permitted.
Going online in local Internet
cafes is not permitted.
Opening websites, home pages,
blogs and message forums on
the Internet is not permitted.
Ah, micromanagment and meeting to discuss the problem leaked military secrets when An academic based in personal and professional space.
secrecy, those never-ending of unmarried soldiers and chatting online, for instance, Singapore, however, said that The military is a reflection of
passions of the powers that be in requested some of its units to giving away troop locations," the ban was unsurprising. society and how it responds will
China. Any soldiers worried help them find partners via local said Ni Lexiong, a military "Cyberspace has been a gray be a result of that. So in more
they're never going to find civil affairs departments and the expert at Shanghai University of area," said Ho Shu Huang of the closed societies, it is easier for
themselves a wife as long as women's federation." Political Science and Law. Institute of Defense and the military to say, 'Don't do
they're dressed in khaki needn't Chinese military experts, "Certainly, a large amount of Strategic Studies at Singapore's anything. Don't talk online.
worry, as the Xigaze military however, understand the need secrets was revealed this way Nanyang Technological That's that.'"
sub-command in Tibet is on for turning the online world off and the regulation has just University. "This is a tricky
their case. "(They) held a to its soldiers. "Some soldiers blocked the hole." issue because it straddles both MISSED page 10
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HOW
continued from page 6

roads and highways, which are
arrow-straight, making routes
longer and waste fuel. When
you add all the route
inefficiencies and all the tarmac
delays, 11% of the fuel an
airplane burns is pure waste. For
an airline, 11% in extra fuel
costs can easily be the
difference between bankruptcy
and profitability--and all that
inefficiency, according to Smith,
could be eliminated by
Honeywell's new tech. Smith
breaks down the technologies
that Honeywell is devising into
four categories: navigation,
guidance, communications, and
surveillance. While these
changes won't be appearing
tomorrow, by 2015 they will be
installed throughout Europe, and
the technology will be installed
in enough planes to make a
difference in the system as a
whole.In navigation, planes
usually fly into an airport by
following a straight line radio
signal issued by air traffic
control--those are the crowded
roads. But the technology is
now in place to provide
customized curved routes for
every airplane--and have then
guided by GPS, rather than a
single, shared signal from the
airport. "That means you don't
have to build as many runways,"
says Smith.
[video_twistage 1]
That change in navigation
ripples through both guidance
and surveillance systems.
Airplanes will soon be fitted
with transponders which
calculate their exact location,
using GPS way points,
gyroscopes that calculate the
exact angles the airplane has
been flying, and speed
measurements. These in turn
will be sent to air traffic control,
doing away with radar--a
problematic tech, since radar
only sweeps across an area,
giving periodic rather than
constant position updates. (One
reason planes have to fly so far
apart is how often the radar
sweeps an area.)That means that
both the airport and the
individual airplanes will have
have real-time, 3-D maps of
where airplanes are, and where
they're headed. They can each
be flying an efficient route,
without fear of getting too close
for comfort. As to
communication, Honeywell is
working on an in-flight texting
system, which Europe is already
mandating by 2013. Instead of
the uncertainty of verbal
communications, air traffic
controllers will communicate
with planes by text, which will
allow them to coordinate more
clearly, and allow all the
incoming and outgoing
messages be monitored together.
All of this, says Smith, is part
of an "inflection point"
occurring in the airplane
industry. "I grew up on the
Jetsons," says Smith. "I'm
waiting for my flying car. I'm
waiting for piloting to become
much more natural. And now
we have the technology to do
that." For example, the control
sticks--these are still based on
the basic mechanics that the
Wrights used to control the flaps
on the first aircraft. But these
can be replaced with much more
intuitive, ergonomic controls.
And as for instrumentation, it'll
become more visual, and based
on what you see when you
actually look out the window,
rather than gauges that reduce
flying into a checklist. "We're
going to be changing the way
people fly and actually touch an
aircraft," he says. "We can
actually reshape the pilot."
[Top image by YoLoPey.]
Here's How The
Major Indices
Ended For Q2
Gregory White (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:04:00 PM
Q2 just ended, and with it a dar
period for equities across all
major U.S. indices.
March 30 close through June
30.
Dow, down 10.4%
NASDAQ, down 12.5%
S&P 500, down 12.2%
Check out today's Closing Bell
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AMAZON
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helpful Amazon employee will
appear in the mirror. That said,
Amazon clearly knows what
they're doing in a lot of areas, so
we’re geeked about the
opportunities to tap into that
knowledge and those resources,
especially on the technology
side. This is about making the
Woot brand, culture, and
business even stronger than it is
today, and we expect that any
changes will be for the better or
we wouldn't bother with this
endless paperwork.
Q: Where can I get one of those
vuvuzelas?
A: Are you even paying
attention?
Several months ago, when we
were all sitting on Jeff Bezos’s
bumper drinking orange Mad
Dog and trying not to be
noticed, we heard a voice in the
distance yelling “You kids
better not scratch my Mercedes
or I’m calling the cops!” We
ran. It was later that night when
Amazon came by the house and
said they liked our style and also
wanted to get that money we
owed them for messing up the
chrome. We like to think that
our relationship with Amazon
will continue at this level for
STARTUP,
continued from page 7
many, many, many years to
come.
But we here at Woot are still a
thoughtful company, so, at the
end of the day, I watched the
sunset, and its golden-hued
glory made me think about two
questions:
1) Is there really a universal
deity?
2) Does such a thing preclude
free will or are we humans in
control of our own destiny?
After spending a lot of time
falling asleep at the library
while facing the philosophy
books, I determined that the
concept of destiny is a construct
that allows man a gentle release
from facing the terror of his
existence, and that a Hyundai
full of twenties would pretty
much offer the same benefits.
And so, I ultimately said YES!
This is definitely an emotional
day for me. The feelings I’m
experiencing are similar to what
I felt in college on graduation
day: excitement about getting a
check from my folks combined
with nausea from a hellacious
bender the night before. I
remember fondly that time when
an RA turned on the lights and
yelled “WHO OWNS THESE
PANTS?” Except this time, the
pants are a company, and the
RA is you, and the sixty five
hours of community service is a
deal that will ensure the
Woot.com experience can
continue to grow for years and
years and years, like a black
mold behind the Gold Box. Join
us, because together, we can
rule the galaxy as father and
son. Also, there will be six
muffins waiting in the company
break room, courtesy of the nice
folks at Amazon.com.
Welcome to the family!
Matt Rutledge
CEO, Woot
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Although the U.S. has a fairly
relaxed policy on social media
and Internet use--troops are
allowed full access while they
are on a tour, it only being
forbidden when they are
actually out on patrol--although
you can't exactly imagine
soldiers wanting to faff around
with Facebook on their
handhelds while they're being
shot at. Contrast that with this
rather poignant, yet tragic,
nugget. Before the clampdown,
one of the solders' personal
blogs had as its last--sorry, final
--post, a poem entitled We Are
Still Single.
Perhaps it would be a good idea
to remind ourselves just how
easy it is to have a foot-mouth
interface when mixing
intelligence affairs with the
Internet. The strange case of the
MI6 chief, his wife and his
speedos.What happened when
G.I. Schmo changed his
Facebook status to " Banging
Doors and Heads in
Ramallah."Hi! I'm the author of
the Defence Manual of Security
and I'm making it open source.
Note that all of this has
happened to Western
democracies. So it's no surprise
that military experts on our side
of the globe are scathing about
the Chinese military's no-surf
zone. "(The policy) is regressive
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in its understanding of
technology, regressive in
generational attitudes and
regressive in transparency and
attitudes we have of leading
powers in the 21st century," said
Peter Singer, of the 21st Century
Defense Initiative at the
Brookings Institution.
Translation: "Aw, c'mon China,
we've showed you just what
putzes we can be on the intel
front, now it's your turn."
But China is too smart for that.
Indeed, it is the master of the
honey trap--when sexy lady
intelligence worker posing as
sexy lady, sidles up to some
foreigner, either working for a
computer firm, in town as part
of a trade delegation with, say,
his country's Prime Minister,
perhaps on a fact-finding
mission for the Olympics, chats
up the corruptible western pig
and then pounces. (Have you
noticed that they are always
British?)
So this is, in essence, why
China has stopped its troops
from meeting beautiful women
online NOW!--because it wrote
the book on extracting secrets
via pleasurable means.
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situation. We decide what the

image is, make people look
good, and we put it out there
and it becomes a slick
presentation. And they've been
slow to open up because there's
a lot of fear. It's a very
unhealthy industry and the more
fear that there is, the more
control gets placed. This was the
kind of situation where we
didn't exactly know how it was
going to work out, and so there
was some element of risk, but in
this case it worked out really
well. But I think it's that control
versus risk thing that is the
problem in the music industry."
Did Robyn's record label have a
problem with the concept?
"Robyn is a very special artist,
and she's very well known for
having lots of her own ideas.
She's been around since she was
16 and she was on a path that
was very much the Britney
Spears path--the producers she
was working with and the major
record labels. About eight years
ago she walked away from her
contract, and the last record she
put out was an independent
record on her own label that was
distributed by major labels in
the UK, Europe, and U.S. She
comes from a very independent
angle and her record company
understands that, so she has a
little more room because of it.
As far as it goes with this video,
either the label just got the idea,
and because it's a little more
under the radar as it's web only,
maybe we had more freedom
because of that."
Is the Twitter feed moderated?
"No, it's not moderated at all.
It's straight through Twitter's
API, so it's directly linked
through the Twitter hashtag.
Surprisingly, we haven't seen
that much profanity or things we
would even think of censoring,
and it's run the gamut from
banal stuff like, 'the heat is
killing me' to touching stuff like,
'my loneliness is killing me.'"
Like PostSecret?
"Yeah. It's interesting I think for
me when I'm watching it, and
these words are emerging from
this infinite space. They sort of
feel like they're coming at you
from some person out there in
cyberworld, and they're really
saying something, and
sometimes it's funny, and
sometimes it can be quite
touching as well."
To Deploy Collaboration
Applications In The Cloud
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:15:15 PM
Cisco is launching a new
Hosted Collaboration platform
today, which allows partners to
provide a wide range of Cisco ability to deploy multiple
collaboration applications, such collaboration applications on
as WebEx, an enterprise focused one server in a virtualized
messaging platform, a contact environment and then host those
center and more, to their applications for multiple client
customers via the cloud. The organizations.
Cisco Hosted Collaboration
Solution gives customers the

Wanted: A Toy Robot For Design Snobs and Gundam Nerds

Suzanne LaBarre (Fast an art object. You can fold it also Simus the Rhino:
Company) into a box as if it were some sort And Hattie the Elephant, named
Submitted at 6/30/2010 4:19:36 PM of Tony Rosenthal sculpture or for a real elephant that lived in
sic it on your model RX-78 'til Central Park at the turn of the
Behold Cubebot, the world's mom yells bed time -- whatever. century and supposedly
most tasteful robot. Designy types will love it understood English:
Design snobs and Gundam because of the Cubist reference Visit Areaware online for more
nerds might be worlds apart on, and because it's made out of whimsical stuff from Weeks. Be
oh, pretty much everything, but sustainably harvested cherry sure to check out his smoking
one thing they can both agree on wood and because it'll look the way from the original Koons summer collection Weeks, gorilla-head ashtrays.
is this: the awesomeness of p e r f e c t l y a t h o m e o n t h e balloon dog. And geeks will w h o ' s b a s e d i n B r o o k l y n , [Images courtesy of Areaware]
David Weeks's Cubebot. Noguchi side table, next to the love it because it's a ROBOT!!! produced for the ur-hip design
Cubebot is both a toy robot and George Nelson sofa, just across Cubebot is part of a new distributor Areaware. There's
12 Business/ E-reader News Edition

Sony Recalls 500,000 Melting Laptops, While

Apple Gets an iPhone 4 Press Roasting
Kit Eaton (Fast Company) although the company thinks it
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:11:07 PM shouldn't hurt its bottom line for
this fiscal quarter. Is This The Shape Of
Product recalls aren't hugely While that's good luck for The Next Big Leg Down
common but are always an Sony's bank balance, it's a big In The NASDAQ?
embarrassing PR event ... and as black mark PR-wise. Or is it?
recalls go, Sony's one Because Apple's iPhone 4 is Joe Weisenthal (Business
Insider)
announced today is a pretty big also reportedly suffering from a
deal. Over half a million Vaio big design flaw (or maybe it Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:36:37 PM

laptops are at risk, it seems, of isn't--some owners simply can't

running hot enough to melt.
The actual issue is in the
computer's temperature control
circuitry, according to Sony--
there's some design flaw in the
system that prevents it
effectively cooling the CPU
(and other hot-running parts)
down enough. At some critical
thermal moment, the
temperature inside the computer
rises high enough that the heat
can actually soften the laptop's
plastic bodies. Distortion and
thus erroneous performance, and
a slight risk of skin-contact
burns could then result. Sony's
quick to point out that no cases
of injury have been reported, but
it must be this serious risk (and
attached lawsuit danger) that's
forcing the recall.
The product recall covers
259,000 laptops sold into the
U.S. since January 2010,
103,000 in Europe, 120,000 in
Asia and 52,000 in Japan. As
well as revealing interesting
stats on who around the world is
actually buying Sony gear, this
totals to 535,000 laptops that
Sony has to arrange get back
from consumers, and either
repair or replace. This is going
to be a big logistical affair,
reproduce the problem) that For your pleasure and
affects how well it can receive edification, here's our technical
calls, which is pretty damning chart of the day.
for a phone. But the apparent Will this be the shape of the
effect hasn't been found serious next big decline?
enough for Apple to issue a Click to enlarge.
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Apple's blood over the matter ...
while Sony's news, about a
product that can physically
wound buyers, is slipping under
the radar, more or less.
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Chasing Value: American Eagle Will Soar Again

Sheldon Liber around one more time with $9.13 to a closing price of Value: American Eagle Will Comments
(BloggingStocks) American Eagle Outfitters ( $16.98, with a 52 week high of Soar Again American Eagle Outfitters-
Submitted at 6/30/2010 4:40:00 PM AEO), the retailer with the $19.86. Today it is trading near Chasing Value: American J o h n s o n - B l o g g i n g S t o c k s -
pristine balance sheet that its 52 week low of $11.35, E a g l e W i l l S o a r A g a i n Business- Balance sheet
Filed under: Analyst Upgrades designs and manufactures its opening at $11.61 and trading originally appeared on
and Downgrades, Johnson and own clothing line targeted at the up at mid-day. BloggingStocks on Wed, 30 Jun
Johnson (JNJ), Bargain Stocks, 15 to 25 year old age group. I think this eagle will soar again 2010 16:40:00 EST. Please see
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Spy suspects had interests in science, finance (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) go attend this meeting? Can you a case that seemed to have come see it happening in the mid- MIT — had ties to several
Submitted at 6/29/2010 6:32:11 PM go attend this trade show? Can straight out of a Cold War spy 1950's, but now, in 2010, it organizations involved in
you contact this person? Could novel or a Hitchcock thriller, comes across as more comical, forecasting emerging
MONTCLAIR, N.J. – One y o u m a y b e e n r o l l i n t h i s many of the defendants lived with the low-tech stuff they said technologies. "He hung around
hobnobbed with academics and university? And then elevate the what seemed to be utterly they were using." the world of futurists," said
entrepreneurs who shared his access as they go." ordinary suburban lives — The arrests raised fears that retired George Washington
interest in cutting-edge science. Ten members of the alleged saying goodbye to their kids at Moscow has planted other University professor William
Another spoke five languages, ring were arrested across the the bus stop, taking pride in couples in the U.S. Federal Halal.
went to embassy parties and was Northeast and charged Monday their well-kept lawns and flower prosecutor Michael Farbiarz The two were business partners
fascinated by global politics. A with failing to register as foreign beds, making small talk with the said the allegations are "the tip in TechCast, a think tank that
third held herself out to be a agents, a crime that is less neighbors, even holding Fourth of the iceberg" of a conspiracy tries to predict the shape of
venture capitalist and hit the serious than espionage and of July parties. by Russia's intelligence service, tomorrow's technologies, and
networking circuit, looking for carries up to five years in prison. In Montclair, N.J., neighbors of the SVR, to collect information had also been members of a
investment opportunities. Some also face money a woman who called herself inside this country. board at the Lifeboat
The 11 people arrested and laundering charges. An 11th Cynthia Murphy said that they The alleged deep-cover agents Foundation, a nonprofit
accused of being members of a suspect was arrested in Cyprus, detected an accent, and when are known as "illegals" in the organization that encourages
Russian spy ring operating accused of passing money to the they asked where she was from, intelligence world because they scientific advancements.
under deep cover in America's spies over several years. she said Belgium. Chapman, a take civilian jobs instead of Prosecutors said that in 2004,
suburbs appear to have been part Prosecutors said several of the young redhead, posted a number operating inside Russian Heathfield met with an
of a slow and patient plan by defendants were Russians living of pictures of herself on social embassies and military employee of the U.S.
Moscow to cultivate contacts in in the U.S. under assumed networking sites, including a missions. government "with regard to
the U.S. who could yield vital names and posing as Canadian photo of her at the Statue of Federal agents said in court nuclear weapons research."
competitive information — not or American citizens. It was Liberty and a seductive, pouty papers that almost all members Another of those arrested,
necessarily on weapons or U.S. unclear how and where they shot of her in a lacy baby-blue of the group had been under Mikkail Semenko, worked at
strategic planning, but on were recruited, but court papers outfit. surveillance for some time. Travel All Russia, a small travel
f i n a n c e , b u s i n e s s a n d said the operation went back as The court papers allege that One suspect, Vicky Pelaez, a agency in Arlington, Va., that is
technology, intelligence experts far as the 1990s. Exactly what some of the ring's members reporter and editor for the in the same building as a U.S.
say. sort of information the alleged were husband and wife and that Spanish-language newspaper El military recruitment center.
"This is a long-term investment agents provided to their Russian the spies used invisible ink, Diario/La Prensa, had been Colleagues in the office
by an intelligence service to lead handlers — and how valuable it coded radio transmissions and videotaped taking bags of described him as clumsy and
those individuals there, give may have been — was not encrypted data, and employed money from a Russian official quirky, but smart. They said he
them general assignments and disclosed. Hollywood methods such as as early as 2000, the FBI said. spoke five languages.
see what they can pick up," said The FBI finally moved in to swapping bags in passing at a Others had their phones tapped, The agency's marketing
John Slattery, a deputy assistant break up the ring because one of train station. their homes searched and their manager, Slava Shirokov, said
director of counterintelligence at the suspects — apparently a "We're from a generation where computer hard drives copied by he had known Semenko since
the FBI who retired in 2008 and woman who called herself Anna everyone was afraid of the Red FBI agents years ago. they were students together at
is now an executive with BAE Chapman, who was bound for Menace, of 007 and hiding All the suspects were allowed Amur State University in
S y s t e m s I n t e l l i g e n c e a n d Moscow, according to court under desks during drills — all to go about their lives, though Russia. Shirokov said Semenko
Security. papers — was going to leave the of that stuff. There was real fear, under close watch. had majored in Chinese studies
"Although they aren't trained country, the Justice Department so it's shocking to see something Donald Heathfield, who worked and spent several years in China
intelligence professionals, they said. like this," said Alan Sokolow, a for a management consulting after graduating. After moving
are available and on call for The arrests flabbergasted many neighbor of Cynthia Murphy firm and lived in Cambridge, SPY page 14
assignments such as: Can you of the defendants' neighbors. In and her husband, Richard. "I can Mass. — home to Harvard and
14 Technology/ Culture/
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continued from page 13
to the U.S., he got two master's
degrees from Seton Hall
University in 2008, one in
diplomacy and international
relations and one in Asian
studies.
"He was always interested in
languages, global politics and
other cultures," Shirokov said.
"He liked to go to banquets to
meet people. He did a lot of that
in New York, he did a lot of this
here. We always thought he is
networking in order to land the
jobs of his dreams. ... He said,
`My dream job would be
something in international
relations, an NGO or something
like that.'"
A number of the suspects had
interests in finance.
One couple, who went by the
names Michael Zottoli and
Patricia Mills, had taken an
advanced finance course at the
University of Washington when
they were living in Seattle,
according to their former
instructor, Ufuk Ince. Cynthia
Murphy earned a master's
degree in business
administration from Columbia
University this year.
Chapman lived close to the
New York Stock Exchange and
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described herself in numerous
Web postings as being on the
hunt for investment
opportunities in the U.S. and
Russia.
Russian officials initially
denounced the arrests as " Cold
War-era spy stories" and
accused elements of the U.S.
government of trying to
undermine the improving
relationship between Moscow
and Washington. But the White
House and Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin expressed
confidence that the arrests
would not damage ties between
the two nations.
Bruce Riedel, a former CIA
officer and a senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution Saban
Center, said it was a "classic
KGB-style" operation, in which
Russian intelligence officials
plant moles and "hope that they
will produce something years
and maybe even decades later."
"They're trying to get someone
into a position of influence,
where someone becomes the
friend of, let's say, the president
of a think tank who may become
a Cabinet member in the next
administration," Riedel said.
"And then you have someone
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who not only can ask that
Cabinet member questions, but
might be able to influence what
they're doing."
Waldomar Mariscal, the 38-
year-old son of Pelaez, scoffed
at the allegations Tuesday
outside Pelaez's home in
Yonkers, N.Y.
"This looks like an Alfred
Hitchcock movie with all this
stuff from the 1960s," he said.
"This is preposterous."
___
Yost reported from
Washington, Caruso from New
York. Contributing to this report
were Associated Press Writers
Adam Goldman in New York,
Jim Fitzgerald in Yonkers, N.Y.,
Lolita Baldor and Jessica
Gresko in Washington, and
Kathleen Miller in Arlington,
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With Mobile Apps, New
Control Panel, Better Analytics
Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:05:24 PM
Mzinga has announced the
latest version of its SaaS
enterprise social software suite
OmniSocial, with improved
control panel, expanded
analytics, mobile apps and
more. The new features were
made available to customers
yesterday.
Mzinga has amassed an
impressive client list, including
ABC, Ford, Chevron,
Amazon.com and AOL. It says
it has over 300 clients with a
total of over 40 million users.
Sponsor
OmniSocial is an SaaS suite
with features such as to do lists,
discussions, blogs, chat, social
networks, wikis, file sharing and
polls. Clients use it for both
internal intranets and
collaboration and as an external,
customer facing solution.
OmniSocial's features can be
easily integrated into existing
web pages with embeddable
code. For example, ABC News
uses OmniSocial for comments.
The new version of
OmniSocial's control panel
makes it easier for organizations
to customize and administer
deployments of the service.
Previously, Mzinga offered
professional services to
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customize and manage
implementations.
The new version also offers
expanded analytics and
reporting, features which have
been in beta for a few months.
Organizations will be able to
track not only simple stats such
as how often users post, but
gauge the users reputation and
influence in a community based
on who reads their posts, how
often their posts are read and
other metrics.
OmniSocial users can now
share content through Facebook
feeds using Facebook's API, and
integrate OmniSocial features
into Sharepoint sites.
Additionally, Mzinga is now
offering customizable
OmniSocial iPhone and
Blackberry apps.
Although OmniSocial now
offers more self-service options
through the new control panel,
Mzinga still offers social media
consulting, brand and reputation
management and professional
moderation services.
The enterprise social media
market is quite crowded, but
Mzinga cite Jive and Pluck as its
primary competitors. Discuss
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Lawsuit Against Obama's Embryonic Google Maps API

Stem Cell Policy Reinstated Celebrates 5 Years with
(The Christian Post RSS Feed
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with abortion because it
necessitates the destruction of
the embryo during the process
beings,” said Dr. David Stevens,
executive director of Christian
Medical Association, an
Submitted at 6/29/2010 5:05:10 PM
Mike Melanson
of harvesting the stem cells. organization of over 16,000 (ReadWriteWeb)
A lawsuit against public Last March via executive order, doctors who are plaintiffs in the
funding of embryonic stem cell President Obama changed the case. Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:04:00 PM

research was revitalized Friday. policy concerning embryonic Stevens and doctors in CMA
The U.S. Court of Appeals for stem cell research to allow It's been 5 years since Google
maintain that research using
the D.C. Circuit reversed the public funding. first introduced the Google
adult stem cell lines not only
dismissal of a lawsuit that Opponents of such research say Maps API, a move that has
avoids ethical issues, but has single page, swapping out the
c o n t e n d s t h e O b a m a it violates a law known as the brought Google Maps to more
also proven to be more map tiles, using custom map
administration’s embryonic Dickey/Wicker Amendment, than 350,000 websites
successful than embryonic stem markers, making markers move,
s t e m c e l l r e s e a r c h p o l i c y which prohibits federal funds worldwide, and this week the
cells research. loading real-time data onto
violates federal law. The court from being used to destroy company is celebrating the
The case Sherley v. Sebelius maps...These days, it's hard to
found that the plaintiffs have human embryos for research API's birthday with a map of
has brought together a broad fathom a Web without
“competitive standing” to sue. purposes. Google Maps mashups.
coalition of plaintiffs, including embeddable maps. Wasn't it
“ A l t h o u g h p r i v a t e - s e c t o r Thomas G. Hungar, one of the Sponsor
Dr. James L. Sherley, a former always that way? To Google's
funding of embryonic stem cell attorneys representing the The Maps API is implemented
member of the MIT faculty who eternal credit, instead of shutting
research has been practically plaintiffs, said the National using JavaScript and, before it
is currently working as a senior these hacks down, they
unlimited, it has failed to Institutes of Health tried to was made available by Google,
scientist at the Boston recognized the demand and
produce results,” said Alliance avoid the law by funding many developers embedded
Biomedical Research Institute; legitimized it in the form of
Defense Fund Senior Legal everything but the act of Google Maps onto their
Dr. Theresa Deisher, the their mapping API.
Counsel Steven H. Aden, in a “harvesting.” websites by reverse engineering
founder of AVM According to the Google Geo
statement. code. Adrian Holovaty, one of
“[W]e are opposed to this Biotechnology; Nightlight Developers Blog post, nearly
ADF is a co-counsel in the case proposed illegal and unethical the pioneers of creating Google
Christian Adoptions; and the half of the almost 5,000
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Christian Medical Association. mashups on Programmable
International in the case of embryonic research that would used to have to create hacks to
Five Filters featured article: Web's dashboard use the Google
Sherley v. Sebelius. embed maps. When Google
compel every American to Headshot - Propaganda, State Maps API. In an effort to show
“In these difficult economic cooperate with such unlawful Maps launched -- with maps
Religion and the Attack On the the widespread influence of the
times, why should the federal human experimentation and the assembled client-side, in
Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available API, Keir Clarke from Google
g o v e r n m e n t u s e p r e c i o u s violation of our fundamental JavaScript! -- I was one of the
tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Maps Mania created a mashup
taxpayer dollars for this illegal medical research ethic never to band of tinkerers around the
Text RSS, Term Extraction. of mashups that we've included
and unethical purpose?” globe who poked at Google's
lethally experiment on one below. From real-time tracking
Many pro-life groups equate human being simply to benefit obfuscated code until we figured
out how to embed their maps in of buses in NYC to mapping out
embryonic stem cell research the interests of other human news down to a block-by-block
our own pages. It was a ton of
fun, not only doing the reverse level, the mashup shows where
engineering, but seeing the across the world Google Maps
various discoveries and hacks mashups have been created
other people were making: using the API.
embedding multiple maps in a Discuss
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Poll: Church Attendance Increasing WhaleShark Media

in U.S. Unveiled As Big
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"seldom" church attendance and
20 percent said they never
about the economy, there were
also no significant changes in
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The most dedicated who said religion is important to (TechCrunch)
Church attendance increased churchgoers, according to the them. Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:22:29 PM
slightly in 2010, according to G a l l u p o r g a n i z a t i o n , a r e Gallup noted that the rising soon, they say.
the Gallup organization. conservatives, non-hispanic church attendance could be a We first heard of WhaleShark The go forward brand for the
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past two years. The latest poll least once a week or almost and older are more likely to ship to join the secretive new they’ve acquired from Demand
found that 43.1 percent of every week are liberals, Asians, attend church than those who startup. Now we have all the Media. The new site is still in
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percent in 2008. Gallup does not believe it is tied range that traditionally has been Cuningham, and has raised These types of rollups are
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more than 800,000 interviews suggesting that, instead of age, Gallup expects church deals and coupons sites on the backed former MySpace CEO
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once a month, 25 percent listed many Americans were negative involved. more deals are closing

Euro Clearly Gets A Lift On Victory For Merkel

Joe Weisenthal (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:22:49 PM
It's very, very small, but a look
at the chart of the euro show
clearly that the election of
Christian Wulff-- Angela
Merkel's Presidential candidate -
- provided a tiny, but noticeable
lift.
First, the BEFORE, when the
vote looked the most grim.
And now the AFTER
Admittedly, we're not talking
about huge moves here. But it's
still interesting to see little
reactions here and there.
Join the conversation about this
story »
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BP relief well weeks away as hurricane hinders cleanup

(Reuters: Top News) mounting and the future of BP, on Wednesday to eliminate misreport production, Capital Management in Dallas,
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:17:59 PM the London-based energy giant, limits on liability that oil particularly when it interferes Texas.
far from clear. companies would face for oil with the auditing process," said That "has probably created a
H O U S T O N / Salazar said he is working hard spill damages. Companies Michael Bromwich, who heads window of opportunity in a lot
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - A to finalize a new offshore currently enjoy a $75 million the Interior Department's of these areas," he said.
relief well that might divert the drilling moratorium after a cap for compensating local Bureau of Ocean Energy ALEX HITS CLEANUP
gushing Gulf of Mexico oil leak federal court struck down the communities for economic Management, Regulation and On the Gulf coast, rough
is still weeks from completion, a administration's initial six- losses and cleaning up Enforcement. weather linked to Hurricane
t o p U . S . o f f i c i a l s a i d o n month ban, but he would not say environmental damage. It was formerly known as the Alex had not only stopped some
Wednesday, as the season's first when the new moratorium The change, if approved and Minerals Management Service. cleanup work but threatened to
Atlantic hurricane disrupted would be issued. enacted into law, would apply In what may signal a generally force evacuation of workers and
cleanup efforts. "We believe the moratorium retroactively to BP. Democrats tougher approach to BP and vessels such as vacuum barges.
U.S.| Green Business| Gulf Oil was correct when we put it in in both the Senate and House of other oil companies, the Interior "If you have to move all this
Spill place. We believe it is still Representatives have made the Department said on Wednesday equipment out and then back in
U.S. lawmakers also took a step correct," he said, and suggested legislation a top priority. it fined BP a civil penalty of again, how much time is lost
toward making oil companies drilling would be allowed in But some Republicans say it $5.2 million for submitting there?" said Phil Ramon, a
face unlimited liabilities from well-known offshore fields. will stop small U.S. companies "false, inaccurate, or disaster management consultant
offshore spills like the one Gulf residents braced for heavy from drilling and open the door misleading" reports for energy in Belle Chasse, La.
devastating the Gulf coast. rains and flooding from Alex, to more big foreign operators. output on Native American Plaquemines Parish President
Hurricane Alex was delaying which strengthened into a The Gulf of Mexico holds the tribal lands in Colorado. Billy Nungesser has warned
B P P l c ' s p l a n s t o b o o s t Category 1 hurricane late on most promising untapped crude BP's market capitalization has coastal workers they may not be
containment capacity at its Tuesday and could become a oil reserves in the United States, shrunk by about $100 billion able to take everything with
leaking undersea well and more powerful Category 2 on and a string of major discoveries since its Deepwater Horizon them. "You might just have to
threatening to push more oil- Wednesday. The storm was on over the past decade by drilling rig sank in 5,000 feet of nail it down and then get out,"
polluted water onto U.S. shores. track to make landfall near the companies including BP have water on April 22, two days he told Reuters.
A relief well, one of two being Texas-Mexico border. rejuvenated investment in after an explosion and fire killed A flood watch put in place by
drilled, is less than 1,000 feet INTERNATIONAL HELP deeper and more difficult 11 workers. the National Weather Service
from its target but will still take With strong winds and waves waters. The company's shares have lost remained in effect for much of
several weeks to reach the as high as 12 feet on the way, BP has said it will cover all more than half their value since the region on Wednesday.
spewing oil pipe, U.S. Interior officials said controlled burns of costs of its Gulf oil spill. It has the spill but were up about 4 Winds out of the southeast are
Secretary Ken Salazar told U.S. oil on the ocean, spraying of agreed to establish a $20 billion percent in New York afternoon forecast through Friday, a
lawmakers. dispersant chemicals and fund, but claims are expected to trade on Wednesday, following development expected to push
Salazar's timetable was in line booming operations were on easily eclipse that sum. sharp gains in London. oil farther into Barataria Bay, on
with BP's own statements, but hold. Separately, the new head of the The PHLX Oil Services Sector the west side of the Mississippi
there had been speculation The State Department said it U.S. agency overseeing offshore index rose on the day as well, River. Winds may also push oil
earlier this week that the relief would accept offers of help from drilling told lawmakers a record but is down nearly 19 percent closer to barrier islands around
well link could be established a d o z e n c o u n t r i e s a n d of "bad performance, deadly since the start of the spill. Mississippi and Alabama.
earlier. international agencies to contain performance" by an oil company "The stock prices had really (Additional reporting by Cyntia
The Gulf oil spill disaster is in and clean up the spill, including should be considered relevant discounted a very negative Barrera Diaz in Mexico City,
i t s 7 2 n d d a y , w i t h two high-speed skimmers and a when the government decides scenario ... the reality is not as Ernest Scheyder in Belle
environmental and economic fire containment boom from on drilling lease awards. bad as what the market has Chasse, Louisiana, Mississippi;
costs to tourism, wildlife, Japan. "It is simply unacceptable for priced in," said Eric Marshall, RELIEF page 20
fishing and other industries A U.S. Senate committee voted companies to repeatedly director of research at Hodges
18 News Wire/ E-reader News Edition

Democrats make final push on financial reform

(Reuters: Top News) Friday. of the aisle. Maria Cantwell, one financial crisis that shook the is not without political risks.
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:21:04 PM Democrats have yet to nail of two Democrats who voted global economy, is a top priority Democrats decided to tap $11
down support from Republican against the bill earlier on the for Obama and would give him billion in taxpayer funds from
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - moderates whose votes will be grounds that it was not tough and fellow Democrats a big the unpopular Troubled Asset
U.S. Senate Democrats on needed to advance the bill. enough, said she might legislative win ahead of Relief Program, or TARP, and
Wednesday postponed until mid Those Republicans -- Susan reconsider her position. November congressional raise the amount larger banks
-July a final vote on a landmark Collins, Olympia Snowe and NOT PERFECT FOR elections. must pay to insure their
overhaul of financial regulations Scott Brown -- had voted for an ANYBODY It would force banks to reduce, customers' deposits to bring in
as they scrambled for crucial earlier version, but they objected Democrat Christopher Dodd, but not cease, risky trading and more money.
support from a handful of to a $17.9 billion tax on large the bill's chief advocate in the investing activities, set up a new Republicans involved in the
moderate Republicans. financial institutions that was Senate, said lawmakers should government process for negotiations said the money
Politics added last week to cover the not vote against it just because liquidating troubled financial from TARP, the $700 billion
The House of Representatives, bill's costs. they don't like one or two firms and establish a new bank bailout program, should be
however, was on track to Democrats stripped out the tax elements. consumer-protection bureau. used to pay down the national
a p p r o v e t h e b i l l b y l a t e in a last-minute negotiating "No one's going to get Wall Street and many debt.
afternoon or early evening after session on Tuesday to address everything they want in this bill, Republicans tried to water down The White House says the bill
it cleared a procedural hurdle by t h e i r c o n c e r n . A l l t h r e e I certainly didn't," he said. "I've the bill, but it grew stronger would actually reduce the deficit
a vote of 234 to 189. moderates said they were still done everything I know how to during its year-long journey by $3.2 billion by shutting down
The death of Democratic studying the final bill before do to accommodate my through Congress with TARP ahead of schedule.
Senator Robert Byrd and cold deciding how to vote. colleagues to make this as fair, Democrats riding a wave of Even after Obama signs the bill
feet among Republican allies Collins said she was inclined to as balanced, as thoughtful as I public disgust at an industry that into law, its final impact will
has complicated efforts to round support it, while Snowe said it possibly could." has awarded itself fat paydays remain unclear for several years
up the needed votes in the was a "possibility" that she The White House said it was while the rest of the country while regulators work to put it
Senate and dashed Democratic could vote for it. confident there will be enough struggled with high into effect. Congress also could
hopes that a bill could be sent to "We're just trying to work it out votes for the Senate to pass the unemployment. pass another bill to fix technical
President Barack Obama to sign and I am sure we will be able to, most sweeping rewrite of Wall Obama on Wednesday accused mistakes in the legislative
i n t o l a w b y t h e J u l y 4 but it's important to get it right," Street rules since the 1930s. Republicans of being out of language, said an aide to
Independence Day holiday. Snowe said. Analysts said it was a question touch with the American people Representative Barney Frank.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Brown, who won significant of when, not if, the bill would for opposing Wall Street (Additional reporting by Kevin
Reid said the chamber wouldn't concessions earlier in the pass. reforms. Drawbaugh, Rachelle Younglai
vote until it returns from a process, also declined to say The delay in the Senate means Although the Democrats' and Donna Smith; Editing by
weeklong break. how he would vote. several more weeks of removal on Tuesday of the Leslie Adler)
Byrd's death left Democrats one "It's morphed into something uncertainty for the financial $17.9 billion tax on banks Five Filters featured article:
vote shy of the 60 needed to different than it began with and industry, which is bracing for appeared to be winning support Headshot - Propaganda, State
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the 100-seat chamber, and his it," he said of the 2,000-plus oversight and diminished Republicans, the mechanism Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available
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Supreme Court pick Kagan sailing through Senate hearing

(Reuters: Top News) "No one I know wants to the ideological balance of the The hearing provided Kagan a "I'm sure everyone up there is
Submitted at 6/30/2010 12:59:19 PM filibuster," Hatch told Reuters. sharply divided court. She platform to display a nimble wit acting in good faith," she told
Senator Jeff Sessions, the would fill Stevens' slot as one of and disarming manner that Democratic Senator Sheldon
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - ranking Republican on the four liberals facing five clearly impressed even some Whitehouse on Wednesday
With a series of quick quips and J u d i c i a r y C o m m i t t e e a n d conservatives led by Roberts. Republicans. when he criticized the court for
nimble sidesteps, Supreme K a g a n ' s l e a d i n g c r i t i c , It would represent a political "You're doing well," Hatch told a recent series of narrow 5-4
Court nominee Elena Kagan complained about her refusal to victory for Obama months her before leading her through a rulings he said were "driving the
deflected tough Republican divulge her views on major before November's lengthy series of questions on a law in a new direction."
questions on her views and court cases but complimented congressional elections, giving recent Supreme Court decision Kagan offered praise during the
judgment to sail on Wednesday her performance. him his second appointment to allowing corporations to donate hearing for conservative Justice
toward likely U.S. Senate "We see her gifts and graces; in the court after last summer's freely to political campaigns. Antonin Scalia and her
confirmation. many ways those are revealed in Senate confirmation of Sonia Asked by Republican Lindsey conservative law school friend
Politics her humor and her knowledge," Sotomayor. Graham on Tuesday where she Miguel Estrada, whose appeals
During three days of hearings, Sessions said as the third day of LITTLE CONTROVERSY was on Christmas Day, when a court nomination by former
Kagan has coolly turned aside hearings began. The nomination of Kagan, a failed plane bombing threatened President George W. Bush was
Republican criticism she would But he said her testimony left it former Harvard law school U.S. lives, Kagan responded: blocked in 2003 by Senate
be a rubberstamp for President difficult to know "whether you'd dean, has sparked little "Like all Jews, I was probably Democrats in a clash that still
B a r a c k O b a m a ' s p o l i t i c a l be more like John Roberts or controversy compared to past in a Chinese restaurant." rankles Republicans.
agenda, without revealing much m o r e l i k e R u t h B a d e r nominees and her hearing has so The remark drew roars of Democrats were clearly thrilled
of her own opinions about the G i n s b u r g . " C h i e f J u s t i c e far been largely devoid of laughter from the hearing room with her performance.
court or its decisions. Roberts leads the court's drama. and assembled senators. "Even the other side would have
Kagan's performance in the c o n s e r v a t i v e b l o c , w h i l e Republicans led by Sessions Pressed by Republican Charles to admit you have a wonderfully
Judiciary Committee drew Ginsburg is usually a member of criticized Kagan for her decision Grassley to explain comments in well-ordered mind," Democratic
praise from Democrats and its liberal wing. to limit access to military her Oxford thesis, Kagan said Senator Dianne Feinstein said.
compliments even from some Kagan, 50, served in the recruiters at Harvard law school she did not know anything about The Judiciary Committee was
critics and appeared to put her Clinton White House and is when she was dean there the law when she wrote it conducting a second round of
on a path to confirmation by the President Barack Obama's because of the military's "don't because she had not been to law questioning and planned to
full Senate sometime in July. solicitor general. Republicans ask, don't tell" policy on gays, school. continue through the day.
"She will be confirmed. I accused her of being too close to which prevents them from "You've learned a lot by going (Editing by Alan Elsner)
believe she will be confirmed," the Obama administration. serving openly in the armed to law school. I'm not sure I say Five Filters featured article:
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He said there was little chance A m e r i c a n l i f e i n c l u d i n g headway on the issue. He said repeatedly refused to
Republicans would use a Senate abortion, religion and gun on Wednesday he was characterize the current
procedure known as a filibuster rights. "disappointed" with her members or the court's
to try to block her nomination. Her confirmation would not tilt answers. decisions.
20 News Wire/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition
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Hurricane Alex spins past oil rigs toward Mexico continued from page 17

Richard Cowan in Washington;

(Reuters: Top News) towns. northeastern Mexico within the feeding canteens and kitchens Chuck Mikolajczak in New
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:29:53 PM Oil prices have fallen since hurricane warning area late were readied. York; Writing by Jerry Norton;
Friday as Alex appeared to pose tonight or early Thursday A hurricane warning was issued Editing by Paul Simao)
MEXICO CITY(Reuters) - little threat to U.S. oil fields, but morning," it said. for the coast of Texas south of Five Filters featured article:
Hurricane Alex churned slowly energy companies still shut OIL CLEANUP HAMPERED Baffin Bay down to the mouth Headshot - Propaganda, State
through the Gulf of Mexico on down production of more than Despite 7-foot seas and winds of the Rio Grande, and along the Religion and the Attack On the
Wednesday, picking up strength 421,000 barrels per day of oil, gusting to 25 mph at the site of coast of Mexico to La Cruz. A Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available
as it headed for land later in the about a quarter of the Gulf's the BP leak, crews continued to tropical storm warning extended tools: PDF Newspaper, Full
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fields to the relief of crude They have also shut 919 million Efforts to burn off and skim port city of Tampico.
markets. cubic feet of gas output, some spilled oil and spray dispersants Officials in South Texas
U.S.| Green Business 14 percent of the Gulf's total." had to be suspended. Officials readied rescue vehicles, shelter
The first named storm of the Mexican state oil monopoly said oil capturing and drilling and rushed supplies to the Rio
Atlantic season looked set to Pemex has kept its oil platforms, would have to stop if the winds Grande Valley. Bob Pinkerton,
grow into a robust Category 2 which are farther south in the reach 46 mph. mayor of South Padre Island, a
storm as it slams into the Gulf, operating since Alex Houston Ship Channel traffic coastal community and tourist
northeastern Mexican state of formed, and the government on was halted due to rough seas draw, urged residents and
Tamaulipas on Wednesday then Wednesday reopened the Gulf from Alex, the U.S. Coast visitors to evacuate.
weaken back to a storm on ports of Cayo Arcas and Dos Guard said on Wednesday. The Atlantic hurricane season
Thursday. Bocas, which ship about 80 Tankers on the channel provide runs from June 1 to Nov 30 and
In addition to hampering efforts percent of Mexico's crude crude oil to eight refineries in meteorologists predict an active Is This The Shape Of
to control the massive BP Plc oil exports, as Alex moved on. The Houston and Texas City, Texas. season. Alex is the first June The Next Big Leg Down
spill off the Louisiana coast, ports had been closed since The refineries account for more storm in 15 years to gain
A l e x f o r c e d o i l a n d g a s Sunday. than 10 percent of U.S. refining hurricane strength in the In The NASDAQ?
c o m p a n i e s t o c u t b a c k Alex, which was causing heavy capacity. Atlantic. Joe Weisenthal (The Money
production. rain and flooded streets in the Forecasters expect Alex to (Reporting by Cyntia Barrera Game)
The hurricane remained on a n o r t h e r n M e x i c a n c i t y o f drench Tamaulipas and southern and Patrick Rucker in Mexico Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:36:37 PM
steady course well southwest of Monterrey by midday, will Texas with 6 to 12 inches of City and Anna Driver in
major U.S. offshore facilities likely start weakening as it hits rain, risking flooding, and drive Houston; Editing by Catherine For your pleasure and
but its 85-mph winds bent palm l a n d , t h e U . S . N a t i o n a l dangerous storm surges along Bremer and Bill Trott) edification, here's our technical
trees and heavy rain and strong Hurricane Center said at 2 p.m. the coast. Five Filters featured article: chart of the day.
surf smashed beach resorts EDT (1800 GMT). Texas Governor Rick Perry Headshot - Propaganda, State Will this be the shape of the
along the coast of Tamaulipas, Alex was located about 130 authorized deploying up to Religion and the Attack On the next big decline?
where it was due to make m i l e s s o u t h - s o u t h e a s t o f 2,500 state military personnel to Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available Click to enlarge.
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protection authorities were on -based hurricane center said. the Rio Grande Valley
high alert but had yet to " T h e c e n t e r o f A l e x w i l l monitored evacuation routes and
evacuate residents of coastal probably make landfall in storm shelters and mobile
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Woot’s Deal Of The Day: Woot! — Amazon Buys It

MG Siegler (TechCrunch) woke up to find Jeff Bezos the guessing many of you will have. looking to have their folks come
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:17:12 PM Mighty had seized our magic TOP 5 BURNING in and run Woot unless we ask
sword. Using the Arthurian QUESTIONS: them to, which incidentally you
Woot has been acquired by model as a corporate structure Q: F1RST!!!! can do by turning off the
Amazon, as they briefly note on was something our CFO had
Nevertheless, don’t worry that A: Okay, that’s not a question, bathroom lights and saying the
their blog today with a big warned against from the very
our culture will suddenly take a but it is a good place to mention word “Kindle” three times; a
“woot!” Well, okay, their exact beginning, but now that’s water
l e a p f o r w a r d a n d b e c o m e that our forums will still be helpful Amazon employee will
words were “Holy crap!” under the bridge. What is cutting-edge. We’re still going p o l i c e d b y a t e a m o f appear in the mirror. That said,
This is a great deal for daily important is that our company is
to be the same old bottom- moderators, as before. And also, Amazon clearly knows what
o n l i n e b a r g i n s e r v i c e on the verge of becoming a part
feeders our customers and Woot’s previous and always-in- they’re doing in a lot of areas,
a s , s i m i l a r t o Z a p p o s a n d of the Amazon.com dynasty.
readers have come to know and effect privacy policy will still be so we’re geeked about the
Audible, they’ll continue to be And our plans for Grail.Woot
love, and each and every one of just as always-in-effect, so don’t opportunities to tap into that
run autonomously under the are on indefinite hold.
their pre-written insult macros worry, there are no plans to knowledge and those resources,
Amazon banner. The company Over the next few days, you
will still be just as valid in a suddenly give up or merge your especially on the technology
will remain in Texas. Terms of will probably read headlines that
week, two weeks, or even next forum data. side. This is about making the
t h e d e a l h a v e n o t b e e n say “Matt Rutledge revealed to
year. For Woot, our vision Q: Is Snapster leaving? Woot brand, culture, and
disclosed. be monstrous pseudo-human remains the same: somehow A: Are you kidding? He’s out business even stronger than it is
Woot shot to popularity with creation of Jeff Bezos.” You
earning a living on snarky the door about ten seconds after today, and we expect that any
their “one deal per day” idea. might even see this photo that check clea- that is to say, changes will be for the better or
commentary and junk.
Similar timed deal ideas have making the rounds. Rest assured
We are excited about doing this Snapster will continue as we wouldn’t bother with this
since become very popular for that these rumors have nothing
for all sorts of reasons. One, our W o o t . c o m C E O , j u s t l i k e endless paperwork.
sites like Gilt (for fashion) and to do with our final decision.
business model is so vague that before, and the rest of our staff’s Q: Where can I get one of those
G r o u p o n ( f o r f o o d a n d We think now is the right time
there’s no way Amazon can not going anywhere either. vuvuzelas?
activities). The company also to join with Amazon because,
possibly change what it is we’re Woot and all our various sites A: Are you even paying
has always had an interesting quite simply, every company
truly doing: preparing the way w i l l c o n t i n u e t o b e a n attention?
sense of humor and has not that becomes a subsidiary gets
for the rise of the Lava Men in i n d e p e n d e n t l y o p e r a t e d Several months ago, when we
shied away from having deals two free downloads until the end
2012. Also, our deal means that company full of horrible, useless were all sitting on Jeff Bezos’s
o n t h i n g s a s d i v e r s e a s of July, and we very much need
Jason Toon will finally be products and an untalented bumper drinking orange Mad
handguns. that new thing with Trent released from that Mexican jail jerkface writing staff, same as it Dog and trying not to be
Update: Here’s the full letter Reznor’s wife on our iPods.
owned by Zappos honcho Tony ever was. noticed, we heard a voice in the
from Woot CEO Matt Rutledge Other than that, we plan to
Hsieh. No, don’t lie, Tony, Q: Will the Woot culture distance yelling “You kids
to employees: continue to run Woot the way we’ve seen the paperwork. And change? better not scratch my Mercedes
Date: Weds, 30 June 2010 we have always run Woot – we need a powerful ally in case A: Amazon is interested in us or I’m calling the cops!” We
From: Matt Rutledge (CEO – with a wall of ideas and a
Steve Jobs finally breaks down because they recognize the ran. It was later that night when
Woot.com) dartboard. From a practical and comes after us for all our value of our people, our brand, Amazon came by the house and
To: All Woot Employees point of view, it will be as if we Apple jokes over the years. and our unique style of deep- said they liked our style and also
Subject: Woot and Amazon are simply adding one person to Don’t think of it as a buyout; tissue, toxin-releasing massage. wanted to get that money we
I know I say this every time I the organizational hierarchy, And they don’t want to start owed them for messing up the
think of it as NATO!
find a picture of an adorable except that one person will just
I will go through each of the changing things now. Amazon’s chrome. We like to think that
kitten, but please set aside 20 happen to be a billion-dollar
above points in more detail hoping our nutty Woot steez our relationship with Amazon
minutes to carefully read this company that could buy and sell
later, but first, let me get to the continues to grow and develop will continue at this level for
entire email. Today is a big day each and every one of you like
top 5 burning questions that I’m (and perhaps even rubs off on WOOT’S page 25
in Woot history. This morning, I you were office furniture. them a little). They’re not
22 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

The Hunt for the Ultimate Curation Tool: Cliqset

is Getting Closer
Marshall Kirkpatrick Cliqset used to be a lonely up notifications for high-priority
(ReadWriteWeb) place, displaying only content columns. Cliqset says the new
Submitted at 6/30/2010 1:54:00 PM from other people you knew Chrome HTML5 desktop
who had signed up for Cliqset notifications API is something it
If a thousand social networks (not many). Now you can read look at Status.net's interface, for is working on and expects to
bloom, with cross-network
communication and real-time
anyone's Tweets through the
service, and the interface for
example. implement soon.
Finally, how about some
Windows Anytime
Curation is beautifully
replies, how will you manage to sorting, replying and watching implemented in Cliqset, it's easy Facebook search? I don't Upgrade offer
find and share the best things conversations may be the most to push any item into a curated understand why so few services
that your friends put into your sophisticated we've seen yet. stream that other people can have implemented search across
ends this Saturday
stream? Innovative social For example, if a well-known subscribe to in real-time. That's not just Twitter but public Donald Melanson (Engadget)
network aggregator Cliqset person throws out a Tweet (or if really nice, and just cries out for Facebook messages as well. Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:44:00 PM
launched a new version this you do) and it gets a number of iPad integration. Neither does Cliqset, and the
morning that offers a very replies, you can view that Tweet Right now the little company company says that's right around Stuck using a lower-end version
interesting answer to that alone on a page in Cliqset, with appears to be struggling under the corner as well. of Windows 7 and considering
question. Cliqset is a service replies to it streaming in below some launch-day traffic and its Speaking of Tweetdeck, Cliqset an upgrade? Then you might
that lets you publish and it, pushed to your browser in ambitious may never be realized says it is doing API work of its want to act fast -- Microsoft has
subscribe to 80 different social real time. Previously, on Cliqset if scalability remains a killer. o w n t h a t s h o u l d e n a b l e just issued a reminder that its
networks, from Twitter to • Top 10 Real-Time There are also a number of little Tweetdeck to serve up streams Windows Anytime Upgrade
YouTube to Delicious to Technologies of 2009 design considerations, though f r o m 8 0 d i f f e r e n t s o c i a l offer is ending this Saturday,
Foursquare. • The Day The Highway Went the site is very pretty, that seem networks very soon. That July 3rd. That lets anyone using
Sponsor Coast-to-Coast: 70+ SocNet unintuitive to this human user. sounds very cool, and like Windows 7 Starter edition
Long a proof of concept more Feeds Normalized by New API Cliqset is warming up though, it something that deserves its own upgrade to Home Premium for
than an app you'd use, Cliqset • Cliqset Could Be The Web's feels less like the brilliant super- coverage. just $49.99 (normally $79.99),
can be so forward-looking it First Read-Write Identity dork at a party that you can't Cliqset is the most or from Home Premium to
hurts. Today's relaunch brings it Provider have a conversation with every sophisticated, forward looking Windows 7 Professional for
closer than ever to making it my day. The Future of Cliqset tool for stream reading on the $79.99 (normally $89.99).
#1 choice for ways to interact The service's integration of the Cross network, real-time i n t e r n e t t o d a y . I t ' s a l s o Ready to make the jump? Hit up
with the river of news - in Google-led Salmon messaging streaming and curation? Sounds awkward, unstable, confusing the link below for all the details.
theory. The next few weeks protocol lets Cliqset users like something I want on my and full of more potential than Windows Anytime Upgrade
should be even more exciting message across social networks, iPad. Sure enough, Cliqset says actualized usefulness. But that offer ends this Saturday
for Cliqset, with the introduction something Cliqset hopes will be that's not a big stretch at all. An balance changes a little more originally appeared on Engadget
of an iPad version, Chrome a d o p t e d b y m a n y s o c i a l iPad style-sheet will be in place with every iteration. You on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:44:00
desktop pop-ups and Facebook networks and breathe new life in a matter of weeks. should check out Cliqset - EDT. Please see our terms for
search integration. The service into the long tail. If you can Likewise, the reason I stay with sooner or later it could win you use of feeds. Permalink
remains rough around the edges, message people on Status.net T w e e t d e c k f o r m y w o r k - over. Discuss Geek.com| Windows Anytime
b u t I s u r e l o v e w h a t t h e from inside Twitter, there's all Tweeting is because of the pop- Upgrade, Windows Experience
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New developer permissions roll out on Facebook

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:13:47 PM

Facebook announced
Wednesday that it's beginning to
institute a new interface that will
pop up when users connect their
Facebook accounts to third-
party services--one which the
social-networking company says
will bring more "transparency"
(yes, that word again) to how
much information its nearly 500
million users are sharing across
the Web.
Consequently, when a third-
party application that connects
to Facebook asks a user for
permission to do so, it has to
stipulate exactly what parts of a
user profile it'll be accessing:
photos, friend list data, basic
public information, and so forth.
This is something that the
company initially announced
last year following criticism on Facebook account, the place. for entertainment company its application program interface
behalf of privacy officials in application will only be able to In tandem, Facebook also JibJab.(Credit: Facebook) (the universal-login product
Canada and expanded upon at access the public parts of your announced that third-party Facebook is also being watched formerly known as Facebook
its F8 developer conference this profile by default. To access the services are no longer subject to by lawmakers around the world, Connect). That's big. But if
spring in San Francisco. private parts of your profile, the a policy in which third parties like a coalition of senators who recent rumors are to be believed,
"In order for these applications application has to explicitly ask connecting to its servers could raised concerns about how it Facebook will want to keep
and websites to provide social for your permission." only store user data for 24 shares information with third- confidence in its platform
and customized experiences, The flip side to this is that also hours, something which the party companies. Since then, absolutely shipshape, as Google
they need to know a little bit at F8, Facebook made more of a social network said will speed Facebook has made some is believed to be working on yet
about you," a post on the user's profile public by default, up and streamline applications modifications that it says will another social-networking
Facebook blog by chief igniting harsh words from the as well as make the whole make privacy controls easier for experiment that could
technology officer Bret Taylor press and privacy advocates experience easier for users and users to understand. potentially replicate many of the
read. "We understand, however, who painted the social network developers alike. But privacy There are, according to connections and conveniences
that it's important you also have as repeatedly toying with users' advocates took issue with this, Facebook, 550,000 applications that Facebook's platform
control over what you're privacy settings so that they had too. on its developer platform that enabled.
sharing. With this new ultimately morphed into The new pop-up permissions are currently active, and over a True, Google's social-
authorization process, when you something far different from for connecting to a third party million sites that have integrated NEW page 24
log into an application with your what they agreed to in the first through Facebook--this one is Facebook profile data through
24 Technology/ Culture/
Apple antenna issue a 'physics problem,' not a
software problem
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:05:15 PM
Almost a week after the iPhone
4's launch, questions remain
over why users experience
signal loss when gripping the
phone in a particular way.
Apple has called this a " non
issue," despite users being able
to repeatedly reproduce the
problem. In the meantime, it's
been suggested that it might be a
problem that can be fixed with a
software update. Others have
said, and Apple has suggested,
that users buy a case to prevent
fingers from coming in direct
contact with the antennas built
into the metal band surrounding
the iPhone 4.
The antenna built into the
iPhone 4's exterior casing is the
reason for signal loss, and can't
be fixed with a software update,
Anandtech reports.(Credit:
James Martin/CNET)
Brian Klug and Anand Shimpi
at tech blog Anandtech have
conducted their own hands-on
experiments comparing different
smartphones and their reception
when the antennas are covered.
They sum up their findings this
way: "At the end of the day,
Apple should add an insulative
coating to the stainless steel
band, or subsidize bumper
cases. It's that simple."
The bumper case is a rubber
holder that just surrounds the
exterior of the device, and that
Apple started selling the same
day as the iPhone 4 for $29.
Apple has already said it's not
giving the cases away for free.
It's not clear why the company
wouldn't do that, especially
when the problem has been
reproduced by many people,
though it varies by place and
person.
At CNET, we were able to
produce it, as have many users
who've posted YouTube videos.
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networking projects have been
lukewarm for years. It's always
possible, though, that one of
The signal is "very sensitive to these days it'll finally nail it and
direction, ambient conditions, Facebook will have to respond.
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Squeezing it really tightly, you
can drop as much as 24 dBm.
Holding it naturally, I measured
an average of 20 dBm."
Fact or
It happens in most phones, as
Apple said in its only official
Fiction:
But Klug and Shimpi have
statement on the matter last
week. But those other phones do
Sunburn
measured and recorded different
not have the antenna built (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
ways of holding the iPhone 4 in
directly into the phone's case,
various locations, the resulting
and that doesn't mean the We've said it before, and we'll
signal drop, and compared it
problem can be avoided, Klug say it again -- wear SPF 30
with the iPhone 3GS running every day, even if you're not
and Shimpi conclude.
iOS 4 and the Android-based
"There's nothing Apple nor planning on sunbathing! But
Nexus One. They did the
anyone else can do to get around what happens when you do sit
experiment six times with each
physics, plain and simple. It's on the beach all day with
phone and averaged the results
something which demonstrably nothing between you and the
for each device.
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WOOT’S
Appsfire Tracks Hot Apps with continued from page 21

many, many, many years to with nausea from a hellacious

AppTrends come.
But we here at Woot are still a
bender the night before. I
remember fondly that time when
Mike Melanson AppTrends has shown trends thoughtful company, so, at the an RA turned on the lights and
(ReadWriteWeb) quicker than the App Store on end of the day, I watched the yelled “WHO OWNS THESE
Submitted at 6/30/2010 1:34:15 PM several occasions. sunset, and its golden-hued PANTS?” Except this time, the
For now, the site is just a list of glory made me think about two pants are a company, and the
It's been 75 silent days since URLs (even those shrunk using 20 top apps, but soon it will questions: RA is you, and the sixty five
iPhone app sharing service URL shorteners like Bit.ly) i n c l u d e l o c a l i z a t i o n w i t h 1) Is there really a universal hours of community service is a
Appsfire submitted version 2.0 contained in tweets, ranking not rankings by country, rankings deity? deal that will ensure the
to Apple for entry into the App only by the number of mentions by category (such as games or 2) Does such a thing preclude Woot.com experience can
Store, but in the meantime, the but also by the influence of the health and fitness), access to a free will or are we humans in continue to grow for years and
company has released a new Twitter user. The list of apps, history of app rankings and control of our own destiny? years and years, like a black
way of finding apps. Instead of which currently sits at 20 but notifications for developers. After spending a lot of time mold behind the Gold Box. Join
solely relying o n w i l l s o o n e x p a n d t o 1 0 0 , Part of what we like most about falling asleep at the library us, because together, we can
recommendations from friends, updates every hour and shows this new service is that it offers while facing the philosophy rule the galaxy as father and
A p p s f i r e n o w o f f e r s how apps have moved up or s o m e i n s i g h t b e h i n d w h y books, I determined that the son. Also, there will be six
recommendations on your next down in the listing in the last something is popular, beyond concept of destiny is a construct muffins waiting in the company
downloads with a popular app one, 12 and 24 hours. In Apple says so. Looking at how that allows man a gentle release break room, courtesy of the nice
tracker called AppTrends. addition to the listing, clicking apps move up and down within from facing the terror of his folks at Amazon.com. Welcome
The introduction of AppTrends on each app will show what the rankings, and being able to existence, and that a Hyundai to the family!
comes alongside announcements people are saying about it on see why, is a step beyond a full of twenties would pretty Matt Rutledge
that ex-Jaiku co-founder Jyri Twitter. For each, a link is simple list of top downloads. much offer the same benefits. CEO, Woot CrunchBase
Engestrom has joined on as an provided to preview the app, Beyond that, we hope that And so, I ultimately said YES! Information Woot Amazon
adviser and that the company read a description and download looking at tweets might move This is definitely an emotional Information provided by
has received a new round of or buy the app. past those simple app rankings day for me. The feelings I’m CrunchBase
funding from Lerer Ventures. Aside from offering a list of provided in the App store, experiencing are similar to what
Sponsor what's hot to the consumer, which we can't help but look at I felt in college on graduation
AppTrends is the first live AppTrends also looks to provide with suspicion. day: excitement about getting a
ranking of iPhone apps outside insight to app developers on AppTrends is live as of today check from my folks combined
of the App Store, according to why their app is moving up or and already showing the hot of
the company. The rankings are down in the listing, by seeing the hot. At the top of today's
d e t e r m i n e d b y l o o k i n g a t what people are saying about the list? The just-released Hulu
Twitter and seeing what apps app. According to the company, Plus, of course. Discuss
people are talking about most. t h e A p p S t o r e r a n k i n g i s
The service looks at iTunes "updated at best once a day" and

Daily Buzz: Twilight Eclipses More than 4,000 Theaters Nationwide

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26 Technology/ Economy/
iPhone 4's antenna problem looks worse than it is, Income
but it's still bad
Nilay Patel (Engadget)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:26:00 PM
The iPhone 4's antenna issues
have sparked off a firestorm of
debate as to the root cause --
Apple says holding the phone
differently or buying a case are
the best answers, while other are
going down a more voodoo path
-- but our friends at AnandTech
have done some more scientific
testing of the problem and come
up with a few interesting results.
Turns out the iPhone 4 actually
performs slightly better inside a
case than a phone like the Nexus
One, which has had similar
issues crop up, but it's slightly
worse when held in the hand,
reporting an average signal drop
of 20dB. Here's where it gets a
little wacky, though: the signal
meter in iOS 4 is logarithmic, so
that 20dB drop can either leave
you looking steady at five bars
or drop you all the way to zero,
depending on what the actual
signal level in the area is like.
Take a look at the chart above
and you'll get it: the range of
values between one bar and four
spans just 23dB, while the range
for five bars is 40dB. That
means holding the phone in an
area with a strong five-bar
signal will have no apparent
effect -- you can lose 20dB at
full signal and still see five bars
inequality
-- but holding the phone in an
area with weaker coverage will
easily drop the meter to one bar,
since the 20dB signal drop
covers almost the entirety of the
remaining 23dB scale. Oops.
Of course, that's just the on-
screen display, which Apple can
and likely will tweak in a future
iOS update. The real question is
whether the reported signal has
anything to do with
performance, and Anandtech
agrees with our general
experience, saying that the
iPhone 4's improved signal to
noise ratio means it actually
does a better job of hanging
onto calls and using data when
there's low signal than the
iPhone 3GS. In their words,
"this iPhone gets the best
cellular reception yet, even
though measured signal is lower
than the 3GS." However, there's
no getting around the fact that
we've definitely dropped a
couple calls with the iPhone 4
by holding it the wrong way,
and Anandtech says the only
real solution to the antenna issue
will be for Apple to either
subsidize free bumpers or add
an insulative coating to the
antenna band. We'll see what
happens -- we've got a feeling
an iOS update is on the way, but
we'd definitely love to see
Apple pursue a more aggressive
solution to this problem.
iPhone 4's antenna problem
looks worse than it is, but it's
still bad originally appeared on
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(The Economist: Daily news
and views)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 6:36:01 AM
EVERY year the Banker
magazine publishes a ranking of
the world's banks by profits,
assets, losses and the like. The
latest ranking confirms a shift in
power towards banks based in
emerging markets. Three
Chinese banks make it on to the
list of the 20 biggest banks.
Agricultural Bank of China,
which is about to embark on the
world's biggest IPO, does not
quite make the cut. Among the
big losers of 2009, European
banks, which bought so much
toxic securitised sludge, are well
represented. The two most
profitable banks were Chinese,
though what might be hiding on
their balance-sheets is anyone's
guess.
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Apigee Adds Awesome Bar, Tools for the 5 No-cook

Facebook Citizen Developer Summer
Alex Williams
(ReadWriteWeb)
features that are taken right out
of the hand book for consumer-
based social technologies.
Meals
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:49:23 PM
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
The awesome bar is borrowed
Today, there are more than one from Firefox which first offered
million Facebook developers. Ah, the joyous, hectic days of
the ability to auto-complete a
Many of these developers in this summer. Pool parties, baseball
web address in the browser. The
community are relatively new to games, gardening, weekend
Apigee service provides the
Web services and APIs. They camping trips. The long, active
same capability for developers
represent a new generation of days sure build up appetites, but
when they are looking for a
what Gartner calls "citizen who wants to come in from the
particular aspect of the Facebok
developers," a group that by summer fun and cook dinner?
API.
2014 will create 25% of all As summer heats up, do you
The sharing feature allows
business applications. ever wish you could just throw
developers to share what they
Apigee is a platform for together a healthy, hearty
are seeing by taking a snapshot
managing APIs. The service is dinner? Something fresh and
of API request/response pairs
built on the premise that cool that doesn't require
and distributing it with a URL.
developers need the tools to sweating over the stove and
It's these kinds of services we
develop APIs but they also messing up a bunch of pots and
are seeing from Mashery and
increasingly need more ways to pans? Well, you can!
other platform providers.
understand the services they are Take advantage of summer's
Platforms really are a big part of
integrating. service includes providing API to see the scope of different the cloud these days. Developers bountiful fresh vegetables and
In that vein, Apigeee has just a n a l y t i c s , m o n i t o r i n g , r e s p o n s e s t h a t m a y b e feed these ecosystems with the fruits to whip up these easy, no-
launched a new service that debugging and testing tools for generated. Sam Ramji of Apigee apps they create. To better cook dinners. For some of them,
p r o v i d e s d e v e l o p e r s w i t h the Facebook API. Developers says it provides the developer compete, platform providers a knife, a cutting board and a
guidance for how to navigate the may monitor usage levels, with ways to learn by doing. He will need to offer ways that big bowl are all you need. You'll
new Graph API from Facebook. review usage patterns, see the compares it to riding a bike. citizen developers can navigate get nutritious meals and keep
Sponsor g e o - l o c a t i o n a n d l o o k a t You can read how to ride a bike. APIs so they can work in the your cool. Keep reading to see
It includes the features that p e r f o r m a n c e m e t r i c s l i k e You learn by actually riding it. what's on the menu.
environment provided. Discuss
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Republic - All Feed) Hunter sat down with Oprah to candidate showed up at the West friends at a nearby restaurant.
Submitted at 6/29/2010 11:00:00 PM talk about the by-then-infamous End Wine Bar in downtown
sex tape and other Durham, North Carolina. It was
On Saturday night, April 24, e m b a r r a s s m e n t s t h a t h a d around ten o’clock, and
2010, five days before John destroyed his political career, Edwards wanted a glass of wine
28 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

Microsoft hiring for new Halo title

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:25:55 PM
Microsoft has posted more than
a dozen job listings this month
for the creative minds needed to
build the next Halo title.(Credit:
CNET)
Microsoft appears to be staffing
up for the next installment in the
Halo franchise.
The company has posted more
than a dozen Halo-related jobs
to its careers Web site this
month, most of them in the past
few days.
"Do you love Halo? Do you
want to be part of the creation of
a new game in the Halo
universe? Are you a
programmer with an interest in
animation and cinematics?"
reads one of the listings, which
seeks out a software
development engineer who
specializes in animation. "We
are gathering an incredible team
to help drive the future of Halo."
The company is also looking to
hire artists and business types,
as well as an audio engineer and
"missions designer," according
to the job listings, which are
posted both on Microsoft's main
job site and on a Web site for
Microsoft's 343 Industries, a
game studio set up to develop
Halo projects.
Although Microsoft has spun
off Bungie, which created the
original Halo trilogy, Microsoft
itself has continued to develop
Halo products, including the
Halo Wars game and Halo
Waypoint, an online destination
for Halo enthusiasts. The
company has not talked about
any titles beyond Halo: Reach
which went into beta testing in
May and is slated for release on
Sept. 14.
Meanwhile, Bungie is working
on a non-Halo-related project,
community director Brian
Jerrard told CNET earlier this
month during a video
interview(see below) showing
off Halo: Reach.
A Microsoft representative
confirmed to CNET that the job
listings are legitimate, but
declined to offer any details.
"Right now we're deeply
engaged with Bungie on the
development of 'Halo: Reach'
which is shaping up to be the
biggest game of 2010,"
Microsoft said. "We have no
other announcements to make at
this time."
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Cops using Will.i.am's iPad to track down thief

Sang Tang (The Unofficial loot including jewelry, other Whether for a special event TUAW Cops using Will.i.am's
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) personal property and the performance or music iPad to track down thief
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:30:00 PM singer's shiny Apple iPad. partnership, Apple has originally appeared on The
However, law enforcement collaborated with many Unofficial Apple Weblog
Filed under: Odds and ends, officials have honed in on the musicians in a variety of ways. (TUAW) on Wed, 30 Jun 2010
iPad It's hard out there for a hip- the perpetrator using the iPad's Back in 2004 the Black Eyed 14:30:00 EST. Please see our
hop star. Will.i.am of the Black GPS functionality, and are close Peas, and their hit "Let's Get it terms for use of feeds.
Eyed Peas recently had a not so to making an arrest. The exact Started," were prominently Read| Permalink| Email this|
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into his parked Bentley and iPad, however, is unknown -- MobileMe's "Find My iPhone/ iMac G5.
made off with $10,000 worth of i.e., whether it was an app or iPad" feature. [via TMZ.com]
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Google Suggest searches blocked in
China
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 1:46:26 PM
If this query was entered in
Google inside China, searchers
would be unable to generate any
results if they selected one of
the suggestions from the drop-
down menu.(Credit: Screenshot
by Tom Krazit/CNET)
Google users inside of China
are unable to use Google's
search suggestions feature, as
Google awaits word on its
ultimate fate in China.
Ever since Google announced it
would offer Chinese language
search out of Hong Kong rather
than mainland China, it has
maintained a " Mainland China
service availability" page to
track which Google services can
be accessed from inside The
Great Firewall and which have
been blocked. At some point on
Wednesday China began
blocking searches done through
Google Suggest, according to
the company, which prompted
Google to update that page with
a little yellow wrench
symbolizing a partial block of
its Web search services.
"It appears that search queries
produced by Google Suggest are
being blocked for mainland
users in China. Normal searches
that do not use query
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Remote Auxiliary Power System
recharges our special forces straight
from overhead power lines (video)
Tim Stevens (Engadget) into the spool. This device has
proven safe for use in the rain
Submitted at 6/30/2010 4:28:00 PM
and even underwater, but we're
If you're the type who gets a t h i n k i n g w e ' d r a t h e r s i n g
suggestions are unaffected," for Google.cn users who simply little nervous connecting jumper "Kumbayah" to ourselves than
Google said in a statement. have to enter the full text of cables to your Accord after you recharge our iPods in this
Some Google services have their query rather than rely on forgot and left the trunk open manner. Video demonstration
been blocked seemingly forever the drop-down box, which is overnight ( again), this is one after the break, which also
in China--such as YouTube and especially helpful in countries m i l i t a r y g a d g e t y o u w i l l explains where the power
Blogger--but blocks on Web t h a t u s e c h a r a c t e r - b a s e d probably not be coveting. It's actually comes from!
search tend to come and go. languages. Google Suggest has called RAPS: the Remote Continue reading Remote
What makes Wednesday's block caused problems for Google in Auxiliary Power System. US A u x i l i a r y P o w e r S y s t e m
a little more interesting is the China before, as it did last year Air Force Spec Ops personnel recharges our special forces
pending nature of Google's over search suggestions that requested "something like straight from overhead power
I n t e r n e t C o n t e n t P r o v i d e r Chinese officials believed were Batman" that would enable them lines (video)
license, which it is attempting to overly pornographic. to add some juice to their night Remote Auxiliary Power
renew by changing the way it Five Filters featured article: vision goggles, GPS units, and System recharges our special
redirects Google.cn visitors to Headshot - Propaganda, State Hello Kitty media players while forces straight from overhead
the unfiltered Google.com.hk Religion and the Attack On the in the field, and this is the result. power lines (video) originally
search service. Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available When thrown over a power line appeared on Engadget on Wed,
But in the end blocking search tools: PDF Newspaper, Full it makes contact with the bare 30 Jun 2010 16:28:00 EDT.
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30 Technology/
iPhone 101: Quitting apps in iOS 4
Erica Sadun (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:30:00 PM
Filed under: iPhone 101
iOS 4 makes it easy to leave
apps without quitting, but what
happens when you actually do
want to terminate an
application? Quitting
applications can really help with
older apps that have not been
updated for iOS 4
"multitasking" and that do not
properly return to the state they
previously were in when
resumed. There's are two ways
you can quit, although neither
one is particularly obvious.
Force Quitting To force an
application to quit, Apple
recommends that you bring the
app you want to quit to the
foreground. Then press and hold
HTC HD2 caught running Android 2.1 and Ubuntu with
touchscreen enabled (video)
Richard Lai (Engadget)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:53:00 PM
Still clinging on to your HTC
HD2? Good on ya, cos this
WinMo slate's about to last you
a wee bit longer -- team HTC
Linux has recently made a
breakthrough with getting the
the sleep/wake button for
several seconds, until the Slide
to Power Off control appears.
Release the sleep/wake button
and hold down the Home button
for another 7-10 seconds. Your
screen will flash briefly and you
will return to the main iOS 4
Springboard home page with its
touchscreen to talk to the
HaRET Linux bootloader. In
other words, us mere mortals
can finally use Linux variants
like Android and Ubuntu on the
HD2 the way it's meant to be,
although we're apparently still a
few bugs away from a stable techno-fueled video demo after
release. Until then, enjoy the
icons. This method works for all
operating systems from iPhone
OS 3 forward, and is the
preferred method listed in the
iOS 4 documentation.
Removing the Application from
the Recents List There's actually
a much simpler approach for
quitting apps, and that's to use
your recent app list. Double-
click the home button to display
the recently accessed
applications. Press and hold any
of the icons shown, then
navigate to the application you
want to quit and tap the red
circled minus button. This sends
a signal to the application in
the break.
[Thanks to everyone who sent
this in]
Continue reading HTC HD2
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Ubuntu with touchscreen
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question that allows it to quit.
The application will be re-added
to the recents list the next time
you launch it.
If you continue to experience
any reliability issues or if your
iPhone simply isn't working
right, you can always restart
your phone by pressing the
Sleep/Wake button for a few
seconds and then sliding across
to shut the phone down.
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Rogue Amoeba on background audio Apple updates Gallery

and Airfoil Speakers Touch for iPhone 4, iPad
TJ Luoma (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) version still AWOL
Submitted at 6/30/2010 4:00:00 PM
Mel Martin (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Filed under: SDK Dan
Wineman, a developer with Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:00:00 PM

Rogue Amoeba, has posted an

interesting article on the Filed under: iPhone, MobileMe
company blog. I'm a big fan of Apple has pushed out a new
developers who can explain version of MobileMe Gallery, a
things clearly to non-developers free app for people who post
without sounding pictures to the MobileMe
condescending, and Dan does a service and want to access them
great job covering how the on their iPhone or mail them to
limited version of multitasking friends.
available in iOS 4 poses a Apple says the app now higher
works on the network. It's a devices which brought back all resolution images on an iPhone
problem for Airfoil Speakers
good read. of those limits. Although, it's 4 when connected to a Wi-Fi
Touch.
Even as a non-programmer, I'm worth noting that the average network. Apple also says, with
For those who aren't familiar
fascinated by the attention to cell phone has more processing no specifics, that there are
with Airfoil, it is Rogue TUAW Apple updates Gallery
detail that good programmers go power than the Apollo 'various bug fixes'.
Amoeba's program for Windows for iPhone 4, iPad version still
into to make sure their computers, so I guess limitations What's missing from all this is
and Mac which allows you to AWOL originally appeared on
applications work, especially are relative. that iPad owners have to use the
send audio to AirPort Express The Unofficial Apple Weblog
when dealing with limited TUAW Rogue Amoeba on same Gallery app and scale it
units, Apple TVs, and iOS (TUAW) on Wed, 30 Jun 2010
"resources" like you'd find in background audio and Airfoil up, making their images look
devices. Previously it was of 15:00:00 EST. Please see our
mobile devices. Remember Speakers Touch originally precisely like crap. You'd think
limited use for iPhone and iPod terms for use of feeds.
when it seemed that CPU speed, appeared on The Unofficial that with the beautiful iPad
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foreground for the audio to play.
limiting factors anymore EST. Please see our terms for maybe someday.
While Dan said that adding
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replaced by DSL and cable?
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Then along come mobile
especially due to how Airfoil
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Five little-known features in iOS 4
Michael Jones (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 6/30/2010 1:15:00 PM
Filed under: Tips and tricks,
iPhone Whenever word gets out
about a potential software
update, as it did for iOS 4 back
in January (then called iPhone
OS 4), you don't have to look far
to find speculation about
features or functionality the new
version will include.
This is especially true for major
revisions of the OS, which is
ironic when you consider that
developers get access to beta
versions of the OS for testing
purposes -- most smaller
updates are kept under wraps
right up until they are released.
When Apple does officially
announce a major update, it
usually is quick to list the big
changes that the update brings
as a way to persuade developers
to get in and start updating their
apps to make use of the new
5 Home Repairs You Really Should Know How to Do
Yourself
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Owning a home can be a dream
come true, but the world of
home ownership is more than
just relaxing weekends on the
deck and intimate evenings in
front of the fireplace. It requires
a commitment to keeping your
features. Quite often, everyone
focuses their attention on these
main features, and discussion
moves to whether or not the new
OS will support things like
dashboards and today screens or
whether or not Feature X will
live up to expectations. This
discussion usually continues
well after the OS has been
released, and it tends to
overshadow many of the smaller
changes that have been made
throughout the OS.
Whether these changes are
minor tweaks in how something
private oasis safe and running
smoothly. Making occasional
repairs is part of the bargain,
and even if you aren't a
dedicated do-it-yourselfer
(DIY), there are a few around-
the-house fixes you should
become familiar with.
Few things will sour a
E-reader News Edition
Why Obamanomics Has
works or the addition of new
functionality that subtly
enhances the users' experience,
Failed
(AEI.Org: Articles) growth measures in 1981 is
they often go unnoticed for one
of two reasons: either they "just Submitted at 6/29/2010 6:00:00 PM striking. Reagan reduced
work" so well that the user marginal and corporate tax rates
The administration's stimulus and slowed the growth of
doesn't need to know they exist,
program has failed. Growth is nondefense spending. Recovery
or they require the user to do
s l o w a n d u n e m p l o y m e n t began about a year later. After
something extra to enable or
remains high. The president, his 18 months, the economy grew
locate the feature. Since both of
f r i e n d s a n d a d v i s e r s t a l k more than 9% and it continued
these involve the user not being
e n d l e s s l y a b o u t t h e to expand above trend rates.
aware of something, we think
circumstances they inherited as The full text of this article is
it's safe to assume that bringing
a way of avoiding responsibility available from the Wall Street
these little-known features to
for the 18 months for which Journal.
light will help.
they are responsible. Allan H. Meltzer is a visiting
Read on for a list of five little-
But they want new stimulus scholar at AEI.
known features in iOS 4 that we
measures--which is convincing Photo Credit: White House
think deserve more attention.
evidence that they too recognize Photo by Pete Souza
TUAW Five little-known
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And so the U.S. was odd-man Headshot - Propaganda, State
appeared on The Unofficial
out at the G-20 meeting over the Religion and the Attack On the
Apple Weblog (TUAW) on
weekend, continuing to call for Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available
Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:15:00
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MeeGo for handsets makes its first appearance

Nilay Patel (Engadget) so we're sure Nokia has some but feel it's being overshadowed
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:07:00 PM deeper UI customizations in by MeeGo before it's even out.
store -- like homescreen Can we pre-pour one out? Is that
As promised, Nokia and Intel widgets, which are notably a thing? It is now.
have revealed the pre-alpha missing here. Gallery: MeeGo for handsets
version of MeeGo for handsets On a deeper level, this build of makes its first appearance
today, supporting the Intel- M e e G o i n c l u d e s t h e b a s e Continue reading MeeGo for
powered Aava reference phone MeeGo APIs, including Qt and handsets makes its first
and the Nokia N900. What's the MeeGo touch frameworks, appearance
most interesting at this early the Firefox-based browser, a MeeGo for handsets makes its
stage is the UI, which appears to photo viewer, and some basic first appearance originally
h a v e t a k e n a b i g N o k i a - UI elements like the status bar, appeared on Engadget on Wed,
influenced step away from the a p p l a u n c h e r , a n d v i r t u a l 30 Jun 2010 15:07:00 EDT.
Intel-designed MeeGo netbook keyboard. There are pre-built Please see our terms for use of
and tablet UI-- and we're images for the Atom-based enough list of known bugs, and alright? And let us know how it feeds. Permalink| MeeGo| Email
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of Android and webOS here and but N900 owners will have to do alpha code, it might not be too break.
there. Seriously, just check out a little building until someone fine for your device. That's not P.S. Given that the N8 is
that task switching interface. Of makes an image available. Be going to stop us from installing destined to be the last Symbian
course, MeeGo is open-source, warned, though: there's a long this thing, but you be careful, N Series device, we can't help

Pamela Love's New Hair-Raising Sebastian Campaign

ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 11:30:00 AM
Pamela Love's ads for
Sebastian Professional don't hit
until August, but there's a sneak
peek above. The campaign
honors the 25th anniversary of
the brand's iconic Shaper
hairspray, a product that's taken
hair to new dimensions via a
powerful, non-sticky aerosol
formula.
Love doesn't just star in the ads
— she's also the inspiration
behind a limited-edition Re-
Shaper can design. So why her?
"She's perfect because of the
way her work as a jeweler
speaks to shape-inspired
creativity," says Reuben
Carranza, the CEO of P&G
Salon Professional North
America. "Pamela Love's use of
shapes in her designs and
jewelry-making process
showcases the power of shaping
and reshaping, which obviously
bears a close connection to our
world in the way Shaper
hairspray enables stylists and
consumers to create limitless
hairstyles."
Though the Shaper, with its
classic white packaging, has
remained consistent in its look
and chemistry the "limitless
hairstyles" it has inspired over
the past quarter-century have
evolved.
"When I joined Sebastian in the
early 1990s the brand was all
out of a decade of over-the-top
big hair and when we hit the
'90s, we slowly but surely
moved to more minimal undone
styles in hair and fashion."
Not that va-va-voom dos didn't
continue to surface: "From the
women of Charlie's Angels and
Madonna to the Sex and the
City cast and Lady Gaga, these
famous women have all
showcased the evolution of
hairstyles and the power of
about redefining androgyny and s h a p e o v e r t h e l a s t f e w
celebrating the power of decades," says Protat.
women," says Carole Protat, Look for the limited-edition
Sebastian Professional's director Sebastian Re-Shaper product in
of education. "We'd just come salons this August.
—EMILY HEBERT
34 Technology/ Culture/
NeighborGoods Extends The Sharing
Of Actual Things To The National
Level
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:34:27 PM
Back in October, we covered a
new sharing service called
NeighborGoods. When you see
the term “sharing” associated
with a startup, your eyes may
glaze over at this point — but
NeighborGoods is a bit different
because it’s all about actually
sharing stuff. Like, in the real
world. Sadly, the site was
previously only open to users in
Southern California. But today
brings its nationwide roll-out.
As a refresher on the idea
behind it, say you have
something sort of expensive you
bought but don’t use all that
often. For example, a vacuum
cleaner. Most of the time it just
sits there, unused. But what if
you could let someone else
around you borrow it, or even
rent it for a day? That’s what
NeighborGoods facilitates.
The key to all of this is local.
Obviously, most people aren’t
going to be comfortable
Divorce Diaries: Facebook Breakup
WomansDay.com Editors
(Daily Woman's Day Blog)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 1:30:00 PM
Very few people knew that
shipping their stuff across the
country just to lend it to
someone (and that’s sort of a
logistical nightmare). But if you
live near someone who has
something you want or vice
versa, this system works. That’s
why it’s key to have the service
available across the entire U.S.,
rather than just in Southern
California.
So how does NeighborGoods
make money? Well, the obvious
idea would be to put fees on top
of what users who rent things
out charge — but they’re not
doing that. Instead, they’ve
Peter was moving out. It wasn’t
like we put an ad in the paper,
and as a full-time working
Mom, I pretty much only see my
neighbors to wave to them,
baked a small fee ($4.99) into
the verification process. This
optional process ensures that
someone lives where they say
they do, so people can feel
better about lending to and
borrowing from them.
There’s also an option for
members to chip in if they like
the service. NeighborGoods is
still a bootstrapped startup.
Check out a bit more in the
video below.
CrunchBase Information
NeighborGoods Information
provided by CrunchBase
unless it’s a weekend. He finally
told his family via email (no
surprise there), so I felt safe in
taking the final step of
informing the masses:
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Snack Smart: Be KIND
to Your Body
WomansDay.com Editors up the fat content, so it's the
(Daily Woman's Day Blog) good type of fat when eaten in
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:00:00 PM moderation.)
My favorite so far is the basic-
When I first received a package sounding (but yummy-tasting!)
of KIND Fruit & Nut bars I was Fruit & Nut Delight. But there's
skeptical. I took a glance at the a wide variety of interesting
nutrition panels and saw that flavors to pick from, like
some bars clocked in at 13 Almond & Coconut and Walnut
grams of fat, which seemed like & Date.
a lot for a granola bar. But one —Barbara Brody, Health Editor
bite and I realized these aren't Five Filters featured article:
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As Part Of Its Kindle Everywhere Which of the Summer's

Strategy, Amazon Prepares An Remaining Blockbuster Boys
Are You Most Excited About?
HTML5 Web Previewer PopSugar (PopSugar)
Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch) Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:08:06 PM

Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:03:11 PM

Robert Pattinson and Taylor
Lautner's Eclipse arrives in
Jeff Bezos wants Kindle books
theaters today, but there are
to become ubiquitous and the
many more hot actors who have Mark Wahlberg in The Other
standard in digital reading.
movies still to come this Guys- He'll steal the show! Zac
“Buy once, read everywhere,” is
Summer. Buzz has a rundown of Efron in Charlie St. Cloud- Abs,
his motto. He already has the
the season's blockbuster boys, please. James Franco in Eat,
various flavors of the Kindle e-
and we're curious as to who Pray, Love- Simply the hottest.
reader, as well as an iPhone app,
you're most looking forward to Chace Crawford in Twelve-
an even better iPad app, a
seeing up on the big screen. So, Excited to see him in a movie
Blackberry app, a new Android
tell us - which of the Summer's role. Javier Bardem in Eat, Pray,
app, and desktop readers for the
except this will be for Kindle people are just surfing the Web. remaining blockbuster boys are Love- Bring on the shirtlessness.
Mac and PC. But what about
editions and be in HTML5. The HTML5 previews will also you most excited about? Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception
the plain old Web?
What is not clear, however, is be linkable, as opposed to the Which of the Summer's - Sure to be his next big success.
Amazon is inching in that
why Amazon is only making the sample downloads locked inside Remaining Blockbuster Boys
direction with a soon-to-be-
Are You Most Excited About?
released“Kindle Previewer for previews available in HTML5 each app. But ultimately, there
HTML5.” When you buy a and not the entire book. One is no reason why Amazon
Kindle device or download the argument could be that it is not shouldn’t offer full HTML5
software, you can sample a free ideal to read an entire book on a versions of the entire Kindle
Chattertree Is a Private
chapter for any book in the desktop or laptop computer. library. Once it does that, it
Kindle store. With the new But, in that case, why offer really won’t matter what device
Social Network for
previewer, those free samples Kindle software for Macs and you are on as long as it has a
will be available on the Web as PCs with full book downloads? b r o w s e r . C r u n c h B a s e Families [Social Networks]
well, with the option to buy the On the iPad and other tablet Information Amazon Kindle 2 Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Kindle edition. devices, the HTML5 preview I n f o r m a t i o n p r o v i d e d b y
Submitted at 6/30/2010 1:30:00 PM
It sounds like it will be similar will be available right on the C r u n c h B a s e
to the “Look Inside the Book” browser, creating another way to If you love the idea of using
option on Amazon’s Website, promote Kindle editions when social networking to unite your
far flung relatives but aren't too
excited about using a wide-open
network like Facebook,
Chattertree offers private and Chattertree- Online
feature-rich social networks for Communities- Software and
families. More » Services
Social network- Facebook-
36 Policy/ E-reader News Edition

Byrd Fought for Senate until His Final Days

(AEI.Org: Articles) 92 into a defense of the Senate But Byrd didn't call for matters of war-making or the needed reform--including
Submitted at 6/29/2010 6:00:00 PM and its traditions while decrying wholesale reform of the rules-- power of the purse. I doubt that removing the President Pro Tem
the deterioration of its norms he was too wedded to the role of any lawmaker ever has had from a position high in the line
I had the good fortune and great and practices. the Senate as a protector of the more institutional patriotism of presidential succession.
privilege last month to be He said: "A true filibuster is a minority. Still, what shone than Byrd. I braced myself for a sharp
present at Sen. Robert Byrd's fight, not a threat or a bluff. For through in his statement and the There are other senior Senators reprover, but Byrd said he
last major appearance in the most of the Senate's history, way he delivered it was his with style, intelligence and a understood fully the need for
Senate--I was testifying in front Senators motivated to extend dismay at how the norms of his passion for the Senate. There are reform. Of course, the idea of
of the Rules and Administration debate had to hold the floor as beloved Senate had deteriorated, some truly impressive new having a 92-year-old--any 92-
Committee on the filibuster, and long as they were physically trivializing its standing. Members who care deeply about year-old, no matter how talented
the West Virginia Democrat able. The Senate was either No one could make these points their own institution. But the sad --third in the line of succession
arrived in the middle of the persuaded by the strength of with the resonance of Robert fact is that there is no one who is frankly absurd, but that is
hearing to deliver personally his their arguments or unconvinced Byrd. The Senate was his life. can step in at the moment and only one reason why having
statement on the subject. by either their commitment or When then-Majority Leader Bill fill Byrd's shoes. Congressional leaders in the line
The hearing came to a halt in their stamina. True filibusters Frist (R-Tenn.) was openly The even sadder fact is that needs to be re-examined and
the middle of testimony by were therefore less frequent, and considering the "nuclear option" veneration for the Senate and its reformed. But Byrd's health
Walter Mondale as Byrd was more commonly discouraged, to in effect blow up Rule XXII historical role is simply not on took a turn for the worse after
wheeled in to the hearing room d u e t o e v e r y S e n a t o r ' s in the middle of a session, I the radar screen of many current our conversation, and I was not
and up to his seat. His body u n d e r s t a n d i n g t h a t s u c h appeared on a panel with Byrd Members. They are driven more able to follow up. Had Byrd
faltered a bit as he turned the undertakings required grueling at the Center for American by ideological crusade, personal become a champion on
pages of his statement, and he personal sacrifice, exhausting Progress to decry the move. I sat ambition or the War of the continuity, we would have
occasionally stumbled a touch preparation, and a willingness to with him alone in an office Roses between the parties that is actually seen Congress do
as he read. But the passion and be criticized for disrupting the before the event started, and he leading to the outrageous misuse something other than its
eloquence were there just as n a t i o n ' s b u s i n e s s . N o w , began to cry at the prospect that of the rules--filibusters against shameful neglect.
they had been countless times unbelievably, just the whisper of the Senate would be distorted nominations that then garner This is a tough year for the
over the previous decades, and opposition brings the 'world's through this kind of unilateral unanimous votes? Anonymous Senate, losing Edward Kennedy
his energy level grew as he greatest deliberative body' to a action, losing its fundamental holds that keep critical and Robert Byrd. There are no
moved well into his perorations. grinding halt. Why? Because character. He cared that deeply. executive positions unfilled for indispensable people--but those
It was amazing to be in the this once highly respected Like many others, I made months for petty purposes?--that two came awfully close to
room. Every Senator there from i n s t i t u t i o n h a s b e c o m e pilgrimages to Byrd's office to is common now. indispensable for a functioning
b o t h p a r t i e s , a l o n g w i t h overwhelmingly consumed by a get my volumes of his history of I have one deep regret about my Senate that would make the
Mondale, former Oklahoma f i x a t i o n w i t h m o n e y a n d the Senate inscribed and would interactions with Byrd. I had framers proud.
Sen. Don Nickles (R), and the m e d i a . " converse with him about the talked to him a few years back Norman J. Ornstein is a resident
a u d i e n c e a n d s t a f f , w e r e Every Member, he suggested, chamber and about its role in the about continuity of Congress scholar at AEI.
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The Un-Borkable Elena Kagan

(AEI.Org: Articles) due-process clause was the hatches. That's why Leahy vote against you. It's as if we commitments."
Submitted at 6/29/2010 6:00:00 PM better argument. But that's a asked the questions the way he expect nominees to demonstrate Alas, it doesn't look like Kagan
debate for another day. did, and that's why Sotomayor --one last time--everything we will be following the Kagan
Say it ain't so, Elena. The more newsworthy opinion answered them the way she did. hate and distrust about lawyers standard. On Tuesday morning,
Elena Kagan thinks that the came from rookie Justice Sonia It's also why he spun her before they don their priestly she distanced herself as best she
"Borking" of Robert Bork Sotomayor. She concurred with answers into more than they robes. could from those views. And
during his 1987 confirmation Justice Stephen Breyer's dissent, were: "I do not see how any fair Nobody is shocked that when asked by Sen. Jeff
hearings for the Supreme Court which held that there is no observer could regard Sotomayor has revealed herself Sessions whether she is a "legal
would deserve a fundamental right to bear arms [Sotomayor's] testimony as to be the liberal everyone knew progressive"--something pretty
commemorative plate if the in the U.S. Constitution. "I can hostile to the Second her to be. But the fact that much all objective observers
Franklin Mint launched a "Great find nothing in the Second Amendment personal right to everyone was in on the lie is just and her own friends and former
Moments in Legal History" line Amendment's text, history or bear arms, a right she has further evidence of the sham colleagues know her to be--the
of dishware. underlying rationale that could embraced and recognizes." He Supreme Court hearings have brilliant and scholarly Kagan
This is not the time to rehearse warrant characterizing it as made it sound as though she was become. They are a nonviolent claimed to have no idea what
all the reasons why Kagan is 'fundamental' insofar as it seeks open to an expansive reading of and fairly bloodless cousin to the term even means.
wrong on that score. Still, there to protect the keeping and the Second Amendment when totalitarian show trials, where After his rejection by the
is one adverse result of the Bork bearing of arms for private self- everyone knew she wasn't. (As a everyone follows a script and Senate, Bork wrote a masterful
hearings worth dwelling on. defense purposes," Breyer wrote judge, she was hardly a hero of politicians pretend to be book, The Tempting of
Bork was the last Supreme for the minority. the NRA.) "gravely concerned" and America: The Political
Court nominee to give serious But when Sotomayor was Here's the point: Sotomayor "shocked" upon "discovering" Seduction of the Law. The title
answers to serious questions. before the Senate Judiciary wasn't an exception to the rule; things they already knew. of the book about Kagan might
But because he was successfully Committee one year ago for her she was following it. And that's why Kagan should well be titled The Tempting of
anathematized by the Left, no own confirmation hearings, she Although the Bork inquisition be the hero of this tale. She has Kagan: The Political Seduction
nominee since has dared to gave a very different impression was a largely partisan affair, the vociferously argued that the of the Process.
show Borkian forthrightness. of how she saw the issue. Senate consequences have yielded a "Bork hearings were great . . . Jonah Goldberg is a visiting
Consider Monday's thunderclap Judiciary Chairman Patrick bipartisan sham. Republican and the best thing that ever fellow at AEI.
f r o m t h e j u d i c i a l M o u n t Leahy asked her, "Is it safe to Democratic nominees alike are happened to constitutional Photo Credit: White House
O l y m p u s : T h e S e c o n d say that you accept the Supreme trained to say as little as democracy." She has lamented Five Filters featured article:
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Robert Byrd's Life--Good, Bad and All American
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 6/29/2010 6:00:00 PM
About 10,000 men and women
have served in the United States
Congress. Robert C. Byrd, who
died Monday at age 92, served
longer than all the rest--more
than 57 years, six in the House
and 51 in the Senate.
In 1917, the year he was born,
the United States had 103
million people and the nation
had just entered World War I.
The year he died, the United
States had 310 million people,
with military personnel in more
than 100 countries around the
world.
Sen. Byrd's life and career tell
us many things about our
country--some good things,
some bad.
Among the good things is that
he was a paragon of upward
mobility. Raised in a West
Virginia coal camp, he was
determined not to go into the
mines. Like Dickens' David
Copperfield, he believed he was
meant for better things. He
studied hard and got good
grades but was forced to drop
out of college.
He was 24 when Pearl Harbor
was attacked, already a husband
and father. Byrd worked at
shipyards in Baltimore and
Tampa, Fla., during the war.
Then he returned to West
Virginia and worked as a
butcher.
But then come the bad things.
In Raleigh County, W.Va., he
organized a 150-member
klavern of the Ku Klux Klan.
That led the young kleagle to
politics and he was elected to
the West Virginia legislature in
1946.
That episode did not prevent
and may have helped his rise. In
1952 Democratic leaders wanted
him to drop out of the race, but
he was elected to Congress and
served in the last days of Harry
Truman's administration.
That gave him a reputation for
independence, enhanced when
he ran for the Senate in 1958
over the opposition of United
Mine Workers President John L.
Lewis. He won handily, and the
man who worked as a butcher a
dozen years before was a U.S.
senator at age 41.
As a young senator, he eyed a
long career. One way to achieve
that goal was to bring federal
dollars--a billion dollars--to
West Virginia. He pledged
allegiance to Majority Leader
Lyndon Johnson (and at his
behest supported Hubert
Humphrey over John Kennedy
in the 1960 West Virginia
presidential primary) in return
for a seat on the Appropriations
Committee. A good thing or a
bad thing? You decide; the
voters of West Virginia always
thought the former.
The other way Byrd sought to
secure his position was clearly
bad: To oppose civil rights for
black Americans. He attracted
attention by attacking welfare
programs in Washington, D.C.,
with its rapidly rising black
population. He filibustered for
14 hours against the Civil Rights
Act of 1964. The interesting
thing is that this wasn't
politically compulsory in his
state. His West Virginia
colleague Jennings Randolph
voted for the bill.
Byrd's alliance with Southern
Democrats led him to seek a
leadership post and in 1971,
with deathbed proxy of
Georgia's Richard Russell in
hand, he ousted Edward
Kennedy from the whip position
--No. 2 in the leadership. By
1976, when Majority Leader
Mike Mansfield retired, Byrd
had done enough favors for
colleagues that he was elevated
to lead the Senate Democrats,
and did so for 12 years.
During that time, he continually
worked to learn more--a good
thing--about the Senate and the
Constitution, the Founding
Fathers and classical Rome. He
delivered a series of speeches
about the history of the Senate,
which with the help of the
Senate historian's office were
reprinted in a handsome book.
He celebrated the traditions of
the Senate, including the
filibuster, and insisted that the
legislative branch was the co-
equal of the executive. He
justified pork-barrel spending as
a prerogative of Congress
sanctioned by the Constitution
and successfully brought suit
against the line-item veto passed
by a Republican Congress and
signed by Bill Clinton--two
stands in which he had the
support of his scholarly
colleague Daniel Patrick
Moynihan.
He relinquished the majority
leadership in 1988 for the
position he had set about
seeking 30 years before, the
chairmanship of the
Appropriations Committee and
was the lead Democrat there
until the travails of age
prevented him from carrying on.
He leaves the scene when his
beloved earmarks are in disfavor
with most voters and his long-
ago cultivation of racism seems
despicable to all. But he
embodied many of the good
things in America as well--
determination to rise, hard work,
respect for tradition. Quite an
American life.
Michael Barone is a resident
fellow at AEI.
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Patrick Robinson Goes
For Perfect Again,
With Gap's New Tee
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 12:31:00 PM
Since Patrick Robinson hit the
Gap a couple of years ago he's
been obsessed with the perfect.
After devoting at least a whole
year to making the"perfect-fit
jeans" he's back with the
"perfect tee."
And if anyone's going to whip
up the perfect basics, it should
be Gap, but given the sheer
number of almost perfect, and
incredibly luxurious tees out
there — think The Row, Kain,
even James Perse— Gap should
probably throw the word
"practical" after "perfect."
The news tees come in a few
different styles, the V-neck may
be best, and a spectrum of
vintage inspired colors like
heathered sage and burn out
white. They're super soft and fit
well, but the most perfect thing
about them is the $19.50 price
tag.
The shirts hit Gap today.
E-reader News Edition
THE DEAD CAT KEEPS
FALLING: Here's What You Need
To Know (GLD, UUP, SPY)
Joe Weisenthal (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:00:00 PM
Wow, after yesterday's big
decline it looked like we might
get a some kind of minor relief,
dead-cat bounce rally. But nope!
Things got VERY ugly late in
the day. Bear in mind, this was
the last day of the quarter, so
But first, the scoreboard:
Dow: -96.28
NASDAQ: -26
S&P 500: -10.53
And now, the top stories:
• The big story has to be the
failure of the market to not
make any rebound following
yesterday's big 4% fall. Things
were looking alright early on,
but then slipped after the weak
ADP report. There was a bit of a
mid-day rebound, but the wheels
came off in the final 40 min. of
trading.
• The initial news out of Europe got her preferred Presidential
this morning was actually okay. n o m i n e e e l e c t e d b y t h e
In an auction, the ECB was Bundestag by a slim margin,
forced to provide less liquidity following two failed votes.
than some had feared, and the
euro initially rallied. Check out
the 17 trades hedge funds are • The fate of financial reform is
making right now >
• The bad news came at mid-
day, when Spain got put on
possible downgrade watch.
Don't miss: the full story behind
the Spanish economic crisis >
• Following that Angela Merkel
still slightly up in the air, as
Scott Brown did not commit to
voting for the new bill, even
though the $19 billion financial
industry levy was stripped. Get
up to speed on The Dodd-Frank
Act here >
• As for commodities and
commodities, their behavior was
basically how you'd expect,
though the dollar didn't do
anything special. Gold was up a
little. The industrial
commodities got savaged.
Join the conversation about this
story »
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Is Taylor Momsen the
Face of Madonna's
Material Girl Collection?
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion like the Gossip Girl star's the
Blogs)
face of Madonna's Material Girl
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:30:00 PM collection for Macy's.
While Madonna's daughter
Get the Material Girl - Teaser Lourdes has assumed the role of
widget and many other great muse for now, Iconix (the brand
free widgets at Widgetbox! Not producing Madonna's line)
seeing a widget? ( More info) promises an actual celeb who'll
Taylor Momsen wore this in be revealed come August. The
public the other day — and now video above is supposed to hint
we may know why. The look at the star, who has Momsen's
was half-Cherie Curie, but the long blonde locks, dark nail
other half was 100% vintage polish and pale pout. Any other
Madonna. The outfit may have guesses? In the
meant more than just, "I'm a
rebellious teenager." It looks
Get as Far From Your Office
as Possible to Solve Sticky
Problems [Mind Hacks]
Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 12:00:00 PM
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40 Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Foursquare Puts Money Before Privacy

Ryan Singel (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:20:00 PM

Foursquare, one of the net’s

hottest startups, got an unwanted
message on June 20 from a
white-hat hacker: it was leaking
user data on a massive scale in
plain violation of its privacy
policy.
The company asked the white
hat, Jesper Andersen, to give it
nine days to deal with the
problem that it was publishing
all users’ location data to the
entire web despite its privacy-
policy promise to users that
“You can opt out of such
broadcasts through your privacy
settings.”
At the same time, the company
was wrapping up a protracted
and very public finance round
that stalled for a while as the
company reportedly almost sold
itself to Facebook.
So when the nine days were up,
the company told Andersen in a
private e-mail Tuesday morning
that it had fixed the “privacy
leak” (the company’s own
words) by modifying how an
existing privacy setting worked, round of financing: $20 million respond to two separate e-mails Even after Wired.com’s story we’re really just getting started.”
and that it had no solution yet in venture capital from some of from Wired.com Monday and on the breach ran Tuesday, the In response to a follow-up e-
for two other privacy holes that the hottest investors in the Tuesday, asking for comment. company had no reaction to the mail Wednesday morning,
Andersen also reported, saying country. Nor did the company And to the company’s benefit, news of the breach. The Foursquare’s PR manager Erin
it was trying to figure out how contact users to tell them that it the news cycle focused on what company’s blog trumpeted its Gleason said the company had
to balance usability with had found and sort-of fixed a Foursquare board member and big funding, with links to its been “swamped for the past
privacy. hole in its service that violated venture capital investor Bryce new office and entreaties for couple of days preparing for
As for its blog, the only thing the promises it had made to Roberts tweeted as “the wire programmers to apply for a job, yesterday’s announcement, and
the company disclosed Tuesday users. transfer heard ’round the saying, “Look forward to more FOURSQUARE page 44
was that it had closed a monster The company also didn’t world.” great product from us soon …
E-reader News Edition Culture/ 41

Cliqset Cleans Up Streams, Integrates Twitter

Michael Calore (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:30:00 PM

Cliqset completed a significant

upgrade to its social sharing
website Wednesday.
The site now fully integrates
Twitter, and it has refined its
aggregation system so you get a
much more streamlined, easy-to
-digest view of your friends’
activities across multiple social
sites.
There are literally dozens of
changes, both visible and behind
-the-scenes, in the new Cliqset.
We’ve been testing out the new
version (the company is half-
jokingly calling it “Cliqset 2.0)
since midday Tuesday, and
we’ve found the site has been
given a significant boost that
makes its aggregation features
both more usable and more
useful. The changes should be
appearing for everyone on
Cliqset sometime Wednesday
morning.
Cliqset is a social network in
itself, complete with followers,
status updates and media
sharing. But its sweet spot is as
an aggregation service. It
funnels all of the posts from the
people you follow on the web
into one single stream. It pulls in connects to over 80 services in continues to innovate. of duplicates. The new Cliqset de-duplicate the posts, refine
Twitter tweets, photos from all. Here’s one really cool new filters out those dupes. them.”
your Flickr contacts, posts from It sounds, looks and works a lot innovation: When you’re “If somebody’s on three When Bounds says “refine,” he
your Tumblr network, updates like FriendFeed. But unlike following somebody across different networks, we’ll know means that Cliqset includes
from your friends on Facebook, FriendFeed, which was acquired multiple social networks and that,” Cliqset co-founder Darren image thumbnails whenever a
Google Buzz, Yelp, YouTube, by Facebook last year and has aggregating their posts in one Bounds tells Webmonkey. CLIQSET page 43
Google Reader — Cliqset largely stagnated since, Cliqset place, you’re going to get a lot “We’ll consolidate their posts,
42 Culture/ Food/ E-reader News Edition

YouTube: HTML5 Video Is No Match for Flash

Scott Gilbertson (Wired Top specific points in a video. ads, captions, annotations and similar site, the HTML5 video
Stories) While YouTube claims to be extras like related-video lists tag makes sense, but for sites
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:00:00 PM “excited about the HTML5 automatically show up. There’s like YouTube and Hulu, the
effort and tag,” the post makes it no easy way to do the same with HTML5 video tag still clearly
YouTube has some bad news pretty clear that HTML5 isn’t video codec offers some hope H T M L 5 e m b e d c o d e . can’t match what Flash has to
for those of you hoping the site going to take over the site any here, but it isn’t universally JavaScript, sure, but not the offer.
would soon ditch Flash in favor time soon. The video-streaming supported yet. native code. See Also:
of HTML5 video tags: It isn’t site Hulu has previously said the • Flash offers “fine control over • Fullscreen video. This one
going to happen any time soon. same thing: HTML5 lacks the buffering and dynamic quality makes the least sense. Firefox • Why Flash Isn’t Going
That’s message from the extra features Flash enables. control.” The HTML5 video tag a n d W e b K i t b o t h o f f e r Anywhere, iPad Be Damned
YouTube developer blog which YouTube has been running an doesn’t cover live streaming, r u d i m e n t a r y s u p p o r t f o r • Embed Videos In Your Web
cites half-a-dozen areas where experimental HTML5 version of nor does it allow for adaptive f u l l s c r e e n H T M L 5 v i d e o , Pages Using HTML5
Flash trumps HTML5 and the site for more than a year, video quality when streaming though there is no hardware • On Web Video Support,
explains why “the tag does not and it remains an opt-in choice long movies. However, as the acceleration or other extras Safari Now Stands Alone
currently meet all the needs of a for those who want to avoid post points out, “a number of you’d get with Flash. • Major Browser Vendors
site like YouTube.” Flash. The site also continues to vendors and organizations are • Camera and microphone Launch WebM Free Open
T h e e m e r g i n g H T M L 5 serve raw H.264 videos to w o r k i n g t o i m p r o v e t h e access. The ability to record Video Project
standard, which is quickly being mobile devices like the iPad, but experience of delivering video video directly to YouTube • SublimeVideo Hopes to
a d o p t e d b y b r o w s e r don’t expect the main browser over HTTP,” meaning there’s requires the site to be able to Simplify HTML5 Web Video
manufacturers and developers, version of YouTube to make the h o p e t h i s p r o b l e m w i l l access your computer’s camera • YouTube Embraces HTML5,
offers native video-playback and same changes. eventually be solved. and microphone, something But Stops Short of Open Web
animation tools that don’t The YouTube developer blog • F l a s h o f f e r s c o n t e n t HTML5 video on its own cannot Video
require Adobe’s Flash plug-in. lists several things Flash can do protection. While not the top of do. • Adobe CTO Defends Flash
H o w e v e r , w h i l e H T M L 5 that HTML5 video tags cannot: the list when it comes to Against Apple, HTML5
handles the basics of video, it features a user is looking for, YouTube also doesn’t mention • Where on the Web Is
lacks many of the extra features • Flash cuts down on the without a means of protecting a couple of other areas where HTML5?
that sites like YouTube, Vimeo number of formats YouTube content from being distributed HTML5 video lags well behind
and Hulu currently offer through needs to encode. With browsers illegally, most of YouTube’s F l a s h : a c c e s s i b i l i t y a n d Five Filters featured article:
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continued from page 41
link to an image is passed along,
or an embedded video player
whenever someone shares a
video. Each status update also
gets its own permalink with a
larger image or full-size video
player, making it look more like
a real blog post.
The new Twitter integration
runs deep. Cliqset has always
connected to Twitter, but now
the company has re-written its
API to connect directly with the
Twitter API.
A persistent search in Cliqset:
You get results from multiple
sites like Delicious, Vimeo,
Twitter and Google Reader all
mixed together.
You can post updates,
@replies, direct messages or
messages to groups of Twitter
users from a single text area at
the top of the page. It’s just like
composing an e-mail: You can
address your tweet to as many
different recipients as you want
and add attachments.
Searching is enhanced as well.
You can save persistent searches
(which hit both the Twitter
Search API and the entire
Cliqset ecosystem) and filter the
results.
Sure, there are already a
handful of excellent desktop
Twitter clients that do many of
the same things. Cliqset even
makes a social client for the
desktop, which is being phased
out.
Bounds says Cliqset isn’t trying
to be just another conduit to
Twitter.
“When you’re interacting with
somebody here, there’s no
differentiation as to whether this
person is on Twitter or Cliqset
or not,” he says. “We want to
blur the line between what is
Cliqset and what is the web.”
Indeed, you can use Cliqset to
search for new people to follow,
manage your lists of who you
follow, and interact with others,
all regardless of which social
network they’re on. Since
Cliqset connects to all the
majors, it just adds them to your
master list, and you see their
updates mixed in with everyone
else, from everywhere else.
Comments and @replies blend
together, more closely
resembling a real-time chat.
“We don’t feel users should
have to know or care about what
service the people they want to
interact with are on,” Bounds
says.
This relaunch integrates
Twitter, but Bounds says
Facebook and Google Buzz are
next on his short list.
“We really want an open,
standards-based social web with
total interoperability, a
completely transparent, blended
experience,” he says.
That’s a lofty goal, but it’s
within reach, mostly thanks to
the many emerging open
standards on the social web. It’s
here that Cliqset is going all-in,
using several of these new
protocols to connect everything.
Cliqset integrated Activity
Streams in its last relaunch, and
it republishes all the actions it
aggregates in the Activity
Streams format. In this version,
Cliqset is using OAuth 2.0 to
connect to Facebook and to
Twitter. It has also implemented
Salmon to publish comments
and other interactions back to
external services.
You can save customized,
curated streams (I have two,
named “Music” and “Web
Dev”) within Cliqset where you
can dump relevant tweets, links
and blog posts. Cliqset takes
that custom stream, generates an
Atom version of it, and
republishes it using
PubSubHubbub. So, others can
subscribe to those streams
anywhere on the open web and
get updates about those topics in
real time.
Foursquare is now a supported
service, and you can check in
with Cliqset using HTML5
Geolocation through the
browser.
To give the new Cliqset a try,
Culture/ 43
head over and create an account.
You can connect using
Facebook and Twitter (both new
options) or a Google or Yahoo
account. Cliqset still supports
OpenID, though this option isn’t
exposed in the new-user sign-up
dialog. They don’t want to scare Javier and Julia Go
anyone away, maybe? Once
you’re logged in, you can South Together and
connect almost every social web Leave James Behind
service to your Cliqset account.
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Cliqset, this video should help
demystify the experience. Javier Bardem and Julia
Cliqset: Getting started from Roberts were in Cancun this
cliqset on Vimeo. morning at a photo call for Eat,
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• Cliqset Relaunches, Joins the midst of a promotional getaway
Real-Time Streaming Club for their movie, and Mexico
• Cliqset Debuts a Desktop App seems like the perfect place for
for the Real-Time Web that - Angelina Jolie arrived
• New ‘OpenID Connect’ there today as well to prep for
Proposal Could Solve Many of her Salt press duties with
the Social Web’s Woes Shiloh, Zahara, Pax, and
Maddox. Julia is in the enviable
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continued from page 40
your message was buried in my
inbox.”
The response is quite telling.
Foursquare had nine days to
write a simple blog post,
acknowledging the hole,
explaining the fix and telling
users they could opt out in the
future and giving credit to
Andersen. That’s how
responsible disclosure works.
But the company didn’t do any
of those things.
From that it’s clear to see that
Foursquare isn’t focused on its
privacy practices, and seems to
be ignorant of the consequences
of violating its privacy promises
to users.
That’s the kind of thing that
gets companies investigated by
the FTC. Twitter just had to
settle with the FTC over its
overblown promises to users
that it would keep their accounts
secure — promises that were
shown to be false by repeated
account hijackings.
It’s also not clear if Foursquare
informed their investors of the
breach before the checks got
cashed.
On Wednesday morning,
Wired.com wrote Foursquare, as
well as several of its investors,
to find out if the company had
Summer Cookbook
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
Summer Sides
These cool, refreshing sides
told the investors about the
breach, and why the company
hadn’t told users.
In response, Foursquare said
that its engineer made a change
to the site that randomized user
pictures (effectively killing the
scraping method) and pushed
the change live last Thursday,
but that the engineer didn’t write
Andersen until Tuesday, just
prior to Wired.com’s story.
However, that e-mail didn’t
mention anything about
randomization, and simply said
that the privacy opt-out would
work differently.
On Wednesday morning,
however, prior to Foursquare’s
response, Andersen wrote
Wired.com to report that the site
was acting differently.
Something changed. As of
about an hour ago the “Who’s
been here” box is random, not
ordered. My attack no longer
works. This works even for
small venues. http://
foursquare.com/venue/223103
has only two visitors, myself
and another person, but they
only show one of us at random.
This is a pretty good fix. The
only one I could think of that
they could do.
I wonder what caused them to
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favorite summer meals.
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change it now, but not before.
Wired.com also asked the
prominent angel investor Chris
Dixon by Twitter if he knew
about the breach prior to
investing in this round. We put
in similar inquiries to the PR
firm for the venture capital firm
Andreessen Horowitz, which
trumpeted its investment in the
company Tuesday, and to Fred
Wilson, a proud backer of
Foursquare who is a partner at
Union Square Ventures, which
has now funded the company
twice.
Andreessen’s PR firm declined
to answer any substantive
questions, saying only that the
firm was “excited” about its
investment.
So far, neither Wilson nor
Dixon has responded to
questions about how Foursquare
handled the breach of its privacy
promises to users.
Foursquare declined to say
whether it informed investors or
plans to inform users of the
breach, but said the coder’s
deadline wasn’t connected to the
funding news.
“As a side note, this developer
was completely unaware of the
timing of our funding
announcement, as this was being
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managed by our executive
team,” wrote Gleason.
While that may be true, it’s
pretty clear from how the
company behaved that, for
Foursquare, it’s all about
Benjamins.
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Green tied the knot on the big
II)
island of Hawaii last week, and
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Backstage With…The Fiery Furnaces

ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion City—those are the high points. pretended to play guitar and sing
Blogs) And the low point is always along to my favorite records
Submitted at 6/30/2010 1:30:00 PM playing in Los Angeles. without actually learning to play
You’re about to head back into chords. But I had friends’
Opportunities to see Brooklyn- the studio to record your tenth encouragement and my
based brother-sister act the Fiery album. What can we expect? brother’s encouragement. If
Furnaces have happily abounded Matthew: It’s going to be a very you’re hanging out with people
lately: The acclaimed indie duo exciting rock record—peppy, who play music and they don’t Drew Barrymore's
just wrapped a yearlong tour poppy, but with a big string say “join in,” then you shouldn’t Having an Easy,
that included a gig at their home section and percussion and be hanging out with them.
borough’s Northside Festival Eleanor singing. I think it’s Was there any sibling rivalry
Breezy, Beautiful Day
this weekend. going to be our best record, growing up? PopSugar (PopSugar)
But last night’s show, part of because I’m not going to play Matthew: We were lucky in Submitted at 6/30/2010 1:30:00 PM
R o l l i n g S t o n e a n d M u s i c anything on it. I just write the that we were given the roles as
Unites’ “In Tune” summer music. opposites—if you’re opposites, Drew Barrymore was in a chic
concert series, had the added What are you biggest non- you complement each other; you floral dress as she left a shoot
cool factor of a DJ set by musical influences? aren’t jealous. Just annoyance with photographer Steven
Alexandra Richards—not to Matthew: Ad circulars, could be any style of music. and fighting, as opposed to Meisel in NYC yesterday. She's
mention the swank backdrop of classified ads, and local radio You’re known for reworking rivalry. been spending the Summer in
t h e C o o p e r S q u a r e H o t e l spots you hear on country/ your songs at live shows. What’s on your summer the Big Apple, catching up with
penthouse and a worthwhile W e s t e r n s t a t i o n s i n What’s your approach to playlist? friends and dining her way
cause (proceeds benefited the Minnesota—throwaway things. reinventing your material? Eleanor: This guy who came to around town. Next up for Drew
Music Unites Youth Choir). How has your sound evolved Matthew: The process is, if it’s our concert in Chicago last week will be her second directorial
Post-performance, we caught throughout your previous nine a slow song, it should be fast. had a T-shirt that he made that project with the Wizard of Oz
up with bandmates Matthew and albums? Binary opposites. If it’s a sad h a d h i s “ d e s e r t i s l a n d sequel called Surrender
Eleanor Friedberger. Eleanor: I don’t think there’s a song it should be happy. The records”—his ten favorite Dorothy. She'll first spend a few
You’ve been on tour since last linear progression. Everyone verse of one song should go records, which is really corny. weeks promoting Going the
July. What have been the high actually keeps saying that our with a song it’s got nothing to One of our records was on it, Distance before its Aug. 27
points and low points of the past last album sounds most like our do with. So that’s what our and I knew all of them except release, and Drew will have
year? first album. We try to do starting point is—opposite day. for a couple. And one was from company on the press tour from
Eleanor: We’ve been to a lot of s o m e t h i n g d i f f e r e n t e a c h Since we’re here to support P a n d a B e a r f r o m A n i m a l her costar and real-life love,
new places—that’s always the time—that’s the most important music education, what’s the Collective, so I just downloaded Justin Long.
best part of touring. We played thing to us. And that’s the fun. most important thing you’d that today. I’ll be listening to
with Pavement last month in the We’re not like a normal band want to teach kids about music? that at the beach this weekend.
U.K, which was one of my where we have our sound and Eleanor: That anybody can do —ERIN CLEMENTS To see more photos of Drew in
favorite bands as a teenager, so we stick to that and we’re like a it. I didn’t start playing until I Photo: Getty Images NYC, just read more.
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i n I s t a n b u l , i n M e x i c o we’re going to do next, and it background. For years I
46 Culture/
Ancient Whale + Killer Shark = Hypercarnivorous Whale
Sid Perkins (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:40:00 PM
What would you get if you
crossed a whale with a shark?
Maybe something like
Leviathan melvillei, a long-
extinct, hypercarnivorous whale
with teeth longer than any T. rex
ever had.
L. melvillei— a newly
described sperm whale named to
honor Herman Melville, author
of the whaling novel Moby-
Dick— lived between 12
million and 13 million years
ago, says Olivier Lambert, a
vertebrate paleontologist at the
National Museum of Natural
History in Paris. The aptly
named leviathan is known only
from remains of a jawbone and
skull, which is about 75 percent
complete, Lambert and his
colleagues note in the July 1
Nature.
By comparing those fossils,
which were found in southern
Peru in November 2008, with
more complete remains of other
species, the researchers estimate
that Leviathan measured
between 44 and 57 feet in
length, slightly smaller than
adult male sperm whales of
today.
The longest of Leviathan’s
teeth measure about 14 inches
including the root, more than 40
percent longer than those of
today’s sperm whales. And,
Lambert notes, the longest tooth
of Sue, one of the largest
Tyrannosaurus rex specimens
yet found, measures only 10.6
inches from root to tip.
Wear patterns indicate that
Leviathan’s teeth sheared past
each other during a bite, a sign
that the beast could rip chunks
of flesh from prey. Lambert and
his colleagues speculate that
Leviathan fed on medium-sized
baleen whales, whose blubber
would have been a rich source
of calories.
“This is a pretty exciting
discovery,” says Erich
Fitzgerald, a vertebrate
paleontologist at Museum
Victoria in Melbourne,
Australia. Leviathan represents
“one thing we don’t have in the
oceans today — a
macropredator, a enough,” Fitzgerald notes, “you
hypercarnivorous whale.”
Modern sperm whales feed
largely on invertebrates such as
giant squid, but have been
known to feed on fish and other
creatures as well. The extremely
robust, deeply-rooted structure
of Leviathan’s teeth strongly
suggests that the creature fed on
large, presumably struggling
bony prey like sharks do.
But that doesn’t mean the
whale’s diet was restricted in
any way. “If you’re big
can bloody well eat what you
want.”
Images: 1) Artist’s rendering of
the giant raptorial sperm whale
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Leviathan melvillei attacking a
medium-size baleen whale off
the coast of the area now
occupied by Peru./C. Letenneur
(MNHN).
2) Three lower teeth (a,b,c) of
L. melvillei compared to teeth
of the modern sperm whale
Physeter macrocephalus(d) and
the modern killer whale Orcinus
orca(e)./G. Bianucci (Universitá
di Pisa), O. Lambert (MNHN)
and P. Loubry (MNHN).
3) Schematic drawings of the
skull and mandible of L.
melvillei in dorsal (a,d), ventral
(b) and lateral (c) view./G.
Bianucci (Universitá di Pisa)
See Also:
• Enormous Shark’s Secret
Hideout Finally Discovered
• Freaky New Ghostshark ID’d
Off California Coast
• Glow-in-the-Dark Shark
Turned on by Hormones
• Shark-Bitten Crocodile Poop
Fossils Found (No, Really)
• Sperm Whale Voices Are
Personal
• Hidden Whale Culture Could
Be Critical to Species Survival
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Desperation Dinners: Pasta with
Garlic and Anchovies
WomansDay.com Editors
(Daily Woman's Day Blog)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:00:00 PM
May I gush for a moment about
Katie Sweeney at YumSugar?
The site is updated frequently
throughout the day, and Katie
can always be counted on to
contribute something like this
recipe: practical, easy and
delicious. (There are also lots of
fun surveys, quizzes, party
menus and ingredient spotlights,
too.) While Katie makes this for
herself when she's alone (way to
treat yourself well, Katie!), it
could be doubled, tripled,
quadrupled quite easily. — Kim
Walker
Like Carrie on Sex and the
City, my secret single behavior
refers to food. While she
snacked on saltine crackers
slathered with grape jelly, the
number one dish I like to eat
when I'm home alone and no
one is watching? Pasta with
anchovies and garlic. It's my last
minute go-to dinner that I
DVF, Prabal Gurung & Norma Kamali Set for Times Talk
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Blogs)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:30:00 PM
On Tuesday, July 20th, New
York Times' fashion reporter
Eric Wilson will sit down with
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48 Culture/ TV/ E-reader News Edition

Rdio Is an Awesome New Social Chrome Nanny Blocks Time-

Music Service (and We've Got Consuming Sites to Keep
Invites) [Screenshot Tour] You Productive [Downloads]
Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
The How-To Geek
Submitted at 6/30/2010 11:30:00 AM
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service that helps you discover

new music through your friends, Chrome only: Google Chrome
listen to their playlists, and extension Chrome Nanny
Music- Rdio- Arts- MOG- prevents you from wasting time
share your own. It's in closed Google Chrome- Google-
Skype on distracting web sites, so you
beta, but we've got 2,000 invites browser- Clients- WWW
to share, so come check it out. can get things done instead of
More » checking Facebook all day long.
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Make a DIY Automatic Starz Cancels 'Party Down,' 'Gravity'
Power Cycler for Flaky Andrew Scott (TV Squad) "We're grateful to everyone
involved in the shows, and are
Internet Connections [DIY] Filed under: TV News The Submitted at 6/30/2010 9:10:00 AM
proud to have had them on the
channel. Starz remains
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
party is officially over for'Party committed to aggressively
Submitted at 6/30/2010 12:30:00 PM Down.' expanding our original
According to the Ausiello Files, programming lineup," Stephan
We're all familiar with those Starz has pulled the plug on the Shelanski, executive vice
days when your modem locks critically acclaimed but low- president of programming for
up and you have to unplug it rated sophomore comedy series, Starz Entertainment, said in a
from the wall, but if you're more about a bunch of Hollywood
Technology- Cycling- United statement.
familiar than most, you can wannabes who work as waiters.
States- Google- Smartphone Both 'Party Down' and 'Gravity'
create an automatic power The show, from creators John struggled in the ratings this
cycler with just a few basic Enbom, Rob Thomas, Dan season -- 'Gravity' in particular,
electronics. More » Etheridge and Paul Rudd, which drew an audience of just
featured a wide range of talented to 'Glee.' 123,000 for its debut episode in
actors, including Adam Scott, Meanwhile, Starz has also April.
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Why Obamanomics Has Failed – Annotated
Katie Geleris (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:00:43 PM
The administration’s stimulus
program has failed. Growth is
slow and unemployment
remains high. The president, his
friends and advisers talk
endlessly about the
circumstances they inherited as
a way of avoiding responsibility
for the 18 months for which
they are responsible.
But they want new stimulus
measures—which is convincing
evidence that they too recognize
that the earlier measures failed.
And so the U.S. was odd-man
out at the G-20 meeting over the
weekend, continuing to call for
more government spending in
the face of European resistance.
The contrast with President
Reagan’s antirecession and pro-
growth measures in 1981 is
striking. Reagan reduced
marginal and corporate tax rates
and slowed the growth of
nondefense spending. Recovery
began about a year later. After
18 months, the economy grew
more than 9% and it continued
to expand above trend rates.
Two overarching reasons
explain the failure of
Obamanomics. First,
administration economists and
their outside supporters
neglected the longer-term costs
and consequences of their
actions. Second, the
administration and Congress
have through their deeds and
words heightened uncertainty
about the economic future. High
uncertainty is the enemy of
investment and growth.
Most of the earlier spending
was a very short-term response
to long-term problems. One
piece financed temporary tax
cuts. This was a mistake, and
ignores the role of expectations
in the economy. Economic
theory predicts that temporary
tax cuts have little effect on
spending. Unless tax cuts are
expected to last, consumers save
the proceeds and pay down debt.
Experience with past temporary
tax reductions, as in the Carter
and first Bush presidencies,
confirms this outcome.
Another large part of the
stimulus went to relieve state
and local governments of their
budget deficits. Transferring a
deficit from the state to the
federal government changes
very little. Some teachers and
police got an additional year of
employment, but their gain is
temporary. Any benefits to them
must be balanced against the
negative effect of the increased
public debt and the temporary
nature of the transfer.
The Obama economic team
ignored past history. The two
most successful fiscal stimulus
programs since World War
II—under Kennedy-Johnson and
Reagan—took the form of
permanent reductions in
corporate and marginal tax rates.
Economist Arthur Okun, who
had a major role in developing
the Kennedy-Johnson program,
later analyzed the effect of
individual items. He concluded
that corporate tax reduction was
most effective.
Another defect of
Obamanomics was that part of
the increased spending
authorized by the 2009 stimulus
bill was held back. Remember
the oft-repeated claim that the
spending would go for “shovel
ready” projects? That didn’t
happen, though spending will
flow more rapidly now in an
effort to lower unemployment
and claim economic success
during the fall election
campaign.
In his January 2010 State of the
Union address, President Obama
recognized that the United
States must increase exports. He
was right, but he has done little
to help, either by encouraging
investment to increase
productivity, or by supporting
trade agreements, despite his
promise to the Koreans that he
repeated in Toronto. Export
earnings are the only way to
service our massive foreign
borrowing. This should be a
high priority. Isn’t anyone in the
government thinking about the
future?
Mr. Obama has denied the cost
burden on business from his
health-care program, but
business is aware that it is likely
to be large. How large? That’s
part of the uncertainty that
employers face if they hire
additional labor.
The president asks for cap and
trade. That’s more cost and
more uncertainty. Who will be
forced to pay? What will it do to
costs here compared to foreign
producers? We should not
expect businesses to invest in
new, export-led growth when
uncertainty about future costs is
so large.
Then there is Medicaid, the
medical program for those with
lower incomes. In the past,
states paid about half of the cost,
and they are responsible for
20% of the additional cost
imposed by the program’s
expansion. But almost all the
states must balance their
budgets, and the new Medicaid
spending mandated by
ObamaCare comes at a time
when states face large deficits
and even larger unfunded
liabilities for pensions. All this
only adds to uncertainty about
taxes and spending.
Other aspects of the Obama
economic program are equally
problematic. The auto bailouts
ran roughshod over the rule of
law. Chrysler bondholders were
given short shrift in order to
benefit the auto workers union.
By weakening the rule of law,
the president opened the way to
great mischief and increased
investors’ and producers’
uncertainty. That’s not the way
to get more investment and
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employment.
Almost daily, Mr. Obama uses
his rhetorical skill to castigate
businessmen who have the
audacity to hope for profitable
opportunities. No president
since Franklin Roosevelt has
taken that route. President
Roosevelt slowed recovery in
1938-40 until the war by
creating uncertainty about his
objectives. It was harmful then,
and it’s harmful now.
In 1980, I had the privilege of
advising Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher to ignore the
demands of 360 British
economists who made the
outrageous claim that Britain
would never (yes, never)
recover from her decision to
reduce government spending
during a severe recession. They
wanted more spending. She
responded with a speech
promising to stay with her tight
budget. She kept a sustained
focus on long-term problems.
Expectations about the
economy’s future improved, and
the recovery soon began.
That’s what the U.S. needs
now. Not major cuts in current
spending, but a credible plan
showing that authorities will not
wait for a fiscal crisis but begin
to act prudently and continue
until deficits disappear, and the
debt is below 60% of GDP. Rep.
Paul Ryan (R., Wisc.) offered a
plan, but the administration and
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The READ: Ephemera, Run
Ruth Franklin (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 6/29/2010 11:00:00 PM
The most interesting piece I
read in the Times last
week—excluding the profile in
which Reykjavik’s new mayor
said that he would rule out as a
coalition partner “any party
whose members had not seen all
five seasons of ‘The
Wire’”—was Book Review
editor (and TNR contributor)
Sam Tanenhaus’s 2,500-word
exploration of John Updike’s
archive. Tanenhaus reports that
Updike, who died about a year
and a half ago at age 76, left an
enormous cache of papers
“fashioned as meticulously as
one of his lathe-turned
sentences.” Now at Harvard
University’s Houghton Library,
it is closed to the public until
archivists have had a chance to
catalog its 170 boxes—which
they estimate will take about
two years. In the meantime,
Tanenhaus got a sneak peek,
and writes that the files, which
occupy an aisle and a half worth
of shelves, “hold the keys to
Updike’s literary universe.”
They include manuscript drafts
in pencil and typescript,
photocopied pages of research
material, and hundreds of letters
Updike wrote to his parents that
chronicle nearly 20 years of his
life.
Just about any person
fascinated by books has felt the
seductive pull of the writer’s
archive. Human beings love
creation stories, and that’s what
the researcher hopes to discover:
to witness, in retrospect, the
birth of a masterpiece. Literature
itself is full of these fantasies,
from the stack of letters that
obsess the narrator of James’s
The Aspern Papers to the
revelatory discovery about a
famous poet’s private life made
by a young researcher in the
first pages of A.S. Byatt’s
Possession. Tanenhaus writes
excitedly of the trove of
materials that went into the
making of Rabbit at Rest:
snapshots of storefronts in a
Pennsylvania town, photocopies
of pages from medical books on
heart disease, a memo from a
researcher on sales practices at
Toyota dealers, a list of
basketball moves. There’s even
the wrapper from a Planters
Peanut Bar, “as lovingly
preserved as a pressed autumn
leaf,” which Tanenhaus
imagines Updike using to come
up with the novel’s vivid
description of Rabbit dumping
the “sweet crumbs out of the
wrapper into his palm and with
his tongue lick[ing] them all up
like an anteater”—one of those
actions we’ve all done but
would be at pains to describe.
But if these are the keys to a
literary universe, where are the
locks? None of us, presented
with this miscellany of sources,
could sit down and write the
Rabbit novels. What they
actually reveal is how
mysterious the essential act of
creation is. You might as well
gather together Picasso’s paint
jars, canvas, and easel and try to
reconstruct Les Demoiselles
d’Avignon, or imagine a ballet
by looking at the music,
costumes, shoes. What’s
missing is the alchemy that
takes an assortment of random
objects and transforms them into
a work of art. And that process
leaves no trace.
What’s more, the archive offers
an illusion of completeness not
entirely different from the way
the novel itself offers an illusion
of reality. All those boxes, their
contents neatly filed and
numbered and alphabetized, in
all their exquisite order! But
anyone who has spent time
poking through a writer’s
archive—and I have been doing
a bit of this myself lately—will
realize that the apparent
intactness masks what is not
there. The letters that got torn
up, the drafts that were
burned—if you’re lucky, there
are hints of these in other
documents, so that you can
agonize in frustration over what
was lost. But for all the diary
entries and recipes and
Christmas cards that your
subject saved, there might have
been an equal number that he or
she threw away. And perhaps
rightly so. Even the most
dogged researcher, poring over
pages after page of publisher’s
correspondence (“Enclosed
please find your royalty
statement for the period January
through June 1951 …”) and
similar monotony, will
remember why this stuff is
called ephemera. In 170 boxes
of stuff, is there really nothing
that Updike could have parted
with? A judicious edit of the
archives would make it easier to
find those documents with true
literary value.
Soon, of course, it is the archive
itself that will be ephemeral.
Adam Begley, Updike’s
biographer, writes that his
archive “may be the last great
paper trail.” Which of the young
writers at work today—the New
Yorker’s “20 under 40,” for
instance—print out their emails
for the sake of posterity? What
will the “miscellany” file hold
for a writer who keeps all his or
her appointments on a PDA?
(There is a certain undeniable
amusement to going through the
ancient datebook of a famous
person.) Writers’ archives will
no doubt continue to exist, but
in far different form: perhaps
someday a researcher in a
manuscript reading room will be
offered not a shelf full of musty
cartons but his or her subject’s
ancient laptop, complete with
virtual sticky notes, Web
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bookmarks, and probably porn.
But the computer discourages
the keeping of archives, at least
in their traditional form. If
Updike had been working in
Word, he might have left no
trace of the numerous
emendations to the opening
airport scene of Rabbit at Rest,
which Tanenhaus carefully
chronicles. (The pun of
“terminal air-conditioning”
came in a rewrite, we learn.)
That medical information he
photocopied could now be taken
care of with a glance at
Wikipedia. Is this a disaster?
For biographers and the editors
of variorum editions,
perhaps—not to mention all the
archivists who currently guard
the flame. But the rest of us are
unlikely to register a dip in the
atmospheric pressure. And it
could well lead to a useful
conversation about how much
all this stuff is actually
worth—and how much time,
money, and effort ought to be
expended in preserving it. In the
meantime: Novelists of the
world, throw out your Planters
Peanut Bar Milky Way candy
bar wrappers.
Ruth Franklin is a senior editor
of The New Republic.
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Russian Espionage Undermines Obama’s Reset Policy
Ariel Cohen (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:23:37 PM
On Monday, the U.S.
Department of Justice
announced that ten people have
been arrested for being alleged
undercover Russian spies. They
were charged with conspiracy to
act as an agent of a foreign
government, as well as for
money laundering. While not
yet charged with espionage,
nevertheless, they walked liked
spies and talked like spies.
The eleventh man escaped, only
to be apprehended in Cyprus.
These were not the usual
suspects acting under diplomatic
cover and trying to recruit
Americans at cocktail parties.
The ten seem to be long term,
deep cover agents (so-called
“illegals”), most of them
Russians.
The Obama White House and
the State Department said that
the relations will Russia will
continue. However, it would be
wrong not to take this matter
very seriously. Instead of
apologizing for spying, Russia is
blaming the United States for
protecting its security.
The arrests came shortly after
the Obama-Medvedev “
Cheeseburger Summit” last
week, when Russian President
Medvedev visited the United
States. Leading Russian experts,
the Foreign Ministry and
politicians criticized the arrests.
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin society. The “illegals” network,
remarked that “I hope that all aimed at penetrating policy
the positive gains that have been making circles, appears to have
achieved in our relationship will been established even before the
not be damaged by the recent former KGB officer Vladimir
event.” Putin became President of the
By blaming the United States, Russian Federation, when
this criticism is totally missing foreign espionage got a massive
the point: this long term boost in money and manpower.
penetration started in the 1990s, However, it looks like the
when Russia was a beneficiary Russians used a lot of the 20 th
of tens of billions of dollars of century tradecraft for the 21 st
U.S. and Western aid. Today, century America. These days
espionage, not catching foreign Moscow provides no ideological
spies, is thwarting Barack attraction, and bickering
Obama’s “reset” with Russia. between agents and control over
Furthermore, this begs the expenses suggests that the
agenda, the U.S. collection on from the intelligence community
question whether the Russian Center’s pockets were not as
Russia and China is slipping to speculate that the network is a
services were undermining their deep as in the past.
behind. decoy to mask a much more
own rulers. It is also unclear why Moscow
According to the complaint sophisticated espionage
That Russia is continuing to spy tolerated a network that seemed
filed by the Department of operation in the U.S.
on the United States, as other to produce so little. One
Justice, the Russian SVR Such deception is plausible. If
countries which view America explanation is that their bosses
(foreign intelligence agency) there is one cell, there are bound
as a threat do, should not come valued tidbits picked up by
cells utilized both modern and to be more. Oleg Gordievsky, a
as a surprise. In fact, as early as agents much more than what
old (and sloppy) tradecraft, famous Cold War defector and
2007, it was widely reported could be gleaned by
some of it looking like a parody former chief of the KGB station
that Russian (and Chinese) spy sophisticated analysts reading
on an old Le Carre novel. in London, said that Russia may
operations were “back at cold journals or going to conferences.
This included dead drops, have as many as 50 deep-cover
war levels” in the United States. This reflects a cult of
coded communications, burying couples spying inside the United
Moreover, according to then- intelligence, which outlived its
information in “dots” on States.
Director of National Soviet roots.
websites, known as Moreover, this raises the
Intelligence, John Negroponte, “Reset” or not, the current
steganography, 27 character question, what are other Russian
in the 2007 Annual Threat Russian leadership is still
web passwords, and some intelligence agencies such as
Assessment to the United States, committed to the past and
tweaked laptops, courtesy of the GRU (military intelligence)
China and Russia are “among continues to view America with
Moscow Center’s tech mavens. doing in the United States, and
the most aggressive in collecting fear and suspicion. In Moscow,
Unfortunately for the agents, the what are the successes of the
[intelligence] against sensitive the US is still an intelligence
laptop crashed repeatedly. Russian (and Chinese) online
and protected U.S. targets.” The target, not a “partner” the
And the Russian agents were spying, which is executed by a
2010 assessment highlights Obama Administration believes
easily tracked by the FBI different agency altogether?
Russia’s ongoing efforts. it is.
counterintelligence, although The operation was more than a
Unfortunately, with the Middle It will take more than
their handlers failed to spot it. decade-long effort to exploit the
East and Afghanistan-Pakistan RUSSIAN page 53
This has led some old timers weaknesses of a free and open
dominating the intelligence
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VIDEO: Welfare Can And Must Be Reformed
Brandon Stewart (The
Foundry: Conservative Policy
News.)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:00:10 PM
Our newest video highlights a
recent paper on welfare reform
by Heritage’s Robert Rector and
Kiki Bradley. In the video and
this new report, we reveal some
startling statistics:
• Welfare spending is climbing
faster than spending for
education, defense, and even
Social Security and Medicare.
• After adjusting for inflation,
welfare spending is 13 times
higher today than in 1965, when
the War on Poverty started
• The average out-of-wedlock
birthrate is 40%, while African-
American populations see a rate
of 72%. In 1965, the average
was 7%.
• Under President Obama,
welfare spending is projected to
increase $10.3T over the next
decade
• Meant to provide temporary
assistance, half of all food stamp
aid goes to individuals who have
been in the program more than 8
years
Simply put, welfare spending,
like most government spending,
is on an unsustainable path.
But despite all the gloom,
Rector and Bradley are clear
that there is hope for reform. In
1996, welfare reform was
hugely successful. As a result of
those reforms, “caseloads
shrank by over 60 percent, 2.8
million families moved off the
rolls and into jobs, and 1.6
million fewer children were left
in poverty.” Rector and Bradley
make the case that these
successes canbe repeated again.
And, moreover, they must. With
exploding deficits and a soaring
national debt, it is absolutely
critical that America get a hold
on its spending.
To that end, the paper lists five
principles of reform:
• Slowing the growth of the
welfare state. Unending
government deficits are pushing
the United States toward
bankruptcy. The U.S. simply
cannot afford the massive
increases in welfare spending
planned by President Barack
Obama. Welfare spending is
projected to cost taxpayers
$10.3 trillion over the next 10
years. Congress needs to
establish reasonable fiscal
constraints within the welfare
system. Once the current
recession ends, aggregate
welfare spending should be
rolled back to pre-recession
levels. After this rollback has
been completed, the growth of
welfare spending should be
capped at the rate of inflation.
• Promoting personal
responsibility and work. Able-
bodied welfare recipients should
be required to work or to
prepare for work as a condition
of receiving aid. Food stamps
and housing assistance, two of
the largest programs for the
needy, should be aligned with
the TANF program to require
able-bodied adults to work or to
prepare for work for a minimum
of 30 hours per week.
• Providing a portion of welfare
assistance as loans rather than as
grants. Welfare to able-bodied
adults creates a potential moral
hazard because providing
assistance to those in need can
lead to an increase in the
behaviors that generate the need
for aid in the first place. If
welfare assistance rewards
behaviors that lead to future
dependence, costs can spiral out
of control. A reformed welfare
policy can provide temporary
assistance to those in need while
reducing the moral hazard
associated with welfare by
treating a portion of welfare aid
as a loan to be repaid by able-
bodied recipients rather than as
an outright grant from the
taxpayer.
• Ending the welfare marriage
penalty and encouraging
marriage in low-income
communities. The collapse of
marriage is the major cause of
child poverty in the U.S. today.
When the War on Poverty
began, 7 percent of children in
the U.S. were born out of
wedlock; today, the figure is
over 40 percent. Most
alarmingly, the out-of-wedlock
b i r t h r a t e a m o n g
African–Americans is 72
percent. The outcomes for
children raised in single, never-
married homes are greatly
diminished. Current means-
tested welfare programs
penalize low-income recipients
who get married; these anti-
marriage penalties should be
reduced or eliminated. In
addition, government should
provide information on the
importance of marriage to
individuals in poor communities
who have a high risk of having
children out of wedlock.
Particular emphasis should be
placed on the benefits to
children of a married two-parent
family.
• Limit low-skill immigration.
Around 15 percent ($100 billion
per year) of total means-tested
welfare spending goes to
households headed by
immigrants with high school
degrees or less. One-third of all
immigrants lack a high school
degree. Over the next 10 years,
America will spend $1.5 trillion
on welfare benefits for lower-
skill immigrants. Government
policy should limit future
immigration to those who will
be net fiscal contributors, paying
more in taxes than they receive
in benefits. The legal
immigration system should not
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skill immigrants who would
increase poverty in the nation
and impose vast new costs on
already overburdened taxpayers.
In addition, the government
should not provide amnesty or
“earned citizenship” to illegal
immigrants, which would
provide illegal immigrants with
full access to the U.S. welfare
system. Of the 11 million to 12
million illegal immigrants in the
U.S., at least 50 percent lack a
high school degree. Giving this
population amnesty and access
to welfare would lead to a
staggering increase in future
welfare costs.
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the head of a new office
designed to fight secularism in
the West.
Pope Benedict XVI tapped a
trusted Italian, Monsignor Rino
Fisichella, to head the Pontifical
Council for Promoting the New
Evangelization, a new Vatican
department designed to
reinvigorate Christianity in the
parts of the world where it is
falling by the wayside.
Benedict has made rekindling
the faith in Europe a priority of
his papacy, and the appointment
of Fisichella served as a tacit
acknowledgment that his efforts
to date needed more focus and
heft.
Also Wednesday, Benedict
named Canadian Cardinal Marc
Ouellet to head the powerful
Congregation for Bishops,
which vets bishops nominations
worldwide. Ouellet, the 66-year-
old archbishop of Quebec,
replaces the retiring Cardinal
Giovanni Battista Re, and his
new high-profile job ups his
ranking as a possible papal
contender.
Benedict also moved his New
York-based U.N. ambassador to
Poland to serve as papal nuncio
and named a new head of the
Vatican's bioethics advisory
board, the Pontifical Academy
for Life.
The long-rumored
appointments were announced
as the pope wraps up key
Vatican business before going
on vacation for the rest of the
summer at the papal retreat in
Castel Gandolfo, in the hills
south of Rome.
Benedict announced the
creation of the new
evangelization office earlier this
week, saying it would promote
Christianity in countries where
the church has long existed "but
which are living a progressive
secularization of society and a
sort of 'eclipse of the sense of
God.'"
Benedict has been particularly
concerned about Europe's
increasing secularization and
has focused his foreign trips on
the continent as a result. His
2010 travel itinerary, for
example, lists Malta, Cyprus,
Portugal, Britain and Spain.
"The pope knows this issue well
from his long experience as a
teacher and as an acute observer
of historic and cultural
moments," Fisichella was
quoted as saying by the ANSA
news agency. "It's evident that
he sees at this moment a need to
bring forward again the message
of Jesus Christ so that people
today can reinvigorate their
faith."
The Vatican newspaper,
L'Osservatore Romano, said
Wednesday that re-evangelizing
the West was "central" to
Benedict's concerns as pope.
"Dating from his years as a
young theologian, the pope had
before his eyes the image of a
spiritual desert of a world which
... has become increasingly
secularized in recent centuries,"
the paper's editor in chief,
Giovanni Maria Vian, wrote in a
front-page editorial.
Fisichella is currently president
of the Pontifical Academy for
Life and is rector of the
Pontifical Lateran University;
Benedict filled Fisichella's posts
at those institutions Wednesday
as well.
Other positions are expected to
be announced soon, including a
new head of the Vatican's
Pontifical Council for Christian
Unity, the Vatican office that
oversees relations with other
Christians and Jews. Italian
media have said its current head,
the retiring Cardinal Walter
Kasper, will be replaced by
Swiss Bishop Kurt Koch of
Basel.
In addition, the pope is
expected to name the papal
delegate who will take over the
Legionaries of Christ, the
scandal-plagued conservative
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pessimist in you might ask,
“What took so long?” On June
29, over seventy days after the
Gulf oil spill, the U.S.
Department of State released the
following statement:
The National Incident
Command and the Federal On
Scene Coordinator have
determined that there is a
resource need for boom and
skimmers that can be met by
offers of assistance from foreign
governments and international
bodies. The United States will
accept 22 offers of assistance
from 12 countries and
international bodies, including
two high speed skimmers and
fire containment boom from
Japan. We are currently working
out the particular modalities of
delivering the offered
assistance. Further details will
be forthcoming once these
arrangements are complete.
In total, there have been 27
countries and 5 international
organizations offering boom,
dispersants, skimmers, vessels,
bird rehabilitation equipment as
well expertise. Along with the
other important action items for
the administration to undertake,
accepting international
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urgent priority. The Department
of State has a chart that lists the
equipment and expertise sitting
on the sidelines with most of the
status orders “under
consideration.” Owners of the
equipment have been rapid in
their response to government
queries but the equipment
remains idle. It simply needs to
be better.
Meanwhile, the Gulf continues
to suffer. It’s not just
government incompetence when
it comes to the environmental
cleanup; the administration’s
policy decisions are making the
economic harm much worse –
especially the offshore drilling
moratorium. Although the ban
was only meant to affect those
rigs operating in water 500 feet
or deeper, it has led to a de facto
ban on shallow water drilling.
CNN Money reports,
“[D]rillers in shallow water say
they haven’t been issued permits
since the April 20 explosion.
The delay has already forced
hundreds of layoffs, and many
more could be on the way. “I’m
almost out of business over
here,” said Paul Butler,
president of Spartan Offshore, a
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small drilling company in
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Butler said that only one of his
four drill rigs are operating; all
four were drilling before the
spill. Spartan has six contracts
that would put his entire fleet
back to work, but he can’t get
going until the permits come
through, he added. The week
before last, Butler said he had to
lay off 72 employees. Come
Tuesday he’ll have to let another
140 go. “That’s 140 families, is
how I look at it,” Butler said.
Same is true at Hercules
Offshore, the largest shallow
water driller in the Gulf. “The
Department of Interior isn’t
issuing permits,” said Jim Noe,
a Hercules executive. “By mid
July all of our rigs will be on the
beach, and the workers without
a job.”
Part of the reason is because the
Department of Interior put new
regulations in place after the
Gulf oil spill, but shallow water
drillers contest their operations
are much safer. Regulatory
reform is necessary, but not by
piling on additional regulations.
The federal government needs
to allow BP and the other
entities involved in the
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market. The jobs lost from the
de facto ban on shallow water Perhaps it's my Canadian roots
drilling is a clear example of and the fact that I am one of two
this. staff members that enjoys sports
games but NHL 10 was one of
Accepting resources and lifting
the moratorium should be two ofthe best titles released last year.
the top priorities on PresidentAfter a shaky start in the current
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'Troopathon' Schefft Expecting a
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Submitted at 6/30/2010 10:15:01 AM
The Troopathon, presented by
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helps raise the already star-
studded profile of the event, and
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abroad, kicks off on Wednesday Among the other celebrities Jen Schefft
year.
and will include a special guest expected to appear at this year's Looks like Jen Schefft's
In 2009, the Troopathon raised
of honor: Talk-radio giant Rush event: Newsmax magazine instincts were right: The former
over $2 million -- enough to
Limbaugh. Bachelorette star is expecting a
columnist Dr. Laura, actor Gary ship over 165 tons of care
" R u s h i s a n a b s o l u t e Sinese, comedian-patriots baby girl.
packages to the brave soldiers
powerhouse in the United States Dennis Miller and Victoria "We had to wait almost two
stationed in Iraq and
and abroad, and a tireless Jackson, and conservative talk hours for the ultrasound, since
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58 TV/
Top Model, Hellcats to Kick Off
CW's New Season
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Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:40:00 PM
Smallville, Hellcats
The CW will start its fall TV
season with America's Next Top
Model and its new dramedy
Hellcats, the network announced
Wednesday.
Top Model will debut its 15th
cycle on Wednesday, Sept. 8 at
8/7c and be followed by
Hellcats, a competitive-
cheerleading series starring
Ashley Tisdale and Aly
Michalka.
Check out our day-by-day
guide to all the networks' fall
schedules
The Vampire Diaries— the
network's breakout hit last
season — returns Thursday,
Sept. 9 at 8/7c. It will serve as a
lead-in for new series Nikita,
which stars Maggie Q as the
skilled but emotionally torn
assassin first made famous in
the film La Femme Nikita.
The following week will see the
return of 90210 and Gossip Girl
on Mondays, and One Tree Hill
and Life Unexpected on
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Wendie Malick Enjoys
Being 'Hot in Cleveland'
Joel Keller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 10:02:00 AM
Filed under: Features, Celebrity
Interviews A lot of the
discussion about TV Land's new
comedy'Hot in Cleveland'
revolves around two of its stars:
2010's "It Girl,' Betty White,
and Jenny Craig advocate
Valerie Bertinelli. But the
show's other two stars, Jane
Leeves and Wendie Malick,
aren't exactly slouches. In fact,
it's not often that four such
accomplished actors of any Her role in 'Cleveland' is
gender have been assembled for similar: she plays Victoria
Tuesdays. 9/8c Gossip Girl a new sitcom. Chase, a former soap star who is
Smallville's 10th and final Tuesday, Sept. 14 Malick has been gracing now dealing with her fading
season will begin Friday, Sept. 8/7c One Tree Hill America's television screens for fame. Earlier this month, Malick
24, and be paired with its former 9/8c Life Unexpected close to 30 years, twenty of and I talked about the show,
T h u r s d a y - n i g h t m a t e , Friday, Sept. 24 which have been spent on hit how TV Land was able to
Supernatural. 8/7c Smallville shows. From 'Dream On' to 'Just assemble such a stellar cast, and
See the full schedule below: 9/8c Supernatural Shoot Me' to even the last year if middle-aged women really are
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Starz Cancels Party Down and
Gravity
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Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:36:00 PM
Party Down
The party's over for Party
Down— and for Gravity.
Starz has canceled the Friday
night comedies, the network
announced Wednesday.
Check out photos from Party
Down
"After careful consideration,
we've decided not to continue
on with subsequent seasons of
Party Down and Gravity," said
Stephan Shelanski, Starz's
executive vice president of
programming. "We're grateful to
everyone involved in the shows,
and are proud to have had them
on the channel. Starz remains
committed to aggressively
expanding our original
programming lineup."
The cancellations are hardly
surprising, as neither series
earned big ratings. Despite
critical acclaim and a Television
Critics Association for best
comedy series, Party Down only
pulled in a meager 74,000
viewers Friday for its second
season — and now series —
finale.
Party Down's Adam Scott joins
Parks and Recreation
The quirky comedy about a
group of caterers/aspiring
Hollywood actors and writers
also suffered from casting shake
-ups. Jane Lynch left after the
first season to join Glee, while
Adam Scott recently signed on
as a regular on Parks and
Recreation.
Gravity, a dramedy about a
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TV 101: Things You Don't
Know About Making A
TV Show (Or: Mea Culpa)
Jay Black (TV Squad)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: Features Blogging
about television is a lot like
going to marriage counseling:
you have the best of intentions,
but for the most part, you just
wind up doing a lot of bitching.
I'd like to say that I've never
engaged in the easy sport of
blog-bitching, but in order to
training academy that allows
make that claim, I'd have to
montages).
delete everything I've ever
No, it's far easier for me just to
written here on TV Squad, then
own up to it. TV, I've bitched a
group of suicide survivors, make a midnight ninja-run at the lot about you over the three and
premiered in April and drew Googleplex in order to remove a half years I've been writing for
54,000 viewers for its finale all those blogs from the cache. I this site. And I owe you an
Friday. don't have the time for that -- I
apology.
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Eminem, Christina Emily VanCamp

Aguilera Join the Confirms 'Brothers &
'Entourage' Sisters' Departure
Nick Zaino (TV Squad) Chris Jordan (TV Squad)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 8:30:00 AM Submitted at 6/30/2010 10:20:00 AM

Filed under: TV News Filed under: TV News The What’s behind

The'Entourage' season 7 finale
will have a decidedly musical
twist this year, with Eminem
and Christina Aguilera making
appearances. According to
TVGuide.com, Mr. Slim Shady
will play himself in the episode,
during which he gets into a row
with Vince (Adrian Grenier).
Aguilera, meanwhile, will play
one of Ari Gold's (Jeremy
Piven) clients.
According to the report, the
scene between Vince and
Eminem will happen at a
platinum record party for the
rapper's new album. Eminem
released his new album,
'Recovery,' on June 18. His
single, 'Not Afraid,' is currently
number nine on the Billboard
Hot 100 chart.
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most dangerous job in show
business? Our vote is being a
cast member on ABC's
ensemble drama'Brothers and
Sisters.'
After a couple of noted
departures in the last few
months, including the killing off
of Rob Lowe's character, now
comes the news of yet another
exit. In an exclusive interview
with the Ausiello Files, Emily
VanCamp has confirmed that
she she is leaving, and her
character, Rebecca, will be
written out of the series after a
few episodes next season.
VanCamp is a victim of budget
cuts, she intimated in the
interview.
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from your bank
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Submitted at 6/30/2010 11:21:46 AM
What’s behind those urgent
notices from your bank
Visit a bank's website these
days and you're likely to see an
urgent-sounding notice. "At
Sovereign, we know our
customers don't need the hassle
and potential embarrassment of
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Doc Rivers Says He's Returning to Celtics

Lonnie White (FanHouse contract. to the Los Angeles Lakers. After players in the nation.
Main) "I'm coming back," Rivers said the playoffs ended, Rivers "It's a tough one," Rivers said
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:09:00 PM in a text message, according to talked about taking a break from last week when asked about his
The Boston Globe. "I want coaching in order to spend time coaching options. "It really is,
Filed under: Celtics, NBA another crack at it with this with his family. and it's a serious one either way.
Coaches The Boston Celtics group." Rivers has two sons playing So let's just wait, and we'll
received good news Wednesday Rivers, who has coached basketball in Jeremiah, a senior figure it out soon."
when coach Doc Rivers decided Boston for six years and led the at Indiana, and Austin, a senior
that he'll return for at least the team to an NBA championship NBA Finals this past season, at Winter Park (Fla.) High and
r e m a i n i n g s e a s o n o n h i s in 2008, drove the Celtics to the where they lost in seven games regarded as one of the best prep
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having a debit card purchase or
ATM withdrawal denied due to
insufficient funds," says
Sovereign Bank's site. "It only
takes a moment to stay
protected," says SunTrust.
“Don't lose the convenience of
this important feature. Talk to a
banker today," urges Chase.
You may have seen similar
messages on your bank's
website, ATM screens, in
branches, and in your account
statements.
What’s all the hubbub? New
Federal Reserve rules go into
effect tomorrow that require
banks to get new customers’
permission before enrolling
them in debit overdraft
protection plans (existing
customers must also opt-in but
the effective date for them is
Aug. 15). Before these rules,
your bank likely enrolled you
(without giving you any notice)
in an overdraft protection plan
that covers check, ATM, and
debit card transactions that
exceed your checking account
balance. Sounds great—except
that for each overdraft you’d be
hit with an exorbitant fee.
Overdraft programs are really
high-cost, short-term loans with
quadruple-digit APRs. Most
banks charge flat overdraft fees.
So if your balance goes to zero
purchasing even a $1 pack of
gum with your debit card could
trigger a fee of $35 or more.
Once you've exceeded your
balance, every purchase you
make could generate another
fee. And, some banks still
impose long hold times before
you can use the money from
checks you deposit, which
increases the possibility that you
will overdraw your account.
In addition, many banks
process transactions from the
highest to the lowest amount,
which depletes customers'
accounts more quickly and
triggers more overdrafts. Some
customers have complained they
didn't know about the service
until they got the bill.
The new deal
Though the messages on the
bank websites, ATMs, and in
your statements couch overdraft
protection plans in terms of your
convenience, by opting
in—either in a new account or
with your existing one—you’re
giving the banks permission to
gouge you if you overdraw your
account. Do nothing, and ATM
withdrawals or debit-card
transactions for more than the
amount you have in your
account will simply be rejected
and no fee will be assessed.
“Consumers should just say no
to these astronomical fees,” says
Jean Ann Fox, director of
financial services for Consumer
Federation of America, which
released a report [PDF]
yesterday that shows overdraft
fees and how they translate into
APRs for the largest 15 banks
that charge them.
Unfortunately, the law does not
cover overdrawn checks or
automatic payment programs
used for recurring bills, such as
rent, mortgage payments, or
utilities. And the Fed rule
doesn't limit the size of fees
banks can charge, which means
consumers who sign up for
overdraft services could still
owe a bundle on small
overdrafts. Consumer’s Union,
the nonprofit publisher of this
blog, offers more information on
overdraft fees on its blog,
Defend Your Dollars.
Cheaper ways to cover
overdrafts
Overdraft fees generate billions
in revenue for banks each year,
which explains the urgency of
those messages you see. But
there are other less-costly ways
to avoid having your debit card
rejected at the register,
including:
• Link your checking account to
a savings account. If you
overdraw your checking
account, money in your savings
account is used to cover the
transaction. Banks typically
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charge a fee to transfer the
money, but it's usually just $5 to
$10—much lower than the fee
charged by overdraft programs.
• Set up low-balance alerts.
Many financial institutions will
send you an e-mail or text when
your balance reaches the danger
zone.
• Sign up for online banking.
Herbed
Regularly monitoring your
checking account online will
Turkey
help you avoid spending money
you don't have.
• Get an overdraft line of credit
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customers with poor credit may
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and
not qualify. But if you're
thyme. Long before I had any
eligible, this could provide a
idea what those words meant, or
less expensive form of overdraft
what an herb even was, I was
protection than fee-based
singing those syllables at the top
coverage.
of my lungs, as a kid in the 60s
playing the vinyl record I
—Mandy Walker Subscribe
bought with allowance money.
now!
What these fine herbs were
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doing in the lyrics of an old
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English ballad, a lover's duet no
Ratings, buying advice and
less, I haven't a clue. But the
reliability on hundreds of
result was, at least for this kid, a
products. Update your feed
lifelong curiosity about them.
preferences
What was parsley, or sage? and
why would they hang out with
rosemary and thyme?
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How I avoided cholesterol-lowering drugs—at
age 10
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(Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 11:47:56 AM
How I avoided cholesterol-
lowering drugs—at age 10 At
age 10 (pictured), I was 80
pounds with spindly legs,
boundless energy, and had a
whopping total cholesterol level
of 248 m/dL. My doctor
confirmed my mother’s worst
fears after she insisted I have it
checked during a routine
physical.
My mother knew that even at
my relatively young age, my
family history of high
cholesterol increased my risk of
heart disease and urged the
doctor to check it. To lower this
risk, I would need to reduce my
elevated LDL levels and
maintain an overall cholesterol
level of no more than180 m/dL.
As for treatment, my mom and
doctor decided to start with
lifestyle changes. That meant
sticking with the activities I
already enjoyed—jump rope,
hopscotch, butterfly-
catching—and swapping fatty
foods for more healthful ones:
oat bran, low-fat cheese, good
fats, grilled chicken (instead of
fried), turkey bacon, egg whites,
and skim milk.
When it comes to treating high
cholesterol in children, much
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diagnosed in the ’80s. Had I
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family history, it’s likely my
doctor would have considered
prescribing me a statin drug.
Currently, millions of
prescriptions are written for
children with high cholesterol.
In fact, in 2009, pediatricians
wrote children in the U.S. at
least 2.8 million prescriptions
for drugs to lower cholesterol;
nearly 2.3 million of them were
for statins.
To date, a recent analysis
concluded that there are no long
-term studies of statin use in
children that establish whether
or not the medications actually
reduce the number of heart
attacks or other cardiovascular
events in adulthood. There is
also concern over the long-term
potential risk for children and
adolescents who use these
medications for years or
decades, particularly the effects
on the developing central
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my mother—came one year deciding on a statin. And for July 4th fireworks this weekend.
after my initial diagnosis. My more on when use a cholesterol- A few sites feature lists that
L D L l e v e l s d r o p p e d lowering drug, and when to they claim indicate where
significantly, and my total stop, take a look at our Best Buy appliances from a range of
cholesterol level was a healthy Drugs special report on statins. manufacturers are made.
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Other sites, including
MadeHereInAmerica.com,
offer similar information to
MadeInUSA.com but aren't as
comprehensive.
We can't vouch for the accuracy
of such sites. So perhaps a better
way to find out where an
appliance is made is to do the
work yourself. You might try
checking model information on
a manufacturer's site or
contacting the company's
customer-service department
directly. A customer-service
representative for GE
Appliances, for example, noted
that specific washing machines
are made in the company's
Louisville, Kentucky, factory.
For other washers, she said only
that those appliances are
"sourced out" and could be
made in this country or abroad.
Or when you're in the store,
check for the country of
manufacture on the appliances'
labels—look inside the freezer
or refrigerator compartments of
a side-by-side refrigerator or on
the nameplate inside the door of
a front-loading washing
machine, for instance.
Unlike the situation for
automobiles, there are no
requirements to label what
percentage of an appliance is
composed of foreign-made
components. Our colleagues on
the Consumer Reports Cars blog
recently posted this article about
the best deals on American-
made cars, which not only
covered incentives but also
detailed which models are made
in this country. (Read what the
Federal Trade Commission has
to say about the made-in-the-
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our 2008 "Made in the USA?"
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The$300 million cash for
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The$4.8 billion Weatherization
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How much does it cost to raise
a child?
How much does it cost to raise
a child to age 17? Depending on
household income, anywhere
from $205,960 to $475,680 for a
child born in 2009. These
figures come from a US
Department of Agriculture
report released this month.
Expenses include housing, food,
transportation, clothing, health college costs and other money
care, child care, education, and spent on kids over age 17.
miscellaneous goods and Prenatal health care and life
services (i.e. toothbrushes, insurance on parents are not part
haircuts, videogames, comic of the calculations; neither are
books… the list goes on). gifts from grandparents, friends
The USDA has been publishing and family, or government
these child-rearing cost expenditures including public
estimates since 1960, when education, Medicaid and
families spent an average of subsidized school meals. Also,
$25,229 (that’s $182,857 in the time costs of raising children
2009 dollars) on a child from as well as missed earnings and
birth through age 17. In 2009, career opportunities don’t figure
that number is $222,360. into these totals—and these can
Housing is still the biggest be considerable.
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Submitted at 6/30/2010 11:27:07 AM
Sony recalls more VAIO
laptops
Sony Corp. is recalling 230,000
VAIO computers(535,000
worldwide) because of a burn
hazard, according to the
Consumer Products Safety
Commission. For details of the
recall, see our Safety blog.
Today's recall of Sony laptops
isn't the company's first
encounter with overheating
computers. Back in 2008, Sony
recalled four VAIO models due
to worries over potential burn
hazards. The problem was
caused by irregularities in the
wiring and a loose screw inside
the screen hinge, which could
have caused a short-circuit and
overheating. That recall affected
73,000 models in the U.S.
Sony's also been involved in
recalls of overheating batteries.
In 2008, the batteries, which
were used in laptops from HP,
Dell, Toshiba, and Compaq,
caused at least 17 fires. Prior to
that, the company recalled more
than 9 million of its lithium-ion
batteries, concerned over
microscopic metal particles that
might have penetrated the
battery cells during
manufacturing, leading to
potential fire hazards.
For this latest recall, if you
perform the remedy Sony
recommends, be sure to
carefully follow Sony's advice
to avoid permanently damaging
your computer. Don't attempt
the update while running on
battery power—make sure the
laptop is plugged in. Don't let it
go into hibernate or sleep mode.
Close all other programs, and
don't open programs during the
update. It's wise to do a backup
before anything else.
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Wimbledon final this weekend.
The six-time champion was
upset in the quarterfinals by
hard-hitting Tomas Berdych on
Wednesday, who stopped
Federer's bid for a record-tying
seventh title at the All England
Club.
The 12th-seeded Berdych used
his big serve and forehand to
beat Federer 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
on Centre Court for the biggest
victory of the Czech's career.
It's the first time since 2002 that
Federer has failed to reach the
final. Since losing in the first
round eight years ago, Federer
had played in the championship
match a record seven
consecutive times. He won the
title six times and finished
runner-up once, bolstering his
reputation as the greatest player
of all-time.
Winner of a record 16 Grand
Slam titles, Federer said he was
unable to play his best tennis
Wednesday because of pain in
his back and right leg.
"I couldn't play the way I
wanted to play," said Federer,
who had been chasing the record
of seven titles won by Pete
Sampras and 19th-century
player William Renshaw. "I am
struggling with a little bit of a
back and a leg issue. That just
doesn't quite allow me to play
the way I would like to play. It's
frustrating, to say the least."
Berdych ripped a clean
forehand winner on his second
match point to become the first
Czech to reach the men's
semifinals since Ivan Lendl did
it in 1990.
"It's really tough to show this
crowd how I'm just feeling right
now, it's amazing to play in this
stadium, to play such a great
player as Roger is, and come
here and be here as a winner is
just really amazing," the 20-year
-old Berdych said.
Berdych will next face Novak
Djokovic, who swept past Lu
Yen-Hsun in straight sets to
reach the semifinals for the
second time. The third-seeded
Djokovic never faced a break
point as he beat the 82nd-ranked
Taiwanese player 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
in less than two hours on Court
1.
Second-seeded Rafael Nadal
beat No. 6 Robin Soderling 3-6,
6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-1. Nadal won
Wimbledon in 2008.
Nadal will face No. 4 Andy
Murray, who defeated Jo-
Wilfried Tsonga 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5),
6-2, 6-2.
With the loss, Federer will drop
to No. 3 in the ATP rankings
next week for the first time
since Nov. 10, 2003. Since
winning the Australian Open in
January, he has failed to win a
tournament.
Federer said his leg and back
have been bothering him since
the grass-court tournament in
Halle, Germany, the week
before Wimbledon. He hadn't
previously mentioned any injury
problems.
"When you're hurting, it's just a
combination of many things,"
Federer said. "You just don't
feel as comfortable. You can't
concentrate on each and every
point because you do feel the
pain sometimes. You tend to
play differently than the way
you want to play.
"Under the circumstances, I
think I played a decent match,"
he added. "But I've been feeling
bad for the last two, three
matches now. If there's anything
good about this, it's that I'm
going to get some rest."
Federer was playing in his 25th
consecutive Grand Slam
quarterfinal. He had won 23
straight, but now has lost two in
a row. Federer fell to Robin
Soderling at the French Open
earlier this month.
Federer had won 76 of 77 grass
-court matches dating to 2003
coming into this month but has
now lost two of the past six,
including to Lleyton Hewitt in
Halle.
Federer was clearly outplayed
Wednesday by a man who has
always possessed enormous
talent but often failed to live up
to expectations.
The 6-foot-5 Berdych was on
the offensive for most of the
match, smacking first serves
consistently in the 130s mph
(above 210 kph), winding up to
rip forehand winners and not
buckling under pressure. He hit
51 winners, compared to 44 for
Federer.
"He played well when he had
to," Federer said. "It was brutal
for me. Every time he had a
chance, he took it. On the break
points, he played great on those.
... When I did have chances, I
played poorly. It was just a
frustrating match the way it all
went."
Berdych broke Federer four
times, with the final break
coming in the seventh game of
the fourth set. Berdych served
12 aces, was broken just once
and saved seven of eight break
points.
Federer came in with an 8-2
career record against Berdych,
having lost the first match at the
2004 Athens Olympics and the
last in Miami this year.
"I don't think I played poorly,"
Federer said. "I think he went
after it. I know Berdych. I think
I've played him 10 times already
before. That's the way he plays.
"I think he's been able to play
more consistent last year or so,
and I was just not able to defend
well enough and I didn't come
up with the good stuff when I
had to. It was disappointing," he
said.
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Djokovic lost just 12 points in
13 service games. He won 26 of
his first 28 service points,
including 15 in a row. The Serb
had 29 winners and 17 unforced
errors, and converted five of 15
break points.
"Nothing is easy these days,
especially at this stage of the
tournament," Djokovic said.
"But the way I played, I
deserved to win. I was hitting all
the shots and I was really
playing very solid from all parts
of the court. I'm very, very
happy with the performance
today."
Djokovic reached the
semifinals here in 2007 but had
to retire against Nadal with a
foot injury while trailing in the
third set.
"This time physically I'm fitter,"
Djokovic said. "Those were
very strange conditions and
circumstances. I had to play
three very long matches in three
days and couldn't hold on in the
semifinal. This time everything
is in order and I'll give my best."
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swing coach who parted ways Woods an e-mail with
with the world's No. 1 golfer in suggestions on what he needed
May, told Golf Digest in an to work on. "I got no
interview that his relationship acknowledgement at all, but that
with Woods "didn't get wasn't unusual," Haney said.
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or thinking. Yet the whole time
he was telling the media I was
still his teacher and that I was
going to continue to be his
teacher and I was talking to him
every night."
Haney told Golf Digest he
thought Woods was surprised
when he decided to part ways on
the day after The Players, where
Woods withdrew with a neck
injury during the final round.
"I think he was quite surprised,
but that really would be a
question for him," Haney said.
"This was something I'd been
thinking about for a long time. I
knew that this was not going to
last forever."
Haney was Woods' coach for
six years. During that time,
Woods won six of his 14 major
championships.
"Six years for a coach is a long,
long time," Haney said. "How
many baseball managers or
football coaches make it six
years? Not many. The difference
in my case is, it was my
decision."
Haney told Golf Digest that
Woods doesn't need a coach for
his swing. "He needs what a
friend can offer," Haney said.
"Whether he values my
friendship and whether he feels I
can offer anything as a friend,
that's up to him."
Haney said he was in China
when Woods was involved in an
auto accident outside of his
home in the early-morning
hours after Thanksgiving.
Woods' life then became tabloid
fodder, as stories of marital
infidelity surfaced. Woods spent
time in a rehabilitation clinic.
Haney said he didn't see Woods
in person between that day and
March 8, as Woods prepared to
return to golf at the Masters.
"I'm proud of Tiger for
accepting responsibility and
getting some help," Haney said
in the Golf Digest interview. "I
think that's all a man can do.
There was one report that said I
left him because I was morally
against what he did. That's not
true. I really believe that
everybody makes mistakes. You
take responsibility for your
mistakes and try to come back,
and he truthfully has. I don't like
what Tiger did, but I give him
credit for accepting
responsibility and trying to get
better."
He also said that he was present
at four of the five sessions
where controversial Dr.
Anthony Galea treated Woods.
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conspiracy, smuggling, unlawful
distribution of human growth
hormone and introducing the
unapproved drug Actovegin into
interstate commerce. Woods has
denied taking any illegal
substances, and Haney backed
him up. "There was never
anything that went into Tiger
Woods' body that didn't come
out of his body," Haney said.
Haney stressed he still
considers Woods a friend.
"It's the greatest opportunity a
teacher could ever have," Haney
told Golf Digest. "I'm so
thankful for it. It's just
incredible. I learned so much.
The experiences were almost
indescribable. I got to stand next
to and watch the greatest golfer
who ever lived."
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timeline
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shooting took place near a who did the shooting and had
Virginia Beach restaurant that nothing to do with the
hosted his 30th birthday party. shooting," Woodward told the
A partner of the restaurant, newspaper. "Anyone who says
however, told a newspaper that any different better be very
owners have turned over video careful."
surveillance that shows Vick Vick was interviewed by a
leaving just three minutes before detective Monday. Adam
shots were fired. Bernstein, a Virginia Beach
Police spokesman, said that
Vick is not a suspect. No arrests
have been made.
Vick was accompanied to his
interview with police by
Woodward and told police "he
wasn't involved, he was gone
before the shooting took place,
and he doesn't know who did the
shooting," Woodward said.
Police have not identified the
shooting victim, but several
news outlets identified the
person as Quanis Phillips, one
of the co-defendants in the
dogfighting case that landed
Vick in federal prison for 18
months. A hospital spokesman
confirmed that Phillips was
admitted to the hospital Friday
morning and discharged that
afternoon but refused to disclose
his injuries, citing privacy laws.
Woodward said Vick did not
invite Phillips to the party and
had no contact with him there.
Vick remains on three years'
probation and is not allowed to
associate with anyone convicted
of a felony unless granted
permission to do so by his
probation officer.
An NFL spokesman said
Monday the league is looking
into the shooting and had no
further comment. NFL
commissioner Roger Goodell
reinstated Vick last July after
the quarterback served a two-
year suspension, saying at the
time that Vick's margin for error
would be "extremely limited."
Police have said witnesses
described the shooter as a black
man wearing a white tank top
and driving a white Cadillac
Escalade.
The Thursday night party was
hyped on social networking sites
such as Facebook and Twitter as
"Michael Vick's ALL WHITE
30th Birthday Bash." Tickets
cost $50.
Vick, who is from nearby
Newport News, was in the area
conducting a football camp at
Hampton University.
Fabijan told the Daily Press that
Vick has been a regular
customer at the restaurant.
"He's come in unannounced,"
Fabijan told the newspaper.
"We've had absolutely no
problems whatsoever with him
or his entourage before."
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Filed under: Eagles, Steelers,
Titans, NFL Quarterbacks
Like you, my invitation to the
Michael Vick All-White 30th
Birthday Bash got lost in the
mail. So we can't say for sure
who caused all the trouble at last
week's event.
One thing is certain. Vick and
trouble go waaaaaay back. He
causes it, he courts it, he all but
asks it to blow out the candles
on his birthday cake.
So it's a little hard to keep an
open mind about the latest bit of
bad newz. You don't have to be
a PETA member to assume he
ordered the hit on his old partner
in crime, Quanis Phillips.
Maybe Phillips crashed the
birthday party and smushed a
piece of cake in Vick's face.
Maybe he showed up wearing a
brown hat made out of the coat
of a pit bull they used to own.
After all, the party was billed as
a "Very Classy event with a
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Doc Rivers says he's returning to
coach Boston Celtics in 2010-11
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Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
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Scott Van Pelt wanted Rivers to take a week to
Celtics F Glen Davis reacts to decide after the emotionally
the news that Doc Rivers will be draining Game 7 loss to the Los
Angeles Lakers in the NBA
Finals, but remained confident
Rivers would return.
Celtics owner Steve Pagliuca
called Rivers a "fantastic coach"
and said he's "thrilled" Rivers is
coming back for another season.
The Associated Press reported
that Rivers did not immediately
return a message left at his hotel
in San Antonio, where he is
watching his son, Austin, play in
an international under-18
tournament.
Rivers had said he was thinking
about taking some time off from
coaching to spend more time
with his family and watch his
kids play sports.
ESPN.com's Andy Katz and
The Associated Press
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STRICT dress code."
The reports conflict. But the
more we learn, the more it
seems Vick has again stepped in
a pile of dog poop.
His statements to police
apparently don't jibe with what
witnesses and the surveillance
video say. Another trip to Roger
Goodell's office is probably in
Vick's future. He'd better get his
lies, err, story straight by then.
It's been a busy summer for
Commissioner Roger Goodell,
but he should have seen this one
coming. Applying the These
Things Happen in Threes Rule,
we already had Larry and Curly,
aka Ben Roethlisberger and
Vince Young.
Now the Three Stooges are
complete. Moe Vick has left the
building, apparently just three
minutes before Phillips was shot
last Thursday night/Friday
morning. We are again faced
with a question that stumps
these people.
Why can't you learn from your
mistakes?
A quarterback is supposed be
the smartest player on the field.
And to be fair, the vast majority
of NFL quarterbacks have not
spent their offseason getting into
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fights at strip bars and having
sex in women's bathrooms.
That's like saying the vast
majority of oil wells don't
explode. The Three Stooges
have caused a public relations
disaster all along the NFL coast.
Oh, to see them hauled before
Congress and given the Tony
Hayward treatment:
Mr. Roethlisberger, you were
accused of sexual assault in
2009 after allegedly having sex
with a hotel employee. Wasn't
that enough to keep you from
carousing your way into another
sex scandal this summer? Or is
it impossible for you to cap your
gusher of lust?
Mr. Young, you'd almost turned
your partying, immature image
around. Then you go to the strip
bar and get into a fight with a
guy who did an upside-down
Hook 'Em Horns sign? Are you
that big of a Texas fan, or just
stupid?
And Mr. Vick, didn't 19 months
in prison teach you anything?
Apparently not.
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Questions In Cleveland, Cavs
Playing Dangerous Game
Sam Amick (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 12:57:00 PM
Filed under: Cavaliers, Lakers,
NBA Coaches, NBA Free
Agents Byron Scott is moving
on, off to Arkansas to spend
time with a friend while still
waiting for the word about Phil
Jackson and whether he'll return
to the Lakers.
Brian Shaw left Cleveland and
headed back to Los Angeles, his
head likely spinning as to why
the Cavaliers hit the panic
button when news leaked that
the Lakers' assistant was their
choice as coach.
The Cavs still say they have
two finalists. In reality, they
have one.
Only the team's braintrust
knows why they're doing this. It
could be because of LeBron
James, who hits the
unemployment line at midnight
Eastern tonight and may or may
not be on board with the idea of
Shaw as coach if he returns. It
may be because of the Lakers
element, a possible fear that
somewhere between choosing a
coach and actually signing him
Jackson could announce his
retirement and both Shaw and
Scott would make a mad dash
for Staples Center.
The Cavs were telling reporters
Wednesday morning that it
stands to reason one of these
two men will be the coach, but
reason has not ruled this
process. They said former coach
Mike Brown wasn't fired before
he was fired. They said James
would not be consulted on
significant decisions while the
entire basketball world said
otherwise. They said Michigan
State coach Tom Izzo had no
job offer while he publicly
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agonized over whether or not to
accept a five-year, $30 million
deal.
Share Now they have Shaw's
agent telling the Los Angeles
Times they were close to a deal,
followed by reports that Shaw
was already shopping for a
coaching staff. They have
Scott's agent offering a
concession speech through the
media that still stands as his
side's stance, a clear message
the Cavs are choosing to ignore.
They have the kind of mess they Nyko's 'silky' PS3 Raven
didn't need on the eve of the
organization's most important
day, an ill-timed distraction that
controller comes in regular
some call semantics and I would
call sloppiness.
and identity-crisis versions
They're telling involved parties Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) $35 and will be available later
that it will all be worked out by Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:30:00 PM this summer. They connect
day's end Thursday, meaning wirelessly using a USB dongle.
the notion that new candidates Nyko's Raven controllers for And now comes the real treat:
could become involved and the PlayStation 3 look good and check out the promotional video
chosen in that time frame would feel, well, the company uses the for the Raven after the break.
be quite miraculous. They have term "silky," but we honestly Continue reading Nyko's 'silky'
quite a mess on their hands, can't think of better description PS3 Raven controller comes in
these cavalier Cavs. And it's than "plastic velvet." Don't feel regular and identity-crisis
time to clean it up. weird about rubbing it against versions
your cheek to really experience Nyko's 'silky' PS3 Raven
the odd softness -- we did. The controller comes in regular and
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Amar'e Stoudemire Opts Out of Phoenix Contract
Chris Tomasson (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 1:55:00 PM
Filed under: Suns, NBA Free
Agents
Earlier Wednesday, there was
hope for the Phoenix Suns to
hold on to star forward Amar'e
Stoudemire before he could opt
out of his contract by the end of
the day. But soon that hope was
gone.
Stoudemire's agent, Happy
Walters, confirmed to FanHouse
that Stoudemire will opt out of
his contract by the deadline at
the end of Wednesday and
become a free agent Thursday,
but didn't offer further
comment. Walters had first told
Yahoo! Sports his client will opt
out of his deal but will continue
to negotiate with the Suns.
"The offer isn't where it needs to
be yet, but we've had a good
open, cordial dialogue with the
Suns,'' Walters told Yahoo!
Sports about Stoudemire opting
out of his $17.6 million deal for
next season. "Like Dirk
Nowitzki (of Dallas) and Paul
Pierce (of Boston), we're
exercising the opt out and we'll
see what presents itself for
Amar'e on the market.''
Earlier in the day, Walters had
told FanHouse the sides were
still talking and there was still a
chance of Stoudemire signing an
extension by the end of
Wednesday.
"We're trying to reach a happy
medium,'' Walters said earlier
Wednesday.
Walters and Stoudemire met
with Suns owner Robert Sarver
and coach Alvin Gentry on
Tuesday in Los Angeles.
Walters declined to offer details
of the meeting to FanHouse and
Gentry has not returned
messages.
While the Suns apparently
haven't offered Stoudemire a
maximum contract for the full
number of years (six more if he
were to opt out, taking him
through 2015-16), the Arizona
Republic reported, entering
Wednesday, that Sarver might
be willing to give Stoudemire a
four-year maximum contract
extension off his current deal if
he doesn't opt out.
That would have locked up
Stoudemire through 2014-15,
and would have resulted in him
earning $107 million over the
next five years. But by opting
out, Stoudemire is likely
pushing for a full maximum deal
that would pay him in excess of
$130 million over six years,
taking him through 2015-16.
Chris Tomasson can be reached
at tomasson@fanhouse.com or
on Twitter@christomasson
FanHouse's Sam Amick
contributed to this story
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Final Fantasy 14
launches Sept. 30 on
PC, March 2011 on PS3
Ludwig Kietzmann (Joystiq)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:57:00 PM
Square Enix has announced that
Final Fantasy XIV will be
launched on Windows PCs
worldwide on September 30 --
well, provided you've obtained
the game, installed it and then
clicked on the launch shortcut.
This step comes after you've
made a choice between two
different versions of the
anticipated MMORPG: a
standard edition, which will
retail for $49.99, and a $74.99
Collector's Edition.
The latter edition will enable
early access to the game on
September 22nd ("subject to
initial server capacity," Square
Enix warns) and will include a
making-of DVD, a Final
Fantasy XIV-branded security
token, an art book, special cover
art by Yoshitaka Amano, a
"fully-personalized Right of
Passage Certificate" and a stat-
boosting Onion Helm item for
pre-orders (Standard Edition pre
-orders get ze "Garlond
Goggles," they do nothing in
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Sega thinking about downloadable Saturn games
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:30:00 PM
Sega is already selling its
Genesis library all over the
place (as downloads on XBLA,
PSN, WiiWare, and iPhone, and
on retail collections). Dreamcast
games are due this fall for
XBLA and PSN. Now Sega is
considering adding selections
from the Saturn library to its
catalog of digital releases.
Yosuke Okunari, producer of
the Dreamcast remakes, told
GAME Watch(translated by
Andriasang) that Sega might
consider Saturn games in the
future, though it's a different
initiative from the current
releases. "What we announced
this time is a project where we
EA taking Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit on tour
Randy Nelson (Joystiq)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:00:00 PM
If you happen to live in one of
seven US cities selected by EA,
you'll be able to catch Need for
Speed: Hot Pursuit in advance
of its November 16 release.
Taking a cue from The
Cannonball Run, the game will
wind its way across the country
(and back again), making pit
stops at "hot local venues" along
the route, where it will be
will have consecutive releases
of titles that were debuted on
Dreamcast," he said. "Separate
from this, we're of course
thinking about ports of Saturn
games. It's the same as how
Sega Ages and Virtual Console
were separate existences. It's not
playable while "renowned hip
hop and rock artists" perform.
The tour rolls out on
Wednesday, July 14 at the
Manhattan Classic Car Club in
that we have no intention of
porting Saturn titles, so please
share your requests." Sega Ages
was a series of disc-based PS2
rereleases of classic Sega titles.
Coincidentally, the
NiGHTSintodreams.com fan
community sent out an
New York City. Hit the break
(not the brakes) for a full list of
cities and dates, then visit the
official Need for Speed site to
sign up for a test drive at one of
announcement today for its
campaign to convince Sega to
port NiGHTS Into Dreams to
modern consoles, in honor of
the game's 15th anniversary. As
one of the most prominent first-
party games, NiGHTS has a
good chance of being one of the
first releases, should Sega
decide to pursue Saturn ports.
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real life). Both versions offer 30
days of gameplay upon
purchase, with one playable
character and one non-playable
character playing the
undignified role of item retainer.
Should you choose to continue
exploring the world of Eorzea,
Eorfee will be $12.99 per
month.
Oh, and just a reminder that
PS3 is one of several consoles
that won't be able to play Final
Fantasy XIV in 2010 -- since
Square Enix confirmed that
Final Fantasy XIV will only
arrive on Sony's system in
"early" March 2011. Pricing for
that version will be announced
at a later time.
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Writing good bug reports
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 7:01:43 AM
The other day I wrote about the
Zen of being a tester of a new
piece of software. Be patient.
It's a long journey. The bugs are
there for a reason, it's best to
assume they will always be
there then you will be surprised
and delighted in the unlikely
event that one of them goes
away.
Today we get a little bit more
pragmatic.
You've been asked to test the
software because the people
who are writing it would like
your help to make it better. They
want to fix bugs, and the easier
you make it for them, the more
likely it is they will be able to.
Sometimes people produce bug
reports that are so insightful
they lead the programmer right
to the mistake in the code.
The basic information a bug
report should contain is this:
Tomato Watermelon Salad
(Mensfitness.com)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 4:00:00 AM
A mouthwatering dish that
combines summer's freshest
ingredients
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Ingredients
• 4 lbs watermelon, cubed
• 3 large tomatoes, cut into 1-
1. What you were doing.
2. What you expected to
happen.
3. What actually happened.
All three parts are very
important. If you really did
discover a bug, the programmer
will need to know what you
were doing so he or she can try
to reproduce it. If they can't, it
will be next to impossible to fix
it.
The second part helps nail
down the first part. Usually
people know what they were
inch pieces
• 6 oz feta cheese, crumbled
• 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
• 1/2 cup diced fresh basil
• 1/4 cup diced fresh mint
How to Make It
1.) Place watermelon and
tomatoes in a bowl.
2.) Crumble feta over the top.
3.) Drizzle with olive oil.
expecting. Also, it's possible
that what you were expecting
isn't what the software does. An
extreme example: "I was
expecting that when I pressed
the blue button at the bottom of
the screen I would be granted
three wishes."
For the third part a screen shot
can help. It may contain
information that's meaningful to
the programmer that you
wouldn't think to include in your
report.
Another way to help the
programmer is to say if the
problem is or isn't reproducible.
That is, if you try step #1 again,
do you get the results in step #3?
By trying to reproduce it you
may add important information
to the first part of the report.
PS: All bugs are reproducible,
that's almost the definition of a
bug.
PPS: Another howto re bug
reports.
4.) Season with salt and pepper.
5.) Toss gently and top with
basil and mint.
Nutritional Breakdown
Per serving
Calories: 347
Protein: 9 g
Carbs: 59 g
Fat: 12 g
Fiber: 3 g
Serves 6
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Testing notes
(Scripting News) thread, mostly for esthetic
Submitted at 6/30/2010 5:55:29 AM reasons (if I remember
correctly). I'll try not doing it in
Doing some testing with a thread.
Scripting2 this morning. My theory is wrong in every
1. There have been some respect. I have a duplicate post
reports of duplicate posts. I myself and I surely didn't hit the
think this happens when you, Save button too rapidly. I have
perhaps accidentally, click the years of training, and in all that
Save button more than once the time this has never happened.
first time you're saving the post. So the obvious answer is there is
The reason this is a problem is a bug in the server side that
that there's invisible metadata creates duplicate posts. Or
stored on the "summit" of the something like that.
post, the line that holds the title. 2. How to insert a hyperlink.
One of the bits of data is the ID The right-click menu in the
of the post. The first time you outliner offers a way to create a
save there is no ID, that's the link node. See the OPML 2.0
cue to the server to create a new spec for an idea what that is.
post to store the text. If you That usually isn't what users
click it twice, normally that's not want -- they want to hot-up a bit
a problem -- it just saves the of text with an address. That's
post twice. But could be a what the Add Link command in
problem the first time. the HTML menu is for. First,
The simplest way to deal with put the URL on the clipboard.
this is to have the button wait Then select the text you want to
until the save is complete. I've link from. Then choose Add
been doing it in a separate Link from the HTML menu.
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Beat the Burn
(Mensfitness.com)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:00:00 AM
An hour-by-hour guide to help
you recover from a little too
much fun in the sun
by Brian Good
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You wanted a bit of color, but
you left your sunscreen in your
other bag. Now you're burned.
And it's only going to get worse.
"The UV rays in sunlight can
have an immediate and a
delayed effect on skin," says
Ronald Davis, Ph.D., a
professor of dermatology at
Tulane University. In other
words, get out of the sun and
start repairing your raw and
battered flesh as soon as
possible. Here's what to do:
THE MOMENT YOU
NOTICE THE REDNESS
• Put on some protective
clothing, and beg/borrow/steal a
squirt of sunblock. Even if
you're already fried, additional
SPF can prevent further damage.
For severe burns leading to a
blistering, nausea, or extreme
shivering, call a doctor
immediately. He or she may
prescribe one of several oral
steroids. "If taken soon enough,
they can abort a very serious
burn," says David Kriegel,
M.D., clinical director of the
Manhattan Center for
Dermatology.
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How to Train
• Try a compress— a piece of
cloth dampened with ice-cold
your skin dry, rather than
inflaming it further with a towel.
which can be especially tough
when your whole body hurts.
Like Lance
water and held directly to the
skin. Try applying one 15
• Smear on some aloe. This
plant extract is not only STAY BURN-FREE Armstrong
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• Drink water like crazy. You're both UVA and UVB rays. Put reveals Armstrong's workout
• Head for the drugstore. You're at a higher risk of dehydration, your sunscreen on 30 minutes secrets
looking for a topical cortisone and your body's fluids need before going outside and by Dean Stattmann
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fragrance-free lotion, which you b l o o d v e s s e l s t h a t m a y antioxidants (or loading up on explore a few local trails.
should then apply liberally to a c c e n t u a t e t h a t b u r n i n g brightly colored fruits and Maybe you're looking to just
the burn. "Putting them in the s e n s a t i o n . vegetables), especially in the save money on your commute,
fridge so they are cool before week or so leading up to a trip burn a few extra calories, or
applying will help to further BEFORE BED top the beach. "Anti-oxidants strengthen your heart. Whatever
reduce soreness, says David like lycopene and phloretin — the motivation, now's the time to
McDaniel, M.D., assistant • Lessen the pain."An anti- along with vitamins like C and start pedaling. We've got the
p r o f e s s o r o f c l i n i c a l inflammatory such as ibuprofen E — appear to help the skin expert training tips to get you
dermatology at Eastern Virginia i s i d e a l , " s a y s M c D a n i e l . naturally handle more sun," saysstarted. Few know more about
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• Grab your phone and call your work too." much as a substitute for coach Chris Carmichael. We
primary doctor or dermatologist, • Take a bath. Toss some sunscreen, he says, but as more asked the man behind Lance's
especially if the burn is severe. oatmeal in a bathtub filled with tools for keeping burns at bay. seven Tour de France wins for
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Supreme Court takes on “all comers”
Mollie (GetReligion)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 8:27:40 AM
The Supreme Court handed
down a decision on Monday that
dealt with the gay rights and
religious freedom by looking at
how non-discrimination clauses
can come into conflict with the
freedom of association. We’ve
looked at Christian Legal
Society v. Martinez before here,
here, here and here.
Hastings College of Law in
California recognizes a wide
variety of student groups —
things like La Raza and College
Republicans and the like. But
there’s one group that they
won’t recognize. They refused
to sanction a chapter of the
Christian Legal Society because
it requires its members to
uphold traditional Christian
doctrine about sex (i.e. only in
marriage, no homosexuality,
etc.). At the time they denied the
group registration, the school
said it was because the chapter
discriminated against people on
the basis of religion and sexual
orientation, both mentioned in
the non-discrimination policy.
CLS said that this violated their
freedom of religion — while the
school said that they couldn’t
select officers who were
dedicated to a particular set of
religious beliefs, the policy
allowed other groups to select
based on political, social or
cultural beliefs. (The court
proceedings show numerous
examples of student groups
being registered even though
they required support of
particular beliefs.) Indeed, back
when the case began, Hastings
admitted that its
nondiscrimination policy
“permits political, social, and
cultural student organizations to
select officers and members
who are dedicated to a particular
set of ideals or beliefs.”
But at some point after that
admission, administrators put a
new spin on it. They said that
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discrimination policies violate
religious freedom wasn’t really
discussed.
And yet many media reports
obscured this important — if
difficult to convey —
distinction. Here’s how
Southern California Public
Radio put it:
The court also was split
between liberals and
conservatives in its 5-4 ruling
against a Christian student
group that sought official
recognition from the University
of California’s Hastings College
of the Law.
The Christian Legal Society
requires that voting members
sign a statement of faith and
regards “unrepentant
participation in or advocacy of a
sexually immoral lifestyle” as
being inconsistent with that
faith.
But Hastings said no
recognized campus groups may
exclude people due to religious
their anti-discrimination policy - d i s c r i m i n a t i o n p o l i c y ’ s belief or sexual orientation.
means that groups must accept wording says that it applies to Again, that was what Hastings
everyone who wants to join. everything at the school, the “all said back when this case started
They called this their “all comers” interpretation is used but their argument changed over
comers” policy. When they only for student groups. The time. And regardless, the court
announced this interpretation in school doesn’t discriminate in d i d n ’ t r u l e o n t h e
2005 or so, they asked student its hiring but neither does it hire c o n s t i t u t i o n a l i t y o f a n t i -
groups who had already been everyone who applies. The discrimination policies based on
cleared but were in violation of s c h o o l d o e s n ’ t a c c e p t a l l specified grounds, such as race,
this policy to revise their students who apply, etc., etc. religion, gender and sexual
policies to come in line with the All that to say that the decision orientation.
requirement. The revision in deals with the “all comers” In his dissent, Justice Alito
how they enforced the policy is interpretation rather than the explains it this way:
also worth mentioning because anti-discrimination policy in SUPREME page 78
of another reason. While the non general. Whether such anti-
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mark (GetReligion) —Mormons believe angels are
Submitted at 6/29/2010 8:02:54 PM resurrected beings of flesh and
bone. The most familiar is
The smartest piece I’ve read so Moroni, who stands high atop
far about the Twilight LDS temples, trumpet in hand.
phenomenon, was Caitlin The Book of Mormon, the
Flanagan’s essay for The faith’s trademark Scripture,
Atlantic. To date, I haven’t read says Moroni was a fifth-century
the books or seen the movies, prophet who visited church
but my Mormon upbringing has founder Joseph Smith. Smith
made me somewhat attuned to a described Moroni as radiating
subject that otherwise is light and “glorious beyond
primarily of interest to description.”
adolescent females. Anyway, Bella describes her vampire
here’s Flanagan’s take on the boyfriend, Edward, as an angel
books’ religion and morals: whom she cannot imagine “any
That the author is a practicing more glorious.” Edward’s skin
Mormon is a fact every reviewer sparkles in the sunlight, and he
has mentioned, although none visits Bella’s bedroom at night.
knows what to do with it, and But Mormon angels don’t have
certainly none can relate it to wings; in the “Twilight” film,
the novel; even the supercreepy Edward sits in the science lab,
“compound” where the boring the outstretched wings of a
half of Big Love takes place
reviewers don’t know what to piece is basically a strawman: Some of the things do sound stuffed white owl just over his
doesn’t have any vampires. But
do with the books and films’ “People make up all these like they might in fact reflect a shoulders.
the attitude toward female Huh? That’s an awful lot of
s u p p o s e d M o r m o n i s m i s Mormon references just so they Mormon worldview:
sexuality — and toward the role import to project on use of the
because the moral examples put can publish ‘Twilight’ articles in —The story’s teenage heroine,
of marriage and childbearing — word “glorious.” And there’s
forth, while certainly more respectable publications like Bella, avoids coffee, tea, alcohol
expressed in these novels is
conservative than much of what The New York Times,” actor and tobacco — not unlike the this:
entirely consistent with the
we see in secular culture, are Robert Pattinson (Edward, the Mormons’ “Word of Wisdom” —A unique LDS teaching is that
teachings of that church. In the
broad and shared by a good f i l m ’ s c e n t r a l v a m p i r e health code. Bella also advises marriages are “sealed” for
course of the four books, Bella
many other religions. Mormons character), told Entertainment her father to “cut back on steak, eternity; spouses are referred to
will be repeatedly tempted —
aren’t exactly alone in their Weekly. “Even Stephenie said it much like the LDS teaching to as eternal companions. Bella
to have sex outside of marriage,
desire to see young women doesn’t mean any of that.” e a t m e a t a n d p o u l t r y describes her relationship with
to have an abortion as a young Edward as “forever.”
value marriage and children, It’s possible that Meyer never “ s p a r i n g l y . ”
married woman, to abandon the
abstain from premarital sex, and set out to weave LDS imagery Again, I haven’t read the books If proclaiming that love is
responsibilities of a good and
to see abortion as immoral. into the ‘Twilight’ background. — but if that’s the case it could “forever” is somehow indicative
faithful mother — and each
In that context, this Religion Yet intentional or otherwise, it’s well be the author’s Mormonism of LDS teaching, then every
time, she makes the “right”
News Service piece “ Mormon hard to ignore: t h a t i n f l u e n c e d t h e song lyricist and hack poet alive
decision. The series does not
i m a g e r y r u n s d e e p i n What follows are six bullet characterization. However, must be Mormon.
deploy these themes didactically
‘Twilight’” had me scratching points discussing the alleged many of the things highlighted There was one thing in the
or even moralistically. TWILIGHT page 79
my head a lot. The set-up of the religious themes in Twilight. are mighty thin gruel:
I think the reason why most
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Coach Bliss and God, with no details

tmatt (GetReligion) BRYAN, Texas — Dave Bliss moved near in-laws in a Denver As it turns out, Allen Academy
Submitted at 6/30/2010 1:51:44 PM could have chosen to live suburb in late summer 2003. is a secular, college-prep school
outside the public eye in the Bliss coached the then- with a military heritage. So, no
When it comes to issues of state where he was the public Continental Basketball religious content there — which
s p o r t s a n d f a i t h , y o u r face in one of college athletics’ Association’s Dakota Wizards is interesting. The leaders use
GetReligionistas have one basic darkest episodes seven years for the 2005-06 season before some vaguely religious language
rule and here it is. If journalists ago. Instead, the man who resigning. linked to hiring Bliss (more
are going to let a sports figure resigned in disgrace as men’s Bliss and Claudia returned to forgiveness and “second
play the“God card”— especially basketball coach at Baylor is Texas in 2008 to be near their chance” references), but that’s
if this person is in any way back in the public spotlight middle child — daughter about it.
controversial ( think Michael again as he starts his first high Berkeley Bohner — who had In the end, the reader knows
Vick) — then the publication school coaching job. just started a family. About that almost nothing about the role
owes the reader at least one “I love Baylor University, so I time, Bliss began a support that faith plays or has played in
paragraph of information that didn’t come here to dredge that group for coaches called Game the life of this coach, even
actually attempts to report some up,” Bliss, 66, said recently at Plan Ministries. though he has held himself out
basic facts about this alleged Allen Academy. He was hired in Note the word “ministries.” as a minister to other coaches.
religious influence in his or her e a r l y M a y o n a o n e - y e a r That’s an important word, in We do not hear from his pastor.
life. contract at the pre-kindergarten- this kind of story. So, who is on We do not hear from another
I know, I know, that’s very through-12 private school about the board of this ministry? Is it coach touched by Bliss and his
idealistic. 100 miles southeast of Baylor’s linked to any particular church counseling work with other
But, you see, we’re sort of campus in Waco. He was hired or denomination? As it turns troubled coaches.
crazy around here. We think it is as dean of students, athletics out, the website for Game Plan Come to think of it, we don’t
possible to do actual reporting d i r e c t o r a n d b o y s v a r s i t y Ministries offers next to no even know where he goes to
about religion, even in its most basketball coach. The school information either, although the church (if he goes to church). Is
rare and intimate forms — like declined to reveal salary details. who had evidence on audiotape, “testimonies” page has a strong he walking his talk? Does he
people going to church. So sue “Everybody deserves a second confronted him). Baptist flavor. give 10 percent of his income to
us. chance; it’s just part of life,” he But Bliss has clearly played the I would think that, if a man this a congregation and other
Take, for example, that USA said. “But the second chance is “ G o d c a r d , ” r i g h t ? I t ’ s controversial played the “God religious causes? Who is in his
Today news feature the other to do what God plans for your controversial that he’s back card” and started his comeback entourage, so to speak?
day about a coach who was at life, to get back to doing what working with young people in a by starting a religious ministry, What we need is some
the heart of one of the worst, if you were created to do. This is setting that involves sports and you might want to collect a few information. To tweak some
not THE worst, scandal in the what I do.” academics. Parents were sure to facts — maybe a paragraph — questions I used to use when
history of college athletics, one When believers read that ask questions and, sure enough, on that. working on this kind of story, it
involving dirty money, NCAA “second chance” reference, their they did. Now, what about his new job? might be good to ask: How does
violations (a ton of them), drugs minds leap to words such as First, we need to know what Allen Academy is the state’s Bliss spend his time? How does
and, finally, murder. Oh, and all “sin,” “repentance,” “grace” and Bliss did when his house of oldest private school, with roots he spend his money? How does
of this took place at Baylor “forgiveness.” However, this is cards at Baylor collapsed. to 1886 and an annual tuition for he make his decisions?
University, in what Baptists a sports story, so it would be Bliss’ career path has had its high school students of nearly Questions are good. Facts are
often call “Jerusalem on the asking a bit too much to expect stops and starts since his $10,000. Its enrollment is about good. It is possible, I think, to
Brazos” during a hot national a trip into theological territory resignation at Baylor. 330. The Rams compete in the ask questions and gather facts,
debate about the nature of (although readers do find out The father of three, Bliss, wife second-smallest classification of even when covering a famous
“Christian” higher education. that Bliss “confessed” his role in Claudia and youngest son Jeff the Texas Association of Private COACH page 78
Anyway, here is the lede: the scandal when investigators, and Parochial Schools.
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Only religious groups were
required to admit students who
did not share their views. An
environmentalist group was not
required to admit students who
rejected global warming. An
animal rights group was not
obligated to accept students who
supported the use of animals to
test cosmetics. But CLS was
required to admit avowed
atheists. This was patent
viewpoint discrimination. … It
is no wonder that the Court
makes no attempt to defend the
constitutionality of the
Nondiscrimination Policy.
I know it’s a tricky distinction,
but it’s an important one. A
quick hat tip to Washington Post
staff writer Robert Barnes for
getting this crucial distinction
right in his lede.
Most media coverage was
totally fine, actually. Reporters
had to respond to a huge number
of cases, some of them
involving Or what about this
tidbit from the San Francisco
Chronicle:
The school was backed by
educational and civil rights
groups, while religious and
conservative organizations filed
arguments in support of the
Christian Legal Society.
Except that this isn’t how the
groups broke down. It is true
that conservative organizations
generally sided with the
Christian Legal Society. But
there were religious groups who
sided with the school and civil
rights groups that sided with the
organization. It would be better
to use modifiers to describe
what type of educational,
religious and civil rights groups
were on one side or the other.
The Interfaith Alliance sided
with the school, while a
coalition of Muslim, Jewish, and
Sikh groups sided with the law
group.
And civil libertarians were not
all on one side either. In fact,
most of what I read today came
from civil libertarians who were
worried about the decision.
Even groups that generally don’t
support public funding of
groups said that if it exists, the
government shouldn’t be in the
business of decided which
groups have appropriate speech
and which groups don’t. Richard
Epstein summarizes some of the
main civil libertarian concerns
in his Forbes essay “ So Much
For Religious Liberty.”
Here’s how prominent civil
libertarian Wendy Kaminer at
The Atlantic begins her essay
against the ruling:
“The era of loyalty oaths is
behind us,” Justice Kennedy
perversely declares, concurring
in a 5 - 4 decision allowing a
public university to deny official
recognition to a religious group
that excludes from membership
students who will not disavow
homosexuality or pre-marital
sex. What’s perverse about
Kennedy’s statement? The
Court’s ruling in Christian Legal
Society v Hastings is more like
an endorsement than a rejection
of official loyalty oaths. It
upholds state power to condition
the benefits extended to private
associations on their willingness
to conform to an official
ideology - in this case a
particular view of sexual
morality.
Via the award-winning
Godblog, I found this link to a
Huffington Post piece by
Student Press Law Center
attorney Adam Goldstein. While
he said the case was a difficult
one to decide, the rationale the
majority found for the school
“could end up doing more
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violence to student expression (or infamous) person who has
rights than any decision in the played the “God card.”
last 22 years.” Just do it.
There are so many interesting IMAGES: Photo from the
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to reach out to the larger campus
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piece I did find kind of
fascinating, and contra some of
the previous points, evinces a
sophisticated understanding of
Mormon theology:
—Bella and Edward’s marriage,
and her quick pregnancy,
underscore the Mormon
emphasis on the family. But
Bella’s half human/vampire
fetus nearly destroys her, so her
distraught husband suggests an
abortion and artificial
insemination. Mormons permit
abortions if the mother’s life is
in danger, and artificial
insemination is an option for
married couples.
Whoa. I feel like the author has
stumbled on to something, with
her discussion of the Mormon
doctrine of “free agency.” (For
more on this doctrine, see this
article from a former member of
the Quorum of the Twelve
Apostles in the archives of the
church’s Ensign magazine here.)
And interestingly enough, the
The Rise of Comedy on Twitter
Matt Silverman (Mashable!)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:28:33 PM
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It takes only a quick glance at
the most “faved” and retweeted
updates to know that tweeters
love the funny. A good 140-
character quip is a jewel in any
Mormon take on sin and the
exercise of free will is anchored
in the church’s belief in the “
premortal existence,” i.e. the
church’s belief we all inhabit the
same spirit world before we are
born, and this belief in turn
profoundly shapes the church’s
position on abortion. But that’s
a lot to unpack, and it gets such
short shrift and it is ultimately
so vague I’m not sure what to
even say about it.
In any event, while I applaud
the author of the piece for trying
to cover a lot of ground, she
teaches film at UCLA and
religion is not necessarily her
bailiwick. This is really more of
a religion story than a film
piece. There’s not a single quote
from anyone in the piece who is
an expert in Mormon doctrine.
Three phone calls to the right
people could have resulted in a
more interesting piece. Finally,
here’s how the piece ends:
Bram Stoker probably never
Twitter feed, and the network
has impacted humor for pros
and amateurs alike.
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imagined that vampires would
Facebook Apps Must
represent a religious doctrine.
But more than a century later,
Now Ask Users for More
Twilight shows that these
nocturnal creatures can
accommodate just about
Specific Permissions
Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!)
anything.
Submitted at 6/30/2010 1:50:26 PM
Are you kidding me? There’s
no creature in popular culture Facebook is rolling out new
more freighted with religion permissions guidelines for apps
than the vampire — they drink that access user information.
blood, recoil from crucifixes, With these new permissions, all
and are a walking commentary Facebook apps will have to
on resurrection and redemption. specifically ask you for profile
If you went back and time asked information that they plan to users, who saw new privacy
Bram Stoker about Vampires use. controls debut last month, a
representing religious doctrine, A Facebook rep said to us in an move that has largely silenced a
I’m pretty confident he would e-mail that these extra steps for PR furor over Facebook privacy
have seen this one coming. apps will give users “more issues.
Five Filters featured article: control over which information Facebook CTO Bret Taylor said
Headshot - Propaganda, State they are sharing with in a blog post this morning,
Religion and the Attack On the applications, as well as a better “These improvements reflect
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tools: PDF Newspaper, Full giving access to in exchange for your data belongs to you;
Text RSS, Term Extraction. services on Facebook Platform.” second, it should be easy to
For example, if you’re using control what you share.”
Facebook Connect to play with Do you think these more
JibJab’s app, JibJab has to ask specific app permissions are a
you for specific access to your good thing for Facebook users?
photos, videos, friends’ photos
and friends’ birthdays.
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new fans.
But is Twitter humor different
from “traditional” humor? And
what happens when the
television, publishing, and
performance industries are set
aside in favor of direct “social”
comedy? We spoke with some
hilarious tweeters to get their
take on these trends, and on
what it means to get a laugh in
the digital age. The One-Liner
Renaissance
You’ve only got 140 characters
to fit the setup, punchline, and
some breathing room for
retweets. Depending on your
comedic style, Twitter might be
the perfect medium, or your
greatest challenge. In either
case, the cap has propagated a
culture of “one-liners” or “riffs,”
and the funniest of the Twitterati
have been hitting them home for
some time.
“The people that get a lot of
play [on the funniest Twitterers
lists] are people who keep it
really simple,” said comedian
and writer Paul F. Tompkins,
who hosted VH1’s Best Week
Ever and tweets regularly in
between stand-up gigs. “In that
arena, it’s so digestible. You
get it: This is a joke.”
“Even the longest stories in your
act should be succinct,” said
stand-up comedian and writer
Steve Hofstetter. “Twitter’s
focus on the economy of words
is a good thing.”
For pros who have been joking
in other media, it takes some
work to adapt. “I enjoy the
challenge of, How can I sound
like me in 140 characters?” said
Tompkins.
The writers and performers of
the 90s cult comedy TV show
Mystery Science Theater 3000
have found Twitter to be the
perfect channel for their brand
of one-liner comedy. Their
more recent venture, RiffTrax,
is their digital way of talking
back to bad movies, and their
promotion is highly social.
“We have been working in the
quip business for quite a while,
so [Twitter] works well for us,”
said Michael J. Nelson of
RiffTrax. “But I think it’s
allowed people to find their
comedic ‘voices’ in an
environment somewhat safer
than a bar. Fewer Piña Coladas
being blended during your
punchlines. Less flying food.”
“It’s amazing how much people
love delivering one-liners. It’s
like crack,” said Kevin Murphy
of RiffTrax. “You could say it’s
cultivated a more literary form
of one-liner. Hasn’t cut down
on the volume of dick jokes,
though.”
“It’s not surprising that a big
share of riffs we put into a
RiffTrax movie are 140
characters or less. WE HAVE
BEEN TRAINING ALL OUR
LIVES FOR THIS,” Murphy
added with capitalized emphasis
in an e-mail interview.
The flip side is, there’s no filter.
The publishers, editors and
producers through which we
have traditionally gotten our
comedy don’t exist on Twitter.
So you get the good with the
bad.
“Good: There’s a lot of genuine
wit out there, from many
different and unexpected
quarters,” said Bill Corbett, the
third comic brain behind
RiffTrax. “Bad: The Tweet-
groaners that are trying way too
hard, and still seem too long at
140 characters. So it’s a
renaissance just like the actual
Renaissance: Amazing art, but
with occasional outbreaks of
bubonic plague.” Social
Performance
Funny, audience-building
tweeters, as well as established
Twitter-savvy celebs can click a
button and send laughs out to
hundreds, even thousands of
fans. There’s no gig to arrange,
book to publish, or episode to
shoot. It’s become a very direct
and personal form of comedy
for many writers.
“I think the ‘publish yourself,
whenever you want!’ aspect of
Twitter greatly appeals to
professional writers and
comedians,” said Corbett.
“Most of us have the faith, and
perhaps the arrogance, to
believe that we are almost
always worth hearing or
reading. Most of us are
mistaken, of course,” he added,
including himself in this
category. “The idea of playing
whenever you want to an ever-
waiting audience is rather
addictive.”
Tompkins views it as a much
more social experience than
performing via traditional
channels. “I end up thinking of
it in way more intimate terms
because people are talking to me
directly when [they] respond to
what I’ve written. I don’t think
of it as 50,000+ people
expectantly looking at me,” he
said. “It just feels to me like
I’m another person on Twitter. I
read other people’s stuff, so it’s
like, ‘Here’s my contribution to
what everybody’s talking
about.’”
The real game-changer for
performers seems to be in the
dialogue. “One of the things
that’s been so great is to find out
that my fans are funny. The
people that like me are actually
funny people themselves,” said
Tompkins. “That’s so satisfying
and so flattering. It’s like,
‘Wow, smart, funny people like
what I do.’”
But Hofstetter has reservations
about how much Twitter is
impacting traditional comic
reach. “Well, most comedians
aren’t playing to thousands on
[Twitter]. I don’t think it’s
changing the industry, as it’s
exceedingly rare for someone to
get famous [from] Twitter.
Typically, the famous people
have a big audience and the non
-famous people do not.” The
Perfect Marketing Channel
Plenty of businesses look for
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ways to be fun or personal on
social networks in order to build
a market for their products. For
many tweeting comedians, the
medium is the message, and
snagging “LOLs” on Twitter is
both an art and a marketing
strategy.
“It’s changed my way of
looking at promotion, really,”
said Tompkins. “How do I boil
down my essence in this very
limited amount of space to give
people an idea of me and the
way that I’m funny to maximum
effect? It’s been an enormous
boon for my career.”
Tompkins noted that Facebook
Groups come in handy as well
for organizing attendees at his
live performances. When
enough fans commit to a show
in a particular city, he’ll book it
and perform for them. Twitter
is a way to drive people back to
the Facebook Groups, and get
the word out about committed
performance dates.
“There’s always conjecture with
social networks about ‘how long
is it going to last,’ and ‘people
are done with that one, now
they’re on to this one.’ For
people like me, it’s not all one
or the other. It’s using all of
them in conjunction with one
another to cover all your bases.
And it’s fairly easy to do,”
Tompkins said.
In addition to their in-studio
work, the RiffTrax crew also
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perform “ live riffs” on movies
which are simulcasted to
theaters nationwide. Much of
their Twitter engagement —
which includes contests,
giveaways, etc. — revolves
around these events, and the
performers tend to get the most
play when tweeting with fans
from their personal accounts.
“I don’t have huge numbers of
followers, but I suspect a large
percentage of those I do have
actually care, at least a little
bit,” said Nelson. “So people are
happy to hear when we have
events coming up.”
“We announce to our tweeps,
and then they spread the word,”
Murphy added. “People link up,
meet up at events, tell each other
about the surprise live events
we’ve been known to do. It’s a
hell of a lot more fun and
exciting for people than looking
at an ad.”
Corbett concurred. “I wouldn’t
expect people to follow or enjoy
a constant commercial, but I
think it’s fine to promote your
work in the context of a mostly
for-fun account. Mike, Kevin
and I all seem to follow that
pattern, actually, whereas the
RiffTrax account is mostly
business.”
But the line between
performance and promotion can
be a delicate one.
“I have people unfollow me, and
they’re like, ‘It’s too much self-
promotion, I’m just here for the
comedy, so I’m unfollowing
you,’” said Tompkins. “So what
you’re saying to me is, ‘Hey,
you’re not giving me enough
comedy for free, so I’m bailing
on you.’”
“[T]he relative anonymity
allows people to heckle you and
run,” Nelson added.
For comic tweeters, it’s about
finding the right balance. “We
never really stay too serious in
any of the four accounts. That
would be just plain weird, given
what we do,” said Corbett. The
Culture of Riff
One trend that has arisen in
snarkier Twitter circles is the
habit of talking back to popular
culture in real-time. Tweeters
riff on live television, sports,
and the news regularly. And
depending on who you follow,
the results can be hilarious.
“Oh, I love it,” said Tompkins.
“I think of Oscar night for
something like that. To see a
bunch of funny people all
making comments in real-time
as this thing’s happening —
that’s like a gigantic party with
the funniest people you could
imagine. It’s great.”
“It has made live television
relevant as fodder, I suppose.
Though I’ve worked in TV, I’m
delighted to see anything that
makes it less passive and brain-
deadening,” said Corbett.
“Honestly, I’m not sure what to
make of a culture where
everyone riffs everything all the
time. It could get so self-
referential that the universe
swallows itself. On the more
positive side, people seem
happy when they’re creative and
interacting with each other,
especially for some laughs. It’s
hard to think of that as all bad.”
“[I]t gives the audience a voice
of their own,” added Murphy.
“And that’s really damn cool.”
The “LOL” vs. Real Live
Laughter
For the average humor-tweeter
who doesn’t have access to a
comedy club stage or her own
television show, 140-character
accolades will have to suffice.
But for the current generation of
pros who cut their teeth on stage
and screen, a retweet or an
“LOL” is nice, but not quite the
same as the real thing.
“It’s great to hear that people
are laughing and retweeting, but
a laugh from an audience is
something special — sort of a
neutron star of delight,” said
Murphy.
“Nothing beats a real, live laugh
for maximum joy in the
moment, unless that laugh is
from a mad scientist bent on
world domination. Then it’s a
little awkward,” Corbett added.
But all the comics we spoke to
noted that the retweet has
become something special for
humorists — something that
doesn’t have an exact real-world
equivalent.
“What’s really gratifying to me
is when people pass on the
things that I’ve written,” said
Tompkins. “I’m really flattered
that people are passing my
‘message of comedy’ along.”
“A retweet is more gratifying
than a laugh,” Hofstetter added.
“It’s the equivalent of someone
re-telling one of your jokes after
a show. And not botching it.”
Time will tell if comics who
start out in social media (on
Twitter, blogs, and the like) will
ever be able to reach the
mainstream audiences that their
predecessors did through
television, film and print.
We’ve already seen some
crossover, and we expect more
of it as newer artists use social
media as a starting point, rather
than a supplementary channel.
For the moment though,
entertainment, like all industries,
straddles the line as it sorts out
its digital future.
To wit, Tompkins added, “As
much as I love the Internet,
nothing beats real life.”
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Keep Your Social Media Connections Organized with Cliqset
2.0
Christina Warren (Mashable!)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 2:10:34 PM
Social networking service
Cliqset has just released what it
is dubbing Cliqset 2.0, giving
the service a pretty solid
overhaul in the process.
Cliqset is a website that lets you
manage multiple identity
streams in one interface, making
sharing and discovering
information more manageable.
The new release brings in a
completely refreshed dashboard,
stronger Twitter integration,
support for Foursquare and
Status.net, and an easier way to
find and follow users.
Cliqset can integrate with more
than 70 different social services,
including Facebook, Twitter,
Google Buzz, LinkedIn and
dozens of others. You can pull
in and push out content from
your social networks. Full
Twitter Integration
Cliqset has always had strong
support for Twitter, but it now
supports the Twitter API at
nearly every level. Every
Twitter feature, save user lists,
are natively supported by the
site. That means your @replies
and direct messages, as well as
Trending Topics, are all
viewable and accessible within
Cliqset.
It also means that when you
reply to a tweet in Cliqset, it
will automatically show up on
Twitter as if you are replying
with any other client. That
makes your Twitter experience a
lot more seamless altogether.
Additionally, you can easily
view all of the replies to another
user’s tweet in your stream and
easily follow or unfollow users
all from within Cliqset.
The improved Twitter
integration also extends to
signup. You can now sign up for
Cliqset with your preexisting
Twitter, Facebook, Google or
Yahoo account, eliminating one
more barrier for membership.
Better User Discovery
Perhaps the best new feature of
Cliqset is that finding and
following users is now much,
much easier. In the past, the
biggest problem I had with
Cliqset and similar services was
that in order to get any added
value, my friends needed to be
Cliqset members. Unless I just
fed in a syndicated (and thus,
non-interactive) feed of content,
I could really only communicate
with my Twitter or Facebook
friends who had also signed up
for Cliqset.
That’s now changed. Because
of the way Cliqset interacts with
Twitter and Google Buzz, you
can now search for users across
the entire social web and start
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your stream and that info will Facebook, because it’s a feature
also be pushed out to that makes Cliqset infinitely
Foursquare. Plans for the Future more usable and useful.
I asked Cliqset CEO Darren The content and social
Bounds about the company’s aggregation game first kicked
plans for mobile devices, and he off by FriendFeed and expanded
told me that Cliqset is focused to a certain degree with Google
on bringing a HTML5- Buzz is still evolving, but
optimized mobile site to devices solutions like Cliqset provide a
following them from Cliqset, like the iPhone, the iPad and nice real-time, web-based
even if they don’t have a Cliqset Android. However, Cliqset has alternative that truly does make
account. If that user does sign- also just updated its API, managing many social
up for Cliqset later on, Cliqset is meaning that developers can connections easier and less
smart enough to consolidate that build mobile or desktop apps noisy.
connection and allow access to based on Cliqset’s new features. What do you think of the new
Cliqset-specific features. I think a mobile-optimized site Cliqset? How do you organize
This is great news because for Cliqset is a great idea and I your presence on and use of
coupled with an easier sign-up hope someone takes up the multiple social networks?
process, it means that the site is cause to create a Cliqset mobile Disclosure: Cliqset is a past
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Teens Experiencing Facebook
Fatigue [STUDY]
Jennifer Van Grove
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 6/30/2010 3:02:13 PM
Online gaming site Roiworld
surveyed 600 teens ages 13 to
17 in late April and found that
teens spend two hours per day
online on average, 80% of
which is spent using a social
network. These same teens are,
however, showing signs of
“Facebook Fatigue.” Nearly one
in five (19%) who have an
account no longer visit
Facebook or are using it less.
Of the group that are saying
goodbye to Facebook, 45% have
lost interest, 16% are leaving
because their parents are there,
14% say there are “too many
adults/older people” and 13%
are concerned about the privacy
of their personal information.
While interest in Facebook may
be waning, it’s still the most
popular social network among
teens — 78% have created a
profile and 69% still use it.
YouTube ranks second; 64% of
teens claim to have a YouTube
profile and continue to use the
site. MySpace comes in a distant
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third (41%) and Twitter takes
the fourth spot (20%).
The study also suggests that the
teens that continue to stick to
Facebook do so primarily to
play games. Roiworld found that
more than one-third of the teens
who play games on Facebook
admit to spending at least 50%
of their time on the site
immersed in gameplay. The
online gaming trend extends far
beyond Facebook, as 75% of
surveyed teens claim to play
games on the web.
It seems obvious that the
newest generation of online
users would have few qualms
about spending money online,
and this study supports that
theory. The research purports
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that 43% of teens using social
sites have spent money within a
social network. They’re
purchasing items such as
currency for virtual items
(35%), music (33%), avatar
accessories (30%) and points to
level up (23%). Nearly half of
this crowd (49%) indicate that
they have an allowance for such
expenditures.
For more on how teens are
spending their time and money
online, check out a portion of
The Teens and Social Networks
study embedded below.
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