Rush: "Dare I Say This: It Doesn't Look Like Michelle Obama Follows Her Own Nutritionary, Dietary Advice" | Media Matters for America

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201102210011

The problem is -- and dare I say this -- it doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice. And then we hear that she's out eating ribs at 1,500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat per serving, yeah it does -- what do you mean, what do I mean?

What is it - no, I'm trying to say that our First Lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you. I mean, women are under constant pressure to look lithe, and Michelle My Belle is out there saying if you eat the roots and tree bark and the berries and all this cardboard stuff you will live longer, be healthier and you won't be obese. Okay, fine, show us.

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Harvey Pekar - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/7888494/Harvey-Pekar.HTML

"It's an autobiography written as it's happening," he said. "The theme is about staying alive. Getting a job, finding a mate, having a place to live, finding a creative outlet. Life is a war of attrition. You have to stay active on all fronts. It's one thing after another. I've tried to control a chaotic universe. And it's a losing battle. But I can't let go. I've tried, but I can't."

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New $5 billion Intel facility planned for Chandler

http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2011/02/18/20110218chandler-arizona-announces-new-Intel-facility.html

This $5 billion, Intel is not going to pay taxes on that investment," he said. "It is in a foreign-trade zone. The taxes are abated."

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Intel CEO: Nokia should have gone with Android | News | PC Pro

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/365362/intel-ceo-nokia-should-have-gone-with-android

"I wouldn't have made the decision he made, I would probably have gone to Android if I were him," he told a conference call with analysts, according to Reuters. "MeeGo would have been the best strategy but he concluded he couldn't afford it."

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Article: Intel to invest $5 billion in new Arizona plant

Intel to invest $5 billion in new Arizona plant
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-intel-invest-billion-arizona.html

Obama also Friday named Otellini to his jobs council in a move designed to harness the power of innovation to ignite economic and employment growth.

Otellini will serve on the president's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, an advisory board, headed by General Electric chief executive Jeffrey Immelt that is dedicated to finding new ways to boost growth, hiring and the education and training of US workers.

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Good Morning Silicon Valley | Technology news and analysis from SiliconValley.com

http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/

• Intel, whose open-source MeeGo smartphone operating system was quite publicly dumped by Nokia last week when the phone maker announced its tie-up with Microsoft, says it will keep on keeping on. "The carriers still want a third ecosystem and the carriers want an open ecosystem, and that's the thing that drives our motivation," Intel CEO Paul Otellini said, according to Reuters.Devindra Hardawar at VentureBeat begs to differ. If Otellini is touting open as MeeGo's draw, Hardawar said the open "champion will be Android."

Actually, Nokia wasn't entirely clear it was breaking up with MeeGo, but it did decide to hook up with Microsoft to put Windows on its smartphones, plus it let go of the executive in charge of the joint venture with Intel. (See Quoted: Nokia gets on board with Microsoft — is it the right call?) The world's largest chip company can take a hint. But it's not above getting in a few digs. The Reuters article also includes this from Otellini, speaking about Nokia CEO Stephen Elop's decision to go with Microsoft: "I wouldn't have made the decision he made, I would probably have gone to Android if I were him. MeeGo would have been the best strategy but he concluded he couldn't afford it."

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Funny Quote on Christian missionaries arriving in Africa : atheism

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/fn7lo/funny_quote_on_christian_missionaries_arriving_in/

When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us Pray'; and when we opened our eyes, we had the bible and they had the land." -Jomo Kenya

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Article: ATP NJ lineup expands (Pop Group & Ultramagnetic MCs reunions, Mogwai, Horrors & more Portishead-picked bands)

ATP NJ lineup expands (Pop Group & Ultramagnetic MCs reunions, Mogwai, Horrors & more Portishead-picked bands)
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/02/atp_nj_lineup_e.html

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Article: MediaRover: Bring Your Family's iTunes Libraries Together

MediaRover: Bring Your Family's iTunes Libraries Together
http://www.mediarover.com/

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Article: The Daily’s “Find Me The Oldest Dog In America” Line Goes Mainstream

The Daily's "Find Me The Oldest Dog In America" Line Goes Mainstream
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/17/the-hourly/

If you really want to call yourself a journalist you roll up your sleeves hit the streets and find the richest dog in South Dakota.

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TuneUp | Digital Music Management & Music Discovery for iTunes & WMP

http://www.tuneupmedia.com/index.php

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Article: Evidence to Suggest that Copulatory Vocalizations ... [Arch Sex Behav. 2010] - PubMed result

Evidence to Suggest that Copulatory Vocalizations ... [Arch Sex Behav. 2010] - PubMed result
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20480220

Arch Sex Behav. 2010 May 18. [Epub ahead of print]

Evidence to Suggest that Copulatory Vocalizations in Women Are Not a Reflexive Consequence of Orgasm.

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Article: The Celtic Paper Tiger

The Celtic Paper Tiger
http://kottke.org/11/02/the-celtic-paper-tiger

Ire land's finan cial dis as ter shared some things with Ice land's. It was cre at ed by the sort of men who ignore their wives' sug­ges tions that maybe they should stop and ask for direc tions, for instance
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The Experience Economy - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/opinion/15brooks.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

many of this era's technological breakthroughs produce enormous happiness gains, but surprisingly little additional economic activity

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Article: From Berlin to bin Laden - Magazine - The Atlantic

From Berlin to bin Laden - Magazine - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/from-berlin-to-bin-laden/8369/

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There is a dry wind blowing through the East, and the parched grasses wait the spark.

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Article: Intel pushes password-pumping mojo

Intel pushes password-pumping mojo
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/12/intel_ipt/

"We've taken the notion of a one-time password that generates a dynamic code every 30 seconds and we've embedded it into the chipset," Gilburg says, "into the [manageability engine] of the 2nd Generation Intel Core and Core vPro. This is brand new technology; Intel is the first to do this."

That manageability engine (ME), by the way, is on the same silicon as the Core processors' compute and graphics cores. And unlike Intel's vPro client-management technology, IPT is common to all three levels of the 2nd Geneneration processors: the Core i3, i5, and i7; vPro skips the i3.(Sent from Flipboard)

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Intel defends MeeGo after Nokia defection • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/11/intel_sticks_with_meego/

Ship sinking??

Intel remains committed to MeeGo

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Vision: How Small, Mostly Conservative Towns Have Found the Trick to Defeating Corporations | Water | AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/water/149725/how_small,_mostly_conservative_towns_have_found_the_trick_to_defeating_corporations

Falling on hard times, Coatesville, Penn. decided to sell off its drinking water and wastewater infrastructure in 2001 and invest the money in a trust fund to be used for city services. But privatization hasn't been the economic boon the city was hoping for. After even tougher economic times hit Coatesville, the trust has already been drained by two-thirds and residents have seen their water and sewer rates jump 85 percent since American Water, the larger water corporation in the country, took the helm. Last year the company even proposed a 229-percent rate hike for sewer services, forcing the city to cobble together money for legal fees to fight back.
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Nokia adopts Windows Phone 7 as 'primary platform' | ZDNet UK

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/communication-breakdown-10000030/nokia-adopts-windows-phone-7-as-primary-platform-10021673/

Alberto Torres, the head of Nokia's MeeGo efforts, has stepped down, the company said. The moves were announced on Friday, following days of intense speculation that was largely fueled by a leaked Elop memo, warning that the company was standing on a "burning platform".
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Article: The Top 50 Essential Non-Fiction Books for Weirdos · Geez Pete

The Top 50 Essential Non-Fiction Books for Weirdos · Geez Pete
http://geezpete.com/2011/02/09/the-top-50-essential-non-fiction-books-for-weirdos/

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Books of The Times - Sam Kean’s ‘Disappearing Spoon’ Explores Elements - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/books/05book.html

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The Too Far Blog » The Black Eyed Peas Murder and Sodomize the Corpse of Music Once and For All

http://toofar.tv/blog/?p=100

she gargled with the blood of our founding fathers and traveled back in time just to kick George Washington in the balls
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It's not radical Islam that worries the US – it's independence | Noam Chomsky | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/feb/04/radical-islam-united-states-independence

America should give Assange a medal," says a headline in the Financial Times, where Gideon Rachman writes: "America's foreign policy comes across as principled, intelligent and pragmatic … the public position taken by the US on any given issue is usually the private position as well."
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Good Egypt background

http://blogs.colgate.edu/khanegyptprimer.pdf

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Article: Badass Quote of the Day

Badass Quote of the Day
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2011/02/badass_quote_of_the_day_90.php

> "There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing."

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A Guide: How Not To Say Stupid Stuff About Egypt | Sarthanapalos

A Guide: How Not To Say Stupid Stuff About Egypt | Sarthanapalos
http://sarthanapalos.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/a-guide-how-not-to-say-stupid-stuff-about-egypt/

"If they get Democracy they will elect extremists".  Imagine if the world said that about America.  The Tea Party threatens world stability, as did the Bush administration.  How would you like if others used that as a threat to support an autocrat who made all opposing parties illegal?  In truth, US politics threaten world stability more than Egypt does.  Second, the implication is that democracy is not to be trusted in the hands of "certain" nations, people and religions is offensive, racist and ignorant.  You do not claim to value human rights, democracy and freedom and then you make exclusions based on race, nationality and religion.  Don't say this shit.

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Arizona bill aims to loosen gun laws

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2011/01/31/20110131arizona-gun-bill-aims-loosen-laws.html

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Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller Talks Magic, David Blaine, and the Arizona Shooting - Miami Art - Cultist

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/cultist/2011/01/qa_with_penn_jillette_of_penn.php

I always recommend reading the Bible from beginning to end. Not a guided system of reading it, but just read the whole thing, and I think if you do, you come out being an atheist. I don't think you have to do anything special. I think at the end of a book about hatred, slavery, horrible acts towards women, crazy contradictory laws, and the jealous nature of this God, I think it's apparent that it was written by crazy people for political reasons. 
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Article: New interview with Christopher Hitchens

New interview with Christopher Hitchens
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/new-interview-with-christopher-hitchens/

And there's a cer tain ghoul ish ele ment, even about the nice peo ple who've been pray ing for me. Because they are not just pray ing for my recov ery, they're pray ing for my rec on cil i a tion with reli gion. And I—I pro posed a trade off the other day, I said, I tell you what, what if we sec­u lar ists stop going to hos pi tals and walk ing around the wards and ask ing if peo ple are reli gious when they are in extrem is and in their last days and say ing look, you've still got a lit tle time, why don't you live the last few days of it as a free per son. You'll feel much bet ter. All that non sense they taught you. You know you could still have every chance to give it up. Expe ri ence the life of a free think ing autonomous per son. Don't live in fear, don't believe in mythol o gy.

They – I don't think they'd wel come it. And of course, we don't do that. But it seems to be con sid ered the right of almost every­body to do it the other way around. I don't resent it at all, because I like every oppor tu ni ty for the argu ment, but it—a lot of it has been to do with that.

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Coconino National Forest - Carroll Canyon Area Trails

http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coconino/recreation/red_rock/carroll-cyn-area-trs.shtml

This interconnected series of trails lie within Sedona, but are mostly well out of sight of developed areas. They are accessed from three trailheads shown below. A loop hike can be made combining parts of two trails and one-way hikes can be made using arranged transportation at a second trailhead. These trails have easy to moderate grades with little overall elevation change and are well signed, but have little shade.

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Article: State of the Union: President Obama's salmon joke makes a splash

State of the Union: President Obama's salmon joke makes a splash
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-address-salmon-20110126,0,4929127.story
"The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they're in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when they're in saltwater," he quipped. "And I hear it gets even more complicated once they're smoked."
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Article: will.i.am teams up with Intel

will.i.am teams up with Intel
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-william-teams-intel.html
"I just became the Director of Creative Innovation for Intel," will.i.am said in a message on his Twitter feed @iamwill on Tuesday.
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Gergen: Can the U.S. still compete?

Hey, check this out from CNN:
Gergen: Can the U.S. still compete?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/25/gergen.obama.competitiveness/index.html

For most of the 20th century, we were No. 1 in the world in education;
today, we are ninth in the proportion of young people with college
degrees, 18th in high school graduation rates among industrialized
nations and 27th in the proportion of science and engineering degrees.
China now graduates more English-trained engineers than the U.S. and
has become the world's No. 1 exporter in high technology

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National Assessment Governing Board News Release for the The Nation's Report Card Science 2009 Release

http://www.nationsreportcard.gov/media/pdf/PressReleaseNAGBScience2009.pdf

According to results from the 2009 National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP)—also known as The Nation's Report
Card—34 percent of the nation's fourth-graders, 30 percent of
eighth-graders, and 21 percent of twelfth-graders are performing
at or above the Proficient level in science, meaning that less
than one-half of students are demonstrating solid academic
performance and competency over challenging subject matter.

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Miriam Smith Killed Dog For Chewing On Bible: Nephew's Pit Bull Hanged From Tree, Burned To Death

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/25/miriam-smith-killed-dog-f_n_813583.html

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Article: A poll on the Pope's views on social networking

A poll on the Pope's views on social networking
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/01/a_poll_on_the_popes_views_on_s.php

n old-as-stupid benighted leader of a medieval institution that thinks the last word in social engineering is the mistranslated words of ancient goatherders scrawled on vellum has come out and said that using your computer for social networking is OK, as long as you don't do it too much and adopt a suitably Christian manner in your writing — which may explain all those gleeful letters I've been getting that inform me I'm going to burn in hell for all eternity.

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THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2011— Page 1

http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_1.html

In a democratic and demotic society like ours, the biggest challenge to scientific thinking is the tendency to embrace views on the basis of faith or of ideology. A majority of Americans doubt evolution because it goes against their religious teachings; and at least a sizeable minority are skeptical about global warming — or more precisely, the human contributions to global change — because efforts to counter climate change would tamper with the 'free market'.

Popper popularized the notion that a claim is scientific only to the extent that it can be disproved — and that science works through perpetual efforts to disprove claims.

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Good Morning Silicon Valley | Technology news and analysis from SiliconValley.com

http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/

Quoted: It's Silicon Valley, not Silicone Valley(0)
By Levi Sumagaysay

"It's a complete work of fiction. I kind of wish my life were that cool. There are no Victoria's Secret models in Silicon Valley."

— Sean Parker, speaking to author Paulo Coelho at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich, when asked about "The Social Network," the movie about Facebook's founding in which the Napster co-founder — and former Facebook president — was portrayed by actor Justin Timberlake as a cocaine-sniffing celebrity geek. Parker also said he still considers Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin a friend.

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Article: Collection of Victorian infographics

Collection of Victorian infographics
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/21/collection-of-victor.html

I hap pen to real ly like this plant dis tri b u tion info graph ic, but it's hard ly the most strik ing one in the col lec tion. In par tic u lar, there are some great geog­ra phy images (with color!), and beau ti ful time tables that actu al ly start get­ting clos er to a more mod ern sort of graph ic design.

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Evergreen and Indigo: To My Religious Friends

http://evergreenandindigo.blogspot.com/2010/07/to-my-religious-friends.html

To My Religious Friends

Do not pity me, do not feel sorry for me. I have chosen my path by my own free will. I am not lost, so there is no need for me to be found. My life is not empty. I know who I am and I know my purpose. I love, I am loved, and I strive every day to make sure I leave this world in better condition than I found it. My world is not dark and it is not cold. I see beauty and divinity in the world around me, and it is in no way less meaningful than your world ruled by a deity. My divine is love and nature, physics and chemistry and respect. I can respect you without agreeing and love you without believing that my love was directed by a higher power. Disagreement is not mocking, but instead is a quest for mutual understanding. I have no reason to mock you and it is hurtful when you proclaim how sorry you are for me.

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Article: Was Steven Pinker right after all?

Was Steven Pinker right after all?
http://musiccognition.blogspot.com/2011/01/was-steven-pinker-right-after-all.html

Pinker was prob a bly right when he wrote: "I sus pect music is audi to ry cheese cake, an exquis ite con fec tion craft ed to tick le the sen si tive spots of...our men tal faculties."
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Article: Badass Quote of the Day : Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Badass Quote of the Day : Dispatches from the Culture Wars
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2011/01/badass_quote_of_the_day_86.php?utm_source=combinedfeed&utm_medium=rss

About those defense "cuts" the Obama administration wants to push through, Adam Serwerwrites:

Calling this a "defense cut" is a bit bizarre. Think about it this way: If you were 300 pounds, and in the next year your doctor told you that you were on the road to gaining another hundred, but you instead only went up to 350 pounds, you wouldn't be walking around telling everyone about how you "lost weight."

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Article: The best documentaries of 2010

Roger exert
The best documentaries of 2010
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/01/the_best_documentaries_of_2010.html

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Highway History - US Route 89 - Montana Wyoming Idaho Utah Arizona

http://us89society.org/89RoadTripGuides/USRoute89RoadTripIntroduction/HighwayHistory/tabid/168/Default.aspx

twenty National Parks and Monuments on US Route 89

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A Right to Bear Glocks? - NYTimes.com

A Right to Bear Glocks? - NYTimes.com: "Loughner’s gun, a 9-millimeter Glock, is extremely easy to fire over and over, and it can carry a 30-bullet clip. It is “not suited for hunting or personal protection,” said Paul Helmke, the president of the Brady Campaign. “What it’s good for is killing and injuring a lot of people quickly.”

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“Don't politicize this tragedy!” : Pharyngula

“Don't politicize this tragedy!” : Pharyngula: "I find it abhorrent that Sarah Palin would stoke the coals of extremism with dangerous messaging, then delete it when something bad happens. - Jason Pollock

Sure, Sarah Palin didn't pull the trigger. But then, neither did Charles Manson. - auntbeast

Christina Taylor Green was Born on September 11, 2001, and killed today by terrorist fuckheads in Arizona. Irony much? - geeksofdoom

Sarah Palin rummages online frantically erasing her rabble-rousing Tweets like a Stalinist trimming non-persons out of photos. - Roger Ebert


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Quote/Counterquote: “Our Father” and his daily bread – updated...

http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2010/03/our-father-and-his-daily-bread-updated.html

BEATNIK VERSION: "Our father whose art's in heaven  hollow be thy name, unless things change  Thy wigdom come and gone, thy will will be undone     on earth as it isn't heaven  Give us this day our daily bread      at least three times a day     and forgive us our trespasses     as we would forgive those lovelies     whom we wish would trespass against us  And lead us not into temptation too often on weekdays     but deliver us from evil     whose presence remains unexplained     in thy kingdom of power and glory  Oh man"         Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Loud Poem"         The original long version, printed in The Beatitude Anthology (1960)         Famously recited (in part) at The Band's "Last Waltz" concert

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Scene Stealer - A Fight Brews Over Hollywood’s Video ‘Window’ - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/business/26steal.html?_r=3&src=me&ref=business

Exhibitors are also arguing that the copy-blocking technology approved by the F.C.C. won't work. "If past is prologue, technological locks will be overcome with technological crowbars," the ads from the National Association of Theater Owners stated.

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Article: Microsoft demos future Windows version running on Intel and ARM chips

Microsoft demos future Windows version running on Intel and ARM chips
http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/05/microsoft-demos-future-windows-version-running-on-intel-and-arm-chips-video/

Microsoft said ear li er today that its future ver sion of Win dows can run on chips based on ARM's chip archi tec ture. In front of a huge crowd at the Con sumer Elec tron ics Show, Microsoft chief exec u tive Steve Ballmer showed once again that the soft ware worked fine on test sys tems based on chips from Intel, Qual comm (Snap drag on), Texas Instru ments, and Nvidia (Tegra 2).

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Article: Doctor Behind Study Linking Vaccine to Autism Accused of 'Deliberate Fraud'

Doctor Behind Study Linking Vaccine to Autism Accused of 'Deliberate Fraud'
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/648562.html

An in-depth investigation just published in a prominent medical journal alleges that a decade-long effort to link childhood vaccinations with autism was really an elaborate hoax perpetuated by a British doctor who has since been banned from practicing medicine in that country.

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Media Streaming Boxes 2011 - Boxee vs Apple TV vs Slingbox vs Roku vs Google TV

http://www.etny.net/media_streaming_devices_explained?noloop=1

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Article: Sonic says its RoxioNow serves as secure foundation for Intel’s movie-streaming technology

Sonic says its RoxioNow serves as secure foundation for Intel's movie-streaming technology
http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/05/sonic-says-its-roxionow-serves-as-secure-foundation-for-intels-movie-streaming-technology/

In the past, stu dios didn't allow high-quality movies to be released online because of con cerns about pira cy and qual i ty. Now, Habiger said, there's no need to sit on the side lines while oth ers embrace new dig i tal dis tri b u tion and busi ness mod els.
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Article: Consumer Electronics Show: No-show Apple still has a dominating presence at CES

Consumer Electronics Show: No-show Apple still has a dominating presence at CES
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ces-apple-20110105,0,5240384.story

Apple is the phantom haunting CES,

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Swype's Kushler reinvents the keyboard, again

Hey, check this out from CNN:
Swype's Kushler reinvents the keyboard, again
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/01/05/swype.kushler/index.html
At Michigan State University, he met John Eulenberg, a professor and
director of the Artificial Language Laboratory.

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Article: Badass Quote of the Day : Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Badass Quote of the Day : Dispatches from the Culture Wars
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2011/01/badass_quote_of_the_day_81.php?utm_source=combinedfeed&utm_medium=rss
America's drawn-out wars abroad are stupendously expensive. The stupendous expense of course attracts profit-seeking firms rather like sharks to blood. And the wars are so drawn out in part because, as Mr Fallows and Robert Gates suggest, there's nothing concrete at stake for most Americans. Like the hum of an air conditioner, after a while, one simply stops noticing the wars are there, much less that many billions of taxpayer dollars are thereby making some private citizens immensely rich.
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Article: CBC Books - The year in books: The 10 publishing stories of 2010

CBC Books - The year in books: The 10 publishing stories of 2010
http://www.cbc.ca/books/2010/12/the-year-in-books-the-10-biggest-publishing-stories-of-2010.html

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Article: 2010 Year Lists - Fimoculous.com

2010 Year Lists - Fimoculous.com
http://www.fimoculous.com/year-review-2010.cfm

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Article: Wikimedia Commons Pictures of the Year : WebUrbanist Image Gallery

Wikimedia Commons Pictures of the Year : WebUrbanist Image Gallery
http://weburbanist.com/pics/creative-commons-pictures-of-the-year/

Creative Commons Picture of the Year: According to Wikimedia Commons, "The Commons Picture of the Year is a competition that was first run in 2006. It aims to identify the best freely-licensed images from those that during the year have been awarded Featured picture status." There area different categories and different Rounds to the competition. Here are 23 of the best winners from the Creative Commons Pictures of the Year competition.

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http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2011/01/01/

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Article: Best Reads of 2009 and 2010

Best Reads of 2009 and 2010
http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2010/12/best_reads_of_2010.php

Carter beats the Devil. Glen David Gold 2001.
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Article: Pharyngula

Pharyngula
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science is never about absolute certainty, and the absence of black & white binary results is not evidence against it; you don't get to choose what you want to believe, but instead only accept provisionally a result; and when you've got a positive result, the proper response is not to claim that you've proved something, but instead to focus more tightly, scrutinize more strictly, and test, test, test ever more deeply

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Glenn Gould - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Glenn Gould - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "'The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.'"

98.6 Trades Metabolic Cost For Fungal Protection: Scientific American Podcast

98.6 Trades Metabolic Cost For Fungal Protection: Scientific American Podcast: "A mathematical model finds that a temperature of about 98.6 F is high enough to ward off the majority of fungal infections, but still low enough to only require a manageable level of food intake

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Richard Dawkins | A shameful Thought for the Day | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Richard Dawkins | A shameful Thought for the Day | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Adam (who never existed) bequeathed his "sin" in his bodily semen (charming notion) to all of humanity. That sin, with which every newborn baby is hideously stained (another charming notion), was so terrible that it could be forgiven only through the blood sacrifice of a scapegoat. But no ordinary scapegoat would do. The sin of humanity was so great that the only adequate sacrificial victim was God himself.

That's right. The creator of the universe, sublime inventor of mathematics, of relativistic space-time, of quarks and quanta, of life itself, Almighty God, who reads our every thought and hears our every prayer, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent God couldn't think of a better way to forgive us than to have himself tortured and executed. For heaven's sake, if he wanted to forgive us, why didn't he just forgive us? Who, after all, needed to be impressed by the blood and the agony? Nobody but himself.

The Perils Of Elderly Sex | None | St. Albert's Place On The Web

The Perils Of Elderly Sex | None | St. Albert's Place On The Web: "On hearing that her elderly grandfather had died, Jenny went straight to visit her grandmother.

When she asked how her grandpa had died, her grandma explained, not holding back anything of course, 'He had a heart attack during sex, Sunday morning!'

Horrified, Jenny suggested that sex at the age of 94 was surely asking for trouble!

'Oh no,' her grandma replied. 'We had sex every Sunday morning in time with the church bells!'

She paused to wipe away a tear and said, 'If it wasn't for that darn Ice Cream Truck, he'd still be alive!'"

No loss. No loss at all. : Pharyngula

No loss. No loss at all. : Pharyngula: "The second big mistake is that the fraud of the Catholic hospital charade stands exposed. This was an incredibly revealing statement:

St. Joseph's does not receive direct funding from the church, but in addition to losing its Catholic endorsement, the 697-bed hospital will no longer be able to celebrate Mass and must remove the Blessed Sacrament from its chapel.

In other words, the Catholic church has benefited from the association with an actual house of healing, while providing nothing but magic crackers and the recommendation of local priests."

Two Dreams, One Dead - Swampland - TIME.com

Two Dreams, One Dead - Swampland - TIME.com: "He's a bitter man now, who can barely tolerate the fact that he lost to Barack Obama. But he lost for an obvious reason: his campaign proved him to be puerile and feckless, a politician who panicked when the heat was on during the financial collapse, a trigger-happy gambler who chose an incompetent for his vice president. He has made quite a show ever since of demonstrating his petulance and lack of grace."

Referees' quotes – 2010 - 2010 - Environmental Microbiology - Wiley Online Library

Referees' quotes – 2010 - 2010 - Environmental Microbiology - Wiley Online Library

I agreed to review this Ms whilst answering e-mails in the golden glow of a balmy evening on the terrace of our holiday hotel on Lake Como. Back in the harsh light of reality in Belfast I realize that it's just on the limit of my comfort zone and that it would probably have been better not to have volunteered.
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I suppose that I should be happy that I don't have to spend a lot of time reviewing this dreadful paper; however I am depressed that people are performing such bad science.
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The presentation is of a standard that I would reject from an undergraduate student. Take Table 1: none of the data has units or an explanation. Negative controls gave a positive signal, but there is no explanation of why and how this was dealt with; just that it was different.

Former Yahoo Engineers Shed Light On Why Delicious And Other Acquisitions Failed

Former Yahoo Engineers Shed Light On Why Delicious And Other Acquisitions Failed: ". As Chad Dickerson, former Yahoo developer evangelist and the current CTO of Etsy comments, “In my experience, entrepreneurs moving into Yahoo! often got stuck doing PowerPoints about “strategy” instead of writing code and shipping products.”

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Mapping America — Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey - NYTimes.com

Mapping America — Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey - NYTimes.com: "Mapping America: Every City, Every Block
Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009. Because these figures are based on samples, they are subject to a margin of error, particularly in places with a low population, and are best regarded as estimates"

Top 10 Culture of Tech Stories of 2010

Top 10 Culture of Tech Stories of 2010

unleashing of the Stuxnet virus.

As the story played out, a number of eye-widening facts came to light. The virus was made by a highest-level digital team over a prolonged period. It was aimed solely at supervisory control and data acquisition systems, used only on large industrial machinery. Further, it was aimed directly at particular frequency converter drives from specific vendors. Those vendors exist only in Finland and Iran. It was designed, in fact, to change motor speed on, among other things, uranium processing facilities in Iran

Stephen Colebourne's Weblog

Stephen Colebourne's Weblog: "The precise details of the FOU are confidential at the behest of Sun, however in summary they state (rather absurdly) that the tested code cannot be run on a PC in an enclosed environment. Thus, you could run a tested version of Harmony on your PC providing it is running on your desktop. But if you pick the machine up and place it in an enclosed cabinet, such as inside an X-Ray machine, or an shopping mall information kiosk, then you would be breaking the FOU clause.
Sounds absurd? Well it is yes.
But remember, Sun didn't need something sensible. They just needed something, anything, to stop Harmony."

Breaking News on EFF Victory: Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Breaking News on EFF Victory: Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Given the fundamental similarities between email and traditional forms of communication [like postal mail and telephone calls], it would defy common sense to afford emails lesser Fourth Amendment protection.... It follows that email requires strong protection under the Fourth Amendment; otherwise the Fourth Amendment would prove an ineffective guardian of private communication, an essential purpose it has long been recognized to serve

ASTRONASTY: Half the world's population is infected by cats!

ASTRONASTY: Half the world's population is infected by cats!: "2 to 3 billion people, about half the world's population, have a brain parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, which causes a disease called toxoplasmosis. A vaccine is being developed and is showing great potential thus far.

The parasite's main host are cats, but infects many warm blooded animals. Cats get it from ingestion of infected meat, contamination of food infected with (or direct ingestion of) cat feces, or passed down from mother to unborn offspring. Humans in contact with cats often get infected via slip ups in sanitation at home, or even a cat's unclean claws scratching its owner.

There are some interesting behavior changes that are caused by the disease. Infected rats are less afraid of cats. They also, when infected, are attracted to cat urine. Correlations between infected humans and their changed behavior are (taken from wikipedia)
*Decreased novelty seeking behaviour
* Slower reactions
* Lower rule-consciousness and greater jealousy (in men)
* Promiscuity and greater conscientiousness (in women)
What's interesting here is that the promiscuity in women and jealousy in men actually assists the spread of the parasite through it's effects on our social behavior.

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My Way News - New microchip card for US purchases in Europe

My Way News - New microchip card for US purchases in Europe: "If you've traveled to Europe recently, you may have had the frustrating experience of being unable to use a U.S.-issued credit card for automated transactions, like renting a bike from a stand on the street, paying for highway tolls or buying a train ticket from an unmanned kiosk. A new prepaid smart card from Travelex solves that problem by utilizing the microchip and PIN technology that is standard in credit cards in Europe, but not here.

The new Cash Passport card can be bought in either euros or pounds from Travelex retail stores.

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Changes in Tax Codes Versus Changes in the Value of the Dollar: The Arithmetic of Competitiveness | Beat the Press

Changes in Tax Codes Versus Changes in the Value of the Dollar: The Arithmetic of Competitiveness | Beat the Press: "Corporate profits are equal to about 16 percent of the value of output in the corporate sector. Businesses pay roughly a third of their profits in taxes, which means that taxes are equal to about 5 percent of the value of output. If taxes were reduced by 20 percent, a very large tax cut, then this would reduce the cost of doing business in the United States by 1 percent relative to foreign countries.

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SlideShare Outage Will Be Due To Global Warming | SlideShare Blog

SlideShare Outage Will Be Due To Global Warming | SlideShare Blog: "SlideShare Under Maintenance
Wednesday, December 8th
8:00pm PST – 10:30pm PST

A mere 12 hours after discovering fire, man and his laptop mastered PowerPoint and has been posting to SlideShare ever since. And throughout its long history, SlideShare was always available to share ideas. Unfortunately, due to global warming we foresee an unexpected outage.

The climate crisis will spur a spontaneous mass migration of Emperor penguins leading them straight to our secret server farm in Antarctica. They will swarm down upon the servers for heat and shelter on Wednesday, December 8th, at 8PM PST.

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Apple to tap Intel's graphics for future MacBooks | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News

Apple to tap Intel's graphics for future MacBooks | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News: "Apple has decided to use Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge processors in its MacBook line, a transition that will occur in 2011, squeezing out Nvidia's graphics processors in at least some models of the popular laptops, sources have told CNET.

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Chart of the day: U.S. taxes | Analysis & Opinion |

Chart of the day: U.S. taxes | Analysis & Opinion |: "The main things to note:

* Federal taxes are the lowest in 60 years, which gives you a pretty good idea of why America’s long-term debt ratios are a big problem. If the taxes reverted to somewhere near their historical mean, the problem would be solved at a stroke.
* Income taxes, in particular, both personal and corporate, are low and falling. That trend is not sustainable.
* Employment taxes, by contrast—the regressive bit of the fiscal structure—are bearing a large and increasing share of the brunt. Any time that somebody starts complaining about how the poor don’t pay income tax, point them to this chart. Income taxes are just one part of the pie, and everybody with a job pays employment taxes.
* There aren’t any wealth taxes, but the closest thing we’ve got—estate and gift taxes—have shrunk to zero, after contributing a non-negligible amount to the public fisc in earlier decades.

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The Big Economic Story, and Why Obama Isn’t Telling It | CommonDreams.org

The Big Economic Story, and Why Obama Isn’t Telling It | CommonDreams.org: "Quiz: What's responsible for the lousy economy most Americans continue to wallow in?

A. Big government, bureaucrats, and the cultural and intellectual elites who back them.

B. Big business, Wall Street, and the powerful and privileged who represent them.

These are the two competing stories Americans are telling one another.

Yes, I know: It's more complicated than this. In reality, the lousy economy is due to insufficient demand - the result of the nation's almost unprecedented concentration of income at the top.

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Terry Pratchett and the ubiquity of negligent chance : Pharyngula

Terry Pratchett and the ubiquity of negligent chance : Pharyngula: "I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I'm sure you will agree, and even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged on to a half-submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature's wonders, gentlemen: mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.

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What the Kinect sensor actually does…

What the Kinect sensor actually does…: "Basically the Kinect appears to be a 640×480 30fps second video camera that knows the *depth* of every single pixel in the frame. It does this by projecting a 3×3 checkerboard pattern with an infrared (?) laser over the scene and using a detector that establishes the reflected intensity (more likely parallax – see comments) of the light for each pixel in the detector.

24 Hours of Hardcore Punk | MetaFilter

24 Hours of Hardcore Punk | MetaFilter: "24 Hours of Hardcore Punk
December 3, 2010 2:23 PM RSS feed for this thread Subscribe
The second edition of Steven Blush's American Hardcore: A Tribal History has just been published by Feral House. Additionally, Steven has posted 911 mp3s of hardcore punk as a soundtrack for your reading.

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John Scalzi - An Experiment in Accurate But Misleading Movie Descriptions - Filmcritic.com Feature

John Scalzi - An Experiment in Accurate But Misleading Movie Descriptions - Filmcritic.com Feature: "There's a famous television listing for The Wizard of Oz, written by newspaperman Rick Polito, which goes like this: 'Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.'

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Drew Carey (DrewFromTV) on Twitter

Drew Carey (DrewFromTV) on Twitter: "88-55 3rd quarter. This game is about as tight as LeBron's mother's vagina.

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US Has Lost All Moral High Ground On Internet Censorship | Techdirt

US Has Lost All Moral High Ground On Internet Censorship | Techdirt
excellent blog post by law professor Derek Bambauer, he makes this point after highlighting the numerous concerns over Homeland Security's domain name seizures:

The U.S. government is grabbing domain names to prevent users from reaching content it views as illegal. Not content that has been adjudicated illegal, as far as we know -- content that is alleged to be illegal. To content owners, and probably to ICE, it looks only natural that we’d prevent people from reaching information they view as stolen, or counterfeit. But it’s natural to China to censor human rights sites. Or Wikileaks, for that matter....

Every country in the world believes that some material on the Net qualifies inherently for censorship. It's obvious! In this respect, we're no different from China. So, we should give up pretensions of American exceptionalism for information controls -- for us, it's IP; for Saudi Arabia, it's porn; for France, it's hate speech. Only the quality of the legal process differentiates censors. And with these seizures, I think there's much to worry us in the (lack of) process...
This nicely summarizes the point that I've tried to make. When people claim that taking down entire websites (even ones that have plenty of legitimate content) through the US government seizing it isn't censorship because "it's copyright infringement," it sounds like the stories you hear from people in China who see absolutely nothing wrong with the Great Firewall there, noting that the government is just protecting them from "dangerous information." Both cases are about censorship, however. Same with France and Saudi Arabia. They're all situations where the government has decided that certain types of content should be blocked because it is -- in some way -- harmful. And those who agree that it is harmful say it's not censorship because it's "helpful." But that's simply not true. It's censorship, plain and simple.

Say What? Top Five IT Quotes of the Week - InternetNews.com

Say What? Top Five IT Quotes of the Week - InternetNews.com
SAP executive board member Vishal Sikka discussed one retail application in which 460 billion point of sale records were queried in less than a minute on 10 32-core blade servers costing $530,000. Sikka called in-memory technology a "once-in-a-generation technology shift."
SAP's announcement that it has begun shipping its High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) software. The first application is based on the company's BusinessObjects business intelligence software. (eCRM Guide)

CBC News - Canada - CBC shows anti-U.S. 'melodrama': WikiLeaks

CBC News - Canada - CBC shows anti-U.S. 'melodrama': WikiLeaks

U.S. diplomats in Ottawa wrote to Washington that the CBC pushes "insidious negative popular stereotyping" with "anti-American melodrama" in its entertainment TV programs, according to documents released by the website WikiLeaks.

In a cable dated Jan. 1, 2008, an unnamed U.S. diplomat writes that the CBC has "long gone to great pains to highlight the distinction between Canadians and Americans in its programming, generally at our expense."

The cable then warns that an increasing number of CBC television programs such as The Border, Intelligence and even Little Mosque on the Prairie "offer Canadian viewers their fill of nefarious American officials carrying out equally nefarious deeds in Canada while Canadian officials either oppose them or fall trying."



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/12/01/wikileaks-cbc.html#ixzz174uflJhU

Larry Ellison Hearsay: “We Can’t Be Successful if We Don’t Lie to Customers”

Larry Ellison Hearsay: “We Can’t Be Successful if We Don’t Lie to Customers”

The Unintended Humor in Wikileaks Criticism

The Unintended Humor in Wikileaks Criticism: "So by informing the people of oppressive regimes like Saudi Arabia and Yemen about the dirty things their governments do in collusion with the U.S., Wikileaks undermines efforts by the U.S. government to — ahem! — promote democracy, open government, and open and free societies in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

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The Daily Star - Politics - US spy flights over Lebanon searched for 'terrorists' - cable

The Daily Star - Politics - US spy flights over Lebanon searched for 'terrorists' - cable: "The United States has been operating secret spy flights over Lebanese territory in a bid to locate “terrorists,” according to the latest batch of intercepted diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.

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Cable Viewer

Cable Viewer: "He commented that the Saudis always want to 'fight the Iranians to the last American,' but that now it is time for them to get into the game.

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GSA picks Google over Microsoft for major cloud contract - Microsoft furious, attacks Google | TechEye

GSA picks Google over Microsoft for major cloud contract - Microsoft furious, attacks Google | TechEye: "“You have to meet the height requirement to ride in the enterprise,” he added, suggesting that Google is still a child in the business sector.

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A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus | Science/AAAS

A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus | Science/AAAS: "A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus

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Hungarian Lisp developer walks away with Google AI contest | ZDNet

Hungarian Lisp developer walks away with Google AI contest | ZDNet: "Think Lisp is a dead language? Not according to Gábor Melis, who was just crowned the winner of the PlanetWars Google AI challenge. His bot “bocsimacko” dominated a field of over 4600 contestants, but was one of only 33 programmed in Lisp.

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Is 'Quadroid' the new 'Wintel'? - Computerworld

Is 'Quadroid' the new 'Wintel'? - Computerworld
Quadroid is a term that refers to the Qualcomm chips used inside smartphones running the Android mobile operating system. The term, recently coined in a report by the PRTM consultancy, could catch on, largely because Qualcomm provides 77% of the chips in Google's Android phones. And the Quadroid alliance is expected to grow.

Official Google Blog: Being bad to your customers is bad for business

Official Google Blog: Being bad to your customers is bad for business: "We know that people will keep trying: attempts to game Google’s ranking, like the ones mentioned in the article, go on 24 hours a day, every single day. That’s why we cannot reveal the details of our solution—the underlying signals, data sources, and how we combined them to improve our rankings—beyond what we’ve already said. We can say with reasonable confidence that being bad to customers is bad for business on Google. And we will continue to work hard towards a better search.

Posted by Amit Singhal, Google Fellow"

US embassy cables: The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian

US embassy cables: The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian