Internet News Record 09/08/09 - 10/08/09 LibertyNewsprint.com U.S. Edition Crazy scratch UI to The First Draft: health care heat wave create cheap, unpowered By Deborah Zabarenko (Front panel. touch surfaces Row Washington) The non-partisan Factcheck.org site By John Biggs (CrunchGear) says its e-mail inbox has been Submitted at 8/10/2009 7:23:14 AM “exploding” recently with queries Submitted at 8/10/2009 7:16:26 AM The temperature’s heading toward asking whether this provision The same guys who brought you the 100 in Washington, and things are encourages suicide at the end of life. bubble input have created a crazy getting hotter in the debate over The answer, Factcheck.org said, is scratch UI that allows you to scratch health care too, even with Congress no. “Page 425 does deal with and tap almost any surface. By out of town for the traditional August counseling sessions for seniors, but it sensing the sound and the finding the recess and President Barack Obama is far from recommending a“Logan’s peaks and valleys in the waveform in Mexico for the so-called Three Run” approach to Medicare the system can tell if you’re Amigos summit. spending. In fact, it requires scratching a shape or tapping on the Taking aim at the orchestrated — Medicare to cover counseling surface. or not — attacks on congressional sessions for seniors who want to The UI can be used with any supporters of the Obama health care consider their end-of-life choices –- material - it just needs a sensitive plan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi including whether they want to microphone - and could be used to and House Majority Leader Steny refuse or, conversely, require certain follow a pen on a whiteboard surface Hoyer struck back in an opinion types of care. The claim that the bill or allow you to control programs piece in USAToday: “Drowning out would ‘push suicide’ is a falsehood.” from your desk. Imagine, if you will, opposing views is simply un- Will this be the end of the a touchpad on a laptop that consists American. Drowning out the facts is presidential candidate but still Down Syndrome” would have to discussion? Our considered opinion: of the entire wrist rest - heck, even how we failed at this task for somehow claiming attention in come before such a bureaucratic not a chance! the side panels. You just tap it and it decades.” Washington — on Facebook last panel. For more Reuters political news, senses what you’re doing. The two top House Democrats week, alleging that Obama’s health ABC News asked, reasonably, click here. This comes from some boys over at aren’t commenting in a care plan would have what she called what Palin was talking about when Photo credits: REUTERS/Yuri Carnegie Mellon, my alma mater, vacuum. Obama’s Saturday radio and a “death panel” that would let she mentioned a “death panel,” and Gripas (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which makes it ten times cooler. It’s Web address focused on bureaucrats decide who would be was referred to HR3200 p. 425, July 22, 2009, Washington DC) nice to know they’re still geeking out the“outlandish” tactics of some “worthy of health care.” Palin, who “Advance Care Planning REUTERS/Nathaniel Wilder over there. Go Tartans! opponents of health care reform. has slammed the media for focusing Consultation” about end-of-life care. (Sarah Palin, July 26, 2009. via Giz That followed a note by Sarah on her children, said her “baby with No specific mention of any death Fairbanks, Alaska) Palin — ex-governor, ex-vice- It’s official: Toshiba finally went Blu-ray today By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear) Toshiba has applied for membership as February 2008. It also said finally overcome their pride: In Submitted at 8/10/2009 4:00:48 AM of the Blu-ray Disc Association customers can expect the first Blu- Japan, at least, Blu-ray products are (BDA). The BDA is a voluntary ray players and Toshiba laptops with enjoying brisk sales. Blu-ray recorder They’ve announced it back in June membership group aimed at fostering built-in Blu-ray drives within this sales, for example, have been topping and executed the plan today: Toshiba the development of the Blu-ray year. As to be expected, the word HD DVD recorder sales since November is now officially a Blu-ray supporter. format on a global scale. -DVD isn’t mentioned in the press 2008. The company issued a short press Toshiba took a long time for this own HD format, HD-DVD, as early release even once. release(in English) today, stating decision, as the company buried their It’s a good move from Toshiba to 2 Top News/ Gadgets/ Business/ Internet News Record Feds holding back $100 million in drill leases (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) affairs director for the Denver-based American Association of administration. Salazar said the Submitted at 8/10/2009 2:40:22 AM Independent Petroleum Association Professional Land Men. parcels were too close to wild areas of Mountain States. "Talk about an "It's money sitting in the or national parks. SALT LAKE CITY – Brian economic stimulus." government's bank, not doing In a rare exception, Salazar ordered Wixom's company has paid the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken anybody good," Williams said. "It's the return of that auction money. government hundreds of thousands of Salazar got an earful from oilmen on just sitting there. The government Yet, according to agency records, dollars for leases to drill for oil and the issue during a "listening tour" can't use it, because they may have to the BLM is holding leases worth gas on federal lands over the years, stop in Salt Lake City in May. Then give it back." more than $40 million in Utah, MSI X-Slim X600 only to never put a rig in the ground. only a few months on the job, Salazar BLM records show the agency has around $50 million in Wyoming and The money simply sits in a federal vowed to find out more about the been holding 46 leases belonging to $1.2 million in Colorado. BLM reviewed: an bank account as Wixom and other process. Wixom's International Petroleum, a officials say that in Colorado, that drillers wait for an agonizing "We think the government should Salt Lake City family firm with amount grows to $6.9 million 'attractive choice' bureaucratic process to run its course. issue the leases we purchased or give backing from outside investors, for including withheld leases on coal, As it turns out, the federal the money back," Wixom told administrative review since 2005. Par uranium and potash rights. By Darren Murph (Engadget) government is holding a boatload of Salazar. Five Exploration LLC of Orem, Other holdups continue. On June Submitted at 8/10/2009 7:37:00 AM money for leases it auctioned and Officials acknowledge the leasing Utah, and its affiliates have hundreds 23 in Salt Lake City, the BLM held sold but hasn't issued, holding them delays have grown worse, but say of thousands of dollars tied up for what it initially described as a protest MSI's X-Slim X600 may not be the back for bureaucratic review because their hands are tied by legal parcels that the companies paid from -free auction, which would have been quickest, most nimble or most of environmental protests and wrangling that allows anyone to as far back as 2005. the first time in seven years no parcel powerful 15.6-inch laptop on the lawsuits. The backlog grew challenge a lease on public lands. "If you don't issue them, it's the was being offered under protest of market today, bit with a thickness of exponentially under the Environmentalists seized on this same as taking them away," said any group. just 0.75-inches, it's definitely got the administration of President George option during the Bush years as the Kimball Hodges of Par Five. That changed during the auction, ultrathin motif down pat. The kind W. Bush as it pushed for more administration rushed to drill more, According to Hodges, it's like when Selma Sierra, the director of lads and ladies over at Laptop Mag domestic drilling. making the delays even longer. buying a car but not being able to the BLM's operations in Utah, recently secured one of the machines The Associated Press has "It's gotten very complex," said take delivery of it and worse, not decided that every one of the drilling for review, and they seemed calculated that the government is Kent Hoffman, deputy Utah director knowing if or when the car will ever parcels offered or sold at the auction adequately impressed with the sitting on close to $100 million paid of lands and minerals for the Bureau arrive on a dealer's lot. was, in fact, under protest. Sierra combination of a low-power CPU for millions of acres of energy leases of Land Management, the federal "When you pay for something, you decided at that point to accept (1.4GHz Core 2 Solo SU3500) and a in the Rocky Mountains that have agency in charge of energy expect to get it," he said. protests that had been filed after a multimedia-friendly discrete GPU been withheld for as long as seven development on public lands. "We The Southern Utah Wilderness deadline by the Denver-based Center (ATI's 512MB Radeon HD 4330) -- a years, according to records and have to answer the protests in a very Alliance takes credit for helping gum for Native Ecosystems and the tandem that's hard to find anywhere, interviews with BLM officials in legal fashion, knowing the next step up the works. Washington, D.C.-based Theodore let alone for $799. All told, the Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. could be the Interior Board of Land "Leases were being issued at a Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. machine performed satisfactorily Drillers are steamed by the process. Appeals or federal court." breakneck rate throughout the Bush Hoffman said it could take months across the board, notching decent They don't understand why the So-called protest parcels have administration, and we were for his team to scrutinize the 31 scores in a wide array of benchmarks federal government is sitting on such always been auctioned on a buyer- challenging that because they were parcels sold to make certain each one and looking good all the while. Still, an enormous sum of money, beware basis, yet that did little to being sold in spectacular withstands environmental scrutiny critics noted that Sony's VAIO NW especially at a time when politicians deter speculators, brokers, drillers landscapes," said Stephen Bloch, a required by federal law. would be more suitable for those in Washington are so focused on and oil companies in the past. It used staff lawyer for the wilderness ___ with a Blu-ray craving and that spending stimulus money to revive to be that protests were resolved alliance. On the Net: Gateway's$599 NV is probably better the economy. fairly easily either a parcel was fit The complaints have become more Bureau of Land Management, for those looking for raw "It's just crazy that the government, for oil and gas development or it common since Salazar in February http://www.blm.gov horsepower. If style is atop your list, because of bureaucratic delays, is wasn't. Now things have turned into scrapped the leasing of 77 parcels Independent Petroleum Association though, it'll be tough to dodge the sitting on that kind of money," said "this long-term suspense," said Larry that were offered at a Utah auction in of Mountain States, "buy" button on this one. Kathleen Sgamma, government Williams, Utah director for the the final days of the Bush http://www.ipams.org/ Filed under: Laptops MSI X-Slim X600 reviewed: an ADVERTISEMENT: 'attractive choice' originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 (BloggingStocks) 07:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments Internet News Record Top News/ Gadgets/ 3 Fed payments for holding immigrants vary widely (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) agreements ICE has to detain illegal dozens of other contracts online. The Backstrom, though he wasn't sure ATI Stream goes Submitted at 8/10/2009 4:06:12 AM immigrants at 350 different facilities, daily rate paid for a jail bed varies how much. He said he wasn't directly an operation that will cost $1.7 widely among 38 government-to- involved in the negotiations between fisticuffs with NVIDIA's SAN ANTONIO – As federal billion this year. Most of the facilities government agreements signed since ICE, the county and Centerville, officials begin an overhaul of the were designed to hold criminals, but 2006, even within the same regions. Utah-based Management and CUDA in epic GPGPU widely criticized system used to the immigrants detained by ICE face For example, Orange County, N.Y., Training Corp., the private company tussle incarcerate immigrants awaiting only civil immigration proceedings has a deal to house detainees for that built and runs the facility. ICE hearings and deportation, their and many have never been convicted nearly $134 per day, compared with pays Otero County about $3 less per By Darren Murph (Engadget) challenge includes a deep of any crime. They include families $105 per day in Monmouth County, immigrant per day than it pays Los Submitted at 8/10/2009 8:57:00 AM inconsistency in the amount paid to a and people seeking asylum. N.J. Separated by 106 miles, the Angeles County. hastily assembled network of private Only a tenth of the 33,400 beds in counties sit about the same distance Morton said ICE has long-term It's a given that the GPGPU(or prisons and local jails that hold use are owned by ICE, and many of from New York City. plans to find arrangements that are General-Purpose Graphics thousands of such detainees. those beds are guarded by private The deals ICE signs with local more suitable than prison-like Processing Unit) has a long, long Contracts obtained by The contractors. An additional 16 percent governments allow for some profit, facilities. "We're going to focus on ways to go before it can make a dent Associated Press illustrate the of the beds in the ICE network are said agency spokeswoman Ernestine building a better mouse trap," he in the mainstream market, but given problem in paper-heavy detail, and completely owned and operated by Fobbs. Haskell County, Texas, takes said. that ATI was talking up Stream not all of the discrepancies can be private prison companies. The in about $1,000 per month more than Immigrant advocates say that could nearly three whole years ago, we'd explained by geography or majority of beds are owned by local it pays a private contractor to run its mean more use of electronic say a battle royale between it and its differences in the cost of living. For and state governments, some of Rolling Plains Regional Detention monitoring, allowing immigrants to biggest rival was definitely in order. example, a suburban Atlanta county which outsource their jail and prison Center, and the extra money is used remain free while pressing their cases As such, the benchmarking gurus is paid less than $43 per day to house operations to private contractors. to boost salaries in the three-man in court. ICE officials have said that over at PC Perspective saw fit to pit an illegal immigrant, while a rural The result is that in all but a sheriff's department, said the county's electronic surveillance programs that ATI's Stream and NVIDIA's CUDA New Mexico county gets $97 a day handful of cases, the federal top official, David Davis. cost about $13 per day have a near technologies against one another in a just a few dollars shy of the amount detention of an immigrant involves a But at less than $58 per day, perfect compliance rate, though they knock-down-drag-out for the ages, paid for a bed in Los Angeles. payment to an outside company or Haskell County receives far less than complain cases generally take longer essentially looking to see which Some county jails charge only the agency. the $97 per immigrant being paid to to resolve when immigrants are free. system took the most strain away actual cost of housing an immigrant, Many of those contracts were Otero County, N.M., even though "There are entities that are profiting from the CPU during video encoding while others acknowledge partnering negotiated over the last decade when both counties are rural and built from the use of detention," said and which produced more visually with private prison companies to the government was outsourcing a prisons as economic development Jacqueline Esposito, policy appealing results. We won't bother profit from the system. growing number of services and ICE, projects. Davis said he wasn't aware coordinator for Detention Watch getting into the nitty-gritty (that's Last week, the Obama under pressure to detain more that other counties were getting paid Network. "There are community- what the read link is for), but we will administration announced a series of immigrants who had previously been substantially more. based alternatives and they cost a say this: in testing, ATI's contraption "major reforms" in the detention of allowed to remain free, was rushing "I've never compared what we had fraction of the price. You have to managed to relieve the most stress illegal immigrants, including placing to add space. with what they had," he said. wonder then what the motivation is from the CPU, though NVIDIA's federal employees inside the largest "They had to find quick places with Otero County opened its behind a detention system that has alternative seemed to pump out the facilities to monitor detainee beds," said Peter L. Markowitz, immigration detention facility last exploded." highest quality materials. In other treatment. In doing so, John Morton, director of the Immigration Justice year about 25 miles north of El Paso. ___ words, you can't win for losin'. the new director of Immigration and Clinic at the Benjamin N. Cardozo Approached by a private contractor On the Net: Filed under: Peripherals Customs Enforcement, School of Law. looking to arrange the deal, "the U.S. Immigration and Customs ATI Stream goes fisticuffs with acknowledged the current system is Through a Freedom of Information county saw a potential to increase Enforcement: http://www.ice.gov/ NVIDIA's CUDA in epic GPGPU both inconsistent and lacks oversight. request, the AP obtained ICE's some revenues," said Assistant tussle originally appeared on "There isn't a uniform rhyme or contracts with some of the largest County Manager Ray Backstom. Engadget on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 reason to it," he said. immigration detention facilities; the The county makes a "small" profit 08:57:00 EST. Please see our terms Morton pledged to review all the agency also recently began posting on every bed that's occupied, said for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments Get angry: AT&T changes contract to prevent class action lawsuits By Nicholas Deleon your AT&T contract? If you against the mobile phone carrier. (CrunchGear) answered “never,” then may I High five! suggest you take two minutes to look Submitted at 8/10/2009 7:30:21 AM this over. That's right, unbeknownst enter into a class action lawsuit When was the last time you read to you, you just lost the ability to 4 Top News/ Gadgets/ Internet News Record Hudson divers seek 2 victims, hope to raise plane (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Hersman said on NBC's "Today" just taken off for a 12-minute tour, Leporati said. "The anniversary Submitted at 8/10/2009 5:53:58 AM show that investigators will from behind and clipped it with a already happened but they took eventually examine the aircraft's wing. Hersman said the helicopter advantage of the August holidays and HOBOKEN, N.J. – Divers hope to structural integrity and will try to was gaining altitude at the time the went," Leporati told The Associated pull a plane out of the Hudson River determine how the initial impact two hit. Both aircraft split apart and Press by phone. on Monday, but their first priority is occurred. fell into the river, scattering debris The helicopter company, Liberty Gigabyte T1028X to recover the bodies of two Hersman declined to speculate and sending weekenders enjoying the Helicopters, released the name of the TouchNote brings remaining victims of the air collision about the cause of the crash, the beautiful day running for cover. pilot in the crash: Jeremy Clarke of that killed nine people, a chief worst air disaster in New York City The plane took off from the Lanoka Harbor, N.J. The NTSB said fresher specs, steeper investigator said. since a commercial jet crash in Teterboro Airport in New Jersey the pilot, originally from New price A Pennsylvania family and an Queens killed 265 people in shortly before noon. Hersman said it Zealand, was born in 1976 and came Italian tourist group were killed in November 2001. The investigation is was not required to have a flight plan to work for Liberty last year. He had By Vladislav Savov (Engadget) Saturday's crash of the small plane expected to take months. and did not file one. The plane was about 2,700 hours of flight time. Submitted at 8/10/2009 10:24:00 AM and a sightseeing helicopter in the A pilot who radioed a desperate, flying at about 1,100 feet at the time "He was a very responsible, very busy skies of Manhattan. last-minute warning said the plane of the crash, she said. Below that safe pilot," said his former mother-in- It's only been a few months since Seven bodies were recovered one that struck the helicopter "looked like altitude, planes in that part of the law, Betty Mallory. "I wouldn't have Gigabyte unveiled the 1028M teenage passenger on the plane and a cruise missile hitting a target." Hudson River corridor are to had any hesitation flying with him." netbook / tablet hybrid, but its all six people aboard the helicopter. Ben Lane warned fellow helicopter navigate visually. Above that, they The plane's pilot was identified as successor is already available to buy Divers resumed their search for the pilot Jeremy Clarke that the plane need clearance from air traffic 60-year-old Steven Altman of in Europe. Announced in Hong Kong plane's pilot and an adult passenger was bearing down on him. controllers. Ambler, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb. last month, the 1028X ups the on Monday. Lane told the Daily News in One of the Italian victims was a The passengers were his 49-year-old resolution to 1366 x 768 on the 10.1- "We think we've had some positive Monday's editions that another pilot husband celebrating his 25th brother, Daniel Altman of Dresher, inch swivel display and bundles a 6- hits on the skin of the airplane and heard him scream "Watch out! Watch wedding anniversary, a family friend Pa., and Daniel's 16-year-old son, cell 7650 mAh battery for a we're very hopeful they'll be able to out!" said. His wife had stayed behind Douglas, officials said. The Altman purported six and a half hours of pull that up today," NTSB chief He said he doesn't remember because she was afraid of flying, but brothers worked in real estate. juice. There's also an utterly Debbie Hersman told CNN on screaming, but does recall seeing a their 16-year-old son was in the ___ meaningless 60MHz CPU upgrade Monday. wing and chopper blades falling helicopter. Associated Press writers from the Atom N270 to the N280, An Army Corps of Engineers crane before both aircraft plummeted. The five tourists were from the contributing to this report include: but the most surprising thing of all lifted the twisted wreckage of the Lane said a crash was inevitable Bologna, Italy, area: Michele Norelli, Deepti Hajela, Suzanne Ma and Amy might be the price: €622 ($877). helicopter from 30 feet of water near along the busy corridor. Helicopter 51; his son Filippo Norelli, 16; Fabio Westfeldt in New York City, Beth That's an awful lot of damage for the New Jersey shore on Sunday. A pilots stay in constant radio contact, Gallazzi, 49; his wife, Tiziana DeFalco in Trenton, N.J., JoAnn what is still very much a netbook, but sonar scanner found the Piper Lancer he said, but many small plane pilots Pedroni, 44; and their son Giacomo Loviglio in Blue Bell, Pa., Colleen then if you simply must have a nearby and more plane parts were do not. Gallazzi, 15. Long in Chicago, Ariel David in touchscreen display in that specific found farther away under about 50 Witnesses said the small plane The trip was a gift from Norelli's Rome and AP News researcher Julie size range, there isn't much feet of water. approached the helicopter, which had sister, family friend Giovanni Reed. competition going around. At least for now. [Via Slashgear] UAV Control: There’s an app for that Read-- Gigabyte product page Read-- European reseller By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) Cummings, set out to replace the is hoping picked up by the Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs suitcase-sized controller currently commercial market. Just think how Submitted at 8/10/2009 6:05:46 AM Gigabyte T1028X TouchNote need to control arial drones. Spoiler: many uses a small, quad-rotor robot brings fresher specs, steeper price Why shouldn’t the iPhone be able to her team succeeded as the video after that sends pics and GPS location data originally appeared on Engadget on control a unmanned military the jump proves. back to the iPhone could have? I can Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:24:00 EST. reconnaissance aircraft? If you think Her team of 30 people ended up think of a couple and at least one Please see our terms for use of feeds. about it, the iPhone is little more (ok, creating an iPhone app that uses the isn’t creepy at all. Permalink| Email this| Comments a lot more) than a souped-up Wii accelerometers to create a natural [ Wired Danger Room via controller and we already know those control scheme. Not only that, they Gizmodo] little devices can control robots and developed a new, quad-rotor robot Now this new robot and app isn’t such. And so MIT professor and and purchased all the iPhones for less limited just to military use. It’s ready former F/A-18 Hornet pilot, Missy than $5,000. for other applications and Cummings Internet News Record Top News/ Gadgets/ 5 Colombia 'incursion' riles Chavez Immune system cancer (BBC News | Americas | World but when Venezuelan troops arrived, forces in the country as part of the Edition) they had gone. anti-drugs programme Plan "This is a provocation by the Colombia, access to air bases in found in young 9/11 Submitted at 8/10/2009 3:17:11 AM government of Uribe," he said. "The Colombia to gather intelligence and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Yankees have started to command support operations against drugs has accused Colombia of carrying Colombian military forces." production and terrorism. officers (AP) out a military incursion into Venezuela's foreign ministry would Mr Uribe has said the accord will (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Those four young multiple Venezuela. file a formal complaint, he added, not infringe Colombia's sovereignty Submitted at 8/10/2009 3:13:35 AM myeloma patients included one Mr Chavez said Colombian warning that its military would and that there would be no more than officer who was caught in the dust soldiers had recently been seen "respond if there's an attack". 1,400 troops and civilian contractors NEW YORK – Researchers say a cloud on 9/11 and then spent months crossing the Orinoco river, which The Colombian foreign ministry based there, the maximum permitted small number of young law working long hours at the site. forms part of the border, and entering said it had been in contact with its under the current military accord enforcement officers who Another spent 111 days at the Staten Venezuelan territory. military commanders in the border between Colombia and the US. participated in the World Trade Island landfill where the rubble was He said the incursion - which area, who said there had been no Correspondents say this is not the Center rescue and cleanup operation sifted. Two others had less exposure, Colombia denies happened - was a such incursion. first time tensions have risen between have developed an immune system working 12 and 14 days each in the "provocation". Mr Chavez, who is now in Ecuador the Venezuelan and Colombian cancer. pit and rubble pile. South American leaders are for the inauguration of President presidents. The numbers are tiny, and experts The study said it is possible the gathering in Ecuador for a summit Rafael Correa and a summit of the Last year, a war of words don't know whether there is any link monitoring program was simply which is set to discuss Colombia's Union of South American Nations culminated in the Venezuelans between the illnesses and toxins more effective at finding the illness planned accord to allow the US use (Unasur), is expected to urge his despatching tanks and heavy armour released during the disaster. among people who wouldn't of its military bases. allies in the region to press Mr Uribe to the border. But doctors who coordinated the ordinarily be subjected to intense Mr Chavez has been embroiled in a to reconsider the planned accord with Are you in Venezuela or study, published Monday in the medical tracking. diplomatic row with his Colombian the US. Colombia? How do you think these Journal of Occupational and Nevertheless, Moline said, "You counterpart, Alvaro Uribe, since Ecuador, which has no diplomatic latest events will affect the relations Environmental Medicine, said people shouldn't be seeing so many cases of news of the plan emerged. ties with Colombia, and Bolivia have between the two countries? Send us who worked at the site should myeloma in younger folks." The 'Growing threat' also attacked the plan. Other your comments using the form continue to have their health median age of diagnosis for that During his weekly TV show on countries in the region, including below. monitored. cancer in the general public is 71. Sunday, Mr Chavez ordered his Brazil, have sought guarantees that A selection of your comments may "What we are trying to get out there Several groups are studying New troops on to a war footing along the US-Colombian military operations be published, displaying your name is: Be alert," said Dr. Jacqueline M. Yorkers exposed to toxic dust when border with Colombia. will not spill over Colombia's and location unless you state Moline, director of the World Trade the skyscrapers collapsed. "The threat against us is growing," borders. otherwise in the box below. Center Medical Monitoring and To date, no study, including the he said. "I call on the people and the The US is leaving its previous The BBC may edit your comments Treatment Program at the Mount one published Monday, has armed forces - let's go, ready for regional hub, the Manta air base in and not all emails will be published. Sinai School of Medicine. established a link between that dust combat!" Ecuador, after Mr Correa refused to Your comments may be published on The researchers looked at 28,252 and cancer, said Lorna Thorpe, a He said Colombian soldiers had renew the lease. any BBC media worldwide. emergency responders who spent deputy commissioner and "crossed the Orinoco river in a boat The deal with Colombia would Print Sponsor time amid ground zero dust and epidemiologist at New York City's and entered Venezuelan territory", give the US, which already has found eight cases of multiple health department. myeloma. The timing of the four cases RAmos T6 PMP don't need no buttons Those findings were no surprise. examined by the team at Mount Sinai Multiple myeloma is the second most also raised questions about whether By Darren Murph (Engadget) edges ensures that your volume level common hematological cancer in the they are related to their work at Submitted at 8/10/2009 8:26:00 AM and track selection isn't solely U.S. after non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. ground zero, she said. controlled by a touchscreen, but we Normally, researchers would expect Most research on multiple Ah, if it isn't RAmos again. The definitely appreciate the clean look. to find about seven cases in a group myeloma indicates that it usually only Chinese PMP maker that cranks Filed under: Handhelds, Portable as large as the one examined in the takes 10 to 20 years for someone to out wares that aren't chock full of Audio, Portable Video study. develop that cancer after an KIRF. The outfit's latest endeavor is RAmos T6 PMP don't need no However, four of the people who environmental exposure to a the T6 icon, a sleek, simplistic media buttons originally appeared on fell ill were under age 45, and carcinogen. player that isn't apt to head stateside Engadget on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 multiple myeloma is thought to be In these cases, the cancers were anytime soon. Packing a 4.3-inch HDMI output and nary a button on 08:26:00 EST. Please see our terms more rare among people of that age. diagnosed in as little as three to four LCD (800 x 480 resolution) and a for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Under normal circumstances, years after the attacks, suggesting frame that's just ten millimeters thick, the front face. 'Course, the assortment of rockers around the Email this| Comments researchers would have expected to that something else caused the the HD-capable device also boasts an find only one case of the disease in disease. that age group. 6 Top News/ Business/ * Internet News Record Police questioned health club Honduras yields on gunman, let him go (AP) OAS delegation (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) charge Sodini because the witness description of the man with the (BBC News | Americas | World government failed to abide by a Submitted at 8/10/2009 7:17:14 AM who reported seeing a man with a grenade. The officer photographed Edition) deadline to restore Mr Zelaya to grenade couldn't confirm Sodini was Sodini, but the passenger was shown power. PITTSBURGH – The man who shot the one, and Sodini denied it when the picture and couldn't confirm Submitted at 8/9/2009 9:40:27 PM 'Damage to democracy' up a women's aerobics class, killing police found and questioned him two Sodini was the man with the grenade, The interim government in Mr Insulza was to be accompanied three people and then himself, was days later. Ritchie said. Honduras now says that it is willing on the visit to Tegucigalpa on questioned a week earlier by police "It wasn't until two days later that Port Authority officials to accept mediation talks with a Tuesday by the foreign ministers of because he matched the description our sergeant found a guy matching immediately notified county police delegation from the Organisation of Argentina, Canada, Costa Rica, of a man seen pulling what appeared the description," Ritchie told The about the grenade investigation once American States. Jamaica, Mexico and the Dominican to be a grenade from a computer bag, Associated Press on Monday. "There Sodini was identified as the health But it says it will only do so if the Republic. authorities said Monday. wasn't much more we could do at club shooter, Ritchie said. OAS Secretary-General, Jose Miguel But on Sunday, the Honduran George Sodini, 48, of Scott that point." Moffatt told the Pittsburgh Post- Insulza, attends only as an observer. foreign ministry announced that it Township, was ultimately let go by The passenger saw a man matching Gazette that he can't say whether It had earlier refused to accept the would turn back the group because of Port Authority of Allegheny County Sodini's description take a grenade police found a grenade at Sodini's delegation because it said Mr Insulza the presence of the OAS secretary- police because they couldn't confirm out of a computer bag around 7 a.m. home, but they did find writings. He lacked objectivity. general. he was the man on the bus July 28, July 28 and move it around in his did not elaborate. He has called for the reinstatement It also said other unnamed authorities said. hands. The passenger didn't report it Two people injured in the shooting of President Manuel Zelaya, who was countries it considered more But County police Superintendent to Port Authority police until that remained hospitalized Monday, one toppled in a military coup in June. sympathetic were not represented in Charles Moffatt told the Pittsburgh afternoon, Ritchie said, too late for in fair condition and one in serious It's not known whether the OAS the delegation. Post-Gazette that investigators found police to search the bus. condition, hospital officials said. will accept the terms for the visit. But later on Sunday evening, it writings in Sodini's home after the The passenger "definitely saw it; he Funeral home visitation was The meeting had been planned for relented and said that it would accept shooting that referenced the situation. just wasn't sure it was a real scheduled Tuesday in Franklin for Tuesday, but a new date has yet to be Mr Insulza, so long as he was only an Moffatt did not immediately return (grenade)," Ritchie said. "It looked the third woman killed by Sodini, announced. observer. a call from The Associated Press on pretty real to him." Jody Billingsley, 37, of Mount Mr Zelaya was sent into exile after The OAS hopes Mr Micheletti can Monday. The passenger told police the man Lebanon. Her funeral is Wednesday a coup in June amid a power struggle be persuaded to accept a detailed In addition to the deaths, Sodini "was sort of toying with it in his in Franklin. Funerals for the other over his plans for constitutional plan proposed by the Costa Rican shot and wounded nine people who hands, sitting there almost passing two victims, Heidi Overmier, 46, of change. President, Oscar Arias. were attending the aerobics class at the time with the thing in his hands." Carnegie, and Elizabeth Gannon, 49, His critics said the move was Under this, Mr Zelaya would return the L.A. Fitness club in Collier Police began staking out that bus of Green Tree, were on Saturday. aimed at removing the current one- to serve out his presidency and a Township on Aug. 4. route, and on July 30 a sergeant term limit on serving as president, government of national reconciliation Port Authority spokesman Jim stopped, questioned and searched and paving the way for his re- would be set up. There would be an Ritchie said transit police didn't Sodini because he matched the election. amnesty for political crimes Following the army-led coup on 28 committed during the crisis, and June, the speaker of Congress, presidential elections would be Mobius says stocks will drop by a third Roberto Micheletti - constitutionally brought forward to 28 October. By Tom Johansmeyer investors would have to liquidate second in line to the presidency - was But the interim government says (BloggingStocks) existing positions, which can put sworn in as interim leader. his return to power is an downward pressure on the market as The OAS has demanded Mr impossibility. Mr Zelaya says it is Submitted at 8/10/2009 9:20:00 AM a whole. Money doesn't come from Zelaya's immediate reinstatement. "non-negotiable". Filed under: China, Recession nowhere, and new capital will come It suspended Honduras' Print Sponsor Mark Mobius, executive chairman on the backs of the previous membership after the interim of Templeton Asset Management investments. Ltd., believes that the global stock Continue reading Mobius says 6 Reasons to Jailbreak Your iPhone market will fall by up to 30%. The stocks will drop by a third By Brian X. Chen (Wired Top several restrictions to what you can strong rebound following last year's Mobius says stocks will drop by a Stories) do on the 3G network. These are just calamity is likely to be impeded by third originally appeared on a few of several new incentives for Submitted at 8/9/2009 9:00:00 PM profit-taking on the upswing. stock market comes from the BloggingStocks on Mon, 10 Aug why you should consider jailbreaking Basically, an increase of 70%, he increase in new stock and bond 2009 09:20:00 EST. Please see our Apple banned Google Voice, your iPhone. says, will lead to a decrease of 20 to issuances, Mobius says. To terms for use of feeds. Read| crippled SingPlayer, and there are 30%. participate in these new deals, Permalink| Email this| Comments The greatest risk in a recovering Internet News Record Top News/ Gadgets/ 7 Hunt for NY crash bodies goes on (BBC News | Americas | World and an adult passenger. eight years - has begun and is Edition) The wreckage of the helicopter has expected to take months. been removed, but plane parts remain Neither aircraft was required to Submitted at 8/10/2009 5:27:45 AM under water. They have been located carry flight data or cockpit voice Divers return to the murky waters of with a sonar scanner and engineer recorders. the Hudson River on Monday to crews expect to retrieve them on Witnesses said the small plane continue the search for bodies and Monday. approached the helicopter from wreckage following Saturday's mid- The victims of the crash were two behind and clipped it with a wing. air crash. families. Deborah Hersman of the National CrunchGear Week in A helicopter and a small plane Michele Norelli, 51, was visiting Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) carrying a total of nine people hit and with family members from Italy, said the plane had taken off from Review: Ice Cream crashed into the river near New York reported AP news agency. Teterboro Airport but responsibility Mishap Edition City. He was celebrating his 25th for tracking it had been handed over The bodies of two people and the wedding anniversary, and was on the to controllers at Newark airport. By Bryce Durbin (CrunchGear) Nanovision's MIMO plane's wreckage remain helicopter flight with his teenage son The pilot had been told to contact Submitted at 8/10/2009 12:00:01 AM unrecovered. and other family members, as well as the Newark control tower but had not 720-S USB secondary The investigation into the crash is pilot Jeremy Clarke. done so, she said. Retro Review: River City Ransom display is slim yet expected to take months, but there But his wife, Silvia, was afraid to The crash has renewed calls for a (Wii Virtual Console) have already been calls for safety fly and stayed on the ground, a review of safety in the zone about Zelda-fy your baby with this touchable regulations to be re-examined. family friend told AP. 1,000 feet (305m) above the Hudson handmade Link outfit By Tim Stevens (Engadget) The skies immediately above the In the plane were Daniel Altman River. USB hub looks like an old cassette Hudson River are crowded - largely and his son Douglas, from Some pilots told the New York tape Submitted at 8/10/2009 9:41:00 AM with helicopters carrying tourists. Pennsylvania, along with pilot Times that they had to be extremely iPod Nano sleeves made from If you got all excited about the Wife 'refused to fly' Steven Altman, AP said. vigilant when flying in the crowded cassette tapes upcoming MIMO 710-S, Divers have recovered the bodies Safety review call zone. OMG! DIY Drumsticks! Nanovision's slinky refresh of its of seven victims of the crash, leaving The investigation into the crash - Print Sponsor earlier UM-710, but then felt like two unrecovered - the plane's pilot New York's worst air disaster for someone took the wind out of your proverbial sails when you learned it lacked a touchable screen, we'd advise you to hold fast and ready that US to target 'Afghan drug lords' metaphorical spinnaker. The (BBC News | Americas | World Afghanistan. the Senate report, the paper said. The strategy of eradicating poppy company has confirmed there's Edition) In interviews with the Senate Poppy destruction crops has been difficult partly another new version coming over the Foreign Relations Committee, which For many years, US policy in because many of the key growing Submitted at 8/10/2009 6:26:28 AM horizon, the 720-S, featuring the is due to release the report later this Afghanistan focused on destroying areas are under Taliban control, our same 7-inch, 800 x 480 panel, but The US has put 50 Afghans week, two American generals serving poppy crops. correspondent says. now granted touch capabilities. suspected to be drug traffickers with in Afghanistan said that major But in March Richard Holbrooke, The new willingness to intervene is You'll need to exercise a bit of Taliban links on a list of people to be traffickers with proven links to the the US envoy to the region, said that also recognition of the corrosive restraint, as they're not due to ship for "captured or killed", the New York insurgency have been put on the US efforts to eradicate opium poppy effect the drugs trade is having on the another month or so, and while we Times reports. "joint integrated prioritised target crops in Afghanistan had been country. don't know exactly how much it'll Two American generals have told list", the New York Times reported. "wasteful and ineffective". As well as funding the Taliban, it is displace from your wallet one UK the US Congress that the policy is That means they have been given He said efforts to eradicate poppy also fuelling organised crime and site has a pre-order up for £130 legal under the military's rules of the same target status as insurgent cultivation had failed to make an corruption, our correspondent says. (about $215). We do plan to be engagement and international law, leaders, and can be captured or killed impact on the Taliban insurgents' The southern Afghan province of putting a 710-S through its paces the paper says. at any time. ability to raise money from the drugs Helmand is the main producer of shortly, though, which might just In a report, yet to be released, it It quoted one of the generals as trade. Afghan opium, which accounts for help to tide you over. was described as a key strategy to telling the committee: "We have a list The BBC's Jill McGivering says more than 90% of the global supply. 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Bone-anchored hearing aids filter out noise, finally ready for human implantation Obama backs Mexico's drugs war By Darren Murph (Engadget) music." Due to a birth defect that left (BBC News | Americas | World problems caused by the economic policy on public works, which has hit Submitted at 8/10/2009 8:03:00 AM him with atypically narrow Edition) recession. Canadian exporters hard. eustachian tubes, Colin was never It will be President Barack Obama's Mexico is also unhappy with Think those noise-canceling able to take advantage of traditional Submitted at 8/9/2009 10:16:06 PM first attendance at the annual meeting Canada's decision to require visas earbuds are hot stuff? Imagine if said hearing aids for any length of time, Please turn on JavaScript. Media of North American leaders. from Mexican visitors to the country. technology was applied to an but now these $12,000 (per pair) requires JavaScript to play. It has been dubbed the meeting of The threat of organised crime is advanced type of implantable hearing devices are promising a new life for Obama arrives in Mexico three amigos, but difficult issues something which is more likely to aid, and you'll have an idea of exactly the 70-year old bloke. Our favorite US President Barack Obama has divide the participants, says BBC unite the leaders, our correspondent what Earthlings with severe hearing feature? MP3 players can be directly given "strong support" to Mexico's Mexico correspondent Stephen adds. loss now have to look forward to. For (and discretely) attached, enabling war on drugs cartels, at the start of a Gibbs. Drug violence, an acute problem in years now, we've watched as old geezers to tune out old hags summit in Guadalajara. Mexico is currently experiencing Mexico, is showing some signs of cochlear implants became more without them ever noticing. At talks with Mexico's President what looks set to be its deepest spilling over the border into the effective in lab tests, and up until [Thanks, Mike] Felipe Calderon, he also raised the recession since the 1930s. southern US. recently, we've had strict medical Filed under: Wearables issues of swine flu and a ban on It is concerned that recent US It also a growing problem in parts testing procedures to thank for the Bone-anchored hearing aids filter Mexican lorries entering the United moves, including a ban on Mexican of Canada. Mexico will be pressing inability to actually get one. Now, out noise, finally ready for human States. truckers operating in the US, suggest the US to free up more of its one Colin Hughes will soon be implantation originally appeared on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen protectionism and could worsen its promised $1.4bn (£840m) in aid to amongst the first Australians to enjoy Engadget on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 Harper joined the two leaders for economic situation, our combat drug trafficking. a "new bone-anchored hearing aid 08:03:00 EST. Please see our terms dinner. correspondent says. Print Sponsor designed to adjust to noisy for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| On Monday, a three-way summit Mr Harper is expected to press Mr environments, quiet conversations Email this| Comments will be held, likely to focus on Obama to revise the Buy America and the varying rhythms and pitch of Levi Johnston Escorts Kathy Griffin to 'Teen Choice' Awards (ETonline - Breaking News) "D List" star Kathy Griffin stepped Levi -- the father to former Alaska 2009" awards, ET confirms. Kathy Click HERE for more "Teen Submitted at 8/9/2009 7:17:00 PM out with Bristol Palin's ex-fiance governor Sarah Palin's grandchild -- tells ET that she wanted to bring a Choice" awards coverage. Levi Johnston Sunday evening. escorted Kathy to the "Teen Choice teenager to the awards ceremony. Internet News Record Gadgets/ Business/ * 9 Options Update: Volatility decreases as market indices rally By Paul Foster (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 8/10/2009 8:30:00 AM Filed under: Options Financial Select Sector( XLF) overall volatility at 39; 26-week average is 58. ISE Sentiment Index (ISEE) closed at 130 on 8/7/09. ISEE 10-day moving average is 130. Volatility Index NASDAQ 100( More evidence mounting of an VXN) at 25.02; 10-day moving average is 25.83. 8GB iPhone 3GS? August front month equity options By Joseph L. Flatley (Engadget) promising development here, or a expire on August 21. Bring popcorn: Youserbase Option Update is provided by Submitted at 8/10/2009 10:01:00 AM simple case of a misplaced check mark? Feel free to sound off in the Stock Specialist Paul Foster of reviews Sony Ericcson's Satio Well, kids, we don't know if this is a comments. theflyonthewall.com. typo, a Freudian slip, or both (or Continue reading More evidence Options Update: Volatility and Aino smartphones on video neither), but according to this handy mounting of an 8GB iPhone 3GS? decreases as market indices rally graphic on Rogers' website the Filed under: Cellphones originally appeared on By Tim Stevens (Engadget) responsive integrated browsers. rumored 8GB iPhone 3GS exists -- if More evidence mounting of an BloggingStocks on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:30:00 EST. Please see our Submitted at 8/10/2009 9:19:00 AM We've included just the first two not for sale, at least for comparison. 8GB iPhone 3GS? originally installments here after the break, but Keen readers of charts will note that appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Sony Ericsson has been teasing us if you you don't have anything the price listed for the 3GS still starts Aug 2009 10:01:00 EST. Please see Email this| Comments with its hottest for some months now, planned this morning feel free to with the 16GB model, and if you our terms for use of feeds. Read| the Satio(nee Idou) and the Aino, two click on through for the epic and scroll through to the ordering page Permalink| Email this| Comments media-heavy smartphones that are sweeping series. there is no 8GB 3GS option listed. inching closer to international [Via USEB] So, what do you think? Do we have a release. They still aren't confirmed Read- Satio video review for American shores, but until then Read- Aino video review we can enjoy a series of lengthy Continue reading Bring popcorn: Viacom's 'G.I. Joe' victorious at box office -- videos covering the two courtesy of Youserbase reviews Sony Ericcson's Youserbase. How lengthy? We're Satio and Aino smartphones on video talking almost 75 minutes of Filed under: Cellphones what about Hasbro? discussion and tentative fingering Bring popcorn: Youserbase reviews By Steven Mallas The latter cooked up around $20 over nine parts, showing off nearly Sony Ericcson's Satio and Aino (BloggingStocks) million. Disney's (NYSE: DIS) G- every nook and cranny of the phones' smartphones on video originally Force came in third with $9.8 (decided dark) user interfaces. While appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Submitted at 8/10/2009 9:40:00 AM million. there aren't any huge surprises here, Aug 2009 09:19:00 EST. Please see Filed under: Walt Disney (DIS), Continue reading Viacom's 'G.I. the vids give good feel for the our terms for use of feeds. 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Joe: time of writing. That was more than have moped gangs: Here's the gang The Rise of Cobra. enough to beat the second-place film, Mopeds, those cheap, two-wheeled from New York. According to Boxofficemojo, Joe Sony's (NYSE: SNE) Julie & Julia. 10 Gadgets/ Business/ * Internet News Record Publicis catches Microsoft's Razorfish for $530 million By Tom Taulli (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 8/10/2009 8:00:00 AM Filed under: Deals, Microsoft (MSFT) For the past few months, Microsoft(NASDAQ: MSFT) had been shopping its interactive agency, Razorfish. Now, there is a deal: Publicis has agreed to pay roughly $530 million for the firm. The deal is part cash, part stock. Razorfish, which got its start in 1995, has grown into a dominant player in web media consulting. Yet, this is really not a core business that Microsoft is interested in (the company inherited Razorfish in its $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive several years ago). 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A Japanese company called Sanwa pictures and even listening to music gun that doesn’t fire off bullets but Japan link pointing you to a Please see our terms for use of feeds. is selling a waterproof case[JP] (or a (it's equipped with a special jack for rubber bands. The fully functional construction kit for beginners. Permalink| Email this| Comments bag as they call it) that protects your use with waterproof headphones). gun is able to shoot a total of 200 Watch the rubber band machine iPhone from nasty stuff like But be careful, the case is IPX7- rubber bands in rapid succession. The gun in action in the videos below. scratches, water and sand. Sanwa certified, meaning it can withstand geek hails from Japan, which is no Via Japan Probe says their 200-PDA016 is ideal for immersion in one meter of water for wonder as this is probably the only all users who can't go hiking, to the up to 30 minutes. country with an official Rubber Band beach or skiing without their iPhone. 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The sexy Megan Fox and vampire Fallen' actress and the 'Twilight' actor hunk Robert Pattinson took to the were honored with the Choice Hottie Internet News Record Business/ Social Net/ * 11 Cramer on BloggingStocks: More trouble for Rio Tinto in HOW TO: Track the Staying at the table China Edinburgh Fringe By Jim Cramer (BloggingStocks) By Mark Fightmaster four of its employees were detained Festival on Twitter Submitted at 8/10/2009 10:00:00 AM (BloggingStocks) by authorities in Shanghai on suspicion of stealing state secrets. By Pete Cashmore (Mashable!) 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TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says steel mills by $100 million during the More trouble for Rio Tinto in Never fear: there’s now a service that the presumption remains that we're past six years, and the latest China originally appeared on scans Twitter for reviews of Fringe doing badly. I disagree and will place accusations cover the sale of iron ore. BloggingStocks on Mon, 10 Aug performances and assigns a score to my bets. To catch you up on the situation 2009 10:20:00 EST. Please see our each. As a bull who feels like he's "won" between RTP and the Chinese terms for use of feeds. Permalink| The service, called EdTwinge, was of late, I am about as sure of myself government, back in early July, RTP Email this| Comments developed by Mike Coulter, Andrew as a gambler who has just had a was accused of bribing officials and Burnett, Jim Wolff and digital couple of blackjacks, meaning that I agency Blonde. They say of the site: expect to be given a 16 any week General Motors, eBay EdTwinge.com is a Twitter- now. That doesn't mean you can't powered review service that collects everyone I respect in this business -- any tweet that mentions a festival play out of a 16, especially when the except Steve Leuthold -- has dealer's got something similar. It partnership kicks off on Tuesday show, then does some clever analysis emerged with a consensus view that on whether people like or dislike it, does mean you have to be at the the economy without stimulation By Zac Bissonnette research financing options and find table. and provides a realtime Top 10 of would be near collapse, and even (BloggingStocks) out whether they qualify for the Cash acts in each main genre. You can also I use the analogy because there's For Clunkers program. 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You your skills while learning from those Internet News Record Social Net/ * 17 Tr.im URL Shortener Shuts Down; SHORTURL SAVIOR: Short Links to Die? Bit.ly Swoops in to Save By Ben Parr (Mashable!) servers, millions of links will simply Submitted at 8/9/2009 4:31:22 PM die. Poof, just like that. Someone could even buy Tr.im and redirect all Tr.im As Twitter and its 140 character the links to spam, porn, or malware. By Pete Cashmore (Mashable!) limit has skyrocketed to popularity, Our bet however is that someone another type of service rode grew reputable buys Tr.im before Submitted at 8/10/2009 3:35:56 AM exponentially as well: URL December 31st. There is just too The announcement this weekend shorteners. From Bit.ly to TinyURL, much value in those links for there to that Tr.im will shut down has deeply the quality and number of link We regret that it came to this, but be no bidders. worrying implications for URL shorteners has ballooned. all of our efforts to avoid it failed.No Tr.im’s demise renews the debate shorteners: when these services go This rise has sparked a huge debate business we approached wanted to over URL shorteners. What happens away, tens of thousands of links on in the tech community. Are URL purchase tr.im for even a minor if Bit.ly or TinyURL were to be the web simply stop working. Some competitor). shorteners good for the web? amount. hacked or lost their URL data? An sites will lose hundreds of inbound In a mail to Mashable, Betaworks Delicious founder Joshua schachter There is no way for us to monetize entire ecosystem of links would links, and the traffic that comes with tells us that they’ve reached out to made a strong case against them. We URL shortening— users won’t pay suddenly be swept away. Millions them. Tr.im’s founder and “offered to host provided a devil’s advocate argument for it — and we just can’t justify upon millions of links could After a recent decision by Digg to his URL mappings starting in favor of URL shorteners. further devleopment since Twitter suddenly vanish, leaving users simply redirect their shortURLs to tomorrow”. Whether Tr.im takes The debate’s about to heat up again has all but annointed bit.ly the confused and a possibly uncleanable their own site, there’s a great deal of them up on the offer is another though, as Tr.im, a URL shortener market winner. There is simply no mess. concern that other services will matter, since the Tr.im closure with nearly a million unique visitors point for us to continue operating It also opens up the debate on simply shut down and kill their links, announcement reads: per month, is shutting down. And by tr.im, and pay for its upkeep. monetizing URL shorteners. or worse, redirect them to somewhere “…we just can’t justify further January 1st, 2010, all Tr.im links We apologize for the disruption TinyURL has survived for years just else entirely. Bit.ly’s Plan development since Twitter has all but could be out of service. The URL and inconvenience this may cause fine, while Bit.ly’s preparing to Now Bit.ly, the default URL annointed bit.ly the market winner.” shortener’s demise exposes a major you. launch a new product that will shortener on Twitter, wants to save Another option for Bit.ly might flaw in all URL shorteners and This is one of the most interesting compete directly with Digg. Will dying URL shorteners. About 4 simply be to buy Tr.im for a small reopens the debate over whether they shutdown announcements I’ve ever users pay for URL shorteners? No, months ago, bit.ly investor amount: the move would reassure are good or bad for the web. read. The key points are that links probably not. However, they might Betaworks began a project called critics who say that all URL Tr.im’s Somber Message will work until the end of the year, pay for the information that URL 301works, an archive of URL shorteners are not to be trusted If you visit Tr.im’s homepage, you that tr.im believes Bit.ly has won, shorteners possess. mappings similar to the Way Back because they could close down at any will see a short, four paragraph and that they believe there is NO Tr.im’s shutdown is going to result Machine for web pages. None of the time. Reviews: Mashable, Twitter, statement announcing Tr.im has been WAY to monetize URL shorteners. in a mess unless it’s bought. Its death other URL shorteners expressed bit.ly discontinued, effective immediately. It’s a very stark and powerful reopens a very real and very interest at the time (not surprising, Here’s the full text. I have bolded the message. But is Tr.im correct? What important debate on the future of since Bit.ly is their biggest most interesting parts: Does Tr.im’s Shutdown Mean for the URL shorteners and the entire link- Statistics can no longer be Web? sharing ecosystem that Twitter has Aug. 10, 1909: Leo Fender and the Heart of Rock considered reliable, or reliably While Tr.im didn’t have anywhere built. Reviews: Delicious, Digg, 'n' Roll available going forward. However, near the traffic that Bit.ly and Twitter, bit.ly all tr.im links will continue to TinyURL had, it still had a Tags: bit.ly, TinyURL, Tr.im, By Michael Calore (Wired Top but his revolutionary design changed redirect, and will do so until at least significant userbase, as you can find twitter, url shortener Stories) the way we think about the December 31, 2009. Your tweets instrument -- and popular music -- millions of Tr.im URLs spread across Submitted at 8/9/2009 9:00:00 PM with tr.im URLs in them will not be Twitter. If Tr.im shuts down its forever. Wired celebrates Clarence affected. He didn’t invent the electric guitar, "Leo" Fender’s 100th birthday. Kate Gosselin: I Feel A Lot of Failure (ETonline - Breaking News) Gosselin, explaining why she's still her ring for her kids. “I don’t want to lot of failure. ... This is not what any who’s determined, who has integrity Submitted at 8/10/2009 7:10:00 AM wearing her wedding ring. upset them. ... I just feel that is the mother sets out for their children. It’s and perseverance and never gives up. The "Jon & Kate Plus 8" mom best thing for them, to walk slowly necessary. It has to take place. I think Everything I’ve done for them is out Reality star Kate Gosselin speaks brushes away the tears as she through it.” I’ve turned the focus on myself. I of love.” out in her first TV interview since explains to "Today" show host She tells Vieira of her separation want my children to see a mother her separation from her husband Jon Meredith Vieira that she's wearing from Jon, “I wake up and I do feel a who’s committed to her children, 18 Social Net/ * Internet News Record Company Boasts it Sold Twitter What Comes First: Followers to Michael Jackson Internet or Breakfast? By Pete Cashmore (Mashable!) exciting to say the very least to By Pete Cashmore (Mashable!) Submitted at 8/10/2009 5:22:43 AM conduct work with such a big name.” Submitted at 8/10/2009 6:01:57 AM uSocial say that 25,000 followers Sometimes at Mashable we receive were bought to be delivered to What did you do first this morning: press releases that are so surprising Jackson’s account and they’re still eat breakfast, or turn on your phone, we’re not quite sure what to do with working on fulfilling the order. your laptop or desktop computer to them. Today, for instance, a release “For obvious reasons we’ll be check mail, text messages, Twitter on behalf of marketing company dealing with his family from here on replies, Facebook messages and the uSocial: in, though it would have been great rest? 1. Brings attention to the fact that to conduct services for Michael According to the New York Times, the company “sold” Twitter Jackson in a different time, under society is using devices earlier and followers (against the site’s terms of different circumstances.” Said Hill. earlier in the day, with many service, presumably) The service being delivered to Americans checking their messages Akamai, which helps sites like 2. Claims than 25,000 followers Jackson’s account has caused a lot of before they even get out of bed. Facebook and Amazon keep up with were sold to (deceased popstar) controversy over the last few months It’s not just anecdotal evidence, visitor demand, says traffic takes off Michael Jackson as many users debate the ethics of though: the newspaper cites stats even earlier, at around 6 a.m. on the 3. Highlights the fact that they services which can increase their being able to purchase followers, showing that while ISPs used to see a East Coast. Verizon Wireless ignored a Cease and Desist order rankings faster than they could do on though not as much as the company traffic jolt at the beginning of the reported the number of text messages from social news site Digg.com for their own. itself has received since its launch. work day, the surge now starts as sent between 7 and 10 a.m. jumped selling votes, against Digg’s policies One such service is the highly- In December uSocial received a early as 6 or 7am. What’s more, the by 50 percent in July, compared with 4. Highlights further legal threats controversial paid Twitter follower Cease & Desist notice from trend is accelerating: a year earlier. against the company service which has been offered by Digg.com regarding its paid social Arbor Networks, a Boston What do you do first thing in the It’s such a bizarre approach to PR web promotions company uSocial.net bookmarking services which the company that analyzes Internet use, morning: grab breakfast, get that the best I can do is stare in for several months now. Now they’re company ignored, and recently they says that Web traffic in the United dressed…or power up one of your disbelief, and repost the full press claiming they’ve had the attention of also received threats of legal action States gradually declines from devices before your day has even release here for your commentary. some of the world’s largest names, from some of Australia’s largest midnight to around 6 a.m. on the East begun? Let us know in the Let us know your thoughts in the including one interesting one in names in radio, Kyle Sandilands and Coast and then gets a huge morning comments. comments. MICHAEL JACKSON particular. the Austereo network. caffeine jolt. “It’s a rocket ship that Image credit: iStockphoto/ BOUGHT TWITTER “I can’t admit that we dealt with Despite all this, it seems the takes off at 7 a.m,” said Craig burakpekakcan Reviews: Facebook, FOLLOWERS: USocial Press Michael Jackson directly, though we company are still battling on at full Labovitz, Arbor’s chief scientist. Twitter, iStockphoto Release were in touch with someone in his steam, with no sign of slowing down With the increasing popularity of family recently who tasked us with or shutting up shop. Reviews: Digg, social media sites and the power of conducting a Twitter campaign on an Mashable, Twitter marketing on them, more and more account relating to him.” Said people have been investing in uSocial.net CEO Leon Hill. “It was NHL's Top 50: Roberto Luongo (No. 6) By Adam Gretz (FanHouse) player this good and this dominant, bad enough to make up for the sting NHL's Top 50: Roberto Luongo Submitted at 8/10/2009 9:00:00 AM and at a position of such importance, that was his June 24, 2000 deal that (No. 6) originally appeared on could be traded -- twice! -- for such sent Luongo -- and Olli Jokinen-- to Fanhouse NHL Blog on Mon, 10 by Adam Gretz awful returns. the Florida Panthers for Mark Parrish Aug 2009 09:00:00 EST . Please see Filed under: Canucks, Islanders, When discussing Zdeno Chara and and Oleg Kvasha. Luongo, of course, our terms for use of feeds. Panthers, NHL Fans, NHL Videos Jason Spezza in my top 50, I made blossomed into an elite goaltender Permalink| Email this| Linking FanHouse's Adam Gretz takes a look mention of how then-Islanders for the Panthers, while Jokinen Blogs| Comments at his top 50 players in the NHL. No. general manager Mike Milbury eventually developed into a 6 is Vancouver Canucks goalie traded the future Norris Trophy consistent 30-goal scorer. Roberto Luongo. Yashin, and how infamously bad it winning defenseman, and the pick ended up being. Not even that was The NHL's Top 50 Players: See the It still amazes me as to how a that was used on Spezza for Alexei Entire List Internet News Record Social Net/ * 19 10 Incredibly Geeky YouTube URL shortener Trim Videos #geeks4good gets cut off By Ben Parr (Mashable!) By Caroline McCarthy Submitted at 8/9/2009 7:33:56 PM (Webware.com) Last monday, we announced Global Submitted at 8/9/2009 5:09:00 PM Geek Week, an initiative by the With so many URL shortening Society for Geek Advancement and services out there, this was bound to the Summer of Social Good to show happen to at least one of them: Trim the world how geeks can change the is shutting down. According to a blog world for the better. Core to the post by parent company Nambu "What is the point? With Bit.ly the Global Geek Week initiative was a Networks, it was an expensive and Twitter default, and with us having YouTube competition that asked you fruitless effort. no inside connection to Twitter, to show off not only how geeky you "We simply cannot find a way to Tr.im will lose over (in) the long run are, but how geeks can help the justify continuing to work on it, or no matter how good it may or may world. The result? A wave of pay its network costs, which are not not be at this moment, or in the amazing, hilarious, inspiring, and inconsequential," the post read. future." geeky YouTube videos. Those expenses may have been What the company hasn't said: While the winner of the contest particularly encumbering recently what will happen to existing Trim (and those Virgin America tickets) is when Trim was hit by a denial-of- URLs? It's likely that Nambu not yet announced (and I’m not a her glasses. Aren’t geek glasses Unlike the other videos, this one service attack last week that knocked Networks hasn't yet decided. If Trim judge, so I have no idea about the reason enough? 3. Conservco features an entire company – RARE it offline. is completely closed, that would winner), there were too many classic Egad…this man hits on every Conservation – complete with the The blog post was tinged with mean that those shortened URLs moments in these videos not to stereotype that encompasses a geek. I Sybill Trelawney glasses. Working more than a hint of bitterness. would turn into broken links. It'd be feature a few. So I have picked out don’t know if he’s good or bad for together is so geeky. Go Earth! 10. Twitter, the service that led to the possible to close it to new entries but ten that tickled my fancy – and that the geek movement. 4. BillTvMacon IconifiedEpic explosion of URL shorteners as Web keep existing ones, except that show what it really means to be a There is never a dull moment in a She knows her geek stats. BONUS: users needed to truncate lengthy wouldn't solve the financial problem. geek. These videos will make you BillTvMacon video. He also makes a Tay Zonday’s Geek Palace addresses to fit into a 140-character One commenter on the Trim blog laugh, cry, and pull out your old Star convincing case for geekdom. 5. Shira Lazar has a chat with Tay space, has shown a clear preference post suggested that perhaps the Trek DVDs. TheUmbrellaBoy Zonday (aka Lord of Chocolate Rain) for Trim rival Bitly. Twitter uses service could live on in the form of So without further ado, here are 10 He talks to a duck in the middle of in his “Geek Palace.” I want a Geek Bitly as its default URL shortener, an open-source project. But for now, incredibly geeky YouTube videos, this video. And a stuffed bear. ‘Nuff Palace. I just have a Geek Office. and it's even been rumored that its fate remains up in the air. courtesy of #GeeksforGood. Once said. 6. KTentacles And a Wii. And a 360. And a USB Twitter may acquire it altogether. Originally posted at The Social you’re done with these 10 videos, be Lists make things easy to digest. lava lamp. And my famous "Twitter has all but sapped us of sure to watch the rest on the Global Oh, and somehow she managed to Luminglass. I’m going to stop there, any last energy to double down and Geek Week YouTube Group. get in references to Kim because the full list would need develop Tr.im further," the post read. 1. WhatTravisSays Kardashian’s ass. Nice. 7. another page. Reviews: YouTube Geeks to the rescue! The name tag sheppardde Tags: geek, geek week, gets you bonus points. Too bad I’m Good message. Scary hats. Really geeks4good, global geek week, sosg, not judging this competition, Travis. scary rap. 8. giantlawnmower summer of social good, youtube 2. Safferoonicle So many nerd toys… 9. I’m partial to the video because of Rareconservation ET Confirms 'Dancing With The Stars''s New Twist (ETonline - Breaking News) Conrad Green had to say about the The middle of the season is going to but no one new -- the show already Submitted at 8/10/2009 3:15:00 AM upcoming competition. be brutal when half of our cast goes has used Chelsie Hightower, Dmitry "This is going to be our biggest- in three weeks." Chaplin and Lacey Schwimmer-- ET has confirmed that "Dancing ever cast," he tells ET. "We are going In order to have enough from "So You Think You Can with the Stars" will premiere with 16 to start big, and then about halfway professional dancers to partner with Dance." celebrities this season. Read on to through, we are going to do three the stars, Green says he will be find out what else executive producer double eliminations back-to-back. adding Anna Demidova this season, 20 * Internet News Record Baseball Brunch: Under-the- Kurt Rambis Gets His Shot in Radar Jackson Deal Pays Minnesota By Tom Ziller (FanHouse) Huge Dividends Submitted at 8/9/2009 9:04:00 AM By Ed Price (FanHouse) by Tom Ziller Submitted at 8/9/2009 10:00:00 AM Filed under: Lakers, Timberwolves Even by the standard of patience by Ed Price required by unglamorous assistant Filed under: Athletics, coaches, Lakers bench jockey Kurt Diamondbacks, Indians, Marlins, Rambis has waited a long time. We Mets, Orioles, Phillies, Rangers, wonder why Tom Thibodeau can't Eagles' Sean McDermott Rays, Rockies, Royals, Tigers, AL get a head coaching job after decades Is Prepared to Succeed a Central, MLB Media Watch, MLB learning the craft of defense, but T.T. Milestones, MLB Inside Scoop, just started interviewing for top jobs Legendary Coach Baseball Brunch Every Sunday, three years ago. Rambis has been By Dan Graziano (FanHouse) MLB FanHouse empties out its trying to get a head coaching gig notebook in Baseball Brunch. since 1998! Submitted at 8/9/2009 9:00:00 AM The most significant trade of last Finally, the Wolves have agreed to by Dan Graziano winter barely caused a ripple at the make Rambis their man, according to offer. Filed under: Eagles, NFL time. Don Seeholzer of the St. Paul Kurt Rambis Gets His Shot in Coaching, FanHouse Exclusive, NFL The same day the Mets signed Pioneer-Press. The annual salary ($2 Minnesota originally appeared on Training Camp BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Francisco Rodriguez and traded for million) won't be much more than it Fanhouse NBA Blog on Sun, 09 Aug On the side of a hill at the corner of J.J. Putz, and the day after the was for the Kings gig he scorched 2009 09:04:00 EST . Please see our the practice fields at Eagles training Yankees came to terms with C.C. more than five runs just twice. away, but Rambis apparently has the terms for use of feeds. camp, "JJ" is painted in white letters Sabathia, the Tigers sent outfielder security of four years. That mean $8 Permalink| Email this| Linking on a green oval in honor of Sean Matt Joyce to the Rays for right- Baseball Brunch: Under-the-Radar Jackson Deal Pays Huge Dividends million guaranteed, versus the $3 Blogs| Comments McDermott's beloved predecessor. A hander Edwin Jackson. million the Kings had been ready to fair-skinned redhead, McDermott Or don't you remember? originally appeared on Fanhouse MLB Blog on Sun, 09 Aug 2009 wears a wide-brimmed hat and long Eight months later, Jackson is white sleeves in deference to the hot second in the AL with a 2.62 ERA 10:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds. August sun and the skin cancer that and leads the league with a .217 claimed former Eagles defensive opponents' average. Ignore his 8-5 Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments coordinator Jim Johnson two weeks record; Detroit has scored three runs ago. When he goes to work out in the or fewer in 10 of his 22 starts, and morning, McDermott still half- expects to see Johnson there, having beaten him to the gym once again. Tip-Off Timer: If It's '79, It's Got to Be Bird-Magic When he jogs out to the fields for the By Matt Steinmetz (FanHouse) Johnson. competition to a league that morning session, he's still surprised that Johnson isn't next to him. Submitted at 8/9/2009 10:00:00 AM That was the year most of us were desperately needed it. introduced to the future of the NBA, Tip-Off Timer: If It's '79, It's Got to Eagles' Sean McDermott Is by Matt Steinmetz although we didn't know it at the Be Bird-Magic originally appeared Prepared to Succeed a Legendary Filed under: Celtics, Lakers Tip- time. The 1979 NCAA championship on Fanhouse NBA Blog on Sun, 09 Coach originally appeared on Off Timer counts down the days until game between Indiana State and Aug 2009 10:00:00 EST . Please see Fanhouse NFL Blog on Sun, 09 Aug the first game of the 2009-10 season. Michigan State was only the Bird- our terms for use of feeds. 2009 09:00:00 EST . Please see our On Sunday, there are exactly 79 days Magic appetizer. Permalink| Email this| Linking terms for use of feeds. remaining. Bird and Magic would play in the rejuvenated pro basketball and help Blogs| Comments Permalink| Email this| Linking If you're a hoops fan, 1979 is an NBA Finals against each other three bring back credibility, class and Blogs| Comments easy one: Larry Bird and Magic times as pros. Together, they Internet News Record * TechTips/ 21 Tiger Woods Shines at Red Alert in Nation as Yanks Bridgestone, Heads to PGA Sweep Sox Ask the Commenters With Back-to-Back Wins By Ed Price (FanHouse) Roundup [Hive Submitted at 8/10/2009 12:59:00 AM By Ryan Wilson (FanHouse) Mind] by Ed Price Submitted at 8/9/2009 6:05:00 PM Filed under: Red Sox, Yankees, AL (Lifehacker) by Ryan Wilson East, MLB Inside Scoop NEW Submitted at 8/9/2009 2:30:00 PM YORK -- Dustin Pedroia late Sunday Filed under: PGA, PGA • Does anyone know of a Windows- Championship Perhaps I shouldn't night was facing the firing squad of reporters wanting to know (like all of 7 compatible tool that would turn my have doubted CBS when they flashed screen into a whiteboard? this statistic early in Sunday's New England) what's wrong with the Red Sox, will they turn it around, • How can I use a netbook to coverage: augment the usefulness of my main Final Round Scoring Avg when will this skid come to an end. "Are we in the lead for the wild PC? Tiger Woods: 68.7 (1st on tour) • Is it possible to modify the Zune to Padraig Harrington: 71.7 (150th) card? What's the deal?" Pedroia asked. run additional software or allow 3rd And if you cut out all the mid- party content management? round drama, that's basically how it Tied with the Rangers, he was told. "Oh good," he said. "So we'll start • I'm using UltraMon with dual played out. Woods won for the 70th issues. monitors? What can I do to get a time on the PGA Tour (and the over. We've got a new season, fifty- something (52) games. We're excited Red Alert in Nation as Yanks system tray on both screens? seventh time at the WGC- Sweep Sox originally appeared on • What things, from a privacy Bridgestone Invitational). And for Tiger Woods Shines at about it." Bridgestone, Heads to PGA With That's all they have to be excited Fanhouse MLB Blog on Mon, 10 standpoint, should I be aware of the first time all year Harrington Aug 2009 00:59:00 EST . Please see when making screen shots? showed glimpses of why he was so Back-to-Back Wins originally about. Boston's season is circling the appeared on Fanhouse Golf Blog on drain, and while no one should our terms for use of feeds. • Where can I find a good website successful in 2008. So, Padraig, Permalink| Email this| Linking for managing multiple Twitter here's your silver lining: congrats on Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:05:00 EST . expect them to drop completely off Please see our terms for use of feeds. the map, the Red Sox for sure have Blogs| Comments accounts? your first top-10 finish of the season. • I'm considering making the jump More: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments to Windows 7, What should I do to Final Leaderboard 'Twilight' Stars Celebrate Victory at prepare my current computer and data? Video: Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, & Teen Choice Awards • Is there a more effective way to (ETonline - Breaking News) 'Twilight' cast members Taylor copy files between Windows boxes Lautner, Kristen Stewart, Kellan than the one I'm using? 'Twilight' Stars Glammed up on Submitted at 8/10/2009 4:01:00 AM Lutz, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, • Any suggestions for a Photoshop The hit vampire movie 'Twilight' Justin Chon, and Jackson Rathbone user making the shift to GIMP? The Green Carpet dominated at the Teen Choice tell ET's Mark Steines which cast • Why would my Windows Server (ETonline - Breaking News) dishes on her upcoming tour. Awards on Sunday night with 11 member takes the longest time to get 2003-based home server continually wins including Choice Movie for ready. vanish off my home network? Submitted at 8/10/2009 1:30:00 AM "I'm up for some awards so I'm stoked about that," she says. "I'm both drama and romance, Choice "We're always waiting for Rob," We're still experiencing a bit of Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Zac excited to perform my new song, I'm Movie Liplock, and Choice Movie Nikki Reed says. "It's the hair. His wonkiness with the comments; we Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Kristen just excited to be here...My tour's Rumble -- and ET caught up with the hair takes a long time." promise to have the bugs ironed out Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Chace coming up, I can't wait. It's a good hot young stars as they celebrated as soon as possible. If you're having Crawford and many other stars way to kick it off, my song was the after the show. trouble with the links above, hop on stepped out in style Sunday night in number two most added song on over to the open thread to read and Hollywood for the Teen Choice radio this entire year. So that’s comment. Our apologies! 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Firefox 3.6 Alpha Adds Tab Previews, Boosts Startup Time [Downloads] By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 8/10/2009 6:00:00 AM Windows/Mac/Linux: Lovers of bleeding-edge browsers, rejoice: the first alpha of Firefox 3.6, code- named Namoroka, is available for download. Grab it to check out JavaScript improvements, startup time speed-ups, visual tab previews and behavior tweaks, and other changes. Stock Your Dorm with the Get the Best Cash for The startup time and JavaScript improvements are, like most of the changes listed for this alpha, under Best Appliance Deals Clunkers Deal [Cars] the hood and only slightly noticeable By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) suggests: to the average user. The Mozilla Bottom line: the dealer can give Links blog points out, however, that [Back To School] Submitted at 8/10/2009 4:30:00 AM you a clunker rebate up to $4,500 visual tab previews, proposed for By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) microwave: The U.S. government's Cash for plus a small sum to reflect the car's Firefox 3.0, then again for 3.1/3.5, Submitted at 8/10/2009 7:00:00 AM As with compact refrigerators, the Clunkers rebate program is popular scrap value. If your car is worth more are finally here—they're just hidden usable space microwave ovens with both consumers and headline than that it's not a clunker, it's a trade behind an about:config tweak. To College students and their parents provide often is less than writers, but some cars might not be -in. Further, any 2009 models bought bring them to life, open about:config don't have time to test and research manufacturers claim, sometimes by worth trading in under its guidelines. today will depreciate quickly at first in a tab, type in every mini fridge, coffee maker, up to 50 percent. When shopping, Time suggests five things to think because the 2010 models are browser.ctrlTab.previews, then set microwave, or vacuum cleaner, but bring the boxes or clean, empty about before handing over your keys. arriving. Make sure that impending that value to true and hit Ctrl+Tab to Consumer Reports certainly does. containers from your kid's preferred Photo by youngthousands. depreciation is reflected in the price. activate it. If you want Firefox to Check out their recommendations on frozen foods to the store to see Beyond detailing the actual Wondering what kinds of rides open the last used tab when you hit getting the best deals for an empty whether they fit inside the oven. requirements of Cash for Clunkers, folks are turning in for rebates? Our Ctrl+Tab, set dorm. The best countertop models take TIME suggests that some cars might gearhead sibling blog rounds up the browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed Photo by noricum. the guesswork out of cooking and be worth more than the $4,500 being ten most traded-in and purchased to true as well. Consumer Reports stocks their have settings for foods like popcorn, offered up for cars that "officially" Cash for Clunkers cars. Hit the link to grab your copy of Back to Schoool section with a load oatmeal, and pasta as well as for get less than 18 miles per gallon. Have you traded in a ride under the Firefox 3.6 alpha 1, then tell us about of links to their individual appliance reheating or defrosting. That doesn't mean you should skip Cash for Clunkers program? Know a what you find in the comments. Don't reviews, but also offers shopping tips Check out more of Consumer the dealer visit. Instead, look up your better way to get money for an older want to mess up your existing for families and solo students looking Reports' Back to School advice, and car's value in Kelly's Blue Book and car? Tell us all about it in the installation? You can wait for the to make life in cramped quarters a tell us your own horror stories and use it to negotiate a sweetener on the comments. Cash for Clunkers 2.0: PortableApps version, or adapt our little more hospitable. From sad buying tips for dorm life in the dealer's part. Here's what TIME Five Tips for Consumers[TIME] field guide to testing Firefox for this experiences, at least one Lifehacker comments. Back-to-School release. Namoroka Alpha 1 Release editor can recommend following Appliance-Buying Guide[Consumer Notes[Mozilla via Mozilla Links] their tips on buying the right mini Reports] Internet News Record TechTips/ 23

Welcome Back to School [Back To School] By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) Submitted at 8/10/2009 5:30:00 AM Learn How to Work a Crowd Every year around this time, students from across the United [Networking] States turn in their swimming gear The Trap Door Desk for backpacks and head back to By Jason Fitzpatrick punchbowl. The following video is a school—but you don't need to be a [Featured Workspace] (Lifehacker) presentation from Ignite Show, a student to renew your quest for series of 5 minute powerchats given Submitted at 8/9/2009 3:00:00 PM knowledge. Grab your textbooks; it's By Jason Fitzpatrick compartment in the center of the by people on varying topics. In the Back to School week at Lifehacker. (Lifehacker) desk. He can set his MacBook on top When you think of "working a following video Alexis Bauer shares Photo by Alicia Nijdam. while keeping accessories, wires, and Submitted at 8/9/2009 4:00:00 PM crowd," you might think of a step by step guide to working a In addition to your regular dose of desk odds and ends. Check out the entertainers at best, and shifty multi- crowd and how you can be the agent productivity and tech edification, this At first glance, today's featured pictures below to see some of the level marketing salesman at worst. at any party or gathering who causes workspace might appear to be yet week's curriculum will include great detail work like the beveled There are, however, non-jerky ways the social scene there to blossom. content geared specifically at those of another so-hip-it-hurts, ultra-spartan finger slot to make opening the lid to meet people and benefit from Have a tip or trick of your own to Mac workspace. This space, you heading back to school for real, easier. Great work Roitsch! casual networking. help your fellow readers unleash along with items aimed at anyone however, has a secret. If you have a workspace of your Why would you want to work a their social butterfly potentials? How do you maintain a completely with a thirst for knowledge and a own to show off, throw the pictures crowd? Because nobody makes new Share the wealth in the comments. love of education. Studying tips, uncluttered workspace, but also keep on your Flickr account and add it to friends or finds a great business Alexis Bauer on How to Work a access to basic tools and peripherals? back to school bargains, and must- the Lifehacker Workspace Show and contact by standing over the Crowd[Ignite] have college tech gear are among the You build, as Lifehacker reader Tell Pool. Include some details about Roitsch did, a desk with a large points we plan to hit very soon. your setup and why it works for you, It's Back to School week here at storage compartment in the middle. and you just might see it featured on He had the good fortune to find an Lifehacker. Take your seats; school the front page of Lifehacker. The is now in session. old clerical desk with a sturdy frame Trap Door Desk[Lifehacker he could work from. Using that Workspace Show and Tell Pool] frame, he constructed a new shell around it to include a hinged LockHunter Deletes Stubborn Files and Applications [Downloads] By Jason Fitzpatrick flat-out denies you because the file is process, or delete the selected file. (Lifehacker) supposedly in use. 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Drop us a line and because demographic data is hosting and cloud computing on Weebiz by clicking here. Mollom performance delivered in a defined let's talk. something we've struggled to get in solutions. Aplus.net The web is changing. User enterprise-class environment with Thanks to all our sponsors and our the past. It's important for any online Aplus.net offers a variety of contribution is now what makes or real dedicated servers. And the IT readers for your support! Discuss business to know their audience, so services relating to Web hosting, breaks a site. Allowing users to react, infrastructure is fully managed and Internet News Record Web/ Gizmos/ 25 Who Has the Right VC Numbers and Who Cares? By Bernard Lunn about$1.5 billion different. we expect any research process to be (ReadWriteWeb) As the old saying goes, "A billion able to scale to that challenge. here, a billion there. Sooner or later it But the reality today is that, Submitted at 8/9/2009 3:00:38 PM adds up." Disclosure: Our VC globally, entrepreneurs and VCs key We started tracking VC funding in Funding Report off US data. If they were to key off October 2008, as the financial ReadWriteWeb has an interest in bad data, that would matter to markets were melting. What caught this. We sell a report for $299 that everyone. Why This Matters our eye in those dark and gloomy has details on the 240 deals done this Driving with one's eyes in the rear- days was True Ventures' quarter in the Internet, mobile, and view mirror is dangerous. We take announcement of its Series A SaaS space ( not clean tech or bio action based on what authoritative Sony's New S-Series investment in Syncplicity. The more tech), and this is powered by data sources tell us is happening today, we looked, the more we found that from ChubbyBrain. So we are biased. that accounted for 10.4 million jobs and we base our assumptions on what Walkman Specs, Pricing the headlines were wrong. It was not But it also means that we are and over $2.3 trillion in revenue that means will happen next and plan Leaked By French all doom and gloom, not in our engaged and have been looking at (based on 2006 data)." accordingly. corner of the universe: early-stage this fairly deeply. Who Cares? So a headline like " VC In reality, these sources tell us what Retailer [PMPs] Investments Falling Off Cliff in the Web tech ventures. So we figured We also think that accuracy has happened in the past, and they By Danny Allen (Gizmodo) that getting (and passing on to you) matters, and we are trying to figure US" really impacts a lot of people. may not even tell us that accurately. good reliable data on a timely basis whom accuracy matters to. We see That is the kind of headline that most When we at ReadWriteWeb look at Submitted at 8/10/2009 2:30:00 AM would be a good idea. Searching for three main types of participants in the journalists/bloggers wrote in April the macro picture, we favor a Built-in speakers were obvious that turned out to be harder than we industry: 2009, based on data reported by contrarian view simply because the when we first glimpsed Sony's thought, and herein lies a tale. • VCs. They need accurate data for those trusted sources. reality we see today is often not what updated S-Series, but thanks to Sponsor their own fund-raising. They have to We wrote a really boring headline: the headlines trumpet. When the French retailer Materiel.net, it looks A Billion Here, a Billion There be able to benchmark their own funds " VC Investment in Internet Deals markets were in the late stage of a like the 2.4-inch (QVGA) screen For the quarter ending this past relative to the broader market. Did Not Fall Off a Cliff." boom, we were sounding the warning players will come sized 8- or 16GB, June, we compared the findings of • Entrepreneurs. Data on what That's a lousy headline for signals. and playback 42 hours of audio/6.4 three research firms that reported on funding deals are being made, and generating page views. It's a story When the markets were melting, hours video. the money invested in Q2: why, helps them figure out how about " the dog that did not bark." we began to see surprising signs of According to the site, they'll have a • July 21, much to raise, when, and from which The point is that headlines drive life in the early-stage Web kickstand (pictured), built-in MoneyTree(PricewaterhouseCoopers VC. business behavior to wild excesses technology world we live in. microphone, FM tuner (with 30 , with data from the National Venture • The startup "community." This is on both the down-cycle bust and the Whether you are an entrepreneur or presets), and the speakers will be Capital Association and Thomson a catch-all for everyone else, who up-cycle boom. an investor, knowing what the crowd stereo. Format support includes Reuters):$3.7 billion, with 612 deals, tend to align to either VCs or Just good reliable data would help. is thinking -- and what the headlines MP3/WMA/AAC audio and • July 18, entrepreneurs. Journalists, the non- Innovation Is Global, But It Keys Off are trumpeting -- is valuable. Even H264/MP4/WMV 30fps video. VentureSource(DowJones):$5.27 aligned fourth estate, want reliable US Data more valuable are the underlying As very rough indication of what billion, with 595 deals, data to key off interesting stories. At ReadWriteWeb, we love to facts and trends that may be missing we might expect when the players • July 14, ChubbyBrain(a New Why does this matter? The startup track innovation from far-flung from those headlines. In the make their way State-side, the 8GB York City-based startup partnering community matters to the health of corners of the world, and we see the disconnect between the two often lies NWZ-S544 is listed at €129 (about with ReadWriteWeb):$5.329 billion, the overall economy. As the National globalization of innovation as a a lot of opportunity. $185), and the 16GB NWZ-S545 for with 613 deals. Venture Capital Association(NVCA, critical trend. We hope to ignite a debate that €149 (about $210). [ Material via VentureSource and ChubbyBrain the trade association of VCs) likes to So we want to be able to report on leads to greater accuracy and Sony Insider] seem to agree on the top line number. point out: financing trends for early-stage Web transparency of these numbers. But MoneyTree's number is what "Originally, venture-backed technology startups across Europe Discuss most people report, and that is companies have created companies and Asia, in addition to the US. And Bank Lets Customers Deposit Checks With iPhone Photos [IPhone] By Danny Allen (Gizmodo) to let customers snap both sides of a check before either filing or I'd definitely use it. Being able to Submitted at 8/10/2009 4:55:11 AM check for deposits. discarding it. deposit at the ATM is one thing, but The bank's VP tells The NY Times The Times does point out that the this screams convenience. Great ideas tend to make so much that once you hit the send button, the capability will only be available to Would you use such a feature, or sense that you wonder why they took deposit is made just like any other customers who are either eligible for would concerns over the iPhone's so long. Here's another: USAA, a check—you won't have to mail it in credit, or have some type of security make you too wary? [ NY privately held bank/insurance later, either. As everything will be suggest customers simply void the insurance through the bank, but I Times] company, is updating its iPhone app handled electronically, the bank will gotta tell you—if my bank had this, 26 Web/ Internet News Record Your "Real" Friends are Your Online Amateurs vs. Agencies: Friends (or so Says Gen Y) Microsoft's Razorfish By Sarah Perez generation is "using online as a way (ReadWriteWeb) to explore and settle into their burgeoning identities." Acquired Submitted at 8/10/2009 8:17:45 AM But at what cost? By Dana Oshiro Is it easier to talk to your online Will the younger generations (ReadWriteWeb) buddies than your friends out there in remain awkward and shy in the real the "real world?" Do you feel like world even as they age, only finding Submitted at 8/9/2009 7:04:27 PM you know more about what's comfort in their interactions that Publicis Groupe SA announced happening in the lives of your occur online? Or does having an today the acquisition of Microsoft's Facebook and MySpace friends than outlet for their feelings simply lessen Razorfish advertising agency for with those who don't have accounts the blow delivered by the otherwise $530 million dollars. In a joint press or don't bother to update them? often harsh process that is growing release, the group announced that the With this new deal, the company According to a recent UK MySpace up? deal will increase Publicis' ability to remains Microsoft's ad agency of study of over 16,000 social network In many ways, easy access to deliver digital campaigns and further record and gains new Publicis users, these sorts of feelings are technology can be seen as both a elevates Razorfish's status as a leader resources to ramp up digital common among today's younger social groups. A whopping 72% said blessing a curse for this young group in online marketing. According to production. Nevertheless, is generation. The study revealed that a they felt "left out" and didn't think of digital natives. These days, you'll Bloomberg, in exchange for Razorfish able to deliver on its good portion of this group admits to they fit into any particular group. often encounter teens having text Razorfish, Publicis will give promise to help "media companies feeling more comfortable sharing and More than four-fifths (82%) said they message conversations or posting Microsoft 6.5 million in shares - a succeed in an era where the audience communicating with friends online moved between four or more status updates while ignoring the deal that makes Microsoft a 3% is also their editor?" than they do when logged out of different groups of friends in an very friends they're presently with in owner of the advertising company. The company has shown a number cyberspace. effort to find acceptance. the real world. Behavior like this Sponsor of user-generated successes including Sponsor It's not entirely surprising that the could certainly send a message to the As a standalone agency, Razorfish CNN.com's iReport, Netflix's Instant Online: Sharing is Easier, Friends younger generation feels this way. others that they are second priority to has had a number of high-profile Viewing Player and TED's Know You Better The teen years (and young adulthood whomever else has engaged their partners including Google, Encyclopedia of Life and Pangea The MySpace study asked social to some extent) are a time when kids friend's attention. That could easily ABC.com, Omniture and Adobe. Day film festival. networking users between the ages of start exploring and experimenting lead to feelings of being "left out" as Microsoft first acquired Razorfish's However, just as agencies are 14 and 21 (aka "Generation Y") with many different aspects of their reported in this study. parent company aQuantive for nearly shifting from print and broadcast questions about their interactions personalities as they attempt to And yet, at the same time, it's this $6 billion dollars shortly after campaigns to digital advertising, is it both on social networks and in their solidify who they are and who they very technology that's allowing the Google announced plans to purchase possible that amateur dynamos are real life, too. Some 36% of the will become as adults. What's teens and young adults to feel like DoubleClick and its display ad preparing to hijack the industry? Last respondents said they found it easier interesting, though, is how social they have friends who know them serving products. At the time, week ReadWriteWeb covered Digg's to talk about themselves online than networking is having an impact on and care about them.The issue is aQuantive was comprised of Avenue new ad program- a program where in the real world, leading them to this traditional coming-of-age balancing that online life with the A | Razorfish, DrivePM and Atlas. advertisements can be voted up or share more about themselves using process. Instead of simply feeling one out in the real world. While the acquisition served voted down by the community. As technology. This group also felt that disjointed, confused, and lonely, The question as to whether this sort Microsoft well by giving the advertising shifts to this new mixed- their online friends knew more about today's younger generation has an of behavior is healthy is one best left company a good ad management content model, where are companies them, and so, in a sense, were closer outlet for connecting with their peers to psychologists to analyze and dashboard in Atlas and an ad ranking more likely to see success - with than offline friends because they all which previous generations did not: report, but there's no doubt that at the solution in DrivePM, the Redmond content from world-class advertisers knew what was going on in each the internet. very least, it is having an impact. giant kept Razorfish at arms length. or trusted community members? As other's lives. Says Rebekah Horne, MySpace Image credit: flickr user Paulo Despite the fact that the company always, especially with the current Outside of the social networking Europe managing director, the study Fehlauer Discuss won at least 7 Webby's and a number market, agencies will have to work sites, the survey respondents provides insight into how this of other advertising awards, between tirelessly to justify their retainers. overwhelmingly felt ill-at-ease in October 2008 and February 2009, Discuss Razorfish cut 120 of its US employees to reduce costs during a particularly bad year for advertisers. Internet News Record Web/ TechNews/ 27 Twitter's a Mess: First the DDOS, WideNoise: Monitor Now Koobface Returns Noise Levels on Your By Sarah Perez attacking social networks since July (ReadWriteWeb) 2008. Taking down one Koobface vector of attack is like playing a iPhone Submitted at 8/10/2009 7:16:58 AM game of "whack-a-mole" - you hit By Richard MacManus Twitter can't catch a break these one and another pops up to take its (ReadWriteWeb) days. Still reeling from the ongoing place. The Real Problem: Short order to get users to this point to Submitted at 8/10/2009 4:04:02 AM denial-of-service attacks that hit late begin with, Koobface sent out tweets URLs last week (and have yet to let up), the reading "My home video :) [URL]." One of the main reasons Koobface We've been writing a lot about company soon faced yet another Recently, Koobace has ramped up was able to so easily spread on Internet of Things this year. It's when threat: the return of Koobface. The its complexity and is sending out Twitter was due to its use of the everyday objects become connected Koobface internet worm, a deadly unique tweets that have some sort of bit.ly URL shortener, now the default to the Internet - taking us beyond the little piece of internet malware which random component added to the end on Twitter. Not only was Koobface Social Web where people talk to each got its start on Facebook, has long of the tweet, with strings like"HA- varying its URL to ensure a unique other, into a Web where things talk to since spread to other social HA-HA!!", "W.O.W.", "WOW", bit.ly link each time, Twitter's new each other (and us) as well. We've networking sites including MySpace, "L.O.L.", "LOL", ";)" or "OMFG!!!" malicious URL filtering system analyzed some of the theory, and Bebo, and Twitter. But the latest What's even worse about the latest doesn't help protect users against pre- experiments from the likes of MIT, of the app, but not high accuracy. variant - the "new and improved" Koobface variant is that the landing shortened URLs. but it's also interesting to track Using WideNoise I discovered that Koobface - is even more devious page for the malware attack was also As we mentioned before, without a emerging commercial products. I live in a "sleeping cat" area -- than before. And Twitter's recently adding a random component to the focus on shortened links, Twitter's The iPhone just happens to be a although it felt more like a "rock launched malicious URL filtering URL, allowing it to get shortened to filtering system is simply not good fertile ground for Internet of Things, concert area" last Friday about 2am feature couldn't put a stop to the a different bit.ly URL each time a enough. It's far too easy to use bit.ly's as a product called WideNoise when the neighbour had his mates worm's spread. message was posted. As of late last website or a third-party Twitter client shows. WideNoise is an iPhone around! So your mileage may vary. Sponsor week, security firm Kaspersky Lab to shorten a URL before it ever hits application that samples decibel WideNoise has been built on a The New Koobface had identified nearly 100 unique IP Twitter's web interface to be noise levels, displaying them on an platform called OpenSpime, a As before, the new variant of addresses hosting the Koobface checked. And naturally, this is interactive map. protocol based on XMPP that enables Koobface still points users to a fake worm. They've since been able to precisely what malware writers do. Sponsor physical devices to communicate Twitter page (or a fake Facebook take the main Koobface site down to The only malicious URLs Twitter's With the app you can take a sound with each other. As we've explained page, if you happened to come across stop the current set of attacks, but current system protects us against are reading, and if you so wish share that in the past, XMPP is a real-time Koobface on the Facebook social don't be fooled - there's no doubt that those posted by unsuspecting Twitter with the WideNoise community. You communication protocol popularized network). On the page, users are it's only a matter of time before users themselves. The bad guys can check the average sound level of by Instant Messaging. OpenSpime is prompted to download a Flash Player Koobface relaunches with yet certainly know better and Koobface the area around you, which might be an extension of XMPP, enabling real- update in order to view a video file. another dangerous twist. In fact, is a perfect example of this. Discuss handy if you're house-hunting or time communication between objects Of course, clicking the link to update that's been par for the course for this simply looking for a quiet spot to connected to the Internet. Flash actually starts the malware's piece of malware which has been relax in. The name OpenSpime was inspired payload downloading instead. In WideNoise is essentially a sound by the term ' spime,' coined by Bruce sensor, using the iPhone's Sterling, which means"an object that microphone. The app uses a sound can be remotely tracked through Malaysia Wants To Filter The Internet, But Swears meter "to calibrate the microphone space and time" (Sp - ime). against pink noise," defined as a form Both WideNoise and OpenSpime It Won't Be Used To Stop Political Dissent of noise similar to the sounds that our are the creation of the company By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) don't like to jail. So, you can imagine material. Opponents find that hard to ears can pick up the best. The WideTag, Inc., which looks to be resulting sound readings are said to building some innovative Internet of Submitted at 8/10/2009 1:11:22 AM the concern when the government believe. Even if (and it's a big "if") announced plans to install that's the intent of the government, be "accurate within the device's Things products. iPhone users can Malaysia's government has had widespread internet filters modeled having it be so easy to "accidentally" hardware limits" - meaning that purchase WideNoise for US$1.99 something of a love-hate affair with on China's fault "Green Dam" start blocking opposition sites is they're good enough for the purposes from the Apple App Store. Discuss citizens and opposing politicians software. Not surprisingly, the probably too tempting for many. using blogs and other social media to government officials back the plan Permalink| Comments| Email This protest the government -- and has insist it won't be used against Story even sent opposition bloggers they political targets, but just obscene 28 Web/ World/ Internet News Record Twitter Hammers Nail in Cartoon: Not With a Bang, But Iran admits Coffin for Tr.im a Twitter torture of By Dana Oshiro By Rob Cottingham (ReadWriteWeb) (ReadWriteWeb) demonstrators Submitted at 8/9/2009 7:34:18 PM Submitted at 8/9/2009 1:30:15 PM By Simon Tisdall (World news The list of URL shorteners just got Twitter went down last week. So and comment from the Guardian shorter. did Facebook, LiveJournal, and most in the face of the attack. The | guardian.co.uk) Blogger. According to a blog post by result was hundreds of thousands of Submitted at 8/9/2009 6:15:46 PM Nambu, the company is shutting its They were all victims of a denial of frustrated users, plaintive API calls doors on URL shortening tool, Tr.im. StumbleUpon's Su.pr and music URL service attack that was, depending on gone unheeded, and pods full of Senior police commander says head After a number of attempts to sell the shortener TinySong. who you believe, either the work of exhausted fail whales working of Tehran prison dismissed after service, no companies in the Twitter The company's Twitter statistics (as Russian nationalist hackers targeting double, even triple, shifts. evidence of abuse but denies anyone space stepped forward to purchase with all URL shortening services) are a Georgian economist, a clever ploy Yet we all made it (including died and operate it in its existing form. used to determine and aggregate by the United Economists of Georgia countless girl's-name-plus-random- Iran's police chief admitted Says the company, "There is no way Twitter trends by Tweetmeme; to garner sympathy by feigning an four-digits Twitter spam accounts... yesterday that protesters who were for us to monetize URL shortening -- however, as of today, according to attack by Russian nationalist hackers, oh, how I missed you lot these past arrested after June's disputed users won't pay for it -- and we just the company these statistics "can no or an attempt by Paramount Pictures few days). I'll let you know where to presidential election had been can't justify further development longer be considered reliable, or to divert attention from reviews of get your "I Survived the Twitter DoS tortured while in custody in a prison since Twitter has all but annointed reliably available going forward." G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Attack of 2009" t-shirts shortly. in south-west Tehran. But he denied bit.ly the market winner." Tr.im links will continue to redirect Sponsor Discuss that any of the detainees had died as Sponsor until at least December 31, 2009. But Twitter was what struggled a result. In addition to a number of general Discuss General Ismail Ahmadi URL shorteners such as bit.ly and Moghaddam said the head of the TinyURL, Tr.im was also competing against site-specific services like IRAN page 31 Artistic offer for night in Berlin hotel By Kate Connolly (World news for the night, everyone is welcome, Frankfurt, Helga and Hartmut Marienbad is open to a variety of of the 18th century. and comment from the Guardian though we've got such a long waiting Rausch, caretakers at the artists and ideas. Wolfgang Breuer The next guest, Frankfurt artist | guardian.co.uk) list that we are very careful about Städelschule art school, who adorned sealed the windows with metal Sarah Ortmeyer, due to check in this picking and choosing our guests." a room with more than 400 works by panels used to protect empty month, plans to remove the horse's Submitted at 8/10/2009 1:29:26 AM Film buffs will recognise the hotel's its students and teachers and then properties from squatters in a sinister head and transform her room into an A five-star hotel in Berlin has name as a nod to Last Year at opened their room to the public. comment on the credit crunch. He "area of comfort and contemplation" opened its doors to cash-strapped Marienbad, Alain Resnais's 1961 Anna Jandt, of the Bremen female was followed by the US science in a tribute to the Eiffel Tower. artists, asking them to pay for bed film about a chance encounter artists' collective Fort, helped create fiction writer and cultural critic Mark • Art and board not with money but with a between a couple at a social the current installation, a beady-eyed von Schlegell, who occupied the • Germany work of art. gathering in a chateau. The hotel's horse's head mounted above a room for just one night. He gave a • Berlin The offer from the Hotel name also refers to Cinema lacquered black bed. "It was both reading of his novel Mercury Station • Hotels Marienbad in Auguststrasse is open Marienbad from Rainer Werner really strange and inspiring to live in from a double bed while listeners sat • Germany to painters, sculptors or conceptual Fassbinder's film Berlin the hotel at the same time as on everything from the glass drinks guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & artists willing to "subject the hotel to Alexanderplatz. redesigning the interior," she said. cabinet to the wardrobe to hear him. Media Limited 2009 | Use of this permanent change" with their efforts. The first artist to participate was "The horse's head gives the room Film screenings, poetry readings content is subject to our Terms & Susanne Pfeffer, curator of the Turner Prize winner Douglas quite a sterile atmosphere and the and a concert by an electropunk Conditions| More Feeds Kunst-Werke Institute of Gordon, from Glasgow, who room is overly replete with patterns – group have helped contribute to Contemporary Art, which set up the designed the red neon sign that juts it's a … comment on the anonymity Hotel Marienbad's salon-style project, said: "As long as they come out from the facade. and overpowering nature of posh atmosphere, which has invited from outside Berlin and need a bed Next came a couple from hotel rooms." comparisons with the courtly soirees Internet News Record World/ Gizmos/ 29 Karzai rally shows reliance on tribal allies By Jon Boone (World news and many successes," Karzai said of his brushing their faces against his "The support and the backing the comment from the Guardian | record. "But our happiness has come outstretched hands, Nadiri had put community has given to President guardian.co.uk) with despair as we do not have out the word that all Ismailis should Karzai has not been because of deal overall security in the country." vote for Karzai. making – this kind of enthusiasm and Submitted at 8/10/2009 5:32:07 AM But policy pronouncements are not Some of the attendees seemed love that you see cannot be bought," Thousands of Ismaili Shias throw the point in a place like Kayan, a unaware they had come to attend a he said. votes behind Afghan president after traditional village that typifies political rally, believing it was "If we look at his cabinet we see endorsement of spiritual leader Karzai's reliance on religious and simply an Ismaili celebration. Others every minority group is represented. The crowds assembled in a remote ethnic leaders to turn out voters for were critical of Karzai but said they "This is the first time in the history village in Afghanistan's mountainous him. would still vote for him after their of Afghanistan that we have seen all hinterland may have been kept The backing of key powerbrokers leader's endorsement. groups included." waiting without water in the baking has led many observers of Printed cards were distributed With Karzai still tipped to prevail Wood Is the New heat for four hours, but no one was Afghanistan's second ever throughout the crowd showing where in the poll Nadiri is anxious the complaining, or even questioning presidential election to assume that they should put their tick in less than Ismailis, a long persecuted and Bone [Medical] why they were there. Karzai enjoys an unassailable two weeks' time, and speakers led the impoverished minority, should be on "We have come here to support advantage over a crowded field of assembled crowd of several thousand the winning side. By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) Karzai because our leader has told us candidates, despite widespread in chants of "Support Karzai!" During the Soviet occupation of Submitted at 8/10/2009 5:53:27 AM to vote for him," said Abdul Salim, a dissatisfaction with his eight-year Standing next to Karzai on a Afganistan in the 1980s, Kayan student and one of the thousands of rule. covered stage, the Ismaili leader avoided much of the destruction in Don't let the hippies hear that wood Ismailis – the Shia sect that follows The prospect of a free lunch, presented the president with a brown the rest of the country by declaring may make a better artificial bone the Aga Khan – who flocked to see entertainment and the sheer spectacle chapan, a traditional Afghan robe. itself a "neutral" territory. But the than titanium. We'll never live it Hamid Karzai's first campaign stop of the president of Afghanistan Nadiri's son, a businessman who village and the grand Nadiri family down. outside the capital. swooping in via helicopter to the paid for the two-day festival, said his house, which boasted a swimming Italian scientists have developed a When the president finally arrived village all helped attract crowds, father had been courted by all the pool and an electric train, were laid new "wood-derived bone substitute" at the rally in Kayan, he was given a many of whom arrived the night leading candidates in the 20 August to waste. that promises to be better than suitably boisterous reception by before to camp out in the valley. poll – including Karzai's two leading • Afghanistan ceramic or metal implants. They start thousands of Ismailis despite Karzai's appearance necessitated a rivals, Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf • Hamid Karzai with a block of wood like red oak, delivering a speech that was thin on huge security operation, with Ghani. • Middle East burn it until the block is essentially ideas for solving the country's many hundreds of elite Afghan soldiers But Nadiri said he decided to throw guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & charcoal and then coat the substance problems. arriving the day before to secure the his support behind Karzai, despite his Media Limited 2009 | Use of this with calcium. His three promises were to "work site. But the real draw was Syed presiding over of rising violence and content is subject to our Terms & The "bone" takes about a week to for peace", extract even more money Mansoor Nadiri, the spiritual leader endemic corruption in his Conditions| More Feeds produce at a cost of around $850. from Afghanistan's western backers in Afghanistan of the Ismailis. government. He denied there had And while it's not quite as cool as and push for economic development. Revered by his followers, many of been any backroom deals with the titanium, the spongier structure "We have made a long journey with whom paid obeisance to him by president as many suspect. handles natural impact better, and other bones prefer the calcium carbon mix to space shuttle alloys. So much for my awesome robot Serious injuries after US prison riot legs. [ Discovery] By Damien Pearse (World news Foam projectiles were fired by 80 firefighters fought the blaze. A similar riot broke out at the and comment from the Guardian prison guards who also used pepper The trouble started at about 8.20pm Chino prison in December 2006. | guardian.co.uk) spray and batons in a bid to restore local time on Saturday and spread Investigators were last night order at the jail, 35 miles east of Los quickly through the medium-security preparing to take an inventory of Submitted at 8/9/2009 6:06:51 PM Angeles. jail. Reports suggested that the riot weapons found at the scene. A California prison was in Witnesses in the area reported may have been racially motivated • United States lockdown last night after a riot and hearing gunshots and explosions. and involved black and Hispanic guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & fire left 250 inmates injured, some Prison spokesman Mark Hargrove inmates. Media Limited 2009 | Use of this critically. said the riot involved 1,300 inmates Some of the injured suffered content is subject to our Terms & At least 55 of the prisoners at the in seven dormitory-style barracks and serious head wounds and burns while Conditions| More Feeds California institution for men in the lasted for about four hours. others were stabbed and slashed with city of Chino were taken to hospital At least one unit caught fire and broken glass. with injuries including stab wounds. inmates fled into a yard while No prison staff were hurt. 30 World/ AppleBlog/ Gizmos/ Internet News Record Typhoon mudslide buries Taiwan village By Tania Branigan, Justin resident, told the Taipei-based United waves up to 8 metres high – and the prefecture in western Japan. Local McCurry (World news and Evening News he believed 600 same number from neighbouring reports said a 68-year-old woman comment from the Guardian | people were buried in the mudslide Zhejiang. was killed in a landslide while a nine guardian.co.uk) and that it covered "a large part" of Tens of thousands of ships were -year-old boy was reported missing. the village. Hsiaolin is thought to called back from sea. But disaster "Cars that were parked on the road Submitted at 8/10/2009 5:41:25 AM have around 1,000 inhabitants. relief officials said more than 3.4 got all washed away all the way to • Up to 600 people feared buried as According to the island's Central million people were affected in the station," one resident told NHK. record rainfall hits island News Agency, residents said a Zhejiang alone as hundreds of Another said: "Everything toppled There's Nothing • China evacuates 1 million from primary school and a clinic had been villages were flooded and more than over in the house. It's a complete east coast provinces covered and road access was cut off, 1,800 houses collapsed. mess. Even the floor got pushed up Dangerous About a • Deadly tropical storm Etau reportedly due to a bridge collapse. In one city, Wenzhou, a four-year- by the water." Fireplace in a Chest triggers floods in Japan Taiwan's official death toll from old boy died when winds and An editorial in the Taipei Times Hundreds of people are missing in Morakot currently stands at 14, with torrential rain brought down his today argued: "While the main [Fire] a village in Taiwan after it was another 51 missing. Those figures do home. reason for the disaster was the By Adam Frucci (Gizmodo) buried by a mudslide when typhoon not include the Hsiao-lin villagers. Morakot claimed the lives of 11 enormous rainfall, it is clear that Morakot struck the island yesterday "It is not clear what the residents' people in the Philippines. government preparations, public Submitted at 8/10/2009 7:20:00 AM morning, a police official has situation is, but we are sure that In Japan, 10 people died as an construction and emergency response If you're stuck in a home without a reported. Hsiao-lin elementary school has been approaching tropical storm triggered abilities leave much to be desired." built-in fireplace, you can now buy a At least 34 people have died and fully destroyed," the Kaohsiung floods and landslides in the west of It singled out poor forecasting and $5,400 chest that opens up to reveal a millions of others been affected county magistrate, Yang Chiu-hsin, the country. inadequate communications, which it self-contained fireplace. If you across east Asia after Morakot and a told reporters, according to China More than 47,000 people in said gave residents little time to manage to not burn your place down, separate tropical storm battered Daily. western Japan have been told to leave prepare and left them confused about it'll be a great substitute. China, Taiwan, the Philippines and Tens of thousands were stranded in their homes, NHK television what to do. The " Mall Fire" by Atria is a fire Japan. other areas, the national fire service reported. • Natural disasters and extreme trunk that uses bio ethanol to create Southern Taiwan suffered its worst said, according to Reuters. The meteorological office warned weather flames when its opened. When flooding for half a century as the In China, winds of up to 75mph that tropical storm Etau could bring • China closed, it just looks like your typhoon dumped up to 2.5 metres (120kph) destroyed houses and "extremely heavy rain" to many parts • Japan standard issue white trunk. As for (8.2ft) of rain. flooded farmlands as the typhoon of Honshu – Japan's main island – as • Philippines how much heat it throws, I'm The official, surnamed Wang, said pummelled the east coast. The state it moved northwards. The agency guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & assuming not a lot. But hey, fire! around 100 people from Hsiao-lin news agency Xinhua said it had said the storm, which is expected to Media Limited 2009 | Use of this Everybody loves fire. [ Product Page village, in Kaohsiung county, had caused 2.2bn yuan (£193m) strike Tokyo tomorrow, was forecast content is subject to our Terms & via BornRich] been rescued by military helicopter damage.Authorities had evacuated to produce winds of up to 78mph, Conditions| More Feeds or other means, according to around 500,000 people from Fujian heavy rain and stormy seas. Associated Press. province – where Morakot made At least nine people died and eight Lin Chien-chung, a rescued landfall in late afternoon, bringing others were missing in Hyogo Try out Clipstart, win an iPhone By Brett Terpstra (The Unofficial like iTunes or iPhoto, but for video While you're trying out Clipstart, shot ( free demo available), and you Apple Weblog (TUAW)) clips. take a look under the help menu. might come out with a great new app Clipstart can import your videos, You'll find an option to enter the and a new iPhone. 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Please see our terms for use of feeds. camera or any device which has left looking for feedback on which The contest ends on August 15th Read| Permalink| Email this| you with an accumulation of video services are in highest demand. If only it worked with [insert video and all you need to do is enter an Comments clips, it's worth a look. It's something Clipstart would be useful to you if service], be sure to drop him a line. email address. So give Clipstart a Internet News Record World/ 31 IRAN continued from page 28 Kahrizak detention centre had been election, but we are willing to follow also some young female detainees US puts Afghan drug- dismissed and jailed. "Three up any complaints or irregularities were raped in a way that have caused policemen who beat detainees have that have taken place," he was quoted serious injuries," the website quoted been jailed as well," the official as saying. a 10-day-old letter from Karoubi as traffickers on hitlist IRNA news agency quoted One of those to die after being saying . By Richard Norton-Taylor contribute money to the Taliban on Moghaddam as saying. detained in Kahrizak was the son of a Despite Dori-Najafabadi's (World news and comment from the list. Human rights groups had top adviser to the defeated assurances, Iranian websites reported the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) "We have a list of 367 'kill or previously identified at least three conservative presidential candidate that relatives and supporters who capture' targets, including 50 nexus detainees they said had died after Mohsen Rezaie. After Mohsen gathered outside a court in Tehran Submitted at 8/10/2009 3:55:01 AM targets who link drugs and the torture at Kahrizak, which was closed Ruholamini's death, Iran's most during the latest trial on Saturday Targets to be 'captured or killed' in insurgency," one of the generals told last month on the orders of Iran's senior judge, Ayatollah Mahmoud were attacked by riot police when attempt to disrupt Taliban finances the committee staff. supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Hashemi-Shahroudi, ordered officials they began chanting slogans. Fifty Afghans who are suspected of The question of how to deal with Khamenei. Moghaddam denied that to inspect all prisons and detention Saturday's proceedings, condemned drug trafficking and have ties with the opium poppy harvest and drug the abuses were responsible for any centres. A parliamentary as a "show trial" by opposition the Taliban have been placed on a trade in Afghanistan, the source of fatalities there, claiming that an investigation into Kahrizak is also factions, involved more than 100 Pentagon target list to be captured or 90% of the world's heroin, has been a unspecified "viral illness" had caused under way. people accused of trying to killed, according to a congressional highly controversial issue for years. the deaths. There have been widespread overthrow the Islamic republic. study to be released this week, the European allies, and Britain in His admission marked the second opposition claims of torture and Among those in the dock was New York Times reported yesterday . particular, opposed America's initial occasion in as many days that a abuse of the hundreds of anti- Clotilde Reiss, a French researcher The move, reflecting a shift in US plan to destroy poppy crops – a senior official had accepted that some government demonstrators, working at Isfahan University, who counter-narcotics strategy in policy British military commanders criticisms levelled at the regime were politicians, journalists and academics was alleged to have passed Afghanistan, is certain to provoke argued would simply drive more well-founded, suggesting growing arrested since Mahmoud information about the protests to the controversy. Afghan farmers into the hands of the doubts and uncertainty within the Ahmadinejad was declared the French embassy in Tehran. US commanders, who described it Taliban. embattled regime. winner of the June election. Also among the accused was an an essential part of a plan to disrupt Donald Rumsfeld, then US defence On Saturday, Qorbanali Dori- The result, swiftly endorsed by Iranian citizen, Hossein Rassam, who the flow of drug money helping to secretary, was opposed to targeting Najafabadi, Iran's prosecutor-general, Khamenei, led to large-scale is employed as a political analyst at finance the Taliban insurgency, are drug barons on the grounds that it conceded that "mistakes" had led to demonstrations and violent clashes in the British embassy and who helped reported to have told Congress they would anger warlords he wanted as "painful accidents which cannot be Tehran and other cities, resulting in to monitor the elections. Both Reiss are convinced that the policy is legal allies. defended, and those who were dozens, possibly hundreds of deaths and Rassam expressed "regret" at under the military's rules of More recently, the US and Britain involved should be punished". He and mass arrests. Sporadic protests their actions, according to the official engagement and international law. have come round to the view that said the mistakes included "the were continuing despite a harsh Fars news agency, and asked for a However, targeting individuals in a their special forces and intelligence Kahrizak incident", an apparent security crackdown.Until now, pardon. Britain and France expressed deliberate assassination policy is agencies should target drug barons reference to the deaths. officials had rejected the torture outrage at the proceedings. regarded by many Nato countries, and their laboratories. Dori-Najafabadi indicated that the claims. • Iran and by many lawyers and military Several individuals suspected of judiciary had taken overall charge of The website of one of the defeated • Torture advisers in Britain, as unlawful. ties to drug trafficking have already the detainees and their trials away presidential candidates, Mehdi guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & "This was a hard sell in Nato," said been apprehended, and others have from the militia and revolutionary Karoubi, said yesterday that some of Media Limited 2009 | Use of this retired General John Craddock, been killed by the US military since guards. He said about 200 people those detained had been raped in content is subject to our Terms & Nato's supreme allied commander the new policy went into effect were still being held and urged detention. Conditions| More Feeds until he retired in July, the New York earlier this year, a senior military people not to be afraid to come "Some senior officials told me that Times reported. official told the New York Times. forward. "Maybe there were cases of ... really shameful issues ... Some In interviews with the Senate • Afghanistan torture in the early days after the young male detainees were raped ... foreign relations committee, two US • US Congress generals serving in Afghanistan said • Drugs trade major traffickers with known links to • United States the insurgency had been put on the • New York "joint integrated prioritised target • Taliban list". That means they have been guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & given the same target status as Media Limited 2009 | Use of this insurgent leaders, and can be content is subject to our Terms & captured or killed at any time. Conditions| More Feeds Currently, they said, there were about 50 major traffickers who 32 World/ AppleBlog/ Entertainment/ Internet News Record Bloomsbury backs down over book Earn a Certificate in iPhone cover and Cocoa Development from By Alison Flood (World news wrote. "That's not a very sustainable 2004, Ursula Le Guin asked why University of Washington and comment from the Guardian model if true." "even when [my characters] aren't By Victor Agreda, Jr. (The | guardian.co.uk) Bloomsbury has now bowed to the white in the text, they are white on Unofficial Apple Weblog pressure and will publish the the cover ... I have fought many Submitted at 8/10/2009 4:57:15 AM hardback of Liar this October cover departments on this issue, and (TUAW)) Publisher revises cover for Justine featuring a black girl. The publisher mostly lost. But please consider that Submitted at 8/10/2009 9:30:00 AM Larbalestier's Liar following storm of told US trade magazine Publishers 'what sells' or 'doesn't sell' can be a Filed under: Education, Developer, protest about 'whitewashing' book Weekly that it regretted that its self-fulfilling prophecy. If black kids, iPhone, SDK, iPod touch If you've Australian author Justine "original creative direction for Liar – Hispanics, Indians both Eastern and already got a degree or a little Larbalestier has won a battle with her which was intended to symbolically Western, don't buy fantasy – which knowledge in programming and American publishers to feature a reflect the narrator's complex they mostly don't – could it be you're looking to get in on the iPhone black girl on the cover of her new psychological makeup – has been because they never see themselves on app craze (or maybe you wish to book, after the original jacket interpreted by some as a calculated the cover?" write a Mac app -- many people still featuring a white girl provoked decision to mask the character's Larbalestier, also the author of do) you may want to look at the controversy from bloggers and ethnicity". Australian publication – How to Ditch Your Fairy and the University of Washington in Seattle. commentators across the internet. with a text-focused jacket – is also Magic or Madness trilogy, agreed They are now offering a certificate Larbalestier's new novel, Liar, is lined up for October, but UK rights that the idea that "black books don't program in iPhone and Cocoa about a short-haired black girl called in Liar have not yet sold. sell" could be a self-fulfilling development, which should teach Micah, but the advance reading Larbalestier said she was "very prophecy. "I don't think anyone can you the basics of iPhone and Mac copies sent out by Bloomsbury impressed" with "how quickly and know until books with black faces on continuing education certification development in a mere 90 contact program specifically tailored to Children's Books used a photograph decisively" Bloomsbury responded, them get a big marketing push. You hours (three classes). of a long-haired white girl on its and that she was "very happy" with can't tell anything if such books get writing iPhone apps. Yes, you can Ars reports that the program may write Mac apps too, but I'm guessing jacket, prompting a wave of the new look for Liar, which follows very little promotion," she said. "I be extended to an online offering criticism. "It's bad enough to the story of Micah, for whom lying is think the belief that white people the majority of attendees with have next year. I'd imagine that would be mobile dollar signs in their eyes. misrepresent the character in other second nature until her boyfriend won't buy books about black people quite popular far beyond the borders ways, but changing the race on the Zach dies. "I was hopeful that people is a widely held one, but I do think [via Ars] of the UW campus. The course itself TUAW Earn a Certificate in iPhone cover of the book just seems wrong," would notice and speak up and that if the furore over the cover of Liar is was developed with a stellar cast of blogged a librarian. "I am they were loud enough that there'd be causing people to rethink that. And to and Cocoa Development from advisors, including developers from University of Washington originally appropriately stricken. And outraged, a change for the paperback edition. ask themselves 'if it is true, what can NewsGator and OMNI Group, plus nauseous, flabbergasted ... I wish I People spoke up sooner and louder we do to change it?'". She urged appeared on The Unofficial Apple experts from Microsoft, Google and Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 10 Aug could say I can't imagine what they than I dreamed. I'm extremely readers to start buying books by Disney Interactive and is "already were thinking, but in fact I do have a grateful," she said. "I think the new "people of colour", recommending 2009 09:30:00 EST. Please see our close to capacity" for this Fall. terms for use of feeds. guess. I just can't imagine why they cover is gorgeous. While it's true that Coe Booth's Kendra and M Sindy While there are myriad books, thought no one would notice," wrote the model is not exactly as I Felin's Touching Snow. Read| Permalink| Email this| websites and other resources for Comments a children's book editor. imagined Micah (she looks quite a lot • Publishing learning how to write Cocoa "I was very upset. Both my agent like the American basket ball player • Children and teenagers software, this appears to be the first and I requested that it be changed," Alana Beard) she is much, much • Race issues said Larbalestier, who was flooded closer than the previous model." guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & with messages of support after laying But Larbalestier believes the issues Media Limited 2009 | Use of this out her concerns about the cover on of "whitewashing" of covers, content is subject to our Terms & her blog. "Are the big publishing ghettoising of books by people of Conditions| More Feeds houses really only in the business of colour, and low expectations for selling books to white people?" she these books are industry-wide. In Law and Order: CI: Revolution (season finale) - open thread By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Goldblum as one of the stars noticed that the plots of the for his first season? Submitted at 8/10/2009 8:12:00 AM (alternating the lead role with Goldblum/Nicholson episodes Filed under: Law and Order, Vincent D'Onofrio). There are fans seemed to be really ambitious, but I Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free And so ends the first season of Law who love the Goldblum episodes and don't think that made them better. Permalink| Email this| | Comments and Order: Criminal Intent with Jeff those that only want to see the veteran D'Onofrio in the lead. I What grade do you give Goldblum Internet News Record World/ Gizmos/ 33 Bombs kill dozens in Iraq Toshiba Bites the Blu-ray Bullet: By Haroon Siddique (World piles of bricks, twisted metal and targeted construction workers Applies to BDA, Says Players, news and comment from the smoking debris. Family members elsewhere in western Baghdad, Guardian | guardian.co.uk) pulled the wounded from the debris killing at least 10 people and Laptops Coming Soon [Blu-Ray] and carried them away as wounding 35. Three bombs exploded Submitted at 8/10/2009 7:15:55 AM ambulances wailed through the in the mainly Sunni neighbourhood By Danny Allen (Gizmodo) Double truck bombing near Mosul neighbourhood. Mahmoud Hussein, of Azamiyah shortly before 7am, Submitted at 8/10/2009 4:15:00 AM and nine blasts in Baghdad continue 28, said his house about 140 metres wounding a member of a government wave of attacks targeting Shia away from the truck bombs was -backed paramilitary group. The After killing off HD-DVD and Muslims flattened and he survived only army said there were no fatalities. A suggesting it'll possibly, probably, do A double truck bombing in because he was asleep on the roof. few hours later a roadside bomb something with Blu-ray, Toshiba has northern Iraq and a series of "If we had slept inside we would exploded in front of a mosque in the finally applied to join the Blu-ray explosions in Baghdad today have have been killed," said Hussein, who primarily Sunni neighbourhood of Disc Association, and plans to launch killed at least 48 people and wounded had a head wound from flying debris. Sadiyah in south-west Baghdad, set-top players and notebooks with almost 250, raising fears of a No one has claimed responsibility killing two and wounding 14 others, BD drives "in the course of this resurgence of sectarian violence. for the attack, but al-Qaida in Iraq a police official said. A minibus year." The truck bombing killed 28 people and other Sunni insurgents remain exploded in Shula, a predominately This is potentially great for and wounded 138 near the northern active in Mosul and surrounding Shia neighbourhood, killing one and competition, and I'm looking forward Iraqi city of Mosul, 240 miles north areas. wounding three more. Two bombs to seeing what sort of innovation of Baghdad, while nine bombs in the On Friday, a suicide truck bomber went off elsewhere in the city, Toshiba might bring to the space. Iraqi capital killed 20 people and destroyed a mosque used by the Shia wounding 10 other people. Toshiba's release as follows: of recent growth in digital devices wounded 108, officials said. Turkomen minority just north of There has been a wave of attacks 10 Aug, 2009. supporting the Blu-ray format, Insurgents are targeting Shias in an Mosul, killing 44 people. The US since US troops withdrew from Tokyo-Toshiba Corporation combined with market demand from attempt to reignite the sectarian military says Mosul is the last urban towns and cities in June. Insurgents (TOKYO: 6502) announced today consumers and retailers alike, violence that devastated the country stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq. are expected to step up efforts to that the company has applied for Toshiba has decided to join the BDA. in 2006 and 2007. So far the Shias The bombs across the capital this derail security gains as the membership of the Blu-ray Disc Toshiba aims to introduce digital have not retaliated, according to the morning are a reminder that Americans scale back their presence. Association (BDA) and plans to products that support the Blu-ray US military. insurgents remain a threat in US forces are due to leave Iraq by introduce products that support the format, including BD players and The deadliest of the pre-dawn Baghdad despite an announcement the end of 2011 under a security pact Blu-ray format. notebook PCs integrating BD drives, violence was in Khazna village, 12 by the Iraqi government last week between Washington and Baghdad, As a market leader in digital in the course of this year. Details of miles north of Mosul, which is that it would remove all blast walls in and the Americans are in the process technologies, Toshiba provides a the products, including the timing of inhabited by the Shia Shabak ethnic the city in response to the improved of handing over responsibility to the wide range of advanced digital regional launches, are now under group. Two trucks parked less than security situation. Iraqi security forces. products, such as DVD recorders and consideration. We will make 500 metres apart in an alley blew up The first bomb in Baghdad was • Iraq players, HDTVs and notebook PCs announcements in due course. [ together, flattening about 30 homes hidden in a pile of rubbish when it • Global terrorism that support a wide range of storage Toshiba Japan] in the small village, which lacks the exploded at about 5.50am Iraqi time guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & devices, including hard disk drives security measures of large cities. near a group of construction workers Media Limited 2009 | Use of this (HDD), DVD, and SD Cards. In light Many of the dead and wounded had drinking tea and looking for day jobs content is subject to our Terms & been sleeping on their roofs because in Amil. It killed at least seven Conditions| More Feeds of the summer heat. people and wounded 46, officials The explosions left a large crater said. and reduced the neighbourhood to About 10 minutes later, a car bomb The Dell 'Ultimate Hackintosh' Mini 9 Back for $299 [NetBooks] By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) Right now, you can order a Mini 9 just loves—but beggars can't be Submitted at 8/10/2009 6:40:00 AM from Dell using this direct link. Its choosers. $299 price comes at the cost of a So you win this round, Dell. Well- The Dell Mini 9 may not be Dell's laughable, 8GB hard drive— which played. [ Dell via Lilliputing via newest netbook, but it's widely technically works for OS X, but you Engadget] considered the best hackintosh may want to fork over $40 more for around. The only problem? It was the 16GB upgrade all the same. will continue offering the Mini 9—a discontinued...or so we thought. We have no idea how long Dell marketing ploy that we're sure Dell 34 AppleBlog/ Gizmos/ Internet News Record Five Apps for movie nuts By David Winograd (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 8/9/2009 11:00:00 AM Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review Just a few years ago, lovers of movies had one option of finding out where and when a film was playing: the newspaper. Remember them? They came sometime after scrolls and before Pong. Next came Mr. Moviefone. Who of Rear-Projection Urinal you cannot hear a certain voice in Lets You Pee Over your head as you read: 'Hello and welcome to Moviefone'? The voice Football Games or Bill has been doing it since 1989, and has O'Reilly [Wrongmodo] recorded over three million voice prompts. Moviefone represents many By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo) theater chains including: some AMC screens, Cineplex Odeon, Clearview Submitted at 8/10/2009 6:20:00 AM Cinemas, Galaxy Cinemas, and A pub in Melbourne came up with National Amusements theaters what potentially could be the best depending upon location. and wrongest multimedia device ever And then came the Internet. invented: A urinal with a rear Some years later, in 2000 projector, so you don't miss a single Fandango emerged to create some two alternatives, each using one of more information. I should note that to receive it after it's released. second of a game when you have to competition. Using a ton of funny the two competing services. when using any of the Netflix It doesn't have the nicest interface pee. commercials and movie trailers Now Playing- Free oriented functions, the app takes out there, but it's jammed with The idea of the Rear Projection featuring paper bag puppets, they This is one of the nicest apps quite a while to download all your functionality and the price is Urinal is good, although potentially gave Moviefone a run for their going. It uses Fandango for Netflix account information. certainly right. disturbing—especially when your money representing such chains as: purchasing tickets, but it does a Movie searching by theater: Note: Fandango service charges a favorite TV anchor appears. Or when some AMC screens, Carmike whole lot more. In fact, it has the Choose a theater and get show times 'convenience fee' ranging from $.75 people instinctively follow the ball Cinema, Century Theaters, CineArts, fullest feature set of any movie app and the option of playing a trailer. A to $2.00 depending upon venue and and end peeing on the next guy in Cinemark, Edwards, Regal, United I've come across. Here are some of website button brings you to all of location. line. Or when they play a Nicholas Artists, and others depending upon the things it can do: the sites mentioned plus the Continue reading Five Apps for Cage movie. location. Netflix management: Many options Metacritic review site, or you can movie nuts Yes, this can be disturbing and very Both have Internet sites where, for found on the Netflix site are available read the first paragraph of a number TUAW Five Apps for movie nuts wrong. Not as disturbing as the crazy a service charge ranging from $.75 to here but I found them a bit harder to of reviews from top critics. You are originally appeared on The singing clown urinal from Osaka, but $2.00, tickets could be bought online get to than on the web site. Queues also alerted if the movie is already in Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) close. [ Melbourne Pubs] to make sure you wouldn't be shut can be re-ordered, add to or deleted your Netflix Queue and given the on Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:00:00 EST. out of that midnight showing of from. When adding you have the Netflix star rating. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Transformers 2. option of moving your choice to the Movie schedules can be emailed. A Read| Permalink| Email this| Then came the iPhone/iPod Touch top of your queue. If you're not sure full list of upcoming movies along Comments and things got considerably easier, if you want it, you can be transferred with DVD release dates can be found although there is no clear to Amazon, IMDb, Wikipedia or along with the ability of saving any demarcation of what service sells even the Netflix site via Safari for upcoming title to your Netflix queue what, or where. I want to give you Internet News Record AppleBlog/ Entertainment/ 35 Best iPhone cellular plan... ever? By Kevin Harter (The Unofficial himself in areas that aren't exactly Apple Weblog (TUAW)) covered by his Softbank contract. Okay, now for the downer. Because Submitted at 8/9/2009 8:00:00 AM it's a T-Mobile affiliate, i wireless Filed under: iPhone, doesn't offer iPhone-compatible 3G Jailbreak/pwnage I like to joke that service. In fact, they only offer "Iowa is a great place to live, but I EDGE speeds in their Iowa-based wouldn't want to visit." Residents footprint, unless you're traveling to often complain that there's nothing to an area with T-Mobile 3G. As a do (other than milk cows and shuck result, that unlimited data is a bit corn). One can only stand so much crippled speed-wise, but it's still a antiquing. heck of a deal. But we do have a few things going So, if you're planning on traveling for us: clean air, relatively light to Iowa -- say, to Fort Madison for traffic, lots of space, and perhaps the the 62nd Annual Tri-State Rodeo in best cell phone plan for the iPhone. September -- or if you're "lucky" Unnatural History Recently, reader PC Drew, a US enough to be stuck living here, you Marine living in Japan, sent us a note might want to take advantage of a natural choice for to let us know about the challenge he what's probably the most economical Cartoon Network had in finding an iPhone plan while cell phone service plan available for visiting his wife's family. A contract the iPhone anywhere in the USA. By John Scott Lewinski (TV plan was out of the question, of DISCLAIMER: I own a computer Squad) course, because of his length of stay and cell phone store that sells this Submitted at 8/9/2009 7:02:00 PM and the fact that he's still under a two particular prepaid plan. But the above -year Softbank agreement in Japan. story is absolutely true; PC Drew did Cartoon Network and Warner And due to AT&T's, shall we say, solution, he stumbled across the tether their iPhones for free. Yes, you contact TUAW to brag about his Horizon Television fired up the "perplexing" lack of a prepaid plan MEGAtalk Nationwide plan from read that right... free tethering on an bargain find, without knowing me or cameras in Toronto recently on the for the iPhone, the official carrier in regional GSM carrier, i wireless. unlimited data plan! my connection to the product. new live-action pilot, Unnatural the States wouldn't help him. This no-contract, no-credit-check Of course, getting a service plan TUAW Best iPhone cellular plan... History. He could have stopped by a Best offering gives the customer 30 days from an unofficial carrier (read: non- ever? originally appeared on The While it's easy to ask why another Buy and picked up an O2 Universal of unlimited calling, with roaming AT&T, at least in the United States) Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) live action show is proceeding on the SIM Card for less than $10. That and long distance, for $49 plus taxes. requires your iPhone to be SIM- on Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:00:00 EST. Cartoon Network, Unnatural History would have provided the ironically- But wait, there's more! Not only unlocked. This has become much Please see our terms for use of feeds. could be fun enough to delay your named PC with $0.17 per minute did PC get unlimited voice minutes, easier over the past two years and Read| Permalink| Email this| need for that explanation. calls but that's it -- no data, no but he also had unlimited SMS most cell phone shops can perform Comments According to a network press included text messages, and no texting and, here's the kicker, the procedure if you're too nervous. release, we're dealing with an "action tethering ability. unlimited data usage. And, with the PC had already performed the -packed blend of mystery and martial After searching a bit for a prepaid proper hack, i wireless customers can necessary steps, as he often finds arts" here. Fortunately, there's no sign of Power Rangers masks or rubber monsters stalking Unnatural Right now on Cinematical History. Continue reading Unnatural By Kona Gallagher (TV Squad) weekend box office, but when I was Complicated in front of Julie and History a natural choice for Cartoon Submitted at 8/10/2009 10:33:00 AM at my local theater on Saturday Julia this weekend. It stars Meryl Network afternoon, I didn't hear one person in Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Filed under: Other Drama Shows, The folks at our sister site line ask for tickets to see it. So why Martin, and makes me hope that Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Cinematical are working hard to give did people stay away? Check out the Russo? I can't think of anything there will be more movies for the offhand that I've seen her in since Reality-Free you news and reviews of the best -- review here. over-50 crowd. Cinematical seems to Permalink| Email this| | Comments and worst -- the silver screen has to • Cinematical is asking a lot of The Thomas Crown Affair. be cautiously optimistic about it. offer. Here are some of their musings questions this weekend. The first of • How can Barbarella not be Filed under: Site Announcements, on the latest blockbusters, indies, and which is, what is your favorite John campy? Cinematical explains-- Reality-Free everything in between: Hughes memory? kinda. Permalink| Email this| | Comments • G.I. Joe may have won the • Also, What happened to Rene • I saw the trailer for It's 36 AppleBlog/ Gizmos/ Internet News Record Weekend news & rumor roundup, talkcast reminder By Michael Rose (The Unofficial the weekly talkcast, 10 pm ET on Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Talkshoe. You can download last week's show, featuring Christina and Submitted at 8/9/2009 12:30:00 PM the gang, from Talkshoe or subscribe Filed under: Rumors, Cult of Mac, in iTunes. TUAW Business, Podcasts To participate on TalkShoe, you It was a surprisingly rumor-filled Google & Apple no-poaching can use the browser-only client, or Saturday, as both AppleInsider and agreement, where the two companies you can try out the classic TalkShoe Boy Genius Report weighed in with made efforts not to cold-call each Pro Java client; however, for hints of a future iMac revision and other's engineers for job maximum fun, you should call in. capabilities expected for iTunes 9. opportunities. At For the web UI, just click Aside from finally giving users the Fortune/BrainstormTech, there's a the"TalkShoe Web" button on our ability to manage iPhone application report from everyone's favorite profile page at 10 pm Sunday. To call order on the desktop (thank financial analyst Gene Munster that in on regular phone or VOIP lines goodness), the new version of points toward the 'iPod mega' style of (take advantange of your free Apple's media player app is rumored Apple tablet, again looking like it cellphone weekend minutes if you to include Blu-ray playback would be available close to the like): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter capability; this brings the technology holiday shopping season. our talkcast ID, 45077 -- during the once referred to as a "bag of hurt" by The Google story continues to call, you can request to talk by After Pressing, Touching, Steve Jobs onto the Mac platform in percolate in other directions, as keying in *-8. Talk with you then! earnest. David Pogue points out the Recording support for the talkcast While AI doesn't zero in on Blu-ray forthcoming, full-featured web app is provided by Call Recorder from Tapping and Shaking? A as one of the two cryptically-hinted version of the Google Voice service ecamm networks. iMac features, it does seem likely. AI for iPhone; like the Latitude app, it TUAW Weekend news & rumor also suggests that one of the ways will be implemented in Safari; maybe roundup, talkcast reminder originally Scratch [Input Technology] Apple is going to pay for enhanced not as good as it would have been, appeared on The Unofficial Apple By John Herrman (Gizmodo) the second time around—it's hardware features on the iMac line is but certainly higher profile. Among Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 09 Aug Submitted at 8/10/2009 7:00:00 AM completely different, and much by squeezing the profit pump of the the Google apps remaining on the 2009 12:30:00 EST. Please see our higher-pitched. This distinction is at iPhone line, with margins that put the store, the Google Mobile app was terms for use of feeds. Remember that bizarre, inflatable the core of scratch input. computer business to shame. updated to include "did you say?" Read| Permalink| Email this| touchscreen with buttons that So different and unique are the Over at TechCrunch, they've poked search checking for voice search. Comments crawled out of Carnegie Mellon sounds that the research team thinks around in the rather surprising (from As we do every Sunday, we'll be University's labs a few months back? they could design a system that could an anti-trust perspective, anyway) diving into these stories and more on Those same researchers—who can't recognize gestures and shapes—like get enough of unorthodox input the letter "S", for example—allowing methods—have another one for you: for relatively complex interaction scratch input! with applications or devices. Think Here's the vision: anything from a declining a call or pausing your phone to a wall to a desk can be music by scratching your thigh, or fitted with a small stethoscope opening Expose by drawing two sensor, which is able to register fingers across your desk. Below, a distinctive scratch vibrations that the glimpse into our scratch-controlled human ear usually can't pick up, and future, which bears no small read them as commands. Quick test: resemblance to footage from a run your fingernail across your desk, containment cell in a mental health and listen to the sound. Now, put facility. [ Wired] your ear on your desk, and do the same. Not only is the sound louder Internet News Record Tech Musings/ Entertainment/ 37 Narrate Your Work (Scripting News) Hutch Carpenter discovered the docs of new information. It became an you know something for a fact, you Submitted at 8/9/2009 11:17:42 AM for it, and was excited about the obsession that was repeated in the want it out there as quickly as discovery, and I was excited for his 2000 election and in the aftermath of possible. And as long as something is Over the years I've seen ideas that excitement. 9-11. Now we try to grab for that clearly labeled as speculation it's show up over and over in various Brent Simmons, who was on our sense of immediacy whenever every bit as true as a fully vetted fact. different forms, and when we team at UserLand, went on to write possible, and they market to us on 5. Twitter is at least a dress discover one, we give it a name. NetNewsWire and other gems after that basis even naming their show rehearsal for the news system of the Examples. Jay Rosen came up with leaving the company. Brent uses The Situation Room, when it is future. A key component of this Atomization. Doc Searls said Twitter, to this day, to narrate his nothing of the sort. system is that it is used both as the Markets Are Conversations. David work. You'd have to ask Brent why 2. But cable news isn't where it back room for narrating news work Weinberger has so many -- including he does it, but I'm glad he does. I like started, it started with the idea of and for the finished delivered news Small Pieces Loosely Joined and how his mind works, I learn from news. It's not history or analysis, it's product. It's this duality that makes Transparency is the New Objectivity. him. He's also a friend and a guy I what's happening now. Think about electronic news vital. I first saw this Clay Shirky says Here Comes respect, so I like to stay in touch, and how the Iran Hostage Crisis spawned in the LBBS and MORE software I Everybody. Jay and I together came this is one way to do it. Nightline and how the networks did in the 80s, then in Manila in the up with Rebooting The News. Some Twitter is very much a Narrate story. I saw a news organization at covered the Nixon resignation, or the 90s, and I believe we will see it in the of mine are Sources Go Direct, River Your Work environment, in addition work. Careful to say what they do moon landing or the assassinations of news system that comes out of of News, We Make Shitty Software, to the many other things it is. In a and don't know. Informing each other JFK, RFK and MLK. (In the recent Twitter. You have two modes of Checkbox News, People Come Back way its question What Are You on experience with similar stories in spate of bios of Walter Cronkite I viewing the content, the editorial to Places that Send Them Away, Ask Doing? is what Narrate Your Work the past. Whether they were all learned that he broadcast from the view and the finished product view -- Not What the Internet Can Do For asks of you too. reading all of the others' posts, I don't room he worked in at CBS News, not but it's important that the are just You, The Platform with No Platform So that's what Narrate Your Work know. They were reading and from a set on a stage. It's as if he was views on the same data, so when a Vendor, It's Even Worse Than It means. I wouldn't waste your time passing on reports from other Twitter prepared to go on the air at any time change is made to one, it Appears. with all this theory unless I could users, even those that didn't work at and it wasn't appearances that automatically appears in the other. Now I'm going to add one, and show you how all this fits in with the Times. They were coordinating mattered. At that time, to CBS, news This was the key concept in Manila's provide a fantastic example. It's the Rebooted News and the News the work of a larger community than was a functional thing.) Edit This Page function. title of this piece -- Narrate Your System of the Future. Here's a recital just people who work at the Times. 3. We also want to feel to be a part 6. Lenn Pryor at Microsoft figured Work. of what happened. 4. I took a snapshot of the page at of the news process. Again this is this out a few years back when he Narrate Your Work is something I 1. As you may know, at roughly that time so we could all look at this. something the networks are playing started the Channel 9 website. used to tell my team at UserLand noon Eastern time yesterday a plane Now why do I think this is so lip service to. But the Times people Channel 9 is the audio channel on Software, because we were a virtual crashed into a helicopter over the important? Because it's a big part of on Twitter aren't just pretending to airplanes that allows you to listen to team, with people in Seattle, Boston, Hudson River in NY, killing all nine the future Rebooted News system, use sources outside their own the cockpit conversation. Pryor set Vancouver, Germany and California. people aboard both. imho. Today's reporters don't think newsroom, they are actually doing it. out to create that kind of experience But it would have applied even if we 2. I was away from my computer the public wants to see inside their And you can see it. for users of Microsoft products. Lenn were all working in the same office. when it happened, didn't check in process, but they are wrong about 4. Weinberger says we should seek is a creative guy who went on to As a manager, I wanted to know until about an hour later, and on that. Many of us totally want to look transparency, and of course I agree -- work at Skype. He also coined the where my people were, because if Twitter there was a mess of inside and watch them at work for a it's my theme song too. You can see term unconference for the format we they were completing a project I conflicting stories, and lots of variety of reasons: real reporters dealing with a true were using at BloggerCon. needed to be thinking about their individuals "breaking" the news even 1. We thirst for instantaneous real- breaking story not just a simulation Update: The Times stays with the next steps and how their deliverables though it happened over an hour ago. time news. The cable networks have of a breaking story, let their hair story. fit in with other stuff that was 3. I clicked on the page of NYT been simulating it for decades, but down and share everything they coming online. And if they were late editorial people on Twitter that I not delivering very often. Go back to know with the world. This is the I needed to understand why. We even keep and I saw something very the Gulf War, and how we were all impulse of news, it's not about hiding developed technology for this, and different, and this is the point of this glued to CNN watching for any hint things until they're ready, but when True Blood: Timebomb By Jane Boursaw (TV Squad) about it, but Jessica is in a really It's not so bad for Hoyt, who seems Continue reading True Blood: Submitted at 8/10/2009 2:03:00 AM interesting situation. She was a virgin happy that "every time will be like Timebomb when she was turned, so of course, our first time." Not so for Jessica, Filed under: OpEd, Episode (S02E08) "It grew back." - Jessica each new time she makes love, it's who says, "But it'll hurt like hell. I'm Reviews, Reality-Free, True Blood to Hoyt going to "heal up," and she'll have to a fucking deformity of nature. I'm Permalink| Email this| | Comments You know, I never really thought start from scratch, so to speak. What an awful predicament! gonna be a virgin forever." 38 Entertainment/ Tech Games/ Internet News Record Does Katherine Heigl need to I'm so excited about this news get some perspective? from The Office! By Jane Boursaw (TV Squad) By Jane Boursaw (TV Squad) QuakeCon 2009 Submitted at 8/10/2009 9:02:00 AM Submitted at 8/9/2009 8:02:00 PM detailed, first public I realize that celebrities don't always Readers of TV Squad know that our demos of Rage and have an easy time of it. They're fearless editor-in-chief Joel has been hounded by photographers, work at the Television Critics Association Brink crazy hours, spend time away from press tour, scooping up all the cool By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) news and interviews, and posting their families while on location, and Submitted at 8/9/2009 9:30:00 PM never know when their current gig them here for all of us to read. might end through no fault of their It's a lot of work attending these Nothing more clearly shows the own. events; you have to be "on" all the new relationship forged by Zenimax But, you know what? The rest of us time and not only attend panels, do Media between id Software and don't have an easy time of it either. set visits, conduct interviews, and Bethesda Softworks than this year's Sure, most of us don't have hob-nob with celebrities, but also QuakeCon lineup. Littered with little photographers hounding us at every write everything up and post it to the extras like an hour-long presentation turn, but we work crazy hours, spend site in a timely fashion. I have to give by Bethesda's Todd Howard and the time away from our families a big shout-out to Joel, because I love since it's all over the place and was first public demonstration of Splash working, and never know when OUR seeing all the TCA news coming pretty much a given anyway), I'll Damage's Brink, QuakeCon 2009 is current gigs might end through no direct result of accommodating her through. post my commentary after the jump. clearly accommodating some new fault of our own. schedule while promoting her new I'm especially geeked about the Continue reading I'm so excited faces. So it always drives me a little batty film The Ugly Truth. news he posted after his set visit to about this news from The Office! That being said, id Software's John when celebrities whine about having Continue reading Does Katherine The Office. In case anyone wants to Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Carmack will be giving this year's to work long hours and such, like Heigl need to get some perspective? stay spoiler-free (which would be The Office, Reality-Free keynote speech, and the event is still Katherine Heigl did on the Late Filed under: Late Night, OpEd, tough regarding this particular news, Permalink| Email this| | Comments very much PC-centric, with Show with David Letterman and Grey's Anatomy, Celebrities, Talk Alienware, NVIDA and Ventrilo other talk shows -- especially since Show, Reality-Free hosting a handful of events. the aforementioned long day was the Permalink| Email this| | Comments Upcoming post-apocalyptic, not-Mad Max FPS Rage will also be getting its first public demo at the show, Entourage: Fore! further asserting id Software into the By Jonathan Toomey (TV Wahlberg know. event. For those of you attending, we Squad) Seems like the dynamic of Continue reading Entourage: Fore! encourage hounding Todd Howard Entourage is really shifting lately, Filed under: OpEd, Entourage, for information on the next Elder Submitted at 8/10/2009 9:31:00 AM huh? Over the past two or three Episode Reviews, Reality-Free Scrolls game during his Q&A -- if ( S06E05)"No, we're up for it, but is episodes, Eric has moved to the head Permalink| Email this| | Comments not for us, do it for the kids. this gonna be like the old days when of the class, taking over the biggest QuakeCon 2009 detailed, first you try to pay me back in personal parts of each half-hour. I'm not I did wonder what the result of public demos of Rage and Brink training sessions and shit?" - Mark complaining, but earlier in the season Vince's success would be. Now we originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:30:00 EST. Big Brother 11: Nominations #4 Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| By Jackie Schnoop (TV Squad) have a feeling she's not going to be Nominations #4 Comments Submitted at 8/10/2009 3:02:00 AM happy relinquishing it when the time Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother comes. She's Queen Bee! She's the (US), Episode Reviews (S11E14) Well, the power was up woman with power! A woman Permalink| Email this| | Comments for grabs in the Big Brother 11 house should win this game! Unite, gals! on Thursday, and Chima not only Burn your bras; join the revolution. as an ally? Read on. snagged it, but she's relishing it. I But will she go as far as losing Jessie Continue reading Big Brother 11: Internet News Record Tech Games/ 39

The Best of Big Download: August 3-9 By Joystiq Staff (Joystiq) • Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta Submitted at 8/9/2009 10:30:00 PM Review: We give our final verdict for the last official DLC for Bethesda Filed under: Mac, PC, Meta (about Softworks's RPG Joystiq) • Mac Monday: Our weekly look at The dog days of August are hitting Mac games looks at two titles: Star us hard, but Big Download has been Defender 4 and Bionic Heart Worley Winery loses quite busy with lots of features, news • Boot Disk: Our retro games and a number of new demos and feature looks at Blue Bytes' classic other downloads. Check out what we strategy game The Settlers 2. stock, BioShock 2 gains have been writing about in the last • Big Ideas: Our weekly look at seven days: game themes examines how real Exclusive features voices will affect players while • 10 Upcoming Mac Games: The playing MMOs. promotion Macintosh gamer has a lot to look • Freeware Friday: Our weekly look By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) beaches across the world. Kotaku forward to in the next several at free games checks out an older Submitted at 8/10/2009 9:35:00 AM readers grabbed images from the months. We take a look at 10 PC title, the RTS game Warzone 2100. bottle-peppered shores of Brighton games that are slated to be ported to Continue reading The Best of Big We have to imagine that the Beach, The Hague, Vancouver and the Mac. Download: August 3-9 marketing team for BioShock 2 is Santa Monica. We also received a • Delayed to 2010: The Upcoming The Best of Big Download: August split into two warring factions, each video from tipster Lazlo showing the PC Game Backlog: A ton of major 3-9 originally appeared on Joystiq on one trying to outdo the other's early-morning discovery at games are slated to come out in the Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:30:00 EST. promotions. "We're going to make an Vancouver -- it's posted after the first half of 2010. We take a look at Please see our terms for use of feeds. online pseudo-ARG site." "Oh yeah? break. these delayed titles and speculate if Read| Permalink| Email this| Well we're going to give away If your mainland orientation kept they will be successful. Comments characters as a pre-order bonus." "Oh you from checking out the yeah? Well we're going to set up an promotion, don't despair -- you can eerie simulacrum of our ARG site in already grab one of these ad-filled the middle of Comic-Con." bottles on eBay for around $100. Hopefully the escalation will stop [Thanks, Lazlo!] before we reach: "Oh yeah? Well Continue reading Worley Winery we're going to kidnap an actual little loses stock, BioShock 2 gains girl and take her to the bottom of the promotion ocean." Worley Winery loses stock, The latest salvo from one of these BioShock 2 gains promotion sects is pretty clever (and legal, we originally appeared on Joystiq on think) -- a number of advertisements Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:35:00 EST. for plasmids and Rapture locales Please see our terms for use of feeds. tucked into bottles from Arcadia's Read| Permalink| Email this| Worley Winery (an in-game spirits Comments retailer) recently washed up on 40 Tech Games/ Internet News Record

Sports Illustrated subscription and Madden 10 bundled for only $49 By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) Submitted at 8/10/2009 10:30:00 AM This looks to be quite the deal for sports fans. Sports Illustrated is offering a free copy of Madden 10(on the platform of your choice) with Thank the Canadian every paid subscription. In addition to getting to getting 28 issues of Sports Illustrated, the$49 bundle government for these great includes a documentary DVD, "The Japanese hardware sales, Road to Canton" and the games aforementioned copy of Madden. The bundle is actually cheaper than July 27 - Aug. 2: Out By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) promoting game development in the buying a standalone copy of Madden Submitted at 8/9/2009 7:30:00 PM country. It even gave DeathSpank 10 at retail! With the money saved, developer Hothead Games over a you can afford all those crazy DLC with the old edition Ever heard of Fez? How about N+? half million dollars -- to develop a packs EA is pimping in this year's DeathSpank, maybe? If any of these game named DeathSpank! Though nearly 530,000 units in its first few edition ... almost. By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) games are near and dear to you like it'd be nice to say that such quality If you do take advantage of the Submitted at 8/9/2009 11:30:00 PM days on store shelves -- and also they are to us (we're looking at you, stuff was being developed in our caused a hefty sales boost for the Wii deal, make sure you watch out for the N+), then you have the Canadian backyards, we'll take what we can auto-renewal option. You'll have to Here's a nice little riddle for you: as well. Nintendo's other platforms government to thank. Government get. Good games are good games, What's the only thing capable of have stagnated somewhat -- but with cancel your subscription before it funding towards game development no? ends, or SI will charge you for toppling the latest perfectly-rated their newly rekindled Wii success, in Canada helped make each of the Thank the Canadian government entry in a historically best-selling, we doubt they care too terrible much. another year when your subscription aforementioned games come to for these great games originally ends. Japanese-focused franchise released - Wii: 95,357 71,362 (297.40%) fruition, according to Gamasutra. appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 09 Aug on a similarly popular Nintendo - DSi: 73,710 6,652 (8.28%) [Thanks, Colin M.!] Similar initiatives are being 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our Sports Illustrated subscription and console? The answer is, of course, - PSP: 33,049 2,526 (8.28%) proposed or practiced in many US terms for use of feeds. the latest perfectly-rated entry in a - DS Lite: 12,027 358 (2.89%) Madden 10 bundled for only $49 cities, however, the Canadian Read| Permalink| Email this| originally appeared on Joystiq on historically best-selling, Japanese- - PS3: 8,760 237 (2.63%) government has a long history of Comments focused franchise released on a - PS2: 3,617 312 (9.44%) Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:30:00 EST. similarly popular Nintendo console. - Xbox 360: 3,552 472 (15.32%) Please see our terms for use of feeds. See that, readers? That there was a [Source: Media Create] Read| Permalink| Email this| trick question. We feel bad, having See: The rekindled archives Comments made you feel so very foolish, but Japanese hardware sales, July 27 - we're suckers for parallelism. Aug. 2: Out with the old edition Ozzy Osbourne performing at BlizzCon 2009 Though Dragon Quest IX has originally appeared on Joystiq on shipped over 3.5 million units, its' Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:30:00 EST. By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) appearance have been rumored for same advertisement is any indication, time in the spotlight has drawn to a Please see our terms for use of feeds. Submitted at 8/9/2009 8:30:00 PM quite some time now-- which may he's really bad at it. close -- at least, temporarily. The Permalink| Email this| Comments help explain why tickets for the event Ozzy Osbourne performing at current alpha dog over in Japan is Though it was meant to be a super- sold out in 4.1 seconds flat. BlizzCon 2009 originally appeared Monster Hunter Tri, which sold secret surprise, DirecTV recently let Ozzy's performing at BlizzCon on Joystiq on Sun, 09 Aug 2009 the cat out of Blizzard's bag, seems like a natural fit -- after all, if 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms revealing that Ozzy Osbourne will be this old Wrath of the Lich King for use of feeds. performing at BlizzCon via the commercial is to be believed, Ozzy's Read| Permalink| Email this| event's Pay-Per-View description. fond of rolling through Azeroth as an Comments Rumors of the Prince of Darkness' Undead Warlock. However, if the Internet News Record Tech Games/ TechNews/ 41 What's A Big City Without A Newspaper? Still A Big City Last I Checked By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) the same consistency inside and out, other than "brawn.""We do the Submitted at 8/10/2009 5:01:10 AM but if you went down to our cafeteria, brawny work," Tierney said, it costs like $1.25. That's what people sounding like the C.E.O. of some A bunch of folks have been asking pay for stuff like this, so you mean to smokestack industry. "The Web my opinion on this past weekend's tell me I can't get them to pay that for efforts, they add something. I NY Times Magazine article by online access to all the incredible congratulate them. Let a thousand Michael Sokolove entitled What's a stuff in The Inquirer and Daily News flowers bloom. But if somebody Big City Without a Newspaper? To online? People who say that all this thinks in any short term, or even be honest, there's not much to say content wants to be free aren't paying medium term, that the answers are about it. The article itself sort of talented people to create it." As any those things, they're kidding meanders around, and doesn't make first year econ student would tell themselves. I know I sound like a NintendoWare Weekly: much of a point. Sokolove is wistful Tierney, the reason people are heretic in that I won't come out and for the "good old days" and hopes willing to pay $1.25 for a stale bagel say, 'They're the future." But they're that there's a future for newspapers. is because they really don't have not. The brawny work is what we're NyxQuest, Super Star Wars, He dips his toes into some of the new another easy choice. To get a better doing, and the brawny vehicle to experiments out there to cover the bagel would mean having to leave carry it is the printed product." I'm Brain Age Express news, and spends a lot of time with the building and head out somewhere not against newsprint -- if someone the guy who is currently CEO of the further away that isn't nearly as could come up with a way to make it By David Hinkle (Joystiq) kind of like when you bullseye a bankrupt big Philly newspapers. The womp rat in your T-17! convenient. But online there are other really add more value. I've talked Submitted at 8/10/2009 10:00:00 AM article doesn't really break any new Gallery: NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits options. Loads and loads and loads of about magazines making their print This week starts an initiative to ground. There are a few times when other options -- all only a click away. product more valuable, and I'm sure a (WiiWare) it seems to falsely assume that only bring classic LucasArts titles to the Continue reading NintendoWare If his cafeteria had 1,000 different creative newspaper could do it too. Virtual Console for the next month. newspaper reporters are real reporters bagel suppliers all competing to sell But claiming that newsprint is better Weekly: NyxQuest, Super Star Wars, (though, at other times it doesn't Today, Super Star Wars for the Brain Age Express their bagels, he'd discover that the because it carries "brawny work" SNES is available, however make this mistake). About the only bagels would be both a lot cheaper doesn't seem like a particularly NintendoWare Weekly: NyxQuest, really noteworthy thing is that the Nintendo also promises its sequels, Super Star Wars, Brain Age Express and a lot better tasting. And those compelling explanation. It sounds Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes guy who runs the Philadelphia Daily who thought they could get away like someone pining for a past that originally appeared on Joystiq on News and the Philadelphia Inquirer, Back and Super Star Wars: Return of Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:00:00 EST. with charging $1.25 for a crappy isn't returning. There's no vision the Jedi, in the coming weeks. Brian Tierney, seems to be a bit bagel would soon go out of business. there. There's only someone insisting Please see our terms for use of feeds. clueless about economics -- which Considering these are among the top Permalink| Email this| Comments Update: Ha! After writing this, I that things must be a certain way Star Wars experiences out there, you doesn't bode well for the two papers: discovered that King Kaufman wrote because that's the way it is. The can bet we're pretty pumped. It feels As soon as possible, he wants to basically the same thing. world, unfortunately, doesn't work begin charging for online content. As Oh, and then he also seems to that way. he told me this, he banged a bagel on believe that there's something special Permalink| Comments| Email This a conference table, which sounded about newsprint that makes it more Story like a rock as it hit. "You hear that?" suitable for reporting than the web, This bagel stinks, he said. "It's got but he fails to explain what that is, 42 TechNews/ Internet News Record EMI Loses Its Other Silicon Valley Wiz By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) become one of the most aggressive Submitted at 8/10/2009 3:13:00 AM companies suing every potentially innovative startup out there didn't Washington Post Says Economy Is Well so much for that. About a year engender much confidence that the ago, it seemed like perhaps (just company had figured out how to perhaps) EMI would be the first of embrace the new online world. Bad... No, Good... No, Bad For the big major record labels to really So it wasn't much of a surprise learn how to embrace the digital era. when Doug Merrill left after less than First, it talked about leaving the a year. However, the company then Nigerian 419 Scammers RIAA and IFPI. Then, it talked about promoted Ondrejka. I saw Ondrejka the importance of learning from speak at least year's Midem, and he By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) according to Nigerian scammers -- folks who have fun scambaiting 419 Radiohead's success with the "pay- talked up all these pie-in-the-sky Submitted at 8/10/2009 6:33:00 AM lose hundreds of millions of dollars a scammers, but the article notes that what-you-want" experiment. Finally, ideas that never actually seemed to year to cybercrimes, including a scammers who are having a tough it hired some Silicon Valley stars. show up. Last month, when EMI's There's a fascinating article in the scheme known as the Nigerian 419 time are quickly throwing down lots First, it hired Google's CIO Doug CEO admitted the company had lost Washington Post about the impact of fraud, named for a section of the of cash on magic potions, powders Merrill, and soon after that brought touch with consumers and didn't the worldwide financial crisis on Nigerian criminal code. Now and artifacts to help them perform on Second Life's co-founder Cory know how to fix it, you had to Nigerian 419 scammers. However, I financially squeezed, Americans better as scammers: Banjo said, he Ondrejka. Suddenly, we began to wonder what the company had been have to admit, that I'm a bit confused succumb even more easily to offers has traveled six hours to the forest, wonder what would happen if a doing. about the article, which seems to of riches, experts say. And then, just where a magician sells scam- major record label actually had And, now comes the news that state two totally contradictory things. a bit later, the scammers again boosters. A $300 powder supposedly management talent that understood Cory Ondrejka is also leaving EMI. First, that it's more difficult to be a complain that times are harder, and helps scammers "speak with digital technologies. He lasted just slightly longer than Nigerian scammer these days since profits are down 40%. authority" when demanding payment. But... it quickly became clear that Merrill, sticking around for an entire Americans don't have as much So... um... which is it? Has it A powder, rubbed on the face, this was not to be the case. EMI 14 months, where it doesn't appear money -- but then at the same time, become more difficult or easier than reportedly makes victims viewing the seemed to view both Merrill and that EMI did anything particularly that Americans are falling for the ever? Isn't that the sort of thing that a scammer through webcams Ondrejka as being in the "digital creative on the digital side, but did scam more easily these days since newspaper reporter would be powerless to say no. silo." And, if there's one thing we've sue a whole bunch of innovators. Oh they're desperate for money. I don't expected to search out and let us "No matter what, they will pay," learned, if you have a chief digital yeah, and it launched a blog. As far see how both can be true. Two quotes know? Not the Washington Post, said Olumide, a college student, officer in a media company, you're as I can tell, that's about the most from the article:"We are working apparently. It just tells us both are adding that he is boosting his doing it wrong. Pretending that innovative digital thing it's done in a harder. The financial crisis is not true and lets everyone else figure it romance scams by wearing a digital is a "silo" is wrong. Digital while (yes, there's sarcasm there). making it easy for them over there," out! magical, live tortoise hanging from a impacts every area of your business, Oh well. It makes you wonder what said Banjo, 24, speaking about While, personally, I still can't cord around his neck. So, scam and pretending that it's separate could have been. Americans, whose trust he has won figure out how anyone is still fooled baiters, it seems like perhaps you suggests you don't have the right Permalink| Comments| Email This and whose money he has fleeced, via by such scams after so many years of should be selling such things right strategy in place. Story his Dell laptop. "They don't have them being talked and written about, back to the scammers. And, of course, the fact that EMI money. And the money they don't the article does suggest that the Permalink| Comments| Email This have, we want." And then, just two scammers themselves are easily Story paragraphs later: U.S. authorities say scammed. This, of course, will come Americans -- the easiest prey, as no surprise at all to the group of