E-reader News Edition 11/02/10 - 12/02/10 http://www.LibertyNewspost.com 24 hours in pictures U.S. illegal immigrant tally drops by 1 million on (World news and comment from the Guardian | poor economy guardian.co.uk) by Tim Gaynor (Front Row with Mexico. Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:41:36 AM Washington) Congressional Democrats A selection of the best images Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:32:25 AM introduced a bill seeking from around the world comprehensive reform late last The number of illegal year, although analysts say a immigrants living and working crowded agenda and a struggling in the shadows in the United economy may sink hopes for an States dropped to 10.8 million in overhaul in 2010. Obama’s ADVERTISEMENT: January last year, from a high of predecessor George W. Bush (BloggingStocks) 11.8 million two years earlier, as tried and failed to get reforms the U.S. economy faltered, passed. Submitted at 2/12/2010 9:30:00 AM according to a U.S. government The period of decline coincides report. with a build up in policing The study by the U.S. efforts on the nearly 2,000-mile Google tweaks Department of Homeland (3,200 km) Mexico border, Security, which was released although the study made no Buzz privacy earlier this month, found that the reference to any impact of the “number of unauthorized total, followed by 530,000 was backed overwhelmingly by additional Border Patrol agents, settings migrants from El Salvador, Hispanics in his election in 2008, residents declined by 1.0 million infrastructure and fencing on the by Tom Krazit (Webware.com) between 2007 and 2009, 480,000 from Guatemala and supports an overhaul of fall-off. coincident with the U.S. 320,000 from Honduras. immigration laws that would Photo credit REUTERS/Tomas Submitted at 2/11/2010 5:53:00 PM economic downturn.” Illegal immigration is a divisive legalize millions of Bravo (residents wait to board issue in the , where undocumented immigrants in Changes are coming to Google The report, which drew on DHS bus to Los Angeles from Jalpa, Buzz after a rough start when and Census Bureau figures, Hispanics are also the largest good standing, while cracking Mexico. Jan. 15, 2009) legal immigrant group and are an down on employers who hire users complained that their most found that unauthorized For more Reuters political news, frequently e-mailed contacts immigrants from Mexico increasingly weighty voting bloc. undocumented workers as well click here President Barack Obama, who as hardening the porous border were automatically shared on accounted for 6.7 million of the their Buzz profiles. Originally posted at Relevant Video: Galileo Results (Little Green Footballs) Today’s sanity break is a definition video art by Avrillon fascinating piece of high Ghislain, titled “Galileo.”[Video] 2 Top News/ Business/ Popular News/ Politics/ E-reader News Edition Obama ‘luckiest man on the planet’ JA Solar Ups Forecast, in snowstorm Receives Upgrade by Tabassum Zakaria (Front by Mark Fightmaster Row Washington) (BloggingStocks)

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Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:04:50 AM hikes and nature trails. So I went needles, pins and ribbons. tobacco making, creole furniture, to the cheekbones and arctic to a museum instead. Then there is the story of a slave board games and kitchen objects stare from an armorial age. Not a David Smith shuns the beaches, The Seychelles' National called Pompée, convicted of such as a "machine for crushing man you could imagine singing sailing and diving for which the Museum of History is roughly murdering a Pierre Michel Inard coffee seeds" made by W M his babies to sleep. Seychelles is famous and heads the size of the British Museum's with a billhook in 1809. It says: McKinnon & Co of Aberdeen. After that is a section entitled to a museum cloakroom. It is a single gallery "As there was no executioner There are musical instruments "Seychelles traditional In one of the world's smallest divided into sections, with a available to carry out the including the mouloumba, architecture", but the walls are capital cities I found the world's narrative that seems to finish beheading, the tribunal bombe and zeze. A gramophone blank. I emerged into the heaviest nut. I was on a gruelling around the second world war, unanimously ruled that the is on show and we are told the sunlight and found I could do the assignment in the Seychelles, which brought airmail and convicted man should be burned. first records played here were rest of my tourist ticklist on foot. inspecting the star exhibit of the telephones to the islands. The "This took place on a beach near country and western. Victoria is a small port city with otherwise modest Natural museum receives between 1,000 the Moussa river at half-past A couple of the display cabinets a population about the size of History Museum in Victoria. and 1,500 visitors a year, mostly three in the morning of 15 are about witchcraft, or "gris- Shipley in West Yorkshire. And there it was inside a glass from overseas, and closes on August 1810." gris". I stopped by the colonial era case, a prime specimen of coco Saturday lunchtime for the rest It is an image not easily A caption notes that: "Many courthouse and post office, then de mer, hauled up on scales in of the weekend. dispelled. Seychellois still love to consult visited St Paul's Cathedral, 2001 and found to weigh Sometimes quaint and quirky The National Museum of bonhomme-du-bois and sorcier, where an all-female choir was 18.03kg. museums possess a charm that History's closest thing to the also dispense and sell charms, rehearsing. From near the pulpit, Coco de mer palms grow can be lost in the age of the Rosetta Stone is the Stone of pronounce incantations etc and I looked up and saw a banner abundantly on the nearby island interactive touchscreen and Possession, placed at La hold strong beliefs in these written in big letters: "My people of Praslin. The nut's appearance blockbuster crowd. There is a Poudrière in 1756 to signify spells, incantations, potions and are destroyed from lack of is invariably compared with an section here that has a potent, French ownership of the medicines." The exhibits include knowledge — Hosea 4v6." I often concealed part of the spare quality in no need of archipelago. It took its name an animal jawbone, horn, pack of didn't see any particular local female form. An early French adornment. Slavery thrived in the from Louis XV's finance playing cards, miniature coffin, significance, but thought to author likened it to "the anterior Seychelles in the late 18th and minister, Viscount Jean Moreau set of dominoes, battered copy of myself that museum curators and posterior parts of the body of early 19th centuries, with the de Séchelles, only to be later The Pilgrim's Progress, Catholic everywhere would approve. a negress". General Charles majority of forced labourers anglicised. rosary, scissors, knife and bottle • Seychelles Gordon said the nut represented shipped from Madagascar and Indeed, this country became a of cologne. "the thighs and belly … which I east Africa, particularly vintage Anglo-French bone of Another section is devoted to David Smith consider as the true seat of carnal Mozambique. imperial contention. Today you the world wars. The Seychelles guardian.co.uk© Guardian desires". The display includes a collar can hear both languages in the were not invaded but held air News & Media Limited 2010 | Read tourism brochures about with three bells attached to the streets, as well as Seychelles raid drills just in case. A machine Use of this content is subject to the Seychelles and words such as ends of long metal rods, making Creole, and eat a croque gun, steel helmet and German our Terms & Conditions| More pristine Garden of Eden, the wearer an easy target if he monsieur while looking at the war bell are all displayed. Feeds untouched heaven on earth and tried to escape, and a metal collar elegant Victoria Clocktower, a There's a statuette of Queen "a chance to recalibrate one's with two rings: big for an adult's replica of a clock near 's Victoria and photographs of soul in harmony with the primal waist and small for a child's. An Victoria station which has former governors including Sir essence of nature" cascade forth. advert in old typeface capitals become this city's best known Eustace Edward Twisleton Sunny Washington Square Park with snow (Scripting News) 4 World/ Business/ E-reader News Edition plans future as global haven for freedom of speech by Mark Tran (World news Expression. A haven for free 'journalism haven' – a Wikileaks days later. and comment from the expression would, he said, help jursidiction designed to attract The site played a role in Guardian | guardian.co.uk) counter the growing practice of organisations into publishing Iceland's financial crisis last

Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:09:25 AM libel tourism. British courts in online from Iceland, by adopting summer when a national TV particular, have become a the strongest press and source broadcaster was blocked from • Opposition MPs propose strong favoured destination for protection laws from around the revealing a list of creditors in the Monthly press protection laws complainants seeking to take world." country's banking debacle. The • Wikileaks advising on creation advantage of the UK's plaintiff- Assange said that in his role as broadcaster ran the url for the Foreclosures Top of safe port for journalism friendly libel laws. The House of Wikileaks editor, he had been Wikileaks disclosure instead. Iceland intends to become a Lords recently established a involved in fending off many Following on from that 300,000, Again bastion for global press freedom government panel to look into legal attacks. "We've become brouhaha, Assange and Schmitt by Connie Madon under a package of laws the possibility of amending its good at it, and never lost a case, went to Iceland early December (BloggingStocks) proposed by opposition MPs to laws to make it tougher for or a source, but we can't expect to discuss their idea for a Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:00:00 AM defend freedom of speech, and foreigners to bring defamation everyone to go through the journalism publishing haven on a protect sources and fight libel suits in Britain, amid fears that extraordinary efforts what we do. talk show, then in a more Filed under: Bad News, tourism. current British law was having a Large newspapers are routinely detailed presentation at Economic Data, Housing, With the help of Wikileaks, the "chilling effect" on freedom of censored by legal costs. It is time Reykjavík University, according Recession online whistleblowing site, the expression. this stopped. It is time a country to Jonathan Stray, a blogger for U.S. foreclosure filings rose MPs have launched the Icelandic With a population of just said, enough is enough, justice the Nieman Journalism Lab. 15% in January to over 300,000. Modern Media Intiative, with the 320,000, Iceland's ambition to must be seen, history must be Birgitta Jónsdóttir, of The This is the eleventh straight goal of turning the country into a transform itself from a country preserved, and we will give Movement, a political party with month that foreclosures have global haven for investigative heavily dependent upon fishing shelter from the storm." three MPs, is confident the passed 300,000. journalism. into a financial powerhouse, Wikileaks, which publishes measure will become law. "From Here is the situation: The proposal, which has went up in smoke after the 2008 submissions and what I have experienced from • 315,716 properties received a widespread backing among credit crunch. The failure of leaks of sensitive documents discussions with MPs from all notice of default, one in every Iceland's 51 MPs, is scheduled to Landsbanki and the bailout of its while attempting to protect the the different parties, there is 409 households. come before the Althingi, online savings bank, Icesave, left identity of whistleblowers, has incredible goodwill," she told the • Bank seizures may rise to 3 Iceland's parliament, next Icelanders picking up the tab currently suspended operations, BBC. million this year, according to Tuesday, in the first step towards after the government had to find other than the submission of • Iceland Realty Trac. turning the idea into law. funds to repay creditors in material, because of financial • Wikileaks "It is a good project for political Britain and the Netherlands. problems. The website says it • Continue reading Monthly change," said Róbert Marshall, a The new legislation has won will resume once operational • Freedom of speech Foreclosures Top 300,000, member of the ruling Social support from and costs have been covered. • Icesave Again Democratic Alliance party. "We Daniel Schmitt, the co-founders When the Guardian was Monthly Foreclosures Top have been through a difficult of the Wikileaks website. prevented from publishing Mark Tran 300,000, Again originally period and this is an initiative Assange wrote in an email from documents on the alleged guardian.co.uk© Guardian appeared on BloggingStocks on that can unite the whole political Iceland last week: "I have been dumping of 400 tonnes of toxic News & Media Limited 2010 | Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:00:00 EST. scene." [here] the past few weeks waste on behalf of the global Use of this content is subject to Please see our terms for use of As a former journalist Marshall advising parliamentarians here commodities trader Trafigura our Terms & Conditions| More feeds. Read| Permalink| Email is keen on the creation of the on a cross-party proposal to turn because of a super-injunction, Feeds this| Comments Icelandic Prize for Freedom of Iceland into an international the material ended up on E-reader News Edition World/ Popular News/ Tech/ 5 Trial Starts in Killing Argentina blocks supply ship of Iowa High School (World news and comment there could be up to 60bn barrels tubes were destined not for the to take it to Egypt. The vessel Football Coach from the Guardian | beneath the seabed around the Falklands but the Mediterranean. was not coming back here." guardian.co.uk) British territory, a bonanza In a separate accusation the Despite mounting domestic (FOXNews.com)

Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:22:33 AM which would transform the 2,900 foreign ministry said the Thor woes for the Argentinian and Submitted at 2/12/2010 5:09:07 AM islanders into oil barons. Leader had visited Port Stanley, British governments neither is Argentina steps up row with Argentina, which lost the brief the islands' capital, in January expected to seek diversion in Message from fivefilters.org: If Britain over oil and gas 1982 war with Britain over without permission. Companies another military conflict. The you can, please donate to the full exploration in South Atlantic by islands it calls the Malvinas, still involved in the oil business need 1982 war, which cost 649 -text RSS service so we can detaining ship claims sovereignty and describes authorisation to operate on Argentine and 258 British lives, continue developing it. Argentina has blocked a cargo the British presence as an Argentina's continental shelf, doomed Argentina's dictatorship SHELL ROCK, Iowa Opening ship from setting sail over occupation. The prospect of including the disputed islands. and forged Margaret Thatcher's statements are set to get under suspicion it would supply oil "black gold" enriching the A spokesman for Desire reputation as Britain's "iron lady" way in the trial of a man accused drilling equipment to the islands has fuelled Buenos Aires' Petroleum, one of four British prime minister. of gunning down a revered high Falkland islands, marking a ire. Last week it formally firms with contracts to explore This month's drilling will be the school football coach in Iowa. sharp escalation in a diplomatic objected to the imminent oil and Falklands waters, confirmed the first in Falklands waters since Mark D. Becker is accused of battle with Britain over gas exploration. vessel delivered drilling Shell suspended exploration in killing Aplington-Parkersburg hydrocarbon exploration in the On Thursday the foreign equipment, anchors and pipes to 1998 after oil prices slumped to High School football coach Ed south Atlantic. minister, Jorge Taiana, met the the islands. The material was $12 a barrel. Oil companies are Thomas in the school's weight Authorities halted a governor of Tierra del Fuego sourced in Britain. bullish about prospects this time room last year. His trial is consignment of tubes on board a province, Fabiana Ros, to The British Foreign Office round but island authorities scheduled to begin at the Butler ship in Campana, north of coordinate Argentina's response. declined to comment on the caution that no commercial County Courthouse on Friday. Buenos Aires, and accused the "Great Britain is violating affair. British and Falkland deposits have yet been found. Click here for photos. owners of aiding an Argentine sovereignty," the officials had recently played • Falkland Islands The 24-year-old's defense "illegitimate" search for oil and governor said after the meeting. down Argentine protests as • Argentina attorney has said he'll ask jurors gas. It emerged yesterday that port rhetoric. • Oil to find Becker not guilty by The intervention, which officials prevented the ship Thor Phyll Rendell, the Falklands • Oil and gas companies reason of insanity or diminished appeared to catch the Falklands Leader from leaving Campana government's director of mineral • Foreign policy responsibility. and Britain by surprise, came as on Wednesday over suspicion its resources, shrugged off the Becker played football for the islands prepared to start cargo of Argentine-made Argentine action. "The incident guardian.co.uk© Guardian Thomas in high school. He is drilling the first of 10 wells. A seamless tubes would be used for with the vessel does not make News & Media Limited 2010 | accused of shooting the coach to rig, the Ocean Guardian, is drilling activity "illegitimately any difference to activities here. Use of this content is subject to death in front of more than 20 expected to arrive next week and promoted" by Britain. The vessel had competed our Terms & Conditions| More students on June 24. to begin drilling 100 miles Techint, the world's biggest unloading cargo here and had Feeds Thomas led the northeast Iowa offshore almost immediately. producer of seamless steel tubing obviously got another contract to team for 34 seasons and was the Geological surveys suggest for the oil industry, said the pick up steel pipe from Campana NFL High School Coach of the Year in 2005. Four of his players are now in the NFL. Opera 10.5 lags in my speed tests Five Filters featured article: by Stephen Shankland Opera hopes its JavaScript latest rough builds of several Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: (Webware.com) engine will be the fastest on the browsers, Opera falls short. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,

Submitted at 2/12/2010 3:45:00 AM market. But when CNET's Originally posted at Deep Tech Term Extraction. Stephen Shankland compares the 6 World/ Business/ Tech/ E-reader News Edition A disappointing verdict for Eweida | Edward Built-in video Wanambwa and Anna Birtwistle arrives in by Edward Wanambwa, Anna through the turban, hijab and of Eweida's belief had no as a requirement of their religion Opera beta Birtwistle (World news and skullcap would understandably discernable affect upon others and Eweida was unable to comment from the Guardian | by Stephen Shankland seem unfair. It is true that it was (see, for example, the case of the produce evidence to the contrary. (Webware.com) guardian.co.uk) Eweida's personal decision to Christian registrar who refused, Liberty, who represented Submitted at 2/12/2010 1:10:00 AM Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:30:00 AM wear a visible cross (and was not on grounds of her belief, to Eweida at the court of appeal, one which was required by perform same-sex civil has indicated that they will now A fourth browser now plays It's unfair that Nadia Eweida's scripture or as an article of her partnerships) and for this reason try to take her case to the video with no plug-ins. But right to wear a cross won't be faith). But we might well ask one might have expected the supreme court. However, today's codec wars continue: It uses Ogg protected, given concessions why, when discrimination court of appeal to have taken a decision may represent the last Theora, like Firefox and Chrome made to others on matters of legislation has moved forward so more generous approach when word on this matter if Eweida is but not Safari. belief as to encompass arguably non- interpreting our religious not granted leave to appeal to the Originally posted at Deep Tech The decision in the case of traditional philosophical beliefs, discrimination laws. supreme court. Nadia Eweida, who has lost her the law should look to the Arguably, the judgment in Edward Wanambwa and Anna appeal today, does not sit well requirements of scripture as they Eweida may have been largely Birtwistle are lawyers at CM with the general principle that pertain to religions rather than public policy driven; the court of Murray LLP Go fishing for protection from discrimination individuals' own interpretation appeal perhaps being concerned • Religion online music should be interpreted broadly. and subjective beliefs. that it might open the floodgates • Civil liberties Regrettably this judgment might Indeed it is hard to justify that to employees relying on, and • Law with Radio Tuna have the effect of providing Eweida's desire to display the seeking protection in the • Christianity nationalist figures with further cross should not be protected workplace for, their own by Jasmine France (Webware.com) ammunition to preach their own where employment tribunals subjective rather than objective Edward Wanambwa Anna culturally and racially divisive have previously emphasised the versions of religion. Birtwistle Submitted at 2/11/2010 2:50:00 PM beliefs that the law gives wide range of beliefs, for We await full details of the court guardian.co.uk© Guardian precedence to religions other example climate change and of appeal's reasoning, but it News & Media Limited 2010 | Radio Tuna let's you easily than Christianity in our vegetarianism, that will be appears that the court took the Use of this content is subject to search thousands of online radio multicultural society. protected under our view that banning Eweida from our Terms & Conditions| More stations based on the artists For Eweida, a policy which on discrimination laws. wearing a cross was not Feeds played, the genre, or the name of the one hand made exceptions Unlike other decisions discriminatory because the station. for her Sikh, Muslim and Jewish concerning religious Christians, as a group, colleagues to express their faith discrimination, the manifestation "generally" do not wear a cross Retailers Lagging in Social Media Rush by Tom Johansmeyer retailers would flock to any place year, a substantial 75% of the top Retailers Lagging in Social (BloggingStocks) where they could find 400 100 online retailers don't have a Media Rush originally appeared

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Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:22:31 AM As the sun set over Los Angeles today, millions of local residents looked to the north and wondered, "Who's Sally?" The nine letters marking the world's most famous neighborhood--and possibly one of the planet's most effective billboards--had been planned to be altered to read SAVE THE PEAK. But a late start, light breeze and difficulties working with a delicate historic monument proved slow going for the team, who had to work entirely by hand securing 45-foot mesh fabric banners along the backs of the letters. By 5:00 only the S and the A had been covered. Tonight, it would be a Sallywood Night. The sign's transformation hoped to draw attention to the fact that the peak nearby--some 138 acres seen to the left of the then- Sollywood sign here--needs to be purchased from developer Fox River Financial Resources to press conference today). The creative execution for the piece what the city wanted). I then witness a typographic disaster of prevent a hypothetical four campaign needs to double that fell on Ramy Baramily from asked him how they planned to landmark proportions. mansions from being built along amount by April 14 in order for Signquest. His company got the solve a looming logistical Not to mention a sustainability the ridge. A movement was the sale to go through. call a few weeks ago to start problem: SAVE THE PEAK has one: thousands of yards of mesh launched by the Trust for Public Although he can't be blamed for designing the banners, and only two more characters than fabric, used for five days, and at Land named Save Cahuenga the disconnect between received official permission to HOLLYWOOD. "You're the a cost of "in the high five Peak and has already raised $6.3 launching a campaign to protect install them yesterday. I asked first person to ask me that," he figures" (although the Trust for million dollars from celebrities the view of the Hollywood sign him if they considered using the said, amazed. The "THE" will be Public Land says it was all (Tiffany & Co. chipped in and transforming it into an Hollywood sign typeface (they squeezed onto the space of the Y, another million in time for the eyesore for a few days, the did) and why they chose red (it's he told me. I think we're about to HOORAY page 9 8 Business/ E-reader News Edition What Aardvark Can Do for Google by Dan Nosowitz (Fast Company)

Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:25:08 AM Yesterday brought the news that Google has officially purchased Aardvark, a small San-Francisco -based social search startup that happens to have been created by former Google employees. The timing, coming just two days after Google unveiled Buzz, can't be coincidental--but what can Aardvark do for Google? An awful lot, as it turns out. Aardvark is a question-and- answer service more than a search engine. You ask a question via email or instant message, and it looks through your list of friends as well as and only 15% as "bad." would take Google's fledgling crowd-sourced pool of answers search. Instead of asking your friends' friends before So why does Google want social networking platform to a to a lot of the questions Aardvark Google's algorithms, you could sending your question to those Aardvark? Could be the valuable level neither Facebook nor users ask, users might well be ask living, breathing people. who would be able to answer it search data Aardvark's collected- guidebooks like Yelp can match. happier with the personal How cool is that? best. So if you ask "What's the -who's searching for what, what Facebook's private, friend-based responses Aardvark can provide. Google hasn't said what they best coffeeshop in San kind of answers are most community is its strength, a Do you want to hear what some intend to do with Aardvark. Even Francisco's Mission District?" satisfying for the user, that kind strength shared by Aardvark, yet stranger you may have nothing the confirmation of the deal is as it'll only send the question to of thing--as well as the personnel Aardvark's search is, well, in common with thinks about barebones as it gets: Max those who live or have lived in involved in its creation. Also, incredibly useful--that's local cafes, or do you want to Ventilla, Aardvark's CEO, San Francisco. Your answers remember, Google owned something Facebook can't boast. hear from your friends and simply wrote "We can now won't be a list of external links, Foursquare's predecessor, Facebook is great for connecting friends of friends, who probably confirm that Google has signed a like a typical search engine, but a Dodgeball, but allowed it to go with people, but it's just not have similar taste in bohemian deal to acquire us but have no genuine human reply, just like in fallow, only to have Foursquare designed with this kind of hangouts? Plus, the inherently further comment." But Aardvark those horrible, horrible days explode in popularity a few years answer-based search in mind. helpful nature of Aardvark is a has a lot to offer Google, and before the Internet when people later. Google can't let that Aardvark would be a notably boon to social networking; it stripping the company for parts had to (shudder) relate to one happen again with a similar Googley way to differentiate feels great to be asked a question would be a mistake. But if they another. And if you're doubting service, especially now, with the Buzz from the more established to which you know the answer. take advantage, Buzz is going to the chance of actually receiving a launch of Buzz. social networks: It's all about Even apart from Buzz, Aardvark get a lot more exciting. response, you'll be surprised: It's Let's say Google decides to use answers. would add an interesting social [Via TechCrunch] remarkably efficient, returning Aardvark. The possibilities are Aardvark would even allow twist to plain old Google search. an answer 90% of the time, and pretty striking, especially in the Buzz to compete more Imagine an additional button 60% of the time within 10 context of Google Buzz. effectively with Yelp--while next to Web search, image minutes. Even better, users rank Aardvark integrated with Buzz Yelp might be the established search and video search: Friend WHAT page 9 about 70% of answers as "good," E-reader News Edition Popular News/ Tech/ Tech News/ 9 HOORAY Divvyshot launches continued from page 7 donated). Baramily didn't have by Howard Hughes, whose true value of the peak in question wanted everyone in L.A. to refreshingly simple plans to recycle the fabric, but palatial Lago Vista home you --the fact that it's not covered in know it. He considered this his photo sharing instead, said it would all go back can see here, in the Sallywood bad advertising! Sussman/Prejza, lifetime achievement, according to the city. One can only hope Hills (it was later owned by the designers behind the 1984 to High Times. And he should by Rafe Needleman the mesh fabric can be sewn into Madonna). The Cahuenga Peak Olympics--who designed the have been proud. It was a (Webware.com) tote bags and sold for more land was purchased from stunning, glittery characters at powerful message, simple, Submitted at 2/12/2010 4:00:00 AM SAVE THE PEAK cash. Hughes' estate by Chicago-based the newly-opened W Hollywood beautifully executed, and there The irony in all this--besides the Fox River in 2002, and all public --could have wowed us with was no doubt to anyone within Photo site has bonus feature for fact that Sally's Beauty Supply use of the hiking trails, which some temporary signage viewing distance what it meant. iPhone users: shake to share got a lovely boost of free thread into Griffith Park, the installation that was beautiful And hey, man, it was green. Originally posted at Rafe's advertising today--is that the sign largest urban park in the country and readable from more than a SAVE THE PEAK still means Radar itself once advertised another at 4,200 acres, as well as nearby few miles away. very little to the city's open space real estate development: Lake Hollywood, ceased Or how about this? Since its movement, but now Kevin Smith Hollywoodland. (In 1943, the immediately. lights were removed in 1943, the SALLYWOOD will go down in "LAND" was subsequently But this idyllic view has been in sign has only been lit on special history as Hollywood's great Rains F-Bombs on removed to reflect the name of danger before. Back in 1978, the occasions like the 1984 missed opportunity to do Mac Nerds the entire neighborhood, not just sign itself had become pitted and Olympics and the turn of the something truly positive for by Brian X. Chen (Wired Top the subdivision.) Starting in decayed and the "O" was long millennium. We could have preservation. Besides, if they had Stories) 1923, the entire peak was in fact gone, looking more like " simply turned on the Hollywood hired someone like Finegood to once divided up into tracts for HUILYWC D." Then, like now, sign's lights for a few nights-- do it, the sign would have been Submitted at 2/11/2010 5:51:00 PM homeowners to purchase. But the Hollywood itself rallied to wind or solar-powered, of course finished by morning. At this investment by former Los protect its iconic label. --to bring awe and attention to point, they might as well change Kevin Smith stood me up for Angeles Times publisher Harry Celebrities like Hugh Hefner, this part of the city. An it to SORRYWOOD. our interview. At least his Chandler didn't fare too well Alice Cooper and Gene Autry environmentally-conscious event [Additional photos, Macworld keynote was cool. after the Depression, and that's pitched in that time around. for all of L.A. to enjoy. HollywoodSign.org] the reason most of the land There was an auction at the Danny Finegood had a message [ Save Cahuenga Peak] remains wilderness today. (See, Playboy Mansion: Alice Cooper he wanted to get out to the city economic downturns can be bought an O! Now that's when he altered the sign on July good!) creative. So why didn't we take 1, 1976. It was the day that The undeveloped land near the this opportunity to tap a local relaxed marijuana laws went into sign was eventually purchased artist or designer to highlight the effect in California, and he WHAT continued from page 8 Internet support grows for Betty White on SNL (Holy Kaw!) former Golden Girl will step into Michaels invites the likes of

Submitted at 2/11/2010 10:56:30 PM hosting duties very soon. More Andrew Dice Clay and Paris than 200,000 people have joined Hilton to “SNL” and not a true Shockingly, comedic legend a Facebook group dedicated to talent like Betty White? Betty White has never hosted grabbing the attention of SNL’s Full story at Huffington Post. “Saturday Night Live,” but, if the bigwigs and getting White on the Tune in to the top TV news. legions of vocal Betty fans on show. world do we live in where Lorne Permalink| Leave a comment » the internet have their way, the What kind of terribly unfunny 10 Business/ Tech News/ E-reader News Edition Bing Turbo-Charges Maps, Equips it With Flickr, Space Telescope to Challenge Google by Kit Eaton (Fast Company) That turns Bing Maps into an

Submitted at 2/12/2010 8:42:58 AM augmented reality tool, of course. This part is still Here's evidence that Microsoft experimental, so you won't be isn't just up for challenging able to try it out. But the Flickr Google in the usual web-search integration is live if you use a business, but in other Google Bing Maps tool, even if it's still areas too: Like Maps. Bing's just an ongoing research project so demonstrated some upcoming it's limited to a few US locations, tweaks, and they'll make Google and a single-pass through Flickr's nervous. geotagged image database. Microsoft showed off its turbo- MS also revealed that soon boosted Maps app at the TED you'll be able to try out Bing conference, but as befits the Sky, which does exactly what intellectual theme of TED, it also you think it might--it's a star- posted a long and complex blog map, orrery and space- post about the matter. You can exploration tool that'll integrate read it here, but it's absolutely with Street Side to show you gargantuan and delves into some what the sky looks like overhead. of the complexities of The tech is driven by MS's own ergonomics, man-machine WorldWide Telescope project, poking around in a particular Maps includes imagery from clever image-matching to interfaces and process mapping and it'll roll sometime soon. area. Then there's discovery, space all the way down to aerial integrate them into its existing of how we interact with some of Essentially MS is builing up where you use your senses to photos. Which is, of course, image database. The upshot Bing's existing systems. Suffice Bing to challenge the full spread find cues that'll help you get a exactly what Google does as being, of course, that instead of a it to say that the research folks at of Google's tech--Street Side particular task done, and finally well. But where Google used to static view of the area, you can MS have really put their thinking sounds like a cleverer version of there's decision making, where have the lead with Street View, see what it looked like at any caps on when trying to improve Street View, Bing Sky is close to you take all of this info and use it Bing now has "Street Side" too, particular time. Bing: They're calling the new Google Sky, and so on. Before to achieve a goal. which is almost the same thing. More impressively, MS can also process of search "spatial you know it, MS will roll out MS explained how it had been And now Bing's integrating user integrate video into the views-- searching" and they've broken it their own web-based email improving Bing Maps to help photos from Flickr into Street and if someone's transmitting a down into stages that match real- system, and chat interface. Oh, with the "explore" segment of Side, leveraging images with live geotagged feed, it can even life searching. First is hang on... this, and noted how the existing geotagging and doing some perform this trick in real time. exploration, where you're just [ Microsoft] Death Star Laser Gun Zaps Mosquitoes Dead by Kim Zetter (Wired Top If Microsoft founder Bill Gates for him with his “Death Star” parts purchased on eBay by Stories) unleashes more mosquitoes at laser gun designed to track and scientists at Myhrvold’s

Submitted at 2/12/2010 6:26:00 AM this year’s TED conference, kill the bugs in flight. Better yet: Intellectual Ventures Laboratory. Nathan Myhrvold will be ready The device was crafted from E-reader News Edition Business/ Popular News/ 11 Hawaii Man Convicted of Tossing Toddler to His Death (FOXNews.com)

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Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full -text RSS service so we can continue developing it. HONOLULU A Honolulu man has been convicted in the death of a 23-month-old boy who was tossed from a freeway overpass two years ago. Circuit Judge Dexter Del Foursquare Adds Another Big Partner: Conde Rosario on Thursday found 24- year-old Matthew Higa guilty of second-degree murder. Nast's Lucky Magazine Cyrus Belt was thrown from a by Kit Eaton (Fast Company) long-term angle too. This takes Fashion Week event, and will clearly building itself some 30-foot high Hawaii freeway Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:23:47 AM the form of a Lucky Shopping likely attract a decent chunk of bargaining power--power that'll overpass and run over by a Directory, which is a list of about return users from Lucky's let it sign up even bigger-name delivery truck in January 2008. Foursquare's execs must've been 700 stores maintained inside subscriber base. It's the same partners in the future. And with Prosecutors say Higa was high executing a whirlwind tour of Foursquare. If you pop in to one business model that'll work for the million check-ins a week on crystal methamphetamine meeting rooms recently: In of these locations, and check in Bravo, HBO, the History barrier recently passed, it's clear when he threw the toddler. addition to Bravo, Zagat and on Foursquare, you'll get tips and Channel and all the other that its user base is extremely Defense attorney Randall HBO, they've just signed up a incentives like discounts or deals partners Fousquare probably has active, and definitely growing, Oyama has argued that the boy special content deal with Conde and the usual Foursquare badges. lined up waiting in the wings. which will also be attractive to was already dead when he was Nast's Lucky magazine, in There may even be "boutique And this has us wondering on ad partners. thrown. Oyama has suggested a perfect time for New York crawls," like pub crawls but in Foursquare's future. It seems to Here's the other angle too: If boyfriend of the boy's mother, fashion week. better outfits and with less be cleverly positioning itself as Foursquare keeps this up, it Nancy Chanco, was responsible The deal starts being specialized alcohol (perhaps.) more than just an advert-driven could turn itself into a seemingly for the death. for Fashion Week itself, with The upside for Lucky is clear--it service, and more of an ad friendlier location-based Higa did not testify during the Foursquare offering attendees gets a slew of advertising partner-supported "experience" competitor to Google Buzz-- trial. tips on bars, coffee and other mindspace, and it's likely to provider, which clearly whose future frightening ad- Five Filters featured article: services near the show's venues make itself an attractive co- distinguishes it from other loaded, life-managing powers we Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: and events, with the tips being advertising partner to new location-based systems like imagined the other day. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, selected by Lucky magazine's members in that coveted list of Google's and even Yelp's. By [via TechCrunch] Term Extraction. editors. 700 boutiques. For Foursquare, associating itself with some But just like the other recent the benefits are that it'll get a ton mainstream media names at this Foursquare partnerships, there's a of promotion at the prestigious early point in the game, it's also 12 Business/ Tech/ Tech News/ E-reader News Edition Cash for Haiti U2 Finds Carbon Trade Under a Blood Red Sky Could Undermine by Ariel Schwartz (Fast 200 crew members, and on one Company) occasion the band even added a Rebuilding Effort satellite link-up to the Submitted at 2/11/2010 6:22:45 PM by Nathan Hodge (Wired Top International Space Station. The Stories) U2 has worked for decades on 18-month tour ended up various humanitarian efforts, but producing 65,000 tons of CO2, Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:08:00 AM up until now the band has mostly or enough to fly the members of A new army has appeared on the overlooked potential U2 to Mars and back. In streets of Port-au-Prince, environmental projects. Not comparison, Madonna's 2006 wearing day-glo vests and white anymore--the tireless Irish world tour produced 1,635 tons face masks, and carrying picks foursome is raising money for of CO2. So if U2 really wants to and shovels. These are the cash- the Dora-1 geothermal plant in make a difference, it should ditch from traveling to their U2 raise up to $450,000. for-work crews, and they are Turkey by selling Offset Options' the carbon offsets and focus on concert of choice by sending The hypocritical thing here is needed. But Haiti is sustained in carbon offset credits for $1.89 on fixing its touring practices. money directly to Dora-1 or one that U2 concerts are large part by external aid, and the top of regular concert ticket of the other carbon offset mindblowingly carbon intensive. [Via VentureBeat] prices. arrival of relief groups and projects endorsed by Offset U2's recent 360 world tour NGOs carries a serious risk: The Fans that purchase the credits Options. Ultimately, U2 hopes to featured three 390-ton stages, are theoretically offsetting CO2 creation of an aid bubble. North Korea Wants Your Money, Juniper eyes wireless Opens New Foreign Investment network upgrades (CNET News.com) service provider marketing at

Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:31:16 AM Juniper, the mobile network will Zones look a lot like the fixed line by Tom Johansmeyer economic zones haven't been Message from fivefilters.org: If broadband infrastructure. (BloggingStocks) terribly successful. you can, please donate to the full These so-called converged Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:20:00 AM Continue reading North Korea -text RSS service so we can networks are growing in clout Wants Your Money, Opens New continue developing it. overseas and are likely to catch Filed under: International Foreign Investment Zones Juniper Networks on Monday on in the U.S. in a few years. Markets, China In a bid for North Korea Wants Your will launch three products for Read more of " Juniper aims for foreign investment, North Korea Money, Opens New Foreign mobile network providers to get larger piece of wireless network has created a dozen special Investment Zones originally a bigger slice of the 3G, 4G, and upgrade pie" at ZDNet's zones, so reports a South Korean appeared on BloggingStocks on LTE upgrade revenue pie. Between the Lines. newspaper. The country needs North Korea, which has Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:20:00 EST. The big picture: Juniper, which Five Filters featured article: hard currency, thanks to lack of traditionally been the mainstay Please see our terms for use of primarily competes with Alcatel- Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: trading relationships and an of its economy. feeds. Read| Permalink| Email Lucent and Cisco Systems for PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, economy that redefines The new zones will offer new this| Comments wireless business, sees networks Term Extraction. "troubled." Raw material and opportunities for economic converging. According to Mallik power shortages have growth, though the North's past Tatipamula, vice president of constrained heavy industry in experiments with special E-reader News Edition Popular News/ 13 Kennedy won't seek re-election, marking end of era (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) The decision comes less than a Kennedy was not specific about In Congress, Kennedy has Congress that he has good

Submitted at 2/12/2010 5:15:53 AM month after a stunning upset by his plans, but said he would pushed for greater mental health fortune," Loughlin said. "And Republican Scott Brown in the continue to fight for issues on care coverage, citing his own we're going to stay in the race." Message from fivefilters.org: If race for the Massachusetts behalf of those suffering from struggles with depression and No Democrat has entered the you can, please donate to the full Senate seat his father held for depression, addiction, autism and addiction. His mother, Joan race for the seat. -text RSS service so we can almost half a century. Last week, post-traumatic stress disorder. Kennedy, has been through Kennedy has had a difficult time continue developing it. as Brown was sworn into the "Now having spent two decades several alcohol treatment in the public spotlight, with a WASHINGTON – Rep. Patrick seat, Patrick Kennedy called in politics, my life is taking a programs. number of high-profile troubles. Kennedy's decision not to seek re Brown's candidacy a "joke" and new direction," Kennedy says. Kennedy has never married, and Most recently, he engaged in a -election will leave Washington predicted Brown would betray A Kennedy has served in elected friends have said his personal life protracted public spat with without a Kennedy in political his union supporters. office in Washington ever since had taken a back seat to his Providence Roman Catholic office for the first time in more Mark Weiner, a major Patrick Kennedy's uncle, John F. career. Bishop Thomas Tobin over than 60 years. Democratic fundraiser in Rhode Kennedy, was elected to Still, until recently, Kennedy health care reform and The Rhode Island Democrat's Island and one of Kennedy's top Congress from Massachusetts in appeared committed to running Kennedy's support of abortion term ends early next year but he financial backers, said he had 1946. again. rights. says in a television message spoken with Kennedy recently, As a member of the powerful The only Republican in the race, After leaving treatment at the viewed by The Associated Press and that his father's death had House Appropriations state Rep. John Loughlin, has Mayo Clinic in 2006, he on Thursday that his life is taken an enormous toll. Committee, Kennedy has made been working with Brown's described to reporters how his "taking a new direction" and he "It's tough to get up and go to sure federal dollars are sent to campaign team, the Shawmut work and public profile had will not seek a ninth term. The work every day when your his state. Group, and was raising money. taken a toll on his health, and video was provided to the AP by partner is not there," Weiner Democratic Rep. Jim Langevin, But Kennedy was heavily bred feelings of isolation and self Kennedy's congressional office. said. "I think he just had a Rhode Island's only other House favored to win the race: -criticism. The 42-year-old son of the late broken heart after his father member, had spoken with Registered Democrats "How well this event did or how Sen. Edward Kennedy does not passed away." Kennedy and said he would miss outnumber Republicans more well that event did — and then give a reason for the decision but Kennedy said in his ad that he him in Congress. than 4 to 1 in Rhode Island. I'd take that all home, and it's all says it has been a difficult few remained committed to public "Patrick is a true public servant Loughlin has little statewide on me," he said then. "And then I years for many people and he service, and he thanked Rhode and passionate fighter who made recognition, and Kennedy had don't have a private life. I don't mentions the death in August of Island voters for supporting him a real difference for the people of four times as much campaign have real personal connections. I his father. through ups and downs. our great state," said Langevin, cash on hand coming into the don't have a support system." "Illness took the life of my most He has been in and out of who served with Kennedy in the year. ___ cherished mentor and confidante, treatment for substance abuse state House of Representatives. He told The Providence Journal Smith reported from my ultimate source of spirit and since crashing his car outside the Kennedy was elected to that shortly after Brown's win in Providence, R.I. Associated strength," he said, as a black-and U.S Capitol in 2006. Still, he has position in 1988 at age 21 while January that he wasn't worried Press writers Eric Tucker and -white photo of him as a boy been comfortably re-elected still attending Providence about Loughlin, saying "bring it Ray Henry in Providence sailing with his father appeared twice since then, after making College, then was sent to the on." contributed to this report. on the screen. "From the mental health care his signature U.S. House of Representatives in Weiner said Kennedy was not Five Filters featured article: countless lives he lifted, to the issue in Washington. 1994. afraid of losing the election. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: American promise he helped "When I made missteps or Kennedy also has been a "Winning or losing had nothing PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, shape, my father taught me that suffered setbacks, you responded financial boon to the Democratic to do, I'm sure, with his Term Extraction. politics at its very core was about not with contempt, but Party, drawing people to decision," he said. serving others." compassion," he said. "Thank fundraisers nationwide, and he Loughlin said Thursday night The announcement is to air you for all the times you lifted once served as chairman of the that he wished Kennedy well. Sunday on Rhode Island me up, pushed me forward and Democratic Congressional "We hope that wherever life television stations. filled my heart with hope." Campaign Committee. takes him beyond his career in 14 Popular News/ E-reader News Edition Bill Clinton returns home after heart procedure (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) he'll be on the phone ... calling reopened the original clogged The angioplasty is usually done Saturday Night Live" as a

Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:32:32 AM people asking for more help for artery and placed two mesh with the patient awake but gluttonous McDonald's Haiti and where he can get props called stents to keep it sedated. It's one of the most customer. Message from fivefilters.org: If pickup trucks so they can deliver open. The procedure took about common medical procedures Friends and family say Clinton you can, please donate to the full food or generators. If I know Bill an hour, and Clinton was able to done worldwide. More than a changed his eating habits for the -text RSS service so we can Clinton, he'll be raring to go in get up two hours later, Schwartz million angioplasties are done in better after his bypass surgery. continue developing it. about 35 minutes," McAuliffe said. the United States each year, most "He has a brutal schedule. ... He CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. – Former said. There was no sign the former involving stents. travels more than 200 days a President Bill Clinton was Clinton could be back at work president had suffered a heart "It's not unexpected" for Clinton year, working on his global recovering at his suburban home as soon as Monday, cardiologist attack, and the new blockage was to need another procedure years initiative, helping people," with his wife on Friday after Allan Schwartz said previously. not a result of his diet, Schwartz after his bypass, said Dr. Clyde McAuliffe told CBS. "I hear leaving a Manhattan hospital A couple of hours after Clinton said. Yancy, cardiologist at Baylor people say, 'Will he slow down?' where he underwent a heart went home, C.J. Williams, a "The procedure went very University Medical Center in That's not President Clinton. If procedure. second-grader from New smoothly," Schwartz said, Dallas and president of the anything, he'll redouble his Three black SUVs with tinted Fairfield, Conn., arrived at the describing Clinton's prognosis as American Heart Association. efforts if there's actually time to windows arrived around 7:45 cul-de-sac carrying a get well excellent. The sections of blood vessels redouble what he does." a.m. Friday and pulled through card and a red heart-shaped box McAuliffe said 63-year-old used to create detours around the But should Clinton slow down a the high gates at the house. The filled with Skittles. Clinton participated in a original blockages tend to little? Westchester County hamlet of The sandy-haired boy said he conference call on earthquake develop clogs five to 10 years "Yeah, probably," McAuliffe Chappaqua is about 35 miles wrote on the card, "Happy relief as he was wheeled into an after a bypass, Yancy explained. said. "But he's been doing this north of . Valentine's Day. I hope you feel operating room. New blockages also can develop for 63 years and you're not going State Department spokesman better and here's a little heart to "An aide had to literally take the in new areas. to change him. He always says, P.J. Crowley said Secretary of make your big heart feel better." phone away from him," he said. "This kind of disease is 'It's not about me; it's about all State Hillary Rodham Clinton An officer told C.J. and his If Clinton could have, said progressive. It's not a one-time those people.'" was also at the family's home. father that they'd have to mail the McAuliffe, he would have event so it really points out the ___ Clinton adviser Douglas Band items. discussed Haiti"right through the need for constant surveillance" Associated Press writers said in a statement that Clinton Clinton had quadruple bypass procedure." and treating risk factors such as Marilynn Marchione in left New York Presbyterian surgery more than five years ago. The secretary of state went from high cholesterol and high blood Milwaukee; Beth Fouhy, Marcus Hospital"in excellent health." He returned Thursday to have a Washington to New York to be pressure, he said. Franklin and Cristian Salazar in "He looks forward in the days clogged heart artery opened after with her husband. Their The former president has been New York; Julie Pace, Matthew ahead to getting back to the work suffering discomfort in his chest. daughter, Chelsea, was also at working in recent weeks to help Lee and Darlene Superville in of his Foundation, and to Haiti Two stents resembling tiny the hospital. Aides said Mrs. relief efforts in Haiti. Since Washington; and AP video relief and recovery efforts," it mesh scaffolds were placed Clinton plans to leave Saturday leaving office, he has maintained journalist Ted Shaffrey in said. inside the artery as part of a for the Persian Gulf. a busy schedule working on Chappaqua contributed to this Terry McAuliffe, the former medical procedure that is In an angioplasty, the procedure humanitarian projects through report. Democratic National Committee common for people with severe Clinton had on Thursday, his foundation. Five Filters featured article: chairman and a close friend of heart disease. doctors thread a tube through a Clinton's reputation as an Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: the Clintons, told CBS' "The Schwartz said tests had showed blood vessel in the groin to a unhealthy eater was sealed in PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Early Show" that he expects that one of the bypasses from the blocked artery and inflate a 1992, when the newly minted Term Extraction. Clinton will get back to work surgery was completely blocked. balloon to flatten the clog. Often, presidential candidate took quickly. Instead of trying to open the one or more stents are used to reporters on jogs to McDonald's. "If I know President Clinton, blocked bypass, doctors prop the artery open. He was famously spoofed on " E-reader News Edition Popular News/ Tech News/ 15 Vancouver awaits Winter Olympics (BBC News | Americas | body UK Sport expects a three- during training - but few teams said British snowboarder Zoe first Briton to compete at the World Edition) medal return on its investment. have arrived at the Games Gillings, who will compete at Games.

Submitted at 2/11/2010 5:22:00 PM That pales in comparison to the without incident. Cypress Mountain, where more British medal interest at pressure facing the host nation's The British team, in particular, rain is forecast. Vancouver 2010 lies largely in Message from fivefilters.org: If team of 206 athletes, competing saw its skiing and snowboarding "They've put so much work in Whistler, where world number you can, please donate to the full across the Games' 15 sports over governing body go into that I think it'll be alright." one women's duo -text RSS service so we can 17 days. administration just one week Whistler, the home to alpine Nicola Minichiello and Gillian continue developing it. The Canadian team has defined before the Olympics, leaving the skiing events situated two hours Cooke will compete, as will Vancouver will welcome some a successful Games as winning BOA to arrange emergency north of Vancouver, has no such star Shelley Rudman, 2,500 athletes to the 2010 Winter more medals than any other funding for the 14 affected trouble - there are record levels who won GB's only medal - a Olympics at Friday's opening nation - rather than necessarily athletes. of snow on the ground. silver - at in 2006. ceremony. aiming for more golds than other And financial problems extend But training runs there have Back in Vancouver, the two Financial worries and a lack of countries - with the men's ice to the Vancouver Organizing already fallen prey to the fog for British curling teams are also snow have hampered hockey final considered a must- Committee (Vanoc) itself, which which the resort is renowned. expected to challenge for medals, preparations, but the focus now win showpiece event by home has faced reports of a 30m If the weather does not while there are outside chances switches to the competitors. supporters. Canadian dollar (£18.1m) intervene, Whistler will play host in figure skating and speed Canada could earn their first Leading Canada's charge is 37- revenue shortfall. to one of the first major skating. ever home Olympic gold medal year-old speed skater Clara However, Vanoc no longer spectacles of the Games when "Pretty much everybody on the on Saturday, while Team GB's Hughes, who will carry her expects large-scale protests the men's downhill skiing takes team skated British records and 52 athletes have been set a target country's flag at the opening against the Games outside the place on Saturday. personal bests the week before of three medals of any colour. ceremony. A former cyclist, she opening ceremony - the contents The event is traditionally the we came here," said 29-year-old "We're keen to mark the has both Summer and Winter of which remain a closely- blue riband event of the Games British short track speed skater beginning of a new era for winter Olympic medals to her name. guarded secret - at the 60,000- and 35-year-old Swiss veteran Sarah Lindsay, who is set to sports in Britain," said British Of the 82 nations expected to capacity BC Place arena. Didier Cuche, who leads the compete at her third Winter chef de mission Andy Hunt. take part, the United States and More problematic for organisers season-long World Cup Games. "It is extraordinary to have the Germany should also be close is the weather in the region, on standings, begins as favourite - "You can't ask for much more number of athletes in the team contenders both in terms of gold Canada's west coast, which has despite skiing with a broken than that. For us, if one person that we do. medals, where also been unseasonably warm in thumb since the end of last can win, the whole team does." "We haven't set a specific medal feature, and overall medal count. recent weeks. month. Print Sponsor target - our real target is for The US team of 216 athletes is Rain has played havoc with the Lindsay confident ahead of third Five Filters featured article: every athlete to achieve their the largest at the Vancouver Cypress Mountain freestyle Games Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: personal best." Games and is fronted by skiing and snowboarding venue Cuche's 23-year-old countryman PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Team GB 'must improve on talismanic skiing sensation to the north of Vancouver, which Carlo Janka and Austrian Term Extraction. Turin' Lindsey Vonn. has had to rely on snow imported Michael Walchhofer are also While the British Olympic Vonn has had a troubled build- from higher ground. ones to watch. Local star Manuel Association (BOA) is playing up to her five Olympic events "The organisers have been doing Osborne-Paradis could go close, down medal targets, funding after suffering a shin injury everything they possibly can," while Ed Drake will become the Want a Nissan Leaf EV? Here's What Tech Presidents Day: Washington, You Do. Jefferson, Lincoln by Chuck Squatriglia (Wired Sign up now, because they may by Tony Long & Randy Alfred Three of our presidents have Top Stories) go fast. (Wired Top Stories) good tech chops. Believe it. 16 Popular News/ E-reader News Edition New England states contract case of 'snow envy' (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) snow, rain and flooding that Baltimore has gotten record cubes of snow — 20 of them in

Submitted at 2/12/2010 5:38:02 AM made roads impassable and cut snowfall, 77.9 inches, more than all — that are packed solid off the Navajo and Hopi Nations. Buffalo, N.Y., and Caribou, before being carved into intricate Message from fivefilters.org: If Helicopters had to drop off tens Maine, two places known for works of art by local stone you can, please donate to the full of thousands of meals, water, their snowy winters. Snowfall sculptors. -text RSS service so we can cots, blankets and firewood. records have also been shattered But there was no snow nearby continue developing it. In New Hampshire, Lyman in Philadelphia, Washington, and no budget for trucking in PORTLAND, Maine – Snow? marvels at the region's bad luck. D.C., Wilmington, Del., and snow, said Sue Higby of Studio Coolest What snow? He has resorted in the past to Atlantic City, N.J. Place Arts, the competition's Snowless New England states trucking in snow for the dog sled Meanwhile, this weekend was sponsor. Higby decided not to 404 error that rely on the white stuff for teams. But this year, there was supposed to be full of traditional take any chances. their winter activities are green no snow anywhere in the region winter frolicking in Portland: "We've decided to postpone the with envy watching the Mid- as he watched two storms head snowball fights, snowman snow sculpture competition — to pages Atlantic get blanketed with back- to the south. building, snowshoeing, cross- next year," she said. (Holy Kaw!) to-back blizzards. "It's hard to fathom," Lyman country skiing, sledding, snow For the most part, ski resorts Submitted at 2/11/2010 9:38:47 PM So little snow fell in Maine's said. "It's not like we're missing sculpting and snow painting. But seem to be holding their own. largest city that Portland it by much. The nor'easters are without any significant snowfall Most can make snow as long as Stumbling on a 404 error page canceled its winter festival. In still coming. But for whatever in Maine for the past three the temperature is cold enough. can make you want to stab your Vermont, no snow meant no reason, they're all going south." weeks, the city lacks the one key "It's unfortunate when you see all eyeballs with rusty forks, but can sculpting contest. And in New Art DeGaetano of the National ingredient needed for all those of our friends down in Baltimore that frustration be remedied with Hampshire, the lack of snow Oceanic and Atmospheric activities, and had to cancel its and Washington under two, three a clever message that won’t nixed a dog sled race. Administration's Regional Winter Rush festival. feet of snow," said Tom Meyers, make you want to reach for the "We were thinking of getting the Climate Center at Cornell Adding insult to injury was a Wachusett Mountain Ski Area's oxidized silverware? It seems dog teams down to Washington University says El Nino January rainstorm that washed marketing director in more and more web designers and giving President Obama a conditions in the Pacific Ocean away much of the snow that had Massachusetts. "They don't want to help avoid the inevitable ride," said Jim Lyman, president have helped create the persistent, piled up, leaving bare ground at a appreciate it like we do." “page not found” irritation and of the Lakes Region Sled Dog southerly storm track this winter, time when it's supposed to be a ___ whipped up creative error pages. Club, which had to cancel this causing storms to miss northern winter wonderland. Associated Press writers Clarke The Huffington Post has weekend's race in Laconia. New England and upstate New "We're definitely having snow Canfield in Portland, Jay collected some of the internet’s But the unusual snow pattern York. envy," said Sally DeLuca, Lindsay in Boston, Jeff Karoub coolest 404s that make errors hasn't been restricted to the East Boston readied itself this week Portland's recreation director, in Detroit, Amanda Lee Myers in slightly less annoying. Coast: Parts of Texas got some for a forecasted foot of snow. who canceled all Winter Rush Phoenix and John Curran in Full story at Huffington Post. snow Thursday that caused Schools closed and businesses let activities except for a road race Burlington, Vt., contributed to A slew of web design news and slippery roads. Detroit got 6 workers go home early. But the and a polar plunge. this report. views. inches Wednesday, but overall storm never materialized. 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Submitted at 2/11/2010 6:42:37 PM Calderon, while a woman shouted: "You are not welcome Message from fivefilters.org: If here." you can, please donate to the full All those who spoke expressed -text RSS service so we can their frustration about the level continue developing it. of violence, our correspondent Please turn on JavaScript. Media adds. requires JavaScript to play. They also complained about the Protesters come up against riot lack of a proper infrastructure police in Ciudad Juarez and alleged human rights abuses Mexican President Felipe by the security forces. Calderon faced public anger The federal government's during a visit to his country's perceived lack of efficiency in most violent city, Ciudad Juarez, dealing with the crisis was on the border with the US. another major grievance. There were scuffles between riot Army helicopters patrolled the police and dozens of protesters skies above, as federal riot police outside the convention centre tried to disperse the dozens of where Mr Calderon and his people staging a demonstration. cabinet met community leaders. Many were holding signs saying 'Not welcome' accusations of inefficiency in his drug trafficking, but as one of The president promised new "army and police, leave!" and "If those deaths... mean anything strategy to combat the drug the local leaders told Mr initiatives to tackle crime in the "Calderon out". it is that we need to change after cartels. Calderon to his face, it may have city, which is a major "Calderon's afraid... We want that absurd sacrifice," Mr The people of Ciudad Juarez come too late. battleground for drug cartels. justice, we want him to resign," Calderon told Ciudad Juarez vented their frustration with the "I've promised the parents of the But he refused to withdraw Luz Davila, whose two teenaged residents. ongoing violence and the effect it victims that we'll find a new troops, who critics say have children were killed in the The president promised is having on daily life in the impetus for the fight against the worsened the violence. January high school party improvements in health, border town where more than violent gangs," he said. "We More than 15,000 people are shooting, told the Reuters news education, welfare and 5,000 people have been killed have to have better co-ordination believed to have been killed in agency. infrastructure for the poverty- since 2006. between the different institutions drug-related incidents in Mexico Print Sponsor stricken northern city, but Mr Calderon said he was ready of government and the police in the last two years. Five Filters featured article: insisted he would not withdraw to readjust his policies and forces to take on this challenge - There were more than 2,600 Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: the 6,000 troops deployed there. launched a series of social a fight that we have yet to win." murders in Ciudad Juarez last PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, In a country where the initiatives, but insisted he would But as soon as he finished his year. Term Extraction. On 31 January, 13 teenagers and institution of the president is not pull troops out, one of the speech and opened the floor to two adults were shot dead at a deeply respected, Felipe popular demands. questions, the criticism started to high school party. Their families Calderon exposed himself during His visit was aimed at opening a flow, says the BBC's Julian have said they had no gang ties. several hours to direct new chapter in the fight against Miglierini in Mexico City. 18 Popular News/ Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition Bill Clinton out of US hospital (BBC News | Americas | raring to go in about 35 World Edition) minutes," former Democratic

Submitted at 2/12/2010 6:04:07 AM Party chairman Terry McAuliffe said on CBS TV's Early Show. Message from fivefilters.org: If "He'll be on the phone... calling you can, please donate to the full people asking for more help for -text RSS service so we can Haiti and where he can get continue developing it. pickup trucks so they can deliver Please turn on JavaScript. Media food or generators," he added. requires JavaScript to play. The former Arkansas governor Bill Clinton leaves hospital in became known for his love of New York after undergoing a fast food and jogging during his heart procedure two terms as president. Former US President Bill After his 2004 operation, friends Clinton has left the Manhattan and family say he improved his hospital where he underwent a eating habits. heart procedure. In addition to his work in Haiti, He smiled as he walked out of he heads the William J Clinton New York Presbyterian Hospital, Foundation to promote and got into a waiting car, and waved address international for the cameras. humanitarian issues such as the His cardiologist earlier said he treatment and prevention of Family support Dr Schwartz said the insertion of treatment to be needed after a was "in good spirits" after the HIV/Aids and global warming. Mr Clinton's wife Hillary, the two devices known as stents had bypass. procedure, in which doctors He lives about 35 miles (55km) US Secretary of State, and their gone "very smoothly". 'Raring to go' inserted two stents to clear a north of New York City, in the daughter Chelsea had joined him The stents - wire-mesh tubes Since leaving office in January clogged artery in his heart. small hamlet of Chappaqua. at his bedside. that help the flow of blood - 2001, Mr Clinton has maintained Dr Allan Schwartz said he could Print Sponsor The state department has said were placed in a coronary artery a punishing routine. be back at work as soon as Five Filters featured article: Mrs Clinton will still travel to that had become blocked since In recent weeks, he has made Monday, adding that he did not Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Qatar and Saudi Arabia at the Mr Clinton had a quadruple- two trips to Haiti to help the suffer a heart attack. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, weekend as planned, although bypass operation in 2004. relief effort in the wake of the The former president had Term Extraction. quadruple bypass surgery at the her flight will leave later to allow Doctors said that the need for devastating earthquake there on same hospital more than five her to spend more time in New the procedure had not been 12 January. years ago. He was re-admitted on York. triggered by Mr Clinton's diet or Friends describe him as Thursday after complaining of Speaking to media outside the active lifestyle. They said it was unstoppable. discomfort in his chest. hospital on Thursday evening, "not unexpected" for a follow-up "If I know Bill Clinton, he'll be A Love Story, As Told By an iPhone [Stories] by John Herrman (Gizmodo) morning, rolled over to an empty Gizmodo!

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Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:50:44 AM At the main ceremony in the many people who still have only high folate diet means faster capital's centre, near the ruins of the flimsiest shelter in While the existence of true healing and recovery time, as Message from fivefilters.org: If the National Palace, leaders of impromptu camps, if the pace of natural aphrodisiacs is up for well as increasing the chance of you can, please donate to the full Haiti's two official religions - a getting out more tents and debate, it's an absolute fact that conception during sex and -text RSS service so we can Catholic bishop and the head of stronger shelter materials is not eating certain foods improves encouraging prenatal health continue developing it. the Voodoo priests, both robed in stepped up before the start of the your sex life. True, most of these during pregnancy. Haiti is holding a day of national white - joined ministers from rainy season. foods on this list are useful for • Blueberries: Studies have mourning a month after the Protestant denominations for a In the biggest of the camps that their nutritional value, but their linked blueberry consumption to earthquake struck, killing at least prayer service. sprang up in the capital after the nutrients are ones your body uses increased memory and 217,000. Hundreds of people gathered for earthquake, people are still living specifically for sex. concentration, and enough Ceremonies are being held the service in the shade of under sheeting strung across Just in time for Valentine’s Day, blueberries can give you the across the country, with the main mimosa trees, including wooden poles. why not add a few of these into mental focus to not only rock one near the devastated National President Rene Preval, who wept The government says the your weekend menu? your partner's world, but to Palace in the capital, Port-au- during the service. seasonal rains could be the • Gelatin: If you're looking for remember his or her name Prince. The Associated Press news biggest threat now to the nation's energy before a big night, studies afterward. A prayer service was held at the agency reports that the remaining attempts at recovery. indicate that eating gelatin can site of a mass grave which is churches in Port-au-Prince's The European Union has help heal connective tissue, keep Full list at HowStuffWorks.com. believed to hold tens of Petionville suburb were so proposed a military mission to your ligaments springy and Total aggregation of thousands of victims. packed that loudspeakers had to step up the provision of shelter repair minor damage to joint HowStuffWorks.com. Later, at the exact time the be set up so those left outside in before the rains worsen. lining. Photo credit: Fotolia earthquake hit, Haitians at home the streets could follow the This week's Haitian government • Bananas: Bananas are high in Permalink| Leave a comment » and abroad will be asked to kneel service. figures suggesting up to 230,000 folate, which can enhance blood and pray. The 12 January quake left dead means the quake toll is A small wooden table atop one 300,000 injured and one million approaching that of the 2004 Is Google already 'too big to fail' of the mass graves in the scrub- homeless. Asian tsunami, which killed (Scripting News) direct, they won't need go pay covered low hills served as the The BBC's Mike Wooldridge 250,000 people. Submitted at 2/11/2010 8:51:21 AM Google to reach them altar. says the act of national reflection Print Sponsor When that happens who will pay Before sprinkling incense on the comes as one of the largest Five Filters featured article: This is a great essay by Doc for the millions of Google grave, a priest told the gathering humanitarian operations ever Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Searls. Read it. servers and the electricity and that though dumped here, the mounted grapples with PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Eventually advertising will cooling they consume? victims had not been thrown challenges on many fronts. Term Extraction. evolve into information, away. He says a heavy downpour on companies with products will go "Tend to your brothers and the eve of the anniversary May God Have Mercy on the Superplexus Puzzle [Puzzles] by Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) I can't imagine the $30,000 trapped some sort of ligneous, HammacherSchlemmer via

Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:40:00 AM Superplexus puzzle as a real sapient life form in a sphere. And TheGreenHead via OhGizmo!] product. All I see is a boy who's he's spinning it, slowly. [ 20 Popular News/ Tech/ Tech Blog/ E-reader News Edition AZ judge to consider gag order in Domino's Turns A Loss In A sweat lodge case (AP) Lawsuit It Wasn't Involved (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) after his arrest last week. hospitalized. In Into A TV Commercial If granted, it would cover Ray, Ray's attorneys have said he Submitted at 2/12/2010 5:12:25 AM by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) with Domino's, though you his Web site and blog, his took all the necessary wouldn't know that from the Message from fivefilters.org: If attorneys and their staff, and precautions and immediately Submitted at 2/12/2010 6:03:00 AM commercial. It actually involved you can, please donate to the full employee's of Ray's Carlsbad, tended to the ill. They have People have been discussing, Pizza Hut suing Papa Johns over -text RSS service so we can Calif.-based company, James called the deaths a tragic lately, how Domino's new the slogan, as Pizza Hut argued continue developing it. Ray International. accident and said Ray is not advertising campaign is certainly that Papa Johns was implying its CAMP VERDE, Ariz. – Staff in the county attorney's responsible. on the gutsy side. Basically, the ingredients and pizzas were Attorneys prosecuting a self-help office as well as the sheriff's He is being held at the Yavapai company started running worse than Papa Johns. While guru on manslaughter charges in office also would be included. County jail on a $5 million bond. commercials that admitted pretty Pizza Hut won at the lower level, the deaths of three people during An attorney representing some If convicted, Ray faces up to 12 clearly what anyone who's ever an appeals court reversed and the a sweat lodge ceremony are media outlets said a gag order 1/2 years on each count with eaten at Domino's has known for Supreme Court refused to hear urging a judge to grant a gag would be unjustified and probation being an option. years: its pizzas were dreadful. the appeal, so Papa Johns could order. severely limit the public's ability Sweat lodges are commonly The new commercials effectively use the slogan again. Domino's, Prosecutor Sheila Polk says she to monitor the proceedings. used by American Indian tribes admitted this in touting a brand again, had no part in the lawsuit, wants the pretrial publicity to Prosecutors contend Ray to cleanse the body. The new recipe that they insist is but is apparently mocking Papa stop, arguing that it could taint recklessly crammed more than ceremony involves heating much, much better, and saying Johns in its commercials for the jury pool. 50 participants of his "Spiritual stones outside the lodge and then that customers hated the old claiming in court that such a A Yavapai County judge is Warrior" event into a 415-square placing them in a pit inside the pizza (in slightly different slogan involves "puffery" and scheduled to hear arguments -foot sweat lodge and chided lodge. The door is closed, and words). It seems the ad wasn't meant to indicate that it's over the request on Friday. them for wanting to leave, even water is poured on the stones, campaign continues to break new pizzas were better than a specific Motivational speaker James as people were vomiting, getting producing heat aimed at grounds, as well, as the latest ad competitor's. Arthur Ray faces three counts of burned by hot rocks and lying releasing toxins from the body. actually uses a lawsuit between You have to hand it to Domino's manslaughter, stemming from unconscious on the ground. Five Filters featured article: two competitors as the key point ad team, though, for taking a the deaths of the three people Three people died at hospitals Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: to bash Papa Johns -- even lawsuit that didn't even involve following the ceremony he led — Kirby Brown, 38, of PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, though the Papa Johns won that itself, and then creating a TV ad near Sedona last October. Westtown, N.Y., James Shore, Term Extraction. lawsuit. Found via Rebecca about it, which doesn't even Polk requested the gag order 40, of Milwaukee; and Liz Tushnet, the ad itself mocks mention how the competitor after Ray's attorneys appeared in Neuman, 49, of Prior Lake, Papa Johns for "puffery" in its they're mocking won that television interviews the day Minn. Eighteen others were advertising slogan of "Better lawsuit. That's bold. ingredients. Better pizza." Permalink| Comments| Email Watch it below: The actual This Story lawsuit had nothing at all to do East Village aggregator (Scripting News) some friends who are interested cover the East Village, please

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Don’t let the endless stream of jewelry commercials fool you; Valentine’s Day doesn’t require a gaudy diamond necklace. A perfectly delightful day with your sweetheart can happen without making a major dent in your wallet. Dumb Little Man has put together a list of frugal Valentine’s Day ideas that will satisfy any penny-pinching Cupid. Go to a bookstore, browse and purchase a favorite book for each other. Take your date to a free or inexpensive play or concert at 22 Tech/ Politics/ E-reader News Edition Nissan to take orders for Leaf in April, batteries Bill Clinton included Rushed to (CNET News.com) charge level and remaining Leaf--and the electric car and world, which would make an NY Hospital Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:40:47 AM range. segment in general. Optimists electric car more suitable in San As they plan to roll out electric expect that plug-in cars--whether Francisco, for example, than (Little Green Footballs)

Message from fivefilters.org: If cars, executives at carmakers they are hybrids or battery rural Iowa. Submitted at 2/11/2010 2:00:42 PM you can, please donate to the full have been considering the idea of electrics--will become a sizeable Also, certain municipalities are -text RSS service so we can separating the price of the battery slice of the auto market over the eager to promote electric Best wishes to former President continue developing it. --which significantly adds to the next ten years, much the way vehicles adoption by providing Bill Clinton, who was rushed to Nissan will take reservations for cost of production--from the hybrids sales have grown incentives for public charging a hospital in Manhattan this its Leaf all-electric sedan in purchase. But Nissan indicated because of consumer demand. stations and simplified afternoon. April with deliveries starting at that batteries are included in the Nissan projects that electrics will permitting for installing 240-volt Former President Bill Clinton the end of the year, the company cost, whether it's a purchase or a be about 10 percent of the charging points in people's was rushed to a Manhattan said on Thursday. lease. market in 2020. homes. The DOE has also hospital late this afternoon, The company isn't disclosing the Of the incumbent auto But auto industry experts point provided grants to pay for over sources tell ABC News. price of the car but Nissan CEO companies, Nissan is the most out that the hefty price of 6,000 recharging stations in Clinton, 63, was transported to Carlos Ghosn has said that it will bullish on all-electric vehicles batteries is not projected to drop Seattle, Phoenix, Tuscon, and Columbia Presbyterian Hospital be competitively priced with and the company's country-wide dramatically in the next few San Diego, in addition to in Manhattan for a condition similarly sized vehicles, which public tour in the U.S., which years, which will limit its locations in Tennessee and related to his heart. ABC News’ the company sees as crucial to ended on Thursday, has was adoption even with tax credits Oregon. chief political correspondent mass market adoption. The $100 marked by "a groundswell of for plug-in cars. The Boston So even though the Leaf and George Stephanopoulos reported reservation fee is refundable and grassroots support," according to Consulting Group forecasts that electric cars are expected to cost that sources said he was taken to the company will start to take the company. The company sales of hybrids will represent more upfront, we'll start to see the hospital “likely for a stent orders in August. earlier this month secured a $1.4 nearly three quarters of electric electric cars on U.S. streets early procedure.” … The design of the car is very billion loan from the Department car sales by 2020. next year, depending on where An official told ABC News that much aimed at everyday use, of Energy to modify Nissan's Most likely, electric cars like the you are. Clinton’s ailment seems more although its anticipated 100-mile Smyra, Tennessee plant to Leaf will take hold in certain Five Filters featured article: like “discomfort…something driving range does impose limits. produce the Leaf and its regions, which would mimic the Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: wasn’t right” rather than a health It's a four-door sedan with a batteries. same sales pattern of hybrids. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, “crisis.” hatchback with on-board features Still, the question of sticker Consumer needs for range vary Term Extraction. to help drivers track battery price continues to hang over the in different parts of the country Yahoo Launches Mobile Site for the Winter Olympics by Stan Schroeder launched a mobile site for the and find detailed info about the To check out the site, point your (Mashable!) Vancouver 2010 Winter 15 sports included in the games. mobile browsers to

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E-reader News Edition Tech/ Sports/ 23 House Of Lords Has Serious Macworld 2010: OWC's Concerns About Digital Economy Grant Dahlke demos USB Bill 3.0 drive, fastest SSD by Steven Sande (The by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) secondary legislation and could provide a system for enhanced Unofficial Apple Weblog Submitted at 2/11/2010 11:23:00 PM be wide-ranging. parliamentary scrutiny. (TUAW)) We do not believe that such a Despite the proposed We've already pointed out how skeletal approach to powers amendments we are concerned Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:00:00 AM Lord Lucas seems to be quite which engage human rights is that Clause 17 remains overly Filed under: Macworld, concerned about the appropriate. There is potential broad and that parliamentary Hardware, Peripherals, Video, ridiculousness in the Digital for these powers to be applied in scrutiny may remain inadequate. TUAW Interview Mac expansion Economy Bill, and has proposed a disproportionate manner which We call for a series of powerhouse Other World a series of amendments to help could lead to a breach of internet clarifications to address these Computing always has get rid of these problematic users' rights to respect for concerns. On top of that, they're something incredible to show off elements. However, it looks like correspondence and freedom of still a bit skeptical even of at Macworld Expo, and there some others in the House of expression. There are also grave requiring ISPs to send notices been benchmarked by OWC, was no doubt about it when we Lords are equally concerned as concerns over section 17, which when a user is accused of since no Macs or PCs with USB visited the OWC booth on well. Michael Scott points us to would effectively let the infringement, noting that while 3.0 ports have been released at Thursday. the news that the Lords' Human Business Secretary change they don't think this would be a this time. The first devices will OWC's Grant Dahlke displayed Rights Joint Committee has put copyright law at will: The broad restriction on human rights or ship in 2010, and include a some of the new products out a report that is highly critical nature of this power has been the freedom of expression, they SuperSpeed mode that provides coming out from the company, of the more controversial points subject of much criticism. In would like "a further explanation transfer rates of 3.2 Gbits/second including their first USB 3.0 in the Digital Economy Bill, correspondence with us, the of why they [the backers of the (about 400 MB / second) or drive, a new smaller-format starting with the pressure on Secretary of State explained that bill] consider their proposals are about 8 times the speed of USB portable RAID array, and the ISPs to disconnect users under a the Government intended to proportionate." 2.0. fastest SSD on the market. 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Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:22:00 AM they'd tried over and over again edit the message to say whatever to explain this stuff to you want. And, here's a little Here’s a nice surprise from Well, well. We've written about Capitol/EMI, and the folks at the trick: if you edit the message to Google’s Maps team: Just like the band Ok Go a few times label simply didn't get the value be more than 140 characters, it Gmail, Google Maps now also here, as a band that definitely of making the video viral. doesn't actually send to , has the Labs feature(it’s the little does seem to "get" what's going Well, now, instead of allowing a and you still get the free song. green vial in the top right menu), on in terms of how to connect real "word of mouth" viral And wait, didn't EMI insist in which introduces experimental Rotatable Maps– north facing with fans and promote their campaign with the video, it looks court that it never authorized free new features for you to try out. up is just one way to look at a music well. Many years ago, the like EMI/Capitol has decided to MP3s to be available online? Right now, you can try out nine map. Now you can rotate it any band had spoken out against bootstrap a fake viral word of Anyway, the problem here is new features (all disabled by way you like. DRM, and, of course, they mouth campaign, by sending that EMI is trying to force people default): What’s Around Here?– adds a produced one of the most around emails (and even into doing things a specific way Drag ‘n’ Zoom– lets you zoom second search button that popular music videos of all time submitting directly to us) a (not embedding, must tweet), in on a specific part of the map searches for “*”, returning the -- the famous "treadmills" video. request to "get a free Ok Go" rather than simply being open, by drawing a box. top results in the current view. I would have embedded that song if you just Tweet about it. sharing and (perhaps) suggesting Aerial Imagery– gives you I’ve actually been waiting for video here, but Ok Go's label, Seriously. So rather than letting they share things if they like with rotatable, high-resolution this for a long time; it makes Capitol Records/EMI decided people organically share what a friend. That's much more overhead imagery, but it’s only searching for certain POIs within somewhere along the line that no they wanted to share, EMI is authentic and real. This feels available in certain areas. Google some area a lot easier. one should want to share one of trying to bribe people into very fake and corporate. You plans to add more over time, LatLng Tooltip– see the exact the most viral videos ever, and promoting something else. build trust by actually putting though. latitude and longitude next to disabled all embedding. EMI, you're doing it wrong. stuff out there and seeing how Back to Beta– OK, this one is a your cursor. Brilliant. In the meantime, the platform people respond, rather than little weird. It lets you have a LatLng Marker– drop a marker So, when Ok Go put out a new that EMI is using for this is bribing them and limiting how beta tag on Maps (just like anywhere on the map, showing album with a new "viral video" easily defeated. You have to log they can share. Gmail). Only for hardcore the latitude and longitude of that EMI once again banned in to Twitter Connect via a Permalink| Comments| Email Google users. location. embedding, apparently not special promo page, and it asks This Story Where in the World Game– test Smart Zoom– stops you from realizing how this viral stuff you to send a specific twitter your geography knowledge by zooming into an area if imagery works. Ok Go wrote about it, message about how you just got guessing the names of countries is not available. from satellite imagery. I lost Tags: Google Maps, labs, days playing a similar game on trending Facebook, and I forgot everything I’ve learned. Sigh. E-reader News Edition Tech/ Gadgets/ 25 EU Has A 'Public/Private' IP Observatory To Watch For Copyright Infringement Online Don't Buy Into Any Reports On Q4 by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) organization, even though it

Submitted at 2/12/2010 2:07:25 AM appears like just another industry association. Engstrom finds the Online Ad Revenue Just Yet Bas Grasmayer points us to a whole thing baffling: So much by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) pumping tons of money into ads. on. Then, along came Q3, and blog post by Christian Engstrom, for the involvement of the Submitted at 2/12/2010 4:07:10 AM But I don't think it's a sign of suddenly the marketing VPs and an EU Parliament member (yes, European Parliament on this anything to get too excited about directors realized they were from the ) who notes issue. We have been invited to In the last month or so, we heard -- and that's because a lot of approaching the end of the year, that while he was in a committee hold an exchange of views in the a few different reports making companies were really skittish and still had huge chunks of trying to address whether or not JURI committee, and we are the rounds claiming that "online earlier in the year, so I think a money that had been budgeted in an "IP Observatory" should be currently spending time on advertising is back!" after lots of large chunk of Q4 online ad 2008 for 2009, but hadn't been created, he discovered it already drafting a resolution on if and companies had great fourth spending was a mirage. Here's spent. And the way lots of existed. The Observatory how the IP Observatory should quarters when it came to online why: companies do budgeting is that, appears to have been set up not be set up. ad revenues. The latest to report The economy took a nosedive in if you haven't spent it, you get to promote progress or even to But before we (the parliament) such a thing is the NY Times, the fourth quarter of 2008. By less the next year. So, these make sure that intellectual were invited to join the who saw a big boost in online ad that point, lots of companies had marketing folks had to quickly property was a net benefit, but discussion, the decision had revenues in the fourth quarter, already set their 2009 ad spend the budgets they had instead it appears to just start already been taken, and the IP leading a bunch of people to budgets, and had committed to at meant to spread out over the from the unproven premise that Observatory had already been set wonder if maybe online ad least a decent portion of what entire year, and they dumped a of course it's a net benefit, and up and started working. It's just revenue is taking off in a big they planned to spend in Q1 of bunch of it into online thus it's only focus should be on that the representative of the way. While advertising has 2009. However, once the credit advertising, because it was quick stomping out infringement. And, Commission forgot to mention always been a cyclical market, crunch went into overdrive, and and easy. of course, it appears that most this detail when she was and will certainly continue to there was all sorts of talk about So, I don't think that any of the participants are actually from presenting the initiative to the grow, I think people are how the world economy might Q4 reports you hear about industry, with a few "nominated JURI committee. Government overreacting to Q4 of 2009. collapse and we'd all be living in concerning online advertising representatives from Member for the people? Frankly, we saw the same thing a post-apocalyptic Mad Maxian should be considered as an States" along for the ride to give Permalink| Comments| Email here. While we don't rely on ad world, lots of companies hit the indicator of very much in terms the Observatory a sheen of This Story revenue as the core of our brakes, and didn't want to of the future. legitimacy as a quasi-gov't business model, we do make commit to spending. A bunch of Permalink| Comments| Email money on advertising, and we companies simply stopped This Story had a great fourth quarter on that spending on online advertising front, as advertisers were until they knew what was going Welcome To Your New Start Page [Start Page] by Brian Barrett (Gizmodo) off with your four favorite That's right: finally all you Gizmodo icon begin! [ Fav4 via

Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:47:36 AM website's icons already queued AOL/ffffound/MySpace/Linked NYTimes Twitter] up. You can customize from In junkies will have a one-stop This is even cooler than it looks: among the 34 current offerings, start page of your very own. Fav4.org starts your browsing and it looks as though they'll be adding more soon. Let the write-in campaign for a 26 Tech/ E-reader News Edition Divvyshot launches refreshingly simple photo sharing (CNET News.com) available for other browsers. A gimmick, and the whole thing is

Submitted at 2/12/2010 4:00:00 AM new Flickr link button also lets hung up a bit since both phones you create albums from images have to be running the app and Message from fivefilters.org: If you have on that service. set up for sharing, which ruins you can, please donate to the full With Divvyshot you can drag the spontaneity. But it's a good -text RSS service so we can files straight into an HTML 5 party trick. continue developing it. browser, like Firefox 3.6(Credit: Divvyshare is no Flickr, Picasa Divvyshot, a photo-sharing start Screenshot by Rafe Web, or Zooomr. It's light on the -up I first heard about last Needleman/CNET) features. But it succeeds as a March, has opened to the public. Albums are wide open by simple site for sharing albums It's a clever and attractive site for default. Not only can anyone with family or friends, and photo sharing, with an emphasis with an album's URL see especially for creating shared on group events. It also has the pictures, they can upload to the repositories for images from world's cutest sharing feature for album too. You can restrict events that several people attend iPhone users. viewing and sharing (separately) and photograph, like weddings, The site succeeds as a photo to just invited friends if you like. concerts, or parties. sharing service. It's easy to use People with access to albums can understand and use as access to your images, like apps Five Filters featured article: and very, very clean. Firefox also easily download images Divvyshare. for other services. Its cute bonus Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: users also get the benefit of from them, as Divvyshot creates The slideshow viewer is is the sharing feature: you can PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, HTML 5 support: you can just ZIP file archives on request. mercifully clean and transfer your photos to another Term Extraction. drag photos onto the Web site to Other photo sites also have simple.(Credit: Screenshot by Divvyshot iPhone user by upload them. There's no need for versions of group albums, but I Rafe Needleman/CNET) holding both phones in one hand an uploader app, although one is haven't seen any as simple to The iPhone app gives you and shaking them together. It's a NPD: Apple ranked #5 US electronics retailer in 2009 by Kent Pribbernow (The would be pointing and laughing Apple's favor, lifted no doubt on conducting such studies. Unofficial Apple Weblog at you right now. No, I'm talking the back of iPhone's popularity. TUAW NPD: Apple ranked #5 (TUAW)) of course about Apple, who Especially when you consider US electronics retailer in 2009

Submitted at 2/12/2010 8:00:00 AM came in at a respectable number that their competitors sell many, originally appeared on The five, alongside such industry many brands, and Apple sells Unofficial Apple Weblog Filed under: Retail, Apple stalwarts as Best Buy, Walmart, just their own product line, their (TUAW) on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 Market research firm NPD Target, Amazon, and Dell, to achievement is that much more 08:00:00 EST. Please see our Group has published its annual name a few. impressive. terms for use of feeds. report profiling the consumer While the report primarily In other news, 98% of people Read| Permalink| Email this| retail sector for 2009, and guess details consumer spending trends surveyed in my own study find Comments who made the list of top five throughout 2009, as well as other Apple to be awesome. And lest electronics retailers? Hint: If you dry and boring data interesting (because he loves numbers and you question my sample source, guessed the Microsoft Store, you only to bean counters and cheats at poker), NPD's study I will reply that the TUAW staff would be wrong, and everyone TUAW's own Mike Rose does show some growth in are an excellent focus group for E-reader News Edition Tech/ 27

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Submitted at 2/11/2010 11:34:42 PM tracking to our buttons, running the clicks through URL shortener Yesterday we added Google Bit.ly so we can display the share Buzz buttons to Mashable, counts. It’s not the perfect letting you share our stories to solution, but it’s a temporary Google’s new social network as step until Google decides to you can on Twitter and support such implementations Facebook. Today we added officially. share counts to those buttons, We’ll be gathering the stats letting you hone in on the most about how much people share on popular posts. Google Buzz versus Facebook Macworld 2010: Andrew Gregory of If you’re not already up to and Twitter, and we’ll be sure to speed: Google Buzz buttons use report back with our findings! AutoTune the News Google Reader’s shared items GMAIL USERS: You’re invited by Mike Schramm (The keynote went off well, and the I am T-Pain AutoTune app, feature to post links to your Buzz to join the conversation on Unofficial Apple Weblog afterwards, I asked Andrew along with his impressions of the feed. If you’re not already on Mashable’s Google Buzz (TUAW)) Gregory to come by for a Macworld show floor. It was Google Reader, you’ll need to account. Reviews: Facebook, conversation at the booth; very fun to meet up with him in a set that up and make sure it’s Google, Google Buzz, Google Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:30:00 AM Andrew does the extremely pretty unlikely place -- be sure connected to your Google Buzz Reader, Mashable, Twitter Filed under: Macworld, popular Autotune the News and give our chat a look. account under “connected sites”. Tags: bit.ly, Google, google Interviews, Music We can reveal segments on YouTube with his TUAW Macworld 2010: If you were on Reader before buzz our secret now: during you joined Buzz, chances are brothers Michael and Evan, Andrew Gregory of AutoTune Macworld's setup, we wandered that’s already set up. NEW: along with Evan's wife Sarah. He the News originally appeared on into the wrong room, and kindly agreed, and you can The Unofficial Apple Weblog randomly came across a stage watch the video of our chat by (TUAW) on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 shared by David Pogue, LeVar clicking on the link below. 10:30:00 EST. Please see our Burton, and the Gregory Andrew told us that he and his terms for use of feeds. Brothers A.K.A the AutoTune brothers have been Mac users Read| Permalink| Email this| the News crew, all rehearsing for from the start, and he also shares Comments David Pogue's keynote. The with us part of the story behind 28 Tech/ E-reader News Edition

Macworld 2010: Box.net adds QuickOffice support to iPhone app by Michael Rose (The edit Box.net stored files, which Unofficial Apple Weblog could provide a big productivity (TUAW)) boost. It was impressive -- with

Submitted at 2/12/2010 9:00:00 AM the app, you can jump in and edit Box.net files from anywhere. Macworld 2010: Chatting with Phil Filed under: Macworld, Good stuff. Enterprise, Video The storage And heck, just imagine what's mavens at Box.net took a few around the corner for iPad users Libin of Evernote moments for us on the show with QuickOffice and Box.net. by Mike Schramm (The Phil Libin is definitely worth a though the iPhone app will work floor at Macworld this week to If Box.net is able to pull off an Unofficial Apple Weblog watch. He explains why the app on it as well), as well as the way demo the iPhone app that links to app like this on the iPhone, we (TUAW)) is both so magical and so hard to he originally found out about our their service, which provides can't wait to see what they do

Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:00:00 AM wrap your mind around, as he blog here at TUAW. Hit the read quick and consistent access to all with the extra multitouch space. discusses the idea and the more link below to see the full your stored files; you can also TUAW Macworld 2010: Filed under: Macworld, mechanics behind what the video. view common file types, and Box.net adds QuickOffice Software, Video, Productivity, Evernote team has done. We talk TUAW Macworld 2010: even send download links to support to iPhone app originally Interviews There are some big about their retention problem Chatting with Phil Libin of folders or files anywhere in the appeared on The Unofficial fans of Evernote on the TUAW (and I apologize for my investor- Evernote originally appeared on world. The latest update adds the Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, staff -- we've talked quite a bit rousing mistake), and how The Unofficial Apple Weblog ability to comment on files or 12 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST. about the app that promises to Evernote has to actually make (TUAW) on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 folders from inside the app. Please see our terms for use of store important clips and notes you remember to use it before 07:00:00 EST. Please see our The new addition at the show is feeds. from anywhere, and make them you can use it to remember. terms for use of feeds. the capability for QuickOffice Read| Permalink| Email this| accessible at any time. But even He also talks about plans for the Read| Permalink| Email this| users on the iPhone to open and Comments if you haven't heard of the app future, including the iPad(which Comments before, the interview with CEO is getting its own separate app, E-reader News Edition Tech/ Politics/ 29 Official Twitter App for BlackBerry Opera Mini Reaches 50 Looks Really Good Million Active Users by Stan Schroeder by Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) (Mashable!)

Submitted at 2/12/2010 2:54:20 AM Submitted at 2/12/2010 5:46:29 AM If you’re a BlackBerry user who A couple of days ago we wrote also happens to like Twitter, about Opera Mini for the iPhone, chances are you’ve been a somewhat odd step for Opera throwing jealous looks at your as Apple is unlikely to ever friends’ iPhones and their approve the app (since it elegant Twitter clients. Yes, duplicates Safari’s functionality). 10 million; in the last couple of things got a lot better once While Opera was obviously months, however, it has been UberTwitter entered the scene, making a statement with that growing a lot faster. According but can there be an even better move, in reality it can survive to Opera, Mini has grown 150% Twitter client for the without the iPhone; in fact, from January 2009, when it had BlackBerry? The upcoming Opera Mini is one of the most 20 million monthly unique users, official client might fit the bill. app for BlackBerry out there. know, it doesn’t sound very popular mobile browsers out to 50 million monthly unique A while ago, we wrote that an Some of the features are comforting considering the year there. users in January 2010. official Twitter app for automatic URL-shortening, easy is still young). If you want to be The latest number to support To try out Opera Mini, you need BlackBerry was in the works, photo-sharing, push and message a beta tester for the app, go to this claim is 50 million active a Java ME-enabled phone; you and now it’s getting close to a list integration (sending you www.blackberry.com/twitter and users. Opera Mini was launched can find the latest version over at public beta. You can find a very notices of new direct messages sign up to receive notification in 2006 and had a somewhat the official Opera Mini site. detailed analysis of the client and as they arrive), as well as search when Twitter for BlackBerry slow start; it took it nearly two Tags: Browsers, Mobile 2.0, its features here, and from the filtered by geolocation. becomes available. and a half years to reach the first opera mini looks of it, it’s far more The public beta should be Tags: blackberry, Mobile 2.0, advanced than any other Twitter available “later this year” (We RIM, social media, twitter Pseudo-Science for the Whole Family (Little Green Footballs) attended a traditional school, your children, and you shall Teaching a biblical worldview

Submitted at 2/11/2010 5:56:40 PM he’d never see them, she says. speak of them when you sit at to his children is important to his Plus, she says, Neff thinks the home, and when you walk along family, Cresse says. His wife Fort Wayne’s Journal Gazette Bible tells parents to teach their the way, and when you lie down teaches creationism but also has a report on some home- children. She quotes and when you rise up.” teaches evolution, primarily so schoolers teaching their children Deuteronomy: “And you shall Louis Griffith, whose wife his children can understand what to reject modern science. love the Lord your God with all teaches their three children in is being taught to their peers and Part of the reason the Neffs your heart and with all your soul their Fort Wayne home, likes friends in public schools. opted for home schooling was and with all your might. And that home schooling gives them Imagine what kind of scheduling. Mark Neff, these words that I command you the option to teach creationism “evolution” she’s teaching her Jennifer’s husband, works today shall be in your heart. And alongside evolution, which also kids. second shift, and if his children you shall teach them diligently to appealed to Cresse. 30 Politics/ E-reader News Edition Rinse, Wash, Repeat by John B. Judis (The New restatement of the argument is informing Israelis of their plans. on the Middle East peace of sloppy research and reasoning Republic - All Feed) any more persuasive than the But these are minor objections. process. Ultimately, Jack Straw is typical of the way that Walt

Submitted at 2/11/2010 9:00:00 PM version he and Mearsheimer put The real problem is that Walt said it was a matter of huge and Mearsheimer deal with the forward in his book. does not seem to have taken the frustration that we weren’t able question of whether the Israel Message from fivefilters.org: If Walt says that Blair’s statement trouble to have read the to achieve something which you lobby influenced the decision to you can, please donate to the full to the commission “reveals that transcript of Blair’s testimony. If had been seeking so strongly … go to war. In their book, they -text RSS service so we can concerns about Israel were part he had, he would have realized Blair: … I believe that resolving claim that the U.S. would continue developing it. of the equation [that is, the that Blair was not talking about the Middle East, this is what I “almost certainly” not have gone I don’t think anyone would decision to go to war] and that how invading Iraq might benefit work on now, is immensely to war without the influence of mistake me for a big fan of the Israel officials were involved in Israel, but about the conflict then important, and I think it was the Israel lobby. That’s a very American Israel Public Affairs those discussions.” Here is what occurring between Israel and the difficult, and this is something I strong claim, but they do not Committee (AIPAC), the main Walt, citing a column in the New Palestinians. The second intifada have said before on several back it up either in the book or in (as they put it) “pro-Israel” lobby Statesman, quotes Blair as saying had reached a new height with occasions, it was difficult to Walt’s current blogging. Let me in Washington. The only about his early April 2002 the Passover and Haifa suicide persuade President Bush, and, briefly deal with their logic here. organization of that kind that meeting in Crawford, Texas, bombings and the beginning of indeed, America actually, that There are three ways in which I’ve ever given money to is with George W. Bush: the siege at the Church of the this was such a fundamental the Israel lobby could have made Americans for Peace Now in As I recall that discussion, it Nativity in Bethlehem, and Blair question … itself indispensable to the Israel. And I have defended was less to do with specifics was concerned that the Bush Lyne: But surely you must have decision to go to war: first, in critics of AIPAC, including about what we were going to do administration was not actively said to him, “Look, this thing is White House-Pentagon Stephen Walt and John on Iraq or, indeed, the Middle pursuing the peace process. Blair only really going to have a deliberations; second, in Mearsheimer, the authors of The East, because the Israel issue was wanted the administration to put chance of working well if we can significantly influencing the Israel Lobby, from charges of a big, big issue at the time. I the Arab-Israeli issue on a par make this progress down the critical Congressional vote in anti-Semitism. But I think Walt think, in fact, I remember, with the threat of Iraq. The Arab-Israel track before we get October 2002; and third, in and Mearsheimer have been dead actually, there may have been former prime minister makes this there”? dramatically shaping public wrong in trying to blame the conversations that we had even clear in other parts of his Blair: Well, I was certainly opinion. Their argument falls Israel lobby or the Israeli with Israelis, the two of us, testimony. Here is an exchange saying to him, “I think this is short on all these counts. government for America’s whilst we were there. So that was between Blair and Sir Roderic vital,” and I mean, this was, you White House: To contend that invasion of Iraq. And now Walt a major part of all this. Lyne: could describe me as a broken the “Israel lobby” influenced the is repeating the same nonsense. Now there are at least three Lyne: … Just one more point record through that period … White House decision to Walt, who blogs for Foreign problems with the inferences that arising from Crawford, but not The talks at Crawford led invade—which had more or less Policy’s website, recently Walt draws from this statement. just from Crawford. You said eventually to Bush agreeing to been made by the spring of 2002 revived the argument, claiming First, even if we were to grant you reminded us that the Arab- the “road map” for peace. In when Blair visited in a self-congratulatory column that Blair is saying that he and Israel problem was in a very hot other words, he and Bush were Crawford—Walt and titled “I don’t mean to say I told Bush were talking about Israel’s state at Crawford. You said you not saying that they had to Mearsheimer expand the “lobby” you so, but…” that Tony Blair’s role in or importance to the Iraq may even have had some invade Iraq to assist or appease to include neoconservative testimony last month before invasion, this certainly does not conversations with Israelis from the Israelis. Nothing that Blair intellectuals such as Paul Britain’s Iraq War Commission show that the Israel lobby had there, and obviously it was said in his testimony should have Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary confirmed that “the Israel lobby anything to do with the decision something that was a large part provided the slightest evidence of Defense. That’s a stretch in ... played a key role in the to go to war. Nor, secondly, does of your conversations with that this was occurring. And it itself, because it suggests that all decision to invade Iraq in 2003.” it show that the Israeli President Bush. I think it is right seems clear enough that the these intellectuals were so I have read Blair’s testimony. I government pressured the U.S. to to say, indeed, Jack Straw said it, discussions Blair and Bush had preoccupied with Israel that they don’t find it to be proof of go to war. The “conversations” that you were relentless in trying with the Israelis were not about anything of the kind; and I don’t could have easily consisted of to persuade the Americans to Iraq but about the peace process. RINSE, page 37 think Walt’s accompanying the Bush administration make more and faster progress I am sorry to say that this kind E-reader News Edition Politics/ 31 They Ain’t With Main Street by John B. Judis (The New Obama: First of all, I know both obvious points? That the athletes we need financial regulation Democratic president to make. Republic - All Feed) those guys. They are very savvy who make $17 million have because, he said, having He’s a well-known Republican,

Submitted at 2/11/2010 9:00:00 PM businessmen. And I, like most of spent most of their waking life “financial instruments that drive one of John McCain’s chief the American people, don’t since they were four years old huge profits but leave consumers backers and a member of his Message from fivefilters.org: If begrudge people success or practicing their sport (if you unprotected … is not good for kitchen cabinet. Between June you can, please donate to the full wealth. That is part of the free- don’t believe it, read Andre the system overall.” 2006 and July 2009, he gave -text RSS service so we can market system. I do think that the Agassi’s autobiography, Open); You can say that Obama was $82,100 to the National continue developing it. compensation packages that we that they possess unusual skill at directing these comments Republican Senatorial The excerpts that Bloomberg have seen over the last decade, at what they do; that in some specifically at a business Committee. Moreover, he has a published Wednesday from its least, have not matched up cases—like those among audience that wouldn’t have longtime record and reputation interview with Barack Obama always to performance... professional football players or wanted him to talk about the as an anti-union executive. provoked some indignation from “Have not matched up always to prize fighters—they risk life and injustice that the system has Most recently, Smith’s company Simon Johnson, Paul Krugman, performance”?! That’s like longevity; that their earning bred, but as Obama well knows, threatened to cancel an order of and others, but the full interview, saying Rod Blagojevich’s cycle, often only a few years, is in this age of cable and Internet, planes from Boeing if Congress published yesterday morning by conduct did not always measure very sharply limited compared to anything a president says to voted to include his company Bloomberg BusinessWeek, up to what Illinois voters that of a banker; and that what anyone he says to everyone. And under the National Labor deserves a few additional howls. expected from their governor. they contribute to society—after I’d go further: Making a few Relations Act, which would It shows the degree to which It’s an understatement that all, athletics and entertainment sharp points about injustice to a allow unions to organize Obama not only doesn’t betrays a lack of identification have been an essential part of business audience would have individual FedEx plants, rather understand but, on a deeper with the rage people feel about human life for thousands of helped to allay public fears that than the Railway Labor Act, level, also doesn’t share the these CEO salaries and bonuses. years—is as valuable as, and Obama isn’t really on their side. which requires a union to outrage many Americans—from Then Obama is asked about probably more valuable than, Finally, here’s what Obama says organize all FedEx workers left-wing bloggers to right-wing Dimon’s bonus: what many a banker or trader when he is asked to name a CEO across the country at once—a tea-partiers—feel toward the BBW: Seventeen million is a lot contributes. he respects: near-impossible task. FedEx’s Wall Street CEOs and traders for Main Street to stomach. Obama had a lot of other BBW: Do you want to weigh in unionized rival, UPS, falls under who have made off like bandits Obama: Listen. $17 million is an opportunities during the on a specific CEO you admire? the NLRA. When McCain was during the financial crisis they extraordinary amount of money. interview to make clear that he Obama: There are a bunch of rumored to be considering Smith helped bring about. Of course, there are some was outraged, and not merely them. You know who I really to be his running mate, Change It’s not the substance of what baseball players who are making discomfited, by the huge enjoyed talking to at our last to Win issued a statement about Obama says—he doesn’t back more than that and don’t get to disparities of wealth that have lunch was Fred Smith of FedEx ( Smith that pretty much sums up off on financial regulation or the World Series either, so I am emerged; but he framed his FDX). Very thoughtful. He’s an labor’s attitude toward him: health care reform. It’s his tone, shocked by that as well. responses primarily in terms of example of somebody who is In the 35 years that Fred Smith his emphases, and where he If you have ever had an economic efficiency rather than thinking long-term. His industry has been the CEO of FedEx he allows his sympathies to fall. argument about excessive injustice. We need to change the is deeply sensitive to energy has repeatedly fought against Let’s start with what Obama says executive salaries with a rich fact, Obama declared, that prices, and he’s the first one to workers joining together to have about executive bonuses. The Republican—I can recall one, for “businesses are making record say that if we don’t start getting a voice on the job, openly stating exchange begins: instance, with a downtown profits but employees are seeing an energy policy that’s smart, that he 'doesn't intend to BBW: Let’s talk bonuses for a corporate tax lawyer—he will their wages flatline” because “we we’re going to lose. He’s also recognize any unions at Federal minute. Lloyd Blankfein: $9 invariably compare CEO salaries are going to be better off if very thoughtful about trade and Express.' Less than 2% of the million. Jamie Dimon: $17 to those that athletes and everybody feels like they have talks about the difficulties 200,000 American workers at million. Now, those were in entertainers make. And here we got a stake in growth and they’ve had in some cases with FedEx are in a union. In contrast, stock and less than what some have a Democratic president innovation moving forward.” partners around the world... had expected. But are those using this spurious ploy. Yes, there’s nothing like What’s wrong with this? Well, THEY page 37 numbers O.K.? Is it necessary to make the cooptation to boost profits. Or Fred Smith is an odd choice for a 32 Politics/ E-reader News Edition Washington Diarist: The New Proles by Leon Wieseltier (The New unpaid or barely paid, which has websites. The sums are James Rainey in the Los Angeles panic. No, nausea is in order. Republic - All Feed) the consequence of corrupting a scandalous. And sometimes there Times a few weeks ago about the In an interminable piece in The

Submitted at 2/11/2010 9:00:00 PM meritocratic system with the are no sums at all. Sometimes reality of the contemporary Atlantic, Michael Kinsley inequities of social class, as the contributions to websites are freelancer: “what’s sailing away, complains that newspaper Message from fivefilters.org: If fortunately born become the produced for free. Writers are the a decade into the 21st century, is articles are too long. “On the you can, please donate to the full fortunately hired. And when they only people I know who are the common perception that Internet, news articles get to the -text RSS service so we can publish what they write--well, expected to work for next to writing is a profession--or at point,” my friend declares, continue developing it. now we leave the honorable nothing or nothing. Without least a skilled craft that should whereas “newspaper writing ... is When I was young, I enjoyed tradition of the struggling young them, as I say, the intelligent come not only with psychic encrusted with conventions that the romance of the garret. writer for the unprecedented regions of the Internet would not rewards but with something don’t add to your understanding Poverty, or relative poverty, enchantments of the digital exist; but even as their skills are resembling a living wage.” Is of the news.” He follows this became me. I mastered arcane revolution. increasingly in demand, they are this really what we want? (About with a quantitative and semantic books and composed ambitious Owing to its vastnessand its treated increasingly as worthless. Rainey’s article, one of the brats analysis of various examples of essays in the smallest apartment velocity, no medium of You do not have to read the on Gawker-see what insomnia “unnecessary verbiage”; and like anybody ever saw in Cambridge, communication and publication Economic and Philosophical can do to a man?--poignantly much quantitative and semantic Massachusetts. When you ever depended more desperately Manuscripts to recognize that observed that “it’s a little analysis, the results are clever opened the door, it hit the bed, on “content”--the lifeless this becomes an issue of dignity. disturbing that the job that pays and trivial. I do not doubt that which of course led to some business expression for words From the standpoint of the my bills now may be helping to newspapers are not as misunderstandings. I rested my and ideas--than the Internet. owners of these institutions, this destroy the one that helped pay linguistically efficient as they typewriter on a scarred wooden Some people celebrate this as a “business model” may seem them when I was in college.”) can be, except perhaps USA board that groaned every time I historic breakthrough for rational--if they can save money And a similar indecency is taking Today, that ur-website. But struck the keys. When what I literariness in its various forms. on paper, printing, and postage, place in book publishing. Laud Kinsley’s worry about the wrote was published, I took my They rhapsodize about the why not also save money on the Kindle all you want, but who financial costs of prolixity is earnings to an elegant clothing democratization of the writing prose?--but theirs is not the only will pay the advance for the silly: no newsroom budget will store on Newbury Street, in life, about the demise of the standpoint that matters in novels and the histories that you be rescued by cutting “tag” and defiance of the disconnection “gatekeepers” and their considering the future of our will cop for $8.99, without “context.” So may I say a word notice in my briefcase. (Balzac institutions, about the pure and culture. (Leave aside also the which they cannot be written? on behalf of necessary verbiage? says somewhere that a student is perfect autonomy of blogging question of paper, and of its Not Amazon. A literary agent in Brevity may be the soul of wit, a person who can afford only and “self-publishing.” Who almost spiritual necessity for New York was recently heard to or lingerie, or texting, or quail luxuries.) I was often broke but needs The New York Times if I serious writing and its betterment remark that $30,000 is the new eggs, but all subjects are not the never destitute. Many years later can arrange for you to know of life.) It is not the owners who $100,000, and it takes years to same. Efficiency of expression is Irving Howe used a phrase that what it is in my heart at this make our culture, though some write a book. Forward-looking in some realms a virtue and in described my state of happy instant? Leave aside the question of them serve it admirably. thinkers explain that the money some realms a vice. Brevity is indigence: “a decent poverty,” he of the relation of blogging to Indeed, an enlightened owner is that the publishing houses, or certainly not the soul of news, if called it. Lately, however, I have writing, of posting to publishing. a hero of culture. And yet it is of their corporate proprietors, save by news you mean more than been observing a high incidence I wish to emphasize what the no importance that the market by printing fewer physical copies information. “The point” is not of indecent poverty. Many young love songs omit: the economic will bear this immiseration of will make up the difference; but always easy. There is not always writers and journalists I meet are and professional consequences writers; the history of the market anybody who believes that those a “takeaway.” Anyway, this is close to penniless. They have of the cheap entropy of the web-- is riddled with injustices of all savings will be restored to the already an abbreviating age. The almost not a hope of supporting its proletarianization of the kinds. And what model of primary mission of the editors forces of concision and themselves in the pursuit of their writer. I wonder if people outside economic rationality is it that and the publishers does not distillation are winning. After the calling. A garret is no longer the besieged walls of the recommends the exertion of understand a thing about the affordable. Jobs are profession understand how little one’s skills for little or no corporate temperament, WASHINGTON page 33 disappearing. Internships are is earned with contributions to reward? I refer you to a report by especially in the aftermath of a E-reader News Edition Politics/ 33 Glenn Beck Exposes Truther 'Tea Party' Candidate, Hypes Theocratic Fanatic (Little Green Footballs) that regard, there are some very Barton. were Nazis” dodge. In a July Historical Revisionism in the

Submitted at 2/11/2010 10:57:51 AM good arguments and I think the More information about 1993 letter, Barton assistant Kit NCBCPS Curriculum. American people have not seen Barton’s past activities: Marshall wrote, “At the time we UPDATE at 2/11/10 11:10:04 Glenn Beck deserves some all the evidence there, so I have In 1991 Barton addressed the were contacted by Pete Peters, am: credit today for exposing Texas not taken a position on that.” … Rocky Mountain Bible Retreat of we had absolutely no idea that he Debra Medina says she isn’t a gubernatorial candidate Debra After the interview, Beck, who Pastor Pete Peters’ Scriptures for was ‘part of the Nazi Truther. Medina as a 9/11 Truther. holds sway with many America, a group that espouses movement.’ He contacted us for I was asked a question on the Medina was known as the “tea Republican primary voters, said, the racist “Christian Identity” David to speak for Scriptures for Glenn Beck show today party candidate,” which “I think I can write her off the theology. Advocates of this America. The title is quite regarding my thoughts on the so- shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s list.” bizarre dogma insist that white innocuous. In all the called 9/11 truth movement. I been following the recent bad Beck, who has been critical of Anglo-Saxons are the “true” conversations that I personally have never been involved with craziness at tea party events. It’s Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. chosen people of the Bible and had with Pete Peters, never once the 9/11 truth movement, and not mentioned in this article, but Kay Bailey Hutchison, added, charge that today’s Jews are was there a hint that they were there is no doubt in my mind that she has also appeared on the “Let me take another look at Kay usurpers. Aside from being a part of a Nazi movement. I Muslim terrorists flew planes Alex Jones conspiracy show, Bailey Hutchison if I have to. virulent anti-Semite, Peters has would also like to point out that into those buildings on 9/11. I worked for Ron Paul’s Rick, I think you and I could advocated the death penalty for simply because David Barton have not seen any evidence nor Campaign for Liberty, and even French kiss right now.” homosexuals. According to the gives a presentation to a group of have I ever believed that our placed a banner advertisement on At the same time as he exposes Anti-Defamation League, other people does not mean that he government was involved or the neo-Nazi Stormfront website. Medina (who was running a speakers at the event included endorses all their beliefs.” An directed those individuals in any Radio host Glenn Beck, saying distant third and had no real white supremacist leader and excuse like that might have way. No one can deny that the he was responding to e-mails he chance of winning the 1992 presidential candidate washed one time, but it stretches events on 9/11 were a tragedy for got from listeners, asked Medina governorship), however, Glenn James “Bo” Gritz, a leader of the the bounds of credulity to accept all Americans and especially in a national interview this Beck is heavily promoting David radical and increasingly violent that Barton was twice duped by those families who lost loved morning whether she believed Barton and Wallbuilders, one of militia movement, and Malcolm innocuous-sounding extremist ones. the U.S. government was the most extreme theocratic Ross, a Holocaust denier from organizations. The question surprised me involved in the September 2001 groups currently operating in the Canada. In November of that That’s Glenn Beck’s “historical because it’s not relevant to this attacks on the World Trade US. Beck touts Barton as an same year, Barton spoke at expert” — a fundamentalist race or the issues facing Texans. Center. “expert” on the founding of the Kingdom Covenant College in fanatic working to subvert the This campaign has always been “I don’t have all of the evidence United States; but in reality Grants Pass, Oregon, another Establishment Clause, with ties about private property rights and there Glenn so I’m not in a place, Barton is notorious for pushing “Christian Identity” front group to white supremacists. state sovereignty. It is focused on I have not been out publicly revisionist history aimed at with ties to Peters. Here’s another article on Barton the issues facing Texans. It is not questioning that,” Medina said. undermining the separation of Asked to explain these actions, and his theocratic front group, a vehicle for the 9-11 truth “I think some very good church and state. Here’s an LGF Barton’s reply amounted to a not the National Council On Bible movement or any other group. questions have been raised in search for our posts about David very creative “I didn’t know they Curriculum In Public Schools: WASHINGTON continued from page 32 death of waiting, I do not see the Leon Wieseltier is the literary PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, wisdom of preaching impatience. editor of The New Republic. Term Extraction. A culture cannot thrive upon a Five Filters featured article: fear of discourse. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: 34 Politics/ Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition Senate Dems Ax Bipartisan Jobs Bill (Newsmax - Politics) provisions sought by lobbyists before the Senate on Thursday Reid's announcement.

Submitted at 2/11/2010 11:35:53 PM for business groups and doctors. evening, setting up a key test The centerpiece of Reid's new The surprise blew apart an vote when the chamber returns bill is a $13 billion payroll tax Message from fivefilters.org: If agreement with key Republicans the week of Feb. 22. He'll need credit for companies that hire you can, please donate to the full like Chuck Grassley of Iowa, at least one GOP vote to prevail unemployed workers. The idea, Riiflex Wiimote -text RSS service so we can who worked with Finance in a filibuster challenge. by Sens. Chuck Schumer, D- continue developing it. Committee Chairman Max Republicans said they were N.Y., and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, dumbbells cease being Senate Democrats scrapped a Baucus, D-Mont., for weeks to blind-sided by Reid's about-face. would exempt businesses hiring a joke, now on sale bipartisan jobs bill in favor of produce a bill containing the Grassley spokeswoman Jill unemployed workers in 2010 by Vladislav Savov one they say is leaner and extra provisions. Kozeny said in an e-mail that from the 6.2 percent Social (Engadget) focused solely on putting The original bill had won Reid "pulled the rug out from Security payroll tax for those Americans back to work, and support from across the political work to build broad-based hires. Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:07:00 AM they're all but daring spectrum, from President Barack support for tax relief and other It also would provide an You know, we were surprised Republicans to vote against it. Obama as well as conservative efforts to help the private sector additional $1,000 tax credit for these Wii Remote appendages The new, stripped-down Republicans in the Senate, recover from the economic workers retained for a full year actually made it to the pre-order proposal followed criticism that offering the promise of a rare crisis." and deposit an additional $20 stage way back in April of last the bipartisan version wouldn't bipartisan package in a Congress The bigger bill got a decidedly billion into the federal highway year, a feeling which slowly create many jobs. that has been gripped by partisan mixed reception at a luncheon trust fund — money that would dissipated as they failed to make The switch brought sharp fights. To get that support, meeting of Democrats, many of have to be borrowed. There's it out to real retail. Until now. accusations of reneging from however, the package had whom were uncomfortable with also $2 billion to subsidize bond The 2lb / 1kg Riiflex sleeves for Republicans who thought they morphed into a 361-page grab supporting a bill containing so issues by state and local your Nintendo-approved wand had a deal, jeopardizing a brief bag of provisions that included many provisions unrelated to governments for large are ready to purchase, starting at attempt at bipartisan lawmaking. extending benefits to the creating jobs, including loans for infrastructure projects a cent under $30, though the 5lb Senate Majority Leader Harry unemployed and tax breaks for chicken producers and aid to But Republicans are irate at the variety promised earlier is yet to Reid's latest bill focuses on businesses. catfish farmers. tactics and said Reid had gone make an appearance -- perhaps several popular provisions aimed Now, the bipartisan agreement The provisions also included a back on a deal reached with it's become yet another victim of at boosting job creation, is off. $31 billion package of tax breaks some of the Senate's heaviest the harsh, cutthroat economics of including a new tax break "Our side isn't sure that the for individuals and businesses, hitters, including Minority the Wii peripheral business. negotiated with Republicans for Republicans are real interested in an extension of several parts of Leader Mitch McConnell of Anyhow, if you wanna take your companies that hire unemployed developing good policy and to the USA Patriot Act and higher Kentucky. Wii Fitness to the next level, the workers and for small businesses move forward together," said payments for doctors facing © Copyright 2010 The source link will get the set of two that purchase new equipment. It Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del. Medicare payment cuts. Associated Press. All rights to your door with free delivery, also would renew highway "Instead, they are more inclined The surprise move appears to reserved. This material may not though it might be a bit late in programs and help states and to play rope-a-dope again. My insulate Democrats from be published, broadcast, helping you shape up for V day. local governments finance large own view is, let's test them." criticism that greeted the earlier, rewritten or redistributed. Riiflex Wiimote dumbbells infrastructure projects. Said Reid: "Republicans are lobbyist-backed legislation first Five Filters featured article: cease being a joke, now on sale Reid, D-Nev., put forward the going to have to make a choice. I leaked on Tuesday and officially Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: originally appeared on Engadget pared-back plan after Senate don't know in logic what they unveiled by Baucus and Grassley PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:07:00 Democrats balked at a broader could say to oppose this." — to praise from the White Term Extraction. EST. Please see our terms for bill stuffed with unrelated Reid officially put the measure House — only hours before use of feeds. Permalink Gizmodo| Riiflex| Email this| Comments E-reader News Edition Politics/ Gadgets/ 35 Gender Bias Bunk (AEI.Org: Articles) reward always being on the job, Science on Women and Science, There are brilliant women

Submitted at 2/11/2010 3:00:00 PM we will never find out whether distinguished scholars such as working in all areas of American leading a balanced life leads to Simon Baron-Cohen, Jerre Levy science, and there is a need for Message from fivefilters.org: If equally good or better scientific and David Geary point to data reasonable and sound initiatives you can, please donate to the full work." A world where women that suggest men and women, on to help them succeed. But these -text RSS service so we can (and resocialized men) earn average, have different career efforts must be respectful, not continue developing it. Nobel Prizes on flextime has no interests and propensities. contemptuous of the culture of Over the past decade the basis in reality. But the Advance Women are underrepresented in American science. They should Video editing keyboard National Science Foundation has program is not about reality. engineering but more than hold take into account the true state of costs $272 – that’s one funneled $135 million into a For many years nsf has their own in sociology and the research on gender and expensive jog wheel "gender bias program" called sponsored admirable programs biology Ph.D. programs. Is this science--not just the assertions of Advance. Its stated purpose: to that truly help and encourage because engineering departments impassioned activists. by Doug Aamoth advance women in science. In women scientists. But a 1999 mit discriminate against women Advance marches on. Now any (CrunchGear) practice it does little to help report alleging pervasive sexism while biology departments do engineering, physics, math or Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:00:27 AM women, but its potential to inflict persuaded nsf officials that not? Or is it because more computer-technology program lasting damage on fields that encouragement was not enough: women choose not to spend their that moves too slowly toward The jog wheel. A must for drive the American economy-- The culture of American science lives with inanimate objects? gender parity is inviting a anyone who edits video on a engineering, physics and had to change. Scholars in the In another recent book, The government investigation and regular basis. Well, maybe not a computer technology--is National Council for Research Mathematics of Sex, Cornell loss of funding. The nation's “must” but definitely handy. enormous. on Women were ready with an researchers Stephen Ceci and leading programs are under They’re expensive, though, as Virginia Valian, a feminist avalanche of advocacy research Wendy Williams politely pressure to adopt gender quotas evidenced by this otherwise psychologist at Hunter College, describing the "hostile demolish studies that are and to rein in their competitive, normal keyboard that costs $272 is credited with providing environment" women face in the presented in nsf workshops as hard-driven, meritocratic culture- thanks to the attached jog wheel. Advance with its "conceptual laboratory. One ncrw author settled science. They note, for -a culture that has made You’ll have to order it from far, tools." With the help of a $3.9 lashed out at the "manliness of example, that the mit report that American science the mightiest far away, too. All the way from million nsf grant, she and her the scientific enterprise" with its inspired Advance was based on in the world. Japan. As for specs, it’s a 105- colleagues developed the Gender obsessive single-mindedness, data never made public. Data Christina Hoff Sommers is a key USB keyboard with a built- Equity Project, which sponsors competitiveness and antagonism from a much-quoted 1997 resident scholar at AEI. in three-port USB hub and the workshops aimed at to family life. By 2006 former Swedish study "proving" sexism Photo credit: paul aforementioned jog wheel transforming American Clinton Administration official in peer review have somehow goyette/Flickr/Creative flanked by commonly used video laboratory culture. According to Donna Shalala would testify at a gone missing. The nsf itself Commons editing shortcut buttons. It comes Valian, the compulsive work congressional hearing that sponsored a study in 2009 that Five Filters featured article: with configuration software as habits, single-minded dedication gender bias in the laboratory was admitted "that, at many critical Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: well, so you can remap the and "intense desire for a national "crisis" requiring transition points in their PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, buttons according to your achievement" that typify elite dramatic federal action. "Our academic careers (e.g., hiring for Term Extraction. particular project. scientists not only marginalize nation's future depends on it." tenure-track and tenured Video Editing Keyboard[Geek women but also compromise But evidence for bias against positions and promotions), Stuff 4 U via Akihabara] good science. She says, "If we women in science is weak. In a women appear to have fared as continue to emphasize and 2009 collection I edited, The well as or better than men." 36 Politics/ Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition It's You, Not Me by Ed Kilgore (The New Chait noted after the first But what progressives need to technological progress, and free Republic - All Feed) Kirby/Boaz study of libertarian understand is that the end of this trade—the potential for overlap

Submitted at 2/11/2010 9:00:00 PM voting, their definition is overly affair is actually a good thing. only increased. broad, encompassing 14 percent The progressive-libertarian What's more, these groups have Message from fivefilters.org: If of the electorate.) At the time, alliance may have provided a sociocultural affinity. you can, please donate to the full left-wing blogger Markos tactical benefits in 2006, Secularism, prevalent in both -text RSS service so we can Moulitsas hailed the influx of augmenting the Democratic liberal and libertarian circles, continue developing it. "libertarian democrats" into the “wave” election of that year. But makes them more comfortable One mini-saga of the past Democratic coalition. Soon, even 2008 showed that libertarian with each other in an era of decade in American politics has the Cato Institute's Brink support is hardly crucial: Obama culture wars. (In my own been the flirtation—with talk of a Lindsey was proposing a still won "libertarian" states such Washington think tank years, the We are deeper partnership—between permanent alliance of what he as Colorado and New Hampshire two camps often coexisted on progressives and libertarians. called "liberaltarians." handily, even without their panels and over lunch or These two groups were driven Well, you can say goodbye to all backing, and he generally drinks—the sort of professional ready for together, in the main, by that. The new Kirby/Boaz study performed better in the and social interaction that rarely common hostility to huge chunks reports that libertarian support “libertarian West” than any if ever occurred with the your Buzzes of the Bush administration's for Democrats collapsed in 2008, Democratic nominee since LBJ. Christian warrior wonks of the agenda: endless, pointless wars; despite many early favorable In terms of a deeper bond based Family Research Council.) Plus, by John Biggs (CrunchGear) assaults on civil liberties; cynical assessments of Barack Obama by on philosophical congruence, it’s people on both sides of the Submitted at 2/12/2010 5:46:07 AM vote-buying with federal dollars; libertarian commentators. true that modern liberals and “alliance” undoubtedly enjoyed and statist panders to the Meanwhile, the economic crisis libertarians share common the psychic rush of breaking Hello! Always one to jump on Christian right. has raised the salience of issues ideological roots in eighteenth bread with someone from “the the latest bandwagon, This cooperation reached its on which libertarians and Dems and nineteenth century Anglo- enemy camp” who could quote CrunchGear is fully Google height during the 2006 election, most disagree. And there's no American liberalism. Both Thomas Jefferson and rage Buzz compliant. You can follow in which, according to a new question that during Obama's believe in a world of rational against the Iraq war and us here and maybe, just maybe, study by David Kirby and David first year—with the rise of the actors, and both consider the corporate welfare. we’ll be able to keep this Google Boaz, nearly half of libertarian Tea Party movement and promotion of individual Five Filters featured article: start-up in business by sharing voters supported Democratic national debate over bailouts, autonomy to be a positive good. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: our pithy, witty commentary and congressional candidates—more deficits, and health With the emergence of the "neo- PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, expert opinions. than doubling the support levels care—libertarian hostility to the liberal" and "New Democrat" Term Extraction. You can buzz John right here from the previous midterm new administration has grown movements of the 1980s and and Matt’s is right here. We’ll election in 2002. (As Jonathan adamant and virtually universal. 1990s—which lauded capitalism, figure out everyone else’s later. Enjoy! Video: Kevin Smith at Macworld 2010 (VERY NSFW, but VERY funny) by Matt Burns (CrunchGear) spoke about iPads, the movie Macworld address but Wired

Submitted at 2/12/2010 6:00:03 AM industry, and, his new film, Cop happened to attend for the full Out, as shown in the video worship. You’ll either be fired or thing so be sure to read their Forget Steve Jobs, Macworld above. Please, DO NOT watch excommunicated. This ten SFW take here. 2010 featured Kevin Smith who this video at work or place of minute clip is just part of his E-reader News Edition Entertainment/ 37 RINSE, THEY continued from page 30 continued from page 31 based their own policy AWACs surveillance plane sale Americans disapproved of going UPS unionized workers make that is sweeping the nation. recommendations on that issue. to Saudi Arabia or recently for to war with Iraq and only 43 nearly 30 percent more than they Obama has occasionally This may have been true of some the Iran Refined Petroleum percent approved. At the time, a non-union counterparts at FedEx. attempted to speak to it, or read but certainly not of most Sanctions Act. I have majority of Americans approved Despite organizing efforts, speeches that address it. But this neoconservatives. More interviewed AIPAC people and of going to war. So, far from FedEx has filed appeal after interview shows that, in the important, Secretary of Defense members of other Jewish being a leader in pro-war appeal to deny their workers the choice between Main Street and Donald Rumsfeld and Vice lobbying organizations on this sentiment, American Jews were right to bargain collectively, and Wall Street, his natural President Dick Cheney, neither question, and they say the same lagging behind. That suggests has sought national legislation to inclinations lie more toward one of whom could be categorized, thing. It was not a make-or-break that the pro-Israel lobby failed thwart union organizing. side—and it ain’t Main Street. even by Walt and Mearsheimer’s legislative priority. And there is even to influence in any Is this a guy a Democratic John B. Judis is a senior editor absurdly broad standards, as part very good circumstantial significant way Jewish opinion. president should hold up as a of The New Republic and a of an Israel lobby, took the lead evidence to back this up. Some In other words, there is no basis model CEO? Again, if you were visiting scholar at the Carnegie in pressing for an invasion even, of AIPAC’s most dependable for accepting Walt and talking to a class at Harvard Endowment for International it seems, before September 11. supporters on the Hill—such as Mearsheimer’s contention that, Business School, and pointing Peace. And they would have been Senators Daniel Inouye and Carl without the Israel lobby, the U.S. out which CEOs had brought a For more TNR, become a fan on inclined to invade whether or not Levin and Representative Jerrold would likely not have invaded good return to their stockholders, Facebook and follow us on Wolfowitz had been at the Nadler—opposed the resolution. Iraq. That’s not anti-Semitism, then Smith would be high on the Twitter. Pentagon. So there is no basis for So, yes, AIPAC probably did but it is nonsense. So is Walt’s list. But for a Democratic Five Filters featured article: saying that the White House “quietly” make its preference use of Blair’s testimony to president to hold him up as a Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: decision to invade Iraq was known; but it can’t be credited or buttress their case. model reveals a shocking PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, driven by neoconservative blamed for the outcome of the John B. Judis is a senior editor ignorance of what the party, and Term Extraction. preoccupations with Israel’s vote. And no other pro-Israel or at The New Republic and a one of its most important security. Jewish lobby possesses visiting fellow at the Carnegie constituencies, has stood for. Congress: Walt cites my quoting comparable clout on the Hill. Endowment for International Overall, the impression the of AIPAC head Howard Kohr’s Public Opinion: Did the Israel Peace interview leaves is of a president boast that AIPAC had been lobby have a sine qua non Five Filters featured article: surprisingly oblivious to the fury “quietly lobbying” Congress to influence on public opinion in Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: pass the war resolution in favor of the war? If so, one PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, October 2002. I don’t doubt that would expect that its influence Term Extraction. AIPAC favored going to war, as would at least show up among did some leaders of other pro- Jewish Americans, who would Israel organizations. But AIPAC be most likely to listen to their did not aggressively lobby for arguments. In a 2003 survey, the the war resolution the way it American Jewish Committee lobbied in 1981 against the found that 54 percent of Jewish SI Swimsuit Models Rock Out in Sin City (ETonline - Breaking News) Vegas on Thursday night at the magazine. Cover girl Brooklyn issue is like playing in the Super snap a photo. Brooklyn said,

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Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:12:13 AM latter is where bobsled and luge Olympics-related sites for free events are held), news, and the on your own. Olympics go mobile: Following ability to follow at least 11 Olympic Web sites the game on your smart phone or Olympic-related Twitter Here are some useful Web sites iPod Touch NBC's Olympics app accounts. to browse to get Olympics news: 'Ellen' to Stay on When you can’t plant yourself • The NBC Olympic site NBC Stations; Won't in front of your L CD or plasma • CBS Sports TV, here are some ways to • The free CTV Olympics Guide • The official Olympic Replace 'Oprah' follow the action from the app, from Canada’s largest TV ranging from 99 cents to $2.99, Committee site by Danny Gallagher (TV Vancouver Winter Olympics, network, offers headlines, photos though it’s not immediately • EPSN Squad) which opens tonight, on your galleries, schedules, and maps of obvious why they’re worth • Facebook Submitted at 2/12/2010 9:05:00 AM favorite mobile device. event venues. 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You can also post • Another free app, the NBC The free Vancouver Olympics Olympic sites or apps, tell us her daytime talk show for four articles, photos, and messages on Olympics Cheer, lets you listen app offers news from the official about them below. more years and will stay on Facebook and Twitter. to Olympic-themed cheering Olympic Committee, NBC, and –Jeff Fox NBC's affiliates through the sounds from cowbells to other sources. What it did when I Subscribe now! remainder of her current whistles, winter sports sounds, tried it was display a list of Subscribe to contract. • The free Official Guide app and submit your own “Team headlines, then browse the Web ConsumerReports.org for expert This ends speculation that Ellen from the Vancouver Organizing USA” cheers. This app won’t run pages for whichever headline I Ratings, buying advice and would "become the new Oprah" Committee is geared toward on an iPod Touch, because it chose. 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Is our entire universe a giant enough, now the cats are Comments E-reader News Edition Consumer Reports/ 39 Push-button ignition: Is it safe? Q&A: What temperature by Consumer Reports on stop ignition button operates to Safety (Consumer Reports) provide more intuitive operation constitutes a fever? in the event of an emergency. Submitted at 2/12/2010 4:59:59 AM by [email protected] Currently, the button must be (Consumer Reports) Push-button ignition: Is it safe? held for three seconds to turn off Vehicle technology has come a the engine when the car is in Submitted at 2/12/2010 2:59:59 AM long way in the past decade and motion. Other manufacturers Q&A: What temperature many new features have helped such as Nissan, Infiniti and constitutes a fever? reduce the number of crashes and Cadillac allow an engine to be One of your previous articles fatalities. 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Please three times each on three model year), antilock brakes, air such entry level cars as the start-stop buttons, but federal clarify. — J.W.K., Carmichael, successive days when you’re bags, and traction control have upcoming redesigned Ford regulators and industry groups Calif. feeling well: before getting up in been credited with saving Focus, which will offer the are researching the option of As a rough general rule, the morning, in the late thousands of lives each year. technology as an option. adopting standard procedures. temperatures over 100 degrees F afternoon, and before going to Then there are other vehicle While traditional keys are In the meantime, it’s important for oral readings,101 degrees for bed. Then average the readings features that are more for universal and easy to use, a push to be familiar with how your rectal, and 99 degrees for the for each time of day. convenience such as Bluetooth -button ignition requires some vehicle’s start-stop button works. armpit (for Celsius, 37.8 Fever is one of the symptoms of capability, iPod connectivity, getting used to, especially since Check your owner’s manual for degrees, 38.3 degrees, and 37.2 the flu. Read more on flu heated seats, tilt and telescope the technology varies by details. If you are ever faced degrees, respectively) are complications, vaccines, and the steering wheels, and keyless manufacturer. A recent Los with an incident of sudden considered fever. But normal best treatments for the entry and push-button ignition. Angeles Times article discussed acceleration and need to stop temperature varies from person flu(subscribers only). 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But when I do manage to Reports) free enough snow with a—can I surprise your valentine say, DirecT hit—I’m a Submitted at 2/12/2010 2:59:59 AM by Consumer Reports momentary hero in the house, Shopping Blog (Consumer DirecTV, this snowball's for you and my wife’s threat to switch at Reports) Among the many annual rites of least one of our TVs to a cable winter—hot chocolate on a cold provider is held at bay, at least Submitted at 2/12/2010 3:59:59 AM day, shoveling snow from the until the next snowfall. driveway—my family has added Are there other DirecTV users A gift that’s sure to surprise another quaint tradition: good 30 feet from the ground. out there with similar stories? your valentine"If you're seeking throwing snowballs at our That’s far enough away that I We’d like to hear them, so take a greater financial security and still DirecTV’s satellite dish. don’t want to risk climbing out few moments to share your haven't found that perfect Well, watching me throw on a snow-covered roof, and too experiences in our comments Valentine's Day gift, why not snowballs at the dish, really. far to reach with the longest pole section at the bottom of this surprise that special someone in That’s because at least once or we own. 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So instead of getting driveway, tossing snowball after aiming at a small parabolic target Can't you just hear the squeals ConsumerReports.org for expert “American Idol,” one of my 5- snowball at the dish, hoping to 30 feet away on my roof. of delight already? Ratings, buying advice and year-old son Tyler’s favorite dislodge the snow that’s — James K. Willcox Subscribe While we agree that everyone reliability on hundreds of shows, we get a blank screen and collected on its surface--or at now! with dependents should have an products. Update your feed a message that the receiver is least enough so that satellite 771 Subscribe to adequate amount of life preferences searching for satellite 771. can get through. Occasionally, ConsumerReports.org for expert insurance, an informal poll Occasionally we can get the non- though, one of the snowballs will Ratings, buying advice and HD versions of the channels we actually stick to the dish, reliability on hundreds of normally watch if they’re being potentially knocking out one of products. Update your feed beamed from a different satellite, the few channels we are able to preferences but not always. receive. I can say that this is met Unfortunately, the dish is on the with a good amount of highest point of our house, a displeasure from my wife and Bill Clinton Released from Hospital (ETonline - Breaking News) discharged. back enroute to his home [in in excellent health. He warmly recovery. He looks forward in

Submitted at 2/12/2010 4:30:00 AM Former Democratic National Chappaqua.]" thanks the doctors, nurses, and the days ahead to getting back to Committee chairman Terry Douglas Band, Counselor to staff of the Hospital for the care the work of his Foundation, and Former president Bill Clinton McAuliffe broke the news on Clinton, told ET, "President Bill he received... President Clinton to Haiti relief and recovery has been released from the CBS' "The Early Show." He Clinton was released from New would also like to thank the efforts." hospital. He was accompanied by spread the word, saying, "He's York Presbyterian many people who extended their daughter Chelsea as he was out of the hospital and in the car Hospital/Columbia this morning best wishes to him for a quick E-reader News Edition Tech News/ 41 How Google Failed Its Users and Gave Birth to an Internet Meme by Mike Melanson FAFEBOOK BACK THIS SHIT head-on into the tech illiterate failed them. With all of our talk (ReadWriteWeb) IS WACK!!!!!" complained the and mockery and disbelief about the semantic Web and

Submitted at 2/11/2010 11:39:00 PM next. started to overtake confusion as search engine optimization and At first we wondered if it could the general tone in the comment tailoring search results to the It's not every day you get to be a giant, orchestrated prank. foreshadowed Facebook thread. As the post made its way individual user, there are watch the birth of an Internet We weren't sure who we might becoming the de facto user around the web, other comment thousands upon thousands of meme, but yesterday, I was there have offended, but obviously it database, above the most logical threads, like those on Reddit and users performing the same at the moment of conception. I was a premeditated assault. search result possible - MetaFilter, began mimicking the simple search and following the didn't give birth to it but I When we looked at our traffic, Facebook's login page. now infamous comments. I same wrong road. If this were a certainly played a completely however, we didn't see any of the While for us this was suddenly realized that we might standard traffic sign misdirecting inadvertent and circumstantial usual suspects, just two little completely random, other search be standing at that flash point, this many people, it would have part. Facebook and AOL had words on a very big website: results show that this is actually that moment where it begins - been pulled down long ago. announced their partnership and "Facebook login" and Google. a space that is otherwise the immaculate conception of an There would have been outraged I decided the news merited more The post had become the number intentionally occupied by sites Internet meme. I've always citizens at town meetings and than the two paragraph treatment two search result. trying to siphon off this traffic wanted to be there at that special reports on the five o' I saw everywhere else. So I By the end of the day, the post and profit from it. I don't think moment. I've always wondered clock news. embarked on a diatribe about had several hundred comments the first search result for about the first person that saw a So, when five years down the how Facebook was trying to be and our back-channel chat room "Facebook login" was actually lobster and said, "You know road someone, somewhere, in a our "One True Login"- and was still debating whether or not English, and the one that what? I'm going to eat that." completely unrelated comment unknowingly set in motion what it could all be real. followed wasn't either, but those "I LIKE THE NEW ALL-BLUE thread says "i need the old has become the most epic It was like we had unearthed a two key words are used over and FACEBOOK BUT CAN I JUST facebook this new one is very comment thread ReadWriteWeb long-lost city, the Atlantis of the over. LOG IN NOW bad has ever seen. But how did this Internet. But instead of treasures By the next morning, the scale PLEEEEEZE?????!!!11" reads bbbbbbbbbbuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu happen and why? and gold we'd found a steady had tipped. News of the epic one comment on MetaFilter. uuuu!" I will be happy to say that Sponsor deluge of confused and frustrated thread had started making its Another comment on Reddit I was there - I was around for the Within a half an hour of posting, users who had tried everything way around the social web, being reads, "IS THIS THE birth of that Internet meme. But I the number of visitors had they knew to do and just wanted retweeted across the ARTICLE!!? ALL I SEE IS also hope that, by then, we've skyrocketed. It looked like a real to log in to Facebook, damnit. Twitterverse, posted by early COMMENTS!!!!! HOW COME addressed the problem at the winner. An hour later, it had But how had this happened? It adopters on Buzz and submitted WHEN I TRY TO LOG IN I core. This is the Internet and reached the number of visitors an certainly wasn't that thousands to sites like Reddit, Digg, PEE ON MYSELF AND PASS these are its users. average post might see in an and thousands of people had just StumbleUpon, HackerNews and OUT?!?? I LIKED REDDIT If this many of them can't login entire day. I figured I'd hit a started searching for "facebook Fark. BEFORE THE PEE!!!" to Facebook by typing that into home run. login" yesterday. This stream of "No, really," everyone seemed to One person has even written a Google and clicking on the first But then the comments started people has been there all along be saying, "You GOTTA see this sonnet, detailing the plight of the thing they see, it's probably not rolling in. and something is broken. one." lost Facebook users. them that are wrong, it's Google. "When can we log in?" asked Google had completely failed its Suddenly, the two worlds While we mock those users, the Discuss one commenter. users. It put us, with a post about collided. The tech savvy ran simple fact is they haven't "I WANT THE OLD how an AOL partnership necessarily failed, something 42 Tech News/ E-reader News Edition First a Data Center, Now Free WiFi - Google, The Cloud and the Significance of a Small Oregon Town by Alex Williams changed energy legislation so the will go to those who receive the News, Mountain View, Calif. is (ReadWriteWeb) Bonneville Power ultra fast Internet connection. the only other town where

Submitted at 2/12/2010 1:00:00 AM Administration would not be But The Dalles experiment does Google operates a WiFi network. privatized. That allowed Google show Google's interest in Google tried to launch a network Google is giving a small town in to get the cheap electricity that it providng Internet access to rural in San Francisco but the effort Oregon $100,000 for free WiF i. wanted for the data center. With communities. failed. It's a town called The Dalles - a that in place, Google went ahead There are some other interesting Google also referred to community with interesting with construction, knowing they correlations: Mountain View in its significance for Google. could burn as much power as it Google made provisions with announcement this week about The Dalles is a city of 12,000 needed to keep its servers The Dalles that it would not be the fiber network:"Like our WiFi people along the Columbia humming. permitted to filter content. That's network in Mountain View, the River, about 80 miles east of In that year, Harper's Magazine a move we should also expect purpose of this project is to Portland. Google owns a massive published blueprints of the data is certainly designed to show when Google lays its experiment and learn. Network data center in The Dalles. It's a center. The magazine used the what kind of opportunities come experimental fiber in cities providers are making real key Google operation. It's blueprints as the center piece to when people get an Internet around the country. Google progress to expand and improve powered by the cheap profile Google, its quest for connection that is 100 times alluded to this kind of spirit in its high-speed Internet access, but hydroelectricity that comes from cheap electricity and the faster than what most Americans announcement this there's still more to be done. We the Columbia. Twin cooling emergence of cloud computing. have access to today. It's the kind week:"Openness and choice: don't think we have all the towers stand four-stories high, In June of 2006, the New York of effort that makes sense as We'll operate an "open access" answers - but through our trial, keeping the servers from Times ran a front page story Google seeks to make it possible network, giving users the choice we hope to make a meaningful overheating as they continually about the data center. The to offer a whole new generation of multiple service providers. contribution to the shared goal of crunch data and serve it back to headline:"Hiding in Plain Sight, of applications that would be And consistent with our past delivering faster and better millions of people online. Google Seeks More Power." It, available in the cloud. advocacy, we'll manage our Internet for everyone." This data center in The Dalles is too, used the data center to tell a As the New York Times points network in an open, non- It's a differen task to lay fiber what helps make Google's cloud story about Google's strategy and out:"In Google's vision of the discriminatory and transparent but The Dalles may serve as a computing capabilities a reality. its lead in cloud computing over future of the Internet, the live way." miniature model for the Sure, it's connected to data rivals like Microsoft and Yahoo! streaming of 3-D medical images Google gets final approval over complexities that come with centers around the world. But Now, The Dalles and its free from a rural health clinic to a the content, look and feel, and developing a municipal network this one has special significance, WiFi from Google has some specialized medical center or the design of the splash page and the for accessing the Web. In some ways, it symbolizes the interesting correlations to downloading of a full-length landing page for the free service In the meantime, it's great to see emergence of the cloud another announcement this week movie in a matter of minutes in The Dalles. Will they seek that an Oregon town play such an computing era. pertaining to Google's efforts in would become commonplace." kind of control in other interesting role in the Sponsor creating an ultra-fast broadband Google is only providng cash in communities, too? development and future of The prospect of the data center network. the form of a grant to The Dalles Google will also help get the Google, the most significant in The Dalles had national This larger effort to provide for the WiFi. It is not providing network up and running in The Internet company of our time. significance. In 2005, Congress broadband service to select cities the kind of Internet access that Dalles. According to Wi-Fi Net Discuss E-reader News Edition Tech News/ Entertainment/ 43 Video: Celebs Light Google Maps Launches Labs: What Will You Up the Runway in All -Star Fashion Show Enable? (ETonline - Breaking News) by Sarah Perez Blogoscoped, Google Maps Labs Another interesting option is the Submitted at 2/12/2010 3:03:00 AM (ReadWriteWeb) launched with nine experimental "What's Around Here?" feature.

Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:00:05 AM features. You can access this Enabling this experiment adds a ET was there as Kristin new section by clicking on the second search button next to the Chenoweth, Kim Kardashian, Google Maps has just launched green test tube icon which now Some of the new options clearly search box. When you have a former "American Idol" champ an "experimental" section called appears at the top of Google fit more in the category of "just map pulled up on your screen, all Jordin Sparks and many more Labs where you can find the Maps. In the pop-up window that for fun" - like the one that adds you have to do is click that walked the runway in red dresses latest prototypes and test features appears, you can enable or the "beta" label back to the button and thousands of round created by America's top to try out for use with the disable the extra features. service's logo or the "Where in markers appear on the map designers at the Heart Truth's company's online mapping Currently, the line up includes: the World" game which lets you denoting places of interest. This Red Dress Fashion Show in New service. As with other Google • Drag 'n' Zoom: Click the Drag- guess where you are based on is a handy way to explore an area York on Thursday night -- and products, like Gmail for and-Zoom button, then draw a satellite imagery. Our Favorite when you don't necessarily have the stars also reacted to former example, the Labs section lets box on the map to immediately New Features something in particular that President Bill Clinton's health users opt-in to features that - as zoom into that place. However, a few of the other you're searching for. It's easy to scare. Google describes it - "aren't quite • Aerial Imagery: Available for features are more intriguing. For imagine how a future version of "It's so amazing to be part of ready for primetime." But some certain areas, aerial imagery example, the "Aerial Imagery" this feature could tap into other something that is spreading of the features in Gmail will "gives you rotatable, high- feature sounds suspiciously like Google location-based services awareness about a serious issue never be mainstreamed into the resolution overhead imagery Bing Maps' "Bird's Eye view." In like the new Google Buzz or [heart disease], but at the same email service itself - they're presented in a new perspective." Bing, Bird's Eye view lets you Google Latitude, for example, in time we get to do it fun," said simply fun extras which some • Back to Beta: This will simply see aerial imagery in an angled order to add layers of social Jordin, who noted that her great people love but others would add a "Beta" icon to the Maps view. Using four different activity to the map, similar to grandmother passed away from hate...or simply have no use for. logo. angles, the perspective is more Bing's Twitter "mapplication." heart disease about two years So will the new Google Maps • Where in the World Game: useful for seeing detail than The two features described ago. Labs be the same? Filled mostly Guess the name of the country traditional aerial imagery which above registered as the stand-out "I'm honored to be here to walk with fun but ultimately minor from satellite imagery. looks straight down on the options worth enabling right in the show tonight," said Kim, upgrades among a handful of • Rotatable Maps: This puts rooftops. In fact, Bing's unique now, but we'll definitely be who added that she's enjoyed the gems? Or will it truly serve as north facing downwards, for Bird's Eye view feature has been watching the Labs section to see whirlwind last few weeks the testing ground where the next instance. one of the service's key selling what other options show up later leading up to her boyfriend major features planned for • What's Around Here?: This points for some time. But now, it on. Do you have any feature Reggie Bush's big Super Bowl Google Maps make their debut? will trigger a search for anything sounds as if Google plans to add requests you would like to see win. We checked it out this morning ("*"), showing the top places for the same - especially since the appear in Labs? If so, let us and found a couple of options a given location. Labs description notes "currently know in the comments. Discuss worth enabling right now. • LatLng Tooltip: Shows the imagery is only available in Sponsor latitude/ longitude of where your certain areas, but we're adding Discovered by Google cursor is positioned. more all the time." Cold Koreans Jabbing Smart Phones with Meat [Trend Alert] by Pareene (Gawker) South Koreans are reportedly making fun of us and our fat

Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:56:59 AM using a"snack sausage" as American sausage fingers. a"meat stylus" for their iPhones. Guys, I think South Korea is 44 Tech News/ Entertainment/ Fashion/ E-reader News Edition Google Responds to Critics: Makes Fierce Fashions: The Life and Small Changes to Buzz Creations of A-List Designer by Frederic Lardinois won't inadvertently share Alexander McQueen (ReadWriteWeb) information they would rather (ETonline - Breaking News) Take a look back at Alexander keep private."Tens of Millions" Submitted at 2/11/2010 5:26:03 PM Submitted at 2/12/2010 3:00:00 AM McQueen with his celeb friends, users to block people from of Users Already his head-turning catwalk Google Buzz, which launched following them, even if they In addition to announcing these Famed designer Alexander creations and the famous frocks two days ago, has been widely haven't created a profile yet. changes, Google also notes that McQueen, 40, was found dead in that draped all the top-notch criticized for making the lists of Sponsor "tens of millions of people have his London home. The news has celebs who were lucky enough to who you follow and who follows ReadWriteWeb's full coverage checked Buzz out, creating over stunned both the fashion world wear them. you public by default. Until now, and analysis of Google Buzz: 9 million posts and comments." as well as the many A-listers the check box to turn this Even though Buzz now makes it In addition, Google is currently who donned his wild ensembles. "feature" off was hidden in your clearer that your public profile registering over 200 posts per Google Profile settings - which will include a list of users and minute through the mobile many people never even realized makes it easier to turn this interface. Given that Google is they had. Now, however, Google feature off, this remains an opt- giving Buzz a prominent spot in Fall 2010 Fashion announced that it is making it out feature. We think that it the Gmail interface, this doesn't more obvious to new users that would be far better for Google to come as a surprise, but it also Week All Access: these lists will be public and will make this an opt-in feature so shows Buzz's potential as a offer clear instructions to turn the that those users who don't read mainstream geo-social network. BCBG Max Azria public disclosure of this the disclosure information Discuss by ELLE.com (ELLE News information off. In addition, closely when they first use Buzz Blog) Google now also allows Buzz Submitted at 2/11/2010 8:01:48 PM New York Fashion Week kicked Google Brings the Power of the Pie Chart into high gear this a.m. with by Mike Melanson Google's latest release, the Blog, "Interactive charts trigger BCBG Max Azria’s fall ready-to (ReadWriteWeb) Google Chart Tools, will make it events, providing tool-tips and -wear collection. And we were

Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:40:00 AM easier for sites to show their animations. In addition to a rich there to capture everything, from users data in a meaningful, visual gallery of charts, this tool can test runs to backstage beauty. If you've ever sat around and interactive manner. also read live data from a variety Enjoy these shots! mulling over different parts of an Sponsor creation, use a slightly more of data sources such as Oracle All Photos: Kelly Stuart interactive map after an election These tools are broken down complicated Javascript library. PL/SQL or Google or studied the New York Time's into two parts: image charts and Interactive charts will allow for spreadsheets." " How Different Groups Spend interactive charts. The image showing extra data on We're hoping these take off and Their Day" graph, then you charts work off a simple URL mouseovers and simple we see more interesting visual know the value of a good chart. structure, defining all of the animation. There are 30 different data sets to play with around the They can suck users in and really necessary characteristics through chart styles available, from web in the very near future. engage them. They can take a URL parameters. The interactive interactive maps to pie charts, Discuss complex concept and make it charts, while still relatively line charts to Venn diagrams. simple. simple compared to custom According to the Google Code E-reader News Edition Tech News/ Economy/ 45 China’s surprise Divvyshot Offers Simple and Open Photo Sharing monetary tightening [Photo Sharing] shatters calm (Financial Times - US by Jason Fitzpatrick demonstrates—drag and drop homepage) (Lifehacker) pictures right out of folders on Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:26:36 AM Submitted at 2/12/2010 6:00:00 AM your computer and into the album. Message from fivefilters.org: If More and more you'll find The strongest selling point for you can, please donate to the full yourself not being the only Divvyshot is the ease-of-use -text RSS service so we can photographer at an event. factor. The interface is continue developing it. Divvyshot offers a simple way to simplistic, the next step needed By Jamie Chisholm, Global not only share your own pictures, to complete a task is clear, and it Markets Commentator but to create open albums others definitely passes the non-techie Published: February 12 2010 can contribute their event photos relative test—if Uncle Bill can 08:33 | Last updated: February to. check his email he should have 12 2010 15:26 Divvyshot has a painless one- no problem uploading pictures to Five Filters featured article: step signup process—it's right on Divvyshot. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: their front page, no annoying can contribute to it, click the like by who uploaded them, what Have a favorite service for PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, email confirmation!—and a person icon to lock viewing the activity is going on at the event, sharing event photographs? Let's Term Extraction. polished and easy to use album to friends, click the globe or view the whole album. hear about it in the comments. interface. Nearly all the settings to share your photos on Twitter, Uploading is fairly standard Divvyshot[via CNet News] for your albums are represented Facebook, Divvyshot, and with unless you're sporting a browser as icons across the top of your email notifications. that supports HTML 5 like the album page: click the padlock to You can easily view the photos new version of Firefox, then you lock the album so only friends in the album in a variety of ways can—as the screenshot above Insulate Outlets and Switches to Cut Down on Heat Loss [Winterize] by Jason Fitzpatrick feel—especially in older Check out the full guide at Re- (Lifehacker) homes—around outlets and light Nest including tips on using your

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Submitted at 2/12/2010 6:30:00 AM confirm their compatibility. With more than a few extensions Ready to see a few seconds of Firefox: Every new version of however, Is It Compatible makes Fable III in action? Ready to see Firefox offers enticing new a tedious process as simple as Peter Molyneux and other features, but the real question is scrolling down your extension Lionhead staff tell you how whether or not your beloved list. awesome it is? Check out the Firefox extensions are ready for Is It Compatible? is a free first developer diary of the game the jump. Is It Compatible? puts extension and works wherever above. the compatibility information whenever you open the add-ons versions of Firefox they are rated Firefox does. Have a favorite Molyneux introduces the right in your add-ons window. window in Firefox—as seen for displayed in a minimum- tool for keeping Firefox in top "extreme morph" system, which There isn't much more to this above in the screenshot—you'll maximum format. shape? Let's hear about it in the allows players to show their handy little extension, once you see not only the extensions you If you only have one or two comments. alignments in dramatic ways at install Is It Compatible? have installed but also the critical Firefox extensions you the press of a button. His example? "You're walking along and someone upsets you.You can Official AIM App Also Brings Facebook Chat to press this expression, and out of your back appears these huge angel wings. A shaft of light Android [Downloads] comes down and shines on you. by Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Android—it asks for your login AIM can run silently and ping Everyone around you steps back, and, 'Oh, my goodness!' You're Submitted at 2/12/2010 5:30:00 AM credentials, and if you head into you on new messages, it makes the settings, you can feed it your good sense as an Android app. showing your true character." Android: Got an Android Facebook login as well, and it AIM for Android is a free The Fable III peek also briefly phone? Got contacts on AOL will send and accept chats across download for Android phones introduces the weapon morphing Instant Messenger, or chatty both fronts. If you want, AIM only. AIM's product page hasn't system and the "touch" system, friends on Facebook? AIM now can hit you with your friends' updated to announce it yet, but and it features several shots of has an official chat client in the status updates, update your own should soon. Instant Messenger - people being stabbed, sometimes Android Market, one that can run at the same time as your AIM AIM[via Phandroid] with interesting-looking in the background and connect to status message, and even post to weapons. Good stuff. It's likely the most guaranteed Facebook and Twitter too. Twitter, too—though there are Fable III dev diary reveals means of keeping a connection There's not all that much more certainly better dedicated clients 'extreme morph' feature across AIM's servers, and since to say about AIM for for that purpose. originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments E-reader News Edition Tech News/ Gadgets/ 47 The Phishing Flow Chart Highlights Red Flags in Dangerous Emails [Phishing] by Jason Fitzpatrick "phishing" even is. (for Your Less Savvy Friends (Lifehacker) The above image is a and Relatives). It's a great

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You could use Without wishing to compare commercial services like Microsoft's Bing Sky to Google GotoMyPC, but if you're looking Sky, and its Bing Maps with for a powerful freebie, check out photos and live video to Street the remote connection apps in View, they do sound pretty our story The Ultimate Free bandwagon-jumping-like, Network Applications, Period. especially with Google Maps During your coffee breaks or today adding some new Labs lunch, you can stay in complete features. control of your PC at home. Microsoft's said to "stay tuned" Maximum PC brings you the for release details, but has latest in PC news, reviews, and demoed the live video, which how-tos. could prove really valuable when going on holiday for example—you can check places out before you bother going. The Streetside Photos feature isn't exactly revolutionary now that every man and his dog has used Street View, but by using scary?), see if you're really going "be able to walk outside in select locations; rotate a map the people's uploaded Flickr photos to get a good sunset at that B&B Streetside mode, look up, and way you want it to appear, and a (geo-tagged, naturally) they'll be you're looking to book, or check see what's above – way above – 'where in the world' game for in a higher-res and offer more out the crowds on a Saturday right now where you're standing. quizzing yourself on countries color and life than Google's own morning at Pike Place Market in Constellations come to life as (amongst others). Street View cars can snap. Seattle or get a view of the same you pan – you can even set the I still think Microsoft's got a The new features were shown market from decades prior. As time of day so you can see what hard game to play if it wants to off at the TED conference, and more people share imagery, our you'll see at 9pm – great for properly catch up to Google, and then later blogged on Bing's site: challenge is to reunite those exploring with your daughter to while live video is impressive, "This tech preview mines geo- photos with where they were get her ready for what she'll see there's just too many people out tagged photos from Flickr, and taken – again, provide context to when the sun goes down." there doing Google Maps mash- relates them to our Streetside the data in the ether." It does seem like unfortunate ups and developing outside of Rubik’s Slide imagery to show images matched Bing Sky meanwhile has been timing for them, when Google's the Microsoft box. [ Bing via to its original spatial context. created using WolrdWide put its Maps service into the Search Engine Land via offers 10,000 Why is this cool? You're now Telescope from the Microsoft Labs box, adding some new Blogoscoped] able to see what that club looks Research division, and will let early features like the ability to puzzles like at night (is it really THAT you: see high-res aerial pictures of by Doug Aamoth ( CrunchGearI don’tRUBIK’S want) to page be 51a Fussy Freddy here but these new digital E-reader News Edition Gadgets/ Game/ 51 RUBIK’S continued from page 50 Rubik’s Cubes make it games with fast-paced, brain- includes multiple levels of impossible to peel off the busting cubing. Players begin difficulty with easy, medium and stickers and rearrange them. So each puzzle by checking the goal hard puzzles built-in, so anyone what you’re left with is the pattern and then sliding the lights can play. The electronic game insurmountable task of actually into the correct pattern by features vibrant light and sound completing the puzzles yourself. twisting and shifting the top effects, adjustable volume IBM specs out Power7 Some people like that, though. panel. (Much like the slide or control, and high score memory. systems, starts shipping X10: Splinter If that sounds like you, you may “fifteen” puzzles from years Batteries are included. them to your local server be interested to hear that the ago). Once the puzzle is solved, Appropriate for players ages 8 Cell: Conviction Rubik’s Slide was announced at Rubik’s Slide will advance to the and up, Rubik’s Slide will retail farm the Toy Fair today. It’s an $18 next puzzle. for $17.99. by Vladislav Savov hands-on digital Rubik’s Cube that Featuring more than 10,000 Rubik’s Slide will be available (Engadget) by Ross Miller (Joystiq) features more than 10,000 puzzles, Rubik’s Slide includes in the fall. puzzles. From what it sounds two different types of play. Rubik’s Slide[Techno Source] Submitted at 2/12/2010 9:38:00 AM Submitted at 2/12/2010 9:30:00 AM like, you begin by solving simple Players can see how many Sure, there's not much chance of Filed under: Features, Microsoft puzzles and then advance to puzzles they can solve in Free popping down to your local Xbox 360, Action There you are, increasingly difficult levels. Play mode or race against the hypermarket and picking up old Sam Fisher, minding your According to the press release: clock to complete a series of 10 something with a Power7 roaring own business at some unknown Rubik’s Slide combines the puzzles before time runs out in IBM page 52 cafe when the waiter brings you simplicity and fun of casual Lightning Round. Rubik’s Slide a cell phone and Bluetooth earpiece, compliments of the caller. It's Grim, it's Third Echelon, and it's the end of his vacation. Some thugs have Camangi drops price of WebStation Android managed to upset his vacation-- now we know why he's always tablet to $275, uploads seven new videos carrying 12 rounds and a pistol. by Tablet $275) Android tablet in the past, creating the tablet, but creating “Camangi drops price of Gallery: Splinter Cell: (BestTabletReview.com) but now Camangi has uploaded an online marketplace for larger WebStation Android tablet to Conviction (X10) Continue reading X10: Splinter Submitted at 2/12/2010 5:32:46 AM seven new videos to their Android running devices (which $275, uploads seven new videos” YouTube account that covers would include the Archos 5 • [...] has an article about the Cell: Conviction hands-on Message from fivefilters.org: If everything from Ebook function Internet Tablet). Dropping the price drop of this Android tablet. X10: Splinter Cell: Conviction you can, please donate to the full to internet surfing to their price by a drastic $125 makes it a At that price it is awfully hands-on originally appeared on -text RSS service so we can Android app marketplace. very interesting product once tempting. According to the [...] Joystiq on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 continue developing it. Obviously Camangi is making a again. It could appeal to people 09:30:00 EST. Please see our Are you still interested in the final push to promote their who are willing to buy a Kindle Leave a Reply terms for use of feeds. Camangi WebStation tablet? WebStation tablet before iPads or Nook for $15 less but want a Five Filters featured article: Permalink| Email this| We’ve shown an unboxing and start landing in consumer’s laps. device that is more than a Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Comments demo of the $399 (although Camangi has invested a lot of dedicated eReader. Does it peak PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, they’re currently selling it for time and resources not only in your interest? One Response to Term Extraction. 52 Gadgets/ Fashion/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition IBM continued from page 51 inside, but there's also nothing (presumably so that a trained stopping you from a bit of professional can counsel you vicarious investigation, now is after hearing the spectacular there? IBM's eight-core, 1.2 number). Watch the video after billion-transistor Power7 chips the break while we try to cajole have begun shipping as IBM into sending us one for promised, with the entry-level benchmarking. Power 750 Express starting at a Continue reading IBM specs out few bucks over $34,000. That Power7 systems, starts shipping offers you some truly supreme them to your local server farm computing power, as each of the IBM specs out Power7 systems, eight cores can run four starts shipping them to your local simultaneous threads for up to 32 server farm originally appeared parallel tasks, with 8MB of on Engadget on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 embedded DRAM (acting as L3 09:38:00 EST. Please see our cache) per core. The top-tier terms for use of feeds. POWER 780 system maxes out Permalink| IBM| Email this| with either eight 3.8GHz eight- Comments Christopher Tarnovsky hacks core chips or eight 4.1GHz quad- Infineon's 'unhackable' chip, we Street Chic: core units, allied to a maximum of 2TB of DDR3 RAM and up to prepare for false-advertising litigation New York 24 SSDs -- though you'll have to by Tim Stevens (Engadget) call IBM to find out the price Black Hat DC Conference earlier Fashion Week Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:31:00 AM this month. Initially, Infineon claimed what he'd done was by ELLE.com (ELLE News US January retail sales As it turns out, Infineon may impossible, but now has taken a Blog) have been a little bit... optimistic step back and said "the risk is Submitted at 2/11/2010 4:41:16 PM when it said its SLE66 CL PE manageable, and you are just figures improve was "unhackable" -- but only a attacking one computer." We Chunky knits in brown and (Financial Times - US with economists’ expectations, little. The company should have would tend to agree in this case, cream make a cozy-chic homepage) was led by sales of electronics, put an asterisk next to the word, but Tarnovsky still deserves statement. Submitted at 2/12/2010 6:36:18 AM recreation goods and food. Sales pointing to a disclaimer serious respect for this one. Nice Photo: Anne Ziegler of home furnishings and building indicating something to the work, Big Gun. Think you are Street Chic? E- Message from fivefilters.org: If materials, which have effect of: "Unless you have an Christopher Tarnovsky hacks mail us your photo and you you can, please donate to the full plummeted since the collapse of electron microscope, small Infineon's 'unhackable' chip, we could appear in ELLE.com's -text RSS service so we can the housing market, slipped conductive needles to intercept prepare for false-advertising Street Chic Daily. continue developing it. again, falling more than 1 per the chip's internal circuitry, and litigation originally appeared on Follow ELLE on Twitter. Retail sales rose 0.5 per cent in cent on the month. the acid necessary to expose it." Engadget on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 Become our Facebook fan! January as retailers recovered Five Filters featured article: Those are some of the tools 10:31:00 EST. Please see our from a dip in December sales, Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: available to researcher terms for use of feeds. Permalink according to a report by the US PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Christopher Tarnovsky, who Yahoo! News| DarkReading| Census Bureau. Term Extraction. perpetrated the hack and Email this| Comments The increase, which was in line presented his findings at the E-reader News Edition Gadgets/ Economy/ 53 Quotient system ‘Volcker rule’ gives Goldman electronically diagnoses stark choice (Financial Times - US ADHD, oh look a bunny homepage) by Tim Stevens (Engadget) Submitted at 2/11/2010 4:44:45 PM Submitted at 2/12/2010 9:14:00 AM Message from fivefilters.org: If Cubicles are the site of many of you can, please donate to the full the worst cases of adult attention -text RSS service so we can -deficit hyperactivity disorder ( continue developing it. ADHD), so it's perhaps a bit Goldman Sachs and other banks Ski goggles feature head ironic that Quotient's ADHD should give up their bank status System looks an awful lot like a if they want to avoid the ban on cubicle on wheels. It's an proprietary trading proposed by mounted display automated machine that presents the White House, Paul Volcker, by Doug Aamoth here, you’ll also see that Zeal is a series of games and challenges head of President Barack (CrunchGear) planning to roll out some really for a user to participate in, all Obama’s Economic Recovery while watching that user with a Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:30:03 AM cool features later on: trail maps, Advisory Board, said. caller ID, text message display, pair of cameras -- one up top to “The implication for Goldman Wow, these Zeal Optics buddy tracking, online data monitor head movement and one Sachs or any other institution is, “Transcend” goggles feature sharing (statistics, etc.), below to look for a bouncing leg. do you want to be a bank?” Mr We think the same could be done built-in GPS, speed data, altitude mountain traffic reports, camera Quotient system electronically Volcker said in a video interview far cheaper with a webcam and a information, temperature, and a and recording features, virtual diagnoses ADHD, oh look a with the Financial Times. “If you Yurex leg odometer, but the whole lot of other stuff for $350. run previews, lift line bunny originally appeared on don’t want to follow those FDA has recently seen fit to Everything’s controlled by three information, music controls, Engadget on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 [banking] rules, you want to go clear parent company buttons on the side of the emergency calling, and more. 09:14:00 EST. 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If you watch the demo video 54 Apple/ E-reader News Edition Bill Gates Unimpressed by the iPad by Liam Cassidy does that I say, “Oh, wow, I iPhone OS on a tablet device is (TheAppleBlog) don’t think we can do that.” an obvious fit).

Submitted at 2/11/2010 12:04:11 PM I am not surprised Bill doesn’t Therefore, the iPhone OS is “get” the iPad, in the same way designed to be so simple and Bill Gates, in case you thought he didn’t “get” the iPod, either. intuitive that multitasking is otherwise, is a genius. He really, Gates’ vision of “a computer on intentionally restricted, reserved really is. Not only was he every desktop” was a grand for a select-few apps. That’s not building a software company at a vision. But that’s as far as the a lack of vision or coding time when no one believed vision went; he certainly didn’t acumen, but rather a terribly bold software had a meaningful describe the computer as an statement of intent. Apple has a future, but his vision of “a appliance. From the Microsoft vision for how people should computer on every desk and in perspective, the “computer” is, interact with computers, and they every home” was nothing short largely speaking, a screen with a believe it’s better than anything of crazy hugely ambitious. keyboard and a pointing device. else we currently have. What’s Even so, geniuses do get things In fact, it’s even more specific more, it’s willing to stand by that wrong sometimes. In an than that; as far as Microsoft is vision, despite the cries of interview with BNET’s Brent concerned, a computer is a inflexible critics who fail to Schlender, he suggests netbooks screen with a keyboard and a understand it. will be the devices of choice in a pointing device powered by In short, Apple doesn’t sacrifice post-iPad world; Windows. And if you really want form for function – rather, Apple “You know, I’m a big believer in to push the boat out, you can add allows form to dictate function. touch and digital reading, but I some flavor of Office into that use computers. Or, more diametrically opposed to Dream Come True still think that some mixture of mix, too. Disguise accurately, tablets don’t fit into Microsoft’s. Steve Jobs has long- Back in the early noughties, it voice, the pen and a real Since neither Windows nor Microsoft’s vision of how pursued a desire to make the was Gates who championed the keyboard – in other words a Office are particularly suited to businesses use computers. desktop computer more intuitive Tablet PC, and more broadly, the netbook – will be the mainstream pervasive, intuitive touch It’s ironic that Microsoft – and, paradoxically, less like a slate form-factor, boldly on that.” control, the Microsoft definition popularizer of the ubiquitous traditional computer. So, while predicting in 2001 that, Hardly shocking, coming from of “the computer” simply doesn’t spreadsheet software – still have Windows exposed increasingly “…within five years I predict it the man who co-founded accommodate anything like an not made Excel (arguably the complex functionality in each will be the most popular form of Microsoft. He adds; iPad. Tablet PCs are a bit easier most popular spreadsheet editor successive iteration, Mac OS X PC sold in America.” …it’s not like I sit there and feel for Microsoft to swallow – at on the planet) touch-friendly. did the opposite, hiding or Microsoft’s hardware partners the same way I did with iPhone least most of those have a Meanwhile, Apple, considered removing as much complexity as dropped the ball when executing where I say, ‘Oh my God, keyboard (making them by some to be makers of shiny possible, leaving behind just his vision, helped, no doubt, by Microsoft didn’t aim high notebooks in disguise). toys for posing artistes, have a enough to get the job done. Microsoft’s decision to crowbar- enough.’ It’s a nice reader, but And while Microsoft knows business-class spreadsheet app When it came to mobile devices, in a barely modified version of there’s nothing on the iPad I look Tablet PC’s don’t sell, it also ready to go when the iPad Microsoft’s desktop vision its full desktop OS – the exact at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft knows that the interest in launches. (Former Microsoft proved inescapable, and it tried same mistake it’s making again had done it.’” Apple’s iPad might translate into exec Dick Brass offers a possible to squeeze Windows into today. Not enough people got As TiPB’s Rene Ritchie pointed a short-lived boost in Tablet PC explanation for this bewildering everything. (Only the Xbox and their hands on a Tablet PC to out, this is remarkably sales, too. But let’s be honest; oversight in his revealing article Zune break with that tradition.) arrive at an informed opinion on reminiscent of Gates’ dismissal Microsoft isn’t committed to on the NY Times last week.) Just Meanwhile, Apple demonstrated its utility. Not enough software of the iPod in a BusinessWeek tablets in any meaningful way Enough that a device’s software must interview in 2004; because tablets don’t fit into Apple’s vision has always been reflect its form factor (like an BILL page 57 There’s nothing that the iPod Microsoft’s vision of how we E-reader News Edition Apple/ 55 The Dollar Show: Cheap TV and What It Could Mean for the iPad by Darrell Etherington definition TV shows cut in half prices, which by all accounts are (TheAppleBlog) (they currently cost $1.99 per fairly high. Apple should merely

Submitted at 2/11/2010 8:40:56 AM episode). open the platform a little by There are plenty of reasons why either developing easy The Wall Street Journal is they would want that to happen, conversion options itself for .avi claiming this week that Apple is though, and the biggest of all is files and other formats, built testing out 99 cent episodes of iPad marketability. To people right into iTunes, or by TV shows on iTunes with the who, for example, think a encouraging third-party intent of offering the same deal ReadWriteWeb post is actually companies to do so. In short, much more broadly across its the Facebook login page, the make it easier for users to get library when the iPad launches in iPad is a mysterious device their own files onto the device, late March. The information indeed, with few sellable and you broaden the hardware’s comes courtesy of people qualities. Why would such appeal immensely. familiar with the talks between people pay for the ultimate web Apple currently makes it Apple and the networks browsing experience, for somewhat difficult to get your regarding pricing changes. example, when they’re terrified own differently formatted media Shows already being offered at of the web? What they will pay onto its devices because by 99 cents are cited as examples of for, and what they do doing so, it encourages content testing for this new scheme, but understand, is TV. providers to offer their media for the shows in question aren’t Bestselling shows offered at a licensed use with the device. It exactly the most popular, so it dollar isn’t only an attempt to gives Cupertino the ability to seems almost as likely that the woo iTunes TV-viewers to the negotiate with those providers, discounting is designed to new platform, although it will since Apple is actually protecting stimulate sales in these specific probably help do that. The their interests by discouraging cases. MTV’s “Wonder advantage of such competitive . Showzen” and Warner’s pricing for a single, popular type But if networks don’t begin to “Children’s Hospital” are among of media is that it will make the take Apple seriously as a those on offer at the reduced rate. iPad a destination device for said Apple knows it. Sure, the iPad looking for with its new device. contender to cable companies Still, we’ve heard rumblings of media, in the same way that the has apps, but I’d be willing to bet No, it has to be TV, and for that and other TV service providers this before, and the article in the iPod has become the digital that apps still remain mostly to become a reality, consumers by offering competitive prices, I WSJ fits almost exactly the music player. Apps might sell untouched territory for a massive have to see prices that compete say the Mac-maker is well within description of what an the iPod touch and iPhone now, number of people who use the with or improve upon cable its right to go its own way and intentional leak from Apple but make no mistake, what sold media playback capabilities of subscription models. open the platform up. Consumers looks like. Also, I have no doubt their predecessors and allowed their iPods and iPhones. Books Offering cheaper TV is a step in will reward them with big that while networks might not be them to even exist in the first aren’t priced competitively the right direction, but there is an hardware spends to make up for that crazy about this idea, there’s place was music. enough, nor do they appeal to a alternative if talks break down lost media revenue. no reason Apple wouldn’t want TV could do for the iPad what wide enough market to create the and Apple can’t offer steep to see the price of standard music did for the iPod, and kind of consumer rush Apple is discounts on its current TV 56 Apple/ E-reader News Edition How-To: Connect to a Cisco VPN Using Snow Leopard or the iPhone OS by Andrew Flocchini VPN Type and name it what you • Click Add VPN Configuration. (TheAppleBlog) want. • Click on the IPSec button and

Submitted at 2/11/2010 9:05:02 AM • The VPN connection will now fill in all your information just as be in your list. Fill in your Server you did in Snow Leopard. Click Snow Leopard has more than its Address and Account Name. Our Save when you are done. fair share of improvements. If VPN checks authentication • Try it out by flipping the VPN you work in the corporate world against Active Directory so my switch to On. then Cisco IPsec VPN is a great Account name is • If all is good, you’ll see you addition. domain\username. Also be sure are now connected. Before Apple added this feature, to check the Show VPN Status you had to use Cisco’s client to box so you can easily start and Things to remember when connect up to its VPN. With stop your VPN connection. accessing shares over a VPN are Snow Leopard and the iPhone • Click Authentication Settings that you may need to use fully OS, this support is built in. You and enter your Shared Secret and qualified domain names or IP may need to get together with Group Name. Once again, your addresses. Every network is your Network Admin to get all Network Admin should have this different so get friendly with the correct passwords, group information for you. your Network Admin and he/she name and such but anything that • Go ahead and apply your will hopefully help you out. It’s can be done in the OS versus a settings and close System • After you are connected, nice to see Apple developing third-party app is good by me. Preferences. You should see a notice the menu bar icon Setting up your iPhone or iPod things like this on the business new VPN status icon in the menu indicates how long you have touch is just as easy. side of the market. It does it so • Open up Network in System bar that when you click, gives a been connected. This can be a • Launch Settings and then click simple and to the point, that it Preferences. drop-down menu to start your nice reminder to disconnect if on General. puts everyone else to shame. • Click the+ sign to create a new VPN connection. you aren’t using the VPN • Click Network. Related GigaOM Pro Research: connection. Select VPN as the • Click Connect and you should anymore. • Click VPN. Cisco’s Big Bet on Consumer interface, Cisco IPSec as the receive a Password prompt. Telepresence Sponsor post: Atimi Software to Be Showcased During 2010 Games in Vancouver by Edit Staff (TheAppleBlog) Winter Olympics Games and applications; porting applications technology companies in the

Submitted at 2/11/2010 9:00:54 AM Paralympic Games. The iPhone clients to be able to both from Windows to the Macintosh; world. Its processes ensure those installation is part of VX — demonstrate current applications and iPhone, BlackBerry and companies reach their projected Atimi Software has been added short for Vancouver Experience and reveal two new ones that Android mobile application targets reliably and efficiently, to the top 20 Vancouver-based — which is aimed at will soon hit the marketplace. development for the new allowing them to focus on wireless and digital media highlighting the city’s world- Atimi Software Inc. is a cross- generation of smartphones. As a building strong, lasting companies that will be class wireless and new media platform development company pure services company, Atimi relationships with their own showcased in the city’s Robson industry. It is a great honor and that specializes in Macintosh handles high-value intellectual customers. Square during the upcoming opportunity for Atimi and its property for some of the largest E-reader News Edition TV/ Economy/ 57 BILL continued from page 54 Which Shows Are on China orders was developed that made good invested so much in the tablet use of it, either. So, while the dream, it must be pretty galling banks to raise iPad is far from Microsoft’s to see Apple succeed where he the Endangered List? ambitions, it’s the closest the failed. by Brad Trechak (TV Squad) industry has ever come to the Related GigaOM Pro Research: reserve ratios realization of Gates’ tablet • Web Tablet Survey: Apple’s Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:29:00 AM (Financial Times - US homepage) dreams. iPad Hits Right Notes We're hitting that time of year Gates is obviously loyal to • 5 Tips for Developers when the fates of television Submitted at 2/12/2010 3:24:35 AM Microsoft, but he’s clearly Targeting the iPad shows are decided. The Message from fivefilters.org: If prepared to say when he thinks • How AT&T Will Deal with Hollywood Reporter has posted you can, please donate to the full Apple has done something iPad Data Traffic their list of potentially cancelled -text RSS service so we can remarkable. I don’t believe he shows as well as a probability continue developing it. fails to grasp what the iPad score of renewal next to each. China rattled global markets on represents, despite his comments While it is not surprising Friday after the central bank yesterday… and I’m pretty sure that'Smallville' is given a high ordered commercial banks to he’s disappointed Microsoft probability of renewal, it is increase the amount of reserves couldn’t learn from its earlier somewhat disturbing. The show they hold for the second time in a tablet mistakes. For a man who has become extremely different month in order to cool the rapid since its move to Fridays, increase in lending. focusing more on the geek factor Reserve requirements for than the teen angst. It's come a So what do you think of THR's Chinese banks will increase by long way from the'Buffy'-clone it list? Is it on the mark? Are the 50 basis points from February started out as. If anything, The critics crazy? Sound off in the 25, the central bank said on its CW should cancel the series and comments. website, to 16 per cent for large go immediately to a spin-off Filed under: Programming, commercial banks. Superman series, perhaps called OpEd, Cancellations, Pickups Five Filters featured article: 'Metropolis'. and Renewals, Ratings, Reality- Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: It's also a good thing that'Chuck' Free PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, has recovered from its precarious Permalink| Email this| | Term Extraction. perch and become a ratings Comments winner for Monday night. What can I say? I like the show. 'The Mentalist' - 'Blood In, Blood Out' Recap by Bob Sassone (TV Squad) nonsense, by the book. Only I that, and he really doesn't have Reviews, Reality-Free, The

Submitted at 2/12/2010 9:29:00 AM think Jack Webb used to smile a any patience or sympathy for the Mentalist lot more than Cho does. It's great people he left behind. At least we Permalink| Email this| | (S02E14) "You are one strange to see Cho (Tim Kang - a good think that at first. Comments freak, man." - gang member to actor), my favorite character on As I've said before, I'd watch a Jane. the show after Patrick Jane, get spinoff with Cho as the lead. Detective Cho is like the Sgt. an A plot in an episode. Continue reading'The Mentalist' Friday of'The Mentalist.' He's Wow, Cho is a bit of a hard-ass, worked to get away from his - 'Blood In, Blood Out' Recap serious, determined, no eh? You can see how hard he has past, joining the Army and all Filed under: OpEd, Episode 58 Tech Blog/ Picture/ E-reader News Edition Morning coffee notes (Scripting News) don't say which oAuth I love big companies. (Not.)

Submitted at 2/12/2010 5:02:59 AM developers should adopt. Had dinner last night at a Problem is there are three, and wonderful West Village Been a while. Twitter says, in the very same restaurant called Po, Google says there's been over 9 email, that they like all three. I recommended by the illustrious million Buzz posts and hear that a lot of people at Matt Terenzio. One of the great comments so far. Impressive. Twitter read my posts, so please things about the neighborhood I But there hasn't been a single read this: I suppose it's okay to live in -- lots of great restaurants. link in my tweet-stream from turn off Basic Authentication, if I need to get some exercise Buzz, except for the one I you really must. You're going to today! Funny posted, when I first tried it out lose some apps when you do. I It's a sunny day so I think I may (and quickly shut off when I saw won't convert very many of go explore the Hudson and the signs the mess it created in my Gmail mine, but at least I can since I've Highline. by Zack Sheppard (Flickr inbox). What does this mean? implemented oAuth 1.0. But I'm Having lunch with Dan Farber Blog) Well, it hasn't gone viral, at least not in any hurry to implement who is now the Editor In Chief to the people who I follow on the others for a couple of of CBS.Com. I knew Dan when Submitted at 2/11/2010 9:40:47 AM Twitter. reasons: 1. They're moving he was knee-high to a Message from fivefilters.org: If Fred Wilson, an investor in a targets. 2. I'm not investing much grasshopper, and just Editor In you can, please donate to the full bunch of companies in the time in Twitter development Chief of MacWorld. Also ran -text RSS service so we can BuzzSpace, has his review. these days, I'm busy with other into Eric Hippeau who is now continue developing it. Wondering if anyone is thinking things. So come June, a bunch of CEO of Huffington Post. These For more laughs check out the of creating a wonderful webmail my remaining apps will die. I are the guys I grew up with in Funny signs group. product that's just webmail, no think it would be better to hold tech. Now they're in NY running Photos from fishbert, tricks. With Google-quality spam on to the developer momentum things. Proves the old motto, be Skuchamenz, popomohaha, Dill filters. I'd pay $100 per year for and go really slow on the kind to those you meet on the Pixels, indiekidd73, maplecs100, the service. But no tricks! I don't deprecation. way up. BaubCat, and Dania Hurley. want any new products to launch Google says the reason they Once again Jeff Pulver honors Five Filters featured article: through your product. I don't don't support the Twitter API is me by making me the opening the modem and call the office. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: want to reach into my email box that it's not an open standard. speaker of his#140Conf here in Made total sense until I got a call PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, one day and find a snake! Two comments. 1. WordPress NYC, April 20. I must have been from Time-Warner yesterday Term Extraction. In other news, Mike Arrington and Tumblr thought it was good saying they had to send an very kind to him at one point! says TED is a sleeper. enought for them. 2. Isn't Google installer out to turn it on. That On after me are the esteemed Last night Twitter sent out an the company that scanned all won't happen until late next John Borthwick of Betaworks update on oAuth. They saved the those books and published them week. But the previous tenant in and the honorable Jay Rosen of best for last. In June they plan to on the web without the authors' my apartment had Time-Warner NYU. turn off Basic Authentication in permission? Internet. Seems to me they can I wonder if Jeff knows the favor of oAuth. They say My Roadrunner package will turn it on without having to get counter-culture significance of developers should hurry up and arrive today according to Fedex. into the apartment. I'm sure all 4/20? switch now so they don't have to According to the instructions, I the wires here are still connected. panic come June-time. But they should have service after I install E-reader News Edition TV/ Entertainment/ 59 PROJECT 69 Percent of TV Guide continued from page 59 they outsource all the work to a sweatshop in a third world Readers Won't Watch country (or China) just like the rest of the fashion industry does. Speaking of bad things here are Leno the: by Danny Gallagher (TV Things We Hated: Squad) • Not Listening: What is up with

Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:06:00 AM designers who don't listen to instructions. Even worse than not Internet polls are always a little following the rules of the squiffy when it comes to challenge is following the rules interpreting actual raw data. But but missing all the nuance from if I were Jay Leno right now, my the person giving them the chin would be quivering right assignment. Joanna Coles Editor- 'Community' - about now. in-Chief of Marie Claire TV Guide conducted an online Magazine told them all what they 'Communication poll of their readers and 69 should avoid—black, drab percent of the respondents said and the remaining 4 percent were colors, patters, things with they used to watch Jay either undecided. detailing on the bottom—and Studies' Recap on'The Tonight Show' or his Filed under: Celebrities, what they should focus by Jason Hughes (TV Squad) interfering with their relationship short-lived'Jay Leno Show' but Cancellations, Pickups and on—bright colors, detailing at won't when he returns to the post Submitted at 2/12/2010 8:34:00 AM as "just-friends." Renewals, Reality-Free, Jay the neckline, something that will With the Valentine's Day dance local news time slot. Leno pop. What do these people give (S01E16) Suddenly I want to looming, Troy and Pierce tried to Another 15 percent said they Permalink| Email this| | her? LoganJesse's is a blue so spend at least 40 more minutes in regain some of their own dignity would watch Jay in his new time Comments the world of'Community' after early in the episode, only to lose slot, 12 percent said they never PROJECT page 60 tonight's episode. I wonder if it completely by the end of it. watched him in the first place those 40 minutes will come back Surprisingly, despite his "skills" to haunt our dear friend later? on the dance floor, Chang either Jeff and Abed tore it up with has no dignity to lose, or has so : Stop the Dresses! one of the most bizarre drunk much that it's impervious to montages I've ever seen, anything he does. culminating with Abed in the Continue reading'Community' - [Recaps] absolute best "aftermath" 'Communication Studies' Recap by Brian Moylan (Gawker) This week our quilting bee of Joanna Coles Editor-in-Chief of position I've ever seen. And Jeff Filed under: OpEd, Episode Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:38:03 AM death got into the bonnet of Marie Claire Magazine, who also did it all to try and make things Reviews, Reality-Free, Marie Claire magazine. We gave the designers some right with Britta again. Try as Community Project Runway is all about wonder how that happened? It's instruction about what looks the they might, those two just can't Permalink| Email this| | vision and delusion. The vision not like they're sponsoring the best in print. Then it was off to seem to get their awkward Comments to put a cute dress on a magazine show or anything. The challenge mood with a modest budget to feelings for one another to stop cover. The delusion that will stop was to make a dress to be on the work their tiny little fingers to print from going extinct. The cover of the rag's April issue the bone for the last time before vision of concentration. The modeled by Heidi Klum herself. delusion it leads to victory. They got this directive from PROJECT page 59 60 E-reader News Edition PROJECT continued from page 59 dark it might as well be black, • Tear Up Weepy Janeane: We crown someone with the top perfect for Runway. If only he raspberry Icee trapped in a Amy's is a shoulder pom pom have already established that prize. could augment his talent and tornado. He stole the top prize vomiting up a technicolor print Janeane like to cry. This week personality with Suzanne from Ben whose post- like it's a ball of yarn we have diagnosed her with a Things We Loved: Sugarbakers. Then he's be the apocalyptic geisha was fresh, disemboweled by a rabid cat, severe psychological disorder. • The Challenge: Finally these second coming of Christian different, and made for magazine Jay's has this long asymmetrical We think she is, and this is the are stakes worth having. Say Siriano and well on his way to a cover. Also with strong train thing that would get scientific term, a complete what you will about Marie long career as both a designer showings were the under- cropped out of a photo, and fucking mess. If she's not talking Claire, but most obscure and general star-kissed famous appreciated Jonathan with a '70s- nearly everyone's was a color of about emoting the turmoil in her designers would kill for a chance person. inspired onesie for the dock of the walls in a suburban soul or grunting and squealing to get their looks on the cover of • Joanna Coles Editor-in-Chief Aristotle Onassis yacht, Amy apartment complex painted the like a pig trapped in a fence, then a national magazine, especially of Marie Claire Magazine: She aforementioned most boring shade of bland to she is worrying that everyone is on the body of Heidi Klum was the guest judge and she was cat/yarn/vomit/print thing (we attract the somnambulists who better than her and she'll never (hopefully inbetween bouts of as mean as she was pretty. We meant that as a compliment), and want to live there. None of these finish her garment on time. Seth bearing her latest spawn). Sure it would say we know where Jay's elongated baby doll dress won. And who was applauded? Aaron, give this girl one of the might not have turned out that NGFDMCM got it from but we that looked like a tree filled with The ones who gave crazy color Klonopin you have stashed in great for Jay McCarroll, but this know she had it before she toilet paper on a slightly breezy and detailing up top. See, people. your luggage. Sister needs it! could be a boon for each of worked with her current boss. chalk night. Fucking listen! You don't know • Tim Gunn Is a Burn Out: No, them. Setting the bar high made But JCEICMCM has many of Dead Weight was sent home for better than the experts and think he's not out back smoking pot everyone try their hardest, which the same qualities as something that even Forever 21 you do is going to give you a (though that would be funny) but always makes for good TV. NGFDMCM. Their editorial would have laughed out of its short career in fashion and a long he just seems to have lost the old • Madam Butterfly on Acid: meetings in the Heart Building cheap depots. There were a career waiting tables at Red mentoring mojo. Instead he is This is how Jay described his must be epic whirlwinds of ego bunch of other ugly ones too, but Lobster, which is where Andre is just a well-dressed robot, look. We couldn't have said it and smooth, slickly worded I can't come up with clever now trapped for eternity. spouting off his handful of usual better. Fabulous. underminings. adjectives for Seth Aaron's • Seth Aaron Shirtless: Our catch phrases, corporate • Suzanne Sugarbaker: We hated • Heidi's Laugh: When Suzanne walking suit of armor, Mya's favorite part of the "getting ready messages, and designer minding Anthony at first, but she grew on was named the winner (spoiler walking Georgia O'Keefe montage" that is in each episode instructions. he's like a doll us. Now she is the shining alert!) and started laughing painting, or Janeane's walking is we usually get to see a cute where you pull the string and he beacon of this show. Even after inappropriately on the runway, Betty Draper nightmare. They all boy naked. Who do we get this gets up, twirls around the room, she won this week (spoiler alert!) Heidi retorted with a laugh of her suck. week? Not hunky Jay or pretty and says one of three pre- she over reacted a bit on the own. If Tim Gun's chuckle is like They suck so much that we love boy Logan Jesse, but paunchy programmed things before runway, but unlike the first a shower of Werther's Originals, them. Let's watch some videos! asshole Seth Aaron whose entire crashing lifelessly on the floor, week, it was cute and endearing. Heidi's laugh was sharp, prickly, General Annoyance chest has the pallor and hairiness just out of reach of the dirty Keep on working, Suzanne. We and unexpected—like 10 million Description: Everyone is so of a backside that hasn't seen the martini he so desperately needs. don't think you're good enough toothpicks fired out of a air awed by this challenge that, for a sun since the Clinton • The Winners: Every week to take home the final trophy, but cannon at a crowd that thought it change, they are working hard administration. Don't do this to there has been someone who we're going to love watching you was going to get some free T- and being quiet. Except Seth us again, please. deserved to win more than the try. shirts but instead got a face full Aaron. He is an asshole and has • Dead Weight: By now we person they selected to win. With • Tickle Me, Emilio: While of splinters with colorful bits of to annoy everyone and they hate know some of the people who the except of last week, when Suzanne Sugarbaker doesn't have cellophane at the end. him. What is up with the West are never going to make it to the Amy really deserved to win for a hope of being the top designing Side Story cross-step and snap final: Seth Aaron, Jesse, and her best of the worst red dress, woman, Emilio actually does. In the end it was Suzanne he's doing? Janeane. Can't we just cut them they judges have been a shade He's talented, just bitchy enough, Sugarbaker who took home the Vision: That everyone cares all at once next week and let the off each time. We hope that and not afraid to fight hard to top prize (spoiler alert!) for his really good people duke it out? doesn't happen when they finally win a challenge. This guy is blue dress that looked like a PROJECT page 62 E-reader News Edition Entertainment/ 61 Harold Ford's Tennessee Tax Dodge [Ford Tourist] by John Cook (Gawker) on money they earn in the state, running for Senate in New York

Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:41:43 AM Ford has shielded his entire by claiming you've lived there Merrill Lynch salary from New for three years and pay taxes When it comes to his shadow York's tax collectors for the past there. run for Senate, Harold Ford is a three years. In fact, it seems like So what taxes is Ford talking New Yorker through and Tennessee's lack of an income about, if he's never paid income through. When it comes to tax may be the best explanation tax in New York? We've asked paying taxes, though, he's still a for Ford's rather complicated two Sun, and haven't heard back. The Tennessean — he's never filed a -state life since 2007 — he most pathetic (and, by our lights, New York return. clearly wanted to live in New likely) answer is New York Ford claims to have moved to York, and married a woman in City's 8.875% sales tax, though New York three years ago, and 2008 who did live in New York. Ford could also be talking about says paying "New York taxes" But he made sure to keep a foot sharing in property taxes on makes him a New Yorker. But in a state whose tax code is Ford's apartment, or paying his spokeswoman confirms to friendly to rich guys like himself. quarterly estimated tax payments Gawker that he's never filed a When Merrill Lynch announced on his freelance income as an New York tax return — meaning Ford's hiring in 2007, it said he MSNBC talking head, which he that he's never paid New York's would be keeping offices in might have started paying last income tax, despite keeping an Nashville and New York City. year once he decided to break office and a residence in New Ford has said that he's basically that 184-day barrier and commit York City as a vice chairman of lived in New York since then, to New York. Or perhaps he Merrill Lynch since 2007: "He though he never technically lived instructed Merrill Lynch to start pays New York taxes and will here until last year since he didn't withholding New York taxes file a New York tax return in "spend the requisite number of from his salary when he April for the first time," Ford's days" staying at his wife Emily established residency in 2009. spokeswoman Tammy Sun told Ford's breathtakingly yellow And when precisely, did that Gawker. "He will file all apartment in the Flatiron district. happen, by the way? According necessary personal disclosure (" Moved is such a legal term," to this Federal Election and tax forms that candidates are he told the New York Times). who live there fewer than 184 here last year: He could have Committee filing recording a required to file if he chooses to Ford was clearly thinking of days to pay New York income been paid out of Merrill Lynch's donation Ford made to Colorado run." (According to Sun, Ford New York's 184-day rule, which taxes on whatever portion of Nashville office, for instance, Sen. Mike Bennet, he was still admitted to the tax dodge requires that part-time residents their income they earned in the and he could have received the using his Memphis address as yesterday at a press availability who spend 184 or more days state. majority of his income in a recently as September 29 of last in Albany, but we can't find any living in the state pay New York If Ford did enough business in bonus that he could claim he year—98 days before he news accounts mentioning the taxes on all their income. New York to keep an office earned in Tennessee, not New announced his interest in Sen. remarks.) What he seems to have forgotten there, its reasonable to presume York. But while those sorts of Kirsten Gillibrand's seat. Ford has presumably chosen to is that New York has gone to that he earned a good deal of arguments may be useful to instead file in his other home great pains to prevent wealthy money in New York. Now, we're someone trying to get as close as Tennessee, which conveniently people like him from spending sure that there are all sorts of possible to living in New York has no income tax. Which means time and earning money in the accountants' arguments and without suffering the tax that, despite the fact that New state and then jetting off to a tax narrow dodges at Ford's disposal consequences of doing so, York law requires part-time and haven come April 15: It also to claim that he didn't owe New they're not as effective when nonresidents to pay income tax requires nonresidents and people York income tax until he moved you're loudly thinking about 62 Entertainment/ Sports/ E-reader News Edition PROJECT continued from page 60 what he says and thinks he's showings and a win, everyone like me, it looks good from the funny. has finally figured out that Mila front and the back." 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What's important is Submitted at 2/12/2010 12:34:26 AM salvage an NCAA tournament "I both felt that the time away bid for the ailing Huskies. was important for my personal As this is written, the post has that these folks Googled Message from fivefilters.org: If Calhoun returned to his and professional well-being and 846 comments, many of which something and expected results, you can, please donate to the full coaching duties Thursday after a that I am ready to move ahead are simple, anguished pleas: but in this confusing byzantine -text RSS service so we can medical leave of more than three from this point at full speed," PLEASE LET ME LOGIN labyrinth we call the web, well... continue developing it. Calhoun weeks forced him to miss seven Calhoun said. INTO FACEBOOK, sadly, things aren't always easy. Returning Calhoun Returning games. He has no restrictions on FACEBOOK IS GRATE BUT Internet people, dear readers. UConn coach Jim Calhoun what he can do and will be on CONNECTICUT page 64 THIS IS REDICULOUS. Because, you see, they've E-reader News Edition Sports/ 63 Vonn’s Bruised Shin Chills U.S. Medal Hopes (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) victory. Vonn winning a gold to upsetting No. 2 Syracuse on be no better venue than Sunday’s

Submitted at 2/11/2010 8:21:57 AM medal (or three) could be Wednesday before the Orange Daytona 500 to begin a legendary.” held on for a 72-67 victory, its turnaround. In fact, Earnhardt Right now, Lindsey Vonn has Sports Illustrated’s Tim Layden 24th of the season in 25 games. has struggled for the past three the most famous right shin in notes that Vonn’s career has The Huskies are still looking for years, the last two under sports, and it’s not healthy. Her been marred by injury. their first road win (0-6), but the Hendrick Motorsports. “So now dream of winning five medals at The Globe and Mail’s New Haven Register’s Dave it has come to this: An icon of the Winter Olympics in Walton writes about two other Solomon saw progress from the sport has reached a Vancouver might be over before downhill skiers poised to win that the hotel, travel and UConn. crossroads,” ESPN’s Terry the Games begin if that shin she Olympic gold, Maria Riesch of coaching costs of Chemmy In the Syracuse Post-Standard, Blount writes. “Either Earnhardt bruised last week in Germany and Anja Pärson of Alcott, Britain’s best-known Bud Poliquin touts the returns to contending status and doesn’t heal before her first race Sweden. skier and a medal prospect, are importance of Andy Rautins to regains his credibility among the Sunday. Vonn’s first training run The Vancouver Province’s about £300,000 a year — not a the Orange. ” Defense Nascar elite or he falls into a was scheduled for midday Terry Bell writes about the first figure easily affordable for most choreography leadership. He racing purgatory of Thursday. Associated Press controversy of the Games, which Brits,” Syed writes. provided it all,” Poliquin writes, disappointment and unmet Lindsey Vonn’s gold in press surrounds skeleton, one of those Figure skating figures to land “plus a couple of big free throws, expectations.” coverage won’t count toward bizarre sports that get little boffo ratings for NBC and its down the stretch as this second- Elsewhere in racing: In the Los U.S. medal totals. attention outside the Olympics. affiliates, but Sports Illustrated’s ranked SU club improved its Angeles Times, Jim Pelz gets the “The best woman skier in Canadian Jeff Pain, a silver Frank Deford gives the sport’s record to a fairly astounding 24- story on drag racing, “ the most American history (she’s on her medalist in 2006, accuses the new scoring system a failing 1. And it did so against a pretty crucial four seconds in sports,” way to her third World Cup German squad of using a sled grade. formidable foe.” and some of its colorful overall title), Vonn was bolstered by an illegal metal In the Seattle Times, Ron Judd One team that’s no longer characters over the past half- supposed to be the Michael component in the runners. catches up with short-track speed formidable: North Carolina, century.* * * Phelps of these Olympics,” No such controversy in skater Apolo Ohno, who relishes which won the national Spring training can’t begin soon ESPN’s Jim Caple writes. women’s skeleton, where competing in his final Olympics. championship last season. The enough for baseball fans, but “Every media outlet has been Shelley Rudman is Britain’s best NBC will have fewer tape- Tar Heels are only 13-11 (2-7 in anticipation and renewed hope talking up her chances of hope for an Olympic medal. The delayed events than in previous the ACC) after losing to Duke, might be tempered somewhat winning multiple gold medals.” pressure is on: Her funding will Olympics, unless you live on the 64-54, on the night Tyler when you check out ticket prices Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel says drop substantially if she fails to West Coast, the Journal’s Sam Hansbrough’s number was for the best matchups. It’s called expectations are unrealistically win a medal. (She won silver Schechner and Amy Chozick retired. For Sports Illustrated’s “dynamic pricing,” and while SF high around Vonn. “The bold four years ago.) To win gold, write, unlike in Canada, where Seth Davis, the Tar Heels’ loss Weekly’s Joe Eskenazi medal goal, pushed by her Rudman will have to defeat the everything will be shown live. signals the end of their NCAA understands the reasoning behind marketing people, helped world’s No. 1 woman, Canadian Finally, the Christian Science Tournament hopes. the Giants’ move to a new establish Vonn as the big pre- Melissa Hollingsworth, the Monitor’s Bill Glauber writes That would represent a big pricing system, he doesn’t like it Games star,” Wetzel writes. Guardian’s Donald McRae about why the Olympics still disappointment. In the New one bit. “The risk was that if she won writes. matter. York Daily News, Dick Weiss Sabernomics’s J.C. Bradbury only three golds, she’d be In the Sydney Morning Herald, Be sure to check back often for writes that few analysts expected sees benefits in the practice, declared a disappointment. It Dan Silkstone has the story of the Journal’s comprehensive Carolina to repeat, but the Tar though. happened, to some degree, to how Australia’s bobsled team Olympics coverage. Must-see Heels could have been a Sweet – Tip of the Fix cap to reader Phelps in the Athens Games made it to the Olympics. video: The Journal’s Reed 16 squad.* * * Don Hartline and fellow Fixer when he wasn’t able to win In the Times of London, Albergotti tries moguls skiing.* Dale Earnhardt Jr. is coming off David Roth. every race. Now everything Matthew Syed laments that most * * his worst Nascar season ever, a changes. Just getting out there Olympic athletes come from well UConn came tantalizingly close 25th-place finish without a VONN’S page 65 and competing would be a -to-do families. “It is estimated victory in any race. There might 64 E-reader News Edition CONNECTICUT continued from page 62 Calhoun returns to a team that located amid the dairy farms of said. "But I think as the time charity bike ride. imagine anyone having more needs a sizzling, upset-heavy northeastern Connecticut. UConn goes on, it's a little more difficult "It's going to take a lot to keep impact on the team than winning streak to sniff the games without Calhoun, as New for them because they're used to coach Calhoun out. A lot," Calhoun. UConn had played in NCAA tournament. The Huskies England as a bowl of clam his style and the way he runs Oriakhi said. "If you break ribs the NCAA tournament just twice (14-10, 4-7 Big East) have sunk chowder, have been way too practices. I would say it might be and keep going on your bike, this in 20 years before Calhoun led to the bottom half of the quiet. Gone has been the a little confusing to them at this is nothing for him." them to nine trips in the 1990s. conference standings a year after stomping, the cussing, the stage." There's also an ongoing NCAA The Huskies need some turning a No. 1 seed and a Final Four barking at officials. The two gym rats forged a investigation into a report by around again, starting with berth. Longtime followers of the relationship when Blaney Yahoo! Sports that former team signature victories to leap back UConn's top moment came Jan. program described the 67-year- coached at Stonehill and manager Josh Nochimson helped into NCAA consideration. Their 23 when associate head coach old Calhoun as more down than Calhoun was in the high school guide basketball recruit Nate grueling schedule features games George Blaney led the Huskies angry after recent losses. He ranks. They crossed paths again Miles to Connecticut, giving him this month at Villanova (No. 5 to an upset of then-No. 1 Texas. never knew what kind of when Blaney moved on to Holy lodging, transportation, meals ESPN/USA Today, No. 4 AP) But the Huskies threw away their performance he'd get out of the Cross and Calhoun went to and representation. Calhoun has and West Virginia (No. 4 momentum like one of their 352 erratic Huskies and almost Northeastern. acknowledged that he or his staff ESPN/USA Today, No. 5 AP). turnovers this season when they seemed resigned to that fate. Calhoun is making $1.6 million may have made mistakes in UConn is 1-5 vs. the Top 25 and lost the next game at Providence Asked recently what UConn the final year of a six-year deal recruiting Miles. the win against Texas looks less -- and that started the second of basketball is like without and was on the brink of signing a Hathaway said the NCAA and impressive as the Longhorns their three-game losing streaks Calhoun, forward Stanley multi-year extension in school are in the middle of the have sputtered. this season. UConn ended the Robinson cracked, "[Blaney] December, though the contract review and had no other UConn might have to win out skid by eking out a seven-point doesn't scream." was never completed. comment. and reach the Big East win Saturday against lowly Added freshman center Alex "This has no bearing on the Calhoun has not talked to the tournament final to be DePaul (1 win in the Big East) Oriakhi: "The yelling. That's the contract whatsoever," athletic press since the start of his considered for an at-large NCAA and lost at No. 2 Syracuse 72-67 biggest difference." director Jeffrey Hathaway said. sabbatical and repeated attempts bid. on Wednesday night. Blaney, a former head coach at The deal is still there for to reach him by The Associated That's quite a heady mission for "We still think we're pretty four schools including Holy Calhoun -- if he wants it. Press have been unsuccessful. this team -- with or without its good," Blaney said. "We still Cross, is more laid back. He has Calhoun, the gruff Irishman, He'll address the media at the legendary coach. think we can be a factor in every calmly watched games with his spoke last season about retiring if end of Friday's practice. Copyright 2010 by The game we play in." arms folded -- never any hint he the Huskies won the national If Calhoun does retire at the end Associated Press UConn has gone 3-4 in was about to blow a gasket over championship. Now he's in his of the season, this is no Five Filters featured article: Calhoun's absence. School a blown call. The Syracuse game 38th year as a college head immediate successor in place. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: officials have not said what was was the 14th time since 2003 he coach. Blaney is 70 and, while he's PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, ailing Calhoun, but said it had has coached in Calhoun's place, Calhoun has been treated for filled in when needed, is Term Extraction. nothing to do with his three including the NCAA opener last cancer three times during his certainly not a long-term bouts with cancer and was not season. UConn career, including last solution. related to his heart. "I think initially it was easy summer when he successfully "Whoever takes over, that's The losing wasn't the only thing because they know me and I've battled skin cancer. In June, he going to be the hot seat," former that took some getting used to in been around a while, especially had to be hospitalized after UConn star and Celtics guard Storrs, a bucolic college town, with the older guys," Blaney breaking several ribs during a Ray Allen said. It's hard to E-reader News Edition Sports/ 65 Drugs, Rain, Apathy: Pivotal Games by Jay Mariotti (FanHouse are said to be in the dirty group. previous three years and 50 Main) The bad news, for sportingkind, weeks.

Submitted at 2/11/2010 3:32:00 PM is that world-class athletes A decade into the 21st century, continue to cheat even as the are the masses really into figure VANCOUVER, British strongest testing measures in skating, bobsled and Columbia -- It's raining in British Olympic history are firmly in speedskating anymore? Much as Columbia, just as it's supposed to place. Have they not followed America loved Dorothy Hamill, rain the next several days and the steroids fallout the last 20- Eric Heiden and Bonnie Blair, most of the next two weeks, some years? Do not they not see how does anyone relate to their meaning the host city of the the shame when an athlete is sports anymore when so few Winter Olympics may lack one revealed to be a juicer? Are people participate in them? The vital ingredient: Winter. This performance-enhancing drugs future seems to be in the X meteorological hangup only here forever and ever and ever? Games genre, with no better stands to trigger further debate And if mainstream sports fans evidence than White's standing -- about whether the cold-weather watch the Winter Games at $9 million annually -- as the Games, once a gem on the global primarily for what I call the away atop Whistler Mountain, Davis, red-headed snowboarding highest-income Olympian other sports calendar, still have the greatest tournament in team admitting on her Twitter feed -- freak Shaun White, pioneer short than a few hockey superstars. chops to be considered a big sports -- the hockey competition get used to Twitter feeds here -- -track star Apolo Anton Ohno -- When snowboarding sex-kitten deal. Isn't our planet obsessed -- there were concerns Thursday that she "took a bunch" of and deserve your attention. But Hannah Teter (see Sports with the World Cup, NFL, Tiger that NHL players aren't subjected painkillers to numb her famously NBC begins its coverage Illustrated's swimsuit edition) Woods, Roger Federer and all to the same testing policies of the bruised right shin before a admitting it will lose a minimum draws a higher wage at $1 sorts of ventures not involving World Anti-Doping Agency as downhill training run. You can of $200 million because of million a year than the more ice, snow, Double McTwists and other Olympians. "It's not as just hear Jim McKay and the diminished advertising revenue. accomplished Davis, you sense triple Salchows? stringent as you would want,'' trumpets now, saluting the The hope, as we've seen before, the Winter Games are destined to Already, hours before the WADA director general David concept of "a bunch" of is that snowbound segments of become a full-blown version of Opening Ceremony inside BC Howman said. "We don't know if painkillers. Needless to say, it America warm up to the Games, the X Games -- especially with Place, we have a scandal amid there's a [doping] problem [in the doesn't help the buzz quotient female viewers take notice of ESPN, home of the X Games, the trees, water and snow-capped NHL], but you're left with the when the first two major figure skating and human- ready to be a prime bidder at the mountains of a dazzling, party- suspicion that there may be a headlines involve drugs and a interest stories and the under-30 next TV negotiating table. minded region. On Games eve, problem if you're not prepared to chance the golden girl of the crowd rallies around White and As even codgerly David the anti-doping police let it be front up.'' Those of us gearing up Games could miss part or all of X Games endeavors. The bigger Letterman said the other night, known they'd busted more than for Sidney Crosby vs. Alex the skiing competition with her sense, though, is that the Winter while interviewing garage-rock- 30 Olympians for violations and Ovechkin sure don't need a injury. It's sad, really, because so Games are at a crossroads and guitarist White, "This is what the barred them from entering steroids mess. many of these athletes are may devolve into a niche Olympics need more of." Canada. The good news, for As they talked drugs in the city, brilliant and fascinating -- function because most of us don't America, is that no U.S. athletes Lindsey Vonn was two hours brooding speedskater Shani pay attention to these sports the VONN’S continued from page 63 Found a good column from the consider your find for inclusion world of sports? Don’t keep it to in the Daily Fix. You can email yourself — write to us at Garey at [email protected] [email protected] and we’ll 66 Sports/ E-reader News Edition , out of The Count: Lakers All-Star Game Weather Bryant Injury by Marc Stein (ESPN.com) vacation in the Phoenix area and starting spot. Iverson will not be (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)

Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:02:35 AM is expected to fly back to Dallas required to travel to Dallas Submitted at 2/11/2010 2:00:21 PM on Friday. because he's missing the game Message from fivefilters.org: If Mavericks owner Mark Cuban for personal reasons. The have you can, please donate to the full said it took a little lobbying to Lee is averaging 20 points and won three straight games by -text RSS service so we can league officials to name Kidd as 11.4 rebounds and becomes the double digits against Western continue developing it. Bryant's replacement. Knicks' first All-Star since Allan Conference foes — without DALLAS -- Would-be starters "But once we laid it out, they Houston and Latrell Sprewell in Kobe Bryant. What does this say Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson were really excited about it," 2001. Stern chose Lee over about the importance of the do paint different pictures of are out of the NBA All-Star Cuban told reporters in Dallas. Milwaukee center Andrew defending champ’s leading Bryant’s usefulness to L.A. Game. Although he is still scheduled to Bogut, who is averaging 16.0 scorer to their prospects? Getty It’s notable that Winston rates Lee travel to Dallas and take part in points and 10.2 rebounds and has Images The Lakers have made Durant so highly, because after Kidd All-Star Weekend festivities as a helped lead the Bucks to within a do without Kobe Bryant shots last season Winston’s system Jason Kidd of the hometown spectator, Bryant is the third game of a playoff spot in the like this one in recent games. showed the Thunder were better Dallas Mavericks has been West guard to pull out of East. Different data sources give without Durant than with him. chosen to replace Bryant. New Sunday's game through injury. West coach George Karl and different answers. That brought Winston a lot of York's David Lee is replacing Stern chose Denver's Chauncey East coach Stan Van Gundy will Basketballvalue.com puts Bryant criticism for his methods, though Iverson. Billups to replace New Orleans' choose the players who will just outside the top 10 in the Basketballvalue agreed. This An ankle injury has prevented Chris Paul(knee) and Los replace Bryant and Iverson in the NBA in adjusted plus/minus, a year, both sites are very high on Bryant from playing in the center Chris respective starting lineups. measure of how much better the the 21-year-old forward, Angeles Lakers' past three Kaman to take the spot of It's expected that Mavericks Lakers are with him on the court including for his defense, which games. Iverson has missed Portland's Brandon forward Dirk Nowitzki, who just than without him. His rating is last year was a liability. Philadelphia's last five games Roy(hamstring). missed out on a starting spot in +12.81, which is a far cry from At Basketball Reference, Neil because one of his young Golden State's Monta Ellis, sixth fan voting when San Antonio's LeBron James’s league-leading Paine takes the longer view in children is ill. in the league in scoring at 26.2 Tim Duncan passed him in the mark of +21.77, but is still a assessing Bryant’s impact on his Both informed the league on points per game, might have final ballot tally, will replace superstar level. teammates. Paine gathers the Thursday that they needed to been a contender to replace Bryant as a starter with the West. However, Wayne Winston’s— stats of players who appeared withdraw from Sunday's game, Bryant but suffered a knee strain ESPNDallas.com's Tim which, unlike Basketballvalue’s, alongside Bryant while being sources said. in Tuesday's home loss to Dallas MacMahon contributed to this attempt to account for those coached by Phil Jackson, and NBA commissioner David that forced him to miss report. players at the end of NBA compares their stats with and Stern, who makes all selections Wednesday's win over the Five Filters featured article: benches who play the fewest without the Bryant-Jackson on All-Star injury replacements, Clippers. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: minutes — put Bryant at +8 combo. Paine finds that these then chose Kidd to make his 10th Iverson has averaged 14.4 points PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, rather than +13. His top four players were at least as good All-Star appearance. Kidd -- who in 25 games since returning to Term Extraction. players are Dwyane Wade, at without the two. Perhaps that’s ranks fifth in the league in assists the Sixers in December and +21, and James, Dirk Nowitzki because Bryant is so good (9.3 per game) -- had already left earned more than 1 million votes and Kevin Durant at +20. All offensively, and so prone to use Dallas to begin an All-Star break in fan balloting to earn an East four of those players rank in the his teams’ possessions with his top six at Basketballvalue, own shots. demonstrating that the methods aren’t vastly different. But they E-reader News Edition Sports/ 67 Snowed-Out Mountain a Gift for Source: Bengals work out Vonn former Titan, Cowboy (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) injury is called a boot bang Adam "Pacman" Jones Submitted at 2/11/2010 6:26:30 PM because its caused by the edge of the boot digging into the muscles by Adam Schefter incident was a violation of the American skier Lindsey Vonn, surrounding the shin. Most skiers (ESPN.com) league's personal conduct policy. whose debilitating shin injury experience it at least once in Submitted at 2/12/2010 6:26:52 AM Jones began his time in Dallas has put her gold medal hopes in their careers. Vonns case, under close league scrutiny after jeopardy, received a potentially however, is extremely severe. Message from fivefilters.org: If he was suspended for the entire significant gift from Mother Vonns mother, Linda Krohn, you can, please donate to the full 2007 season for multiple Nature Thursday. Heavy snow at says her daughter knows her -text RSS service so we can violations of the conduct policy Whistler Creekside, the site of limits and would have pulled out continue developing it. while he was a member of the the downhill run, cancelled if the inury were too serious to Former Tennessee Titans and Titans. The Cowboys traded for practice, forcing all skiers to take compete. She knows when she Dallas Cowboys cornerback Jones before his suspension was the day off. AFP/Getty Images should stop and when she can Adam "Pacman" Jones worked over and he was reinstated by Lindsey Vonn arrives limping keep going, she said. But Krohn out for the Cincinnati Bengals on NFL commissioner Roger for training Thursday in says Vonns pain tolerance is Thursday, according to league Goodell on Aug. 28, 2008. Whistler. Heavy snow forced all extremely high. sources. The Bengals also have skiers off the slopes. One thing Krohn thinks will The workout is thought to be expressed interest in former Had the days event taken place, help her daughter cope with the Jones' first with an NFL team Jaguars receiver Matt Jones, who Vonn would have had two 31 World Cup wins. She has injury is her husbands experience since the Cowboys released him was suspended for the final three options: Take the training run, won the last two overall World with the same type of injury. in February 2009. games of the 2008 season for potentially aggravating her deep Cup championships, and ranks Thomas Vonn, a former Olympic Bengals coach Marvin Lewis violating the league's substance tissue muscle bruise on her shin, among the favorites in all five racer, is with his wife in has been a champion in abuse policy. He was cut by the or take the day off, allowing her womens alpine skiing disciplines Whistler. Im sure his mind is providing second chances to Jaguars in March 2009. competition gain a competitive in the 2010 Games. figuring out how to make it less players. According to The Tennessean of edge by skiing the course and She injured her right shin in a painful, Ms. Krohn said. Im just Jones has avoided trouble since Nashville, the Titans have made acclimating to its topography. If training run in Austria Feb. 2, thinking he has a plan. his last brush with the law in Matt Jones a contract offer and you want to be fast, you have to and has been off her skis since Krohn said she has not spoken October 2008. He was involved were awaiting word back. memorize the course and know then to let the injury heal before to her daughter since the injury in an alcohol-related incident Adam Schefter is ESPN's NFL where everything is. In order to the Olympics. Vonn told occurred. I will not go near her with a bodyguard assigned to Insider. do that you need time on the reporters Thursday at Whistler during the Olympics, says Ms. him by the Cowboys, and hotel Five Filters featured article: snow, said US ski team she was relieved to have an extra Krohn. Shes so focused, I would employees called police. No Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: spokesman Doug Haley. day to rest her shin. not interfere with that. arrests were made nor charges PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Vonn is the most prolific female In the skiing world, Vonns filed. But the NFL suspended Term Extraction. skier in American history, with Jones for four games because the 68 Sports/ E-reader News Edition Paul 'Tank' Younger Helped Put Shaq Makes It Personal Grambling on Map in Cavaliers' Win Over by Dave Goldberg (FanHouse first African-American Main) quarterback to win a Super Magic Bowl. It's long-time coach, Eddie Submitted at 2/12/2010 1:00:00 AM by Pat McManamon Robinson, is revered in football (FanHouse Main) Black History Month has been circles. celebrated in some form since But until Paul "Tank'' Younger Submitted at 2/11/2010 6:19:00 PM 1924. For sports fans, it is a came along, it was barely a blip Filed under: Cavaliers, Magic chance to reacquaint themselves on anyone's consciousness CLEVELAND -- Thursday with those who broke down outside northern Louisiana. could have been a night for the barriers in all areas of Younger, who was primarily a Cleveland Cavaliers to celebrate competition and all segments of fullback in 10 NFL seasons, was their franchise-tying 13th win in society. Many are now a trailblazer, the first player from a row. Or to marvel at another household names and American a historically black college to MVP performance from LeBron icons: Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, recognizable as pioneers. During play in the NFL, starting in 1949, James, who turned a 96-96 tie Jackie Robinson, Wilma Black History Month 2010, when pro sports were 98 percent into a final-minutes runaway by Rudolph, Muhammad Ali, up to FanHouse aims to give them white. He also was one of the scoring or assisting on 16 Cavs Tiger Woods, Tony Dungy and their due. first blacks to work in an NFL season's playoff series? That's a points in a row. Or to point to the Venus and Serena Williams Tank Younger front office -- as assistant general cool breeze compared to the Cavs' four wins in four games today. In the world of black colleges, manager of the San Diego simmering feelings coming from this season over the Lakers and Every day throughout February, Grambling is Notre Dame, Chargers from 1975-87 and later Shaquille O'Neal regarding Magic, the two teams that FanHouse will shed light on the Southern Cal, Penn State and as a scout and administrator for Orlando's Dwight Howard. reached the NBA Finals a year other figures in the history of Alabama rolled into one. It has the Rams, with whom he spent Because as the media straggled ago. sports whose breakthroughs were turned out dozens of NFL most of his playing career. into the Cavs locker room, as significant as those mentioned players, including four Hall of But more personal matters took O'Neal stood at his locker, ready above, but who aren't as instantly Famers and Doug Williams, the precedence after the Cavs won and waiting. 115-106, personal matters that Clearly he had something he will carry through when the two wanted to say. best teams in the East meet in the "You tell me," he said, "who the NBA playoffs in the spring. real Superman is." Think the handshake issue meant something after last E-reader News Edition Sports/ Game/ 69 No NFL Salary Cap? No Problem Dana White Says by Terence Moore (FanHouse Main) Anderson Silva Will Still

Submitted at 2/11/2010 3:00:00 PM In a couple of weeks, when NFL Fight at UFC 112 players and owners fail to extend by Mike Chiappetta their collective bargaining (FanHouse Main) agreement, the salary cap will Submitted at 2/11/2010 5:08:00 PM vanish for the upcoming season. Not only that, players union Filed under: UFC, FanHouse chief DeMaurice Smith says that Exclusive, News if the salary cap goes, his clients Though an injury will keep never will agree to bring it back, Vitor Belfort from competing which isn't good news. during the UFC's maiden voyage It's great news. to Abu Dhabi, middleweight At worst, it is indifferent news, this century. knowledgeable football people in champion Anderson Silva is still but only if you realize the myth The Saints and the Buccaneers management. expected to fight at UFC 112, that The All Mighty Salary Cap were just better than everybody Then it was those UFC President Dana White told reigns as the league's messiah. else. That is, better, as in their knowledgeable football people MMA Fighting early Friday Sorry to reveal the truth to the combination of players, finding the perfect head coach morning. chemistry and strategy. And for the situation. Then it was the Belfort injured his shoulder in naive, but there is no Easter Sonnen soundly defeated Nate what was behind that whole collection of those folks training and will require surgery. Bunny, somebody really was Marquardt and was promised a combination? Well, it wasn't the adding and deleting players and White gave no indication as to shooting from the grassy knoll, title shot after Belfort and Silva salary cap. It was those assistant coaches along the way who Silva might face, but said and the salary cap hadn't much to squared off. Now, with Belfort ownerships hiring the right to fit their vision. the fight will be in the do, for instance, with the out, Sonnen seems the most executives to run their The salary cap? Please. middleweight division, normally hapless teams from likely possibility, but no sure franchises. After that, it was indicating that "the Spider" will New Orleans and Tampa Bay thing. capturing Super Bowls during those executives acquiring indeed defend his belt. At last Saturday's UFC 109, Chael Uncharted 2 outselling first game, 'closing in' on 3 million sold by Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) base of the PS3 has something to Uncharted 2 outselling first

Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:59:00 AM do with franchise's growing game, 'closing in' on 3 million success; and perhaps the addition sold originally appeared on It may not have charted in the of multiplayer makes Uncharted Joystiq on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 January NPDs, but Uncharted 2 2 a more attractive purchase than 10:59:00 EST. Please see our has stealthily beaten sales of the the first game; or maybe it's terms for use of feeds. first game in the series, simply because it's pretty darn Read| Permalink| Email this| according to PlayStation's Jack good. Tretton. Considering those directive for developer Naughty Comments Tretton. We can think of a Uncharted 2 sales are "now figures, it's clear that Sony Dog: " Make another one, number of reasons why: closing in on three million copies management should have one please!" Certainly, the growing install sold worldwide," according to 70 Game/ Fashion/ E-reader News Edition

Nyla Noor: Luxury Fashion Meets Cage initially wanted PlayStation Conscious Living by ELLE.com (ELLE News collections “must have” styles, Motion Controller for Heavy Rain Blog) can we worn as a messenger bag by day and a chic clutch by by Justin McElroy (Joystiq) find this quote from Cage Cage went on to add, "I have a Submitted at 2/11/2010 2:36:22 PM regarding his upcoming Heavy lot of interest in Sony's motion night. Nyla Noor is a brand that Submitted at 2/12/2010 9:07:00 AM It was just last year that sisters Rain. device and there is a good merges luxury fashion and Romaana and Saifra Zia left their Just to prove we're willing to go "If you are talking about Motion chance that we announce conscious living. Their collection banking jobs to start their the extra mile for you here at Control, this is something we something about it in the coming is produced in Manhattan, and lifelong dream of designing the Joystiq, we taught ourselves initially considered for Heavy weeks." We don't know what despite the measures they take to perfect eco-luxe handbags. Now, Norwegian just to bring you the Rain. The very first version of he'll announce, but we certainly go green, quality and aesthetic with the launch of The Nyla latest from David Cage's the game design was based on hope that it'll be in Norwegian. are never sacrificed. Noor Launch Collection, they’ve interview with Norwegian motion control, but it was not Cage initially wanted Prices range from $415-$855 created four beautiful, multi- publication Dagbladet. Sadly, feasible at the time," he said. PlayStation Motion Controller and they can be purchased at functional styles made from the Mr. Cage's answers were not in Dagbladet later helped us for Heavy Rain originally www.nylanoor.com very best leather and luxurious Norwegian, meaning we wasted confirm via one of Cage's reps appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 12 — Kyle Anderson, Senior hardware. And, better yet, each $8,000 and what our instructor that he had hoped to design the Feb 2010 09:07:00 EST. Please Accessories Editor can be worn in a variety of ways Jokkum Frantzberg called "a game for the PlayStation Motion see our terms for use of feeds. Follow ELLE on Twitter and is the perfect accessory for very good ear for Norwegian." Controller originally, but felt the Read| Permalink| Email this| Become our Facebook fan the fashionista “on the go.” The The entire project was not in tech simply wasn't far enough Comments Mercat Convertible, one of the vain, though, as we managed to along. E-reader News Edition Game/ Fashion/ 71 Erin Wasson’s Fall 2010 Show: “Magic” Carpets and an Appearance by Ke$ha by ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog)

Submitted at 2/11/2010 8:53:30 PM Erin Wasson knows how to pack a room—be it the tents at Bryant Park or the 6th floor of a home goods store. For her fall 2010 RVCA show tonight, the model/designer/stylist filled New York’s chicest house-wares emporium, ABC Carpet & Home, with editors, friends (and a scantily clad pop-star) all seated on stacked “magic” carpets (much more comfy than tough-chic leather jacket. the folding chairs set up at the Click here to shop Erin's current EEDAR: No More Heroes 2 sold less tents). Causing even the coolest collection for RVCA. of cool kids to lose their —Violet Moon Gayn or composure was singer Ke$ha, Photo: Patrick McMullan than 30k in January who arrived with ELLE’s own Follow ELLE on Twitter. by JC Fletcher (Joystiq) was on sale for less than a week marketing budgets, which is Joe Zee. In proper pop-star style, Become our Facebook fan! Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:01:00 AM in January. (There's certainly likely the wrong strategy to use she came wearing no pants and a room for a few more people to when attempting to target the It's sad to admit it, but we never go out and pick it up, though.) Wii consumer, even if you are expect any third-party "core" Wii " No More Heroes 2: Desperate targeting the 'core' market." game to sell well -- regardless of Struggle has scored top reviews When is that ever the right its quality or the hype behind it. averaging a 90 (out of 100) since strategy? Lowered expectations mean that its release," EEDAR analyst EEDAR: No More Heroes 2 when such a title doesn't Jesse Divnich said in the sold less than 30k in January absolutely tank, it's great news! EEDAR report. "However, sales originally appeared on Joystiq on And the sales of No More came less than 30,000 units for Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:01:00 EST. Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, as its first week (January 26, 2010 Please see our terms for use of reported by EEDAR in its NPD release)." Divinich compared the feeds. review analysis, fall somewhere lowish sales to Dead Space Permalink| Email this| in that "didn't absolutely tank" Extraction and MadWorld, both Comments area, especially since the game of which also had "low 72 Fashion/ E-reader News Edition Olympic Hopeful Jennifer Rodriguez on How to Get Your Body Movin' by ELLE.com (ELLE News us will never, and should never, Blog) exert ourselves to the point of

Submitted at 2/11/2010 2:16:11 PM blacking out, we can all relate to the exhaustion and aches that set Don't get me wrong— I love a in after a tough workout—not super-soaker of a workout—but exactly something that's going to finding the motivation to give up make you want to do it again in an extra hour of sleep or leave a the coming days. Rodriguez long day at work to hit the gym treats soreness by taking cold is nearly impossible (almost as baths and eating something rich impossible as getting me to go in protein and carbs “as quickly near a jar of mayonnaise). as possible after training.” Recently, I had the opportunity 5. Another reason to book a to chat with Nike athlete and massage: Team USA Olympic hopeful As if I need another reason to go Jennifer Rodriguez, a speed to a spa, massages are the perfect skater from Miami, and way to reward yourself and your thankfully took away some muscles. Rodriguez says she gets words of get-off-your-butt massages once a week when wisdom. I need it: which consists mostly of circuit pounds of muscle mass—to routine, however, is simple she's training. Now, that is 1. Workouts are always better work. return to the sport in 2008. enough for anyone to replicate something that will definitely with a plus one. 2. It's never too late to make a 3. Buns of steal are real. for a rock-hard behind: lunges, motivate make me get off my Whether in a class or on a run, comeback. Rodriguez's time on the ice has one-legged squats, hip lifts with butt. exercising with my friends is The longer I go without a earned her more than just a elastic bands, and "anything —Maura Lynch, Associate always more enjoyable. It's the workout, the harder it is get back bronze medal from the 2002 where your legs burn." Beauty & Fitness Editor same at the professional level: in the gym. Rodriguez (the first games. She has glutes most 4. No need to ache. Follow ELLE on Twitter "Once I get going, my teammates Cuban-American to medal in a women would trade their "On the long track, my body uses Become our Facebook fan are there to lift me up if I need it, winter sport), full-out retired Louboutins for: "I get asked up so much oxygen that I black to keep going," says Rodriguez, from speed skating in 2006, but about that area a lot," she laughs. out sometimes towards the end who commits six to eight hours a decided to put in the hard "Skating stems from the hip, so it of a race, and my legs just burn," day to training in the summer, work—including regaining ten gets worked a lot." Her toning says Rodriguez. While most of E-reader News Edition Economy/ 73 Tech.view: World Wide Wait (The Economist: Daily efficient caching elsewhere on Sure, he could get 650 kilobytes The latency cannot be less than infrastructure used to carry it. columns) the web, used fewer graphics and a second or more from a cable the distance the electromagnetic Websites that were once just 50

Submitted at 2/11/2010 11:41:46 PM embraced the PNG and JPEG connection. But that would mean signal has to travel divided by kilobytes of text and tiny pictures picture formats, with their ditching his otherwise excellent the speed of light. For instance, now come with music, video and Message from fivefilters.org: If smaller file sizes, as soon as they satellite-TV service. Besides, your correspondent’s home in animated graphics. YouTube, you can, please donate to the full became available. Compared optical fibre is slowly working Los Angeles is 400 miles from a Hulu, iTunes and BitTorrent -text RSS service so we can with text, pictures really were the its way up his hillside. He could colleague’s in San Francisco. In have much to answer for. continue developing it. equivalent of 1,000 words, at soon have access to the internet theory, then, the shortest round- It is even worse on the mobile Tech.view The faster the least when it came to the time at more than six megabytes a trip between the two locations is phone companies’ proprietary internet becomes, the slower it taken to transmit them. second—providing he is 4.3 milliseconds. But if you networks. Carriers are struggling loads pages When your correspondent hand- prepared to pay $140 a month “ping” the other computer, you’ll to keep up with demand as Feb 12th 2010 | From The coded The Economist’s first instead of $21 for his existing get a round-trip time of typically subscribers use their smart- Economist online website back in 1994, a typical DSL connection. 700 milliseconds. That is still phones to check Facebook, EVER noticed how long it takes web page was about 50 kilobytes A 70-fold increase in speed for a pretty quick, but it shows just stream videos from YouTube for web pages to load these in size and dial-up modems sevenfold increase in price how much time is spent waiting and play interactive games. days? You click on a link and could transfer no more than three would seem a bargain. But your around for the various servers Where a mid-range smart-phone wait and wait, and then wait kilobytes a second. To stay under correspondent is not sure that involved to handle the request. would consume about 100 some more, for the content to the “eight-second rule”, pictures more raw speed will solve the There are many places along the megabytes of data a month, more trickle in. If nothing has were kept to a minimum, so no glacial loading problem. Even way where the message can get advanced models like the Apple happened after ten seconds or so, page took more than three or with his wimpy DSL connection, bogged down. Queues can build iPhone or Motorola Droid, with your impatient correspondent four seconds to begin loading pages are rendered quickly up at routing servers that switch fully fledged browsers and hits the browser’s stop button and never longer than 20 seconds enough once the website’s data packages along different access to thousands of followed by the reload key. In to complete. The irony is that, servers (and all the other routes to their destinations downloadable applications, tend desperation, he sometimes loads with broadband nowadays more computers along the route, plus depending on the traffic. Worst to consume over 500 megabytes the link into a second or even a or less everywhere, overall those used to host adverts, of all, the DNS (Domain Name a month. With the imminent third browser tab as well, and connection speeds have gone up graphics and miscellaneous Server) computers used by your arrival of tablet computers like bombards the website’s server by leaps and bounds, yet the time layout bits) start giving his ISP can be overwhelmed as they the iPad, which come with with multiple requests for the taken to load web pages seems browser’s request some try to translate the names of all wireless modems, the appetite page. If that fails, he gives up in only to have got longer. attention. The trouble is getting the websites subscribers want to for downloadable data could hit a disgust and reads a newspaper Your correspondent is their attention in the first place. visit (say, www.economist.com) gigabyte a month (see the lead instead. admittedly near the end of the Before two computers can into their actual internet story in this week’s Business Back in the early days of the road for a digital subscriber line exchange information, they have addresses (216.35.68.215). If section). internet, when most web users (DSL) connection. But even at to agree to talk to one another. you know it, try using the And this is just the beginning. relied on dial-up connections, three miles (5km) from the local Under normal conditions, this website’s numerical address On the internet, the average browsers were crude and web telephone exchange, the speed of requires the user’s computer to rather than its verbose URL latency for corporate websites in graphics were clumsy GIF files, his broadband connection has send a request to the host (Universal Resource Locator) America is currently around eight seconds was considered the inched up over the past few years computer, which then sends a name. That can sometimes halve 350ms, according to the Network maximum people would stick from 65 kilobytes a second to response back to the user. Only the response time. Weather Report operated by the around for a page to load. To more than 90 kilobytes a after this “handshaking” is The bottlenecks—whether at the University of California, Los increase “stickiness”, web second—as the local line has complete can the exchange of DNS translators, the routing Angeles. Google’s latency is designers pared their HTML been tweaked and legacy data commence. The time taken computers or the host’s own 150ms, Facebook’s 285ms and code to the bone, collated their equipment like echo-cancelling for this round-trip of request and servers—stem largely from the style-sheet data and JavaScripts coils removed from its junction acknowledgment determines the way the mix of internet traffic TECH.VIEW: page 74 into single files for more boxes. network’s latency. has changed faster than the 74 Economy/ E-reader News Edition TECH.VIEW: This week's top stories [12 February 2010] continued from page 73 YouTube’s 515ms. Such (The Economist: News says that exploration and capital for reserves such as tar sands that develop the Gorgon field off analysis) latencies will have to come down spending hit $27.1 billion in are trickier, and so much pricier, Australia, another potentially considerably if the next 2009, 4% higher than in 2008. to refine. huge source of gas. Submitted at 2/12/2010 6:00:28 AM generation of internet The company expects to spend Another route is to speed up the Nonetheless investors remain applications, such as Message from fivefilters.org: If $25 billion to $30 billion quest for other energy reserves. cautious because prices are telepresence, high-definition you can, please donate to the full annually to the same end over France’s Total has branched out volatile. Exxon’s shares fell in video streaming and remote -text RSS service so we can the next five years. BP intends to into nuclear-power generation. December when the firm bid $30 surgery, are to fulfil their continue developing it. spend some $20 billion this year This week Shell announced a billion for XTO Energy, which promise. The oil industry Big Oil is being on investment in new projects $12 billion joint-venture with gets its gas from The future is beckoning. Netflix forced to rethink its future and drilling, roughly the same Cosan, a Brazilian producer of “unconventional” shale beds. has just announced an on- Feb 4th 2010 | From The level as last year. ethanol from sugar cane. This is Gas prices have tumbled in the demand video-streaming service Economist online But there are limits to what something of a change of tack. past couple of years as new offering full high-definition ON THE face of it the world’s money can buy. State-controlled Exxon and Shell are both projects, especially shale, came picture quality (so-called 1080p, big and publicly quoted oil rivals—in the Middle East, spending money on “second on stream just as the global which has 1,080 lines in its companies should be celebrating Russia and beyond—jealously generation” biofuels made from recession lessened demand. And picture) with 5.1-channel some pleasing results this week. guard oil reserves on their home algae or waste materials, but technological improvements surround sound. Each stream Royal Dutch Shell unveiled its patches. Few new big fields of these could take years to have made the huge reserves of being watched will require a results on Thursday February oil, at least those that are easy to develop. Now Shell can sell gas in America, from shale beds megabyte a second of bandwidth 4th, reporting that it had made reach and cheap to exploit, have Cosan’s “first generation” wares and the like, a commercial and a latency of less than 60ms if $9.8 billion in 2009. Two days been discovered in recent years. through it global distribution prospect. BP believes that these it is to deliver crisp, pin-sharp earlier BP boasted profits of $14 And where new opportunities network. factors will keep gas prices weak video and pristine sound. billion for the same year. Yet emerge, such as in Iraq, Western By far the biggest bet laid, for three or four years, but it For the internet service these billions are a oil giants are scrambling to pay however, has been on natural could be longer. Though national providers, that means stepping disappointment compared with big sums at auctions for drilling gas. Around 40% of Shell’s daily oil companies have forced the up investment substantially. But the bonanza of previous years rights in territory where the local production is now in the form of Western oil giants to look farther adding a lot more routers to the (Shell, for example, raked in government tightly limits their gas. Total and BP are not far afield for new reserves, the oil internet would complicate $31.4 billion in 2008 alone) returns. Even then, competition behind. Gas is increasingly prices, unlike gas prices, are matters hugely and do little to when soaring oil prices pulled from Chinese, Russian and other important for power generation supported by the state-owned solve the latency problem. If profits ever higher. state-run oil firms can be severe. and heating and the global firms that make up OPEC. anything, it would actually In the long term, however, the National oil companies will often market is expected to grow by Readers' comments increase the number of potential firms’ success depends on pay prices that would alarm half by 2030. Big oil companies The Economist welcomes your bottlenecks. sustaining reserves. The big shareholders in the big listed oil are keen to expand, calculating views. A better solution might be to western oil companies are trying companies. that their skills at managing huge Five Filters featured article: light up more of the “dark fibre” to expand through acquisitions Thus Western firms are capital projects will be useful Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: installed during the heady days and investment, but the increasingly looking for different when building gas-liquefaction PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, of the dotcom boom, but left opportunities do so are becoming sorts of growth. One option is to plants that make the stuff readily Term Extraction. lying unused beneath the streets scarcer. The firms are spending deploy their expertise in the hunt transportable. Late last year since the bubble burst nearly a where they can. Exxon Mobil, for oil that is harder to reach, for Chevron, Shell and Exxon decade ago. That is what a the biggest listed oil company, example deep offshore, or to go agreed to spend $37 billion to number of securities firms have been quietly doing. When shaving a millisecond off the TECH.VIEW: page 75 E-reader News Edition Picture/ E-reader News/ 75 TECH.VIEW: continued from page 74 The popularity of e-readers is on the time needed to execute 50,000-500,000 people. With automated trades can increase luck, other internet service revenue by $100m, there is providers everywhere will get rise (The Minnesota Daily) plenty of incentive to build the message. Readers' comments (Yahoo! News Search Results same month brought another first that allows the user to choose private optical networks with The Economist welcomes your for e-readers) for Amazon when books for the from a library of previously latencies approaching zero. views. Submitted at 2/11/2010 4:49:23 PM Kindle outsold Amazon’s vast downloaded books. Once the Indeed, Google said this week Five Filters featured article: physical book collection, book is chosen, the user can read that it was not going to hang Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Message from fivefilters.org: If according to Amazon.com the book on the device’s six-inch around waiting for the telecoms PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, you can, please donate to the full The Kindle, along with Sony’s display. industry to build the new optical Term Extraction. -text RSS service so we can Reader , Barnes & Noble’s Nook Currently, the Kindle sells six of web. The company is planning a continue developing it. and a number of others, are its books for every 10 physical low-latency fibre network that Last December Amazon.com’s called e-readers, and they are book sales, Amazon will be capable of delivering Kindle became the most-gifted changing the way many people speeds of over 100 megabytes a item in the company’s 15-year read their favorite books. POPULARITY page 77 second for communities of existence. Christmas Day of the An e-reader is a handheld device The Winter Games! The Snow! The City! The Rings! The dogs! by Tara Kirchner (Flickr Blog) IOC is pleased to encourage attendance, to answer any

Submitted at 2/11/2010 2:27:03 PM people to share the photos they questions you might have, and to take during the Olympics. take part in chronicling the Message from fivefilters.org: If Although as an attendee of an Olympics through the you can, please donate to the full event you do not have community’s perspective. -text RSS service so we can commercial rights (ie, you can’t Photos by BigBean, Robert continue developing it. sell your photos) you are Scales, and kk+ in the Olympics The IOC, the official governing encouraged to take photos and Flickr group. body of the Olympics, has set up share them online. Five Filters featured article: their official Olympic photo While we’re at it, we’d like to Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: group for people to share their invite Flickr members who are in PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, photos of the Vancouver 2010 the Vancouver area to join us for Term Extraction. Winter Games, and of the a meetup on Monday, February on Flickr, and provide a warm surrounding city of Vancouver. 22, at the Yahoo! Sports Studio place for you all to regroup and Photos? Olympics? Yours? Yes! in Yaletown. We’ll display upload your photos. Our friends In case there was any doubt, the photos from the Olympics group from the IOC will also be in 76 E-reader News/ E-reader News Edition Do E-Readers Cause Eye Strain? (New York Switched On: Times) I, hotspot (Yahoo! News Search Results “The current problem with Lab, says different screens make whether we are looking at pixels (Engadget) for e-readers) reading on screens is that we sense for different purposes. or paper. “While you’re reading, (Yahoo! News Search Results need to adjust our bodies to our “It depends on the viewing your eyes make about 10,000 Submitted at 2/12/2010 3:37:33 AM for e-readers) computer screens, rather than the circumstances, including the movements an hour. It’s Message from fivefilters.org: If screens adjusting to us,” Dr. software and typography on the important to take a step back Submitted at 2/11/2010 2:54:00 PM you can, please donate to the full Meredith said. screen,” said Mr. Bove. “Right every 20 minutes and let your Message from fivefilters.org: If -text RSS service so we can Still, as regular readers of Bits now E Ink is great in sunlight, eyes rest,” he said. you can, please donate to the full continue developing it. comments know, there is a lively but in certain situations, a piece Today’s screens are definitely -text RSS service so we can The admonition offered by debate among fans of e-readers of paper can be a better display less tiring to look at than older continue developing it. Each legions of mothers — “Don’t sit and paper books about which than E Ink, and in dim light, an displays, which refreshed the week Ross Rubin contributes so close to the TV” — isn’t type of reading experience is LCD display can be better than image much less frequently, Switched On, a column about really an option when it comes to most friendly to the eyes. all of these technologies.” causing a flicker. Carl Taussig, consumer technology. e-reading devices. You have to It turns out the answer isn’t as E Ink has a very low contrast director of Hewlett-Packard’s One of the conundrums facing get close to the screen to use it. black-and-white as we might ratio. Although it can offer an Information Surfaces Lab, said device makers today is how to The act of reading is going assume. excellent reading experience in the 120 Hz refresh rate typical of add wireless connectivity to their through a number of radical Doctors and researchers note bright sunlight, the screens can modern screens is much quicker products. E-readers such as the transitions, but perhaps none is that in most instances, paper can become uncomfortable to use in than our eyes can even see. Amazon Kindle and Barnes & more fundamental than the shift offer more visual sophistication dark settings because of the lack “The new LCDs don’t affect Noble Nook use internet access from reading on paper to reading than a screen. But certain types of contrast and backlighting on your eyes,” Mr. Taussig said. primarily for selling you more on screens. As consumers decide of paper, including inexpensive the screen. “Today’s screens update every content, so it can be completely whether to make this jump and newsprint and the paper in LCD screens, meanwhile, have eight milliseconds, whereas the subsidized. Laptops, on the other which technology to use, one key softcover books, can actually long struggled to offer good human eye is moving at a speed hand, can consume large question is how reading on a provide an inferior reading viewing angles for reading. between 10 and 30 amounts of data, and so plans screen affects the eyes. experience for our eyes than the Apple’s latest IPS LCD screens milliseconds.” can run $60 per month and have First of all: doctors say that electronic alternatives. include extremely wide viewing Mr. Taussig said consumers will capped bandwidth, even at that reading on a screen won’t cause With e-readers, there are angles, but the reflective glass on pick the type of screen that price. Apple and AT&T's iPad any harm. currently numerous display the screen could be a hindrance makes sense on an individual pricing scheme attempts a “Most of what our mothers told technologies available, from the in brightly lit situations. basis. “I don’t think there is a compromise: a $15 prepaid for a us about our eyes was wrong,” black-and-white E Ink Professor Alan Hedge, director single technology that will be minimal 250 MB per month that said Dr. Travis Meredith, chair technology found in of the Human Factors and optimum for all the things we could serve the needs of many of the ophthalmology department Amazon.com’s Kindle and the Ergonomics Laboratory at want to do with our devices. For users (especially with a Flash- at the University of North Barnes & Noble Nook, to the Cornell University, said that example, H.P. sells 65 million less browser and sideloaded Carolina, Chapel Hill. “Sitting coming full-color IPS LCD reducing eye fatigue is less a displays a year, and they are all video delivery), along with the close to a television, or computer display that will come built into matter of choosing a specific used in a different way.” option of a $30 unlimited plan. screen, isn’t bad for our eyes. It’s Apple’s iPad. And then there’s display than of taking short Five Filters featured article: For many users, though, there is a variety of other factors that can old-fashioned paper. Does one breaks from looking at the Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: another option: bring your own cause physical fatigue.” offer a better reading experience screen. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, broadband. Last year, Novatel For example, the ergonomics of than the others? When we read, Dr. Hedge Term Extraction. Wireless's MiFi, launched in the reading screens and the lack of Michael Bove, director of the explained, a series of ocular blinking when we stare at them Consumer Electronics muscles jump around and can SWITCHED page 77 play a big role in eye fatigue. Laboratory at the M.I.T. Media cause strain, regardless of E-reader News Edition 77 POPULARITY SWITCHED continued from page 75 continued from page 76 said. “We are surprised that the for the current popularity of e- is the lack of color on the e- to step up,” Ganapati said. U.S. by Sprint and Verizon number is so high this early on readers. “I can get the latest Dan readers, which makes reading Apple has signed deals with Wireless, opened up the given that we’ve been selling Brown book for 10 dollars. I texts like cookbooks and publishers to bring textbooks to possibility for virtually any WiFi physical books for 15 years.” don’t have to go to a store and textbooks extremely difficult, the iPad, Ganapati said. “It will device to access the internet over Accounting for much of the e- probably pay more,” she said. Ganapati said. probably mean a way to replace 3G connections. Laptops without reader’s success is the Before you can download the e- “It’s great for nonfiction. It’s the notebook and textbook that 3G cards could access the web convenience that the device can books to your reader, you have great for fiction. But if you want most students carry to the from a car and the iPod touch offer, staff writer for Wired to buy the device at a price that to go outside of popular reading, classroom.” became a functional iPhone -- Magazine Priya Ganapati said. is a point of concern for some. it’s not going to work for you,” The classroom is where e- and in some parts of AT&T's “How many books can you pack With most readers starting she said. readers could have a growing alleged network coverage, more in your backpack — three or around $250, the e-reader may Apple has recently announced presence in the future, according functional than an iPhone. four? With an e-reader you can be more catered to people who the future release of the iPad . to Evans. Recently Sprint followed up the have hundreds of books in one read more extensively, Evans The tablet-based device breaks “I think it’s going to start in introduction of it MiFi with the device that you can fit in your said. the limitations of current e- schools where kids don’t have to Overdrive from Sierra Wireless. jacket pocket,” she said. “You have to buy a lot of books readers, according to Ganapati. take backpacks loaded with The Overdrive is significantly The library of books to choose to justify the initial purchase The iPad is a device that has the books,” he said. chunkier than the MiFi, but from on a user’s e-reader is made price,” he said. e-book reading function, but it Despite the e-readers’ growing brings several advantages. First up of books that were bought University of Minnesota also adds the ability to check e- presence in the world of among these is access to 4G from the specific e-reader’s e- Bookstore Associate Justin mail, watch video, listen to literature, Ganapati said she WiMAX networks in the book store, which can be Adams said the price is high for music and a number of other believes there will always be a expanding canvas of cities where accessed through the device’s e-readers when other similarly- features. place for printed books. it is available. Others include an free wireless connection. priced devices perform a number However, these added features “People still buy CD’s. People advanced web-based device The ability to buy a new book of functions, as well as read e- do come at a price. still buy vinyl records. There is management site that lets you from just about anywhere is an books. Evans said that the iPad model always going to be a place for tweak all kinds of parameters, attractive feature to many users, “The Netbooks we sell are only would start at $499. “While it physical books.” the ability to act as a GPS editor for ZDNet.com and $50 more expensive than our e- will do a lot more than an e- Five Filters featured article: receiver, a microSD slot for Mobile Gadgeteer Joel Evan reader, and you can do a lot more reader, the price is higher to start Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: sharing content with a said. “It’s pretty convenient to on a Netbook,” he said. with,” he said. 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Ganapati are readable on the device. changed the game to where it is battery is running low. said this price adds to the reasons The reason for these limitations forcing [other e-reader retailers] And then, of course, there is the hotspot that may already be in your hands -- "tethering" with your mobile phone. U.S. carriers have had an inconsistent record in supporting this functionality, but Verizon Wireless is now SWITCHED page 78 78 PopSci/ E-reader News Edition SWITCHED continued from page 77 supporting it on the Palm Pre used to extend the storage of doesn't support the plug-in. And, Plus and Pixi Plus, and AT&T your own WiFi phone or to of course, the capability will offers it for the BlackBerry (and conveniently pass along some travel with you to whatever has promised, but not delivered, photos or a presentation to others group accompanies you. tethering for the iPhone). on the go. 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Satisfaction in 2008. that is, "all the things you can Mississippi, Delaware, and Gallup's "State of the States" buy and do" -- fell in a fairly North Dakota increased by more series reveals state-by-state narrow range, from 82.3% in than five percentage points differences on political, North Dakota at the high end to between 2008 and 2009, and in economic, and well-being 69% in Nevada at the low end. Connecticut, Maine, and New measures Gallup tracks each day. "Satisfaction in Mississippi, York it increased by more than New stories will be released Delaware, and North Dakota four points. throughout the month of increased by more than five Overall, 31 states showed an February. percentage points between 2008 increase in satisfaction of at least Survey Methods and 2009, and in Connecticut, one percentage point between Results are based on telephone Maine, and New York it 2008 and 2009, whereas 5 interviews with 353,848 national increased by more than four showed a decrease of at least one adults, aged 18 and older, points." point (the greatest decrease, conducted Jan. 2-Dec. 30, 2009, Geographically, the states that Hawaii's, was less than four as part of Gallup Daily tracking. were home to residents with the points.) 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