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Judge orders Bush administration to release five Gitmo detainees.
Think Progress (subscribe) | 17 minutes ago | Politics
A federal judge ordered today that five Algerian nationals detained at Guantanamo Bay should be released. The court found that the government had “provided insufficient evidence to continue their detentions.” The Washington Post reports: The decision came in the case of six Algerians who were detained in Bosnia after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks [...] -
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eHarmony Forced to Create a Dating Service for Gay Singles
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (subscribe) | 20 minutes ago | US
In a settlement with the New Jersey Attorney General's Office, the online dating service eHarmony, until now limited to heterosexuals, has agreed to start matching men with men and women with women. The deal resolves a complaint by a gay man who claimed that eHarmony's failure to accommodate homosexuals violated New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination. eHarmony's lawyer said it believed the complaint... -
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Suspect in FBI agent's slaying denied bail
MSNBC.com (subscribe) | 37 minutes ago | US
A judge denied bail on Thursday for a woman accused of killing an FBI agent during a drug raid that led to her husband's arrest on cocaine-dealing charges. -
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Waxman's in, Dingell's out
Crooks and Liars (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Politics
It's official: California Rep. Henry A. Waxman on Thursday officially dethroned longtime Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell, upending a seniority system that has governed Democratic politics in the House for decades. In a secret ballot vote in the Cannon Caucus Room, House Democrats ratified an earlier decision by the Steering and Policy Committee to replace the 82-year-old Dingell with his... -
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Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales Indicted in Private Prison Case in Texas
Indybay newswire (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | US
Thursday, November 20, 2008 : A Texas judge has set an arraignment date for Friday for Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They were indicted this week by a Texas grand jury on state charges accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a privately run federal jail. We speak with Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra. -
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Steinbrenner Hands Yankees Reins Over To Son Hal
Tampa Bay Online (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Sports
George Steinbrenner's 35-year reign as boss of the New York Yankees ended Thursday when he passed control of baseball's most famous team to his youngest son, Hal.
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Mandela group presses ahead with visit to Zimbabwe
Miami Herald (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | World
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and others are pressing ahead with a humanitarian mission to Zimbabwe, though the state newspaper in the troubled southern African country has signaled they are unwelcome. -
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Unemployment Claims Jump Unexpectedly To 16-Year High
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analys (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | US
Bloomberg is reporting U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rose to 542,000 Last Week . First-time claims for U.S. unemployment insurance unexpectedly rose last week to the highest level since 1992, a sign the labor market is deteriorating as the economic slump deepens. Initial jobless claims increased by 27,000 to a higher- than-forecast 542,000 in the week ended Nov. 15, from 515,000 the prior week, the Labor... -
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Astronauts venture out for spacewalk No. 2
kansascity.com (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Sciences
Astronauts have ventured back out for another spacewalk to perform more repair work on a jammed joint at the international space station. -
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Jackson Flying To London After All
PerezHilton.com (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Entertainment
Looks like Wacko's going to be taking a little trip to London after all. Michael Jackson's lawyer, Robert Englehart, is now saying that the Prince of Pop has been given the thumbs up from medical advisers and will be appearing in the High Court to testify. Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa of Bahrain is suing Michael [...] -
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“Interplanetary internet” passes first test
Hack A Day (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Technology
NASA just completed the first deep-space test of what could one day become the interplanetary internet. Images of Mars and its moon Phobos were sent back and forth between computers on Earth and NASA’s Epoxi spacecraft. Instead of TCP/IP a new protocol, named “Disruption/Delay Tolerant Networking” (DTN) was used. Information is only sent once with [...] -
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NY Times says Iran has fuel for one nuclear weapon
Jihad Watch (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | World
But Iran will have to take "additional steps." "Iran Said to Have Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon," by William J. Broad and David E. Sanger for the New York Times, November 19: Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material... - see all breaking news
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Spice up your inbox with colors and themes
Official Gmail Blog (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Posted by Annie Chen, Gmail engineer Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven't been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we're launching today, there's a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes... -
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Nokia N96 Bruce Lee Edition: the only thing tougher than Chuck Norris
Engadget (subscribe) | 10 hours ago | Technology
OMG OMG OMG... sorry, but our inner japanese school-girl was just unleashed with the arrival of the Nokia N96 Bruce Lee Edition. If Nokia had any sense, they'd expand the action-doll bundle to the world beyond Hong Kong. Even for 8,788 Chinese Yuan (about $1,286) we're seriously tempted. Watch Bruce clean up at ping pong in the Nokia video posted after the break -- no, really. [Via Unwired View ,... - 3 Vote!
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Announcing the Search-based Keyword Tool
Inside AdWords (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Keyword targeting can sometimes feel like a guessing game. Potential customers are performing hundreds of millions of searches on Google, most of which you don't even know about. With so many searches, you have to guess which ones might be relevant for each of your landing pages , and hope you find the right audience for your AdWords campaigns. That's where the Search-based Keyword Tool (beta) comes... - + Vote!
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Verizon BlackBerry Storm review
The Boy Genius Report (subscribe) | 16 hours ago | Technology
The BlackBerry Storm. It feels like ages ago since we first broke news of this bad boy, but the release is finally right around the corner. Literally, it’s tomorrow! Need we say more? Heck yeah! We’ve got a pretty substantial review on the device and we’ve even taken the time to compare the Vodafone units [...]
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Google Kills Lively
TechCrunch (subscribe) | 18 hours ago | Technology
Even Google is getting into the downsizing spirit. It just announced that it is killing Lively, its browser-baseed virtual worlds that could be embedded into other Websites. Lively launched just last July. The death notice on the site says it will shut down on December 31, so we are adding Lively to the deadpool . Lively just never took off, and was extremely far afield for Google. We should have... -
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Ocarina Surges To Top Paid iPhone App Position
TechCrunch (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Ocarina , the second iPhone application from Silicon Valley based Smule , has surged to the top spot on the iPhone App store just a little over a week after launching (you can download it here for $.99). Why? Just like Smule's first application, a social virtual lighter ( yeah, I know ), People are fascinated by interacting with others. With the lighter it was competing geographically for the brightest... -
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An Obama Story
Raw Thought (from Aaron Swartz) (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
John Comaroff is a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, where Barack Obama used to teach. Obama still lives in the neighborhood, Hyde Park. Recently, on the radio show Open Source , Comaroff told this story: We have a cleaner in our building -- 70-something-year-old African American guy; sweet, sweet guy. And every evening he comes into our office about six and takes our garbage... -
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James Bond’s Weird World of Inventions (Jan, 1966)
Modern Mechanix (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
view additional pages James Bond’s Weird World of Inventions 007 tangles with the trickiest assortment of supergadgets ever assembled for the screen in new James Bond movie, “Thunderball” By HERBERT SHULDINER Gadgetry is a smash hit in Hollywood. Dozens of new films and TV episodes are filled with zany gimmicks and pushbutton devices to entertain audiences. The thing that started [...] -
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Just A Thought
Balloon Juice (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
For those freaking out at the Kathleen Parker column, a couple quick thoughts: 1.) Justice (“Just Us”) Sunday 2.) Schiavo legislation 3.) Jesus is my philosopher. 4.) Michael J. Fox must be mocked for wanting stem cell research. 5.) The never-ending fake war on Christmas (Christmas keeps kicking ass, btw, and shows no sign of ending. Funny, that). 6.) Federal [...] -
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macroPhone - an iPhone macro lens
MAKE: Blog (subscribe) | 20 hours ago | Technology
When I need to photograph a small object with my iPhone, the fixed focus lens makes for a pretty horrible image. Inspired by this post , I took a 50mm lens from an old SLR and started using it as an improvised macro lens by holding it in front of my iPhone. I decided to make a mount for the whole contraption. I realized that the little plastic coffin from the iPhone packaging would work pretty well.... - see blog ranking see all discussions
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