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U.S. stocks at lowest level since 1997
Credit Writedowns (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Finance
Things were actually looking fairly good during midday given how horrible the credit markets (high yield, asset-backed and corporate) have become. Sure, the bank stocks sold off, but the stock market in the U.S. was holding its own after selloffs abroad. But then, all of a sudden, the bottom dropped out with the S&P 500 breaking well through 2002 lows to end at 752, its lowest level since 1997. U.S....
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Selig: Weather can't shorten postseason games
Arizona Republic (subscribe) | 22 minutes ago | Sports
NEW YORK (AP) -- There has never been a rain-shortened game in the postseason, and now there never will be. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced the sport will enact a rules change stating that postseason games cannot be shortened because of bad weather.... -
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Pirates Transform Villages Into Boomtowns
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 37 minutes ago | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women _ even hiring caterers to prepare Western-style food for their hostages. And in an impoverished country where every public institution has crumbled, they have become heroes in the steamy coastal dens they operate from because they are the only real business... -
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MN-Sen: Getting closer still
Daily Kos (subscribe) | 41 minutes ago | US
They're counting away. The latest : By the end of the day Wednesday, the mandatory statewide recount -- triggered when the Election Day results gave Coleman a lead of less than 0.5 percent -- slashed Franken's deficit from 215 votes to 174, with about 18 percent of the ballots having been reviewed. The figures represent a compilation of recount data reported to the secretary of state and gathered... -
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Justices will hear Prop 8 challenge
Fruits and Votes (subscribe) | 12 minutes ago | US
The California Supreme Court has granted a hearing on the challenges to Prop 8, which eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry. Four of the seven justices voted with the majority in the original ruling overturning the state’s previous voter-enacted ban on same-sex marriage. Of these four, one voted against yesterday’s 6-1 decision to grant [...] -
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Will Lieberman Ever Pay A Price?
MyDD (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | US
Whether it be his third-party re-election in 2006 or the recent vote to keep him on as chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Joe Lieberman keeps managing to escape any accountability for trashing Democrats, pursuing policies that have made the US less safe and just being an all-around bad Senator. So the question is, will he ever be held accountable? The ultimate goal...
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Pakistani Prime Minister Says US Strikes Will Stop Once Obama Takes Office
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | yesterday | World
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan summoned the U.S. ambassador Thursday to protest a suspected American missile strike deep inside its territory as militants threatened revenge attacks unless the cross-border raids stop. The angry response came as NATO forces in Afghanistan said Pakistan's military had responded to a request to attack insurgents on its side of the border, the latest example of what the... -
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Dell sales drop, but profits rise
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (subscribe) | 46 minutes ago | Technology
Los Angeles - Sales at Dell Inc dropped 3 per cent in the quarter, but the company said Thursday that it increased its earnings per share by cutting jobs. The Texas-based computer maker said that the global economic slowdown pushed third-quarter sale... -
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Fire kills 27 horses at Kentucky stable
USA Today (subscribe) | 56 minutes ago | US
A pre-dawn blaze raced through a barn at a former race track in western Kentucky on Thursday, killing 27 horses and wiping out ... -
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Jackson Flying To London After All
PerezHilton.com (subscribe) | yesterday | 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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Jackie Norris Named Chief of Staff for the First Lady
2008 Democratic Convention Watch (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Politics
From The Washington Post : Incoming first lady Michelle Obama has tapped Jackie Norris, President-elect Barack Obama's Iowa state director to be her chief of staff. Norris, a high school government and history teacher and long-time Iowa Democrat, was former vice president Al Gore's Iowa political director in the 2000 presidential campaign and was finance director for former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack... -
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Astronauts venture out for spacewalk No. 2
kansascity.com (subscribe) | 5 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. - see all breaking news
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Spice up your inbox with colors and themes
Official Gmail Blog (subscribe) | 11/19/2008 | 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) | yesterday | 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) | 11/19/2008 | 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... -
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The ObaHillary morph: Recycling you can believe in
Michelle Malkin (subscribe) | 11/19/2008 | Election 2008
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The Restless Mr. Kerry (cont'd)
The Plank (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
The Boston Globe is reporting that John Kerry will be named chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is what people in his circle told me last summer was his ultimate goal. I suppose this doesn't rule out his going to State or (less likely) Interior , but it's definitely looking more and more as if Kerry will be staying in the Senate. -- Jason Zengerle -
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Verizon BlackBerry Storm review
The Boy Genius Report (subscribe) | yesterday | 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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Biden's Guv Plans Midnight Swearing-in
Political Radar (subscribe) | 11/19/2008 | Politics
ABC News' Teddy Davis and Arnab Datta Report: ABC News has learned that Delaware's newly elected Democratic governor is planning to take the oath of office at 12:01 a.m. ET on Jan. 20, 2009, making it possible for him to... -
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macroPhone - an iPhone macro lens
MAKE: Blog (subscribe) | yesterday | 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.... -
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Democrats Pick Waxman Over Dingell
Political Wire (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) "officially dethroned longtime Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell (D-MI), upending a seniority system that has governed Democratic politics in the House for decades," Politico reports. "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 69-year-old... -
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Google Kills Lively
TechCrunch (subscribe) | yesterday | 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... - see blog ranking see all discussions
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