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Pakistani Prime Minister Says US Strikes Will Stop Once Obama Takes Office
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | 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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Napolitano to head Homeland Security
Daily Kos (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Politics
Via the Washington Post : Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D), a border-state governor whose handling of immigration and homeland security issues brought her accolades from fellow governors, is President-elect Barack Obama's choice to serve as secretary of homeland security, Democratic sources said yesterday. Napolitano, 50, was an early supporter of Obama and was the only sitting governor and current... -
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Madonna Divorce Settlement Reached
The Evil Beet (subscribe) | 53 minutes ago | Entertainment
Welp, it’s gonna be official! Madonna and Guy Ritchie will be granted a preliminary divorce decree at the High Court in London on Friday. After six weeks and a day, the divorce would be made final. As to whether or not it was a messy divorce settlement, the various camps are disagreeing: According to the British [...] -
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Jennifer Garner wins order against alleged stalker
Miami Herald (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Entertainment
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Bachmann Pathology Overdrive
Daily Kos (subscribe) | 47 minutes ago | US
She's at it again , denying that she said what she said: Politico : A month after calling for an investigation of fellow members of Congress to "find out if they are pro-America or anti-America," Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is now claiming that the whole episode was "an urban legend." Asked about the comment Tuesday night on Fox’s "Hannity & Colmes," Bachmann said, "That’s not what I said at all."... -
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Judge Orders Five Gitmo Detainees Released
TalkLeft (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Politics
U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon today ordered the release of five of the six habeas defendants in Boumediene v. Bush/Al Odah v. U.S (pdf). The opinion will be out later today. In the first case of its kind, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said the government's evidence linking the five Algerians to al-Qaida was not credible as it came from a single, unidentified source. Therefore, he...
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Margin still shifting on Day 2 of recount
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Waxman's in, Dingell's out
Crooks and Liars (subscribe) | 1 hour 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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Playing with the Boys
Shakespeare's Sister (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Sports
You go, girl: Eri Yoshida, a 16-year-old girl with a mean, hard-to-hit, rare knuckleball has become the first female Japanese professional baseball player. Eri Yoshida was inspired to learn how to throw the knuckler after seeing a video of Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield. …Yoshida said she wants to emulate Wakefield, who has built a successful major league career throwing a knuckleball, which... -
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“Interplanetary internet” passes first test
Hack A Day (subscribe) | 40 minutes 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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Astronauts venture out for 2nd spacewalk
Detroit Free Press (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Sciences
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts ventured back outside the international space station to perform more repair work on a jammed joint today and promised to keep a tight grip on all their tools so nothing would get away this time. -
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Prop. 8 Gay Marriage Ban Heads To California Supreme Court
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | US
SAN FRANCISCO — California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules. The California Supreme Court accepted three lawsuits seeking to nullify Proposition 8, a voter-approved constitutional amendment that overruled the court's decision in May that legalized gay marriage.... - 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... - 3 Vote!
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Nokia N96 Bruce Lee Edition: the only thing tougher than Chuck Norris
Engadget (subscribe) | 9 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 ,... -
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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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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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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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Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs
Michael Tsai (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Technology
John Gruber: Third-party iPhone development is purportedly a level playing field. If regular developers are forced to play by the rules, but Google is allowed to use private APIs just because they’re Google, the system is rigged. Ars Technica has some more information about this. -
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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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Taxpayers to pay for Alberto Gonzales’ private attorney.
Think Progress (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
This summer, six attorneys “rejected from civil service positions at the Justice Department filed a lawsuit” against “former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and three other top officials for allegedly violating their rights by taking politics into consideration” in the hiring process for the Honors and Summer Law Intern Programs. Today, McClatchy reports that the Justice [...] -
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LA 2008: Honda pulls a surprise with FC Sport concept
AutoblogGreen (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
Filed under: Hydrogen , Honda , LA Auto Show Click the FC Sport concept for a high res gallery In an age when there are fewer and fewer surprises at auto shows as embargoes get broken and information leaks out early, Honda pulled off a big surprise at the LA Auto Show this morning. After showing the year old CR-Z concept and the Insight hybrid concept that debuted at the Paris show, product planning... -
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Build a three penny radio that costs more than three pennies
MAKE: Blog (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | Technology
Here's a simple project that uses three pennies as anchors for the various parts of a radio build. Check out the link below for instructions and parts list for building this device. Three Penny Radio Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this! - see blog ranking see all discussions
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