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U.S. stocks at lowest level since 1997
Credit Writedowns (subscribe) | 1 hour 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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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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Will Lieberman Ever Pay A Price?
MyDD (subscribe) | 43 minutes 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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eHarmony Forced to Create a Dating Service for Gay Singles
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (subscribe) | 2 hours 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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Margin still shifting on Day 2 of recount
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Jackson Flying To London After All
PerezHilton.com (subscribe) | 6 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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Jackie Norris Named Chief of Staff for the First Lady
2008 Democratic Convention Watch (subscribe) | 1 hour 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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Britney Spears: Art is Therapy
Entertainment Tonight (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Entertainment
Entertainment Tonight has the latest... ET has the all-new look inside the Britney Spears documentary where the songstress opens up about how she uses her art as a way to deal with hurdles in her life. In the 90-minute exclusive film, called "Britney Spears: For The Record," she says, "Everybody has a world that they create around themselves. If I have a lot of nervous energy, when I start dancing... -
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Scientists say Copernicus' remains, grave found
Arizona Republic (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | World
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Researchers said Thursday they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books. The findings could put an end to centuries of speculation about the exact resting spot of Copernicus, a priest and astronomer whose theories identified the Sun, not the Earth, as the center of the... -
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Playing with the Boys
Shakespeare's Sister (subscribe) | 4 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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`DWTS' pro Julianne Hough won't return next season
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“Interplanetary internet” passes first test
Hack A Day (subscribe) | 3 hours 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 [...] - 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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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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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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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... -
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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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Ocarina Surges To Top Paid iPhone App Position
TechCrunch (subscribe) | 11/19/2008 | 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... - see blog ranking see all discussions
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