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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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Are Julianne Hough's 'Dancing with the Stars' Days Done?
Entertainment Tonight (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Entertainment
Is Julianne Hough leaving the ballroom? The two-time "Dancing with the Stars" champ made an announcement today about her future on the hit ABC series. ET has confirmed that Julianne will not be appearing on next season's "DWTS" and the country singer herself addresses the matter on her Fancast blog, writing: "I won't be dancing this spring season. I don't know about the fall. Maybe. Maybe not." This... -
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Pakistani Prime Minister Says US Strikes Will Stop Once Obama Takes Office
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 7 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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Judge Grants Writ of Habeas Corpus for 5 out of 6 Gantanamo Detainees
Discourse.net (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Politics
Judge Orders Five Detainees Freed From Guantánamo In the first hearing on the government’s justification for holding detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, a federal judge ruled Thursday that five Algerian men were held unlawfully for nearly seven years and ordered their release. … Judge Leon, in a ruling from the bench, said that the information gathered on the men had been sufficient to... -
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eHarmony Forced to Create a Dating Service for Gay Singles
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (subscribe) | 1 hour 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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Ben Affleck makes his fourth visit to African Congo
Cele|bitchy (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Entertainment
Ben Affleck in eastern Congo, 11/19/08 Ben Affleck has already chronicled the dire conditions in the war-torn African Congo region with a documentary and an appearance on Nightline. He’s made three treks to the Republic of Congo, hoping to raise awareness of the ongoing atrocities brought on by civil war, including violence against women and children. [...] -
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Bachmann Pathology Overdrive
Daily Kos (subscribe) | 2 hours 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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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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Sorenstam has some work to do at ADT Championship
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“Interplanetary internet” passes first test
Hack A Day (subscribe) | 2 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 [...] -
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Prop. 8 Gay Marriage Ban Heads To California Supreme Court
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 3 hours 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... -
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Nokia N96 Bruce Lee Edition: the only thing tougher than Chuck Norris
Engadget (subscribe) | 11 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... -
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The Restless Mr. Kerry (cont'd)
The Plank (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | 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) | 17 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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Biden's Guv Plans Midnight Swearing-in
Political Radar (subscribe) | yesterday | 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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Google Kills Lively
TechCrunch (subscribe) | 20 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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The ObaHillary morph: Recycling you can believe in
Michelle Malkin (subscribe) | yesterday | Election 2008
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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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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... - see blog ranking see all discussions
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