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Hugh Jackman addresses the rumors that he’s gay
Cele|bitchy (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Entertainment
Gorgeous dad Hugh Jackman, 40, has been dogged for years by rumors that he’s in the closet. He’s been married to Deborra-Lee Furness for 12 years and they live in Sydney, Australia with their two children, Oscar Maximillian, 8, and Ava Eliot, 3. Their son and daughter were adopted after Furness suffered two miscarriages. Both [...] -
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Judge Orders 5 Gitmo Detainees Released
Stop the ACLU (subscribe) | 52 minutes ago | Politics
I have asked a more elequent writer to post on this, so you may see more on this later. I just want to do a basic rundown and roundup of reactions on it. Washington Post: For the first time, a federal judge today ordered the release of enemy combatants from the U.S. military prison in [...] -
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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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Waxman takes over key House chairmanship from Dingell
The Reaction (subscribe) | 27 minutes ago | Politics
By Michael J.W. Stickings From The Hill : Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) will become the next chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee after House Democrats voted to replace current Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.). Waxman won 137-122 in the secret ballot vote. Why is this important? First, because Waxman is significantly more progressive than Dingell. Second, and more specifically, because... -
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Britney Spears: Art is Therapy
Entertainment Tonight (subscribe) | 1 hour 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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Are Julianne Hough's 'Dancing with the Stars' Days Done?
Entertainment Tonight (subscribe) | 1 hour 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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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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Online advertising growth stalls from second quarter to third quarter
Between the Lines (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Technology
The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PriceWaterhouseCoopers said that third quarter online ad revenue was nearly $5.9 billion, up 11 percent from a year ago. Compared to the second quarter, however, Internet ad revenue was up 2 percent courtesy of “strong economic headwinds.” In a statement, IAB put a happy face on the results noting that the [...] -
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Playing with the Boys
Shakespeare's Sister (subscribe) | 3 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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Astronauts venture out for spacewalk No. 2
kansascity.com (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Sciences
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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."... - 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... - + Vote!
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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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Google Kills Lively
TechCrunch (subscribe) | 19 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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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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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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macroPhone - an iPhone macro lens
MAKE: Blog (subscribe) | 21 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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