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The Hollywood Gossip (Free subscription) | yesterday
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The Florida Highway Patrol is trying to obtain a search warrant for medical records of Tiger Woods to determine if the wounds the golf great sustained early Friday morning are consistent with a car accident or domestic violence. Authorities believe they can show probable cause a crime was committed, a necessary step in obtaining a warrant to search the hospital that treated him. That probable cause...
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Deadspin (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
| Politics
Sizemore joins Santonio Holmes and Jeff Reed in the pantheon of Rust Belt athletes who take dong shots in the mirror with their cell phones. Grady's Ladies have declared a national holiday. These...
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MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
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The CrunchPad, named Popular Mechanic's 10 most brilliant products of the year (although it never came out) is not happening . Mike writes - The entire project self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication... I'm enraged, embarrassed, and just...sad. I bet there's more to this story... Here's what Ladyada who makes hardware thinks ... Although it may seem like an irrelevant...
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Android Developers Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
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Back in May at Google I/O, we announced ADC 2 -- the second Android Developer Challenge -- to encourage the development of cool apps that delight mobile users. We received many interesting and high-quality applications -- everything from exciting arcade games to nifty productivity utilities. We also saw apps that took advantage of openness of Android to enhance system behavior at a deep level to provide...
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In The Faith (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
| US
John S. said"A church with married clergy and hierarchy that is experiencing a vocations decline would seem to dispell the claim that lifting the celebacy rule in the Catholic church would lead to increased vocations there."There isn't actually a decline in vocations in the C of E, there is a decline in stipendiary clergy. A high proportion of those now being ordained are unpaid, often working...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Entertainment
Dear President Obama, Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce...
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Mashable (Free subscription) | yesterday
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It isn’t even December yet, but Microsoft’s Bing search engine is already announcing its top ten most searched topics of 2009, as well as the two celebrities that were binged more than actress Megan Fox. The new Microsoft “decision engine” has only been in service since June, but Bing has apparently analyzed billions of search queries in order to create a list of the ten most...
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Gateway Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Today’s elections in Honduras was a huge victory for democracy and a huge embarrassement for the former leftist President Manuel Zelaya and the Obama White House. Despite the fact that Zelaya urged Hondurans to stay home to protest the vote, the freedom-loving Hondurans turned out to vote in record numbers. A turnout of more than 60% was [...]
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Mirror On America (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
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No, it doesn't mean that I'm going to charge you for reading this. :-) I've talked about healthcare reform over and over again (I don't see how Joan does it every day without going insane). I've talked about healthcare from an emotional standpoint and from an American legislative standpoint. I've talked about all the benefits of healthcare reform. Well, I'd like to take a different tactic. I would...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
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President Obama has reportedly issued orders to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other top national security officials to commence a troop buildup in Afghanistan. According to a BBC report, the President is now briefing allies on the decision. Though no official number on the troop increase has yet been made public, most expect it to fall around 30,000, short of the 40,000 requested by General...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Obama Gets Poor Marks on Healthcare So ominously read a heading in a Gallup poll released Monday about America's opinion of pending healthcare reform legislation. The news was not good for Democrats and the Obama administration hoping to pass something before the Christmas break. Quite the contrary, despite all the efforts of press members to sway the public concerning this matter, Gallup found Americans...
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Power Line (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
| Politics
Hillsdale College Professor Paul Rahe writes: I am not a great admirer of Peggy Noonan as a journalist. Most of the time, she aims at capturing a mood, and I generally find the lack of analysis and the sentimentalism so visible in her work offputting. There are, however, moments when she hits the ball out of the park, and she did so just a few days ago in The Wall Street Journal . Noonan began by...
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Gizmodo (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Progress bars aren't always accurate , but at least they're there, giving us hope, curing our angst, and mostly, diverting our attention from the fact that whatever it is, it isn't done. And soon, they will invade the meatspace. We already crane our necks to see the perpendicular streets' lights cycles through, so the Eko stoplight concept , intended to let drivers know if it's ok to shut off your...
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Slog (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Chris Pesto, a junior at Syracuse University in New York, was annoyed by a fundamentalist Christian bigot holding up an anti-gay sign—"Homosexuality Is a Sin"—on his campus last week. So he took action : This woman was wearing an ankle-length corduroy skirt, which, as we all know, is a fashion nono. So, in order to make her feel uncomfortable, I stood next to her and held a sign...
