Riehl World View (Free subscription) | yesterday | Sports
There seems to be no such thing as privacy for popular figures these days. It looks as though TMZ got to someone at the hospital where Tiger Woods was taken after his car accident. If so and if this report...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009 | Technology
The news of the day in social media land: Twitter is apparently going to start experimenting with paid premium accounts through its Japanese subsidiary ( Twicco ), which has always been a bit separated from the rest of Twitter and in many ways a playground for the company ( Groups , Twitvideo.jp ). Japanese media are reporting that Twitter is going to introduce a tiered payment model and aims to charge...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Alright, Nokia. We know you've ben hurting since N-Gage passed away , but apparently in your despair you forgot that Nintendo wouldn't take kindly to a promo video featuring emulated SNES games. Oops! The video has since been pulled from Youtube, but the screen grab above shows how Nokia went out of their way to demonstrate how well SNES emulators run on the N900. The rub here isn't the emulator itself;...
Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009 | Politics
It's the biggest Democratic political scandal you've never heard of -- or at most have just a passing familiarity with -- and it's not Charlie Rangel....
BennyHollywood (Free subscription) | yesterday | Sports
Filed under: Tiger Woods Tiger Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren, changed the story she told the first officer on the scene, according to law enforcement sources. The Windemere Police Department says Tiger's wife went outside, saw that her husband had struck a fire hydrant and a ...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 11/22/2009-11/25/2009. All adults. MoE 2% (Last weeks results in parentheses): FAVORABLE UNFAVORABLE NET CHANGE PRESIDENT OBAMA 53 (55) 40 (39) -3 PELOSI: 41 (40) 51 (51) +1 REID: 31 (32) 59 (58) -2 McCONNELL: 15 (14) 68 (68) +1 BOEHNER: 13 (13) 66 (65) -1 CONGRESSIONAL DEMS: 41 (42) 54 (53) -2 CONGRESSIONAL GOPS: 14 (13) 70 (71) +2 DEMOCRATIC PARTY: 43 (44) 52 (50) -3...
The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday | Other
Michael Gerson has lousy timing. In The Washington Post , in one of those now familiar elegies for old media, he writes : And the whole system is based on a kind of intellectual theft. Internet aggregators (who link to news they don't produce) and bloggers would have little to collect or comment upon without the costly enterprise of newsgathering and investigative reporting. The old-media dinosaurs...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009 | Politics
Did you notice a television ad during Thanksgiving's NFL football games featuring President Barack Obama? Joined by children from the Washington, D.C. area, the President and players come together for a friendly game of touch football, reminding fans about the importance of being active as part of NFL PLAY 60, the league's youth health and fitness campaign. Filmed on the White House lawn earlier this...
jkOnTheRun (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009 | Technology
I have yet to lose a gadget, but that’s not surprising since my key tools are never out of my sight or more than an arm’s reach away. I’m sure it will happen someday and that’s when I’ll wish I had a solution like the nio. Using Bluetooth, nio monitors your equipment through the use [...]
Flopping Aces (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
Michael F. Cannon from The Cato Institute writes about the trickery involved by Democrats in estimating how much the behemoth known as ObamaCare will cost and what the real cost of the Socialism will be: One gimmick makes the new entitlement spending appear smaller by not opening the spigot until late in the official 10-year budget [...]
Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | yesterday | Sciences
Thanks to MagicJava for putting this into a YouTube video at my request:
Political Wire (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009 | Politics
The Miami Herald reports that newly appointed Sen. George LeMieux (R-FL) is looking out for Gov. Charlie Crist (R), his former boss, as the latter seeks the U.S. Senate seat in 2010. After Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) endorsed Crist's primary challenger Marco Rubio (R) last month, LeMieux held "a private Capitol Hill luncheon with other Republican senators" at which he "urged them to talk...
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago | Sciences
Somehow, the anti-science crowd in the US can't recognize that there is a problem . Ignorance is bliss for the teabaggers. University of Manitoba researcher David Barber said experts around the world believed the ice was recovering because satellite images showed it expanding, but the thick, multiyear frozen sheets have been replaced by thin ice that cannot support the weight of a polar bear. "Polar...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009 | US
The anti-gay Family Policy Institute of Washington has posted a video called "BY PROHIBITING GAY MARRIAGE, AREN'T WE VIOLATING THE SEPERATION ( sic ) OF CHURCH AND STATE?". It features FPIW's Executive Director Joseph Backholm and appears to be one of a series (in progress) of video responses to each of the FAQs posted on the FPIW website. The question he is answering in this video is irrelevant....
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009 | Technology
Filed under: Japan , Technology , Nissan A while back, Nissan scientists helped to develop a paint clearcoat called Scratch Shield that can self-repair light scratches overnight or over the course of a week. Now the Japanese automaker is spreading the love, licensing the technology to Japan's largest wireless company, NTT DoCoMo. The clearcoat uses a special top layer of highly elastic resin that...
