Last night, Fox News host Glenn Beck premiered his new live show based on his book The Christmas Sweater, which was simulcast to hundreds of movie theaters across the country. Sponsor Fathom Events called it a “once in a lifetime event,” during which “Glenn will tell you about the real life events that inspired him [...]
Scott Baker from Breitbart-TV.com and Co-Host of ‘The B-Cast‘ submitted this shocking report today on Obama’s deviant Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings. —-Warning on Content—– I was recently approached by a team of independent researchers that I have known for some time and have come to trust. They prepared this report involving ‘Safe [...]
Hi all, this is @ leland , user experience lead on the @ twittermobile team. I wanted to share a little bit of what we've been working on and thinking about. It’s probably no secret that Twitter has an active developer community, using our APIs to create fantastically innovative apps. Nor is it a secret that Twitter and mobile phones go together like birds and flight. What may be a less known...
When you type www.wikipedia.org into your browser's address bar, you expect nothing less than to be taken to Wikipedia. Chances are you're not giving much thought to the work being done in the background by the Domain Name System , or DNS. Today, as part of our ongoing effort to make the web faster , we're launching our own public DNS resolver called Google Public DNS , and we invite you to try it...
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In the current financial services market, dramatic continuous change is the norm. Leadership is no longer about following the rules or applying traditional...
Today we are releasing updates to multiple components of the Android SDK: Android 2.0.1, revision 1 Android 1.6, revision 2 SDK Tools, revision 4 Android 2.0.1 is a minor update to Android 2.0 . This update includes several bug fixes and behavior changes, such as application resource selection based on API level and changes to the value of some Bluetooth-related constants. For more detailed information,...
You knew this was coming. It’s like the moth drawn to the flame, like all is now right with the universe. Sarah Palin embraces birtherism. Sarah Palin declared on Thursday that the legitimacy of President Obama’s birth certificate is “rightfully” an issue with the American public, and that it is “fair game” for politicians to question [...]
These creepily realistic face molds are attached to servos controlled by computer. They come from the twisted mind of artist, Nathaniel Mellor , and are part of an art piece being sold at Art Basel Miami Beach 2009 for $75K. Watch: Apparently the facial movements and accompanying audio are on a 15 minute loop, and they even sing together. Oookay. [ Mute Magazine and YouTube via Engadget ]
Ever since we launched real-time and streaming quotes on Google Finance last year, we've heard from users how vital that up-to-date information has been. Especially in today's volatile financial environment, current information can be the difference between a seizing an opportunity and missing it. Today, we've taken a big step towards improving access to current financial information: streaming financial...
Today we're helping people get better search results by extending Personalized Search to signed-out users worldwide, and in more than forty languages. Now when you search using Google, we will be able to better provide you with the most relevant results possible. For example, since I always search for [recipes] and often click on results from epicurious.com , Google might rank epicurious.com higher...
Breaking a three-day stalemate, the Senate approved an amendment to its health care legislation that would require insurance companies to offer free mammograms and other preventive services to women. The vote was 61 to 39, with three Republicans joining 56...
Tiger Woods' mistress Rachel Uchitel and her lawyer Gloria Allred were supposed to tap dance in a press conference yesterday , but it was canceled at the last minute. Radar claims that Rachel put a stop to the matinee performance, because Tiger was willing to give her $1 million for her silence. Today, TMZ is saying this isn't so. According to their sources, Rachel is shaking in fright like Paris...
The CrunchPad would've been an easy-to-use Web tablet, but the strange saga of its 11th-hour demise will be anything but simple. Chandra Rathakrishnan —CEO of the CrunchPad's problem partner—will demo the tablet, and explain his side of the story. The Fusion Garage CEO will speak to reporters and show the device in San Francisco Monday, so we'll finally get to see what all the fuss is...
Today, after months of public and private pressure on the New York State Senate to bring a marriage equality bill to the floor for a vote, it finally happened. The Assembly had already passed their version of the bill and Governor David Paterson had vowed to sign the bill if it reached his desk. But passage in the Senate was never a done deal and today the bill was voted down by a margin of 38 to 24....
The Great Debate by digby Well, not exactly: WASHINGTON – A deeply skeptical Congress on Wednesday resigned itself to President Barack Obama 's escalation of the Afghanistan war, even as the president's chief military and diplomatic advisers sought to cool any expectations that the war would end in two years. Leading Democrats said they had serious misgivings about the deployment of 30,000 more...
During an interview on Thursday with conservative talk radio host http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2703332 > Rusty Humphries , former Governor Sarah Palin joined the 'birther' movement -- those who doubt the authenticity of President Obama's birth certificate, thus calling into question the legitimacy of his presidency. About 9 minutes into the conversation (which began with a rendition of the song...