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Sort by Mashable (Free subscription) - 15 hours ago - YouTube
Google stole the tech and media spotlight today as it revealed a mountain of new details about Chrome OS , the company’s new operating system due in late 2010. It is a completely different type of OS (we provide a summary of how ) that eliminates the desktop and focuses on getting you on the web quickly and efficiently. Now that we’ve had some time to digest Chrome OS and get information...
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Sort by NewsBusters (Free subscription) - 11/18/2009 - YouTube
During Wednesday's Justice Department oversight hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stumped Attorney General Eric Holder on what should have been a fairly routine question for America's top law enforcement official. Maybe more surprisingly, NPR reported it at its website. As NPR's Frank James noted, " The exchange started with Graham stumping Holder with a...
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Last week, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show caught out Fox News' Sean Hannity running old footage of September Tea Party crowds in an attempt to make Michele Bachmann's smaller November Tea Party shindig appear to be more well-attended than it was. Is Fox up to the same tricks today? Faiz Shakir at ThinkProgress thinks so , and he pulls a segment that seems to tout the crowds that greeted Sarah Palin...
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Sort by Mashable (Free subscription) - yesterday - YouTube
Just like TV, captions play an important role in making online video accessible to everyone. While YouTube has offered captioning for a few years, today they’re making it significantly easier for publishers to add them. Now, YouTube can automatically assign captions to video using speech recognition. Moreover, video publishers can now upload a transcript for their videos, which further helps...
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POKER FACES: A Lady Gaga, South Park, and Christopher Walken mash-up. BEYONCE: Crowd surfs in London. UCLA: Students in near riot over a 32% tuition increase yesterday. MY PUMPS: Erickatoure Aviance, who you may have seen on the Wendy Williams...
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Verizon rankled AT&T with their "There's A Map For That" ads that took aim at AT&T's spotty service, and mocked the iPhone app tagline, "there's an app for that." AT&T responded by slapping Verizon with a lawsuit , and has also just released an ad slamming Verizon. The ad features Luke Wilson talking up AT&T's service, iPhone contract, and app selection. Watch AT&T's...
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Stefani Germanotta performs at an NYU talent show in 2005. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
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Above: James Carville shows James Rainey his future. In September, L.A. Times columnist James Rainey wrote a column in which he uncritically quoted ACORN worker Lavelle Stewart suggesting that she had turned Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe out of her office: [V]isits to other ACORN offices have gone almost entirely unmentioned. Lavelle Stewart, a fair-housing coordinator in [...]
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'We may have to sacrifice just two more jobs to get millions back for Americans' President Barack Obama "is being failed by his economic team" and should replace Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and White House economic policy director Larry Summers, says US House Rep. Peter DeFazio. The prominent member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus told MSNBC's [...]
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Watch Sarah Palin go on and on about Iraq in response to the question of what the US should do about Ahmadinejad and a nuclear Iran. She says “Iraq” twice, which, according to reality, is different from Iran, the country the Iranian President is the president of. Andrew Sullivan this fact’s already checked! [the invaluable [...] Iran - President of Iran - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - Middle...
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Google’s new playable music search feature was just a hint at the future of Google’s musical ambitions, if its new concept demonstration video of next year’s Chrome OS netbooks — featuring an embedded Lala music playback app — is any indication. About 40 seconds into the video to the right, Google’s video depicts a user [...]
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During a debate on the House floor today over designating 21 miles of the Molalla River as “wild and scenic,” Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), who opposes the legislation, tried to claim a progressive environmental record for her party. “Actually, the GOP has been the leader in starting good environmental programs in this country,” said Foxx. Foxx [...]
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From Sen. Chris Dodd-- Republicans Block Dodd’s Effort to Immediately Stop Credit Card Rate Hikes : Senate Republicans blocked Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodds (D-CT) attempt to pass legislation to stop credit card interest rate hikes. Dodd went to the Senate floor to ask for consent for the Senate to take up and pass his Credit Card Rate Freeze Act, which would prevent credit card companies...
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Sort by The Blog (Free subscription) - 11/18/2009 - YouTube
I cannot compete with Allahpundit's write-up of this exchange, from the Holder hearing today, so go forth and read his take. Holder says Miranda wouldn't be an issue in KSM trial or Osama bin Laden's because the evidence is so overwhelming against the two that prosecutors wouldn't need "custodial statements" gotten without Mirandizing them. But as Allahpundit notes, the question is what...
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Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) joined The Swell Season, Irish musician Glen Hansard and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová (you know, the musical artists from the indie musical Once) on stage at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on November 18th, 2009. Segel joked that the movie Once beat out the Dracula Love song from Forgetting Sarah Marshall at the Academy Awards due to Hollywood...
