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  • DealBook: ‘London Whale’ Said to Leave JPMorgan

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    By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
    16 May 2012 | 12:29 pm
    The departure of Bruno Iksil, the trader associated with risky bets that led the bank to announce a $2 billion loss, was reported by current and former associates.

  • French PM Ayrault names cabinet

    BBC News - Home
    16 May 2012 | 12:45 pm
    France's new Socialist Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault names his government but party leader Martine Aubry will not join the cabinet.

  • Newlywed hero's 1970 sacrifice honored

    CNN.com
    16 May 2012 | 12:20 pm
    Rose Mary Sabo Brown spent just 30 days with her new husband, Army Spec. Leslie Sabo Jr., before he shipped out to fight in Vietnam. But from that month together in 1969 grew a lifetime of love.

  • GE Capital Resumes Dividend

    WSJ.com: What's News US
    16 May 2012 | 12:27 pm
    General Electric is again able to take cash out of its hulking finance arm in the form of a $475 million quarterly dividend.

  • Four Decades After Dying In Cambodia, Soldier To Receive Medal Of Honor

    News
    16 May 2012 | 11:51 am
    More than 40 years after his actions during the Vietnam war saved the lives of his fellow soldiers, Army Specialist Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
 
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  • French PM Ayrault names cabinet

    16 May 2012 | 12:45 pm
    France's new Socialist Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault names his government but party leader Martine Aubry will not join the cabinet.

  • Greek leftist attacks EU 'poker'

    16 May 2012 | 12:32 pm
    The leader of Greece's leftist party - predicted to top next month's election - accuses the EU and Germany of "playing poker with people's lives", as millions of euros are withdrawn from Greek banks.

  • The Pirate Bay hit by hack attack

    16 May 2012 | 12:16 pm
    File-sharing website The Pirate Bay appears to have been hit by a coordinated hack attack.

  • South Yemen air strikes 'kill 16'

    16 May 2012 | 12:13 pm
    Air strikes kill 16 suspected militants in southern Yemen as part of an ongoing army offensive against fighters said to be inked to al-Qaeda, officials say.

  • Robotic arm controlled by thought

    16 May 2012 | 12:05 pm
    Two patients who are paralysed from the neck down are able to control a robotic arm using their thoughts.
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  • Newlywed hero's 1970 sacrifice honored

    16 May 2012 | 12:20 pm
    Rose Mary Sabo Brown spent just 30 days with her new husband, Army Spec. Leslie Sabo Jr., before he shipped out to fight in Vietnam. But from that month together in 1969 grew a lifetime of love.

  • John Edwards doesn't take stand

    16 May 2012 | 11:03 am
    The defense team for John Edwards rested its case Wednesday without calling the former Democratic presidential candidate's ex-mistress to testify at his corruption trial.

  • Mobster's body exhumed from Vatican

    16 May 2012 | 10:26 am
    The body of a mobster buried among cardinals and bishops on a Vatican property has been exhumed in an investigation into a teenage girl's disappearance.

  • Charles Taylor blames woes on U.S.

    16 May 2012 | 10:12 am
    Former Liberian President Charles Taylor said Wednesday that he was "saddened" by the guilty verdict for abetting war crimes in Sierra Leone and said his role in the conflict was much different from how it had been portrayed.

  • Doctor: Zimmerman's nose was broken

    16 May 2012 | 9:09 am
    The report also said George Zimmerman had black eyes and cuts on his head a day after fatally shooting unarmed teen Trayvon Martin. An autopsy showed Martin's knuckles were injured, a CNN affiliate reports.
 
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    WSJ.com: What's News US

  • GE Capital Resumes Dividend

    16 May 2012 | 12:27 pm
    General Electric is again able to take cash out of its hulking finance arm in the form of a $475 million quarterly dividend.

  • Skechers Settles With FTC

    16 May 2012 | 12:26 pm
    Skechers will pay $50 million to resolve allegations it made unfounded claims that its "toning shoes" would help consumers tone muscles and lose weight.

  • GE Leads U.S. Stocks Higher

    16 May 2012 | 12:15 pm
    U.S. stocks bounced back after a three-day slide, though confusion over Greece's political future and the role of the European Central Bank kept a lid on the gains.

  • Asian Firms Plan Canada Gas Project

    16 May 2012 | 11:52 am
    Energy companies from China, South Korea and Japan, along with Shell, agreed to ship billions of dollars worth of Canadian liquefied natural gas to Asian markets.

  • Greek Savers Continue to Pull Bank Funds

    16 May 2012 | 11:42 am
    Greek savers withdrew over $890 million from banks, an ominous foretaste of what may turn Greece's exit from the euro into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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  • Four Decades After Dying In Cambodia, Soldier To Receive Medal Of Honor

    16 May 2012 | 11:51 am
    More than 40 years after his actions during the Vietnam war saved the lives of his fellow soldiers, Army Specialist Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Report: Syrian Opposition Sees Greater Support From Gulf States, U.S.

    16 May 2012 | 11:46 am
    The Gulf countries are providing weapons and the U.S. is helping build the rebels' command and control infrastructure.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Minority Rules: Who Gets To Claim Status As A Person Of Color?

    16 May 2012 | 11:41 am
    Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's claims of Native American heritage seem uneasy to swallow. But why? What does it take to be considered an ethnic minority, and what does the controversy say about the way we judge ethnic backgrounds?» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Civilians Flee, Soldiers Dig In On Sudanese Frontier

    16 May 2012 | 11:33 am
    Sudan and South Sudan are still threatening one another along their borders. The U.N. is warning both Sudans that they could face sanctions if they can't reverse their escalating feud.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Buyers Of Hyped Skechers 'Toning Shoes' Can Get Refunds

    16 May 2012 | 11:33 am
    Skechers has agreed to pay $40 million to settle claims that it deceived its customers by saying its Shape-ups shoes would help people who wore them shed pounds and tone their abs, buttocks and legs, the Federal Trade Commission said.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
 
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    The New Yorker

  • Books: Wenguang Huang’s “The Little Red Guard” review.

    newyorker.com
    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Humor is not the first thing one expects from a memoir that occupies itself with burial rites, but this lively chronicle of a Maoist-era family and its contraband coffin inspires as many laughs as it does tears. Huang begins his story in 1973, when, at the age of nine . . . (Subscription required.)

  • Goings on About Town: Dance

    newyorker.com
    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET In addition to repeat performances of the season’s new ballets—Benjamin Millepied’s “Two Hearts” and Peter Martins’s “Mes Oiseaux”—this week brings the return of Balanchine’s rapturous “Liebeslieder Walzer . . .

  • Tad Friend: Dustin Lance Black on making “Virginia.”

    Tad Friend
    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    8220;All Southern literature,” the mother of the writer Pat Conroy once told him, “can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’ ” This week, the writer-director Dustin Lance . . . (Subscription required.)

  • Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks

    newyorker.com
    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    goatTitle-->WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART The German filmmaker Werner Herzog talks about contemporary art, as well as his contribution to the Biennial, with the co-curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders. (945 Madison Ave., at 75th St. 212-570-3600. May 17 at noon.) BOWERY POETRY CLUB Marion . . .

  • T. R. Hummer: “Shackleton’s Biscuit.”

    T. R. Hummer
    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Of ox and luncheon tongue, six hundred pounds; of Wiltshire bacon, seven-tenths of a ton. Seventeen hundred miles they walked, And it was pony meat that saved them. But one biscuit, this one of thousands, baked By Huntley & Palmers, a special formulation fortified with milk protein, survives— . . . (Subscription required.)
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    Mashable!

  • Facebook IPO Gets a Boost: 84 Million More Shares For Sale

    Joann Pan
    16 May 2012 | 1:15 pm
    Just days away from launch, Facebook is continuing to make last-minute changes in its IPO plans. On Wednesday, Facebook announced that an extra 84 million shares will be added to its stock pool for sale. The extra shares will come entirely from insiders and early investors, according to the Associated Press. Facebook and its current stockholders will offer more than 421 million shares in the IPO. The company has raised the price range of its stocks to $34 to $38, up from $28 to $35. If the shares trade on the higher end, Facebook could raise $16 billion when it goes public. Some of the early…

  • 18 Mashable Family Photos

    Jeremy Cabalona
    16 May 2012 | 12:47 pm
    What does a family portrait look like when it represents a community of millions of people? For our photo challenge this week, Mashable readers sent us their photos, helping us to create a family portrait of our community. This past Sunday was Mother’s Day in the U.S. Sons and daughters found time to pick up the phone and call their moms, and many families enjoyed the day together. In honor of Mother’s Day, we asked you to show us a photo that represents family to you. At Mashable, we loved seeing your photos of family outings, newborn family members and canine best friends.

  • Behind the Launch: A Promising, Yet Controversial Job Candidate

    Lauren Drell
    16 May 2012 | 12:31 pm
    Discuss the show on Twitter: #BehindTheLaunch In Mashable‘s new video series, Behind the Launch, we’re taking cameras behind the scenes at Vungle, an in-app video advertising startup. Last week, we met the the founders and saw them bring on Colin Behr to head up business development. This week, they courted big-name startup investors, such as 500 Startups‘ Dave McClure, DFJ Esprit‘s Krishna Visvanathan and AOL Ventures‘ Adam Smith. But Vungle needs to focus more on the core — developing the product instead of fleshing out press releases and a website…

  • Billion-Dollar Tech-Testing ‘Ghost Town’ Being Built in New Mexico [VIDEO]

    Zoe Fox
    16 May 2012 | 12:16 pm
    If a $1 billion ghost town sounds to you like the set of sci-fi movie, think again. A company called Pegasus Global Holdings is constructing a town in Lea County, N.M. as a testing ground for the latest renewable energy technology and terrorism security systems. It will look like any other city, filled with office buildings, homes and roads, the BBC reports. The only difference from a regular city: no people will live there. The site could be used to test self-driving cars, smart grids, citywide wireless networks and just about anything else Pegasus’ clients are interested in. Ground is…

  • Google Search Just Got 1,000 Times Smarter

    Lance Ulanoff
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Search for 'Andromeda' in the New Google Knowledge Graph Click here to view this gallery.The Google Search of the future is here. Now. Today. The long-talked-about sematic web — Google prefers “Knowledge Graph” — is rolling out across all Google Search tools, and our most fundamental online task may never be the same again. Starting today, a vast portion of Google Search results will work with you to intuit what you really meant by that search entry. Type in an ambiguous query like “Kings” (which could mean royalty, a sports team or a now-cancelled TV show), and a new…
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    TechCrunch

  • Office Hours At TC Disrupt This Year Will Be All About Design. Apply Now.

    Kim-Mai Cutler
    16 May 2012 | 12:20 pm
    One of the most memorable moments of TechCrunch Disrupt NYC last year was office hours with Paul Graham, who is the heart and co-founder of Y Combinator. We are doing it again this year. But because Graham is back in Silicon Valley with a newborn baby, we’re doing it in a slightly different way. Over the past few years, we’ve heard that it’s not only hard to find engineers. It’s hard to find great design talent. And if Apple’s still unbelievable and mind-boggling rise over the last 15 years shows anything, it’s that design matters. Design and simplicity…

  • Electric Imp Raises $7.9M From Redpoint & Lowercase Capital To Power The Internet of Things

    Ryan Lawler
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    One trend we’ve been tracking is the “Internet of Things” — the idea that at some point, all devices will be intelligent and connected, allowing for things like whole home automation. The problem is that most new systems equipped to connect to the Internet are reliant on proprietary software and hardware tacked on by the vendor. So whatever devices that do come to market Internet-ready tend to be overly expensive, and don’t play well with others. That’s where Electric Imp comes in. The startup was founded on the premise of decoupling all the connectivity…

  • Google Just Got A Whole Lot Smarter, Launches Its Knowledge Graph

    Frederic Lardinois
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Today, Google is launching one of its most ambitious and interesting updates to its search engine in recent months. Starting in a few days, you will start to see large panels with additional factual information about the topic you were searching for take over the right side of Google’s search result pages. The panels are powered by what Google calls its new “Knowledge Graph” and they will serve two different functions. Google will use this space to show you a summary of relevant information about your queries (think biographical data about celebrities and historical…

  • Smarsh Acquires Former TC50 Finalist Perpetually, Founder Thanks NY Tech Scene

    Jordan Crook
    16 May 2012 | 11:59 am
    Disrupt alumni never cease to impress. TC50 finalist Perpetually and its web archiving technology have been acquired by Portland, Ore.- based Smarsh. Though the news hit the Web yesterday, we’re told the acquisition occurred earlier this year. Given Smarsh’s pedigree – which also specializes in archiving digital content, including IM conversations, social media interactions, and email – archiving sites as they change and update is only a natural step forward for the company. Details of the transaction were not disclosed. “Smarsh provides a much more stable…

  • Pearson Buys Certiport For $140M To Beef Up Its IT Testing Business Globally

    Ingrid Lunden
    16 May 2012 | 11:32 am
    Pearson, the educational publisher, today made a move to beef up its international professional IT testing business: it announced that it is buying Certiport, a developer, marketer and distributor of certification exams and practice tests for IT and digital literacy skills, for $140 million in cash from the private equity firm Spire Capital Partners. The deal will give Pearson’s VUE unit, where Certiport will sit, much further reach into the retail distribution of testing services in markets outside of the U.S. and UK: Certiport currently sells its certifications and assessments…
 
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    Slate

  • Législatives, UMP, Paris... Quel avenir pour François Fillon?

    Fabien Jannic
    16 May 2012 | 12:10 pm
    Quel avenir pour François Fillon? Alors que l’ancien Premier ministre de Nicolas Sarkozy vient de passer les clefs de Matignon à son successeur socialiste Jean-Marc Ayrault, le député de la Sarthe va commencer à penser à son avenir. Très discret au début de la mandature, François Fillon a su s’installer dans le paysage politique français. Devenant au passage le Premier ministre, derrière Georges Pompidou, qui est resté le plus longtemps en poste (4 ans, 11 mois et 23 jours).L'élu de la Sarthe est moins impopulaire que Nicolas Sarkozy dans les sondages d'opinions, ce qui lui…

  • Le sourire d'Antonio Ferrara

    Julie Brafman
    16 May 2012 | 11:53 am
    Jugé en appel devant la cour d'assise de Paris pour le braquage du bureau de poste de Joinville-le-Pont (Val-de-Marne) le 28 juillet 1999, Antonio Ferrara a été acquitté le 16 mai. Retour sur cet accusé célèbre pour son sourire (article publié avant l'annonce de son acquittement).Chaque matin, depuis le début du procès en appel le 9 mai dernier, c’est le même rituel: sourire aux lèvres et menottes aux poignets, Antonio Ferrara fait son entrée dans le box des accusés escorté par un régiment de gendarmes. L’air joyeux, il salue ses avocats avant de se tourner vers les…

  • Jean-Marc Ayrault, un homme connecté

    Delphine Dyèvre
    16 May 2012 | 11:27 am
    Le fraîchement nommé Premier ministre de François Hollande, Jean-Marc Ayrault est un homme concerné par le numérique. C’est en tout cas ce qui ressort du portrait que fait de lui ZDNet. Avec son blog, qui sera suspendu durant toute la durée des élections législatives et son compte Twitter, où le maire de Nantes a gagné plus de 4.000 followers depuis les rumeurs de sa venue à Matignon (atteignant presque les 31.000 followers), on peut dire que le chef du gouvernement est, à 62 ans, un homme connecté. A l’instar de la ville qu’il a dirigée. Où d’anciens bâtiments ont…

  • «Les Diseux»: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy règle ses comptes avec les journalistes en chanson

    Mélody Piu
    16 May 2012 | 8:22 am
    Après quatre ans passés à l'Elysée, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy retrouve à nouveau sa vie artistique et en profite pour régler ses comptes avec les journalistes. D'après Challenges, l'ancienne Première dame de France leur dédie une chanson un peu acerbe intitulée Les Diseux dans son quatrième album qui sortira à l'automne prochain. Elle ne supporterait plus les médias tant elle les a trouvés partiaux et médisants en particulier lors de la campagne présidentielle. Elle reproche également aux «diseux», d'avoir suggéré qu'elle divorcerait de Nicolas Sarkozy après sa…

  • Harcèlement sexuel: des membres du Conseil constitutionnel auraient-ils dû ne pas siéger?

    Delphine Dyèvre
    16 May 2012 | 7:45 am
    On sait depuis quelques jours que Gérard Ducray, l'ancien parlementaire accusé de harcèlement sexuel qui a posé la question prioritaire de constitutionnalité (QPC) conduisant le Conseil constitutionnel à abroger le délit de harcèlement sexuel, était connu par au moins quatre des Sages. Ceux-ci auraient-ils dû s’abstenir de siéger?Ancien député du Rhône, Gérard Ducray a été secrétaire d’Etat au tourisme de 1974 à 1976, dans le gouvernement de Jacques Chirac, sous la présidence de Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. Les deux ex-Présidents sont membres de droit…
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  • Create a Setting and Connect With Emotions

    ceb
    14 May 2012 | 12:26 am
    I recently moved the delivery time of my beloved newsletter to be Sunday morning (well, that’s when it launches here, though my New Zealander and Australian friends all get it on Monday). In the process, I talked to people about sharing this information over breakfast, and with a “second cup of coffee” sometimes. I basically set a scene in the reader’s head that we were having a personal chat over breakfast. Ask yourself this: in trying to reach others for whatever your goal may be, is it facts or emotions that will win them over? Which do you think plays the bigger…

  • Nobody Reads Agency Blogs- Or Why You Need Skin in the Game

    ceb
    7 May 2012 | 8:57 am
    Thanks to Jason Falls, I just read this post about how many marketing agencies are closing down their blogs and tweeting and Facebooking instead. “Nobody reads agency blogs, and there are so many out there it’s impossible for people to keep up anyway,” said Sam Weston, director of communications at digital agency Huge. Nobody Reads ANY Blogs- If They’re Boring I’ll tell you without even having to look why nobody reads a blog: because it’s boring. Because it’s poorly written. Because it’s utterly self-referential. Nobody has time to read junk. Why would you?

  • Constraints

    ceb
    5 May 2012 | 11:43 am
    I was at a live performance the other night where Jacq sang and played with Girish, and I had a great conversation with Reggie, the drummer for the night. (I am SO sorry that I don’t know your last name, Reggie.) We talked about the fact that his typical drum kit for events is usually like 30 or so pieces, but that he decided to go minimal for the event. He had a kick drum, a snare, a tom, two cymbals, and a cowbell. What Reggie said was something like this, “I really enjoy this, because it means I really have to use what I have to get the expression I’m aiming for. I…

  • Pattern Break

    ceb
    2 May 2012 | 11:17 pm
    When you wake up in the morning, you check your emails, probably from your phone. First thing. Yes? Why? There’s no good answer to why. Even brain surgeons can wait until they’ve done other things before checking in on the world outside of your immediate proximity. So why do you do it? Because it’s a habit, a pattern. Do you read the top tech and marketing blogs? Why? Why do you read this blog? Because you’re subscribed? Are you getting something from it? If no, then why are you still doing it? Twitter and Facebook are hugely pattern-driven. They thrive off the same…

  • Where Should You Put Your Content?

    ceb
    30 Apr 2012 | 9:44 am
    I’ve been asked by subscribers of my personal newsletter how I decide what goes on my blog and what goes into my newsletter. I think the answer differs depending on your strategy, but I’m more than happy to tell you how I view it. I put information that sells on my blog, and information that nurtures in my newsletter. Information that Sells My job, because people seem confused these days as to what exactly it is I do or am selling, is to help mid-sized to larger companies build business (revenue and growth) by improving their use of the human digital channel (social media, email…
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  • If it’s Wednesday, this must be Atlanta

    Jenny the bloggess
    16 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Once again, I’m on tour so and today I’m in Atlanta.  Please come see me?  Pretty please? And while I’m gone I am completely phoning it in by reliving some of my favorite old posts.  In other words…reruns.  But good reruns.  So for today a little something from 5 years ago: You know what I did last night when I couldn’t sleep?  I came up with 28 ideas for sequels to The Little Engine that Could and this morning I’m looking at them thinking, “How high was I?” and the answer is “Pretty high” because I don’t even remember writing some of these.  I…

  • When I’m dead

    Jenny the bloggess
    14 May 2012 | 10:05 am
    me:  When I die I want you to put me in a Wonder Woman outfit and toss me out of a moving plane.  That way when I hit the ground people will assume that Wonder Woman’s invisible plane crashed.  And that Wonder Woman really let herself go. Victor: But where would her plane be? me:  Duh.  Her invisible plane was invisible. Victor: Invisible.  Not non-existent. me:  Yes, well then whenever people tripped over nothing they could blame it on debris from my plane crash.  And there’s my little slice of immortality. Victor: I don’t even know where to begin. me:  Begin by…

  • Not all guesses are equal

    Jenny the bloggess
    13 May 2012 | 8:56 am
    Victor: Why didn’t Ash come to our house when she was in town? me:  Your guess is as good as mine. Victor:  Because she hates you? me:  Why are your guesses always so insulting? Victor:  You said my guess was as good as yours. me:  Well, I was wrong. Victor: Maybe she was on her way over when she ran over a bunch of violent dwarves and had to find some hungry bears to help her dispose of the bodies. me:  Okay…that guess was a little better than mine. And now, time for the weekly wrap-up… What you missed in my shop (tentatively called “Eight pounds of uncut…

  • Thank you. Seriously.

    Jenny the bloggess
    10 May 2012 | 1:34 pm
    This isn’t a real post.  It’s a thank you. Thank you because for the third week in a row Let’s Pretend This Never Happened is on the NYT list.  Thank you because today is the premiere of my book in the UK.  Thank you for making the tour so successful that they’ve added another leg (or two) of the tour.  I still don’t know how this happened, but I do know who to thank. Thank you. Click on the links for all the gory details: May 16th ~ 7pm : Atlanta, Georgia May 17th ~ 7pm : Concord, North Carolina May 19th ~ 4:40pm : Gaithersburg Book Festival May 20th ~ 2pm :…

  • Ron Weasel-y

    Jenny the bloggess
    8 May 2012 | 12:34 pm
    Remember last month when I added Ermione Granger to my collection of ethically taxidermied creatures who look great in clothes?  And then I said the next step would be to find Ron Weasel-y and then Victor threatened to divorce me if I didn’t stop buying dead animals? Well, my marriage is still intact because this morning I woke up to find a very special surprise package from my friend, Lindsay. IT’S RON WEASEL-Y, YOU GUYS: Honestly, it’s like they were made for each other. Next step…Draco Mousefoy. PPS.  As requested, more book tour dates coming soon!  Boston,…
 
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    HowStuffWorks Daily Feed

  • Is marriage a good investment?

    16 May 2012 | 8:30 am
    You made the vows -- for better or for worse, in sickness and in health -- but you don't remember agreeing to pay higher taxes. How does marriage affect your finances?

  • 5 Ways to Extend the Life Of Your Household Batteries

    16 May 2012 | 8:30 am
    Are you batteries dying all the time? Learn the five ways you can extend the life of your household batteries.

  • 10 Risky Investments

    16 May 2012 | 8:30 am
    The idea of risk in investments is largely a matter of perception, but while some investments consistently make money, others stand a greater chance of losing it. What are some of the riskiest investments out there?

  • Videos: Stephen Hawking's Visions of the Universe

    16 May 2012 | 8:30 am
    Astrophysicist, cosmologist, lecturer, cartoon voice actor, author, parent, grandparent -- Stephen Hawking wears many hats, and he also has a few ideas about black holes, time, aliens and wormholes.

  • Is Facebook sharing your personal information?

    16 May 2012 | 8:30 am
    Most of us understand that the Internet only has the information that we provide it: "Think before you click" is a common warning for all users. But for a site like Facebook, that can get complicated. Does Facebook share your personal information?
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    SFGate: Page One Stories

  • Judge turns video in Mirkarimi case over to mayor

    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    One of the most emotional pieces of evidence in the domestic violence case against suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, a video of his tearful wife that she fought strenuously to keep from public view, may now be used to...

  • $195 million bond seeks to improve SF's parks

    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Playgrounds pocked with toxic equipment would be replaced, rutted basketball courts would be resurfaced, and overgrown trails, worn swimming pools and funky public bathrooms would all be made functional under a plan...

  • Family with Alzheimer's gene to test Genentech drug

    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    A drug designed by South San Francisco's Genentech Inc. to stop Alzheimer's before it has a chance to take hold will be tested on people with a genetic mutation that guarantees they will eventually develop the deadly...

  • Rivals for House blast tech exec Lawson's claims

    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Stacey Lawson has never run for elective office before and has a spotty voting record for much of the past decade. But on Tuesday, the wealthy tech executive running for an open U.S. House seat on California's North...
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    Lolcats - Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

  • Animal Capshunz: Run Free

    Cheezburger Network
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    I don’t wanna be a nugget. I don’t wanna!!! It’s not just kittehs that love captions! ALL THE ANIMALS DO! Check out Animal Capshunz for MOAR! LoL by: flyguy1.14159Picture by: Unknown

  • Animal Gifs: Talent.

    Cheezburger Network
    16 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    Gif your butt (!) over to Animal Gifs for MOAR cyoot and funneh on loop!

  • Animal Memes: Captain Kitteh – I Thought It Was Just a Humorous Bumper Sticker

    Cheezburger Network
    16 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    My apologies for flying in circles. The copilot is a dog and he’s trying to catch the tail assembly. Don’t be mean; BE MEME! Animal Memes is just a click away! LoL by: SylviagPicture by: Unknown

  • Lolcats: Did u think me

    Cheezburger Network
    16 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Did u think me was a ‘mallow?! Sorree! Ai can’t taek ennee risks aftur lasst tiem! Love LOLcats? Who doesn’t?! There are so many more over here! LoL by: Unknown

  • I Has A Hotdog: I feel dizzy…

    Cheezburger Network
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Y IZ WORLD SPINING? we al kno dat feel… Cyoot puppehs and funneh goggies: I Has a Hotdog has ‘em all! LoL by: monkeymayhemPicture by: Unknown
 
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    Boing Boing » Gadgets

  • The Playstation Vita as a cellphone

    Rob Beschizza
    16 May 2012 | 9:53 am
    Sony's tiny but powerful pocket game console has 3G, but no phone app. Skype to the rescue. [Ars]

  • Comparing gender in Lego minifig heads

    Cory Doctorow
    16 May 2012 | 9:02 am
    From the Boing Boing Flickr pool, Maia Weinstock's chart of gender in Lego minifig heads. There's an accompanying blog post, where Weinstock explains: So many of LEGO’s sets today are made in conjunction with a movie or other Hollywood media brand. It’s a win-win for Hollywood producers and LEGO alike. But how many of those brands star girls or women in the lead role? Star Wars? Toy Story? Pirates of the Caribbean? The Lord of the Rings (available in LEGO this summer)? Hermione Grainger is a major character from the Harry Potter series, and there were a fair number of female minifigs…

  • History of gendering in Lego

    Cory Doctorow
    15 May 2012 | 10:50 pm
    On Sociological Images, David Pickett is tracing the history of gendering in Lego toys, from the early efforts to produce girl-sets and boy-sets before 1988, to the full-blown gendering watershed attending the release of the Pirates minifigs, which had definite "girl" and "boy" characters. It all went downhill from there, too. He's got two parts posted, with more to come. It's engrossing stuff. This pioneering pirate was the first in a long line of token females in otherwise male-dominated action-centric themes. The imbalanced ratio of masculine to feminine minifigs persists today, though it…

  • "Ghosts With Shit Jobs" econopocalypse mockumentary raising money for tour with USB bracelets

    Cory Doctorow
    15 May 2012 | 10:40 am
    Filmmaker (and comics creator and novelist and games developer) Jim Munroe is raising money to take his outstanding science fiction feature Ghosts With Shit Jobs on tour. Here's Jim's summary: "In the future, jobs still suck -- but in whole new ways. The economic collapse of the west is complete and North Americans are a cheap labour pool for wealthy Asian and Indian markets. A Chinese documentary show focuses on these unlucky enough to have been born in the slums of Toronto in a special report that translates as 'Ghosts With Shit Jobs'. The lo-fi sci-fi mockumentary feature offers both a…

  • Pneumatic ping-pong ball delivery system playfully fires balls into "art environment"

    Cory Doctorow
    15 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    r0r0 sez, "Ping Pong Ball Suction Construction is a pneumatic delivery system for ping pong balls as part of an art environment that's actually on display in Lille, France." In Spring/Summer 2012 both guys were invited to create an installation version of Ping Pong Country in Lille’s Gare St. Sauveur. They were a bit tired of doing the same thing for such a long time over and over again, so they asked me to contribute some machinery to the environment in order to make it a bit different in its actual version. I came up with the devilish plan to offer the audience an opportunity for…
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    Wired Top Stories

  • Make amazing neuroscience discoveries without even thinking about the brain.

    Bruce Sterling
    16 May 2012 | 12:26 pm
    *Wait a minute... There's something vaguely familiar about this new science paper, "Automated Cognome Construction and Semi-automated Hypothesis Generation"... http://blog.ketyov.com/2012/05/journal-of-neuroscience-methods-paper.html http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jul-aug/10-in-the-future-doing-science-is-like-blogging

  • Step One in U.S. Plan to Rule Sea and Sky: Actually Share Data

    Spencer Ackerman
    16 May 2012 | 12:24 pm
    No one really understands the Navy and Air Force's new blueprint for dominating Earth's seas and skies. But what's increasingly clear, even to the heads of both the Navy and Air Force, is that there's a big challenge ahead for it, one that doesn't have anything to do with an adversary like China: getting U.S. ships, subs, planes and drones to actually talk to one another.

  • Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Mind

    Sarah Jane Keller
    16 May 2012 | 12:15 pm
    Two stroke victims unable to move or speak can now control robotic arms with their minds.

  • Google Revamps Search With Massive 'Real World Map of Things'

    Ryan Singel
    16 May 2012 | 12:02 pm
    Google has built a knowledge base of 500 million persons, places and things - and it's bringing big changes to a search page near you.

  • Can Anything Take Down the Facebook Juggernaut?

    Steven Johnson
    16 May 2012 | 11:59 am
    After just eight years in existence, Facebook has more than 750 million users and is on the cusp to becoming a medium unto itself. Can anything take down the social networking giant?
 
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    Pogue's Posts

  • How Compatible Are Rival E-Readers?

    By DAVID POGUE
    10 May 2012 | 12:31 pm
    Can you move one kind of e-reader e-book to another kind of e-reader? Readers respond to David Pogue's recent review of the Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight and he gives his replies.

  • The Prius V and Its Entune System

    By DAVID POGUE
    3 May 2012 | 2:19 pm
    The Prius V is the first Toyota to incorporate a new electronics system, which a new owner found to be a boon.

  • Zipping Through Airport Security

    By DAVID POGUE
    27 Apr 2012 | 7:20 am
    David Pogue reviews the TSA PreCheck program, a streamlined security system that is being tested with three airlines (American, Delta and Alaska) at 12 airports.

  • Tone-Deaf Lawyers Jeopardize the Draw Something Game

    By DAVID POGUE
    26 Apr 2012 | 1:46 pm
    O.K., software industry, you've been put on notice: Nowadays, there's more to it than design, features and marketing. Sometimes, the success of your app can ride on the wording and placement of a single dialog box.

  • There Is a Lot of Big Tech News

    By DAVID POGUE
    12 Apr 2012 | 1:06 pm
    David Pogue expresses his thoughts on the flurry of tech news of the past week.
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    CJR

  • What's the right price for ebooks? (updated)

    16 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    Author Chuck Windig, GigaOm's Mathew Ingram, and TechDirt's Mike Masnick all took on the question of ebook pricing recently, arguing that production costs (you know, minor details like advances, editors, etc.) don't or shouldn't factor into the end price. Ingram writes that "It doesn't matter what e-books cost to make," and Masnick follows with "Nobody Cares About the...

  • How I got that story

    16 May 2012 | 6:50 am
    In March 2011, Lisa M. Hamilton, a writer and photographer, began a series of road trips around rural California. She had a grant from the Creative Work Fund—a San Francisco-based foundation that supports collaboration between artists and nonprofits—to tell stories that would help bridge the cultural divide between the rural and urban parts of the state. Initially she...

  • Logue jam

    16 May 2012 | 6:50 am
    “Catalogue” can also be spelled “catalog.” “Dialogue” can also be spelled “dialog.” But “monologue” is rarely spelled “monolog.” The Americans are at it again. The combining form “logue” is French, descended from Latin, and it indicates an engagement of some sort, a discourse, if you will, between people or things. People browse “catalog(ue)s” to “discuss” what items to buy; a...

  • Audit notes: Commercialization, GM and Facebook, Saverin's taxes

    15 May 2012 | 11:15 pm
    Conor Friedersdorf makes a nice catch on Tom Friedman's Sunday column bemoaning the commercialization of seemingly all aspects of American life: For example, his column is bizarrely titled, "This Column Is Not Sponsored by Anyone," despite the fact that right above it on NYTimes.com there is a banner ad for a Citi/American Airlines credit card. But Friedersdorf...

  • Health costs: Is Mass. the only model?

    15 May 2012 | 3:19 pm
    We all know Obamacare is Romneycare and Romneycare is Obamacare and that the Bay State has set the standard for everything health reform—from the individual mandate right down to ways to cut its gigantic medical bill. Or at least the media have passed along that narrative. The Wall Street Journal’s recent piece, “Same State, New Stab at Health...
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    TMZ.com

  • Kim Kardashian -- Skechers Got My Ass In Order

    TMZ Staff
    16 May 2012 | 12:20 pm
    Kim Kardashian doesn't care WHAT the Federal Trade Commission says ... she says Skechers worked for her, and THAT'S why she became the company's pitch person.Kim made a 1-year deal with the company, which touted Shape-Ups as a shoe that promotes…

  • Joey Lawrence -- Whoa, I'm a Stripper!

    TMZ Staff
    16 May 2012 | 11:12 am
    Joey Lawrence is taking it all off ... or most of it at least ... because the 90s heartthrob just inked a deal with the man-stripper crew at Chippendales in Vegas.A rep for the beefcake brigade tells TMZ, the 36-year-old former "Blossom" star will…

  • Feds: Kim Kardashian Hocked BOGUS Shoes

    TMZ Staff
    16 May 2012 | 10:43 am
    The Skechers fitness shoes Kim Kardashian tried to convince you to buy don't actually work ... not even a little bit ... so says the federal government. The Federal Trade Commission has determined Skechers made unfounded claims about its Shape-Ups…

  • Manny Pacquiao -- 'I'm NOT Against Gay People'

    TMZ Staff
    16 May 2012 | 9:40 am
    Manny Pacquiao says he DOES NOT believe gay people should be put to death ... and blames the media for twisting his words about his stance on gay marriage. Manny has been under fire ever since the National Conservative Examiner published an…

  • Popstar Ke$ha -- Like You've Never Seen Her Before ... Glamourous!

    TMZ Staff
    16 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Believe it or not, but "sleazy" popstar Ke$ha put away her usual ragged outfits, torn stockings, morning-after smeared makeup and ratty weave to do her best Blake Lively impersonation by bathing and glamming it up at an event in Beverly Hills last…
 
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    PerezHilton

  • Angelina Jolie Speaks Out About Billy Bob’s Big Beautiful… Errr, Heart.

    Perez Hilton
    16 May 2012 | 12:40 pm
    Oooh! This ought to be good! We told you a few months ago Billy Bob Thronton was writing a book about his decade-old relationship with Angelina Jolie and all those insecurities he possessed which he felt eventually led to the couple’s demise. Well he asked her to write the forward and you won't BELIEVE how sweet Brangelina's words were! In The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave Full of Ghosts she writes: "[Billy Bob] has a big beautiful heart... He has an unmatchable wit and can make you laugh until your face hurts... The world would certainly be a hell of a lot more dull if that man weren't in it.”…

  • Simon Cowell: Getting Britney Spears Was A Battle!

    Perez Hilton
    16 May 2012 | 12:20 pm
    Oh, she's worth it!! Booking Britney Spears and Demi Lovato as new X Factor judges, may have been the all-time best decision Simon Cowell EVER made! We all know fabulous things do NOT come easy. So, it's not shocking that getting Brit to sign on the dotted line was tough a freak'n battle! After making the big announcement, Cowell admited: “Right up until today, I wasn't 100 percent sure it was going to happen or not. Because when you're negotiating with people like that who are big stars, you don’t just sign the contract overnight. There's stuff you've got to sort out." And by "stuff" he…

  • OneRepublic Drummer Arrested After Domestic Fight!

    Perez Hilton
    16 May 2012 | 12:10 pm
    And his soon-to-be EX Girlfriend is already making him out to be some manic monster! OneRepublic drummer Eddie Fisher, was arrested in Denver Tuesday morning after an altercation between himself and his girlfriend Loni Rae, escalated into a violent incident. Loni explains: “Things just got out of hand and he snapped…and my entire cabinets are ripped off from my walls. I had my feet up against the wall trying not to let him in, and he busted through the door and he pushed me through the cabinets.” Oh dear! Eddie could be charged with assault, disturbing the peace and destruction of…

  • Carrie Underwood, STILL Queen Of Billboard Top 200!!!

    Perez Hilton
    16 May 2012 | 11:50 am
    Yee-Haw!! Carrie Underwood's Blown Away is No. 1 for the second week in a row on the Billboard 200 with an impressive extra 120,000 copies sold! Congrats, gurl!! We know you've held the top spot before, but you've never been able to spend more than a week atop with the same album!! Way to go!! Lasso up those cocktails and go celebrate with that hubby you love so much! [Image via Judy Eddy/WENN.]

  • Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, And Mary J. Blige Bring The Rock Of Ages To Dancing With The Stars!

    Perez Hilton
    16 May 2012 | 11:40 am
    The Rock of Ages promotional over-load continued last night on Dancing With The Stars! With the musical's premiere only a month away, stars Diego Boneta, Mary J. Blige, and former competition dancer Julianne Hough appeared on the reality series' semi final results show last night promote the new project with an INCREDIBLE mash-up of I Love Rock N Roll and Anyway You Want It! Ch-ch-check it out (above)! Hot damn! Julianne may be better known for her moves, but does gurlfriend have some serious pipes or WHAT?! Between this and Tom Cruise's version of Pour Some Sugar On Me, we are getting very…
 
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    Salon.com

  • SPIN METER: Rivals airbrush anti-Romney words

    16 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Remember Newt Gingrich calling Mitt Romney a liar? Michele Bachmann saying Romney's unelectable? Rick Santorum calling Romney "the worst Republican in the country" to run against President Barack Obama?They're hoping you don't. And acting like it never happened (even though most of their words are just clicks away online.)One by one — with the exception of holdout Ron Paul — the GOP also-rans have coughed up endorsements of their onetime rival. And as they do, they're pulling rhetorical backflips to distance themselves from their former harsh assessments of…

  • Ron Paul sets up Rand for 2016

    16 May 2012 | 11:50 am
    So Ron Paul says he is going to stop actively campaigning, but his supporters will continue to rack up delegates by storming state conventions. What will he do with these delegates? That is still unclear. (Barter them for gold?) What is the point of this strategy, exactly? Also unclear, but the Daily Beast's Ben Jacobs today says it's part of a "sneaky maneuver" to help his son Rand out. Ron will continue to consolidate power but will not appear to be actively sabotaging the party's nominee. Dave Weigel says the maneuver is less sneaky and barely a maneuver: He doesn't want it to be a huge…

  • The next Republican to fall

    16 May 2012 | 11:36 am
    What may be most notable about the surprise triumph yesterday of a Sarah Palin-backed insurgent in Nebraska’s Republican Senate primary is how routine these sorts of things are becoming.Deb Fischer’s late charge to victory wasn’t really rooted in ideology. As Hotline’s Reid Wilson points out, she’s actually racked up a (somewhat) moderate record in the Nebraska legislature, and has some personal connections to the state’s leading GOP establishment figures.But most GOP primary voters probably didn’t know this. Fischer came to the race with little money or name recognition and…

  • Susana Martinez’s veep suicide

    16 May 2012 | 11:04 am
    While Newsweek touted New Mexico governor Susana Martinez as a possible running mate for Mitt Romney, the erstwhile beneficiary of the hype all but killed her chances of getting the job by opening her mouth.“I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform,” Martinez  told reporter Andrew Romano. “Republicans want to be tough and say, ‘Illegals, you’re gone.’ But the answer is a lot more complex than that.”With those words, Martinez inflicted multiple wounds on whatever slender chance she had to join the national ticket. First, she indicated support for the…

  • Romney’s human shield

    16 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    The only honest line in "Inside the Circus," the recent Politico e-book in which millions of nauseating Republican operatives lacerate each other anonymously during primary season, should be mounted on the computers of all "political news readers": "It is sometimes unclear whether political campaigns are run for the benefit of the voters and office seekers or for the professional consultants who earn their living from politics." Every other line in the book mostly goes like, and then the RNC flack whispered that the campaign flack didn't know what he was doing, but that one sentence about…
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    Hawaiimagazine.com | HAWAII Today

  • Allegiant expanding air service to Hawaii with one-way fares as low as $159

    15 May 2012 | 6:58 am
    Allegiant expanding air service to Hawaii with one-way fares as low as $159 Allegiant Air, a Nevada-based airline owned by Allegiant Travel Company, announced today that in November it will start providing nonstop air service from the mainland to Maui. Also, it will add four cities in Western states to its mainland-Oahu air service lineup.The carrier is now offering introductory fares as low as $199 one-way, including taxes and fees, from Maui’s Kahului Airport to Bellingham, Wash., beginning on Nov. 14. Introductory fares, including taxes and fees, are avai...

  • VIDEO: Fleeting view of spattering lava at edge of Kilauea volcano’s Halemaumau crater

    14 May 2012 | 8:16 am
    VIDEO: Fleeting view of spattering lava at edge of Kilauea volcano’s Halemaumau crater The Big Island’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory  released a video last week that spotlights lava spatter at the margins of the lava lake in Kilauea volcano’s Halemaumau crater. Scientists note that the video shows typical flow activity that's usually obscured from view by a thick gas plume shifting with the winds over the lava lake. (To check out the 58-second video, click on image below.)  Since March 2008, the lake’s levels have fluctuated between 230 feet to 490 feet…

  • International Waikiki Hula Conference staging free sunset "hoike" shows this weekend

    11 May 2012 | 9:33 am
    International Waikiki Hula Conference staging free sunset "hoike" shows this weekend If you happen to be in the Waikiki area at sunset this weekend, you’re cordially invited to swing by the fifth annual International Waikiki Hula Conference’s hoike (exhibition) hula shows.During the free shows, set for 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. tonight and tomorrow night, on stages scattered around Oahu’s world-famous oceanfront stretch, dancers will perform to a mele (song) learned during the conference’s workshops and seminars led by mor...

  • Top 5 favorite filmed-in-Hawaii TV series ever: HAWAII Magazine Facebook poll results

    9 May 2012 | 7:54 am
    Top 5 favorite filmed-in-Hawaii TV series ever: HAWAII Magazine Facebook poll results We’ve counted the votes from our latest HAWAII Magazine Facebook Ohana poll question: What’s your favorite filmed-in-Hawaii TV show or made-for-the-small-screen mini-series or movie? The top five vote-getters are on the pages ahead. As it turns out, Hawaii-filmed television shows took all five top spots in the poll. So, made-for-TV mini-series, such as The Thorn Birds (1983), with Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward, did not make the cut. Same for TV movies, such as Tempted, Lifetime Channel…

  • Rare peppermint angelfish on display only at Waikiki Aquarium in Hawaii

    8 May 2012 | 11:07 am
    Rare peppermint angelfish on display only at Waikiki Aquarium in Hawaii A peppermint angelfish, which is among the ocean’s rarest creatures, is now on public display at Waikiki Aquarium on Oahu. And that’s the only place you’ll be able to see it, as the candy-striped fish is the only one of its kind to be included in an aquatic exhibit at a public aquarium. Anywhere.The peppermint angelfish, also known as Centyropyge boylei, is native to the tropical waters of the South Pacific and is on permanent loan to the Waikiki Aquarium by the Smithsonian Institution. The fish, which…
 
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    MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - Front Page

  • Verizon Planning to End Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans With LTE Switch

    Jordan Golson
    16 May 2012 | 12:45 pm
    U.S. cellular carrier Verizon is planning to move its customers who still have unlimited data plans for their smartphones to its new family data-share plans as customers switch to LTE data plans. The iPhone was initially offered with unlimited data plans when it launched on Verizon several years ago, but the carrier soon dropped the unlimited option in favor of data plans with allocations of data. Fierce Wireless has the details, quoting Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo at a JP Morgan conference: As these 3G unlimited data plan customers migrate to 4G LTE, they will have to purchase the…

  • Samsung's Market Cap Takes $10 Billion Hit Amid Rumors of Apple DRAM Deal with Elpida

    Eric Slivka
    16 May 2012 | 11:16 am
    Digitimes' poor track record has been thrust into the spotlight in recent days, but that hasn't stopped one of the Taiwanese news site's reports from having a major effect on stock prices for Samsung and Hynix. The report from earlier this week claims that Apple has placed "huge" orders for DRAM chips with Elpida, soaking up half of the capacity at the firm's main plant in Hiroshima, Japan. 1 GB of Elpida DRAM in third-generation iPad (Source: iFixit) As noted by Reuters, the rumor has had a significant effect on fellow DRAM manufacturers Samsung and Hynix, with Samsung losing $10 billion…

  • HTC Delays Evo 4G LTE Launch as U.S. Customs Investigates Shipments for Breach of Apple Patent

    Eric Slivka
    16 May 2012 | 8:46 am
    Last December, Apple won a U.S. International Trade Commission case against HTC, with the agency ruling that several of HTC's handsets infringed upon a pair of Apple-held patents. The agency's ruling included a ban on the import of infringing devices beginning in April, although HTC quickly responded to say that it had already designed a workaround for the issue in question. But as reported by The Verge late yesterday, U.S. Customs officials have delayed shipments of HTC's new One X and Evo 4G LTE handsets into the United States as it investigates whether those handsets also infringe upon…

  • Apple Ordering Screens of 'At Least 4 Inches' for Next-Generation iPhone

    Eric Slivka
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has placed orders for screens measuring "at least 4 inches diagonally" for the next-generation iPhone, marking a significant increase in size over the displays used in every iPhone model released to date.Apple Inc., which is expected to launch its next-generation iPhone later this year, has ordered screens from its Asian suppliers that are bigger than the ones used in iPhones since they debuted in 2007, people familiar with the situation said. Production is set to begin next month for the screens, which measure at least 4 inches diagonally compared…

  • Aaron Sorkin Confirmed as Screenwriter for Film Adaptation of Steve Jobs' Biography

    Eric Slivka
    15 May 2012 | 9:32 pm
    Sony Pictures today announced that Aaron Sorkin will indeed serve as the screenwriter for the studio's upcoming film adaptation of Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs. Sorkin, who is famous for his work on The West Wing, The Social Network, Moneyball, and A Few Good Men, noted late last year that he was "strongly considering" taking on the project.Commenting on the announcement, [Sony Pictures Co-Chairman Amy] Pascal said, “Steve Jobs’ story is unique: he was one of the most revolutionary and influential men not just of our time but of all time. There is no writer working…
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    MacOSXHints.com

  • Permanently Unhide Library

    16 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    When Apple shipped Mac OS X Lion 10.7, the “Library” folder located within every user’s home folder, which had previously been visible to users in the Finder, was made invisible. This hint shows how to make the folder visible and keep it that way forever. As you may know, and as mentioned in this hint, the Library folder can be made visible again by running the following command in Terminal: /usr/bin/chflags nohidden ~/Library Apple keeps making the folder invisible again with every System update, so it gets tedious re-running the above script. You can automate this by adding a Login…

  • New poll: Does your main Mac have an SSD?

    15 May 2012 | 9:31 am
    As SSDs become more common, and prices drop, more and more people are either buying Macs with SSDs, or installing them in their Macs. Personally, I started using an SSD with the first MacBook Air in 2008, and bought my current Mac - a Mac mini, purchased in 2011 - with an SSD. The gains in performance are huge, though the price still makes them a choice that is not for everyone. So, what about you? Does your main Mac - the one you use most - have an SSD? Feel free to post in the comments to the poll which model, whether you bought it with the Mac or installed it yourself, or any other…

  • Two AppleScripts for unmounting, mounting local disk volumes

    15 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    These AppleScripts are related to this hint. Both can already be found in the replies to the hint topic post, but I'm resubmitting them so that they will appear together. The first is an improved version of the original AppleScript which presents a dialog box from which a selection of local volumes to be ejected can be made. An example of its usefulness might be that it provides a reliable method for quickly ejecting a MacBook's mounted local volumes for users on the go. I've configured it as a "Run AppleScript" step for an Automator-based Mac OS X Service called "Unmounter" and assigned it…

  • Copy partially played Audiobooks to a playlist

    15 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    iTunes Smart Playlists don't offer a criteria to find tracks which have been partially played. While "Last Skipped" is an option, this track property may not be set if the track wasn't actually skipped and was merely stopped. However, if a track's "Remember playback position" option is set (and most audiobooks have this set by default) the track's AppleScript bookmark property will contain the number of seconds that a track has advanced before being stopped. Thus, any track with a bookmark value greater than zero would have been partially played. Here is an AppleScript that will copy all the…

  • Drag files from Safari 5 Downloads popup

    14 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    I recently tried to drag from Safari's Downloads popup and found that if you drag from the icon of the downloaded file, you can move it where you want. Click on an icon in the Downloads popup and drag it to any folder, or even onto a Dock icon to launch a file you've just downloaded with a specific application. [kirkmc adds: This seems obvious, but there's no hint here for it. There have been hints about double-clicking an icon in the Downloads window to open it, copying and pasting URLs from the Downloads window, and the keyboard shortcut to show the Downloads popup (Command-Option-L).]
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    The Martha Stewart Blog

  • Amazing Tree Peonies At Rockefeller State Park Preserve

    Martha Stewart
    15 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    I love growing peonies and I especially love growing tree peonies.  The plants in my collection are many years old and when I moved from Turkey Hill to ...

  • Honoring Maurice Sendak

    Martha Stewart
    14 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    As you may have heard, Maurice Sendak, the writer and illustrator of children’s literature, passed away last week.  He is, of course, the best-selling author of one of ...

  • Attending the Costume Institute Gala at the Met

    Martha Stewart
    13 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    Last week, I attended the annual Costume Institute Gala held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.  The gala celebrated the new exhibition, “Schiaparelli and ...

  • Our Television Wrap Party at EN Japanese Brasserie

    Martha Stewart
    10 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    Yesterday’s blog was all about the final taping of my television show.  Today’s blog is all about the wonderful wrap party we threw to celebrate the close of ...

  • The Last Taping of my Show - The Mother's Day Show!

    Martha Stewart
    9 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    On April 24th, we taped the very last episode of my television show, our Mother’s Day show, which airs today on Hallmark.  Mother’s Day is celebrated on the ...
 
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    Cool Hunting

  • Sonos Soundalier

    Largetail
    16 May 2012 | 11:43 am
    We asked Lindsey Adelman to create a custom speaker for a unique audio experience during NYC Design Week Advertorial content: Best known for her hand-blown glass and sculptural brass lighting fixtures, Lindsey Adelman is no stranger to exploring the limits of industrial design. Driven by this pionering spirit, Adelman's studio, in collaboration with Kiel Mead of the AmDC, teamed up with Sonos to create the "Soundalier", a centerpiece for the Sonos Listening Library being held at The Standard East Village during the upcoming NYC Design Week. This gorgeously inventive speaker structure embodies…

  • Bill Hunt

    Jonah Samson
    16 May 2012 | 10:31 am
    Our conversation with the consummate collector on the thrill of the hunt For anyone working in the area of fine art photography, Bill Hunt is a familiar name. The self-described "champion of photography" has demonstrated an unrivaled passion for the medium as a curator, dealer and collector for almost 40 years. Hunt's photography collection is nearly as infamous within the field as the man himself. Ranging from anonymous images from the 19th century to modern masterpieces by the likes of Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus and Richard Avedon, the pictures all share one thing in common–as Hunt…

  • TEDxMogadishu: Rebirth

    Aaron Kohn
    16 May 2012 | 8:35 am
    An impromptu conference aimed at reforming a war-torn nation For many Somali‬ refugees, the film Black Hawk Down serves as one of their only memories of the civil war that has ravaged their country for the last two decades. This Thursday, 17 May 2012, thousands of expats—along with the rest of the world—will see their nation again in a live broadcast of TEDxMogadishu, an impromptu conference bravely taking place in Somalia's capital city. Documenting the event are filmmakers Sebastian Lindstrom and Alicia Sully, a progressive duo who recently shot a feature film highlighting the…

  • Christian Witkin

    CH Contributor
    15 May 2012 | 3:52 pm
    Peeling back the layers for a portrait of human truth by Katharina Galla The portrait photographer Christian Witkin is best known for his advertising and editorial work for major publications like New York Times Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, Vogue and many more. Entering what he calls "the second half of this life", he is now shifting his professional career to return to his roots in fine art, the foundation of his personal photographic work. "I've been very fortunate that most of the advertising work I do is what I love doing," says Witkin. "But the commercial world is only important to me in…

  • K-10+

    Karen Day
    15 May 2012 | 1:23 pm
    Pep up your pup's health with a daily dose of powdered vitamins Though new to the market as a clever way of thinking about canine supplements, K-10+ seems like a product that should already exist. The line of dog-friendly vitamins is the brainchild of NYC-based photographer Ryan Singer, who developed the range after realizing how difficult it is to get a dog to eat a pill. The single-serving powder formulas are "basically like Emergen-C for dogs", he tells us. Depending on the dog's weight, you simply drop the contents of one packet into its water bowl or mix it into its food for a quick and…
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  • Fiona Rae exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery

    16 May 2012 | 11:12 am
    Fiona Rae remembers acquiring a PowerBook in 1999 at about the same time that she met her husband and fellow artist Dan Perfect. Something of a tech boff, Perfect introduced Rae to the joys of Photoshop and the rest, you could say, is history. Already well established as one of the 'Freeze' generation of British artists (she took part in Damien Hirst's game-changing group show in Docklands in 1988), Rae’s creative outpouring over the past decade - a powerhouse of distinctive works juxtaposing her painterly skills with startling digital age iconography - is the subject of her…

  • A new wave of galleries arrives in Hong Kong

    15 May 2012 | 12:45 pm
    As Hong Kong presents ART HK 12, its fifth international art fair - now under the Art Basel franchise and expected to draw even more visitors than the 63,500 last year - it is also celebrating its transformation into the de facto art capital of Asia. Thanks to an unprecedented boom in China’s art market and a growing demand for Western art (Christie’s Hong Kong sold £225 million in a week last autumn), several influential international galleries have opened permanent spaces timed to coincide with this year’s fair. ‘There is palpable excitement about how the art scene…

  • 'Liquid Glacial' tables by Zaha Hadid at David Gill Galleries, London

    14 May 2012 | 3:14 pm
    David Gill is a man who requires little introduction. A firm fixture on the contemporary design scene, the distinguished Spaniard can be credited with spearheading the shifting perception that design can be labelled as art, having commissioned pieces by Fredrikson Stallard, Barnaby Barford and Tom Dixon. This month sees Gill re-opening the doors of his eponymous gallery, 25 years since his first foray, right in the heart of Mayfair. Located on a quiet corner of King Street, and a stone’s throw away from Christie’s, the mammoth two-floor space is a minimalist vision to behold. In…

  • Manifold Editions pop-up store, London

    14 May 2012 | 12:52 pm
    You know your way around contemporary art. You can walk into a gallery and talk that art theory discourse with the best of them. You attend auctions and know a good price for a small Peter Doig canoe painting or some of Lisa Milroy’s shoes. Even so, even for experts like you, contemporary art can be an opaque world that seems to poorly serve the individual collector of more modest means. Which makes new contemporary art website Manifold Editions something of a godsend. Launched in November 2011, it sells limited-edition, high-quality signed prints that you can browse at your leisure. It…

  • May beauty news: editor's picks

    14 May 2012 | 10:00 am
 
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  • Mota Italic Gallery Celebrates First Anniversary With Pre-TYPO Berlin Party

    Yves Peters
    15 May 2012 | 6:37 pm
    Last year after landing in Berlin Schönefeld the Wednesday evening before TYPO Berlin “Shift” I immediately made my way to the Schliemannstraße 34 in Prenzlauer Berg for the opening of the Mota Italic Gallery. The gallery exists to showcase type, letters, and typography in both art and design, and is owned and operated by type designer and University of Reading alumnus Rob Keller and type technician Sonja Keller. The husband-and-wife duo run the type design studio Mota Italic, specialising in unique, extensive type families. In a mere twelve months the gallery has carved out a name for…

  • Three TYPO San Francisco Talks Online

    Yves Peters
    11 May 2012 | 5:54 pm
    I have something to whet your appetite for next week’s TYPO Berlin “Sustain”. Three of the four presentations that were livestreamed during TYPO San Francisco “Connect” can now be viewed in their entirety on The TYPO Video Portal. Enjoy your weekend viewing. Tina Roth Eisenberg | The Power of Side Projects and Eccentric Aunts

  • Looking For Images Of Letterpress Script Faces

    Yves Peters
    7 May 2012 | 6:50 am
    I will be speaking at TYPO Berlin “Sustain” next week and am currently hard at work on my entirely new presentation From Metal Scripts to Digital Writing. I trace back the reproduction of handwriting from the earliest scripts for letterpress to feature-rich OpenType fonts with artificial intelligence that mimic the decisions made by letterers and calligraphers. While I have most of my material down I feel like I could use some close-ups of letterpress type, illustrating the specific difficulties inherent to producing slanted glyphs on a rectangular body. I am particularly interested in…

  • Last Tickets For TYPO Berlin “Sustain”

    Yves Peters
    7 May 2012 | 3:02 am
    From Berlin to London to San Francisco and to Berlin again – after visits to the UK and USA the mother of all European design conferences returns to the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in its native city next week for its 17th edition. This year’s theme for TYPO Berlin will be “Sustain”. For decades, design has been looking for something new, for something different – often at the expense of resources and global justice. Many companies already had to learn things the hard way for ignoring contemporary social values. Others have learned from the crisis and take social and ecological…

  • First TYPO SF Resounding Success

    Yves Peters
    6 May 2012 | 4:47 pm
    After London in October last year, San Francisco was the second “foreign” city to host the TYPO conference (rebranded last year as TYPO Talks) outside Berlin. In the same way that London was a logical choice – it was the location of the original FUSE conference in 1994 which was the precursor of the TYPO conferences – San Francisco is the home of the North-American office of FontShop. On April 5 & 6, the design and typographic community of San Francisco convened in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for two days of information, inspiration, networking and mind-blowing…
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  • Top Online Masters Programs for Women’s Studies Explain What Women Want

    socialmediamom
    11 May 2012 | 2:28 pm
    Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes Credit In colleges and universities across the nation, women’s studies programs allow students to investigate issues of gender and sexuality through scholarly research and debate. These programs first began to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s with the rise of the women’s liberation movement, and many feel this relatively new field of study is well suited toward new types of degrees, like distance learning programs. Women’s studies programs have flourished in American institutions of higher learning, taking root almost everywhere. The…

  • A Mother’s Day Infographic

    socialmediamom
    10 May 2012 | 1:05 pm
    Reading time: < 1 minute It is that time of year, for those of you who don't know: Mother's Day is Sunday, May 13. In honor of this special day, we are featuring a new infographic from Internet Exposure. Here you will see just how tech savvy moms have become, as well as what they really want for Mother's Day. Not Yo Mama’s Mama – a Digital Mom Infographic by Internet Exposure

  • Online Graduate Certificate Programs That Will Teach You To Be A Leader

    socialmediamom
    8 May 2012 | 9:34 am
    Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes Credit There are few things more valuable in life than being a good leader. With this skill, you can rise to the top of your profession, take charge in difficult situations and be admired by friends and peers alike. Many people feel that leadership is an innate quality – in other words, something that you are born with. This is true in some ways. Extroverted, gregarious people are somewhat more likely to become leaders. But it is also true that you can learn to be a leader. Like anything else, leadership is a skill that can be improved, often times with…

  • The Internet’s Role in Your Personal Privacy

    socialmediamom
    27 Apr 2012 | 10:33 am
    Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes As people use the Internet more frequently and provide more personal information via social media sites such as: Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter, there is an increasing tension between a United States citizen’s right to privacy and freedom of speech, and the government’s desire to monitor its citizenry to protect against unlawful actions.  With this tension only growing, those in the legal field must be aware of these concerns and prepared for future instances where public sentiments and proposed government legislation could potentially clash.  With…

  • A Quick Guide to Pinterest for Families

    socialmediamom
    2 Apr 2012 | 10:38 am
    Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes   If you haven’t heard, Pinterest is the latest internet hit. Part social media, part photo swapping – the new social sharing site has the potential to go strong for quite some time. But what should parents know about Pinterest? Is it harmless for children? Teens? What does Pinterest really do? What is it for? I will attempt to give you some understanding into the new and exhilarating world of pinning. To begin with, you can’t just sign up for Pinterest. You have to either be invited or request an invite. At this early stage, neither one is…
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  • Babywearing

    Zen Mommy
    14 May 2012 | 10:03 pm
    Wanting to hold your baby is natural and has benefits for both parents AND baby. Babywearing. This is literally the ONLY way I was able to grocery shop with my twins (six months old in this picture.) I wore them in different ways at different ages and I hope this review of the hows and whys encourages you to look into the many different babywearing options there are out there for parents these days. They are two now and our sling is still getting a work out, mostly around the house when I’m cleaning up and with light food prep for dinner these days. Babywearing makes life easier and…

  • Go Tell Them All I Did Not Die…

    Zen Mommy
    8 May 2012 | 2:52 pm
    Tears. Puddles. Choking feeling in my throat as I just clicked on this song, written for another mother with an angel baby. Baby Jack. Taken early in his life at just nine days old. The song moves through me. Around me. Lifts me up even as it tears me down. The pain is still there (when I allow it.) This song brings me there. My breath carries me through it. Thank you Spirit for this beautiful reminder today of my babies in heaven. I love you my little angels. Thank you for the gift you are in my life. For watching down on me from the other side. As I prepare to remember you each uniquely on…

  • On How I Manipulate My Kids and Wonder Woman

    Zen Mommy
    7 May 2012 | 6:55 am
    ma-nip-u-late [muh-nip-yuh-leyt] verb (used with object) 1.  to manage or influence skillfully. 2. to adapt or change to suit one’s purpose or advantage. ————- I manipulate my kids, especially my youngest two. Why do I do this evil thing? Most likely it’s because, like the definition says, it suits my purpose. I get it sounds selfish, but truly, when I consciously attempt to manipulate my kids, it’s out of love. The unconscious manipulations? That’s a different post entirely. When I act from a conscious place though, I do it to suit my needs…

  • Is Attachment Parenting a Feminist Crutch? (My Response)

    Zen Mommy
    30 Apr 2012 | 2:49 pm
    How we parent. It’s a hot topic, full of judgment as evident in the recent TIME Magazine cover article “Are You Mom Enough“. It would seem the media likes this thing called the mommy wars. The controversy sells magazines and books I suppose. But what does it do for us moms? Below is my response to TIME and other’s in the media that wish to judge. How we are mom and WHAT is enough. Nobody gets to answer these questions for us. We, each of us, get to write our own mommy manual. And we don’t have to pick a camp when writing it.  (updated 05/10/2012) Is attachment…

  • Hopeful Miscarriage: First Pregnancy Miscarriage

    Zen Mommy
    15 Apr 2012 | 9:28 pm
    This is a place for us to share our stories. Stories of miscarriage, stillbirth and early infant loss. Together we can loosen the grip of pain on our hearts. Together we can be hopeful. The topic of miscarriage and infant loss is close to my heart. I’ve long wanted to make a place for us to share our stories. Because our stories are powerful. Our lives are not our own, they are for us to share. Every few weeks I’ll share a new video message with you from a mother who has experienced pregnancy loss. These stories are real and they are full of wisdom… and hope. This…
 
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  • Infant Head Lag May Signal Autism

    16 May 2012 | 11:06 am
    Infants who show developmental delays in head and neck muscle control may be at increased risk for autism, a new study suggests.

  • Americans Living Longer but Obesity Rising

    16 May 2012 | 12:01 am
    The CDC today released its annual state of the union’s health, and there’s good news and bad. We’re living longer, for example. But we’re also gaining more weight.

  • First At-Home HIV Test Nears Approval

    15 May 2012 | 6:11 pm
    An FDA advisory panel says the agency should approve over-the-counter sale of the OraQuick home HIV test. Results take only 20 minutes. One problem: About 1 in 14 people with HIV will get a negative result.

  • New Sunscreen Guide: 1 in 4 Products Deemed Safe

    15 May 2012 | 5:55 pm
    With warmer weather on the way, the Environmental Working Group has just released a new edition of their popular sunscreen guide.

  • Paralyzed Man's Hand Movement Partially Restored

    15 May 2012 | 4:00 pm
    Surgeons in St. Louis have restored partial function to a 71-year-old man's hands, which had been paralyzed following a spinal cord injury sustained in a car accident two years before the surgery.
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  • Whoops! VeriFone’s Sail user agreement ripped off Square’s

    Devindra Hardawar
    16 May 2012 | 12:37 pm
    VeriFone’s Sail mobile payments platform was clearly a Square wannabe from the beginning — now it seems that’s more true than we initially thought. VeriFone apparently lifted significant chunks of its user agreement from Square, GigaOm’s Ryan Kim has discovered. While there are other competitors similar to Square, like PayPal’s Here and Intuit’s GoPayment, VeriFone is a latecomer to the mobile credit card swiping game. I gave Sail flack for not bringing anything new to the market, but today’s revelation makes it even clearer that VeriFone is more…

  • A Windows racket: Microsoft will clean crapware off your PC for $99

    Ricardo Bilton
    16 May 2012 | 12:10 pm
    The PC crapware problem has finally gotten bad enough that Microsoft is now charging users to fix it. For $99 Microsoft is now offering to strip consumers’ Windows PCs of all unnecessary software pre-installed by PC makers, AllThingsD reports. Affectionally dubbed “crapware”,  the software  is installed by PC makers in exchange for cash from vendors and is almost universally hated by owners of new Windows PCs. This makes the removal program an arrangement bordering on a racket: PC makers get paid to put the software on computers, and Microsoft gets paid to remove it.

  • Web typography: create “art from code”

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    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    This sponsored post is produced by CASCADE SF. Thanks to CSS3 web design techniques and font-foundries, the ability to create gorgeous typography and beautiful design for browsers, is more accessible than ever. The Web is about content–finding it, delivering it, exploring it, and experiencing growth and possibility within it. What’s the fun of using a site that takes forever to load and is difficult to read? A poorly designed product can be the single deciding factor for whether a user stays on your page or makes a dishearteningly rapid exit. Fortunately, with the use of new code,…

  • Today, Google web search is getting a new, bigger, better brain

    Jolie O'Dell
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Finally, Google’s search algorithm is getting a huge boost from a source we can actually trust. No, it’s not your dimwit friends and their Facebook shares. It’s Knowledge Base, a semantically structured body of data 500 million items strong and growing. With Knowledge Base plugged into Google Search, Google is going to get a heck of a lot better at knowing what things (not just what words) you’re searching for and delivering better results — more useful, more visual results. How Google’s new brain works Briefly, Knowledge Base is Google’s attempt to…

  • Electric Imp unveils cloud-based home automation: now you can burn your toast from Tokyo

    John Koetsier
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Home automation is a hot category that just got even hotter. And possibly, just a bit easier. Today Electric Imp is announcing the Imp, a cloud-based approach to monitoring and managing everything you own. The venture-backed startup in Los Altos, California, is taking a manufacturer-centric approach to the automation market — so don’t expect to be able to buy an Imp to retrofit existing devices tomorrow. Electic Imp is releasing a developer preview bundle in June, giving manufacturers the tools to make their devices Imp-compatible. The Imp chip Think pre-warming your house when…
 
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  • Read/Write Daily: Bionic Eyes That Can See Clearly

    16 May 2012 | 1:30 pm
    Today's theme is improving on life. Nature did a pretty good job of engineering some hardy life forms. But now we're able to tinker with life ourselves. We're further along than you might think. Researchers have lifted the lid on turtle evolution, a perfect demonstration that technology is natural. But now we have our own genetic ideas. We're able to triple the physical strength of mice in the lab. This paper shows that high-resolution prosthetic human eyes are possible! Here are slightly and greatly more accessible articles about these bionic eyes. We've also developed low-cost artificial…

  • Google Goes Back to What It Does Well: Finding Things

    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Surprise! Google has completely transformed the way search works again. But this time, it's a kind of search that would have made the old Google proud. Today, starting with U.S., English-language users, Google unveils the Knowledge Graph. Search now looks at the words of your query and identifies the things in it. You're not just searching the Web anymore. You're searching the world. From Words to Things Most of Google users' queries are ambiguous. In the old Google, when you searched for "kings," Google didn't know whether you meant actual monarchs, the hockey team,…

  • Why the iPad Works for Writing

    16 May 2012 | 10:02 am
    When the first iPad launched in 2010, critics were quick to lampoon the device for being geared too heavily toward content consumption. The criticisms weren't entirely without merit, especially considering that the first-generation iPad didn't even have a camera, and external media slots are still nowhere to be found.  Over time, the iPad has evolved into something that's much more creation-friendly. It still doesn't compare to a desktop or laptop computer for many things, but it's great for quite a few others. Writing is one of them.  I happen to write things for a living, but the…

  • The Truth About Why Yahoo's CEO Got Fired

    16 May 2012 | 9:02 am
    What's the takeaway from Yahoo's recent CEO fiasco? Don't lie on your corporate bio, for one, and make sure no one else has lied on your behalf. But the real lesson has nothing to do with falsified credentials. Sure, the world will remember Scott Thompson as the Yahoo CEO who got fired over a fake computer science degree, but the context is crucial: A battle with Yahoo shareholder Dan Loeb for control of the company. If not for Loeb, we may never have found out about Thompson's juiced resume, and he might still be CEO. The real lesson is: Beware the activist investor. Four months…

  • Loomio: Making Better Decisions Remotely Possible

    16 May 2012 | 8:33 am
    Email, instant messaging, forums, code forges and other collaboration tools make it possible for distributed teams to get work done - but they're not great tools for making decisions. The team behind Loomio wants to solve that with a new Web-based tool for focused, concise discussions that allow all team members to be heard.  If you've ever worked with a distributed team, you know how difficult it can be to make decisions as a group. Discussions are unstructured, rambling affairs with dozens of messages flying about and no good way to track consensus. Even worse, requests for feedback…
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  • Frrole: What’s Happening on Twitter in Your City?

    Mark Evans
    6 May 2012 | 6:21 am
    Idea: Looking to see what’s happening on Twitter in your city? Frrole delivers a “social newspaper” of 20 cities. My take: An interesting and easy way to get a snapshot of the local TwitterSphere. Utility Grade: 6/10

  • A Whois for Twitter Users

    Mark Evans
    27 Dec 2011 | 9:00 am
    One of Twitter’s shortcoming is how little information it provides about users, other than a short bio and a URL. So how do you quickly get more insight about particular users? The answer could be Twho is This, which offers up an extensive list of a person’s social/digital presence, along with their Twitter bio and a link to follow them. It’s not the prettiest service and it could benefit from offering more information but it’s better than what Twitter offers. An example below is Mathew Ingram (aka @mathewi). By doing a query on his username, it shows 14 different…

  • $300 Million of Twitter, Please

    Mark Evans
    19 Dec 2011 | 2:40 pm
    Twitter may not have a vibrant business model but it sure has no problem attracting heavyweight investors. The latest person to step up in a major way is Prince Walid bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, who bought a $300 million stake from an early Twitter investor as part a strategy “to invest in promising, high-growth businesses with a global impact.” (More details on the New York Times) You figure with so much interest, Twitter could do an IPO. Of course, an IPO means you have to disclose your financials, which Twitter may not want to do given it’s probably spend a lot more money than its…

  • Postpost Streamlines Twitter

    Mark Evans
    15 Dec 2011 | 11:00 pm
    A fact of life about Twitter is the more people you follow, the noisier your live stream becomes. As much as the live stream is a parade in which a new “float” comes along on a regular basis, there can be times when you want a way to have a more focused or narrow slice of what’s happening with our live stream. An interesting tool to take control of your live stream is Postpost, which drills down into it so that people can do searches for particular keywords. For example, if I was interested in tweets about “startups”, Postpost would generate the following results…

  • So How is Twitter Making Money?

    Mark Evans
    14 Dec 2011 | 12:05 pm
    Curious about how Twitter makes money? Henry Blodget did an interview recently at the Insight conference with Adam Bain, Twitter’s chief revenue officer, which I suppose is the guy responsible for helping turn Twitter into a business big enough to support its sky-high valuation and growing workforce (800 and counting!)
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  • Russia: A Sunday Stroll for Freedom

    Human Rights Watch
    16 May 2012 | 4:27 pm
    Tweet Widget Facebook Like Police arrested hundreds of people following clashes with demonstrators at a major protest rally in Moscow on May 6, 2012, the day before Vladimir Putin’s inauguration as president of Russia. (Moscow) – Police arrested hundreds of people following clashes with demonstrators at a major protest rally in Moscow on May 6, 2012, the day before Vladimir Putin’s inauguration as presiread more

  • UN Security Council: Press Libya on Impunity

    Human Rights Watch
    16 May 2012 | 9:23 am
    Tweet Widget Facebook Like Members of the United Nations Security Council should condemn attempts by the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) to prevent accountability for serious and ongoing crimes committed in Libya. The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, will brief the Security Council on his Libya investigation on May 16, 2012.   (New York) – Members of the United Nations Security Council should condemn attempts by the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) to prevent accountability for serious and ongoing crimes committed in…

  • US: Sexual Violence, Harassment of Immigrant Farmworkers

    Human Rights Watch
    15 May 2012 | 10:45 pm
    Tweet Widget Facebook Like Hundreds of thousands of immigrant farmworker women and girls in the United States face a high risk of sexual violence and sexual harassment in their workplaces because US authorities and employers fail to protect them adequately, Human Rights Watch said in its 95-page report, “Cultivating Fear: The Vulnerability of Immigrant Farmworkers in the US to Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment.” (New York) – Hundreds of thousands of immigrant farmworker women and girls in the United States face a high risk of sexual violence and sexual harassment in their…

  • DR Congo: Bosco Ntaganda Recruits Children by Force

    Human Rights Watch
    15 May 2012 | 7:01 pm
    Tweet Widget Facebook Like Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, who mutinied against the Democratic Republic of Congo in early April 2012, has forcibly recruited at least 149 boys and young men into his forces since April 19. Ntaganda, a former rebel leader turned army general, is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes for previous recruitment and use of child soldiers. (Goma) – Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, who mutinied against the Democratic Republic of Congo in early April 2012, has forcibly recruited at least 149 boys and young men into his forces since April 19, Human…

  • US/Burma: Don’t Lift Sanctions Too Soon

    Human Rights Watch
    15 May 2012 | 4:47 pm
    Tweet Widget Facebook Like The US government should not ease sanctions on business activities in Burma until adequate safeguards are in place to prevent new investment from fueling human rights abuses. (Washington, DC) – The US government should not ease sanctions on business activities in Burma until adequate safeguards are in place to prevent new investment from fueling human rights abuses. A US presidential order imposing a ban on investment and financial services in Burma is scheduled to expire on May 20, 2012, unless it is renewed or revised.read more
 
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  • Today’s Thought

    rsdailythought
    16 May 2012 | 6:30 am
    Photo credit: Monica Buck/Paper construction: Matthew Sporzynski Get the daily thought in your inbox. See more inspiring quotes on our Pinterest board. What’s Hot on RealSimple.com How to Be More Confident How to Choose [...]

  • How to Freeze Cookie Dough for National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!

    Simple Tip
    15 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Did you know that it’s National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day? Sounds like a good holiday to celebrate, but if you don’t want the temptation of having a whole batch of freshly baked cookies in [...]

  • Sitting Pretty: A Hot New Workout That’s Deceptively Hard

    elizabethbkrieger
    15 May 2012 | 8:35 am
    You wouldn’t think that a workout involving a chair could be that hard. Think again. Two weeks ago, I tried out a “Cardio Chair” class at the new studio, Chaise 23, in Manhattan. The [...]

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    15 May 2012 | 6:30 am
    Photo credit: Monica Buck/Paper construction: Matthew Sporzynski Get the daily thought in your inbox. See more inspiring quotes on our Pinterest board. What’s Hot on RealSimple.com Easy Outdoor Decorating Ideas Five-Minute Beauty Tips How [...]

  • Join Real Simple’s Reader Book Review Panel

    Maura Fritz
    14 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Hello, Bookies! I have a lot to share with you, starting with this big news: Our friends over on the print side of Real Simple are looking for readers to review books for them. [...]
 
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  • Verizon phasing out unlimited data as customers switch to 4G

    Kevin Fitchard
    16 May 2012 | 12:20 pm
    Verizon Wireless plans to close down the mobile broadband buffet for good, phasing out unlimited plans as customers upgrade from 3G phones to 4G. Verizon CFO Fran Shammo revealed the policy plan change on Wednesday while speaking at a J.P. Morgan conference, saying it must turn off the unlimited spigot as a prerequisite for moving to shared family data plans, FierceWireless reported. Verizon ended unlimited data last summer, but it also grandfathered its old all-you-can-eat customers into their $30 plans in perpetuity. That practice now seems to be ending. Shammo said that Verizon will launch…

  • Google shakes up search with new Wikipedia-like feature

    Jeff John Roberts
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Just months after rolling out a controversial personalized search feature, Google  is shaking up its search pages once again. This time, the search giant is carving out a chunk of the site for “Knowledge Graph,” a tool that offers an encyclopedia-like package in response to a user’s query. The idea is to get users to spend more time on Google and also to make the search engine offer a more human-like understanding of questions and context. “This is a critical first step towards building the next generation of search, which taps into the collective intelligence of the…

  • Behind the scenes of a Brazilian hacker space

    Katie Fehrenbacher
    16 May 2012 | 11:45 am
    When I read that the Geeks on a Plane group, which I’m traveling with this week through Latin America, would be visiting a Brazilian hacker space, I didn’t envision a picturesque Italian villa, with a flowing fountain and a cobblestone-filled square. But that’s exactly where the folks of the Sao Paulo-based Casa da Cultura Digital (House of Digital Culture) are working out of. The group is a frat-style collective of developers, artists, journalists, photographers and videographers that work (and party) out of the same house, collaborate on projects, and share bills, as well…

  • Facebook’s biggest problem is that it’s a media company

    Mathew Ingram
    16 May 2012 | 11:36 am
    There’s been a lot of attention paid to Facebook’s business model recently, especially with the news that General Motors has killed a $10-million advertising campaign devoted to the giant social network — not exactly a great sign of confidence in advance of the world’s most eagerly anticipated IPO. And GM’s move is only the latest indication of discontent, as other advertisers are also questioning their spending. What all of these moves reinforce is that while Facebook may look like and function like a social network for the majority of its users, on the business…

  • Verizon is now bigger than parent Vodafone

    Kevin Fitchard
    16 May 2012 | 11:14 am
    Chinese and U.S. operators continued to dominate the list of global mobile operators by revenue, according to Wireless Intelligence. China Mobile further solidified its top spot in both subscribers and revenue, but, most surprisingly, Verizon Wireless leapfrogged its corporate parent Vodafone in the fourth quarter in overall revenues. Vodafone is the world’s biggest multi-national operator with 384 million subscribers at the end of 211, while Verizon boasted 109 million connections. But there is a critical difference in the kinds of subscribers they each serve: Verizon focuses on the…
 
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  • Boss Bacon Burger - Epic Meal Time

    15 May 2012 | 2:04 am
    Boss Bacon Burger - Epic Meal Time LIKE/FAV!!! (The Return of Muscles Glasses part 2) After beating down a zombie vegan horde, EpicMealTime prepares a Boss Bacon Burger in honour of Muscles Glasses' return. With over 400 bacon strips, a custom bacon bun and a massive triple meat patty, this bacon cheese burger takes being a genius to the next level. BUY AWESOME TSHIRTS!!! http://shop.epicmealtime.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/epicmealtime Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/epicmealtime BACON LUBE: http://www.whiskeydicklube.com From: EpicMealTime Views: 844373 36797 ratings Time:…

  • Singapore tragic accident video - warning, graphic (Ferrari / Taxi)

    14 May 2012 | 10:58 pm
    Singapore tragic accident video - warning, graphic (Ferrari / Taxi) Rest in peace to all the innocent parties involved and all the best to their families. No sympathies to the one who caused the accident... What a wanker.. Source: http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/eat-drink-man-woman-16/%5Bgvgt%5D-video-ferrari-involved-horrific-crash-not-snap-shot-gif-3728551.html From: TheMockymocky Views: 769004 821 ratings Time: 00:29 More in People & Blogs

  • THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (3D) - 4 MINUTE SUPER PREVIEW

    14 May 2012 | 6:53 pm
    THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (3D) - 4 MINUTE SUPER PREVIEW Like Us https://www.facebook.com/theamazingspiderman Follow Us: https://twitter.com/#!/spidermanmovie Visit the Official Site: http://theamazingspiderman.com/ From: spidermanmovie Views: 890505 6309 ratings Time: 04:03 More in Film & Animation

  • "GATEWAY SEXUAL ACTIVITY" BANNED IN TENNESSEE

    14 May 2012 | 5:25 pm
    "GATEWAY SEXUAL ACTIVITY" BANNED IN TENNESSEE Check out today's SourceFed!! http://bit.ly/JSM8xm Get some PhillyD Merch: http://forhumanpeoples.com FACEBOOK: http://on.fb.me/mqpRW7 TWITTER: http://Twitter.com/PhillyD Philly D OFFICIAL APP: http://bit.ly/aIyY0w ---------------------------- ALL of today's Stories: BAMF because he Cares: http://bit.ly/KhYJKP Ban on Texting & Walking: http://gizmo.do/JBuIGS No "Gateway Sexual Activity" http://gaw.kr/KhYRdf New Apple Macbook? http://bit.ly/JgfGb8 Megan Good Gallery: http://bit.ly/Jcw9Q3 Steven Staley's…

  • Minecraft - Rapidfire Bow & Time Control Mods!

    14 May 2012 | 2:39 pm
    Minecraft - Rapidfire Bow & Time Control Mods! Simon and Lewis take a look at the amazing Rapidfire Bow and Time Control Mods! Rapid Fire Bow Mod: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1179672-125-rapid-fire-bow-150-downloads/ Time Control Mod: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1180611-125-time-control-remote-fight-mobs-in-slow-motion-now-with-matrix-remote-4080-downloads Texture Pack: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/26727-johnsmith-texture-pack-v93-32x-124-with-customizer-0324/ ♪ Outro music by Area11 http://www.youtube.com/user/area11band ● Yogscast Gear:…
 
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    Reuters Video: Most Popular

  • Ratko Mladic on trial for Bosnia genocide

    16 May 2012 | 4:23 am
    May 16 - The trial of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic on genocide and other charges opens in the Netherlands. Paul Chapman reports.

  • Facebook likes the world to share

    16 May 2012 | 4:22 am
    May 16 - With growth slowing in the U.S., the world's leading social network Facebook will be increasingly reliant on international markets to drive revenues after it goes public later this week. Matt Cowan reports.

  • Reuters Today: Greek vote fears spark market rout

    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    May 16 - Equities tumble as Greece faces new elections that could push it closer to exiting the euro. The euro falls below $1.27, Spanish bond yields soar.

  • 'Mother killed kids': police

    15 May 2012 | 10:49 pm
    May 16 - Police say a mother shot dead her four children then turned the gun on herself in the U.S. state of Florida. Paul Chapman reports.

  • Hollande's plane struck by lightning

    15 May 2012 | 7:29 pm
    May 15 - French president Francois Hollande was delayed but undeterred for his first meeting with German chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the euro zone crisis. Deborah Gembara reports.
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    WSJ.com: Today's Most Popular

  • Apple Moves to Larger iPhone Screens

    16 May 2012 | 11:17 am
    Apple is likely to increase the screen size on its coming iPhone. The company is asking Asian suppliers to make screens measuring at least 4 inches diagonally. The current iPhone has a 3.5-inch display.

  • Deadly Meetings in the Workplace

    16 May 2012 | 8:48 am
    When it comes to meetings, co-workers can be deadly. Among the biggest offenders are naysayers and co-workers who wander off-topic. To boost productivity, some managers take extreme measures.

  • GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Pay Off

    16 May 2012 | 7:43 am
    GM plans to stop advertising on Facebook after the auto maker decided that paid ads on the site have little impact on consumers' car buying.

  • Michael Oren: What Happened to Israel's Reputation?

    15 May 2012 | 5:53 pm
    How in 40 years the Jewish state went from inspiring underdog to supposed oppressor.

  • Why Wrigley Field Must Be Destroyed

    15 May 2012 | 5:44 pm
    Having not won a World Series since 1908, and having last appeared on that stage in 1945—the Chicago Cubs must contemplate the only solution that might restore the team to glory: Tear down Wrigley Field.
 
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    Dinosaur Comics

  • SECRETS OF THE BANKING PROFESSION

    16 May 2012 | 7:10 am
    archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - cute - search - aboutnew dinosaur comics book out! plus the best shirt ever for a human!!← previousMay 16th, 2012nextMay 16th, 2012: Oh I forgot to mention with the new book, there are now COMBO PACKS available! You save some money because you are buying more things. Perhaps you are... fascinated by the possibilities?– Ryan

  • always go out on a joke

    15 May 2012 | 7:02 am
    archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - cute - search - aboutnew dinosaur comics book out! plus the best shirt ever for a human!!← previousMay 15th, 2012nextMay 15th, 2012: Oh I forgot to mention with the new book, there are now COMBO PACKS available! You save some money because you are buying more things. Perhaps you are... fascinated by the possibilities?– Ryan

  • medusa fan comix

    14 May 2012 | 7:05 am
    archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - cute - search - aboutnew dinosaur comics book out! plus the best shirt ever for a human!!← previousMay 14th, 2012nextMay 14th, 2012: So I've gotten a lot of emails about this here comic saying "make the dictionary dude, I want in!" I AM considering it, but I've got some other projects I need to put to bed first. So give me a while and I may end up doing writing my own dictionary (life-long dream) that you can contribute too! And it'll be a funny dictionary because each definition will be a joke. BUT FIRST: OTHER STUFF! THE OTHER STUFF YOU…

  • alternate ending: t-rex calls up nasa, but it's not the space organization it's the National Apple Sharers Association, and t-rex wants some apples too, that's the exact moment where i started writing a different ending

    11 May 2012 | 7:05 am
    archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - cute - search - aboutnew dinosaur comics book out! plus the best shirt ever for a human!!← previousMay 11th, 2012nextMay 11th, 2012: NEW DINOSAUR COMICS BOOK, AND IT FEATURES AN INTRODUCTION BY MY HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHER, MS. JANET COVER Plus, plus! CHECK OUT THIS AMAZING SHIRT: You're amazing. But how precisely amazing are you? This shirt lets everyone know. Written in consultation with my Actual Doctor friend, this shirt has fully-accurate information how how amazing you really are. We really did do all the research and calculate all…

  • this comic has made me seriously consider the prospect of writing my own dictionary. i may have a problem / several concurrent problems

    10 May 2012 | 1:33 pm
    archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - cute - search - aboutnew dinosaur comics book out! plus the best shirt ever for a human!!← previousMay 10th, 2012nextMay 10th, 2012: This year is the 30th anniversary of Dig Dug! To celebrate, Namco is putting out 30 comics by 30 comic teams, all about Dig Dug! They just announced the project yesterday but I'm happy to say that I'm one of those guys writing a Dig Dug comic and it's really going to be something awesome. Hooray! FOR COMICS – Ryan
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    Daily Writing Tips

  • Does Everyone Know Every One?

    Mark Nichol
    15 May 2012 | 10:19 pm
    Writers are sometimes confused about when to attach any, every, and no to one or body as a closed compound and when to treat one of these word pairs as just that: a two-word phrase. Here are guidelines and sample sentences for each combination: Any Body/Anybody The two-word alternative, which refers to people’s physical form rather than the complete body-mind package, might be used as an advertising-copy play on anybody, as in “We can get any body into shape,” but that’s rare; it might also appear as a modifier-noun pair that itself modifies another noun: “People with any body type…

  • All About Ellipses

    Mark Nichol
    14 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    Three dots. Dot, dot, dot. What could be simpler? Then why do those dots make so many writers dotty? The rules for use of ellipses are not as simple as they seem. But they are manageable. First, a definition: An ellipsis (from the Greek word elleipsis — also the source of ellipse, meaning “an oval” — is an elision of words that can be implied to mentally complete a statement; it can also mean “a sudden change of subject.” But the meaning we seek is another one, the grammatically mechanical one: Ellipsis and its plural form, ellipses, also refer to the punctuation marks…

  • 7 Terms with the Root “-Vore”

    Mark Nichol
    13 May 2012 | 11:30 pm
    Are you a locavore? Probably not — it’s still a fringe movement — but you should know what it means, even if you do not consider yourself a member of the class. A discussion of locavore and six related words follows: 1. Locavore The term was coined in 2005 by a group of San Franciscans who launched the website Locavore.com to spread the word about the conservationist concept of striving to restrict one’s diet to foods and ingredients produced locally. (Some locavores quantify the range as anywhere within a one-hundred-mile radius, but most are not exact in their limits.)…

  • The Rules of Engagement in English

    Mark Nichol
    11 May 2012 | 10:19 pm
    In the same day, this site received, among readers’ responses to my recent post Courtesy Titles and Honorifics, two diverse email messages: One was a reasonable, well-written support of the writer’s opinion that, as she was taught, because the courtesy title Ms. is an artificial designation that doesn’t abbreviate anything, it should not include a period. The other correspondent wrote, “hey watch out your website looks like a rule book, and we all know rule books are fascist.” Whether one’s convictions are adept or absurd, however, one must accept the incontrovertible fact that…

  • Book Review: “Spunk and Bite”

    Mark Nichol
    10 May 2012 | 10:56 pm
    The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, has been widely celebrated as one of the masterworks of English usage. Time magazine listed it as one of the one hundred most influential books written in English since 1923. More than ten million copies of the slim little volume that elucidates good usage, proper composition, and correct form have been sold over the course of the last half-century. Shred it. Shred it, that is, after you’ve read it once so that you know what not to do in your writing. Then, buy a copy of Arthur Plotnik’s Spunk and Bite: A Writer’s Guide to…
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    @ProBlogger

  • 5 Effective Tricks to Create a Killer Call to Action

    Guest Blogger
    16 May 2012 | 9:04 am
    This guest post is by Greg Digneo of Sales Leads in Thirty Days. Here’s the dirty little secret: there are actually two steps to building an extremely popular blog. The first and most popular step is to drive traffic by guest posting, social media, and SEO. The far less sexy step is to convert that traffic into loyal readers who will become the backbone of your community.  Who will share every piece of content you produce with their friends.  And who will ensure that every post sparks an engaging discussion. But most of all, they will be the first to buy your products and services. The…

  • Get Obsessed with Your Message

    Guest Blogger
    15 May 2012 | 3:01 pm
    This guest post is by Danielle LaPorte of DanielleLaPorte.com. Blog = up? Posts = rolling? It’s time to get obsessed with your message. A quick dictionary moment, to differentiate between your voice, your topics and your message. Your voice is what makes your writing distinctive, compelling, unmistakably you. You’ll carry your voice from your blog, right into your book. Seamless, identifiable. Individual. Your topics are the categories or subjects you write about (Eco-luxe weddings on a shoestring budget! Savvy corporate management, with heart and soul! Thrifty vegan recipes!) Your…

  • On the Elusive “Next Level” of Blogging

    Darren Rowse
    15 May 2012 | 9:04 am
    We’ve all heard of it—the elusive “next level” that so many bloggers talk about online. But what is the next level? How many levels are there? Is there an end point in leveling up? These are all worthwhile questions—especially for more experienced bloggers who have spent a lot of time and energy in reaching the level they’re already at. For these bloggers, trying to reach the next level can involve a degree of risk, so the steps that get us toward the next level might be taken slowly and with care. On the other hand, the web isn’t exactly undersupplied with…

  • Grab Your BWE Virtual Ticket for $100 Off—24 Hours Left

    Darren Rowse
    14 May 2012 | 7:09 pm
    Wish you could get to Blog World Expo this year, but can’t make it to New York? Me too. I’ll be in Queensland with the winners of my blogging competition, but I know there are plenty of bloggers from other countries, as well as within the States, who won’t be able to attend Blog World this year. Fortunately, you and I don’t need to miss out on the information and fun of the Expo (and if the speaker list for this year is anything to go by, the conference is going to be really impressive). We “remote” bloggers can still “attend” on a BWE virtual…

  • Install Your First WordPress Theme

    Guest Blogger
    14 May 2012 | 9:09 am
    This guest post is by Karol K of ThemeFuse. Seeing a headline like “How to Install a WordPress Theme” on ProBlogger might seem strange at first. This doesn’t sound like a “pro”-thing at all, right? If you’ve been dealing with WordPress for a while then this is probably even more than obvious to you. However, everyone starts somewhere, and there are plenty of experienced bloggers who haven’t ever installed a WordPress theme—but would like to give it a try. Maybe you’re installing your first theme right now, and you’re searching for a…
 
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    Epicurious.com: Latest Features

  • Edible Wedding Bouquets

    epicurious.com
    16 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    As wedding season begins to pick up, it's no surprise that more and more epicurean brides are choosing to walk down the aisle with bouquets featuring edibles, namely fruits, vegetables, herbs, and even grains. Incorporating these elements takes some time and consideration, so we've asked seasoned florists for advice on how best to plan for a food lover's wedding bouquet. Check out what they have to say on the subject.

  • Dinner on the Grill

    epicurious.com
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    BBQ Queens Karen Adler and Judith Fertig create an all-grill menu for effortless summer entertainingrecipes, drink ideas, and a step-by-step timeline included.

  • How to Host a Big Graduation Party Like a Pro

    epicurious.com
    14 May 2012 | 10:40 am
    Graduation is one of the best reasons to host a big celebration: School is out, summer is in, and friends, neighbors, family, and beloved teachers and coaches are happy to gather in support of the grad. Read on for a surefire party planfrom the budget and prep, to the food and drink, to the setup and decorplus a timeline that will help you host a great graduation party (or any summer gathering for a large group) that only looks as though you called in a professional.

  • Fancy Mothers Day Cakes

    epicurious.com
    11 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Instead of making Mom a basic yellow cake with frosting, why not try a new and unique cake recipe? Weve got sixteen of them.

  • Culinary Intelligence

    epicurious.com
    10 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Food critic and cookbook author Peter Kaminsky talks to us about how mindful eating and seasonal ingredients can help you lose weight. By giving up "white foods," maximizing the "flavor per calorie," and focusing on foods at their seasonal peak, you too can lose weight and keep it off.
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    Copyblogger

  • What Does it Take to Write a Billion-Dollar Marketing Story?

    Amy Harrison
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    In 1984, two artists used a simple process to create a story that captivated an audience for years and generated billions of dollars in revenue. That same process is being used today by a master copywriter to attract hundreds of thousands of paying subscribers. With companies creating millions of web pages of content marketing, finding an untold story or a new angle can feel like an impossible task. Especially when you want to avoid creating a story so unique nobody understands it … or wants to pay for it. So how do you create a story that cuts through the noise and strikes at the heart…

  • How to be a World-Changing Writer

    Pace Smith and Sonia Simone
    15 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    As a copywriter, you know that words have power. You know words can influence, inform, and inspire. They can persuade your fellow humans to do some amazing things (or to do the wrong things, but we won’t go there today). What you may not realize is that your words can change the world. Here’s something else that’s really cool that you might not have realized … The keys to world-changing writing are also the keys to damn good copywriting. But as you know, good writing doesn’t happen all by itself. So let’s talk about what it takes to be damned good ……

  • WordPress Hosting That Means Business

    Brian Clark
    14 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Did you know Copyblogger Media has a WordPress hosting division? Many people don’t, because it’s been a bit under-the-radar. The whole thing started with our frustration with web hosting in general. Specifically, the fact that a lot of “WordPress hosting” amounts to generic one-click installation of the CMS on a standardly-configured box — which simply doesn’t cut it for optimal performance and security. So, last year we decided to manage our high-traffic network of content and product sites ourselves. We did this by bringing into the family a team of people who themselves…

  • The Truth About Making Money While You Sleep

    Jonathan Morrow
    14 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Want to hear about the day in the life of a so-called “successful entrepreneur?” Yesterday, I stayed in bed until about 2 PM. I watched the last few episodes of Mad Men. Around sunset, I took a leisurely stroll down the beach. When I got back, I hung out with a friend for a couple of hours, ate dinner, and went to bed. In other words … I goofed off. And while I was goofing off, my business generated a pretty decent chunk of revenue. You want to know the coolest part? I did absolutely nothing to “earn” it. I didn’t check my email. I didn’t talk to…

  • 7 Instructive Content Marketing Links

    Robert Bruce
    12 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    This week on The Lede … Are Content Publishers Waking Up from Their App Dreams Nightmares? An Email Marketing Autoresponder Schedule that Sells 3 Quick Tips To Conquering Your Fear of Public Speaking Does Your Domain Say “Trust Me?” Why “Freemium” Fails for Startups: 3 Business Lessons from the Band New Order 5 Basic SEO Truths We Can Learn from Star Wars Peter Shankman on the Value of an Audience If you want to grab more useful links (than the seven we highlight here) every week, follow @copyblogger on Twitter. Are Content Publishers Waking Up from Their App Dreams…
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    Cute Overload

  • Bigfoot Sighting

    pyrit
    16 May 2012 | 12:29 pm
    From the Moors of Scotland to the Chattawoogawassee Swamps of Arkansas, history is full of tales of strange beasts lurking at the edges of our perception. CO believes the time has come to welcome them, befriend them, and then most importantly, scream and run away! It wuz all hairy with big feet and clarws! We ain’t never seen nuthin’ like it before, Josh N.! Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Kittens

  • The Fast and the Furriest

    pyrit
    16 May 2012 | 7:26 am
    Follow that car! Step on it! Faster, faster! Go, go, go! It’s getting away! Gus is a gas, gas, gas, Matthew C. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Kittens, Matchingks

  • When Good Dogs Go Bad

    Crazy Pants
    16 May 2012 | 7:20 am
    It is a very sad thing when your sweet puppy turns into a beast. No one thinks it will happen to them, but the truth is, it can happen to anyone. This is Tiny. He started as a charming and gregarious little Akita. Tiny loved running and playing and licking folks. Now he insists on being called Beelzepup and is getting all possessive-y. His poor owner, Paul P., is hoping it’s just a phase. Here’s another example. Bentley was a fine little fellow who stayed right with you on walks. Now he’s running around with a bad crowd, calling the ladies the “B” word and…

  • Word to your Mama

    Not That Mike The Other Mike
    15 May 2012 | 4:45 pm
    I’m such a happy llama; don’t need none of your drama I’ve got the cutest smile from here to Yokohama If you’ve got major trauma, like a rip in your pajama, Just gaze into my happy face until you’re feeling warma. For a photo with such class, we give thanks to tintedglass. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Hoofers

  • I Hear You

    Meg
    15 May 2012 | 12:10 pm
    LOUD AND CLEAR! Found by Johanna S. Photo by Seth Casteel, who does all those great underwater dog portraits. Filed under: Uncategorized
 
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    This Just In

  • TSA Misstep Causes Teen to Lose Pricey Medical Equipment

    Budget Travel
    16 May 2012 | 11:02 am
    A familiar sight at the airport (Courtesy niiicedave/Flickr) There are a lot of jokes at the expense of the TSA, thanks to some ridiculous mistakes and policy misunderstandings on the part of agents. But it's no laughing matter when an agent's ignorance causes a teen traveler's life–saving medical equipment to malfunction. When 16–year–old Savannah Barry—who is a Type 1 diabetic and wears an insulin pump—was flying out of the Salt Lake City airport last Monday, she followed the guidelines for diabetic travelers listed on the TSA website and asked for a…

  • Why Flight+ Is Apple's App of the Week

    Sean O'Neill
    15 May 2012 | 12:33 pm
    The app Flight+ launched only a couple of weeks ago, but it's already a bestselling app in the iTunes App Store. The reason is simple: This week, Apple named Flight+ its App of the Week, singling it out as exceptional among the 725,000 apps in the store. Flight+ deserves its popularity. It can do complex things in a very streamlined way. That matters most when you need help handling a snafu with your itinerary, such as a delayed or canceled flight. Say your flight is delayed. Flight+ earns its $3 price tag because it lets you track any flight in the sky on a map in real time—at least as…

  • Why You Don't Want to Have an Accident When Driving a Rental Car in Mexico

    Sean O'Neill
    11 May 2012 | 10:45 am
    Rental car in Mexico (Courtesy adam_d_/Flickr) Last year, Wade Bruleson of Enid, Oklahoma, learned the hard way what could go wrong when you rent a car in Mexico. During a vacation stop in Cozumel, Bruleson went on a quick trip in his family's rental car to pick up a map from a local shop. During the drive, he accidentally broadsided a motorcycle, which led to a few broken bones for its two riders. At the police station, Bruleson discovered that the premium insurance policy he bought from his rental car company wouldn't cover everything. In Mexico, the guilty party in a car accident that…

  • Will You be Flying or Driving This Summer?

    Budget Travel
    11 May 2012 | 10:25 am
    Are you a fan of flying vs. driving this summer? (Courtesy Ceo1O17/Flickr) A couple months ago we theorized that no one would be taking road trips this summer due to high gas prices. Turns out, we might have been wrong. According to the Royal Bank of Canada, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, their U.S consumers are feeling better about the economy—and they want to travel. Thanks in part to a recent dip in gas prices, 67 percent of the respondents said they were planning on driving to their summer vacation spot—up 8 percent over 2010—while 34 percent plan to fly…

  • New York City Bike-Sharing Program To Debut This Summer

    Budget Travel
    10 May 2012 | 5:11 pm
    Biking in New York City just got easier. (Courtesy Smart Destinations/Flickr) As New Yorkers, we like to think we set the trends. Yet there was one thing this city didn't have that most other major cities already feature: bike–sharing. But pack your helmets—starting this summer, locals and travelers alike will easily be able to take a two–wheeler for a spin. The Citi Bike program will include 10,000 bikes in 600 locations around Manhattan and Brooklyn. The locations are still being worked out, but it looks like a good number of docking stations will be set up in…
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    Anthony Bourdain

  • RAW

    hcho
    4 May 2012 | 11:15 am
    by Anthony Bourdain Generally speaking, there are two distinct audiences for this show: people who like to look at images of food and are interested in where it comes from and how it got to the plate—and people who like to travel—or like the idea of travel—and enjoy watching images of faraway places and cultures. Oh—and there’s also a smaller group who apparently enjoy watching me get falling down drunk and stupid. But that’s another matter. This week’s episode is about food. More specifically, it’s about the creative process that leads up to the food that will eventually be…

  • BBQ APOCALYPSE

    hcho
    15 Apr 2012 | 1:23 pm
    by Anthony Bourdain I’ve referred only half jokingly over the years to the early days of my television career when, after two seasons of making shows around the world for A COOK’S TOUR, I was advised that audiences just didn’t respond to all those foreign locations where people talked funny and sometimes (horror of horrors) even had to be subtitled. My cruel masters sat back in their chairs and with dreamy, wistful looks suggested how wonderful it would be if I could just confine my interests to shows about tailgate parties, pony rides and….barbecue. “Exotic” locations…

  • Hard 8

    hcho
    9 Apr 2012 | 7:49 pm
    by Anthony Bourdain Eight seasons of NO RESERVATIONS.  Who would have guessed?  I sure as Hell wouldn’t have. How long could we get away with it? Not very long was the prevailing wisdom. And yet here we are.  Nearly 700,000 air miles later, about two thirds of the way through shooting—and it’s looking pretty good. Mozambique—airing tonight—looks SO good, in fact, that our Emmy Award winning cinematographer Zach Zamboni says it’s the finest work he’s ever done.  (Personally, I think the upcoming Penang episode is a close contender). In following weeks, we attempt to take…

  • DARK PASSAGE

    hcho
    7 Dec 2011 | 2:57 pm
    by Anthony Bourdain What do Norah Jones, Christopher Walken,  the band “ ****edUp”, Vegan Black Metal Chef,  Sam Brown, nightmare of Eastern European folklore Krampus, the Catalonian Pooping Log, Dave Arnold, chefs Lidia Bastianich,  April Bloomfield, Kurt Gutenbrunner, Eder Montero, Alexandra Raij, Carlos Llaguno Morales and the voices of Adam Richman and Andrew Zimmern have in common? They all foolishly agreed to appear in our scandalous, dark, action-packed fever dream of a Holiday Show which airs this Monday, December 12th at 10PM—when, presumably, the kiddies will be asleep.

  • SOUTHERN COMFORT

    anthony bourdain
    28 Aug 2011 | 10:36 am
    I just got back from family vacation, where, for ten days, I violated all my rules and everything I’ve ever preached about how to travel.  I stayed put. I rarely left the hotel grounds.  I ate in the same two restaurants for most of my trip—rarely deviating from pasta, pizza and gelato. Though there was a lake a few hundred yards walk down, I never put so much as a toe in it—spending the bulk of my days instead, splashing around in the shallow end of the pool with a Barbie pail , an inflatable porpoise, and a relentlessly energetic 4 year old girl. It was marvelous. I missed—or was…
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    MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - iOS Blog

  • China Mobile Again Confirms iPhone Talks with Apple

    Eric Slivka
    16 May 2012 | 8:26 am
    Reuters reports that China Mobile Chairman Xi Guohua has once again publicly stated that the world's largest mobile phone carrier is engaged in talks with Apple about offering the iPhone to its customers."We've been actively talking to Apple on how we can cooperate," China Mobile Chairman Xi Guohua, who assumed the post in March, told a shareholders meeting. "I can't give you too many details, but I'd like to repeat that both sides do hope to boost our cooperation," Xi added after the meeting.China Unicom was Apple's launch partner for the iPhone in China, and availability expanded to China…

  • In Lawsuit Over Siri, Apple Says the Technology is "Cutting Edge"

    Jordan Golson
    15 May 2012 | 1:29 pm
    Apple has filed a motion to dismiss in a case filed by customers over alleged misleading advertising depicting the Siri technology in the iPhone 4S. The lawsuit, filed in March, alleges that Apple's advertising of Siri doesn't reflect real-world usage. When asked for directions or to locate a store, "Siri either did not understand what Plaintiff was asking, or, after a very long wait time, responded with the wrong answer." In a motion to dismiss (via Scribd), Apple attempts to shoot down the Plaintiff's arguments, reports the Wall Street Journal: They offer only general descriptions of…

  • iPhone a 'Game Changer' for Customer Satisfaction

    Eric Slivka
    15 May 2012 | 12:44 pm
    The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ASCI) today released its latest rankings of customer satisfaction in the United States for mobile phones and a number of products and services, with the new mobile phone rankings being expanded to include Apple, Research in Motion, LG, and HTC for the first time. In its first appearance in the rankings, Apple easily topped the list with a score of 83, outdistancing Nokia, LG, and HTC in a tie for second place at 75. Apple's performance marks the first time a mobile phone company scored above 77 in any of the group's surveys dating back to 2004.For…

  • Google Chrome Browser Coming to iOS?

    Eric Slivka
    15 May 2012 | 10:57 am
    Business Insider reports on a new research note from Macquarie analyst Ben Schacter, who claims that Google is working to bring a version of its Chrome browser to iOS devices. According to the report, Apple "may already be reviewing" the app, which could debut before the end of the quarter. Google Chrome browser for Android Google currently splits ad revenue share with Apple for Google searches performed through Safari, a deal that currently sees Google paying Apple roughly $1 billion per year. With a potential Chrome browser for iOS leading to Google keeping all revenue for searches…

  • Book Pricing Lawsuit Reveals More Details of Apple's Negotiations, Including Steve Jobs Email

    Jordan Golson
    14 May 2012 | 4:04 pm
    Seventeen more states have joined the antitrust lawsuit against Apple and several book publishing houses over the pricing of ebooks. Perhaps more interesting are certain details released in the latest filing that were previously redacted, including one from Steve Jobs. Portions of this email have been seen before, but this is the first chance the public has had to see a major negotiation written by the former CEO. As reported by PaidContent, Steve Jobs became directly involved in the pricing negotiations after Apple executive "Eddy Cue could not secure one of the Conspiring Publisher’s…
 
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    The Mac Observer

  • News: Apple Asks Court to Drop Siri Lawsuits

    Jeff Gamet
    16 May 2012 | 10:14 am
    Apple has filed a lawsuit asking a California court to dismiss a group of lawsuits seeking class action status over claims that the Siri voice recognition in the iPhone 4S doesn’t perform as advertised. According to the lawsuits, Apple intentionally misstated Siri’s capabilities in its advertising — an accusation that Apple denies.

  • News: Judge: Apple at Heart of Ebook Price Fixing Conspiracy

    Jeff Gamet
    16 May 2012 | 9:31 am
    U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote denied a request from Apple and ebook publishers to dismiss a class action lawsuit accusing them of price fixing, and at the same time said that Apple and Steve Jobs were in the middle of the conspiracy.

  • TMO Appearances: John F. Braun Looks at Mac Security on Not Another Mac Podcast

    Jeff Gamet
    16 May 2012 | 8:44 am
    Mac Geek Gab co-host John F. Braun joined the Not Another Mac Podcast to discuss Mac security, cloud services, and more.

  • News: Aaron Sorkin Adapting Steve Jobs Bio for Film

    Jeff Gamet
    16 May 2012 | 8:02 am
    Aaron Sorkin will pen Sony’s movie version of the biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Mr. Sorkin is known for “Social Network” and the Oscar-nominated “Moneyball.”

  • TMO Quick Tip: iPhone 4S: My Favorite Siri Commands

    Melissa Holt
    16 May 2012 | 7:35 am
    If you have an iPhone 4S and you don’t use Siri much, Melissa Holt is disappointed in you. So disappointed, in fact, that she’s decided to write an entire tip on her favorite uses for Apple’s friendly personal assistant. She hopes by doing so that she can convince you to start talking to your electronics in public—after all, the more people start doing that, the less insane she looks when she does. We’d call that a win-win.
 
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  • Get Ready To Groan: Woot Weads The Wire

    16 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    Every week in this space, we’ll take a look at the news and offer our own incisive blend of commentary, analysis, and poop jokes. The news you need, from a voice you can trust, in the 90 seconds you have to spare: that’s Woot Weads the Wire. SANDWICH, England (UPI) -- Residents of Sandwich, England, are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the invention of the sandwich, first ordered by the fourth earl of Sandwich. 1762 marked the year John Montagu first ordered the dish that would be named after his peerage, which thankfully saved the world from having to fill their mouths with the far…

  • The Trivial Eye: Extinct Animals

    16 May 2012 | 12:06 am
    It's fair to say people are more enlightened about species conservation today than back when we intentionally hunted "nuisance" animals into extinction. And there have been some restoration success stories. But in some places, things are actually getting worse. Climate change, habitat destruction, and poaching continue to threaten species around the world, from whales to polar bears. Just last year, the Eastern Lynx and Western Black Rhinoceros were declared extinct. Can you name these eight species that today we can only see through paintings, photos, and stuffed specimens? Answers are here.

  • Centon 64GB DataStick Sport - $29.99

    16 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    Back On The Pull ListSome time later, at the long table within the Penthouse of Evil, members of the Chaos Conglomerate await a very special arrival…The Yellow Detonator: All I’m saying is that, as the mirror version of The Ogre, one would assume you’d talk, you know, normally. Nega-Ogre: RRWWWARRGMONNMO! The Drunk Heckler: Hey. HEY! That didn’t make any schence! Whadda coupla of LOSCHERS! You both sch… sch… oh no… Doctor Eclipse: Ugh, for Evil’s sake, will someone get Heckler some coffee or something? Huge Dictator, what is the meaning of all this? I could be plotting the…

  • Completely Unfair Comparisons: On Paper, Bees, and Inhibitions

    15 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    There are plenty of places on Woot where you can find helpful information. This is not one of those places. Every week we will be comparing 3 pairs of things that shouldn’t be compared using this formula: Unrelated Thing X vs. Unrelated Thing Y in terms of Function Z. Facts will be misunderstood, overlooked, or changed for the sake of the argument. Enjoy. 1. A Blank Sheet of Loose Leaf Paper vs. Pyrotechnics in terms of What You Want in Your Mini Fridge Pyrotechnics in a mini fridge? What a contrast, right? Something built out of heat and light inside of a cold, dark box. How poetic,…

  • BeanPad for iPad 2 & Gen 3: Real Actual Field Tests #16

    Woot
    15 May 2012 | 12:02 am
    What more perfect luxury exists than collapsing on a beanbag chair? Haven't you always wished your iPad 2 or "new" iPad could enjoy the same pleasure? No? Well, now it can anyway. Woot's Real Actual Field Test team tries out the BeanPad iPod accessory, and discovers it works pretty much like you'd expect.
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    OrganicAuthority.com - Organic Blog

  • Salmon Hatcheries Causing Wild Salmon Decline

    Jill Ettinger
    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    With nearly half of all fish consumed in the U.S. originating on fish farms, concerns have heightened over the environmental issues associated with the practice. And a new report released by the Wild Salmon Center implicates salmon hatcheries in connection with damage to wild salmon populations.

  • Remember to Drink Your Wine: Resveratrol May Reverse Alzheimer’s

    Jill Ettinger
    15 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Resveratrol, the potent antioxidant found in red grapes and wine—along with chocolate, nuts and tomatoes—may hold a key in treating Alzheimer's disease, the fatal illness with no known cure and few effective treatments in easing the symptoms that currently affect more than 5 million Americans.

  • Georgia Debuts Aggressive Anti-Obesity Ad Campaign

    Jill Ettinger
    14 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    News that the nation's obesity problem could balloon to more than 40 percent of the population in the next two decades has brought doubt to many of the recent efforts to impart healthier eating and exercise habits, particularly on children, and has led to some harsher tactics, like a recent ad campaign launched in Georgia.

  • Human Babies Being Eaten for ‘Endurance’

    Jill Ettinger
    13 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Unbelievable news has surfaced out of South Korea as customs officials made the recent discovery of thousands of capsules filled with powdered human flesh imported from China, believed to be a "cure-all."

  • Would You Eat Fast Food Everyday… for $3,500?

    Jill Ettinger
    12 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    No, it's not Morgan Spurlock's latest movie stunt. But if you feel like you can't live without getting a daily dose (or several) of fast food meals from McDonald's, Taco Bell, KFC, Burger King or Pizza Hut, then there is some potentially good news for you coming out of Washington University. Researchers at the St. Louis, MO-based university are looking for individuals who are willing to eat nothing but fast food for three whole months.
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  • Zimmerman Medical Report Leaked

    ExpsRedemption
    16 May 2012 | 11:32 am
    A medical report compiled by the family physician of George Zimmerman, the man on trial for murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, has been leaked to ABC News. In the report, Zimmerman was diagnosed with a "closed fracture" of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot Martin. The report also shows that prior to the shooting, Zimmerman had been prescribed Adderall and Temazepam, medications that can cause side effects such as agitation and mood swings.

  • What Did Ron Paul Accomplish?

    Doc_Sarvis
    16 May 2012 | 10:30 am
    Not much, according to Jonathan Tobin, editor of the conservative magazine Commentary. "Though many on the left wrongly assume his extremist approach resonated with the party's base, the truth was, he had little to offer average Republican voters," Tobin writes. "Nor can it be credibly asserted that he moved the conservative discussion in his direction on any issue where it had not already moved. Every time he opened his mouth, he demonstrated the strong distinction between his own extremist approach and that of even most Tea Party hardliners."

  • Hawaii's Beaches Are in Retreat

    zatoichi
    16 May 2012 | 8:50 am
    Most beaches on Hawaii's three largest islands are eroding, and the erosion is likely to accelerate as sea levels rise, the United States Geological Survey warns. Over the last century, about 9 percent of the sandy coast on Hawaii, Oahu and Maui has vanished. Building seawalls just worsens the problem. "If we want beaches we have to retreat from the ocean," said USGS researcher Charles H. Fletcher. "It's easy to say retreat; it's much harder to implement it."

  • Pelosi Raises $43 Million for Dems

    BruceBanner
    16 May 2012 | 8:32 am
    Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), became the most powerful woman in American history when she was sworn in as Speaker of the House in 2007. She lost that power four years later and is now hell-bent on winning it back. "They have endless money, secret, undisclosed, special interest money that they pour into elections," Pelosi said of Republicans. "But I think we can offset it. We have out-raised them, out-redistricted them, out-recruited them." Pelosi has raised more than $43 million for Democrats in this election cycle and attended nearly 500 fundraisers. The Democratic leader said she is…

  • Feds Deny Elderly Pain Meds

    adammm
    16 May 2012 | 7:30 am
    Reason.Com reports that under Administrator Michele Leonhart, the Drug Enforcement Administration has been engaged in a three-year battle against longterm care facilities that allow nursing staff to submit pain prescriptions for patients. The reasoning for this practice that a doctor isn't always around when a patient needs more painkiller medicine. So, historically, when a doctor hasn't been able to call in a prescription personally, nursing home staff have done so on the doctor's behalf. On the grounds that prescriptions may be called in, collected, and resold by nurses, the DEA has been…
 
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    ESPN.com

  • Champion Giants unveil Super Bowl XLVI ring

    ESPN.com news services
    16 May 2012 | 12:42 pm
    The New York Giants unveiled their Super Bowl XLVI ring Wednesday, which also pays homage to all four of the franchise's championship teams.

  • Ex-Syracuse coach's wife to sue ESPN for libel

    ESPN.com news services
    16 May 2012 | 12:31 pm
    The wife of a fired Syracuse University assistant basketball coach claims ESPN trampled her reputation by broadcasting salacious and false stories about molestation claims against her husband.

  • Elway says 2nd-round QB was 'long-term' pick

    Associated Press
    16 May 2012 | 12:22 pm
    John Elway says he just couldn't pass on Peyton Manning's heir apparent, even though he hopes Brock Osweiler will be holding a clipboard for years to come.

  • Slow-starting Angels fire hitting coach Hatcher

    Mark Saxon
    16 May 2012 | 12:17 pm
    The Los Angeles Angels have fired hitting coach Mickey Hatcher after their dismal offensive start to the season.

  • Suggs, Peters could forfeit millions for injuries

    Chris Mortensen
    16 May 2012 | 11:49 am
    Eagles tackle Jason Peters and Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs, two All-Pro players who have suffered offseason Achilles injuries, may lose millions because both fall under the "Nonfootball injury" provision of the collective bargaining agreement.
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    SI.com

  • Heat struggle late as Pacers even series

    16 May 2012 | 12:28 pm
    This time, LeBron and D-Wade fell short. Despite 52 points from Miami's two stars, the Pacers held on for a gutsy 78-75 road victory to square their Eastern semifinal series at 1-1.

  • Spurs roll past Clips in West semi opener

    16 May 2012 | 12:28 pm
    SAN ANTONIO (AP) The San Antonio Spurs had just taken Game 1, and Manu Ginobili didn't want to hear another word about winning 15 in a row or not losing in more than a month.

  • More Than Meets The Eye

    16 May 2012 | 12:28 pm
    The LeBron critics are back, but it's not that easy this time. A few issues are behind Miami's late offensive woes, Zach Lowe writes, and they could mean trouble against the Pacers.

  • Kings lead West finals 2-0

    16 May 2012 | 12:28 pm
    GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) The Los Angeles Kings took the hard hits, some of them questionable, and kept rolling.

  • Police: Seau's garage burglarized just after death

    16 May 2012 | 12:12 pm
    OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) -- Police say a thief burglarized the garage of Junior Seau's Oceanside, Calif., home days after the former NFL star's suicide.
 
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    Wired: Wired Science

  • Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Mind

    Sarah Jane Keller
    16 May 2012 | 12:15 pm
    Two stroke victims unable to move or speak can now control a robotic arm with their minds. By thinking about moving her own paralyzed arm, one woman in the experiment used an artificial limb to serve herself coffee for the first time in 15 years. It’s the most complex task yet achieved with a brain-computer interface. “When the woman with the brain stem stroke reached out for that thermos of coffee and put it to her mouth and then she put it back down, the smile on her face was remarkable,” said Brown University neurologist and engineer Leigh Hochberg, who led the study published…

  • Tracking Ocean Sulfur Could Help Test Gaia Hypothesis

    Wired UK
    16 May 2012 | 9:50 am
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Geologists at the University of Maryland have published research that could help prove or disprove Gaia theory — the notion that the Earth is one single self-regulating system. The concept dates from the 70s and was initially formulated by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis. It proposes that all organisms and their inorganic surroundings comprise a single system that maintains the conditions for life on Earth. It was initially met with skepticism from the scientific community, and remains somewhat controversial, but is now an important area of research in Earth…

  • World’s Subways Converging on Ideal Form

    Brandon Keim
    15 May 2012 | 6:09 pm
    Sample of subway network structures from (clockwise, top left) Shanghai, Madrid, Moscow, Tokyo, Seoul and Barcelona. Image: Roth et al./JRSI After decades of urban evolution, the world’s major subway systems appear to be converging on an ideal form. On the surface, these core-and-branch systems — evident in New York City, Tokyo, London or most any large metropolitan subway — may seem intuitively optimal. But in the absence of top-down central planning, their movement over decades toward a common mathematical space may hint at universal principles of human self-organization.

  • Power Postures Can Make You Feel More Powerful

    Danielle Venton
    15 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Amy Cuddy (here in the Baker Library at Harvard) discovered that the way you sit can actually change your cortisol levels. Photo: Guido Vitti Also in this issue The Man Who Makes the Future How to Spot the Future The Rise of the Robot Reporter Sit up straight and listen: Amy Cuddy has a plan to help you change your life. And it’s easy. The Harvard psychologist recently completed a study demonstrating that positioning our bodies a certain way doesn’t just tell people we’re powerful, it actually makes us more powerful. And she has the data to prove it: Standing tall directly…

  • Startup Company Raffles a Ticket to Space

    Dave Mosher
    15 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    A new startup company’s $10 space posters come with a chance to win a ride on a suborbital space vehicle. Called ”I Dream of Space,” the company is selling 25,000 posters at $10 apiece, the proceeds of which should cover a $200,000 ride on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo or a $95,000 seat on XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx, plus some profit for the company’s founders. No spaceflight company has yet made a commercial flight, and it could be years before they do, but that day is approaching. “Given the kind of progress we’re seeing with these companies, and…
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    ScienceDaily: Latest Science News

  • Ancient tree-ring records from southwest U.S. suggest today's megafires are truly unusual

    16 May 2012 | 11:03 am
    Today's mega forest fires of the southwestern U.S. are truly unusual and exceptional in the long-term record, suggests an unprecedented study that examined 1,500 years of ancient tree ring and fire data from two distinct climate periods. Researchers constructed and analyzed a statistical model and found that today's dry, hot climate combined with the past century of human fire suppression is causing megafires.

  • Baby galaxies grew up quickly

    16 May 2012 | 11:02 am
    Baby galaxies from the young universe more than 12 billion years ago evolved faster than previously thought, shows new research. This means that already in the early history of the universe, there was potential for planet formation and life.

  • Common fungicide wreaks havoc on freshwater ecosystems

    16 May 2012 | 11:01 am
    A new study on chlorothalonil, one of the world's most common fungicides, shows it was lethal to a wide variety of freshwater organisms.

  • Microscope looks into cells of living fish

    16 May 2012 | 10:59 am
    Microscopes provide valuable insights in the structure and dynamics of cells, in particular when the latter remain in their natural environment. However, this is very difficult especially for higher organisms. Researchers have now developed a new method to visualize cell structures of an eighth of a micrometer in size in living fish larvae.

  • Character traits determined genetically? Genes may hold the key to a life of success, study suggests

    16 May 2012 | 10:59 am
    Genes play a greater role in forming character traits -- such as self-control, decision making or sociability -- than was previously thought, new research suggests.
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    Life On My Mobile

  • Apple Releases iOS 5.1.1 Update

    Troy D. Brown
    7 May 2012 | 12:53 pm
    Apple has released an update for iOS 5.1.1. If you are jailbroken you will want to avoid this update. This is a fairly minor update to address some bug and does not include any new functionality. Improves reliability of using HDR option for photos taken using the Lock Screen shortcut. Addresses bugs that could prevent the new iPad from switching between 2G and 3G networks. Fixes bugs that affected AirPlay video playback in some circumstances. Improved reliability for syncing Safari bookmarks and Reading List. Fixes an issue where Unable to purchase alert could be displayed after successful…

  • T-Mobile Introduces The Affortable Prism Android Smartphone

    Paul Barraza
    6 May 2012 | 3:08 pm
      The T-Mobile Prism is available starting today at Best Buy stores, followed by availability May 9th through Wal-Mart and finally being available May 23rd at T-Mobile stores.   The Prism comes equipped with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), 3.5″ HVGA display, 3.2 megapixel camera with digital zoom and video recorder. The Prism is priced at $19.99 after $50 mail-in rebate and qualifying two-year agreement and data plan or by it outright for $149.99. T-Mobile Introduces Its Latest Budget-Friendly Smartphone: T-Mobile Prism Built for first-time smartphone customers, the new Android…

  • BlackBerry 10 Developer Debut

    Paul Barraza
    1 May 2012 | 12:52 pm
    BlackBerry World 2012 and BlackBerry 10 Jam have taken off today in Orlando, Florida. RIM wasted no time showing off what they have in store for us as the company unveiled its vision for the BlackBerry 10 platform and released the initial developer toolkit for the native QNX based operating system and HTML5 software development. Focusing on RIM’s vision of the BlackBerry 10 platform the company showed off the BlackBerry 10 developer alpha device, which will be RIM’s first handset to run the same OS as the BlackBerry PlayBook. The device has a 4.2-inch display with 1280 x 768…

  • BlackBerry 10 Sneak Peek – Video

    Troy D. Brown
    1 May 2012 | 11:36 am
    Here is a “Sneak Peek” video presented at the BlackBerry World Keynote

  • BlackBerry 10 Alpha Device Photos Leak

    Troy D. Brown
    30 Apr 2012 | 2:40 pm
      CrackBerry got their hands on some nice photos of a BlackBerry 10 device being used by developers to test their apps on RIM’s next to be released device. As CrackBerry has stated and we will reiterate this is an alpha device meaning it is not of the build quality or potentially even the design to be released. If you take a close look at the photos you can see a very rough, rubberized material. This could be in place to hide the actual BlackBerry design from prying cameras. As it stands now this looks like a standard issue 2012 full touch screen device. Lets hope RIM has made huge…
 
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    FOXNews.com

  • White House Accused of Horning in on History

    16 May 2012 | 12:56 pm
    White House edits online presidential biographies to link Obama's accomplishments to predecessors'College Kids Become Victims of ObamaCareVIDEO: School Speaks on Dropping Student Health Insurance

  • Vietnam War Hero to Receive Medal of Honor

    16 May 2012 | 12:56 pm
    Spc. Leslie H. Sabo Jr., who died saving the lives of fellow troops, will receive posthumous Medal of Honor PHOTOS: Medal of Honor Recipient Leslie H. Sabo Jr.

  • Zimmerman Had Cuts, Black Eyes After Shooting

    16 May 2012 | 12:56 pm
    Medical records released as part of evidence in case show Trayvon Martin's shooter sustained injuries Autopsy Results Reportedly Indicate Trayvon Martin Suffered Injuries to KnucklesVIDEO: Doctor Reveals New Zimmerman Injuries

  • Police Hunt Newlywed Husband in Bride's Murder

    16 May 2012 | 12:56 pm
    Chicago police search for husband after bride found fatally stabbed in bathtub just hours after her weddingPolice Warn Mississippi Drivers of Suspected Fake Cop After Highway KillingsFlorida Mom Killed 4 Children, Then Herself, Police Say

  • Airlines Worthy of Your Love

    16 May 2012 | 12:47 pm
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