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    BBC News

  • State heads boost for Copenhagen

    22 Nov 2009 | 7:00 pm
    Hopes are boosted for success at the Copenhagen climate summit as it emerges more than 60 heads of state are expected to attend.

  • Refugees riot on Christmas Island

    22 Nov 2009 | 6:00 pm
    Clashes erupt between Sri Lanka and Afghan refugees at Australia's Christmas Island immigration centre.

  • Recession 'a catalyst for change'

    22 Nov 2009 | 5:10 pm
    The recession has become the catalyst for a new era in business focusing on greater collaboration, according to the CBI.

  • Gene clue to brain tumour growth

    22 Nov 2009 | 5:07 pm
    Scientists have pinpointed a mutated gene as key to the development of some types of glioma brain tumour.

  • Democracy check for Commonwealth

    22 Nov 2009 | 5:01 pm
    All Commonwealth countries should face a democracy "health check" at least every two years, a new report says.
 
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    CNN: Top Stories

  • Police targeted in N. Ireland bomb attack

    22 Nov 2009 | 4:48 pm
    A car carrying a 400-pound bomb was driven through barriers at police headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland, crashing into a building, police said Sunday.

  • Police: Facebook site targets redheads

    22 Nov 2009 | 4:18 pm
    The beating of 12-year-old boy by a group of classmates at a Southern California middle school may be linked to a Facebook posting encouraging kids to target redheads, authorities say.

  • Kids smuggle food along war border

    22 Nov 2009 | 4:10 pm
    Sabar Mina is cloaked in a light green shall tinged with dirt. She is holding an empty flour sack by her side that she plans on filling with firewood.

  • Kennedy barred from Communion

    22 Nov 2009 | 2:52 pm
    Rhode Island's top Roman Catholic leader has asked Rep. Patrick Kennedy to stop taking Communion over his support for abortion rights, the diocese said Sunday.

  • Orbiting astronaut welcomes birth

    22 Nov 2009 | 2:28 pm
    Shuttle astronaut Randy Bresnik has welcomed a daughter -- from space. Bresnik is aboard the international space station.
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    Wall Street Journal

  • Nissan May Produce Electric Cars In China

    22 Nov 2009 | 7:38 pm
    Nissan said it is considering plans to make all-electric cars in Guangzhou, as the Japanese auto maker steps up its electric-vehicle activity in China's fast-growing car market.

  • Investors Dial Back Risk as Year-End Nears

    22 Nov 2009 | 7:36 pm
    Signs of wariness are appearing in financial markets as investors worry that the end of the year could bring challenging trading conditions.

  • White House Weighs Jobs, Deficit

    22 Nov 2009 | 7:34 pm
    The White House is lukewarm about proposals by Democrats to introduce legislation to create jobs, instead favoring targeted measures that would be less likely to inflate the deficit.

  • White House Weighs Jobs, Deficit

    22 Nov 2009 | 7:34 pm
    The White House is lukewarm about proposals by Democrats to introduce legislation to create jobs, instead favoring targeted measures that would be less likely to inflate the deficit.

  • Price Dispute Delays NBC Deal

    22 Nov 2009 | 7:19 pm
    GE and Vivendi remain hundreds of millions of dollars apart as they try to agree on a price tag for the sale of a minority stake in NBC Universal.
 
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    Newsweek

  • Newsweek Reporter's Ordeal in Iran

    21 Nov 2009 | 10:47 am
    On June 21, reporter Maziar Bahari was rousted out of bed and taken to Tehran's notorious Evin prison—accused of being a spy for the CIA, MI6, Mossad…and NEWSWEEK. This is the story of his captivity—and of an Iran whose rampant paranoia underpins an ever more fractured regime.

  • Intelligence Squared: Debating Obamanomics

    21 Nov 2009 | 9:02 am
    Is Obamanomics a boon or a bane? A debate over the president's policies.

  • The Failure of the Copenhagen Climate Talks

    21 Nov 2009 | 8:09 am
    The 192 countries flocking to Copenhagen next month won't reach consensus on climate change. That won't stop them from acting alone.

  • Manmohan Singh On Afghanistan, Pakistan and China

    21 Nov 2009 | 6:45 am
    Wearing a white kurta and a blue turban, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, 77, appeared relaxed on the eve of his state visit to Washington, which takes place this week. Many Indians worry that the Obama White House, unlike the previous two American administrations, may tilt toward China instead of India. Singh sat down in his Delhi residence last week to discuss with NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth how he believes India and the United States can work together to further their strategic partnership and why he believes it is critical that the U.S. not leave Afghanistan. Excerpts:

  • Domestic Terror: The Worry About Homegrown Plots

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:59 pm
    Why recent events point to a potentially worrying radicalization of disaffected American Muslims.
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    NPR

  • Democrats At Odds Over Health Bill

    22 Nov 2009 | 12:09 pm
    Some moderates threatened Sunday to scuttle legislation if their demands aren't met, while more liberal members warned their party leaders not to bend.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Gigantic Cruise Ship Buoys Company's Hopes

    22 Nov 2009 | 11:25 am
    We're headed into the year's biggest travel week, and there's not much bigger than what's sitting in the port of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., right now. It's called the Oasis of the Seas, and it's the largest cruise ship ever built — five times the size of the Titanic, with a price tag of $1.5 billion.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • 400-Pound Car Bomb Found In Belfast

    22 Nov 2009 | 8:17 am
    Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound car bomb outside police reform headquarters in Belfast but the homemade device failed to detonate, Northern Ireland's police commander said Sunday.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • China Coal Mine Blast Death Toll Jumps To 87

    22 Nov 2009 | 5:06 am
    Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach 21 miners trapped underground Sunday as the death toll from a huge gas explosion in a northern Chinese mine jumped to 87 — the deadliest blast to hit the beleaguered industry in nearly two years.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Jackson Moonwalk Glove Sells For $350K In NYC

    22 Nov 2009 | 5:04 am
    The shimmering, white glove Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance in 1983 was auctioned off for $350,000 — plus tax — on Saturday.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
 
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    The New Yorker

  • Ariel Levy: Sports, sex, and the case of Caster Semenya.

    Ariel Levy
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    When people in South Africa say “Limpopo,” they mean the middle of nowhere. They are referring to the northernmost province of the country, along the border with Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique, where few people have cars or running water or opportunities for greatness. The members of the Moletjie . . .

  • Adam Gopnik: Our hunger for cookbooks.

    Adam Gopnik
    15 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    A man and a woman lie in bed at night in the short hour between kid sleep and parent sleep, turning down page corners as they read. She is leafing through a fashion magazine, he through a cookbook. Why they read these things mystifies even the readers. The closet and . . .

  • Sam Shepard: "Indianapolis (Highway 74)"

    Sam Shepard
    15 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    I’ve been crisscrossing the country again, without much reason. Sometimes a place will just pop into my head and I’ll take off. This time, down through Normal, Illinois, from high up in white Minnesota, dead of winter, icy roads, wind blowing sideways across the empty cornfields . . .

  • Goings on About Town: Dance

    newyorker.com
    15 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    class=goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET The company ushers in its “Nutcracker” season (Nov. 27-Jan. 3) with a gala evening, in a newly renovated theatre that features a greatly expanded pit, acoustical improvements, new side aisles, and a squared-off stage. In addition to a premiè . . .

  • Peter Schjeldahl: "1969" at P.S. 1.

    Peter Schjeldahl
    15 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    In 1969, we were very free. I turned twenty-seven—too old to be a hippie, after having been too young to pull off being a beatnik—and was so free as to be practically useless, writing just enough to finance days abed in a tiny Sullivan Street . . .
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    Mashable!

  • Microsoft and News Corp in Discussions to Remove Newspaper Content from Google

    Pete Cashmore
    22 Nov 2009 | 4:51 pm
    Yes, really. Rupert Murdoch’s crusade to blame Google for the failing newspaper business model continues today, as it emerges that News Corp has conducted talks with Microsoft about de-indexing the company’s sites from Google and (presumably) being paid to include them in Bing instead. The concept makes sense only if you buy Murdoch’s claims that Google is “stealing” content rather than simply helping people find it. The revelation comes from the Financial Times, which has a strong track record for accurate reportage – this is unlikely to be a fluffy rumor.

  • American Music Awards Pre-Show Streaming Live on Facebook Now [AMAs]

    Pete Cashmore
    22 Nov 2009 | 3:58 pm
    For those who’d like to turn the American Music Awards into a more social experience, don’t forget that the pre-show is streaming live on Facebook today, with full integration of Facebook status updates. As a viewer, you can post your own live commentary into your Facebook news feed and read status updates on the event from everybody or just your friends. As we wrote of the event earlier this week: Facebook is teaming with Ustream and fans at home will have a chance to post questions for the hosts — which include Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg and Brandee Barker —…

  • AT&T Hits Back at Verizon with Another Luke Wilson Ad [VIDEO]

    Pete Cashmore
    22 Nov 2009 | 3:31 pm
    It all started with Verizon’s “There’s a map for that” ads that emphasized the poor 3G coverage provided by AT&T. Next came a lawsuit from AT&T, claiming the ads were misleading, and a series of holiday-themed ads from the Verizon camp. Finally, AT&T decided to hit back with an ad of its own, bringing in actor Luke Wilson to point out AT&T’s advantages. Now the Luke Wilson campaign continues, with the latest in the series featuring Wilson throwing postcards all over America. Why the map looks good: AT&T’s ad includes all their…

  • Depressed Woman Loses Health Benefits for Happy Pics on Facebook

    Pete Cashmore
    22 Nov 2009 | 12:58 pm
    A Canadian woman claims she has lost her health benefits after her insurance company used her Facebook pictures as evidence that she was no longer depressed. Nathalie Blanchard had been on sick leave for a year from her job at IBM in Bromont, Quebec, after being diagnosed with severe depression. The 29-year old was receiving sick pay from insurer Manulife. However, when payments stopped coming she contacted Manulife and, she claims, was told that Facebook pictures taken on a beach and during a night out were evidence that she was no longer depressed. According to the Canadian Broadcasting…

  • Man Arrested for Not Tweeting?

    Pete Cashmore
    22 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm
    In a bizarre case involving teen YouTube sensation Justin Bieber and a riotous crowd of his fans, a record exec from Island Def Jam Records was arrested Friday for, among other things, failing to Tweet when told to by authorities. When the Beiber event at Roosevelt Field mall became unruly (video below), police appealed to the artist’s label to send a Tweet telling the crowd to leave. When that allegedly didn’t happen, police arrested James Roppo, a senior vice president of Island Def Jam Records, for “endangering the welfare of a minor and obstructing government…
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    TechCrunch

  • Roku Announces Roku Channel Store, Adds Facebook and Pandora (And Maybe Porn!)

    John Biggs
    22 Nov 2009 | 5:59 pm
    Your Roku box just got a whole lot more interesting. Roku, if you remember, makes the Roku player, a small device that sits next to your TV and plays Netflix, Amazon Video, and MLB selections. Roku has just added ten new channels to that line-up and built a fascinating platform for adding more down the line. The current channels will include: blip.tv, Facebook Photos, Flickr, FrameChannel, Mediafly, MobileTribe, Motionbox, Pandora, Revision3 and TWiT. More channels will be available here shortly.

  • CrunchGear Week in Review: New Milkman Edition

    John Biggs
    22 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm
    It’s… a self-rolling ball Customized streetmap clocks from FluidForms USB-powered Alien figure with illuminated tongue

  • Sunday Giveaway: A Movie Wedge For You, A Movie Wedge For Me!

    John Biggs
    22 Nov 2009 | 11:54 am
    If you ever sit next to me on a plane you will notice that I have a small ritual that I prepare every time I reach cruising altitude. I begin by pulling out my iPod touch and then my Movie Wedge. The Movie Wedge is a little bean bag with a lip for holding up MP3 and video players. That's it. It's amazingly great. We talked about the Movie Wedge a while back and we're happy to report that they've decided to give us 10 to give away to all and sundry.

  • NSFW: Give me ad-free conversations, or give me death (please RT)

    Paul Carr
    22 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    Yesterday I spent the day at TechCrunch’s ‘Real Time Crunch-up’. This despite having no idea what a ‘Crunch-up’ actually is. The important thing is that Erick had asked me to help moderate his panel about marketing within ‘real-time streams’, which is a subject close to my heart. So close in fact, that had he asked me to help moderate a panel about child rape and its place in the public school system I couldn’t have been keener to weigh in. I’ll get back to my own contribution in a moment, but first, as a courtesy to my paymasters, I…

  • Hulu Gets Ripped Out Of Rippol

    Leena Rao
    21 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pm
    We’ve seen in the past year that Hulu gets testy about their video content being used on other sites or platforms, with Boxee and TV.com both forced to remove Hulu content from their sites and applications. Now startup Rippol is facing the same fate. Rippol just publicly launched their video discovery sites at yesterday’s Real-Time CrunchUp, which combines both complex algorithms with user suggestions to surface interesting video content. Less than a few hours after Rippol launched, the startup’s co-founder Aaron Crayford received notice from Hulu that the video embeds on…
 
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    Chris Brogan

  • Tiny Revolutions

    chrisbrogan
    22 Nov 2009 | 11:59 am
    Every step towards success requires a tiny revolution. Evolution is too subtle. Revolution is too drastic. In between, let’s add “tiny revolutions.” Here’s what I mean. By “revolution,” let’s consider these your moments of break away. You decide one day that you loathe being a cubicle farmer. You decide one day that you need more money. You decide one day that you’re sick of feeling fat and lazy. You pick whatever the “cause” is. What happens next is that you move from thinking into action-taking. That step is huge, by the way. The…

  • The Serendipity Engine – Web 2 Expo Speech

    chrisbrogan
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:33 pm
    This is my favorite keynote speech yet. It’s just 10 minutes long, and I feel pretty good about it. You’ll recognize bits of my storytelling from the last several conferences tucked into here in a new way, I hope. Enjoy this video. (Can’t see it? Click here)

  • How Much Time Should I Spend On Social Media

    chrisbrogan
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:33 am
    How much time should you spend on social media? In some ways, the answer is: “how long is a piece of string?” And yet, you can set up some simple guidelines. They might be a bit different than you think. By the way, I’m writing these from a business perspective, but remember that I think of religion and nonprofits and all kinds of other applications as business-related, too. Here’s how I look at it: Social Media Time Management The way I’d do it is to break it up into 4 chunks, and then you decide the amount of hours to devote (2 hours a day is a minimum for MOST…

  • Start a Moving Business – Overnight Success

    chrisbrogan
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:30 pm
    In this episode of the Overnight Success series, I’ve got an idea about what makes one successful: moving. But it’s not what you think. If you can’t see the video, click here. What do you think?

  • Stop Humping My Leg

    chrisbrogan
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:13 am
    Dear people trying to sell me on something new: stop humping my leg. You know what I mean. You’ve seen dogs do this, right? That’s what it feels like when you jump on me breathlessly to share your new product or service when you don’t really much know whether I’m the right guy for your services. I was recently leg-humped at Web 2.0 Expo, by someone I like, and who I think is smart and has a lot of good potential. The thing is, I politely declined a demo, and he persisted. Immediately, I shifted to my back foot. I felt defensive. I rolled up my interest and tucked it…
 
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    The Bloggess

  • It’s like losing James Garfield all over again. For the second time. Although technically I wasn’t alive when the world lost the first James Garfield so I don’t really know what that was like but I doubt it was as tragic as this.

    Jenny the bloggess
    21 Nov 2009 | 6:25 pm
    So today we went to an estate sale and the person who’d owned the house had died and was awesome/completely insane.  Usually when Victor and I go to estate sales Victor looks for treasures and I rifle through all the dead person’s books to see if they were the kind of person I’d hang out with.  Except this time I didn’t even get to the books before I found him. Oh holy Christ, people. And yes.  That is a GINORMOUS wolf/bear/pig thing and I wanted it immediately.  Like, I kind of dropped my jaw and rocked back on my heels in shock a little and Victor was all…

  • Hope for Anissa

    Jenny the bloggess
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:26 am
    I don’t think I’ve ever done this before on this blog and I hope that I never have to do it again but I’m asking for your help.  If you read this blog a lot then you already know Anissa Mayhew because she’s a regular commenter.  She’s a blogger, a reader and a faithful friend.  More than once Anissa has had my back during rough times.  She’s a founding member of The Bloggess Army (codename: Kaiser Soze).  She’s publicly defended me more than once…mostly from myself.  She’s hysterical and witty and bitingly sarcastic and now…

  • Breaking news: Waffles

    Jenny the bloggess
    18 Nov 2009 | 3:59 pm
    My friend, Hannah, just sent me an email to alert me about breaking news on Yahoo: Not a joke, you guys. Real. Live. Screenshot. Holy shit, y’all. And my first thought was “I have to share this with the internets immediately because WTF, news media?  Why is this a top story?!”  And then my second thought is that I shouldn’t tell anyone about it until I have a chance to go out and buy all the Eggos I can find first because this way I get a headstart on the hoarding.  But no, I decided to share with you now because I have integrity.  And because I already have a box…

  • Japan, part 2 (ish): Tommy Lee Jones needs to mind his own business

    Jenny the bloggess
    16 Nov 2009 | 8:18 am
    OMG, you guys.  I actually published a “part 2″ to a post that I labeled “Part 1″.  I think that’s the first time that’s ever happened.  Is there a medal for this, or some sort of ribbon?  If so, please mail one to me.  Unless it’s that bullshit white participant ribbon.  No one wants that ribbon.  Unless you buy it yourself and wear it ironically.  Then it’s kind of awesome.  Or desperate.  One of those. So where was I?  We’d just landed in Japan and luckily I was still using my journal at the time because I’ve already…

  • It might not even be pudding. It may have been lotion. Or some sort of spackle.

    Jenny the bloggess
    14 Nov 2009 | 5:46 pm
    A video of weird/offensive/awesome stuff I bought in Japan.  Also, I suck at making videos.  That’ll be evident if you make it to the end.  But about halfway through I eat a boobie.  So there’s that.  Totally redeeming. Comment of the day:Peppermint creeps the everliving crap out of me. Totally did not expect the eye color change thing. And since she’s Japanese, there’s probably some horrible karmic consequence of pulling the ass-string. Like, in seven days you’ll be forcefed boobie pudding until you die.  Unless this whole Vlog was like “The Ring” and then we’re…
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    HowStuffWorks

  • Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Memory

    22 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    What's his name? You know, the guy from the thing who was wearing the shirt? Memory fails us all sometimes, so here are 10 tips to keep you from blanking the next time you go to shake hands.

  • Why are lobsters being used in new X-ray technologies?

    22 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    Lobsters have one of the animal world's most unique vision systems. Researchers hope to apply that system to scanners that will make steel walls transparent.

  • History Buff: Civil War Quiz

    22 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    As the bloodiest war in American history, it tore a nation and even families apart. Although it ended more than a century ago, the scars of the Civil War are still with Americans today. Think you know more than the average Billy Yank or Johnny Reb about the blood spilled and the politics behind the war? Find out by taking our Civil War quiz.

  • 5 Alternative Fuel Ideas That Never Made It Out of the Lab

    22 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    These five ideas for alternative fuel range from the outlandish, to some that may even be possible someday. If nothing else, at least they're entertaining.

  • Today's Video - Strange Planes: Fuel Storage Made for Aerial Refueling

    22 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    On Discovery Channel's "Strange Planes," the need for air-to-air refueling gave a new set of considerations to the design of fuel systems and fuel storage.
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    SFGate

  • S.F. commercial properties seek tax relief

    22 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Landmark skyscrapers, signature hotels and upscale retailers glitter in the San Francisco skyline and enhance its cachet. But with commercial real estate slumping, they soon may subtract badly needed cash from the city's coffers. Trophy buildings, including...

  • Budget crisis may be harder to solve this time

    22 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Leaders at the Capitol will have about six months to resolve the new $20.7 billion deficit, and some believe the job will be tougher than the $62 billion budget hole they plugged earlier this year. The difficulty is multilayered: Many of the easier cuts...

  • 49ers coach Singletary: hard head, open mind

    22 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    The myth begins with tales of Mike Singletary cracking 16 of his college football helmets. It grows every time the 49ers head coach appears on TV, his eyes radiating fierceness, his posture rigid. It seems to be all you need to know about this Texas-bred,...
 
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    I Can Has Cheezburger?

  • u’z not doin well at dis game hooman

    Cheezburger Network
    22 Nov 2009 | 5:00 pm
    u’z not doin well at dis game hooman u jus lost anuther ball down teh hole sumfing is blokking mah pokkit. Picture by: dunno source Caption by: hmea1 via Our LOL Builder » Recaption This! » View All Captions

  • We has problem.

    Cheezburger Network
    22 Nov 2009 | 3:00 pm
    We has problem. Iz nawt pie yet. dont furgit teh wipp creem. Picture by: dunno source Caption by: DOOMbudgies via Advanced Lol Builder » Recaption This! » View All Captions

  • Oh noes!

    Cheezburger Network
    22 Nov 2009 | 11:00 am
    Oh noes! da white cat has asploded we wuz 2 cyoot 4 it. Picture by: dunno source Caption by: Jaynleng via Our LOL Builder » Recaption This! » View All Captions

  • Switchboard operator kitteh

    Cheezburger Network
    22 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    Switchboard operator kitteh is agravated with your wire shinanagins Picture by: dunno source Caption by: Dorky_Cowgirl via Advanced Lol Builder » Recaption This! » View All Captions

  • If you close it

    Cheezburger Network
    22 Nov 2009 | 3:00 am
    If you close it they will come. knock knock. anywun home? (ICHC video) Picture by: dunno source Caption by: Fauxpaws via Advanced Lol Builder » Recaption This! » View All Captions
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    Boing Boing Gadgets

  • USB grenade flash drive

    Mark Frauenfelder
    17 Nov 2009 | 5:47 pm
    Do you think the TSA would let you past security with this USB memory stick in the shape of an itsy-bitsy grenade?

  • All-in-one ectoplasm measurement device

    Xeni Jardin
    17 Nov 2009 | 9:35 am
    "Designed exclusively for paranormal investigators, this incredible tool has everything you need to track and detect the presence of ghosts."

  • How to destroy the market for used gadgets

    Rob Beschizza
    17 Nov 2009 | 6:23 am
    Microsoft permanently banned about a million hacked Xbox 360s from its online gaming network. Amid uncertainty--you can still play offline--the price of a used 360 collapses. Ebay's warning people not to buy them at all. But so far, some sellers are being honest: is $40 not a great deal for an otherwise working Xbox 360 that can't go online?

  • 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495

    Rob Beschizza
    16 Nov 2009 | 7:46 pm
    The prize is a $700 HP MediaSmart EX495 PC, set up as a Windows home server, with 1.5TB of storage and Mac/Time Machine support. The winner shall be chosen at arbitrary whim. Runners-up get something random from the gadget dungeon. The theme is "Found in Space." 100 words long. Go!

  • MAKERS US launch at Harvard Bookstore tonight, 7PM

    Cory Doctorow
    16 Nov 2009 | 5:47 am
    Hey, Bostonites! I'll see you tonight at the Harvard Bookstore (1256 Mass Ave) at 7PM for the US launch of my new novel, Makers! (New Yorkers, and Philadelphians -- see you later this week!) US/Canada tour
 
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    Wired

  • Vanish! How Wired Readers Caught Our Fugitive Writer

    Evan Ratliff
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:45 pm
    In an age when everyone is following everything, is it ever possible to disappear? On Aug. 13, one man drove out of San Francisco determined to stay hidden in plain sight and test this possibility.

  • Shaggy to Bald: Evan's Daily Costume Change

    Nicholas Thompson
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:41 pm
    While on the run, Evan Ratliff snapped a self-portrait each day to document his constantly evolving appearance.

  • Stories From the Hunt for Evan Ratliff

    Nicholas Thompson
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:40 pm
    After Evan Ratliff was captured, Wired asked the most active hunters to send in their stories. Why were they drawn to the hunt, what did they do and what did they learn?

  • Wired Tests Writer With Series of Bold Challenges

    Nicholas Thompson
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:39 pm
    With a week remaining in the hunt for Evan Ratliff, Wired decided to up the stakes with of five challenges hidden in New York Times crossword puzzles.

  • Delete Browser Cookies, Clean Up Your Trail of Crumbs

    How-To Wiki
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:30 pm
    The web is watching you, and it’s doing it using browser cookies — small snippets of tracking code. Do away with them to be free of watchers, and annoy the heck out of Big Brother too.
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    Pogue's Posts

  • A $25 App Phone? That's Crazy Talk.

    By DAVID POGUE
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:16 am
    This week, Palm released a follow up to the Pre, a cheaper, thinner, lesser phone called the Pixi. The official price is $100 with a two-year Sprint contract, but Amazon is selling the thing for - are you sitting down? - $25.

  • Crowdsourcing Comedy on Amazon Reviews

    By DAVID POGUE
    17 Nov 2009 | 8:07 am
    Some unexpected humor can be found in the reviews of the world's largest online retailer.

  • It's Q & A With DP!

    By DAVID POGUE
    13 Nov 2009 | 11:14 am
    Why I use URL shorteners-even when not on Twitter.

  • Verizon: How Much Do You Charge Now?

    By DAVID POGUE
    12 Nov 2009 | 9:29 am
    Verizon's cellphones are designed in such a way that you can almost never avoid getting $1.99 charge on the bill for its mobile Web services, even if you immediately cancel the action.

  • Fun With Google's Auto-Suggestion Feature

    By DAVID POGUE
    12 Nov 2009 | 8:06 am
    Start a phrase in a Google and who knows how the search engine will complete it?
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    Columbia Journalism Review

  • Friday Links: Smart Money, Rodney King, Dilution

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:46 pm
    Remember that $500 million program for small businesses Goldman Sachs announced along with its apology earlier this week? It was splashed on C1 of The Wall Street Journal and A1 of The New York Times, which wrote that "the bank said Tuesday that it would spend $500 million — or about 3 percent of the $16.7 billion it...

  • Bloomberg Finds the Fed on Bubble Watch

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:31 pm
    Bloomberg gets a nice scoop that the Federal Reserve is apparently worried about the new bubble it's inflating. Federal Reserve officials are stepping up scrutiny of the biggest U.S. banks to ensure the lenders can withstand a reversal of soaring global-asset prices, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Global stocks are up 71 percent from March. At...

  • Comments of the Week

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:25 pm
    Every Friday, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we receive each week. Think we’ve missed something? Well…comment! The Newest Trend: ‘Rogue’-ing Megan Garber’s decidedly defiant take on Sarah Palin’s “sexist” Newsweek cover generated a high volume of responses on everything from Palin’s reception in the media, to the evaluation of “sexism” in our...

  • Greg Craig and Transparency

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:43 pm
    Time’s Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf have a months long tick-tock chronicling the steps and missteps of soon-to-be-former White House Counsel Greg Craig. There’s too much good stuff in there to bother with a block quote. In essence, the article lays out how Craig, who thought that both the rule of law and Obama’s campaign rhetoric pointed...

  • Well, It May Deserve an Award in Something

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:12 am
    Memo to Sean Hannity, who is calling for James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Andrew Breitbart to get a “journalism award” for their video sting of ACORN: Generally, when in possession of what one believes to be newsworthy information, the journalistic thing to do is get it out to the public—not attempt to blackmail the attorney general. <script src="http://video.foxnews.com/embed.js?id=11754444&w=400&h=249"...
 
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  • Four on Hajj killed by swine flu

    Fahad Zuberi
    21 Nov 2009 | 12:06 pm
    The Saudi Health Ministry has announced the first four deaths from swine flu at this year’s annual pilgrimage to Mecca. BBC reports, The Saudi government has said all pilgrims need a certificate of vaccination before they can apply for a visa. In September, the Egyptian authorities barred hundreds of Muslim pilgrims in Cairo from travelling to Mecca because of fears about the virus. Twitter users are worried that the virus could spread and kill many more during Hajj. mj_santos (location undisclosed) That is horrible! @AJEnglish Saudi health ministry has confirmed to Al Jazeera that four…

  • One in six Americans go hungry

    Fahad Zuberi
    17 Nov 2009 | 8:44 am
    A new study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows more Americans are going hungry. USA TODAY reports, forty-nine million people in American households one in six  went hungry or had insufficient food at some point in 2008, the highest number since the government began tracking the problem in 1995.Twitter users in the United States are wondering why they don’t hear more about this. Some users are being thankful for what they have in these tough times. SexyNexBoy73 (Chambersburg, Pennsylvania)That is so sad. Economic news – CNNMoney.com >1 in 6 Americans goes hungry 16…

  • Obama in China: Twitter users in region address Beijing visit

    Craig Kanalley
    16 Nov 2009 | 8:57 pm
    As part of his first tour of Asia, U.S. President Barack Obama met Tuesday with Chinese leader Hu Jintao in Beijing, participating in a summit to discuss a number of issues, per BBC. @stevebruskCNN tweeted the following about the event, “CNN live now…President Obama and President Hu make comments after their meeting in Beijing. Unlike many such events, no questions allowed.” Twitter users in China are paying close attention to Obama’s visit to their country. Annie_He (Beijing) #Obama talks abt human rights, the police arrests 20 dissidents & activists.

  • Swine flu challenges airline travelers

    Nicole Hernandez
    13 Nov 2009 | 12:02 am
    The push to prevent others from being infected with swine flu is causing conflict between airline travelers. Tampa Bay Online reports the staff at United Airlines suspected passenger Mitra Mostoufi had the flu and forced her to get off the plane and stay in Tampa as she was trying to return to her home in Hawaii on Monday. Mostoufi and other sick travelers are finding it difficult to travel by plane if airlines know they may potentially have the disease. Twitter users question if what airlines are doing is appropriate and are scared of catching the disease on planes: KGMB9 (Honolulu,…

  • Munich doctors make breakthrough in breast reconstruction

    Fahad Zuberi
    12 Nov 2009 | 2:17 pm
    Doctors in Bavaria have become the first in Europe to test a new post-mastectomy plastic surgery procedure that uses pig tissue. News24 reports, after giving replacement breasts made from pigskin to six women in Germany, doctors in Munich detailed the new method on Thursday, saying it results in fewer scars for mastectomy patients. Twitter users are feeling optimistic about this breakthrough.  One user is even having a little fun and warning people of the pig breast cancer flu. AngelaSS (Royston, Georgia) Make sure you don’t catch the pig breast cancer flu! http://tinyurl.com/yfdrdfw…
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    TMZ

  • Dr. Conrad Murray -- Back to Work

    TMZ Staff
    22 Nov 2009 | 2:25 pm
    Filed under: Michael Jackson The doctor who may have been responsible for the death of Michael Jackson will see you now. Dr. Conrad Murray, personal physician to Michael Jackson at the time of his death, will resume his medical practice on Monday morning, his lawyer said today. ...Permalink

  • Adnan Ghalib -- The Mugshot

    TMZ Staff
    22 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    Filed under: Celebrity Justice Adnan Ghalib, Britney Spears' ex-boyfriend/paparazzo, was booked into jail on Friday -- and here's the mug shot. Soul patches are all the rage in prison.He'll be doing 45 days in the pokey and was also on formal probation for 36 months and has to ...Permalink

  • Phelps Takes Gold in the 4xForgotToPayHisTaxes

    TMZ Staff
    22 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    Filed under: Talk Sports Michael Phelps' estimated worth is around $50 million -- so, by our math, he should be able to afford the $20K he owes the State of California. But alas, like a Michael Jackson legal bill, the debt remains unpaid.According to a tax lien filed last ...Permalink

  • O.J. Simpson in Killer Shape

    TMZ Staff
    22 Nov 2009 | 5:30 am
    Filed under: Hot Bodies, O.J. O.J. Simpson has a lot of time on his hands and he's putting it to good use -- he's in the best shape of his post-murder football life.The Juice is dropping the lbs, lifting weights, and, for good measure, preaching racial harmony and anger ...Permalink

  • Jon and Kate -- The Final Curtain

    TMZ Staff
    22 Nov 2009 | 5:10 am
    Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Jon & Kate Jon and Kate Gosselin's divorce is heading to a conclusion, after a contentious day Saturday at the arbitration table. We've learned even Jon isn't contesting that Kate should get primary custody and a decision on who gets what in the money ...Permalink
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  • Diddy Wastes $3 MILLION On His 40th!

    Perez Hilton
    22 Nov 2009 | 5:15 pm
    Hey, if you've got it, why not spend it? Diddy threw himself a lavish 40th birthday party at the Plaza in NYC on Saturday with a $3 million price tag!! Guests were treated to a "fantasy Garden of Eden-themed room" which included a $30k orchid arrangement as well as a customized black dance floor and black chandeliers. The attendees, which included a guest list of celebs such as Jay Z, Bono, Martha Stewart, Christy Turlington and Denzel Washington, were also privy to a private performance from legendary soul singer Al Green! Sounds like Mr. Combs loves to share his wealth with his friends!

  • Miley's Racially Insensitive Pic Continues To Haunt Her!

    Perez Hilton
    22 Nov 2009 | 11:39 am
    The $4 billion dollar lawsuit against Miley Cyrus has been thrown out of court! A woman by the name of Lucie Kim filed a class-action lawsuit against Disney star, saying Cyrus' now-infamous slant-eyed pic was a violation of "a statute that prohibits businesses from discriminating against minorities." Kim's attorney argued that "every time [Cyrus] sells herself she engages in a business transaction," so natch, Miley should face the same consequences a business would if they were to discriminate against a race. Yeah, we don't buy it! The judge wisely threw out the bogus case, stating that yes,…

  • Cox Puts Cougar Town On Hold

    Perez Hilton
    22 Nov 2009 | 10:57 am
    We hope everything is okay! Courteney Cox has temporarily shut down production on Cougar Town to "deal with a private family matter," according to a statement released by ABC. No word on what the "matter" is, but here's to hoping it's nothing too terrible! Any guesses…???? [Image via Homero Tercero/WENN.]

  • Why The Gays Love Her

    Perez Hilton
    22 Nov 2009 | 10:56 am
    Lady GaGa on homophobia - and what she's doing to fight it!

  • Sexy Sarah's On The Top With The Clintons!

    Perez Hilton
    22 Nov 2009 | 9:30 am
    Are you kidding us????????? When it comes to first-day sales, Sexy Sarah's memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life is now one of the top-ranked nonfiction books on that list! Palin's book moved 300,000 copies on its first day, which is comparable to the 400,000 copies sold of Bill Clinton's memoir, My Life, and tops Hilary Clinton's first day numbers of Living History, which sold 200,000 copies in 2003. Do U have your copy????
 
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    Vanity Fair

  • The Vanities Openers

    Vanity Fair slide show
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Every month, the first page of the magazine’s Vanities section features an up-and-coming actor with a hotly anticipated project in the pipeline. Catch up with the latest crop of Vanities “openers.”

  • November 2009: Bruce Weber on Robert Pattinson

    Bruce Weber
    17 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    As Twilight’s reluctant bloodsucker, Vanity Fair’s December cover star has made teenage girls (and their mothers) swoon. To accompany Evgenia Peretz's profile, which addresses Pattinson's relationship with co-star Kristen Stewart and Hollywood's doubts about casting him as Edward Cullen, VF.com presents the third of five slide shows featuring outtakes from his epic session with photographer Bruce Weber.

  • Bright Young Thing

    Fanfair
    17 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Sculptural Scene: Liz Kabler in the Met’s rooftop garden.

  • A Supermodel Retrospective

    Vanity Fair slide show
    16 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Photogenic goddesses from Naomi to Gisele have been lighting up the pages of Vanity Fair for years. Join us as we continue to scour our back issues for the sexiest supermodel spreads.

  • George Gurley on the Gumball 3000 Rally

    George Gurley
    16 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Fueled by testosterone, alcohol, and God knows what else, the 200-odd drivers in the sixth annual Gumball 3000 raced their Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Porsches, and other assorted vehicles out of Paris on May 5, 2004, headed for Cannes via Madrid, Marbella, and Casablanca. The object: to drive as fast—and party as hard—as humanly possible. In the ensuing 3,000-mile mêlée of arrests, mangled cars, and shattered bones, the author experiences the insane camaraderie of the Gumball, with playboys, jet-setters, and eccentrics of every stripe sharing a week of living dangerously.
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    AOL News

  • Credit Agency to Woman: You're Dead

    22 Nov 2009 | 5:20 pm
    A Seattle woman was rejected when she applied to refinance her home, and it wasn’t because she was an unreliable borrower. Her credit bureau had listed her as dead, according to KOMO TV in Seattle.

  • Bishop Told Kennedy No Communion

    22 Nov 2009 | 4:57 pm
    A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and an outspoken critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion because of the Democratic lawmaker's support for abortion rights.

  • Man Killed Over Subway Seat, Police Say

    22 Nov 2009 | 2:44 pm
    Authorities in New York City say a 37-year-old Bronx man riding a subway killed another passenger in a dispute over a seat. Gerardo Sanchez, who allegedly stabbed the victim in the neck and face with a knife in front of horrified onlookers Saturday night, has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.

  • Feds to Probe Radiation at Power Plant

    22 Nov 2009 | 2:12 pm
    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is sending investigators to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant after a small amount of radiation was detected there.

  • Woman Loses Benefits Over Facebook Pics

    22 Nov 2009 | 2:03 pm
    A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having fun.
 
 
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    Hawaiimagazine.com | HAWAII Today

  • Your Top 5 favorite Hawaii beaches: HAWAII Magazine Facebook poll results

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:30 pm
    Your Top 5 favorite Hawaii beaches: HAWAII Magazine Facebook poll results The results are in from our latest HAWAII Magazine Facebook Ohana poll question!Earlier this month, we asked our HAWAII Magazine Facebook fans to answer the very tough question: "What’s your favorite Hawaii beach?" As expected, they impressed us with their far-ranging best beach selections—which spanned all the Islands from remote Polihale Beach Park bordering Kauai’s Napali Coast to equally remote Papakolea Green Sand Beach on the Big Island of Hawaii’s southernmost point. In between were…

  • How to buy an ukulele from Hawaii

    19 Nov 2009 | 5:49 am
    How to buy an ukulele from Hawaii A HAWAII magazine reader asked us for some tips on buying one of Hawaii’s most iconic instruments:Where can we find ukuleles and banjo ukuleles (new & used) being produced or sold in Kauai? You ask, we answer. And we answered the question for all the Islands, not just Kaua‘i.Standard ukuleles are far easier to find than “banjo ukuleles.” A banjo ukulele, or banjolele, has the small scale, tuning, and playing style of a ukulele but, not surprisingly given the name, is constructed like a banjo. Banjo ukes are not commonly used in…

  • What's the best way to learn how to surf in Hawaii?

    18 Nov 2009 | 1:57 am
    What's the best way to learn how to surf in Hawaii? HAWAII magazine reader Brookelynn Morris wrote us with a question about surf lessons:I’m heading to Honolulu for vacation soon, and I want to learn how to surf. Can you tell me the best way to learn? You ask, we answer.Oahu’s shores—as with all of the other Hawaiian Islands—offer wave action for a variety of skill levels, from professionals to beginners.For beginning surfers, we recommend sticking to the south shore of Oahu—specifically, the beaches of Waikiki. Wave heights on the south shore are consistently…

  • How to make Hawaii-style barbecue (teriyaki) sauce. A recipe.

    16 Nov 2009 | 4:09 pm
    How to make Hawaii-style barbecue (teriyaki) sauce. A recipe. Barbecue sauce in Hawaii is not the same as barbecue sauce in the Mainland U.S.Order a barbecue mixed-plate lunch at a casual Hawaii eatery and it’s doubtful you’ll get a heaping helping of smoked chicken or ribs slathered with sweet-and-tangy reddish-brown sauce. And don’t expect corn on the cob, coleslaw, baked beans or rolls on the side either. What you will get, probably piled on a bed of white rice and accompanied by a scoop of macaroni salad or tossed salad, is a large platter of grilled meat or chicken,…

  • Restaurant Week Hawaii offers great Oahu dining deals all this week

    16 Nov 2009 | 8:13 am
    Restaurant Week Hawaii offers great Oahu dining deals all this week Dining out on Oahu this week? Prepare to eat well.Restaurant Week Hawaii celebrates the Islands' diverse dining scene, wealth of superb locally-grown ingredients and the world-class chefs who bring all of it to dining establishments on Oahu. This second-annual edition of the Hawaii Restaurant Association-sponsored event happens today through Sunday, Nov. 22.What does this mean for you? Dining deals and lots of them. More than 60 restaurants on Oahu are participating—rolling out exclusive dishes, discounted prix-fixe…
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    MacRumors

  • One Vision for Magazine Content on the Apple Tablet

    21 Nov 2009 | 8:53 pm
    We had previously reported that magazine publisher Condé Nast is already taking steps to produce tablet-specific content for their publications in anticipation of the Apple Tablet (and competing devices). Condé Nast publishes the technology magazine...

  • More Quad-Core iMac Benchmarks Show Substantial Performance Gains

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:28 pm
    Following up on early benchmarking tests that showed Apple's new quad-core Core i5 and Core i7 iMacs boasting significant performance improvements compared to their Core 2 Duo-based counterparts, Macworld has utilized its own Speedmark suite of real-...

  • Game Developers Scaling Back Android Efforts as iPhone Continues to Dominate

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:49 am
    Reuters reports that prominent iPhone game developer Gameloft is scaling back its efforts to produce content for the Android platform in the face of weaknesses of its application store. Gameloft also notes that it is not the only one making the move...

  • Workaround Restores Mac OS X 10.6.2 Compatibility With Intel Atom Processors

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:19 am
    InsanelyMac reports that a member of its forums has created a workaround allowing users who have modified their Intel Atom-based netbooks into "Hackintoshes" in order to run Mac OS X to upgrade to OS X 10.6.2. The 10.6.2 update had specifically disa...

  • Google Previews Chrome OS, Scheduled for Release in Late 2010

    19 Nov 2009 | 11:49 am
    Google today held a preview event for Chrome OS, the company's forthcoming browser-based operating system scheduled to launch initially on netbooks in late 2010. Among the major announcements was that, like Google's Chrome browser, Chrome OS...
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    iPhone, Therefore I blog

  • Random thoughts while on vacation

    Scott Kleinberg
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:12 am
    Hope everyone is doing well - I've been on vacation and am officially back on Monday, so my apologies for the lack of posts. I've been trying to tweet  when I can.I'm putting together a post on the upcoming Apple Tablet or whatever it's called. What's driving me insane is how the so-called "analysts" are convinced that the Tablet is meant to fill the "void" between the iPhone/touch and the entry level MacBook. Newsflash, ladies and gentlemen of the analytical mind - that's not what the Tablet is intended for.The Tablet is going to change the way we do things. Period.Oh, and one thought…

  • Touch Pets Dogs something to bark about

    Scott Kleinberg
    11 Nov 2009 | 9:21 am
    Let me start off by telling you that I am not a virtual game person. I don't do Mafia Wars or Farmville on Facebook and I've never had a tamagotchi.But I'm starting to get a little hooked (read: need more time in my day) on Touch Pets Dogs from ngmoco that recently appeared in the App Store.Basically, you take care of a dogs, but there's so much to do in this app and so many ways to interact that it's just fun.Word of caution right off the bat, though ... (don't worry, it's not bad) ... it's a system where you can download the free app but then you need to make in-app purchases for your dog.

  • Getting to know you - iPhone style

    Scott Kleinberg
    9 Nov 2009 | 8:00 am
    A few weeks ago, I did a completely non-scientific study to see if I could learn about a person based on their iPhone apps - specifically, the ones on the first screen.Seems I'm not the only one conducting surveys and studying. Retrevo, which says it uses artificial intelligence to analyze and visually summarize more than 50 million real-time data points from across the web, tried to find out what makes iPhone users tick.What it found is certainly interesting. Educate me -- or don'tRetrevo asked, "What makes a person most attractive to you?" The response from iPhone owners is that they…

  • 100,000 apps announced - now we need a shopping list

    Scott Kleinberg
    4 Nov 2009 | 1:25 pm
    The App Store has everything. As we all know, there's an app for that. And with the news from Apple today that developers have created more than 100,000 apps for the App Store, there is something so simple missing from the experience that it boggles the mind.I call it a shopping list. You might call it a wish list. Some may call it a download queue. Whatever you call it, it would make shopping for apps so much easier. Apple and Amazon may compete but Apple could learn a thing or two - I love the way Amazon incorporates wish lists into both the Web site and iPhone app. I love being able to put…

  • Droid: Is it an iPhone killer?

    Scott Kleinberg
    28 Oct 2009 | 3:09 pm
    The short answer is I don't know. I don't think anyone knows just yet, but I'll tell you this much: From the buzz and the comments I've seen online, it's definitely the closest thing that exists unless Steve Jobs already has the next generation iPhone in his pocket.I almost had a chance to try it out this morning, but sadly something came up and I couldn't get to the press briefing. But I'm impressed with what I'm hearing.Click through for the specs and some more thoughts  - you'll find those in parenthesis. High-speed mobile browsing (We all have that. Next).Android 2.0-powered (From…
 
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    MacOSXHints.com

  • An AppleScript to reinstall custom icons after updates

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:30 am
    Like many people, I have customized many thing about my OS X setup, not the least of which were app and folder icons. Via programs like CandyBar or LiteIcon, or manually, any and all folder/file/app icons can be changed. Personally, I like the pure|icns set from Interfacelift. However, there is a problem when programs update -- in my case, Dropbox -- and change their icons back to a boring old Leopard blue. To return my custom icons, I wrote an AppleScript. Since this only happens every now and then, I didn't make the script executable; I just call it from Google's quick search box whenever I…

  • Move forward and back in iCal with the Magic Mouse

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:30 am
    The Magic Mouse lets you navigate forward and backward between web pages in Safari or Firefox with a two-finger swipe. The same two-finger swipe also moves you forward and back in iCal. It works just the same as clicking the forward and back arrows around the day/week/month view control at the top of the iCal window.

  • Back up OS X to a Windows machine on the network

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:30 am
    I know there are plenty of back up/synchronization packages for the Mac, and I know Time Machine is awesome. But as I have a Linux/FreeBSD background, I wanted to do it my way. And none of the software I tried was able to do it my way :-). So the command line seemed to be a good solution. My office Windows machine has plenty of disk space on it, and it is rarely used. It was an ideal system (with not so ideal a file system) to do backups on. The solution I came up with requires: A shared folder on the PC, mounted on the Mac. The Unix app rdiff-backup, available via MacPorts. Notifications are…

  • Restore default bootloader without harming partitions

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:30 am
    If your bootloader gets changed or corrupted, this fix will restore it without damage to your disk partitions. This hint may be a bit esoteric, but I thought I was up for a long night of reinstallation pain before stumbling upon this fix. I made the mistake of trying to use an Ubuntu 9.04 boot CD to install Ubuntu to an external (USB) drive on my Mac. Don't do this, unless you know the following: Regardless of the fact that you chose the external drive upon which to install Ubuntu, you won't be able to boot back into your Mac without changing the bootloader. I ended up with the dreaded…

  • 10.6: Work around an iWeb and Pages crash issue in 10.6.2

    19 Nov 2009 | 7:30 am
    Recently, I was asked to set up a web site for a church; since I didn't want to spend days doing it, I decided to try iWeb. Things worked well until I updated to 10.6.2. Suddenly, iWeb was crashing on startup, without fail. Fortunately, someone on the Apple forums figured out a work-around. If you've been getting crashes with iWeb or Pages that blame the SFWordProcessing Plug In, try using Font Book to disable the font named Hoefler. Even though Font Book insists the font is valid, it appears to be triggering the crash. Once the font is disabled, you will be able to launch iWeb (and Pages)…
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    The Martha Blog

  • Partying in style with Sean 'Diddy' Combs

    Martha Stewart
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:04 pm
    Yesterday, Thursday, I attended, what was being dubbed in the news as ‘the party of the century.’ It was the 40th birthday party for hip hop mogul, Sean Diddy Combs, held in the Grand Ballroom at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.  Diddy, who is known for his extravagant parties, hired event planner, Bronson Van Wyck, and asked him to create a fantasy dreamland.  The party was simply stunning and I had such a fantastic time!  Please enjoy these photos. ◄ Back Next ► 1 of 68 1 My friend, Sean Puffy Combs 'Diddy' 2 Diddy's jacket was amazing. 3 The man of the hour 4 Sean…

  • A Puerto Rican Evening

    Martha Stewart
    19 Nov 2009 | 8:01 pm
    Last Friday, November 13th, I attended the Comité Noviembre 14th Annual Gala Celebrating 23 Years of Puerto Rican Heritage Month held at the Hilton in New York City. My very good friend Carlos A. Picón asked me to attend and present him with the award he was receiving that night. Carlos, a fascinating fellow, is the Curator in Charge of the Department of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One could only wish to have him along while exploring the ancient ruins of Greece and, to my great fortune, that is exactly what happened back in 1996. I was vacationing with a group of…

  • Meredith Vieira and I have a baking contest

    Martha Stewart
    18 Nov 2009 | 8:01 pm
    With the holidays approaching, I've been all about pies lately. We held a pie contest on my television show on Monday and invited the winner, Marjorie Johnson back to the show on Tuesday to demonstrate her recipe for English Toffee Pecan Pie. Yesterday, on the Today show, co-host Meredith Vieira and I decided to have a little contest of our own baking apple pies. Meredith brought her mother's original recipe in and I came prepared to make one that I call the 'Mile High Apple Pie.' Co-host Matt Lauer was the judge, a position that made him a little nervous, I think. ◄ Back Next ► 1…

  • A Pie Contest

    Martha Stewart
    17 Nov 2009 | 8:01 pm
    Last Monday on my television show, we had our first annual pie contest, where we asked members of the audience to share their favorite pies with us. It turns out that many were eager to impress us with their baking skills because amazingly, a total of 161 pies were transported into the studio that morning. To judge all those pies, we asked Karen Demasco, pastry chef at Locanda Verde in New York City; Sandro Micheli, pastry chef at Adour Alain Ducasse in New York City; John Barricelli, host of "Everyday Baking from Everyday Food" and owner of SoNo Baking Company and Cafe in South Norwalk,…

  • A tag sale at my offices - Prada, Escada, Ralph Lauren and more

    Martha Stewart
    16 Nov 2009 | 8:01 pm
    Last Friday, we held our annual tag sale at my offices in the Starrett Lehigh building in Manhattan.  What we were selling was my television wardrobe from last season.  Many of these items were only worn once and are of very good quality.  The idea for this sale is to offer employees a really great deal for this merchandise.  The clothing was placed in bins and moved from the TV studio.  At Starrett, it was arranged on long tables, organized by sweaters, blouses, pants, shoes, etc.  My executive assistant, Jessica, helped me price and tag everything. The sale began at noon and as tag…
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    Cool Hunting

  • Yatzer's Top Luxury Gifts

    Karen Day
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    For many, gifts with a three-figure price tag make a generous offering, but this year Yatzer upped the ante with their guide of gifts for the ultimate in luxury and the pinnacle in price points. CH picked a few of the gifts that may just be worth saving up for—providing you have a very large piggie bank. Hasselblad's H4D medium format DSLR features a 60 Mpixel MF sensor and a new True Focus technology, an attribute built to provide outstanding focus throughout the entire image. The camera will be available January 2010 for €19,995 (pictured above left). Maison Takuya's wild…

  • Tokyo Fixed Store

    CH Contributor
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:27 pm
    by Richard Prime Now beyond a trend, the track and fixed cycling community thrives through the hard work of those involved in its passionate and dedicated scene. The latest proof of its staying power and those working for it, two-year-old e-commerce site Tokyo Fixed Gear's shop opens 25 November 2009. The physical manifestation from the group who have long fulfilled the demand in the U.K. for rare imports from Japan including hard to source frames and components, as well as local designers like Cyclodelic drops the "gear" from their name and makes their expertise that much more accessible. A…

  • Cool Hunting Survey 2009

    Josh Rubin
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:19 pm
    Keep Cool Hunting content top-notch and free by completing our short survey. It takes less time than watching the latest viral video and when we learn more about you, our readers, it helps better tailor advertising and improves our independently-published site. To thank you for your support, when you complete the survey you will also have the option to be one of the three winners of a Phaidon book of your choice.

  • The Recently Deflowered Girl

    Maggie York-Worth
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:20 pm
    Edward Gorey's strange and twisted illustrations, often coupled with his similarly odd prose, illustrates this inimitable book of manners "The Recently Deflowered Girl." Written by Mel Juffe under the nom de plume Miss Hyacinthe Phypps, advice for the society girl offers "the right thing to say on every dubious occasion." Juffe, narrating with a humor so dry it resembles sandpaper, tells what to do when the marimba player, the spirit of Valentino or the Chinese detective deflower (and in other ways) act positively rakish. What happens when your affianced cannot make the wedding? "Deflowered…

  • The Visual Miscellaneum Book

    Brian Fichtner
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:19 am
    For those drowning in the digital age's information glut, "Visual Miscellaneum," the new eye-popping book of infographics by London-based visual and data journalist David McCandless, makes the perfect antidote. Forget about pie charts, bar graphs, line graphs and histograms; the book showcases McCandless' dexterity when it comes to the infinite number of ways to represent data through engaging graphics these days. (Click all images below for an expanded view.) While some books open with a dedication to a loved one, an esteemed colleague or a revered legend, the author dedicates Visual…
 
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    Wallpaper.com

  • United Nude flagship store, Amsterdam

    20 Nov 2009 | 5:28 am
    Since its launch in 2003, United Nude has created one iconic shoe design after another, from the moulded aluminium Eamz model to the carbon fibre-looped Mobius heel. Architecture buffs might also know them for their connection to the architecture world: the company�s co-owner and co-designer Rem D. Koolhaas is the nephew of renowned OMA starchitect, Rem Koolhaas, with whom…

  • Mercedes E500

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:41 am
    Mercedes-Benz brought the concept of the big elegant coup� into the world. Although the chauffeured saloon has never lost its lustre as the ultimate aspirational mode of transport, and the supercar continues to snap heads and command attention, big, powerful coup�s are the stealthy choice; not ostentatious enough to incur unwanted attention, but discreetly stylish all the same.…

  • Forge Arts by Burd Haward Architects, London

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:25 am
    In an effort to recreate the intimate and calm context for which chamber music was originally composed - only this time in the heart of one of London�s busiest neighbourhoods - the Forge Arts venue opened recently in Camden Town. See more of Forge Arts Designed by Burd Haward Architects, the venue was a commission by owners Adam and Charlotte Caird, who dreamed of creating…

  • Ursula Schulz-Dornburg at The Lichfield Studios

    19 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    The photographs of British aristocrat Patrick Lichfield and Dusseldorf-based Ursula Schulz-Dornburg couldn�t be more different; the former immortalized sixties glamour with his pictures of models, royalty and pop stars, while the latter epitomizes the intellectual, landscape-focused German school, spearheaded by the likes of Hilla and Bernd Becher and their water towers. But…

  • First Works architecture exhibition, AA Gallery

    18 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    Hadid, Piano, Rogers, Foster and many of the fellow-60s and 70s generation of architects may today pride themselves to be among the world�s most celebrated, respected mega-practices; but rewind 4 decades back and all today�s starchitects were just taking their first baby steps into the architectural realm, marking an age of imaginative experimentation, innovation and visionary…
 
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  • Good Eating on Any Budget

    Ariela Ross
    28 Oct 2009 | 12:34 pm
    While there are dozens of official reports about the economy improving, the general population has yet to feel the effects of it. With unemployment rates hanging in the double-digit percentage points, it’s become apparent to the average family that it is time to modify their budget, and not in the desired direction. Going shopping these days, you may see some sort of common pattern. The department stores and ‘non-necessity’ stores are drastically marking down their prices. The same, however, does not go for grocery stores. Grocers are marking up prices, only to put them…

  • The FTC is Now Playing Ball with Bloggers

    Holly Ord
    6 Oct 2009 | 7:05 am
    If you’re a blogger that receives any kind of payment, whether in the form of cash in exchange for writing a blog post or in the form of free products you’re reviewing on your blog, you are now subject to following new guidelines put into rule yesterday by the Federal Trade Commission. For the first time in 29 years, the Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising has been amended and specifically targets new media outlets which includes not only blogging, but also Facebook and Twitter. If you have not yet been introduced to the new 81-page document…

  • National Grandparent’s Day Twitter Party

    Holly Ord
    8 Sep 2009 | 10:18 pm
    National Grandparent’s Day (September 13th) is one of the most overlooked and neglected days of the year. While I’m sure more people recognize the day much more than other “national days of celebration” like for instance, Flag Day or Secretary Appreciation Day (no, I’m not making this up,) National Grandparent’s Day is one of those days that a great deal of people do not even know exists in the first place. Because of this, Grandparents.com and MomSelect have teamed up to kick off a celebration for Grandparent’s Day by holding a Twitter party. I have a unique…

  • Freaked Out About Finances? You’re Not Alone

    Ariela Ross
    3 Sep 2009 | 4:55 pm
    You know that feeling, where your heart starts beating faster, you feel like you can’t breathe, and you just want to avoid the reality? I’m not talking about an anxiety attack, but about getting freaked out when checking up on your finances. You are definitely not alone, even if I’m the only other one with you. Ever since I can remember, I’ve been very independently minded, even from childhood. I even held a job of some sort since the age of 10, cooked, cleaned, looked after others… but I was never fully financially independent. With the opening of my first bank…

  • Follow Friday

    Teeg
    28 Aug 2009 | 7:37 am
    I love the idea behind Twitter’s #FollowFriday. Introducing one friend to other friends feels natural, like attending a party where you know everyone and bringing a friend around to meet everyone. The problem on Twitter is that the idea isn’t always the same as the implementation. Receiving a list of people without any description doesn’t tell me much; it especially doesn’t give me a reason that I’d enjoy getting to know the person. A while back I decided to do my own version of FollowFriday. Instead of posting a list of people with perhaps a short description, I…
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  • Week 27: Holiday Maternity Fashion Tips

    Zen Mommy
    21 Nov 2009 | 9:28 am
    This week I’m thinking about THANKSGIVING and CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR’S EVE!!! All these big parties coming up. I just hope I’m mobile enough to enjoy them all… the end of January feels just around the corner. Am I ready? I may not have the nursery done.. but I know what I’ll be wearing come Christmas. Ha. That’s gotta count for something!@#@!!! If you are pregnant, here are some tips to help you prepare… well… at least your closet anyway… for the holidays. TIP #1: Save Energy: Shop online for maternity clothes. This allows you to shop…

  • Positive Parenting Tip: Short and Sweet

    Contributor
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:32 am
    Our Yogi Parenting audio tips are presented every Friday by Michaela Turner, BS Ed, CYKT, YKT, Co-Founder Yogi Parenting Let your kids teach you how!!! Listen to this :15 AUDIO TIP: — Michaela is a 30 year veteran educator and a Certified YogaKids Teacher and Trainer. She teaches yoga baby and yoga kids classes for children throughout St. Louis, Missouri. As the Co-founder of Yogi Parenting, Michaela offers tips on parenting and seminars nationally, blending her joy for yoga with her love for children.

  • Personalize Those Holiday Treats! $1

    Practical Mommy
    19 Nov 2009 | 11:26 am
    For just $1, you can win this adorable 3 qt. Cookie jar features a cozy airtight place to store your favorite cookies. Designed by world renowned artist, Kathy Davis, this very colorful cookie jar will delight any home. Personalized with your family’s name. Invite your holiday guests to enjoy the “Tweets” inside. And you can win this one for ONE DOLLAR. It’s October’s Power of One prize, valued at $38 from ArtisticSensations.com Click on the widget to donate $1 to Parents As Teachers using your credit card. Easy!

  • How to Pick Your New Mommy Wardrobe

    Julie Verleger
    17 Nov 2009 | 4:40 pm
    Last week a very good friend of mine had her first baby. When I went to see my friend and her beautiful daughter in the hospital we talked about how the pain is more that one can imagine, but its all worth it. We talked about what the best clothes were to wear for breast-feeding and recovery. For those of us who have been through or are going through babydome, the first 2 months become somewhat of a blur. We almost robotically feed, change diapers and rest whenever we can. Somehow we manage to eat, shower and actually be a Mom to our other children and half the time not even remember how we…

  • Zen Mommy Minute: “I Yam What I Yam”

    Zen Mommy
    16 Nov 2009 | 11:28 am
    I can hear Popeye now “I Yam what I Yam…”. Parent or not, this week, let’s embrace the “I” that is our “true-self”. Let’s allow the things we do with our kids during the day, at their schools, etc.. to flow from these innate parts of our personalities… not from only a sense of duty or obligation. Our children will see us in our bliss and learn that they too can love who they are and use their gifts on a daily basis to make a difference in the world. Let’s parent in a way that is in line with our temperaments… not…
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  • Gratitude

    My Brown Baby
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:29 pm
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  • The Family CFO

    Mighty Maggie
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:06 am
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  • Becoming a Person

    Daring Young Mom
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:10 am
    It's weird to watch someone become a person a little bit at a time, day by day. She came to us a stranger in her own body. She could think and feel, cry and poop. The rest was a blank slate. She'd stare right through you, seemingly unable to tell people from lamp posts, all but blind and totally startled and amazed by the world around her. read more

  • Black Moms ARE Different, and That's OK

    My Brown Baby
    13 Nov 2009 | 9:26 am
    'You’re so vain, you probably think this [post] is about you.' But it’s not. It’s about me. And a bunch of other African-American moms who are tired of being ignored. Stereotyped. Put in a box. Left to wonder what, exactly, they’re to do with the unique circumstances that come into play when they’re raising black children in a society that all but ignores them, until something horrible happens. What’s got me all in a tizzy? read more

  • Another Round of Correspondence

    Mighty Maggie
    12 Nov 2009 | 7:54 am
    Dear Swine Flu, I am hauling my precious babies to the pediatrician's office tomorrow where they will be injected and sprayed with tiny bits of you, all to protect them from what the newspapers are leading me to believe is The Next Bubonic Plague. I am a little bit terrified, not least because I am taking two children to the pediatrician BY MYSELF, and I do hope you are going to behave yourself and leave them alone. Deal? Respectfully, Maggie Cheung read more
 
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  • Italy: Woman in Political Scandal Is Found Dead

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    A Brazilian transsexual involved in a scandal that prompted the resignation of an Italian governor was found burned to death in her home on Friday.

  • Anything He Can Do, She Can Do

    14 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    A classical pianist who came out as a transgender woman a decade ago shares her story of determination.

  • The Sex of Athletes: One Issue, Many Variables

    24 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
    The International Association of Athletics Federations’ current policies on gender definition are vague, incomplete and contradictory.

  • The Id Girl

    17 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
    No filter. Tracey Emin has built a glittering career in the art world on her full-frontal candor, with installations titled “My Bed” (featuring used condoms, cigarette packets, stained underwear) and “Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995.” Her work situates the crotch at the center of the universe. In “Strangeland: The Jagged Recollections of a Beautiful Mind” (Hodder & Stoughton), a 2005 compilation of her writing, she recounts being sexually abused as a child and raped at 13, relives the...

  • All’s Not Well in Sex and Food

    8 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
    On the front of primal appetites, David Letterman gives sex a bad name, and restaurants suffer in the recession.
 
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  • Roku adds 10 new free content channels for its set-top video players

    Dean Takahashi
    22 Nov 2009 | 6:00 pm
    Roku offers a trio of set-top boxes that can download movies and TV shows from the web and show them on your TV. Now the company is adding 10 new free content channels to its service. You can use a Roku box with a Netflix subscription or the Amazon Video on Demand service to watch movies or TV shows on your TV. You connect a Roku box to both your TV and the web. Then you can cruise through the Netflix catalog and watch movies instantly as they stream via Wi-Fi or Ethernet to your TV set. Now Saratoga, Calif.-based Roku is adding access to these sites: Blip.tv, Facebook Photos, Flickr,…

  • 16-yr old launches Vye music-sharing site. Another Napster?

    Craig Agranoff
    22 Nov 2009 | 9:23 am
    With the help of close friends and family, 16-year-old Charles Allatt, has launched Vye Music, an online meta search app for music files around the Net. The site pulls search results from other music sites — including Skreemr, MP3Codes, and 4Shared Music, sites which in turn index hundreds of thousands of sites, blogs and artist pages. Vye collates all of this content for the user and applies a simple, AJAX-based interface to let you build playlists, stream songs, and download them. Letting users share and download music for free is what got Napster in trouble for copyright violations…

  • 5 O’Clock Roundup: Nook sold out, Sony launches online store, Bing gets slammed

    Dean Takahashi
    21 Nov 2009 | 3:01 pm
    We’ve been a little behind with roundup lately. Our apologies. Here’s the latest action: Barnes & Noble Nook sold out — The bookseller’s entry into the eBook reader market is under way. The B&N Nook is out of stockk on the company’s web site and it is now taking orders for devices that will ship next year. Analysts say that the Nook wasn’t ready for shipment in huge quantities and B&N probably launched it anyway to head off sales for Amazon’s rival Kindle eBook reader. Well, there’s always Spring Design’s Alex. Sony to launch…

  • Week in review: Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on apps, Al Gore at GreenBeat

    Anthony Ha
    21 Nov 2009 | 2:05 pm
    Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie: Apps don’t make your phone special — “It’s not the applications available on the various platforms that will be the differentiators, Ozzie said, even though that’s what many companies and writers seem to focus on.” Microsoft’s Xbox Live chief on banning modders and browsing Facebook photos on TV — “It’s a cat and mouse game. These were people that were pirating software.”…

  • Entrepreneur Corner Roundup: The state of the VC world and tech’s human problem

    Chris Morris
    21 Nov 2009 | 8:03 am
    Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner: 5 ways VC firms can stop shooting themselves in the foot – Venture Capital firms drill the need to create basic credibility into the companies they invest in – but often fail to take their own advice. Laura Grimmer, CEO of Articulate Communications (which works with VC firms), lists five things they could do to build a better pipeline of prospective portfolio companies. After VC cash? Show ‘em what you’ve learned – When the time came for Cafepress to seek its second round of funding, the company went about it in a…
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  • The Perfect Interview Test

    GuyKawasaki
    21 Nov 2009 | 10:12 pm
    Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon, authors of I Hate People!, have figured out a quick way to interview job candidates. The solution is easy: watch how they cross the street. I’m a “wader,” by the way.

  • The 19 bloggers Inc. thinks you should read

    GuyKawasaki
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:20 pm
    Inc. named 19 bloggers that you should read. We’ve aggregated them all in one place: Inc19.alltop.

  • How to Get Found

    GuyKawasaki
    4 Nov 2009 | 3:29 pm
    The reality is that people and technology is getting better and better a blocking out unwanted interruptions—aka, “marketing.” Brian Halligan is the CEO of HubSpot, and he explains in my post on the American Express Open Forum “how to get found.” It’s all about creating great stuff and letting Google et al do what they do: find great stuff.

  • How I tweet

    GuyKawasaki
    2 Nov 2009 | 8:47 am
    By popular demand (and some complaints), I’ve done a FAQ with myself about how I tweet. Hope this helps you use Twitter for your business too. I explain how I use ghostwriters and why I repeat my tweets among other “unusual” practices.

  • Current Twitter Demo Script

    GuyKawasaki
    28 Oct 2009 | 2:26 am
    This is the set of links that I used to demo Twitter by going down through this list to show why Twitter is such a valuable marketing tool. Introduction Home page Profile page Monitor Search Guy Kawasaki or Alltop Starbucks VIA introduction Search for “Prius” or “Civic” Sell Dell Outlet Kogi BBQ Support Comcast Cares Engage JetBlue Virgin America Fandango Prospect Camaro Camaro near Palo Alto Advanced searches Surfing or skateboarding (shows how to eliminate extraneous results such as “surfing the web” How I Tweet - Find Alltop MyAlltop helped me find this.
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  • Don't Assume China Mimics US-Style Social Media

    22 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm
    China enjoyed center stage this week thanks to President Obama's visit. Naturally, trade relations were on the agenda. For Internet companies sitting in the US, news reports that chronicled the President's every move in China were a visible reminder of the business opportunity that may seem a click away. Sponsor This guest post was written by Wei Wang. So, why not export social media to China just like KFC and American Idol? After all, seeing Yao Ming, arguably China's grandest international star, on Facebook and Twitter, one naturally figures, aside from the language and periodic blocking of…

  • Cartoon: Head Count

    22 Nov 2009 | 10:30 am
    A few weeks ago, I spoke to someone who had finally reached the end of her rope with an obdurate boss. Having suggested a series of social media initiatives, only to see them wither on the vine as he refused to either push them forward or cancel them, she was ready to move on - not just to another job, but a whole different organization. (Possibly the mob. She has recently dreamed up some innovations on the homicide front that she's eager to try.) Sponsor One of the reasons social media can be so challenging is that it often challenges hierarchies... and people at the top of those hierarchies…

  • Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible

    22 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    Our mission at ReadWriteWeb is to explore the latest Web technology products and trends. We're fortunate to have a great group of sponsors who support this goal. So, once a week, we write a post about them; about who they are, what they do, and what they've been up to lately. Pay them a visit and show your appreciation of their sponsorship of this site. Pay them a visit or tweet them a "Thank you" (see link below each sponsor) to show your appreciation for their sponsorship of this site. Or you can follow all of our sponsors at once using our Twitter list. Interested in being a ReadWriteWeb…

  • ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 21 November 2009

    22 Nov 2009 | 8:05 am
    Here is this week's ReadWriteWeb events guide. As always, you can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is a weekly feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, as good a time as any to review your conference plans. Know of an event taking place that should appear here? Let us know in the comments below or contact us. Sponsor 19 November 2009: Mountain View, California Under the Radar Featuring the most cutting-edge mobile startups from…

  • Weekly Wrapup: Google Chrome OS, Obama's Twitter, Blogging Statistics, And More...

    21 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am
    In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we report on President Obama's (non)-use of Twitter, take a look at the past decade in the media industry, review the latest statistics about blogging, question if Oxford Dictionary should've chosen "unfriend" as its word of the year, and more. We also check in on our two main channels: ReadWriteEnterprise (devoted to 'enterprise 2.0' trends and products) and ReadWriteStart (dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs). Sponsor Subscribe to Weekly Wrapup You can subscribe to the…
 
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  • The Emergence of Twitvertising

    Mark Evans
    22 Nov 2009 | 5:14 am
    Note: This post originally appeared on Mark Evans Tech. Here’s the thing about Twitter: it has huge potential to become a lucrative advertising platform – something that Twitter has continually resisted, although its resolve may be weakening (or disappearing) based on recent comments by COO Dick Costelo. There’s a great story in today’s New York Times about how advertising networks such as ad.ly and Ted (Pay Per Post) Murphy’s Izea are doing gangbusters by getting popular Twitter users such as John Chow to insert affiliate links into their Twitter feeds. Chow made $3,000 in October…

  • A Way to Cheat With Follow Friday

    Mark Evans
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:15 am
    Follow Friday (aka #followfriday or #ff) is a great way to give a public shout out to people who you know, do business with, or simply enjoy their work, blog posts or tweets. A problem with Follow Friday is that it happens on, well, Friday, when you’re fried by a long week of work. Unless you are disciplined, thinking about who you want to put on your Follow Friday list can be a challenge. For those of you who fall into this camp, an interest short-cut is The Twitter Tag Project’s Follow Friday! service, which automatically generates a #followfriday tweet that contains people. The…

  • What’s Happening? Huh?

    Mark Evans
    19 Nov 2009 | 6:39 pm
    The oh-so-mysterious Twitter threw everyone a strange curveball tonight with some big news: It’s changing it’s tagline from “What are you doing?” to “What’s happening?” In a blog post, Biz Stone said: Twitter helps you share and discover what’s happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about. “What are you doing?” isn’t the right question anymore—starting today, we’ve shortened it by two characters. Twitter now asks, “What’s happening?” It’s a small change but figure a…

  • What Will Twitter Premium Offer?

    Mark Evans
    19 Nov 2009 | 3:26 pm
    According to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, the company plans to launch premium accounts that will provide customers with enhanced features and analytics. (Source: ClickZ) So, the question is what will enhanced features and analytics mean? In terms of analytics, Twitter could offer data such as how many times a tweet has been retweeted, how many times a link within a tweet had been clicked on, geo-location information now that the geotagging API is officially available, as well as information about how often a corporate name and brand has been mentioned over a certain of time. While this…

  • RIP: Twitter’s Suggested Users

    Mark Evans
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:09 am
    It took longer than it should have but Twitter has finally decided to kill the suggested user list – the one that automatically added 20 high-profile people to follow for all new Twitter users. The list was sophomoric because it was all the cool people culled from a master list of about 500 celebrities, athletes and politicians on Twitter as opposed to provide new users with a useful tool that would help them find people who met their specific interests. In the end, all that suggested users really did was artificially promote the popularity of certain Twitter users such as Ashton…
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  • Thailand: End Detention of Lao Hmong Refugees

    Human Rights Watch
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:42 pm
    (New York) - The Thai government should immediately end the detention of 158 Lao Hmong refugees held in poor and abusive conditions for three years, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. read more

  • Uzbekistan: Ensure Fair Appeal for Human Rights Defender

    Human Rights Watch
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:32 am
    (New York) - Uzbek authorities should ensure that an appeal hearing that began today for a human rights advocate is fair and independent, Human Rights Watch said. The activist, Farkhad Mukhtarov, was convicted of criminal charges in a trial that appeared to have been politically motivated, and he was denied the right to defend himself fully, Human Rights Watch said.   read more

  • France: Inadequate Plan for Migrant Children at Airport

    Human Rights Watch
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:52 am
    (Paris) -The French Immigration Minister's proposals to address the needs of unaccompanied migrant children held at transit zones, especially airports, falls short of bringing France into compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Human Rights Watch said today. The treaty, to which France and most other nations are parties, was adopted 20 years ago today. read more

  • Morocco: Reverse Expulsion of Sahrawi Activist

    Human Rights Watch
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:54 am
    (New York) - Morocco must reverse its expulsion of Sahrawi rights activist Aminatou Haidar and allow her to enter her country of nationality, Human Rights Watch said today. Spain must intercede with Morocco to ensure her return, Human Rights Watch added. read more

  • US Senate: Reject Abortion Coverage Restrictions

    Human Rights Watch
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:03 am
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  • Adriana Lima Welcomes Daughter

    MrsH
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:00 am
    Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima has given birth to a baby girl, her first with NBA star Marco Jaric of the Memphis Grizzlies. They have christened their daughter with the name Valentina Lima Jaric. A representative for the couple has announced that “Mother, father and baby are all doing well.” Valentina is a popular Latin America name which means ‘healthy and strong’. Mexican actress Salma Hayek also chose the name for her daughter two years ago. So will Mom walk down a Victoria’s Secret catwalk weeks after giving birth like VS alum Heidi Klum? And…

  • How I Celebrated Universal Children’s Day

    Science-mom
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:45 am
    It goes by many different names. The International Day of the Child. The Universal Children’s Day. The National Child Day in individual countries. However, it doesn’t matter what it’s called. November 20 is a special day for children all over the world. When it all started It was almost 55 years ago when the General Assembly of the United Nations recommended that the special day be observed to celebrate “worldwide fraternity and understanding between children.” The Assembly decided on November 20 as the special day which also marks the day when the Declaration of…

  • Pacifiers Recalled Due to Choking Hazard

    Dan
    19 Nov 2009 | 7:45 am
    Grand World Recalls ‘Bobby Chupete’ Pacifiers WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: ‘Bobby Chupete’ Pacifiers Units: About 641,000 Importer: Grand World Inc., of Maspeth, N.Y. Hazard: The pacifiers fail to meet federal safety standards. The pacifier mouth guard is too small, posing a choking hazard to infants and toddlers.

  • Premature Birth is on the Rise

    Science-mom
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:05 am
    November 18 is Prematurity Awareness Day. I am one of those moms who had firsthand experience with prematurity. My twin boys were born 5 weeks early 6 years ago. Even though they’ve grown to be healthy boys, we had to struggle with low birth weight and health problems during the first year of their lives. This is the reason why I tend to follow closely the latest new updates on prematurity. This is why I am sharing with you today some facts and figures on prematurity. What is Preterm Birth? Preterm birth is defined as delivery before 37 weeks of gestation is completed. In recent years,…

  • Parenting Tips for First Time Dads

    Tshaka Armstrong
    17 Nov 2009 | 9:15 am
    After months of waiting, the time has come and gone. For a little under a year you’ve rubbed feet, and lower back. You’ve braved various “birthing” classes and read as many books as your time allowed. You’ve been given tips from other fathers, whether solicited, or not. The moment you were waiting for has come and gone. Now, one of the most incredible moments of your life, the birth of your first child, has given way to something else. After all the preparation you’ve now set about the task of figuring out what exactly it is you’re to do with this…
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  • Shop Prismera For The Holidays

    juleewilson
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:02 pm
    I had the most amazing meeting this week with the creative force behind the company Prismera--a jewelry, stationary and beyond collection that is both beautiful and original.  The company's founder, Laura Su, designs everything she creates. So you know you're getting an original piece of art work...no copying or stock patterns here. Su graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration--and if you know anything about RISD, then you know it's one of the best art schools in the world with amazing alumni. Su's vision: "The word 'Prismera' comes from a combination of…

  • Giving Thanks - A (Very Big) Family Affair

    kateparker
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:08 pm
    Thanksgiving is one of my favorite Holidays. In addition to all the yummy food that comes with it, I'm a fan of any occasion that makes me stop and think about all the things for which I am so very thankful. This year, it's all about family.  This year, I'm particularly thrilled because my entire (gigantic) extended family (on my mother's side) is going to be celebrating Thanksgiving together - dozens of aunts and uncles and cousins and even a few new babies that have arrived this year are all flying down to Florida, and my mother (being the saint that she is) is hosting Thanksgiving…

  • The Art of Racing in the Rain: Chapters 27-40

    kathleenharris
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:34 pm
    This is a tough section of the book for Denny; and when his will is really tested. Eve’s passing happens so quietly—were you prepared for it? I have to admit I still got choked up even though I knew it was coming. The other big plot event was the beginning of the custody battle with the Twins. I wasn’t surprised—it was obvious that’s what they were trying to do from the moment Eve’s sickness came to light. And I sensed that something with the cousin was going to come back to haunt Denny, but I can’t believe how far they took it. I do feel like Enzo gets a little lost in this…

  • What Are Your Family Rituals?

    corynne_corbett
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:43 am
    This holiday season I'm looking forward to my extended family gathering in Connecticut on Christmas Day. For the longest time it was the ritual that we celebrated as an extended family and it could be relied on like clockwork. There was no question that everyone within a healthy driving distance would be in attendance. As our family has set up outposts across the country (and others have passed on), the guest list constantly changes from year-to-year. So now when we are all together it is that much more special. I come from a family where our grandparents spent a lot of time telling us…

  • When shopping online, do you use live chat?

    kristinbrandt
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:32 am
    With the holidays fast approaching, my thoughts turn to gifts. Or, more to the point, how to get all of my shopping done with everything else that is on the to-do list. The answer, of course, is that I'm going to be doing most (all?) of my shopping online. And while shopping from the comfort of my living room may be the greatest invention known to a time-starved mom, that doesn't mean it is without problems. Problems, that often can be resolved with the help of another great invention – live chat with a customer service representative. The first time I tried live chat was while…
 
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  • TripIt Launches Android App as Beta

    Om Malik
    22 Nov 2009 | 5:10 pm
    TripIt, a travel aggregation service that is offered as an application on the iPhone and BlackBerry, is now available as a beta app for Google’s Android platform and can be downloaded from the Android Market. Just like us, our colleagues at jkOnTheRun, WebWorkerDaily and TheAppleBlog are all fans of TripIt, and the Android version will allow more people to use this fantastic service. TripIt recently launched an application programming interface for other developers to build their own web and mobile apps.

  • How Video Is Changing the Internet

    Richard Bennett
    22 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    The rise of video streaming is dramatically affecting the Internet, according to a two-year study of Internet traffic trends that Arbor Networks recently presented to the North American Network Operators Group. Two years ago, Internet traffic was distributed evenly among a dozen Tier-1 network providers, but today the majority of traffic flows through direct peering agreements among large content providers, content delivery networks and ISPs. Consequently, Tier-1 networks have shifted their business models from simple packet delivery to richer cloud computing and content hosting services, and…

  • Skype CEO Outlines Platform Ambitions, Hiring Plans

    Om Malik
    21 Nov 2009 | 3:59 pm
    Skype, with its spin-out from eBay complete and its legal troubles with founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis settled, is looking to the future, where it wants to become a ubiquitous real-time communications platform. And that means thinking about the next-generation Skype architecture and hiring a lot of smart people, CEO Josh Silverman said in a conversation earlier today. “We are looking to hire engineers,” he said. “Especially those who want to live in Estonia.” In addition, the company is planning to ramp up its Stockholm (Sweden) office. “We are going…

  • Google’s Past Failures Offer Perspective on Chrome OS Release

    Colin Gibbs
    21 Nov 2009 | 11:00 am
    The Internet is abuzz over Google’s release of the open-source version of its Chrome OS, and for good reason. It’s free, which will save hardware manufacturers licensing fees, and it appears ideally suited for the netbooks that have become such a hot item for the mobile crowd (GigaOM Pro, sub. required). But Chrome is not without its detractors, and it’s worth remembering that Google isn’t King Midas — in fact, there’s a substantial list of Google products and services that have flopped, floundered or simply disappeared into the ether. Here are a few of the…

  • Why Are Tech Layoffs Rising in a Recovery?

    Kevin Kelleher
    21 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    The brutal economic downturn that’s being called “The Great Recession” is, at least in a technical sense, over. Online advertising and IT spending are inching back up, and many tech companies have seen their stock prices more than double from the lows reached in March. Even if it’s not the most robust of recoveries, it’ll do. So why are tech companies suddenly slashing jobs again? The past couple of months have brought a renewed surge in job cuts at technology companies, including many that were undergoing second or third rounds of layoffs. Take AOL: It laid off 700 workers…
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  • Sesame Street Turns 40

    This month, Sesame Street--the classic children';s television show that stars furry Muppets alongside human actors--celebrates its 40th anniversary

  • Lunar Lander Inventors Win Big

    The X Prize Foundation awarded the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander X Prize at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Two teams of inventors won a total of $1.5 million for crafting and flying robotic machines that could land on the moon.

  • Yankees Win Their 27th World Series

    The Yankees claimed their 27th World Series championship Wednesday with a 7-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. They won four games to the Phillies'; two in the best-of-seven series.

  • Tribal Nations Converge on D.C.

    President Barack Obama is holding a Tribal Nations Conference in Washington, D.C., on November 5. It is the largest summit of its kind in U.S. history and the first presidential meeting with tribal leaders in 15 years.

  • Supersized Ring Circles Saturn

    Scientists recently discovered a new ring around the planet Saturn. It is the largest known ring in our solar system.
 
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  • Video game avatars can go to your head, study says

    22 Nov 2009 | 6:57 pm
    The characters that video game users choose for themselves — their avatars — can affect their thoughts and emotions in those virtual environments, whether it's Mario or Luigi or the colors of a football uniform, according to research by a University of Texas communication studies professor.

  • Man dies in wreck near Seguin; man found dead in apartment hot tub

    22 Nov 2009 | 6:56 pm
    SEGUIN

  • The Thirteenth Man

    22 Nov 2009 | 7:32 am
    Long tables draped with maroon linens held the portraits of the dead. Other photographs were displayed Tuesday at G. Rollie White Coliseum, including images depicting the progression of the Texas A&M University sacrament known as Bonfire: cut, stack, burn. One section of pictures portrayed the events of Nov. 18, 1999.

  • For UT tailgaters, focus is on the party

    22 Nov 2009 | 7:31 am
    You can't quarrel much with Bobby Ugiansky's way of doing things. You might have seen his behemoth tailgating bus parked near Scholz Garten on Longhorn game days. It's the outlandish Texas orange bus with the party deck on top and all those people on it who seem to be having a dandy time. This season, on a terribly hot September afternoon, the 30 or so happy tailgaters seemed unfazed because misting fans kept them cool, as did the 12-ounce cans of whatever they were drinking. If you witnessed it, you kind of wanted to partake.

  • Ruling: Firefighters can only get 1 type of specialty pay

    21 Nov 2009 | 8:52 pm
    AUSTIN
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    Psychology Today

  • My Boss, Emperor of the World

    <a href="/blog/bloggers/ben-dattner" title="View Bio">Ben Dattner</a>
    21 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm
    Why are there so many narcissistic bosses?

  • Charming Yet Exasperating

    Carl Vogel
    21 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm
    A field guide to narcissism

  • A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

    <a href="/blog/bloggers/joshua-d-foster" title="View Bio">Joshua D. Foster</a>
    21 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm
    Do narcissists really hate themselves deep down inside?

  • The Narcissism Epidemic

    <a href="/blog/bloggers/jean-m-twenge-phd" title="View Bio">Jean M. Twenge, Ph.D.</a>
    21 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm
    Meet the most narcissistic generation ever

  • The Dream Notebook

    <a href="/blog/bloggers/guest-blogger" title="View Bio">Guest Blogger</a>
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    You will consider yourself mad
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  • LSU vs. Ole Miss Highlights

    21 Nov 2009 | 5:45 pm
    LSU vs. Ole Miss Highlights Dexter McCluster ran for 148 yards and passed for a touchdown, and Mississippi survived a last-ditch drive by LSU for a 25-23 victory Saturday. From: CBSSports Views: 292507 23 ratings Time: 01:10 More in Sports

  • Demi Lovato 17th Birthday Party

    21 Nov 2009 | 5:09 pm
    Demi Lovato 17th Birthday Party Behind The Scenes From: therealdemilovato Views: 247839 5629 ratings Time: 03:43 More in Music

  • The X Factor 2009 - Joe McElderry - Live Show 7 (itv.com/xfactor)

    21 Nov 2009 | 2:05 pm
    The X Factor 2009 - Joe McElderry - Live Show 7 (itv.com/xfactor) The X Factor 2009: For the first time, Joe is a little nervous about the song. Will he be able to perform tonight? See more at http://www.itv.com/xfactor From: TheXFactorUK Views: 205543 2919 ratings Time: 04:42 More in Shows

  • The X Factor 2009 - Olly Murs - Live Show 7 (itv.com/xfactor)

    21 Nov 2009 | 2:02 pm
    The X Factor 2009 - Olly Murs - Live Show 7 (itv.com/xfactor) The X Factor 2009: Olly sees Fast Love as an opportunity to show that he's a modern man. Can he pull it off? See more at http://www.itv.com/xfactor From: TheXFactorUK Views: 133204 1295 ratings Time: 04:17 More in Shows

  • The X Factor 2009 - Danyl Johnson - Live Show 7 (itv.com/xfactor)

    21 Nov 2009 | 1:55 pm
    The X Factor 2009 - Danyl Johnson - Live Show 7 (itv.com/xfactor) The X Factor 2009: Danyl is in trouble of copying one of George Michael's most famous songs. Can he own Careless Whisper? See more at http://www.itv.com/xfactor From: TheXFactorUK Views: 145778 2077 ratings Time: 04:24 More in Shows
 
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  • Lauderhill man dead after shooting

    22 Nov 2009 | 10:55 am
    A 20-year old man was killed after being shot multiple times upon arriving at his Lauderhill home early Sunday morning.

  • Coast Guard rescues man who went overboard off cruise ship near Miami

    22 Nov 2009 | 7:38 am
    A 62-year-old man was rescued from the ocean about 20 miles southeast of Miami early Sunday after he fell overboard from the cruise ship Silver Shadow.

  • Rape reported in Coconut Grove

    22 Nov 2009 | 6:47 am
    May be related to earlier incident Detectives are searching for a rapist who attacked a woman in Coconut Grove in the predawn hours of Saturday morning, less than a block away from another reported rape earlier this month.

  • 20 arrested in alleged multistate Oxycodone ring

    21 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Pills were moved from South Florida pain clinics to Appalachia, authorities say Federal authorities said they broke up a Palm Beach County trafficking ring that piped more than 175,000 oxycodone tablets from South Florida pain clinics to the Appalachian Mountains.

  • Friends recall teen who died in Pompano Beach crash

    21 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Woman and two children hospitalized The Pompano Beach teenager who died in an accident over the weekend planned to join the Navy when he graduated from high school this year.
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    Reuters Video: Most Watched Videos

  • Iran begins air defence war games

    22 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    Nov 22 - Iranian armed forces launch air defence war games to show off the country's deterrent capabilities in the face of pressure from the West over its nuclear programme.

  • Assam on alert after blasts

    22 Nov 2009 | 5:10 am
    Nov 22 - Two deadly bombs hidden in bicycles explode in Nalbari town in the north east Indian state.

  • Death toll rises in China mine blast

    22 Nov 2009 | 2:25 am
    Nov 22 - Hopes are fading that more survivors will be found after China's latest mine diaster.

  • U.S. health reform moves on

    22 Nov 2009 | 2:10 am
    Nov 22 - Plans for a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system narrowly clear their first hurdle.

  • Israeli warplanes pound Gaza

    22 Nov 2009 | 12:50 am
    Nov 22 - Israel launches air strikes in the Gaza Strip which it says were triggered when a rocket luanched from the enclave landed on its territory.
 
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  • The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery

    22 Nov 2009 | 6:47 pm
    In India, Devi Shetty's heart hospital offers cutting-edge medical care at a fraction of what it costs elsewhere in the world.

  • Climate Emails Stoke Debate

    22 Nov 2009 | 6:26 pm
    Emails and documents posted on the Internet after being hacked from a climate-change research center may raise ethical questions about a group of scientists who contend that humans are responsible for global warming.

  • Interview with Meb Keflezighi: Running Man

    22 Nov 2009 | 6:18 pm
    The New York City marathon champion on running, religion and what it means to be an American.

  • The End of HSAs

    22 Nov 2009 | 3:24 pm
    Harry Reid wants to kill consumer-driven health care.

  • Bringing the Buzz Back to the Caf é

    21 Nov 2009 | 7:13 pm
    Once they plotted revolutions, now they're typing blogs. Today's cafe society is a weak decaf, says Michael Idov.
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    Daily Writing Tips

  • Google Alerts

    Simon Kewin
    22 Nov 2009 | 5:00 pm
    Most writers will have typed their name, or the title of something they’ve written, into a search engine at some point. This can be a useful way of finding references to or reviews of your work that you didn’t know about. Google Alerts is an invaluable (and free) system for automating this process. Using it, you can set up the search terms you’re interested in : your name, say, or the title of your novel, short story, poem or article. Google will then automatically email you if it finds any new references to the terms you’ve provided. As well as keeping tabs on your…

  • Curating the Web

    Maeve Maddox
    22 Nov 2009 | 5:00 pm
    A Doonsbury strip in the Sunday paper introduced me to a new expression: curating a brand. Until then, the only meaning I knew for curator was “a person who looks after a museum collection.” I don’t know if Rohit Bhargava coined the term, but his article “Manifesto For The Content Curator: The Next Big Social Media Job Of The Future?” explains what is meant by content curator and what it means to curate the web: A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online. According to Rohit,…

  • What the Heck are “Peeps”?

    Maeve Maddox
    19 Nov 2009 | 5:00 pm
    This innocent question from ladysheila has led me a merry chase down etymological byways: What is the definition of peep, or rather what exactly does it mean in regards to all social media, etc., well, everything? I have looked in the dictionary and have gotten the expected definitions, to look, and one definition for people. I have heard a few people refer to, I think, their audience, as peeps. When did this originate and why? What is the correct usage in this regard? I won’t repeat everything I learned along the way, but here’s some of it. The verb peep meaning a soft, high-pitched…

  • Gentlemen, Choose Your Weapons

    Hugh Ashton
    19 Nov 2009 | 5:00 pm
    Writing tools can affect your style. In the days of quill and dip pens, the length of sentences (or at least, phrases) was apparently determined by the amount of ink held by the pen, and prose rhythm was dictated by this simple physical constraint. Fountain pens extended the scope of the writer. No longer did (s)he have to pause in the composition of the sentence, reach over to the inkwell and use those few seconds to determine what to write next. Sentences could flow for ever, like those of Henry James. But even with a fountain pen, revisions don’t come easily. In Lamb House, Rye, where…

  • Word of the Day: Browbeat

    Daniel Scocco
    19 Nov 2009 | 1:28 pm
    Browbeat means to intimidate or subjugate by the use of verbal harassment or force. A synonym to browbeat is to bully. If we follow the usual script, this means it’s time for upset listeners and viewers to rally to the cause, as they have in the past, and browbeat Congress into restoring the budget. (NY Times) European consumers are entitled to fear genetic modification in their own backyards, even if proper scientific debate is often drowned out by agitprop and railing against multinational corporations. But they have no right to browbeat the developing world into following their lead.
 
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  • How To Run Subscriber-Only Competitions on Your Blog

    Darren Rowse
    22 Nov 2009 | 5:40 am
    A Guest Post by David Cleland from TotalApps. In 2006 I proudly started my first blog, DigMo! It was technology, it was creativity, it was music and it was education. Despite it being a bit of blog soup I was pleased at how quick the site grew but within a few years it reached a critical point beyond which I really couldn’t get the traffic to grow. The site was frankly far too general to appeal to a specific community. The site had a massive 80% bounce rate and taking advice from reading the great advice on this site I decided to take stock and critically re-evaluate the future of…

  • Why Nobody Cares About Your Blog

    Darren Rowse
    21 Nov 2009 | 5:40 am
    A Guest Post by David Risley Except yours, of course. ;) However, there are a lot of bloggers who feel this way. You write. You write some more. You don’t feel as if you’re getting the traction that you want. What’s going on? There is plenty to be said about issues like proper market selection, search engine optimization and other tactical things, but let’s go deeper. In fact, let’s go deeper than most bloggers really think about when it comes to their blogging. Are You Talking At Or Talking To Your Readers? If I walked into a crowded mall, went into the food…

  • Speech Recognition for Bloggers – The Ultimate Guide

    Darren Rowse
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:45 am
    Speech recognition technology has come a long way in the last few years – in this in depth, informative and inspiring video which Jon Morrow (Associate Editor of Copyblogger and Co-founder of Partnering Profits) shares his first hand insights into speech recognition for bloggers. Jon does all of his blogging via speech recognition so he seemed like the logical guy to ask to cover the topic – in the video (I’m glad he agreed). In the video Jon makes recommendations of software, hardware (the hardware is key) and even demonstrates how he uses them in his everyday blogging. The…

  • Review This Blog – Man vs Debt

    Darren Rowse
    19 Nov 2009 | 5:46 am
    Last month here on ProBlogger we ran a community review on a reader’s blog. I posted a link to a blog with some comments from the blogger and then opened it up for readers of ProBlogger to review it. The response from the post was great. 120+ comments were left including some great advice. I also had a lot of emails from readers saying that they learned a lot by reading the suggestions of others – many wanted to see these reviews done regularly. As a result I’m going to try to do these reviews on a monthly basis – today we have another one. As a little bonus to…

  • Warning: Watching This Video May Lead to Work! [But It'll Also Improve Your Blog]

    Darren Rowse
    18 Nov 2009 | 5:55 am
    What’s your blogging Vice? Most bloggers that I know have at least one – whether it be compulsively checking blog stats, constantly tweaking template designs, obsessing over plugins and widgets, spending hour after hour ‘networking’ on Twitter, becoming preoccupied with SEO and… even allowing ourselves to become consumed by learning about blogging…. and not doing much of it. The reality is that as bloggers there are many tasks that compete for our attention. Many of them are important and can bring a lot of life to our blogs but most of them can also become…
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    Copyblogger

  • The Art of the Paragraph

    Jonathan Morrow
    20 Nov 2009 | 6:11 am
    Anyone can write a paragraph, but not everyone knows how to write one that other people want to read. You’ve seen it: You open a book, and the whole page is one long block of text. Each sentence in the paragraph makes exactly the same point, said in a slightly different way, and you wonder why they didn’t just say it once and be done with it. Every paragraph is the same length (five lines, maybe?), whether it makes sense or not, and it gives the piece a monotonous rhythm. The paragraph makes a point without telling you why that point is important, and you can’t help…

  • How to Persuade People to Accept an “Unfair” Offer

    Dean Rieck
    19 Nov 2009 | 6:36 am
    Ever heard of Charley Hill? He seemed like an average, ordinary guy. He lived in a mid-sized town with his wife, two children, and a dog. He went to church on Sunday, coached Little League, and drove a pickup truck. He was friendly but quiet, the sort of guy you could walk by on the street without noticing. But appearances can be deceiving. Charley Hill was one of the most successful farm equipment salesmen in the Midwest. People would travel hundreds of miles to see Charley, even when there were plenty of dealers much closer to home. What did Charley have that other salesmen didn’t? Not a…

  • Free Report: How to Become a Creative Entrepreneur

    Brian Clark
    18 Nov 2009 | 8:58 am
    I’ve written another piece of extended content, this time for Lateral Action. Rather than sending you over there, I’ll just tell you about it here. It’s a free 31-page PDF report (don’t worry, it reads fast) called The Lateral Action Guide to Becoming a Creative Entrepreneur. It’s probably the most personal I’ve gotten about my history, but it’s still heavy on actionable, real-life examples. Here’s what you’ll discover: Why I quit my cushy law firm job and turned to online publishing. How I failed miserably. How I then succeeded miserably. How I…

  • Landing Page Makeover Clinic #20: TantricSexforBusyCouples.com

    Roberta Rosenberg
    17 Nov 2009 | 6:14 am
    This is another addition to our ongoing series of tutorials and case studies on landing pages that work. Is it hot in here or just me? Diana Daffner and her husband want to help people find a renewed sense of joy and connection in their intimate relationships through tantra. Their business, IntimacyRetreats.com, offers couples retreats throughout the year, but realizing not everyone can attend a retreat, they also want to promote their books and media products. The URL referenced above is actually the “/shop page” off their main site. Diana would like to use the page as an…

  • What I Learned From Writing 42 Guest Posts in 7 Weeks

    Josh Hanagarne
    16 Nov 2009 | 7:12 am
    Before you get too impressed, hear this: I did it all in self-defense. Let me give you some quick background. I have extreme Tourette’s Syndrome, as Sonia noticed recently. Tourette’s makes people move or vocalize involuntarily and occasionally results in unspeakable awesomeness. My motor tics range from eye blinking to punching myself in the face to even stranger things. My phonic tics range from clearing my throat to hooting and yowling and snarling and slobbering and screaming like the Tasmanian Devil. Did I mention that I work in a quiet library? There are only a couple of things that…
 
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    Cute Overload

  • Bunday, comfortabuhls Bunday

    Meg
    22 Nov 2009 | 11:51 am
    Bunday, comfortabuhls Bunday! Sender Inner Heather H. sez: “I’m a bus driver and while at the University of Victoria exchange, I like to make friends with the hundreds of resident bunnies. In the spring there are tons of softball sized bunnies who like to get nuzzled. My passengers wonder why I’m always carrying produce behind my seat.” Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Bunnies, Cats 'n' Racks

  • EXTREME EYEBALL POWSCHES!

    Meg
    22 Nov 2009 | 8:32 am
    INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE(S)! According to Sender Inners Lan and Heather T., these are Bubble Eye Goldfish, taken and COEX Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea. “We haven’t named it yet, but I think we’ll leave it you at CuteOverload. You can think up of way cuter names than we ever could. It’s of the same fish, and the 2nd photo is after it ran into something sharp and got deflated. It’s not hurt. It just re-inflates itself after a while.” GOOD COD! Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Fishes, Nightmares

  • Teh Qte!

    Meg
    22 Nov 2009 | 4:54 am
    What, no Bumper stickère? The ultimate in vaniteh plates, Becky G. Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Product Cuteness

  • The Lap Shot

    Meg
    21 Nov 2009 | 11:22 am
    People, it’s about time we addressed this. It’s called “The lap shot.” This image is a great example—we get a beellion submishes of people putting their kitteh/bunneh/pup on their lap and taking a photo. I think it’s time we acknowledge this pose. Officially. It’s like posing next to a log, or posing at the prom. Welcome to the vernacular, Lap Shot. “Pancho Villa” the Yorkeh Lap Shot brot to you by Claribel O. Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Pups, Rackless Non-Cats

  • Pug in a sweateuw, pug in a sweateuw

    Meg
    21 Nov 2009 | 8:47 am
    [clears throat] Juicy-eyed pug in a sweateuw, Juicy-eyed pug in a sweateuw, Juicy-eyed pug in a sweateuw! That is all, Brittany W. Posted in Uncategorized
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  • Literary Paris: A lesson in pictures

    Meg Zimbeck
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:47 pm
    Shakespeare & Company, the legendary left-bank English-language bookshop, has long been a magnet for literary talent. Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and George Orwell all frequented the store. So did the sultry Anaïs Nin, along with her lover Henry Miller who described the place as "a wonderland of books." The shop even published James Joyce's Ulysses when no publisher would touch it. [+] Enlarge photo(Courtesy Meg Zimbeck)New portraits of these and seven other Lost and Beat Generation writers were recently unveiled at Shakespeare & Company, thanks to the pen of a…

  • Black Friday: Shop for travel deals

    JD Rinne
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:29 pm
    Black Friday—the day after Thanksgiving when Americans shop 'til they drop—is just a week away. The following two travel sites are throwing sales, too. Shell Vacations is holding a Black Friday sale on 26 resorts in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, with up to 50 percent off nightly rates. Get rooms from $49 per night at the Peacock Suites in Anaheim, Calif. (a 40 percent off savings off standard rates), starting at $60 per night at the Desert Rose Resort in Las Vegas (a 30 percent off savings), and beginning at $99 per night at the Vino Bello Resort in Napa Valley (a 40 percent off…

  • How to predict which airports will experience delays around the holidays

    Brad Tuttle
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:01 am
    Airport delays can certainly dampen the festive mood. By dorking out with some airport data, you can play the numbers to decrease your chances of delays and cancellations. There is no way to completely avoid airport delays. No one could have predicted yesterday's mess due to an FAA computer glitch, for instance. But you can increase your chances for smooth, speedy travel by avoiding connections at airports that are historically likely to experience big delays. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics allows you to glance over the percentages of flights that have been delayed, cancelled, or…

  • Le Beaujolais Nouveau Est Arrive!

    Sean O'Neill
    19 Nov 2009 | 1:22 pm
    Any excuse for a party! The third Thursday of every November is the day that producers of Beaujolais Noveau release the year's vintage. It used to be a cheap treat: a light, fruity, best-of-its-kind red, delivered straight from the wineries. But the cost of shipping it over to the U.S. on a rush status, plus the unfavorable buying power of the U.S. dollar versus the euro, has hiked the price of beaujolais nouveau by more than 30 percent since 2003, as the Seattle Weekly points out. Personally, that won't stop me from getting a bottle tonight, but if you only want to read about the event, you…

  • Family Travel: 12 holiday spots to let your kids burn off some energy

    Brad Tuttle
    19 Nov 2009 | 11:28 am
    Here's a roundup of 12 cool new exhibits at family-friendly, very interactive museums around the country. Scholastic Parent & Child put together quite a handy list, and all of the exhibits can be enjoyed by your little ones at least through early January. Every parent knows that children's museums can be sanity-savers, especially during the hectic winter holidays, when playing outside just isn't an option and you're sick of being stuck in a house packed to the gills with relatives. A sample of what's new around the country: Forts! You get to design and build your own hideout at the Chicago…
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  • Alternate Universe

    Anthony Bourdain
    27 Oct 2009 | 9:05 am
    There seems to be some understandable confusion with the announcement of our upcoming "web series", ALTERNATE UNIVERSE. Reactions varying between "WTF!!??" and " This time he's jumped the shark for sure." While shark jumping is always a danger--particularly since me and my partners take a perverse delight in flirting with just that with every new outrage (The family friendly Sardinia show being an example of a profoundly risky rub up against 'off-brand,' late-era Fonzarelli), these dark, nasty, frequently foul TWO MINUTE LONG web extras are not a replacement for NO RESERVATIONS. They are not…

  • I Told You I Smelled Emmy!

    Anthony Bourdain
    14 Sep 2009 | 6:49 am
    Saturday night at the 61st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, my long suffering friends and colleagues Todd Liebler and Zach Zamboni-who, for the last few years have sacrificed anything resembling normal lives to follow me around the world pointing cameras in my general direction-scored a major upset victory by bringing home the award for cinematography in the non-fiction category. Todd, who has garnered a not entirely undeserved worldwide reputation for stumbling into things, bounded up to that stage with astounding speed and grace-suddenly, a veritable Nijinsky, sure footedly making what…

  • ..I Shall Wear the Bottoms of My Trousers Rolled

    Anthony Bourdain
    5 Sep 2009 | 7:58 am
    Islipped my thumb ring off my finger and into the Bosphorus the other day. It was the last of many steps in an ongoing, inevitable and long overdue process of de-Fierification. Call it an embracing of my inner Cosby.My sous-chef Steven gave me that ring a long time ago. Back in the day, we, all of usin the crewat the Supper Club got them, on the eve of a James Beard dinner event. A phalanx of famous, better known and (frankly, better all-around) chefs and their assistants were joining us in the kitchen the next night and we wanted something appropriately white trashy to set us apart,…

  • FOR PARENTS ONLY

    Anthony Bourdain
    28 Aug 2009 | 5:43 pm
    * The Following Material Is for Parents of Small Children Only and Otherwise Incomprehensible if Not Offensive to Others Picking on the Food Network has become too easy. It's low hanging fruit.So ... this week, at least, I thought I'd look at another network. One I actually watch. And these days, when I'm home, the majority of my TV watching time is spent sitting on the living room floor watching Nick Jr. and Noggin. I take an interest in my child's viewing habits. For all my earlier promises to myself that I'd limit her TV watching time to like--half an hour a day--that has been a hard…

  • Big Sky ... Thick Jungle ... Zero Tolerance (and Diane Saves The Day)

    Anthony Bourdain
    22 Aug 2009 | 10:03 am
    The camera people are walking on cocaine. Six tons of it. Thousands of kilos of un-cut pure rock. The air is thick with clouds of the stuff as men with machetes are hacking the kilo packages open, scattering it, spraying and spilling the stuff everywhere in white clouds. It looks like Tony Montana's desktop, multiplied by many thousands. My shoes alone are caked with enough to keep an aging supermodel happy for weeks and the Director General of Panamanian security forces advises me to wash them carefully before flying home as the sniffer doggies at the airport are going to find me intriguing…
 
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    iPodNN

  • MacNN - FrogPad's CEO!

    Victor and Linda Marroquin, President and CEO of FrogPad managed to find some time to talk about FrogPad, special needs, and one-handed keyboards for veterans returning from war.

  • MacNN - Jacob Appelbaum and RAM attacks

    Jacob Appelbaum is one of the researchers who developed a technique for recovering data from RAM after power has been removed from the RAM.

  • MacNN - penryn and iPhone at Abilene

    MacBook, MacBook Pros have new processors, and the iPod Touch and iPhone are about to be a part of an educational revolution at Abilene Christian University

  • iPhone biz model and o2 Eire

    Apple COO Tim Cook and o2 Ireland's CEO both make interesting comments about the iPhone. o2's CEO calls customers "Apple freaks"
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    MacRumors iPhone Blog

  • MacRumors: Game Developers Scaling Back Android Efforts as iPhone Continues to Dominate

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:49 am
    Reuters reports that prominent iPhone game developer Gameloft is scaling back its efforts to produce content for the Android platform in the face of weaknesses of its application store. Gameloft also notes that it is not the only one making the move...

  • iPhone Coming to Virgin Mobile Canada

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:08 am
    Virgin Mobile Canada issued a brief announcement yesterday revealing that it will begin offering the iPhone there in the near future.Virgin Mobile Canada will launch iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in Virgin Mobile Retail Stores and online ...

  • TomTom to Launch Car Kit for iPod Touch

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:42 am
    Earlier this week, an updated version of TomTom's GPS navigation application appeared in the App Store, and among the major changes included with the update was compatibility with the original iPhone and all generations of the iPod touch. The iPod t...

  • Google Rolls Out Mobile-Formatted Google News for iPhone

    19 Nov 2009 | 12:40 pm
    Google today announced that it has rolled out mobile-formatted Google News pages for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. The feature complements similar existing pages for Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and S60 platforms.This...

  • MacRumors: AT&T Faces Initial Setback in Verizon Ad Spat, Rolls Out Response Ad

    19 Nov 2009 | 7:27 am
    The Associated Press reports that a judge has refused to grant AT&T's request for a temporary restraining order forcing Verizon to halt its commercials comparing the two companies' wireless network coverage.AT&T filed the lawsuit in ...
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    Macworld

  • Hands on: Roku's updated Player software and new Channel Store

    22 Nov 2009 | 6:00 pm
    Roku has updated the software for the company's lineup of streaming-media players, and introduced a new Channel Store that offers additional streaming content.

  • Review: iPhone Thanksgiving apps

    22 Nov 2009 | 9:25 am
    Stressed about Turkey Day? The App Store has many offerings that aim to help you plan and prepare a meal. We'll help you find the worthwhile apps while staying away from the real turkeys.

  • Review: T-Mobile Tap mobile phone

    22 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    The inexpensive T-Mobile Tap is a stylish touch phone.

  • Review: Canon Selphy CP780 snapshot printer

    22 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    The Selphy CP780 is an inexpensive and nearly idiot-proof snapshot printer, but you make major compromises in performance and price per page.

  • Why go Pro when iMac goes faster?

    21 Nov 2009 | 9:07 am
    The new Core i7 iMac is a potent machine -- so potent, in fact, that it outpaces a couple of Mac Pro models in benchmarks. It's also an incredible bargain, offering tremendous power given its price.
 
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    The Mac Observer

  • Games: Soccer Sim Championship Manager 2010 Released for Mac

    webmaster@macobserver.com
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:07 pm
    Virtual Programming on Friday released Championship Manager 2010, the latest entry in a series of soccer club management simulations dating back to 1992. Players take the helm of a club and guide it through multiple seasons, dictating strategy during matches and making roster decisions between them, building a simulated history in the process.

  • Games: EA Publishes Original Monopoly for iPhone

    webmaster@macobserver.com
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:47 pm
    EA Mobile on Friday published the original Monopoly for iPhone. The publisher previously released the Here & Now edition, but this one is the Monopoly most players have known for decades. Players shake their handheld to roll the dice and tap the screen to move their game pieces and manage proper

  • News: Original Apple I on Ebay for $50K, w/Letter from Steve Jobs

    webmaster@macobserver.com
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:15 pm
    Jesse Sackman is selling his Apple I, the first computer designed by Steve Wozniak and sold by Steve Jobs under the then-new company, Apple Computer. Mr. Sackman has listed his Apple I on Ebay, complete with original packaging and invoice (signed by "Steven"), and a letter signed by Steve Jobs relating to a question about how to hook up a keyboard and monitor.

  • Games: New iPhone Games: Secret of the Lost Cavern Ep 1, New DJ Nights, More

    webmaster@macobserver.com
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:11 pm
    The latest games to hit the App Store include Coladia’s Secret of the Lost Cavern Episode 1, which is based on the Mac/PC game of the same name, and Clickgamer’s DJ Nights: Julie Thompson Edition, a follow-up to the publisher’s DJ Nights: Global Tour.

  • Games: Star Trek D-A-C Game Headed to the Mac Next Month

    webmaster@macobserver.com
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:47 pm
    Paramount Digital Entertainment and TransGaming have announced that next month will see publication of Star Trek D-A-C (Deathmatch-Assault-Conquest) for the Mac. It supports online multi-player, online co-op, and single player action between Starfleet and the Romulan Empire, with support for up to 12 starship captains.
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    Woot! - One Day, One Deal

  • HP Pavilion 17” Dual Core Entertainment Notebook w/ Blu-ray - $629.99

    21 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pm
    Pay no attention to the OS behind the curtain!I am the great and powerful…er, uh, Vista OS. You DARE to come to me for an upgrade, do you, little HP 17” Entertainment Laptop PC w/ Dual-Core and BluRay? You refurbished, crashing, clattering collection of collagenous junk! Buggy? You are talking to an operating system who has laughed in the face of the blue screen of death, sneered at forced restarts and chuckled at catastrophic data loss. You should consider yourself lucky that I’m granting you an upgrade now instead of 20 years from now! Why, anybody can have a neat computer. That’s a…

  • LG Stereo Bluetooth Headset

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pm
    TEOTWAWKII didn’t know he was saying “Leonard Bernstein” until I looked it up.Ralphie! Hey, how’s it going? What do you mean, “Why are you not at work?” What are YOU doing at work? Oh, “your job”. Gee, that’s clever. We’ll see how far clever gets you when your molecules are obliterated into nothing. No, I’m not coming in! I quit that gig yesterday. Why would I want to spend my last day of existence doing clerical work? Don’t you know? They’re finally firing up the Large Hard… excuse me, HADRON Collider today. They’re gonna start attempting to make black holes any…

  • Flash in the Brainpan: Shapely

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pm
    There's no timer in Shapely; take as long as you need to assemble the colored squares into the required Tetrissy shapes. But... every time you move a square, more pop up. Sometimes you can use this to your advantage. But... sometimes it spells doom, since you lose when the whole grid fills up. But... if you've earned enough points, you can buy various spells to alter the board. But... spells are expensive, so you can't rely on them every time you're in a jam. Shapely seems super-simple at first. But... enough buts. Just play…

  • Behold, The Future!

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm
    Intel says that in 10 years you're going to be surfing the web with no hands, which I guess is an improvement from one hand, but I wonder if controlling your web browser with brainwaves is really going to be an improvement. For one thing, do you want your brain inextricably linked to Internet Explorer? Sure, you say you're better than IE, but someone out there will be using it, which means their brainpan is going to be vulnerable to virus attack, which means their Outlook address book is going to be used for some heinous spamming. And you don't want to imagine what a Denial of Service attack…

  • Saturday Morning Dreams: A Better Class Of Cartoon Themes (Kinda)

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    You've seen the worst, now what about the best? After forcing you to deal with our horrible theme song posts, we've decided to compile a collection looking at the good side of cartoon music! During our research, we found an easy way to tell the good from the bad (as you'll see after the jump). What's the secret? Narration!Yes, yes, we know, we know. We're blatantly skipping over things like Johnny Quest and Cowboy Bebopand The Venture Brothers and we're very very sorry about that, because they are absolutely fantastic songs. But we've decided to focus this time. We're taking a look at…
 
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    The Chronicle of Philanthropy

  • San Francisco Charity Sues Over Bad Investments

    Andy Markowitz
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:45 am
    The St. Anthony Foundation, in San Francisco, is seeking legal redress from its longtime financial adviser over $2-million in investment losses, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Officials at the charity, which provides food, clothes, and other aid to the hungry and homeless, said they were not aware that SCM Advisors had invested the foundation’s money in risky auction-rate securities from Citigroup Global Markets, which is also named in the lawsuit. Citigroup agreed in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission and New York State to buy back the securities from some…

  • Conservative Activist Releases New Acorn Tape

    Andy Markowitz
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:43 am
    The conservative activist James O’Keefe has posted a new hidden-camera video purportedly showing a staff member at a Los Angeles office of the Acorn community-organizing group assisting a would-be prostitution operation, says the Los Angeles Times. Similar videos shot by Mr. O’Keefe at Washington and Baltimore Acorn offices, which were released two months ago, fueled Republican ire at the antipoverty and housing-advocacy group, which has lost federal money and started an internal investigation as the result of the controversy. Acorn officials disputed the validity of the latest…

  • U. of California Regents Back Deal to Reopen Troubled L.A. Hospital

    Andy Markowitz
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:43 am
    Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital, in South Los Angeles, will reopen by 2013 under a plan unanimously approved Thursday by the University of California’s board, according to the Los Angeles Times. The board’s vote came after county officials pledged to seek a $100-million letter of credit to underwrite the hospital for up to six years. The pharmaceuticals billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong has also promised a $100-million guaranty. (Free registration is required to view this article.)

  • In the Arts: Indianapolis Symphony's Shortfall Climbs, University Scales Back Museum Plans

    Andy Markowitz
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:43 am
    The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra ended the 2009 fiscal year with a budget deficit of $2.8-million, a nearly tenfold increase from the previous year, according to The Indianapolis Star. Declines in ticket sales, donations, and contributions from the symphony’s foundation, which manages the orchestra’s endowment, contributed to the flow of red ink. The 79-year-old symphony last month cut musicians’ salaries by 12 percent. In other arts news, the University of California has abandoned plans for a $143-million new home for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive,…

  • From The Chronicle: Food Charities Get Attention From Congress

    Stacy Palmer
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:43 am
    Charity and foundation leaders Thursday urged Congress to take action to help the nonprofit organizations that are on the front lines of the mounting demand for food aid as the economic recession cuts a wide swath, reports The Chronicle’s Government and Politics Watch column.
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    OrganicAuthority.com

  • Ginger Thai Sweet Potato Bisque

    Barbara Feiner
    21 Nov 2009 | 4:50 pm
    Each year, the Louisiana Sweet Potato Commission holds a Sweet Rewards Recipe Contest in conjunction with Louisiana Cookin’ magazine.  Last year’s winner in the Soup Category was Sally Sibthorpe of Shelby Township, MO, who wowed judges with her recipe for Ginger Thai Sweet Potato Bisque. This soup makes a zesty Thanksgiving starter, fusing Asian flavors with the natural goodness of America’s sweet potato crop.  All of the ingredients should be available at your local natural and organic food store. Click here for more sweet potato recipes.  Ginger Thai Sweet Potato Bisque Makes 6 to…

  • Stock Up on Organic Sweet Potatoes

    Barbara Feiner
    21 Nov 2009 | 8:56 am
    1.8 billion pounds.  That’s how many sweet potatoes were grown last year by the major U.S. sweet potato-producing states, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. North Carolina led the way with 874 million pounds, followed by California (437 million pounds) and Mississippi (335 million pounds).  We’ve increased our consumption of the healthful orange tuber over the years. In 1999, the average American consumed 3.7 pounds of sweet potatoes. Last year, we averaged 5.1 pounds per person, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service.  We really should eat…

  • Organic Winter Squash Basics

    Barbara Feiner
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:55 pm
    Americans have expanded their Thanksgiving repertoire in recent years. While many of us have fond childhood memories of the classic Sweet Potato Bake studded with miniature marshmallows, our adult tastes now run more toward organicMashed Sweet Potatoes and Apples with Pecan Streusel Topping or Curried Sweet Potato. In recent years, winter squash has replaced sweet potatoes on many Thanksgiving tables. The two are interchangeable in many recipes (see Candied Butternut Squash and Butternut Squash Soup with Sage), and both veggies contain high levels of cancer-fighting carotenoids. The beauty of…

  • Bargain of the Week

    Barbara Feiner
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:48 pm
    Virtually every supermarket and natural/organic food store is now offering sweet Thanksgiving deals on holiday sweet potatoes, including organic varieties.  My shopping trips have revealed mixed results. Some of the sweet potatoes have been blemish-free beauties, while others were moldy mounds.  When shopping for sweet potatoes, look for firmness, dark coloring and a smooth texture. Head to another market if the selection sports wrinkles, bruises, sprouts or decay. (Even if you cut away the decay, the flavor will be rank.)  Maintain freshness by storing fresh sweet potatoes in a dry, cool…

  • Vegetable-Based Nitrates Can Help Preserve Pork, Organically

    Gerald "Gerry" Pugliese
    19 Nov 2009 | 2:28 am
    A common trouble with organic food, and you don’t have to be an expert to guess what it is, is how to preserve and protect it. For years, pesticides and chemicals have been seen as the guardians against food-borne illness, and food “going bad.” All this probably goes double for meat products. So how do you protect foods, in this case pork, from spoiling, and making you sick? Researchers have an idea, using vegetables. Organic meat cannot contain contaminates. And traditional curing involves nitrates, a chemical preservative, i.e. an organic no-no. So if chemical preservative…
 
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    Change.org's End Homelessness Blog

  • London On Track to End Rough Sleeping by 2012

    Shannon Moriarty
    22 Nov 2009 | 2:12 pm
    In February, London Mayor Boris Johnson announced a bold plan to end rough sleeping in London by 2012. Today, just six months after unveiling his plan, two-thirds of the city's rough sleepers are off the streets and in housing. This begs the question: if London can end homelessness, why can't the U.S.? Rough sleepers are to London as chronically homeless are to the U.S. According to Capital City News, these individuals "have typically been homeless for at least five years, have refused or have been failed by repeated interventions to help them off the streets, and are often affected by a…

  • Wikipedia Founder Creates Site for Homeless

    Shannon Moriarty
    21 Nov 2009 | 1:51 pm
    The Wikipedia model isn't just for pop culture research anymore. Wikis for homeless services information are popping up from coast to coast, proving that when web innovators apply their theories and skills to ease the delivery of social services, everybody wins. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was recently in Tampa Bay to launch TampaBayHomeless.wikia.com, a site that aims to serve as online "hub" for homeless services in the city. The city isn't the first to have such a site, similar wikis are already being used in larger cities, like New York and LA. The site - Tampa Bay Homeless - is rooted…

  • The Human Element of Case Management

    Steven Samra
    21 Nov 2009 | 6:52 am
    Part of street outreach is building trust, forming, and nurturing the bonds with those we meet while working.  It's a delicate balance to walk for many of us, especially for those who have spent much of our lives homeless prior to working in this field.  One has to be careful to detach oneself from the emotional impact human beings have upon each other, since some decisions aren't easy and may cause pain. Those relationships can also occasionally put us into a very difficult position.  I spent much of my day today watching a friend, outreach contact and success story die after I ordered…

  • The Audacity of Home

    Shannon Moriarty
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:12 am
    If there were ever a time for the Obama Administration to fulfill its promise of restoring Hope for America, re-prioritizing the promise of "a Home for all" is the ideal start. The sum of our devastating housing and economic crisis, combined with the recent findings from the international human rights community, prove that there is no better time to move housing to the top of the federal policy agenda. Today, I'm taking a step back. Away from the details in the news, away from the constant flow of comments, the banter. Today I want to talk about something so simple, so basic that most of us…

  • Act Now: Stop Hate Crimes Against the Homeless

    Shannon Moriarty
    19 Nov 2009 | 5:52 pm
    It's a cruel fact: when you live without a home, you are more vulnerable to violence on the streets. Next week, the Senate Judiciary is scheduled to vote on legislation that would add homeless people to the federal hate crimes statistics statue. Take action today to tell your elected lawmakers to support this important bill. The legislation - called the Hate Crimes Against the Homeless Statistics Act (S. 1765) - was introduced by Senator Cardin of Maryland and Senator Collins of Maine. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, the legislation has been placed on the Senate…
 
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    ESPN.com

  • Jimmie Johnson claims historic fourth straight Sprint Cup title

    Associated Press
    22 Nov 2009 | 6:32 pm
    Jimmie Johnson has won a NASCAR record fourth consecutive championship with a fifth-place finish in the finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

  • Chargers drub Broncos, grab AFC West lead

    Associated Press
    22 Nov 2009 | 6:32 pm
    Philip Rivers and a dominant defense led the Chargers into sole possession of first place in the AFC West with a 32-3 drubbing of the Denver Broncos, who couldn't move the ball effectively behind either QB.

  • Bengals' fumble hands Raiders last-second win

    Associated Press
    22 Nov 2009 | 6:12 pm
    Bruce Gradkowski threw a 29-yard tying touchdown pass to Louis Murphy with 33 seconds left and Sebastian Janikowski kicked a 33-yard field goal after Andre Caldwell fumbled the ensuing kickoff, giving the Raiders a 20-17 victory Sunday.

  • Lions shock Browns at :00 on Stafford's 5th TD

    Associated Press
    22 Nov 2009 | 5:45 pm
    Matthew Stafford threw his fifth touchdown pass from 1 yard to Brandon Pettigrew, and Jason Hanson's extra point with no time on the clock gave the Detroit Lions a stunning 38-37 win over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.

  • Giants halt 'miserable' streak with victory in OT

    Associated Press
    22 Nov 2009 | 5:43 pm
    Lawrence Tynes kicked a 36-yard field goal 3:54 into overtime to lead the New York Giants past the Atlanta Falcons 34-31 after the defense blew a two-touchdown lead in the fourth quarter.
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    Nutrition Research Center Health Update

  • Dark Prediction for an Unhealthy Generation

    Nutrition Researchers
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    by Vic Shayne, PhD Making predictions is not my forte. However, it seems pretty inevitable that the present generation is on a crash course with disease. And I’m not talking swine flu, small pox or AIDS, although these apply as well. People now in their 80s and 70s were raised on real foods from farms and clean soils. Processed foods were not yet the standard fare. Now look at us! Baby Boomers, by and large, were brought up eating processed foods loaded with artificial ingredients that can lead to every illness from skin rashes to cancer. But today’s youth are really up the…

  • Put Maitake Mushrooms in Your Recipes…they fight cancer

    Nutrition Researchers
    18 Nov 2009 | 4:19 am
    by Vic Shayne, PhD Years ago I discovered that Maitake mushrooms are powerful enough to kill cancer cells. That’s a great reason to put them in your salads, gravies and recipes and to take them in supplement form. (They’re in Immune Support supplement as well). Your immune system loves Maitakes!! In my newest book, coming out in 2010, I write, “Maitake mushroom is a powerful immune food. The active constituent is thought to be a beta-glucan polysaccharide, which, among other benefits, helps fight cancer and keep it from spreading through the body. Maitake is thought to exert…

  • Imagine Your Body As a Medieval Castle Resisting Attack

    Nutrition Researchers
    16 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    Imagine your body as a Medieval castle, complete with drawbridge, moat and thick walls. This will give you some idea of how your body is constructed to prepare for an attack by an invading army. In fact, many doctors refer to substances that threaten the immune system as “foreign invaders,” with the goal of the body to defend itself by killing bacteria, not letting substances get in through the skin, keeping rogue cells from robbing you of oxygen and so forth. Hardly anybody knows it, but our bodies are designed with a complex, multi-faceted defense system — against disease,…

  • Is Your Job Making You Sick?

    Nutrition Researchers
    16 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    You may say, “I don’t work in a coal mine, so why should I be concerned?” The truth is that even the highest paid executive runs the risk of getting sick from his workplace — and I’m not just talking about the stress! This is one good reason to build your immune system. Most people spend enough hours in a work environment that impacts the quality of life, for the rest of their lives. Here are a few rarely-considered, workplace-related trouble spots: 1. The air conditioning system, where fungus spores and bacteria can thrive in the duct work that blows in the air you…

  • Whose Body is Revolting? — beware of destructive foods.

    Nutrition Researchers
    13 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    by Vic Shayne, PhD Your body isn’t simply a vehicle for transporting your head from place to place. While it DOES perform this function, there’s actually quite a bit more important things it’s good for, as you already know. But when you don’t feed your body the right foods, it’s revolting — in more ways than one! How does your body revolt? With symptoms and diseases. Modern medicine says drugs and surgeries are the answers, but we in natural health care say this still doesn’t provide the nutrients your cells are starving for. If you had the right…
 
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    Publisher's Weekly

  • Barnes & Noble Out of Stock on Nook

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:18 pm
    Barnes & Noble is out of stock on the Nook, a note on its Web site said Friday. The company said that it expects to ship the e-reader the week of January 4 for customers who pre-order the device.

  • RWA, MWA and SFWA Angered by Harlequin's New Self-Publishing Imprint

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:06 am
    Romance Writers of America and other writer associations yesterday spoke out against the announcement earlier this week that Author Solutions had teamed up with Harlequin to form Harlequin Horizons, a new imprint for self-published romance authors. RWA has deemed Harlequin no longer eligible for RWA-provided conference resources—meaning the publisher is not entitled to enter any award competitions.

  • The PW Morning Report: Friday, November 20, 2009

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:57 am
    A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: Oprah to Go Off Air; Palin Sold 300,000; Canadian Publishers Scramble for Kindle; Google Hearing 3; More Apple Tablet Rumors

  • Book Category "Stabilized" at Books-A-Million, Though Sales Slip

    19 Nov 2009 | 1:55 pm
    Total revenue fell 0.6% at Books-A-Million in the third quarter and comp sales were off 1.9%. Still the company said the book business stabilized in the quarter and execs were optimistic about the holiday season.

  • Penguin Authors Share Holiday Recommendations

    19 Nov 2009 | 1:40 pm
    More than 40 Penguin authors are sharing book recommendations for holiday gift-giving as part of Penguin’s What to Give & What to Get campaign. The program, started last year, includes books from any imprint that are new, old, for children and adults.
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    Wired Science

  • Istanbul Opens World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building

    Alexis Madrigal
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:16 am
    The world’s largest seismically isolated building, the new international terminal at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport, is now complete and open for business. Stretching across more than 2 million square feet, the terminal doesn’t sit directly on the soil, but rather on more than 300 isolators, bearings that can move side-to-side during an earthquake. The whole building moves as a single unit, which prevents damage from uneven forces acting on the structure. “What an isolation system does is that it enables the building to move through large displacements in unison,…

  • Sushi DNA Tests Reveal Fraud

    Aaron Rowe
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:14 am
    A biologist walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna. What does he get? Escolar, a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge. It’s not a joke. It happened five times to the same scientists during a brief research project. The results of that study were published Wednesday in PLOS One. “A piece of tuna sushi has the potential to be an endangered species, a fraud or a health hazard,” wrote the authors. “All three of these cases were uncovered in this study.” The team of researchers from…

  • Ghostly Bones of Galactic Feast Revealed

    Alexis Madrigal
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:08 am
    A new infrared image of the galaxy Centaurus A reveals the gassy, ghastly bones of a galaxy that it consumed several hundred million years ago. The parallelogram of stars leftover from the collision had been obscured by dust. But using new processing techniques in the near-infrared part of the spectrum, European Southern Observatory astronomers were able to glimpse the leftovers of the cosmic dinner. “There is a clear ring of stars and clusters hidden behind the dust lanes, and our images provide an unprecedentedly detailed view toward it,” said Jouni Kainulainen, in a paper on the…

  • When Good Rockets Go Bad

    Annaliza Savage
    19 Nov 2009 | 5:08 pm
    << previous image | next image >> In the grand scheme of human space programs in Russia and the United States, catastrophic failures are relatively rare. But they are often quite spectacular and make a big impression on the public and on the funding for space exploration. The explosions in the videos we’ve assembled here were very costly, some in terms of life, some in terms of lost equipment and all in terms of progress of the space programs. Vanguard TV3 Fuel Tanks Explode Dec. 6, 1957: The United States’ first attempt to launch a satellite into orbit was also its first…

  • Malaria Gaining Resistance to Best Available Treatment

    Nathan Seppa, Science News
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:44 pm
    WASHINGTON — Malaria that is resistant to the best available drug is more widespread in Southeast Asia than previously reported, new research shows. The worrisome finding poses a risk that travelers could carry this strain of the malaria parasite to other parts of the globe and unwittingly spread it, scientists reported Nov. 19 at a meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The frontline drug in question is called artemisinin, the most potent medication currently in use against malaria. Signs of malarial resistance to artemisinin have surfaced over the past several…
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    ScienceDaily: Latest Science News

  • Toward home-brewed electricity with 'personalized solar energy'

    22 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    New scientific discoveries are moving society toward the era of "personalized solar energy," in which the focus of electricity production shifts from huge central generating stations to individuals in their own homes and communities.

  • Sweet as can be: How E. coli gets ahead

    22 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    Scientists have discovered how certain bacteria such as Escherichia coli have evolved to capture rare sugars from their environment giving them an evolutionary advantage in naturally competitive environments like the human gut.

  • Sugar-coated polymer is new weapon against allergies and asthma

    22 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    Scientists have developed sugar-coated polymer strands that selectively kill off cells involved in triggering aggressive allergy and asthma attacks. Their advance is a significant step toward crafting pharmaceuticals to fight these often life-endangering conditions in a new way.

  • Researchers find new piece of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) puzzle

    22 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    A new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease could be a step closer based on new results from scientists in the UK. The team has found that a protein called Glypican-1 plays a key role in the development of BSE.

  • Shifting blame is socially contagious

    22 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    Merely observing someone publicly blame an individual in an organization for a problem -- even when the target is innocent -- greatly increases the odds that the practice of blaming others will spread with the tenacity of the H1N1 flu.
 
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    Bacon Lovers' Talk

  • Bacon Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes

    Russell Hall
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:28 am
    Life Is a Feast, you complete us! These pancakes are Secret Agent Pancakes– they look like normal, plain pancakes from the outside and then bam! Bacony blueberry buttermilk goodness.

  • Fresh Peach, Bacon and Fried Egg Sandwich

    Russell Hall
    11 Nov 2009 | 1:26 pm
    Cooking Inside the Lines dreamed up a doozy: I finished the egg with a little sea salt and a pinch of cayenne pepper for spice and topped with the other bread slice. The hint of spice from the pepper, the gooey egg and juicy peach with the crispy bacon were all really good together. In the fall, I could see this being really good with pears too.

  • Bacon Wrapped Maple-Mustard Chicken Thighs

    Russell Hall
    3 Nov 2009 | 1:20 pm
    One Perfect Bite, A Search For Uncommonly Good Food, hits a home run with this grillers’ delight. While I use a thick sliced smoky bacon for the chicken feel free to use whatever type you wish as long as it’s well flavored.

  • Got too many tomatoes? Add some bacon and make jam

    Russell Hall
    28 Oct 2009 | 2:17 pm
    Excellent recipe from the Wichita Fall Times Record News: Nothing says jam has to taste fruity. This sweet-and-savory tomato jam is spiked with smoked bacon, making it the perfect condiment for a grilled cheese. It also adds spunk to tuna salad and has just the right tangy flavor for burgers.

  • Bacon-wrapped Yellowtail

    Russell Hall
    21 Oct 2009 | 2:09 pm
    From the excellent Caviar and Codfish blog: The fish is one we’ve done many times, for good reason.  You take a whole fish, yellowtail for instance, though red snapper, bronzino, and many others work as well, and stuff it with whatever fresh herbs you can get your hands on (I like to use a mix of many herbs, so that no one stands out too much) and thin slices of lemon.  Then, and this is the good part, you salt and pepper and wrap it in bacon, from the head to the tail, and throw it on a hot grill.
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