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U.S. illegal immigrant tally drops by 1 million on
poor economy
by Tim Gaynor (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:32:25 AM
The number of illegal
immigrants living and working
in the shadows in the United
States dropped to 10.8 million in
January last year, from a high of
11.8 million two years earlier, as
the U.S. economy faltered,
according to a U.S. government
report.
The study by the U.S.
Department of Homeland
Security, which was released
earlier this month, found that the
“number of unauthorized
residents declined by 1.0 million
between 2007 and 2009,
coincident with the U.S.
economic downturn.”
The report, which drew on DHS
and Census Bureau figures,
found that unauthorized
immigrants from Mexico
accounted for 6.7 million of the
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in snowstorm
by Tabassum Zakaria (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 2/11/2010 12:15:13 PM
President Barack Obama has
weathered many political storms
with varying degrees of success,
but the snowstorm of the century
that walloped Washington this
week proved he was the luckiest
man on the planet. That’s
according to White House
spokesman Robert Gibbs, still
sore from endlessly shoveling
snow at his own home.
To get an idea of what a
herculean task it would have
been for one person to clear the
White House of snow, see the
video posted on the White House
blog of the blizzard striking the
president’s home.
“Obviously, we have seen an
extraordinary amount of winter
weather here in the mid-
Atlantic. Having shoveled my
driveway now what seems like
10,000 times, I can testify to
that,” Gibbs said at his daily
news briefing.
This winter’s snowfall in
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Washington broke a 110-year
record and the latest storm closed
the federal government for four
straight days so far (no word yet
on whether federal employees
will have to make up those snow
days).
“It has been an overwhelming
weather event,” Gibbs said.
“Why wasn’t the president out
there shoveling the walk?” one
reporter asked.
“Because he’s the luckiest man
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miss calls and tweeting
opportunities. Luckily, a couple
iPhone users in South Korea
came up with a creative (and
tasty!) solution: meat. More
specifically, snack sausage that
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Quirky museum reveals the Seychelles' rich history
by David Smith (World news
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Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:04:50 AM
David Smith shuns the beaches,
sailing and diving for which the
Seychelles is famous and heads
to a museum
In one of the world's smallest
capital cities I found the world's
heaviest nut. I was on a gruelling
assignment in the Seychelles,
inspecting the star exhibit of the
otherwise modest Natural
History Museum in Victoria.
And there it was inside a glass
case, a prime specimen of coco
de mer, hauled up on scales in
2001 and found to weigh
18.03kg.
Coco de mer palms grow
abundantly on the nearby island
of Praslin. The nut's appearance
is invariably compared with an
often concealed part of the
female form. An early French
author likened it to "the anterior
and posterior parts of the body of
a negress". General Charles
Gordon said the nut represented
"the thighs and belly … which I
consider as the true seat of carnal
desires".
Read tourism brochures about
the Seychelles and words such as
pristine Garden of Eden,
untouched heaven on earth and
"a chance to recalibrate one's
soul in harmony with the primal
essence of nature" cascade forth.
Sunny Washington Square Park with snow
(Scripting News)
The 115 granite and coral islands
are famed for sailing, diving,
snorkelling, beaches, mountain
hikes and nature trails. So I went
to a museum instead.
The Seychelles' National
Museum of History is roughly
the size of the British Museum's
cloakroom. It is a single gallery
divided into sections, with a
narrative that seems to finish
around the second world war,
which brought airmail and
telephones to the islands. The
museum receives between 1,000
and 1,500 visitors a year, mostly
from overseas, and closes on
Saturday lunchtime for the rest
of the weekend.
Sometimes quaint and quirky
museums possess a charm that
can be lost in the age of the
interactive touchscreen and
blockbuster crowd. There is a
section here that has a potent,
spare quality in no need of
adornment. Slavery thrived in the
Seychelles in the late 18th and
early 19th centuries, with the
majority of forced labourers
shipped from Madagascar and
east Africa, particularly
Mozambique.
The display includes a collar
with three bells attached to the
ends of long metal rods, making
the wearer an easy target if he
tried to escape, and a metal collar
with two rings: big for an adult's
waist and small for a child's. An
advert in old typeface capitals
promises male and female slaves
for sale as casually as rice,
grains, paddy, books, muslin,
needles, pins and ribbons.
Then there is the story of a slave
called Pompée, convicted of
murdering a Pierre Michel Inard
with a billhook in 1809. It says:
"As there was no executioner
available to carry out the
beheading, the tribunal
unanimously ruled that the
convicted man should be burned.
"This took place on a beach near
the Moussa river at half-past
three in the morning of 15
August 1810."
It is an image not easily
dispelled.
The National Museum of
History's closest thing to the
Rosetta Stone is the Stone of
Possession, placed at La
Poudrière in 1756 to signify
French ownership of the
archipelago. It took its name
from Louis XV's finance
minister, Viscount Jean Moreau
de Séchelles, only to be later
anglicised.
Indeed, this country became a
vintage Anglo-French bone of
imperial contention. Today you
can hear both languages in the
streets, as well as Seychelles
Creole, and eat a croque
monsieur while looking at the
elegant Victoria Clocktower, a
replica of a clock near London's
Victoria station which has
become this city's best known
landmark.
The museum has sections on
traditional washing and ironing,
tobacco making, creole furniture,
board games and kitchen objects
such as a "machine for crushing
coffee seeds" made by W M
McKinnon & Co of Aberdeen.
There are musical instruments
including the mouloumba,
bombe and zeze. A gramophone
is on show and we are told the
first records played here were
country and western.
A couple of the display cabinets
are about witchcraft, or "gris-
gris".
A caption notes that: "Many
Seychellois still love to consult
bonhomme-du-bois and sorcier,
also dispense and sell charms,
pronounce incantations etc and
hold strong beliefs in these
spells, incantations, potions and
medicines." The exhibits include
an animal jawbone, horn, pack of
playing cards, miniature coffin,
set of dominoes, battered copy of
The Pilgrim's Progress, Catholic
rosary, scissors, knife and bottle
of cologne.
Another section is devoted to
the world wars. The Seychelles
were not invaded but held air
raid drills just in case. A machine
gun, steel helmet and German
war bell are all displayed.
There's a statuette of Queen
Victoria and photographs of
former governors including Sir
Eustace Edward Twisleton
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Fiennes, a starched figure with
white hair and moustache,
military epaulettes and collar up
to the cheekbones and arctic
stare from an armorial age. Not a
man you could imagine singing
his babies to sleep.
After that is a section entitled
"Seychelles traditional
architecture", but the walls are
blank. I emerged into the
sunlight and found I could do the
rest of my tourist ticklist on foot.
Victoria is a small port city with
a population about the size of
Shipley in West Yorkshire.
I stopped by the colonial era
courthouse and post office, then
visited St Paul's Cathedral,
where an all-female choir was
rehearsing. From near the pulpit,
I looked up and saw a banner
written in big letters: "My people
are destroyed from lack of
knowledge — Hosea 4v6." I
didn't see any particular local
significance, but thought to
myself that museum curators
everywhere would approve.
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Iceland plans future as global haven for freedom

of speech
by Mark Tran (World news Expression. A haven for free 'journalism haven' – a Wikileaks days later.
and comment from the expression would, he said, help jursidiction designed to attract The site played a role in
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) counter the growing practice of organisations into publishing Iceland's financial crisis last
Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:09:25 AM libel tourism. British courts in online from Iceland, by adopting summer when a national TV
particular, have become a the strongest press and source broadcaster was blocked from
• Opposition MPs propose strong f a v o u r e d d e s t i n a t i o n f o r protection laws from around the revealing a list of creditors in the Monthly
press protection laws complainants seeking to take world." country's banking debacle. The
• Wikileaks advising on creation advantage of the UK's plaintiff- Assange said that in his role as broadcaster ran the url for the Foreclosures Top
of safe port for journalism friendly libel laws. The House of
Iceland intends to become a Lords recently established a
Wikileaks editor, he had been
involved in fending off many
Wikileaks disclosure instead.
Following on from that
300,000, Again
bastion for global press freedom government panel to look into legal attacks. "We've become brouhaha, Assange and Schmitt by Connie Madon
u n d e r a p a c k a g e o f l a w s the possibility of amending its good at it, and never lost a case, went to Iceland early December (BloggingStocks)
proposed by opposition MPs to laws to make it tougher for or a source, but we can't expect to discuss their idea for a Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:00:00 AM
defend freedom of speech, and foreigners to bring defamation everyone to go through the journalism publishing haven on a
protect sources and fight libel suits in Britain, amid fears that extraordinary efforts what we do. talk show, then in a more Filed under: Bad News,
tourism. current British law was having a Large newspapers are routinely detailed presentation at Economic Data, Housing,
With the help of Wikileaks, the "chilling effect" on freedom of censored by legal costs. It is time Reykjavík University, according Recession
online whistleblowing site, the expression. this stopped. It is time a country to Jonathan Stray, a blogger for U.S. foreclosure filings rose
MPs have launched the Icelandic With a population of just said, enough is enough, justice the Nieman Journalism Lab. 15% in January to over 300,000.
Modern Media Intiative, with the 320,000, Iceland's ambition to must be seen, history must be Birgitta Jónsdóttir, of The This is the eleventh straight
goal of turning the country into a transform itself from a country preserved, and we will give Movement, a political party with month that foreclosures have
global haven for investigative heavily dependent upon fishing shelter from the storm." three MPs, is confident the passed 300,000.
journalism. into a financial powerhouse, Wikileaks, which publishes measure will become law. "From Here is the situation:
T h e p r o p o s a l , w h i c h h a s went up in smoke after the 2008 anonymous submissions and what I have experienced from • 315,716 properties received a
widespread backing among credit crunch. The failure of leaks of sensitive documents discussions with MPs from all notice of default, one in every
Iceland's 51 MPs, is scheduled to Landsbanki and the bailout of its while attempting to protect the the different parties, there is 409 households.
c o m e b e f o r e t h e A l t h i n g i , online savings bank, Icesave, left identity of whistleblowers, has incredible goodwill," she told the • Bank seizures may rise to 3
I c e l a n d ' s p a r l i a m e n t , n e x t Icelanders picking up the tab currently suspended operations, BBC. million this year, according to
Tuesday, in the first step towards after the government had to find other than the submission of • Iceland Realty Trac.
turning the idea into law. funds to repay creditors in material, because of financial • Wikileaks
"It is a good project for political Britain and the Netherlands. problems. The website says it • Freedom of information Continue reading Monthly
change," said Róbert Marshall, a The new legislation has won will resume once operational • Freedom of speech Foreclosures Top 300,000,
member of the ruling Social support from Julian Assange and costs have been covered. • Icesave Again
Democratic Alliance party. "We Daniel Schmitt, the co-founders When the Guardian was Monthly Foreclosures Top
have been through a difficult of the Wikileaks website. prevented from publishing Mark Tran 300,000, Again originally
period and this is an initiative Assange wrote in an email from documents on the alleged guardian.co.uk© Guardian appeared on BloggingStocks on
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Argentina blocks supply ship of Iowa High School
(World news and comment there could be up to 60bn barrels tubes were destined not for the to take it to Egypt. The vessel Football Coach
from the Guardian | beneath the seabed around the Falklands but the Mediterranean. was not coming back here."
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Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:22:33 AM which would transform the 2,900 foreign ministry said the Thor woes for the Argentinian and Submitted at 2/12/2010 5:09:07 AM
islanders into oil barons. Leader had visited Port Stanley, British governments neither is
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d r i l l i n g e q u i p m e n t t o t h e islands has fuelled Buenos Aires' Petroleum, one of four British prime minister. of gunning down a revered high
Falkland islands, marking a ire. Last week it formally firms with contracts to explore This month's drilling will be the school football coach in Iowa.
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b a t t l e w i t h B r i t a i n o v e r gas exploration. vessel delivered drilling Shell suspended exploration in killing Aplington-Parkersburg
hydrocarbon exploration in the On Thursday the foreign equipment, anchors and pipes to 1998 after oil prices slumped to High School football coach Ed
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A u t h o r i t i e s h a l t e d a governor of Tierra del Fuego sourced in Britain. bullish about prospects this time room last year. His trial is
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ship in Campana, north of coordinate Argentina's response. declined to comment on the caution that no commercial County Courthouse on Friday.
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T h e i n t e r v e n t i o n , w h i c h officials prevented the ship Thor Phyll Rendell, the Falklands • Oil and gas companies reason of insanity or diminished
appeared to catch the Falklands Leader from leaving Campana government's director of mineral • Foreign policy responsibility.
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appeal today, does not sit well requirements of scripture as they
with the general principle that pertain to religions rather than
Eweida may have been largely
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Hooray for Sallywood? Why the Hollywood Sign Is Off-

Message
by Alissa Walker (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:22:31 AM

As the sun set over Los Angeles

today, millions of local residents
looked to the north and
wondered, "Who's Sally?"
The nine letters marking the
world's most famous
neighborhood--and possibly one
of the planet's most effective
billboards--had been planned to
be altered to read SAVE THE
PEAK. But a late start, light
breeze and difficulties working
with a delicate historic
monument proved slow going for
the team, who had to work
entirely by hand securing 45-foot
mesh fabric banners along the
backs of the letters. By 5:00 only
the S and the A had been
covered. Tonight, it would be a
Sallywood Night.
The sign's transformation hoped
to draw attention to the fact that
the peak nearby--some 138 acres
seen to the left of the then-
Sollywood sign here--needs to be
purchased from developer Fox
River Financial Resources to press conference today). The creative execution for the piece what the city wanted). I then witness a typographic disaster of
prevent a hypothetical four campaign needs to double that fell on Ramy Baramily from asked him how they planned to landmark proportions.
mansions from being built along amount by April 14 in order for Signquest. His company got the solve a looming logistical Not to mention a sustainability
the ridge. A movement was the sale to go through. call a few weeks ago to start problem: SAVE THE PEAK has one: thousands of yards of mesh
launched by the Trust for Public Although he can't be blamed for designing the banners, and only two more characters than fabric, used for five days, and at
Land named Save Cahuenga the disconnect between received official permission to HOLLYWOOD. "You're the a cost of "in the high five
Peak and has already raised $6.3 launching a campaign to protect install them yesterday. I asked first person to ask me that," he figures" (although the Trust for
million dollars from celebrities the view of the Hollywood sign him if they considered using the said, amazed. The "THE" will be Public Land says it was all
(Tiffany & Co. chipped in and transforming it into an Hollywood sign typeface (they squeezed onto the space of the Y,
another million in time for the eyesore for a few days, the did) and why they chose red (it's he told me. I think we're about to HOORAY page 9
8 Business/ E-reader News Edition

What Aardvark Can Do for Google

by Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:25:08 AM

Yesterday brought the news that

Google has officially purchased
Aardvark, a small San-Francisco
-based social search startup that
happens to have been created by
former Google employees. The
timing, coming just two days
after Google unveiled Buzz, can't
be coincidental--but what can
Aardvark do for Google? An
awful lot, as it turns out.
Aardvark is a question-and-
answer service more than a
search engine. You ask a
question via email or instant
message, and it looks through
your list of friends as well as and only 15% as "bad." would take Google's fledgling crowd-sourced pool of answers search. Instead of asking
your friends' friends before So why does Google want social networking platform to a to a lot of the questions Aardvark Google's algorithms, you could
sending your question to those Aardvark? Could be the valuable level neither Facebook nor users ask, users might well be ask living, breathing people.
who would be able to answer it search data Aardvark's collected- guidebooks like Yelp can match. happier with the personal How cool is that?
best. So if you ask "What's the -who's searching for what, what Facebook's private, friend-based responses Aardvark can provide. Google hasn't said what they
best coffeeshop in San kind of answers are most community is its strength, a Do you want to hear what some intend to do with Aardvark. Even
Francisco's Mission District?" satisfying for the user, that kind strength shared by Aardvark, yet stranger you may have nothing the confirmation of the deal is as
it'll only send the question to of thing--as well as the personnel Aardvark's search is, well, in common with thinks about barebones as it gets: Max
those who live or have lived in involved in its creation. Also, incredibly useful--that's local cafes, or do you want to Ventilla, Aardvark's CEO,
San Francisco. Your answers remember, Google owned something Facebook can't boast. hear from your friends and simply wrote "We can now
won't be a list of external links, Foursquare's predecessor, Facebook is great for connecting friends of friends, who probably confirm that Google has signed a
like a typical search engine, but a Dodgeball, but allowed it to go with people, but it's just not have similar taste in bohemian deal to acquire us but have no
genuine human reply, just like in fallow, only to have Foursquare designed with this kind of hangouts? Plus, the inherently further comment." But Aardvark
those horrible, horrible days explode in popularity a few years answer-based search in mind. helpful nature of Aardvark is a has a lot to offer Google, and
before the Internet when people later. Google can't let that Aardvark would be a notably boon to social networking; it stripping the company for parts
had to (shudder) relate to one happen again with a similar Googley way to differentiate feels great to be asked a question would be a mistake. But if they
another. And if you're doubting service, especially now, with the Buzz from the more established to which you know the answer. take advantage, Buzz is going to
the chance of actually receiving a launch of Buzz. social networks: It's all about Even apart from Buzz, Aardvark get a lot more exciting.
response, you'll be surprised: It's Let's say Google decides to use answers. would add an interesting social [Via TechCrunch]
remarkably efficient, returning Aardvark. The possibilities are Aardvark would even allow twist to plain old Google search.
an answer 90% of the time, and pretty striking, especially in the Buzz to compete more Imagine an additional button
60% of the time within 10 context of Google Buzz. effectively with Yelp--while next to Web search, image
minutes. Even better, users rank Aardvark integrated with Buzz Yelp might be the established search and video search: Friend WHAT page 9
about 70% of answers as "good,"
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HOORAY
continued from page 7
donated). Baramily didn't have
plans to recycle the fabric, but
instead, said it would all go back
to the city. One can only hope
the mesh fabric can be sewn into
tote bags and sold for more
SAVE THE PEAK cash.
The irony in all this--besides the
fact that Sally's Beauty Supply
got a lovely boost of free
advertising today--is that the sign
itself once advertised another
real estate development:
Hollywoodland. (In 1943, the
"LAND" was subsequently
removed to reflect the name of
the entire neighborhood, not just
the subdivision.) Starting in
1923, the entire peak was in fact
once divided up into tracts for
homeowners to purchase. But the
investment by former Los
Angeles Times publisher Harry
Chandler didn't fare too well
after the Depression, and that's
the reason most of the land
remains wilderness today. (See,
economic downturns can be
good!)
The undeveloped land near the
sign was eventually purchased
WHAT
continued from page 8
by Howard Hughes, whose
palatial Lago Vista home you
can see here, in the Sallywood
Hills (it was later owned by
Madonna). The Cahuenga Peak
land was purchased from
Hughes' estate by Chicago-based
Fox River in 2002, and all public
use of the hiking trails, which
thread into Griffith Park, the
largest urban park in the country
at 4,200 acres, as well as nearby
Lake Hollywood, ceased
immediately.
But this idyllic view has been in
danger before. Back in 1978, the
sign itself had become pitted and
decayed and the "O" was long
gone, looking more like "
HUILYWC D." Then, like now,
Hollywood itself rallied to
protect its iconic label.
Celebrities like Hugh Hefner,
Alice Cooper and Gene Autry
pitched in that time around.
There was an auction at the
Playboy Mansion: Alice Cooper
bought an O! Now that's
creative. So why didn't we take
this opportunity to tap a local
artist or designer to highlight the
Internet support grows for Betty White on SNL
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 2/11/2010 10:56:30 PM
Shockingly, comedic legend
Betty White has never hosted
“Saturday Night Live,” but, if the
legions of vocal Betty fans on
the internet have their way, the
true value of the peak in question
--the fact that it's not covered in
bad advertising! Sussman/Prejza,
the designers behind the 1984
Olympics--who designed the
stunning, glittery characters at
the newly-opened W Hollywood
--could have wowed us with
some temporary signage
installation that was beautiful
and readable from more than a
few miles away.
Or how about this? Since its
lights were removed in 1943, the
sign has only been lit on special
occasions like the 1984
Olympics and the turn of the
millennium. We could have
simply turned on the Hollywood
sign's lights for a few nights--
wind or solar-powered, of course
--to bring awe and attention to
this part of the city. An
environmentally-conscious event
for all of L.A. to enjoy.
Danny Finegood had a message
he wanted to get out to the city
when he altered the sign on July
1, 1976. It was the day that
relaxed marijuana laws went into
effect in California, and he
former Golden Girl will step into
hosting duties very soon. More
than 200,000 people have joined
a Facebook group dedicated to
grabbing the attention of SNL’s
bigwigs and getting White on the
show.
What kind of terribly unfunny
Popular News/ Tech/ Tech News/
wanted everyone in L.A. to
know it. He considered this his
lifetime achievement, according
to High Times. And he should
have been proud. It was a
powerful message, simple,
beautifully executed, and there
was no doubt to anyone within
viewing distance what it meant.
And hey, man, it was green.
SAVE THE PEAK still means
very little to the city's open space
movement, but now
SALLYWOOD will go down in
history as Hollywood's great
missed opportunity to do
something truly positive for
preservation. Besides, if they had
hired someone like Finegood to
do it, the sign would have been
finished by morning. At this
point, they might as well change
it to SORRYWOOD.
[Additional photos,
HollywoodSign.org]
[ Save Cahuenga Peak]
world do we live in where Lorne
9
Divvyshot launches
refreshingly simple
photo sharing
by Rafe Needleman
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 4:00:00 AM
Photo site has bonus feature for
iPhone users: shake to share
Originally posted at Rafe's
Radar
Kevin Smith
Rains F-Bombs on
Mac Nerds
by Brian X. Chen (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 2/11/2010 5:51:00 PM
Kevin Smith stood me up for
our interview. At least his
Macworld keynote was cool.
Michaels invites the likes of
Andrew Dice Clay and Paris
Hilton to “SNL” and not a true
talent like Betty White?
Full story at Huffington Post.
Tune in to the top TV news.
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Bing Turbo-Charges Maps, Equips it With Flickr, Space
Telescope to Challenge Google
by Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 8:42:58 AM
Here's evidence that Microsoft
isn't just up for challenging
Google in the usual web-search
business, but in other Google
areas too: Like Maps. Bing's just
demonstrated some upcoming
tweaks, and they'll make Google
nervous.
Microsoft showed off its turbo-
boosted Maps app at the TED
conference, but as befits the
intellectual theme of TED, it also
posted a long and complex blog
post about the matter. You can
read it here, but it's absolutely
gargantuan and delves into some
of the complexities of
ergonomics, man-machine
interfaces and process mapping
of how we interact with some of
Bing's existing systems. Suffice
it to say that the research folks at
MS have really put their thinking
caps on when trying to improve
Bing: They're calling the new
process of search "spatial
searching" and they've broken it
down into stages that match real-
life searching. First is
exploration, where you're just
Death Star Laser Gun Zaps Mosquitoes Dead
by Kim Zetter (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 6:26:00 AM
poking around in a particular
area. Then there's discovery,
where you use your senses to
find cues that'll help you get a
particular task done, and finally
there's decision making, where
you take all of this info and use it
to achieve a goal.
MS explained how it had been
improving Bing Maps to help
with the "explore" segment of
this, and noted how the existing
If Microsoft founder Bill Gates
unleashes more mosquitoes at
this year’s TED conference,
Nathan Myhrvold will be ready
Maps includes imagery from
space all the way down to aerial
photos. Which is, of course,
exactly what Google does as
well. But where Google used to
have the lead with Street View,
Bing now has "Street Side" too,
which is almost the same thing.
And now Bing's integrating user
photos from Flickr into Street
Side, leveraging images with
geotagging and doing some
for him with his “Death Star” parts purchased on eBay by
laser gun designed to track and s c i e n t i s t s a t M y h r v o l d ’ s
kill the bugs in flight. Better yet: Intellectual Ventures Laboratory.
The device was crafted from
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That turns Bing Maps into an
augmented reality tool, of
course. This part is still
experimental, so you won't be
able to try it out. But the Flickr
integration is live if you use a
Bing Maps tool, even if it's still
an ongoing research project so
it's limited to a few US locations,
and a single-pass through Flickr's
geotagged image database.
MS also revealed that soon
you'll be able to try out Bing
Sky, which does exactly what
you think it might--it's a star-
map, orrery and space-
exploration tool that'll integrate
with Street Side to show you
what the sky looks like overhead.
The tech is driven by MS's own
WorldWide Telescope project,
clever image-matching to
and it'll roll sometime soon.
integrate them into its existing
Essentially MS is builing up
image database. The upshot
Bing to challenge the full spread
being, of course, that instead of a
of Google's tech--Street Side
static view of the area, you can
sounds like a cleverer version of
see what it looked like at any
Street View, Bing Sky is close to
particular time.
Google Sky, and so on. Before
More impressively, MS can also
you know it, MS will roll out
integrate video into the views--
their own web-based email
and if someone's transmitting a
system, and chat interface. Oh,
live geotagged feed, it can even
hang on...
perform this trick in real time.
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Foursquare Adds Another Big Partner: Conde
Nast's Lucky Magazine
by Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:23:47 AM
Foursquare's execs must've been
executing a whirlwind tour of
meeting rooms recently: In
addition to Bravo, Zagat and
HBO, they've just signed up a
special content deal with Conde
Nast's Lucky magazine, in
perfect time for New York
fashion week.
The deal starts being specialized
for Fashion Week itself, with
Foursquare offering attendees
tips on bars, coffee and other
services near the show's venues
and events, with the tips being
selected by Lucky magazine's
editors.
But just like the other recent
Foursquare partnerships, there's a
long-term angle too. This takes
the form of a Lucky Shopping
Directory, which is a list of about
700 stores maintained inside
Foursquare. If you pop in to one
of these locations, and check in
on Foursquare, you'll get tips and
incentives like discounts or deals
and the usual Foursquare badges.
There may even be "boutique
crawls," like pub crawls but in
better outfits and with less
alcohol (perhaps.)
The upside for Lucky is clear--it
gets a slew of advertising
mindspace, and it's likely to
make itself an attractive co-
advertising partner to new
members in that coveted list of
700 boutiques. For Foursquare,
the benefits are that it'll get a ton
of promotion at the prestigious
Fashion Week event, and will
likely attract a decent chunk of
return users from Lucky's
subscriber base. It's the same
business model that'll work for
Bravo, HBO, the History
Channel and all the other
partners Fousquare probably has
lined up waiting in the wings.
And this has us wondering on
Foursquare's future. It seems to
be cleverly positioning itself as
more than just an advert-driven
service, and more of an ad
partner-supported "experience"
provider, which clearly
distinguishes it from other
location-based systems like
Google's and even Yelp's. By
associating itself with some
mainstream media names at this
early point in the game, it's also
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Hawaii Man
Convicted of Tossing
Toddler to His Death
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HONOLULU A Honolulu man
has been convicted in the death
of a 23-month-old boy who was
tossed from a freeway overpass
two years ago.
Circuit Judge Dexter Del
Rosario on Thursday found 24-
year-old Matthew Higa guilty of
second-degree murder.
Cyrus Belt was thrown from a
clearly building itself some 30-foot high Hawaii freeway
bargaining power--power that'll overpass and run over by a
let it sign up even bigger-name delivery truck in January 2008.
partners in the future. And with Prosecutors say Higa was high
the million check-ins a week on crystal methamphetamine
barrier recently passed, it's clear when he threw the toddler.
that its user base is extremely Defense attorney Randall
active, and definitely growing, Oyama has argued that the boy
which will also be attractive to was already dead when he was
ad partners. thrown. Oyama has suggested a
Here's the other angle too: If boyfriend of the boy's mother,
Foursquare keeps this up, it Nancy Chanco, was responsible
could turn itself into a seemingly for the death.
f r i e n d l i e r l o c a t i o n - b a s e d Higa did not testify during the
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U2 Finds Carbon Trade Under a Blood Red Sky
by Ariel Schwartz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 2/11/2010 6:22:45 PM
U2 has worked for decades on
various humanitarian efforts, but
up until now the band has mostly
overlooked potential
environmental projects. Not
anymore--the tireless Irish
foursome is raising money for
the Dora-1 geothermal plant in
Turkey by selling Offset Options'
carbon offset credits for $1.89 on
top of regular concert ticket
prices.
Fans that purchase the credits
are theoretically offsetting CO2
North Korea Wants Your Money,
Opens New Foreign Investment
Zones
by Tom Johansmeyer
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:20:00 AM
Filed under: International
Markets, China In a bid for
foreign investment, North Korea
has created a dozen special
zones, so reports a South Korean
newspaper. The country needs
hard currency, thanks to lack of
trading relationships and an
economy that redefines
"troubled." Raw material and
power shortages have
constrained heavy industry in
from traveling to their U2
concert of choice by sending
money directly to Dora-1 or one
of the other carbon offset
projects endorsed by Offset
Options. Ultimately, U2 hopes to
North Korea, which has
traditionally been the mainstay
of its economy.
The new zones will offer new
opportunities for economic
growth, though the North's past
experiments with special
raise up to $450,000.
The hypocritical thing here is the carbon offsets and focus on
t h a t U 2 c o n c e r t s a r e fixing its touring practices.
mindblowingly carbon intensive. [Via VentureBeat]
U2's recent 360 world tour
featured three 390-ton stages,
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terribly successful.
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200 crew members, and on one
occasion the band even added a
satellite link-up to the
International Space Station. The
18-month tour ended up
producing 65,000 tons of CO2,
or enough to fly the members of
U2 to Mars and back. In
comparison, Madonna's 2006
world tour produced 1,635 tons
of CO2. So if U2 really wants to
make a difference, it should ditch
Juniper eyes wireless
network upgrades
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Juniper Networks on Monday
will launch three products for
mobile network providers to get
a bigger slice of the 3G, 4G, and
LTE upgrade revenue pie.
The big picture: Juniper, which
primarily competes with Alcatel-
Lucent and Cisco Systems for
wireless business, sees networks
converging. According to Mallik
Tatipamula, vice president of
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Cash for Haiti
Could Undermine
Rebuilding Effort
by Nathan Hodge (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:08:00 AM
A new army has appeared on the
streets of Port-au-Prince,
wearing day-glo vests and white
face masks, and carrying picks
and shovels. These are the cash-
for-work crews, and they are
needed. But Haiti is sustained in
large part by external aid, and the
arrival of relief groups and
NGOs carries a serious risk: The
creation of an aid bubble.
service provider marketing at
Juniper, the mobile network will
look a lot like the fixed line
broadband infrastructure.
These so-called converged
networks are growing in clout
overseas and are likely to catch
on in the U.S. in a few years.
Read more of " Juniper aims for
larger piece of wireless network
upgrade pie" at ZDNet's
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Kennedy won't seek re-election, marking end of era (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) The decision comes less than a Kennedy was not specific about In Congress, Kennedy has Congress that he has good
Submitted at 2/12/2010 5:15:53 AM month after a stunning upset by his plans, but said he would pushed for greater mental health fortune," Loughlin said. "And
Republican Scott Brown in the continue to fight for issues on care coverage, citing his own we're going to stay in the race."
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Patrick seat, Patrick Kennedy called in politics, my life is taking a programs. number of high-profile troubles.
Kennedy's decision not to seek re Brown's candidacy a "joke" and new direction," Kennedy says. Kennedy has never married, and Most recently, he engaged in a
-election will leave Washington predicted Brown would betray A Kennedy has served in elected friends have said his personal life protracted public spat with
without a Kennedy in political his union supporters. office in Washington ever since had taken a back seat to his Providence Roman Catholic
office for the first time in more Mark Weiner, a major Patrick Kennedy's uncle, John F. career. Bishop Thomas Tobin over
than 60 years. Democratic fundraiser in Rhode Kennedy, was elected to Still, until recently, Kennedy health care reform and
The Rhode Island Democrat's Island and one of Kennedy's top Congress from Massachusetts in appeared committed to running Kennedy's support of abortion
term ends early next year but he financial backers, said he had 1946. again. rights.
says in a television message spoken with Kennedy recently, As a member of the powerful The only Republican in the race, After leaving treatment at the
viewed by The Associated Press and that his father's death had House Appropriations state Rep. John Loughlin, has Mayo Clinic in 2006, he
on Thursday that his life is taken an enormous toll. Committee, Kennedy has made been working with Brown's described to reporters how his
"taking a new direction" and he "It's tough to get up and go to sure federal dollars are sent to campaign team, the Shawmut work and public profile had
will not seek a ninth term. The work every day when your his state. Group, and was raising money. taken a toll on his health, and
video was provided to the AP by partner is not there," Weiner Democratic Rep. Jim Langevin, But Kennedy was heavily bred feelings of isolation and self
Kennedy's congressional office. said. "I think he just had a Rhode Island's only other House favored to win the race: -criticism.
The 42-year-old son of the late broken heart after his father member, had spoken with Registered Democrats "How well this event did or how
Sen. Edward Kennedy does not passed away." Kennedy and said he would miss outnumber Republicans more well that event did — and then
give a reason for the decision but Kennedy said in his ad that he him in Congress. than 4 to 1 in Rhode Island. I'd take that all home, and it's all
says it has been a difficult few remained committed to public "Patrick is a true public servant Loughlin has little statewide on me," he said then. "And then I
years for many people and he service, and he thanked Rhode and passionate fighter who made recognition, and Kennedy had don't have a private life. I don't
mentions the death in August of Island voters for supporting him a real difference for the people of four times as much campaign have real personal connections. I
his father. through ups and downs. our great state," said Langevin, cash on hand coming into the don't have a support system."
"Illness took the life of my most He has been in and out of who served with Kennedy in the year. ___
cherished mentor and confidante, treatment for substance abuse state House of Representatives. He told The Providence Journal Smith reported from
my ultimate source of spirit and since crashing his car outside the Kennedy was elected to that shortly after Brown's win in Providence, R.I. Associated
strength," he said, as a black-and U.S Capitol in 2006. Still, he has position in 1988 at age 21 while January that he wasn't worried Press writers Eric Tucker and
-white photo of him as a boy been comfortably re-elected still attending Providence about Loughlin, saying "bring it Ray Henry in Providence
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The announcement is to air you for all the times you lifted once served as chairman of the that he wished Kennedy well.
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Bill Clinton returns home after heart procedure (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) he'll be on the phone ... calling reopened the original clogged The angioplasty is usually done Saturday Night Live" as a
Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:32:32 AM people asking for more help for artery and placed two mesh with the patient awake but gluttonous McDonald's
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CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. – Former said. There was no sign the former involving stents. travels more than 200 days a
President Bill Clinton was Clinton could be back at work president had suffered a heart "It's not unexpected" for Clinton year, working on his global
recovering at his suburban home as soon as Monday, cardiologist attack, and the new blockage was to need another procedure years initiative, helping people,"
with his wife on Friday after Allan Schwartz said previously. not a result of his diet, Schwartz after his bypass, said Dr. Clyde McAuliffe told CBS. "I hear
leaving a Manhattan hospital A couple of hours after Clinton said. Yancy, cardiologist at Baylor people say, 'Will he slow down?'
where he underwent a heart went home, C.J. Williams, a "The procedure went very University Medical Center in That's not President Clinton. If
procedure. second-grader from New smoothly," Schwartz said, Dallas and president of the anything, he'll redouble his
Three black SUVs with tinted Fairfield, Conn., arrived at the describing Clinton's prognosis as American Heart Association. efforts if there's actually time to
windows arrived around 7:45 cul-de-sac carrying a get well excellent. The sections of blood vessels redouble what he does."
a.m. Friday and pulled through card and a red heart-shaped box McAuliffe said 63-year-old used to create detours around the But should Clinton slow down a
the high gates at the house. The filled with Skittles. Clinton participated in a original blockages tend to little?
Westchester County hamlet of The sandy-haired boy said he conference call on earthquake develop clogs five to 10 years "Yeah, probably," McAuliffe
Chappaqua is about 35 miles wrote on the card, "Happy relief as he was wheeled into an after a bypass, Yancy explained. said. "But he's been doing this
north of New York City. Valentine's Day. I hope you feel operating room. New blockages also can develop for 63 years and you're not going
State Department spokesman better and here's a little heart to "An aide had to literally take the in new areas. to change him. He always says,
P.J. Crowley said Secretary of make your big heart feel better." phone away from him," he said. "This kind of disease is 'It's not about me; it's about all
State Hillary Rodham Clinton An officer told C.J. and his If Clinton could have, said progressive. It's not a one-time those people.'"
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left New York Presbyterian surgery more than five years ago. The secretary of state went from high cholesterol and high blood Milwaukee; Beth Fouhy, Marcus
Hospital"in excellent health." He returned Thursday to have a Washington to New York to be pressure, he said. Franklin and Cristian Salazar in
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ahead to getting back to the work suffering discomfort in his chest. daughter, Chelsea, was also at working in recent weeks to help Lee and Darlene Superville in
of his Foundation, and to Haiti Two stents resembling tiny the hospital. Aides said Mrs. relief efforts in Haiti. Since Washington; and AP video
relief and recovery efforts," it mesh scaffolds were placed Clinton plans to leave Saturday leaving office, he has maintained journalist Ted Shaffrey in
said. inside the artery as part of a for the Persian Gulf. a busy schedule working on Chappaqua contributed to this
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Vancouver will welcome some
2,500 athletes to the 2010 Winter
Olympics at Friday's opening
ceremony.
Financial worries and a lack of
snow have hampered
preparations, but the focus now
switches to the competitors.
Canada could earn their first
ever home Olympic gold medal
on Saturday, while Team GB's
52 athletes have been set a target
of three medals of any colour.
"We're keen to mark the
beginning of a new era for winter
sports in Britain," said British
chef de mission Andy Hunt.
"It is extraordinary to have the
number of athletes in the team
that we do.
"We haven't set a specific medal
target - our real target is for
every athlete to achieve their
personal best."
Team GB 'must improve on
Turin'
While the British Olympic
Association (BOA) is playing
down medal targets, funding
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body UK Sport expects a three-
medal return on its investment.
That pales in comparison to the
pressure facing the host nation's
team of 206 athletes, competing
across the Games' 15 sports over
17 days.
The Canadian team has defined
a successful Games as winning
more medals than any other
nation - rather than necessarily
aiming for more golds than other
countries - with the men's ice
hockey final considered a must-
win showpiece event by home
supporters.
Leading Canada's charge is 37-
year-old speed skater Clara
Hughes, who will carry her
country's flag at the opening
ceremony. A former cyclist, she
has both Summer and Winter
Olympic medals to her name.
Of the 82 nations expected to
take part, the United States and
Germany should also be close
contenders both in terms of gold
medals, where Norway also
feature, and overall medal count.
The US team of 216 athletes is
the largest at the Vancouver
Games and is fronted by
talismanic skiing sensation
Lindsey Vonn.
Vonn has had a troubled build-
up to her five Olympic events
after suffering a shin injury
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during training - but few teams
have arrived at the Games
without incident.
The British team, in particular,
saw its skiing and snowboarding
governing body go into
administration just one week
before the Olympics, leaving the
BOA to arrange emergency
funding for the 14 affected
athletes.
And financial problems extend
to the Vancouver Organizing
Committee (Vanoc) itself, which
has faced reports of a 30m
Canadian dollar (£18.1m)
revenue shortfall.
However, Vanoc no longer
expects large-scale protests
against the Games outside the
opening ceremony - the contents
of which remain a closely-
guarded secret - at the 60,000-
capacity BC Place arena.
More problematic for organisers
is the weather in the region, on
Canada's west coast, which has
been unseasonably warm in
recent weeks.
Rain has played havoc with the
Cypress Mountain freestyle
skiing and snowboarding venue
to the north of Vancouver, which
has had to rely on snow imported
from higher ground.
"The organisers have been doing
everything they possibly can,"
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Gillings, who will compete at
Cypress Mountain, where more
rain is forecast.
"They've put so much work in
that I think it'll be alright."
Whistler, the home to alpine
skiing events situated two hours
north of Vancouver, has no such
trouble - there are record levels
of snow on the ground.
But training runs there have
already fallen prey to the fog for
which the resort is renowned.
If the weather does not
intervene, Whistler will play host
to one of the first major
spectacles of the Games when
the men's downhill skiing takes
place on Saturday.
The event is traditionally the
blue riband event of the Games
and 35-year-old Swiss veteran
Didier Cuche, who leads the
season-long World Cup
standings, begins as favourite -
despite skiing with a broken
thumb since the end of last
month.
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Cuche's 23-year-old countryman
Carlo Janka and Austrian
Michael Walchhofer are also
ones to watch. Local star Manuel
Osborne-Paradis could go close,
while Ed Drake will become the
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Games.
British medal interest at
Vancouver 2010 lies largely in
Whistler, where world number
one women's bobsleigh duo
Nicola Minichiello and Gillian
Cooke will compete, as will
skeleton star Shelley Rudman,
who won GB's only medal - a
silver - at Turin in 2006.
Back in Vancouver, the two
British curling teams are also
expected to challenge for medals,
while there are outside chances
in figure skating and speed
skating.
"Pretty much everybody on the
team skated British records and
personal bests the week before
we came here," said 29-year-old
British short track speed skater
Sarah Lindsay, who is set to
compete at her third Winter
Games.
"You can't ask for much more
than that. For us, if one person
can win, the whole team does."
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PORTLAND, Maine – Snow?
What snow?
Snowless New England states
that rely on the white stuff for
their winter activities are green
with envy watching the Mid-
Atlantic get blanketed with back-
to-back blizzards.
So little snow fell in Maine's
largest city that Portland
canceled its winter festival. In
Vermont, no snow meant no
sculpting contest. And in New
Hampshire, the lack of snow
nixed a dog sled race.
"We were thinking of getting the
dog teams down to Washington
and giving President Obama a
ride," said Jim Lyman, president
of the Lakes Region Sled Dog
Club, which had to cancel this
weekend's race in Laconia.
But the unusual snow pattern
hasn't been restricted to the East
Coast: Parts of Texas got some
snow Thursday that caused
slippery roads. Detroit got 6
inches Wednesday, but overall
has seen lighter-than-normal
snowfall this winter.
Northern Arizona was
hammered with near-record
snow, rain and flooding that
made roads impassable and cut
off the Navajo and Hopi Nations.
Helicopters had to drop off tens
of thousands of meals, water,
cots, blankets and firewood.
In New Hampshire, Lyman
marvels at the region's bad luck.
He has resorted in the past to
trucking in snow for the dog sled
teams. But this year, there was
no snow anywhere in the region
as he watched two storms head
to the south.
"It's hard to fathom," Lyman
said. "It's not like we're missing
it by much. The nor'easters are
still coming. But for whatever
reason, they're all going south."
Art DeGaetano of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's Regional
Climate Center at Cornell
University says El Nino
conditions in the Pacific Ocean
have helped create the persistent,
southerly storm track this winter,
causing storms to miss northern
New England and upstate New
York.
Boston readied itself this week
for a forecasted foot of snow.
Schools closed and businesses let
workers go home early. But the
storm never materialized. Grand
total: 1 inch, and it melted by the
following morning. Meanwhile,
more than 18 inches fell on the
Mid-Atlantic.
Baltimore has gotten record
snowfall, 77.9 inches, more than
Buffalo, N.Y., and Caribou,
Maine, two places known for
their snowy winters. Snowfall
records have also been shattered
in Philadelphia, Washington,
D.C., Wilmington, Del., and
Atlantic City, N.J.
Meanwhile, this weekend was
supposed to be full of traditional
winter frolicking in Portland:
snowball fights, snowman
building, snowshoeing, cross-
country skiing, sledding, snow
sculpting and snow painting. But
without any significant snowfall
in Maine for the past three
weeks, the city lacks the one key
ingredient needed for all those
activities, and had to cancel its
Winter Rush festival.
Adding insult to injury was a
January rainstorm that washed
away much of the snow that had
piled up, leaving bare ground at a
time when it's supposed to be a
winter wonderland.
"We're definitely having snow
envy," said Sally DeLuca,
Portland's recreation director,
who canceled all Winter Rush
activities except for a road race
and a polar plunge.
In Vermont, a snow shortage
forced the postponement of a
snow sculpture contest for a
second time in the town of Barre.
The competition calls for 6-foot
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before being carved into intricate
works of art by local stone
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Protesters come up against riot
police in Ciudad Juarez
Mexican President Felipe
Calderon faced public anger
during a visit to his country's
most violent city, Ciudad Juarez,
on the border with the US.
There were scuffles between riot
police and dozens of protesters
outside the convention centre
where Mr Calderon and his
cabinet met community leaders.
The president promised new
initiatives to tackle crime in the
city, which is a major
battleground for drug cartels.
But he refused to withdraw
troops, who critics say have
worsened the violence.
More than 15,000 people are
believed to have been killed in
drug-related incidents in Mexico
in the last two years.
There were more than 2,600
murders in Ciudad Juarez last
year.
On 31 January, 13 teenagers and
two adults were shot dead at a
high school party. Their families
have said they had no gang ties.
'Not welcome'
"If those deaths... mean anything
it is that we need to change after
that absurd sacrifice," Mr
Calderon told Ciudad Juarez
residents.
The president promised
improvements in health,
education, welfare and
infrastructure for the poverty-
stricken northern city, but
insisted he would not withdraw
the 6,000 troops deployed there.
In a country where the
institution of the president is
deeply respected, Felipe
Calderon exposed himself during
several hours to direct
accusations of inefficiency in his
strategy to combat the drug
cartels.
The people of Ciudad Juarez
vented their frustration with the
ongoing violence and the effect it
is having on daily life in the
border town where more than
5,000 people have been killed
since 2006.
Mr Calderon said he was ready
to readjust his policies and
launched a series of social
initiatives, but insisted he would
not pull troops out, one of the
popular demands.
His visit was aimed at opening a
new chapter in the fight against
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"You come here one or two years
late," a local leader told Mr
Calderon, while a woman
shouted: "You are not welcome
here."
All those who spoke expressed
their frustration about the level
of violence, our correspondent
adds.
They also complained about the
lack of a proper infrastructure
and alleged human rights abuses
by the security forces.
The federal government's
perceived lack of efficiency in
dealing with the crisis was
another major grievance.
Army helicopters patrolled the
skies above, as federal riot police
tried to disperse the dozens of
people staging a demonstration.
Many were holding signs saying
drug trafficking, but as one of
"army and police, leave!" and
the local leaders told Mr
"Calderon out".
Calderon to his face, it may have
"Calderon's afraid... We want
come too late.
justice, we want him to resign,"
"I've promised the parents of the
Luz Davila, whose two teenaged
victims that we'll find a new
children were killed in the
impetus for the fight against the
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Bill Clinton leaves hospital in
New York after undergoing a
heart procedure
Former US President Bill
Clinton has left the Manhattan
hospital where he underwent a
heart procedure.
He smiled as he walked out of
New York Presbyterian Hospital,
got into a waiting car, and waved
for the cameras.
His cardiologist earlier said he
was "in good spirits" after the
procedure, in which doctors
inserted two stents to clear a
clogged artery in his heart.
Dr Allan Schwartz said he could
be back at work as soon as
Monday, adding that he did not
suffer a heart attack.
The former president had
quadruple bypass surgery at the
same hospital more than five
years ago. He was re-admitted on
Thursday after complaining of
discomfort in his chest.
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Mr Clinton's wife Hillary, the
US Secretary of State, and their
daughter Chelsea had joined him
at his bedside.
The state department has said
Mrs Clinton will still travel to
Qatar and Saudi Arabia at the
weekend as planned, although
her flight will leave later to allow
her to spend more time in New
York.
Speaking to media outside the
hospital on Thursday evening,
morning, rolled over to an empty
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Dr Schwartz said the insertion of
two devices known as stents had
gone "very smoothly".
The stents - wire-mesh tubes
that help the flow of blood -
were placed in a coronary artery
that had become blocked since
Mr Clinton had a quadruple-
bypass operation in 2004.
Doctors said that the need for
the procedure had not been
triggered by Mr Clinton's diet or
active lifestyle. They said it was
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raring to go in about 35
minutes," former Democratic
Party chairman Terry McAuliffe
said on CBS TV's Early Show.
"He'll be on the phone... calling
people asking for more help for
Haiti and where he can get
pickup trucks so they can deliver
food or generators," he added.
The former Arkansas governor
became known for his love of
fast food and jogging during his
two terms as president.
After his 2004 operation, friends
and family say he improved his
eating habits.
In addition to his work in Haiti,
he heads the William J Clinton
Foundation to promote and
address international
humanitarian issues such as the
treatment and prevention of
treatment to be needed after a
HIV/Aids and global warming.
bypass.
He lives about 35 miles (55km)
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Haiti is holding a day of national
mourning a month after the
earthquake struck, killing at least
217,000.
Ceremonies are being held
across the country, with the main
one near the devastated National
Palace in the capital, Port-au-
Prince.
A prayer service was held at the
site of a mass grave which is
believed to hold tens of
thousands of victims.
Later, at the exact time the
earthquake hit, Haitians at home
and abroad will be asked to kneel
and pray.
A small wooden table atop one
of the mass graves in the scrub-
covered low hills served as the
altar.
Before sprinkling incense on the
grave, a priest told the gathering
that though dumped here, the
victims had not been thrown
away.
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sisters, calling out from under
the ground," he said.
At the main ceremony in the
capital's centre, near the ruins of
the National Palace, leaders of
Haiti's two official religions - a
Catholic bishop and the head of
the Voodoo priests, both robed in
white - joined ministers from
Protestant denominations for a
prayer service.
Hundreds of people gathered for
the service in the shade of
mimosa trees, including
President Rene Preval, who wept
during the service.
The Associated Press news
agency reports that the remaining
churches in Port-au-Prince's
Petionville suburb were so
packed that loudspeakers had to
be set up so those left outside in
the streets could follow the
service.
The 12 January quake left
300,000 injured and one million
homeless.
The BBC's Mike Wooldridge
says the act of national reflection
comes as one of the largest
humanitarian operations ever
mounted grapples with
challenges on many fronts.
He says a heavy downpour on
the eve of the anniversary
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getting out more tents and
stronger shelter materials is not
stepped up before the start of the
rainy season.
In the biggest of the camps that
sprang up in the capital after the
earthquake, people are still living
under sheeting strung across
wooden poles.
The government says the
seasonal rains could be the
biggest threat now to the nation's
attempts at recovery.
The European Union has
proposed a military mission to
step up the provision of shelter
before the rains worsen.
This week's Haitian government
figures suggesting up to 230,000
dead means the quake toll is
approaching that of the 2004
Asian tsunami, which killed
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CAMP VERDE, Ariz. –
Attorneys prosecuting a self-help
guru on manslaughter charges in
the deaths of three people during
a sweat lodge ceremony are
urging a judge to grant a gag
order.
Prosecutor Sheila Polk says she
wants the pretrial publicity to
stop, arguing that it could taint
the jury pool.
A Yavapai County judge is
scheduled to hear arguments
over the request on Friday.
Motivational speaker James
Arthur Ray faces three counts of
manslaughter, stemming from
the deaths of the three people
following the ceremony he led
near Sedona last October.
Polk requested the gag order
after Ray's attorneys appeared in
television interviews the day
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after his arrest last week.
If granted, it would cover Ray,
his Web site and blog, his
attorneys and their staff, and
employee's of Ray's Carlsbad,
Calif.-based company, James
Ray International.
Staff in the county attorney's
office as well as the sheriff's
office also would be included.
An attorney representing some
media outlets said a gag order
would be unjustified and
severely limit the public's ability
to monitor the proceedings.
Prosecutors contend Ray
recklessly crammed more than
50 participants of his "Spiritual
Warrior" event into a 415-square
-foot sweat lodge and chided
them for wanting to leave, even
as people were vomiting, getting
burned by hot rocks and lying
unconscious on the ground.
Three people died at hospitals
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commercial. It actually involved
tended to the ill. They have
People have been discussing, Pizza Hut suing Papa Johns over
called the deaths a tragic
lately, how Domino's new the slogan, as Pizza Hut argued
accident and said Ray is not
advertising campaign is certainly that Papa Johns was implying its
responsible.
on the gutsy side. Basically, the ingredients and pizzas were
He is being held at the Yavapai
c o m p a n y s t a r t e d r u n n i n g worse than Papa Johns. While
County jail on a $5 million bond.
commercials that admitted pretty Pizza Hut won at the lower level,
If convicted, Ray faces up to 12
clearly what anyone who's ever an appeals court reversed and the
1/2 years on each count with
eaten at Domino's has known for Supreme Court refused to hear
probation being an option.
years: its pizzas were dreadful. the appeal, so Papa Johns could
Sweat lodges are commonly
The new commercials effectively use the slogan again. Domino's,
used by American Indian tribes
admitted this in touting a brand again, had no part in the lawsuit,
to cleanse the body. The
new recipe that they insist is but is apparently mocking Papa
ceremony involves heating
much, much better, and saying Johns in its commercials for
stones outside the lodge and then
that customers hated the old claiming in court that such a
placing them in a pit inside the
pizza (in slightly different slogan involves "puffery" and
lodge. The door is closed, and
w o r d s ) . I t s e e m s t h e a d wasn't meant to indicate that it's
water is poured on the stones,
campaign continues to break new pizzas were better than a specific
producing heat aimed at
grounds, as well, as the latest ad competitor's.
releasing toxins from the body.
actually uses a lawsuit between You have to hand it to Domino's
Five Filters featured article:
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Papa Johns for "puffery" in its t h e y ' r e m o c k i n g w o n t h a t
advertising slogan of "Better l a w s u i t . T h a t ' s b o l d .
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Valentine’s Day ideas for frugal folks
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 2/11/2010 8:24:00 PM
Don’t let the endless stream of
jewelry commercials fool you;
Valentine’s Day doesn’t require
a gaudy diamond necklace. A
perfectly delightful day with
your sweetheart can happen
without making a major dent in
your wallet. Dumb Little Man
has put together a list of frugal
Valentine’s Day ideas that will
satisfy any penny-pinching
Cupid. Go to a bookstore,
browse and purchase a favorite
book for each other.
Take your date to a free or
inexpensive play or concert at
your local community college,
near by university or a local city
theater.
Write short quick love notes.
See if you can do 365 of them.
Put them in a gift box that you
decorate and give a gift good for
one year.
Create a video declaring your
love for your Valentine, post it
on You Tube and email the link
to your sweetie.
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Have a “Spa Nite.” Give each
other a massage. Rent a DVD if
you need instructions. Use
special oils and lotion. Make the
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are finished you can take a
bubble bath together, drink
champagne or sparkling water in
fluted glasses. Later serve finger
foods to each other.
Nothing suit your fancy? Break
out a crisp Hamilton and pick up
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Sneak Peek: Levi
Johnston's 'Playgirl'
Shoot on Pay Per View!
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 3:04:00 AM
ET has your look at Levi
Johnston's steamy Playgirl shoot
on pay per view!
The pay-pay-view special
debuts tonight at 10 p.m. and
features footage of Levi's hugely
popular shoot and much more.
Meanwhile, Levi's Playgirl issue
hits newsstands Feb. 23.

A new phone for every month of the year

(CNET News.com) "change[s] phones every month." to low-price Netbooks, get around this issue (perhaps by paramount, because the need to
Submitted at 2/12/2010 6:07:28 AM A new phone. Every month. increasingly powered by lower- making it easy to transfer our keep the device current with the
Really??? cost Linux, to make computer devices to other markets or new cloud would be paramount.
Message from fivefilters.org: If Granted, you don't have to be a purchases less painful...and less uses, such that they don't endure You'd want to be able to move
you can, please donate to the full multimillionaire CEO to cycle permanent. a month's worth of utility). What for the latest, greatest gadget,
-text RSS service so we can through phones on a monthly (or Is this a good or bad trend? then? and would simply expect your
continue developing it. even weekly) basis. But if one It's obviously bad from the Well, it's pretty exciting to think data to follow you.
If the lifestyles of the assumes that middle-class standpoint of the environment. of an industry where the It's a pretty exciting future and,
technology rich and famous are technology consumers' buying The mobility of these devices hardware takes a distant second if Infosys' founder's lifestyle is
any indication, we're about to behavior will eventually catch up may make them easy to trash, but place to the software running it. any indication, a future that will
e n t e r a n a g e o f s e r i o u s l y with the idiosyncrasies of the that trash has to go somewhere. In fact, in such a massively soon be available to the digital
conspicuous consumption. rich, the era of two-year Last time I checked, Dell and mobile environment, the proletariat, too. I can't wait.
Conspicuous, that is, for its contracts tied to a specific phone Lenovo weren't offering specials software on the device could Five Filters featured article:
wastefulness. may be nearing an end. on biodegradable laptops, and only serve as a short-lived Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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CEO, S 'Kris' Gopalakrishnan, c o m p u t i n g m a r k e t , w i t h iLandfills. enabled by open-source
told the Financial Times that he consumers increasingly turning But let's assume we were able to Funambol, would became
22 Tech/ Politics/ E-reader News Edition

Nissan to take orders for Leaf in April, batteries Bill Clinton

included Rushed to
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:40:47 AM
charge level and remaining
range.
Leaf--and the electric car
segment in general. Optimists
and world, which would make an
electric car more suitable in San
NY Hospital
As they plan to roll out electric expect that plug-in cars--whether Francisco, for example, than (Little Green Footballs)
Message from fivefilters.org: If cars, executives at carmakers they are hybrids or battery rural Iowa. Submitted at 2/11/2010 2:00:42 PM
you can, please donate to the full have been considering the idea of electrics--will become a sizeable Also, certain municipalities are
-text RSS service so we can separating the price of the battery slice of the auto market over the eager to promote electric Best wishes to former President
continue developing it. --which significantly adds to the next ten years, much the way vehicles adoption by providing Bill Clinton, who was rushed to
Nissan will take reservations for cost of production--from the hybrids sales have grown incentives for public charging a hospital in Manhattan this
its Leaf all-electric sedan in purchase. But Nissan indicated because of consumer demand. stations and simplified afternoon.
April with deliveries starting at that batteries are included in the Nissan projects that electrics will permitting for installing 240-volt Former President Bill Clinton
the end of the year, the company cost, whether it's a purchase or a be about 10 percent of the charging points in people's was rushed to a Manhattan
said on Thursday. lease. market in 2020. homes. The DOE has also hospital late this afternoon,
The company isn't disclosing the Of the incumbent auto But auto industry experts point provided grants to pay for over sources tell ABC News.
price of the car but Nissan CEO companies, Nissan is the most out that the hefty price of 6,000 recharging stations in Clinton, 63, was transported to
Carlos Ghosn has said that it will bullish on all-electric vehicles batteries is not projected to drop Seattle, Phoenix, Tuscon, and Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
be competitively priced with and the company's country-wide dramatically in the next few San Diego, in addition to in Manhattan for a condition
similarly sized vehicles, which public tour in the U.S., which years, which will limit its locations in Tennessee and related to his heart. ABC News’
the company sees as crucial to ended on Thursday, has was adoption even with tax credits Oregon. chief political correspondent
mass market adoption. The $100 marked by "a groundswell of for plug-in cars. The Boston So even though the Leaf and George Stephanopoulos reported
reservation fee is refundable and grassroots support," according to Consulting Group forecasts that electric cars are expected to cost that sources said he was taken to
the company will start to take the company. The company sales of hybrids will represent more upfront, we'll start to see the hospital “likely for a stent
orders in August. earlier this month secured a $1.4 nearly three quarters of electric electric cars on U.S. streets early procedure.” …
The design of the car is very billion loan from the Department car sales by 2020. next year, depending on where An official told ABC News that
much aimed at everyday use, of Energy to modify Nissan's Most likely, electric cars like the you are. Clinton’s ailment seems more
although its anticipated 100-mile Smyra, Tennessee plant to Leaf will take hold in certain Five Filters featured article: like “discomfort…something
driving range does impose limits. p r o d u c e t h e L e a f a n d i t s regions, which would mimic the Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: wasn’t right” rather than a health
It's a four-door sedan with a b a t t e r i e s . same sales pattern of hybrids. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, “crisis.”
hatchback with on-board features Still, the question of sticker Consumer needs for range vary Term Extraction.
to help drivers track battery price continues to hang over the in different parts of the country

Yahoo Launches Mobile Site for the Winter Olympics

by Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 6:46:05 AM
Sports fans, rejoice: If you’re on
the move, you can still easily
find out what’s happening at this
year’s Winter Olympics. Yahoo
launched a mobile site for the and find detailed info about the To check out the site, point your
Vancouver 2010 Winter 15 sports included in the games. mobile browsers to
Olympic Games, with up-to-the- The site is available in English m.yahoo.com/olympics Also,
minute live results, upcoming for 13 countries, including the check out a preview in the video
events schedule, medal counts, U.S., Canada, the Philippines, below.
expert commentary and more. India, Singapore, Malaysia, Tags: Mobile 2.0, winter
You can also do an athlete athletes competing at the games, Australia, New Zealand, France, olympics, Yahoo
search to see in-depth profiles of Germany, Italy and Spain.
E-reader News Edition Tech/ Sports/ 23

House Of Lords Has Serious Macworld 2010: OWC's

Concerns About Digital Economy Grant Dahlke demos USB
Bill 3.0 drive, fastest SSD
by Steven Sande (The
by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) secondary legislation and could provide a system for enhanced Unofficial Apple Weblog
Submitted at 2/11/2010 11:23:00 PM be wide-ranging. parliamentary scrutiny. (TUAW))
We do not believe that such a Despite the proposed
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:00:00 AM
We've already pointed out how skeletal approach to powers amendments we are concerned
Lord Lucas seems to be quite which engage human rights is that Clause 17 remains overly
Filed under: Macworld,
c o n c e r n e d a b o u t t h e appropriate. There is potential broad and that parliamentary
Hardware, Peripherals, Video,
ridiculousness in the Digital for these powers to be applied in scrutiny may remain inadequate.
TUAW Interview Mac expansion
Economy Bill, and has proposed a disproportionate manner which We call for a series of
powerhouse Other World
a series of amendments to help could lead to a breach of internet clarifications to address these
Computing always has
get rid of these problematic users' rights to respect for concerns. On top of that, they're
something incredible to show off
elements. However, it looks like correspondence and freedom of still a bit skeptical even of
at Macworld Expo, and there been benchmarked by OWC,
some others in the House of expression. There are also grave requiring ISPs to send notices
was no doubt about it when we since no Macs or PCs with USB
Lords are equally concerned as concerns over section 17, which when a user is accused of
visited the OWC booth on 3.0 ports have been released at
well. Michael Scott points us to w o u l d e f f e c t i v e l y l e t t h e infringement, noting that while
Thursday. this time. The first devices will
the news that the Lords' Human Business Secretary change they don't think this would be a
OWC's Grant Dahlke displayed ship in 2010, and include a
Rights Joint Committee has put copyright law at will: The broad restriction on human rights or
some of the new products SuperSpeed mode that provides
out a report that is highly critical nature of this power has been the freedom of expression, they
coming out from the company, transfer rates of 3.2 Gbits/second
of the more controversial points subject of much criticism. In would like "a further explanation
including their first USB 3.0 (about 400 MB / second) or
in the Digital Economy Bill, correspondence with us, the of why they [the backers of the
drive, a new smaller-format about 8 times the speed of USB
starting with the pressure on Secretary of State explained that bill] consider their proposals are
portable RAID array, and the 2.0.
ISPs to disconnect users under a the Government intended to proportionate."
fastest SSD on the market. The If you're at Macworld Expo
three strikes plan: The Bill introduce amendments to limit Definitely nice to see that this
latter product, called the OWC 2010 over the next few days, be
provides for the Secretary of the power in Clause 17 and to bill isn't just getting rushed
Mercury Extreme Enterprise sure to drop by booth 1354 and
State to have the power to introduce a 'super-affirmative' through, and there are some folks
SSD, has a five-year lifespan and see these new and unbelievably
require ISPs to take "technical procedure. The Government who are heavily questioning the
blinding speed. In the video fast drives for yourself.
measures" in respect of account amendments would limit the more ridiculous parts of the bill.
below, you can watch a TUAW Macworld 2010: OWC's
holders who have been the circumstances in which the Permalink| Comments| Email
MacBook Pro equipped with the Grant Dahlke demos USB 3.0
subject of copyright infringement Government could use their This Story
drive zip through a reboot and drive, fastest SSD originally
r e p o r t s . T h e s c o p e o f t h e powers to amend the Act by
load a pile of CS4 applications in appeared on The Unofficial
measures will be defined in secondary legislation and would
seconds, while a similar MBP Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri,
Cavs stop Magic, match team-record win streak with a faster processor and 5400
RPM hard disk plods through the
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by Associated Press -text RSS service so we can Reb, 13 Ast, 2 Stl same activities. Trust me, you're feeds.
(ESPN.com) continue developing it. Five Filters featured article: g o i n g t o w a n t a M e r c u r y Read| Permalink| Email this|
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24 Tech/
EMI Tries Fake Word Of Mouth
Campaign To Promote Ok Go
by Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:22:00 AM
Well, well. We've written about
the band Ok Go a few times
here, as a band that definitely
does seem to "get" what's going
on in terms of how to connect
with fans and promote their
music well. Many years ago, the
band had spoken out against
DRM, and, of course, they
produced one of the most
popular music videos of all time
-- the famous "treadmills" video.
I would have embedded that
video here, but Ok Go's label,
Capitol Records/EMI decided
somewhere along the line that no
one should want to share one of
the most viral videos ever, and
disabled all embedding.
Brilliant.
So, when Ok Go put out a new
album with a new "viral video"
EMI once again banned
embedding, apparently not
realizing how this viral stuff
works. Ok Go wrote about it,
and basically made it clear that
they'd tried over and over again
to explain this stuff to
Capitol/EMI, and the folks at the
label simply didn't get the value
of making the video viral.
Well, now, instead of allowing a
real "word of mouth" viral
campaign with the video, it looks
like EMI/Capitol has decided to
bootstrap a fake viral word of
mouth campaign, by sending
around emails (and even
submitting directly to us) a
request to "get a free Ok Go"
song if you just Tweet about it.
Seriously. So rather than letting
people organically share what
they wanted to share, EMI is
trying to bribe people into
promoting something else.
EMI, you're doing it wrong.
In the meantime, the platform
that EMI is using for this is
easily defeated. You have to log
in to Twitter Connect via a
special promo page, and it asks
you to send a specific twitter
message about how you just got
a free Ok Go song... but you can
edit the message to say whatever
you want. And, here's a little
trick: if you edit the message to
be more than 140 characters, it
doesn't actually send to Twitter,
and you still get the free song.
And wait, didn't EMI insist in
court that it never authorized free
MP3s to be available online?
Anyway, the problem here is
that EMI is trying to force people
into doing things a specific way
(not embedding, must tweet),
rather than simply being open,
sharing and (perhaps) suggesting
they share things if they like with
a friend. That's much more
authentic and real. This feels
very fake and corporate. You
build trust by actually putting
stuff out there and seeing how
people respond, rather than
bribing them and limiting how
they can share.
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Google Maps Get Labs
With 9 Cool New
Features
by Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 12:31:10 AM
Here’s a nice surprise from
Google’s Maps team: Just like
Gmail, Google Maps now also
has the Labs feature(it’s the little
green vial in the top right menu),
which introduces experimental
new features for you to try out.
Right now, you can try out nine
new features (all disabled by
default):
Drag ‘n’ Zoom– lets you zoom
in on a specific part of the map
by drawing a box.
Aerial Imagery– gives you
rotatable, high-resolution
overhead imagery, but it’s only
available in certain areas. Google
plans to add more over time,
though.
Back to Beta– OK, this one is a
little weird. It lets you have a
beta tag on Maps (just like
Gmail). Only for hardcore
Google users.
Where in the World Game– test
your geography knowledge by
guessing the names of countries
from satellite imagery. I lost
days playing a similar game on
Facebook, and I forgot
everything I’ve learned. Sigh.
E-reader News Edition
Rotatable Maps– north facing
up is just one way to look at a
map. Now you can rotate it any
way you like.
What’s Around Here?– adds a
second search button that
searches for “*”, returning the
top results in the current view.
I’ve actually been waiting for
this for a long time; it makes
searching for certain POIs within
some area a lot easier.
LatLng Tooltip– see the exact
latitude and longitude next to
your cursor.
LatLng Marker– drop a marker
anywhere on the map, showing
the latitude and longitude of that
location.
Smart Zoom– stops you from
zooming into an area if imagery
is not available.
Tags: Google Maps, labs,
trending
E-reader News Edition
Don't Buy Into Any Reports On Q4
Online Ad Revenue Just Yet
by Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 4:07:10 AM
In the last month or so, we heard
a few different reports making
the rounds claiming that "online
advertising is back!" after lots of
companies had great fourth
quarters when it came to online
ad revenues. The latest to report
such a thing is the NY Times,
who saw a big boost in online ad
revenues in the fourth quarter,
leading a bunch of people to
wonder if maybe online ad
revenue is taking off in a big
way. While advertising has
always been a cyclical market,
and will certainly continue to
grow, I think people are
overreacting to Q4 of 2009.
Frankly, we saw the same thing
here. While we don't rely on ad
revenue as the core of our
business model, we do make
money on advertising, and we
had a great fourth quarter on that
front, as advertisers were
Welcome To Your New Start Page [Start Page]
by Brian Barrett (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:47:36 AM website's icons already queued
This is even cooler than it looks: among the 34 current offerings,
Fav4.org starts your browsing and it looks as though they'll be adding more soon.
Tech/ Gadgets/ 25
EU Has A 'Public/Private' IP
Observatory To Watch For
Copyright Infringement Online
by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) organization, even though it
appears like just another industry
Submitted at 2/12/2010 2:07:25 AM
association. Engstrom finds the
Bas Grasmayer points us to a whole thing baffling: So much
pumping tons of money into ads. on. Then, along came Q3, and blog post by Christian Engstrom, for the involvement of the
But I don't think it's a sign of suddenly the marketing VPs and an EU Parliament member (yes, European Parliament on this
anything to get too excited about directors realized they were from the Pirate Party) who notes issue. We have been invited to
-- and that's because a lot of approaching the end of the year, that while he was in a committee hold an exchange of views in the
companies were really skittish and still had huge chunks of trying to address whether or not JURI committee, and we are
earlier in the year, so I think a money that had been budgeted in an "IP Observatory" should be currently spending time on
large chunk of Q4 online ad 2008 for 2009, but hadn't been created, he discovered it already drafting a resolution on if and
spending was a mirage. Here's spent. And the way lots of existed. The Observatory how the IP Observatory should
why: companies do budgeting is that, appears to have been set up not be set up.
The economy took a nosedive in if you haven't spent it, you get to promote progress or even to But before we (the parliament)
the fourth quarter of 2008. By less the next year. So, these make sure that intellectual w e r e i n v i t e d t o j o i n t h e
that point, lots of companies had marketing folks had to quickly property was a net benefit, but discussion, the decision had
a l r e a d y s e t t h e i r 2 0 0 9 a d spend the budgets they had instead it appears to just start already been taken, and the IP
budgets, and had committed to at meant to spread out over the from the unproven premise that Observatory had already been set
least a decent portion of what entire year, and they dumped a of course it's a net benefit, and up and started working. It's just
they planned to spend in Q1 of b u n c h o f i t i n t o o n l i n e thus it's only focus should be on that the representative of the
2009. However, once the credit advertising, because it was quick stomping out infringement. And, Commission forgot to mention
crunch went into overdrive, and and easy. of course, it appears that most t h i s d e t a i l w h e n s h e w a s
there was all sorts of talk about So, I don't think that any of the participants are actually from presenting the initiative to the
how the world economy might Q4 reports you hear about industry, with a few "nominated JURI committee. Government
collapse and we'd all be living in concerning online advertising representatives from Member for the people?
a post-apocalyptic Mad Maxian should be considered as an States" along for the ride to give Permalink| Comments| Email
world, lots of companies hit the indicator of very much in terms the Observatory a sheen of This Story
brakes, and didn't want to of the future. legitimacy as a quasi-gov't
commit to spending. A bunch of Permalink| Comments| Email
c o m p a n i e s s i m p l y s t o p p e d This Story
spending on online advertising
until they knew what was going
off with your four favorite That's right: finally all you Gizmodo icon begin! [ Fav4 via
AOL/ffffound/MySpace/Linked NYTimes Twitter]
up. You can customize from In junkies will have a one-stop
start page of your very own.
Let the write-in campaign for a
26 Tech/ E-reader News Edition

Divvyshot launches refreshingly simple photo sharing

(CNET News.com) available for other browsers. A gimmick, and the whole thing is
Submitted at 2/12/2010 4:00:00 AM new Flickr link button also lets hung up a bit since both phones
you create albums from images have to be running the app and
Message from fivefilters.org: If you have on that service. set up for sharing, which ruins
you can, please donate to the full With Divvyshot you can drag the spontaneity. But it's a good
-text RSS service so we can files straight into an HTML 5 party trick.
continue developing it. browser, like Firefox 3.6(Credit: Divvyshare is no Flickr, Picasa
Divvyshot, a photo-sharing start S c r e e n s h o t b y R a f e Web, or Zooomr. It's light on the
-up I first heard about last N e e d l e m a n / C N E T ) features. But it succeeds as a
March, has opened to the public. Albums are wide open by simple site for sharing albums
It's a clever and attractive site for default. Not only can anyone with family or friends, and
photo sharing, with an emphasis w i t h a n a l b u m ' s U R L s e e especially for creating shared
on group events. It also has the pictures, they can upload to the repositories for images from
world's cutest sharing feature for album too. You can restrict events that several people attend
iPhone users. viewing and sharing (separately) and photograph, like weddings,
The site succeeds as a photo to just invited friends if you like. concerts, or parties.
sharing service. It's easy to use People with access to albums can understand and use as access to your images, like apps Five Filters featured article:
and very, very clean. Firefox also easily download images Divvyshare. for other services. Its cute bonus Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
users also get the benefit of from them, as Divvyshot creates The slideshow viewer is is the sharing feature: you can PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
HTML 5 support: you can just ZIP file archives on request. mercifully clean and transfer your photos to another Term Extraction.
drag photos onto the Web site to Other photo sites also have simple.(Credit: Screenshot by Divvyshot iPhone user by
upload them. There's no need for versions of group albums, but I Rafe Needleman/CNET) holding both phones in one hand
an uploader app, although one is haven't seen any as simple to The iPhone app gives you and shaking them together. It's a

NPD: Apple ranked #5 US electronics retailer in 2009

by Kent Pribbernow (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 2/12/2010 8:00:00 AM
Filed under: Retail, Apple
Market research firm NPD
Group has published its annual
report profiling the consumer
retail sector for 2009, and guess
who made the list of top five
electronics retailers? Hint: If you
guessed the Microsoft Store, you
would be wrong, and everyone
would be pointing and laughing Apple's favor, lifted no doubt on conducting such studies.
at you right now. No, I'm talking the back of iPhone's popularity. TUAW NPD: Apple ranked #5
of course about Apple, who Especially when you consider US electronics retailer in 2009
came in at a respectable number that their competitors sell many, originally appeared on The
five, alongside such industry many brands, and Apple sells Unofficial Apple Weblog
stalwarts as Best Buy, Walmart, just their own product line, their (TUAW) on Fri, 12 Feb 2010
Target, Amazon, and Dell, to achievement is that much more 08:00:00 EST. Please see our
name a few. impressive. terms for use of feeds.
While the report primarily In other news, 98% of people Read| Permalink| Email this|
details consumer spending trends surveyed in my own study find Comments
throughout 2009, as well as other Apple to be awesome. And lest
dry and boring data interesting (because he loves numbers and you question my sample source,
only to bean counters and cheats at poker), NPD's study I will reply that the TUAW staff
T U A W ' s o w n M i k e R o s e does show some growth in are an excellent focus group for
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Google Buzz Buttons

Learn To Count
by Pete Cashmore Buttons that Count!
(Mashable!) Today we added counters and
Submitted at 2/11/2010 11:34:42 PM
tracking to our buttons, running
the clicks through URL shortener
Yesterday we added Google Bit.ly so we can display the share
Buzz buttons to Mashable, counts. It’s not the perfect
letting you share our stories to solution, but it’s a temporary
Google’s new social network as step until Google decides to
y o u c a n o n T w i t t e r a n d support such implementations
Facebook. Today we added officially.
share counts to those buttons, We’ll be gathering the stats
letting you hone in on the most about how much people share on
popular posts. Google Buzz versus Facebook
Macworld 2010: Andrew Gregory of
If you’re not already up to and Twitter, and we’ll be sure to
speed: Google Buzz buttons use report back with our findings!
Google Reader’s shared items GMAIL USERS: You’re invited
AutoTune the News
by Mike Schramm (The keynote went off well, and the I am T-Pain AutoTune app,
feature to post links to your Buzz to join the conversation on Unofficial Apple Weblog
feed. If you’re not already on M a s h a b l e ’ s G o o g l e B u z z afterwards, I asked Andrew along with his impressions of the
(TUAW)) Gregory to come by for a Macworld show floor. It was
Google Reader, you’ll need to account. Reviews: Facebook,
set that up and make sure it’s Google, Google Buzz, Google Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:30:00 AM conversation at the booth; very fun to meet up with him in a
connected to your Google Buzz Reader, Mashable, Twitter Andrew does the extremely pretty unlikely place -- be sure
F i l e d u n d e r : M a c w o r l d , popular Autotune the News and give our chat a look.
account under “connected sites”. Tags: bit.ly, Google, google
Interviews, Music We can reveal segments on YouTube with his TUAW Macworld 2010:
If you were on Reader before buzz
o u r s e c r e t n o w : d u r i n g brothers Michael and Evan, Andrew Gregory of AutoTune
you joined Buzz, chances are
Macworld's setup, we wandered along with Evan's wife Sarah. He the News originally appeared on
that’s already set up. NEW:
into the wrong room, and kindly agreed, and you can The Unofficial Apple Weblog
randomly came across a stage watch the video of our chat by (TUAW) on Fri, 12 Feb 2010
shared by David Pogue, LeVar clicking on the link below. 10:30:00 EST. Please see our
B u r t o n , a n d t h e G r e g o r y Andrew told us that he and his terms for use of feeds.
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Macworld 2010: Box.net

adds QuickOffice
support to iPhone app
by Michael Rose (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 2/12/2010 9:00:00 AM
edit Box.net stored files, which
could provide a big productivity
boost. It was impressive -- with
the app, you can jump in and edit

Macworld 2010: Chatting with Phil Box.net files from anywhere.

Libin of Evernote
by Mike Schramm (The Phil Libin is definitely worth a
Unofficial Apple Weblog watch. He explains why the app
(TUAW)) is both so magical and so hard to
Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:00:00 AM wrap your mind around, as he
discusses the idea and the
F i l e d u n d e r : M a c w o r l d , mechanics behind what the
Software, Video, Productivity, Evernote team has done. We talk
Interviews There are some big about their retention problem
fans of Evernote on the TUAW (and I apologize for my investor-
staff -- we've talked quite a bit rousing mistake), and how
about the app that promises to Evernote has to actually make
store important clips and notes you remember to use it before
from anywhere, and make them you can use it to remember.
accessible at any time. But even He also talks about plans for the
if you haven't heard of the app future, including the iPad(which
before, the interview with CEO is getting its own separate app,
F i l e d u n d e r : M a c w o r l d , Good stuff.
Enterprise, Video The storage And heck, just imagine what's
mavens at Box.net took a few around the corner for iPad users
moments for us on the show with QuickOffice and Box.net.
though the iPhone app will work floor at Macworld this week to If Box.net is able to pull off an
on it as well), as well as the way demo the iPhone app that links to app like this on the iPhone, we
he originally found out about our their service, which provides can't wait to see what they do
blog here at TUAW. Hit the read quick and consistent access to all with the extra multitouch space.
more link below to see the full your stored files; you can also TUAW Macworld 2010:
video. view common file types, and B o x . n e t a d d s Q u i c k O f f i c e
T U A W M a c w o r l d 2 0 1 0 : even send download links to support to iPhone app originally
Chatting with Phil Libin of folders or files anywhere in the appeared on The Unofficial
Evernote originally appeared on world. The latest update adds the Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri,
The Unofficial Apple Weblog ability to comment on files or 12 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST.
(TUAW) on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 folders from inside the app. Please see our terms for use of
07:00:00 EST. Please see our The new addition at the show is feeds.
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Official Twitter App for BlackBerry Opera Mini Reaches 50

Looks Really Good Million Active Users
by Stan Schroeder by Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!) (Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 2:54:20 AM Submitted at 2/12/2010 5:46:29 AM

If you’re a BlackBerry user who A couple of days ago we wrote

also happens to like Twitter,
chances are you’ve been
throwing jealous looks at your
friends’ iPhones and their
elegant Twitter clients. Yes,
things got a lot better once
UberTwitter entered the scene,
but can there be an even better
Twitter client for the
BlackBerry? The upcoming
official client might fit the bill.
A while ago, we wrote that an
official Twitter app for
BlackBerry was in the works,
and now it’s getting close to a
public beta. You can find a very
detailed analysis of the client and
its features here, and from the
looks of it, it’s far more
advanced than any other Twitter
app for BlackBerry out there.
Some of the features are
automatic URL-shortening, easy
photo-sharing, push and message
list integration (sending you
notices of new direct messages
as they arrive), as well as search
filtered by geolocation.
The public beta should be
available “later this year” (We
know, it doesn’t sound very
comforting considering the year
is still young). If you want to be
a beta tester for the app, go to
www.blackberry.com/twitter and
sign up to receive notification
when Twitter for BlackBerry
becomes available.
Tags: blackberry, Mobile 2.0,
RIM, social media, twitter
about Opera Mini for the iPhone,
a somewhat odd step for Opera
as Apple is unlikely to ever
approve the app (since it
duplicates Safari’s functionality).
While Opera was obviously
making a statement with that
move, in reality it can survive
without the iPhone; in fact,
Opera Mini is one of the most
popular mobile browsers out
there.
The latest number to support
this claim is 50 million active
users. Opera Mini was launched
in 2006 and had a somewhat
slow start; it took it nearly two
and a half years to reach the first
10 million; in the last couple of
months, however, it has been
growing a lot faster. According
to Opera, Mini has grown 150%
from January 2009, when it had
20 million monthly unique users,
to 50 million monthly unique
users in January 2010.
To try out Opera Mini, you need
a Java ME-enabled phone; you
can find the latest version over at
the official Opera Mini site.
Tags: Browsers, Mobile 2.0,
opera mini

Pseudo-Science for the Whole Family

(Little Green Footballs) attended a traditional school, your children, and you shall Teaching a biblical worldview
Submitted at 2/11/2010 5:56:40 PM he’d never see them, she says. speak of them when you sit at to his children is important to his
Plus, she says, Neff thinks the home, and when you walk along family, Cresse says. His wife
Fort Wayne’s Journal Gazette Bible tells parents to teach their the way, and when you lie down teaches creationism but also
has a report on some home- c h i l d r e n . S h e q u o t e s and when you rise up.” teaches evolution, primarily so
schoolers teaching their children Deuteronomy: “And you shall Louis Griffith, whose wife his children can understand what
to reject modern science. love the Lord your God with all teaches their three children in is being taught to their peers and
Part of the reason the Neffs your heart and with all your soul their Fort Wayne home, likes friends in public schools.
opted for home schooling was and with all your might. And that home schooling gives them Imagine what kind of
s c h e d u l i n g . M a r k N e f f , these words that I command you the option to teach creationism “evolution” she’s teaching her
J e n n i f e r ’ s h u s b a n d , w o r k s today shall be in your heart. And alongside evolution, which also kids.
second shift, and if his children you shall teach them diligently to appealed to Cresse.
30 Politics/
Rinse, Wash, Repeat
by John B. Judis (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 2/11/2010 9:00:00 PM
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I don’t think anyone would
mistake me for a big fan of the
American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC), the main
(as they put it) “pro-Israel” lobby
in Washington. The only
organization of that kind that
I’ve ever given money to is
Americans for Peace Now in
Israel. And I have defended
critics of AIPAC, including
Stephen Walt and John
Mearsheimer, the authors of The
Israel Lobby, from charges of
anti-Semitism. But I think Walt
and Mearsheimer have been dead
wrong in trying to blame the
Israel lobby or the Israeli
government for America’s
invasion of Iraq. And now Walt
is repeating the same nonsense.
Walt, who blogs for Foreign
Policy’s website, recently
revived the argument, claiming
in a self-congratulatory column
titled “I don’t mean to say I told
you so, but…” that Tony Blair’s
testimony last month before
Britain’s Iraq War Commission
confirmed that “the Israel lobby
... played a key role in the
decision to invade Iraq in 2003.”
I have read Blair’s testimony. I
don’t find it to be proof of
anything of the kind; and I don’t
think Walt’s accompanying
restatement of the argument is
any more persuasive than the
version he and Mearsheimer put
forward in his book.
Walt says that Blair’s statement
to the commission “reveals that
concerns about Israel were part
of the equation [that is, the
decision to go to war] and that
Israel officials were involved in
those discussions.” Here is what
Walt, citing a column in the New
Statesman, quotes Blair as saying
about his early April 2002
meeting in Crawford, Texas,
with George W. Bush:
As I recall that discussion, it
was less to do with specifics
about what we were going to do
on Iraq or, indeed, the Middle
East, because the Israel issue was
a big, big issue at the time. I
think, in fact, I remember,
actually, there may have been
conversations that we had even
with Israelis, the two of us,
whilst we were there. So that was
a major part of all this.
Now there are at least three
problems with the inferences that
Walt draws from this statement.
First, even if we were to grant
that Blair is saying that he and
Bush were talking about Israel’s
role in or importance to the Iraq
invasion, this certainly does not
show that the Israel lobby had
anything to do with the decision
to go to war. Nor, secondly, does
it show that the Israeli
government pressured the U.S. to
go to war. The “conversations”
could have easily consisted of
the Bush administration
informing Israelis of their plans.
But these are minor objections.
The real problem is that Walt
does not seem to have taken the
trouble to have read the
transcript of Blair’s testimony. If
he had, he would have realized
that Blair was not talking about
how invading Iraq might benefit
Israel, but about the conflict then
occurring between Israel and the
Palestinians. The second intifada
had reached a new height with
the Passover and Haifa suicide
bombings and the beginning of
the siege at the Church of the
Nativity in Bethlehem, and Blair
was concerned that the Bush
administration was not actively
pursuing the peace process. Blair
wanted the administration to put
the Arab-Israeli issue on a par
with the threat of Iraq. The
former prime minister makes this
clear in other parts of his
testimony. Here is an exchange
between Blair and Sir Roderic
Lyne:
Lyne: … Just one more point
arising from Crawford, but not
just from Crawford. You said
you reminded us that the Arab-
Israel problem was in a very hot
state at Crawford. You said you
may even have had some
conversations with Israelis from
there, and obviously it was
something that was a large part
of your conversations with
President Bush. I think it is right
to say, indeed, Jack Straw said it,
that you were relentless in trying
to persuade the Americans to
make more and faster progress
on the Middle East peace
process. Ultimately, Jack Straw
said it was a matter of huge
frustration that we weren’t able
to achieve something which you
had been seeking so strongly …
Blair: … I believe that resolving
the Middle East, this is what I
work on now, is immensely
important, and I think it was
difficult, and this is something I
have said before on several
occasions, it was difficult to
persuade President Bush, and,
indeed, America actually, that
this was such a fundamental
question …
Lyne: But surely you must have
said to him, “Look, this thing is
only really going to have a
chance of working well if we can
make this progress down the
Arab-Israel track before we get
there”?
Blair: Well, I was certainly
saying to him, “I think this is
vital,” and I mean, this was, you
could describe me as a broken
record through that period …
The talks at Crawford led
eventually to Bush agreeing to
the “road map” for peace. In
other words, he and Bush were
not saying that they had to
invade Iraq to assist or appease
the Israelis. Nothing that Blair
said in his testimony should have
provided the slightest evidence
that this was occurring. And it
seems clear enough that the
discussions Blair and Bush had
with the Israelis were not about
Iraq but about the peace process.
I am sorry to say that this kind
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of sloppy research and reasoning
is typical of the way that Walt
and Mearsheimer deal with the
question of whether the Israel
lobby influenced the decision to
go to war. In their book, they
claim that the U.S. would
“almost certainly” not have gone
to war without the influence of
the Israel lobby. That’s a very
strong claim, but they do not
back it up either in the book or in
Walt’s current blogging. Let me
briefly deal with their logic here.
There are three ways in which
the Israel lobby could have made
itself indispensable to the
decision to go to war: first, in
White House-Pentagon
deliberations; second, in
significantly influencing the
critical Congressional vote in
October 2002; and third, in
dramatically shaping public
opinion. Their argument falls
short on all these counts.
White House: To contend that
the “Israel lobby” influenced the
White House decision to
invade—which had more or less
been made by the spring of 2002
when Blair visited
Crawford—Walt and
Mearsheimer expand the “lobby”
to include neoconservative
intellectuals such as Paul
Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary
of Defense. That’s a stretch in
itself, because it suggests that all
these intellectuals were so
preoccupied with Israel that they
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They Ain’t With Main Street
by John B. Judis (The New
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The excerpts that Bloomberg
published Wednesday from its
interview with Barack Obama
provoked some indignation from
Simon Johnson, Paul Krugman,
and others, but the full interview,
published yesterday morning by
Bloomberg BusinessWeek,
deserves a few additional howls.
It shows the degree to which
Obama not only doesn’t
understand but, on a deeper
level, also doesn’t share the
outrage many Americans—from
left-wing bloggers to right-wing
tea-partiers—feel toward the
Wall Street CEOs and traders
who have made off like bandits
during the financial crisis they
helped bring about.
It’s not the substance of what
Obama says—he doesn’t back
off on financial regulation or
health care reform. It’s his tone,
his emphases, and where he
allows his sympathies to fall.
Let’s start with what Obama says
about executive bonuses. The
exchange begins:
BBW: Let’s talk bonuses for a
minute. Lloyd Blankfein: $9
million. Jamie Dimon: $17
million. Now, those were in
stock and less than what some
had expected. But are those
numbers O.K.?
Obama: First of all, I know both
those guys. They are very savvy
businessmen. And I, like most of
the American people, don’t
begrudge people success or
wealth. That is part of the free-
market system. I do think that the
compensation packages that we
have seen over the last decade, at
least, have not matched up
always to performance...
“Have not matched up always to
performance”?! That’s like
saying Rod Blagojevich’s
conduct did not always measure
up to what Illinois voters
expected from their governor.
It’s an understatement that
betrays a lack of identification
with the rage people feel about
these CEO salaries and bonuses.
Then Obama is asked about
Dimon’s bonus:
BBW: Seventeen million is a lot
for Main Street to stomach.
Obama: Listen. $17 million is an
extraordinary amount of money.
Of course, there are some
baseball players who are making
more than that and don’t get to
the World Series either, so I am
shocked by that as well.
If you have ever had an
argument about excessive
executive salaries with a rich
Republican—I can recall one, for
instance, with a downtown
corporate tax lawyer—he will
invariably compare CEO salaries
to those that athletes and
entertainers make. And here we
have a Democratic president
using this spurious ploy.
Is it necessary to make the
obvious points? That the athletes
who make $17 million have
spent most of their waking life
since they were four years old
practicing their sport (if you
don’t believe it, read Andre
Agassi’s autobiography, Open);
that they possess unusual skill at
what they do; that in some
cases—like those among
professional football players or
prize fighters—they risk life and
longevity; that their earning
cycle, often only a few years, is
very sharply limited compared to
that of a banker; and that what
they contribute to society—after
all, athletics and entertainment
have been an essential part of
human life for thousands of
years—is as valuable as, and
probably more valuable than,
what many a banker or trader
contributes.
Obama had a lot of other
opportunities during the
interview to make clear that he
was outraged, and not merely
discomfited, by the huge
disparities of wealth that have
emerged; but he framed his
responses primarily in terms of
economic efficiency rather than
injustice. We need to change the
fact, Obama declared, that
“businesses are making record
profits but employees are seeing
their wages flatline” because “we
are going to be better off if
everybody feels like they have
got a stake in growth and
innovation moving forward.”
Yes, there’s nothing like
cooptation to boost profits. Or
we need financial regulation
because, he said, having
“financial instruments that drive
huge profits but leave consumers
unprotected … is not good for
the system overall.”
You can say that Obama was
directing these comments
specifically at a business
audience that wouldn’t have
wanted him to talk about the
injustice that the system has
bred, but as Obama well knows,
in this age of cable and Internet,
anything a president says to
anyone he says to everyone. And
I’d go further: Making a few
sharp points about injustice to a
business audience would have
helped to allay public fears that
Obama isn’t really on their side.
Finally, here’s what Obama says
when he is asked to name a CEO
he respects:
BBW: Do you want to weigh in
on a specific CEO you admire?
Obama: There are a bunch of
them. You know who I really
enjoyed talking to at our last
lunch was Fred Smith of FedEx (
FDX). Very thoughtful. He’s an
example of somebody who is
thinking long-term. His industry
is deeply sensitive to energy
prices, and he’s the first one to
say that if we don’t start getting
an energy policy that’s smart,
we’re going to lose. He’s also
very thoughtful about trade and
talks about the difficulties
they’ve had in some cases with
partners around the world...
What’s wrong with this? Well,
Fred Smith is an odd choice for a
Politics/ 31
Democratic president to make.
He’s a well-known Republican,
one of John McCain’s chief
backers and a member of his
kitchen cabinet. Between June
2006 and July 2009, he gave
$82,100 to the National
Republican Senatorial
Committee. Moreover, he has a
longtime record and reputation
as an anti-union executive.
Most recently, Smith’s company
threatened to cancel an order of
planes from Boeing if Congress
voted to include his company
under the National Labor
Relations Act, which would
allow unions to organize
individual FedEx plants, rather
than the Railway Labor Act,
which requires a union to
organize all FedEx workers
across the country at once—a
near-impossible task. FedEx’s
unionized rival, UPS, falls under
the NLRA. When McCain was
rumored to be considering Smith
to be his running mate, Change
to Win issued a statement about
Smith that pretty much sums up
labor’s attitude toward him:
In the 35 years that Fred Smith
has been the CEO of FedEx he
has repeatedly fought against
workers joining together to have
a voice on the job, openly stating
that he 'doesn't intend to
recognize any unions at Federal
Express.' Less than 2% of the
200,000 American workers at
FedEx are in a union. In contrast,
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Washington Diarist: The New Proles
by Leon Wieseltier (The New
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When I was young, I enjoyed
the romance of the garret.
Poverty, or relative poverty,
became me. I mastered arcane
books and composed ambitious
essays in the smallest apartment
anybody ever saw in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. When you
opened the door, it hit the bed,
which of course led to some
misunderstandings. I rested my
typewriter on a scarred wooden
board that groaned every time I
struck the keys. When what I
wrote was published, I took my
earnings to an elegant clothing
store on Newbury Street, in
defiance of the disconnection
notice in my briefcase. (Balzac
says somewhere that a student is
a person who can afford only
luxuries.) I was often broke but
never destitute. Many years later
Irving Howe used a phrase that
described my state of happy
indigence: “a decent poverty,” he
called it. Lately, however, I have
been observing a high incidence
of indecent poverty. Many young
writers and journalists I meet are
close to penniless. They have
almost not a hope of supporting
themselves in the pursuit of their
calling. A garret is no longer
affordable. Jobs are
disappearing. Internships are
unpaid or barely paid, which has
the consequence of corrupting a
meritocratic system with the
inequities of social class, as the
fortunately born become the
fortunately hired. And when they
publish what they write--well,
now we leave the honorable
tradition of the struggling young
writer for the unprecedented
enchantments of the digital
revolution.
Owing to its vastnessand its
velocity, no medium of
communication and publication
ever depended more desperately
on “content”--the lifeless
business expression for words
and ideas--than the Internet.
Some people celebrate this as a
historic breakthrough for
literariness in its various forms.
They rhapsodize about the
democratization of the writing
life, about the demise of the
“gatekeepers” and their
institutions, about the pure and
perfect autonomy of blogging
and “self-publishing.” Who
needs The New York Times if I
can arrange for you to know
what it is in my heart at this
instant? Leave aside the question
of the relation of blogging to
writing, of posting to publishing.
I wish to emphasize what the
love songs omit: the economic
and professional consequences
of the cheap entropy of the web--
its proletarianization of the
writer. I wonder if people outside
the besieged walls of the
profession understand how little
is earned with contributions to
websites. The sums are
scandalous. And sometimes there
are no sums at all. Sometimes
contributions to websites are
produced for free. Writers are the
only people I know who are
expected to work for next to
nothing or nothing. Without
them, as I say, the intelligent
regions of the Internet would not
exist; but even as their skills are
increasingly in demand, they are
treated increasingly as worthless.
You do not have to read the
Economic and Philosophical
Manuscripts to recognize that
this becomes an issue of dignity.
From the standpoint of the
owners of these institutions, this
“business model” may seem
rational--if they can save money
on paper, printing, and postage,
why not also save money on
prose?--but theirs is not the only
standpoint that matters in
considering the future of our
culture. (Leave aside also the
question of paper, and of its
almost spiritual necessity for
serious writing and its betterment
of life.) It is not the owners who
make our culture, though some
of them serve it admirably.
Indeed, an enlightened owner is
a hero of culture. And yet it is of
no importance that the market
will bear this immiseration of
writers; the history of the market
is riddled with injustices of all
kinds. And what model of
economic rationality is it that
recommends the exertion of
one’s skills for little or no
reward? I refer you to a report by
James Rainey in the Los Angeles
Times a few weeks ago about the
reality of the contemporary
freelancer: “what’s sailing away,
a decade into the 21st century, is
the common perception that
writing is a profession--or at
least a skilled craft that should
come not only with psychic
rewards but with something
resembling a living wage.” Is
this really what we want? (About
Rainey’s article, one of the brats
on Gawker-see what insomnia
can do to a man?--poignantly
observed that “it’s a little
disturbing that the job that pays
my bills now may be helping to
destroy the one that helped pay
them when I was in college.”)
And a similar indecency is taking
place in book publishing. Laud
the Kindle all you want, but who
will pay the advance for the
novels and the histories that you
will cop for $8.99, without
which they cannot be written?
Not Amazon. A literary agent in
New York was recently heard to
remark that $30,000 is the new
$100,000, and it takes years to
write a book. Forward-looking
thinkers explain that the money
that the publishing houses, or
their corporate proprietors, save
by printing fewer physical copies
will make up the difference; but
anybody who believes that those
savings will be restored to the
primary mission of the editors
and the publishers does not
understand a thing about the
corporate temperament,
especially in the aftermath of a
E-reader News Edition
panic. No, nausea is in order.
In an interminable piece in The
Atlantic, Michael Kinsley
complains that newspaper
articles are too long. “On the
Internet, news articles get to the
point,” my friend declares,
whereas “newspaper writing ... is
encrusted with conventions that
don’t add to your understanding
of the news.” He follows this
with a quantitative and semantic
analysis of various examples of
“unnecessary verbiage”; and like
much quantitative and semantic
analysis, the results are clever
and trivial. I do not doubt that
newspapers are not as
linguistically efficient as they
can be, except perhaps USA
Today, that ur-website. But
Kinsley’s worry about the
financial costs of prolixity is
silly: no newsroom budget will
be rescued by cutting “tag” and
“context.” So may I say a word
on behalf of necessary verbiage?
Brevity may be the soul of wit,
or lingerie, or texting, or quail
eggs, but all subjects are not the
same. Efficiency of expression is
in some realms a virtue and in
some realms a vice. Brevity is
certainly not the soul of news, if
by news you mean more than
information. “The point” is not
always easy. There is not always
a “takeaway.” Anyway, this is
already an abbreviating age. The
forces of concision and
distillation are winning. After the
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Glenn Beck Exposes Truther 'Tea Party' Candidate, Hypes

Theocratic Fanatic
(Little Green Footballs) that regard, there are some very Barton. were Nazis” dodge. In a July Historical Revisionism in the
Submitted at 2/11/2010 10:57:51 AM good arguments and I think the More information about 1993 letter, Barton assistant Kit NCBCPS Curriculum.
American people have not seen Barton’s past activities: Marshall wrote, “At the time we UPDATE at 2/11/10 11:10:04
Glenn Beck deserves some all the evidence there, so I have In 1991 Barton addressed the were contacted by Pete Peters, am:
credit today for exposing Texas not taken a position on that.” … Rocky Mountain Bible Retreat of we had absolutely no idea that he Debra Medina says she isn’t a
gubernatorial candidate Debra After the interview, Beck, who Pastor Pete Peters’ Scriptures for was ‘part of the Nazi Truther.
Medina as a 9/11 Truther. holds sway with many America, a group that espouses movement.’ He contacted us for I was asked a question on the
Medina was known as the “tea Republican primary voters, said, the racist “Christian Identity” David to speak for Scriptures for Glenn Beck show today
p a r t y c a n d i d a t e , ” w h i c h “I think I can write her off the theology. Advocates of this America. The title is quite regarding my thoughts on the so-
shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s list.” bizarre dogma insist that white innocuous. In all the called 9/11 truth movement. I
been following the recent bad Beck, who has been critical of Anglo-Saxons are the “true” conversations that I personally have never been involved with
craziness at tea party events. It’s Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. chosen people of the Bible and had with Pete Peters, never once the 9/11 truth movement, and
not mentioned in this article, but Kay Bailey Hutchison, added, charge that today’s Jews are was there a hint that they were there is no doubt in my mind that
she has also appeared on the “Let me take another look at Kay usurpers. Aside from being a part of a Nazi movement. I Muslim terrorists flew planes
Alex Jones conspiracy show, Bailey Hutchison if I have to. virulent anti-Semite, Peters has would also like to point out that into those buildings on 9/11. I
w o r k e d f o r R o n P a u l ’ s Rick, I think you and I could advocated the death penalty for simply because David Barton have not seen any evidence nor
Campaign for Liberty, and even French kiss right now.” homosexuals. According to the gives a presentation to a group of have I ever believed that our
placed a banner advertisement on At the same time as he exposes Anti-Defamation League, other people does not mean that he government was involved or
the neo-Nazi Stormfront website. Medina (who was running a speakers at the event included endorses all their beliefs.” An directed those individuals in any
Radio host Glenn Beck, saying distant third and had no real white supremacist leader and excuse like that might have way. No one can deny that the
he was responding to e-mails he c h a n c e o f w i n n i n g t h e 1992 presidential candidate washed one time, but it stretches events on 9/11 were a tragedy for
got from listeners, asked Medina governorship), however, Glenn James “Bo” Gritz, a leader of the the bounds of credulity to accept all Americans and especially
in a national interview this Beck is heavily promoting David radical and increasingly violent that Barton was twice duped by those families who lost loved
morning whether she believed Barton and Wallbuilders, one of militia movement, and Malcolm innocuous-sounding extremist ones.
t h e U . S . g o v e r n m e n t w a s the most extreme theocratic Ross, a Holocaust denier from organizations. The question surprised me
involved in the September 2001 groups currently operating in the Canada. In November of that That’s Glenn Beck’s “historical because it’s not relevant to this
attacks on the World Trade US. Beck touts Barton as an same year, Barton spoke at expert” — a fundamentalist race or the issues facing Texans.
Center. “expert” on the founding of the Kingdom Covenant College in fanatic working to subvert the This campaign has always been
“I don’t have all of the evidence United States; but in reality Grants Pass, Oregon, another Establishment Clause, with ties about private property rights and
there Glenn so I’m not in a place, Barton is notorious for pushing “Christian Identity” front group to white supremacists. state sovereignty. It is focused on
I have not been out publicly revisionist history aimed at with ties to Peters. Here’s another article on Barton the issues facing Texans. It is not
questioning that,” Medina said. undermining the separation of Asked to explain these actions, and his theocratic front group, a vehicle for the 9-11 truth
“ I t h i n k s o m e v e r y g o o d church and state. Here’s an LGF Barton’s reply amounted to a not the National Council On Bible movement or any other group.
questions have been raised in search for our posts about David very creative “I didn’t know they Curriculum In Public Schools:
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Gender Bias Bunk

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One mini-saga of the past
decade in American politics has
been the flirtation—with talk of a
deeper partnership—between
progressives and libertarians.
These two groups were driven
together, in the main, by
common hostility to huge chunks
of the Bush administration's
agenda: endless, pointless wars;
assaults on civil liberties; cynical
vote-buying with federal dollars;
and statist panders to the
Christian right.
This cooperation reached its
height during the 2006 election,
in which, according to a new
study by David Kirby and David
Boaz, nearly half of libertarian
voters supported Democratic
congressional candidates—more
than doubling the support levels
from the previous midterm
election in 2002. (As Jonathan
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2010 featured Kevin Smith who
Chait noted after the first
Kirby/Boaz study of libertarian
voting, their definition is overly
broad, encompassing 14 percent
of the electorate.) At the time,
left-wing blogger Markos
Moulitsas hailed the influx of
"libertarian democrats" into the
Democratic coalition. Soon, even
the Cato Institute's Brink
Lindsey was proposing a
permanent alliance of what he
called "liberaltarians."
Well, you can say goodbye to all
that. The new Kirby/Boaz study
reports that libertarian support
for Democrats collapsed in 2008,
despite many early favorable
assessments of Barack Obama by
libertarian commentators.
Meanwhile, the economic crisis
has raised the salience of issues
on which libertarians and Dems
most disagree. And there's no
question that during Obama's
first year—with the rise of the
Tea Party movement and
national debate over bailouts,
deficits, and health
care—libertarian hostility to the
new administration has grown
adamant and virtually universal.
spoke about iPads, the movie
industry, and, his new film, Cop
Out, as shown in the video
above. Please, DO NOT watch
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But what progressives need to
understand is that the end of this
affair is actually a good thing.
The progressive-libertarian
alliance may have provided
tactical benefits in 2006,
augmenting the Democratic
“wave” election of that year. But
2008 showed that libertarian
support is hardly crucial: Obama
still won "libertarian" states such
as Colorado and New Hampshire
handily, even without their
backing, and he generally
performed better in the
“libertarian West” than any
Democratic nominee since LBJ.
In terms of a deeper bond based
on philosophical congruence, it’s
true that modern liberals and
libertarians share common
ideological roots in eighteenth
and nineteenth century Anglo-
American liberalism. Both
believe in a world of rational
actors, and both consider the
promotion of individual
autonomy to be a positive good.
With the emergence of the "neo-
liberal" and "New Democrat"
movements of the 1980s and
1990s—which lauded capitalism,
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trade—the potential for overlap
only increased.
What's more, these groups have
a sociocultural affinity.
Secularism, prevalent in both
liberal and libertarian circles,
makes them more comfortable
with each other in an era of
culture wars. (In my own
Washington think tank years, the
two camps often coexisted on
We are
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drinks—the sort of professional ready for
and social interaction that rarely
if ever occurred with the
Christian warrior wonks of the
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based their own policy
recommendations on that issue.
This may have been true of some
but certainly not of most
neoconservatives. More
important, Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld and Vice
President Dick Cheney, neither
of whom could be categorized,
even by Walt and Mearsheimer’s
absurdly broad standards, as part
of an Israel lobby, took the lead
in pressing for an invasion even,
it seems, before September 11.
And they would have been
inclined to invade whether or not
Wolfowitz had been at the
Pentagon. So there is no basis for
saying that the White House
decision to invade Iraq was
driven by neoconservative
preoccupations with Israel’s
security.
Congress: Walt cites my quoting
of AIPAC head Howard Kohr’s
boast that AIPAC had been
“quietly lobbying” Congress to
pass the war resolution in
October 2002. I don’t doubt that
AIPAC favored going to war, as
did some leaders of other pro-
Israel organizations. But AIPAC
did not aggressively lobby for
the war resolution the way it
lobbied in 1981 against the
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AWACs surveillance plane sale
to Saudi Arabia or recently for
the Iran Refined Petroleum
Sanctions Act. I have
interviewed AIPAC people and
members of other Jewish
lobbying organizations on this
question, and they say the same
thing. It was not a make-or-break
legislative priority. And there is
very good circumstantial
evidence to back this up. Some
of AIPAC’s most dependable
supporters on the Hill—such as
Senators Daniel Inouye and Carl
Levin and Representative Jerrold
Nadler—opposed the resolution.
So, yes, AIPAC probably did
“quietly” make its preference
known; but it can’t be credited or
blamed for the outcome of the
vote. And no other pro-Israel or
Jewish lobby possesses
comparable clout on the Hill.
Public Opinion: Did the Israel
lobby have a sine qua non
influence on public opinion in
favor of the war? If so, one
would expect that its influence
would at least show up among
Jewish Americans, who would
be most likely to listen to their
arguments. In a 2003 survey, the
American Jewish Committee
found that 54 percent of Jewish
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Americans disapproved of going
to war with Iraq and only 43
percent approved. At the time, a
majority of Americans approved
of going to war. So, far from
being a leader in pro-war
sentiment, American Jews were
lagging behind. That suggests
that the pro-Israel lobby failed
even to influence in any
significant way Jewish opinion.
In other words, there is no basis
for accepting Walt and
Mearsheimer’s contention that,
without the Israel lobby, the U.S.
would likely not have invaded
Iraq. That’s not anti-Semitism,
but it is nonsense. So is Walt’s
use of Blair’s testimony to
buttress their case.
John B. Judis is a senior editor
at The New Republic and a
visiting fellow at the Carnegie
Endowment for International
Peace
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Decker has been in a media
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Monday. She is "still in shock"
and explained what gracing the
cover means to her: "Being in the
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UPS unionized workers make
nearly 30 percent more than they
non-union counterparts at FedEx.
Despite organizing efforts,
FedEx has filed appeal after
appeal to deny their workers the
right to bargain collectively, and
has sought national legislation to
thwart union organizing.
Is this a guy a Democratic
president should hold up as a
model CEO? Again, if you were
talking to a class at Harvard
Business School, and pointing
out which CEOs had brought a
good return to their stockholders,
then Smith would be high on the
list. But for a Democratic
president to hold him up as a
model reveals a shocking
ignorance of what the party, and
one of its most important
constituencies, has stood for.
Overall, the impression the
interview leaves is of a president
surprisingly oblivious to the fury
issue is like playing in the Super snap a photo. Brooklyn said,
Bowl and then getting on the "We really are living up Vegas
cover is like winning the MVP." the way it should be lived up."
The girls certainly are making
quite a statement in Sin City,
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that is sweeping the nation.
Obama has occasionally
attempted to speak to it, or read
speeches that address it. But this
interview shows that, in the
choice between Main Street and
Wall Street, his natural
inclinations lie more toward one
side—and it ain’t Main Street.
John B. Judis is a senior editor
of The New Republic and a
visiting scholar at the Carnegie
Endowment for International
Peace.
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from the Vancouver Organizing USA” cheers. This app won’t run pages for whichever headline I Ratings, buying advice and would "become the new Oprah"
Committee is geared toward on an iPod Touch, because it c h o s e . T h e 9 9 - c e n t a p p , r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f in the wake of Oprah announcing
those attending the Olympics in requires a microphone. Olympics News, did nearly the products. Update your feed s h e w i l l e n d h e r s h o w i n
person. It features schedules, non same thing. I don’t see much preferences September of 2011. If she did
-sporting events (including I found at least two Olympics- point in paying for apps like take Oprah's place though, it
dance, film, theater, comedy, and related apps for sale at prices would have been interesting to
see if Stedman came with the
Universe Just Like The Matrix [Science] deal.
Filed under: Daytime,
by Pareene (Gawker) hologram? Really high scientists Celebrities, Talk Show, Pickups
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:27:13 AM say "yes." From the comments: " and Renewals, Reality-Free
Physics involving cats is hard holograms also?" Permalink| Email this| |
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E-reader News Edition
Push-button ignition: Is it safe?
by Consumer Reports on
Safety (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 4:59:59 AM
Push-button ignition: Is it safe?
Vehicle technology has come a
long way in the past decade and
many new features have helped
reduce the number of crashes and
fatalities. Systems such as
electronic stability control
(which will be mandated in
vehicles starting with the 2012
model year), antilock brakes, air
bags, and traction control have
been credited with saving
thousands of lives each year.
Then there are other vehicle
features that are more for
convenience such as Bluetooth
capability, iPod connectivity,
heated seats, tilt and telescope
steering wheels, and keyless
entry and push-button ignition.
These features aid in comfort and
help enhance the driving
experience. However, sometimes
a new feature can add more
complexities and confusion and
create safety concerns. Our car
team discussed this recently with
the new MyFord dashboard
interface, which may cause
driver distraction. And now, in
light of the recent Toyota recalls,
there are questions about the
safety of vehicles with push-
button ignition. Keyless entry is
a cool, innovative feature that
made its way into the luxury
vehicle market a few years ago
and that has since trickled down
to the mainstream market even in
such entry level cars as the
upcoming redesigned Ford
Focus, which will offer the
technology as an option.
While traditional keys are
universal and easy to use, a push
-button ignition requires some
getting used to, especially since
the technology varies by
manufacturer. A recent Los
Angeles Times article discussed
the possible confusion and safety
implications these buttons can
cause. One issue that has come to
light lately is how to stop a car
with push button ignition if you
are faced with sudden
acceleration. The answer isn’t
very clear, which may have been
a factor in why an off-duty
police officer could not stop his
Lexus when it accelerated out of
control causing a horrific crash
last August.
Recently, Toyota announced
that it will change how its start-
stop ignition button operates to
provide more intuitive operation
in the event of an emergency.
Currently, the button must be
held for three seconds to turn off
the engine when the car is in
motion. Other manufacturers
such as Nissan, Infiniti and
Cadillac allow an engine to be
shut off with two quick pushes
within three seconds, which is
more intuitive. Right now there
is no government standard for
start-stop buttons, but federal
regulators and industry groups
are researching the option of
adopting standard procedures.
In the meantime, it’s important
to be familiar with how your
vehicle’s start-stop button works.
Check your owner’s manual for
details. If you are ever faced
with an incident of sudden
acceleration and need to stop
your moving car, brake firmly,
put the transmission in Neutral,
steer to a safe location, put your
car in park and turn it off. (Read:
" How to stop a runaway car:
Five steps that can save your
life.")
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Q&A: What temperature
constitutes a fever?
by rss@consumerreports.org
(Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 2:59:59 AM
Q&A: What temperature
constitutes a fever?
One of your previous articles
about fever said that "normal"
body temperature varies, but it
temperatures, take a reading
never said what temperature
three times each on three
constitutes a fever. Please
successive days when you’re
clarify. — J.W.K., Carmichael,
feeling well: before getting up in
Calif.
the morning, in the late
As a rough general rule,
afternoon, and before going to
temperatures over 100 degrees F
bed. Then average the readings
for oral readings,101 degrees for
for each time of day.
rectal, and 99 degrees for the
Fever is one of the symptoms of
armpit (for Celsius, 37.8
the flu. Read more on flu
degrees, 38.3 degrees, and 37.2
complications, vaccines, and the
degrees, respectively) are
best treatments for the
considered fever. But normal
flu(subscribers only). Subscribe
temperature varies from person
now!
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changes in metabolism, activity
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reliability on hundreds of
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higher than what’s normal for
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To find your normal
40 Consumer Reports/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition

DirecTV, this snowball's for you A gift that’s sure to

by James Willcox (Consumer
Reports)
son. But when I do manage to
free enough snow with a—can I
say, DirecT hit—I’m a
surprise your valentine
Submitted at 2/12/2010 2:59:59 AM
by Consumer Reports
momentary hero in the house, Shopping Blog (Consumer
DirecTV, this snowball's for you and my wife’s threat to switch at Reports)
Among the many annual rites of least one of our TVs to a cable
winter—hot chocolate on a cold provider is held at bay, at least Submitted at 2/12/2010 3:59:59 AM

day, shoveling snow from the until the next snowfall.

driveway—my family has added Are there other DirecTV users A gift that’s sure to surprise
a n o t h e r q u a i n t t r a d i t i o n : good 30 feet from the ground. out there with similar stories? your valentine"If you're seeking
throwing snowballs at our That’s far enough away that I We’d like to hear them, so take a greater financial security and still
DirecTV’s satellite dish. don’t want to risk climbing out few moments to share your haven't found that perfect
Well, watching me throw on a snow-covered roof, and too experiences in our comments Valentine's Day gift, why not
snowballs at the dish, really. far to reach with the longest pole section at the bottom of this surprise that special someone in
That’s because at least once or we own. The best solution I’ve blog. It’s likely they’re amusing, your life with the gift of life around our office suggests that
twice every winter, we get a wet been able to come up with is and at the very least I won’t feel insurance." So suggests the flowers, chocolate, or even
enough snow that it sticks to our snowballs. like I’m going at this alone—a president and CEO of the electronics might be a safer
dish, apparently covering enough That means our neighbors now small but comforting consolation insurance industry’s LIFE choice for Feb. 14.
of its face that it knocks out have the added winter bonus of the next time I’m armed and Foundation, in a press release Subscribe now!
reception from one of the HD w a t c h i n g m e s t a n d i n o u r dangerous in my driveway, earlier this week. S u b s c r i b e t o
satellites. So instead of getting driveway, tossing snowball after aiming at a small parabolic target Can't you just hear the squeals ConsumerReports.org for expert
“American Idol,” one of my 5- snowball at the dish, hoping to 30 feet away on my roof. of delight already? Ratings, buying advice and
year-old son Tyler’s favorite d i s l o d g e t h e s n o w t h a t ’ s — James K. Willcox Subscribe While we agree that everyone reliability on hundreds of
shows, we get a blank screen and collected on its surface--or at now! with dependents should have an products. Update your feed
a message that the receiver is least enough so that satellite 771 S u b s c r i b e t o adequate amount of life preferences
searching for satellite 771. can get through. Occasionally, ConsumerReports.org for expert insurance, an informal poll
Occasionally we can get the non- though, one of the snowballs will Ratings, buying advice and
HD versions of the channels we actually stick to the dish, r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f
normally watch if they’re being potentially knocking out one of products. Update your feed
beamed from a different satellite, the few channels we are able to preferences
but not always. receive. I can say that this is met
Unfortunately, the dish is on the w i t h a g o o d a m o u n t o f
highest point of our house, a displeasure from my wife and

Bill Clinton Released from Hospital

(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 4:30:00 AM
Former president Bill Clinton
has been released from the
hospital. He was accompanied by
daughter Chelsea as he was
discharged.
Former Democratic National
Committee chairman Terry
McAuliffe broke the news on
CBS' "The Early Show." He
spread the word, saying, "He's
out of the hospital and in the car
back enroute to his home [in
Chappaqua.]"
Douglas Band, Counselor to
Clinton, told ET, "President Bill
Clinton was released from New
York Presbyterian
Hospital/Columbia this morning
in excellent health. He warmly
thanks the doctors, nurses, and
staff of the Hospital for the care
he received... President Clinton
would also like to thank the
many people who extended their
best wishes to him for a quick
recovery. He looks forward in
the days ahead to getting back to
the work of his Foundation, and
to Haiti relief and recovery
efforts."
E-reader News Edition Tech News/ 41

How Google Failed Its Users and Gave Birth to an Internet

Meme
by Mike Melanson FAFEBOOK BACK THIS SHIT head-on into the tech illiterate failed them. With all of our talk
(ReadWriteWeb) IS WACK!!!!!" complained the and mockery and disbelief about the semantic Web and
Submitted at 2/11/2010 11:39:00 PM
next. started to overtake confusion as search engine optimization and
At first we wondered if it could the general tone in the comment tailoring search results to the
It's not every day you get to be a giant, orchestrated prank.
f o r e s h a d o w e d F a c e b o o k thread. As the post made its way individual user, there are
watch the birth of an Internet We weren't sure who we might
becoming the de facto user around the web, other comment thousands upon thousands of
meme, but yesterday, I was there have offended, but obviously it
database, above the most logical threads, like those on Reddit and users performing the same
at the moment of conception. I was a premeditated assault.
s e a r c h r e s u l t p o s s i b l e - MetaFilter, began mimicking the simple search and following the
didn't give birth to it but I When we looked at our traffic, now infamous comments. I same wrong road. If this were a
Facebook's login page.
certainly played a completely however, we didn't see any of the
W h i l e f o r u s t h i s w a s suddenly realized that we might standard traffic sign misdirecting
inadvertent and circumstantial usual suspects, just two little
completely random, other search be standing at that flash point, this many people, it would have
part. Facebook and AOL had words on a very big website:
results show that this is actually that moment where it begins - been pulled down long ago.
announced their partnership and "Facebook login" and Google.
a s p a c e t h a t i s o t h e r w i s e the immaculate conception of an There would have been outraged
I decided the news merited more The post had become the number
intentionally occupied by sites Internet meme. I've always citizens at town meetings and
than the two paragraph treatment two search result.
trying to siphon off this traffic wanted to be there at that special reports on the five o'
I saw everywhere else. So I By the end of the day, the post
and profit from it. I don't think moment. I've always wondered clock news.
embarked on a diatribe about had several hundred comments
t h e f i r s t s e a r c h r e s u l t f o r about the first person that saw a So, when five years down the
how Facebook was trying to be and our back-channel chat room
"Facebook login" was actually lobster and said, "You know road someone, somewhere, in a
our "One True Login"- and was still debating whether or not
E n g l i s h , a n d t h e o n e t h a t what? I'm going to eat that." completely unrelated comment
unknowingly set in motion what it could all be real.
followed wasn't either, but those "I LIKE THE NEW ALL-BLUE thread says "i need the old
has become the most epic It was like we had unearthed a
two key words are used over and FACEBOOK BUT CAN I JUST facebook this new one is very
comment thread ReadWriteWeb long-lost city, the Atlantis of the L O G I N N O W b a d
over.
has ever seen. But how did this Internet. But instead of treasures PLEEEEEZE?????!!!11" reads bbbbbbbbbbuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
By the next morning, the scale
happen and why? and gold we'd found a steady one comment on MetaFilter. uuuu!" I will be happy to say that
had tipped. News of the epic
Sponsor deluge of confused and frustrated thread had started making its Another comment on Reddit I was there - I was around for the
Within a half an hour of posting, users who had tried everything
way around the social web, being r e a d s , " I S T H I S T H E birth of that Internet meme. But I
the number of visitors had they knew to do and just wanted
r e t w e e t e d a c r o s s t h e ARTICLE!!? ALL I SEE IS also hope that, by then, we've
skyrocketed. It looked like a real to log in to Facebook, damnit.
Twitterverse, posted by early COMMENTS!!!!! HOW COME addressed the problem at the
winner. An hour later, it had But how had this happened? It
adopters on Buzz and submitted WHEN I TRY TO LOG IN I core. This is the Internet and
reached the number of visitors an certainly wasn't that thousands
to sites like Reddit, Digg, PEE ON MYSELF AND PASS these are its users.
average post might see in an and thousands of people had just
StumbleUpon, HackerNews and OUT?!?? I LIKED REDDIT If this many of them can't login
entire day. I figured I'd hit a started searching for "facebook BEFORE THE PEE!!!" to Facebook by typing that into
Fark.
home run. login" yesterday. This stream of "No, really," everyone seemed to One person has even written a Google and clicking on the first
But then the comments started people has been there all along
be saying, "You GOTTA see this sonnet, detailing the plight of the thing they see, it's probably not
rolling in. and something is broken. lost Facebook users. them that are wrong, it's Google.
one."
"When can we log in?" asked Google had completely failed its
Suddenly, the two worlds While we mock those users, the Discuss
one commenter. users. It put us, with a post about collided. The tech savvy ran simple fact is they haven't
" I W A N T T H E O L D how an AOL partnership necessarily failed, something
42 Tech News/
First a Data Center, Now Free WiFi - Google, The Cloud and
the Significance of a Small Oregon Town
by Alex Williams
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 1:00:00 AM
Google is giving a small town in
Oregon $100,000 for free WiF i.
It's a town called The Dalles - a
community with interesting
significance for Google.
The Dalles is a city of 12,000
people along the Columbia
River, about 80 miles east of
Portland. Google owns a massive
data center in The Dalles. It's a
key Google operation. It's
powered by the cheap
hydroelectricity that comes from
the Columbia. Twin cooling
towers stand four-stories high,
keeping the servers from
overheating as they continually
crunch data and serve it back to
millions of people online.
This data center in The Dalles is
what helps make Google's cloud
computing capabilities a reality.
Sure, it's connected to data
centers around the world. But
this one has special significance,
In some ways, it symbolizes the
emergence of the cloud
computing era.
Sponsor
The prospect of the data center
in The Dalles had national
significance. In 2005, Congress
changed energy legislation so the
Bonneville Power
Administration would not be
privatized. That allowed Google
to get the cheap electricity that it
wanted for the data center. With
that in place, Google went ahead
with construction, knowing they
could burn as much power as it
needed to keep its servers
humming.
In that year, Harper's Magazine
published blueprints of the data
center. The magazine used the
blueprints as the center piece to
profile Google, its quest for
cheap electricity and the
emergence of cloud computing.
In June of 2006, the New York
Times ran a front page story
about the data center. The
headline:"Hiding in Plain Sight,
Google Seeks More Power." It,
too, used the data center to tell a
story about Google's strategy and
its lead in cloud computing over
rivals like Microsoft and Yahoo!
Now, The Dalles and its free
WiFi from Google has some
interesting correlations to
another announcement this week
pertaining to Google's efforts in
creating an ultra-fast broadband
network.
This larger effort to provide
broadband service to select cities
is certainly designed to show
what kind of opportunities come
when people get an Internet
connection that is 100 times
faster than what most Americans
have access to today. It's the kind
of effort that makes sense as
Google seeks to make it possible
to offer a whole new generation
of applications that would be
available in the cloud.
As the New York Times points
out:"In Google's vision of the
future of the Internet, the live
streaming of 3-D medical images
from a rural health clinic to a
specialized medical center or the
downloading of a full-length
movie in a matter of minutes
would become commonplace."
Google is only providng cash in
the form of a grant to The Dalles
for the WiFi. It is not providing
the kind of Internet access that
will go to those who receive the
ultra fast Internet connection.
But The Dalles experiment does
show Google's interest in
providng Internet access to rural
communities.
There are some other interesting
correlations:
Google made provisions with
The Dalles that it would not be
permitted to filter content. That's
a move we should also expect
when Google lays its
experimental fiber in cities
around the country. Google
alluded to this kind of spirit in its
announcement this
week:"Openness and choice:
We'll operate an "open access"
network, giving users the choice
of multiple service providers.
And consistent with our past
advocacy, we'll manage our
network in an open, non-
discriminatory and transparent
way."
Google gets final approval over
the content, look and feel, and
design of the splash page and the
landing page for the free service
in The Dalles. Will they seek that
kind of control in other
communities, too?
Google will also help get the
network up and running in The
Dalles. According to Wi-Fi Net
E-reader News Edition
News, Mountain View, Calif. is
the only other town where
Google operates a WiFi network.
Google tried to launch a network
in San Francisco but the effort
failed.
Google also referred to
Mountain View in its
announcement this week about
the fiber network:"Like our WiFi
network in Mountain View, the
purpose of this project is to
experiment and learn. Network
providers are making real
progress to expand and improve
high-speed Internet access, but
there's still more to be done. We
don't think we have all the
answers - but through our trial,
we hope to make a meaningful
contribution to the shared goal of
delivering faster and better
Internet for everyone."
It's a differen task to lay fiber
but The Dalles may serve as a
miniature model for the
complexities that come with
developing a municipal network
for accessing the Web.
In the meantime, it's great to see
an Oregon town play such an
interesting role in the
development and future of
Google, the most significant
Internet company of our time.
Discuss
E-reader News Edition Tech News/ Entertainment/ 43
Video: Celebs Light
Google Maps Launches Labs: What Will You Up the Runway in All
-Star Fashion Show
Enable? (ETonline - Breaking News)
by Sarah Perez Blogoscoped, Google Maps Labs Another interesting option is the Submitted at 2/12/2010 3:03:00 AM
(ReadWriteWeb) launched with nine experimental "What's Around Here?" feature.
Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:00:05 AM
features. You can access this Enabling this experiment adds a ET was there as Kristin
new section by clicking on the second search button next to the Chenoweth, Kim Kardashian,
Google Maps has just launched green test tube icon which now Some of the new options clearly search box. When you have a former "American Idol" champ
an "experimental" section called appears at the top of Google fit more in the category of "just map pulled up on your screen, all Jordin Sparks and many more
Labs where you can find the Maps. In the pop-up window that for fun" - like the one that adds you have to do is click that walked the runway in red dresses
latest prototypes and test features appears, you can enable or the "beta" label back to the button and thousands of round created by America's top
to try out for use with the disable the extra features. service's logo or the "Where in markers appear on the map designers at the Heart Truth's
company's online mapping Currently, the line up includes: the World" game which lets you denoting places of interest. This Red Dress Fashion Show in New
service. As with other Google • Drag 'n' Zoom: Click the Drag- guess where you are based on is a handy way to explore an area York on Thursday night -- and
p r o d u c t s , l i k e G m a i l f o r and-Zoom button, then draw a satellite imagery. Our Favorite when you don't necessarily have the stars also reacted to former
example, the Labs section lets box on the map to immediately New Features something in particular that President Bill Clinton's health
users opt-in to features that - as zoom into that place. However, a few of the other you're searching for. It's easy to scare.
Google describes it - "aren't quite • Aerial Imagery: Available for features are more intriguing. For imagine how a future version of "It's so amazing to be part of
ready for primetime." But some certain areas, aerial imagery example, the "Aerial Imagery" this feature could tap into other something that is spreading
of the features in Gmail will "gives you rotatable, high- feature sounds suspiciously like Google location-based services awareness about a serious issue
never be mainstreamed into the resolution overhead imagery Bing Maps' "Bird's Eye view." In like the new Google Buzz or [heart disease], but at the same
email service itself - they're presented in a new perspective." Bing, Bird's Eye view lets you Google Latitude, for example, in time we get to do it fun," said
simply fun extras which some • Back to Beta: This will simply see aerial imagery in an angled order to add layers of social Jordin, who noted that her great
people love but others would add a "Beta" icon to the Maps view. Using four different activity to the map, similar to grandmother passed away from
hate...or simply have no use for. logo. angles, the perspective is more Bing's Twitter "mapplication." heart disease about two years
So will the new Google Maps • Where in the World Game: useful for seeing detail than The two features described ago.
Labs be the same? Filled mostly Guess the name of the country traditional aerial imagery which above registered as the stand-out "I'm honored to be here to walk
with fun but ultimately minor from satellite imagery. looks straight down on the options worth enabling right in the show tonight," said Kim,
upgrades among a handful of • Rotatable Maps: This puts rooftops. In fact, Bing's unique now, but we'll definitely be who added that she's enjoyed the
gems? Or will it truly serve as north facing downwards, for Bird's Eye view feature has been watching the Labs section to see whirlwind last few weeks
the testing ground where the next instance. one of the service's key selling what other options show up later leading up to her boyfriend
major features planned for • What's Around Here?: This points for some time. But now, it on. Do you have any feature Reggie Bush's big Super Bowl
Google Maps make their debut? will trigger a search for anything sounds as if Google plans to add requests you would like to see win.
We checked it out this morning ("*"), showing the top places for the same - especially since the appear in Labs? If so, let us
and found a couple of options a given location. Labs description notes "currently know in the comments. Discuss
worth enabling right now. • LatLng Tooltip: Shows the imagery is only available in
Sponsor latitude/ longitude of where your certain areas, but we're adding
D i s c o v e r e d b y G o o g l e cursor is positioned. more all the time."

Cold Koreans Jabbing Smart Phones with Meat [Trend Alert]

by Pareene (Gawker) South Koreans are reportedly making fun of us and our fat
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:56:59 AM using a"snack sausage" as American sausage fingers.
a"meat stylus" for their iPhones. Guys, I think South Korea is
44 Tech News/ Entertainment/ Fashion/ E-reader News Edition

Google Responds to Critics: Makes Fierce Fashions: The Life and

Small Changes to Buzz Creations of A-List Designer
by Frederic Lardinois won't inadvertently share Alexander McQueen
(ReadWriteWeb) information they would rather (ETonline - Breaking News) Take a look back at Alexander
Submitted at 2/11/2010 5:26:03 PM
keep private."Tens of Millions" Submitted at 2/12/2010 3:00:00 AM McQueen with his celeb friends,
users to block people from of Users Already his head-turning catwalk
Google Buzz, which launched following them, even if they In addition to announcing these Famed designer Alexander creations and the famous frocks
two days ago, has been widely haven't created a profile yet. changes, Google also notes that McQueen, 40, was found dead in that draped all the top-notch
criticized for making the lists of Sponsor "tens of millions of people have his London home. The news has celebs who were lucky enough to
who you follow and who follows ReadWriteWeb's full coverage checked Buzz out, creating over stunned both the fashion world wear them.
you public by default. Until now, and analysis of Google Buzz: 9 million posts and comments." as well as the many A-listers
the check box to turn this Even though Buzz now makes it In addition, Google is currently who donned his wild ensembles.
"feature" off was hidden in your clearer that your public profile registering over 200 posts per
Google Profile settings - which will include a list of users and minute through the mobile
many people never even realized makes it easier to turn this interface. Given that Google is
they had. Now, however, Google feature off, this remains an opt- giving Buzz a prominent spot in
announced that it is making it out feature. We think that it the Gmail interface, this doesn't
Fall 2010 Fashion
more obvious to new users that would be far better for Google to come as a surprise, but it also Week All Access:
these lists will be public and will make this an opt-in feature so shows Buzz's potential as a
offer clear instructions to turn the that those users who don't read mainstream geo-social network. BCBG Max Azria
p u b l i c d i s c l o s u r e o f t h i s the disclosure information Discuss by ELLE.com (ELLE News
information off. In addition, closely when they first use Buzz Blog)
Google now also allows Buzz
Submitted at 2/11/2010 8:01:48 PM

Google Brings the Power of the Pie Chart New York Fashion Week kicked
into high gear this a.m. with
by Mike Melanson Google's latest release, the Blog, "Interactive charts trigger BCBG Max Azria’s fall ready-to
(ReadWriteWeb) Google Chart Tools, will make it events, providing tool-tips and -wear collection. And we were
Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:40:00 AM
easier for sites to show their animations. In addition to a rich there to capture everything, from
users data in a meaningful, visual gallery of charts, this tool can test runs to backstage beauty.
If you've ever sat around and interactive manner. also read live data from a variety Enjoy these shots!
mulling over different parts of an Sponsor creation, use a slightly more of data sources such as Oracle All Photos: Kelly Stuart
interactive map after an election These tools are broken down complicated Javascript library. P L / S Q L or Google
or studied the New York Time's into two parts: image charts and Interactive charts will allow for s p r e a d s h e e t s . "
" How Different Groups Spend interactive charts. The image s h o w i n g e x t r a d a t a o n We're hoping these take off and
Their Day" graph, then you charts work off a simple URL m o u s e o v e r s a n d s i m p l e we see more interesting visual
know the value of a good chart. structure, defining all of the animation. There are 30 different data sets to play with around the
They can suck users in and really necessary characteristics through chart styles available, from web in the very near future.
engage them. They can take a URL parameters. The interactive interactive maps to pie charts, Discuss
complex concept and make it charts, while still relatively line charts to Venn diagrams.
simple. simple compared to custom According to the Google Code
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China’s surprise
Divvyshot Offers Simple and Open Photo Sharing monetary tightening
[Photo Sharing] shatters calm
(Financial Times - US
by Jason Fitzpatrick demonstrates—drag and drop homepage)
(Lifehacker) pictures right out of folders on
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for your albums are represented Facebook, Divvyshot, and with unless you're sporting a browser
as icons across the top of your email notifications. that supports HTML 5 like the
album page: click the padlock to You can easily view the photos new version of Firefox, then you
lock the album so only friends in the album in a variety of ways can—as the screenshot above

Insulate Outlets and Switches to Cut Down on Heat Loss

[Winterize]
by Jason Fitzpatrick feel—especially in older Check out the full guide at Re-
(Lifehacker) homes—around outlets and light Nest including tips on using your
Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:00:00 AM
switches. Multiple those tiny insulation to help reduce noise.
drafts by every single outlet and Have a tip of your own for
Power outlets and light switches switch in the houe however and plugging energy leaks—big or
can be a point of cold-air entry in you've got a prety substantial small? Let's hear about it in the
y o u r h o m e b u t y o u c a n leak. comments. How To Insulate
inexpensively and easily plug the Over at the home-centric blog Outlets & Switches Home
leak. Check out this guide to see Re-Nest they have a quick seals—seen in the above right edge of the wire box and the wall Hacks[Re-Nest]
how. tutorial on how to insulate your photo—a screw driver to open you'll definitely want a can of
It might seem like a trivial thing, outlets and switches. You'll need the plates, and if you've got expanding foam or a tube of
t h o s e t i n y d r a f t s y o u some inexpensive foam plate significant gaps between the insulating caulk to fill the space.
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Is It Compatible? Shows if Your Current
Extensions are Upgrade Safe [Downloads]
by Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 6:30:00 AM
Firefox: Every new version of
Firefox offers enticing new
features, but the real question is
whether or not your beloved
Firefox extensions are ready for
the jump. Is It Compatible? puts
the compatibility information
right in your add-ons window.
There isn't much more to this
handy little extension, once you
install Is It Compatible?
Official AIM App Also Brings Facebook Chat to
Android [Downloads]
by Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 5:30:00 AM
Android: Got an Android
phone? Got contacts on AOL
Instant Messenger, or chatty
friends on Facebook? AIM now
has an official chat client in the
Android Market, one that can run
in the background and connect to
Facebook and Twitter too.
There's not all that much more
to say about AIM for
whenever you open the add-ons
window in Firefox—as seen
above in the screenshot—you'll
see not only the extensions you
have installed but also the
Android—it asks for your login
credentials, and if you head into
the settings, you can feed it your
Facebook login as well, and it
will send and accept chats across
both fronts. If you want, AIM
can hit you with your friends'
status updates, update your own
at the same time as your AIM
status message, and even post to
Twitter, too—though there are
certainly better dedicated clients
for that purpose.
versions of Firefox they are rated
for displayed in a minimum-
maximum format.
If you only have one or two
critical Firefox extensions you
It's likely the most guaranteed
means of keeping a connection
across AIM's servers, and since
rely on, it probably isn't much of
a hassle to visit Mozilla and
confirm their compatibility. With
more than a few extensions
however, Is It Compatible makes
a tedious process as simple as
scrolling down your extension
list.
Is It Compatible? is a free
extension and works wherever
Firefox does. Have a favorite
tool for keeping Firefox in top
shape? Let's hear about it in the
comments.
AIM can run silently and ping
you on new messages, it makes
good sense as an Android app.
AIM for Android is a free
download for Android phones
only. AIM's product page hasn't
updated to announce it yet, but
should soon. Instant Messenger -
AIM[via Phandroid]
E-reader News Edition
Fable III dev diary
reveals 'extreme
morph' feature
by JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:30:00 AM
Ready to see a few seconds of
Fable III in action? Ready to see
Peter Molyneux and other
Lionhead staff tell you how
awesome it is? Check out the
first developer diary of the game
above.
Molyneux introduces the
"extreme morph" system, which
allows players to show their
alignments in dramatic ways at
the press of a button. His
example? "You're walking along
and someone upsets you.You can
press this expression, and out of
your back appears these huge
angel wings. A shaft of light
comes down and shines on you.
Everyone around you steps back,
and, 'Oh, my goodness!' You're
showing your true character."
The Fable III peek also briefly
introduces the weapon morphing
system and the "touch" system,
and it features several shots of
people being stabbed, sometimes
with interesting-looking
weapons. Good stuff.
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The Phishing Flow Chart Highlights Red Flags in
Dangerous Emails [Phishing]
by Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 5:00:00 AM
We hardly see the average
Lifehacker reader getting taken
by a simple phishing
scam—you're a techno-literature
bunch—but a little refresher
never hurts and this flowchart is
perfect for showing to relatives
who have no idea what
Caption contest: iPhone as a CPR device
by Vladislav Savov
(Engadget)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:54:00 AM
Alright, we'll leave all the
zingers for you and our
mercurial staff to deliver, and
just use this space to dish some
info on the hardware. Ivor
Kovic, an emergency physician
from Croatia, has recently
demoed a new iPhone cradle that
turns the already multifunctional
handset into a CPR assistance
device. By using an app titled
Pocket CPR and the built-in
accelerometer, he can get audio
and visual feedback to tell him if
he's doing it correctly, while his
basic (but awesome) cradle
"phishing" even is.
The above image is a
companion image to the guide at
LoginHelper on how to identify
phishing attacks, but for a quick
and easy refresher and way to
explain to less than techno-savvy
relatives what to look for to
defend against a phishing attack
it's a great stand alone aide.
If you're in educate-the-relatives
mode make sure to check out our
allows for longer CPR sessions if
necessary. Check out the video
after the break, then hit the
comments with your finest
witticisms.
Paul:"Come on Luke Wilson's
Career, stay with me now, you're
not going to die on me!"
Darren: "Man, I could really get
a better look at what's going on if
this thing had a 9.7-inch IPS
panel..."
Chris:"Everyone is either dying
or staying alive these days, and
we began to ask ourselves: is
there room for something in the
middle?"
Nilay:"He then died."
Vlad: " Our other cradle also
measures rhythm and depth,
previous article: The Complete
Guide to Avoiding Online Scams
though its purpose isn't entirely
medicinal."
Andy:"A rare case where a lack
of multitasking is actually
helpful to the task on hand."
Thomas:"Can you stop dying for
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(for Your Less Savvy Friends
and Relatives). It's a great
starting point for opening the
eyes of friends and family that
give the sincerity of foreign
princes a little too much stock.
Have a great visual aide or guide
to help people become more
security conscious? Share a link
in the comments below. The
Phishing Flow Chart[via
gHacks]
ON!! Wait a tick... AT&T? No
wonder it isn't working.
Dammit."
Tim:"Looks like this guy's
heart(puts on sunglasses)... has
dropped its last call."
Yeeeaaaaaahhhh...
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10 Best Ways to Use Your PC While You're Sleeping or At

Work [Useful]
by MaximumPC (Gizmodo) Spybot S&D, you must switch to
Submitted at 2/12/2010 9:43:22 AM the Advanced mode and open the
Settings tag to locate the
There's only so much a scheduler. However, you might
processor can handle at once. need to update to the paid
That's why we keep our home versions of some scan programs
PC powered on while we're at to have access to scheduling
sleep or at the office. Forget functions.
about energy savings—a Depending upon the speed of
powerful PC is meant to be your anti-virus and anti-malware
utilized! scanners, you might be able to
Some processes, like games, schedule them on the same day
monopolize CPU clock cycles, or night. If possible, schedule the
making it inconvenient to run scanner's update process to run
other processor-intensive utilities before the scan program itself.
in the background. From Check Your Hard Drive for
scheduled FTP downloads to Errors with Chkdsk+Defrag
converting digital photos and While malware and spyware can
more, here are the ten best ways deep-six your computer's
to keep your PC busy so it won't performance, so can problems
miss you when you're gone. with your hard disk's structure.
Downtime be damned! Record Use the dynamic duo of chkdsk
TV Shows and Movies and defrag to check your hard
Sure, you can record TV shows disks for errors and defragment
and movies while you use your files to keep your storage in good
PC, but what do you do if you shape.
prime time. If you use Windows time like Wednesday morning off to check your machine for
have two or three programs all Chkdsk can be run from the
Media Center, you can use either after you head off to work problems when you're not using
battling for your attention? If command prompt, and by using
the program guide or the movies (Wednesday morning is also a it. Depending upon your favorite
you can't catch your favorites on command-prompt switches when
guide to record movies. Patch perfect time to catch Microsoft's software, you might be able to
Hulu or Boxee, or if you don't you schedule chkdsk to run, you
Applications and Run Windows Patch Tuesday updates). Need a schedule scans from within the
have a TV tuner than can handle have a great deal of control over
Update reminder on how to adjust your software, or in some cases, you
multiple programs, take how chkdsk works. If you want
Windows Update enables you to settings? Here's how to do it with might need to run Windows Task
advantage of repeat broadcasts of to repair disk errors on the C:
decide when to download and Windows XP and with Windows Schedule/Scheduled Tasks
many programs; catch the game (system) drive, you'll need to
install updates for Windows and Vista (and Windows 7). service separately.
live, and record your favorite schedule chkdsk to run at startup.
for Microsoft Office and other Scan Your PC with Anti-virus To find out if your favorite
news programs or movies later. You can shut down and restart
programs supported by Windows and Anti-malware Software programs have built-in
If your favorite movie station Windows automatically using
Update/Microsoft Update. The Although most current anti-virus scheduling, you might need to
insists on having a marathon of Task Scheduler, enabling you to
default setting is in the middle of and anti-malware programs can switch to the program's advanced
your favorite movie, you might run Chkdsk on the system drive
the night, but if your PC is busy run while you use your computer mode or advanced menus. For
as well record the 2AM showing
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at startup. You should run
Chkdsk before you run Defrag
on a given drive to assure that
files are not being moved to
corrupt portions of the disk.
In Windows 7, you can select
multiple drives for
defragmenting, which realigns
small file fragments into larger
contiguous blocks. This enables
faster file reads and writes,
especially on drives with
frequent changes, such as the
drive you use for temporary or
swap files or drives with
frequent modifications to data
files.
Backup Your PC!
You can configure most
commercial backup programs as
well as Windows's own backup
programs to run on a schedule.
To make scheduled backups
work properly, keep the
following in mind:
• Use an external hard disk or
network location that's big
enough for the backup (you
won't be around to flip DVDs or
removable media in and out of a
backup drive). Use the default
compression setting for the best
combination of backup
performance and backup size.
• Use the backup scheduler
included in the backup software.
• Make sure your backup
location is ready to receive the
backup. With an external hard
disk, make sure it's turned on and
connected to your PC. With a
network backup, make sure the
remote drive or server is
connected to the network –
preferably, to a wired rather than
a wireless connection.
• If you have time, verify the
backup.
• For best performance, use
gigabit Ethernet for network
backups and eSATA or USB 3.0
for local drive backups.
To learn more about using
Windows 7 backup, see our
Windows 7 feature focus article.
Process Photos and Transcode
Videos
If you're a serious digital
photographer, you already know
that shooting in RAW mode
provides much more control over
exposure, white balance, and
other factors than shooting in
JPEG. However, when it comes
to sharing or printing your
photos, JPEG rules. Cut out the
tedium of converting your photos
manually by using automation
features in your photo editing
software.
With Photoshop Elements and
Adobe Camera RAW, you can
use Process Multiple Files to
convert RAW files into virtually
any other format supported by
Photoshop Elements, apply quick
fixes, resize images, rename
files, and add labels.
With Adobe Photoshop CS4 and
Adobe Camera RAW, you can
use the Image Processor to
automate the conversion process
and run actions. If you still use
Adobe Photoshop CS3 and
Adobe Camera RAW, you can
also use Image Processor.
Depending upon what type of
video you're encoding or
transcoding, there are many
choices, all of which take time
better spent when you're away
from your PC. Here are some of
our tutorials and product guides:
How To: Download, Save and
Convert Flash Video to Play on
your iPod or DVD Player
Ultimate Guide to Playing and
Transcoding Downloaded
Videos
The Last DVD and Blu-Ray
Ripping Guide You'll Ever Need
The Power User's Guide to
Video Encoding with Handbrake
The Top Transcoding Apps for
Watching Content on Consoles
Schedule Bittorrent Downloads
and Pre-Load Steam Games
Whether you use FTP or
Bittorrent to transfer files or play
games delivered via Steam,
you're pushing a lot of
information through your home
network to the Internet (and vice-
versa). Here's how you can take
advantage of away from your PC
time to handle heavy bit-
pushing.
If you use file transfer protocol
(FTP) to shuffle files around,
you know there are plenty of
freeware versions to choose
from. Unfortunately, just about
all of those that include a
scheduler feature will cost you a
few bucks. One that won't cost
you anything is WinSCP. Use its
scripting feature to schedule file
transfers. For a low-cost FTP
program that doesn't require
scripting to schedule transfers,
consider ProSoft FTP Scheduler
Standard Edition(about $25, 15
day trial).
Want to schedule Bittorrent
transfers? Check out the
Scheduler feature built into
uTorrent. Scheduler allows you
to adjust transfer speeds, go idle,
or upload only at the times you
select. For a tutorial, see page 7
of our own Paul Lilly's 20
Essential Tricks and Skills Every
BitTorrent User Should Know.
Be sure to see the comments for
tips on using Dropbox and
PeerBlock to improve uTorrent
performance.
While Steam doesn't provide a
way to schedule your downloads,
you can pause and restart a game
download whenever you want.
Run a Music Server
There's no need to drag your
music collection between home
and office. Give your iPod or
Zune a rest and use our own
Norm Chan's How To: Stream
Your Music Library to Any
Computer tutorial to bring your
music to your office. The most
time-consuming step (page 2) is
importing your music into
Netjukebox, so it's a perfect
candidate for running it before
you hit the hay or head to the
office.
Compiling Code or Render
Graphics
Compiling code and rendering
graphics are among the most
time-consuming tasks you can
perform, so you shouldn't waste
precious playtime by watching
your computer munch program
and video bits.
Start these processes before you
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clock out for the evening or as
you start off to work. To make
sure they run as quickly as
possible, set your computer's
power management for high
performance and turn off other
tasks that might interfere, such as
Windows and application
updates and other processes
(such as the ones listed in this
guide). If you're rendering
graphics to an external drive or
building a DVD or Blu-Ray disc,
make sure your external drive is
ready to roll and that you have a
suitable blank disc in your drive.
Contribute to Distributed
Computing
You can "give something back"
to the world by devoting unused
computer cycles to a cause you
support. You can help make
scientific discoveries or fight
deadly diseases, and there's no
shortage of causes looking for
your help. For a list of projects,
see these Maximum PC stories:
Facebook and Intel want You to
Donate Your Spare Cycles,
Freeware Files: Five Free
Distributed Computing Projects
for your Idle PC!, and New
Distributed Computing Initiative
Wants to Create Artificial Life.
Need more options? See
Wikipedia's list of distributed
computing projects and
Distributed Computing Info's list
of projects.
How to Manage It All When
You're Away
Whether you're running apps
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Bing To Use Flickr Photos and Live Video In The
Future, But Google's Got Goods Too [Microsoft]
by Kat Hannaford (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 9:59:00 AM
Without wishing to compare
Microsoft's Bing Sky to Google
Sky, and its Bing Maps with
photos and live video to Street
View, they do sound pretty
bandwagon-jumping-like,
especially with Google Maps
today adding some new Labs
features.
Microsoft's said to "stay tuned"
for release details, but has
demoed the live video, which
could prove really valuable when
going on holiday for
example—you can check places
out before you bother going. The
Streetside Photos feature isn't
exactly revolutionary now that
every man and his dog has used
Street View, but by using
people's uploaded Flickr photos
(geo-tagged, naturally) they'll be
in a higher-res and offer more
color and life than Google's own
Street View cars can snap.
The new features were shown
off at the TED conference, and
then later blogged on Bing's site:
"This tech preview mines geo-
tagged photos from Flickr, and
relates them to our Streetside
imagery to show images matched
to its original spatial context.
Why is this cool? You're now
able to see what that club looks
like at night (is it really THAT
scary?), see if you're really going
to get a good sunset at that B&B
you're looking to book, or check
out the crowds on a Saturday
morning at Pike Place Market in
Seattle or get a view of the same
market from decades prior. As
more people share imagery, our
challenge is to reunite those
photos with where they were
taken – again, provide context to
the data in the ether."
Bing Sky meanwhile has been
created using WolrdWide
Telescope from the Microsoft
Research division, and will let
you:
"be able to walk outside in
Streetside mode, look up, and
see what's above – way above –
right now where you're standing.
Constellations come to life as
you pan – you can even set the
time of day so you can see what
you'll see at 9pm – great for
exploring with your daughter to
get her ready for what she'll see
when the sun goes down."
It does seem like unfortunate
timing for them, when Google's
put its Maps service into the
Labs box, adding some new
early features like the ability to
see high-res aerial pictures of
select locations; rotate a map the
way you want it to appear, and a
'where in the world' game for
quizzing yourself on countries
(amongst others).
I still think Microsoft's got a
hard game to play if it wants to
properly catch up to Google, and
while live video is impressive,
there's just too many people out
there doing Google Maps mash-
ups and developing outside of
the Microsoft box. [ Bing via
Search Engine Land via
Blogoscoped]
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that include built-in schedulers
or need to start them yourself,
you're going to want a way to log
into your home PC from the
office and keep an eye on what's
going on. You could use
commercial services like
GotoMyPC, but if you're looking
for a powerful freebie, check out
the remote connection apps in
our story The Ultimate Free
Network Applications, Period.
During your coffee breaks or
lunch, you can stay in complete
control of your PC at home.
Maximum PC brings you the
latest in PC news, reviews, and
how-tos.
Rubik’s Slide
offers 10,000
puzzles
by Doug Aamoth
I don’t want topage
(CrunchGear)
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Freddy here but these new digital
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Rubik’s Cubes make it
impossible to peel off the
stickers and rearrange them. So
what you’re left with is the
insurmountable task of actually
completing the puzzles yourself.
Some people like that, though.
If that sounds like you, you may
be interested to hear that the
Rubik’s Slide was announced at
the Toy Fair today. It’s an $18
digital Rubik’s Cube that
features more than 10,000
puzzles. From what it sounds
like, you begin by solving simple
puzzles and then advance to
increasingly difficult levels.
According to the press release:
Rubik’s Slide combines the
simplicity and fun of casual
Camangi drops price of WebStation Android
games with fast-paced, brain-
busting cubing. Players begin
each puzzle by checking the goal
pattern and then sliding the lights
into the correct pattern by
twisting and shifting the top
panel. (Much like the slide or
“fifteen” puzzles from years
ago). Once the puzzle is solved,
Rubik’s Slide will advance to the
next puzzle.
Featuring more than 10,000
puzzles, Rubik’s Slide includes
two different types of play.
Players can see how many
puzzles they can solve in Free
Play mode or race against the
clock to complete a series of 10
puzzles before time runs out in
Lightning Round. Rubik’s Slide
includes multiple levels of
difficulty with easy, medium and
hard puzzles built-in, so anyone
can play. The electronic game
features vibrant light and sound
effects, adjustable volume IBM specs out Power7
control, and high score memory. systems, starts shipping X10: Splinter
B a t t e r i e s a r e i n c l u d e d . them to your local server
Appropriate for players ages 8 Cell: Conviction
and up, Rubik’s Slide will retail farm
for $17.99. by Vladislav Savov hands-on
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Sure, there's not much chance of
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popping down to your local Xbox 360, Action There you are,
hypermarket and picking up old Sam Fisher, minding your
something with a Power7 roaringown business at some unknown
IBM page 52 cafe when the waiter brings you
a cell phone and Bluetooth
earpiece, compliments of the
caller. It's Grim, it's Third
Echelon, and it's the end of his
vacation. Some thugs have
managed to upset his vacation--

tablet to $275, uploads seven new videos
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Are you still interested in the
Camangi WebStation tablet?
We’ve shown an unboxing and
demo of the $399 (although
they’re currently selling it for
$275) Android tablet in the past,
but now Camangi has uploaded
seven new videos to their
YouTube account that covers
everything from Ebook function
to internet surfing to their
Android app marketplace.
Obviously Camangi is making a
final push to promote their
WebStation tablet before iPads
start landing in consumer’s laps.
Camangi has invested a lot of
time and resources not only in
creating the tablet, but creating
an online marketplace for larger
Android running devices (which
would include the Archos 5
Internet Tablet). Dropping the
price by a drastic $125 makes it a
very interesting product once
again. It could appeal to people
who are willing to buy a Kindle
or Nook for $15 less but want a
device that is more than a
dedicated eReader. Does it peak
your interest? One Response to
now we know why he's always
carrying 12 rounds and a pistol.
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inside, but there's also nothing (presumably so that a trained

stopping you from a bit of
vicarious investigation, now is
there? IBM's eight-core, 1.2
billion-transistor Power7 chips
have begun shipping as
promised, with the entry-level
Power 750 Express starting at a
few bucks over $34,000. That
offers you some truly supreme
computing power, as each of the
eight cores can run four
simultaneous threads for up to 32
parallel tasks, with 8MB of
embedded DRAM (acting as L3
cache) per core. The top-tier
POWER 780 system maxes out
with either eight 3.8GHz eight-
core chips or eight 4.1GHz quad-
core units, allied to a maximum
of 2TB of DDR3 RAM and up to
24 SSDs -- though you'll have to
call IBM to find out the price
US January retail sales
professional can counsel you
after hearing the spectacular
number). Watch the video after
the break while we try to cajole
IBM into sending us one for
benchmarking.
Continue reading IBM specs out
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Black Hat DC Conference earlier
this month. Initially, Infineon
Fashion Week
claimed what he'd done was by ELLE.com (ELLE News
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Ski goggles feature head
mounted display
by Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:30:03 AM
Wow, these Zeal Optics
“Transcend” goggles feature
built-in GPS, speed data, altitude
information, temperature, and a
whole lot of other stuff for $350.
Everything’s controlled by three
buttons on the side of the
goggles and displayed non-
obtrusively in your line of sight.
They’re available for pre-order
now with a target ship date of
October 1st. Current features
include: GPS, speed, altitude,
virtual odometer, stopwatch,
temperature, time, anti fog, and a
helmet compatible design.
If you watch the demo video
here, you’ll also see that Zeal is
planning to roll out some really
cool features later on: trail maps,
caller ID, text message display,
buddy tracking, online data
sharing (statistics, etc.),
mountain traffic reports, camera
and recording features, virtual
run previews, lift line
information, music controls,
emergency calling, and more.
Very cool stuff. The SPX
spherical polarized version sells
for $350 and there’s a version
that adds “SPPX xtreme low
light spherical photochromatic”
coating for $450.
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Quotient system ‘Volcker rule’
gives Goldman
electronically diagnoses stark choice
ADHD, oh look a bunny (Financial Times - US
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should give up their bank status
if they want to avoid the ban on
cubicle on wheels. It's an
automated machine that presents
proprietary trading proposed by
the White House, Paul Volcker,
a series of games and challenges head of President Barack
for a user to participate in, all Obama’s Economic Recovery
while watching that user with a Advisory Board, said.
pair of cameras -- one up top to “The implication for Goldman
monitor head movement and one Sachs or any other institution is,
below to look for a bouncing leg. do you want to be a bank?” Mr
We think the same could be done Volcker said in a video interview
Quotient system electronically
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Bill Gates Unimpressed by the iPad

by Liam Cassidy does that I say, “Oh, wow, I iPhone OS on a tablet device is
(TheAppleBlog) don’t think we can do that.” an obvious fit).
Submitted at 2/11/2010 12:04:11 PM
I am not surprised Bill doesn’t Therefore, the iPhone OS is
“get” the iPad, in the same way designed to be so simple and
Bill Gates, in case you thought he didn’t “get” the iPod, either. intuitive that multitasking is
otherwise, is a genius. He really, Gates’ vision of “a computer on intentionally restricted, reserved
really is. Not only was he every desktop” was a grand for a select-few apps. That’s not
building a software company at a vision. But that’s as far as the a lack of vision or coding
time when no one believed vision went; he certainly didn’t acumen, but rather a terribly bold
software had a meaningful describe the computer as an statement of intent. Apple has a
future, but his vision of “a appliance. From the Microsoft vision for how people should
computer on every desk and in perspective, the “computer” is, interact with computers, and they
every home” was nothing short largely speaking, a screen with a believe it’s better than anything
of crazy hugely ambitious. keyboard and a pointing device. else we currently have. What’s
Even so, geniuses do get things In fact, it’s even more specific more, it’s willing to stand by that
w r o n g s o m e t i m e s . I n a n than that; as far as Microsoft is vision, despite the cries of
interview with BNET’s Brent concerned, a computer is a inflexible critics who fail to
Schlender, he suggests netbooks screen with a keyboard and a understand it.
will be the devices of choice in a pointing device powered by In short, Apple doesn’t sacrifice
post-iPad world; Windows. And if you really want form for function – rather, Apple
“You know, I’m a big believer in to push the boat out, you can add allows form to dictate function.
touch and digital reading, but I some flavor of Office into that u s e c o m p u t e r s . O r , m o r e d i a m e t r i c a l l y o p p o s e d t o Dream Come True
still think that some mixture of mix, too. Disguise accurately, tablets don’t fit into Microsoft’s. Steve Jobs has long- Back in the early noughties, it
voice, the pen and a real Since neither Windows nor Microsoft’s vision of how pursued a desire to make the was Gates who championed the
keyboard – in other words a Office are particularly suited to businesses use computers. desktop computer more intuitive Tablet PC, and more broadly, the
netbook – will be the mainstream p e r v a s i v e , i n t u i t i v e t o u c h It’s ironic that Microsoft – and, paradoxically, less like a s l a t e f o r m - f a c t o r , b o l d l y
on that.” control, the Microsoft definition popularizer of the ubiquitous traditional computer. So, while p r e d i c t i n g i n 2 0 0 1 t h a t ,
Hardly shocking, coming from of “the computer” simply doesn’t spreadsheet software – still have Windows exposed increasingly “…within five years I predict it
t h e m a n w h o c o - f o u n d e d accommodate anything like an not made Excel (arguably the complex functionality in each will be the most popular form of
Microsoft. He adds; iPad. Tablet PCs are a bit easier most popular spreadsheet editor successive iteration, Mac OS X PC sold in America.”
…it’s not like I sit there and feel for Microsoft to swallow – at on the planet) touch-friendly. did the opposite, hiding or Microsoft’s hardware partners
the same way I did with iPhone least most of those have a Meanwhile, Apple, considered removing as much complexity as dropped the ball when executing
where I say, ‘Oh my God, k e y b o a r d ( m a k i n g t h e m by some to be makers of shiny possible, leaving behind just his vision, helped, no doubt, by
Microsoft didn’t aim high n o t e b o o k s i n d i s g u i s e ) . toys for posing artistes, have a enough to get the job done. Microsoft’s decision to crowbar-
enough.’ It’s a nice reader, but And while Microsoft knows business-class spreadsheet app When it came to mobile devices, in a barely modified version of
there’s nothing on the iPad I look Tablet PC’s don’t sell, it also ready to go when the iPad Microsoft’s desktop vision its full desktop OS – the exact
at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft knows that the interest in launches. (Former Microsoft proved inescapable, and it tried same mistake it’s making again
had done it.’” Apple’s iPad might translate into exec Dick Brass offers a possible t o s q u e e z e W i n d o w s i n t o today. Not enough people got
As TiPB’s Rene Ritchie pointed a short-lived boost in Tablet PC explanation for this bewildering everything. (Only the Xbox and their hands on a Tablet PC to
o u t , t h i s i s r e m a r k a b l y sales, too. But let’s be honest; oversight in his revealing article Zune break with that tradition.) arrive at an informed opinion on
reminiscent of Gates’ dismissal Microsoft isn’t committed to on the NY Times last week.) Just Meanwhile, Apple demonstrated its utility. Not enough software
of the iPod in a BusinessWeek tablets in any meaningful way Enough that a device’s software must
interview in 2004; because tablets don’t fit into Apple’s vision has always been reflect its form factor (like an BILL page 57
There’s nothing that the iPod Microsoft’s vision of how we
E-reader News Edition Apple/ 55

The Dollar Show: Cheap TV and What It Could Mean for the
iPad
by Darrell Etherington definition TV shows cut in half prices, which by all accounts are
(TheAppleBlog) (they currently cost $1.99 per fairly high. Apple should merely
Submitted at 2/11/2010 8:40:56 AM
episode). open the platform a little by
There are plenty of reasons why either developing easy
The Wall Street Journal is they would want that to happen, conversion options itself for .avi
claiming this week that Apple is though, and the biggest of all is files and other formats, built
testing out 99 cent episodes of iPad marketability. To people right into iTunes, or by
TV shows on iTunes with the who, for example, think a encouraging third-party
intent of offering the same deal ReadWriteWeb post is actually companies to do so. In short,
much more broadly across its the Facebook login page, the make it easier for users to get
library when the iPad launches in iPad is a mysterious device their own files onto the device,
late March. The information i n d e e d , w i t h f e w s e l l a b l e and you broaden the hardware’s
c o m e s c o u r t e s y o f p e o p l e qualities. Why would such appeal immensely.
familiar with the talks between people pay for the ultimate web Apple currently makes it
Apple and the networks browsing experience, for somewhat difficult to get your
regarding pricing changes. example, when they’re terrified own differently formatted media
Shows already being offered at of the web? What they will pay onto its devices because by
99 cents are cited as examples of f o r , a n d w h a t t h e y d o doing so, it encourages content
testing for this new scheme, but u n d e r s t a n d , i s T V . providers to offer their media for
the shows in question aren’t Bestselling shows offered at a licensed use with the device. It
exactly the most popular, so it dollar isn’t only an attempt to gives Cupertino the ability to
seems almost as likely that the woo iTunes TV-viewers to the negotiate with those providers,
discounting is designed to new platform, although it will since Apple is actually protecting
stimulate sales in these specific probably help do that. The their interests by discouraging
c a s e s . M T V ’ s “ W o n d e r advantage of such competitive piracy.
S h o w z e n ” a n d W a r n e r ’ s pricing for a single, popular type But if networks don’t begin to
“Children’s Hospital” are among of media is that it will make the take Apple seriously as a
those on offer at the reduced rate. iPad a destination device for said Apple knows it. Sure, the iPad looking for with its new device. contender to cable companies
Still, we’ve heard rumblings of media, in the same way that the has apps, but I’d be willing to bet No, it has to be TV, and for that and other TV service providers
this before, and the article in the iPod has become the digital that apps still remain mostly to become a reality, consumers by offering competitive prices, I
WSJ fits almost exactly the music player. Apps might sell untouched territory for a massive have to see prices that compete say the Mac-maker is well within
d e s c r i p t i o n o f w h a t a n the iPod touch and iPhone now, number of people who use the with or improve upon cable its right to go its own way and
intentional leak from Apple but make no mistake, what sold media playback capabilities of subscription models. open the platform up. Consumers
looks like. Also, I have no doubt their predecessors and allowed their iPods and iPhones. Books Offering cheaper TV is a step in will reward them with big
that while networks might not be them to even exist in the first aren’t priced competitively the right direction, but there is an hardware spends to make up for
that crazy about this idea, there’s place was music. enough, nor do they appeal to a alternative if talks break down lost media revenue.
no reason Apple wouldn’t want TV could do for the iPad what wide enough market to create the and Apple can’t offer steep
to see the price of standard music did for the iPod, and kind of consumer rush Apple is discounts on its current TV
56 Apple/ E-reader News Edition

How-To: Connect to a Cisco VPN Using Snow Leopard or the

iPhone OS
by Andrew Flocchini VPN Type and name it what you • Click Add VPN Configuration.
(TheAppleBlog) want. • Click on the IPSec button and
Submitted at 2/11/2010 9:05:02 AM
• The VPN connection will now fill in all your information just as
be in your list. Fill in your Server you did in Snow Leopard. Click
Snow Leopard has more than its Address and Account Name. Our Save when you are done.
fair share of improvements. If VPN checks authentication • Try it out by flipping the VPN
you work in the corporate world against Active Directory so my switch to On.
then Cisco IPsec VPN is a great A c c o u n t name is • If all is good, you’ll see you
addition. domain\username. Also be sure are now connected.
Before Apple added this feature, to check the Show VPN Status
you had to use Cisco’s client to box so you can easily start and Things to remember when
connect up to its VPN. With stop your VPN connection. accessing shares over a VPN are
Snow Leopard and the iPhone • Click Authentication Settings that you may need to use fully
OS, this support is built in. You and enter your Shared Secret and qualified domain names or IP
may need to get together with Group Name. Once again, your addresses. Every network is
your Network Admin to get all Network Admin should have this different so get friendly with
the correct passwords, group information for you. your Network Admin and he/she
name and such but anything that • Go ahead and apply your will hopefully help you out. It’s
can be done in the OS versus a s e t t i n g s a n d c l o s e S y s t e m • After you are connected, nice to see Apple developing
third-party app is good by me. Preferences. You should see a notice the menu bar icon Setting up your iPhone or iPod things like this on the business
new VPN status icon in the menu indicates how long you have touch is just as easy. side of the market. It does it so
• Open up Network in System bar that when you click, gives a been connected. This can be a • Launch Settings and then click simple and to the point, that it
Preferences. drop-down menu to start your nice reminder to disconnect if on General. puts everyone else to shame.
• Click the+ sign to create a new VPN connection. you aren’t using the VPN • Click Network. Related GigaOM Pro Research:
connection. Select VPN as the • Click Connect and you should anymore. • Click VPN. Cisco’s Big Bet on Consumer
interface, Cisco IPSec as the receive a Password prompt. Telepresence

Sponsor post: Atimi Software to Be Showcased During 2010

Games in Vancouver
by Edit Staff (TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 2/11/2010 9:00:54 AM
Atimi Software has been added
to the top 20 Vancouver-based
wireless and digital media
companies that will be
showcased in the city’s Robson
Square during the upcoming
Winter Olympics Games and
Paralympic Games. The
installation is part of VX —
short for Vancouver Experience
— which is aimed at
highlighting the city’s world-
class wireless and new media
industry. It is a great honor and
opportunity for Atimi and its
iPhone clients to be able to both
demonstrate current applications
and reveal two new ones that
will soon hit the marketplace.
Atimi Software Inc. is a cross-
platform development company
that specializes in Macintosh
applications; porting applications
from Windows to the Macintosh;
and iPhone, BlackBerry and
Android mobile application
development for the new
generation of smartphones. As a
pure services company, Atimi
handles high-value intellectual
property for some of the largest
technology companies in the
world. Its processes ensure those
companies reach their projected
targets reliably and efficiently,
allowing them to focus on
building strong, lasting
relationships with their own
customers.
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BILL
continued from page 54
was developed that made good
use of it, either. So, while the
iPad is far from Microsoft’s
ambitions, it’s the closest the
industry has ever come to the
realization of Gates’ tablet
dreams.
Gates is obviously loyal to
Microsoft, but he’s clearly
prepared to say when he thinks
Apple has done something
remarkable. I don’t believe he
fails to grasp what the iPad
represents, despite his comments
yesterday… and I’m pretty sure
he’s disappointed Microsoft
couldn’t learn from its earlier
tablet mistakes. For a man who
'The Mentalist' - 'Blood In, Blood Out' Recap
by Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 9:29:00 AM
(S02E14) "You are one strange to see Cho (Tim Kang - a good
freak, man." - gang member to actor), my favorite character on
Jane.
Detective Cho is like the Sgt. an A plot in an episode.
Friday of'The Mentalist.' He's Wow, Cho is a bit of a hard-ass, worked to get away from his
s e r i o u s , d e t e r m i n e d , n o eh? You can see how hard he has past, joining the Army and all
invested so much in the tablet
dream, it must be pretty galling
to see Apple succeed where he
failed.
Related GigaOM Pro Research:
• Web Tablet Survey: Apple’s
iPad Hits Right Notes
• 5 Tips for Developers
Targeting the iPad
• How AT&T Will Deal with
iPad Data Traffic
nonsense, by the book. Only I
think Jack Webb used to smile a
lot more than Cho does. It's great
the show after Patrick Jane, get
Which Shows Are on
the Endangered List?
by Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:29:00 AM
We're hitting that time of year
when the fates of television
shows are decided. The
Hollywood Reporter has posted
their list of potentially cancelled
shows as well as a probability
score of renewal next to each.
While it is not surprising
that'Smallville' is given a high
probability of renewal, it is
somewhat disturbing. The show
has become extremely different
since its move to Fridays,
focusing more on the geek factor
than the teen angst. It's come a
long way from the'Buffy'-clone it
started out as. If anything, The
CW should cancel the series and
go immediately to a spin-off
Superman series, perhaps called
'Metropolis'.
It's also a good thing that'Chuck'
has recovered from its precarious
perch and become a ratings
winner for Monday night. What
can I say? I like the show.
TV/ Economy/ 57
China orders
banks to raise
reserve ratios
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
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China rattled global markets on
Friday after the central bank
ordered commercial banks to
increase the amount of reserves
they hold for the second time in a
month in order to cool the rapid
increase in lending.
So what do you think of THR's Reserve requirements for
list? Is it on the mark? Are the Chinese banks will increase by
critics crazy? Sound off in the 50 basis points from February
comments. 25, the central bank said on its
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Morning coffee notes

(Scripting News) don't say which oAuth I love big companies. (Not.)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 5:02:59 AM developers should adopt. Had dinner last night at a
Problem is there are three, and wonderful West Village
Been a while. Twitter says, in the very same restaurant called Po,
Google says there's been over 9 email, that they like all three. I recommended by the illustrious
m i l l i o n B u z z p o s t s a n d hear that a lot of people at Matt Terenzio. One of the great
comments so far. Impressive. Twitter read my posts, so please things about the neighborhood I
But there hasn't been a single read this: I suppose it's okay to live in -- lots of great restaurants.
link in my tweet-stream from turn off Basic Authentication, if
Buzz, except for the one I you really must. You're going to
I need to get some exercise
today!
Funny
posted, when I first tried it out lose some apps when you do. I
(and quickly shut off when I saw won't convert very many of
the mess it created in my Gmail mine, but at least I can since I've
It's a sunny day so I think I may
go explore the Hudson and the
Highline.
signs
by Zack Sheppard (Flickr
inbox). What does this mean? implemented oAuth 1.0. But I'm Having lunch with Dan Farber Blog)
Well, it hasn't gone viral, at least not in any hurry to implement who is now the Editor In Chief
to the people who I follow on the others for a couple of of CBS.Com. I knew Dan when Submitted at 2/11/2010 9:40:47 AM

Twitter. reasons: 1. They're moving he was knee-high to a

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into Eric Hippeau who is now
Wondering if anyone is thinking things. So come June, a bunch of continue developing it.
CEO of Huffington Post. These
of creating a wonderful webmail my remaining apps will die. I For more laughs check out the
are the guys I grew up with in
product that's just webmail, no think it would be better to hold Funny signs group.
tech. Now they're in NY running
tricks. With Google-quality spam on to the developer momentum Photos from fishbert,
things. Proves the old motto, be
filters. I'd pay $100 per year for and go really slow on the Skuchamenz, popomohaha, Dill
kind to those you meet on the
the service. But no tricks! I don't deprecation. Pixels, indiekidd73, maplecs100,
way up.
want any new products to launch Google says the reason they BaubCat, and Dania Hurley.
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says TED is a sleeper. enought for them. 2. Isn't Google installer out to turn it on. That On after me are the esteemed
Last night Twitter sent out an the company that scanned all won't happen until late next John Borthwick of Betaworks
update on oAuth. They saved the those books and published them week. But the previous tenant in and the honorable Jay Rosen of
best for last. In June they plan to on the web without the authors' my apartment had Time-Warner NYU.
turn off Basic Authentication in permission? Internet. Seems to me they can I wonder if Jeff knows the
f a v o r o f o A u t h . T h e y s a y My Roadrunner package will turn it on without having to get counter-culture significance of
developers should hurry up and arrive today according to Fedex. into the apartment. I'm sure all 4/20?
switch now so they don't have to According to the instructions, I the wires here are still connected.
panic come June-time. But they should have service after I install
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PROJECT
69 Percent of TV Guide continued from page 59

they outsource all the work to a

Readers Won't Watch sweatshop in a third world
country (or China) just like the
rest of the fashion industry does.
Leno Speaking of bad things here are
the:
by Danny Gallagher (TV Things We Hated:
Squad) • Not Listening: What is up with
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:06:00 AM designers who don't listen to
instructions. Even worse than not
Internet polls are always a little following the rules of the
squiffy when it comes to challenge is following the rules
interpreting actual raw data. But but missing all the nuance from
if I were Jay Leno right now, my the person giving them the
'Community' - chin would be quivering right
about now.
assignment. Joanna Coles Editor-
in-Chief of Marie Claire

'Communication TV Guide conducted an online

poll of their readers and 69
percent of the respondents said
Magazine told them all what they
should avoid—black, drab
and the remaining 4 percent were colors, patters, things with
Studies' Recap they used to watch Jay either
on'The Tonight Show' or his
undecided. detailing on the bottom—and
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by Jason Hughes (TV Squad) interfering with their relationship short-lived'Jay Leno Show' but Cancellations, Pickups and on—bright colors, detailing at
Submitted at 2/12/2010 8:34:00 AM as "just-friends." won't when he returns to the post Renewals, Reality-Free, Jay the neckline, something that will
With the Valentine's Day dance local news time slot. Leno pop. What do these people give
(S01E16) Suddenly I want to looming, Troy and Pierce tried to Another 15 percent said they P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | | her? LoganJesse's is a blue so
spend at least 40 more minutes in regain some of their own dignity would watch Jay in his new time Comments
the world of'Community' after early in the episode, only to lose slot, 12 percent said they never PROJECT page 60
tonight's episode. I wonder if it completely by the end of it. watched him in the first place
those 40 minutes will come back Surprisingly, despite his "skills"
to haunt our dear friend later? on the dance floor, Chang either
Jeff and Abed tore it up with has no dignity to lose, or has so Project Runway: Stop the Dresses!
one of the most bizarre drunk much that it's impervious to
m o n t a g e s I ' v e e v e r s e e n , anything he does.
culminating with Abed in the Continue reading'Community' -
[Recaps]
a b s o l u t e b e s t " a f t e r m a t h " 'Communication Studies' Recap by Brian Moylan (Gawker) This week our quilting bee of Joanna Coles Editor-in-Chief of
position I've ever seen. And Jeff Filed under: OpEd, Episode Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:38:03 AM death got into the bonnet of Marie Claire Magazine, who also
did it all to try and make things R e v i e w s , R e a l i t y - F r e e , Marie Claire magazine. We gave the designers some
right with Britta again. Try as C o m m u n i t y Project Runway is all about wonder how that happened? It's instruction about what looks the
they might, those two just can't P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | | vision and delusion. The vision not like they're sponsoring the best in print. Then it was off to
seem to get their awkward C o m m e n t s to put a cute dress on a magazine show or anything. The challenge mood with a modest budget to
feelings for one another to stop cover. The delusion that will stop was to make a dress to be on the work their tiny little fingers to
print from going extinct. The cover of the rag's April issue the bone for the last time before
vision of concentration. The modeled by Heidi Klum herself.
delusion it leads to victory. They got this directive from PROJECT page 59
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dark it might as well be black,
Amy's is a shoulder pom pom
vomiting up a technicolor print
like it's a ball of yarn
disemboweled by a rabid cat,
Jay's has this long asymmetrical
train thing that would get
cropped out of a photo, and
nearly everyone's was a color of
the walls in a suburban
apartment complex painted the
most boring shade of bland to
attract the somnambulists who
want to live there. None of these
won. And who was applauded?
The ones who gave crazy color
and detailing up top. See, people.
Fucking listen! You don't know
better than the experts and think
you do is going to give you a
short career in fashion and a long
career waiting tables at Red
Lobster, which is where Andre is
now trapped for eternity.
• Seth Aaron Shirtless: Our
favorite part of the "getting ready
montage" that is in each episode
is we usually get to see a cute
boy naked. Who do we get this
week? Not hunky Jay or pretty
boy Logan Jesse, but paunchy
asshole Seth Aaron whose entire
chest has the pallor and hairiness
of a backside that hasn't seen the
sun since the Clinton
administration. Don't do this to
us again, please.
• Dead Weight: By now we
know some of the people who
are never going to make it to the
final: Seth Aaron, Jesse, and
Janeane. Can't we just cut them
all at once next week and let the
really good people duke it out?
• Tear Up Weepy Janeane: We
have already established that
Janeane like to cry. This week
we have diagnosed her with a
severe psychological disorder.
We think she is, and this is the
scientific term, a complete
fucking mess. If she's not talking
about emoting the turmoil in her
soul or grunting and squealing
like a pig trapped in a fence, then
she is worrying that everyone is
better than her and she'll never
finish her garment on time. Seth
Aaron, give this girl one of the
Klonopin you have stashed in
your luggage. Sister needs it!
• Tim Gunn Is a Burn Out: No,
he's not out back smoking pot
(though that would be funny) but
he just seems to have lost the old
mentoring mojo. Instead he is
just a well-dressed robot,
spouting off his handful of usual
catch phrases, corporate
messages, and designer minding
instructions. he's like a doll
where you pull the string and he
gets up, twirls around the room,
and says one of three pre-
programmed things before
crashing lifelessly on the floor,
just out of reach of the dirty
martini he so desperately needs.
• The Winners: Every week
there has been someone who
deserved to win more than the
person they selected to win. With
the except of last week, when
Amy really deserved to win for
her best of the worst red dress,
they judges have been a shade
off each time. We hope that
doesn't happen when they finally
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crown someone with the top perfect for Runway. If only he raspberry Icee trapped in a
prize. could augment his talent and tornado. He stole the top prize
personality with Suzanne from Ben whose post-
Things We Loved: Sugarbakers. Then he's be the apocalyptic geisha was fresh,
• The Challenge: Finally these second coming of Christian different, and made for magazine
are stakes worth having. Say Siriano and well on his way to a cover. Also with strong
what you will about Marie long career as both a designer showings were the under-
C l a i r e , b u t m o s t o b s c u r e and general star-kissed famous appreciated Jonathan with a '70s-
designers would kill for a chance person. inspired onesie for the dock of
to get their looks on the cover of • Joanna Coles Editor-in-Chief Aristotle Onassis yacht, Amy
a national magazine, especially of Marie Claire Magazine: She a f o r e m e n t i o n e d
on the body of Heidi Klum was the guest judge and she was cat/yarn/vomit/print thing (we
(hopefully inbetween bouts of as mean as she was pretty. We meant that as a compliment), and
bearing her latest spawn). Sure it would say we know where Jay's elongated baby doll dress
might not have turned out that NGFDMCM got it from but we that looked like a tree filled with
great for Jay McCarroll, but this know she had it before she toilet paper on a slightly breezy
could be a boon for each of worked with her current boss. chalk night.
them. Setting the bar high made But JCEICMCM has many of Dead Weight was sent home for
everyone try their hardest, which t h e s a m e q u a l i t i e s a s something that even Forever 21
always makes for good TV. NGFDMCM. Their editorial would have laughed out of its
• Madam Butterfly on Acid: meetings in the Heart Building cheap depots. There were a
This is how Jay described his must be epic whirlwinds of ego bunch of other ugly ones too, but
look. We couldn't have said it and smooth, slickly worded I can't come up with clever
better. Fabulous. underminings. adjectives for Seth Aaron's
• Suzanne Sugarbaker: We hated • Heidi's Laugh: When Suzanne walking suit of armor, Mya's
Anthony at first, but she grew on was named the winner (spoiler walking Georgia O'Keefe
us. Now she is the shining alert!) and started laughing painting, or Janeane's walking
beacon of this show. Even after inappropriately on the runway, Betty Draper nightmare. They all
she won this week (spoiler alert!) Heidi retorted with a laugh of her suck.
she over reacted a bit on the own. If Tim Gun's chuckle is like They suck so much that we love
runway, but unlike the first a shower of Werther's Originals, them. Let's watch some videos!
week, it was cute and endearing. Heidi's laugh was sharp, prickly, General Annoyance
Keep on working, Suzanne. We and unexpected—like 10 million Description: Everyone is so
don't think you're good enough toothpicks fired out of a air awed by this challenge that, for a
to take home the final trophy, but cannon at a crowd that thought it change, they are working hard
we're going to love watching you was going to get some free T- and being quiet. Except Seth
try. shirts but instead got a face full Aaron. He is an asshole and has
• Tickle Me, Emilio: While of splinters with colorful bits of to annoy everyone and they hate
Suzanne Sugarbaker doesn't have cellophane at the end. him. What is up with the West
a hope of being the top designing Side Story cross-step and snap
woman, Emilio actually does. In the end it was Suzanne he's doing?
He's talented, just bitchy enough, Sugarbaker who took home the Vision: That everyone cares
and not afraid to fight hard to top prize (spoiler alert!) for his
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Harold Ford's Tennessee Tax Dodge [Ford Tourist]
by John Cook (Gawker)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:41:43 AM
When it comes to his shadow
run for Senate, Harold Ford is a
New Yorker through and
through. When it comes to
paying taxes, though, he's still a
Tennessean — he's never filed a
New York return.
Ford claims to have moved to
New York three years ago, and
says paying "New York taxes"
makes him a New Yorker. But
his spokeswoman confirms to
Gawker that he's never filed a
New York tax return — meaning
that he's never paid New York's
income tax, despite keeping an
office and a residence in New
York City as a vice chairman of
Merrill Lynch since 2007: "He
pays New York taxes and will
file a New York tax return in
April for the first time," Ford's
spokeswoman Tammy Sun told
Gawker. "He will file all
necessary personal disclosure
and tax forms that candidates are
required to file if he chooses to
run." (According to Sun, Ford
admitted to the tax dodge
yesterday at a press availability
in Albany, but we can't find any
news accounts mentioning the
remarks.)
Ford has presumably chosen to
instead file in his other home
Tennessee, which conveniently
has no income tax. Which means
that, despite the fact that New
York law requires part-time and
nonresidents to pay income tax
on money they earn in the state,
Ford has shielded his entire
Merrill Lynch salary from New
York's tax collectors for the past
three years. In fact, it seems like
Tennessee's lack of an income
tax may be the best explanation
for Ford's rather complicated two
-state life since 2007 — he
clearly wanted to live in New
York, and married a woman in
2008 who did live in New York.
But he made sure to keep a foot
in a state whose tax code is
friendly to rich guys like himself.
When Merrill Lynch announced
Ford's hiring in 2007, it said he
would be keeping offices in
Nashville and New York City.
Ford has said that he's basically
lived in New York since then,
though he never technically lived
here until last year since he didn't
"spend the requisite number of
days" staying at his wife Emily
Ford's breathtakingly yellow
apartment in the Flatiron district.
(" Moved is such a legal term,"
he told the New York Times).
Ford was clearly thinking of
New York's 184-day rule, which
requires that part-time residents
who spend 184 or more days
living in the state pay New York
taxes on all their income.
What he seems to have forgotten
is that New York has gone to
great pains to prevent wealthy
people like him from spending
time and earning money in the
state and then jetting off to a tax
haven come April 15: It also
requires nonresidents and people
who live there fewer than 184
days to pay New York income
taxes on whatever portion of
their income they earned in the
state.
If Ford did enough business in
New York to keep an office
there, its reasonable to presume
that he earned a good deal of
money in New York. Now, we're
sure that there are all sorts of
accountants' arguments and
narrow dodges at Ford's disposal
to claim that he didn't owe New
York income tax until he moved
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running for Senate in New York
by claiming you've lived there
for three years and pay taxes
there.
So what taxes is Ford talking
about, if he's never paid income
tax in New York? We've asked
Sun, and haven't heard back. The
most pathetic (and, by our lights,
likely) answer is New York
City's 8.875% sales tax, though
Ford could also be talking about
sharing in property taxes on
Ford's apartment, or paying
quarterly estimated tax payments
on his freelance income as an
MSNBC talking head, which he
might have started paying last
year once he decided to break
that 184-day barrier and commit
to New York. Or perhaps he
instructed Merrill Lynch to start
withholding New York taxes
from his salary when he
established residency in 2009.
And when precisely, did that
happen, by the way? According
to this Federal Election
here last year: He could have Committee filing recording a
been paid out of Merrill Lynch's donation Ford made to Colorado
Nashville office, for instance, Sen. Mike Bennet, he was still
and he could have received the using his Memphis address as
majority of his income in a recently as September 29 of last
bonus that he could claim he y e a r — 9 8 d a y s b e f o r e h e
earned in Tennessee, not New announced his interest in Sen.
York. But while those sorts of Kirsten Gillibrand's seat.
arguments may be useful to
someone trying to get as close as
possible to living in New York
without suffering the tax
consequences of doing so,
they're not as effective when
you're loudly thinking about
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what he says and thinks he's
funny.
Delusion: That anyone cares
what he says and thinks he's
funny.
What Would Nina Say: "I don't
find any you amusing."
Dramometer: 4
Under the Gunn
Description: Tim comes into a
silent work room and doesn't
know what to do with himself.
He's so used to making them all
shut the fuck and listen to him
that the stillness bothers him.
Vision: All the designers are
tired and beat down from no
sleep, crazy challenges, and
inhumanely small beds at the
Atlas apartments.
Delusion: They think they're just
working hard.
What Would Nina Say: "I like
you so much better when you
keep your mouth shut."
Dramometer: 3
Shit Talk
Description: After several strong
Connecticut Huskies coach Jim
showings and a win, everyone
has finally figured out that Mila
is NGFDMCM's favorite and iis
a headstrong bitch who isn't as
talented as she (or NGFDMCM)
thinks she is.
Vision: Saying something is
going to change her.
Delusion: Mila is going to make
the finals, y'all, so you better get
used to her and her severe bangs
now, because they aren't going
anywhere.
What Would Nina Say: "Don't
listen to what they say. I think
you're brilliant. I see some of
myself in you."
Dramometer: 5
Runway Arrogance
Description: Ben watches his
dress walk down the runway.
Vision: As we said before
"Madam Butterfly on Acid."
Really, a thing of beauty. This is
what I'm wearing for Halloween
next year...
Delusion: ...minus the belt.
What Would Nina Say: "Just
like me, it looks good from the
front and the back."
Dramometer: 2
Back Talk
Description: Michael Kors turns
into Tyra Banks and changes the
model's outfit and hair before
deeming her worthy, just as the
crazy host of America's Next
Top Model does to her girls just
about every week. Sorry, Queen
Tangerine. Even with all that
fake tanning you're still not dark
enough to be Ty-Ty.
Vision: Emilio thinks that if he
does what they tell him, that he'll
win.
Delusion: Sorry, they may have
broken the rules for you, but
your second win will have to
come another week. A Reminder of Who's on the
What Would Nina Say: See for
yourself.
Dramometer: 6
Internet: I Just Want to Login to
Facebook!!! [Ordinary People]
by Richard Lawson (Gawker) Googled "facebook login" and
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:53:10 AM have expected direct results.
Never mind that the first item
Some tech blog recently put up a that comes up in such a search is
post called Facebook Wants to the actual Facebook login page.
Be Your One True Login. When And never mind that many of the

Calhoun back on the job
by Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 12:34:26 AM
Message from fivefilters.org: If
you can, please donate to the full
-text RSS service so we can
continue developing it. Calhoun
Returning Calhoun Returning
UConn coach Jim Calhoun
appears on the mend. The Hall of
Famer has to hope his return can
salvage an NCAA tournament
bid for the ailing Huskies.
Calhoun returned to his
coaching duties Thursday after a
medical leave of more than three
weeks forced him to miss seven
games. He has no restrictions on
what he can do and will be on
the bench for Saturday's game
against Cincinnati.
"I both felt that the time away
was important for my personal
and professional well-being and
that I am ready to move ahead
from this point at full speed,"
Calhoun said.
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you Google search "facebook frustrated commenters are using
login," this post is the fifth result Facebook Connect to comment,
that comes up. So naturally the which sort of means they're
internet's many geniuses are already logged in. Those are all
confused. elitist details. What's important is
As this is written, the post has t h a t t h e s e f o l k s G o o g l e d
846 comments, many of which something and expected results,
are simple, anguished pleas: but in this confusing byzantine
P L E A S E L E T M E L O G I N labyrinth we call the web, well...
INTO F A C E B O O K , sadly, things aren't always easy.
FACEBOOK IS GRATE BUT Internet people, dear readers.
THIS IS REDICULOUS.
Because, you see, they've
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Vonn’s Bruised Shin Chills U.S. Medal Hopes

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) victory. Vonn winning a gold to upsetting No. 2 Syracuse on be no better venue than Sunday’s
Submitted at 2/11/2010 8:21:57 AM medal (or three) could be Wednesday before the Orange Daytona 500 to begin a
legendary.” held on for a 72-67 victory, its turnaround. In fact, Earnhardt
Right now, Lindsey Vonn has Sports Illustrated’s Tim Layden 24th of the season in 25 games. has struggled for the past three
the most famous right shin in notes that Vonn’s career has The Huskies are still looking for years, the last two under
sports, and it’s not healthy. Her been marred by injury. their first road win (0-6), but the Hendrick Motorsports. “So now
dream of winning five medals at The Globe and Mail’s Dawn New Haven Register’s Dave it has come to this: An icon of
t h e W i n t e r O l y m p i c s i n Walton writes about two other Solomon saw progress from the sport has reached a
Vancouver might be over before downhill skiers poised to win t h a t t h e h o t e l , t r a v e l a n d UConn. crossroads,” ESPN’s Terry
the Games begin if that shin she Olympic gold, Maria Riesch of coaching costs of Chemmy In the Syracuse Post-Standard, Blount writes. “Either Earnhardt
bruised last week in Austria Germany and Anja Pärson of Alcott, Britain’s best-known B u d P o l i q u i n t o u t s t h e returns to contending status and
doesn’t heal before her first race Sweden. skier and a medal prospect, are importance of Andy Rautins to regains his credibility among the
Sunday. Vonn’s first training run The Vancouver Province’s about £300,000 a year — not a t h e O r a n g e . ” D e f e n s e Nascar elite or he falls into a
was scheduled for midday Terry Bell writes about the first figure easily affordable for most choreography leadership. He racing purgatory of
Thursday. Associated Press controversy of the Games, which Brits,” Syed writes. provided it all,” Poliquin writes, disappointment and unmet
Lindsey Vonn’s gold in press surrounds skeleton, one of those Figure skating figures to land “plus a couple of big free throws, expectations.”
coverage won’t count toward bizarre sports that get little boffo ratings for NBC and its down the stretch as this second- Elsewhere in racing: In the Los
U.S. medal totals. attention outside the Olympics. affiliates, but Sports Illustrated’s ranked SU club improved its Angeles Times, Jim Pelz gets the
“The best woman skier in Canadian Jeff Pain, a silver Frank Deford gives the sport’s record to a fairly astounding 24- story on drag racing, “ the most
American history (she’s on her medalist in 2006, accuses the new scoring system a failing 1. And it did so against a pretty crucial four seconds in sports,”
way to her third World Cup German squad of using a sled grade. formidable foe.” and some of its colorful
o v e r a l l t i t l e ) , V o n n w a s bolstered by an illegal metal In the Seattle Times, Ron Judd One team that’s no longer characters over the past half-
supposed to be the Michael component in the runners. catches up with short-track speed formidable: North Carolina, century.* * *
Phelps of these Olympics,” No such controversy in skater Apolo Ohno, who relishes w h i c h w o n t h e n a t i o n a l Spring training can’t begin soon
ESPN’s Jim Caple writes. women’s skeleton, where competing in his final Olympics. championship last season. The enough for baseball fans, but
“Every media outlet has been Shelley Rudman is Britain’s best NBC will have fewer tape- Tar Heels are only 13-11 (2-7 in anticipation and renewed hope
talking up her chances of hope for an Olympic medal. The delayed events than in previous the ACC) after losing to Duke, might be tempered somewhat
winning multiple gold medals.” pressure is on: Her funding will Olympics, unless you live on the 64-54, on the night Tyler when you check out ticket prices
Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel says drop substantially if she fails to West Coast, the Journal’s Sam Hansbrough’s number was for the best matchups. It’s called
expectations are unrealistically win a medal. (She won silver Schechner and Amy Chozick retired. For Sports Illustrated’s “dynamic pricing,” and while SF
high around Vonn. “The bold four years ago.) To win gold, write, unlike in Canada, where Seth Davis, the Tar Heels’ loss Weekly’s Joe Eskenazi
medal goal, pushed by her Rudman will have to defeat the everything will be shown live. signals the end of their NCAA understands the reasoning behind
m a r k e t i n g p e o p l e , h e l p e d world’s No. 1 woman, Canadian Finally, the Christian Science Tournament hopes. the Giants’ move to a new
establish Vonn as the big pre- Melissa Hollingsworth, the Monitor’s Bill Glauber writes That would represent a big pricing system, he doesn’t like it
Games star,” Wetzel writes. Guardian’s Donald McRae about why the Olympics still disappointment. In the New one bit.
“The risk was that if she won writes. matter. York Daily News, Dick Weiss Sabernomics’s J.C. Bradbury
only three golds, she’d be In the Sydney Morning Herald, Be sure to check back often for writes that few analysts expected sees benefits in the practice,
declared a disappointment. It Dan Silkstone has the story of the Journal’s comprehensive Carolina to repeat, but the Tar though.
happened, to some degree, to how Australia’s bobsled team Olympics coverage. Must-see Heels could have been a Sweet – Tip of the Fix cap to reader
Phelps in the Athens Games made it to the Olympics. video: The Journal’s Reed 16 squad.* * * Don Hartline and fellow Fixer
when he wasn’t able to win In the Times of London, Albergotti tries moguls skiing.* Dale Earnhardt Jr. is coming off David Roth.
every race. Now everything Matthew Syed laments that most ** his worst Nascar season ever, a
changes. Just getting out there Olympic athletes come from well UConn came tantalizingly close 25th-place finish without a VONN’S page 65
and competing would be a -to-do families. “It is estimated victory in any race. There might
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Calhoun returns to a team that
needs a sizzling, upset-heavy
winning streak to sniff the
NCAA tournament. The Huskies
(14-10, 4-7 Big East) have sunk
to the bottom half of the
conference standings a year after
a No. 1 seed and a Final Four
berth.
UConn's top moment came Jan.
23 when associate head coach
George Blaney led the Huskies
to an upset of then-No. 1 Texas.
But the Huskies threw away their
momentum like one of their 352
turnovers this season when they
lost the next game at Providence
-- and that started the second of
their three-game losing streaks
this season. UConn ended the
skid by eking out a seven-point
win Saturday against lowly
DePaul (1 win in the Big East)
and lost at No. 2 Syracuse 72-67
on Wednesday night.
"We still think we're pretty
good," Blaney said. "We still
think we can be a factor in every
game we play in."
UConn has gone 3-4 in
Calhoun's absence. School
officials have not said what was
ailing Calhoun, but said it had
nothing to do with his three
bouts with cancer and was not
related to his heart.
The losing wasn't the only thing
that took some getting used to in
Storrs, a bucolic college town,
located amid the dairy farms of
northeastern Connecticut. UConn
games without Calhoun, as New
England as a bowl of clam
chowder, have been way too
quiet. Gone has been the
stomping, the cussing, the
barking at officials.
Longtime followers of the
program described the 67-year-
old Calhoun as more down than
angry after recent losses. He
never knew what kind of
performance he'd get out of the
erratic Huskies and almost
seemed resigned to that fate.
Asked recently what UConn
basketball is like without
Calhoun, forward Stanley
Robinson cracked, "[Blaney]
doesn't scream."
Added freshman center Alex
Oriakhi: "The yelling. That's the
biggest difference."
Blaney, a former head coach at
four schools including Holy
Cross, is more laid back. He has
calmly watched games with his
arms folded -- never any hint he
was about to blow a gasket over
a blown call. The Syracuse game
was the 14th time since 2003 he
has coached in Calhoun's place,
including the NCAA opener last
season.
"I think initially it was easy
because they know me and I've
been around a while, especially
with the older guys," Blaney
said. "But I think as the time
goes on, it's a little more difficult
for them because they're used to
his style and the way he runs
practices. I would say it might be
a little confusing to them at this
stage."
The two gym rats forged a
relationship when Blaney
coached at Stonehill and
Calhoun was in the high school
ranks. They crossed paths again
when Blaney moved on to Holy
Cross and Calhoun went to
Northeastern.
Calhoun is making $1.6 million
the final year of a six-year deal
and was on the brink of signing a
multi-year extension in
December, though the contract
was never completed.
"This has no bearing on the
contract whatsoever," athletic
director Jeffrey Hathaway said.
The deal is still there for
Calhoun -- if he wants it.
Calhoun, the gruff Irishman,
spoke last season about retiring if
the Huskies won the national
championship. Now he's in his
38th year as a college head
coach.
Calhoun has been treated for
cancer three times during his
UConn career, including last
summer when he successfully
battled skin cancer. In June, he
had to be hospitalized after
breaking several ribs during a
charity bike ride.
"It's going to take a lot to keep
coach Calhoun out. A lot,"
Oriakhi said. "If you break ribs
and keep going on your bike, this
is nothing for him."
There's also an ongoing NCAA
investigation into a report by
Yahoo! Sports that former team
manager Josh Nochimson helped
guide basketball recruit Nate
Miles to Connecticut, giving him
lodging, transportation, meals
and representation. Calhoun has
acknowledged that he or his staff
may have made mistakes in
recruiting Miles.
Hathaway said the NCAA and
school are in the middle of the
review and had no other
comment.
Calhoun has not talked to the
press since the start of his
sabbatical and repeated attempts
to reach him by The Associated
Press have been unsuccessful.
He'll address the media at the
end of Friday's practice.
If Calhoun does retire at the end
of the season, this is no
immediate successor in place.
Blaney is 70 and, while he's
filled in when needed, is
certainly not a long-term
solution.
"Whoever takes over, that's
going to be the hot seat," former
UConn star and Celtics guard
Ray Allen said. It's hard to
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imagine anyone having more
impact on the team than
Calhoun. UConn had played in
the NCAA tournament just twice
in 20 years before Calhoun led
them to nine trips in the 1990s.
The Huskies need some turning
around again, starting with
signature victories to leap back
into NCAA consideration. Their
grueling schedule features games
this month at Villanova (No. 5
ESPN/USA Today, No. 4 AP)
and West Virginia (No. 4
ESPN/USA Today, No. 5 AP).
UConn is 1-5 vs. the Top 25 and
the win against Texas looks less
impressive as the Longhorns
have sputtered.
UConn might have to win out
and reach the Big East
tournament final to be
considered for an at-large NCAA
bid.
That's quite a heady mission for
this team -- with or without its
legendary coach.
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Drugs, Rain, Apathy: Pivotal Games
by Jay Mariotti (FanHouse are said to be in the dirty group.
Main) The bad news, for sportingkind,
Submitted at 2/11/2010 3:32:00 PM
is that world-class athletes
continue to cheat even as the
V A N C O U V E R , B r i t i s h strongest testing measures in
Columbia -- It's raining in British Olympic history are firmly in
Columbia, just as it's supposed to place. Have they not followed
rain the next several days and the steroids fallout the last 20-
most of the next two weeks, some years? Do not they not see
meaning the host city of the the shame when an athlete is
Winter Olympics may lack one revealed to be a juicer? Are
vital ingredient: Winter. This performance-enhancing drugs
meteorological hangup only here forever and ever and ever?
stands to trigger further debate And if mainstream sports fans
about whether the cold-weather w a t c h t h e W i n t e r G a m e s
Games, once a gem on the global primarily for what I call the
sports calendar, still have the greatest tournament in team
chops to be considered a big sports -- the hockey competition
deal. Isn't our planet obsessed -- there were concerns Thursday
with the World Cup, NFL, Tiger that NHL players aren't subjected
Woods, Roger Federer and all to the same testing policies of the
sorts of ventures not involving World Anti-Doping Agency as
ice, snow, Double McTwists and other Olympians. "It's not as
triple Salchows? stringent as you would want,''
Already, hours before the WADA director general David
Opening Ceremony inside BC Howman said. "We don't know if
Place, we have a scandal amid there's a [doping] problem [in the
the trees, water and snow-capped NHL], but you're left with the
mountains of a dazzling, party- suspicion that there may be a
minded region. On Games eve, problem if you're not prepared to
the anti-doping police let it be front up.'' Those of us gearing up
known they'd busted more than for Sidney Crosby vs. Alex
30 Olympians for violations and Ovechkin sure don't need a
barred them from entering steroids mess.
Canada. The good news, for As they talked drugs in the city,
America, is that no U.S. athletes Lindsey Vonn was two hours
VONN’S
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previous three years and 50
weeks.
A decade into the 21st century,
are the masses really into figure
skating, bobsled and
speedskating anymore? Much as
America loved Dorothy Hamill,
Eric Heiden and Bonnie Blair,
how does anyone relate to their
sports anymore when so few
people participate in them? The
future seems to be in the X
Games genre, with no better
evidence than White's standing --
at $9 million annually -- as the
away atop Whistler Mountain, Davis, red-headed snowboarding highest-income Olympian other
admitting on her Twitter feed -- freak Shaun White, pioneer short than a few hockey superstars.
get used to Twitter feeds here -- -track star Apolo Anton Ohno -- When snowboarding sex-kitten
that she "took a bunch" of and deserve your attention. But H a n n a h T e t e r ( s e e S p o r t s
painkillers to numb her famously N B C b e g i n s i t s c o v e r a g e Illustrated's swimsuit edition)
bruised right shin before a admitting it will lose a minimum draws a higher wage at $1
downhill training run. You can of $200 million because of million a year than the more
just hear Jim McKay and the diminished advertising revenue. accomplished Davis, you sense
trumpets now, saluting the The hope, as we've seen before, the Winter Games are destined to
c o n c e p t o f " a b u n c h " o f is that snowbound segments of become a full-blown version of
painkillers. Needless to say, it America warm up to the Games, the X Games -- especially with
doesn't help the buzz quotient female viewers take notice of ESPN, home of the X Games,
w h e n t h e f i r s t t w o m a j o r figure skating and human- ready to be a prime bidder at the
headlines involve drugs and a interest stories and the under-30 next TV negotiating table.
chance the golden girl of the crowd rallies around White and As even codgerly David
Games could miss part or all of X Games endeavors. The bigger Letterman said the other night,
the skiing competition with her sense, though, is that the Winter while interviewing garage-rock-
injury. It's sad, really, because so Games are at a crossroads and guitarist White, "This is what the
many of these athletes are m a y d e v o l v e i n t o a n i c h e Olympics need more of."
brilliant and fascinating -- function because most of us don't
brooding speedskater Shani pay attention to these sports the
66 Sports/ E-reader News Edition

Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson out of The Count: Lakers

All-Star Game Weather Bryant Injury
by Marc Stein (ESPN.com) vacation in the Phoenix area and starting spot. Iverson will not be (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 2/12/2010 7:02:35 AM is expected to fly back to Dallas required to travel to Dallas Submitted at 2/11/2010 2:00:21 PM
on Friday. because he's missing the game
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continue developing it. Bryant's replacement. Knicks' first All-Star since Allan Conference foes — without
DALLAS -- Would-be starters "But once we laid it out, they Houston and Latrell Sprewell in Kobe Bryant. What does this say
Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson were really excited about it," 2001. Stern chose Lee over about the importance of the do paint different pictures of
are out of the NBA All-Star Cuban told reporters in Dallas. Milwaukee center Andrew defending champ’s leading Bryant’s usefulness to L.A.
Game. Although he is still scheduled to Bogut, who is averaging 16.0 scorer to their prospects? Getty It’s notable that Winston rates
Lee travel to Dallas and take part in points and 10.2 rebounds and has Images The Lakers have made Durant so highly, because after
Kidd All-Star Weekend festivities as a helped lead the Bucks to within a do without Kobe Bryant shots last season Winston’s system
Jason Kidd of the hometown spectator, Bryant is the third game of a playoff spot in the like this one in recent games. showed the Thunder were better
Dallas Mavericks has been West guard to pull out of East. Different data sources give without Durant than with him.
chosen to replace Bryant. New Sunday's game through injury. West coach George Karl and different answers. That brought Winston a lot of
York's David Lee is replacing Stern chose Denver's Chauncey East coach Stan Van Gundy will Basketballvalue.com puts Bryant criticism for his methods, though
Iverson. Billups to replace New Orleans' choose the players who will just outside the top 10 in the Basketballvalue agreed. This
An ankle injury has prevented C h r i s P a u l ( k n e e ) a n d L o s replace Bryant and Iverson in the NBA in adjusted plus/minus, a year, both sites are very high on
Bryant from playing in the Los Angeles Clippers center Chris respective starting lineups. measure of how much better the the 21-year-old forward,
Angeles Lakers' past three Kaman to take the spot of It's expected that Mavericks Lakers are with him on the court including for his defense, which
games. Iverson has missed P o r t l a n d ' s Brandon forward Dirk Nowitzki, who just than without him. His rating is last year was a liability.
Philadelphia's last five games R o y ( h a m s t r i n g ) . missed out on a starting spot in +12.81, which is a far cry from At Basketball Reference, Neil
because one of his young Golden State's Monta Ellis, sixth fan voting when San Antonio's LeBron James’s league-leading Paine takes the longer view in
children is ill. in the league in scoring at 26.2 Tim Duncan passed him in the mark of +21.77, but is still a assessing Bryant’s impact on his
Both informed the league on points per game, might have final ballot tally, will replace superstar level. teammates. Paine gathers the
Thursday that they needed to been a contender to replace Bryant as a starter with the West. However, Wayne Winston’s— stats of players who appeared
withdraw from Sunday's game, Bryant but suffered a knee strain ESPNDallas.com's Tim which, unlike Basketballvalue’s, alongside Bryant while being
sources said. in Tuesday's home loss to Dallas MacMahon contributed to this attempt to account for those coached by Phil Jackson, and
NBA commissioner David t h a t f o r c e d h i m t o m i s s report. players at the end of NBA compares their stats with and
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(9.3 per game) -- had already left earned more than 1 million votes and Kevin Durant at +20. All offensively, and so prone to use
Dallas to begin an All-Star break in fan balloting to earn an East four of those players rank in the his teams’ possessions with his
top six at Basketballvalue, own shots.
demonstrating that the methods
aren’t vastly different. But they
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Snowed-Out Mountain a Gift for
Vonn
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 2/11/2010 6:26:30 PM
American skier Lindsey Vonn,
whose debilitating shin injury
has put her gold medal hopes in
jeopardy, received a potentially
significant gift from Mother
Nature Thursday. Heavy snow at
Whistler Creekside, the site of
the downhill run, cancelled
practice, forcing all skiers to take
the day off. AFP/Getty Images
Lindsey Vonn arrives limping
for training Thursday in
Whistler. Heavy snow forced all
skiers off the slopes.
Had the days event taken place,
Vonn would have had two
options: Take the training run,
potentially aggravating her deep
tissue muscle bruise on her shin,
or take the day off, allowing her
competition gain a competitive
edge by skiing the course and
acclimating to its topography. If
you want to be fast, you have to
memorize the course and know
where everything is. In order to
do that you need time on the
snow, said US ski team
spokesman Doug Haley.
Vonn is the most prolific female
skier in American history, with
injury is called a boot bang
because its caused by the edge of
the boot digging into the muscles
surrounding the shin. Most skiers
experience it at least once in
their careers. Vonns case,
however, is extremely severe.
Vonns mother, Linda Krohn,
says her daughter knows her
limits and would have pulled out
if the inury were too serious to
compete. She knows when she
should stop and when she can
keep going, she said. But Krohn
says Vonns pain tolerance is
extremely high.
One thing Krohn thinks will
help her daughter cope with the
31 World Cup wins. She has injury is her husbands experience
won the last two overall World with the same type of injury.
Cup championships, and ranks Thomas Vonn, a former Olympic
among the favorites in all five racer, is with his wife in
womens alpine skiing disciplines Whistler. Im sure his mind is
in the 2010 Games. figuring out how to make it less
She injured her right shin in a painful, Ms. Krohn said. Im just
training run in Austria Feb. 2, thinking he has a plan.
and has been off her skis since Krohn said she has not spoken
then to let the injury heal before to her daughter since the injury
t h e O l y m p i c s . V o n n t o l d occurred. I will not go near her
reporters Thursday at Whistler during the Olympics, says Ms.
she was relieved to have an extra Krohn. Shes so focused, I would
day to rest her shin. not interfere with that.
In the skiing world, Vonns
Source: Bengals work out
former Titan, Cowboy
Adam "Pacman" Jones
by Adam Schefter
(ESPN.com)
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Former Tennessee Titans and
Dallas Cowboys cornerback
Adam "Pacman" Jones worked
out for the Cincinnati Bengals on
Thursday, according to league
sources.
The workout is thought to be
Jones' first with an NFL team
since the Cowboys released him
in February 2009.
Bengals coach Marvin Lewis
has been a champion in
providing second chances to
players.
Jones has avoided trouble since
his last brush with the law in
October 2008. He was involved
in an alcohol-related incident
with a bodyguard assigned to
him by the Cowboys, and hotel
employees called police. No
arrests were made nor charges
filed. But the NFL suspended
Jones for four games because the
Sports/ 67
incident was a violation of the
league's personal conduct policy.
Jones began his time in Dallas
under close league scrutiny after
he was suspended for the entire
2007 season for multiple
violations of the conduct policy
while he was a member of the
Titans. The Cowboys traded for
Jones before his suspension was
over and he was reinstated by
NFL commissioner Roger
Goodell on Aug. 28, 2008.
The Bengals also have
expressed interest in former
Jaguars receiver Matt Jones, who
was suspended for the final three
games of the 2008 season for
violating the league's substance
abuse policy. He was cut by the
Jaguars in March 2009.
According to The Tennessean of
Nashville, the Titans have made
Matt Jones a contract offer and
were awaiting word back.
Adam Schefter is ESPN's NFL
Insider.
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Paul 'Tank' Younger Helped Put Shaq Makes It Personal

Grambling on Map in Cavaliers' Win Over
by Dave Goldberg (FanHouse
Main)
first African-American
quarterback to win a Super
Bowl. It's long-time coach, Eddie
Magic
Submitted at 2/12/2010 1:00:00 AM
by Pat McManamon
Robinson, is revered in football (FanHouse Main)
Black History Month has been circles.
celebrated in some form since But until Paul "Tank'' Younger Submitted at 2/11/2010 6:19:00 PM

1924. For sports fans, it is a came along, it was barely a blip

chance to reacquaint themselves Filed under: Cavaliers, Magic
on anyone's consciousness
with those who broke down CLEVELAND -- Thursday
outside northern Louisiana.
barriers in all areas of could have been a night for the
Younger, who was primarily a
competition and all segments of Cleveland Cavaliers to celebrate
fullback in 10 NFL seasons, was
society. Many are now their franchise-tying 13th win in
a trailblazer, the first player from
household names and American a row. Or to marvel at another
a historically black college to
icons: Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, recognizable as pioneers. During play in the NFL, starting in 1949, MVP performance from LeBron
J a c k i e R o b i n s o n , W i l m a Black History Month 2010, when pro sports were 98 percent James, who turned a 96-96 tie
Rudolph, Muhammad Ali, up to FanHouse aims to give them white. He also was one of the into a final-minutes runaway by
Tiger Woods, Tony Dungy and their due. scoring or assisting on 16 Cavs season's playoff series? That's a
first blacks to work in an NFL
Venus and Serena Williams Tank Younger points in a row. Or to point to the cool breeze compared to the
front office -- as assistant general
today. In the world of black colleges, manager of the San Diego Cavs' four wins in four games simmering feelings coming from
Every day throughout February, Grambling is Notre Dame, Chargers from 1975-87 and later this season over the Lakers and Shaquille O'Neal regarding
FanHouse will shed light on the Southern Cal, Penn State and as a scout and administrator for Magic, the two teams that Orlando's Dwight Howard.
other figures in the history of Alabama rolled into one. It has the Rams, with whom he spent reached the NBA Finals a year Because as the media straggled
sports whose breakthroughs were turned out dozens of NFL most of his playing career. ago. into the Cavs locker room,
as significant as those mentioned players, including four Hall of But more personal matters took O'Neal stood at his locker, ready
above, but who aren't as instantly Famers and Doug Williams, the precedence after the Cavs won and waiting.
115-106, personal matters that Clearly he had something he
will carry through when the two wanted to say.
best teams in the East meet in the "You tell me," he said, "who the
NBA playoffs in the spring. real Superman is."
Think the handshake issue
meant something after last
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No NFL Salary Cap? No Problem Dana White Says

by Terence Moore (FanHouse
Main) Anderson Silva Will Still
Submitted at 2/11/2010 3:00:00 PM

In a couple of weeks, when NFL

players and owners fail to extend
their collective bargaining
agreement, the salary cap will
vanish for the upcoming season.
Not only that, players union
chief DeMaurice Smith says that
if the salary cap goes, his clients
never will agree to bring it back,
which isn't good news.
It's great news.
At worst, it is indifferent news,
but only if you realize the myth
that The All Mighty Salary Cap
reigns as the league's messiah.
Sorry to reveal the truth to the
naive, but there is no Easter
Bunny, somebody really was
shooting from the grassy knoll,
and the salary cap hadn't much to
do, for instance, with the
normally hapless teams from
New Orleans and Tampa Bay
capturing Super Bowls during
this century.
The Saints and the Buccaneers
were just better than everybody
else. That is, better, as in their
combination of players,
chemistry and strategy. And
what was behind that
combination? Well, it wasn't the
salary cap. It was those
ownerships hiring the right
executives to run their
franchises. After that, it was
those executives acquiring
knowledgeable football people in
management.
Then it was those
knowledgeable football people
finding the perfect head coach
for the situation. Then it was the
whole collection of those folks
adding and deleting players and
assistant coaches along the way
to fit their vision.
The salary cap? Please.
Fight at UFC 112
by Mike Chiappetta
(FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 2/11/2010 5:08:00 PM
Filed under: UFC, FanHouse
Exclusive, News
Though an injury will keep
Vitor Belfort from competing
during the UFC's maiden voyage
to Abu Dhabi, middleweight
champion Anderson Silva is still
expected to fight at UFC 112,
UFC President Dana White told
MMA Fighting early Friday
morning.
Belfort injured his shoulder in
Sonnen soundly defeated Nate
training and will require surgery.
Marquardt and was promised a
White gave no indication as to
title shot after Belfort and Silva
who Silva might face, but said
squared off. Now, with Belfort
the fight will be in the
out, Sonnen seems the most
middleweight division,
likely possibility, but no sure
indicating that "the Spider" will
thing.
indeed defend his belt. At last
Saturday's UFC 109, Chael

Uncharted 2 outselling first game, 'closing in' on 3 million sold

by Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) base of the PS3 has something to Uncharted 2 outselling first
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:59:00 AM do with franchise's growing game, 'closing in' on 3 million
success; and perhaps the addition sold originally appeared on
It may not have charted in the of multiplayer makes Uncharted Joystiq on Fri, 12 Feb 2010
January NPDs, but Uncharted 2 2 a more attractive purchase than 10:59:00 EST. Please see our
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n u m b e r o f r e a s o n s w h y : closing in on three million copies management should have one please!"
Certainly, the growing install sold worldwide," according to
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Nyla Noor: Luxury

Cage initially wanted PlayStation
Motion Controller for Heavy Rain
by Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
find this quote from Cage
Cage went on to add, "I have a
Fashion Meets
Conscious Living
by ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
collections “must have” styles,
can we worn as a messenger bag
by day and a chic clutch by
Submitted at 2/11/2010 2:36:22 PM

regarding his upcoming Heavy lot of interest in Sony's motion night. Nyla Noor is a brand that
Submitted at 2/12/2010 9:07:00 AM
It was just last year that sisters merges luxury fashion and
Rain. device and there is a good
Romaana and Saifra Zia left their conscious living. Their collection
Just to prove we're willing to go "If you are talking about Motion chance that we announce
banking jobs to start their is produced in Manhattan, and
the extra mile for you here at Control, this is something we something about it in the coming
lifelong dream of designing the despite the measures they take to
Joystiq, we taught ourselves initially considered for Heavy weeks." We don't know what
perfect eco-luxe handbags. Now, go green, quality and aesthetic
Norwegian just to bring you the Rain. The very first version of he'll announce, but we certainly
with the launch of The Nyla are never sacrificed.
l a t e s t f r o m D a v i d C a g e ' s the game design was based on hope that it'll be in Norwegian.
Noor Launch Collection, they’ve Prices range from $415-$855
i n t e r v i e w w i t h N o r w e g i a n motion control, but it was not Cage initially wanted
created four beautiful, multi- and they can be purchased at
publication Dagbladet. Sadly, feasible at the time," he said. PlayStation Motion Controller
functional styles made from the www.nylanoor.com
Mr. Cage's answers were not in D a g b l a d e t l a t e r h e l p e d u s for Heavy Rain originally
very best leather and luxurious — K y l e A n d e r s o n , S e n i o r
Norwegian, meaning we wasted confirm via one of Cage's reps appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 12
hardware. And, better yet, each A c c e s s o r i e s E d i t o r
$8,000 and what our instructor that he had hoped to design the Feb 2010 09:07:00 EST. Please
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Erin Wasson’s Fall 2010

Show: “Magic” Carpets and
an Appearance by Ke$ha
by ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 2/11/2010 8:53:30 PM

Erin Wasson knows how to pack

a room—be it the tents at Bryant
Park or the 6th floor of a home
goods store. For her fall 2010
RVCA show tonight, the
model/designer/stylist filled New
York’s chicest house-wares
emporium, ABC Carpet &
Home, with editors, friends (and
a scantily clad pop-star) all
seated on stacked “magic”
carpets (much more comfy than tough-chic leather jacket.
EEDAR: No More Heroes 2 sold less the folding chairs set up at the Click here to shop Erin's current
tents). Causing even the coolest collection for RVCA.
of cool kids to lose their —Violet Moon Gayn or
than 30k in January composure was singer Ke$ha, Photo: Patrick McMullan
who arrived with ELLE’s own Follow ELLE on Twitter.
by JC Fletcher (Joystiq) was on sale for less than a week marketing budgets, which is Joe Zee. In proper pop-star style, Become our Facebook fan!
Submitted at 2/12/2010 10:01:00 AM in January. (There's certainly likely the wrong strategy to use she came wearing no pants and a
room for a few more people to when attempting to target the
It's sad to admit it, but we never go out and pick it up, though.) Wii consumer, even if you are
expect any third-party "core" Wii " No More Heroes 2: Desperate targeting the 'core' market."
game to sell well -- regardless of Struggle has scored top reviews When is that ever the right
its quality or the hype behind it. averaging a 90 (out of 100) since strategy?
Lowered expectations mean that its release," EEDAR analyst EEDAR: No More Heroes 2
when such a title doesn't Jesse Divnich said in the sold less than 30k in January
absolutely tank, it's great news! EEDAR report. "However, sales originally appeared on Joystiq on
And the sales of No More came less than 30,000 units for Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:01:00 EST.
Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, as its first week (January 26, 2010 Please see our terms for use of
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72 Fashion/
Olympic Hopeful Jennifer Rodriguez on How to Get Your
Body Movin'
by ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 2/11/2010 2:16:11 PM
Don't get me wrong— I love a
super-soaker of a workout—but
finding the motivation to give up
an extra hour of sleep or leave a
long day at work to hit the gym
is nearly impossible (almost as
impossible as getting me to go
near a jar of mayonnaise).
Recently, I had the opportunity
to chat with Nike athlete and
Team USA Olympic hopeful
Jennifer Rodriguez, a speed
skater from Miami, and
thankfully took away some
words of get-off-your-butt
wisdom. I need it:
1. Workouts are always better
with a plus one.
Whether in a class or on a run,
exercising with my friends is
always more enjoyable. It's the
same at the professional level:
"Once I get going, my teammates
are there to lift me up if I need it,
to keep going," says Rodriguez,
who commits six to eight hours a
day to training in the summer,
which consists mostly of circuit
work.
2. It's never too late to make a
comeback.
The longer I go without a
workout, the harder it is get back
in the gym. Rodriguez (the first
Cuban-American to medal in a
winter sport), full-out retired
from speed skating in 2006, but
decided to put in the hard
work—including regaining ten
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us will never, and should never,
exert ourselves to the point of
blacking out, we can all relate to
the exhaustion and aches that set
in after a tough workout—not
exactly something that's going to
make you want to do it again in
the coming days. Rodriguez
treats soreness by taking cold
baths and eating something rich
in protein and carbs “as quickly
as possible after training.”
5. Another reason to book a
massage:
As if I need another reason to go
to a spa, massages are the perfect
way to reward yourself and your
muscles. Rodriguez says she gets
massages once a week when
pounds of muscle mass—to routine, however, is simple she's training. Now, that is
return to the sport in 2008. enough for anyone to replicate something that will definitely
3. Buns of steal are real. for a rock-hard behind: lunges, motivate make me get off my
Rodriguez's time on the ice has one-legged squats, hip lifts with butt.
earned her more than just a elastic bands, and "anything —Maura Lynch, Associate
bronze medal from the 2002 where your legs burn." Beauty & Fitness Editor
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(The Economist: Daily efficient caching elsewhere on Sure, he could get 650 kilobytes The latency cannot be less than infrastructure used to carry it.
columns) the web, used fewer graphics and a second or more from a cable the distance the electromagnetic Websites that were once just 50
Submitted at 2/11/2010 11:41:46 PM
embraced the PNG and JPEG connection. But that would mean signal has to travel divided by kilobytes of text and tiny pictures
picture formats, with their ditching his otherwise excellent the speed of light. For instance, now come with music, video and
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continue developing it. equivalent of 1,000 words, at soon have access to the internet theory, then, the shortest round- It is even worse on the mobile
Tech.view The faster the least when it came to the time at more than six megabytes a trip between the two locations is phone companies’ proprietary
internet becomes, the slower it taken to transmit them. second—providing he is 4.3 milliseconds. But if you networks. Carriers are struggling
loads pages When your correspondent hand- prepared to pay $140 a month “ping” the other computer, you’ll to keep up with demand as
Feb 12th 2010 | From The coded The Economist’s first instead of $21 for his existing get a round-trip time of typically subscribers use their smart-
Economist online website back in 1994, a typical DSL connection. 700 milliseconds. That is still phones to check Facebook,
EVER noticed how long it takes web page was about 50 kilobytes A 70-fold increase in speed for a pretty quick, but it shows just stream videos from YouTube
for web pages to load these in size and dial-up modems sevenfold increase in price how much time is spent waiting and play interactive games.
days? You click on a link and could transfer no more than three would seem a bargain. But your around for the various servers Where a mid-range smart-phone
wait and wait, and then wait kilobytes a second. To stay under correspondent is not sure that involved to handle the request. would consume about 100
some more, for the content to the “eight-second rule”, pictures more raw speed will solve the There are many places along the megabytes of data a month, more
t r i c k l e i n . I f n o t h i n g h a s were kept to a minimum, so no glacial loading problem. Even way where the message can get advanced models like the Apple
happened after ten seconds or so, page took more than three or with his wimpy DSL connection, bogged down. Queues can build iPhone or Motorola Droid, with
your impatient correspondent four seconds to begin loading pages are rendered quickly up at routing servers that switch fully fledged browsers and
hits the browser’s stop button and never longer than 20 seconds enough once the website’s data packages along different access to thousands of
followed by the reload key. In to complete. The irony is that, servers (and all the other routes to their destinations downloadable applications, tend
desperation, he sometimes loads with broadband nowadays more computers along the route, plus depending on the traffic. Worst to consume over 500 megabytes
the link into a second or even a or less everywhere, overall those used to host adverts, of all, the DNS (Domain Name a month. With the imminent
third browser tab as well, and connection speeds have gone up graphics and miscellaneous Server) computers used by your arrival of tablet computers like
bombards the website’s server by leaps and bounds, yet the time layout bits) start giving his ISP can be overwhelmed as they the iPad, which come with
with multiple requests for the taken to load web pages seems browser’s request some try to translate the names of all wireless modems, the appetite
page. If that fails, he gives up in only to have got longer. attention. The trouble is getting the websites subscribers want to for downloadable data could hit a
disgust and reads a newspaper Your correspondent is their attention in the first place. visit (say, www.economist.com) gigabyte a month (see the lead
instead. admittedly near the end of the Before two computers can into their actual internet story in this week’s Business
Back in the early days of the road for a digital subscriber line exchange information, they have addresses (216.35.68.215). If section).
internet, when most web users (DSL) connection. But even at to agree to talk to one another. you know it, try using the And this is just the beginning.
relied on dial-up connections, three miles (5km) from the local Under normal conditions, this website’s numerical address On the internet, the average
browsers were crude and web telephone exchange, the speed of requires the user’s computer to rather than its verbose URL latency for corporate websites in
graphics were clumsy GIF files, his broadband connection has send a request to the host (Universal Resource Locator) America is currently around
eight seconds was considered the inched up over the past few years computer, which then sends a name. That can sometimes halve 350ms, according to the Network
maximum people would stick from 65 kilobytes a second to response back to the user. Only the response time. Weather Report operated by the
around for a page to load. To m o r e t h a n 9 0 k i l o b y t e s a after this “handshaking” is The bottlenecks—whether at the University of California, Los
increase “stickiness”, web second—as the local line has complete can the exchange of DNS translators, the routing Angeles. Google’s latency is
designers pared their HTML b e e n t w e a k e d a n d l e g a c y data commence. The time taken computers or the host’s own 150ms, Facebook’s 285ms and
code to the bone, collated their equipment like echo-cancelling for this round-trip of request and servers—stem largely from the
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i n t o s i n g l e f i l e s f o r m o r e boxes. network’s latency. has changed faster than the
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YouTube’s 515ms. Such

(The Economist: News says that exploration and capital for reserves such as tar sands that develop the Gorgon field off latencies will have to come down
analysis) spending hit $27.1 billion in are trickier, and so much pricier, Australia, another potentially considerably if the next
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2009, 4% higher than in 2008. to refine. huge source of gas. generation of internet
The company expects to spend Another route is to speed up the Nonetheless investors remain applications, such as
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The oil industry Big Oil is being on investment in new projects $12 billion joint-venture with gets its gas from The future is beckoning. Netflix
forced to rethink its future and drilling, roughly the same Cosan, a Brazilian producer of “unconventional” shale beds. has just announced an on-
Feb 4th 2010 | From The level as last year. ethanol from sugar cane. This is Gas prices have tumbled in the demand video-streaming service
Economist online But there are limits to what something of a change of tack. past couple of years as new offering full high-definition
ON THE face of it the world’s money can buy. State-controlled Exxon and Shell are both projects, especially shale, came picture quality (so-called 1080p,
big and publicly quoted oil rivals—in the Middle East, spending money on “second on stream just as the global which has 1,080 lines in its
companies should be celebrating Russia and beyond—jealously generation” biofuels made from recession lessened demand. And picture) with 5.1-channel
some pleasing results this week. guard oil reserves on their home algae or waste materials, but technological improvements surround sound. Each stream
Royal Dutch Shell unveiled its patches. Few new big fields of these could take years to have made the huge reserves of being watched will require a
results on Thursday February oil, at least those that are easy to develop. Now Shell can sell gas in America, from shale beds megabyte a second of bandwidth
4th, reporting that it had made reach and cheap to exploit, have Cosan’s “first generation” wares and the like, a commercial and a latency of less than 60ms if
$9.8 billion in 2009. Two days been discovered in recent years. through it global distribution prospect. BP believes that these it is to deliver crisp, pin-sharp
earlier BP boasted profits of $14 And where new opportunities network. factors will keep gas prices weak video and pristine sound.
billion for the same year. Yet emerge, such as in Iraq, Western By far the biggest bet laid, for three or four years, but it For the internet service
t h e s e b i l l i o n s a r e a oil giants are scrambling to pay however, has been on natural could be longer. Though national providers, that means stepping
disappointment compared with big sums at auctions for drilling gas. Around 40% of Shell’s daily oil companies have forced the up investment substantially. But
the bonanza of previous years rights in territory where the local production is now in the form of Western oil giants to look farther adding a lot more routers to the
(Shell, for example, raked in government tightly limits their gas. Total and BP are not far afield for new reserves, the oil internet would complicate
$31.4 billion in 2008 alone) returns. Even then, competition behind. Gas is increasingly prices, unlike gas prices, are matters hugely and do little to
when soaring oil prices pulled from Chinese, Russian and other important for power generation supported by the state-owned solve the latency problem. If
profits ever higher. state-run oil firms can be severe. and heating and the global firms that make up OPEC. anything, it would actually
In the long term, however, the National oil companies will often market is expected to grow by Readers' comments increase the number of potential
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time needed to execute 50,000-500,000 people. With

automated trades can increase
revenue by $100m, there is
plenty of incentive to build
private optical networks with
latencies approaching zero.
Indeed, Google said this week
that it was not going to hang
around waiting for the telecoms
industry to build the new optical
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Last December Amazon.com’s
Kindle became the most-gifted
item in the company’s 15-year
existence. Christmas Day of the
same month brought another first
for Amazon when books for the
Kindle outsold Amazon’s vast
physical book collection,
according to Amazon.com
The Kindle, along with Sony’s
Reader , Barnes & Noble’s Nook
and a number of others, are
called e-readers, and they are
changing the way many people
read their favorite books.
An e-reader is a handheld device
that allows the user to choose
from a library of previously
downloaded books. Once the
book is chosen, the user can read
the book on the device’s six-inch
display.
Currently, the Kindle sells six of
its books for every 10 physical
book sales, Amazon
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Lab, says different screens make
sense for different purposes.
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than E Ink, and in dim light, an displays, which refreshed the
so close to the TV” — isn’t type of reading experience is week Ross Rubin contributes
LCD display can be better than image much less frequently,
really an option when it comes to most friendly to the eyes. Switched On, a column about
all of these technologies.” causing a flicker. Carl Taussig,
e-reading devices. You have to It turns out the answer isn’t as consumer technology.
E Ink has a very low contrast director of Hewlett-Packard’s
get close to the screen to use it. black-and-white as we might One of the conundrums facing
ratio. Although it can offer an Information Surfaces Lab, said
The act of reading is going assume. device makers today is how to
excellent reading experience in the 120 Hz refresh rate typical of
through a number of radical Doctors and researchers note add wireless connectivity to their
bright sunlight, the screens can modern screens is much quicker
transitions, but perhaps none is that in most instances, paper can products. E-readers such as the
become uncomfortable to use in than our eyes can even see.
more fundamental than the shift offer more visual sophistication Amazon Kindle and Barnes &
dark settings because of the lack “The new LCDs don’t affect
from reading on paper to reading than a screen. But certain types Noble Nook use internet access
of contrast and backlighting on your eyes,” Mr. Taussig said.
on screens. As consumers decide of paper, including inexpensive primarily for selling you more
the screen. “Today’s screens update every
whether to make this jump and newsprint and the paper in content, so it can be completely
LCD screens, meanwhile, have eight milliseconds, whereas the
which technology to use, one key softcover books, can actually subsidized. Laptops, on the other
long struggled to offer good human eye is moving at a speed
question is how reading on a provide an inferior reading hand, can consume large
viewing angles for reading. between 10 and 30
screen affects the eyes. amounts of data, and so plans
experience for our eyes than the Apple’s latest IPS LCD screens milliseconds.”
First of all: doctors say that electronic alternatives. can run $60 per month and have
include extremely wide viewing Mr. Taussig said consumers will
reading on a screen won’t cause capped bandwidth, even at that
With e-readers, there are angles, but the reflective glass on pick the type of screen that
any harm. price. Apple and AT&T's iPad
currently numerous display the screen could be a hindrance makes sense on an individual
“Most of what our mothers told technologies available, from the pricing scheme attempts a
in brightly lit situations. basis. “I don’t think there is a
us about our eyes was wrong,” b l a c k - a n d - w h i t e E I n k compromise: a $15 prepaid for a
Professor Alan Hedge, director single technology that will be
said Dr. Travis Meredith, chair t e c h n o l o g y f o u n d i n minimal 250 MB per month that
of the Human Factors and optimum for all the things we
of the ophthalmology department Amazon.com’s Kindle and the could serve the needs of many
Ergonomics Laboratory at want to do with our devices. For
at the University of North Barnes & Noble Nook, to the users (especially with a Flash-
Cornell University, said that example, H.P. sells 65 million
Carolina, Chapel Hill. “Sitting coming full-color IPS LCD less browser and sideloaded
reducing eye fatigue is less a displays a year, and they are all
close to a television, or computer display that will come built into video delivery), along with the
matter of choosing a specific used in a different way.”
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said. “We are surprised that the
number is so high this early on
given that we’ve been selling
physical books for 15 years.”
Accounting for much of the e-
reader’s success is the
convenience that the device can
offer, staff writer for Wired
Magazine Priya Ganapati said.
“How many books can you pack
in your backpack — three or
four? With an e-reader you can
have hundreds of books in one
device that you can fit in your
jacket pocket,” she said.
The library of books to choose
from on a user’s e-reader is made
up of books that were bought
from the specific e-reader’s e-
book store, which can be
accessed through the device’s
free wireless connection.
The ability to buy a new book
from just about anywhere is an
attractive feature to many users,
editor for ZDNet.com and
Mobile Gadgeteer Joel Evan
said. “It’s pretty convenient to
be able to impulse buy a book
and have it available on your
device in seconds.”
The e-book libraries of Amazon,
Barnes & Noble and Sony offer
the majority of their books for
download for $9.99. Ganapati
said this price adds to the reasons
for the current popularity of e-
readers. “I can get the latest Dan
Brown book for 10 dollars. I
don’t have to go to a store and
probably pay more,” she said.
Before you can download the e-
books to your reader, you have
to buy the device at a price that
is a point of concern for some.
With most readers starting
around $250, the e-reader may
be more catered to people who
read more extensively, Evans
said.
“You have to buy a lot of books
to justify the initial purchase
price,” he said.
University of Minnesota
Bookstore Associate Justin
Adams said the price is high for
e-readers when other similarly-
priced devices perform a number
of functions, as well as read e-
books.
“The Netbooks we sell are only
$50 more expensive than our e-
reader, and you can do a lot more
on a Netbook,” he said.
Besides the price, current e-
book readers do have some other
criticisms.
Ganapati said current e-book
readers like the Kindle are
limited in the types of books that
are readable on the device.
The reason for these limitations
is the lack of color on the e-
readers, which makes reading
texts like cookbooks and
textbooks extremely difficult,
Ganapati said.
“It’s great for nonfiction. It’s
great for fiction. But if you want
to go outside of popular reading,
it’s not going to work for you,”
she said.
Apple has recently announced
the future release of the iPad .
The tablet-based device breaks
the limitations of current e-
readers, according to Ganapati.
The iPad is a device that has the
e-book reading function, but it
also adds the ability to check e-
mail, watch video, listen to
music and a number of other
features.
However, these added features
do come at a price.
Evans said that the iPad model
would start at $499. “While it
will do a lot more than an e-
reader, the price is higher to start
with,” he said.
Ganapati said that the iPad’s
color display allows the device to
better accommodate texts like
magazines, newspapers and even
textbooks.
“What Apple has done is it
changed the game to where it is
forcing [other e-reader retailers]
to step up,” Ganapati said.
Apple has signed deals with
publishers to bring textbooks to
the iPad, Ganapati said. “It will
probably mean a way to replace
the notebook and textbook that
most students carry to the
classroom.”
The classroom is where e-
readers could have a growing
presence in the future, according
to Evans.
“I think it’s going to start in
schools where kids don’t have to
take backpacks loaded with
books,” he said.
Despite the e-readers’ growing
presence in the world of
literature, Ganapati said she
believes there will always be a
place for printed books.
“People still buy CD’s. People
still buy vinyl records. There is
always going to be a place for
physical books.”
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U.S. by Sprint and Verizon
Wireless, opened up the
possibility for virtually any WiFi
device to access the internet over
3G connections. Laptops without
3G cards could access the web
from a car and the iPod touch
became a functional iPhone --
and in some parts of AT&T's
alleged network coverage, more
functional than an iPhone.
Recently Sprint followed up the
introduction of it MiFi with the
Overdrive from Sierra Wireless.
The Overdrive is significantly
chunkier than the MiFi, but
brings several advantages. First
among these is access to 4G
WiMAX networks in the
expanding canvas of cities where
it is available. Others include an
advanced web-based device
management site that lets you
tweak all kinds of parameters,
the ability to act as a GPS
receiver, a microSD slot for
sharing content with a
workgroup, and an LCD that can
display status indicators, and the
network name and password -- a
much higher-tech approach to
the simple sicker on the MiFi.
There's even a speaker to alert
you to connections and when the
battery is running low.
And then, of course, there is the
hotspot that may already be in
your hands -- "tethering" with
your mobile phone. U.S. carriers
have had an inconsistent record
in supporting this functionality,
but Verizon Wireless is now
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supporting it on the Palm Pre
Plus and Pixi Plus, and AT&T
offers it for the BlackBerry (and
has promised, but not delivered,
tethering for the iPhone).
Other personal hotspots have
been announced that don't
provide mobile broadband on the
go, but can offer other services.
One is Tivit, a portable receiver
for the new over-the-air mobile
digital television broadcasts that
will be rolling out in the U.S.
later in 2010. With Tivit, device
makers don't need to build a
DTV receiver and antenna into
their products, although they will
need some client software to
receive the rebroadcasts over
WiFi. And then there's AirStash,
a small USB drive that accepts
SD cards and can serve up that
content on demand. It can be
used to extend the storage of
your own WiFi phone or to
conveniently pass along some
photos or a presentation to others
on the go.
While WiFi isn't fast enough to
substitute completely for a
device's native functions, it can
enable just about any device that
has a web browser to tap into an
array of content and services.
And Novatel Wireless intends to
turn its mobile hotspots into
platforms for which developers
can write programs, making it
harder to limit device capabilities
through native development
restrictions. Imagine a MiFi that
contained a browser like like
Skyfire for Windows Mobile and
Symbian, which can render Flash
video -- you could theoretically
play it back on a device that
doesn't support the plug-in. And,
of course, the capability will
travel with you to whatever
group accompanies you.
Increasingly, as you go out to
dinner with friends, you may
find that your waiter is far from
your only server.
Ross Rubin is executive director
of industry analysis for consumer
technology at market research
and analysis firm The NPD
Group. Views expressed in
Switched On are his own.
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Science - New Technology, access all the fun sites your IT are often impossible on work
Science News, The Future department doesn't want you to machines). Foolproof, that is,
Now) use. until your IT department spies
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an open source tool that requires Dubai (or worse!) while you
Lifehacker today has a nice a web server to run. You can use should be working and
guide that answers one of the the built-in server on an OS X terminates your ass. Check out
questions I get asked most often machine, or one of several all-in- the link below for the full step-
by tech-advice-seeking friends: one solutions that work for both which you then use to access fairly foolproof if set up by-step.
How do I get around my work's Mac and Windows. From there, y o u r h o m e m a c h i n e f r o m correctly (you don't have to [ Lifehacker]
web site blocker? Lifehacker's you set up a friendly unchanging a n y w h e r e . V e r y c o o l . install any software on your
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by-state basis, U.S. adults'
average satisfaction in 2009 with
their own standard of living --
that is, "all the things you can
buy and do" -- fell in a fairly
narrow range, from 82.3% in
North Dakota at the high end to
69% in Nevada at the low end.
"Satisfaction in Mississippi,
Delaware, and North Dakota
increased by more than five
percentage points between 2008
and 2009, and in Connecticut,
Maine, and New York it
increased by more than four
points."
Geographically, the states that
were home to residents with the
highest levels of satisfaction with
their standard of living (77% or
greater) in 2009 are concentrated
in the Midwest and Rocky
Mountain regions, plus Alaska,
Hawaii, and Virginia. Of the four
least satisfied (all with
satisfaction scores below 71%),
two are in the ailing Rust Belt
(Ohio and Michigan); the others
are economically troubled
Nevada and Rhode Island.
The 2009 satisfaction results are
based on combined data for
Gallup Daily tracking from Jan.
2 through Dec. 30, 2009,
including more than 350,000
interviews for the entire year.
The state sample sizes range
from 632 in the District of
Columbia and 878 in Wyoming
to 37,203 in California. Forty-
one states had more than 2,000
respondents.
Several states showed a small,
but statistically meaningful,
improvement in satisfaction with
their standard of living in the
past year. Satisfaction in
Mississippi, Delaware, and
North Dakota increased by more
than five percentage points
between 2008 and 2009, and in
Connecticut, Maine, and New
York it increased by more than
four points.
Overall, 31 states showed an
increase in satisfaction of at least
one percentage point between
2008 and 2009, whereas 5
showed a decrease of at least one
point (the greatest decrease,
Hawaii's, was less than four
points.) The remaining 14 states
plus the District of Columbia
changed by less than one point.
Standard of Living Reviews
Don't Entirely Match Economic
Confidence
The public's broad satisfaction
with its standard of living in
2009 contrasts with state
residents' uniformly pessimistic
views of national economic
conditions(ranging from -16 to -
47).
In terms of rankings, there is a
fair amount of consistency
between states whose residents
hold the most positive
perceptions of their standard of
living and states with the least
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about the economy -- the great
majority of residents of every
state were upbeat about their
own standard of living last year.
This still left nearly 30% of
Americans dissatisfied in many
states, highlighting the clear need
for improvement. However, in
most states the 2009 readings
were slightly improved over
2008.
Gallup's "State of the States"
series reveals state-by-state
differences on political,
economic, and well-being
measures Gallup tracks each day.
New stories will be released
throughout the month of
February.
Survey Methods
Results are based on telephone
interviews with 353,848 national
adults, aged 18 and older,
conducted Jan. 2-Dec. 30, 2009,
as part of Gallup Daily tracking.
For results based on the total
sample of national adults, one
can say with 95% confidence
that the maximum margin of
negative perceptions of the according to satisfaction with sampling error is ±1 percentage
economy. The reverse is also standard of living than they do point.
true -- those highly negative (or on the basis of economic The margin of error for most
less positive) on one measure confidence. Mississippi, New states is ±2 percentage points,
tend to be among the most Jersey, New York, Louisiana, the but is as high as ±5 percentage
negative on the other. However, District of Columbia, and North points for the District of
there are several major Carolina all rank significantly Columbia. For the most
exceptions to this. lower on satisfaction with populous states, the margin of
• standard of living than they do error is ±1 percentage point.
• on economic confidence. Interviews are conducted with
Bottom Line respondents on land-line
Additionally, Hawaii, Despite the many serious telephones and cellular phones.
Wyoming, Maine, Pennsylvania, economic problems facing the
and Arizona all rank much c o u n t r y i n 2 0 0 9 - - a n d STANDARD page 80
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