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01 Jan 2009 23:57

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Music: Digital track downloads way, way up

  • 1.07 billion track downloads, up 27% from last year source
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01 Jan 2009 23:52

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Music: The music industry’s downtempo 2008 album sales

  • 8.5% decline in album sales in 2008, from 500 million to 428 million
  • 20% decline in physical album sales; that’s a lot. source
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01 Jan 2009 22:21

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Offbeat, Tech: Breast-feeding is not a crime.

  • There is nothing about bottle-feeding a child that has to be discreet. With breast-feeding, it should be the exact same way.
  • Kelli Roman • a 23-year-old California mom who started a 97,600-strong Facebook group protesting the site’s blocking of nursing photos it deems “obscene” • source
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01 Jan 2009 22:03

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U.S.: Claiborne Pell, 1918-2009: He granted your Pell.

  • Who was he? Pell, who died today at age 90, was a longtime Rhode Island senator. First elected in 1960, the six-term senator had suffered from Parkinson’s Disease since 1994.
  • His greatest act Pell, soft-spoken and friendly, was best-known for sponsoring the 1972 Pell Grant program, which has helped 54 million low-income people attend college.
  • Quirky & popularThe Democrat, well-known on Capitol Hill, was known for being a little eccentric, jogging in tweed coats, and occasionally absent-minded. Sounds like our kind of guy. source
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01 Jan 2009 21:31

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Sports: USC’s Mark Sanchez had an Al-Bundy-in-high-school game

  • 5 TDs four were passing, one was rushing. 80% pass completion rate. Holy cow – not bad, Mark.
  • 413 yds passing totals in USC’s 38-24 Rose Bowl thrashing of Penn State. source
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01 Jan 2009 17:56

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U.S.: In the words of an attempted NYE bomber

  • For the first two years I was in prison I woke up every [sic] wishing I was dead. Now it comes to pass. I was and am a good man.
  • Aspen, Colo. resident Jim Blanning • in a note left with the Aspen Times. Blanning, found dead in his vehicle today, reportedly planted bombs in city banks, shutting down the resort town on New Year’s Eve. • source
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01 Jan 2009 17:41

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Sports: The most hated man in the N.Y. Metro

The hate is coming out: A number of N.Y. Jets blame Brett Favre for their woes. (Wikipedia) source
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01 Jan 2009 16:34

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Sports: It’s like Lambeau Field for losers

  • 40,818 people watched hockey outside source
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01 Jan 2009 16:19

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Offbeat, Tech: Well, everything is just sitting out at Apple Stores …

  • Thieves ransack Apple gear Two of the iconic computer retailer’s computer outlets – both in Silicon Valley, by the way – recently got robbed. They nabbed approximately $10,000 worth of gear from one of them in just two minutes. We bet they took all the Mac Minis. Yeah. source
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01 Jan 2009 16:00

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Tech: Google to IE6 users: Drop it like a bad habit

  • GMail is faster elsewhere Google’s Chrome, recently upgraded to version 1.0, apparently runs the popular GMail service at much faster speeds. So does Firefox. And IE7. And Safari. And Opera. And so on …
  • Google plays hardball GMail recently removed IE6 from its list of supported browsers and put a page on the menu bar targeting those users. Google says that upgrading would “make Google Mail run an average of twice as fast.”
  • IE6’s business baseInternet Explorer has built its sizable market share due to the glacial pace of businesses upgrading their browsers. On weekends, the browser’s share goes down considerably. Coincidence? We think not. source
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