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08 Jan 2009 23:44

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Tech, U.S.: Speaking of Twitter, it’s working as a news source

  • Earthquake in SoCal? There’s dozens of twits about an earthquake currently hitting the social-networking Web site. Since we last loaded this page, 83 tweets with the word earthquake had been received. source
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08 Jan 2009 23:19

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Offbeat, Tech: True love in 140 characters or less

  • @film_girl i just can’t wait one minute longer to ask you this. Will you marry me? i want to share the rest of our lives together.
  • @grobertson • who proposed marriage on Twitter. Both are prominent bloggers. If we proposed marriage, we’d probably use a big number. • source
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08 Jan 2009 22:45

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Offbeat, Tech: It’s like “Knight Rider,” except for luxury cars

  • Lexus wants to make their cars talk Toyota, the corporation that owns the Lexus brand, plans to add a new feature called Lexus Insider, which will allow the auto manufacturer to talk to their drivers. Personally, we hope they tell the drivers how awesome they are because they own a Lexus. source
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08 Jan 2009 22:22

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Sports: Oh yeah, we heard the BCS championship is currently going on

We like Florida because we like Percy Harvin. He’s a cool guy. source
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08 Jan 2009 22:08

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U.S.: A really, really, really (really) good time to buy a home

  • 5% the current mortgage rate, the lowest in four decades
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08 Jan 2009 22:00

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World: Can you believe a cardinal said this?

  • Look at the conditions in Gaza: more and more, it resembles a big concentration camp.
  • Cardinal Renato Martino • president of the Council for Justice and Peace and a right hand man to Pope Benedict XVI; Israel obviously condemned the marks. • source
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08 Jan 2009 21:55

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U.S.: Rod Impeachojevich, Illinois Governor

  • They’re looking into throwing the bum out Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich could get impeached based on a recommendation by a legislative committee. The committee cited gross misuse of power, specifically in regards to allegations he tried to make Obama’s former senate seat a pay-for-play endeavor. If the Illinois state legislature takes the recommendation, they’d try him in the state senate and possibly remove him. We never trusted guys named Blagojevich. source
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08 Jan 2009 10:38

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World: Lebanon just complicated matters in Israel

  • On top of everything else … On the 13th day of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, a series of rockets came from southern Lebanon, bombing parts of northern Israel. No one has stepped forward to admit to the attack. source
  • On top of everything else … On the 13th day of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, a series of rockets came from southern Lebanon, bombing parts of northern Israel. No one has stepped forward to admit to the attack.
  • A violation of a peace agreement Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora condemned the attacks, claiming they violated a 2006 peace agreement that Israel signed with Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia. source
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08 Jan 2009 10:25

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Offbeat: You have to give the porn industry credit for trying

  • $5 billion, the bailout they (jokingly) asked congress for source
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08 Jan 2009 10:15

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Tech: If you didn’t gank it from The Pirate Bay already …

  • Windows 7 Beta, out Friday. Steve Ballmer announced the news at his less-notable keynote speech at CES yesterday. It may be an attempt to clear the veins of the company’s much maligned current version of Windows, Vista. Personally, as Mac fans, we thought they were universally maligned. source
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