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21 Feb 2009 11:51

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Offbeat: George Mason’s homecoming queen: A real queen

A drag queen, that is. Good for her! source
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21 Feb 2009 11:13

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Culture: Hugh Jackman: Ready for the Oscars

  • Drunk and nude, yes. So that’s our new fresh approach. It’s the Australian way.
  • Hugh Jackman • Jokingly discussing his approach to hosting the biggest award show of them all. Why not? Everyone else who’s hosted the Oscars in the last few years (minus Chris Rock) has sucked at it. • source
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21 Feb 2009 11:11

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Biz, Tech: Prepaid cell phones are getting their comeuppance

  • 13% increase in the popularity of pay-as-you-go cell phone plans in the last year; it’s a small, but growing, niche market source
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20 Feb 2009 16:43

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Biz, U.S.: Rick Santelli speaks (loudly) for the true fiscal conservatives

  • We’re thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July. All you capitalists that wanna show up to Lake Michigan, I’m organizing. We’re gonna be dumping in some derivative securities, what do you think about that?
  • Rick Santelli • CNBC analyst, on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange yesterday. He was railing against the idea of Obama’s $75 billion foreclosure plan, designed to help people from losing their homes. We have to admit that we may not necessarily agree with what he’s saying, we sure love the way he said it. It’s fun to hear him rant. • source
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20 Feb 2009 16:15

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Culture: Up next: “Late Night with the sketch-ruining dude from SNL”

Yeah, Jimmy Fallon’s no Conan, guys. Let’s get this national nightmare over with. source
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20 Feb 2009 15:41

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Tech: Missing: One MS prototype phone. Rips off Apple heavily.

  • Windows Mobile 6.5! Stolen! Egads! Sol Trujillo, the CEO of Australian mobile phone company Telstar, was given a phone with the top-secret Microsoft mobile OS on it. He gave that to an executive. And that executive got pick-pocketed during the conference he was at. So some five-fingered dude in Barcelona gets to exclusively see how MS yet again fails at besting Apple at something. Good for them! source
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20 Feb 2009 15:13

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World: Well, someone has money, and that someone is China

  • $41 billion in oil investments; can we borrow 20 bucks? source
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20 Feb 2009 15:04

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Tech, World: Pirate Bay dude: I had to get AFK to get on the stand

  • We do not use that expression. Everything is in real life. We use AFK—Away From Keyboard.
  • Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi • When asked by the prosecution during the Pirate Bay spectrial about when he met someone IRL. How often does this happen in a courtroom? It should happen more often, and totally straight-faced, too. • source
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20 Feb 2009 14:58

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Tech, World: 80% legal? This Pirate Bay spectrial claim is a head-scratcher

  • He did a survey, seriously Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, a spokesman for the torrent tracker, took the stand today at their Swedish copyright infringement trial, and said that a survey of 1,000 torrent links on the site showed that 70-80% of all torrents were legal. Furthermore, YouTube, he claimed, had more pirated material than The Pirate Bay, despite the name of his site being, well, “The Pirate Bay.” source
  • He did a survey, seriously Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, a spokesman for the torrent tracker, took the stand today at their Swedish copyright infringement trial, and said that a survey of 1,000 torrent links on the site showed that 70-80% of all torrents were legal. Furthermore, YouTube, he claimed, had more pirated material than The Pirate Bay, despite the name of his site being, well, “The Pirate Bay.”
  • Fitting nicely with claims The “spectrial,” still the most entertaining thing happening in the world right now, has up to this point favored The Pirate Bay, but who knows if this claim will change anything. It does play nicely into the defense’s claims that the Web site is a tool with tons of legal uses. Give ’em credit; they’re already more clever than Shawn “Napster” Fanning ever was. source
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20 Feb 2009 14:34

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U.S., World: The Hilary Clinton quote that set off a ton of human rights activists

  • But our pressing on those issues can’t interfere on the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis.
  • Secretary of State Hilary Clinton • talking about China and their human rights record, and how they fit in with U.S. economic interests. As you might guess, activists aren’t happy about this policy stance, especially when it comes to Tibet. • source
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