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17 Mar 2009 19:23

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Tech, U.S.: Losing your focus: Twitter keeps your mind off the job at hand.

  • court
  • hoops
  • jobs
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17 Mar 2009 19:09

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World: The freaking pope doesn’t know what the heck he’s talking about

  • It (AIDS) cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, they increase the problem.
  • Pope Benedict • Talking about condom usage as a way to prevent AIDS in Cameroon. Dude, do you even know what condoms are? • source
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17 Mar 2009 12:24

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Politics: It’s a Tweeterview! George Stephanopoulos chats up John McCain

  • Stephanopoulos, an ABC News anchor and political adviser during the Clinton years. Whoa. source
  • McCain, the guy who lost the presidency to Barack Obama, now a heavy Twitter user. Neat. source
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17 Mar 2009 10:59

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U.S.: Information was meant to be free. Read some FOIA requests here.

  • The EFF did all the hard work for you. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has put up a searchable database of its Freedom of Information Act requests on the Interweb for all to find. It’s information that they had to ask for – and now it’s yours to use. Thank us later. source
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17 Mar 2009 10:55

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Offbeat: Lest you think we forget, guys: It’s St. Paddy’s Day!

Have a happily green holiday. Here’s some facts and trivia on St. Patrick’s. source
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17 Mar 2009 10:48

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Offbeat: It was kind of a clever idea for a protest, but it weighed too much

  • 2.6 million pennies were to be placed on the steps of the Florida state capital as part of a protest source
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17 Mar 2009 10:43

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Sports: UConn women’s hoops still a force for reckoning

  • 1st seed overall in the NCAA women’s tourney source
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17 Mar 2009 10:37

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Culture: This just makes our head hurt. The SciFi Channel goes “SyFy”

  • We love being sci-fi, and we’re still embracing that. But we’re more than just space and aliens and the future – the three things most people think of when they think of ‘sci fi.’
  • Dave Howe • President of the SciFi Channel, on its name change to SyFy – which is destined to annoy the crap out of a bunch of BSG and SG-1 fans. We’re not even SciFi fans and we’re annoyed by it. And it takes a lot to annoy us, as you might have been able to tell by the nature of our blog. • source
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17 Mar 2009 10:29

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Biz, Politics: A rare argument in favor of letting AIG keep their bonuses

  • Tearing up contracts could set a bad precedent. Obama and large swaths of the government (and large numbers of taxpayers) don’t like having to pay $165 million in bonuses, but it may just be in their best long-term interest to bite the bullet, argues Andrew Ross Sorkin. “If you think this economy is a mess now,” Sorkin argues, “imagine what it would look like if the business community started to worry that the government would start abrogating contracts left and right.” Oh boy. source
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17 Mar 2009 10:22

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Tech: Someone figured out how to use lasers for mass murder – of mosquitoes.

One laser can “toast millions of mosquitoes in a few minutes.” Will PETA complain? source
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