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17 May 2009 23:53

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U.S.: If you’re in SoCal, you didn’t imagine that earthquake

  • 5.0 the Richter scale rating of the just-happened quake source

17 May 2009 14:51

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Culture: “The Lemon Tree” is a spiffy little experimental film

  • The visuals: Exciting. The narrative: Experimental and all over the place. The voiceover: Spooky. All in all, it makes for a neat little three minutes of your time.source

17 May 2009 13:24

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Culture: “Angels & Demons” a big hit, but it’s no “Star Trek”

  • $48 million the weekend take of the latest Tom Hanks controversial religious-thriller flick source

17 May 2009 13:19

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Music: When it comes to rock stars, EVERY-BO-DY MUST GET SToooNED!

  • Trying to show a link between rock stars and drugs is like trying to make a link between mouths and tooth decay—too obvious to bother.
  • R.U. Sirius • Author of the new book “Everybody Must Get Stoned: Rock Stars on Drugs.” Sirius (the nom de plume of Ken Goffman) analyzes the drug culture of rock music and how rock stars (as well as drugs) are the epitome of the release from a tightly-focused life. Snoooches! • source

17 May 2009 13:00

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Tech: What tech journalists think of this Wolfram|Alpha thang

  • TechCrunch is much harder on the product: “Even when Wolfram does have an answer, it is not always the best one.”
  • So is ComputerWorld: “I tested Wolfram|Alpha about five days before it was set to launch, and it didn’t take much to find its limits.”

17 May 2009 12:40

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Tech: The British papers’ approach to gaming Digg: Twitter + old lady

17 May 2009 09:12

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Politics, U.S.: NYT: Obama needs to stop covering up Bush terror policies

  • Mr. Obama risks turning Mr. Bush’s mistakes into his own or, in the case of the photographs, turning Mr. Bush’s cover-up into his own.
  • The New York Times • In an editorial denouncing both Obama’s decision to not release photos of prisoner abuse in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the continuation of military tribunals. They admit that Obama’s getting drama over it from both ends, but they think he’s not doing enough to take a stand against Bush’s systemic failures. (We agree.) • source
 

17 May 2009 09:01

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World: Pakistan’s working hard to kill al-Qaeda and Taliban militants

  • 1,000 deaths since the beginning of the month source

17 May 2009 08:54

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Music: Danger Mouse goes the blank-CDR route with his new album

  • “For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.” Uber-popular producer Danger Mouse, who also moonlights as half of Gnarls Barkley, was having legal problems getting his latest album out, so he came up with a novel solution to its release. So, instead of letting the label get in the way, he’s releasing the packaging of “Dark Night of the Soul” – an elaborate 100-plus-page book with a blank CD, presumably for purposes of putting the torrented album onto. Clever, but he has a history of this. source

17 May 2009 02:47

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U.S., World: A young boy kidnapped in the U.S. was just found in Mexico

  • 3 age of Briant Rodriguez, who was missing for two weeks source