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29 May 2009 14:18

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Biz: Southwest, looking for revenue, stares hard at kids and pets

  • $50 charge for children traveling alone on an airplane, round-trip
  • $75 charge to bring Fido or other pets into the aircraft cabin with you source
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29 May 2009 14:07

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Culture: Must-see: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, live-action, this Sunday

  • about The super-niche experiment in comedy surrealism may hit its most surreal point on Sunday, For its season finale, the show will go live-action this Sunday, nearly didn’t run, and may run with a disclaimer. Ooh.
  • stars Even better are the actors they got to play the characters. They got auto-tune expert T-Pain as Frylock. They got underground comic Jon Benjamin as Shake. And best of all, they got a contest winner to play Carl. source
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29 May 2009 13:36

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Culture: Respecting Polaroid pictures: NYT throws hundreds online

Lens Polaroid
  • As you might have heard, Polaroids are going the way of the dodo, which is depressing because they are genuinely awesome the same way vinyl records are. The NYT’s Lens blog recently gathered some awesome, super-high-quality shots from readers. source
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29 May 2009 13:20

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Politics, U.S.: People seem to generally like Sonia Sotomayor, a poll sez

  • 54% of those polled say that Obama’s justice pick is the bee’s knees
  • 24% disapprove; the rest of you can’t make up your freaking mind source
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29 May 2009 13:13

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U.S.: President Barack Obama: Cybertheft victim

  • Cyberspace is real and so are the risks that come with it. I know how it feels to have privacy violated because it has happened to me.
  • President Barack Obama • who revealed today, while launching a new initiative to fight cybercrime that his presidential campaign suffered a break-in by hackers last year, although they did not swipe information from campaign contributors. He also noted that a new cyber czar would be part of the initiative, though he didn’t name names. • source
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29 May 2009 13:00

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U.S., World: North Korea starts firing off more crazy stuff

  • The test-range missile is the sixth this week. You got to hand it to North Korea. When they want to get your attention, they’re willing to go all out. Despite much complaining by the international community, the country continues to blow stuff up. South Korea’s ready for war. Yesterday, the U.S. decided to put the country on its second-highest alert level. Can we just be optimistic and believe they’re just trying to kill off their supplies? source
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29 May 2009 11:01

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Tech: The lack of DRM on “The Sims 3” makes it easy to pirate

  • 180,000 copies ganked via piracy source
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