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12 Jun 2009 15:12

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Culture, World: Madonna finally gets her matching Malawian adopted child

  • case A couple months ago, Malawi blocked Madonna from the opportunity to adopt a second child from Malawi, saying she shouldn’t have gotten the first kid, David Banda.
  • appeal But a higher court today allowed Madonna to have Mercy, saying the first court didn’t take into account the fact that she REALLY cares about (adopting) Malawian children. source
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12 Jun 2009 14:54

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Offbeat: A meteorite hit some German kid at 30,000 mph. Good for him.

  • He survived, but he has a radical 3-inch scar on his hand. 14-year-old Gerrit Blank, who kinda looks like Carrot Top, had a rare meteorite attack happen to him. “At first I just saw a large ball of light,” Blank explained, “and then I suddenly felt a pain in my hand.” The pea-sized piece of space junk left a bite much bigger than its visual bark, leaving a foot-wide hole in the ground and Blank with a crazy hand injury. source
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12 Jun 2009 12:28

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Politics, Tech: Prediction: Barry Diller is a money-hungry net neophyte

  • I absolutely believe the internet is passing from its free days into a paid system.
  • InterActiveCorp CEO Barry Diller • On the future of the Internet, which he claims will be filled with pricing structures everywhere. Pretty much everyone at the conference he was at disagreed with him – including everyone in this article we linked. Idiot. • source
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12 Jun 2009 11:38

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Biz: The dealers are on board for GM’s massive restructuring

  • 95+% of eligible dealers have signed on for GM’s upcoming reconfiguration as a new company
  • 90% of dealers losing contracts with the car company have agreed to their wind-down terms source
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12 Jun 2009 11:30

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Tech: Finally, Tony La Russa can verify his Twitter account!

Twitter’s verified accounts are now a thing of reality. Which means now you can confirm Ashton Kutcher is ignoring you. source
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12 Jun 2009 11:16

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U.S.: A sample of the crazy opinions spouted by James von Brunn

  • The Holocaust is a lie. Obama was created by Jews. Obama does what Jew owners tell him to do. Jews captured America’s money. Jews control the mass media. The 1st Amendment is abrogated – henceforth.
  • James von Brunn • In a set of writings obtained by the FBI. Von Brunn, the dude who shot up the Holocaust Museum, apparently had a long history of things like this. One time, he threatened the owner of an art gallery with a gun for not selling his paintings. And his marriage crumbled in part because of his racist leanings. (His Web site, “Holy Western Empire,” is down, by the way.) • source
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12 Jun 2009 10:59

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Biz, U.S.: *POOF* A bunch of our wealth just disappeared recently

  • $1.3 trillion is completely gone from households in 1Q ’09 source
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12 Jun 2009 10:54

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Biz, U.S.: We’re in a better mood about the economy than we’ve been lately

  • 69 The current level of consumer sentiment, the highest in nine months
  • 70.3 The level of sentiment in September, before things went crazy source
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12 Jun 2009 10:23

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Politics, Tech: Why did video games start to suck and become no fun?

  • Today’s video game is more like a movie – as long as you turn the crank on the side of the projector, eventually you’ll experience the entire thing. That is the opposite of playing a game, since you are never guaranteed to win a game.
  • Blogger “agnostic” • In a long-winded rant about how video games became elaborate productions instead of simple, fun things that were reflexive challenges. We agree. Video games suck now because they’re overly complex, and we totally stopped playing them for this reason. • source
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12 Jun 2009 10:14

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Offbeat: The drugs that were headed to Bonnaroo were pretty sweet

  • 35 pounds of magic-mushroom-laced chocolate almost made it in source
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