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26 Jun 2009 20:57

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Biz, U.S.: The U.S. wants Bernard Madoff to stay in prison for a long while

  • 150 years they want of weekends at Bernie’s prison cell source
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26 Jun 2009 18:22

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World: Iran’s harsh leadership takes an unnecessarily harsh turn

  • protests Over the last few weeks, there have been sustained opposition protests that have been mostly peaceful but turned into moments of violence after Iran began fighting any dissent
  • response In response to these protests, Ayatollah Ahmed Khatami, a top-ranking cleric, has said that these protesters were “at war with God” and should be “dealt with without mercy.” WTF man? source
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26 Jun 2009 18:08

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Tech: Mythbuster Adam Savage is trying to bust the myth of his AT&T bill

  • $11,000 amount Savage was charged on his most recent AT&T bill for data usage in Canada
  • 9 gigs amount of data AT&T claims the Mythbuster downloaded in a few hours; he denies this. source
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26 Jun 2009 17:55

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Culture: Lisa Marie Presley: Michael Jackson thought he’d end up like Elvis

  • At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, ‘I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did.’
  • Lisa Marie Presley • On her MySpace blog, explaining a conversation between her and her former husband where he revealed his fear of ending up just like her famous dad. She tried to get him away from that thinking but he had accepted it as fact, something that hit her yesterday when an untimely death proved to be true. Presley went further in her post, saying that their marriage was in fact not a sham: “I do believe he loved me as much as he could love anyone and I loved him very much.” • source
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26 Jun 2009 17:41

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Biz: For sale: Former gem of a newspaper, based in Boston. Loses lots of $$$

  • $123 million Assets of the Boston Globe, which the New York Times company is trying to sell quickly, along with (possibly) a second paper
  • $182 million Amount of debt obligations the Globe has – a liability of $58 million. The NYT company recently cut salaries 23%, BTW. source
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26 Jun 2009 17:22

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U.S.: For those commuters still on edge: More D.C. Metro drama

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26 Jun 2009 17:01

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Music, Politics: Speaking of charity lunches, Billy Corgan is regretting his

  • I was surprised to see a minor detail I was unaware of that said the winner must pay the bill at lunch turn into an attack on me and my supposed fortune. What an @$$hole I am to not want to buy lunch?
  • Billy Corgan • Regarding the hate he’s facing from some corners of the Interweb because the winner of a charity lunch with the Smashing Zwankin has to pay the check. (Which we kind of agree is bull.) He goes on to say that he thinks it’s kind of unfair that he’s seen as a bad guy for attempting to do a noble thing, just because he’s been perceived as being a jerk in the past. How come you have to write a long rant instead of coughing up $50 for a meal, dude? At least split the check. • source
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26 Jun 2009 16:35

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Biz, Offbeat: Someone paid way too much money for lunch with Warren Buffett

  • $456,789 for an Old Money Buffet source
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26 Jun 2009 16:16

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Tech: Sprint gets out the anti-Apple snark to promote the Palm Pre

To anyone looking for direct evidence that the timing of the Palm Pre’s launch was based around the Apple iPhone’s launch: Here’s your proof. source
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26 Jun 2009 15:39

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Culture: Thanks to a couple of dead icons, Generation X is now old.

  • These people were on our lunchboxes. This is the moment when Generation X realizes they’re grown up.
  • Gary Giovannetti • A manager at HBO who grew up with Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, both of whom obviously died yesterday. Is it accurate? Well, think about this: Kurt Cobain burned out so long ago that the impact of his suicide is starting to fade away, Eddie Vedder, a man in his mid-40s, has long been fading away, nobody talks about “The Real World,” or, heck, MTV anymore, and most Gen-Xers probably have a defaulted mortgage. And now Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died within a few hours of one another. We’d say that Gary’s right. • source
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