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24 Jul 2009 21:44

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World: Cuba joins the Internet age with a black-market Craiglist wannabe

The name, Revolico, stands for “disarray,” a cheeky way to describe the country’s post-embargo economy. But the site is a shot in the arm for the black market. source
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24 Jul 2009 21:33

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World: Zelaya sure can’t stay away from Honduras, can he?

  • Weeks after being booted in a coup, Jose Manuel Zelaya returned to Honduras for 15 solid minutes, making a volatile situation even worse and being a bit cavalier. Fortunately, as he was crossing, he happened to have some cameras around him. source
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24 Jul 2009 21:26

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Biz, Tech: Coke has a big Facebook brand, but it’s not as big as Starbucks

  • 3.5 million number of fans the soft-drink company has managed to curate on Facebook since Pages began; it was long the leading Facebook brand
  • 3.7 million number of fans the coffee-addiction-peddling company has curated on Facebook; Starbucks leapfrogged over Coke using coupons source
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24 Jul 2009 21:15

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Tech: NASA kicked on the Hubble telescope, got a shot of Jupiter’s scar

See that big spot there? It’s the first post-repair shot Hubble has taken, and it’s the best shot we have of Jupiter’s new dimple. source
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24 Jul 2009 20:57

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U.S.: Alaskans aren’t happy with departing governor Sarah Palin

  • She has single-handedly and unnecessarily created both expensive issues.
  • Anchorage resident Jeanne Ashcraft • Describing her dual frustration with Sarah Palin’s departure on Sunday – for forcing an unnecessary day in session to both swear in the lieutenant governor and to decide whether to override Palin’s veto against energy stimulus funds. Ashcraft isn’t alone in her criticism – bloggers, legislators and others have also complained about the added costs. • source
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24 Jul 2009 17:57

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Biz, Politics, Tech: AP’s news wrappers: Our brains just imploded, guys

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  • Wow, and we thought the Republicans’ health care graphic was bad. Basically, if we’re reading this right: The Associated Press needs to convince its members to agree to put digital wrappers on their content, wrappers that are a) invisible to consumers and b) can be tracked on the Internet. Um, OK. We don’t know if they know something about the ASCII type spec that we don’t, but what they’re describing sounds impossible to do with copy and pasting. source
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24 Jul 2009 17:53

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Sports: All you need to know about the 2009 Tour de France, bilingual edition

  • un Alberto Contador has a strong hold on first in the Tour de France.
  • deux There are only two days left in the country-wide race that spans 22 days.
  • trois Lance Armstrong, Contador’s teammate, is in third. source
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24 Jul 2009 17:28

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U.S.: Renowned author E. Lynn Harris dies in Beverly Hills at the age of 54

Harris, who saw 10 of his 11 novels appear on The New York Times best-seller list, died yesterday. He is best known for his work covering the black LGBT community. source
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24 Jul 2009 17:12

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U.S.: Obama sez he jumped the gun on those Cambridge arrest comments

  • I think I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sgt. Crowley specifically, and I could have calibrated those words differently.
  • President Barack Obama • In a statement where he sorta took back lots of the stuff he said about the arrest of scholar Henry Louis Gates in Cambridge, Massachusetts. If you forgot, Obama said the police “acted stupidly” and pointed out that minorities are stopped more often by police, which kinda stirred a lot of s*** up and managed to overshadow that entire prime-time health care press conference.  • source
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24 Jul 2009 16:42

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World: Shanghai officials not so keen on that whole one child policy anymore

  • one the number of kids Chinese couples are allowed to have. There are some exceptions, of course. If you and your spouse are both only children and live in the city, or if you live in the country and your first child is a girl, two is perfectly alright.
  • two the number of kids Shanghai is asking eligible couples to have. This marks the first time government officials have promoted having babies in decades, saying the rapidly expanding senior population isn’t getting any younger. source
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