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06 Aug 2009 22:06

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Offbeat: Steve Misiura is currently far too familiar with The Rembrandts’ one hit

  • 84
    hours     amount of time a British man spent watching “Friends”; he was trying to set a record
  • 1,000 times number of times we’re guessing he heard that really $(^@)^@ grating theme song source
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06 Aug 2009 21:46

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Tech: Why was Twitter down so long due to the DDOS attack?

  • It’s unusual to see an attack on a site lasting that long. Generally there are procedures in place in case of such an attack, but unfortunately Twitter has a long history of security-related issues and this really shows that they are not very mature in this area yet.
  • Kaspersky Lab malware researcher Stefan Tanase • About the attack, which nailed a number of other big social media sites besides Twitter (Facebook, YouTube and LiveJournal) but only gave Twitter sustained fits and starts. Why did it happen in the first place? One researcher, Bill Woodcock, suggests that social networking got caught between the Russia/Georgia conflict: “One side put up propaganda, the other side figured this out and is attacking them.”  • source
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06 Aug 2009 20:58

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U.S.: Cash reclunked: The senate lets more clunker funds flow

  • 60-37 looks just like the Sotomayor vote source
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06 Aug 2009 20:50

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Politics, U.S.: Example No. 3 of GOP Obama fury: Birthers gettin’ punk’d

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  • Man, that Orly Taitz video sure takes on a hilarious new context based on these images, which essentially confirm that the Obama Kenyan birth certificate was a forgery by an anonymous blogger designed to make the birthers look stupid. source
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06 Aug 2009 20:34

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Politics, U.S.: Example No. 2 of GOP Obama fury: Nazi comparisons

Rush Limbaugh, among others, have made this logo comparison. We get it. You don’t like it. But can we keep the level of discourse a little higher than this? source
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06 Aug 2009 20:26

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U.S.: Example No. 1 of GOP Obama fury: The Sonia Sotomayor vote

  • 31 Senators voted against her, all of them Republicans source
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06 Aug 2009 20:17

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Culture: RIP John Hughes, the guy responsible for every good ’80s film

  • I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn’t interest me. I’m not interested in psychotics. I’m interested in the person you don’t expect to have a story. I like Mr. Everyman.
  • Director and scribe John Hughes • On his body of work, which includes such mainstream masterpieces as “The Breakfast Club,” “Home Alone” (which he wrote but didn’t direct), “Sixteen Candles,” “Weird Science” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” amongst many others. All unbelievably mainstream, all incredibly memorable. Hughes died today of a heart attack. Bro was 59. Your childhood died with him, didn’t it Mr. Everyman? • source
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06 Aug 2009 11:45

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Tech: First we were mad at Twitter. Now we’re mad at whoever’s DOSing them.

We’re sorry we were so mad at you this morning, Twitter. Our apologies. Denial of service attacks suck and help nobody, jerks. source
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06 Aug 2009 11:27

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U.S.: The L.A. Fitness shooter kept a diary. Read parts of it here.

George Sodini's diary
  • Dude sure couldn’t stop thinking about that bad-luck-with-women thing, could he? A lot of his frustrations are clear in this document, some of which is blacked out, by the way. source
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06 Aug 2009 11:19

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Biz, U.S.: We’re gonna show a good number, then offset it with a bad one.

  • -38,000 the decline in initial jobless claims the week ending Aug. 1 – more than economists predicted
  • +69,000 the change in continuing claims the week ending July 25 – we’re not out of the woods yet, kids source
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