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08 Aug 2009 18:28

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Offbeat: Protip: If you’re obese and arrested, hide a gun inside your fat

  • 500+ weight, in pounds, of Texas man George Vera, who was arrested for selling bootleg recordings
  • five number of searches it took to find an unloaded gun between Vera’s folds of fat; we’re not kidding source
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08 Aug 2009 18:16

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Tech: Beyond Firefox, Safari and Chrome: Web browsers worth using

You’re a loner, Dottie, a rebel. As a result, you use a Web browser out of the mainstream. CNet checks them out. Their thought? It’s no contest. Opera wins. source
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08 Aug 2009 17:59

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U.S.: Mark Sanford and Jenny Sanford: No longer under the same roof

  • Jenny (and her sons) moved out Friday. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford continues to be on the outs with his wife Jenny, with the state’s First Lady moving her stuff out yesterday. She plans to take the kids back to Charleston, where they’ll attend school. Both husband and wife said this was for the best for now but said they planned to continue to work out family problems. Personally, we would have loved to see Mark move out into the doghouse. source
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08 Aug 2009 17:46

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Biz, U.S.: Does Cash for Clunkers destroy classic cars or kill off cruddy ones?

  • It would be a shame to wipe out the rootstock of all the great cars that followed, to see a utopian symbol like the Jeep Grand Wagoneer or a car with the rich personality of an Alfa Romeo 164 get clobbered.
  • Car and Driver editor in chief Eddie Alterman • Discussing some of the cars that could head off the road thanks to Cash for Clunkers, which just got another financial boost from the government. While cars of the era that are getting taken off the streets – vehicles made after 1984 – were made in a period where vehicle quality was in decline (hence the name of the program), some cars were definitely keepers that would stand the test of time. • source
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08 Aug 2009 17:26

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Offbeat: Screw it, we’re posting a cute animal for you guys. Deal with it.

You need a little more guinea pig in a crocheted hat in your life. And Cute Overload delivers. source
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08 Aug 2009 17:08

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Music: Saturday Mixtape: Who rules more, YACHT or The Dodos?

  • 1. We needed some euphoria, and Dananananaykroyd (what an annoying name!) provides it in spades on their latest album, “Hey Everyone.” “Pink Sabbath” makes us want to leap in the air like the coolest six-year-olds ever.
    2. The Dodos are awesome. Hewing a little more closely to the “Sung Tongs” sound than Animal Collective does now, 2008’s “Visiter” was an underrated gem. And new album “Time to Die,” which we ganked “Longform” from, keeps the quality high, avoiding the fate of fellow blog buzz bands.
    3. We’re suckers for sensitive white guys singing in unison. And you don’t get more sensitive than Kings of Convenience (featuring unsung indie hero Erelend Oye), whose “Winning a Battle, Losing the War” always wins our hearts.
    4. YACHT’s killer “See Mystery Lights,” which looks like a huge breakthrough for the duo, has a lot of highlights, but the highest is “Ring the Bell,” a slow-building calling card for DFA’s newest act.
    5. Like Grizzly Bear, Nurses plays in the space between electronic and natural sound, and while their victories on “Technicolor” split evenly between the percussive, the vocal and the digital, they do it with a little more flair than Grizzly Bear. Pure engagement. source
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08 Aug 2009 11:52

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Music, Offbeat: Tree tunes: A sound designer makes a tree sing

Diego Stocco - Music From A Tree from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.

  • This guy is officially cooler than us. Diego Stocco, an Italian sound designer, hacked a tree to create music using only the tree and some high-tech recording equipment. And the result? Pretty awesome. source
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08 Aug 2009 11:43

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Biz: Tesla Motors is looking kinda profitable these days

After spending years as a company where its ambitions meant big losses, Tesla Motors finally turned a $1 million profit. Modest, but a good start. source
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08 Aug 2009 11:22

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Culture: “American Idol” gets a little posh thanks to Victoria Beckham

  • He is the only man in the music industry who turned down the Spice Girls and said we would never work. I like that fact that he’s honest. I think he’s very funny.
  • Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham • On working with Simon Cowell on “American Idol.” The former pop star, now better known for being married to the biggest soccer star in the world, will be a guest judge on American Idol next season and was in Denver Friday to watch some auditions. Fake pop star, fake pop star-making show … makes sense. • source
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08 Aug 2009 11:10

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U.S.: The driver in the wrong-way crash in N.Y. was downing vodka

  • 0.19 her blood-alcohol level, more than double the legal limit source
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