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08 Sep 2009 23:54

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Tech, U.S.: Barack Obama sez you should watch your back on Facebook

  • Well, let me give you some very practical tips. First of all, I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook, because in the YouTube age, whatever you do, it will be pulled up again later somewhere in your life.
  • President Barack Obama • Discussing the danger of posting your entire personal life on Facebook – because, as everyone with half a brain knows, that stuff comes back to haunt you like a child you had with a filmmaker you were working with. Or a bunch of AIM messages with a congressional page. Or a lewd bathroom encounter in a Minneapolis airport. Or a stash of money hidden in a freezer. We could go on, but you get the idea. • source
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08 Sep 2009 23:43

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Culture: Our d-bag alarm goes off when Jon Gosselin’s name is mentioned

  • What a despicable human being. As you probably don’t know, we’ve spent the last few months largely avoiding the saga of the Jon and Kate Gosselin divorce, which has played out on “Jon and Kate Plus 8.” But we can’t anymore. Jon Gosselin has just doucheified himself so much that we have to say something. Dude was on ABC, saying that he can’t sit on a sofa with “someone right now that I despise.” You have eight kids with your wife. You probably shouldn’t be going out all the time, wearing Ed Hardy like you just got out of an Ibiza washing machine. You should be trying to make it work, bro. Did you hire Chris Brown’s PR team? source
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08 Sep 2009 23:28

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U.S., World: Fast food in Iraq: Jared approves of this military operation

The crass, commercial amenities of retail followed the soldiers to Iraq, so minus the bombings, the bases kinda feel like home. Kinda. source
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08 Sep 2009 21:11

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Politics: Obama’s speech was good, but public schools need improvement

  • You cannot fool all the people all the time, President Lincoln said. And when it comes to student learning, the public seems beyond deceit.
  • Wall Street Journal columnist Paul Peterson • Discussing the declining quality of public schools in the wake of Obama’s speech today. He says it’s beyond terrible – graduation rates are lower than they were in 1970, when Kevin Arnold from “The Wonder Years” started at McKinley High. Not only are parents unhappy with education, but they don’t want to spend any more money on schools. 46% don’t support spending more. To give you an idea about how anemic that number is, in 1990 (when Zack Morris was a sophomore at Bayside High), the number was 70%, and last year (when the cast of High School Musical was filled with seniors) that number was 61%. Depressing. • source
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08 Sep 2009 20:39

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Politics: Remember that Glenn Beck attack site? The lawyers got it

  • “Glenn Beck Raped And Murdered A Young Girl In 1990 (dot com)” was nailed. Hard. Last week’s hilariously blatant slander golden boy, GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlIn1990.com, was taken down in an attack by lawyers on both its host, data center and registar. However, the site bounced back in alternate form: GB1990.com. In other news, Fark’s Drew Curtis took Keith Olbermann to task for his criticism of the attacks, which are a parody of Glenn Beck’s own tactics. source
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08 Sep 2009 20:10

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Culture: The truth about “Destination Truth”: It’s not very good

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Ok, we’ll admit when we’re wrong. It may take a bit of waterboarding and pulled fingernails, but we’ll do it. The clip that the Not-Sci-Fi sent for "Eureka" was a tease to the actual point of the episode: Carter gettin’ some. We’re sorry, PR people. But to punish us with a full episode of "Destination: Truth"? Since we didn’t know the show, the elaborate press kit caught our eye with its slick packaging, so we took a look at its third-season premiere.
  • A package deal In a nutshell: Paranormal Travel show in the vein of Ghosthunters, featuring “paranormal researcher” Joshua Gates and his team investigating claims of the supernatural, mainly in the area of cryptozoology. A team filled with AV techs and not a single person with any scientific background.
  • The best bits The first part where the team gets to the remote location and the last bit with the actual experts. Gates and his crew are going to some truly remote areas, and aren’t traveling in first class. In the first part of our preview, the top of a plane ripped off. Happens every time we fly, guys.
  • And …The end of each episode involves actual scientists going over the “evidence”. In this case, each of them at points telling him he was making facts fit his conclusions, and one clearly wondering why he wanted to identify chicken and a cow bones. Watch it tonight at 10 on Not-Sci-Fi. source
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08 Sep 2009 11:26

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Offbeat: It’s not a badger, it’s a rat: Giant new species discovered

This ugly little beast, the Bosavi woolly rat, will be the first victim of the Catstravaganza tomorrow. source
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08 Sep 2009 11:17

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Culture: Trip report: Propofol (just like Michael Jackson!)

  • Propofol didn’t just make me sleepy; it made me feel as if my soul had been detached from my body and was resting just above it, on a cloud of marshmallow fluff, sweet and achingly tender.
  • “The Root” contributor Angie Chuang • Describing her usage of propofol during a colonoscopy, the way it’s supposed to be used. Michael Jackson, who overdosed on it, reportedly used it to sleep, which she says is “bull@(%^.” Chuang suggests, based on her usage, that Jackson may not have been taking it for the sedative elements but the “catharsis. … Not the sleep, but the escape.” He wasn’t loved enough late in life, so he probably wanted a temporary out, she suggests. • source
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08 Sep 2009 11:06

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Culture, World: Daily Poll: Oliver Stone’s love letter to Latin America

  • Oliver Stone’s new movie, “South of the Border,” openly courts controversy in the way only an Oliver Stone movie can. It suggests that media outside of Latin America has been manipulated and that countries like Venezuela are really not that bad. It’s a big wet kiss to Hugo Chavez. Is he right? Is he wrong? Vote. source
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08 Sep 2009 10:53

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Offbeat: This little piggy had bacon rage and ran away from home

  • Someday, this boy will watch this video on YouTube and realize how much of a jerk he really was to this woman who was simply trying to get him to eat healthy. The best part of the video was when he said she couldn’t run in her high heels. source
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