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13 Sep 2009 23:34

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Tech: Protip: Don’t click on that New York Times antivirus ad

  • Some NYTimes.com readers have seen a pop-up box warning them about a virus and directing them to a site that claims to offer antivirus software. We believe this was generated by an unauthorized advertisement and are working to prevent the problem from recurring.
  • A note from the New York Times • Informing readers of a malware ad that the site was offering up. Mac users obviously weren’t affected, but some pretty nasty, scary stuff happened to PC users. • source
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13 Sep 2009 23:22

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Politics: Max Headroom: How did our political discourse turn into mush?

  • ACORN scam artists? The two people behind the ACORN prostitution video make themselves sound like the biggest douchebags ever, based on this Fox News video. Even if ACORN screwed up, these guys were TRYING to get them to screw up.

  • Tea party insanityNow, we’re not saying that all conservative activists are like those shown in this video, but the first two minutes of this video are really eye opening as to how far on the fringe many of these activists really are. Yikes.

  • Axelrod: They’re wrongTop Obama adviser David Axelrod says flatly that these conservative activists overtaking Washington are simply “wrong” on the health care debate. We wouldn’t go that far. Their voices should be a part of this debate, too.

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13 Sep 2009 22:52

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U.S.: The Yale grad student story – slowly getting more disturbing

  • Tuesday Annie Le, a Yale grad student who was supposed be getting married this weekend, went missing after going into a school building.
  • Saturday Bloody clothes were found in the ceiling, and other details came out, including an abruptly-canceled class Le was to be attending Tuesday.
  • Today On the day of her wedding, a body was found inside a wall in the building. Investigators say it’s probably her. source
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13 Sep 2009 22:33

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Sports: The Orange County Register’s Mark Whicker: I’m a freaking idiot

  • It was not my intention to do so. But it’s obvious that I miscalculated the effect the column on Jaycee Dugard, and the events that she might have missed during her captivity, had on those who read, buy and advertise in our newspaper.
  • Mark Whicker • On his column last Tuesday, which may go down in history as the most misguided sports column ever. In it, Whicker used Jaycee Dugard’s kidnapping and captivity as a hook to look back at the last 18 years of sports. The copy-editing staff understood why this might be a bad idea, giving the column this boring-as-nails headline: “Many odd things have happened in sports the past 18 years.” The next day, readers gave him a lashing for his idiocy. He then apologized. The editors also apologized, but it was still beyond boneheaded. It was downright sick. • source
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13 Sep 2009 22:18

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World: Hugo Chavez has more guns than you do. A. LOT. MORE.

  • $2 billion deal to get lots of weapons for Venezuela. SIGNED. source
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13 Sep 2009 21:55

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Culture: Daily poll: Do you trust the media more or less nowadays?

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13 Sep 2009 21:39

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Tech: With a URL hack, Google has a real-time search. No, really.

  • n10 allows you to search for stuff from the last ten minutes (click this link to see what people are saying about the VMAs)
  • n1 allows you to search for stuff from the last minute (click this link to see what people are saying about Lady Gaga) source
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13 Sep 2009 21:20

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Culture: Miss Piggy’s out: Lady Gaga’s Kermit fetish goes to extremes

Lady Gaga decked out in a Kermit suit for no particular reason
  • If we were Miss Piggy, we’d probably be putting on our poker faces right about now and kicking some butt. Lady Gaga, everyone’s favorite modern pop oddity, showed up at the Video Music Awards with an already-taken frog, Kermit. And more power to him, too: Gaga’s pretty hot for a possible hermaphrodite. source
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13 Sep 2009 21:04

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Music: We heard this rumor on Twitter that the VMAs were on MTV tonight

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13 Sep 2009 20:59

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Sports: Serena Williams on-court anger cost her a pretty penny

  • $10,500 fine – and more could be coming source
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