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12 Oct 2009 21:39

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Politics: Here’s a big, scary number health insurers want you to be scared by

  • 18% increase in premiums over the next decade – maybe source
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12 Oct 2009 21:33

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Offbeat: Stabbing suspect: “We’re men – stabby men – we’re men in tights!”

  • His alibi was “Robin Hood: Men in Tights.” No, really. 20-year-old Leo Beitz was accused of stabbing a friend during a visit in Boulder, Colorado. Witnesses to the stabbing say he attacked friend Parker Chase Rolles with a large knife. Beitz says that he accidentally stabbed Rolles when the friends were acting out scenes from “Robin Hood: Men in Tights.” You know, from Mel Brooks’ lean period. We wonder how Richard Lewis has been doing lately. source
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12 Oct 2009 21:17

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Culture: “Paranormal Activity” is doing some paranormal box-office numbers

  • $11,000 the amount it cost to make the Twitter-buzzed low-budget horror flick “Paranormal Activity,” which is using the “Blair Witch” model
  • $44,163 the amount of money it made per theater this weekend, in just 200 theaters. At a $7.1 million take, that’s a freaking record source
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12 Oct 2009 21:09

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Politics: Glenn Beck: The White House has made the war about Fox News

  • It’s not often that we give Glenn Beck credit, mainly because he’s a raging loony who almost never deserves credit from us, but Beck hit this out of the park. The White House should not be screwing with Fox News. They’re small potatoes. Fox News realizes it. However, we draw the line at Beck saying that they’re openly at war with Fox News’ viewers and their politics. Take the high road, White House, and show the country you’re better than this. source
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12 Oct 2009 20:32

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Biz: Citigroup didn’t keep its eyes on shady trading, gets punished

  • $600,000 fine for sucking source
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12 Oct 2009 20:17

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Tech: Don’t shut it off! T-Mobile’s massive Sidekick nightmare

The Sidekick problem is so bad that T-Mobile isn’t currently selling them. Oh, and they have 800,000 pissed-off customers. source
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12 Oct 2009 20:02

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Politics: The “Goodists”: Obama’s Nobel Prize in line with past winners?

  • He is, so to speak, the son Alfred Nobel never had (minus the dynamite fortune), the best and most significant spokesman for everything the Peace Prize has stood for these 108 years.
  • Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens • Describing why Barack Obama may, in fact, be worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize. Stephens notes that the award, minus a few oddball exceptions (Yasser Arafat) and obvious winners (Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr.), has largely been given to “Goodists,” people who have made an effort to be seen as good and to see problems as solvable misunderstandings between well-intentioned people. An interesting perspective, for sure, written by someone who knows what he’s talking about. • source
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12 Oct 2009 11:30

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Culture: Was it Soy Bomb? Guy sneaks onto Paula Deen’s “Today Show” set

  • The guy is totally cooked. And Paula Deen and Al Roker seem more amused than anything else. The best part of this clip? After they spot the guy, they keep going.
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12 Oct 2009 11:24

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Biz: Daily Poll: Is the recession easing in your neck of the woods?

  • A survey of 44 professional forecasters found that 80% of those researchers thought the “Great Recession,” the worst since the 1930s, was receding. The National Association of Business Economists conducted the survey. Our question: Instead of asking a bunch of economists, let’s ask you jerks. Unless there’s economists that read ShortFormBlog. Then you can’t vote. You might skew things. (Sorry.) source
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12 Oct 2009 11:11

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Tech: Snow Leopard has teeth: Apple’s new OS has a really big bug.

  • Do not log into the guest account. Since last month, users have been reporting a major Snow Leopard flaw on Apple’s support forums. Essentially, if you log into a guest account after you upgrade, then log out and go to your regular account, everything’s gone. And you can’t get it back. Yikes. This is not the kind of thing that users run into every day, but it’s a common enough feature to freak us out. source
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