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16 Oct 2009 21:36

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World: He was an exhumed Spanish poet, and he didn’t even know it

  • Federico Garcia Lorca will be exhumed from a Spanish mass grave. After years of fighting through the legal system, the last hurdle has been cleared and one of Spain’s greatest poets could be given a proper burial. Lorca, who was executed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, has likely been sitting in the mass grave for over 70 years. source
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16 Oct 2009 21:27

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Offbeat: Hey, look, raw Balloon Boy launch footage. Interesting.

  • Pops has a temper. And man, this non-story has enough entertaining twists and turns that we cannot convince ourselves to turn away. In the latest news of the case, the Heene family was, in fact, working on a TV show about their family, but networks and production companies passed on it. Wouldn’t it be sad/awesome if they got a reality show out of this incident anyway? source
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16 Oct 2009 16:27

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Biz: A major insider-trading case rocks Wall Street. It’s no Madoff, though.

  • $17 million was blue-collar crimed by Galleon Group’s founder source
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16 Oct 2009 16:16

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Tech: The iPhone App Store’s new free app policy is a win-win for all

  • We’ve always been big supporters of the freemium model, but an upsell from within your free app is just so much easier than trying to get your users to the app store again to purchase your premium version.
  • Inedible Software co-founder Eddie Marks • On Apple’s new policy to allow in-app purchases on free apps. Why is this a big deal? Well, a few things: Software makers only have to get one app approved, as opposed to two (if they’re selling a game), it fights piracy of full apps, and it’s easier to upsell from within the app as opposed to forcing people to go to the app store again. • source
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16 Oct 2009 16:14

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U.S.: We think the Balloon Boy got us sick; thanks for nothing, jerk

  • The ShortFormBlog staff has felt pretty cruddy all day, and we think we know why: We caught whatever the Balloon Boy had. Has anyone considered how strange it is that this kid wasn’t in school on a Thursday? This non-story makes us sick. (Warning: The kid throws up during the clip. It’s not bad throw-up, but it is throw-up. You’ve been warned.)
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16 Oct 2009 13:01

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World: Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai gets tough on Robert Mugabe

Tsvangirai says that if Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party does not change its tune, he will push for UN-sanctioned elections. source
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16 Oct 2009 12:45

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World: Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai boycotts the “unity” government

  • He claims that Robert Mugabe’s party hasn’t budged. Morgan Tsvangirai has been through the wringer trying to improve Zimbabwe and its laughable economy. He’s been beaten before. His wife died in a car crash. But after the arrest of Tsvangirai’s nominated government appointee Roy Bennett on terrorism charges, he’s had enough for now. Tsvangirai and his MDC party have “disengaged” from the unity government with Robert Mugabe. This comes at a bad time for Zimbabwe, which is trying to raise aid money to improve the country’s fragile economic state. source
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16 Oct 2009 11:44

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U.S.: An interracial couple was denied the right to marry. In 2009.

  • He’s an elected public official and one of his duties is to marry people. He doesn’t have the right to say he doesn’t believe in it.
  • Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, NAACP branch president Patricia Morris • Regarding Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell, who would not issue a marriage license to an interracial couple last week. He claimed he wasn’t being racist, but simply thinking of the children. Likely story. Anyway, Bardwell, an elected official, legally is to perform weddings without bias or prejudice, neither of which he did in this situation. • source
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16 Oct 2009 11:22

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Culture: A perfect example of Twitter activism: Jan Moir’s Boyzone article

The Daily Mail columnist claimed that Boyzone’s Stephen Gately, who died of natural causes, didn’t die of natural causes. It caused a major uproar. source
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16 Oct 2009 11:06

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Biz: Ken Lewis is retiring rich, but Bank of America is still struggling

  • $1 billion in losses, mostly from bad debt, this quarter alone source
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