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24 Oct 2009 18:00

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World: The Saudi sex chat story means lashes for a female journalist

  • 60 lashes for a woman who reported on a guy talking dirty source
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24 Oct 2009 17:09

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Offbeat: The movies are one letter off, but these jokes are mostly ON.

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24 Oct 2009 13:23

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Culture: My, CNN, what a beautiful redesign you have. We love it.

CNN redesign
  • Could one make love to a redesign? Especially one of a news site that seems to go tabloidy more than it should? If so, we’d totally make love to the CNN redesign. It’s big and bold and red. Just like us. source
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24 Oct 2009 13:16

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World: Pakistan’s anti-Taliban push: Successful so far, but it gets tougher

  • The military’s movement is faster than in their previous campaigns. But the more they get inside the sanctuary, the more they will be bogged down.
  • A former North Waziristan government official • Describing the current anti-Taliban campaign in Pakistan in comparison to prior ones. They have had some pretty strong victories, though: The Pakistan army says they’ve captured the stronghold of Kotkai, where current Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is said to reside. • source
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24 Oct 2009 12:20

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Music: Our Saturday Mixtape: Atlas Sound and Ben Gibbard cohabitate

  • 1. Bradford Cox is really one of a kind. The Deerhunter lead singer, who moonlights as Atlas Sound, really does a great job synthesizing really interesting ideas into his stew. Especially if, as in the case of “Walkabout,” that idea is Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) of Animal Collective. It’s a very Panda Bearish-sound, but built on of of those simple-but-awesome Deerhunter song structures.
    2. We admit to having an affinity for this broken twee sound, which Pens does a pretty good job of replicating on “I Sing Just For You.” It doesn’t really hold up over a whole album, but it’s nice in single-bite form.
    3. Sufjan Stevens went from recording really awesome albums about states to doing his best impression of the compositions from Final Fantasy VI (or Final Fantasy III if you’re a luddite who doesn’t know the series’ Japanese history). That description doesn’t give “The BQE” much credit – really, it’s great – but we hope he gets back to the 50 States Project soon.
    4. Ben Gibbard doesn’t have to do this. He’s already incredibly famous, and Death Cab For Cutie’s an interesting enough outlet that he doesn’t need another Postal Service-style offshoot to keep busy. But we appreciate his album of Jack Kerouac-inspired songs he did with Jay Farrar – it’s very much in the “Mermaid Avenue” mold. In a good way.
    5. It’s good to see our old friends Kings of Convenience showing up with a new album. We thought they were gone for good. A lot of people argue they need to expand their sound, but we think it’s perfect as-is, especially on “Me in You.” source
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24 Oct 2009 11:20

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U.S.: Daily Poll: Think you’re gonna get the swine flu vaccine?

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24 Oct 2009 02:15

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World: For shame, murderous Russian bear on ice skates. For shame.

  • Maybe “Bears on Ice” wasn’t such a great idea. A Russian circus troupe is in mourning today after a bear who was supposed to be on ice skates killed circus administrator Dmitry Potapov and mauled an animal trainer. OK, we know. Russia has a long history of putting bears in the circus, but we think even we’d draw the line at ice skates. Screw the Ice Capades. source
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24 Oct 2009 02:05

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World: Poll: The British National Party won over a few right-wing loonies

  • 25% of Brits may vote for Nick Griffin’s racist love child source
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24 Oct 2009 01:59

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Tech: Good luck: MySpace is looking regain some of that lost momentum

  • Everybody in the company is upset that we didn’t keep going when we had the real momentum. Regaining momentum is always much harder than keeping momentum going.
  • News Corp.’s Jonathan Miller • On losing the momentum that made MySpace one of the Internet’s hottest stars for about a year, until they screwed that up and nobody cared anymore. How does the social media company plan to get it back? By differentiating itself in the marketplace. They have some pretty good music offerings down the pipe, and they want to open up their infrastructure to developers (who aren’t 13-year-old girls that know how to put sparkles on their page). But – much like every Internet-related article we post that mentions News Corp. – Miller suggests they’re gonna charge for certain parts of MySpace. That’s OK man – we’ll just use Facebook instead. That’s where all our friends are. Just continue to follow the News Corp. party line. • source
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24 Oct 2009 01:47

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Tech: We would like to welcome our Google Chrome OSX overlords

We’ve been futzing with the Chromium nightly builds of this for months, but now it’s here in real, usable format. If you’re on a Mac, download this. source
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