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28 Oct 2009 11:09

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Tech: Ares I-X: A look into the next generation of NASA

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  • 48 years ago today, NASA launched its first Saturn I “space launcher,” an important development in the history of space exploration. In a big way, the Ares I-X test flight, in the midst of launching, has a similar historic impact. It’s the first shot in the space agency’s next generation of spacecraft. Nerds are aflutter for this reason. source
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28 Oct 2009 10:57

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Tech: Twitter’s atwitter about the pending launch of NASA’s Ares I-X rocket

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28 Oct 2009 10:48

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Biz, Tech: Messing with GPS: Google is no longer friends with TomTom

  • There’s no doubt that those guys are going to be disrupted.
  • Opus Research analyst Greg Sterling • On Google’s decision to offer free navigation software for mobile phones, essentially taking the GPS navigation abilities of TomTom and Garmin and making them look expensive and useless. Google does this a lot, and it has the effect of creating animosity in certain industries. For his part, Google CEO Eric Schmidt says he doesn’t see it as disruption, just helping consumers: “Obviously we like the price of free because consumers like that as well.” • source
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28 Oct 2009 10:38

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Offbeat: Baseballs using “magic mud”: Surprisingly, not a dirty joke

Apparently, the Delaware River has just the right mud to make baseballs awesome. It’s been gathered from the area for 44 years. source
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28 Oct 2009 10:31

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Politics: Sarah Palin’s plan of a big post-gubernatorial payday working

  • $1.25 million the amount Sarah Palin admitted she got advanced for writing “Going Rogue,” according to financial disclosure statements
  • $7
    million     the amount The New York Post says Sarah Palin may have gotten advanced for writing “Going Rogue” – our brain hurts source
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28 Oct 2009 10:23

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Biz: Everyone sucks in newspapers except the Wall Street Journal

The Awl recently put together a graph showing how crappy the newspaper industry was doing. It wasn’t pretty. Not at all. source
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28 Oct 2009 10:16

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World: Also suffering from a major attack today: Northwest Pakistan

  • 86 dead and 100 injured in yet another car bombing source
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28 Oct 2009 10:06

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World: Afghan attack: UN workers don’t feel safe right now

  • I’m in another guesthouse maybe 200 metres as the crow flies from the Bekhtar, and believe me right now I feel vulnerable. I would like the UN to consider our security very seriously indeed as the current operational standards are patently ineffective.
  • An anonymous United Nations worker • Describing their feelings on the attack on a UN guest house in Kabul, Afghanistan. As the UN is needed in the war-torn country right now, the organization should probably heed this concern. It’s one thing when civilians are getting attacked. It’s another thing entirely when impartial humanitarian workers are. • source
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28 Oct 2009 10:03

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World: An attack on UN workers in Afghanistan leaves the world in shock

  • six United Nations workers were killed in the attack in Kabul today
  • two Afghan security officials also died; the Taliban claimed responsibility source
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