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05 Nov 2009 10:32

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Biz: Are Drudge and Reuters scratching each other’s backs?

  • 29
    times     the number of links The Drudge Report gave to Reuters the first ten months of 2005, after which Andrew Breitbart apparently nailed down a content deal source
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05 Nov 2009 10:18

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Culture: The album art game: Rihanna looks much better than Chris Brown

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  • Rihanna’s cover OK, let’s say you’re a pop star who was all over the press for about six months because your famous boyfriend attacked you violently. It creates some dark times in your life (especially after the post-beating PHOTO of you got leaked). How do you promote your next album? With a dark, two-tone cover and a scorned woman look. Dear Rihanna: Your PR people are awesome. source
  • Rihanna’s cover OK, let’s say you’re a pop star who was all over the press for about six months because your famous boyfriend attacked you violently. It creates some dark times in your life (especially after the post-beating PHOTO of you got leaked). How do you promote your next album? With a dark, two-tone cover and a scorned woman look. Dear Rihanna: Your PR people are awesome.
  • Chris Brown’s cover OK, let’s say you’re a pop star who was all over the press for about six months because you beat your famous girlfriend. It makes millions of people critical of you. How do you promote your next album? Looking like the Black Ziggy Stardust trying to recreate the “Space Jam” film poster on the set for the Michael/Janet Jackson “Scream” video. Dear Chris: Your PR people suck. source
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05 Nov 2009 09:55

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Offbeat: Protip: If you pee on a wartime memorial, you’re probably drunk

  • The image of your urinating over the poppy wreath on the war memorial in this city will make most turn away in disgust, shock and sadness.
  • District Judge Anthony Browne • Describing Phillip Laing’s actions, which included urinating on a war memorial in Sheffield, England. The sports technology student at Sheffield Hallam University, 19, claims he doesn’t remember the October 11 incident and that he was “very, very drunk, the drunkest I’ve ever been since I’ve been at university.” Dude just needed some relief! • source
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05 Nov 2009 09:54

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World: Whose ship is it anyway? Israel wants to know.

This ship is loaded with weapons, Israel claims. The arms and munitions aren’t Hezbollah’s, they’re not Iran’s, nor are they Syria’s. Whose are they? source
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05 Nov 2009 09:34

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Music: Can they work it out? EMI sues some site selling the Beatles online

  • Some Web site you’ve never heard of, BlueBeat.com, starts selling Beatles songs for a quarter a piece based on a strange bastardization of copyright law. source
  • The rights holders, EMI, are just like, “nuh uh,” and sued the company. You know, EMI, if you put the Beatles catalogue on iTunes, it could be awesome. source
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05 Nov 2009 09:17

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Offbeat: Protip: When you start fighting streetlamps, you’re probably drunk

  • He must have been very drunk because when he ran out of passers-by he began to shout at the lampposts, similarly challenging them to ‘have a go’.
  • Perth, Scotland Fiscal depute Stuart Richardson • Describing drunken lout David Robinson, 22, who wanted to get in a fistfight with someone but couldn’t find any takers. So instead, he attempted to attack his fury out on a streetlamp. Too much beer, dude, too much beer. • source
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05 Nov 2009 09:06

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Music: Carl Sagan is so cool Jack White covers his hit records

  • Jack White is releasing a cover of “A Glorious Dawn,” a Carl Sagan-meets-autotune-meets-mashup ditty (featuring special guest Stephen Hawking), which is kind of like “Autotune the News” for famous scientists. What’s crazy is that it’s a full-featured pop song with multiple choruses. And now White’s covering it and releasing it as a 7″ vinyl record. Neat. (Note how we completely ignored the other news at the link. There’s a reason for that.)source
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05 Nov 2009 08:56

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World: Afghanistan is too dangerous for the UN. It’s THAT bad there.

  • 600 staffers are getting pulled away for now source
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