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26 Nov 2009 13:05

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Music: Bob Dylan thankful that his weird Christmas album helps the homeless

  • They get food straight to the people. No military organization, no bureaucracy, no governments to deal with.
  • Bob Dylan • Regarding his choice to offer proceeds of his bizarre “Christmas in the Heart” to hungry and homeless charities. He mentioned this in an interview that ran in London’s “The Big Issue” and other similar sold-by-homeless newspapers in the U.S. That’s right, a guy who never does interviews with anyone gave one to a homeless newspaper. Random. But awesome. source
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26 Nov 2009 12:04

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Culture: What’s Twitter thankful for? Let’s ask directly.

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26 Nov 2009 11:46

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Culture: Daily poll: Happy Thanksgiving! What’s the most important part of it?


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26 Nov 2009 11:40

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Culture: Many people aren’t relying on mom’s turkey recipes anymore

  • 785,000 people looked up turkey recipes on AllRecipe.com this season; mom’s simply not good enough to compete with the Web
  • 11,000 people will likely call the Butterball hotline, which actually exists, today; they can also annoy them via Twitter source
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26 Nov 2009 11:19

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U.S.: Many are thankful for Shaq paying for Shaniya Davis’ funeral

  • The funeral On Sunday, more than 2,000 people showed up to Davis’ funeral – a sad, disturbing end for the five-year-old girl. It came out yesterday that the NBA star paid for the funeral.
  • The backstory Davis, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, went missing earlier this month and was found six days later in a wooded area. She was a victim of child prostitution and kidnapping.
  • The charges
    Mario McNeill was arrested for the murder, with video evidence implicating him. Davis’ mother, Antoinette, was charged with human trafficking charges related to child prostitution. source
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26 Nov 2009 10:47

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Tech: Milan prosecutors are thankful for making Google a scapegoat

  • bad A bunch of jerk kids made fun of a handicapped teen, then posted a clip of it on Google Video. The video became popular, then was removed.
  • worse Italian prosecutors are seeking prison sentences of between six months to 1 year for Google executives – because, clearly, they heckled the kid in the video. source
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26 Nov 2009 10:33

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U.S.: We’re not thankful for the guy who died in Nutty Putty

  • Getting people to him is very difficult. It is a tightly confined space. When there is movement, it is literally millimeters at a time.
  • Sgt. Spencer Cannon • Just before John Edward Jones, who was stuck in the Nutty Putty cave in Utah, died. Jones was trapped in the cave for a whole day in an area 18 inches wide and 10 inches deep. Which sounds awful. source
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26 Nov 2009 10:21

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Culture: Roman Polanski’s thankful for doing house arrest in style

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  • This Swiss-chalet-shaped thing is probably gonna be Roman Polanski’s version of prison after this whole paying-bail mess is over. It’s so nice that he’ll probably have no desire to flee – which is probably why they’re gonna let him do it. source
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26 Nov 2009 09:59

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World: Happy Thanksgiving! Dubai may default on its massive debt

  • $59 billion in liabilities owed to various creditors source
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25 Nov 2009 22:21

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Politics: Sean Hannity’s cold on how hot our planet is this year

  • You can also look it up, this is one of the coldest years in history, this past year.
  • Sean Hannity • Completely getting his facts wrong on how warm it is this year. Media Matters (which is admittedly a liberal site, BTW) points out that Hannity has repeatedly said that this is one of the coldest years on record – facts not backed up at all by the NOAA, NASA and Britain’s Met Office. Data from all three says that it’s one of the warmest years on record. We wonder what crow tastes like. source
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