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15 Dec 2009 09:31

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World: Former provincial governor may have been target in Pakistan attack

  • 22+ killed, and 60+ wounded in the market attack source
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15 Dec 2009 09:21

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Culture: The Golden Globe nominations have George Clooney sitting pretty

  • six nominations for George Clooney’s much-loved “Up in the Air”
  • five nominations for super-gaudy, super-huge musical “Nine”
  • four nominations each for “Inglorious Basterds” and “Avatar” source
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15 Dec 2009 09:13

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Tech: Why do we listen to what we listen to, anyway, nerds? Biology.

According to nerdy scientific types, musical preference is based on human biological history. Although we can hear millions of tones, we focus on just a handful. source
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15 Dec 2009 09:00

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U.S.: The White House generates a lot of e-mail, apparently

  • 94 days the span of time the 22 million missing Bush e-mails spread over, according to Gawker
  • 234,042 the number of e-mails they would’ve had to send and receive every single day source
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15 Dec 2009 08:50

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Biz: Editor & Publisher goes out with a bang, gets Warren Buffett

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  • The owner of The Buffalo News will be featured in the magazine’s final issue before it goes off the stands. He takes the news industry to task for becoming complacent and says that top priority should be finding an online revenue stream. “It is so easy when you’ve got a wonderful business,” he said. “Complacency is pretty easy and it is why they weren’t looking over their shoulder at what was happening.”  source
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15 Dec 2009 08:28

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Offbeat: The ongoing war against gingers continues in the U.K.

  • The more I thought about it, the more annoyed I got and I told the lady who worked in the store I was not happy.
  • Concerned British mother Davinia Phillips • On her anger at a Christmas card, sold at at least two Tesco stores, which featured the tagline, “Santa loves all kids. Even ginger ones.” Which is more than a little hairist. What you got against freckles? source
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15 Dec 2009 08:18

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Culture: “Avatar” director James Cameron a death-defying arrogant prick

  • 2 number of times James Cameron has nearly died inside a sub source
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15 Dec 2009 01:05

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Music: Courtney Love can’t raise Frances Bean Cobain anymore

  • Frances Bean is 17. She has a Nirvana trust fund coming soon. The lovechild of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love likely won’t turn 18 under her mother’s care. A court gave her custody rights to Kurt’s mom Wendy and sister Kimberly. She was taken away from the controversial former Hole singer for personal and financial reasons. One can assume a lot of things about this case, but rather than speculate, we’ll just assume it’s for the best. source
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15 Dec 2009 00:56

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U.S.: Thomson, Illinois is looking a lot like Guantanamo Bay right now

The rural town, 150 miles south of Chicago, will reportedly house some of the detainees being vacated from Gitmo. People will complain … soon. source
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