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13 Jan 2010 23:33

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World: Awesome people text the Red Cross to help Haiti, hit milestone

  • $1+ million in donations from texts alone (whoa!) source
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13 Jan 2010 23:15

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Offbeat: Legal male prostitute has way too high of an opinion of himself

  • It’s just the same as when Rosa Parks decided to sit at the front instead of the back. She was proclaiming her rights as a disadvantaged, African-American older woman. And I’m doing the same.
  • Shady Lady Ranch employee “Markus” • On his new job as a “gigolo” (since he doesn’t want to be called a prostitute). Yes, because legal prostitution is exactly the same thing as civil disobedience. Remember right before Parks died, she sued Outkast for naming a song after her? Can we bring her back to life so she can do the same thing to this guy? Because he totally deserves it. source
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13 Jan 2010 23:03

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Tech: Google’s Nexus One is starting to look a little like a debacle

  • sales Despite the massive waves of hype around the phone, it sold just 20,000 units in its first week. That hurts.
  • hype The big problem? It doesn’t have hype. There’s no Droid-like marketing push, which has led to weak sales.
  • reviews The phone has also had some iffy reviews, which have led to a perception that it’s evolutionary, not revolutionary. source
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13 Jan 2010 22:10

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U.S.: Prop 8 trial: No cameras in the courtroom. Thanks, Supreme Court!

  • 5-4 the righties beat the lefties again at the High Court source
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13 Jan 2010 20:29

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World: Everyone’s struggling to give Haiti the help they need

  • The problem is not the materials or the staff, but how to get it into place. The challenge is how to get our people and our resources into Port-au-Prince.
  • Doctors Without Borders emergency management expert Paul McPhun • On the logistical nightmare that is the Haiti earthquake. Many countries are trying to get their gear and people into place, including the U.S. and China. But with a death toll possibly in the hundreds of thousands, this could be really tough even for established countries to tackle. Our fingers are crossed for Haiti. Tightly. Oh yeah, the United States’ special envoy to Haiti is Bill Clinton, and he’s on his A game today. source
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13 Jan 2010 17:01

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Music: RIP Jay Reatard. You were one of the good ones. Peace man.

Dear Gods of indie rock, why did you have to take Jay Reatard? That guy had more good songs than most of those other punk guys have come up with combined. source
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13 Jan 2010 15:01

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Politics: Haiti earthquake: Pat Robertson is a douchenozzle

  • The CBN host with the most racist philosophies possible said that Haitians are getting punished by Satan for the slave revolt that liberated their country 200 years ago. Dude, do you just wait for bad things to happen to go crazy? source
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13 Jan 2010 11:59

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U.S.: Twitter keeps abreast of the worst of the Haiti earthquake

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13 Jan 2010 11:13

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Tech, World: Google & China: Stocks prefer censorship over pullouts

  • +10% increase in Baidu’s stock this morning; they stand to benefit most from Google’s China pullout
  • -1% decrease in Google’s stock this morning, after posting about the pullout decision last night source
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13 Jan 2010 11:07

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Biz, U.S.: Obama has a plan to get back TARP funds: Tax the bastards

  • 20 of the biggest banks will now bail out the government source
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