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10 Feb 2010 22:46

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Music: One-word album reviews: Late, but not as late as Sade’s new album!

  • Yeah yeah, we know this is a day late. We got held up by the snow. Stop yelling at us! We’re sensitive.
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10 Feb 2010 22:19

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Tech: Bill Gates among long line of people not impressed by the iPad

  • It’s not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, ‘Oh my God, Microsoft didn’t aim high enough.’ It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.’
  • Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates • Regarding his take on the iPad versus the iPhone. In his opinion, Apple didn’t knock it out of the park. Keep in mind, though, that Gates has been wrong before – he said something similar (in fact, about the same) about the iPod before MS came out with the Zune a few years later. source
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10 Feb 2010 22:09

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Biz: Rejoice! The AP’s long absence on Google News has ended

  • 7 weeks without the Associated Press on Google; nobody noticed source
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10 Feb 2010 22:01

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U.S.: Most people favor taxing smokers (again) for quick government cash

  • 60% the percentage of taxpayers who would support a $1 cigarette tax increase as a way to raise cash
  • $9 billion the amount health advocates say could be made if the tax was actually implemented source
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10 Feb 2010 21:51

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Offbeat: Jesus, that’s a lot of pot: Jesus photos packing a little extra

Border patrol workers found 30 pounds of pot stuffed in pictures of Our Lord. There are so many possible puns here that we don’t know which one to use. source
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10 Feb 2010 21:39

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Culture: John Mayer says a bunch of stupid crap, apologizes profusely

  • They don’t make rehab centers for being an a-hole.
  • John Mayer • Regarding his over-the-top interview with Playboy, which was something else. Dude talked about his sex life with Jennifer Aniston and Jessica Simpson, used the N-word (which he claims he tried, and failed, to intellectualize in the interview), and compared his penis to white supremacist David Duke. All in all, holy crap. At least he realizes it was a bad idea and is attempting to make amends for it. source
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10 Feb 2010 21:33

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U.S.: The East Coast Snoverkill, in photos ganked from Flickr

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10 Feb 2010 21:23

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U.S.: How much snow did D.C. and Baltimore get, anyway? (02/10/10)

  • 19.5″ snow total at BWI  airport near Baltimore
  • 14.0″ snow total at American University in the Upper Northwest part of the District
  • 10.5″ snow total at Reagan National Airport, just south of the District in Arlington
  • 9.3″ snow total at Dulles International Airport, west of the District in the ‘burbs source
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10 Feb 2010 10:19

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Culture: Not music, just television: MTV symbolically changes its logo

  • What does MTV stand for now? Heaven forfend, but should ‘Jersey Shore’ prove to be so successful that it keeps the network alive for another three decades, will ‘MTV’ only make sense to those of us who know that it used to stand for ‘Music Television’?
  • TV Squad blogger Annie Wu • On perhaps the most painfully obvious change to MTV’s logo. It no longer refers to itself as “Music Television.” This move honestly has been due since about 2000 or so, really, but now it symbolically cements in stone that MTV can no longer go home. Rather than be depressed about it, we’re just going to watch some music videos on YouTube. At least somebody gives us what we want. source
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10 Feb 2010 10:11

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World: The WWF (not the WWE) wants you to save the wild tigers

  • 100,000 number of wild tigers back in the heady days of 1990
  • 3,200 tigers are left in the wild today; three sub-species are extinct source
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