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02 Mar 2010 10:21

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Tech: Apple sues Nexus One maker HTC: Get yo popcorn ready!

  • Oh boy, this could get ugly. HTC, which produces a number of Google Android phones (including the Nexus One) was sued by the iPhone maker for violating 20 Apple patents. “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” noted Steve Jobs. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.” Holy crap. Did you hear that SLAAAAAAAPPPPP? source
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02 Mar 2010 10:13

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Biz: The BBC gets criticized for overreach, then scales back big time

  • 25% the amount the broadcasting company, which is subsidized by the British government, plans to cut its spending over the next few years
  • half of its Web pages will go bye-bye in the shake-up, along with BBC 6 Music, an alternative music radio station, and one other radio station
  • why? the broadcaster got a lot of criticism for moving away from its original purpose and competing with commercial networks source
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02 Mar 2010 10:01

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Politics: Harold Ford explains why he isn’t running, blames the party

  • The cruel twist, of course, is that the party bosses who tried to intimidate me so that I wouldn’t even think about running against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who had been appointed to the seat by Gov. David A. Paterson, are the same people responsible for putting Democratic control of the Senate at risk.
  • Harold Ford Jr. • In an editorial explaining why he chose not to run for the New York Senate despite pushing hard to make his move. This quote seems a weeee bit pissed off for some reason. We’re not sure why. But like we said last night, Gawker is responsible for his campaign going nowhere. Because they made it clear that he was both completely incompetent and sounded like a carpetbagger. source
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02 Mar 2010 09:52

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Music: Dear Brazilian band Deadly Fate: “Galpao 29” not how to win fans

  • The band has been the subject of a seemingly self-induced Twitter trending topic since last night. Do you like metal? How about spam that completely eats up Twitter? Deadly Fate has both in spades. And despite their strategy to overload the Twitter trending topics with tweets mentioning their MySpace page, they don’t seem to have gained any fans since last night, when they started trending. Wonder why. source
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02 Mar 2010 09:43

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U.S.: The U.S. Postal Service sends a package labeled “drastic changes”

  • problem People are using the mail less to send letters due to e-mail, and more for stuff like packages and Netflix, causing volume to decline severely.
  • solution The U.S. Postal Service wants to hike fares (again), cut back delivery schedules, and – more importantly – cut service on Saturday. source
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02 Mar 2010 00:29

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World: The massive earthquake in Chile an axis-moving event

  • three
    inches     the distance the Chile quake moved the earth’s axis, which is further than we moved today
  • just
    barely     the amount of time (about 1.26 microseconds) the day has been shortened as a result source
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02 Mar 2010 00:19

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Culture: “A new downhill event”: The zeitgeist of Jay Leno on Twitter

  • Looks like NBC is continuing their Winter Olympics coverage with a new downhill event… The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  • A bunch of tweeters (although @offdutygnome was first) • In pretty much the funniest quip to be made about Jay Leno’s return to the Tonight Show. It’s been picking up steam on the site tonight ever since YouTube star Philip DeFranco tweeted about it. If you ask us, this is the funniest thing that will come out of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. It’s all downhill from here. source
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01 Mar 2010 23:37

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Culture: Twitter welcomes Jay Leno back to the fold. Or not



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01 Mar 2010 23:02

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Politics: The history of political gridlock, Salon.com edition

  • The increasing mismatch between population and power in American government that underlies the present gridlock needs to be addressed by structural reforms.
  • Salon writer Michael Lind • Regarding the social reasons the Republican party is currently strongly obstructionist. Lind compares working-class white voters to social groups of earlier eras – including British Protestants (who feared European immigrants) and Southern planters – that held disproportionate power in Congress and the presidency despite their declining numbers. He also suggests ways they hold that power, and how to get around it that are completely unrealistic (What if New York was five states instead of one?) and some that might be more realistic (What if we get rid of this stupid filibuster?). source
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01 Mar 2010 22:28

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World: Three reasons while Chile will recover quickly from its earthquake

  • one Chile, the world’s 46th-richest country,
    has a much stronger economy than Haiti, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.
  • two The country has one of the lowest debt to economic output ratios in Latin America, and the government is fairly frugal with spending.
  • three Chile has a massive copper supply, a supply which was barely damaged by the earthquake. They’ll bounce back, guys. source
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