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15 Apr 2010 10:32

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Offbeat: We think aliens just landed in Wisconsin for some reason

This giant fireball lit up the Midwestern skies for about fifteen minutes last night – just enough time for a strange creature to destroy humanity as we know it. source
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15 Apr 2010 10:23

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Politics: Bizarro hippies on tax day: What legislators can we knock off?

  • We’d love to beat Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco but she’s too strong. We try to keep our focus on the doable.
  • Bizarro Hippie Express strategist Sal Russo • Regarding their plans to attempt to knock Democrats out of office this year. They have claimed some victories (sorta) in the form of the retirements of Chris Dodd and Bart Stupak (claims which are kinda questionable) and the party switch of Arlen Specter. The grassroots political movement is in D.C. today because it’s Tax Day and they want to make a big deal out of that day. Their best reason why should be this, but isn’t. source
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15 Apr 2010 10:13

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World: Twitter’s having fun with the Icelandic volcano eruption today



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15 Apr 2010 10:04

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Tech: Twitter finally gives us some concrete numbers about its growth

  • 604,455 accounts per Twitter employee
  • 105M number of users on Twitter; 300,000 get added daily
  • 50M number of tweets
    that get sent out
    every single day
  • 75% of all tweet traffic comes from third-party applications source
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15 Apr 2010 09:56

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World: Volcanoes are scary. This one is in Iceland is affecting flights

  • The last time we erupted in anger like this, we trashed a hotel room, so we can’t imagine what the Earth is upset about, but we know it must be something really bad. source
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15 Apr 2010 09:39

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Tech: Don’t bring iPads to Israel; it doesn’t fit their standards for tablets

  • They must have at least five commandments on them, minimum. Seriously, though, the iPad apparently does not meet standards for wi-fi in the country, which are the same as Europe’s. Kind of a stupid reason, by the way, considering there are MILLIONS of devices that support the form of wi-fi the iPad does. source
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15 Apr 2010 09:28

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Biz: Forgot to do taxes on time, jerk? Have some food freebies

  • coffee Starbucks is giving free coffee to anyone with a reusable container. but it’s for Earth Day, not Tax Day. Pretend otherwise.
  • tacos We love tacos just like everyone else, and West Coast chain Taco Del Mar is giving away free ones today.
  • sweets Ice cream chain Maggie Moo’s is giving away ice cream pizza samples; Cinnabon’s giving out cupcake bites. source
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15 Apr 2010 09:15

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Tech: Despite sucking terribly, Opera Mini gets a ton of downloads

  • 1 million downloads of a crap iPhone browser in its first full day source
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14 Apr 2010 22:51

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Tech: The most useless quote from Chirp comes from will.i.am

  • I love the world of social connectivity, the real-time responses and connections, the same thing that crippled the industry I live in. Now you can surf people’s thoughts.
  • will.i.am • Discussing why he likes Twitter. He seemed like a strange presence at the conference (especially after he suggested bands will have official programmers). And what a conference it is – Twitter introduced a bunch of crap that directly steps on the toes of what developers are already doing with the technology, going so far as to offer their own URL shortener. Well crap. There goes the neighborhood, kids. source
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14 Apr 2010 22:33

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World: China quake: Bad, but not as bad as that other Chinese quake

  • 589+ people have been reported killed in this quake so far
  • 87,000 people were killed in a quake in a nearby province in 2008 source
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