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13 Apr 2010 10:58

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Tech: The reason Opera Mini was approved for the iPhone? It sucks. Badly.

  • Opera Mini: like VNC-ing from your iPhone to a Motorola Razr with a really fast connection.
  • Panic developer Neven Mrgan • Saying what needed to be said about the browser. It’s a fast, zippy browser, but as Harry McCracken notes, it makes Safari look that much better in comparison. In fact, we’d argue it’s ugly. It also makes ShortFormBlog look like it was built in 1997 by people who hadn’t heard of CSS. If we’d paid for it, we’d want our money back. We still might ask for it, even. source
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13 Apr 2010 10:40

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Culture: George Lopez wants Conan to know he’s wanted on TBS

  • Someone’s excited. George Lopez wanted to work with Conan O’Brien so badly that he pulled out one of his signature sketches last night. He also said this last night: “I want to say that I am completely 100% on board with this move. I talked to Conan on Wednesday and I talked to him last night and I said I welcome you into my deep loving embrace. Then I said let’s take the party and make it bigger and take it into the next generation of late-night TV.” Will it be the next generation? We have our fingers crossed. source

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13 Apr 2010 10:30

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Politics: Cha-ching! Sarah Palin makes a lot of money as a free agent

  • $125,000
    yearly     amount Sarah Palin made from her gig as Alaska governor
  • $12
    million     amount Palin’s made since she quit that job last year source
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13 Apr 2010 10:21

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U.S.: This year’s federal deficit could be less than expected

  • 8% decrease in the federal deficit
    so far this year source
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12 Apr 2010 22:10

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Music: A Big Star without health insurance: The sad end of Alex Chilton

  • At least twice in the week before his fatal heart attack, Chilton experienced shortness of breath and chills while cutting grass. But he did not seek medical attention, [wife Laura] Kersting said, in part because he had no health insurance.
  • New Orleans Times-Picayune reporter Keith Spera • Regarding the last week of Box Tops and Big Star lead singer Alex Chilton, who lacked the health insurance to keep him alive, sadly. That’s despite the fact that he wrote hit songs (including a popular TV show theme song) and had a reputation up there with the greatest in pop music history. Chilton, who lived in New Orleans for most of the last three decades, wasn’t overly sentimental about death, but this ties into the health insurance problems many musicians face. He was only 59. He still had plenty of life left to live; there’s no reason it had to end like this. source
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12 Apr 2010 21:46

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Culture: Random quotes from three Pulitzer winners today

  • one “I don’t always feel comfortable about what I’m doing. It’s the whole ‘industry-versus-citizen’ thing where the industry always wins.”
  • two “Last year it happened three times in one day, the worst day so far in the worst year so far in a phenomenon that gives no sign of abating.”
  • three “Frankly if you kept
    it to a small scale and were satisfied to keep it to a grand a week, I don’t know how you would ever get caught.”
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12 Apr 2010 21:28

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Biz: The stock market reached the other end of the inverted bell curve today

  • 11,005 the closing price of the Dow Jones Industrial today, a new peak in a long rebound from the recession
  • 11,143 the closing price on Sept. 26, 2008 – the last time it ended above 11,000 (we blame Lehman Bros.) source
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12 Apr 2010 21:18

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Politics: Is Hillary Clinton REALLY a Supreme Court candidate?

  • NO Orrin Hatch was just pulling
    our collective leg source
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12 Apr 2010 21:08

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Tech: High-fives all around for the makers of Opera Mini for the iPhone

  • Hell froze over, boys. Our good friends at Opera, who ballsily submitted a Web browser (i.e. direct competition) to the good folks at Apple for the iPhone App Store, actually got it approved. Which was beyond unexpected based on Apple’s recent track record. Maybe Apple isn’t made of stone after all. Will a mobile version of Firefox be next? source
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12 Apr 2010 13:08

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Culture: Conan O’Brien on TBS?! Well, that’s exciting. Twitter freaks



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