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26 May 2010 11:45

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Politics: Eric Holder plans to nod his head through another meeting

As regular reader Tom Alday will rightly remind us, Eric Holder didn’t read Arizona’s 10-page immigration law. But he’s about to talk about it with a bunch of big-city police chiefs. source
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26 May 2010 11:21

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Culture: We’re confining all comments about “American Idol” in this post







  • We don’t care about the end of “American Idol.” We ESPECIALLY don’t care about Simon Cowell leaving the series. So if you care about stupid things like that, feel free to see the bajillions of tweets going through this post. But we won’t be listening. Maybe if one of the contestants sang Deerhunter.
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26 May 2010 11:12

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Culture: Jesse James is firmly entrenched on the apology circuit

  • I took a pretty amazing life and amazing success and marriage … and threw it away by my own hands.
  • Jesse “I threw away an amazing life with Sandra Bullock” James • Apologizing for throwing away an amazing life with Sandra Bullock. Really, he’s so sorry he threw that life away with Sandra Bullock. He just can’t believe he did that, and now he’s really sorry about it. He’s all apologies about the whole “throwing away an amazing life with Sandra Bullock” thing. He’s sorry. What more do you want from him? He threw away an amazing life with Sandra Bullock. Sor-ry! if you can’t see that he’s really sorry about it. source
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26 May 2010 11:06

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Tech: Wired Magazine’s new iPad app: Adobe had to re-work it

     

  • What the app has: A five-dollar price tag, an innovative approach, and a really cool design.
  • What the app doesn’t have: Flash. Adobe had to recode the entire app for Conde Nast after Apple changed their rules. Probably not cheap at all. But worth it. source
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26 May 2010 10:54

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U.S.: Grasshoppers are coming to kill us all, eat our crops

OK, truth is, only half of that headline is true. If you can figure out which half is true, you win … absolutely nothing. *chirp* source
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26 May 2010 10:48

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World: OK, everyone, guess how many nuclear warheads the U.K. has

  • 225 and not a single warhead more, kids source
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26 May 2010 10:37

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Biz: Domino’s Pizza improves their pizza, then their quarterly sales

  • +14.3% the increase in Domino’s
    quarterly sales after starting a
    campaign to improve
    its pizza from the bottom up
    with better ingredients
  • -3% the decline of the pizza-delivery industry in general, due to the recession; this article uses the phrase “vastly improved frozen-pizza technologies” source
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26 May 2010 10:29

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U.S.: Definitions: WTF is a “top kill,” and what does it have to do with me?

  • whatA “top kill” is an ambitious method BP plans to use to stop the oil spill. It involves putting heavy fluids, like mud, into the pipe in an attempt to prevent more oil from coming out.
  • risks It may work, but there’s a chance it’ll just make everything worse by causing the oil to come out at an even faster rate. Still though, it’s a better bet than a robot (maybe). source
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26 May 2010 10:22

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U.S.: Did BP have warning signs the oil well might blow?

  • YES pressure surged in the oil well before the blast source
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25 May 2010 23:54

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Culture: Protip: Houses that inspire horror movies a sound investment

  • $55k the amount the “Amityville Horrors” house sold for not long after six people were killed inside
  • $310k the amount the house sold for in 1997, nearly 20 years after the popular 1979 movie first came out
  • $1.1M the amount the house just went on the market for; an infamous murder no longer a reason for a discount source
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