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12 May 2010 19:42

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World: No. 1 reason for weak Japanese leadership: A taste for ugly shirts

Just 24 percent of the Japanese approve of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. Why? Some suggest it’s because he apparently doesn’t know how to dress himself. source
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12 May 2010 11:03

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Biz: Wal-Mart forgot to pay workers in California some of their wages

  • $86M
     the possible size of the total settlement, based on underpaid wages and vacation time
  • 232k
     the number of former workers that could benefit from the class-action suit
  • $370 the amount that would net each employee, on average, which isn’t that much source
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12 May 2010 10:37

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World: Holy crap: Sinkhole kills entire family in Quebec

  • strangeness The family was just at home minding their own business when the ground below their home started to fall apart in a mudslide.
  • sadness A day later, after a crew of rescuers tried to help, four people – the entire family – was found dead inside the home. source
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12 May 2010 10:24

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Tech: Ho-hum: Another iPhone 4G prototype found in the wild

This one showed up in Vietnam and apparently was further along in the design process than the one lost in the Silicon Valley bar. It uses Apple’s A4 chip. source
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12 May 2010 10:12

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Politics: Elena Kagan’s big public problem? People don’t know her yet

  • 40% of people have a positive or fair opinion of Kagan
  • 36% have a fair or negative opinion of the Supreme Court nominee
  • 24% are wondering who the heck you’re talking about source
  • » How does this compare? Not very well, actually. People’s positive opinions of Kagan are lower than any of the other four nominees since 2005, including a full seven points below Sonia Sotomayor. The reason for this, mostly, is the high number of “no opinions” – most of Bush’s choices scored around 15 percent there.
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12 May 2010 09:47

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Biz: The U.S. trade deficit widens in March. What does that mean?

  • $188B the value of goods the U.S. imported from other countries in March
  • $147B the value of goods the U.S. exported to other countries in March
  • $40.4B the gap between
    the two     – a.k.a. our trade deficit source
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12 May 2010 09:39

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U.S.: Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell: An “obligation” to report domestic violence

  • Particularly in domestic-related situations, can other people intervene because they see things going on… and maybe this could have been prevented.
  • Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell • Regarding the death of U.Va. women’s lacrosse player Yeardley Love, who men’s lacrosse player George Huguely is accused of murdering. The governor suggests that there’s an “obligation to all of us in our society [that] if we see things that look wrong or strange behavior or violent behavior, to really be more involved” in domestic violence cases. There were certain tell-taie signs that Huguely had a violent streak, including prior arrests. In other news, Huguely’s mother Marta Murphy spoke out, noting that Love was something of a member of her family due to Huguely’s long relationship with her. source
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12 May 2010 09:20

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World: A huge plane crash in Libya reportedly had a survivor

  • 100 number of people who reportedly
    died in the crash
  • one child, somehow, survived, Dutch tourism officials say source
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11 May 2010 23:23

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Tech: Does Google have an iPad competitor in the works yet?

  • YES they’re working on it with Verizon as we speak source
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11 May 2010 23:07

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Tech: The Facebook backlash among techies is heating up

  • Over the past month, Mark Zuckerberg, the hottest new card player in town, has overplayed his hand. Facebook is officially ‘out,’ as in uncool, amongst partners, parents and pundits all coming to the realization that Zuckerberg and his company are–simply put–not trustworthy.
  • Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jason Calacanis • Discussing the apparent Facebook backlash that already seems to be afoot amongst techies. Many are feeling that Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, has overplayed his hand with recent his recent moves, and companies once reliant on the social network’s ecosystem, namely “Farmville” creator Zynga, are trying to find alternatives. Calacanis goes further, and suggests that Facebook has stolen key features from other Silicon Valley companies, screwed their users over in terms of privacy, and built their company’s entire basis on lies and unethical behavior, and lost a lot of goodwill in the process. We should note, by the way, that Calacanis is a somewhat controversial figure because of the link-spammy nature of his Mahalo business, but he’s not alone in this feeling. source
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