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01 Jun 2010 23:38

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U.S.: Will Alabama have a black governor for the first time ever?

  • NO and Artur Davis’ loss tonight was downright brutal source
  • 65% challenger Ron Sparks’ polling
    results so far tonight
  • 35% Davis’ result with 58 percent of precincts reporting
  • And the saddest news of the night: Dale “Thugs and Criminals” Peterson, who is running for Alabama Agriculture Commissioner on the back of an awesome commercial, came in third in a field of three for the Republican nomination. That sucks.
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01 Jun 2010 23:24

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Tech: Steve Jobs would rather quit than let Gizmodo win

  • You know, when this whole thing with Gizmodo happened, I got advice from people who said ‘you gotta just let it slide, you shouldn’t go after a journalist just because they bought stolen property and tried to extort you.’ … I can’t do that. I’d rather quit.
  • Steve Jobs • Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s D8 conference – very frankly in many ways. He touched on a lot of topics in the Q&A segment, noting among other things: He had no idea this e-mail thread was with a dude from ValleyWag, iPhone OS was originally designed for a tablet like the iPad, Adobe made a big stink about Flash only after the iPad’s release, and, well, this. This is the money quote from the whole thing. source
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01 Jun 2010 22:02

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World: Japan has a lot of Prime Ministers who resign really quickly

  • 4 straight PMs haven’t made it very far in Japan’s top spot source
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01 Jun 2010 21:49

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World: Troubled Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns

  • It was the shirt, wasn’t it? Yukio Hatoyama, Japan’s prime minister, hasn’t had an easy time of it since he became PM last year, and it’s only gotten worse for him after he ditched a campaign pledge to get the U.S. military to move off Okinawa. His party afraid of losing some serious momentum, Hatoyama resigned tonight. Sucks to be him. source
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01 Jun 2010 20:43

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Politics: The White House is being super-vague about the Israel thing

  • yes They’re against acts that resulted in the loss of life. (Uh, O … kay, whatever that means)
  • no They haven’t outright said to Israel that they screwed up, or that they support their actions. source
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01 Jun 2010 20:38

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U.S.: Obama: “Oh, hey … Jan. Sorry about ripping your state so hard.”

  • The president’s got an Arizona governor-shaped guest coming this week. In case you forgot with the oil spill and Israel messing with flotillas, Arizona’s immigration law is still an annoyingly big deal. And Obama hasn’t been all that gracious about the law. So, as a way to pull out an olive branch, he’s bringing Gov. Jan Brewer to the Oval Office on Thursday. We know neither of them can wait. source
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01 Jun 2010 12:36

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Culture: NOOO! Al and Tipper Gore separate. Twitter reacts



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01 Jun 2010 12:10

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U.S.: Will Obama buddy Artur Davis be Alabama’s first black governor?

On the left: The guy who wants to be Alabama’s first black governor. On the right: The guy who wanted to be, and is, the U.S.’s first black president. source
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01 Jun 2010 10:41

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Tech: These colorful blocks represent the fastest supercomputers

  • This may be one of the coolest infographics we’ve ever seen. This interactive work splits the relative speed of a bunch of supercomputers up a number of ways – by speed, by OS, by country – and looks awesome. Linux pretty much owns this market, by the way, and IBM and Intel have their fingers in the mix the most, although AMD, HP and Cray hold their own. source
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01 Jun 2010 10:27

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World: Weird camera angle + Mahmoud Ahmadinejad = Six months in jail

They’re not really kissing. Still, Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari got an extra six months in jail (plus 13 for covering Iran protests) for this photo that landed on his Facebook page. source
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