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09 Aug 2010 22:59

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Culture: Justin Bieber + Water Bottle = Instant Schadenfreude

  • The feel-good story of the day. That’s right, folks. He got what he deserved. (Thanks David Miller of Wasted Seconds, a good friend from back in the day.)
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09 Aug 2010 21:40

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Offbeat: Idiotic Krispy Kreme employee gives away the day’s revenue

  • $5,000 the amount of money a customer drove off with
  • zero the number of donuts the customer got source
  • » What the heck happened? To put it simply, the employee, unaware of the drop procedure the donut shop used, gave away the money, thinking they were donuts. Idiot.
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09 Aug 2010 21:22

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U.S.: Posted without comment: Arizona escaped convict’s mugshot

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09 Aug 2010 21:13

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Music: “Hurley”: Weezer somehow tops itself with weird cover art

  • If anyone was wondering if Jorge Garcia would be able to find work after “Lost” ended, wonder no longer. Weezer’s new album cover, “Hurley,” tops “Raditude” in sheer randomness. It’s also their first record on Epitaph, which isn’t a major label. There are no words for how utterly bizarre this is, but then again, based on Rivers Cuomo’s recent stage antics, it’s par for the course. source
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09 Aug 2010 21:00

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U.S.: Robert Gates does the unthinkable: He proposes cutbacks

  • 10% cut in Defense Department contractors proposed source
  • 3,000 jobs could disappear thanks to the massive contractor cuts and other proposed cuts
  • $530B the size of the Defense Department’s budget, which usually increases 2-3 percent yearly
  • 1% the amount the budget will increase next year, which is why they need to make cuts
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09 Aug 2010 10:15

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World: Should the poor in India have a right to food? It’s a big debate

As important as this debate may be – between vouchers and a distribution system – it’s worth pointing out that the logistics shouldn’t get in the way of helping this guy. source
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09 Aug 2010 09:46

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Biz: BP updates its massive oil spill tab: It’s pretty darn massive

  • $6.1 billion spent on the Gulf Oil Spill so far; they’ve made over 100,000 payments as of August 7th
  • $319 million paid out in compensation to people negatively affected by the spill –around 145,000 claims source
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09 Aug 2010 09:39

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World: Uh, what were they shooting at? North Korea fires its weapons

  • 100 rounds of artillery shot into the sea for some reason source
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09 Aug 2010 09:35

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World: Mia Farrow’s blood diamond testimony contradicts Naomi Campbell’s

  • She said in the night she had been awakened by men knocking at her door and they had been sent to her by Charles Taylor, and they had given her a huge diamond.
  • Mia Farrow • Testifying in the war crimes trial against Charles Taylor – you know, the one Naomi Campbell testified at last week. Campbell claimed she was given “dirty little rocks.” But Farrow’s testimony, which completely contradicts Campbell’s on a key fact, could be very dangerous for the supermodel. source
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09 Aug 2010 02:29

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About: An update on our crazy server situation for you guys

  • why our old site was slowFor some reason, we held out on upgrading the hosting. Actually, we know the reason. It’s because dry wit and big numbers are skills that don’t translate to typing dry, obscure commands in a SSH terminal. Anyway, we got a message from our good friends at HostGator letting us know that we were blowing up their server singlehandedly. We made some changes, but put the whole “moving to a new server” thing on the front-burner.
  • What happened nextIn the midst of this, they took us down AGAIN, claiming that we were “causing a high load on the server” that was “affecting all of the other accounts on the system.” Who would’ve thought a 9,000-article strong WordPress behemoth would bring a shared host to its knees? So, now we’re on Slicehost. Our copying-random-commands skills were put to the test, but we got the site up thanks to Standing Cloud‘s killer service. Who knew we could do it?
  • » Oh yeah, quick note: Our info AT shortformblog DAWT com e-mail address is no longer active. Please contact us at [email protected] instead for the time being. Thanks for listening.
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