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15 Sep 2010 10:47

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Politics: Meg Whitman somehow spending more than Michael Bloomberg

  • $109 million the amount Bloomberg spent on his high-spending 2009 NYC mayoral campaign
  • $119 million the amount Whitman, the ex-eBay CEO, is spending on her California gubernatorial campaign source
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15 Sep 2010 10:37

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Biz: Speaking of chocolate, Kraft’s Cadbury merger has sweet rewards

  • $1 billion in new revenue for the edible megacorp source
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15 Sep 2010 10:27

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World: Chocolate + DNA + Crazed Nuts = Cracking the cocoa genome

You must have a beard this long to unlock the secrets of how to make cocoa taste better. Or to play Santa Claus at the local orphanage. source
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15 Sep 2010 01:48

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Tech: Dell’s Streak: If you can’t beat the iPad, focus on doctors (?)

  • consumers The target audience of Apple’s iPad, which is super-popular and stuff with everybody. Doctors may use these at work.
  • doctors The apparent target audience of Dell’s 5-inch Streak, which dovetails nicely into the company’s huge health care business. source
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15 Sep 2010 01:35

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Politics: D.C. mayoral primary: Why Vincent Gray knocked out Adrian Fenty

  • winner a more traditional, well-established candidate in a city of haves and have-nots
  • loser liked at first but rampant cronyism, accusations of ignoring the poor and Michelle Rhee did him in source
  • » Yeah yeah, this is a primary but there’s no way Gray is going to lose – D.C. the city proper is strongly Democratic and no Republican decided to run. So this is effectively election day.
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15 Sep 2010 01:08

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Politics: How the Tea Party’s beacons fared in their races tonight

  • winThe biggest bellwether of the night was in Delaware, where Christine O’Donnell somehow showed lifelong GOPer Mike Castle the exit in their Senate race. The GOP isn’t backing her.
  • lose? While Delaware’s Senate race went Tea Party, New Hampshire’s Senate race is still close. Kelly Ayotte is tied with Ray LaMontagne’s possible long-lost brother Ovide LaMontagne.
  • winThe most surprising of the three? Rick Lazio’s gubernatorial primary loss in New York to complete frickin’ unknown Carl “gonna lose to Cuomo anyway” Paladino. source
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14 Sep 2010 23:37

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Culture: Jennifer Lopez on “American Idol”: She’s gonna make bank

  • $12 million deal for being bubbly and offering non-opinions source
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14 Sep 2010 21:58

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Tech: Redesign! Twitter’s finally sprucing things up a little more

  • Looks like someone’s finally dealing with a sore spot! Twitter’s basic design had long been a sore spot for many using the service, and now they’re going to work on it, adding a bunch of multimedia elements and making the design overall more visual. We could see developers complaining about this like they did the Atebits acquisition; Brizzly, for example, just lost its main competitive advantage. The redesign rolls out over the next several weeks, and we’re guessing it’s going to go over a lot better than Digg’s. source
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14 Sep 2010 21:12

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Politics: Twitter’s talking about today’s big Congressional primaries


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14 Sep 2010 16:58

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Culture: High-fructose corn syrup is so last decade

  • newIf the Corn Refiners Association has its way, high-fructose corn syrup will be replaced with “corn sugar” within the next few years.
  • old “Corn sugar” is actually the same thing as HFCS. They’re just trying to change the name to counteract HFCS’s bad reputation. source
  • what do you do when everyone realizes that your product contributes to one of the leading causes of preventable death worldwide? You change it’s name, of course, so people won’t know what they’re eating! That, and you launch a PR campaign to convince people that it’s actually not that bad for you. In related news, it’s not TV, it’s HBO! source
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