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17 Mar 2010 10:59

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Politics: Twitter tackles the Dennis Kucinich health care football



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15 Mar 2010 10:47

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World: French people decide Nicolas Sarkozy’s political party sucks

  • 25% of French people voted for Sarkozy’s center-right UMP party
  • 29% voted for France’s Socialist party, the biggest share of votes
  • 47% of votes went to three leftist parties, including Socialists source
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15 Mar 2010 10:39

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Offbeat: Beekeeping in NYC? It’s illegal. But it may not be soon.

Apparently, New York City is one of the few cities in the country that labels beekeeping as illegal. But that might change. This guy might get stung. source
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09 Mar 2010 21:36

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Biz: Taking the first step: Bank of America ditching overdraft fees

  • good Bank of America, which has made millions of dollars in profit off of people not having much in their bank accounts, will end the often-pricey practice of automatically charging fees at retail this summer.
  • better Consumers will have more flexibility when deciding when to accept overdrafts elsewhere – they have to accept the charge at ATMs and can still set it up for automatic payments or checks. source
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05 Mar 2010 12:06

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World: Chile’s earthquake death toll kind of a fluid, imperfect thing

  • 802 number of people reported killed by the quake on Wednesday
  • 279 updated number of people reported killed by the quake on Thursday
  • wtf? Chile claims that the old toll counted people who were still missing source
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01 Mar 2010 23:37

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Culture: Twitter welcomes Jay Leno back to the fold. Or not



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27 Feb 2010 13:11

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U.S.: The military realizes that social media actually a good idea

  • The finally unblocked Twitter, Facebook and so on. About time. For three years, if you used a military computer, you couldn’t access sites like Twitter and Facebook, despite the obvious advantages they offer. No longer. “The purpose of the policy is to recognize that we need to take advantage of these Internet-based capabilities,” said deputy assistant secretary of defense David Wennergren, “These Web 2.0 tools need to be part of what we use.” Even with the possibility of info leaks, we’re glad the military finally changed this policy. It came later than it should’ve. source
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23 Feb 2010 21:27

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U.S.: Fun fact: Until today, female soldiers couldn’t serve in subs

  • We wonder if they had a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for that. The military is nothing if not a slow-moving machine, submerged in its own policy, deep in a ocean of bureaucracy that keeps their policies airtight. Well, change is taken place on submarines. Why so long for women’s liberation to hit the deep ocean, despite 15 percent of sailors having girl parts? Well, subs are tightly packed, and soldiers living on them often share the same bed in shifts in a policy called “hot bunking.” That’s what she said. source
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15 Feb 2010 09:11

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Tech: Facebook’s starting to eat some of Google’s traffic-directing lunch

  • 13% of all Web traffic to major portals comes from Facebook
  • 7% of trafficcomes from Google; eBay is better, even! source
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11 Feb 2010 20:44

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U.S.: The incredible shrinking jobs bill: $70 billion goes *poof*

  • $85
    billion     cost of the jobs bill this morning, which had bipartisan support due to unrelated earmarks
  • $15
    billion     cost of the jobs bill right now, after Harry Reid took a chainsaw to it and pissed off GOP members source
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