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10 Oct 2009 11:08

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U.S.: Uh, what caused it? People died while chilling in a sweat lodge

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06 Oct 2009 10:40

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Biz, Tech: Blog or news source? The inconsistent ways of Google News

  • Dividing content along these lines is like classifying brownies based on whether they were baked in aluminum or glass pans. There’s no difference, and it obscures what you really want know: if they contain chocolate chips.
  • Neiman Journalism Lab blogger Zachary M. Seward • Making a strong, interesting point about Google News’ new, and very inconsistent, labeling policies of blogs. Here’s one example: Talking Points Memo recently switched back to being a news source from being a blog. Here’s another (weirder) one: Gizmodo is a news source, and Deadspin is a blog, despite the fact that both are owned by Gawker Media. And the process of getting added to Google News, anyway, seems completely arbitrary. By the way, we love how Seward worded this. • source
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29 Sep 2009 11:22

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Offbeat: Show-off: Some guy managed to grow pears shaped like babies

  • If this guy didn’t do it, someone was going to. So, is eating one of these pears kinda like cannibalism?source
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28 Sep 2009 09:58

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Offbeat: President Barack Obama: A beacon for facial consistency

  • Dude is such a good politician that he can keep the same pose no matter who he’s standing with. This, friends, is an awesomely goofy video.source
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21 Sep 2009 12:06

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U.S.: Phillip Garrido said he could speak his mind though a MacGuffin

  • He feels he can speak to you and me and everyone else using this box. He was a whack job, but he was a whack job who sounded like he had a really good heart.
  • An anonymous friend of accused Jaycee Dugard kidnapper Phillip Garrido • Describing a black box Garrido owned, which he claimed could let him speak his mind. The box had headphone jacks, just in case you wanted to listen in on the crazy. • source
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18 Sep 2009 19:26

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Tech: The Retweet function: The biggest Twitter shake-up EVAH.

The functionality of the site will soon be hugely different based on the image Mashable posted today. They need to work on this a little more, we think. source
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18 Sep 2009 19:13

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Offbeat: If you’re in Tyler, Tx., stop by the Calvary Nudist Baptist Church

  • We are lambs before the Lord, and every Sunday we give thanks to Him with all of our body and soul. And it includes the sacrifice of our garments, for it was when Eve ate from the Tree of Life and gathered fig leaves that mankind fell into sin.
  • Pastor Mark Johnson (heh heh, you said “Johnson”) • On why his church thinks that nudity is awesome. Johnson says that the nudity angle of his Texas church isn’t an attempt to recreate “hedonistic, recreational lifestyles,” but an attempt to appreciate Jesus in a super-devoted way. Dude. you’re embarrassing yourself. (We’re not kidding. The photo on his site shows the dude bare-chested and everything.) But you’re doing it for Jesus, so we guess it’s OK. • source
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17 Sep 2009 00:26

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Offbeat: Laugh, then cry: Honoring a fallen soldier buddy … by crossdressing

It’s a silly pact between buddies you never think will actually happen. Until it does. That’s why Barry Delaney wore a dress to Afghan soldier Kevin Elliott’s funeral. source
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13 Sep 2009 10:46

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Sports: Serena Williams, wow. Just wow. Way to lose a match all crazy-like.

  • Dear Serena Williams, thank you for making tennis vaguely exciting for once. Sincerely, the ShortFormBlog staff. xoxosource
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03 Sep 2009 21:30

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U.S.: Kidnapper wife Nancy Garrido thought they were like a “family”

  • There came a time when she felt like they were a family. And she loves the girls very much, and she loves Jaycee very much. And that seems a little strange given the circumstance, but that’s she has said to me.
  • Gilbert Maines, Nancy Garrido’s attorney • Describing the bizarre family dynamic between her, her husband Phillip Garrido and Jaycee Dugard and her children. That’s right, a husband, a wife, a girl you kidnapped nearly 20 years ago, and the two daughters she had with the husband: The traditional nuclear family. • source
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