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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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05 Apr 2010 10:14

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World: If you want to create a political party in Japan, now’s your chance

  • 44% of Japanese citizens have no idea what party they’ll vote for in the upcoming upper house election
  • 24% the highest amount of support any other party gets; hm, think the Japanese people like tea? source
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11 Feb 2010 21:17

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Politics: Poll: Obama’s chances in 2012 are completely up in the air

  • 44% of respondents say they’d vote for Obama again in 2012
  • 42% of respondents would rather vote for an anonymous “Republican candidate”
  • 14% support a fringe candidate or don’t care one way or the other source
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02 Feb 2010 21:04

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Tech: Google decides to bite the bullet, adds multitouch to the Nexus One

  • They could set themselves up for a patent battle with Apple. When the Google Nexus One launched, one of the biggest things it was lacking was multitouch – a seemingly obvious advantage the iPhone (along with Palm’s Pre and Pixi) held over it. Apple has a lot of patents on the technology, which would seemingly make it off limits. Today, though, Google enabled the feature in a software update, which should at the very least cause a cluster#(&@ … or nothing. We’ll see. source
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24 Jan 2010 10:48

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U.S.: Hatin’ on the stimulus: Obama’s key legislation gets no love

  • 56% of Americans don’t want the stimulus anymore source
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24 Jan 2010 00:12

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U.S., World: American should pat itself on the back for the Haiti telethon

  • $58 million in donations so far; holy freakin’ crap source
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13 Jan 2010 20:29

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World: Everyone’s struggling to give Haiti the help they need

  • The problem is not the materials or the staff, but how to get it into place. The challenge is how to get our people and our resources into Port-au-Prince.
  • Doctors Without Borders emergency management expert Paul McPhun • On the logistical nightmare that is the Haiti earthquake. Many countries are trying to get their gear and people into place, including the U.S. and China. But with a death toll possibly in the hundreds of thousands, this could be really tough even for established countries to tackle. Our fingers are crossed for Haiti. Tightly. Oh yeah, the United States’ special envoy to Haiti is Bill Clinton, and he’s on his A game today. source
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12 Jan 2010 22:24

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Tech: Speaking of Google, their sucky tech support is catching up with them

  • They may have been clouded by their own personal experience and way of thinking about how they deal with technology.
  • Forrester Research analyst Charles S. Golvin • Regarding Google’s tech support troubles with the Nexus One. What’s the problem? Well, their support mechanism is designed to be an e-mail based process that takes a couple of days to answer, but people with $529 phones want a lot more than that. As a result, forums are flooded with people complaining about problems with the phone. The lesson for Google? A live person is more useful than an e-mail. Sometimes. Especially with hardware. source
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16 Dec 2009 21:36

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Politics: Health care support is under the magic 50% mark, kids

  • 46% of respondents support the health care bill and would tell their Senator to support it
  • 48% of respondents wouldn’t and would probably get pretty uppity if you asked them again source
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10 Dec 2009 01:36

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U.S.: We’re going to use three circles to describe Afghan War support

  • 51% support the idea of sending more troops to Afghanistan
  • 43% prefer to keep the troops we have now – if none at all
  • 6% don’t really care either way because they don’t wanna source
  • For some reason, we had been wanting to play with a style like this on the blog for months, but only got to doing it tonight. Let us know what you think and you might see it more often. (P.S.: Not to be harsh, but if you’re reading this using Internet Explorer, this is gonna look ugly, but we’re OK with that. Maybe it’ll convince you to get a better browser or something.)
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