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The First Draft: What will be in
Obama’s Christmas stocking?
By David Morgan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 7:42:22 AM
The last thing Republicans want
to see this Christmas is the U.S.
Senate giving President Barack
Obama a nicely wrapped package
of health care reform legislation.
Republican National Committee
Chairman Michael Steele made
that plain today. He hopes the
Senate will be a lousy Santa who
leaves nothing in Obama’s
Christmas stocking.
“I hope so. I really do,” he told
NBC’s Today show.
Steele says that’s because the
American public doesn’t want the
kind of healthcare legislation that
Senate Democratic leaders have
been talking about lately.
“People are not listening to what
folks back at home are saying. I
think the latest polls are showing
up to 60 percent of the people
want this thing either stopped,
slowed down or somehow
modified,” Steele said.
Steele may have been referring
to a recent Fox News poll that
showed 57 percent of Americans
opposing healthcare legislation
now under consideration. That’s
the highest level of opposition
Fox has found so far.
Other polls have painted a more
complex picture of American
sentiment. The Kaiser
Foundation’s health tracking poll
for November found that 58
percent of Americans want
reform. Thirty-three percent said
they want Obama and Congress
to tackle reform even though they
don’t like what they’re hearing
out of Washington.
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Some media commentators seem
to think the Senate will fail to
reach a compromise by
Christmas and point to fresh
criticism from lawmakers
including independent Sen. Joe
Lieberman of Connecticut as
evidence that reform is in trouble.
But that doesn’t seem to matter
much to Obama adviser David
Axelrod, who pointed out on
ABC’s Good Morning America
that Christmas has yet to be
cancelled.
“I think that they can get it done.
I hope that they will get it done.
We’re working day and night
with them to get it done,” he said.
“The president said many times
that healthcare would be
pronounced dead five times
before he signed the bill,”
Axelrod added.
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France returns 'stolen'
relics to Egypt
(World news and comment Hawass, cut ties with the Louvre
from the Guardian | in October. France said the
guardian.co.uk) fragments had been acquired "in
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:36:03 AM good faith" in 2000 and 2003 ,
though it said doubts emerged
Fragments of ancient wall last year about whether the pieces
painting, which were subject of a had been taken from Egypt
dispute with Louvre Museum, illegally years before.
handed back Hawass is leading aggressive
France has handed over five efforts to reclaim what he says
fragments of an ancient wall are antiquities stolen from the
painting at the centre of a dispute country and purchased by leading
between Egypt and the Louvre world museums. The move
Museum. against the Louvre was one of the
President Nicolas Sarkozy biggest escalations yet in his
showed one of the fragments – a efforts.
slab with sepia and blue tones • France
featuring two figures in profile – • Egypt
to his Egyptian counterpart, • Art
Hosni Mubarak, after the two
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Egypt's chief archaeologist, Zahi
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A tragedy for Western Sahara | Brian Eno and Stefan
Simanowitz
By Stefan Simanowitz, Brian
Eno (World news and
comment from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 10:10:00 AM
As the world's diplomats duel
over her destiny, Aminatou
Haidar, on the 29th day of her
hunger strike, could be hours
from death
Anyone who has seen Hunger,
Steve McQueen's harrowing film
about the Maze prison hunger
strike, will have some idea of just
how horrific it is to die by
starvation. Bobby Sands, a fit 27-
year-old man, survived 66 days
without food. Aminatou Haidar,
a delicate 42-year-old, is on the
29th day of her hunger strike;
with a perforated ulcer and a
constitution weakened by years
of imprisonment and torture,
there are fears that she will not
survive much longer.
She is now too weak to stand,
and the director of Lanzarote
hospital, Domingo de Guzmán,
has warned that Haidar's life
expectancy is now "hours or days
rather than weeks". Listing her
symptoms as hypotension,
nausea, anaemia, muscular-
skeletal atrophy and gastric
haemorrhaging, Dr Guzman
believes she is nearing an
irreversible deterioration that
could result in her death even if
she were to abandon the hunger
strike. But abandoning her strike
is not something Haidar, a human
rights activist nominated for the
Nobel peace prize, will
countenance unless her single
demand – to be allowed to return
to her country – is met.
Haidar has been on hunger strike
in Lanzarote airport since being
deported there from her home in
Western Sahara on 15 November.
Two days earlier she had flown
back to Laayoune, the largest city
in Western Sahara, from New
York, where she had picked up
the Train Foundation's Civil
Courage human rights award. On
her arrival in Laayoune she wrote
her address on her landing card
as being in "Western Sahara"
rather than "Morocco". As a
Saharawi, she has never
recognised Moroccan sovereignty
over her native land which has
been occupied by Morocco in
breach of international law for
over 34 years. In the past
Morocco has chosen to overlook
her numerous "landing card
protests", but on this occasion
she was interrogated, stripped of
her passport and expelled to the
volcanic Canary Island which lies
less than 80 miles off the African
coast.
Spain offered to give Haidar
refugee status or Spanish
citizenship so she could be
allowed to return home, but she
rejected both options on the
grounds that she did not want to
become "a foreigner in her own
land". According to Human
Rights Watch, her forced
expulsion breached Article 12 (4)
of the International Covenant on
Civil and Political
Rights(ICCPR), ratified by
Morocco, which makes it clear
that no one can be arbitrarily
deprived of the right to enter their
own country. In addition, by
preventing her return to Western
Sahara, Spanish authorities may
have breached both Spanish
national law and Article 2 of
Protocol 4 of the European
convention for the protection of
human rights and fundamental
freedoms. Article 12 (2) of the
ICCPR also stipulates that
everyone shall be free to leave
any country.
On 4 December, perhaps after
having been made aware of the
legal situation, Spain laid on a
private aircraft to carry Haidar
back to Laayoune. As she
boarded the plane with Agustin
Santos, of the Spanish foreign
ministry, it seemed as if Haidar
had won a significant victory.
However, celebrations among
Saharawis and campaigners
around the world were short-
lived when it emerged that the
Spanish had not received any
agreement from Morocco to
allow her return. In a hastily
organised press conference held
soon after tearful supporters had
watched Haidar being stretchered
back into the airport terminal,
Santos claimed that Spain had
attempted "to facilitate the
exercise of her right to return to
her country" and could do no
more.
This statement was greeted with
incredulity by the Spanish media,
and the Zapatero government has
come under increasing internal
and international pressure to do
more to resolve the crisis. Indeed,
today Hillary Clinton was due to
discuss the issue with Spain's
foreign minister, Miguel Angel
Moratinos. Last week the UN
secretary general, Ban-Ki moon,
urged the Moroccan foreign
minister to re-admit Haidar. The
European Union has also urged
Morocco to "meet its human
rights obligations".
Morocco has taken a firm line on
the matter, with the foreign
minister, Taieb Fassi-Fihri,
insisting that Haidar had "
disowned her identity and her
nationality" and "must accept, on
her own, the legal and moral
consequences which result from
this behaviour". Morocco has
also demanded that she offer an
apology for questioning
Morocco's claim to sovereignty
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over what is a former Spanish
colony – a claim that has not
been recognised by a single
nation and was rejected by the
international court of justice.
Haidar's deportation has been
condemned by governments,
civil society groups and human
rights organisations across the
world. Her action has raised
awareness of the forgotten
injustice perpetrated against her
people, but the cost may be high.
Imelda Gonzalez, one of many
campaigners who travelled to
Lanzarote to offer their support,
is aware that Haidar is
irreplaceable. "Western Sahara
has had so many martyrs, they do
not need another. Her death
would be a tragic loss to the
world and its leaders must act
together and act quickly to save
Aminatou." As high-level
discussions take place around the
world, Haidar is on the brink of
death. Biology knows nothing of
politics.
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• Morocco
• Spain
• Human rights
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Don't blame the internet for extremism | Tim Stevens

By Tim Stevens (World news passage to a Pakistani safe house. are as effective as they might be. activities more difficult and firm oversight. Arquilla is right
and comment from the The incident has raised further Arquilla suggests that we need to awkward. to argue for better co-operation
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) concerns that young Americans reimagine our relationship with Total cybersecurity is between law enforcement and
Submitted at 12/14/2009 10:02:35 AM with links to Muslim populations cyberspace, and treat it as a impossible. The only sensible intelligence agencies, but we
in Asia and Africa are travelling "battlespace" analogous to the approach is risk management, should be very wary of ramping
Concerns about YouTube users to Pakistan to connect with physical domains of land, sea, air and there will always be cracks in up covert state activities in
b e i n g r e c r u i t e d b y j i h a d i s extremist Islamist groups of and space. Militaries have been any system, no matter how cyberspace on the basis of a few
shouldn't lead us to treat the various stripes. The internet, doing this for some time. As an sophisticated the surveillance and individuals who, let's not forget,
internet as a 'battlespace' unsurprisingly, is implicated in integral part of warfare, analysis. As we are often told, the were apprehended before
The arrest last week of five t h i s p r o c e s s , a s r e l i a b l e cyberspace has long been viewed internet is a big place, and it is committing any acts of terrorism.
y o u n g A m e r i c a n m e n i n communications are crucial to as a space in which wars can be unrealistic to expect that states State agencies could perhaps do
Sargodha, Pakistan has reopened f o r g i n g a n d m a i n t a i n i n g won or lost; it is right that can sensibly be involved in the better, but increased powers are
the debate over the role of the transnational networks. Its speed militaries develop capabilities for internet in all its myriad not necessarily the way forward
internet in radicalising and and relative anonymity are protecting citizens and soldiers in manifestations. in combating terrorist use of the
recruiting young Muslims into eminently suitable for remaining this way. Information operations Do we seriously think that the internet.
terrorist networks – and how below the radar of intelligence of many different types are "Sargodha Five" might not have • This article was amended on 14
states should respond to it. and law enforcement. important facets of the attempted to get to Pakistan some December 2009. The original
The five, currently being The events in the Punjab expeditionary wars in Iraq and other way? Would they not have referred to David Ronfeldt when
questioned by the FBI ahead of prompted John Arquilla, a Afghanistan, for example. gone the old-school routes of it should have referred to John
possible extradition to the US, prominent academic and analyst Unfortunately for average users letters and telephony, as did those Arquilla. This has been corrected
are all said to have watched c l o s e t o t h e A m e r i c a n of the peacetime internet, treating who volunteered for the • Global terrorism
jihadi videos on YouTube government, to accuse US all cyberspace as "battlespace" is Republicans in the Spanish civil • United States
involving footage of insurgent agencies of giving jihadis a " free a deeply unedifying idea. war, and a dozen other conflicts? • US foreign policy
attacks on allied troops in ride in the virtual domain". This Domestic terrorism is not a war: Yes, the internet helped, but it • Pakistan
Afghanistan. After one of the i s u n t r u e , g i v e n t h e l e g a l it is a security issue. Allowing was not the only factor in their • Islam
men left an approving comment provisions afforded the National state agencies unrestricted access eventual passage to Pakistan. • YouTube
on one of these clips, they are Security Agency and others, and to personal data, internet Of course the net is a valuable • Internet
alleged to have come under the the effort they are expending on browsing histories and email logs tool for extremists. It is not,
influence of a net-trawling this issue. His statements also will not make terrorism however, the cause of Tim Stevens
middleman calling himself ignore the success the US and its disappear. Nor will it make radicalisation and extremism. guardian.co.uk© Guardian News
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and eventually facilitated their disingenuous to suggest that they argument for making their appropriate transparency and

27-inch iMacs sucking wind, orders backing up New Movies on

By John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 7:15:20 AM
The 27-inch iMac, darling of all
and sundry, are having some
shipping issues. Orders are
currently backed up two weeks
and the litany of problems, a clever problem tracking website DVD & Blu-ray:
including broken displays and
busted hard drives, shows us that
along with a Flash web app for
display testing.
December 15
this model wasn’t quite fully Anyone else having problems? (ETonline - Breaking News)
baked. Submitted at 12/14/2009 6:01:00 AM
CNET has Apple saying that inconvenience but there have
t h e y a p o l o g i z e f o r t h e been enough problems to warrant
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Tiny Nauru struts world stage by recognising
breakaway republics
By Luke Harding (World news
and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:35:15 AM
Pacific atoll once famed for
exporting bird droppings is to
recognise Russian-backed
Abkhazia and South Ossetia for
£31m aid
It is 8 square miles in size, home
to 11,320 citizens and looks like
a small dinner plate dropped into
the gleaming South Pacific. But
today the tiny atoll nation of
Nauru achieved a rare moment in
the international spotlight by
saying it will recognise the
republics of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia.
According to Kommersant
newspaper, Russia is preparing to
give hard-up Nauru $50m
(£30.74m) in humanitarian aid.
In return Nauru will establish
relations with the two Russian-
backed territories.
The Kremlin has been frantic to
secure international recognition
for both regions since its punitive
war last year with Georgia. So far
only Venezuela and Nicaragua
have followed Moscow's lead,
with the rest of the world
regarding the rebel provinces as
Georgian territory. Even Kremlin
allies such as Belarus declined.
In mounting desperation, Russia
courted Nauru's foreign minister,
Kieren Keke. Over the weekend,
Keke dropped in to South
Ossetia's capital, Tskhinvali. The
Russian foreign minister, Sergei
Lavrov, who normally grapples
with weightier issues such as
Iran's nuclear programme, also
invited Keke for talks.
Today Keke was unavailable for
comment and the island's website
appeared to have conked out.
Observers suggested Russia's
latest diplomatic initiative was
worthy of ridicule.
"I don't see the sense in this,"
said Alexander Privalov, a
columnist and political analyst in
Moscow.
According to Privalov, Nauru
has previously taken money to
recognise the independence of
Kosovo and Taiwan. In July
2002, Nauru accepted $130m
from China to de-recognise
Taiwan only to re-recognise it in
2005 after apparently receiving
another, better offer.
"It seems that political démarches
are a kind of business in Nauru.
It's a custom there, a bit like
wearing a tie," Privalov said. "I
can't really understand what
Russia gets out of this. It may be
about making us look more
decent."
Germany annexed the island in
1888 and incorporated it into the
Marshall Islands Protectorate.
Australia occupied it during the
first world war, and it
subsequently became a mandate
country administered by
Australia, New Zealand and the
UK, with a brief violent
incursion by Japan during the
second world war.
Home to a Pacific people with a
unique language, Nauru became
independent in 1968. It joined the
UN in 1999. The republic, which
lies just south of the equator, has
been in economic trouble for a
decade or so.
In 2000 its main resource,
fossilised bird droppings mined
for their valuable phosphates,
began to run out. The island
experimented by becoming a tax
haven. From 2001 until last year
Nauru took in asylum seekers in
a money-spinning deal with
neighbouring Australia.
According to Kommersant,
Nauru's parliament will legislate
on South Ossetia and Abkhazia
in the current winter session.
Nauru officials may also visit
Abkhazia – another somewhat
larger micro-territory on the
Black Sea. "We will be asking
other Oceania countries to help
us in the same way," South
Ossetia's speaker, Stanislav
Kochiev, told the paper.
Some analysts put a more
positive spin on the development,
predicting that other tiny island
states in Oceania could emulate
Nauru.
"These small exotic countries
make their living from tourism
and the issue of collectors'
stamps and coins," said Alexei
Makarkin, deputy director of the
Centre for Political Technologies
in Moscow.
"These countries need to
advertise themselves.
Recognition of Abkhazia and
South Ossetia may become their
PR act. I don't rule out
recognition statements from
several states in the region, in
addition to Nauru,"' he told the
Interfax news agency .
He added: "This is good for the
image of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia because they can now say
they are recognised by four
countries."
Russia's attempt to buy
international support on the issue
has not always ended happily. In
October, Moscow offered
Ecuador's president, Rafael
Correa, $200m in loans when he
popped into Moscow. Correa
subsequently failed to recognise
South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and
Russia responded by not giving
him the money.
Last night the Russian foreign
ministry spokesman, Igor Liakin-
Frolov, said he was too busy to
comment.
• Nauru
• Russia
• Georgia
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EU staff stage
three-hour warning
strike over pay
(World news and comment
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guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:53:46 AM
Hundreds of European Union
staff join industrial action over
pay increase opposed by half of
member states
Hundreds of European Union
staff today staged a warning
strike to push wage demands and
threatened to block EU
ministerial meetings later this
week.
The civil servants want a 3.7%
pay increase in line with
commitments made earlier.
About half the EU member states
say a pay increase is
inappropriate in times of
economic crisis.
The FFPE trade union,
representing the civil servants,
said some 2,500 people – over
half of the staff of the council –
showed up for the three-hour
warning strike. European
commission and European
parliament staff did not take part.
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Exxon Mobil moves into natural gas Apple iPhone sales pick
with XTO Energy buyout up in China, but still at
By Andrew Clark (World news
and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
dismal pace
independence for America – a
goal of the Obama
administration, which wants to
from environmental groups over
its refusal to invest in sustainable
forms of energy.
wean the US off its dependence Kert Davies, research director By Brian White
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:59:06 AM (BloggingStocks)
on foreign oil. for Greenpeace US, said the
• America's largest oil company "XTO's strengths, together with process of burning gas emitted Submitted at 12/14/2009 12:30:00 PM

will pay $41bn to XTO Exxon Mobil's advanced R&D far less carbon than burning coal:
• Exxon looking to tap into and operational capabilities, "If this is in any way an Filed under: Competitive
'unconventional' resources global scale and financial indication that they're leaning strategy, Apple Inc (AAPL),
America's largest oil company, c a p a c i t y , s h o u l d e n a b l e towards cleaner burning fuels or China
Exxon Mobil, placed a huge bet d e v e l o p m e n t o f a d d i t i o n a l that they have an instinct to clean Apple ( AAPL) saw limited
on the future of gas-fuelled supplies of unconventional oil up their act, then that's news. success in China when it recently
debuted its iPhone there. Indeed, a mobile market with a
power yesterday by striking a and gas resources, benefiting For XTO, the buyout ends 23
Although the Chinese really 1.3 billion potential customer
$41bn (£25bn) deal to buy a consumers both here in the US years of independence. The
weren't all that impressed by the base and the comparison of
T e x a s - b a s e d p r o d u c t i o n and around the world," said company, which is based in
device's requirement of an 100,000 handsets sold for a
company, XTO Energy, giving it Tillerson.With natural gas prices Houston, made profits of $1.91bn
expensive calling plan from device that has seemingly
access to potentially lucrative languishing at historic lows, the last year and has been steadily
Apple partner China Unicom, the revolutionized the entire mobile
natural gas reserves across the deal is a sign that Exxon sees increasing its production target
iPhone has sold fairly well since industry don't appear to belong in
US. long-term prospects in gas as an for 2009.
its debut. Or, it has sold poorly the same sentence, right?
The buyout is the sixth largest alternative to coal. Once the deal XTO's chairman, Bob Simpson,
depending on your perspective. Continue reading Apple iPhone
c o r p o r a t e d e a l o f 2 0 0 9 is wrapped up, Exxon said it said: "As the world's leading
In two months, China Unicom sales pick up in China, but still at
worldwide and is Exxon's largest would establish a new upstream energy company, Exxon Mobil
has sold a little over 100,000 dismal pace
move since its formation through organisation to manage so-called will build on our success and
Apple iPhones. Compare that Apple iPhone sales pick up in
the merger of Exxon and Mobil "unconventional" resources open new opportunities for the
with China Mobile, China China, but still at dismal pace
in 1999. XTO is the top US which were once regarded as too development of natural gas and
Unicom's largest competitor and originally appeared on
player in natural gas, with i n a c c e s s i b l e t o t a p c o s t - oil resources on a global basis.
the largest mobile carrier in BloggingStocks on Mon, 14 Dec
operations stretching from Texas e f f e c t i v e l y . • Exxon Mobil
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In an all-share deal, Exxon is year's profit for Exxon, which • United States
issuing 0.7 new shares for each produced earnings of $45.2bn in
XTO share. The headline price of 2008 – the largest ever for a US
$41bn includes the assumption c o m p a n y . B u t a l t h o u g h i t
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Nike stands by sponsorship of Tiger MBIA booted from S&P

Woods despite 'indiscretions' 500 Index
By Matthew Weaver (World Gillette have said they would prominently on Nike's website. By Elizabeth Harrow
news and comment from the limit the use of Woods in its "Being the best takes dedication, (BloggingStocks)
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) marketing patience and insight. For Tiger Submitted at 12/14/2009 12:45:00 PM
Submitted at 12/14/2009 10:11:10 AM But Nike will continue to Woods, these are the pillars of
sponsor him. It has too much to his approach," it says. Filed under: Major movement,
C h a i r m a n o f s p o r t s w e a r lose to do otherwise. Nike has The Swiss watchmaker Tag Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), S
company gives unequivocal invested heavily in Woods and Heuer said it would also continue and P 500, MBIA Inc (MBI)
backing and describes golfer's built its entire range of golf to sponsor Woods, saying the Standard & Poor's is performing
troubles as 'a minor blip' sportswear and equipment around company did not care about the some end-of-year cleanup on its
His marriage may be in deep him. It signed him up in 1996 golfer's private life. benchmark index, the S&P 500 index market cap space." The
trouble but Tiger Woods's main when Woods turned professional Company spokeswoman Mariam Index (SPX). My colleague Mark beaten-down insurance company
sponsor – Nike – is standing by in a deal worth $40m (£25m) a Sylla said the sponsorship was Fightmaster reported earlier that will be replaced by Mead
its man. year. Before then, it had not unchanged because Woods Visa ( V) is set to replace Ciena Johnson Nutrition ( MJN), which
Phil Knight, the chairman and co entered the golf market. remained the world's best golfer. Corp. ( CIEN) on the widely is in the process of being spun off
-founder of the sportswear Despite the public backing, in "He's the best in his domain. We watched market barometer, but by Bristol-Myers Squibb (
c o m p a n y , h a s g i v e n h i s private Knight and the other Nike respect his performance in the that's not the only SPX BMY).
unequivocal backing to Woods at executives must be nervous about sport," she said, adding that development hitting Wall Street Continue reading MBIA booted
a time when other sponsors are Woods's future in the game. The Woods's personal life was "not today. In fact, struggling from S&P 500 Index
distancing themselves from the company's association with our business." insurance issue MBIA Inc. ( MBIA booted from S&P 500
world's top golfer. Knight said: Woods, like that with other Tag Heuer has been sponsoring MBI) is preparing to take its Index originally appeared on
"When his career is over, you'll sporting greats, has fuelled Nike's Woods since 2002. Before the leave from the venerable index. BloggingStocks on Mon, 14 Dec
look back on these indiscretions expansion. current scandal it was estimated In a press release late Friday, 2009 12:45:00 EST. Please see
as a minor blip." Speaking to the It has built a brand with the that Woods earned around Standard & Poor's explained that our terms for use of feeds.
Sports Business Journal, Knight slogan Just Do It, by associating $100m a year in endorsements. MBIA "currently ranks 500th in Permalink| Email this| Comments
brushed off the scandal engulfing with controversial sportsmen, • Tiger Woods the index and is no longer
Woods as "part of the game" of from whom more conservative • Golf representative of the S&P 500
sponsorship deals. sponsors have shied away. Other • United States
Woods has announced he is Nike stars have included John
taking an"indefinite" break from McEnroe, Ronaldo and Michael Matthew Weaver
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TwitVid gets a real-time search engine, analytics

By Josh Lowensohn Twitter video host TwitVid
(Webware.com) finally has a search engine that
Submitted at 12/14/2009 5:00:00 AM
pulls in results in real time. The
service is also now offering its
users a way to see who is
watching their videos.
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Aol pushes ICQ, talking Walmart trying to keep

to Digital Sky new customers by
By Tom Johansmeyer
(BloggingStocks) enhancing store experience
By Brian White
Submitted at 12/14/2009 11:45:00 AM
(BloggingStocks)
Filed under: Deals, Rumors,
Internet, Time Warner (TWX),
Submitted at 12/14/2009 12:00:00 PM
GAO audit of the Fed
Technology Filed under: Consumer would represent a
Digital Sky Technologies may experience, Competitive strategy,
be looking to grow its online Wal-Mart (WMT) giant step -- backward
empire a little bit. The Russian into Facebook, paying $14.77 a Walmart's ( WMT) new "Project By Joseph Lazzaro
investment firm is said to be s h a r e f o r t h e p r i v i l e g e o f Impact" plans to enhance the (BloggingStocks)
making a play for Aol's ( AOL) investing in the white-hot social store experience as a way to Continue reading Walmart trying Submitted at 12/14/2009 12:15:00 PM
ICQ instant messaging service. A media company which could be retain those consumers who have to keep new customers by
report in the Wall Street Journal, setting the stage for an initial found the big-box retailer a enhancing store experience Filed under: Politics, Federal
which cites sources familiar with public offering next year. money-saving haven for over a Walmart trying to keep new Reserve, Financial Crisis
the talks, says that the Continue reading Aol pushes year while the U.S. was mired in customers by enhancing store The financial services reform
discussions are still in early ICQ, talking to Digital Sky recession. experience originally appeared process is likely to yield many
stages. And, in case Digital Sky Aol pushes ICQ, talking to This isn't just planogram on BloggingStocks on Mon, 14 public policy improvements, but
doesn't bite, Aol is exploring Digital Sky originally appeared changes, though: Walmart is Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please one dimension that Congress
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Back in July, Digital Sky supercenters and is increasing its Accountability Office (GAO) to
pumped another $100 million food offerings. audit the Federal Reserve. The
initiative, though well-
Serious Money: These Dow Dogs are not! intentioned, would represent a
regression.
By Sheldon Liber didn't know whether to laugh or promoting them. Continue reading GAO audit of
(BloggingStocks) cry. In Thirteen Dow stocks that Continue reading Serious the Fed would represent a giant
Submitted at 12/14/2009 1:00:00 PM
are doomed, we are informed that Money: These Dow Dogs are step -- backward
13 of the 30 are going down and not! GAO audit of the Fed would
Filed under: Forecasts, Rants we should all bail out before it is Serious Money: These Dow represent a giant step -- backward
and raves, Serious Money, S and too late. Dogs are not! originally appeared o r i g i n a l l y a p p e a r e d o n
P 500, DJIA, Stocks to Buy, I find this silly on many levels. on BloggingStocks on Mon, 14 BloggingStocks on Mon, 14 Dec
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Google's Chrome browser

goes live for the Apple
Mac operating system
By Brian White
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 11:30:00 AM

Filed under: Competitive

strategy, Google (GOOG), Apple
Inc (AAPL)
Google ( GOOG) is shaping up
to be quite a competitor to once-
friend Apple ( AAPL). Not only
is it taking on the iPhone in many
ways, it's now competing with
Apple's Safari web browser on
the Mac computing platform.
Google Chrome, which was
launched over a year ago and is
seen by some as the most
simplistic and fastest web
browser on the planet, want to be
your portal to the Internet -- by
displacing Apple's own excellent
Safari web browser product.
Continue reading Google's
Chrome browser goes live for the
Apple Mac operating system
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JVC intros cord-free TH-BA3 and
TH-BS7 soundbar audio systems
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 10:24:00 AM
JVC's never been much on using
wires to hook up its home theater
systems, and for those not
looking for mind-blowing 7.1
surround, these soon-available
wireless soundbar setups might
just satisfy your aural cravings
without forcing you to run
ungodly lengths of cabling
around your den. The TS-BA3
($549.95) is a dual wireless
soundbar system that consists of
a 280-watt amplifier, 5.1-channel
surround rig (including a
soundbar, wireless subwoofer
and wireless rear speaker kit) and
built-in surround decoding.
You'll also find a single analog
input, two optical digital inputs
and support for Dolby Digital,
DTS and Dolby ProLogic II
surround signals. The TH-BS7
($599.95) is engineered to mount
alongside flat-panel HDTVs,
with a 1.4-inch tall, ultrathin
soundbar, an even slimmer wall-
mountable amplifier / control unit
and a wireless subwoofer. This
one's packing 180-watts of teeth-
rattling oomph and promises 4.1
sound with minimal consumption
of floor space. Hop on past the
break for the full release and
detailed specifications.
Gallery: JVC intros cord-free
TH-BA3 and TH-BS7 soundbar
audio systems
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cord-free TH-BA3 and TH-BS7
soundbar audio systems
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Samsung ST5500 Shows Off Wi-Fi and Nice Specs in FCC

Appearance [Cameras]
By Brian Barrett (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 10:09:54 AM
Samsung's new camera showed
up on the FCC website the other
day, and the specs look pretty
good so far: 14.2 megapixels, a
3.5-inch screen, and the ability to
send photos via email and post
online via Wi-Fi.
According to the FCC filing, the
ST5500 also comes equipped
microSD support, and can take year, and not for cheap. [ FCC
1280x720 video at 30fps. It's also via Wireless Goodness via
got 7x optical zoom and ISO Engadget]
settings up to ISO 3200, along
w i t h 1 0 0 M B o f m e m o r y , with a max 1/2000 shutter speed.
Expect it sometime early next
E-reader News Edition
Nintendo’s 2010 lineup features new games, colorful Wii
remotes
By Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:30:00 AM
Nintendo has gone ahead and let
loose some information
concerning its early 2010 lineup
of games and accessories. For
starters, from February 14
onward there will be two new
Wii Remote colors: pink and
blue. These new controllers will
feature the Wii MotionPlus add-
on standard. Black and white Wii
Remotes will still be available as
well.
As for games across all of
Nintendo’s systems, here’s a
partial list of Wii, DS(i), and
downloadable titles that we can
expect in the early part of next
year:
Wii
2K Sports
• Major League Baseball 2K10
March
Activision
• How To Train Your Dragon
March 23
The American Game Factory,
Inc. Majesco Entertainment
• Build-A-Bear Workshop – • Data East Arcade Classics
Friendship Valley March 17 January
• The Daring Game of Girls
Atlus U.S.A., Inc. February
• Shiren the Wanderer™ Feb. 9 • Pizza Delivery Boy March
Capcom
• TATSUNOKO
Gadgets/ 9
CAPCOM™: ULTIMATE ALL- • Racquet Sports March • Super Meat Boy Q1
STARS Jan. 26 • Red Steel 2 Q1
Nintendo DS/DSi
City Interactive USA XSEED Games 2K Sports
• Combat Wings: The Great • The Sky Crawlers: Innocent • Major League Baseball 2K10
Battles of WWII Feb. 16 Aces Jan. 5 March
• Chicken Riot Feb. 9 • FRAGILE DREAMS:
FAREWELL RUINS OF THE Activision
Collision Studios MOON March 16 • Percy Jackson & the
• City Builder February Olympians: The Lightning
WiiWare Thief™ Feb. 2
D3Publisher Akaoni Studio S.L. • How To Train Your Dragon
• Family Party: 30 Great • Zombie Panic in Wonderland March 23
Games™ Winter Fun February Q1
Aksys Games
Deep Silver, Inc. Broken Rules • World Cup of Pool Feb. 9
Feb. 22
• Let’s Play Ballerina March • And Yet It Moves Q1
• Let’s Play Garden March The American Game Factory,
SEGA of America
Capcom Inc.
• Super Monkey Ball Step &
Disney Interactive Studios • P h o e n i x W r i g h t ™ : A c e • Build-A-Bear Workshop –
Roll™ Feb. 9
• Alice in Wonderland March Attorney™ January Welcome to Hugsville March 17
• Sonic & Sega All-Stars
• Mega Man® 10 March
Racing™ March
Hudson Entertainment Atlus U.S.A., Inc.
• Rooms: The Main Building Ghostfire Games • Shin Megami Tensei®: Strange
SouthPeak Games
Spring • Rage of the Gladiator Q1 Journey™ March 10
• Sled Shred™ featuring the
• Calling Spring
Jamaican Bobsled Team Feb. 1
Hudson Entertainment Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
• Fast Food Panic™ Jan. 5
Konami • Military Madness: Nectaris® • Ace Attorney Investigations™:
• Walk it Out Jan. 10 Q1 Miles Edgeworth Feb. 16
Storm City Entertainment
• Yu Gi Oh! Duel Trancer Q1
• Bermuda Triangle: Saving the
• DanceDanceRevolution Q1 Nabi Studios City Interactive USA
Coral February
• Toribash Q1 • Animal Country: Life on the
Farm Feb. 16
UFO Interactive Games, Inc.
Nintendo • Art of Murder March 16
• Arcade Shooter: Ilvelo Q1
• WarioWare™ D.I.Y. Showcase
• Rock Blast Q1
Q1 Deep Silver, Inc.
• Jaja’s Adventure Q1
• Let’s Play Flight Attendant
Press Play ApS March
Ubisoft
• Max & the Magic Marker Q1 • Let’s Play Ballerina March
• No More Heroes 2: Desperate
Nintendo
Struggle late January NINTENDO’S page 11
V S . • Endless Ocean: Blue World Team Meat
• Sleepover Party Jan. 12
10 Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition

Why We All Need to Calm Down About the "Real Google

Phone" [Android]
By John Herrman (Gizmodo) breathless commentary on the
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:36:34 AM
Nexus One admits that what it
means is more important than
If you've seen the internet (or what's on its spec sheet. And
Giz) this weekend, you've heard yeah, it'll be the first phone
about it: the "real Google phone" marketed as the Google phone,
that " changes everything." But and Google's sales strategy—to
before we get carried away, a offer the device without contract
counterpoint: Google isn't magic. first, and probably unlocked,
And the Nexus One isn't a game- with a ( hardware
changer. Not yet. limited—possibly just to T-
And I don't mean to say that I Mobile, if you care about 3G)
don't understand what the Nexus choice of carriers—is foreign to
One is, or what Google's trying to the US market. But it's far from
do. Nor am I saying that Google unheard of—you can buy
plan for the Nexus One—to offer unlocked phones at Best Buy, for
a different type of cellphone God's sake. Oh, and Nokia's been
buying experience than US handling their US smartphone
customers are accustomed to, and releases like this for years. It
to provide a model for future hasn't gone well.
Android handset—is a Google doesn't have
particularly bad one. I'm saying superpowers. Using their
that I don't get the hype: Google's unmatched internet superpowers,
Nexus one is an interesting Google can do more to convince
experiment, not some kind of the general public that an
heroically disruptive Google expensive, unsubsidized phone is
coup, as many people, changes a good idea than Nokia, whose
everything">including us, have marketing efforts have been
implied. Consider the facts: wimpy and ineffective. But they
It's an HTC Android handset. I t ' s t h e t h i r d ( a t l e a s t ) how Google had full control over step up from 2.0, which is what can't do anything crazy, like give
This means that on a material Snapdragon-powered Android the Nexus One user experience, the Droid ships with, which, this thing away. They can sell it
level, it's barely more of a phone we've heard about. It's got and how it's going to be unlike mind you, Motorola doesn't seem for cheap by relying on their own
G o o g l e p h o n e t h a n t h e a 5-megapixel camera. It's got any other Android we've ever to have touched almost at all. As advertising network—or hell,
G1—which Google passively dual microphones, to help with seen before. But we've seen other far as I can tell, the Nexus One their homepage—for advertising,
o v e r s a w — o r t h e M o t o r o l a noise reduction. It's fairly thin. builds of 2.1, albiet covered in will have some pretty new UI as well as the massive press
Droid—which Google actively These are nice features for a new the Sense UI, leaked for the HTC flourishes, and maybe a few UX coverage they're already getting,
helped design. And hey, people phone, but they're more or less H e r o ( s p o i l e r : n o t t h a t changes. Again: this is typical, and selling it at little to no profit.
remember: Google still isn't a exactly what we'd expect HTC to impressive), and combined with paced progress, not a drastic To be able to match carriers'
hardware company. Not even be working on next. the early glimpses we've caught overhaul. prices, though, will be a stretch:
close. It's pretty much running Android from spy shots, they give the The new business model isn't
The hardware isn't revolutionary. 2.0. People are talking a lot about feeling that 2.1 isn't much of a really new. Even the most WHY page 13
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NINTENDO’S
continued from page 9
• Let’s Play Garden March
Disney Interactive Studios
• Sonny With a Chance Spring
• Alice in Wonderland March
GameMill Publishing
• Escape the Museum Jan. 12
• Hidden Mysteries:
Buckingham Palace Feb. 9
Hudson Entertainment
• Rooms: The Main Building
Spring
• DECA SPORTS™ Spring
Konami
• Scene It! Twilight Q1
• Puzzle Chronicles Jan. 10
Majesco Entertainment
• Super Speed Machines
February
• The Daring Game for Girls
February
• Dawn of Heroes February
• ATV Revolution March
Nintendo
• Glory of Heracles Jan. 18
• Pokémon HeartGold Version
and Pokémon SoulSilver Version
Black Friday Emits 50x More CO2 Than Cyber
Monday [Graphs]
By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:40:00 AM
Assuming a 20-mile round trip
March 14
• WarioWare: D.I.Y. March 28
• America’s Test Kitchen: Let’s
Get Cooking March 28
Natsume Inc.
• Squishy Tank™ February
• Cheer We Go!™ March
PopCap Games
• Bejeweled Twist™ Q1
SEGA of America
• Sands of Destruction™ Jan. 12
• Infinite Space™ March
• Sonic & Sega All-Stars
Racing™ March
• Sonic Classic Collection™
Spring
SouthPeak Games
• Crime Scene™ Feb. 1
• Dementium II™ Feb. 2
• Fast Food Panic™ Jan. 5
• Sushi Go Round™ Feb. 1
• Montessori Music™ March 1
Storm City Entertainment
• Bermuda Triangle: Saving the
Coral February
• Myst February
• ATV Quad Kings March
to a store on Black Friday, one
study found Cyber Monday emits
50 times less carbon through the
miracles of online shopping. [
• T.A.C Heroes: The Big Red
One March
TECMO
• Monster Rancher® DS March
• AGAIN™ March
• Telegames, Inc. Puzzle
Overload™ Spring
• Solitaire Overload Plus™
Spring
THQ
• Daniel X: The Ultimate Power
Jan. 12
Tomy Corporation
• Lovely Lisa™ and
Friends(enhanced Nintendo DSi
content) February
Ubisoft
• Imagine Reporter Jan. 20
• Imagine Party Planner Jan. 13
• Imagine Sweet 16 Feb. 10
• Imagine Gymnast March 10
XSEED Games
• KORG DS-10 Plus Jan. 19
• Ragnarok™ DS Feb. 16
Nintendo DSiWare
EA
GigaOM Pro via Treehugger]
• Downtown Texas Hold’em
Poker Q1
• Surviving High School™ Q1
Gameloft
• Legends of Exidia Q1
• Let’s Golf Q1
• Real Soccer™ 2010 Q1
• Gangstar 2: Kings of L.A. Q1
Nintendo
• Trajectile™ Jan. 4
• Number Battle™ Jan. 25
• Starship Defense™ Jan. 18
• Touch Solitaire Jan. 11
• X-Scape™ February
• Link ’n’ Launch™ February
Subatomic Studios
• Fieldrunners Q1
WayForward
• Shantae: Risky’s Revenge Q1
[ Press Release]
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Spandau Ballet To Be
First Intergalactic Band
Aboard Branson's
SpaceShipTwo
Enterprise [Space]
By Kat Hannaford (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 10:11:34 AM
Last week I invoked the wrath of
trance fans everywhere by
suggesting Above & Beyond,
rumored to be the first musical
act in space, should be kept up
there. Turns out Richard Branson
chose Spandau Ballet instead.
I think I now want a ticket
aboard Enterprise even more than
I did before.
They're performing just one
song, rumored to be either Gold,
True or I'll Fly For You
(surprising news to anyone who
thought they had just two songs)
if Spandau Ballet
guitarist/saxophonist Steve
Norman is to be believed. With
only six passengers and two
pilots allowed on that first
Enterprise flight, the five
Spandau Balleters will make up
almost half the human weight.
Although judging by the looks of
Tony Hadley these days, maybe
it'd be more like 50/50. [ The
List]
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World of Warcraft’s new dungeon finder just made life worth

living again
By Nicholas Deleon
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:50:09 AM

For me, the best part of Patch

3.3 in World of Warcraft is the
new dungeon finder. I’ve used it
a bunch in the past couple of
days, and can say this: PUGing is
now fun (though it’ll change the
way we look at guilds).
PUG stands for pick-up group, a
term to describe a ragtag
collection of players thrust
together to run though a
dungeon, or instance. Prior to this
latest patch, setting up a PUG
was a pain the the ass: you’d join
a specific chat channel then
submit yourself to a pretty
rubbish queuing system. It would
take an awful long time to get The biggest change is that the around 10. I say that as a damage guilds. Before, you’d join a guild why put up with all the drama of
five players together. We’re dungeon finder looks across -dealer (Warlock); healers and so you can get to know a bunch a guild?
talking 30+ minutes. servers, so even if your server tanks, being more rare, are placed of other people who you’d run This only speaks to pre-endgame
Inconvenient, yes. You’d get has, say, only 100 people in it into groups even quicker. dungeons with. It was a lot raiding, of course. That’s a whole
prepared to run a dungeon, have (for argument’s sake), that’s no (Groups consist of three damage- quicker for a few guildies run a different animal where being
all your potions and items and longer a problem. You’re no dealers, a healer, and a tank.) dungeon than sit though the old friends with people and knowing
whatnot on you, then enter the longer handcuffed by your Like I said, I’ve used the new PUG system. But now that you what are people’s motivations
queue… then you’d wait. And server’s inadequacies! system several times since the can have a dungeon run up and (what gear they’re after and so
wait and wait. Needless to say, The queueing system has also patch went live. I couldn’t be ready in just a few minutes, why on).
by the time you got a group improved, and dramatically. Now happier. Within 10 minutes of bother with a guild? This is So there you go. Running
together, you were often no you select your role in the group entering a queue I’m fighting my especially true of people who like dungeons is infinitely easier, and
longer in the mood to run the (damage-dealing, healing, or way through the game’s to play the game alone like I do: I faster, now, but it may change the
dungeon. tanking), then the system scours dungeons. have no interest in asking my way people look at guilds. Are
And then you’d find that the several servers to find other plays Yes, this is what I do with my fellow guildies “hey, what’s up they even worth the trouble now,
group itself was rubbish. Not fun, queuing up for the same life, such as it is. guys?” If I can find a group in a especially at lower levels?
no. dungeon. What used to take 30+ But the new dungeon finder may few minutes, then be done with a
The new system changes things. minutes to set up now takes change the way people look at dungeon in double-quick time,
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Bag Week: Kata CS-17 camera satchel

By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 7:45:00 AM
Name one messenger bag that
effectively combines a notebook
bag and a camera case?
Obviously the bag pictured
above. The Kata CS-17.
Info:
• The Kata CS-17
• Holds up to a 17-inch notebook
• Padded, removable pouch can
hold a DSLR & 2 lens
• Constucted out of nylon
• Weather cover
• $140 MSRP
Pros
• Dual purpose notebook/camera
case
• Top zipper allows
quick, discrete access
• Relatively inexpensive
Cons
• Not the best looking bag
WHY
continued from page 10
• Big Bird designed the inside
If you’ve ever tried to fit your
DSLR into a normal messenger
bag, you totally understand the
draw to this bag. Other bags just
aren’t designed to hold a large
camera and a notebook at the
same time. I’ve always ended up
pushing the notebook as far to
the trendy and teal 90’s. I’m even
turned off by Kata’s logo. And
the inside is way too yellow.
Throw a Transformer’s logo on it
and it would be Bumblebee.
But that’s Kata. All the
company’s bags have a yellow
interior and I better get used to it;
I have two more bags from Kata
to review this week.
Wrap-up
The concept behind this bag is
solid. It effectively holds both a
notebook and a DSLR at the
same time. But I’m not into the
look. Say what you will, but I
one side of the bag as possible so o w n padded spot t o t a l l y f e e l
the camera’s lens will fit down too. Accessing the contents can that’s important especially when
the side of the bag next to the be done by unzipping the large, a bag costs $140. Hey, maybe
computer. It definitely doesn’t front flap or through a somewhat you’re still into pleated khakis
make you feel comfortable. hidden top zipper. If the bag and light blue polo shirts. If
But with this bag your camera wasn’t so damn ugly, it would be that’s you, and you have to tout
can be safely stored in its own perfect for a blogger running b o t h a b i g c a m e r a a n d a
padded pouch with room for two around CES. notebook, buy this bag.
accessories like flashes or lenses. I’m not loving the bag’s look. It
The computer is housed in its reminds me of something from
2009 holiday sales

A Verizon or a T-Mobile can
absorb the cost of a phone in
month-to-month fees and overage
charges. What does Google
have? Theoretical future Adsense
revenue?
Even if what we see now is
exactly what we're going to get,
the Nexus One is something
worth paying attention to—it will
be a way for Google to
demonstrate what their vision for
Android is without carrier
interference. They'll control the
software experience on the
phone; they'll control how it's
updated; they'll control what
software is and isn't allowed on
it. And they could use it to
convey an vision for Google
Voice, in which Google supplies
your number, your nonstandard
calling rates and your texting
allowance, while carriers simply
supply a neutral, dumb and
ultimately out-of-sight cellular
connection. But even if that is
what they're doing—we don't
know!—the Nexus One is a first
step. It'll be an early product to
guide the progress of an industry,
not the product that'll define it.
Whenever we talk about Google,
we need to factor in a little
windage. They're buzzy, they're
huge, and they've thrown plenty
of other industries curveballs
before. This phone sits at the
hype nexus (for lack of a better
word) of Google Voice, Android,
Google's online services and
HTC. For now, to say that the
Nexus One has somehow
changed everything is to buy into
these company's hype too
earnestly, to ascribe to Google
mystical qualities, and to take for
granted a series of future actions
that Google hasn't even hinted at
fulfilling yet. Apple isn't the only
company tech watchers
recklessly project onto.
Or, to compress it to 140
characters or less: "The Google
phone matters as much as Google
makes it matter." For now,
people, calm down.
online: $19.9
billion and counting
By Don Reisinger
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 6:30:00 AM
ComScore releases stats on the
online holiday-shopping season
so far. Sales are strong and ahead
of 2008 levels.
14 Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition

Synaptics Fuse concept handset puts a new squeeze on

touchphone interaction
By Paul Miller (Engadget) squeeze, tilt and haptic interaction. Check out a quick
Submitted at 12/14/2009 11:34:00 AM
interaction. The big idea is to video after the break.
approach single-handed and no- Continue reading Synaptics Fuse
In case you weren't aware, look operation on a touchscreen concept handset puts a new
S y n a p t i c s d a b b l e d i n t h e handset, no small feat to be sure. squeeze on touchphone
touchscreen handset game way The result is a pure kitchen sink interaction
back in 2006 with the Onyx of sensors, including a touchpad Synaptics Fuse concept handset
concept, before phones like the on the back of the phone, touch puts a new squeeze on
LG Prada and Apple's iPhone and pressure sensitive strips touchphone interaction originally
came along and proved the idea along both sides of the phones, appeared on Engadget on Mon,
so convincingly. However, dual haptic feedback motors, a 3- 14 Dec 2009 11:34:00 EST.
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itself once again to attempt touchscreen in front. The TI haptics feeds back to let you to find out if Synaptics is really Comments
another trend-setting concept. OMAP 3630 processor powers know where your finger is on the on to something, but even if the
This one's a bit more wild: the the TAT Cascades 3D UI Engine screen -- an attempt to emulate Fuse isn't the next best thing, we
"Fuse" involves contributions which attempts to contextualize feeling out the correct nub for could certainly see somebody
from Alloy, TAT, Immersion and UI interaction with perspective keypad orientation on a button using some of these sensors to
Texas Instruments, and includes tilts and fancy motion, and the phone. We'll have to play with it improve existing handset

Cowboys Stadium 3D scoreboard experiment doesn't go so

well, turned off in less than seven minutes
By Nilay Patel (Engadget) people in attendance didn't bother turned off in less than seven
Submitted at 12/14/2009 1:01:00 PM
to put on the headgear required to minutes
see the 3D effect, and instead Cowboys Stadium 3D
You know 3D has a long way to saw a blurry anaglyph image -- scoreboard experiment doesn't go
go when even Jerry Jones can't which they then booed. What's so well, turned off in less than
manage to sell it for longer than more, some who wore the glasses seven minutes originally
seven minutes: the vaunted real- complained that the 3D effect appeared on Engadget on Mon,
time 3D scoreboard display c a u s e d n a u s e a - - a l t h o u g h 14 Dec 2009 13:01:00 EST.
experiment at last night's 'boys / probably not as badly as the Please see our terms for use of
Chargers game was turned off to Cowboys' 17-20 loss to the feeds. Permalink| Associated
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Comments
The problem, as usual, was but it simply doesn't work when when the Cowboys fail to make Stadium 3D scoreboard
glasses: most of the 80,000 scaled up for the world's largest the playoffs with another couple experiment doesn't go so well,
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PS3 Slim was supposed to have network storage (that is, no

local hard drive)
By Nicholas Deleon would have cost too much money yeah, that I can understand.
(CrunchGear) to set up and maintain the Money aside, it’s a pretty foreign
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:00:17 AM
required servers. It’s a shame, concept for console owners. “So
because as slim as the PS3 Slim I have zero control over my
Did you know that, at one point, turned out, it could have been so saved games? That’s not cool.”
Sony considered constructing the much slimmer! What happens if Sony’s servers
PS3 Slim around the concept of Well, all of this according to a explode and an earthquake
network storage? That is, instead recent interview with Nikkei knocks over the backup storage
of there being local storage (hard Electronics Asia. facility and a tornado destroys
drive, memory cards, etc.) you’d Sony also said that it could have the backup’s backup facility?
store all of your data on Sony’s made the PS3 Slim even slimmer Then what?
servers then retrieve said data by moving the power supply I don’t know about you, but officially don’t understand why Flickr
over the Internet. Now that (see: the Xbox 360’s power when I place a video game Sony didn’t go with the power
would have been radically brick) outside the system. That console in its spot, it doesn’t brick idea—it did with the PS2
different. was ixnayed, too, because it leave that spot until the next Slim!
Of course, Sony decided against would have made it “harder to generation rolls around. So I Now, the network storage thing,
the idea, primarily because it use freely.”

Thanko rolls out not one but two spy cams

By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear) powered by USB. video continuously for about 2
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:40:40 AM
The camera cap shoots video hours before the battery dies.
with 640×480 resolution and at You can use the 2GB of internal
Tokyo-based USB gadget maker 25fps. It has 4GB of internal memory, but there’s also a
today started selling two spy memory (enough to store 50 microSD/SDHC card slot (8GB
cameras, the so-called Camera minutes of video), weighs 130g max). Just like the camera cap,
Cap[JP] and the LED Spy and has a battery life of 2.5 you can connect the Spy Light to
Light[JP]. While it’s a bit of a hours. You can connect it to your your Windows PC via USB.
stretch to call the latter a spy Windows machine via USB. It’s The device is available at Geek
accessory, the bizarre cap can available over at Geek Stuff 4U camera that shoots video with point” here is that you can do this Stuff 4U for $94.92.
surely be used for undercover for$134.47. 640×480 resolution (at 30fps) while it’s dark. If you use the
r e c o n n a i s s a n c e a n d o t h e r The LED Spy Light looks more and pictures with 1,600×1,200 light and the camera at the same
shenanigans. As to be expected, like a conventional flashlight resolution. The main “selling time, you’ll be able to shoot
both gadgets are kind of silly and than anything else. It has a small

Video: How It All Ends

(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 12/13/2009 4:12:34 PM
This is the sequel to science
teacher Greg Craven’s“What’s and responses to his first videos: What’s the Worst That Lansdale novel: Sunset and
the Worst That Could Happen” video.[Video] Could Happen? I have it on my Sawdust.
video, clarifying his arguments You may also be interested in Kindle now, waiting to be read
after he received many comments Craven’s book based on the after I finish this great Joe
16 Gadgets/ Politics/ E-reader News Edition

JVC has two more sound

bars from you to pick from:
TH-BA3 and TH-BS7
By Nicholas Deleon bar. That means both the
(CrunchGear) speakers and the subwoofer are
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:00:36 AM
totally wireless—handy if you or
yours hate to see wires strewn
Didn’t Nickelodeon used to give about. It’s a 5.1 sound system,
a w a y J V C b o o m b o x e s a n d one that works with Dolby
whatnot on its game shows back Digital, DTS, and Pro Logic II.
in the day? (I’m primarily talking There’s more! JVC has one
to twenty-somethings here, yes.) more sound bar, the TH-BS7
Imagine you were a contestant on ($600). Whereas the TH-BA3’s
Double Dare, and you manage to big deal is that it’s dual wireless,
find the flag inside the big nose the TH-BS7 is quite tiny at 1.4
Xperia Pureness available now - filled with goo, and you win this, inches. This one is only 4.1-
the TH-BA3. It’s a sound bar, channels, but works with all the
which are a heck of a lot easier to aforementioned codes.
includes concierge service, avarice incorporate into a small space Both are available now.
than a complete surround sound Anyone else remember What
By Joseph L. Flatley the mobile phone to its most the grand you dropped on a cell system. Would You Do and Wild &
(Engadget) essentials functions." You see, phone. PR after the break. The TH-BA3 ($550) is the Crazy Kids?
Submitted at 12/14/2009 11:57:00 AM
this bad boy "is not simply about Continue reading Xperia world’s first dual wireless sound
a phone; it is about opening a Pureness available now - includes
Great news for the disposable debate about people's relationship
i n c o m e c r o w d : T h e S o n y with technology in a complex
concierge service, avarice
Xperia Pureness available now -
The Facts About Bottled Water
Ericsson Xperia Pureness is world." Got that? In case you're includes concierge service, (Little Green Footballs) You may want to have a look at
finally available online through still not sold, did we mention that avarice originally appeared on Submitted at 12/13/2009 6:52:19 PM this chart, and then wipe that
Saks Fifth Avenue -- and it can the purchase price includes a Engadget on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 smug off yer face: The Facts
be yours for a mere $990. concierge service? Although we 11:57:00 EST. Please see our Are you feeling healthy and About Bottled Water.
According to some seriously high don't know for sure, it's probably terms for use of feeds. Permalink| smug because you drink nothing (Hat tip: Stanley Sea.)
-minded PR, the sleek and feature not a leap to assume that this Saks Fifth Avenue| Email this| but bottled water?
-poor handset "represents an "concierge" is a help desk Comments
alternative approach to life in the employee somewhere who could
complex, digital age by refining feed his village for a month with
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Quadriplegic Man Gets a

License to Control a
Shotgun with his Mouth
[Guns]
Samsung ST5500 WiFi By Adam Frucci (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:16:11 AM

camera hits the FCC RAmos T11TE 5-inch PMP

Jamie Capp was paralyzed
playing football in high school,
By Donald Melanson Toss in a fairly large 3.5-inch robbing him of the ability to
(Engadget)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 12:28:00 PM
touchscreen and built-in 802.11
b/g WiFi (all in a surprisingly outputs 1080p over HDMI, might hunt. But now, after a two and a
half year legal battle, he's
compact package) and you've got
Samsung's fast making a name a camera that just might turn a be compensating for something obtained a hunting license.
Jamie is now able to hunt using
for itself as a company that few heads. Of course, there's no By Paul Miller (Engadget) inch thick, and even packs in a 12-gauge shotgun attached to a
throws more than the basics into indication of a price or release Submitted at 12/14/2009 11:10:00 AM dual 3.5mm headphone jacks, b a t t e r y - p o w e r e d m a c h i n e
into its point-and-shoots, and it date just yet, but you can check and we really have no excuse to operated via breathing tube.
looks to be continuing the trend out a few more pics and even the Look, we're not ones to knock be Negative Nancys, but we For a quadriplegic, firing a
with its new ST5500 camera, camera's user manual at the links specs for specs' sake, and 1080p suppose we're just a little OS- shotgun requires help from a
which just recently cleared the below. output is certainly impressive for spoiled these days. It's not you, companion. In Mr Cap's case, a
FCC. Judging from the specs, Samsung ST5500 WiFi camera a $177.45 Chinese import PMP, RAmos, it's us. We've changed. friend sets up the contraption,
this one certainly looks to have hits the FCC originally appeared but after seeing RAmos churn its RAmos T11TE 5-inch PMP s a f e t y o n , o n M r C a p ' s
things covered on the picture- on Engadget on Mon, 14 Dec way through some Android with outputs 1080p over HDMI, might wheelchair and Mr Cap aims the
taking front, with it packing an 2009 12:28:00 EST. Please see the W7, it's hard to get fired up be compensating for something shotgun by moving the toggle
ample 7x optical zoom, 14.2 our terms for use of feeds. for this new T11TE monster. But originally appeared on Engadget switch with his mouth. Once his
megapixels, ISO settings up to Permalink| Wireless Goodness, back to the specs: there's a 5-inch on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:10:00 partner releases the safety, Mr
ISO 3200, a max 1/2000 shutter User Manual (PDF)| Email this| 800 x 480 touchscreen, 16GB of EST. Please see our terms for Cap fires by sipping on the
speed, and support for 720p Comments b u i l t - i n m e m o r y , m i c r o S D use of feeds. Permalink PMP breathing tube.
video at 30 fps for good measure. expansion and codec support Today| Ownta| Email this| It's great that the technology
galore. Mix in the fact that the Comments exists to allow Jamie to continue
whole player is less than half an to enjoy a hobby that he loved
before his accident. [ Telegraph
Dec. 14, 1996: Kingston's Holiday Bonus Shows Workers the Money via Geekologie]
By John C Abell (Wired Top What'd you get this year? A w o r k e r s , n o t b a m b o o z l i n g memories.
Stories) party? A turkey? How about bankers or anything. Kingston
$130,000 — and these were tech Technology, thanks for the
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Nintendo bringing pink and blue

Wiimotes to America on Valentine's
Day
By Darren Murph (Engadget) Wii MotionPlus dongles. There's
Submitted at 12/14/2009 10:48:00 AM
no word yet on pricing, but we're
guessing a small premium is in
Hey, kids. We got your order for those badly in need of
attention? Good. Remember some hue variation.
those pink and blue Wii Nintendo bringing pink and blue
controllers that were quietly Wiimotes to America on
launched in the Land of the Valentine's Day originally
Rising Sun back in October? appeared on Engadget on Mon,
Yeah, well it seems that both of 14 Dec 2009 10:48:00 EST.
those gems are coming to the Please see our terms for use of
United States, but it'll be well Starting on February 14, 2010, feeds. Permalink Electronista|
What's Basically the Most
after Christmas before you can the blue and pink Wiimote will Nintendo| Email this| Comments
get your hands on either (without be on sale on US soil, and both Adorable Children's Gift I
a good importer, anyway). devices will come bundled with
Can Imagine [Toys]
Verizon Waives $21,917 Monthly By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 10:00:00 AM
really good idea, actualizing a
child's design into something
Bill Caused by 13 Year-Old Data they can hold.
Here's the idea: your child I believe the cost is $85, and if
scribbles an animal on Shidonni's you were interested in the gift for
Hog [Bills] w e b s i t e , t h e y h a n d - s e w a Christmas, you'd need to order by
corresponding one-of-a-kind tomorrow, December 15th. No
By Brian Barrett (Gizmodo) magnanimity, Verizon has plush toy and mail it to you. word on whether or not Shidonni
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:20:00 AM
forgiven all charges for the Neat, right? will sew you one of the deadly
month, and Estarija the Younger From the looks of this video, tanks firing exploding ice cream
Attention, teenagers of America: has been cut off, so everything's s w e a t s h o p l a b o r e r s a r e n ' t cones that I drew as a kid. [
things cost money, even when back the way it should be. Except stitching their fingers to your Shiddoni]
plucked out of thin air. And for the fact that apparently a child's Christmas gift. Shidonni is
attention parents of America: buy kajillion percent (approximately) just a small operation with a
a data plan, already. increase in data usage didn't send
When Ted Estarija added his son up any flags at Verizon as it was
to his cell phone plan, he 1.4GB in a month. But these happening, which is pretty
probably wasn't expecting the kids, that's they do! Anyway, in a unfortunate customer relations. [
adorable little scamp to download s h o w o f u n c u s t o m a r y AP via Consumerist]
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Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:49:32 AM
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Oracle pledges to play well with MySQL

(CNET News.com) of MySQL storage engines, developers of derived versions-- against anyone that a third-party to further develop MySQL, both
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:41:53 AM
promising to maintain the nor enterprise users would have a vendor's implementations of a the commercial and GPL
openness and flexibility of basis on which to invest in storage engine must be released editions.
The chill between Oracle and the MySQL's Pluggable Storage MySQL-related innovation," said under the GPL (GNU General • MySQL Customer Advisory
European Commission may Engine Architecture and not Florian Mueller, a spokesman for Public License) because they Board. No later than six months
finally be thawing. require commercial licenses to MySQL co-founder Michael used the APIs that are part of the after the anniversary of the
European antitrust regulators use the storage engine APIs. "Monty" Widenius, who has been Pluggable Storage Engine closing, Oracle will create a
have been playing a wary In response, the European one of the loudest voices in Architecture. Further, Oracle will customer advisory board to offer
bouncer to Oracle's planned Commission on Monday issued a opposition to the deal. not require a commercial license guidance and feedback on
takeover of Sun Microsystems, statement suggesting that it's Fearing that Oracle will try to from third-party storage engine MySQL development. The board
and they've been especially warming up to the idea of a Sun- weaken MySQL to strengthen its vendors to implement the will include end users and
attentive to the software maker's Oracle combination. own database products, Widenius Pluggable Storage Engine embedded customers.
i n t e n t i o n s r e g a r d i n g S u n ' s "Today's announcement by has been intent on drumming up Architecture's APIs. • MySQL Storage Engine
M y S Q L o p e r a t i o n s . I n Oracle of a series of undertakings support among the faithful, • License commitment. When Vendor Advisory Board. No later
November, their concerns about to customers, developers and asking them to urge the EC to current MySQL OEM than six months after the
the future of the open-source users of MySQL is an important stop the merger for good. agreements with storage vendors anniversary of the closing, Oracle
MySQL database software led to new element to be taken into The battle for Sun began in April end, Oracle will offer an will create and fund a storage
a formal thumbs-down to the a c c o u n t i n t h e o n g o i n g when Oracle's $7.4 billion bid extension up to December 10, engine vendor advisory board for
acquisition. proceedings," said the EC in its won over Sun's board. 2014, with the same terms and guidance on issues important to
But recent discussions between statement. "In particular, Oracle's Subsequent approval by conditions. MySQL storage engine vendors.
O r a c l e a n d t h e E C h a v e binding contractual undertakings shareholders and the U.S. Justice • Commitment to enhance • MySQL Reference Manual.
apparently been fruitful, as t o s t o r a g e e n g i n e v e n d o r s Department seemed to solidify MySQL in the future under the Oracle will continue to update
Oracle on Monday pledged 10 r e g a r d i n g c o p y r i g h t n o n - the deal. GPL. Oracle promises to enhance and provide a free download to a
"commitments to customers, assertion and the extension over a Summarized below, Oracle's 10 MySQL, including version 6, MySQL Reference Manual
d e v e l o p e r s a n d u s e r s o f period of up to 5 years of the commitments outline how the under the GPL. Oracle won't similar to the one currently
MySQL." terms and conditions of existing company intends to keep MySQL update MySQL Enterprise available from Sun.
Among other things, the c o m m e r c i a l l i c e n s e s a r e alive as a competitive database Edition without also updating • Preserve Customer Choice for
company pledged to spend more s i g n i f i c a n t n e w f a c t s . " product. MySQL Community Edition and Support. Oracle will make sure
cash than Sun did on MySQL EC Competition Commissioner • Continued Availability of will make the source code of that end-user and embedded
development and to set up Neelie Kroes expressed optimism Storage Engine APIs. Oracle Community Edition available to customers paying for MySQL
advisory boards to include for a satisfactory outcome, one promises to maintain and the public at no charge. support can renew that support
MySQL customers. Oracle also that won't hurt the competition in enhance MySQL's Pluggable • Support not mandatory. each year or every few years,
said it would not require paid the European database market. Storage Engine Architecture, Customers won't be required to depending on the customer's
support to get a commercial But according to the Reuters which gives users the ability to buy support services from Oracle preference.
MySQL license and that it would news agency, critics of Oracle select from a variety of different to get a commercial license for
offer flexible support contracts to aren't impressed with Oracle's storage engines that can plug into MySQL. fivefilters.org featured article:
customers. latest promises. a MySQL database server. • Increase spending on MySQL Normalising the crime of the
i n a d d i t i o n , i t a d d r e s s e d "This is purely cosmetic, totally • Non-assertion. As copyright research and development. century by John Pilger
licensing and copyright issues ineffectual. Neither storage holder, Oracle will change Sun's Oracle promises to spend more
relevant to third-party developers engine vendors nor 'forkers'-- current policy and will not assert money than Sun did to continue

James Cameron's New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever

By Joshua Davis (Wired Top Twelve years after Titanic, with Avatar, a $250 million 3-D
Stories) director James Cameron is back interplanetary epic.
E-reader News Edition Tech/ Tech News/ 23

10 Great Digital Gifts for Social Media Lovers

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Inventing Effects to Create the Avatar Universe

By Frank Rose (Wired Top Go behind the scenes to get a special effects and the tech that
Stories) look at Avatar's groundbreaking made them possible.
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Vintage AOL: Adventures in digital-age archaeology

(CNET News.com) access or 45 days, whichever behind it, and yet, at the same The dial-up access business is
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:40:30 AM
comes first, with no credit card time it doesn't. The thing about still there, but slowly dying.
required. (1,025 hours is slightly AOL in the late '90s and early A lot's changed, and still a lot
This year for Christmas, I finally under 42 days.) On the red-and- '00s was that it was as hasn't. The focus at AOL now
decided to give my family gold packaging is the face of a mainstream and ubiquitous as might be on blog content, not the
something that they've been Japanese anime-style character, any tech company could get. In a beeps and buzzes and "You've
asking me about for more or less the edges of the drawing blurred press call last week to announce Got Mail!" messages. But at its
the past five years: I told them to make the marketing message AOL's long-overdue spinoff from core, even in the Tim Armstrong
that I would clean my room. absolutely clear: This is fast. This Time Warner, current CEO Tim age, AOL still wants to be
No, really. I moved out of my is the future. building on our strong, engaged A r m s t r o n g s a i d t h a t " t h i s something that the average
childhood home years ago, but AOL 7.0 was released on relationships with more than 31 company is one of the companies consumer--which, I suppose,
more or less shut the door to my October 16, 2001, right in the million members worldwide to that really put the Internet in includes small-town teenage girls
room and didn't change a thing. depths of post-9/11 turmoil and lead the transformation of new vogue for consumers." who spend more time instant-
It's sort of a late '90s-early '00s some of the darkest hours for the c a t e g o r i e s l i k e m u s i c , "The '90s were about access, and messaging than learning how to
teenage time capsule. There was dot-com industry. It was also less entertainment, local, and digital AOL played a major role in parallel park--absolutely can't
stuff in there that had not been than a year after America photography--with more on the access," Armstrong continued. live without.
t o u c h e d s i n c e t h e C l i n t o n Online's historic $165 billion way as broadband and AOL "This decade has really been Rebuilding AOL is a challenge
administration. There were merger with Time Warner, now A n y w h e r e c r e a t e n e w about platforms: Google, that some have dismissed as a
m a g a z i n e s w i t h J u s t i n regarded as one of the most o p p o r t u n i t i e s l i k e h o m e Facebook, Twitter, et cetera, and total pipe dream for Armstrong &
Timberlake on the cover from an disastrous business decisions of networking." we believe that the next decade co. But some cultural phenomena
era when nobody expected he'd the past decade. It was also right I don't exactly remember why I will really be about content." have indeed proven capable of
be cast as a Silicon Valley around the time I turned 17 and had that CD stashed away, but So the company has courted being relevant at both the
hotshot in a movie directed by flunked my driver's test; in I'm willing to surmise that I was Madison Avenue aggressively, beginning and end of the '00s: I
the Fight Club guy. There were hindsight I clearly should've been keeping it around in the case of a with marketers and agency types mean, look at Justin Timberlake.
varsity letters and prom photos honing my skills of coordination dial-up nuclear winter--i.e. if my flooding the floor at AOL's glitzy That guy looked ridiculous when
and model rockets and Warped by playing more video games. parents came across a less-than- spinoff party at the New York he was all over teen magazines
Tour '01 memorabilia and pretty A press release from October 16 s t e l l a r c a l c u l u s g r a d e a n d Stock Exchange last week. It's ten years ago.
much whatever else you'd expect hails version 7.0 as having "a responded by silencing the launched Seed.com, a bold and (As for the AOL disk, thanks
to find in the living space of a kid fresh new look that puts local, Internet connection that sucked controversial clearinghouse for very much to those of you who
who came of age in the era of community-focused features, away some of the time that I quick, efficient media content offered suggestions via Twitter
Can't Hardly Wait and "Dawson's shopping and resources front and might have been spending on based on trends and demand. A for what I should do with it.
Creek." center throughout the service to homework otherwise. With that medium-sized 2005 acquisition, Seems like a lot of you use them
That inventory included one m a k e A O L a n e v e n m o r e shiny disk, I could somehow Weblogs Inc., has proven more as coasters!)
almost perfectly preserved AOL relevant and valuable part of figure out a 45-day lifeline. important to the company's fivefilters.org featured article:
7.0 installer disk, a CD-ROM members' daily lives." Then-CEO The 'new' AOL. navigational course than the jaw- Normalising the crime of the
that boasts "Faster Than Ever!" B a r r y S c h u l e r o f f e r e d a AOL wants to put those days dropping $850 million it spent on century by John Pilger
and offers 1,025 free hours of s o u n d b i t e , s a y i n g " W e ' r e social network Bebo last year.

Baby-by-Number: Parents' New Obsession With Data

By Hadley Leggett (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 12/13/2009 9:00:00 PM
We track our packages, our nap to electronic toys that track children's lives. Is that a good
flights, our pizzas -- and now our how kids play, a host of new thing?
kids. From iPhone apps that products let parents keep tabs on
record every diaper, bottle and nearly every aspect of their
E-reader News Edition Tech/ 25
Woman Arrested For
8 Ways to Share Happiness on the Web [Contest] Filming Snippets Of
'New Moon' May Sue
By Matt Silverman rescue by acting as their How do you use the social web
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Submitted at 12/14/2009 10:12:59 AM By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
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Microsoft DRM
Locks You Out Of
Your Own Documents
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 7:01:00 AM
In case you haven't been paying
attention, there's yet to be a good
reason put forth for using DRM
that I can remember. We've seen
over and over again how DRM
seems to interfere with legitimate
actions, but does nothing at all to
slow down "pirates." Slashdot
points to a rather scary situations
for those who used Microsoft
Office 2003 to DRM certain
documents for their own use.
Apparently, a screwup on the part
of Microsoft (oops) means that
many people got locked out of
their own documents. Basically,
Microsoft let a certificate expire,
and that's made life difficult for
lots and lots of people. So what
good is DRM again?
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fivefilters.org featured article:
Normalising the crime of the
century by John Pilger
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Priceline shrinks from marketing scandal
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:34:00 AM
Priceline, an online travel site
accused by the government of
selling customer credit card
information to "scam" marketers,
says it no longer has any
relationship with the marketing
firms.
Company spokesman Brian Ek
said Priceline, perhaps best
known as the "name your price"
company, stopped using post-
transaction firm Affinion
sometime last month. The news
was first reported by The
Connecticut Post.
In May, the U.S. Senate
launched a probe of the company,
as well as competitors
Webloyalty and Vertrue and 88
online merchants, for allegedly
duping as many as 30 million
consumers into paying monthly
fees.
"With the Senate inquiry going
on, we want to wait and see what
happens," said Ek, who added
that Priceline no longer has
partnerships with any of the post-
transaction marketers.
According to the U.S. Senate
Committee on Commerce,
Science and Transportation,
Priceline is one of about 19
companies, including Orbitz,
Travelocity, Shutterfly,
Classmates.com, Buy.com, and
Redcats USA, that banked more
than $10 million from its
partnerships with post-transaction
Tech/ 27
according some experts. The
government's investigators have
Israeli ISPs Caught
unearthed documents that show Traffic Shaping
the marketing companies and the
e-tailers know that the ads are Without Admitting It
deceptive. They also show that By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
only a tiny percentage of the Submitted at 12/14/2009 3:14:48 AM
people who are signed up to the
membership programs ever use For many years, in the US, there
them and that an elaborate were claims that Comcast was
system is created by the doing traffic shaping on its
marketers to shield their retail network, slowing down or even
partners from getting blamed by blocking certain types of traffic.
customers. Despite increasingly
Members of the Commerce sophisticated evidence, Comcast
committee have called the always denied it, until the
practices a "scam," and Associated Press finally
"robbery." presented proof. Comcast still
Just washing its hands of tried to dance around on
Affinion may not get Priceline definitions, but finally came
off the hook. On November 5, clean. In response it got a wrist
marketers. Among the merchants But buried in the fine print are Commerce committee Chairman slap from the FCC (which it's
that have cut ties with the the full terms, which state that by John Rockefeller wrote a letter to
fighting in court), but it has
m a r k e t i n g f i r m s s i n c e t h e providing an e-mail address, Priceline CEO Jeff Boyd asking
become a lot more transparent in
g o v e r n m e n t b e g a n i t s shoppers are enrolling in a f o r i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t h i s
its traffic shaping/filtering
investigation are Continental m e m b e r s h i p p r o g r a m a n d company's relationship with
practices. There just isn't any
Airlines and VistaPrint, an online authorizing the marketer to Affinion. logical reason why any ISP
printing service. charge their credit card up to $20 Ek said he didn't know whether
should be less than forthcoming
The government says that the per month. After finding the Priceline severed ties with
about these issues.
merchants agreed to allow the charges on their bank statements, Affinion before or after Boyd
Slashdot points us to the news
marketers to present ads late in thousands of mystified people received Rockefeller's letter.
that a new study of Israeli ISPs
t h e t r a n s a c t i o n p r o c e s s . have complained that they were The Commerce committee is shows that, despite denying it,
According to experts, the ads are misled. expected to hold another hearing many are traffic shaping P2P
designed to give unwitting Web The marketers have denied on the matter sometime after the
traffic, often using deep packet
shoppers the impression that by wrongdoing and say that their start of the year.
inspection. Apparently, Israel's
providing their e-mail address practices are legal because all the fivefilters.org featured article:
Communications Ministry is
they are justing signing up to terms are included in their ads. Normalising the crime of the already looking into this and
receive a cash-back reward or T h e y h a v e r e c e n t l y b e g u n century by John Pilger
determining if it requires any
discount. requiring consumers to enter the
action on its part. It makes you
Click the photo and read a last four digits of their credit card
wonder why ISPs think it makes
collection of CNET's stories on number. sense not to explain what they're
the marketing scandal. That doesn't go far enough, doing to customers.
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Apple Launches
Nuclear Patent
Counterstrike On Nokia
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 1:17:05 AM

We've discussed in the past how

Dear CNN: Patents Are Not A Proxy For many large companies now view
patent accumulation as

Innovation something of a nuclear

stockpiling technique. That is, if
you accumulate enough patents,
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) seemed to think it was even it comes to innovation. It could perhaps he feels it's his mission other large companies won't sue
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:35:00 AM
worth trying to actually back up be a whole variety of factors, to overstate the importance of the you for patent infringement,
that claim with any evidence from firms recognizing what a organization, but his claims because you'll just sue them right
We've seen it over and over whatsoever. If innovation were waste it is to patent certain should have at least some basis in
back for infringing on your
again in the press. They love to really declining in the US, you things, to companies deciding not reality.
patents. As ridiculous (and
assume that the number of would think there would be some to waste money on patents during B u t , o f c o u r s e , a g o o d obviously against the basis of the
patents being filed is a proxy for sort of tangible evidence of it, but a recession, to the various court explanation for why this is
very patent system) as this is, it
innovation. There's just one C N N a n d r e p o r t e r D a v i d rulings that have finally put a tiny happening is explained (though,
has certainly limited some patent
( l a r g e ) p r o b l e m w i t h t h a t . Goldman never bother to even pushback on what is considered not by the CNN reporter who
lawsuits between large tech
Multiple studies have shown no look for it. Tragically, USPTO "patentable." But none of that appears to miss it entirely) later
companies. But every so often, a
connection between patents and boss David Kappos -- who s u g g e s t s a n y l i m i t o n U S in the article: the USPTO is
nuclear battle breaks out. Earlier
innovation. But, don't tell that to should know better -- perpetuates innovation or ingenuity. And, it's e n t i r e l y f u n d e d b y p a t e n t
this year, Nokia, jealous over the
the reporters at CNN who are the myth that the two are directly even more ridiculous to claim, as application fees. Thus, it has
success of the iPhone, sued
f r e t t i n g a b o u t h o w t h e connected. In commenting on Kappos appears to do in that every incentive to get more
Apple. Apple, of course, has
"recession" has taken its latest the decline in patent applications, quote, that this drop in patent people to file, and to play up the
bragged about all those patents it
victim: US Innovation. This is he notes:"That's unfortunate applications could represent a prestige and value of a patent,
holds on the iPhone... so... the
ridiculous on so many levels that because [patent filings] are a decrease in jobs and opportunity. even when the evidence is to the
obvious next step has occurred,
even patent system defenders are reflection of innovation," said That statement is even more contrary. So, now it appears that
and Apple is lobbing back
disagreeing with CNN. First, David Kappos, director of the laughable, since Kappos must CNN becomes the PR arm of the
charges of patent infringement
CNN bases this on a minuscule P a t e n t O f f i c e . " I n n o v a t i o n know that the number of jobs Patent Office, rather than actually
against Nokia. In the end, the
2.3% decline in patent filings, creates so many jobs and so created is not even remotely looking to find out what's going
two sides will probably work out
despite a massive growth in m u c h o p p o r t u n i t y f o r o u r related to the number of patents on.
some sort of settlement, but the
patent filings over the past fifteen country. It is absolutely key to granted or held (just ask some Permalink| Comments| Email
whole process is a huge waste of
years. our long-term success in the patent hoarding firms that hold This Story time and resources. Wouldn't we
But, more importantly, there is global economy." But, of course, many patents but employ just one
all be better off if they just
no indication whatsoever that this there is no indication that this or two people). What a shame
focused on competing in the
means anything in terms of US tiny drop in applications is that Kappos would repeat such
marketplace by creating better
innovation. No one at CNN reflective of anything at all when myths. As boss of the PTO,
products?
Google Confirms Plans to Release Its Own Smartphone Permalink| Comments| Email
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By Charlie Sorrel (Wired Top After years of denying that it's some details of the phone it plans One.
Stories) planning to release its own to issue next year: the unlocked,
smartphone, Google confirms thinner-than-an-iPhone Nexus
E-reader News Edition
Facebook is the new Compuserve
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:56:55 AM
Want to know what prominent
Apache Software Foundation and
former Google developer Greg
Stein thinks about MySQL, the
GPL, and the European
Commission's antitrust stance on
Oracle/Sun? You've got two
options.
You can read his original post
here, of course. But if you want
better commentary, you'll need to
read this same post on Facebook.
You can check out any time you
like... Except that you probably
can't, unless you're Stein's
"friend" on Facebook.
Open Web, meet your closed
cousin, Facebook.
People rightly fret about
Facebook's twisting, turning
approach to privacy, but perhaps
a far greater concern is that so
much great content is locked up
at all.
Let's be honest: as much as we
may pretend we're concerned
about our privacy, the reality is
that most of us most of the time
appear to be hell-bent on
revealing details about our
innermost thoughts on a scale
only the Internet can provide. As
ZDNet's Larry Dignan opines,
Avatar Pushes the Limits of Visual Effects
By Wired.com Video Team
(Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 12/13/2009 9:00:00 PM
Tech/ Tech News/ 29
Dozen Daily Deals for
is trapped.
Professor Jonathan Zittrain
raises a warning voice about this
December 14, 2009
in his " The Future of the Internet By Victor Agreda, Jr. (The LCD HDTV w/ Sony PS3
Unofficial Apple Weblog 120GB for $958 + $1 s&h
and How to Stop It", but I can't (TUAW))
help but think that the • JR: [Digital Cameras]
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zombies who go about life Of course, it's very possible that
your interpretation of the term sitewide
without a hoot for privacy." openness trumps all, and that,
holiday). In that spirit, for the • W a l m a r t : [ E l e c t r o n i c s ]
That's why, as TechCrunch like Compuserve before it,
next few weeks we'll be rounding Westport Small Charging Station
reports, we're even happily F a c e b o o k ' s w a l l e d - g a r d e n
up a dozen daily deals courtesy for $19 + $1 s&h
sharing the details of our credit approach to the Web will go out
with a whimper. our friends at DealNews.com. • Meritline: [iPod Accessories]
card transactions online.
Unlike Compuserve, however, Each afternoon tune in to TUAW Crystal Hard Case for Apple iPod
Really.
for this handy summary. Keep in Touch 2nd Generation for 39
The real concern is that we share Facebook is helping people to
mind that while our posts will cents + free shipping
so much behind the closed doors tame the disorder of the Web.
live on, the deals won't. Each is • Staples: [Office Furniture] Z-
of Compuserve-esque Web There really wasn't much content
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• Google: [Store Events] Google December 14, 2009 originally
Even content that is cross-posted fivefilters.org featured article:
Holiday Deals: Up to $20 off appeared on The Unofficial
e l s e w h e r e : t h e e n s u i n g Normalising the crime of the
$120 at select merchants Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon,
commentary (often of equal or century by John Pilger
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greater value to the original post)
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Davis discusses the extensive
process that led to the
development of James Cameron's
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Artists: Don't Expect To
Send virtual 3D gifts with Little World Gifts Get Paid For What
Imeem & Snocap Owe
By Victor Agreda, Jr. (The someday your Sims could wear
Unofficial Apple Weblog Abercrombie or your virtual You
(TUAW)) villagers in Pocket God could get
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 11:30:00 AM a dancing Elvis? I'd be happy to
ship toxic waste to Farmville. Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:17:00 AM

Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch Currently the gifts on the store
We always hear the record labels
When Apple launched the App are rather limited and have a
and politicians screaming bloody
Store, there were no in-app holiday theme. I'm sure there will
murder over the concept that
purchases, but it quickly became be more items to buy as time
musicians aren't being paid "what
apparent that some mechanism goes on, but I'd love to see a
they're owed" due to piracy -- but
for buying stuff within an app "real" market a la Second Life,
when there's a situation where
itself would be needed. I where users could build their
musicians might actually not be
remember thinking a store of own 3D trinkets and sell them on
getting paid what they're owed?
virtual gifts seemed like a no- this store. Hey, maybe we could
Silence. A few weeks back,
brainer, but the in-app purchase resurrect the 3DMF format? Who
MySpace "bought" Imeem in a
block was a show-stopper. threw that virtual tomato?
fire sale. But, the details of the
Kisky Netmedia isn't the first The Little World Gifts app is
deal suggest they didn't actually
company to enable in-app free, of course. The gifts
buy the company, but "certain
purchases, of course, but Little normally range from $.99 to
assets," which means they get to
World Gifts[ iTunes Link] is $3.99 or more (or less), but for a
ignore the liabilities. Guess what
precisely what you'd expect to short time all gifts are only
those liabilities include? You got
evolve on the iPhone: a little $.99US to celebrate the app's
it: paying artists what they're
store of 3D trinkets which you debut.
owed. Now, as the Wired article
can purchase and share with Gallery: Little World Gifts
notes, there's nothing technically
friends. Little World Gifts (which with little 3D items, and you can sometimes, and you have to intuit TUAW Send virtual 3D gifts
wrong with MySpace acquiring
we covered a few weeks ago) buy them. Some are simply 3D to double-tap to bring up a "close with Little World Gifts originally
just the assets, but it is notable
would be relegated to a "gee objects you can rotate and zoom this view" button, but the models appeared on The Unofficial
that it's the musicians left without
whiz" factor were it not for the in a little staging area, while are quite wonderful to behold. Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon,
getting paid what they're actually
F a c e b o o k c o m p o n e n t . M y some have associated animations You can send gifts to people via 14 Dec 2009 11:30:00 EST.
owed (not some theoretical
purchases appear in the Facebook (none that I tested had sound). the app or into Facebook, and Please see our terms for use of
concept like what they might be
LWG app (as seen in the gallery Y o u w i l l n e e d a n e t w o r k there's even a tracker to see who feeds.
"owed" due to unauthorized file
below) and from there I can share connection to browse this store, has picked up their gift. As I said, Read| Permalink| Email this|
sharing). And, yet, we don't
with my friends who also enable a s n e w i t e m s m a y a p p e a r this is the practical evolution of Comments
seem to hear any politicians or
the Facebook app. No iPhone periodically. I found the store virtual gifting on the iPhone, and
record labels screaming about
required. Uh oh. pretty easy to use, as most in-app via Facebook, frankly. I can this. Funny, since they keep
The implementation is simple: purchases tend to be low friction. envision a raft of new, branded
insisting that they're really just
you see a series of little shelves Viewing an item is a little tricky stores popping up, too. Perhaps
interested in helping artists...
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By Kim Zetter (Wired Top Several restaurants breached by that the system wasn't secure.
Stories) a Romanian hacker file a class-
Submitted at 12/13/2009 8:44:00 PM
action suit against the maker of a
point-of-sale system on grounds
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Facebook Movie Hotly Anticipated Kindle iPhone App

by Hollywood Insiders Goes International
By Christina Warren cuts between Zuckerberg’s By Christina Warren
(Mashable!) heated depositions with his (Mashable!)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:11:52 AM
former Harvard colleagues who Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:09:40 AM
claimed he stole Facebook from
Let’s be honest, when the news them and the chronological Good news ebook fans:
first surfaced that acclaimed retelling of the company’s trip to Amazon’s Kindle app for the
writer Aaron Sorkin was writing becoming a billion-dollar iPhone is now available in more
the script for a movie about enterprise. than 60 countries.
Facebook, most of us laughed. Status: In production for Sony Amazon launched an
Then we found out that it wasn’t list is made up of up-and-coming Pictures. Jesse Eisenberg plays international version of the device, or sync with purchases
a joke, and we groaned and screenwriters. Second, as we’ve Zuckerberg while Justin Kindle back in October, but now you make on a Kindle or via the
prepared for the worst. Even with covered, the film’s production is Timberlake portrays Sean Parker, users can link their Kindle books web browser. Amazon recently
luminaries like Sorkin and well underway. This underscores one of the founders of Napster with their iPhone or forgo buying released Kindle Desktop software
director David Fincher on board, just how well the script itself has and Zuckerberg’s idol. David the Kindle and just read the for the PC, and a Mac version is
what were the chances that this been received. Fincher is directing. books on their mobile phone. in the works.
wouldn’t be just a disaster This is how Entertainment Having read an early draft of the Amazon employs a technology Amazon also says that Kindle
waiting to happen? Weekly describes the film: script, as well as Ben Mezrich’s they call Whispersync with the for BlackBerry is on the way,
The film, which is currently in The Social Network book, The Accidental Kindle that keeps the bookmarks too. Since launching the Kindle
production, is scheduled for By Aaron Sorkin Billionaires, I have to agree with and last pages synchronized in 2007, Amazon has watched
release in October 2010. What it’s about: Chronicles the assessment: It’s an excellent across different devices on the the competition in the space go
However, that hasn’t stopped the Mark Zuckerberg’s complicated script with the potential to be an same account. It also means that from nearly nonexistent, to more
script for The Social Network journey towards creating excellent film. While I’ll hold if you accidentally remove a and more crowded. Competitor
from appearing near the top of Facebook. Sorkin depicts both back judgment until the film book from your iPhone, you can Barnes & Noble just launched
2009’s The Black List. The Black the founder’s motivations for actually reaches theaters, at this redownload it on the fly. their own eReader, the Nook,
List is a compilation of the most- starting the largest social network point, it seems more likely than Amazon’s Kindle app[iTunes which also has its own iPhone
liked unproduced scripts of the in the world and the human not that “the Facebook” movie lin]) is one of the best e-readers app.
year, as chosen by Hollywood casualties that came with his won’t suck after all. Reviews: for the iPhone, regardless of We think that the free Kindle
insiders. profound success. Facebook platform. It’s easy to navigate, iPhone app is the best
The Social Network, which is What it’s like: The fascinating Tags: Aaron Sorkin, facebook, has adjustable settings for text advertisement Amazon can make
number two on the list, is unique biographical elements of facebook movie, Movies, and background color, and you for the Kindle itself. It’s
for several reasons. First, it is a Shattered Glass meets the screenplays, the social network can enable or disable the extremely easy to buy and read
script from a high-profile writer courtroom drama of Kramer vs. accelerometer (which is handy books, and after you start to
(Sorkin), whereas the bulk of the Kramer, without the tears. Sorkin for anyone who likes to read in amass a small library, that can
bed). play a large factor in what
3 Found Shot to Death Inside Texas Mobile Home Using the app, you can buy standalone eReader you buy.
(FOXNews.com) or redistributed. © 2009 FOX Normalising the crime of the books directly from Amazon.com Tags: eBook, ereader, iphone,
News Network, LLC. All rights century by John Pilger and download them to your Kindle, kindle iphone, nook
Submitted at 12/14/2009 7:11:20 AM
reserved. All market data delayed
This material may not be 20 minutes.
published, broadcast, rewritten, fivefilters.org featured article:
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Get a Mac Named Ad Campaign of Qik Launches Desktop

the Decade App for Live Video
By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:50:23 AM
who is casual and comfortable in
his skin. PC, personified by John
Hodgman, as a rounder, paler
Sharing
In the past few years, clever Bill Gates, is a well-meaning By Christina Warren
(Mashable!)
commercials have become geek with all kinds of operating
content in and of themselves, problems. For Apple, the Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:02:36 AM

thanks in no small part to the rise campaign managed the neat trick
of YouTube and embeddable of making the brand look laid It’s been a busy couple of weeks
multimedia. back and cool while it for Qik. Last week, the company
For example, Verizon and “Apple always diverged from the mercilessly skewered its rival.” launched its first official app for
A T & T ’ s r e c e n t w a r o v e r ’speeds and feeds’ ads associated AdWeek actually went tech- and the iPhone 3GS, letting users
coverage maps has made for with the computer category, but Apple-happy for its entire end of finally livestream from their
plenty of tech and media blog the brand really defined itself decade special — Google was phones without having to resort comes in. The Air app runs in the
fodder, with each new ad with the 2006 launch of n a m e d b o t h m e d i a a n d to jailbreaking. background and when you go
drawing lots of eyeballs both in TBWA\Media Arts Lab’s ‘Get a technology company of the Today, Qik is rolling out its live, your friends and family can
TV and in online media. Mac’ campaign. That series of 60 decade, YouTube top website, invitation-only beta for Qik-in- watch you instantly and interact
But the campaign that perhaps -plus ads brought some humanity Steve Jobs top marketer, Apple Touch, a service that brings the with you through chat.
personifies this more than any into the equation by turning the top brand and iPod top product. Qik experience to your desktop Power Qik users can also use
other is Apple’s iconic “Get a m a c h i n e s i n t o l i v e - a c t i o n Conventional picks, perhaps, but and makes it easy to share videos Qik-in-Touch to access their own
Mac” ads, a staple of both TV cartoons. In so doing, the comic difficult to make a strong and interact with your friends and video collections or to watch
and Internet advertising since s p o t s o f f e r t r a n s p a r e n t argument against as we wind family. Qik-in-Touch is an what is going on on QikTV.
2006. Perhaps it should come as understanding of the aspirations down the ’00s and consider the Adobe Air app, so it runs on Qik-in-Touch is in private beta,
no surprise then that AdWeek has of its audience and how people performance and impact of these Windows, Mac and Linux. but you can request an invite by
just named the series “campaign i d e n t i f y — a n d c o n n e c t companies over the past 10 years. If your mom is like my mom, going to http://qik.com/qntbeta.
of the decade” in its best of the emotionally—with technology. Reviews: Google, YouTube she probably really wants to be How do you share live video
2000s roundup. The genius is in the casting. The Tags: advertising, apple, able to watch your live with your friends and family?
Here’s what the publication has Mac guy, Justin Long, is a c o m m e r c i a l s broadcasts, but has a hard time Reviews: adobe AIR, linux
to say about “Get a Mac”: younger version of Steve Jobs figuring out what time to tune in, Tags: live video, qik, qik-in-
where to go, etc. touch
This is where Qik-in-Touch

Apple has 12 gifts of Christmas for people who live in the UK

By Michael Grothaus (The Days of Christmas promotion for hours, so be sure to sign up for The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Unofficial Apple Weblog UK residents. From December 26 their email alerts to be notified of (TUAW) on Mon, 14 Dec 2009
(TUAW)) to January 6 anyone with a UK the new daily download. 13:00:00 EST. Please see our
Submitted at 12/14/2009 1:00:00 PM iTunes account can download a As for our US readers: it's not terms for use of feeds.
free song, music video, app, exactly Bah, humbug! for you. Read| Permalink| Email this|
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App Store For the second year in ' s o m e o f t h e b i g g e s t s t a r download is only available for 24 Christmas for people who live in
a row, Apple is running their 12 performers' on iTunes. Each free the UK originally appeared on
E-reader News Edition Tech/ Politics/ 33

Talkcast 10pm tonight: It's a bird, it's Lieberman Won't Vote

a plane, it's the Googlephone for Health Bill
By Michael Rose (The (Little Green Footballs) supporters of abortion rights.
Unofficial Apple Weblog Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:43:40 AM
In interviews on the CBS News
(TUAW)) program “Face the Nation,” Mr.
Submitted at 12/13/2009 8:30:00 PM
In a surprise move that’s only Lieberman and Mr. Nelson said
surprising if you haven’t paid the bill did not have the 60 votes
Filed under: TUAW Business, much attention to Joe it would need in the Senate.
Podcasts We had a fun show last Lieberman’s many other Senate Democratic leaders,
week, as we had a crowd of “surprise moves,” he announced including Mr. Reid and Senator
several TUAW team members; today that he won’t support the Charles E. Schumer of New
we were also joined (about health care bill in its current York, said they had been mindful
halfway through) by our friend form. of Mr. Lieberman’s concerns in
and frequent guest Ross Rubin of WASHINGTON — In a surprise the last 10 days and were
Engadget and NPD. The hour setback for Democratic leaders, surprised when he assailed major
passed by with us mulling Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, provisions of the bill on
Apple's Lala acquisition and independent of Connecticut, said television Sunday. He reiterated
what the company might choose on Sunday that he would vote his objections in a private
to do with this newly bought against the health care legislation meeting with Mr. Reid.
expertise. You can download the in its current form. Democrats are not pleased: 81%
shows direct from Talkshoe or The bill’s supporters had said Of Dems Want Lieberman
subscribe on iTunes. earlier that they thought they had Punished For Health Care
Tonight, we're back live at 10 secured Mr. Lieberman’s Filibuster.
pm ET with the usual gang of agreement to go along with a More than 80 percent of
ruffians, and at least two stories compromise they worked out to Democrats say they believe Sen.
to talk about: the impending Web" button on our profile page P h o t o : overcome an impasse within the Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn)
arrival of the Googlephone, and at 10 pm Sunday. To call in on http://www.flickr.com/photos/llo Democratic Party. should be stripped of his
the unfortunate display problems regular phone or VoIP lines (take ydm// CC BY-SA 2.0 But on Sunday, Mr. Lieberman powerful chairmanship in the
and shipping delays for the 27" a d v a n t a n g e o f y o u r f r e e TUAW Talkcast 10pm tonight: told the Senate majority leader, Senate if he ends up supporting a
iMacs. Of course, we're happy to cellphone weekend minutes if It's a bird, it's a plane, it's the Harry Reid, to scrap the idea of Republican filibuster of health
be detoured and derailed by your you like): dial (724) 444-7444 Googlephone originally appeared expanding Medicare and abandon care reform, according to a new
c o m m e n t s , q u e s t i o n s a n d and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 - on The Unofficial Apple Weblog any new government insurance poll.
pontifications... but we won't - during the call, you can request (TUAW) on Sun, 13 Dec 2009 plan or lose his vote. It should be noted that over the
know about any of those unless to talk by keying in *-8. 20:30:00 EST. Please see our On a separate issue, Mr. Reid course of his career, Joe
you call in and join us. If you've got a headset or terms for use of feeds. tried over the weekend to concoct Lieberman has taken almost $2.5
To participate on TalkShoe, you microphone handy on your Mac, Read| Permalink| Email this| a compromise on abortion that million in donations from the
can use the browser-only client, you can connect via the TalkShoe Comments would induce Senator Ben health care industries, and more
the embedded Facebook app, or 'ShoePhone' VoIP client or with Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, than $1 million from the
the classic TalkShoe Pro Java the free Gizmo (now a Google to vote for the bill. Mr. Nelson insurance industry:
client; however, for maximum product) or X-Lite SIP clients; opposes abortion. Any provision OpenSecrets.org.
fun, you should call in. For the basic instructions are here. Talk that satisfies him risks alienating
web UI, just click the"TalkShoe with you soon!
34 Tech/ Entertainment/
Give your Dashboard a kick in the pants
By Michael Grothaus (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 12/14/2009 7:00:00 AM
Filed under: Productivity,
Freeware After reading through
the comments on my post about
Dashboard Widgets, I noticed
quite a few people lamented the
fact that the widgets have to go
through a 'start-up' process every
time you turn on your Mac or log
out and log back in. Well, not
anymore.
We actually covered this four
years ago, back when it was an
application named Dashboard
Starter. Today it's called
Dashboard Kickstart and its taken
the form of a System Preference
pane by Alwin Troost that runs in
the background and reacts to the
starting or re-starting of the
Dock. Every time you log in or
out, you restart the dock. When
that happens, Dashboard
Kickstart initiates the starting
sequence of the Dashboard
Widgets. This prevents the delay
you'll experience when launching
delay to be between the time your
computer starts, or wakes from
sleep, and the time you want your
widgets 'kicked'. I set the sliders
to the lowest time possible.
Dashboard Kickstart is free and
requires 10.4 or above. Let me
know what you think of
Dashboard Kickstart in the
comments!
TUAW Give your Dashboard a
kick in the pants originally
appeared on The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon,
Dashboard the first time you 14 Dec 2009 07:00:00 EST.
want to use it. Please see our terms for use of
I've used Dashboard Kickstart, feeds.
in its different iterations, for Read| Permalink| Email this|
years and its always worked Comments
flawlessly. Once installed, open
your System Preferences and
simply set how long you want the
E-reader News Edition
Ashley Greene Spills
'Twilight Saga:
Eclipse' Secrets
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 5:03:00 AM
ET exclusively went behind the
scenes of Ashley Greene's photo
shoot for Teen Prom magazine,
where the actress (a.k.a. vamp
Alice Cullen) dished about her
rigorous fight and stunt training
for 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.'
"I was excited about the photo
shoot. I wasn’t too nervous, I've
been in a prom dress before,"
said 22-year-old Ashley, looking
glamorous in a strapless, floor-
length purple gown.
"I'm trying to convince them to
let me take the dress so I can go
out in it," she giggled, "but I
don't think it's going to happen."

World's most geeky Christmas card includes an iPhone

By Aron Trimble (The case of the card from my construct the card.
Unofficial Apple Weblog insurance agent, in the trash. [via Switched]
(TUAW)) However, this particular card Continue reading World's most
Submitted at 12/14/2009 10:15:00 AM (featured on Crave) is one that I geeky Christmas card includes an
wouldn't mind receiving and iPhone
Filed under: iPhone, Holidays w o u l d m o s t d e f i n i t e l y b e TUAW World's most geeky
There's no more procrastinating: treasured long after the new year. Christmas card includes an
the holidays are officially here, The card uses different colors of iPhone originally appeared on
and regardless of your construction paper, card The Unofficial Apple Weblog
celebratory affiliations, some sort decorations, and an iPhone(!!!) to (TUAW) on Mon, 14 Dec 2009
of holiday card is going to end up create the ultimate in holiday- crafty and creative delivery an iPhone you're willing to give 10:15:00 EST. Please see our
in your mailbox. Typically, these mail technology. Combine the medium for your loved one's gift away... terms for use of feeds.
little card stock/construction above with a scalpel or exacto that is sure to excite and delight. Read on to see the video Read| Permalink| Email this|
paper doo-dads end up on the knife, a little free time and elbow Of course, you have to start with d e m o n s t r a t i o n o f h o w t o Comments
mantle, refrigerator or, in the grease and what you get is a
E-reader News Edition
Apple is delaying shipments of 27
inch iMacs
By Joachim Bean (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 12/14/2009 12:30:00 AM
Filed under: iMac, Bad Apple
Uh oh! It looks like there's
shipping delays and availability
issues with 27 inch iMacs. It's
reported that these delays could
be due to graphics issues with the
GPU. Several Apple resellers are
citing shipping delays when
trying to order the models.
Apple made a brief statement to
CNET tonight acknowledging the
delays, but iMacs are showing a
two week shipping delay on
Apple's online store, which might
mean you won't be able to
purchase one in time for the
holidays.
Graphics issues are nothing new
to these iMac models. Some 27
Teen Wolf gets some Tylers
By Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 11:02:00 AM
We know a new version of the
Michael J. Fox '80s flick Teen
Wolf is coming to MTV. Now
we have some names for the cast
as well as a glimpse of the
premise.
Apparently, MTV has cast two
guys named Tyler as both the
central protagonist and
antagonist. Tyler Posey plays the
inch iMacs also had issues earlier
with graphic performance and
Flash, which was fixed in the
10.6.2 update. The 27 inch iMac
has also had a number of other
reported problems before, from
machines that have had broken
screens, to iMacs arriving that
simply don't work.
TUAW Apple is delaying
nerdy high schooler who gets
bitten by a wolf and Tyler
Hoechlin has been cast as his
Tech/ Politics/ TV/ 35
GOP Climate Denier
Profile: Rep. Joe Barton
(Little Green Footballs) Adaptation Polities and
Submitted at 12/13/2009 1:31:32 PM
Programs,” one of the “experts”
called to testify by Barton and his
For a perfect example of the GOP anti-science cronies (in
willfully, pig-headedly ignorant addition to complete wacko Lord
Republican position on climate Christopher Monckton) was Dr.
change, check out this video from E. Calvin Beisner(PDF link), a
C-SPAN of Rep. Joe Barton(R- young earth creationist. A quote
Tx). from Beisner’s testimony:
The first question from C- The naturalist, atheistic world
S P A N ’ s m o d e r a t o r : “ W h a t view sees Earth and all its
causes, in your perspective, ecosystems as the result of
global warming?” chance processes and therefore
Barton’s reply: inherently unstable and fragile,
shipments of 27 inch iMacs Well, the short answer would be vulnerable to enormous harm
originally appeared on The God. from tiny causes. The Biblical
U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g Which might be OK if it really world view sees Earth and its
(TUAW) on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 was just “the short answer.” The ecosystems as the effect of a wise
00:30:00 EST. Please see our problem is that for Barton, this is God’s creation and providential
terms for use of feeds. the only answer. preservation and therefore robust,
Read| Permalink| Email this| Watch and weep. Where does resilient, and self-regulating–like
Comments ignorance this impenetrable come the product of any good engineer
from? Perhaps … the energy who ensures that the systems he
industries?[Video not shown] d e s i g n s h a v e p o s i t i v e a n d
It’s like a six-course meal of negative feedback mechanisms to
stupid. Barton is the archetypal balance each other and prevent
anti-science climate change small perturbations from setting
arch-nemesis, another werewolf. denier. He categorically rejects off a catastrophic cascade of
One can only wonder if this all of the scientific evidence, reactions.
casting was done in hopes that from all of the sources. Here’s Barton at this ludicrous
they would be confused for And Barton, of course, is also a hearing; his solution to global
Taylor Lautner, the werewolf in c r e a t i o n i s t . A t a r e c e n t w a r m i n g ? F i n d s o m e
the latest Twilight movie. Subcommittee on Energy and s h a d e . [ V i d e o ]
Continue reading Teen Wolf Environment hearing titled,
gets some Tylers “Preparing for Climate Change:
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The African Baby Boom and Bush's New Protests in Iran

Abstinence Programs After Ayatollah Photos
(Little Green Footballs)
Burned
Submitted at 12/13/2009 7:11:46 PM
generation of Africans under a
mountain of poverty. Promoting
birth control in Africa faces a
Organization and the U.S.
government’s own experts, all of
whom touted contraception as a
The religious right’s pernicious host of obstacles — patriarchal crucial method of preventing (Little Green Footballs) and the elite Revolutionary
influence in Africa isn’t limited customs, religious taboos, ill- births of babies being infected Submitted at 12/13/2009 10:45:37 AM
Guard, the country’s most
to Uganda’s persecution of equipped public health systems with HIV, the virus that causes powerful military force, called
h o m o s e x u a l s ; t h e B u s h — but experts also blame a AIDS. I r a n i s e r u p t i n g i n for the trial and punishment of
administration’s much-praised powerful, more distant force: the The Bush program is widely demonstrations again, after state those responsible.
a n t i - A I D S p r o g r a m h a d a U.S. government. hailed as a success, having television repeatedly broadcast Video circulated widely on the
decidedly less altruistic side. Under President George W. supplied lifesaving anti-retroviral video of people burning pictures Internet on the day of last week’s
SIRAKANO, Uganda — At age B u s h , t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s drugs to more than 2 million HIV of the Ayatollah Khomeini and protests also showed photos of
45, after giving birth to 13 withdrew from its decades-long patients worldwide. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
children in her village of thatch r o l e a s a g l o b a l l e a d e r i n However, researchers, Africa Police surrounded the campus of K h a m e n e i a n d P r e s i d e n t
roofs and bare feet, Beatrice supporting family planning, experts and veteran U.S. health Tehran University on Sunday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad being
Adongo made a discovery that driven by a conservative ideology officials now think that PEPFAR trapping hundreds of students burned as well as one photo of
startled her: birth control. that favored abstinence and shied also contributed to Africa’s protesting what they said were Khamenei and Khomeini side by
“I delivered all these children a w a y f r o m p r o v i d i n g epidemic population growth by fabricated government images of side going up in flames. The
because I didn’t know there was c o n t r a c e p t i v e d e v i c e s i n undermining efforts to help the burning of a photo of the faces of those burning the
another way,” said Adongo, who developing countries, even to women in some of the world’s Islamic Republic’s revered pictures could not be seen and
started on a free quarterly married women. poorest countries exercise greater founder. loud chants against the
contraceptive injection last year. Bush’s mammoth global anti- control over their fertility. State television has repeatedly government were heard in the
Surrounded by her weary-faced AIDS initiative, the President’s “It was a huge missed shown images, ostensibly taken background. …
brood, her 21-month-old boy Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, opportunity to integrate during student-led protests on Students, who led Sunday’s
clutching at her faded blue dress, poured billions of dollars into HIV/AIDS and reproductive Dec. 7, of unidentified hands protests, contended the images of
she added glumly: “I fear we are Africa but prohibited groups health in ways that made sense,” burning and tearing up pictures burning photos were fabricated
already too many in this family.” from spending any of it on family said Jotham Musinguzi, a of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. by government agents as a
On a continent where fewer than planning services or counseling Ugandan physician who heads It was a grave and illegal insult pretext for further crackdowns on
one in five married women use programs, whose budgets flat- the Africa office of Partners in against the former leader still the opposition.
m o d e r n c o n t r a c e p t i o n , a n lined. Population and Development, an widely respected in the country
e x p l o s i o n o f u n p l a n n e d The restrictions flew in the face intergovernmental group that
pregnancies is threatening to bury of research by international aid promotes sexual health in
A d o n g o ’ s f a m i l y a n d a agencies, the U.N. World Health developing countries.

Sarah Palin Visit Doesn’t Boost Conan’s Tonight Show Ratings

By Robert Seidman
(TVbytheNumbers)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 6:05:43 AM
Sarah Palin made a surprise visit
to “The Tonight Show” on Friday
night, but perhaps since the info Meter Markets Conan scored a the “Late Show” encores’ 0.7/3).
about her appearance only came 1.0/4 rating/share with adults 18- fivefilters.org featured article:
out a few hours beforehand, 49. He did best Letterman and Normalising the crime of the
people who might have tuned-in “The Late Show” (.8/3 ) but last century by John Pilger
to watch Palin didn’t know about week against a repeat of “Late
Friday night in the local People
it. Show” Conan pulled a 1.1/4 (to
E-reader News Edition Tech Tips/ 37

Understanding the Windows Pagefile and Why You Shouldn't

Disable It [Mythbusting]
By The How-To Geek your PC, and your workload
(Lifehacker) really isn't that huge, you may
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:40:00 AM
never run into application
crashing errors with the pagefile
As a tech writer, I regularly disabled, but you're also taking
cringe at all the bad tweaking away from memory that
advice out there, and disabling Windows could be using for read
the system pagefile is often a and write caching for your actual
source of contention among documents and other files. If
geeks. Let's examine some of the your drive is spending a lot of
pagefile myths and debunk them time thrashing, you might want
once and for all. What is a to consider increasing the amount
Pagefile and How Do I Adjust It? of memory Windows uses for the
Before we get into the details, filesystem cache, rather than
let's review what the pagefile disabling the pagefile.
actually does. When your system Windows 7 includes a new file
runs low on RAM because an caching mechanism called
application like Firefox is taking and navigate to Advanced –> you are forcing Windows to keep become very unstable. When that SuperFetch that caches the most
too much memory, Windows S e t t i n g s – > A d v a n c e d – > everything in much faster RAM application crashes, it's going frequently accessed application
moves the least used "pages" of Change. From this screen you all the time. down hard—there's no time to f i l e s i n R A M s o y o u r
memory out to a hidden file can change the paging file size The problem with this logic is save your work or do anything applications will open more
named pagefile.sys in the root of (see image above), set the system that it only really affects a single else. quickly. It's one of the many
one of your drives to free up to not use a paging file at all, or scenario: switching to an open In addition to applications reasons why Windows 7 feels so
more RAM for the applications just leave it up to Windows to application that you haven't used crashing anytime you run up m u c h m o r e " s n a p p y " t h a n
you are actually using. What this deal with—which is what I'd in a while won't ever grind the against the memory limit, you'll previous versions—and disabling
actually means to you is that if recommend in most cases. Why hard drive when the pagefile is a l s o c o m e a c r o s s a l o t o f the pagefile takes away RAM
y o u ' v e h a d a n a p p l i c a t i o n Do People Say We Should disabled. It's not going to actually applications that simply won't that Windows could be using for
minimized for a while, and you Disable It? make your PC faster, since run properly if the pagefile is caching. Put the Pagefile on a
are heavily using other Look at any tweaking site Windows will never page the disabled. For instance, you really Different Drive, Not Partition
applications, Windows is going anywhere, and you'll receive application you are currently won't want to run a virtual The next piece of bad advice that
to move some of the memory many different opinions on how working with anyway. Disabling machine on a box with no you'll see or hear from would-be
from the minimized application to deal with the pagefile—some the Pagefile Can Lead to System p a g e f i l e , a n d s o m e d e f r a g system tweakers is to create a
to the pagefile since it's not being sites will tell you to make it huge, Problems utilities will also fail. You'll also separate partition for your
accessed recently. This can often others will tell you to completely The big problem with disabling notice some other strange, pagefile-which is generally
cause restoring that application to d i s a b l e i t . T h e l o g i c g o e s your pagefile is that once you've indefinable behavior when your pointless when the partition is on
take a little longer, and your hard something like this: Windows is exhausted the available RAM, pagefile is disabled—in my the same hard drive. What you
drive may grind for a bit. inefficient at using the pagefile, your apps are going to start experience, a lot of things just should actually do is move your
If you want to take a look at and if you have plenty of crashing, since there's no virtual don't always work right. Less pagefile to a completely different
your own pagefile settings, memory you should just disable m e m o r y f o r W i n d o w s t o Space for File Buffers and physical drive to split up the
launch sysdm.cpl from the Start it since RAM is a lot faster than allocate—and worst case, your SuperFetch
menu search or run box (Win+R) your hard drive. By disabling it, actual system will crash or If you've got plenty of RAM in UNDERSTANDING page 39
38 Tech Tips/ E-reader News Edition

What You Missed in Google Phone News Over the Weekend

[News]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Then the Wall Street Journal normally drive down prices in
Submitted at 12/14/2009 7:30:00 AM
broke the news wide open exchange for two-year
Saturday(modified numerous agreements, it could be quite a
Did you have something to do times since then) that Google chunk of change: the iPhone, for
this weekend other than scan tech isn't just producing a new phone example, actually costs AT&T
news and Twitter for "Nexus with a cell network partner. about $599, but it sells the model
One"? Here's the quick-read They're going to sell the phone, for $199 to make it more
lowdown on what the "Google unlocked, directly to consumers. palatable.
Phone" is (and isn't), what it The general reasoning cited in Here's a quick list of related
looks like, and when it might news reports and blog analysis is reading:
arrive. that Google wants to stake its • Gizmodo has its own take on
Image via Cory O'Brien. claim in the smartphone how the Real Google Phone
CNET producer and pocaster advertising market, which is changes everything.
Jason Howell got to play with a growing at a faster rate than • Engadget has, at the moment,
phone given out to Google s t a n d a r d i n t e r n e t - b a s e d the most revealing screenshots.
employees on Friday. He posted a d v e r t i s i n g . • Android Guys has a very
about it, of course, to his Twitter What is this device? It is, thorough list of everything that's
account, and was backed up by supposedly, an unlocked version known and unknown about the
Google employees registering of the rumored HTC Passion, Nexus One.
their own thoughts, with such a.k.a. Dragon, with a 1 GHz • TechCrunch, always willing to
descriptions as"an iPhone on Snapdragon processor (roughly jump out on an unconfirmed
beautifying steroids." twice as powerful, at least in limb, cites Nexus-One-havers as
Google's given out "developer" specs, as the chip that powers saying the phone is "really, really
models, or non-carrier-locked almost every Android device fast," and that it features
phones, of its latest Android right now, except the Droid), a complete voice-to-text
projects to employees before. 3 . 5 - i n c h O L E D s c r e e n , a functionality (as in, speak your
They've even doled them out to trackball-style pointer as the only email responses out loud).
conference goers. This time, physical buttons on the front, and designed entirely by sources stating that the phone
however, they acknowledged in a a virtual keyboard. Sources have Google—not that the G1 and could be offered physically
What do you think of all the
blog post that they were handing the phone as running on GSM Droid weren't similarly Google- through Best Buy and T-Mobile
Google Phone/Nexus One
out the phones for use as a networks, the kind supported by sponsored setups. stores. Once purchased, you'd
hoopla? Is a phone that's actually
" m o b i l e l a b " i n i n t e r n a l T-Mobile and AT&T in the U.S., Where and when can you get it? choose your wireless voice and
unlocked and designed front-to-
testing—known as "dogfooding," and used nearly everywhere in Multiple posts and reports agree data carriers through a software
back by Google something you're
or "eating your own dogfood," in E u r o p e a n d o t h e r f o r e i g n only on an estimate of early menu upon starting up the phone.
intrigued by? Tell us your take in
developer parlance. It's dubbed d e s t i n a t i o n s . 2010. As for where, beyond The big question mark at the
the comments.
the Nexus One, which, as Daring It would, of course, be running a Google just posting up a page moment is pricing. If sold
Fireball points out, is a reference new version of Android, 2.1, and and offering it through Google unlocked, without any subsidy
to the androids in Blade Runner. have its hardware and software Checkout, blogs have sniffed out from the wireless carriers who
E-reader News Edition
UNDERSTANDING
continued from page 37
workload. What Size should my
Pagefile Be?
Seems like every IT guy I've
ever talked to has stated the
"fact" that your pagefile needs to
be 1.5 to 2x your physical
RAM—so if you have a 4GB
system, you should have an 8GB
pagefile. The problem with this
logic is that if you are opening 12
GB worth of in-use applications,
your system is going to be
extremely slow, and your hard
drive is going to grind to the
point where your PC will be
fairly unusable. You simply will
not increase or decrease
performance by having a gigantic
pagefile; you'll just use up more
drive space.
Mark Russinovich, the well-
known Windows expert and
author of the Sysinternals tools,
says that if you want to optimize
your pagefile size to fit your
actual needs, you should follow a
much different formula: The
Minimum should be Peak
Commit – Physical RAM, and
the Maximum should be double
that.
For example, if your system has
4GB of RAM and your peak
The Twelve Days of Festivus: Ten shows on DVD
By Nick Zaino (TV Squad)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 11:29:00 AM
On the tenth day of Festivus, TV
gave to me... Ten shows on
DVD.
There are plenty of great TV
collections being released all the
memory usage was 5GB
(including virtual memory), you
should set your pagefile to at
least 1GB and the maximum as
2GB to give you a buffer to keep
you safe in case a RAM-hungry
application needs it. If you have
8GB of RAM and a max 3GB of
memory usage, you should still
have a pagefile, but you would
probably be fine with a 1 GB
size. Note: If your system is
configured for crash dumps you'll
need to have a larger pagefile or
Windows won't be able to write
out the process memory in the
event of a crash—though it's not
very useful for most end-users.
The other size-related advice is
to set the minimum and
maximum size as the same so
you won't have to deal with
fragmentation if Windows
increases the size of the pagefile.
This advice is rather silly,
considering that most defrag
software will defragment the
pagefile even if Windows
increases the size, which doesn't
happen very often. The Bottom
Line: Should You Disable It?
As we've seen, the only tangible
benefit of disabling the pagefile
time now, bringing back classic
TV, shows that had short runs,
and current favorites. You know
about most of the big shows, so
here's a mix of more popular and
some maybe less-heralded
collections. was a breakout season for the
House, M.D.: Season Five: This
is that restoring minimized
applications you haven't used in a
while is going to be faster. This
comes at the price of not being
able to actually use all your RAM
for fear of your applications
crashing and burning once you
hit the limit, and experiencing a
lot of weird system issues in
certain applications.
The vast majority of users
should never disable the pagefile
or mess with the pagefile
settings—just let Windows deal
with the pagefile and use the
available RAM for file caching,
processes, and Superfetch. If you
really want to speed up your PC,
your best options are these:
• Upgrade your RAM.
• Clean off the crapware—the
biggest cause of system
slowdown.
• Switch to Microsoft Security
Essentials and stop paying for
bloated Windows security
packages.
• Windows 7 handles multi-
tasking much better than
Windows XP did.
On my Windows 7 system with
6GB of RAM and a Windows-
managed pagefile, every
application opens quickly, and
even the applications I haven't
used in a while still open almost
instantaneously. I'm regularly
running it up to 80-90% RAM
usage, with dozens of application
windows open, and I don't see a
slowdown anywhere.
If you want to read more
extremely detailed information
about how virtual memory and
your pagefile really work, be sure
to check out Mark Russinovich's
article on the subject, which is
where much of this information
was sourced. Don't agree with
my conclusions? Voice your
opinion in the comments, or even
better—run some benchmarks to
prove your point.
The How-To Geek has tested
pagefile settings extensively and
thinks everybody should just
upgrade to Windows 7 already.
His geeky articles can be found
daily here on Lifehacker, How-
To Geek, and Twitter.
show, where the secondary
characters really came to life and
House broke down and finally
had to face his addictions and
personal failings. Season five
may wind up being a pinnacle for
the series as a whole.
Continue reading The Twelve
TV/ Tech Tips/ 39
TorrentFreak's Most
Popular Torrent Sites of
2009; Demonoid
Returns [BitTorrent]
By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:05:00 AM
All-things BitTorrent weblog
TorrentFreak broke down the
numbers and rounded up the 25
most popular torrent sites of
2009. The results represent
several best-known sites (like
The Pirate Bay), but also
probably a few you're not all that
familiar with. Incidentally,
number 20 on the list
Demonoid—a hybrid public and
private tracker that we've always
liked despite its recent
downtime—is back up and
running. And while we're on the
subject, feel free to share your
BitTorrent search engine of
choice in the comments. [ Top 25
Most Popular Torrent Sites of
2009(Warning: Link contains one
very small but NSFW thumbnail
image of one of the sites)]
Days of Festivus: Ten shows on
DVD
Filed under: TV on DVD,
House, Festivus, Reality-Free
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Take the Mystery Out of Holiday Tipping [Tips]
By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 6:30:00 AM
Want to tip some of the hard
working people in your life that
make things easier? How should
you tip the delivery person? Your
babysitter? Your barber? Check
out Emily Post's guide to get
things sorted out.
Photo by Photos8.com.
The first order of business is, of
course, working within your own
personal budget. Beyond that a
variety of factors come into play
like whether or not you tip well
throughout the entire year, the
size of the city you live in (bigger
cities, bigger tips), and how long
you've been a customer and had a
relationship with the individual.
Move Ubuntu's Notifications to a Less Annoying
Corner [Linux Tip]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 6:00:00 AM
Ubuntu's ambient notification
system, styled after the Mac
Growl interface and first arriving
in April's 9.04 release, can be
very helpful. They can also be
very annoying in their default
position. This config editing
work-around moves them
elsewhere.
An Ubuntu Forums user details a
few steps that move Ubuntu's
notifications from the upper right
How much do they recommend
at the Post Institute for various
tips? They've compiled a list of
various professions for which
you might leave a tip, the custom
typically associated with that
profession (type of gift, if they
corner of your desktop to the
lower left. The top right corner
seems like the best place to stash
notifications, until you realize
that they block the mouse from
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barber or stylist would appreciate
a holiday tip of the cost of one
haircut or small gift of similar
value. Giving a gift to the
postman or woman is common
practice but beware that postal
regulations prohibit postworkers
from accepting cash or gifts that
have a value of more than
$20—this rule is common across
most delivery services. Google Auto-Suggest
Check out the full article for a
lengthy list of professions and
Offers Quick-Glance
appropriate gifts and tip amounts. Weather, Flight Data,
can or can't traditionally accept Have your own method for and More [Search]
cash), and some suggested gifts holiday tipping or showing By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
or cash amounts. appreciation for the people that
For a regular babysitter a make your life easier? Let's hear Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:10:00 AM
customary holiday gift is an a b o u t i t i n t h e c o m m e n t s . Google's auto-suggest feature is
evening's pay as a bonus and a Holiday Tipping Guide[via now good for more than quick
small gift from your children. A FiveCentNickel]
searches and occasionally
hilarious search completions.
Type something like buffalo
weather or your flight number in,
and a drop-down box will
provide answers from Universal
Search without even clicking.
and installing the source code for Many of Google's automatic
the notifications, and might search data results can be
require dealing with additional accessed now from the drop-
dependency installations if you d o w n a u t o - s u g g e s t b o x ,
get back errors on trying to install including movie times, ZIP code
the source code. After it's done, l o o k - u p s , a n d c a l c u l a t o r
however, your notifications now functions. That's pretty helpful
appear in the lower left, and when you're running out the
they're less intrusive on your door, and a good reason to
desktop experience. How to: a actually visit Google's own home
clicking on any controls can get
quick and dirty hack to keep page once in a while. Two new
in the way of certain apps, and
n o t i f y - o s d o u t o f y o u r features enhance search beyond
stay around longer when you the results page[Official Google
hair[Ubuntu Forums]
hover your cursor over them. Blog]
The fix requires downloading
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NewTabURL Fine-Tunes Firefox's
New Tab Behavior [Downloads]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 5:30:00 AM
Firefox: By default, Firefox
shows just a blank white page
when you open a new tab. If
you'd rather have it open a
custom URL or load what's in
your clipboard memory,
NewTabURL can do just that.
The extension consists of just a
single preference pane, where
you can set whether a new tab
loads a blank page, the same
page as you last had open, or a
custom URL location. If you'd
like to have Firefox load up
whatever URL is in your copy-
and-paste memory, NewTabURL
can do that, too, and do it only
once if you open a bunch of new
tabs. A final, handy feature is
automatic highlighting of the
address bar when you open a new
tab, so you can quickly get to
where you're going after opening
a tab to do so.
NewTabURL is a free download,
works wherever Firefox does.
The developer's page, linked
below, has a more recent version
than the add-on's Mozilla page,
but you won't receive automatic
updates that way, so it's your
choice. NewTabURL[Sogame
via Mozilla Links]
Tech Tips/ Tech News/ TV/ Popular News/ 41
Thousands evacuate
after gas leak in
central Ohio (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:21:54 AM
Jewel buzzed up: Back from Review: The
combat, women struggle for
acceptance (AP)
Simpsons - O Brother,
10 seconds ago 2009-12- Where Bart Thou?
14T10:10:04-08:00
By Jason Hughes (TV Squad)
fivefilters.org featured article:
Normalising the crime of the Submitted at 12/14/2009 10:41:00 AM
century by John Pilger
(S21E08) The last episode of
2009 also has the distinction of
being the 449th episode of The
Simpsons. The series will come
back Sunday, January 10th for a
450th episode extravaganza,
including a one-hour 20th
anniversary special. It's certainly

Cartoon: Friends With Benefits a big year for Tracey Ullman's

one-time back-up series.
The beginning of the episode
By Rob Cottingham a.k.a. those damn kids who won't h i r i n g p o o l o f c o o l k i d s . had an almost frantic pace, as it
(ReadWriteWeb) get off your lawn) are happy to Blocking social media from your set up about four or five different
Submitted at 12/13/2009 10:00:00 AM
return the favour when recruiting company can mean cutting possible plotlines, before finally
time rolls around. Blocking yourself off from an important settling on Bart's jealousy of Lisa
The debate rages on over access to Facebook looks a lot potential source of productivity, and Maggie's relationship. His
whether social networks (and like those IT departments that i n n o v a t i o n a n d i n c r e a s e d attempts to help his parents
Twitter, and YouTube, and, and, wouldn't install web browsers on efficiency. create a little brother for him
and) have any legitimacy in the your computer a decade ago... or Of course, that's an argument I were a little disturbing, but that
workplace, fueled in no small external email access a few years like to make to people who was more than made up for by a
part by people who sell tools to earlier. haven't just received a dozen fantasy sequence featuring many
block them. Sponsor Farmville notifications. famous brothers.
But employers who turn their And like those tools before productive, collaborative work. More Noise to Signal. Discuss Continue reading Review: The
noses up at Facebook et al. may them, the social web today is So it's not just a question of Simpsons - O Brother, Where
well discover that their coveted increasingly being used by denying your HR department a Bart Thou?
Millennials(a.k.a. Generation Y, companies and organizations for
Filed under: OpEd, The
Simpsons, Episode Reviews,
Ga. man sentenced to 17 years in terror case (AP) Reality-Free
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combat, women struggle for 14T10:10:04-08:00 century by John Pilger Comments
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:27:03 AM
acceptance (AP) fivefilters.org featured article:
42 Tech News/ E-reader News Edition

Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be

Worried
By Richard MacManus search engines, then make it viral "vertical and niche markets." other search engines find betters
(ReadWriteWeb) through social software and make Plus Reuters, he says, provides ways to surface quality content,
Submitted at 12/13/2009 12:59:43 PM
lots of money through ads. "valuable services - not just for its own sake as well as ours.
Demand Media has been heavily content." Because right now Google is
I've been writing a lot about so- funded to carry out that mission, Ahearn also implies that being infiltrated on a vast scale
called 'content farms' in recent to the tune of $355 million. In syndication technologies, like by content farms.
months - companies like Demand short, it's a well-funded, well- Reuters' semantic analysis If you thought it was bad enough
Media and Answers.com which oiled page view generating platform Open Calais, will lead that many professional blogs
create thousands of pieces of machine. to a new kind of "B2B content pump out 30 posts a day, often
content per day and are making a In November I explored more network" - where content regurgitations of press releases or
big impact on the Web. Both of a b o u t h o w D e m a n d M e d i a creators and publishers can easily quick write-ups of "news" such
those two companies are now produces 4,000 pieces of content collaborate and make money as Twitter being down for a few
firmly inside the top 20 Web a day, based on an interview I did and now AOL? Yes it is. together. Google Needs to Wake minutes(note the irony of that
properties in the U.S., on a par with the founders in September. I From my analysis of Demand Up and Smell the Coffee tweet), this new type of Google
with the likes of Apple and AOL. followed up by asking: is ad- Media and similar sites, such In my view both writers and gaming is on a far bigger scale.
Big media, blogs and Google are driven content crossing a line? content is very generic and lacks readers of content will need to What Demand Media,
all beginning to take notice. Low Quality, High Impact depth. While I wouldn't go as far work harder to get quality Answers.com and AOL are doing
Sponsor The bottom line is that the as wikiHow founder Jack Herrick content. I know I'd rather read an is having a much greater impact
Chris Ahearn, President of quality of content produced by and say that it "lacks soul," it article by The Economist on any on the quality and findability of
Media at Thomson Reuters, these 'content farms' is dubious, certainly lacks passion and often given topic, than one generated content on the Web.
recently published an article on which has an impact on both also lacks knowledge of the topic by Demand Media. But we, as See also:
how journalism can survive in publishers and readers. at hand. Arrington's analogy with readers, need more help from • Demand Media Is a Page View
the Internet age. TechCrunch Last week I analyzed the way fast food is apt - it is content Google and the other search Generating Machine - And it's
founder Michael Arrington also wikiHow produces its content- its produced quickly and made to engines. Working
riffs on this theme, mentioning users do all of the writing and order. Can Quality Survive? Right now 'quantity' still rules on • Answers.com: 31 Million
AOL's "Toyota Strategy of editing for free, via a Wikipedia- Given the impact that content the Web, 'quality' is hard to find. Copied and Pasted Web Pages
building thousand of niche l i k e p l a t f o r m . T h e r e w a s farms are having right now, how Perhaps that's why Reuters is Can't Go Wrong
content sites via the work of cast- evidence that wikiHow's model is can producers of 'quality' content betting on the subscription model • The Age of Mega Content Sites
offs from old media" and quoting producing better content than its survive? - it hopes that consumers will just - Answers.com and Demand
a Wired piece on Demand Media Demand Media counterpart for Chris Ahearn from Thomson subscribe to quality content, Media
from October. how-to articles, eHow. More Reuters claims that journalism thereby removing the need to • How Demand Media Produces
I started my analysis of Demand worrying though is that Demand will "do more than survive the search for it. I think there's 4,000 Pieces of Content a Day
Media in this August post. I Media is producing thousands of Internet Age, it will thrive." something to that, which if true • Ad-Driven Content - Is it
wrote then that Demand Media these types of articles a day. Ahearn notes that Reuters makes implies that Google will become Crossing The Line?
operates based on a simple So is the Web becoming awash the "vast majority of its less relevant in the future. Should
formula for success on the Web: w i t h l o w - q u a l i t y c o n t e n t revenues" from subscription- Google be worried about that? Photo credit:~Darin~ Discuss
create a ton of niche, mostly produced by content farms like based business models targeted to Yes; and they are.
uninspired content targeted to Demand Media, Answers.com I can only hope that Google and
E-reader News Edition Tech News/ TV/ Economy/ 43
Guess which TV star
MySQL Co-Founder: "Save MySQL from makes a voice cameo
Oracle's Clutches" in The Single Man
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
By Jolie O'Dell October about how MySQL that either Oracle is not a fit
Submitted at 12/14/2009 12:41:00 PM
(ReadWriteWeb) could be shuttered. timely manner steward for MySQL or that
Submitted at 12/14/2009 3:35:06 AM
"The easiest way to kill MySQL • That dual licensing will O r a c l e m u s t m a k e c e r t a i n Colin Firth is getting Oscar buzz
would be to not sell licenses any continue and that affordable guarantees to ensure its open- for his role in Tom Ford's first
Several days ago, we called more or make their prices 'really commercial licenses will be source competitor's success. EU directorial effort The Single Man,
MySQL's falling prey to Oracle high'. Another scenario is that the available Competition Commissioner but there's a TV actor who makes
one of the top 10 tech-related development resources are • That MySQL will be Neelie Kroes is a known a voice cameo in the movie and
failures of 2009. drastically reduced in some developed as an open source s u p p o r t e r o f o p e n - s o u r c e he goes completely uncredited.
It seems we're in good company, important areas. Then people project technology; if user emails reach He plays the guy who phones and
as one of MySQL's founders, would stop believing in the future • That Oracle will work with the her before January 19 and make a delivers some bad news to Firth's
Monty Widenius, the man who of MySQL, which slowly will existing MySQL user community significant impression, her office character (obviously this might
spent the past 27 years creating kill the product... It's safe to • That discrimination will nor could shut the deal down. be a spoiler if you haven't seen
and working on MySQL, is using assume that both Sun and Oracle occur when MySQL patches As we've reported in the past, the movie). Answer after the
his personal blog to incite mass understand this." compete with Oracle products MySQL usage is expected to jump.
letter-writing to the European Now, Widenius says MySQL - • That MySQL will continue to d r o p i f t h e a c q u i s i t i o n i s Continue reading Guess which
Commission in order to ensure hardly an underdog in the space - be developed in ways that make complete. It seems that Oracle is TV star makes a voice cameo in
the open-source future of the has grown and stabilized to the it even more competitive with putting a bad taste in the mouth The Single Man
popular database. We're not the point that it "hurts Oracle every Oracle's main offering of more than a few open-source Filed under: Video, Celebrities,
o n l y o n e s w h o q u e s t i o n e d day... Oracle have to lower prices geeks. Reality-Free
w h e t h e r M y S Q L w o u l d all the time to compete with In other words, by omitting What's your opinion? Do you Permalink| Email this| |
"succumb to corporate lameness" MySQL when companies start certain language, Oracle has left think Oracle should be allowed to Comments
after a takeover by a major closed new projects. Some companies i t s e l f m o r e t h a n e n o u g h take MySQL and do with it as
-source competitor. In fact, even migrate existing projects ammunition to kill MySQL, if they please? Do you think Oracle Citigroup to repay
Widenius speculates that Oracle from Oracle to MySQL to save not execution-style then certainly should have to make certain
could close or even kill all or money." over a long, slow, painful process g u a r a n t e e s t o e n s u r e t h e
$20bn in Tarp funds
parts of MySQL. Although Oracle has made of throttling innovation and l o n g e v i t y a n d s u c c e s s o f (Financial Times - US
Sponsor several statements about the freedom (as in beer and as in M y S Q L ? O r d o y o u t h i n k homepage)
Although the U.S. Department future of MySQL, here's what speech). Widenius points to MySQL should simply go to a Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:17:12 AM
of Justice approved Oracle's Widenius says the companby has Oracle's handling of the InnoDB good home, a.k.a. a nonprofit
acquisition of Sun Microsystems not guaranteed: acquisition in 2005 as a possible f o u n d a t i o n , a n d r e m a i n a Citigroup to repay $20bn in Tarp
earlier this fall, the EC chose to • That all of MySQL and its sign of things to come. "In the standalone competitor to Oracle's funds
open an investigation of the parts, modules and tools will end, he writes, "Sun had to fork offering? By Alan Rappeport in New York
matter. The DOJ saw no problem remain under an open source InnoDB, just to be able to Vote below, and let us know Published: December 14 2009
with Oracle's acquiring MySQL license improve performance." your full thoughts in the 12:23 | Last updated: December
and focused instead on Java • That MySQL license and So, without a list of users, c o m m e n t s . 14 2009 17:17
licensing issues. support prices will remain the Widenius is issuing a call to the Should Oracle Get MySQL?( fivefilters.org featured article:
Widenius, who split from Sun same entire open source community to surveys) Normalising the crime of the
earlier this year after - and • T h a t n e w v e r s i o n s a n d help save MySQL from Oracle Discuss century by John Pilger
entirely because - MySQL was s u b m i t t e d p a t c h e s w i l l b e by emailing the EC and stating
acquired by Sun, wrote in released consistently and in a
44 Tech News/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition
'I Made A Mistake' Cori
P2P Sharing Being Blocked Around the World, Rist Says of Alleged
Tiger Woods Affair
Where Next? (ETonline - Breaking News)
By Jolie O'Dell ago, Comcast caught some heat results this report will yield in Submitted at 12/14/2009 7:01:00 AM
(ReadWriteWeb) from users and media for filtering Israel, we are left to ponder the
user traffic when torrent files perturbing question: Where will Cori Rist, the latest woman
Submitted at 12/13/2009 11:24:13 PM
were being downloaded, even traffic-shaping pop up next to allegedly connected to Tiger
Last week, we told you about causing some to speculate that prevent P2P activity? Take Woods, says she made a mistake
peer-to-peer and torrent file- the ISP was violating U.S. law by another look at the findings from when she had an affair with the
sharing sites were being prohibiting this traffic. Vuze's traffic-monitoring plug-in. golf pro, and feels sorry for his
systematically shut down all over Eventually, Comcast did strike a You'll see that ISPs around the wife.
China. Not too long before that, deal with BitTorrent to allow world - including Verizon, "I'm sorry for her pain. I hate that
we let you know about file- p r o t o c o l - a g n o s t i c t r a f f i c BellSouth, AOL, AT&T, Charter, I'm a part of it," the 31-year-old
sharing being monitored by a management, but only after the Road Runner and ISPs in France, mother told "Today" show
major ISP in the UK. sparring had been brought to the this research to be blocking file- Italy, Germany, Poland, the UK correspondent Natalie Morales
Now, Israeli ISPs are throttling a t t e n t i o n o f t h e F e d e r a l s h a r i n g t r a f f i c . B e z e q and the Middle East, to name a on Monday. "I had no idea it
P2P network access, too, as Communications Commission. International was the third ISP few locations - are already would be like this. I can only
confirmed in a report just It's currently unclear whether investigated. Although Bezeq interrupting traffic. imagine the pain she's feeling
released by an Israeli cyberlaw Israeli ISPs are filtering traffic was cleared by this particular Vuze's researched was released now, and I'm sorry."
attorney and a partner news site. due to piracy concerns or simple i n v e s t i g a t i o n , a p l u g - i n in April 2008; in August, the She claims she is only telling her
Whether you consider file- due to bandwidth concerns, as introduced last year from popular FCC declared that ISPs should story to clear reports that she was
sharing an affront to content shared files can often amount to bittorrent client Vuze shows that not be allowed to target and paid to be Tiger's lover. "I felt it
creators and copyright-holders m u l t i - g i g a b y t e , h o u r s - l o n g this ISP, too, throttles and interrupt P2P applications. Still, was necessary to defend myself
everywhere or whether you see downloads. However, traffic- disrupts file-sharing network suspicious Americans and other because I'm hearing negative
P2P networks as a permissible s h a p i n g t h a t b l o c k s P 2 P traffic. users around the world should reports; they're not true," she said
and valid way for users to protocols can also apply to VoIP In response to the findings consider using a tool such as the on the program. "I'm not an
exchange data, this trend is calls, IM clients and other presented by Ynet and Klinger, EFF's Switzerland to determine escort, he has not paid me, I'm a
gaining considerable momentum applications. Although P2P all three of the investigated ISPs whether torrent downloads and mother. At the end of the day, I
around the world. Where will traffic is associated with illegal gave typically canned responses VoIP calls are being interrupted made a mistake, but I'm not what
P2P restrictions pop up next? downloads, nothing about the claiming to offer users excellent by their ISP. they're claiming that I am. So I
Sponsor protocols themselves is surfing experiences. Israeli Do Israeli or other ISPs have the will defend myself because I
In their research, tech attorney inherently illegal."The element Communications Ministry rep right or the moral imperative to have no other choice."
Jonathan Klinger and researchers common to all P2P services," Dr. Yechiel Shabi told Ynet, throttle traffic in this manner? Do
involved with the Israeli website reads the Israeli report, "is the "The research materials relayed they have the need or right to
Ynet found that two of the three lack of economical benefit to the to us paint a picture which examine the applications, files,
m a j o r I S P s i n I s r a e l a r e ISP." arouses the need for thorough and protocols being employed by
interfering with user traffic and Klinger noted that although examination. After we become users on their networks? Or do
might be conducting deep packet complaints have been brought to familiar with the study's findings, ISPs around the globe need to
inspection. media outlets and ISPs since we shall consider the need for read the wiki on net neutrality
Traffic shaping is a practice 2007, the ISPs have typically interference, supervision or and get their act together? Let us
sometimes used by some ISPs to i g n o r e d t h e s e c r i t i c i s m s . regulation of the matter." know your experiences and
discourage the use of certain Netvision and Internet Zahav So, while we wait to see what opinions in the comments.
applications. A couple of years were the two ISPs determined by Discuss
E-reader News Edition Tech News/ TV/ 45

Dell Increases its Crowdsourcing Efforts - Will it Work?

By Alex Williams
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 12/13/2009 8:01:00 PM
Dell is increasing its
crowdsourcing efforts on
IdeaStorm, by giving hardware
manufacturers more feedback on
products and services."Storm
Sessions" are designed to attract
a larger business community to
the IdeaStorm site, by providing
a more focused, structured
approach.
Storm Sessions provide a way
for Dell to listen to its
community, but we are a bit
skeptical that the effort will
receive significant interest from
the business community.
Sponsor
This may be in part due to the
transparency of the process. Will
business people feel comfortable
giving their feedback in such a
public way?
Dell launched Ideastorm two and
a half years ago, with the
intention of giving customers the
opportunity to post their own
ideas about Dell's products and
services. Ideastorm now has
60,000 registered users. The
community posts about 300 ideas
per month.
The free form aspects of the
crowdsourcing effort attracts a
consumer crowd. Product groups
at Dell find Ideastorm useful. The
Linux community is especially
vocal on IdeaStorm and Dell now
offers Ubuntu on Dell machines
based on feedback from the
Linux community.
Storm Sessions seek to better
match business users with the
community aspects of the
IdeaStorm site, through a more
structured process. Storm
Sessions will live on the Dell site
for two to four weeks. Dell is
The ideas then get loaded to the
IdeaStorm site.
Dell product groups receive the
information collected from the
sessions. It is analyzed and
integrated into the product
development process.
IdeaStorm is impressive,
especially considering that just
two-people manage it. The
amount of feedback Dell receives
in return is significant, which
shows the power that
crowdsourcing can bring to an
organization.
Storm Sessions will initially
focus on the education market,
starting with two topics, covering where Dell shows a strong
mobile technology and the presence. This could serve as the
redesign of the Dell support site. major draw for Storm Sessions.
Sessions are presented with a We look forward to watching the
statement, providing context progress of Storm Sessions and
about the issue Dell is exploring. how other companies bring
Each session includes a count c r o w d s o u r c i n g i n t o t h e
down. enterprise. Discuss
Ideas are submitted through a UI
that looks much like a blogging
platform.

Remember the great Edward Woodward with Callan

By John Scott Lewinski (TV gritty British spy series, Callan. role -- blending haunted humor Shows, TV on DVD, Celebrities,
Squad) Written by James Mitchell, the with genuine menace to create an Obituaries, Reality-Free, British
Submitted at 12/14/2009 1:02:00 PM
show featured David Callan -- a intelligent, tortured man who you TV
spy working for an ultra-secret believed could kill anyone Permalink| Email this| |
Most American TV viewers arm of the British Intelligence without having to look like Comments
know Edward Woodward from s e r v i c e s p e c i a l i z i n g i n Rambo while he did it.
his run as Robert McCall as The assassinations. Unfortunately, the Continue reading Remember the
Equalizer. But, British TV former soldier and convict was and himself. great Edward Woodward with
aficionados know he trained in cursed with a conscience that led Woodward was perfect in the Callan
backside-kicking on the dark, him to hate his job, his superiors Filed under: Other Drama
46 Apple/
Complete Guide to Cleaning and Disinfecting Your Mac
By Charles Moore
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 10:00:30 AM
Computers get dirty, especially
their human interface surfaces —
keyboards and pointing devices.
In some instances, dirt can even
affect input device performance
as well as appearance. Some time
ago the faithful SlimType gave
me a scare when the F and W
keys stopped responding
properly. A keystroke would
register only when the key was
pressed more firmly than usual,
and the subtle over-center click
of the SlimType’s scissors
keyswitch mechanism was
missing — the malfunctioning
keys feeling “numb” and offering
higher than normal resistance.
The medicine that time proved to
be blowing out the accumulated
crud beneath the key console
with compressed air. I
successfully used an automotive
shop compressor with a blow
gun. For more cautious folks, or
those without convenient access
to a compressor, one of those
little aerosol cans of compressed
air used for cleaning photography
equipment could do the trick.
But sometimes a bit of
compressed air isn’t enough. So,
here is our guide to cleaning
everything from mice to laptops.
Getting Started: Apple’s
Cleaning Recommendations
Apple has posted a Knowledge
Base article covering
recommendations and guidelines
for cleaning Apple computers,
E-reader News Edition
displays, or input/ peripheral free cloth. short-circuit and/or residual
devices. Much of its advice For the new unibody MacBook’s corrosion).
should be common sense, such as non-slip plastic coated aluminum Should you spill liquid on your
before you start cleaning: bottom case, Apple recommends keyboard, if it’s thin and clear
• Turn off your Mac. using a 3M Gray Microfiber or fluid, immediately shut the
• Unplug the power cord from soft dye-free, lint-free cloth for computer down, unplug the
the wall or power strip. cleaning, once again giving its keyboard, turn it upside down,
• Remove the battery (from blessing to 70 percent isopropyl and drain the liquid out, let it dry
products with removable alcohol or iKlear on the bottom (inverted or on edge is best) for
batteries such as some Apple case. Mouse Cleaning 24 hours at room temperature,
portables or from wireless Mice get dirty. When your after which it may or may not
devices such as mice and mouse becomes covered in recover. If the liquid is greasy,
keyboards). Instructions specific to Apple fingerprints or its surface is sweet, sticky, or acidic, you’re
• Disconnect all external devices l a p t o p s i n c l u d e n o t u s i n g soiled, you can gently wipe it likely out of luck. I ruined a
from the computer. isopropyl alcohol on bare LCD with a clean, lint-free cloth. If MacAlly iceKey scissors-action
panels (or any type of alcohol or necessary, moisten the cloth keyboard a while back by
Other warnings some users ammonia-based glass or window using plain water, making sure sloshing diluted Grapefruit Seed
might be less likely to think of cleaner, I hasten to add). Use not to over-saturate it, and be Extract (extremely acidic) on it
are: only a damp, soft, lint-free cloth mindful that the mouse’s internal twice in a week — the only times
• Don’t use window sprays or o r p u r p o s e - m a d e , A p p l e - electronic components may be I’ve drowned a keyboard in two
cleaning products containing approved LCD cleaning product damaged if water seeps or drips decades of computer use. We
ammonia, chlorine, or abrasive like iKlear. inside. disassembled the keyboard and
ingredients. Aluminum portables are best With Apple’s Mighty Mouse, cleaned the circuits, but corrosion
• Don’t use rough towels or tackled with a damp, soft, lint- the scroll ball can be cleaned had set in. Computer Disinfection
cloths to dry the plastic. free cloth. Apple says it’s safe to using a lint-free cloth lightly With the H1N1 flu pandemic,
• Don’t spray cleaner directly use 70 percent isopropyl alcohol moistened with water, making computer contact surface
onto your computer. Liquid could on them (I personally wouldn’t) sure to rotate the ball itself to disinfection has moved to the
drip inside the case and cause an or iKlear. Remove surface dust or ensure complete coverage or you front burner, especially for
electrical shock or malfunction. loose dirt gently with your bare can use something like Wet One. machines accessed by multiple
• Don’t use excessively damp hand before proceeding with Drowned Keyboard First Aid users. Apple support also has a
cleaning wipes. cleaner and cloth. After cleaning, Moisture is potential death to Knowledge Base article entitled
dry the aluminum with a soft, lint electronics, as anyone who’s ever How To Disinfect The Apple
If more than dusting is needed, -free cloth. spilled liquids on a computer Internal Or External Keyboard,
use a lint-free cloth slightly For plastic portables, the same keyboard or laptop can ruefully Trackpad, And Mouse. The
dampened to wipe away dirt or applies as aluminum, but I would tell you. Apple also warns against article recommends, in addition
grime. Don’t over-wet the cloth. recommend a gentler, damp-cloth using solvents like acetone, to regular cleaning of your
If you can squeeze drips of water approach first and reserve the a l c o h o l , o r a l c o h o l - b a s e d computer and input devices, that
out by wringing, it’s too wet. heavier-duty agents for stubborn cleaners on your computer, disinfecting them may be
Solvents and Cleaners s t u f f . A s w i t h t h e m e t a l admonishing to never spray desirable, noting that,”Multiple
Plain water may not be effective machines, remove any loose c l e a n e r d i r e c t l y o n t o t h e people using the same computer,
on oils or grease residues, in surface dirt gently with your bare machine, since liquid could drip people using the computer when
which case a stronger agent will hand before proceeding with inside the keyboard or case and they were ill, and the particular
be needed. Try iKlear or mild cleaner and cloth. After cleaning, cause an electrical shock (or
COMPLETE page 48
detergent first. Cleaning Laptops dry the plastic with a soft, lint- more likely a component-frying
E-reader News Edition Apple/ 47

iPhone Owners Suffer Stockholm Syndrome, AT&T is

Actually Awesome (Just Don’t Mention Friday’s Outages)
By Liam Cassidy day Stross’ article appeared on but the flaws are for some reason accepted and defended, despite The good news for AT&T is that
(TheAppleBlog) the WSJ website. AT&T worse on AT&T than other those shortcomings resulting in they’re still liked by some people
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:00:56 AM
acknolwedged the problem with a carriers around the world, and limitations in iPhone users’ daily — Business Traveller
statement via Engadget’s just happen to be worse still in lives. Magazine’s readers have voted
It’s hard to know where to w e b s i t e : some cities than others, and When we examine the iPhone AT&T the operator with the Best
begin. The weekend has seen a “We are seeing a hardware issue Apple has been unwilling and/or users’ arguments defending the Mobile Phone Coverage in the
series of events unfold that in downtown San Francisco that unable to address these flaws in iPhone, it reminds us of the World. Naturally, AT&T is keen
m a n a g e t o c o m b i n e — is causing some degradation in three model years. famous Stockholm Syndrome – a to milk any positive coverage it
beautifully, perfectly — into a service. GSM and EDGE voice Gruber debunks Stross’ claims term that was invented by gets (which isn’t in great supply
s i n g l e g l o r i o u s m u t u a l l y - and data services are still with a few easy and, it appears, psychologists after a hostage these days). Bill Hague, the
a n n i h i l a t i n g m a e l s t r o m o f accessible. Our experts are aware perfectly rational drama in Stockholm. Here company’s vice president of
silliness. and working to resolve as quickly observations. But you can’t trust hostages reacted to the International Mobility and
On Friday the Wall Street as possible. Further resolution is Gruber. And if you’re an iPhone psychological pressure they were Consumer Markets, said in a
J o u r n a l p u b l i s h e d a n expected this evening.” owner, you can’t trust yourself, experiencing, by defending the statement:
inflammatory piece by Randall Perfect timing, right? And either. That’s because, according people that had held them We are truly honored that
Stross which began “I love my perhaps proof that Stross is right? to a report from Strand hostage for 6 days… Business Traveler readers have
iPhone…” but barely a half Just ignore for a moment that his Consulting(no, you’re not alone, …the iPhone is surrounded by a once again chosen AT&T as
dozen sentences (and some primary “source” is financially no-one else has heard of them, multitude of people, media and having the Best Mobile Phone
o b l i g a t o r y ‘ A T & T v e r s u s affiliated with AT&T. I’d love to either) we’re all delusional, companies that are happy to bend Coverage in the World. AT&T is
Verizon’ white noise later) added rant some more about the whole suffering from a condition akin to the truth to defend the product committed to helping our
“…the iPhone itself may not be stupid situation but I don’t need Stockholm Syndrome. 9to5 Mac they have purchased from Apple. customers stay connected to their
so great after all.” to, since I can offer you this summarizes the most salient So there you have it. The take- world when traveling abroad.
I’ll spare you the tumultuous perfect conclusion from John points from Strand’s report home message from this Shame it’s not quite as
(and largely inane) nonsense that Gruber: entitled “How will psychologists weekend’s press is that, broadly committed to keeping its
follows, and just give you the So on the one hand we have the describe the iPhone syndrome in speaking, the iPhone is a poorly- customers connected when
bottom line; Stross thinks the simple theory that AT&T’s the future?”: designed piece of junk that they’re at home, too. That
iPhone is a flawed device; that network stinks, especially in It is no secret that there has been simultaneously inspires mindless statement was released the very
Apple has mass-produced shoddy large metro areas, and extra- a great deal of hype surrounding fanaticism in its fans while same day San Francisco’s iPhone
hardware; and that the iPhone’s especially in New York City and the iPhone and it is also no secret callously destroying poor old customers lost SMS and Data
poorly engineered internals lie at San Francisco. that Apple probably has the most AT&T’s data network services. Really, you can’t make
the heart of AT&T’s network On the other hand, we have the loyal and fantastic customers in infrastructure. That embarrassing this stuff up. There is a silver
problems. theory that AT&T’s network is the world. outage in San Francisco on lining — Fake Steve has already
In an example of utterly brilliant just fine because two network Apple has launched a beautiful Friday? Nothing to do with had a chat with the Powers That
( b u t c o i n c i d e n t a l ) t i m i n g , consulting companies say so, phone with a fantastic user AT&T. All your fault, you pesky Be. Let’s hope they listen…
A T & T ’ s n e t w o r k i n S a n even though a Consumer Reports interface that has had a number iPhone fanatics, gobbling up all
Francisco’s Bay area ground to customer survey says otherwise, of technological shortcomings that precious bandwidth. Shame
an awkward halt the very same and it is the iPhone that is flawed, that many iPhone users have on you.
48 Apple/ Entertainment/ Picture/ E-reader News Edition
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Apple Looking to Have Record continued from page 46

environment where the computer with water or iKlear for that.

iPhone Quarter: Report is used, are a few reasons you
may wish to disinfect areas of the
computer that people come into
Otherwise, follow the general
rules outlined in the regular
cleaning instructions above, with
By Darrell Etherington information gathered by the standards is something that’s
(TheAppleBlog) Taipei-based market Intelligence recently come up in rumors contact with the most.” a special caveat to not use
& Consulting Institute (MIC), surrounding Apple’s next- Using a mild soap with disinfectant wipes containing
Submitted at 12/14/2009 7:08:49 AM
much of that increase is due to generation device, and it looks antibacterial properties will help, bleach, or disinfectant sprays in
According to information Apple’s strong sales. Which isn’t like that rumor is well in keeping but Apple suggests properly general.
gathered from parts suppliers for to say that Apple’s competitors with the pulse of the industry at disinfecting contact areas with What are some techniques
Apple’s iPhone 3GS, the handset a r e n ’ t h a v i n g a n y l u c k large. Perhaps it isn’t so far- products like Lysol Wipes, you’ve used to clean those hard
is headed for a record quarter. c h a l l e n g i n g i t s m a r k e t fetched to imagine that the next Clorox Disinfecting wipes, or to reach and sensitive areas of
Apple’s Taiwanese suppliers for dominance, according to MIC iPhone could use both GSM- and Clorox Kitchen Disinfecting your gadgets?
the iPhone’s components have analyst Edward Lin: CDMA-based networks, allowing Wipes. I would be cautious about
reported a 31 percent increase in Samsung is currently the largest it to be offered on Verizon in the using them on the screen
volume of orders placed for the supplier in the market, as it U.S. Of course, then some of however (except for glass-
parts, which should indicate a supplies for the Apple iPhone Apple’s commercials would covered aluminum laptop and
very healthy spike in sales of the series models. However, TI, become factually incorrect. iMac displays), and would stick
smartphone. which has exited from the Regardless of what’s coming,
The report comes via Taiwan’s baseband business and now
online tech industry publication, focuses on AP development, has
third-quarter sales of 10 million
is a huge win for Cupertino.
'Inglourious Basterds' &
t h e D i g i T i m e s , w h i c h h a s rolled out the OMAP 3430 series,
provided ample fuel for the which adopts the Cortex A8
Looking at recent developments,
its easy to spot the source of this 'Nine' Lead in Critics
rumor fire regarding various architecture and features a clock late-game success. Apple has
Apple devices in the past, as well speed of 1GHz. This offers
as reporting on Apple’s business processor options other than
opened up sales of its device to
many more carriers at the
Choice Award Nominations
(ETonline - Breaking News) anticipated film 'Avatar' follows
outlook. In the second quarter, Qualcomm, enabling terminal international level, expanding
Submitted at 12/14/2009 7:30:00 AM
close behind them with nine
the iPhone sold 7.4 million vendors to pair together different into new territory in the UK, nominations, while 'The Hurt
worldwide, but if DigiTimes’ communications systems, and it Canada and France, to name a The nominees for the "15th Locker' and George Clooney's
information is accurate, total has been well received by many few. It’s also finally gained Annual Critics’ Choice Movie movie 'Up in the Air' are up for
sales for the third quarter, which brand-name vendors, such as official access to the massive Awards" have been decided, with eight awards.
end in December for the Mac HTC, Palm, etc. As a result, TI’s Chinese market, which paves the the male-dominated movie The heart-wrenching drama
maker, could reach the 10 million s h a r e i n t h e T a i w a n e s e way for a lot of potential success, 'Inglourious Basterds' and the 'Precious: Based on the novel
mark. smartphone AP market increased despite early setbacks. female crazed film 'Nine' leading Push by Sapphire' got six Critics'
Numbers are up all across the in the third quarter of 2009. the way in nominations. Choice noms, with actresses
smartphone component supply The ability to use different The films boast an all-star cast Gabourey Sidibe and Mo’Nique
industry, but according to w i r e l e s s c o m m u n i c a t i o n and crew and are both up for 10 both nominated.
awards, including Best Picture.
James Cameron's highly

Your Best Shot 2009: For the Birds

By Heather Champ (Flickr
Blog)
Submitted at 12/13/2009 6:42:11 PM
• About Flickr easy, natural and collaborative fivefilters.org featured article:
Flickr is a revolution in photo process. Get comments, notes, Normalising the crime of the
storage, sharing and organization, and tags on your photos, post to century by John Pilger
making photo management an any blog, share and more!
E-reader News Edition
Apple Delays iMac Shipments, Says
Sorry
By Liam Cassidy
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 7:29:46 AM
Back in November we reported
on the news that some of Apple’s
new 27-inch iMacs were turning
up with shattered screens and
dodgy “flashing” displays. At the
time, the most plausible
explanation for the physical
damage was that the packaging
designed to protect the machines
during transit was insufficient.
The crazy flashing? Well, that’s
anyone’s guess.
Add to the mix an already-
lengthy waiting period for order
fulfillment and you get a fair
number of frustrated customers
wondering what they paid $1,700
for.
Over on the Apple Support
forums there’s a mammoth (80+
pages!) discussion raging about
the very issue. As though that’s
not enough, one disgruntled iMac
owner created this web site for
reporting and tracking other
instances of damaged 27 inchers.
Yesterday Apple did what it so
very rarely does —
Risk appetite surges on Dubai bail-out
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:45:54 AM
16:45 GMT. Global risk appetite
surged on Monday, boosting
stocks and initially denting haven
apologized. Really: “We
apologize.” Wow. I almost fell
off my chair.
The apology (I can’t stop
shaking my head in wonder as I
type that word) was delivered by
an Apple spokesperson to CNET
and reads, in all
its succinct glory;
The new iMac has been a huge
hit and we are working hard to
fulfill orders as quickly as
possible. We apologize for any
assets, after Dubai said it had
received $10bn from Abu Dhabi
to help cover its debts.
The FTSE World index rose 0.8
per cent with financial groups
particularly strong in Europe as
traders calculated that the loan
Apple/ TV/ Economy/ 49
Review: Aqua Teen Hunger
Force - A PE Christmas
(season premiere)
By Jonathan Toomey (TV However, last night's companion
inconvenience or delay this may Squad) episode was anything but that.
cause our customers. Submitted at 12/14/2009 11:51:00 AM
Paling in comparison to classic
Of course, there was no mention ATHF X-mas fare (like
of the shattered glass problem. ( S07E01)"Larger point: listeners "Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas
Not a word about blinking ain't gonna know until they've Past From the Future"), "A PE
displays. But c’mon, you didn’t already paid for the album!" - Christmas" could have truly
expect a full and frank confession Shake captilized on the idea of Shake
did you? This is Apple. Still, as Those words, spoken by Master making Christmas music, but
Engadget’s Vladislav Savov put Shake, while recording his instead never took the idea far
it, “Some contrition is better thanChristmas album with Meatwad, enough.
none.” were intended to be a jab at Continue reading Review: Aqua
consumers -- our Christmas Teen Hunger Force - A PE
album sucks but you won't figure Christmas (season premiere)
that out until we have your Filed under: Other Comedy
money. On the contrary, the Shows, OpEd, Animation, Adult
album (aptly titled " Have Swim, Episode Reviews, Reality-
should halt any contagion from Y o u r s e l f a M e a t y L i t t l e Free
Dubai’s woes. Christmas") is an absolute Permalink| Email this| |
fivefilters.org featured article: goldmine of comical music hits C o m m e n t s
Normalising the crime of the for fans of the show.
century by John Pilger
50 TV/
Cedric The Entertainer, Alyson Hanningan and Leann Rimes
to appear on Dec. 15 “Cookalong Live”
By Robert Seidman
(TVbytheNumbers)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:49:17 AM
Monday, Dec. 14, 2009
HOT FROM FOX…
CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER,
ALYSON HANNIGAN AND
LEANN RIMES
STEP INTO THE KITCHEN
WITH CHEF RAMSAY
FOR “GORDON RAMSAY:
COOKALONG LIVE”
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15,
ON FOX
Shopping List Outlines All
Ingredients Necessary
To Participate in the Live
Nationwide Event
Comedian Cedric the
Entertainer, actress Alyson
Hannigan and Grammy Award-
winning artist LeAnn Rimes will
strap on their aprons and step up
to the stovetop as they join Chef
Gordon Ramsay in-studio for
GORDON RAMSAY:
COOKALONG LIVE Tuesday,
Dec. 15(9:00-10:00 PM ET
live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX.
During the live one-hour special,
Chef Ramsay will guide America
and his special celebrity guests
through step-by-step instructions
on how to cook three fresh and
easy dishes, including Angel Hair
Pasta with Shrimp, Chili Peppers
and Tomatoes appetizer; Steak
Diane with Sautéed Potatoes and
Peas as the main course; and
Quick Tiramisu for dessert.
As a reminder, participants will
need to be armed with all the
ingredients before the
COOKALONG, so Chef Ramsay
has provided this shopping list to
assist in preparation for the
cooking event:
SHOPPING LIST(Serves 4)
PRODUCE
• 1 red chili pepper
• 5 large garlic cloves, peeled
• 1 large tomato (heirloom,
beefsteak or a few smaller roma
tomatoes)
• 1 lemon
• Small handful of fresh basil
leaves
• 3 scallions
• 4 ounces crimini mushrooms,
cleaned (can also use button
mushrooms instead)
• 3 shallots, peeled
• Small handful of flat-leaf
parsley
• 3 small sprigs of rosemary
• 1 pound small waxy potatoes
(Yukon Gold or any small potato,
cut in half)
• 2 cups peas, defrosted if using • Salt and freshly ground black
frozen
MEAT/FISH
• 1/2 pound medium-size raw, • 1-2 tablespoons Worcestershire
peeled shrimps
• 4 small sirloin steaks (approx. • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
7 ounces each)
DAIRY
• 1 3/4 cups heavy cream
• 1 cup mascarpone
• 2 1/2 tablespoons salted butter
PASTA/BREAD
• 7 ounces angel hair pasta
• 4 Italian Ladyfingers, or
Savoiardi
BAKING
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 vanilla bean, or 1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
• Piece of chocolate (to grate as
garnish)
LIQUOR/COFFEE
• 4 tablespoons Marsala, or
sweet dessert wine such as Vin
Santo
• 1/4 cup brandy or cognac
• 1/4 cup white wine
• 1 cup cold strong coffee
CONDIMENTS
pepper
• Olive oil
• Extra virgin olive oil
sauce, to taste
NOTE: You will need to have a
pot of boiling water ready for
your pasta at the start of the
show.
Cedric the Entertainer is best
known for his crowd-pleasing
roles in such hit films as
“Barbershop,” “Be Cool,”
“Madagascar,” “Intolerable
Cruelty” and Spike Lee’s “The
Original Kings of Comedy.” He
will next be seen in “All’s Faire
in Love” opposite Christina
Ricci. Cedric has celebrated
many career successes spanning
television, live performances and
film. Some notable accolades
include nabbing the AFTRA
Award of Excellence in
Television Programming for his
television series “Cedric the
Entertainer Presents,” as well as a
record-breaking four consecutive
NAACP Image Awards for
Outstanding Supporting Actor in
a Comedy Series for his portrayal
of the lovable “Coach Cedric
Robinson” on the top-rated “The
Steve Harvey Show,” which ran
for six seasons. In November
2008, Cedric made his Broadway
debut in David Mamet’s
“American Buffalo.” Now
helming his own production
company, A Bird and a Bear
Entertainment, Cedric will
develop and produce feature
films. In the field of
philanthropy, Cedric founded
The Cedric the Entertainer
Charitable Foundation, which
provides scholarships and
outreach programs to enhance the
lives of inner-city youth and their
families in his hometown of St.
Louis, MO. He plans to extend
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the foundation nationally.
Alyson Hannigan has captivated
audiences in both television and
film. She currently stars on the
Emmy-nominated comedy series
“How I Met Your Mother,”
which centers around a group of
best friends in their 20s who are
living in New York and
searching for love. Prior to that,
Hannigan starred as “Willow
Rosenberg” in Joss Whedon’s
hugely popular “Buffy the
Vampire Slayer,” and she also
guest-starred on a number of
popular television shows,
including “Picket Fences” and
“Roseanne.” Hannigan made her
breakthrough performance at the
age of 13 in “My Stepmother Is
an Alien” opposite Dan Aykroyd
and Kim Basinger. Her film
credits include “American Pie,”
“American Pie 2,” “American
Wedding,” “Date Movie”
opposite Fred Willard and
Jennifer Coolidge, “Dead Man on
Campus” and “Boys and Girls.”
Born in Washington D.C.,
Hannigan grew up in Atlanta and
currently resides in Los Angeles.
LeAnn Rimes has sold more
than 37 million albums, won two
Grammys, three Academy of
Country Music Awards and 12
Billboard Music Awards. Rimes
is the youngest recipient of a
Grammy and the first country
recording artist to win in the Best
CEDRIC page 54
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'Jersey Shore' Cast
Disney XD To Premiere I’m In The Band, A New Reacts to Snooki Getting
Punched in the Face
Music-Filled Comedy Series, January 18 (ETonline - Breaking News)
By Bill Gorman v i s i t association to begin regulating newcomer Caitlyn Taylor Love Submitted at 12/14/2009 7:02:00 AM
(TVbytheNumbers) www.disneyxdmedianet.com. skateboarders. (”America’s Got Talent”). The
The cast of the "Jersey Shore"
Registration is required.) • “Band Van” – Iron Weasel series was created by Michael B.
Submitted at 12/14/2009 10:03:49 AM sits down with ET's Mark Steines
The premiere schedule is: music video will be available on Kaplan (”Frasier,” “Girlfriends”)
to reflect on the horrific night
via press release: Monday, January 18 Disney XD and Disney XD.com. and Ron Rappaport (”Date My
when cast member Nicole
DISNEY XD TO PREMIERE • “The Suite Life on Deck” (6:30 Mom”) and is executive-
"Snooki" Polizzi was punched in
“I’M IN THE BAND,” p.m., ET/PT) Tuesday, January 19 produced by Kaplan and Richard
A NEW MUSIC-FILLED the face by a man in a bar.
• “I’m in the Band” premiere G u r m a n ( ” M a r r i e d … w i t h
"It's really hard for me to watch,"
COMEDY SERIES In this new episode, “Any Given episode available on Disney XD Children,” “Still Standing”). The
Snooki says of watching the
MONDAY, JANUARY 18 ON Fantasy,” Mr. Moseby forbids on Demand, DisneyXD.com, series is produced by It’s A
punch that was caught on camera.
DISNEY XD football on the Sky Deck so the Disney XD Mobile, Xbox Live Laugh Productions and carries a
"The first time I saw it, [I] started
– New Episode of “The Suite students decide to play fantasy and iTunes. TV-Y7 parental guideline.
Life on Deck” Guest Starring football instead. Cody enlists hysterically crying. ... It came out
Disney XD is a basic cable
of nowhere."
Arizona Cardinals Quarterback K i r b y t o t e a c h h i m a b o u t “I’m in the Band” follows Tripp channel and multi-platform brand
Jenni "J-WOWW" Farley says
Kurt Warner – football, and London unveils her Campbell as he joins his favorite showcasing a compelling mix of
she was directly behind Snooki at
“I’m in the Band,” a music-filled, s e c r e t w e a p o n – A r i z o n a “ v i n t a g e ” r o c k b a n d , I r o n l i v e - a c t i o n a n d a n i m a t e d
the time of the punch and says
live-action comedy series for kids Cardinals Quarterback Kurt Weasel, and becomes determined programming for Kids age 6-14,
and families about a teenager Warner himself. she caught her cast mate. "It was
to help the band he idolizes make hyper-targeting boys and their
horrifying," J-WOWW tells ET.
who realizes his wildest dream • “I’m in the Band” (7:00 p.m., an epic comeback. He’s certainly q u e s t f o r d i s c o v e r y ,
"My arms, everything was just
when he joins his favorite ET/PT) got his work cut out for him with a c c o m p l i s h m e n t , s p o r t s ,
covered in blood. ... It was a
“vintage” rock band, Iron the trio of rock star misfits whose adventure and humor. Disney XD
grown man punching a tiny, tiny
Weasel, will premiere In the premiere episode, “I stars have fallen so far that they branded content spans television,
MONDAY, JANUARY 18(7:00 Wanna Punch Stuff,” Tripp gets can’t even afford their own o n l i n e , m o b i l e a n d V O D girl."
p.m., ET/PT) on Disney XD and dumped by Lana, the prettiest girl housing and are forced to share platforms. The programming
DisneyXD.com. Kicking off the in his class, so he’s inspired to bunk beds in a guest room at includes series, movies and short-
evening is a new episode of the write a new song, “I Wanna Tripp’s house. Nonetheless, in form, as well as sports-themed
hit series “The Suite Life on Punch Stuff.” Meanwhile, Tripp their own off the wall way, the programming developed with
Deck” guest starring Arizona surprises his band mates with a three stooges will do their best to ESPN. In the U.S., Disney XD is
Cardinals Quarterback Kurt visit from professional mixed help Tripp steer through his seen on a 24-hour, advertiser
Warner (6:30 p.m. ET/PT). martial arts fighter and former teenage years with the goal of supported network that reaches
S p o n s o r e d b y P e p p e r i d g e roadie Ernesto the Besto who, turning him into a bona fide rock over 74 million households via
Farm® Cheddar Goldfish® unbeknownst to Tripp, has a star and giving him the chance to its basic cable affiliates. Disney
crackers, “I’m in the Band” will bone to pick with Iron Weasel. live out his dream. XD recently launched in the UK,
also be showcased via Disney • “Zeke and Luther” (7:30 p.m., The series stars Logan Miller F r a n c e , S p a i n , D e n m a r k ,
TV Ratings Sunday:
XD on Demand, DisneyXD.com, ET/PT) (”Ghosts of Girlfriends Past”), S w e d e n , N o r w a y , P o l a n d , Football Wins, Oprah’s
Disney XD Mobile, Xbox Live Steve Valentine (”Crossing Greece, Turkey, Latin America Christmas Rates Below
and iTunes on Tuesday, January In the new episode, entitled Jordan,” “Wizards of Waverly and Japan. Brothers & Sisters
19. “Law and Boarder,” Zeke and Place The Movie”), Greg Baker fivefilters.org featured article:
(Editors please note: Click here Luther crash into Ginger’s potato ( ” S p o r t s N i g h t , ” “ H a n n a h Normalising the crime of the By Bill Gorman
for images of “I’m In The Band” wedge stand, and she gets even M o n t a n a ” ) , S t e p h e n F u l l century by John Pilger (TVbytheNumbers)
and“The Suite Life On Deck” or by convincing the home owners (”Hannah Montana,” “CSI”) and Due toRATINGS
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NBC (Sunday Night Football)
and CBS (NFL overrun) are
approximate and subject to
significant revisions in the final
numbers. See below for more
information on these Fast
Affiliate Ratings.
Of course, Sunday Night
Football& NBC won the Sunday
night ratings as usual, as NBC
averaged a 5.7 adults 18-49
rating on the night, far ahead of
second place CBS‘ 2.9 rating,
which was itself boosted by an
NFL overrun. ABC’s Christmas
In the White House special did a
2.8 adults 18-49 rating, lower
than the season average for
Brothers & Sisters(of 3.17).
NBC’s Sunday Night Football
Game 14: Eagles vs. Giants
delivered a 7.0 adults 18-49
rating/17 share from 830-11p, on
par with last week’s Game 13
(Vikings vs. Cardinals) which
posted a 6.8/16 in the Fast
Nationals before rising to a
7.8/19 from 8:31-11:16p in the
Finals.
Against a close SNF game with
popular teams and no NFL
overrun, the Fox line up suffered
compared to their last original
telecasts on 11/29. The Simpsons
was down 23% to a 3.2 adults 18
Taylor Swift Gives $250,000 Christmas Gift
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Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:21:00 AM
Taylor Swift gave a whopping
$250,000 gift -- but it wasn't to
-49 rating. The Cleveland Show
fell 9% to a 3.0 rating. Family
Guy dropped 14% to a 3.8 rating.
American Dad was down 6% to a
3.1 rating.
ABC’s Extreme Makeover:
Home Edition was up 3% from
last week to a 3.1 rating. CBS’
lineup was a jumble with the
NFL overrun, you can see the
preliminary half hours in the
table below, but making
comparisons is a bit difficult until
the final ratings are out this
afternoon.
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You can see TV ratings from
other recent Overnight ratings
reports here.
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approximately 11 AM (ET) the
day after telecast, and are
released to subscribing customers
daily. These data, from the
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are strictly time-period
information, based on the normal
broadcast network feed, and
include all programming on the
rumored boyfriend Taylor
Lautner!
The music superstar marked her
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according to People.com.
affiliated stations, sometimes
including network programming,
sometimes not. The figures may
include stations that did not air
the entire network feed, as well
as local news breaks or cutaways
for local coverage or other
programming. Fast Affiliate
ratings are not as useful for live
programs and are likely to differ
significantly from the final
results, because the data reflect
normal broadcast feed patterns.
For example, with a World Series
game, Fast Affiliate Ratings
would include whatever aired
from 8-11PM on affiliates in the
Pacific Time Zone, following the
live football game, but not game
coverage that begins at 5PM PT.
The same would be true of
Presidential debates as well as
live award shows and breaking
news reports.
Rating: Estimated percentage of
the universe of TV households
(or other specified group) tuned
to a program in the average
minute. Ratings are expressed as
a percent.
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percent of households (or
persons) using television who are
tuned to a specific program,
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ratings include incremental "Snooki" Polizzi carries a
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the 7 days following a telecast. doesn't match her outfit)
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“Christmas at the White House: An Oprah

Primetime Special” Draws ABC’s 2nd-Biggest
Audience in the Hour this Season
By Bill Gorman continued to beat out its non- months– since 3/1/09. 11/22/09.
(TVbytheNumbers) sports boosted competition on
Sunday, defeating Fox’s original “Extreme Makeover: Home A note about increasing DVR
2-on-1: Goalies
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:40:58 AM

via press release:

Up Year to Year, ABC
Continues to Beat its Non-Sports
Sunday Competition
Sunday lineup by 4.6 million
viewers(10.2 million vs. 5.6
million) and by 12% in Adults18-
49(2.8/7 vs. 2.5/6).
• ABC’s Sunday numbers
Edition” (8:00-10:00 p.m.)
Gaining viewers and young
adults throughout its 2-hour
telecast against NBC’s Eagles-
Giants game, ABC’s “ Extreme
penetration and year-to-year
rating comparisons: Year-to-year
On the Block
By Adam Gretz (Fanhouse
rating comparisons based on the Main)
Live + Same Day data stream are
distorted by the level of DVR Submitted at 12/14/2009 2:00:00 AM

Opposite CBS’ NFL Overrun at
7pm, “AFV” Draws its Biggest
Audience in 9 Months
Growing Throughout its 2-Hour
Telecast Against NBC’s Big NFL
Eagles-Giants
Game, “Home Edition” Boosts
its Time Slot for ABC by Wide
Margins Year to Year
Sunday’s Most-Watched
Entertainment Program,
“Christmas at the White House:
An Oprah Primetime Special”
Draws ABC’s 2nd-Biggest
Audience in the Hour this Season
Sunday Night (7:00-11:00 p.m.)
Opposite NFL driven
NBC(Eagles-NY Giants) and
CBS(Cowboys-Chargers
primetime overrun), ABC
jumped over the year-ago night
by 2.3 million viewers and by
22% in Adults 18-49(7.9 million
and 2.3/6 on 12/14/08).
“America’s Funniest Home
Videos” (7:00-8:00 p.m.)
Opposite CBS’ big NFL overrun
in the 7 o’clock hour, ABC’s
“America’s Funniest Home
Videos” beat out its non-sports
c o m p e t i t i o n o n
Fox(“Brothers”/”Brothers”) by
5.6 million viewers(8.7 million
vs. 3.1 million) and by 91% in
Adults 18-49(2.1/6 vs. 1.1/3).
• Despite the substantial NFL
competition from CBS in the
slot,“AFV” generated the series’
biggest audience in over 9
Makeover: Home Edition”
improved the time period over
the same evening last
year(12/14/08) by 1.4 million
viewers(10.2 million vs. 8.8
million) and by 15% in Adults 18
-49(3.1/8 vs. 2.7/6).
“Christmas at the White House:
An Oprah Primetime Special”
(10:00-11:00 p.m.)
ABC’s “Christmas at the White
House: An Oprah Primetime
Special” registered as Sunday’s
most-watched entertainment
program(11.8 million).
• The Oprah special generated
ABC’s 2nd-largest audience in
the hour this season– behind only
the final hour of the “2009
American Music Awards” on
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sample, which has jumped up to Filed under: Flyers, Kings,
33% currently, from 28% at the Panthers, Thrashers, NHL
same point in 2008. Rumors
More viewers are watching Every Monday during the season
shows on their own timetables, two of our hockey writers will
which may not be reflected in the debate one topic. It's the 2-on-1.
overnight next day numbers. The This week, Adam Gretz and
only truly valid year-to-year Chris Botta talk about potential
comparison would be one based landing spots for the numerous
on the Live + 7 Day metric, once goaltenders that could be on the
those stats are released by trade block.
Nielsen.
Source: Nielsen Media Research
(Fast Affiliate, Live + Same Day
Ratings), 12/13/09.
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Sunday Night Football Live Chat: Eagles vs. Giants

By Adam Gretz (Fanhouse throw down this week as the the the season 5-0. chat. Festivities begin at 8:15 PM
Main) New York Giants, looking to The Eagles are riding a three- ET.
Submitted at 12/13/2009 11:45:00 AM
keep pace in the NFC playoff game winning streak after
picture, host Donovan McNabb thumping Atlanta 34-7 last
Filed under: Eagles, Giants, and the Philadelphia Eagles. The Sunday.
NFC East, NFL Live Blogging Giants are coming off a huge 31- Sunday, but are just 2-5 in their Should be a good one, so please
We have a classic NFC East 24 win against Dallas last past seven games after starting join us for our Sunday night live
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What's On Tonight: The Sing-Off, Big Bang

Theory, Men of a Certain Age
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) • History Channel has two new Australia releases R18+
Submitted at 12/14/2009 12:13:00 PM
episodes of Pawn Stars at 10. discussion paper,
• Hallmark has the movie A requests public feedback
Christmas Carol: The Musical at
• At 8, ABC has Jennifer 10. By Alexander Sliwinski
Hudson: I'll Be Home For (Joystiq)
Christmas, followed by a new Check your local TV listings for Submitted at 12/14/2009 11:00:00 AM
Find My Family. more.
• CBS has a new How I Met After the jump, the late night The Australian government has
Your Mother at 8, then new talk shows. finally released the R18+
episodes of Accidentally on Continue reading What's On discussion paper and is
Purpose, Two and a Half Men, Tonight: The Sing-Off, Big Bang requesting comment on whether
Big Bang Theory, and CSI: Theory, Men of a Certain Age the adult classification should be
Miami. Filed under: Late Night, made available for video games.
• NBC has the two-hour series Programming, Celebrities, Talk For those just joining us, Aussie
premiere of The Sing-Off at 8, Big World at 8. Me. video game classification caps at
Show, What To Watch Tonight,
followed by a new Jay Leno • Food Network has a Christmas • TNT has a new episode of The MA15+, meaning any game
Reality-Free
Show. Good Eats at 8. Closer at 9, then a new Men of a unsuitable for a 15-year-old can't
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at 8. Grandma Got Run Over By A • TLC has a new Cake Boss at 9. Submissions stating why the
• USA has a new Monday Night Reindeer, followed by Gotta • At 10, Bravo has a new Chef government should allow an
RAW at 8. Catch Santa Claus. Academy. R18+ rating for games is due by
• TLC has a new Little People, • At 9, FOX has a new Lie to • A&E has a new Hoarders at 10. February 28, 2010. The
government spells out quite
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of the Year with Bon Jovi and the In Your Heart.” She also guest- America’s Heroes and Children’s Normalising the crime of the discussion paper, requests public
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Up in the Air Is The Grapes of Wrath for the Rich and Out of
Touch [That's Rich]
By Brian Moylan (Gawker)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:26:04 AM
In yesterday's New York Times,
Frank Rich says the George
Clooney flick Up in the Air will,
"salve national wounds that
continue to fester in the real
world." Did he see the same
movie we did? Because he's
totally wrong.
For those of you who rushed out
to see the movie during its big
city engagement before it opens
wide on Christmas day will
know, Up in the Air is the story
of Ryan Bingham, a man who
travels around the country firing
people who have been downsized
by their respective companies.
Rich thinks this is the greatest
thing since sliced bread, if we
could all still afford a loaf of
bread or a knife to cut it with.
Here is an America whose
battered inhabitants realize that
the economic deck is stacked
against them, gamed by distant,
powerful figures they can't see or
know. Up in the Air may be a
glossy production sprinkled with
laughter and sex, but it captures
the distinctive topography of our
Great Recession as vividly as a
far more dour Hollywood
product of 70 years ago, The
Grapes of Wrath, did the vastly
different landscape of the Great
Depression.
Steinbeck did actually tell the
story of Up in the Air in The
Entertainment/ 55
because his tale is about the
people whose livelihood was lost
due to natural and financial
disaster and who subsequently
wander around doing anything
just to survive. Through it we can
sympathize with the once-proud
people who have been laid low
by the Great Depression.
Up in the Air, on the other hand,
is a film about the man who flies
around in first class collecting
frequent flier miles for sport and
still has a job, an expense
account, an apartment, and so
many hotel key cards that he
doesn't even need to pony up for
a night at the Milwaukee Hilton
unless he wants to. After a peek
into his luxe lifestyle, it asks us
to feel sorry for him, because his
job firing people is so hard and
he doesn't have a life outside of
Grapes of Wrath. Early in the because it provided a refuge from owner men sat in the cars and work. He's lonely. Sad face.
novel, he gives a few pages to the thought and from feeling. If a explained. You know the land is While director Jason Reitman
bank men who came to kick bank or a finance company poor. You've scrabbled at it long uses "real people" who lost their
farmers off their land: owned the land, the owner man enough, God knows. jobs as the sorry spectres loosed
Some of the owner men were s a i d , T h e B a n k o r t h e And then Steinbeck moved on to from this employment coil by
kind because they hated what Companyneedswantsinsistsmust the true characters, the Joads and R y a n , h o w d o y o u t h i n k
they had to do, and some of them have as though the Bank or the their trek west, full of empty watching this movie must feel for
were angry because they hated to Company were a monster, with dreams and shattered promises. someone who has met the Brooks
be cruel, and some of them were thought and feeling, which had The only way this movie — that Brothers-clad grim reaper in a
cold because they had long ago ensnared them. These last would tries to humanize the corporate beige conference room in their
found that one could not be an take no responsibility for the hatchet man — could be anything very own workplace? They're
owner unless one were cold. And banks or the companies because like The Grapes of Wrath is if intended to muster up even the
all of them were caught in they were men and slaves, while John Steinback came back from slightest bit of sympathy for this
s o m e t h i n g l a r g e r t h a n the banks were machines and the dead and rewrote it so that it dude, who still gets a paycheck,
themselves. Some of them hated masters all at the same time. focused on and humanized the because he doesn't have a life?
the mathematics that drove them, Some of the owner men were a men who show up at the Joad's Yeah, that's not salve we're
and some were afraid, and some little proud to be slaves to such house to tack a foreclosure notice
worshiped the mathematics cold and powerful masters. The on the front door. But he didn't AIR page 56
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Houston Accidentally Elects a Lesbian Mayor
[Moral Victories]
By John Cook (Gawker)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:57:08 AM
Houston became the largest
American city to elect an openly
gay mayor on Saturday night, but
don't get too excited: No one was
really paying attention, and it's
not like they're going to let them
start getting married or anything.
Annise Parker, a former city
council member and city
controller with 12 years of
experience as a civil servant and
19 years of experience as a
lesbian in a committed
relationship with her partner
Kathy Hubbard (that's Hubbard
and Parker, on the right, in the
photo), was elected mayor of
Houston on Saturday night in a
run-off against a fellow
Democrat. It's very good news,
but the New York Times explains
why you shouldn't get your hopes
up too much about America no
longer hating gay people or
anything like that:
• Parker didn't play up the whole
gay thing. "When asked, for
instance, if she would advocate
for a referendum giving benefits
to same-sex partners of city
workers, she was quick to say it
was not in her plans."
• There were no Republicans in
the race, so the lesbian-haters sat
out the race. "That there was no
credible Republican candidate in
the race for the first time in three
decades also helped Ms. Parker's
bid."
• Her opponent Gene Locke had
never won elective office and
doesn't sound too sharp. "Mr.
Locke, who is black, also ran a
flawed campaign. He was late to
begin television advertising, a
fatal mistake for a little-known
candidate."
• Also, he was a lawyer and a
lobbyist, which led one political
columnist to write, "Here's the
bottom line, or maybe the punch
line. In Houston, it is now harder
for a lawyer to be elected mayor
than a lesbian."
• No one really cares who the
mayor of Houston is, anyway. "In
the end, it turned out that the
Houstonians who were paying
attention to the election - only
about 16 percent of registered
voters - did not seem to care
deeply about Ms. Parker's sexual
orientation...."
So the good news is that even
Texas will let gay people become
mayors, as long as they don't
advocate too strongly for things
like treating gay people equally
and run against flawed opponents
in elections no one pays attention
to. That bad news is that the
FBI's analysis of hate crime
statistics for 2008 is out, and
offenses motivated by sexual
orientation are up 11% over last
year. Crimes motivated by racism
against African Americans are up
4%, so Prop. 8 generated almost
three times as much violent
hatred as the Barack Obama
campaign, for those who are
counting.
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putting on that wound, Frank, it's
salt.
NintendoWare weekly:
Bejeweled, Blaster
Master, Earthworm Jim
2
By David Hinkle (Joystiq)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 1:20:00 PM
As promised, Sunsoft's brought
Blaster Master to the Virtual
Console -- though we think the
impact is somewhat dulled by the
quantity of other games available
for download this week. There's a
total of 11 different games
available, so head past the break
for the full list.
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WSJ Editor: 'Principle Is But a Bystander at The
New York Times ' [Newspaper Wars]
By Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:17:19 AM
Fight! The Wall Street Journal
enjoys newspaper feuds,
remember? Which is the only
sensible explanation for WSJ
editor Robert Thomson's
pugnacious statement that just
went out regarding David Carr's
New York Times column today.
Carr's non-shocking thesis
today: Since Rupert Murdoch
bought the WSJ, he's turned it
into more of a general interest
paper, and its Washington
coverage leans right, as
evidenced by Robert Thomson's
hiring of a right-wing deputy
managing editor, and also
evidenced by the fact that that's
what several WSJ staffers tell
Carr, and also evidenced by
reading the paper. Robert
Thomson will not let this
observation stand!
From: Thomson, Robert
Sent: Monday, December 14,
2009 11:06 AM
To: Christie, Robert
Subject: Statement by Robert
Thomson on The New York
Times
The news column by a Mr David
Carr today is yet more evidence
that The New York Times is
uncomfortable about the rise of
an increasingly successful rival
while its own circulation and
credibility are in retreat. The
usual practice of quoting ex-
employees was supplemented by
a succession of anonymous
quotes and unsubstantiated
assertions. The attack follows the
extraordinary actions of Mr Bill
Keller, the Executive Editor,
who, among other things, last
year wrote personally and at
length to a prize committee
casting aspersions on Journal
journalists and journalism.
Whether it be in the quest for
prizes or in the disparagement of
competitors, principle is but a
bystander at The New York
Times.
Robert Thomson,
Editor-in-Chief, Dow Jones.
Rather feisty, no? We've emailed
both papers to try to get more
info and responses to the
allegations against Bill Keller. In
the meantime, our diagnosis:
Rupert Murdoch and his peons
are essentially drunk barroom
fighters. They love this shit.
Keep it coming, plz.
UPDATE: John Koblin gets a
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strong I-stand-by-the-column
from Bill Keller.
UPDATE 2: NYT PR sends us
the same statement the NYO got,
namely:
Here's a response from Bill
Keller:
While David's column clearly
got under Mr. Thomson's skin, I
don't see anything in this
response that casts doubt upon it.
The column was scrupulously
fair and, if anything, understated,
and I have no inclination to help
Mr. Thomson change the subject.
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DIY does it on
DS in March
By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 10:30:00 AM
One of Nintendo's most exciting
announcements from E3 was the
localization of WarioWare DIY,
a DS app that lets players create
their own WarioWare games,
with custom graphics, sound, and
gameplay. Nintendo didn't
happen to offer a date during the
thrilling E3 presentation, and it's
said nothing at all about what
should be a major part of the
publisher's DS lineup -- until
today.
In its Q1 schedule, Nintendo
provided a date of March 28.
You're not buying anything in
March, right? The company also
offered a Q1 date for WarioWare
DIY Showcase, the WiiWare
game through which WarioWare
DIY games can be uploaded and
played on a big screen.
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Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-
Down Because of 'Inclement Weather' [Goldman
Sachs]
By John Cook (Gawker)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:37:55 AM
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd
Blankfein, Citigroup chairman
Dick Parsons, and Morgan
Stanley CEO John Mack all
skipped out on a scheduled
dressing-down today from
Barack Obama because
"inclement weather" made it
physically impossible for them to
travel to Washington.
Convenient!
Obama met with 10 top banking
executives, or"fat cats" as he's
taken to calling them these days,
to yell at them for not lending
enough money and generally
being horrible people. But the
worst of them, Goldman Sachs'
Lloyd Blankfein, is among the
three that are participating via
conference call because fog made
it impossible for them to deploy
the billions of dollars under their
control in service of transporting
them bodily to Washington, D.C.
this morning.
According to Joyce Jones, the
Black Enterprise reporter doing
White House pool duty today,
Obama "thanked them for calling
in and said he's sorry their flights
got held up." We're hoping that
the audio of the meeting is
released, because we expect
Obama's voice to be dripping
with saracasm.
As you can see from the above
photo, taken from the roof of
Gawker HQ, there was no
problem getting off the ground in
New York this morning. There
were indeed traffic management
systems put in place this morning
at Dulles International Airport
and Reagan National due to fog,
and many flights between New
York and D.C. were delayed or
canceled. But these are powerful
men, with private planes. They
really couldn't squeeze in a
landing ahead of the losers who
fly commercial? For a sense of
just how debilitating the fog is in
D.C., here's a live shot from a
traffic camera about a mile from
Reagan Washington:
Not to mention Baltimore-
Washington International
Airport, just a quick limo drive
from the White House, which
wasn't experiencing any delays
this morning:
Also, there are trains that travel
between Washington and New
York. Nine of them arrived at
Washington's Union Station
before the 11:09 a.m. start-time
of the meeting with Obama.
Obama presses
banks to boost
lending
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:05:38 AM
President Barack Obama on
Monday told the US’s top
bankers that they had a “special
responsibility” to help spur the
economic recovery after they
received government bail-outs
last year, urging them to increase
lending to small businesses and
mortgage refinancing.
As Wall Street returns to health
while Main Street continues to
struggle, Mr Obama struck a
sharp tone before the meeting,
saying he “did not run for office
to be helping out a bunch of fat
cat bankers”.
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Reid Rules: Eagles Follow Coach's Lead

By Thomas George fracas and thus the game, 45-38, Eagles coach Andy Reid has It is four consecutive victories
(Fanhouse Main) to the Philadelphia Eagles here figured out his team. And he has and counting now in Reid vs. the
Submitted at 12/13/2009 7:00:00 PM
on Sunday night. You could say dissected the Giants and Giants. He beat them in the
that the Giants' pass rush has continues to carve them into playoffs last season in Giants
Filed under: Eagles, Giants, NFL slipped, that their secondary has pieces. Stadium. He roasted them in
Analysis EAST RUTHERFORD, crashed. That the Giants' shoddy You have to say this now about Philadelphia earlier this season,
N.J. -- You could say the New punt coverage helped kill their the Eagles-Giants rivalry: Reid 40-17.
But what you have to say is that
York Giants lost the turnover chances. Rules.
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Incredibly Wonky Pranksters Pretend Canada

Cares About Climate [Hoaxes]
By Pareene (Gawker)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:24:41 AM
This morning, an elaborate hoax
briefly convinced the world that
Canada was going to take the
lead on carbon emissions
reductions and financial aid to
Africa. But... why?
No one seems to know who was
behind the hoax—or what the
point was, except to embarrass
Canada?—but it involved
emailed press releases, a fake
website for Canada's
Environment Department, and
and even a (really well done)
spoof Wall Street Journal story.
The release claimed Canada was
going to reduce emissions to 40%
below 1990 levels by 2020, and it
went on to claim that Canada was
going to send Africa $13 billion
in aid next year for development
and as "reparations" for climate
change caused by developed
nations. The people behind the
hoax sent out not only the initial
email announcing the fake new
Canadian policy, but also a
follow-up claiming the office had
been spoofed and linking to the
false Journal story.
And, wow, is this a spoof UN
Climate Change Conference
website too? Looks just like the
real thing!
So. No one is sure where this
came from and Canada does not
find it very funny.
The Yes Men tend to perform
Warm Up
their stunts in person, and they'd
be more likely to pretend to be
With the Roku
American than Canadian. Right?
(They already did a climate hoax
and Netflix
involving the US Chamber of By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Commerce.) Maybe Canada has Blog)
its own Yes Men! But who Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:06:00 AM
would want to pick on the
Canadian government? It’s #&$*ing cold here in New
(Presumably lots of people, York City, so this weekend I
because Canada does not want to turned up the oven (no fireplace
do much about emissions at all, in my tiny apartment) and turned
and they're trying to back out of on the Roku, a small black box
Kyoto.) that connects to the TV and plays
any Netflix movie in my Instant
Queue wirelessly. (Without the

New Pic: Tiger Woods' Wife Elin Spotted box, you can still watch a huge
collection of movies instantly,
but in the glow of your laptop.)
Without her Wedding Ring Other similar devices have come
along— the Xbox 360, PS3, and
(ETonline - Breaking News) and Families reportedly paid a Family Services. The deputy is the agency responsible for the Tivo HD can play Netflix movies
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:56:00 AM
visit to Tiger Woods' home, responding was to meet with the visit and no report or instantly, and some LG HD TVs
according to a story on Radar DCF investigator at the front documentation was generated by have the service built in— but the
ET has the latest... Online, but the sheriff's entrance of the Isleworth this office, any information Roku’s price tag ($79) makes it a
ET has just obtained this new d e p a r t m e n t r e l e a s e d t h e community, located in the regarding the case should be sweet accessory to my cold-
photo of Tiger Woods' wife Elin, following statement to ET in unincorporated area of west directed to them, it is a common weather-fueled Netflix obsession.
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Also over the weekend, the from an investigator with the contacted, nor the details of the
Florida Department of Children Department of Children and complaint received by DCF. DCF
60 Entertainment/ Sports/ E-reader News Edition

Nike, Tag Heuer continue

sponsorship with Tiger Woods
By ESPN.com news services checked out by Nike before best in his domain.
(ESPN.com) signing a deal with him and, "We respect his performance in
Submitted at 12/14/2009 7:54:37 AM
according to Knight, "he came the sport," she said, adding that
out clean." Woods' personal life is "not our
Tiger Woods Loses Sponsor Knight said companies cannot business."
Tiger Woods Loses Sponsor get such background checks right Tag Heuer has been sponsoring
Nike chairman and co-founder all the time and "there's always a Woods since 2002. Financial
Phil Knight said his company is r i s k . " H e a d d e d t h a t t h e details of the agreement have not
standing by its relationship with company's relationship with its been announced.
T i g e r W o o d s , a d a y a f t e r most famous client isn't going to Tag Heuer's comment came a
Accenture decided to part ways change. day after global consulting firm
with the embattled golfer. "I think he's been really great," Accenture PLC became the first
Knight told SportsBusiness Knight said in the interview major sponsor to announce it was
J o u r n a l t h a t t h e s c a n d a l published Monday. "When his cutting ties with Woods.
Kids These Days: surrounding Woods is "part of career is over, you'll look back on
t h e g a m e " i n s i g n i n g these indiscretions as a minor
Accenture said Sunday the
golfer is "no longer the right

Hopeless [Trendwatch] endorsement deals with athletes. blip, but the media is making a
Woods admitted to "infidelity" in big deal out of it right now."
his marriage in a statement Meanwhile, Swiss watchmaker
representative" after the
"circumstances of the last two
weeks."
By Hamilton Nolan (Gawker) prisons for kids because the
released Friday on his Web site. Tag Heuer said Monday it will The move ends a six-year
prisons are too dangerous, for the
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:51:30 AM Mike and Mike in the Morning continue its association with relationship during which the
criminals. Jesus.
CNBC sports business reporter Woods. firm credited its "Go on, be a
What about the children? A • Even South Dakota Indian
D a r r e n R o v e l l j o i n s M i k e Company spokeswoman Mariam Tiger" campaign with boosting
cursory examination of the reservations, some of the poorest
Greenberg and Mike Golic to Sylla said the sponsorship is its image significantly.
"news" reveals the chilling truth places in America, are now
which we have all dreaded for so r i d d l e d w i t h j u v e n i l e discuss Accenture publicly u n c h a n g e d b e c a u s e W o o d s Information from Reuters and
severing ties with Tiger Woods remains the world's best golfer The Associated Press is included
long: There is no hope for you, gangs(surprise!). One kid quoted
and what it means for Woods and and Tag Heuer does not care in this report.
kids. Just do what you want. in the video accompanying this
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public safety." Yes, the agency who are losers.
that runs the prisons is begging [Pic via]
courts not to send any kids to the
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NFL Diary: Chargers 20, Cowboys 17

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 12/13/2009 11:12:26 AM

Reuters The Chargers’

LaDainian Tomlinson (center)
scores the only touchdown in the
first half.
The Journal provides minute-by-
minute analysis of the San Diego
Chargers’ 20-17 victory over the
Dallas Cowboys from Cowboys
Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Guest blogger Steve Kornacki
offers commentary on the game
and the CBS telecast.
2:15 pm | Pregame | by Steve
Kornacki
If youâre counterintuitive by
nature, you have to like the
Cowboysâ chances today.
Dallas, as you might have heard,
canât win in December â- more touchdown and one less together and shut down the more. Right now, they're tied 4:22 pm | First quarter, 0-0 | by
pick than Romo on the season, streaking Chargers today. with Philadelphia atop the NFC Steve Kornacki
something they demonstrated yet
while Romo has thrown for 14 4:19 pm | Pregame | by Steve East with an 8-4 mark. The The Cowboys are doing an
again at the Meadowlands last
more yards. Overall, the Kornacki Giants (who play the Eagles excellent job of shooting
week. The Chargers, meanwhile,
Cowboys ranks third in total As we approach kickoff, a quick tonight) are one game back at 7- themselves in the foot here --
are 10-0 in December since Norv
Turner took over before the 2007 offense, compared to 12th for the look at what's at stake for both 5. So Dallas really can't afford a after quickly moving inside the
Chargers. (On defense, San teams: loss -- especially with a game Charger 40, two penalties (false
season â- and 15-0 if you throw
Diego is 12th, two slots above It looks like the Broncos are against the now 13-0 Saints start and illegal use of the hands)
in Marty Schottenheimerâs final
Dallas.) about to lose to the Colts, so this looming next week. A win today sets up a 2nd and 22 all the way
campaign in 2006. Factor in San
Certain players, coaches and isn't a must-win game for the would keep Dallas tied (at least) back at their own 47.
Diegoâs current seven-game
winning streak and Tony Romoâs teams seem to be at their best Chargers; even if they lose, for the division lead. A loss 4:25 pm | First quarter, 0-0 | by
when everyone expects the worst they'll still be a game up on would put them in jeopardy of Steve Kornacki
decision to start holding kicks
-â and at their worst when Denver in the AFC West. Still, missing the playoffs. 4th and 4 from the Charger 35.
again and the Chargers look like
everyone expects the best. (See: with Cincinnati falling to the 4:20 pm | First quarter, 0-0 | by Wade Phillips wants to go for it.
the cinch of the century as three-
Ron Zook at Florida, Gerry Faust Vikings, the Chargers can move Steve Kornacki The crowd agrees. First Big Play
and-a-half-point underdogs.
Then again, streaks were made at Notre Dame and Steve Lavin into sole possession of second Nate Kaeding manages to avoid of the game and....Tony Romo
at UCLA.) The Cowboys have place in the AFC -- a slot that hitting Jerry Jones' 14 trillion- hits Roy Williams for 19 yards.
to be broken. On paper, at least,
crumbled late in the season so would guarantee them a first- pound scorebaord with his (In case you're wondering, no,
this is an evenly matched game.
many times now that another round playoff bye -- with a win. opening kickoff, which Felix that's not the same Roy Williams
Philip Rivers comes in with a
slightly higher passer rating collapse this year is taken as a Of course, they play the Bengals Jones runs back to the Cowboy who kicked a fan out of a
(104.9) than Tony Romo (96.3), given. Maybe, just maybe, thatâs next week, so it wouldn't really 46. Makes Dallas' decision to basketball game yesterday.)
but their stats are basically the perfect set-up for Coach matter that much. receive the opening kick seem
Wadeâs team to put all the pieces The Cowboys need this one wise. NFL page 62
identical: Rivers has thrown one
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4:29 pm | First quarter, 3-0
Cowboys | by Steve Kornacki
Cowboys forced to try a 31-yard
field goal, which means it's time
for the obligatory flashback
footage of Romo's last effort at
holding a kick, in the 2006
playoffs. CBS obliges, but Romo
has no trouble setting the ball for
Nick Folk, who bangs it in, and
the Cowboys take a 3-0 lead.
4:32 pm | First quarter, 3-0
Cowboys | by Steve Kornacki
It's still been 16 games since
Dallas scored a touchdown on its
first possession of a game, but
that was still a very good start --
the Cowboys ate up nearly seven
minutes of clock, managed a key
third-down conversion, and took
the lead. Plus, they covered the
ensuing kickoff well, jamming
the Chargers inside their own 20.
4:37 pm | First quarter, 3-0
Cowboys | by Steve Kornacki
A reminder of why San Diego
has such a potent offense:
LaDainian Tomlinson has carried
the ball three times so far for just
two yards. And yet the Chargers,
in about three minutes time, have
moved the ball 83 yards on three
passes -- the last 38 courtesy of a
trick play that ended with a pass-
interference call that set San
Diego up inside the 5.
4:38 pm | First quarter, 7-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
And there's the touchdown -- a 1
-yard run for Tomlinson, who
now has four carries for three
yards (and six points). Kaeding
tacks on the XP and it's 7-3
Chargers with 4:30 left in the
quarter.
4:42 pm | First quarter, 7-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Also, we didn't see Antonio
Gates on that last drive. But we
did see Kris Wilson, a little-
used sixth-year tight end from
Pitt, who made only his second
reception of the year, for 21
yards.
4:43 pm | First quarter, 7-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
On first down, Brandon Siler
sacks Romo back at the
Dallas 10 for a loss of 10
yards. And Romo barely avoids
the safety on second down.
Looks like we'll be seeing that
Charger offense momentarily.
4:45 pm | First quarter, 7-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Sproles fair catches the punt at
his own 25. Chargers were
probably expecting better field
position after the first two plays
of that last drive.
4:49 pm | First quarter, 7-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Third and 8 for the Chargers.
Excellent chance for the
Cowboys to settle things down
with a stop and get the ball back
in good field position. Instead,
Rivers finds Vincent Jackson for
33 yards. I thought Dallas was
supposed to be a great first-
quarter defensive team?
4:51 pm | First quarter, 7-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Tomlinson carries for a yard on
the last play of the first quarter.
It'll be third and 3 from the
Cowboy 33 to start the second.
I'm guessing this is four-down
territory for the Chargers. I
know I'd like my chances with
that offense.
4:55 pm | Second quarter, 7-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
We'll see if Norv Turner agrees
with me. Darren Sproles is
stopped a half-yard short on
third down. And Turner doesn't
even blink; they're going for it.
Fourth and short from just inside
the 31. Nothing fancy: Rivers
sneaks it for what looks like a
first down -- except that he gets a
bad spot, setting up a dramatic
measurement. The verdict: First
down by about an inch.
4:56 pm | Second quarter, 7-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
An encroachment call against
Dallas. CBS cuts to Wade
Phillips, who shakes his head
slowly. That's called his
December look, I think.
5:02 pm | Second quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Chargers' fans might be a little
frustrated with how that
possession ended. After moving
into the red zone, Turner got
conservative and called two run
plays -- one for Sproles and the
other for Tomlinson. Result: a
third and 3 that wasn't too
hard for Dallas to defend.
Nate Kaeding hits the 29-yard
field goal and it's 10-3 San
Diego with 10:18 left in the half.
Not a bad position to be in,
obviously, but San
Diego could be up more right
now.
5:04 pm | Second quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
I wouldn't say Dallas needs to
score on this drive. But a few
first downs, to build some
confidence and rest the defense,
would be very helpful.
5:06 pm | Second quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
And there's a 12-yard run for
Felix Jones on first down.
Followed by another 12-yarder
to the outside. Two plays, two
first downs, and the Cowboys are
in Charger territory now.
5:08 pm | Second quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
CBS informs us that Shawne
Merriman is now on the sideline.
But the Cowboys seem happy to
keep it on the ground -- five
straight runs now on this drive,
which has reached the Charger
31.
5:10 pm | Second quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
And now Merriman seems to be
back in the game. The cameras
just caught Jason Witten
seemingly holding him on a
Tashard Choice running play.
5:14 pm | Second quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
A hands-to-the-face penalty
against Shaun Phillips sets the
Cowboys up inside the 5, but
Marion Barber can't reach the
end zone on three straight carries.
Fourth and goal from inside the
1. Will Wade Phillips go for it?
5:16 pm | Second quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
He does. And it's another
handoff to Barber, who loses
ground. A goal-line stand for the
Chargers! The boos rain down. I
wonder if that one looked even
worse in 3-D on the Cowboys
Stadium big screen?
5:18 pm | Second quarter, 10-3
E-reader News Edition
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Rivers gets it at the 1-yard line
and keeps it for a yard. We're at
the two-minute warning. 10-3
Chargers. And worth
remembering that they'll get the
ball to start the second half.
5:21 pm | Second quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Statistically, the Cowboys look
like the stronger team so far.
They've run more plays, gained
more yards, and kept the ball for
five minutes longer than the
Chargers. But they're down by
seven points.
5:23 pm | Second quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Interception! Terence Newman
picks off Rivers' third-and-9 pass.
But that's giving him too much
credit -- Rivers made a bad
throw, falling backward and
floating the pass. So far the
Cowboys are having trouble
taking advantage of the gift,
though: It's third-and-7 from the
Charger 25.
5:25 pm | Second quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Romo had plenty of time on
third down, but couldn't connect
with Miles Austin. Dallas will
have to settle for a disappointing
41-yard field goal. But
wait....they won't even get that.
Folk's kick goes wide to the left.
Dallas gets nothing. Again. Still
10-3 Chargers. 42 seconds left in
the half. I'm sure they'll be
delighted to run the clock out and
take that lead to the locker room.
5:27 pm | Second quarter, 10-3
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Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Never mind that running out the
clock business. They have three
time-outs, and use one after
Sproles carries for five on first
down. San Diego is probably 30
yards from Kaeding field-goal
range.
5:29 pm | Second quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
...and there's about 20 of them,
on a pass to Legedu Naanee.
Chargers take timeout No. 2.
5:30 pm | Second quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Rivers is taken down at the 50.
It'll be third and long with 18
seconds left. Chargers burn their
final timeout. It'll take about 15
yards here to get within field-
goal range. But any pass will
have to be near the sidelines, now
that the Chargers can't stop the
clock again.
5:35 pm | Halftime, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Pass goes incomplete and the
Chargers punt. Romo takes a
knee to kill the final four
seconds and that's the half. The
headline so far: Missed
Opportunities Killing Cowboys.
Jim Nantz just put it perfectly:
"The Cowboys with three trips
inside the Charger 25 -- and they
come away with only a field
goal." Chargers lead 10-3, and
they'll get the ball to start the
second half. If Rivers can drive
them down for a touchdown,
things could get ugly in King
Jerry's castle.
5:48 pm | Third quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
And we're back. Chargers will
get it at their own 20 after a
touchback.
5:50 pm | Third quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Not a good start for the Dallas
D. Rivers hits Tolbert for 11
yards on the first play of the
drive, then a few plays later,
finds Vincent Jackson to move
the chains again. Chargers
moving close to midfield now.
5:54 pm | Third quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
CBS keeps showing various
Cowboy fans staring up at the big
screen with their 3-D glasses. Do
they know that if they take the
glasses off and look at the actual
field, it's also 3-D?
5:57 pm | Third quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
A huge break for Dallas -- Mike
Jenkins is flagged for pass
interference on Malcolm Floyd,
a penalty that would have set the
Chargers up near the Cowboy 10,
Instead, the officials rule it an
uncatchable ball and San Diego
is forced to punt. The replay
seems to support the call.
Romo will make his first
appearance of the half, taking
over from his own 5. If the first
half is any guide, he'll have no
trouble moving them down the
field...until they make it to the
red zone.
6:00 pm | Third quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Woah. Romo is nearly picked
off by Stephen Cooper on third-
and-6. Cowboys have to kick,
and Sproles runs it back to his
own 43. Pretty good field
position for the Chargers. Even a
field goal would make it a two-
possession game.
6:06 pm | Third quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Big third-and-10 here for the
Chargers from the Cowboy 44 --
and Rivers' pass to Sproles is
four yards short of the marker.
Cowboy fans breathe a sigh of
relief. It's still a one-possession
game. But once again their team
has a long field ahead of them.
The Chargers' just downed the
punt at the 1.
6:08 pm | Third quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Jim Nantz mentioned this the
last time Dallas had the ball:
Romo hasn't completed a pass
since the first quarter. The
Cowboys' long, time-consuming
drive (that ended with a goal-line
stand) was fueled almost entirely
by Marion Barber runs. For the
game, Romo is 6 of 13 for 65
yards -- a 61.4 rating. It makes
Rivers' otherwise pedestrian
performance -- 14 of 24 for 158
yards and a pick -- look
impressive.
6:10 pm | Third quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Maybe the Cowboys are just
done with trying to pass. Jones
and Barber are alternating
carries, and so far it's been good
for two first downs on this
possession. Oh, never mind --
there's a nine-yard pass to
Witten.
6:13 pm | Third quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Wait, what's that strange,
unfamiliar sound I'm hearing
from my television? Oh yeah --
it's cheering Cowboy fans,
suddenly on their feet after a 19-
yard pass to Miles Austin. Dallas
is in San Diego territory now.
6:15 pm | Third quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
And now it's nothing but
passing. A catch-and-run to Roy
Williams brings the Cowboys
inside the 10. Barber carries to
the 1 on the next play. Back at
the goal line. Can they finish the
job this time??
6:17 pm | Third quarter, 10-3
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Uh-oh. Whistles before the snap.
Yes, that's right: it's a false start.
So much for being on the goal
line. Now the Cowboys are six
yards out on second down. A
field goal wouldn't do much here;
the Cowboys would still need a
touchdown after it.
6:18 pm | Third quarter, 10-10
tie | by Steve Kornacki
Touchdown! A perfect fake to
Barber helps Romo find Austin
in the back of the end zone. XP
is good. We have a tie, 10-10.
6:21 pm | Fourth quarter, 10-10
tie | by Steve Kornacki
Also, that touchdown was the
last play of the third quarter.
Sproles carries the ensuing
kickoff out to the Charger 25. It
hasn't been pretty, but this should
be a fun fourth quarter.
6:25 pm | Fourth quarter, 10-10
tie | by Steve Kornacki
I'm re-thinking that second
quarter goal-line stand. The
four straight runs to Barber may
have been futile then, but it
ensured that the Chargers were
thinking run on that last
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possession, freeing up Austin for
the TD catch. So, in other words,
Wade Phillips is a coaching
genius.
6:26 pm | Fourth quarter, 10-10
tie | by Steve Kornacki
Third-and-7 for the Chargers
from midfield. Huge play coming
up. But the Cowboys' DeMarcus
Ware is down, so we're at a break
now.
6:29 pm | Fourth quarter, 10-10
tie | by Steve Kornacki
OK, this looks worse than I
thought. Ware is still down and
they're bringing a cart out now.
It looks like his legs are still
moving.
6:35 pm | Fourth quarter, 10-10
tie | by Steve Kornacki
Ware is on the stretcher now.
One of the Cowboy players
around him flashed a thumbs-up.
Phil Simms says his arms were
moving too. The emergency crew
is now securing him in the cart.
Play should resume momentarily.
I won't even speculate on what
exactly might have happened.
The replay shows Ware running
with his head down directly into
a Charger player, then falling to
the ground.
6:38 pm | Fourth quarter, 10-10
tie | by Steve Kornacki
Now, here's that third-and-7
play. Actually, it'll be 3rd-and-
12. There's a false start on San
Diego. The crowd hasn't been
this loud all game. Ooohh...what
a play! Rivers barely gets the
pass off, but he hits Vincent
Jackson, who has a step on the
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(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) doses of Manning or the team’s pursue, by most accounts, a schools share a long-running
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:25:40 AM
other signature stars. massively duplicitous lifestyle — rivalry as part of Philadelphia’s
Outside the realm of undefeated, A thirst for danger? Anger at storied Big Five scene, but
With all due respect to the t h e M i n n e s o t a V i k i n g s decades of imprisonment inside Temple’s upset was made in
equally undefeated, manifestly r e b o u n d e d f r o m a p r e t t y the bubble of fame? A mega- Argentina. Temple’s Argentine
f u n - t o - w a t c h N e w O r l e a n s thorough thrashing at the hands celebrity’s delusion of immunity guard Juan Fernandez ripped
Saints, Week 14 of the NFL of the Arizona Cardinals in Week from consequence? — was a ‘Nova for 33 points in the win,
s e a s o n b e l o n g e d t o t h e 13 to hand out a beating to the powerful force, and will only be and went 7-for-10 from three-
Indianapolis Colts. The Saints Cincinnati Bengals and improve long touchdowns, Jackson was defeated by his powerful will in point range.
reached 13-0 in a squeaker of a to a mere 11-2. In Sports just too good to let the Eagles return,” Newport writes. “If he so “The Wildcats were undone by a
win against Atlanta, but Indy’s Illustrated, Joe Posnanski argues lose.” chooses.” kid who couldn’t possibly
28-16 victory over the Denver that Minnesota’s ability to shrug Another must-watch receiver has At Golf.com, Cameron Morfit understand the magnitude of the
B r o n c o s m a d e h i s t o r y . off the Arizona loss augurs well been nearly invisible of late. writes that the scandal — call it Big 5,” ESPN’s Dana O’Neil
Indianapolis also ran its record to for the Vikings’ prospects down Slumps beset every player, but L’Affaire(s) Tiger — is just writes. “Fernandez came to
13-0 and, unlike the Saints, the stretch. “It was a loss. They when the receiver is Randy another way an over-exalted Temple last December, following
extended its regular-season got outplayed,” Posnanski writes. Moss, the accusations that he has sport is coming back to earth. in the footsteps of his
winning streak to an NFL-record “And it doesn’t mean anything quit on his team are quick to “Golf has come down from on Argentinean hero Pepe Sanchez
22 games. Associated Press How important. This is the way teams follow. At CBS Sports, Ray high because there is money in it, to enroll there. The Big 5? When
would Peyton Manning do if he used to feel about regular season Ratto tackles the affair with his long term,” Morfit writes. “It’s I sat down with him this summer
had to face Tim Jennings and his losses. And this, it seems to me, characteristic wryness.* * * why golf has followed football’s for a story, he was still trying to
teammates on the fierce Colts is still the healthiest way for Tiger Woods announced on lead: The Tour condensed its get his arms around the bright
defense? teams to feel about losses.” Friday that he will be taking an schedule in 2007 in part because lights and show that is American
It’s easy, especially for those of It’s saying something that, on a indefinite hiatus from golf in the country’s most popular college basketball, his studies
us who benefited from it in Sunday that saw Denver receiver order to piece back together his league, the NFL, has an enviably and the English language.”
fantasy sports, to focus on Peyton Brandon Marshall set a single- family life, super-tarnished brand finite, clearly delineated season. As awesome as Fernandez’s
Manning’s four touchdown game NFL record with 21 and what’s left of his self-respect. And it’s why golf has aped auto fireworks were, Xavier’s 83-79
passes in the Colts’ win. But that receptions, Philadelphia Eagles It looks like the right thing to do racing: The Tour remade its end win over No. 19 Cincinnati
requires overlooking both receiver DeSean Jackson for any number of reasons, but game to resemble Nascar’s All of contained more action — thanks
Manning’s three picks and the managed to deliver the week’s that doesn’t make the prospect of the above moves have helped to two tense overtimes, 12 ties,
brilliant work of the Indianapolis best performance by a receiver. a Tiger-free PGA Tour any easier golf shake its insular, imperious nine lead changes and a pair of
defense in ensuring that none of Jackson powered Philadelphia’s to imagine. It may have been rep. Even Tiger’s embarrassing near-brawls. “The drama of this
those interceptions turned into 45-38 victory over the New York predictable that Woods would get missteps have helped, in their rivalry was gone, some said. The
game-losing mistakes. “The Colts Giants with a pair of long dropped by some sponsors and own sad, bizarre way.” In the intensity was supposed to be as
displayed the kind of defense a touchdowns, gaining 178 yards in t h a t h e ’ d p r o v i d e h e a v i l y New York Times, Larry Dorman stale as old chili,” Cnati.com’s
team needs come January to get all and also returning a punt 72 qualified non-explanations. But warns of lower TV ratings for a Paul Dehner Jr. writes. “It only
through to the Super Bowl,” yards for a touchdown. “He was the Journal’s John Paul Newport Tiger-less tour.* * * took one half to remind everyone
Yahoo’s Jason Cole writes. must-see TV, the guy people all gets at what remains so defiantly College-hoops upset season is why this is classified as one of
“Especially when Manning over the country will be talking odd about this whole sad affair: already upon us, as a pair of the great rivalries in all of college
wasn’t playing particularly well a b o u t t h i s m o r n i n g , ” t h e how the unknowable thing that unranked, crosstown rivals basketball. Then it added two
Sunday.” In the Indianapolis Philadelphia Inquirer’s Phil made Woods so great relates (or knocked off more highly touted overtimes to ensure nobody
Star, Bob Kravitz predicts that Sheridan writes. “On a night doesn’t) to his not-so-great programs this weekend. On would forget it.”* * *
Sunday’s win is the last time when the Eagles defense was decision-making off the golf Sunday, Temple scored an After several super-tempestuous
before the postseason that NFL utterly helpless, turning Eli course. impressive 65-55 win over third-
fans will be getting full-game Manning’s 10-yard passes into COLTS page 69
“Whatever drove Mr. Woods to ranked Villanova. The two
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Tom Brady defends Randy Moss, deflects criticism of effort
By ESPNBoston.com
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:33:46 AM
Reiss' Take On Moss Reiss'
Take On Moss
A day after New England
Patriots wide receiver Randy
Moss' effort was questioned by
Carolina Panthers defensive
backs, quarterback Tom Brady
rushed to his defense, deflecting
the criticism by calling Moss one
of his "favorite guys I've ever
played with" and saying it's not
easy when teams center their
defensive game plan around
stopping an individual like Moss.
Moss Gathering ... Moss?
Perhaps some of Randy Moss'
frustration has come from a
reduced role in the Patriots'
offense. Breaking down Moss'
games this season (by
comparison, Wes Welker was
targeted 36 times in the last three
games):
"He's one of the top receivers in
the league right now," Brady said
in an interview on Boston sports
radio station WEEI on Monday
morning. "He is up there in yards
and catches and touchdowns.
Every game plan that the defense
comes up with is trying to stop
Randy Moss. ... It's not like they
don't have respect for him when
their game plan is built around
stopping him."
Brady expanded on that thought
later in the interview:
"When guys play Randy, they
want to show everyone what they
can do. I guess they came out of
the game pretty confident. Randy
is one of the best players in the
history of the NFL. When it
doesn't go perfect out there,
everyone wants to jump on
Randy. It's all of us, and we all
have to do a better job."
Brady also took a jab at Carolina
defensive back Chris Gamble,
who after Sunday's game said
Moss gave up on a lot of plays.
"Everyone takes liberty to say
whatever they want to say in a
situation like [Sunday]," Brady
told WEEI. "I've seen plenty of
plays made on Chris Gamble,
too, over the course of the
season."
In distinct Bill Belichick style,
the Patriots coach also defended
Moss on Monday when asked
about critical comments made by
the Panthers.
"My response would be that's a
lot of conversation coming from
a team that lost another game,"
Belichick said.
A few minutes later in his press
conference, Belichick added
another dig.
"I have a lot of respect for
Randy, I think he's one of our
best players and I think if you
watch other teams defend him
and watch other teams play
against him, they think the same
way -- other than these two guys
from Carolina after they lost
another game. I guess they don't
think that way. They haven't won
a lot of games now."
Moss had just one catch for 16
yards in Sunday's 20-10 Patriots
victory over the Panthers, losing
a fumble, dropping another ball
and having a false start penalty
called against him. Some also
questioned whether Brady's first-
quarter interception was a result
of Moss not completing a route.
According to numbers compiled
by ESPN's stats and information
department, eight of Brady's 11
interceptions this season have
come on passes intended for
Moss.
“ stayed on top of him. We were
When guys play Randy, they
want to show everyone what they
can do. I guess they came out of
the game pretty confident. Randy
is one of the best players in the
history of the NFL. When it
doesn't go perfect out there,
everyone wants to jump on
Randy. It's all of us, and we all
have to do a better job.”-- Tom
Brady, defending Randy Moss in
a radio interview
Brady took the blame for the
interception on Monday.
"You throw it to a place where
you think the guy is going to be,"
Brady said, "and Randy saw
something, and he went to the
place where he thought the ball
was going to be. I don't think you
blame Randy on that. I'm the
ultimate one responsible with the
football. I hate games where I
throw interceptions, especially
against a team like that, a
turnover-driven team."
After Sunday's game, Gamble
told The Boston Globe that "we
knew [Moss] was going to shut it
down. That's what we wanted
him to do. That's what we did ...
He'd just give up a lot. Slow
down, he's not going deep, not
trying to run a route. You can
tell, his body language."
Carolina defensive back Chris
Harris also told the Globe: "I
don't want to say [Moss] quits,
but he kind of doesn't run the
routes the way they're supposed
to be run. If you get a jam on
him, he'll just ease up. He had the
one catch, and he fumbled. ... We
not gonna let him catch a deep
pass. That's his game. If he can't
get it going, he gets out of sync."
After the game, Brady
acknowledged Moss was
frustrated.
"He was frustrated in himself and
the situation and it's just
something you have to fight
through," Brady said. "He keeps
fighting through it and you have
those days where it's not all great,
but you keep lining up and you
keep going up. You've just got to
keep fighting."
Based on his track record, some
have wondered if Moss will do
just that. While signs pointed to
Moss heading in a different
direction at times Sunday,
Patriots running back Kevin
Faulk passionately defended him,
saying he has no doubt that Moss
is giving his all.
Mike and Mike in the Morning
ESPN NFL analyst Cris Carter
says he was shocked by the
pathetic performance of Patriots
WR Randy Moss against the
Panthers. Carter says he doesn't
know if being sent home for
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being late to practice this week
affected Moss, but something
did.
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"Randy, as a person, is doing
what he has to do to help this
team win," he told
ESPNBoston.com. "He knows
what he has to do as a football
player for this football team and
he is doing it. Nobody in this
organization is complaining
about what he's doing."
Moss skipped out of the locker
room without addressing
reporters Sunday, deciding to let
his play do the talking for him. It
didn't always look good on the
field. Or on the sidelines for that
matter, such as when Brady came
over to offer encouragement and
Moss kept staring ahead.
"I know when we don't make
good plays, when I throw
interceptions or there are dropped
passes and fumbles, I'm always
trying to go over and pump the
other guy up," Brady said
Monday. "It's easy to get down
on yourself, and it's always
important to go back out there
and keep battling, too. We did
that definitely at times [Sunday].
Randy has definitely done that
over the course of his career. He
has to, because it doesn't always
go right. We didn't certainly play
our best game on offense, but we
won and that's what is most
important."
Gamble described Moss as a
sneaky player, because at times it
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Cowboy defenders, for 39 yards
to get near the 15. That'll quiet
Cowboys Stadium.
6:39 pm | Fourth quarter, 17-10
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
And it gets even quieter as
Rivers finds Gates for a 14-yard
touchdown on the next play.
Kaeding's XP is good, and the
Chargers take a 17-10 lead with
10:56 to go.
6:41 pm | Fourth quarter, 17-10
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
And once again the Cowboys
will start with awful field
position, as Felix Jones' kickoff
return is stopped at the Dallas 13.
6:48 pm | Fourth quarter, 17-10
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Fumble! Jones drops the ball on
a first-down carry, but is able to
scoop it up. Big break for Dallas.
6:48 pm | Fourth quarter, 17-10
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
A near-interception on second
down sets up third-and-15.
Romo's pass to Williams is low.
Cowboys are forced to punt.
Chargers will get it at their own
11 with 9:13 to go. Dallas can't
afford to give up many first down
here -- not so much because of
the time, but because of field
position. If they can force a three
-and-out here, they could get the
ball near midfield.
6:50 pm | Fourth quarter, 17-10
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
LT takes it for 11 yards and a
first down, giving the Chargers
some badly-needed breathing
room. 7:38 to go now. Timeout
San Diego.
6:53 pm | Fourth quarter, 17-10
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Exactly what Dallas had to
avoid: On second-and-long,
Rivers finds Jackson for a big 21
-yard catch. The ball is near
midfield now, and the clock is
ticking.
6:55 pm | Fourth quarter, 17-10
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
The Cowboys' defense is intent
on taking the fun out of these
final minutes. There's yet
another first down, this time
courtesy of a Tomlinson run.
First down for the Chargers at
the Dallas 43. Inside of five
minutes now. Even if the
Cowboys force a punt now,
they'll probably be pinned deep
in their own territory without
much time left.
6:57 pm | Fourth quarter, 17-10
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
But now we're talking field-goal
range. A quick pass to Tolbert,
the fullback, gives San Diego a
first down at the 33. They call
another timeout -- just 3:39 to go
now. From here, it would be a 50
-yard kick.
6:59 pm | Fourth quarter, 17-10
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Dallas takes a timeout with 2:53
to go. It'll be third-and-2 from the
25. Even if Dallas can somehow
stop the Chargers here (and it's
doubtful they will, the way this
drive has gone), the field goal is
looking more and more like a
gimme.
7:00 pm | Fourth quarter, 17-10
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Rivers to Gates. First down. It's
not officially over yet. The
Cowboys still have two
timeouts, plus the two-minute
warning. But from here, it would
be a 32-yard kick. Barring a
fluke turnover, the Chargers are
going to be 10-3 -- and the
Cowboys are going to spend the
next week hearing all about their
December Curse.
7:05 pm | Fourth quarter, 17-10
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
It will be a 33-yard field-goal
attempt. But first, there'll be a
break for the two-minute
warning. If Kaeding can make
the kick, it's over. Cowboys fans
are hoping the Kaeding who
choked against the Jets in the
2004-05 playoffs suddenly takes
the field.
7:06 pm | Fourth quarter, 20-10
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
The kick is good. It's 20-10
Chargers with 1:56 left. Dallas
has no timeouts. CBS shows
Jerry Jones throwing his pen
down in disgust.
7:09 pm | Fourth quarter, 20-10
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Two completions here for the
Cowboys, but both inbounds.
Clock moves inside of a minute.
Finally, Barber gets out of
bounds around the Dallas 45,
stopping the clock with 57
seconds to go.
7:12 pm | Fourth quarter, 20-10
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Tick, tick, tick. A catch-and-run
to Barber brings the Cowboys to
the San Diego 40. But he can't
get out. Next play is another
completed pass, this time to the
18. Clock is at 26 seconds. Dallas
elects not to kick the field goal.
Instead, Romo hits Austin...in
the middle of the field! They're at
the 5-yard-line, but the clock is
down to seven seconds. Not tht
they really had a chance here, but
Dallas has managed the clock
horribly here.
7:14 pm | Fourth quarter, 20-17
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Romo finds Patrick Crayton for
a touchdown with two seconds
left. What's the point? Even if
they get the onside kick, there
won't be any time left. That's
why you don't throw in the
middle of the field when you
have no timeouts left!! 20-17
now.
7:16 pm | Fourth quarter, 20-17
Chargers | by Steve Kornacki
Chargers recover the onside
kick. Hometown scoreboard
operator dutifully leaves a
second on the clock. Rest
assured, the clock would have
run out on that kick in San
Diego.
7:17 pm | Final, 20-17 Chargers |
by Steve Kornacki
It's official. Norv and Wade
shake hands. 20-17 is the final.
7:31 pm
7:32 pm | Postgame | by Steve
Kornacki
One of the worst things about
growing up in the Boston area
was hearing -- over and over --
about The Curse of the Bambino.
I never believed in it and I tried,
almost always in vain, to
convince others not to take it too
seriously. But no matter how
much I carried on, I knew that the
only way I'd ever hear the end of
it would be for the Red Sox to
just win the World Series --
something that didn't finally
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happen until I was 25 years old.
It's sort of the same in Dallas, I
guess. There really is no
December Curse for the
Cowboys, but until they start
winning games in the final month
of the year, it's all anyone will
talk about. With their 20-17 loss
today, the Cowboys dropped to 0
-2 in December this year -- a
record that is all but certain to get
worse next week when they play
the 13-0 Saints. If the Eagles beat
the Giants tonight, they will
overtake the Cowboys for sole
possession of the lead in the NFC
East. If the Giants win, it will be
a three-way tie. Either way,
Dallas' playoff hopes -- once
again -- are fading as the year
wnds down. This won't be a fun
week to be Wade Phillips.
The Chargers, meanwhile, look
like an elite team. They've now
won eight straight. Offensively,
they are similar to the Saints -- a
deep corps of receivers and
multiple threats in the backfield.
And a quarterback who's not half
-bad either. With a win over
Cincinnati next week, the
Chargers would essentially lock
up the second slot in the AFC
playoffs -- meaning they'd get a
first-round bye and a home game
in the semifinals. A date with the
Colts for a trip to the Super Bowl
is looking more and more likely
by the week. And won't that be
fun?
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Colts
By Associated Press against San Diego. gave Marshall his due. goal line, allowing the Colts to
(ESPN.com) Doubling-up "He's one of those elite maintain their 21-7 lead.
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:41:11 AM
Brandon Marshall is the only receivers," Hayden said. "He's 6- "On the one interception, I'd
person in NFL history with 18 or 4. You've got to play him throw it again," Orton said. "It's
Record Day For Brandon more receptions in one game aggressive and play your game. one-on-one coverage out there.
M a r s h a l l R e c o r d D a y F o r twice. You can't get caught up into what You give me that matchup, and
B r a n d o n M a r s h a l l V I D E O He tied Owens' mark on a 5-yard he's doing and things like that. I'll take it 100 times out of 100
PLAYLIST touchdown pass from Kyle Orton You just have to be effective at times."
• Record Day For Brandon in the fourth quarter. He set the doing what you're doing and the As good as Marshall's effort
Marshall Record Day For record on Denver's final chips will fall your way was, the rest of the team had
Brandon Marshall offensive play when he gained 7 eventually. eight catches for 77 yards, which
• Marshall Sets Single-Game yards on a fourth-down play "You know he's going to make had much to do with Denver's
Catch Record Marshall Sets before lateraling to lineman Chris his plays, but you have to make loss.
Single-Game Catch Record Kuper for 7 more yards. your plays as well." "When you lose, you lose,"
Marshall felt good about his Orton completed 29 of 41 passes Broncos coach Josh McDaniels
INDIANAPOLIS -- Brandon chances for success against the for 277 yards, two touchdowns said. "There's no moral victories
Marshall didn't enjoy his single- Colts. and an interception. He targeted in this league. We understand
game receptions record much. "I went to my receiving coach Marshall 28 times, despite heavy where we want to go. We just got
That's because his 21 grabs came [Adam Gase] before the game
i n D e n v e r ' s 2 8 - 1 6 l o s s t o and I told him, 'I think this is
coverage.
"He got a lot of attention for sure,
a really close-up look of it for
four quarters."
Street Chic:
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"I believe it was one of those ever played,'" Marshall said.
games where, whenever you "Just because of the environment,
but he's such a special player
where he can beat them over the
top," Orton said. "They weren't
Colts linebacker Clint Session
seemed a bit shocked when told
how much damage Marshall
New York
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definitely feels good," he said. I believe big players step up in we just kept on going." "He got 21 catches today?"
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Dallas Cowboys OLB DeMarcus Ware carted off
field with neck sprain
By Calvin Watkins
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:49:33 AM
Ware Will Miss At Least One
Game Ware Will Miss At Least
One Game
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Dallas
Cowboys outside linebacker
DeMarcus Ware was carted off
the field after his head hit the hip
of San Diego Chargers right
tackle Brandyn Dombrowski on
Sunday.
Ware suffered a sprained neck
and was taken to a local hospital
for X-rays as a precaution. He
was alert and had feeling in all
his extremities. The linebacker
had tissue damage but nothing
structural.
"Initially, it looks like right at the
base that he has a sprain,"
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said.
"I don't want to get into
medicine. Obviously I'm not
qualified, but we feel very good
about everything was moving.
Everything was going. It was just
by the nature of where it was.
The doctors felt good. He's at the
hospital right now."
Later Sunday, Ware was
released from the hospital and is
expected to miss two weeks,
sources close to the situation told
ESPNDallas.com. The Cowboys
(8-5), who fell out of the NFC
East lead when Philadelphia beat
the Giants late Sunday, play at 13
-0 New Orleans on Saturday
night and visit Washington on
Dec. 27.
Ware spent Sunday night icing
his neck at home and had
significant soreness and swelling,
one source said.
Ware was rushing Chargers
quarterback Philip Rivers with
11:28 to play in the fourth
quarter when his head smashed
into Dombrowski's left hip.
Ware's wife, Taniqua, rushed
down to the field with several
family members.
The linebacker was moving his
arms and legs before doctors and
trainers came onto the field to get
him.
Trainers removed Ware's face
mask before lifting him onto a
cart.
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"The good thing is we saw him
moving. Definitely from that
indication, things weren't going
to be too bad," said teammate
Terence Newman, who spoke to
Ware while he was being loaded
on the cart. "But the fact you're
taken off on a stretcher, you're
still always nervous."
As Ware was being wheeled into
the tunnel with associate trainer
Britt Brown, he waved both his
hands and wiggled his feet. He
also gave a thumbs-up and made
a motion with his fingers to look
like a W.
"Nobody really wants to get hurt.
We talked at one point and he
was telling me to tell his
[teammates] when I got in [the
locker room] that he was all
right," Cowboys inside
linebacker Bradie James said.
"But we saw him moving.
Anytime that you have a neck
issues, or something happens to
your neck, it just really lets you
know how precious life is."
Ware leads the Cowboys with
nine sacks and 35 quarterback
pressures coming into the game.
"We all love DeMarcus and
obviously he's an incredible
player," Cowboys quarterback
Tony Romo said. "But more
important to all of us, he's a great
guy and he's a joy to be around.
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everybody's spirit. We'll be
praying for him." For six years, global consulting
In October, Ware agreed to a firm Accenture PLC featured
$78 million, six-year contract Tiger Woods in ads designed to
extension through the 2015 highlight the company's integrity
season that included a $20 and high performance. All that
million signing bonus. The 27- ended Sunday; the first major
year-old Ware was in the final sponsor to cut Woods from the
year of the contract he signed ad green, reports AP. The
after being the 11th overall pick campaign's cut line: "Go on, be a
in the 2005 draft. Tiger." A new campaign is
The Cowboys drafted Ware over planned for next year; the ad firm
Shawne Merriman, who was is Young & Rubicam.
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since. They keep in contact with
each other, consider each other
friends, and were playing in the
same regular-season game for the
first time.
"I told him I'd call and check up
on him," Merriman said. "It
sounds like he's in good shape. I
think it was just precautionary."
Ware was replaced by Victor
Butler.
ESPNDallas.com's Tim
MacMahon and The Associated
Press contributed to this story.
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seasons, the New York Knicks
are more or less past the point of
surprising anyone anymore. But
the franchise reached back and
delivered a stunner over the
weekend by announcing the
signing of former lottery pick
Jonathan Bender. The sweet-
shooting seven-footer played just
28 games over his last three
seasons with the Pacers before
injuries finally forced him from
the NBA in 2006, and he is now
attempting an out-of-nowhere
NBA return at age 29. In a
Knicks season that’s already
circling the drain, Bender’s
comeback at the very least
provides an interesting storyline.
“If healthy, Bender fits well into
Mike D’Antoni’s system. He’s
long, versatile and can spread the
floor with his shooting,” Frank
Isola writes in the New York
Daily News. “Think Danilo
Gallinari with two bad knees and
that’s Bender.”
At the minor-league hoops blog
Ridiculous Upside, Scott
Schroeder can’t fathom why the
Knicks went with a surpassingly
rusty 29-year-old instead of a D-
League call-up.* * *
For most who followed it, 17-
year-old Zac Sunderland’s solo
circumnavigation of the globe
aboard the 36-foot Intrepid
provoked simple, gobsmacked
awe. From his 16-year-old sister
Abby, it elicited a different
response — part inspiration, part
sibling rivalry. In the Los
Angeles Times, Pete Thomas
details the younger Sunderland’s
even more ambitious sailing goal.
Abby Sunderland plans to
become the youngest person to
sail around the world alone and
unassisted, and departs later this
month.
“She’ll carry all provisions —
including freeze-dried food and a
water desalination device — and
cannot make landfall or accept
assistance, beyond advice, once
she’s underway,” Thomas writes.
“Whereas Zac traveled in higher
latitudes in mostly warm
climates, Abby will venture
offshore and sail down the
Pacific, round South America
and treacherous Cape Horn, then
continue east below the
populated continents in the wind-
swept and turbulent Southern
Ocean — a direct but dangerous
route around the world.” To his
credit, Thomas gets both the
“amazing adventure” and “who
lets a 16-year-old sail solo
around Cape Horn?” angles into
his story.
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might look like he's not giving a
top effort, attempting to lull a
cornerback into thinking he isn't
part of the play before suddenly
shifting into top gear. Yet
Gamble said there was little
deception with Moss on Sunday.
Instead, he was telegraphing the
Patriots' offensive intentions.
"Some of his body language let
me know it was a run, and that's
how I got a feel on when to help
out on the run," he told
ESPNBoston.com. "I think if he
came off the ball and had a little
Wes Welker in him, you wouldn't
know what was coming. That's
what I think Moss needs to do --
be like Wes and go hard every
play. I'm going to respect him,
and every other [defensive back]
is going to respect him if he
comes off the ball hard."
During Monday's radio
interview, Brady also discussed
the mood in the Patriots' locker
room last week, after the team
had lost two straight and four
players, including Moss, were
disciplined for being late to a
Wednesday meeting.
"I think from everybody there's
frustration when you lose," Brady
said. "There's one thing that's
going to make us all feel better
and one thing only and that's to
win. There's no sense of well
being when you lose games, it's
pretty much as simple as that.
"It'll be a much better feeling in
Foxborough this week. I can
actually turn the TV on this
week. A week like last week, it's
so frustrating because everyone
wants to think back on the [last]
game ... but you're trying to move
forward ... you still obviously
have that disappointment from
the week before, but you've got
to move forward with what's
ahead."
ESPNBoston.com Patriots
reporter Mike Reiss contributed
to this report.
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Eagles top Giants 45-38 to take over NFC East

By Associated Press 886 total yards, which is fifth interception. He improved to 10- • Steve Smith had seven 2002.
(ESPN.com) most in the NFL this season. 8 against the Giants in the regular receptions to give him 85 on the • Bloggers' wrapups
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• The two teams combined for 275 yards, two TDs and an against the Eagles. for the first time since November
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Marshall Law Chargers Soaring? Must Skyy Spirits
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Submitted at 12/13/2009 12:00:00 PM

By Nancy Gay (Fanhouse Mindshare North America has
Main) been awarded media planning,
Filed under: Sunday Wrap-Up,
NFL Value Machine Sunday Submitted at 12/13/2009 2:30:00 PM implementation and digital
Evening Wrap checks out players responsibilities for Skyy Spirits
who increased or decreased their Filed under: Chargers, Cowboys, brands, a Gruppo Campari
value during the Sunday AFC West, NFC East, NFL subsidiary. The assignment will
afternoon games. Coaching, NFL Analysis be handled by the agency's Los
Riser of the Week: It's pretty ARLINGTON, Texas -- There Angeles office. Gruppo Campari
evident the only person Kyle was no point asking Dallas coach already collaborates with
Orton trusts in his offense is Wade Phillips what he thinks Mindshare in some of its key
Brandon Marshall. Orton found about the Cowboys' latest trading territories, such as Italy,
The Broncos face the Raiders
Marshall 21 times (to set an NFL December swoon. Germany and Switzerland.
next week, which means Nnamdi
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Asomugha, but Marshall had five
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touchdown last time against
completed eight other passes all leaving the staggering home team followed by NFC East battles at
Oakland. Plus, he's in a much
game and many of his incomplete with consecutive losses. And that the Redskins and against the
better groove now. He was
passes were directed (read: means that Cowboys owner Jerry Eagles at home. "But there's no
superb both before and after the
forced) in Marshall's direction. Jones was the only Dallas voice doubt in my mind when we step
catch Sunday, so there's
Orton attempted 41 passes and that mattered in the aftermath. out here [in practice], we'll have
absolutely no reason to even
targeted Marshall a whopping 28 "This is a bitter pill to swallow a good week. And we'll be down
think about sitting him next
times. I'm honestly not sure I've here at home," said Jones, whose there competing to play."
week. Marshall is a WR1 again.
ever seen a quarterback so locked 8-5 team finds itself fighting for a
on one particular receiver. postseason pulse yet again, with a

Now's Not the Time for Colts to Go Easy

By Greg Couch (Fanhouse postseason, we can finally get were forced to fight to the end,
Main) those perfect 1972 Dolphins to and then won the Super Bowl.
Submitted at 12/13/2009 1:00:00 PM
shut up. And ... What about that?
What's that? Three more regular- "What you have to be careful in
Filed under: Broncos, Colts, season games? No, that can't be. doing is sometimes you try to use Despite What
NFL Analysis INDIANAPOLIS - The Colts are shutting down.
- They did it! Perfection. The Owner Jim Irsay himself told me
logic and perception," Irsay said,
"and you have to be careful that They Say, Saints
Colts beat the Broncos 28-16 that the most important thing is to
Sunday to finish the regular be healthy for that first playoff 2005 and 2007 and then lost their
you come
misperceptions."
up with
Want It All
season a perfect 13-0. And now, game. first playoff game. In 2006, they By Terence Moore (Fanhouse
i f t h e y r o l l t h r o u g h t h e They tried shutting down in late Filed DESPITE
Main) under: Atlanta
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ATLANTA -- It was a lie from perpetuating their lie last week,

the start. Yes, the New Orleans
Saints are obsessed with trying to
go undefeated. No, they won't
say it, because they can't say it.
None of that matters, though.
The truth is everywhere.
And the truth? The Saints wish
to win every game in 2009. After
that, they plan to continue their
streak through February 7 of next
year -- you know, in Miami ,
where the NFL will play its final
game of the season.
Even so, the Saints kept
and that was despite Robert
Meachem becoming the latest
New Orleans player to show that
this is one of those teams of
destiny. The No. 3 wide receiver
turned a Washington Redskins
interception into a Saints
touchdown with a miracle you
really had to see to believe.

Preview: Heavy Rain's first full chapter

By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) playing Heavy Rain, the first of the game to explain is its
Submitted at 12/14/2009 1:00:00 PM
question that generally pops up integration of inaction. You are
is, "Is it anything but a series of oftengiven the opportunity to do
While Heavy Rain attempts to Q u i c k - T i m e E v e n t s ? " T h e nothing -- and counter to your
welcome both serious and more problem with that question is that intuition, that can be the most
casual players, it's clear that it inherently assumes that a QTE satisfying option to pursue.
many will find the unique necessitates a lack of player Gallery: Heavy Rain: The
controls and the story's slow burn control. While it's true that the Origami Killer
a bit too jarring, unconventional, majority of player input is done Continue reading Preview:
and even boring. Sony has via on-screen indicators, to Heavy Rain's first full chapter
a l r e a d y r e l e a s e d s o m u c h simply call them quick-time Preview: Heavy Rain's first full
(arguably too much) footage of events is a bit derogatory, chapter originally appeared on
Quantic Dream's adventure, and ignoring the innovations that Joystiq on Mon, 14 Dec 2009
chances are that you've already developer Quantic Dream has 13:00:00 EST. Please see our
passed judgment on the title. made. Not all actions require while transitioning to a third. with each QTE trying to simulate terms for use of feeds.
Perhaps more than any other players to press buttons as Some inputs use the PS3's built- its corresponding, real-world Permalink| Email this|
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hopes that you want to like the most of the commands involve a will use a combination of various However, variety is not Heavy
experience. Why? It is -- at its very deliberate pace: you may inputs. There are many ways of Rain's greatest innovation.
core -- a role-playing game. need to move the analog stick interfacing with the controller, Perhaps the most difficult aspect
When people find out I've been slowly, or hold down two buttons
72 Game/ E-reader News Edition

Army of Two: The 40th

Day demo coming in
less than 40 days
By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) eye out for the strange interaction
Submitted at 12/14/2009 12:30:00 PM
between the game's two beefy
protagonists. What is that? It's
Actually, according to the EA like ... the future of fist-bumping
press release we just received, the technology. The forearm-bump.
demo for Army of Two: The 40th More subtle, yet still triumphant.
D a y w i l l b e r e l e a s e d i n Less aggressive, but still dripping
significantly less than 40 days. with bravado. An alternative
It'll arrive on the PSN and Xbox m a n l y s a l u t a t i o n o r
Live Marketplace on December c o n g r a t u l a t i o n f o r t h e
17, and the PSP demo will drop gentleman's mercenary. Study the
on January 7 (January 14 in technique, friends. This thing's
Europe). The preview will allow gonna catch on like wildfire.
players to get a sneak peek at Army of Two: The 40th Day
most of the game's first level, demo coming in less than 40
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands which takes place in Shanghai -- days originally appeared on
but you know what? None of that Joystiq on Mon, 14 Dec 2009
is important. What is important is 12:30:00 EST. Please see our
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By James Ransom-Wiley of Time game and its sequel, revisited) elements in the game
(Joystiq) Warrior Within. and the return of a familiar voice.
Submitted at 12/14/2009 12:00:00 PM
Clearly, Ubisoft has positioned Continue reading Prince of
the next game to piggyback on Persia: The Forgotten Sands fills
During a recent Ubisoft preview the Bruckheimer blockbuster and in gaps before Warrior Within;
event, Michael McIntyre, director ideally generate renewed sales new details revealed in developer
of level design for Prince of for the brand (which under interview
Persia: The Forgotten Sands, performed in its 2008 iteration). Prince of Persia: The Forgotten
talked to Joystiq about the new Forgotten Sands is also an Sands fills in gaps before Warrior
s e q u e l t o t h e o l d t r i l o g y , opportunity for Ubisoft to finally Within; new details revealed in
establishing its connection to the justify the Prince's remarkable developer interview originally
Sands of Time game series and transformation from carefree appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 14
the Bruckheimer film. The hero to brooding, emo warrior. Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please
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Last-Minute Gifts from Boticca.com

By ELLE.com (ELLE News $382.00
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The site caters to those tuned
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No More' development for into the international fashion
scene: The designers are from all
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smaller projects you to see the prices in dollars,
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the bank.
— Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin
$49.50
Orange laser cut wool felt with
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but it also taught us that Earth No Report: Recoil slows 'Earth No
More, a 3D Realms-published More' development for smaller
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Remedy staff at Recoil Games, Joystiq on Mon, 14 Dec 2009
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Lily Cole on The Imaginarium of Doctor
Parnassus
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:51:10 AM
It’s impossible to take one’s eyes
off catwalk darling Lily Cole in
The Imaginarium of Doctor
Parnassus, Terry Gilliam’s trippy
fantasy film, which hits theaters
December 25. The Pre-
Raphaelite beauty, who plays the
teen daughter of the title
character—the leader of a
travelling theater troupe who
wins immortality through a
bargain with the devil—recently
chatted with us about her first
major role, her Cambridge
studies, and upcoming acting
projects.
—Erin Clements
What attracted you to Parnassus?
I love fantasy films, but it was
more that the script was
incredibly fascinating. I met
Terry Gilliam and he was such an
unusual, brilliant person. I’d seen
Brazil and Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas, and was very excited
to have the opportunity to work
with him.
If you could have any
superpower, what would it be?
To fly.
What was it like working with
veteran actors like Christopher
Plummer?
It was intimidating but very
inspiring to be up against some
of the greatest actors of our age.
It’s a wonderful place to be and
also a scary place to be.
What was the atmosphere like on
set after Heath Ledger passed
away and Colin Farrell, Johnny
Depp, and Jude Law took over
his role?
It was very sad, but also lovely
to see everyone again. There was
a sense of unity and everyone
really was so grief-stricken and
really loved Heath and came
back together in a beautiful and
loving way to try and finish the
film, so it was a strange mixture.
Is acting a long-term goal?
I’m going to see what’s offered
to me. I’m definitely more
interested in acting than
modeling and if I’m lucky I’ll
keep pursuing that path and keep
finding these interesting projects.
At the same time, I’m studying
the history of art right now [at
Cambridge] and the world’s got
vast possibilities. I’m not hell-
bent on one particular path.
What led you to study art?
Wanting to know and appreciate
the greatest influences in visual
culture over the last 2,000 years.
It’s an inspiring subject and it
doesn’t seem at odds with
filmmaking these days, which is
a technologically developed way
of expressing creativity.
Do you have a favorite artist?
I love artists who make
innovative changes—Leonardo
da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer, if
you look back hundreds of years.
And then a lot of 20th-century
artists—De Kooning, Eva Hesse,
Newman, Picasso, Gerhard
Richter.
Has it been difficult juggling
school with modeling?
I never get sick of school—well,
I hardly ever got sick of school,
and I hardly ever get sick of
modeling. But I’m sure I’d get
sick of both if I’d just committed
to one entirely.
Who are your favorite fashion
designers?
Jean-Paul Gaultier, Noir,
Alexander McQueen, Chanel, a
lot of the French designers.
How did modeling prepare you
for acting?
I think it prepared me for being
on a film set and having a
hundred people in a room
watching you and having
cameras on you and not being
self-conscious and being
confident enough to take on such
a proposition. It gave me a lot of
tools that allowed me to not be
too terrified by the prospect of
acting.
Do you have any other film
projects lined up?
I’m starting a film next year with
Mary Harron. It’s based on a
Rachel Klein book called The
Moth Diaries. My character is
accused of being a vampire
throughout it, so it’s kind of
ambiguously a vampire story, but
it’s also about the narrator’s
psychological obsession with
another girl.
What’s the best and worst advice
you’ve gotten?
The best is probably to stay true
to yourself and pursue the
impossible. The worst
advice—did you hear about the
Kate Moss scandal?—I know she
was joking, but “Nothing tastes
as good as being skinny.”
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AP Enterprise: Gaps
in DNA banks lead
to tragedy (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:27:39 AM
MADISON, Wis. – During what
police say was a 20-year killing
spree in Milwaukee, Walter Ellis
left his DNA behind all along the
way — everywhere but the one
place where it might have saved a
life.
Ellis should have given a DNA
sample to the state crime
databank during a prison stint in
the early part of this decade, but
he had another inmate pose as
him, authorities say. As a result,
when analysts tried to identify
DNA in bodily fluids from one of
the slayings back in 2003, no
matches turned up.
Investigators didn't connect Ellis
to the crimes until this fall, when
they seized genetic material from
his toothbrush. By then, it was
too late for the woman police say
was Ellis' seventh and final
victim.
"If they would have got his DNA
when they were supposed to get
it, maybe my cousin would still
be here," said Sarah Stokes,
whose cousin, 28-year-old
prostitute Ouithreaun Stokes, was
found beaten and strangled in an
abandoned rooming house in
2007.
An Associated Press review
found tens of thousands of DNA
samples are missing from state
databanks across the country
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Ground search for 2 missing Ore. climbers halted (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) area, and will examine photos time," Strovink said of the Mount Hood is a popular site "It's exciting and fun when your
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:31:35 AM
taken from Sunday's aerial photographs. among climbers in the United testing yourself against the power
search. The final frames of the photos States. In 25 years, it has been of nature," Whittaker said in an
GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. – Authorities say they have not appeared to show that the the site of dozens of climbing interview from his home in Port
Rescuers on Mount Hood who given up hope that Anthony climbers were at the 10,000-foot accidents and fatalities. The Townsend, Wash. "But you've
have recovered the body of one Vietti, 24, of Longview, Wash., level, not too far from the worst on record happened in May got to know what you're doing;
climber say "time is critical" in and Katie Nolan, 29, of Portland, summit, Erik Broms, a Portland 1986 when nine people — seven you've got to be prepared."
the hunt for his two companions, could still be found alive, calling Mountain Rescue team leader, students from Oregon Episcopal Republican John Lim, a former
but all but ruled out a ground them experienced climbers. But told the Oregonian newspaper for School and two adults — died legislator who's running for
search for them Monday because rescuers were mindful that "time Monday editions. after they dug a snow cave governor, said Sunday he plans
the risks of an avalanche on is critical now," Strovink said Steve Rollins, another Portland during a sudden storm. to keep pushing for a state law to
Oregon's tallest peak were too Sunday. Mountain Rescue leader, told the The latest search, which comes require mountaineers to carry
great. Mountaineers found the body of newspaper that rescuers believe almost exactly three years after electronic locator devices when
The search crews are hoping for t h e i r c o m p a n i o n , L u k e T . the missing climbers could still another trio of experienced they head for the summit of
a break in the foul weather by Gullberg, 26, of Des Moines, be alive, saying that details from climbers died on Mount Hood Mount Hood.
midday Monday to see if they Wash., on Saturday. the photos led them to believe during a December 2006 Many rescuers and mountaineers
can mount another aerial search. The three mountaineers had that Vietti and Nolan have blizzard, has generated heated oppose such a requirement,
"They can't take to the hill begun their ascent on the west survival equipment with them. debate among some about the saying it would create a false
because the avalanche danger is side of the mountain about 1 a.m. Relatives of the three climbers wisdom of tackling the mountain sense of security and prompt
e x t r e m e , m o r e s o t h a n Friday and were due back late were gathered at Timberline during the winter, a season when some climbers to take risks they
yesterday," said Detective Jim that afternoon, but failed to Lodge, a ski lodge on Mount brutal storms can move in otherwise would avoid.
Strovink of the Clackamas return. On Saturday, crews found Hood and a staging area for the quickly. In the latest case, the three
County sheriff's office. Gullberg's body on a glacier. A rescuers, to await more news. In an online discussion for climbers did not have a radio
Risk of an avalanche prevented f o r e n s i c e x a m i n a t i o n w a s The climbers met through church c l i m b e r s a t locator beacon but they did have
teams of rescuers from searching planned. No details were released activities, said Dennis Simons, a http://www.summitpost.org, a cell phone that was briefly
the mountain on foot Sunday. An on how he died or the condition nondenominational volunteer some said it's irresponsible even activated as they were preparing
overnight storm dumped seven of the body. chaplain for the police and fire for experienced climbers to take to begin their ascent.
inches of snow on the daunting His equipment also was found departments in nearby Sandy. on Mount Hood during the winter ___
11,249-foot mountain, raising the scattered around the glacier, Simons said the experience of while others said the challenge of Associated Press Writer Brad
avalanche danger. Forecasters including a camera with at least Nolan and Vietti also was giving winter mountaineering is what Cain contributed to this report
expect another storm to sweep in 20 photos of the climbers. Crews their relatives hope. He said brings them to Mount Hood. from Salem, Ore.
late Monday afternoon, dropping have looked over the photos for Nolan had made the summit of Veteran climber Jim Whittaker, fivefilters.org featured article:
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Rescuers held out the possibility climbers. before. "They know how to understands why climbers like
a helicopter could lower a rescuer " I t l o o k e d l i k e t h e y w e r e survive in the snow," Simons the challenge of tackling Mount
to inspect the immediate search confident and having a good said. Hood in the winter.
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because they were never taken or
were lost. The missing evidence
— combined with big backlogs at
the nation's crime labs that result
in DNA samples sitting on
shelves for years without being
analyzed and entered into the
databanks — is preventing
investigators from cracking
untold numbers of cases. And
some of those gaps have had
tragic consequences.
"If you got missing samples,
some of those people are out
there raping your wives and
abducting and murdering your
children this week," said former
Charlottesville, Va., police Capt.
J.E. Harding, who helped
uncover missing samples in that
state during a search for a serial
rapist.
Crime lab supervisors, state
police and prison officials blame
the failure to collect samples on
new and confusing laws and a
lack of coordination among the
many different law enforcement
agencies and institutions
responsible for taking DNA.
"I would just about guarantee you
every state has an issue with
this," said Lisa Hurst, who tracks
DNA convictions for Gordon
Thomas Honeywell, an
organization that lobbies on
public safety and biotechnology
issues.
The AP review found 27 states
either failed to collect some DNA
samples or are unable to say
whether they took one from
every offender who owes one.
The case against Ellis, who is set
to go trial this spring, prompted
an audit in Wisconsin that found
12,000 convict samples are
missing. The AP review further
found that Illinois failed to get
DNA from about 50,000
offenders, Colorado from 2,000,
and Virginia from about 8,400.
Exactly how many samples are
missing across the country is
unknown. The National Institute
of Justice estimated in 2003 that
offenders owed up to 1 million
uncollected samples and as many
as 300,000 samples may be
waiting for processing. The
backlog grew to about 450,000
by 2008. The institute had no
updated estimate of uncollected
samples.
At least 13 states are dealing
with more samples than they can
handle. Kansas, for example, has
nearly 40,000 on its crime lab
shelves, waiting for upload.
Police in Columbus, Ohio, say
Robert N. Patton Jr. committed
37 rapes over a decade and a half.
As with Ellis in Milwaukee, he
could have been stopped earlier.
Patton had submitted his DNA
in 2001 while behind bars for
burglary, but it was not entered
into the database until 2004, two
days before he climbed through
an apartment window and raped
Diana Cunningham. Police say
he attacked 13 women in all after
supplying his DNA.
If Patton's genetic material "had
been processed in a timely
fashion, he never would have
gotten to me or gotten to any of
the others," said Cunningham,
now 25. "It's scary how many
more people are going to be
victimized because their attackers
aren't going to be caught. And it
would be so easy for them to be
caught if they could make the
matches."
Patton is now serving a 68-year
prison sentence.
State databanks contain
hundreds of thousands of
samples. The FBI's national
database, built with states'
uploads, held 7.4 million as of
September.
Over the past 15 years, tough-on
-crime legislators expanded laws
to require DNA from more
offenders. First it was sex
offenders. Today, 47 states
demand DNA from every
convicted felon. Twenty-one take
it from anyone arrested for
homicide or a sex crime,
according to Gordon Thomas
Honeywell.
Generally, prison officials
collect DNA from inmates as
they enter the institution, often by
swabbing the prisoner's mouth.
Local police, sheriff's
departments or probation officers
are also supposed to take
samples. That means a profusion
of collection points.
But the laws are so fluid that the
agencies responsible for
collecting DNA struggle to track
which offenders owe samples,
authorities say. The New Mexico
lab has taken to sending wall
charts to sheriff's departments to
help them keep things straight.
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has
blamed his state's missing DNA,
in part, on confusion over the
laws during the early days and no
clear idea of who was in charge.
Roughly half the states have
some cross-check between their
labs and prison systems to ensure
everyone who owes a sample has
given it, the AP found. For
example, Michigan DNA
administrators and state prison
officials compare information
annually. Virginia requires that it
be done quarterly. But half the
states have no such procedures.
Robyn Quinn, Delaware's DNA
database administrator, said she
is sure her state is missing DNA,
but has no idea how much, citing
lack of communication between
her office and the Corrections
Department.
"The other end is a black hole for
me. We have no way of getting
into their system to see who is
supposed to be collected," she
said. "I am waiting for something
to hit the fan, if you will."
___
Associated Press writers Robert
Imrie contributed from Wausau,
Wis., and Carrie Antlfinger from
Milwaukee.
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Rescuers in Oregon launched an
all-out helicopter search Monday
for two missing hikers on Mount
Hood as bad weather and
avalanche danger ruled out the
possibility of a ground search.
The Civil Air Patrol, the Oregon
Army National Guard and the
U.S. Coast Guard are using aerial
surveillance to produce high
resolution photo images to
examine any trace of the missing
climbers.
Rescuers are hoping that the
climbers — 24-year-old Anthony
Vietti and 29-year-old Katie
Nolan — will hear the helicopter
flying over and send a signal that
they're alive.
The body of their companion, 26
-year-old Luke T. Gullberg of
Des Moines, Wash., was found
Saturday on the glacier at the
9,000-feet level.
The three had begun their ascent
on the west side of the mountain
about 1 a.m. Friday and were due
back that afternoon, but failed to
return.
Gullberg's equipment also was
found scattered around the
glacier, including a camera with
at least 20 photos of the climbers.
Crews have looked over the
photos for landmarks and other
clues to the location of the two
missing climbers — Vietti, of
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Longview, Wash., and Nolan, of
Portland.
"It looked like they were
confident and having a good
time," Jim Strovink, spokesman
for the Clackamas County
sheriff, said of the photographs.
Rescuers had to bring in a
helicopter and airplanes to
conduct the search over the
weekend because new snow had
created avalanche dangers for
crews working on foot.
Skies had cleared Sunday
morning, but the weather
worsened again Monday.
SLIDESHOW: Missing
Climbers on Mount Hood
After eight inches of snow fell
on the 11,249-foot mountain
overnight Saturday, avalanche
dangers in the higher elevations
Sunday made a rescue mission on
foot too risky.
"Nobody is going to want to
tromp around in that snow," said
Steve Rollins, a Portland
Mountain Rescue leader.
Still, officials had not given up
hope that Nolan and Vietti could
still be found alive, calling them
experienced climbers. Strovink
said he didn't believe the
climbers had a shovel, which
could be used to build a snow
cave to keep them out of the
elements. But, he said, "They
were well equipped otherwise."
The Oregonian newspaper
reported Sunday that Gullberg
was a sales clerk at the outdoor
retailer and cooperative REI in
Tukwila, Wash., and he studied
writing and English at Central
Washington University.
"He was very adventurous,"
Stacy Cleveland, his cousin, told
the newspaper. "He did a lot of
hiking and climbing and things a
lot us would never attempt."
Relatives of the three climbers
were gathered at Timberline
Lodge, a ski lodge on the flank of
Mount Hood and a staging area
for the rescuers, to await more
news. They were comforted by
Dennis Simons, a another trio of experienced
nondenominational volunteer
chaplain for the police and fire
departments in nearby Sandy.
"They are grieving and hoping,"
he said.
The three climbers, all
Christians, met through church
activities, Simons said, and
Nolan has traveled extensively
for Christian causes.
Simons said the experience of
Nolan and Vietti also was giving
their relatives hope. He said
Nolan had made the summit of
other Cascade Range peaks, and
the three had climbed together
before. "They know how to
survive in the snow," Simons
said.
Mount Hood is a popular site
among climbers in the United
States. In 25 years, it has been
the site of dozens of climbing
accidents and fatalities. The
worst on record happened in May
1986 when nine people — seven
students from Oregon Episcopal
School and two adults — died
after they dug a snow cave
during a sudden storm.
The latest search, which comes
almost exactly three years after
climbers died on Mount Hood
during a December 2006
blizzard, has generated heated
debate among some about the
wisdom of tackling the mountain
during the winter, a season when
brutal storms can move in
quickly.
In an online discussion for
77
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www.summitpost.org, some said
it's irresponsible even for
experienced climbers to take on
Mount Hood during the winter
while others said the challenge of
winter mountaineering is what
brings them to Mount Hood.
Veteran climber Jim Whittaker,
the first American to conquer
Mount Everest, said he
understands why climbers like
the challenge of tackling Mount
Hood in the winter.
"It's exciting and fun when your
testing yourself against the power
of nature," Whittaker said in an
interview from his home in Port
Townsend, Wash. "But you've
got to know what you're doing;
you've got to be prepared."
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Submitted at 12/14/2009 5:11:48 AM
LAS VEGAS – The owner of a
brothel more than two hours'
drive from Las Vegas said she
hopes to hire Nevada's first legal
male prostitutes within a month,
now that state health officials
have approved a method to test
men for infectious diseases.
The world is ready for women,
or even other men, to legally buy
sex, said Shady Lady Ranch
owner Bobbi Davis. Plus, being
the first to offer male service
could boost business in tough
economic times, she said.
"With so many other male revues
going on in Vegas, we thought it
was time to give this a try,"
Davis told The Associated Press.
Until now, men have been
effectively barred from legally
plying the world's oldest
profession in Nevada by the
specificity of a state health law
requiring prostitutes to undergo
Britons' Guantanamo case rejected
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Submitted at 12/14/2009 9:17:55 AM
Four British former Guantanamo
Bay prisoners have failed in their
bid to bring legal action against
leading members of the Bush
administration.
The US Supreme Court refused
frequent cervical testing for
sexually transmitted diseases.
The health board approved a
regulation to allow urethral
testing for men — a crucial rule
change by the state agency with
ultimate power over whether
prostitutes can or can't work.
For more than 25 years, no
licensed female prostitute in
Nevada has contracted HIV, the
virus that causes AIDS, said
George Flint, a Reno wedding
chapel owner and longtime
lobbyist for the Nevada Brothel
Owners Association.
"My concern is that we continue
to maintain that kind of record,"
he said.
Davis, Flint and Nye County
Sheriff Tony DeMeo all
acknowledged Friday that Davis
still needs county approval to
become the first of the state's 24
legal brothels to offer a lineup of
men.
"We're going to look at it. We
have some concerns," said
to take up an appeal by the four.
Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, Rhuhel
Ahmed and Jamal al-Harith said
they were the victims of torture
and religious abuse during
detention.
Lower courts had already thrown
out the claims against former
Defence Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld and 10 other officials.
DeMeo, who serves as a voting
member of both a county health
commission and a board that
oversees alcohol, gambling and
brothel licenses.
"The ramifications of this are
going to be statewide," he said.
"We're going to have to deal with
it at our other six brothels in Nye
County if they want to offer the
same service. We want to make
sure we protect customers and
make sure the industry is
regulated with clarity and
understanding."
Prostitution has been legal in
rural Nevada counties since 1971
under strict state health board
oversight but is against the law in
the Las Vegas and Reno areas.
Flint said he feared the idea of
male prostitutes serving male
clients could spur a legislative
backlash. He said he works to
make the brothel industry
socially acceptable to both
libertarians and conservatives.
"I think the Legislature is really
The four men were captured in
Afghanistan in 2001 and
transferred to the detention centre
at Guantanamo Bay in early
2002. They were freed in 2004.
'Unique opportunity'
Their lawsuit alleged that they
were beaten and threatened by
dogs during their captivity.
It also alleged their prayers were
going to give me some heartburn
over this," Flint said in a
telephone interview after
appearing before the state Health
Board in Carson City on Friday
to endorse the Shady Lady
proposal.
"But I think it's an inevitability,"
he added, "and the brothel
association has reluctantly agreed
to support this as a test."
Davis said she wants to add two
men to the three women she
currently has living and working
at her compound of trailers off
U.S. 95 about 150 miles
northwest of Las Vegas.
She said the women usually
charge about $300 per hour for
the five to 20 customers who
visit on any given night.
"We don't know how to structure
the men's pricing yet," Davis
said.
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interrupted, their beards shaved
off, and that at one point a guard
threw a copy of the Koran into a
toilet.
In their appeal, their lawyers
said: "This case presents a unique
and compelling opportunity for
this court to affirm that torture at
Guantanamo was a violation of
fundamental rights."
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Husband of Missing
Utah Mom Again
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:25:02 AM
Utah police are planning a
second interview Monday with
the husband of a woman whose
disappearance has been called
"highly suspicious."
West Valley City Police Capt.
Tom McLachlan told
FoxNews.com that authorities
plan to re-question the husband
of 28-year-old Susan Powell, the
mother of two young children
who was reported missing Dec. 6
from a Salt Lake City suburb.
Powell's husband, Josh, had
previously told police he left his
wife and took his boys, ages 2
and 4, on a camping trip around
midnight on Dec. 6 in
subfreezing temperatures. Police
said he told them that they slept
in a van and returned home
Tuesday evening.
But authorities said that they
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unwarranted.
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(BBC News | Americas | basis for it... They were out The BBC's Tehran camping trip because snow had for Powell's family, told The
World Edition) hiking and unfortunately, correspondent, Jon Leyne, in covered the site at Simpson Associated Press Sunday that
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:50:01 AM
apparently, allegedly walked London, says Iran's latest move Springs on the historic Pony there's an overriding feeling of
across an unmarked boundary." could be seen by Washington as Express Trail in Utah's West helplessness.
US Secretary of State Hillary 'Deliberate provocation' a deliberate provocation. Desert. "It's really difficult not to have an
Clinton has called on Tehran to Mr Mottaki earlier told a news The three hikers are all friends Powell's father, meanwhile, idea of where she is so that we
free three US citizens who conference that "interrogation of who attended the prestigious pleaded for her safe return can even concentrate our search
crossed into Iran while hiking in the three Americans who have University of California, Monday, calling the someplace."
Iraq. illegally entered Iran with Berkeley. circumstances surrounding her She said that Powell's children
She was speaking after Iranian suspicious aims is ongoing". Shane Bauer, 27, is a freelance disappearance odd and stating are weathering the ordeal.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr "They will be put on trial by the journalist and photographer, who that his daughter may have been "The family is making a huge
Mottaki said the three would judiciary and rulings will be specialises in reporting on the taken out of the state. effort just to insulate them from
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Mrs Clinton said that any The three Americans were Damascus with Sarah Shourd, would leave her children or leave up all right."
charges would be unfounded. seized by Iranian border guards 31, a teacher and writer. her home under the Many of her family members
Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and on 31 July near the town of Josh Fattal, 27, an circumstances that they found — and friends were fasting, praying
Josh Fattal were detained in July Marivan, and are being held in environmentalist and teacher, had leaving her purse and cell phone and resting Sunday, said Damon
and have been accused of illegal Tehran's Evin prison. travelled to Damascus in the and keys behind," Powell's Talbot, president of the nonprofit
entry. Swiss diplomats - who represent summer to join them for the father, Chuck Cox, said Monday Destiny Search Project. Talbot
Iranian officials have also US interests in Iran, with whom hiking holiday. in an interview with Fox News. helps maintain a Facebook page
previously alleged the trio were the US has no formal diplomatic He reportedly posted a Facebook "Given the oddness of the for Susan Powell that was created
spying. relations - were allowed to meet entry on 17 July, saying that he disappearance and that no one by her best friend, Kiirsi
Their families say they strayed the trio in late September for the was in the Middle East and seems to have any idea where she Hellewell in West Valley City.
across the border accidentally. first time since their arrest. planning a trip to Kurdistan. may be, I believe it's possible she Hellewell had nothing new to
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"We consider this a totally Iran can have learned about them McLachlan said 30 detectives classification," McLachlan said.
unfounded charge. There is no since they were detained". have been working on the case "But it is very suspicious to us,
and several of them were on duty given the circumstances."
Chilean tycoon wins first round Sunday, fielding any tips or leads
they can get from family and
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He will now face centre-left absence of 10 years. other items "that you would
Centre-right candidate Sebastian candidate Eduardo Frei, a former Around eight million Chileans n o r m a l l y a s s o c i a t e w i t h
Pinera has won the first round of president himself, in a second have been voting in the election. somebody leaving the house," he
Chile's presidential election, but round in January. Mr Pinera, 60, owns a television said.
without the majority needed to A victory for Mr Pinera would channel, a stake in Chile's most
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successful football club and has He says Chile needs a new face
(BBC News | Americas | the sale. Advisors. millions of dollars in and new ideas in the presidential
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Submitted at 12/14/2009 7:16:26 AM
Nearly 700 banks were assisted Later on Monday, President He has campaigned on a tough same coalition.
by Tarp, and most were quick to Obama will meet top banking law-and-order ticket and has also The fourth candidate was Jorge
Citigroup has said it will repay repay the bail-out money because executives, including those from vowed to use his business know- Arrate, a veteran Socialist who
$20bn of US bail-out funding, it came with restrictions such as Citigroup. how to reactivate the economy, has the support of Chile's
marking the bank's exit from the caps on executive pay and He will ask them to support his promising Chileans an annual Communist Party.
US government's Troubled Asset dividends. efforts to tighten regulation on growth rate of 6% for the next Mr Enriquez-Ominami polled
Relief Program (Tarp). Last week Bank of America paid the financial industry and to four years. 20%, with Mr Arrate on 6%.
Citigroup is the last of the big back its $45bn Tarp funding. boost lending to small The BBC's Gideon Long in If Mr Pinera is successful, it will
US banks to leave the support Now the only national bank businesses. Santiago says a victory for Mr mark the first time in 51 years
mechanism. It will issue $17bn in remaining with the programme is The meeting could well prove Pinera would give Chile its first that the conservatives have taken
new shares to help finance the Wells Fargo. tense after the president referred conservative government since power in Chile via the ballot box.
move. The US Treasury said it was to bankers as "fat cats" in a TV 1990, when strongman Gen Are you in Chile? What outcome
Theoretically, it means it can pleased Citigroup was moving interview on Sunday. Augusto Pinochet finally are you hoping for? How
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US sky survey probe launches
A Nasa satellite designed to
uncover hidden cosmic objects
has blasted off from California.
The Wide-field Infrared Survey
Explorer (Wise) blasted off from
Vandenberg Air Force Base on a
Delta II rocket just after 1409
GMT.
It will pick up the glow of
hundreds of millions of
astronomical bodies.
The probe is expected to uncover
objects that have never seen
before, including some of the
coolest stars and the most
luminous galaxies.
The $320m mission will do this
by scanning the entire sky in
infrared light with a sensitivity
hundreds of times greater than
ever before.
Viewing the sky with "infrared
glasses" can lift a veil on many
objects that are not visible to the
naked eye.
"All systems are looking good,
and we are on our way to seeing
the entire infrared sky better than
ever before," said William Irace,
the mission's project manager at
Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL) in California.
Sky scanner
The satellite will also have a role
in planetary protection: Wise will
be able to detect some of the
darkest near-Earth asteroids and
comets.
This would help efforts to
determine whether any of these
objects could strike Earth in the
near future.
Wise joins two other infrared
missions in space: Nasa's Spitzer
Space Telescope and the
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Abu Dhabi is providing $10bn in
funding to bail out its fellow
emirate Dubai, enabling it to
settle a $4.1bn sukuk or Islamic
bond owed by troubled developer
Nakheel due on Monday, the
official news agency said.
The government of Dubai said in
a statement that the remaining
funds would be used for interest
payments and working capital
until April 30 next year on the
Herschel Space Observatory. many hundreds. condition that Dubai World, a
This mission is different from This could double or triple the heavily indebted state-owned
those others in that it will survey number of star-like objects c o n g l o m e r a t e , r e a c h e d a
the entire sky. known within 25 light-years of standstill agreement on the
It is designed to cast a wide net Earth. remaining portion of $26bn in
to catch a variety of objects of The spacecraft will spend a distressed debts.
interest. m o n t h c h e c k i n g o u t i t s The funds would also be used to
Wise will target dim objects i n s t r u m e n t s . meet the needs of existing trade
called brown dwarfs. These are Print Sponsor creditors and contractors, the
effectively failed stars, which fivefilters.org featured article: government said.
have not gathered up enough Normalising the crime of the People close to Nakheel say it
mass to ignite. century by John Pilger owes as much as Dh11bn ($3bn)
Brown dwarfs are cool and faint, to contractors even after agreeing
and nearly impossible to see in cuts of about 25 per cent with
visible light. Mission scientists some suppliers in the spring.
expect the spacecraft to uncover Cash flow has dried up as
property prices in Dubai have
halved.
Regional debt and equity
markets reacted positively to the
news that Abu Dhabi was coming
to the aid of its embattled
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ExxonMobil
Dubai : Saving the day agrees $41bn XTO
(The Economist: News markets. other, unlike the $10 billion (DIFC), a 110-acre “free zone”
analysis) Just as every film-goer knows routed through the UAE’s central with its owns laws, written in Energy takeover
Submitted at 12/14/2009 4:07:08 AM
that the damsel in distress will be bank in February and the $5 English and based on common- (Financial Times - US
saved in the end, so Dubai’s billion lent in November through law principles. The judges homepage)
Dubai creditors had long assumed that two commercial banks partly include one who formerly sat in
Dec 14th 2009 the emirate would be saved by its owned by the Abu Dhabi the High Court of England and Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:36:05 AM

From Economist.com Abu oil-rich neighbour. But the government. Wales and a Singaporean who ExxonMobil, the world’s biggest
Dhabi rescues Dubai after all s t a n d s t i l l a n n o u n c e d o n Even now, Dubai’s creditors previously served on his publicly listed oil company,
DUBAI, one of seven members November 25th departed from cannot expect every claim to be country's Supreme Court. They announced on Monday a $41bn
of the United Arab Emirates this script, creating genuine redeemed in full. The money left will apply DIFC law, with some acquisition of XTO Energy that
(UAE), is now in the middle of suspense. over after the Nakheel sukuk is tweaks, including a provision to gives it a strong position in the
its international film festival, Investors knew Abu Dhabi could repaid will go to Dubai World’s allow for an automatic stay on huge onshore US natural gas play
which includes “City of Life”, a not let its neighbour fail without suppliers and contractors, who creditors’ claims. and sets out a strategic focus for
film set in Dubai and directed by damaging its own economic endured a standstill on payments Their expertise will not be a cleaner-energy future.
a local. But the most gripping interests. They assumed that Abu long before the company asked needed if Dubai World’s Following the completion of the
cliff-hanger is playing out in Dhabi knew this too. Therefore the same of its creditors. The creditors now come to terms. The deal, Exxon said it will establish
D u b a i ’ s d e b t m a r k e t s . O n when it let Dubai walk to the money will service Dubai chances are good that they will. a new organisation to manage
Monday December 14th Abu edge, it was deeply unsettling. World’s other debts only if the The shock they have suffered global development and
Dhabi, the wealthiest member of Either Abu Dhabi's policymakers group is “successful in over the past three weeks may production of unconventional
the UAE, arrived on the scene at did not know the damage this negotiating a standstill as have softened them up. And the resources, enabling the rapid
the last moment to rescue its would do, or they did not care. previously announced,” the underlying case for a development and deployment of
neighbour from the brink of The announcement on Monday statement says. restructuring of Dubai’s debts technologies and operating
default. suggests that Abu Dhabi did care. If those negotiations falter, has some merit, even if the practices to increase production.
It provided $10 billion to It just did not anticipate quite Dubai World’s fate will be government has so far handled it Unconventional resources
Dubai’s government, more than how badly creditors would react. governed by a brand new abysmally. Dubai, one might say, include gas contained in shale
enough to repay the $4.1 billion Nakheel’s creditors can now be “reorganisation law”, unveiled on has had one life. Now it must rock, tightly compressed sands,
due on Monday to holders of a repaid, but Dubai’s credibility Monday. The UAE already has a make a success of its second. and coal bed methane. To
sukuk, or Islamic bond, issued by cannot be repaired so easily. Its bankruptcy law, but almost no Back to top ^^ Readers' capitalise on the XTO’s expertise
Nakheel, a prominent developer. solvency rests on a relationship one uses it. Any creditor comments in this area, Exxon will base the
Nakheel belongs to Dubai World, w i t h i t s n e i g h b o u r t h a t i s foolhardy enough to test the The Economist welcomes your organisation in XTO’s Fort
a holding company owned by the impossible to fathom. At least regime can expect to recover just views. Worth, Texas, offices, where it
Dubai government, which less this latest handout dropped the ten cents on the dollar, the World fivefilters.org featured article: intends to keep the company’s
than three weeks ago requested a fig leaves that disguised Abu Bank calculates. Normalising the crime of the team in place. World gas
standstill on repayments of $26 Dhabi’s previous gestures of The new decree instead appoints century by John Pilger production
billion of debt, perplexing support. It was given directly three judges from the Dubai FT interactive graphic: The
investors and panicking global from one government to the International Financial Centre balance of power among the
producers of natural gas has
changed dramatically in the past
few decades. Use this graphic to
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Italian politics: Battered Berlusconi

(The Economist: News doctor said he would need about a man who admitted afterwards has more than once vowed to
analysis) three weeks to recover fully. Mr that he detested the prime reform the constitution,
Submitted at 12/13/2009 10:02:54 PM
Berlusconi’s spokesman minister, hurled a camera tripod apparently in an effort to curb the
described him as “tired and at him in Rome. powers of the judiciary.
Italian politics suffering”. It was expected that Most Italian politicians The prime minister had
Dec 14th 2009 | ROME he would leave hospital on condemned outright the latest apparently been warned of
From Economist.com Italy Tuesday. attack. But Antonio Di Pietro, a possible trouble in Milan. His
reacts to an assault on the prime A 42-year-old man, Massimo former prosecutor who leads a spokesman said that, as they were
minister, Silvio Berlusconi Tartaglia, was arrested on small anti-corruption party, said on their way to the rally, Mr
F A M O U S p o l i t i c i a n s a r e suspicion of a premeditated Mr Berlusconi “instigates Berlusconi had asked him “don't
occasionally pelted with eggs or assault. Police said they had violence”. His remark was you think that something could
shoes. But the attack on Italy's found in his pockets another widely criticised. But several happen?” In the event, he was
p r i m e m i n i s t e r , S i l v i o souvenir and a chilli-pepper commentators of right and left vigorously heckled and hit back
Berlusconi, on Sunday December spray. An inventor and electronic alike remarked that, while the hard at his tormentors. Pointing
13th was of an entirely different engineer from a town just outside attack may have been the work of at the section of the crowd from
order. As he mixed with a crowd Milan, Mr Tartaglia had been a mentally disturbed individual, it which the heckling had come, he
after a rally in Milan a man undergoing psychiatric treatment emerged from a background of shouted: “Shame, shame,
hurled a plaster souvenir—a for ten years. Neighbours said he growing political tension, much shame.” Against this background,
model of the city's cathedral—at was subject to fits of rage. His of it revolving around the prime it is perhaps surprising that he
him from just a few feet away. father said that the family minister. chose to mix with the crowd. But
Mr Berlusconi fell to the ground supported the opposition party, The previous weekend, sizeable contact with the people is
and when he re-emerged into but added: “I am not aware that numbers of demonstrators had intrinsic to Mr Berlusconi's
view his face was smothered with my son hates the prime minister.” converged on Rome for a “No populist style.
blood. What the incident has made Berlusconi Day” at which the Back to top ^^ Readers'
The 73-year-old prime minister clear, however, is that plenty of prime minister was variously comments
had suffered what one doctor other Italians do. Within hours, deplored and ridiculed. He has The Economist welcomes your
later called “classic boxer's some 20,000 people had signed been involved in a string of sex views.
injuries”. He had a broken nose up to Facebook groups lauding scandals this year. Having lost fivefilters.org featured article:
and cuts on his lips, one of which Mr Tartaglia as a hero. This is immunity from prosecution he is Normalising the crime of the
needed stitches. Two of his teeth not the first time Mr Berlusconi once more on trial in two cases century by John Pilger
were broken and he had a nasty has been assaulted. Five years involving alleged bribery and
gash just below his left eye. His ago, during his last government, fraud. And in recent weeks he
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neighbour.
The Dubai Financial Market
jumped 10.1 per cent, led by
property giant Emaar, which
recovered some of its losses over
the past two weeks. DP World,
the international ports operator
owned by Dubai World, soared
10.2 per cent on the smaller
Nasdaq Dubai exchange.
Stocks across the region also
gained. Abu Dhabi’s bourse rose
7.5 per cent and Qatar gained 2.4
per cent, while Kuwait, Muscat
and Bahrain’s exchanges added
0.4 per cent, 2.1 per cent and 1
per cent respectively.
The bail-out came after last-
minute talks between the ruling
families of Dubai and Abu
Dhabi, according to a Dubai
government spokesman. The
move should ease global
concerns about Dubai’s solvency
but also illustrates the extent of
the commercial hub’s financial
dependency on oil-rich Abu
Dhabi.
“Abu Dhabi and Dubai have been
spending lots of time together.
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continued from page 82
this acquisition is that they
understand the importance of gas
in their future,’’ said Amy Myers
Jaffe, energy expert at the James
A Baker Institute for Public
Policy. “It’s definitely the fuel of
the future.’’
Gas has adequate scale and
infrastructure to replace oil in
some cases and is about 30 per
cent less carbon intensive than oil
and about 50 per cent carbon
There has been lots of discussion
and a very constructive
dialogue,” the Dubai government
spokesman said. “They are
working together as partners.”
Dubai financial crisis
FT In depth: News and analysis
on the emirate’s debt woes
The input of another $10bn in
Abu Dhabi capital – bringing
overall support from the United
Arab Emirates’ capital to at least
$25bn this year – came without
conditions, such as equity
transfers or securitisation of the
debt, the spokesman said.
“It is being done in a way [so as]
not to hurt sovereign credit,” he
said, adding that the support had
not come in the form of a loan.
In February, Dubai raised $10bn
in bonds from the UAE central
bank as the first half of a $20bn
bond programme, another $5bn
of which was raised from Abu
Dhabi banks last month.
The Dubai Financial Support
Fund, which oversees the $20bn
bond programme, will pay off the
Nakheel sukuk before a two-
intensive than coal. The fuel is
gaining support from lawmakers
at a time when the world is
looking at ways to reduce carbon
emissions.
The acquisition could be a
bigger win than many realise, Ms
Jaffe said, if Exxon’s pilot
project to remove carbon
emissions from gas works.
While Exxon has been building
a global liquified natural gas
week grace period ends around
December 28, the spokesman
said.
He added that by paying off the
sukuk holders, Dubai World
would avoid difficult cross-
defaults that could have
prejudiced an orderly
restructuring process with bank
creditors.
“The whole capital structure was
a web of cross-defaults – the only
way to calm this was to pay off
the sukuk,” the spokesman said.
The ”extraordinary
circumstances” around the Dubai
World solution should not be
viewed as a precedent for the
restructuring of other Dubai
government related entities, such
as Dubai Holding, he added.
The statement said the UAE
central bank will help support
local banks, many of which have
substantial exposure to Dubai
World’s distressed debt pile of
$26bn, as well as other debts at
its more profitable DP World and
Jebel Ali Free Zone units.
In addition,a new government
portfolio in recent years, it had
nothing of significance in US
onshore, unconventional gas.
This meant it had so far missed
out on the boom, brought on by
expertise and technology
perfected by the small
independents to extract gas from
shale rock.
These small companies,
including XTO, have, in the past
three years, grown estimates of
decree based on the bankruptcy
law at the Dubai International
Financial Centre, an offshore
zone, will establish a more
efficient framework for – if need
be – putting Dubai World into
liquidation.
The decree includes provisions
for creditor rights and avoids
untested UAE laws widely seen
as unsuitable for any bankruptcy
of the size and scope of a holding
company such as Dubai World.
“Ultimately we hope the
restructuring process works so
the law doesn’t get used, but we
have the framework in place just
in case we can’t get resolution,”
the spokesman said.
fivefilters.org featured article:
Normalising the crime of the
century by John Pilger
US supplies from 30 years, at
current usage rates, to 100 years
supply, mostly by figuring out
how to economically extract gas
from shale rock.
BP and BG Group of the UK;
StatoilHydro, the Norwegian
energy company; and Eni, the
Italian oil company, have all
bought into the US gas industry
in the past year to not only
produce but take what they learn
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EXXONMOBIL
continued from page 84
intensive oil, coal and oil sands
fuels.
Yet Robin West, chairman of
PFC Energy, noted the onshore
unconventional gas industry has
been dominated by smaller
players than the majors, who
specialise in the short-term nature
of the play, which requires
constant reinvestment and
drilling to maintain production.
This is at odds with the
traditional Exxon strategy of
large, long-term, highly efficient
assets. “The success of this
investment will depend on
whether Exxon can keep the
XTO culture in its team,’’ he
said. ”It’s a different business.’’
The all-stock transaction with
XTO provides for Exxon issuing
0.7098 shares for each share of
XTO, representing a 25 per cent
premium to XTO shareholders.
The transaction value includes
$10bn of existing XTO debt and
is based on the closing share
prices of Exxon and XTO on
EXXONMOBIL page 85
about extracting gas from shale
rock abroad.
PFC Energy, a consultancy,
estimates advancements made by
the independents in developing
natural gas from shale could, if
taken abroad, more than
quadruple gas resources,
increasing supplies of this
alternative option to greenhouse-
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December 11. Normalising the crime of the

JP Morgan Securities acted as century by John Pilger
financial advisors to Exxon and
Barclays Capital and Jefferies &
Company are acting as financial
advisors to XTO.
fivefilters.org featured article:

MediaDailyNews: Model Citizens: Magazines, Radio Mix It

Up With TV, Hope To Overcome Bias
(MediaPost | Media News) month, magazine audience fully measure the ROI of findings with MRI executives, It also comes as other media are
Submitted at 12/14/2009 6:16:40 AM
researcher Mediamark Research advertising without accurate they pointed out that the optimal seeking comparable metrics and
& Intelligence (MRI) will release weekly issue- and market-level data already existed - the data research that improves the way
In an effort to upgrade the role the beta version of a new audience data, a situation that has being generated by MRI's they are factored into marketing
magazines have in Madison syndicated database that will disadvantaged all media but magazine audience accumulation mix models, which are believed
Avenue's media mix, publishers enable magazines to be compared television," stated Jim Spaeth, studies - and they simply needed to have had a significant bias
are making a play for the alongside the kind of local founding partner of Sequent to be provided in a way that toward television. Earlier this
marketing mix. Specifically, they market TV audience data the Partners, the consultancy hired enabled advertisers, agencies and month, a consortium of radio
are releasing new research and models have used to determine by MRI to figure out how its data modelers to input them in a way broadcasters and researcher
data that is expected to prove h o w e f f e c t i v e l y t e l e v i s i o n could be applied to the models. that is similar to Nielsen's local Arbitron announced plans to
how magazines perform in so- advertising impacts product sales. Spaeth, a former president of the market TV rating points data. improve the "analytical methods
called marketing mix modeling The new, as-yet-unnamed Advertising Research The new service, which MRI has used by advertisers to evaluate
systems, which many in the research service is an outgrowth Foundation, and a highly been referring to as a "schedule- the tangible impact of radio
industry believe have had an of the Audience Accumulation respected research thinker on based audience builder," does advertising on product sales."
undue bias toward television. Study MRI has been offering to Madison Avenue, started by exactly that, showing how Arbitron said the consortium
For more than a decade, such the industry for free over the past surveying big marketers and magazine campaigns - even those planned to develop better
models have emerged as a major several years to allow magazine agency executives on how they based on monthly or weekly methods and data streams that
way many marketers - especially audience delivery to be compared currently use models, and what magazine schedules - contribute could be used by marketers and
those in consumer packaged directly with the reach and magazines needed to do to have to audience reach on a weekly agencies to model those effects.
goods - determine the impact frequency of television buys. By more of an influence on the basis in local markets. No timeframe was announced,
v a r i o u s a s p e c t s o f t h e i r making it available to marketing process. The release of the MRI system but the companies said they had
marketing, including advertising mix modelers, advertisers and His conclusion was that many coincides with the publication of coincidentally retained Spaeth's
and media buys, have on their agencies, MRI effectively is agencies and marketers have two important white papers Sequent Partners to "guide and
sales, but they are generally taking the data from the realm of been modeling the role of during the industry's recent coordinate their effort."
believed to have favored certain theoretical to applied research, magazines in the marketing mix, Worldwide Readership Research fivefilters.org featured article:
media that have better, more and could dramatically effect the but they have been using "less Symposium, backing the method Normalising the crime of the
continuous, and more granular way some big advertisers think than optimal data" to do that, and up, and a big push by the century by John Pilger
data that can be used to compute about the role magazines have vis the result has masked the actual Magazine Publishers Association
how they contribute to the a vis other media in their mix. role magazines are playing. to make advertisers and agencies
models. But beginning this "Marketing mix models can't When Spaeth shared these aware of those findings.
86 Media/ PopSci/ E-reader News Edition

TV Watch: Bargain-Bin Ad Pricing? Nanocrystals Create an

The Cost Of Wannabee Reality Stars' Insulator Better Than
Antics Pure Vacuum
(MediaPost | Media News) become cast members of an see the downside. While the By Jeremy Hsu (Popular can even have configurations that
Submitted at 12/14/2009 8:15:37 AM
upcoming spinoff of the Bravo Heenes were in the midst of their Science - New Technology, block certain frequency ranges of
franchise -- "The Real court proceedings, they were Science News, The Future light, including infrared
Now, almost 10 years after a H o u s e w i v e s o f D . C . " B u t scheduling meetings with media Now) radiation.
new program genre hit TV crashing a state dinner at the folk in New York City! Submitted at 12/14/2009 10:00:32 AM
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some reality TV folks might be Jon and Kate Gosselin gained surely people will watch. Who have exciting applications Car Parts Self-Assembled From
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In the early years of reality TV, tabloid-esque TV program many actions? also one of the best known loss, heat transfer, infrared,
traditional TV marketers placed a advertisers didn't sign up for. Cast the Salahis and Heenes as insulators on Earth, and may help infrared radiation, insulation,
discounted value on non-scripted Ryan Jenkins was a contestant evil characters in some keep those holiday drinks and insulators, light waves, photonic
programming -- even when o n t w o V H 1 s h o w s w h o storylines? Oh, yeah. They'll be soups warm in your thermos. crystals, vacuum The scientists
scripted and non-scripted shows allegedly killed his ex-wife in signed up as long as U.S. viewers Now scientists have found that stacked 10 layers of photonic
grabbed the exact same ratings. August, stuffed her mutilated will watch. layering photonic crystals within crystals into a tiny 100-micron-
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better-quality reality programs hanged himself. How would you contestants don't realize is that prevent heat loss from invisible comparisons, keep in mind that
with consistent year-in, year-out like to be the sponsor of those many TV advertisers still have infrared radiation. 1,000 microns make up a single
track records: "Amazing Race," VH1 efforts? old beliefs about a price discount Heat typically travels via millimeter.
"Top Chef," "Project Runway," Richard and Mayumi Heene for reality shows. Sleazy real-life methods such as convection and Tests on the new insulator
"Survivor," "America's Next Top created a faux script about their characters add to that perception conduction, which both require a showed that heat transfer does
Model," to name a few. six-year-old being taken away in of cheapness. material medium, which vacuum not rely on layer thickness, but
But along with the growing a balloon. Veterans of ABC's Bob DeBitetto, general manager conveniently lacks. But heat can only on how fast light can travel
number of shows comes more "Wife Swap," the Heenes were of A&E, has the right feel for also transfer through infrared through the material.
real-life incidents with reality TV looking for more TV deals -- this: "We're all in the business of radiation, and can pass through a The research team hopes that the
associations -- stuff that is even if they broke the law. selling ads. This can have a vacuum lining to a thermos's photonic crystals may now find
threatening to dramatically shrink The increased desperation of chilling impact on pricing. You outer wall. use beyond communications and
the list of marketers TV ad sellers people to be on TV comes at the don't want an entire genre to be Stanford University researchers computing applications. For
can target for specific shows. same time that TV ratings are weighed down because there are began wondering if anything instance, in solar-thermal systems
Michaele and Tareq Salahi add falling. Perhaps the theory of TV these unfortunate examples." could one-up nature's insulator, that try to capture the sun's heat
to this problem. They're the as a perishable commodity is fivefilters.org featured article: and finally figured out that for use as an energy source,
Washington, D.C. couple who filtering down to the masses. Normalising the crime of the photonic crystals might do the photonic crystals could allow
seem to have tried everything to Despite the risks, few seem to century by John Pilger trick. Such crystals exist in both visible light to pass through and
nature and in the lab, and consist trap the heat inside.
of tiny nanostructures that affect [via ScienceDaily]
how light passes through. They
E-reader News Edition
Research Brief: Thanksgiving
Travelers Drove Close and Stayed
With Family
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 5:15:40 AM
In a snapshot poll taken in the
three days leading up to the
American Thanksgiving break,
Ipsos Marketing's travel and
tourism division found that 19%
of Americans planned to travel
out of town this Thanksgiving,
which was down slightly from
the number who traveled for
Thanksgiving in 2008. Even
though Thanksgiving is one of
the most important travel periods
of the year, a large majority of
Americans are not Thanksgiving
travelers, as 78% didn't travel last
Thanksgiving and 79% had no
plans to travel this Thanksgiving.
Despite the economic downturn,
35% of travelers planned to
spend more money this year as
compared to 2008 on their
Thanksgiving travel. Those who
planned to spend less in 2009
accounted for 13% of all
travelers while the remaining
41% planned to spend as much in
2009 as they did in 2008.
Dave Pierzchala, Vice President
of Ipsos' travel team explains,
"Thanksgiving travel is as much
of a tradition as turkey with all
the trimmings and these results
show that the need to be with
friends and family does not
disappear even in strained
financial times."
Thrifty Thanksgiving travelers
say that this year they
• 22% planned to stay with
friends and family instead of a
hotel
• 17% planned to drive
instead of fly
• 14% planned to take shorter
trips (14%)
• 41% said that nothing
changed for their Thanksgiving
travel plans this year
Dave Pierzchala, Vice President
of Ipsos' travel team explains, "In
the current economic times
Americans are finding ways to
continue to connect with loved
ones and in some cases the pull-
out couch or long car ride is the
necessary sacrifice."
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Holiday Deal: Japanese
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Among Americans who had no By Jeremy Hsu (Popular Technology, Jeremy Hsu,
travel plans this Thanksgiving, a Science - New Technology, actroids, fembots, humanoids,
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• 13% planned to avoid travel silicone and will only be able to
this Thanksgiving because it was Just plunk down $225,000 at a move its upper body. So unlike
too expensive Japanese department store and Dwight of The Office, you won't
• 5% said too crowded get your own robot twin have to request a six-foot
• 5% are watching their travel Japan's obsession with robotics extension cord that prevents the
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• 3% have suffered a loss of fi fantasies (or nightmares): life- The new lookalike bots come
employment size robots customized to look courtesy of robot-manufacturer
• 21% simply didn't want to like you and speak in your own Kokoro, which has showcased its
travel this Thanksgiving voice. The department store Sogo androids at past robot expos. In
& Seibu wants to deliver that this case, buyers can also supply
An Ipsos online study conducted d r e a m t o a n y i n t e r e s t e d their own recorded voices to
from November 23, 2009 to customers starting as soon as ensure that their robot twin
November 26, 2009 with 1,114 next month, but first it plans to comes armed with witty repartee.
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E-reader News Edition
Inhalable Chocolate Paves the Way for a Safer TB
Vaccine
By Jenny Everett (Popular
Science - New Technology,
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Now)
Submitted at 12/14/2009 7:51:00 AM
In 2007, David Edwards, a
biomedical engineer at Harvard
University, gave his students a
project: Develop a way to inhale
food, rather than chewing and
swallowing it. “They took a
whiff of everything from pepper
to carrots and coughed a lot,”
Edwards says. Last fall, he
introduced Le Whif, a lipstick-
size inhaler that drops a
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eventually dock the unmanned
Dragon craft with the ISS. Three
of the astronauts will be aboard
the ISS when that first Dragon
spacecraft, carrying resupply
cargo to the station, makes
contact with the ISS next year.
The Dragon capsules will ride
into orbit aboard SpaceX's own
medium-lift Falcon 9 rockets,
which will make their own debut
in February barring any setbacks.
The first Falcon 9 launch will
carry a Dragon capsule, but it
will not rendezvous with the ISS.
delicious, one-calorie chocolate
taste on your tongue.
Each Le Whif is filled with a
few hundred milligrams of cocoa
particles engineered small
enough to be moved by your
breath yet too big to make it to
the lungs. As you breathe in, the
powder travels through a
mouthpiece that directs the cocoa
to your tongue instead of the
back of your throat. Edwards also
plans to powderize lobster shells
and other foods so people can
taste foods that they otherwise
wouldn’t ingest.
Now he is adapting the tech to
Hooking up with the ISS will
mark SpaceX's second milestone
for the private space industry,
having already gained the honor
of being the first private
company to deposit a satellite
into orbit earlier this year.
[ Space.com]
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spraying a watery mix of the
drug BCG into a hot drum, which
evaporates all the moisture,
leaving behind powder—except
with BCG, he makes the particles
small enough that they can enter
the lungs. Edwards’s nonprofit
organization MEND (Medicine
in Need) moved the TB inhaler
into clinical trials in 2008 and
hopes to make the airborne
inoculation available within the
next four years.
make an inhalable tuberculosis
vaccine that doesn’t need
refrigeration. As with chocolate,
he creates the particles by