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Obama feels at home in eye of winter The Week in Preview: Pre-

holiday Earnings from Walgreen,
storm American Greetings ...
By Alister Bull (Front Row
Washington) By Trey Thoelcke
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 12:47:26 PM
Submitted at 12/20/2009 12:30:00 PM

While the rest of Washington

dug itself out of the area’s most
severe winter storm in years, the
residents of 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue found the deeply
drifting snow much to their liking
as it blanketed the White House.
“I am from Chicago, so let me
first say that with the place where
I live covered with snow I’m
finally starting to feel like home,”
President Barack Obama told
reporters for a hastily summoned
White House statement on
climate change and healthcare
reform.
Up to 20 inches of snow is
forecast for the capital area
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Submitted at 12/19/2009 12:40:00 PM
Saturday, sharply restricting
travel as airlines canceled flights
and public transport was shut
down.
This also brings to mind
Obama’s previous
recommendation that the locals
need to develop some mid-
western fortitude toward the
HP webcams are racist
By John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 11:29:41 AM
“As soon as my blackness enters
the frame…” Listen, HP, this is
weather, after he complained
Washingtonians need some
“flinty Chicago toughness” after
his two daughters’ school closed
down after a 2-inch snowfall in
January.
Photo credit: Reuters/Jason
Reed)
the 21st century. Obama is in the
White House. This needs to be
fixed STAT.
Filed under: Earnings reports,
Forecasts, Walgreen Co (WAG)
Even in a holiday shortened
week so close to the end of the
calendar year, there are still some
earnings reports dribbling in.
Question is, will any of the
companies reporting quarterly
results this week offer up a gift
for investors?
Apropos of the season, analysts
surveyed by Thomson Reuters
have high expectations for
American Greetings Corp.'s (
AM) fiscal third quarter 2010
earnings. The nation's second
largest provider of greeting cards
announced record second quarter
results and declared a quarterly
dividend during the three months
that ended in November.
American Greetings is expected
to report that earnings rose
43.9% from a year ago to $0.66
per share. Revenue for the
quarter is expected to total
$445.4 million, or 1.9% lower
than a year ago. So far, the full-
year forecast is for its profit to
more than double to $2.00 per
share while revenue falls 5.6%
from a year ago to $1.6 billion.
This Cleveland-based company
creamed earnings estimates in the
past two quarters.
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Jennifer Jones obituary
By Ronald Bergan (World
news and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:33:25 AM
Hollywood star who won an
Oscar for her role as a saintly
peasant girl in the 1943 film The
Song of Bernardette
On the day of her 25th birthday,
2 March 1944, a fresh-faced,
hitherto unknown performer
stepped on to the stage of
Grauman's Chinese Theatre, in
Los Angeles, to receive her best
actress Oscar for her performance
in the title role of The Song of
Bernadette. It was officially the
debut of Jennifer Jones, who has
died aged 90. She had appeared
four years earlier under her real
name of Phyllis Isley, but only in
a Dick Tracy serial and a B-
western. (Actually, she had been
born Phylis, but had added an
"l".)
Ingrid Bergman, nominated for
her performance in For Whom
the Bell Tolls, said of The Song
of Bernadette: "I cried all the
way through, because Jennifer
was so moving and because I
realised I had lost the award."
Jones, who had been discovered
by the producer David O
Selznick four years previously,
had been given no publicity build
-up, had been prevented from
granting interviews and also,
because of the nature of the role,
kept out of the gossip columns.
As a result, her presence on
screen as the French girl who, in
1858, saw a vision of the Virgin
Mary and discovered a healing
spring at Lourdes, came as a
refreshing surprise. "While she
received extensive training, I
would not let her come to
Hollywood until she was ready,"
explained Selznick. "I refused to
launch her until exactly the right
role came along."
After a six-month search, 20th
Century Fox had narrowed the
list of young women to play
Bernadette down to six. They
were each asked by the director
Henry King to imagine that the
stick he was holding was a
vision. "Only Jennifer saw a
vision," King later remarked.
Wearing a simple peasant's dress
and a minimum of makeup, she
gave a pleasantly natural
performance, credibly maturing
from the age of 14 to the nun and
eventual saint. It might have
helped that the Oklahoma-born
Jones had attended a Catholic
school as a child. Her father
owned a few theatres and ran a
vaudeville tent show, with which
the young Phylis toured and
performed occasionally. While
attending the American Academy
of Dramatic Arts in New York,
she met another aspiring actor,
Robert Walker. They married in
1939 and headed for Hollywood.
In 1941, when she was
auditioning at Fox for the title
role in Claudia (given to Dorothy
McGuire), Selznick saw her, put
her under contract, changed her
name and groomed her
rigorously for stardom. From
then on, much of Selznick's
activity as a producer was
devoted to providing her with
suitable roles.
After The Song of Bernadette,
he cast her opposite her husband
as the girl in love with a young
soldier in Since You Went Away
(1944), the weepiest, longest and
biggest hit about the home front
during the second world war. Her
role grew with each rewrite of the
script by Selznick, and he was
still playing the same game
almost 20 years later on their last
film together, Tender Is the
Night. According to King:
"David lost all judgment. He
always thought that the more
there was of Jennifer, the better
the film would be."
By the time Since You Went
Away, for which she was Oscar-
nominated, was released, Jones
had broken up with Walker and
embarked on a relationship with
the married Selznick. Walker, a
gifted actor, died prematurely in
1951, a victim of depression,
drink and sedatives. She had two
sons by Walker, both of whom
became actors. Meanwhile, Jones
was suitably fey as an amnesiac
in Love Letters (1945), which
earned her another Oscar
nomination, and otherworldly in
Portrait of Jennie (1949), two
poetic dramas directed by
William Dieterle, both co-
starring Joseph Cotten.
Jones, the embodiment of
feminine innocence, seemed an
unlikely candidate for eroticising.
But if she had not played a
number of dark, tempestuous
femmes fatales – worlds apart
from Bernadette – her career
would have been much less
interesting. The first was a wild
and sexy mixed-race girl, Pearl
Chavez, in King Vidor's Duel in
the Sun (1947), a demented,
delirious western, the peak of
Hollywood high romanticism.
The operatic climax, when Jones
and Gregory Peck die in a final
embrace after shooting each
other, earned the film the
nickname of Lust in the Dust.
Sex in the Swamps would be an
apt description of Ruby Gentry
(1952), in which Vidor was again
able to bring out the passion in
Jones. Thwarted by the man she
loves (Charlton Heston), she
finally watches him die face
downwards in the mud.
Previously, she had portrayed
Madame Bovary (1949) in
Vincente Minnelli's glossy
version of the Flaubert novel.
Considering that Selznick was
breathing down Minnelli's neck
throughout the shoot, at one stage
accusing the director of
sabotaging the "unique
loveliness" of the star, Jones
emerged with beauty, poise and
vivacity, bringing, as one critic
remarked, "an almost manic
voluptuousness to the part".
However, although Jones had a
certain childlike charm as an
untamed half-Gypsy Shropshire
lass in Michael Powell and
Emeric Pressburger's Gone to
Earth (1950), she lacked the
passion she displayed in the
Vidor movies. Now her husband,
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Selznick was as much of a
nuisance as ever, cutting 29
minutes from the film, getting
directors (including Vidor) to
reshoot nearly a third of it in
Hollywood, and changing its title
to The Wild Heart for the US
release. At this stage, Jones,
whose career was entirely
controlled by Selznick, had fits of
depression and attempted suicide
with sleeping pills several times.
(Her last attempt was in 1967,
after Selznick's death.)
Nevertheless, she was able to
radiate in William Wyler's Carrie
(1952), opposite Laurence
Olivier, and especially in Love Is
a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
as the Eurasian doctor in love
with an American correspondent,
William Holden, in a splendid
CinemaScope Hong Kong. She
was a touching Elizabeth Barrett
in the otherwise clunking The
Barretts of Wimpole Street
(1957), but seemed to have more
fun than ever as a blonde
mythomaniac in John Huston's
Beat the Devil (1953). Her only
other comedy was Ernst
Lubitsch's Cluny Brown (1946),
in which she was charming as a
cockney maid, despite the
wobbly accent.
There were a few
miscalculations: Vittorio De
Sica's gloomy Indiscretion of an
American Wife (1954), and she
was allowed to overact as the
doomed nurse Catherine Barkley
in the overblown and dull third
JENNIFER page 5
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Quest to identify black soldier

By Giles Tremlett (World news uprising that sparked a three-year "My father took his photographs It contained hundreds of civil
and comment from the civil war. with him in a suitcase because he war photographs, including one
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Germany's Adolf Hitler and was scared they would be used to of writer George Orwell with a
Submitted at 12/20/2009 8:50:06 AM Italy's Benito Mussolini sent identify people and carry out group of fellow international
troops to back the rebel army of reprisals," said Sergi Centelles. volunteers.
• US volunteer in picture killed in future dictator General Francisco The photographer used the The mix of races in the
civil war battle Franco. Leftwing and anti-fascist suitcase as a pillow in a French International Brigades saw Sen. Nelson Now
• Authorities plan to present volunteers from around the world refugee camp to prevent it from attempts made to observe a
image to Obama next year joined Russians sent by Stalin to being stolen. He later moved in degree of racial equality
Supports Health Care
A s a v o l u n t e e r i n t h e help defend the Republic. with a French family in otherwise unseen in western Bill, Provides 60th Vote
International Brigades that fought Obama defended the concept of Carcassonne, in southern France, armies in the 1930s. By Connie Madon
i n S p a i n ' s c i v i l w a r , t h e waging a "just war" in his Nobel but had to flee again after the "We know there were quite a few (BloggingStocks)
unidentified black soldier in the peace prize speech this month. second world war broke out and African American volunteers and
Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:40:00 AM
photograph was one of the first The New York-based Abraham the occupying Germans heard that many were treated badly
A m e r i c a n s t o d i e f i g h t i n g Lincoln Brigades Association that he was using his camera to when they went home, as people Filed under: Deals, Politics,
fascism. and New York University's take photographs for false thought they were communists," Headline news
Now Spanish authorities want to Tamiment library have scoured passports. said Sergi Centelles. Senator Ben Nelson, who had
put a name to him so they can their civil war archives to see if "The Gestapo were chasing him, "We have four or five names of been holding out on voting for
present his picture to President they could identify the man in the so he walked back across the possible candidates, but what we health care, finally agreed to go
Barack Obama when he visits photograph, which was probably Pyrenees into Spain," said Sergi really want to do is to find their along and vote yes.
Spain next year. taken in February 1937. Two Centelles. "He left the suitcase family." Nelson, a right-to-life supporter,
The black and white picture of p o s s i b l e c a n d i d a t e s h a v e behind, telling the French family • If you know who the man in the gained some concessions to limit
the African American volunteer emerged: Milton Herndon, whose not to and it over to anyone but main photograph is, or can the availability of abortions in
forms part of an extraordinary brother Angelo won a famous him. provide any information that insurance sold in newly created
c o l l e c t i o n o f c i v i l w a r supreme court case against a "It was passed down from the might help identify him, please exchanges. Of course he was paid
photographs that was bought sentence for "incitement to grandfather, when he died, to his c o n t a c t off. He got tens of millions of
recently by the Spanish state. insurrection", and aviator Paul son and then, when he also died, giles.tremlett@guardian.co.uk dollars in federal Medicaid funds
"All we know is that he arrived Williams. to the grandson." • Spain for his home state.
with the Abraham Lincoln "It is one of eight or nine Agustí Centelles sent the French • United States He also noted that he had fended
Brigade of American volunteers photographs my father took of family a present every Christmas off attempts to provide for
and that he died in the battle at the Americans marching through as a sign that he was still alive. Giles Tremlett government-run insurance
Brunete [in July 1937]," said B a r c e l o n a , " s a i d A g u s t í Spain did not give the guardian.co.uk© Guardian News option.
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90 African-Americans who Agustí Centelles, known as the suitcase was still there. It was Sen. Nelson Now Supports
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elected Republican government Spain as Franco's forces looked died, that he dared pick up the Vote originally appeared on
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'Al-Qaida' pair caught filming potential UK terror

targets, say police
(World news and comment
from the Guardian |
Street. Police said the men were
charged with fraud offences and
arrest on the concourse of
Liverpool Street station on 11
the link to al Qaida in North
Africa were discovered during a
Forget the
guardian.co.uk) sentenced to up to two years
imprisonment before being
July last year. He told officers he
was a tourist who spoke little
search of one property but no
connections were found between
Wealth, Share the
Submitted at 12/20/2009 8:43:48 AM
deported. English, but was arrested for the Algerians and any known Trash [Trashcans]
Footage of stations and shopping Prosecutors did not pursue immigration offences. terrorist groups in Britain. By Jack Loftus (Gizmodo)
centres filmed by Algerian terrorist charges, firstly, it was Investigators brought in counter- The men made hundreds of
Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:00:00 AM
brothers released in response to claimed, because of difficulties terrorism experts when they thousands of pounds fraudulently
public criticism of police actions with evidence and secondly examined a series of videos, each buying mobile phones and luxury Seriously, folks, this is not what
A suspected al Qaida-inspired because they were unlikely to up to 25 minutes long, on his clothes and exporting them to we do with your tips when you
cell was caught red-handed receive longer sentences. It was phone. They revealed the man Algeria. hit Share up there in the
filming potential terrorist targets, said counter terrorist detectives recorded extensive footage at Assistant Commissioner Frank masthead. I swear. Well, for most
police said today. were also hampered because they several tube stations and at one Armstrong said preventing of them, anyway. This is actually
Senior officers said two Algerian did not feel they could share all stage even caught a tourist bus terrorism remained one of the top a concept trashcan build on a
b r o t h e r s m a y h a v e b e e n the information they held with through central London. priorities for all police forces. popular meme.
employed to prepare the ground the Algerian authorities. He studied the entrance at He said: "The City has always Says designer Burak Kaynak,
for an atrocity in London or at The footage was released today Oxford Circus and CCTV been targeted as it is the world's the 'can was conjoured up after
regional shopping centres. in response to a surge of criticism cameras in a lift at Mornington leading financial centre. The seeing all the Share buttons that
City of London police released of police for stopping and Crescent, possibly chosen Square Mile is still very much a populate the Internet these days.
footage recorded on amobile s e a r c h i n g p e o p l e t a k i n g because it is a deep station target. One of our main priorities Why not apply it trash? And so
phonethat showed entrances, photographs at tourist hotspots. It accessible only by lift. is clearly counter-terrorism. We he did:
platforms and CCTV cameras at had been claimed police are The man also visited the busy train our officers and encourage Sharing content on social
Oxford Circus, Mornington misusing terrorism legislation to shopping area of Liverpool Street them to do a lot of stop and networking sites is as simple as
Crescent and Camden Town tube target tourists, photographers and railway station on the anniversary search. But I would argue we stepping on a foot pedal to open
stations. the media in general in busy of the 7 Julybombings. have got the politest police force the lid and toss your trash.
Footage was also recorded at public places. The two Algerian brothers, both in the country." Share//Trash Can is a smart step-
Liverpool Street rail station and Detective Superintendent Chris aged in their 40s, had entered • UK security and terrorism on trash can which includes a
at the nearby Broadgate Circle G r e a n y , h e a d o f c o u n t e r - Britain about 10 years ago using • Al-Qaida LED - live counter that counts
shopping and restaurant plaza. terrorism at City of London false French and Italian • Crime the amount of steps that are
Police later found the two men p o l i c e , s a i d t h e m e n u s e d passports. They worked briefly in • London stepped on the foot pedal.
also visited the Galleria shopping sophisticated techniques to hide a restaurant before moving on to I guess in the end I really don't
centre in Hatfield, Bluewater in their tracks. He said the pair may credit card and identity fraud. guardian.co.uk© Guardian News see the point. Is it to shame you
Kent and a trade outlet in have been the fundraising and Detective Chief Inspector & Media Limited 2009 | Use of into wasting less, in this
Bridgend, south Wales. research arm of an al-Qaida- Richard Jack, who led the this content is subject to our particular trashcan, so that you'll
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suspicious police officer stopped The alleged plot unravelled were linked to the men. He said next one? [ Burnak Kaynak-
one of the men at Liverpool within hours of one Algerian's extremist materials suggesting Thanks, Camila]
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Faces of 2009: Venetia Williams
By Emma John (World news
and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:27:41 AM
This year's Grand National made
Venetia Williams the second
female trainer ever to win the
race when her horse, 100-1 shot
Mon Mome, raced to victory.
On a biting December day at
Cheltenham, the owners and
trainers enclosure is a haven of
warmth and good cheer. As its
inhabitants crowd around the
TVs, noisily urging on their
runners, Venetia Williams
watches the race silently, her
expression inscrutable. Amid the
loud tweeds and fur stoles, the 49
-year-old trainer cuts an
extremely elegant, almost
detached, figure.
Williams recalls when she was
here in March, on one of the
biggest occasions in the racing
calendar, watching her horses
take first and second place in the
Cheltenham Festival Plate, the
third-placed rider nowhere to be
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continued from page 2
version of Ernest Hemingway's A
Farewell to Arms (1957). It was
Selznick's last production, but it
did not stop him trying to ruin
another modern American
classic, Scott Fitzgerald's Tender
Is the Night (1962), in which the
43-year-old Jones attempted to
play the young neurotic playgirl
Nicole Diver.
seen. "It was a real career
highlight," she says with a smile.
Little did she know that within a
month, it would be utterly
eclipsed. Williams had entered
two horses in April's Grand
National, both outsiders. Mon
Mome, ridden by a young jockey,
Liam Treadwell, making his
National debut, was given odds
of 100-1; and Williams had no
special hopes for her horses. "I'd
had various runners in the race
previously without much
success," she says, matter of
factly. "You can't go on in this
job having high expectations that
are regularly dashed."
Watching the race from the roof
of the County Stand, Williams
saw her other runner, Stan, fall
on the first circuit. Then a horse
fell in front of Mon Mome. "He
ducked sideways so quickly and
neatly that Liam nearly went out
the side door," Williams says
with a laugh. As the horses
turned for home, there were still
a dozen in contention. Trailing
two of the fancied horses, Mon
Selznick's death in 1965 left
Jones utterly bereft, in debt, and
with a young daughter, Mary
Jennifer, to bring up. (Mary
Jennifer killed herself in 1976.)
Jones made only a few films
afterwards; these included Cult of
the Damned (1969), in which she
played a former blue-movie star,
and she was among the many
Mome suddenly burst away at the
final fence and streaked home 12
lengths clear. "It was an
extraordinary performance."
Williams tails off with a rare
wistfulness. "Amazing. Fantastic.
Unbelievable…"
She takes us for a "hack" around
town in her car, an Aston Martin
DB9 that was, in the aftermath of
the race, almost as talked about
as the horse, and earned her the
nickname the "Queen of Speed".
Williams says she had been
listening to friends talk about the
cost of their children's education:
"I thought, 'I don't have children,
why not?' I phoned the dealer the
very next day."
Her mother was a showjumper,
her father a keen huntsman.
Williams lives alone in what was
her grandparents' home, an old
farm near Ross-on-Wye in
Herefordshire, that she has
converted to a training centre
housing 100 horses at any one
time. It was her grandfather who
began the family passion when
he bought two yearling fillies that
stars trapped in The Towering
Inferno (1974). In 1971, she
married the millionaire
industrialist art collector Norton
Simon, helping him with his
business until his death. She then
took over the presidency of her
late husband's Pasadena Art
Museum. Jones had finally
become her own person.
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iPhone Reception an
Easy Target On SNL
Weekend Update Last
he bred and raced on the flat. As
a young girl, Williams recalls Night [IPhone]
skipping a lesson and illicitly
By Jack Loftus (Gizmodo)
climbing into the school's TV
room to watch one of his horses Submitted at 12/20/2009 7:00:00 AM
run.
Hey Seth Meyers made a joke!
Williams became an amateur
About the iPhone! And it was
jockey and rode in the Grand
funny!
National in 1988, falling at the
The bit came during SNL last
infamous Becher's Brook. A
night, and like all good jokes,
fortnight later, in her very next
was funny because it's true.
race, a career-ending accident
As an iPhone user, I definitely
broke her neck. "I was actually
chuckled a bit, before I returned
paralysed for five or 10 minutes
to weeping silently in a corner as
while I was lying on the grass – it
my phone tried to make an
was like the rest of my body did
outgoing call from the greater
not exist." She pauses. "I'm
Boston area without success.
happy with the payback, though."
Must be the storm. Must be. [
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Four white rhinos shipped to Kenya Acer Sets China Sales

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as possible for several years but
all those involved acknowledged
Omondi, of the Kenya Wildlife
Service.
Strategy As It Chases Hewlett
guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:39:42 AM
it was not a sure bet that the
rhinos would reproduce.
Alastair Lucas, the vice-
chairman of Goldman Sachs in
-Packard for Top PC Spot
The northern white rhino is the Australia, helped finance the By Brian White
Four of last eight rhinos from world's rarest large mammal. rhinos' move to Kenya, a project (BloggingStocks)
endangered subspecies are sent to "Objective No 1 is to get as many he became involved with earlier Submitted at 12/19/2009 2:40:00 PM
Kenya from Czech zoo with aim offspring as you can from the this year after visiting Uganda
of repopulating their homeland females – at least one calf out of and being told parks there no Filed under: Competitive
Four of the world's last eight each within two years," said Rob longer have rhinos. He declined strategy, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ),
northern white rhinos landed in Brett, the director of Fauna and to say how much he donated or China
Kenya today and were Flora International, the the cost of moving the animals. Acer Inc. of Taiwan has Hewlett
transported to a game park where organisation that helped arrange "Shipping rhinos across the -Packard ( HPQ) of the U.S. in its fastest-growing PC market in the
officials hope the endangered and finance the move. world is not cheap. They don't fit sights to become the world's world. So far, Acer's mindshare
animals will reproduce and save The rhinos were transported in in economy seats," he said. "I had largest manufacturer of PCs. To in China is in fifth place due to
their subspecies. large wooden crates by the to fly them business class." do that will be no easy matter, as its inability to be recognized for
No white rhinos are known to international shipping company The rhinos will remain penned in HP's rampage in sales in the past the global PC behemoth it is.
remain in the wild, and the DHL on two flatbed trucks. On the Kenyan park as they adapt to 24 months has put it way ahead Acer intends to change that in
t r a n s p o r t e d a n i m a l s h a v e the side of the crates was written the climate and vegetation. They of former number two Dell ( China.
produced no offspring after "Last Chance to Survive." will be given more room to roam DELL) and, for the first time, Continue reading Acer Sets
nearly 24 years in a Czech zoo. The four were flown from a zoo in coming weeks and will made it a $100 billion company China Sales Strategy As It
So wildlife workers hoping to in the Czech Republic to the Ol eventually be released to the (annual sales). But Acer has not Chases Hewlett-Packard for Top
save the subspecies loaded two Pejeta Conservancy – about 180 entire park. tread lightly either, gobbling up PC Spot
males and two females into miles north of the capital, Kenya • Endangered species the Gateway and Packard Bell Acer Sets China Sales Strategy
wooden crates and began the – where a black rhino population • Conservation brands. As It Chases Hewlett-Packard for
effort to return them to what was has made strong gains and the • Kenya Where can Acer work on its Top PC Spot originally appeared
once their savannah homeland. rhinos will be protected from • Zoology plans for global domination? on BloggingStocks on Sat, 19
When teams of Kenyan wildlife poachers. • Czech Republic China, of course. The company Dec 2009 14:40:00 EST. Please
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females will bear as many young and Cameroon, said Patrick

CrunchGear Week in Review: Link Nook Edition

By Bryce Durbin
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 3:00:45 AM
Here are some stories from
CrunchGear this past week. “Butterfly Touch” from Packard
Bag Week, People! bell sounds weak but looks sweet
This dude made a Zelda game in B&N confirms Nook shipment
C++. What did you do this year? Xylophone Table delay, says only “very small
Bad Ideas, vol. CMXVII: percentage” affected
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Tributes paid to British soldier killed Morgan Stanley's CEO
in Afghanistan
(World news and comment
from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 8:49:44 AM
Corporal Simon Hornby, who
died while on foot patrol in
Helmand on Saturday,
remembered as a 'highly
respected leader'
Tributes were paid today to the
latest British soldier to die in
Afghanistan.
Corporal Simon Hornby, 29,
from the 2nd Battalion, the Duke
of Lancaster's Regiment, was
killed in an explosion while on
foot patrol in the Nad-e-Ali area
of Helmand yesterday.
The Liverpudlian's wife, Holly,
described the soldier as her
"hero". Hornby's death brings the
number of British service
personnel who have died since
the start of operations in
Afghanistan in 2001 to 240,
including 103 deaths this year.
Hornby had previously served in
Iraq, where he was awarded a
commendation for discovering an
improvised explosive device and
for spoiling an insurgent ambush.
He deployed to Afghanistan as a
section commander with Arnhem
Company, 2nd Battalion The
Duke of Lancaster's Regiment as
skips bonus -- again
part of the 1st Battalion
Grenadier Guards Battle Group,
according to the Ministry of
Defence.
The passionate Liverpool FC fan
was stationed at Shamal Storrai
patrol base and, as the most
senior of the non-commissioned
officers there, administered the
base for his platoon commander.
Colleagues said Hornby, who
was known as Si, thrived in the
role and led by example and paid
tribute to his love of life and
sense of humour.
Hornby attended Halewood
Comprehensive School before
joining the army in 2000. His
wife Holly said she was
devastated by the loss: "He was
proud to be a soldier and died
doing the job he loved. He was
my hero."
Lieutenant Colonel Robbie
Boyd, Commanding Officer, 2nd
Battalion The Duke of
Lancaster's Regiment, said he
was "courageous" and a "highly
respected leader". "Always
happy, always chirpy, he - as did
we - lived for his sense of fun,
humour and his infectious zest
for life; now so sadly taken from
him and us," he said.
"He was a highly motivated
young junior non-commissioned
officer with his priorities fixed
firmly around the welfare of his
soldiers and the welfare of his
wife, Holly, who we will support
as a regimental family throughout
her tragedy.
"He loved his wife, he loved the
army and his regiment, and he
loved his football team;
Liverpool FC."
He said he had stepped up to the
"administrative challenge" of his
role in Afghanistan "brilliantly".
Major Jon Elliott, Officer
Commanding Arnhem Company,
2nd Battalion The Duke of
Lancaster's Regiment, said: "Cpl
Si Hornby was fiercely loyal to
his family, his regiment and his
home town. He was a lively
character with a natural tendency
to see the lighter side of life, one
which he lived to the full. A
constant source of morale for his
platoon, he was greatly respected
by his colleagues and friends."
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• Afghanistan
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By Tom Johansmeyer
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 1:40:00 PM
Filed under: Bank of America
(BAC), Goldman Sachs Group
(GS), Morgan Stanley (MS)
Nobody expected bonus season
to be comfortable, even with the down at the end of the year,
financial crisis more than a year though Mack will stick around
in the rear-view mirror. Yet, Morgan Stanley as chairman. The
Goldman Sachs ( GS) is getting last time Mack got a bonus was
sued over its compensation in 2006: he picked up $36.2
package, under which key million in restricted shares.
executives are only compensated Continue reading Morgan
in long-term stock. In the latest Stanley's CEO skips bonus --
development, John Mack, CEO again
of Morgan Stanley ( MS), is Morgan Stanley's CEO skips
skipping his bonus for the third bonus -- again originally
year in a row, according to appeared on BloggingStocks on
Reuters. Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:40:00 EST.
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Kenneth Lewis, top dog over at Comments
Bank of America ( BAC) is
getting neither a salary nor a
bonus for 2009. Both plan to step
There are No "Snow Days" in Blogging,
Unfortunately: A Meditation on Bestiality
[Public Service Announcement]
By Foster Kamer (Gawker)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 3:15:00 PM
or horsecock: never the answer.
No matter how lonely it gets,
kids, please remember: jumping
8 World/ Finance/ E-reader News Edition

David McClendon obituary Google in Talks to Buy

(World news and comment
from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
black student union ran a white
speaker from South Africa right
off the campus David was level-
every new reporter under his
wing. He pushed for stories about
the socially disadvantaged and
Yelp
headed and defended the man's disenfranchised. He devised By Tom Johansmeyer
Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:33:56 AM (BloggingStocks)
right to free speech. ambitious investigative projects
Our friend and former colleague, While a student, he was a to reveal corruption. He lived HL Submitted at 12/19/2009 3:40:00 PM

David McClendon, who has died stringer for the Philadelphia Mencken's mantra that
aged 44, was diagnosed in March Inquirer. He later worked for the journalism should "comfort the Filed under: Deals, Internet,
w i t h s a r c o i d o s i s ( B o e c k ' s Journal News, New York, before afflicted and afflict the Google (GOOG)
disease), an autoimmune disease. moving to the New Haven comfortable". Google ( GOOG) is looking to
Until his illness worsened, he Register, where he spent several He wrote on his blog: "I believe expand its reach into the user-
was the associate editor of the years and rose through the ranks in the human body's ability to generated content market. It's years, Google has shown some
Chi-Town Daily News, an online to become city editor. He left the heal and my ability to reportedly in discussions with interest in the site, but this time
newspaper in Chicago, and New Haven Register in October overcome." His heart gave out Yelp, a user review and ratings around, it looks like the action's
taught journalism at the city's 2006, taking a job as a deputy and he collapsed in the grocery site that covers everything from becoming serious, according to
Loyola University. metro editor on a paper in store while buying milk. recruiters to restaurants. The the New York Times.
After his diagnosis, he left his Michigan. David is survived by his parents, selling price is expected to be Continue reading Google in
job. In July, he moved back to his A burly, tall man, he was an Harold and Deborah, more than $500 million ... if Talks to Buy Yelp
parents' home in New Jersey to imposing figure but would stepbrothers Frances and James, Google and Yelp are able to Google in Talks to Buy Yelp
recuperate. On his blog, he frequently dissolve into girlish stepsister, Audrey, and reach a deal. originally appeared on
wrote: "Disease will not define laughter in the newsroom. He grandparents Mildred and Earl. Will the negotiations go BloggingStocks on Sat, 19 Dec
me. How I handle it will define cared profoundly about local • United States anywhere? As usual, there are no 2009 15:40:00 EST. Please see
me. I will fight it and win." Born news and his reporters. Calm and • Newspapers guarantees, and this isn't the first our terms for use of feeds.
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president of the student chapter His tough exterior hid a
of the National Association of marshmallow centre. He adopted
Black Journalists. When the a stray kitten and would take

OPEC Is in the Catbird Seat

By Joseph Lazzaro Come to think of it -- when high: oil closed Friday up 40 Catbird Seat
(BloggingStocks) hasn't OPEC been in an enviable cents to $73.05 per barrel. The OPEC Is in the Catbird Seat
Submitted at 12/20/2009 11:10:00 AM
position? OPEC heads into its roughly doubling of oil's price in originally appeared on
December meeting next week "in 2009 is the main reason the BloggingStocks on Sun, 20 Dec
Filed under: Politics, Oil, the catbird seat," to cite an old average U.S. gasoline price for 2009 11:10:00 EST. Please see
Recession phrase popularized by the late, unleaded regular has risen about our terms for use of feeds.
Let's just say OPEC is in an great Red Barber. OPEC does not $1 to$2.60 per gallon this year. Permalink| Email this| Comments
prices high -- they're already
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E-reader News Edition
Scientists study mental orgasms through MRIs
By Lydia Leavitt (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:00:12 AM
Guest columnist Lydia Leavitt
writes about sex and, oddly
enough, social media. For more
information on the latest intimate
technology as well as the full
interview with Kim Airs, check
out 69adget.com.
Click through to read the NSFW
article.
Kim Airs speeds into Newark,
New Jersey with her leather
chaps on, riding her motorcycle
decorated with dildos big and
small. She’s here to meet Dr.
Barry Komisaruk, an Associate
Dean and researcher at Rutgers
University where he is
researching the female orgasm.
Kim, a free spirit, founder of
Grand Opening, and a Certified
Sex Educator (PPLM), waltzes
into Dr. Komisaruk’s lab only to
be strapped into a MRI machine
where she jokes “Oh, it’ll be like
a bondage session. Won’t be my
first, won’t be my last!” Kim has
been chosen to participate in the
doctor’s study on the female
orgasm because she has a very
unconventional talent: this
woman can will herself to
orgasm. Without toys. Without
lube. Without another person.
That’s right people, she can do it
with her mind alone.
In our interview, Kim describes
her unique skill:
I have pretty much always been
multi-orgasmic and always
thought: why just go for one?
Orgasms are some of the best
free entertainment one can have!
So I had the basics of what it’s all
about but never had the formal
training until 1995, when I
attended my first breath and
energy workshop with the
beloved (and amazing) Annie
Sprinkle. Then I did quite a few
workshops with The Body
Electric that was a program
developed by Annie that
combines spirituality and
sexuality but without any
religious overtones (except
maybe a few “Oh God! I’m
coming!”s in it). Seriously, it
does focus on breath work as
well. I was part of the first
intensive of the Body Electric for
women held over several days in
Northern California and when
you’re focusing on breathing and
moving energy for hours at a
time (no kidding), you begin to
get the hang of it. It wasn’t until
1997 that I really made all the
connections to be able to do this
without touching myself and
being able to “think off.” I let it
flow through me whenever it
damn well pleases. It can be if a
memory comes back to me and I
close my eyes and my body
slightly convulses, I usually get
flushed in the face and yes,
sometimes, people pick up on
that when it happens. If I see
someone that’s hot, I can pop one
off then, too.
And this is exactly the type of
woman Dr. Komisaruk, author of
The Orgasm Answer Guide,
wants to study. Why? Because
the doctor is using MRIs to study
brain activity during a female’s
orgasm in an attempt to isolate
the regions active during the big
O. Someone who can will
themselves off will not have any
motor movements to skew the
MRI results. During our
interview, the doctor describes
the female orgasm as a
“remarkable phenomena,”
explaining that it has been linked
to reduced sensitivity to pain as
well as increased feelings of joy
and happiness…duh. The doctor
hopes that by figuring out what’s
happening in the brain during
orgasm, researchers can use this
information to develop better anti
-depressants, better pain
management drugs, and increase
sexual satisfaction.
What the study has revealed thus
far is that women who can will
themselves to orgasm mentally,
Gadgets/ 9
experience the same brain
activity during orgasm as women
who use stimulation to get off. If
women can experience the same
orgasm from stimulation as they
can just through mentally willing
it to happen, it proves just how
large of a role the brain plays in
female orgasm. This got Dr.
Komisaruk thinking: if it’s not so
much nerve stimulation as it is an
action in the brain, can disabled
women such as para or
quadriplegics with zero
sensitivity possibly experience
orgasm? The answer is yes. He
states that “we have identified a
novel functional sensory pathway
that conveys sensory activity
from the vagina and cervix
directly to the brain, bypassing
completely the spinal cord.”
What that means is that even
women with spinal cord injuries
who have no feeling in their
lower body, have the potential to
feel sexual satisfaction. Hooray!
By better understanding the
orgasm, the doctor hopes that
scientists can develop better anti-
depressant drugs, better pain
management drugs, achieve
better sexual satisfaction for the
disabled, and BETTER more
enhanced sex for the rest of us.
Until a time when researchers
can definitively explain and
utilize the findings from studies
such as Dr. Komisaruk’s, men
will have to be content knowing
that female orgasms are more
mental than we ever thought
SCIENTISTS page 12
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The Engadget Show tapes today... snow be damned!

By Joshua Topolsky
(Engadget)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 11:10:00 AM

Can't wait for another Engadget

Show to roll around? Well you're
in luck, friend. It's happening
today.
The last show of the decade will
be dedicated to just that: the
decade. We're going to be talking
about the most important gadgets
of the past 10 years -- both good
and bad -- and we'll be joined by
the perfect guest. Peter Rojas, the
founder of both Gizmodo and
Engadget (and now gdgt!) will
take the stage with Josh, Paul,
and Nilay to discuss what has
been arguably the most important
10 years in gadgetry.
We'll also have a few surprises,
as well as some giveaways
including an Xbox 360, so don't
miss it -- you'll be sorry if you
do!
The show takes place at the first-served basis -- which means want anyone standing around in stand in line -- if you have a
Tishman Auditorium at Parsons if you want to join us in the the snow, and it's likely that not Here is what you need to know ticket, you'll have a seat!
The New School for Design. As audience for the show, you'll everyone who was going to come if you want to be part of the • You'll need to hold onto your
you may already know, we film have to arrive early and be will be able to make it, so we audience: ticket stub to be eligible for the
live in front of an audience once prepared for a little wait. should be able to accommodate giveaways
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Marketplace) for your viewing show, but we're going to make it sponsored by Sprint, and hosted • Parsons students are doors will open at 4:30PM
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Seating is limited and tickets will anytime before 4:30PM you will Bubblyfish, and visuals by Chris and we're strongly encouraging
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Beeper Code: The Caveman Days of Text
Messaging [Y2k10]
By Anna Jane Grossman
(Gizmodo)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 9:20:00 PM
In 1999, 45 million Americans
had pagers. They were an equal-
opportunity technology, owned
by drug dealers, whores, doctors
and CEOs—and new college
students whose parents couldn't
drop the leash. At least there was
the code.
Saddled as I was with my
beeper, I did what I could to
avoid actually picking up the
phone. For Christmas my mom
gave me a few rolls of quarters: a
reminder that when she paged
me, I was supposed to call her
back. Most of my paging,
however, was sending numerical
messages to my friend Sarah.
My pager was green! Hers was
pink! We were so very cool. This
number-to-word conversion we
became addicted to will probably
go down as only a very minor
footnote in turn-of-this-century
communication, but, for kids
who'd never known from text
messaging and hardly used email,
the idea that I could send her any
kind of message and she'd get it
instantly—that was pretty darn
huge.
Some of our codes were super
private so I can't share them, but
others were standard: 411 for
information, 911 for emergency,
143 to symbolized the number of
letters in each word of the phrase
"I love you."
There was also an accepted
system of sending numbers so
that, when written together,
looked vaguely like letters. We'd
grown up getting adults to spell
"BOOBLESS" on calculators by
typing in the elements of a story
about Dolly Parton and then
holding the calculator upside
down. (Her bra size was 69 and
that was 2, 2, 2 big. So, she took
51 diet pills and went to see Dr.
X eight times. Now she's...
55378008.) From there, it was an
easy jump to many other words.
Hello was 07734. That was one
of the easiest one. We said
"Hello" a lot. Bitch? Why that
was 81764, naturally. There were
so many, it became necessary to
have beeper-code dictionaries, or
at least, a basic decoder.
Now, Sarah and I text using
actual words written using actual
letters. Boring.
Anna Jane Grossman will be
with us for the next few weeks,
documenting life in the early
aughts, and how it differs from
today. The author of Obsolete:
An Encyclopedia of Once-
Common Things Passing Us By
(Abrams Image) and the creator
of ObsoleteTheBook.com, she
has also written for dozens of
publications, including the New
York Times, Salon.com, the
Associated Press, Elle and the
Huffington Post, as well as
Gizmodo. She has a complicated
relationship with technology, but
she does have an eponymous
website: AnnaJane.net. Follow
her on Twitter at@AnnaJane.
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Next Week’s Best Buy
TV Sales Are
Surprisingly Good
(Again) [Dealzmodo]
By Chris Jacob (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 4:00:00 PM
Gary at HD Guru once again
snagged next week's Best Buy
TV circular early, and just like
last time, the deals are
surprisingly good. Here's a
sample, check out his site for the
full list and price comparisons:
• Samsung PN50B550 50 1080p
plasma $979.99
• Toshiba 46XV645U 46 1080p
120 Hz LCD Best Buy $999.98
with Free Toshiba BDX2000 Blu
-ray player bundle
• Sony KDL-40XBR9 40 1080p
240 Hz LCD Best Buy $1244.97
with Free Sony BDPS360 Blu-
ray player and HTSS360 5.1
Home Theater in a Box system
• Sony KDL-46XBR9 46 1080p
240 Hz LCD Best Buy $1704.97
with Free Sony BDPS360 Blu-
ray player and HTSS360 5.1
Home Theater in a Box system
• Samsung PN42B450 42 720p
Plasma $624.99 Best Buy
Not too bad. Not too bad at all. [
HD Guru]
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ENGADGET
B&N confirms Nook shipment delay, says only continued from page 10

engadget.com, and we'll try to

“very small percentage” affected
By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 11:11:28 AM
The Barnes & Noble Senior VP
of Corporate Communications
and Public Affairs, Mary Ellen
Keating, just confirmed to us that
indeed some Nook orders were
pushed back again. She claims
that only a very small percentage
of customers will not receive
their Nook before Christmas
though. B&N apparently offered
affected customers both a holiday
certificate in case the Nook was a
gift and the $100 BN.com gift
card we learned about from a
commenter yesterday.
It’s hard to feel sympathetic to
B&N. The bookseller obviously
misjudged customer demand
from the start, but inventory and
supply management should have
seen this latest shipping problem
a lot earlier. Our tipster ordered
his Nook back on November 12th
and saw his order
constantly pushed back at the last
minute, which was no doubt a
ploy by B&N to
keep cancellations down to
a minimum. All it takes to keep
most consumers happy is timely,
honest communication, not
emails days after the delay
is obvious.
The vast majority of customers
who pre-ordered nooks and were
given a pre-holiday estimated
shipping date should receive their
devices in time for the holidays.
We are working very hard to
keep up with the demand and to
get all nook orders out the door
and to customers on or before
Dec. 24. Unfortunately, there
accommodate you. All other non-
media questions can be sent to:
engadgetshow [at] engadget.com.
may be a very small percentage
of customers who may not Continue reading The Engadget
receive their nooks before the Show tapes today... snow be
holiday. We communicated with damned!
this handful of customers The Engadget Show tapes
yesterday, offering our sincere today... snow be damned!
apologies and providing them originally appeared on Engadget
with the following: 1. A nook on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:10:00
Holiday Certificate, in case they EST. Please see our terms for
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Any customer who has not yet
received their device but whose
ship date prior to the holidays has
changed in any way should have
received an email yesterday from
Barnes & Noble with updated
SCIENTISTS
continued from page 9
timing. They can also check
before. Geez, good luck guys.
their order status or contact a
Thankfully, Dr. Komisaruk has
customer service representative
just been offered a grant to study
(1 800 THE BOOK) if, for some
the male orgasm.
reason, they did not receive the
email.”
Mary Ellen Keating
Spokesperson
Barnes & Noble

Klipsch Adds iPhone Controls to Top-of-the-Line X10i Ear

Buds [Headphones]
By Jack Loftus (Gizmodo) ear headphones and adds a bit of Christmas, or even New Year's, here at Gizmodo in August—are
the ol' iPhone microphone and
Submitted at 12/20/2009 10:00:00 AM
with their reported sell date about the get a color refresh (as
volume controls right on the placed ambiguously in "early seen in the image). The price will
The Klipsch X10i ear buds, cord. 2010." remain $99. [ Engadget]
recently revealed to Engadget The new "i" line checks in at The other nugget out of Klipsch
during an Indiana HQ site visit, $349, and knocks the control-less won't be here in time for today is that the popular S4i ear
take that company's premium in- X10 down to an even $300. They buds—which reviewed favorably
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Exclusive: Klipsch introduces iPhone-friendly Image X10i and

black / white S4i earbuds
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 7:24:00 AM
We recently had the opportunity
to tour Klipsch's headquarters in
Indianapolis, Indiana, and while
we're currently working up a
walk-through showing off gobs
of behind the scenes footage
from the design lab and quality
assurance facilities, we gathered
two particularly juicy tidbits that
simply couldn't wait. The outfit
informed us that since the Image
S4i earbuds have been such a
success, it will soon be adding its
three-button iPhone microphone /
remote to the top-of-the-line
Image X10, and as you may
expect, the resulting product will
go by the name Image X10i.
They'll officially debut in the
same gold and black motif at
CES, and they should ship to
consumers in early 2010 for $349
(while the original X10 falls to
$299). The other discovery was
that the hot-selling S4i earbuds
(which we tested out a few
months ago) will soon be
shipping in a fresh color scheme
(black and white, as seen above)
and with the same metal tin that
the S4 currently ships with. This
is actually the first third-party
headphone set with an integrated
Made for iPhone remote /
microphone that Cupertino has
agreed to sell in white, and we
can safely say that this two-tone
look will probably have the
we couldn't confirm, we'd say
that chances are high for future
color options to sneak out in the
S4 / S4i range. Check out the
new wares in the gallery below.
Gallery: Exclusive: Klipsch
introduces iPhone-friendly Image
X10i and black / white S4i
earbuds
Exclusive: Klipsch introduces
iPhone-friendly Image X10i and
black / white S4i earbuds
originally appeared on Engadget
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How to Get Free Inflight Wi-Fi This Holiday Season

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Submitted at 12/19/2009 5:00:00 PM
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14 Gadgets/ Tech News/ E-reader News Edition

Re transforms your iPhone into a

universal remote (which seems like a
step backwards, to be honest)
By Joseph L. Flatley
(Engadget)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 2:25:00 AM

OK, so we know a thing or two

about the "convenience" of using
your iPhone as a remote control.
For instance, using it to control
Boxee was alright -- until we
needed to make a call. Or we
Wii BOSS Controller
received a call. Not to rain on
anyone's parade, but the idea of
re-purposing your phone to act as
Case: Great In Theory,
a universal remote seems a little
silly. But what do we know? promises regular updates to the honest) originally appeared on Poor In Execution [Wii]
Maybe you hold all calls while app -- and your typical remote Engadget on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 By Jack Loftus (Gizmodo) says the additional bulk just
Jersey Shore is on anyways. In can't do that! Compatible with 02:25:00 EST. Please see our makes things unwieldy. One
Submitted at 12/20/2009 8:00:00 AM
that case, Re could be your next the iPod Touch as well, there's no terms for use of feeds. Permalink needs big, beefy hands to use this
favorite gadget. This bad boy lets word yet on a price or release Chip Chick| New Kinetix| Email There's a lot of useless accessory thing properly, they report, and
your handset communicate with date, but we're expecting that this| Comments crap for the Wii, but the BOSS the additional heft in back—junk
all your AV equipment via we'll be getting plenty more controller case looked to buck the in the trunk, if you will—only
infrared, contains an extensive details come CES time. trend by addressing Nintendo's makes things worse. And since
database of devices, and can Re transforms your iPhone into a baffling lack of classic controller the buttons on the case are just
learn from any IR remote. If that universal remote (which seems support for New Super Mario pressing down the original
weren't enough, New Kinetix like a step backwards, to be Bros Wii. Too bad it doesn't Wiimote buttons below, things
work. got a tad unresponsive. Even at
Cartoon: Don't Push Me Basically, what this big red thing $10, the reviewer "breathed a
does is slip over your Wiimote sigh of relief" when he tore it off
By Rob Cottingham had been, oh, 20 or 30 years y o u w h o ' v e r e a d , t w e e t e d , and, theoretically, makes it easier after an hour of play time.
(ReadWriteWeb) later), and it would have driven forwarded and commented on to grip and push those tiny It's too bad. That tiny directional
Submitted at 12/20/2009 10:00:00 AM
me CRA-ZEE. Noise to Signal this year. Have a buttons when playing a game pad and those tiny 1 and 2
Funny thing: It's also exactly the g r e a t h o l i d a y i f y o u ' r e with the Wiimote on its side. buttons really cramp me up after
'Tis the season and all that, and sort of thing I find myself saying celebrating, and just have a K i n d o f l i k e t h e C l a s s i c an extended play session in the
this time of year I find myself to my own kids. lovely week or two if you aren't. Controller, with an accelerometer Mushroom Kingdom. [ ars
thinking a lot about my parents. Sponsor I'll see you in 2010. built in. technica]
This is exactly the sort of thing And speaking of 'tis the season, More Noise to Signal. Discuss Unfortunately, Ars Technica
they'd have said (if my childhood thanks and all the best to all of
E-reader News Edition
Barnes & Noble giving $100 for
Nook pre-orders that miss Christmas
By Paul Miller (Engadget)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 10:32:00 AM
Haven't got your Nook yet? You
may actually be in luck. For
people who pre-ordered early
enough to expect a pre-Christmas
delivery, Barnes & Noble is
promising a $100 B&N.com gift
card if it misses December 24th -
- which is apparently distinctly
possible. Of course, if you're one
of the lucky / unlucky ones to
have this on offer, you've
probably already seen the email,
and if you're a different sort of
hapless pre-orderer that won't be
seeing a Nook until next year,
this is just another reason to curse
your lot in life. To think: not only
are you not ushering in 2010
from an economy suite in a space
hotel, but you're going to wrap up
this year reading paper books,
without $100 to show for it!
Can't we do better as a
civilization?
Barnes & Noble giving $100 for
Nook pre-orders that miss
Christmas originally appeared on
Engadget on Sun, 20 Dec 2009
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-
FP8 reviewed: as good as
'a loaf of plain white bread'
By Richard Lai (Engadget) were adequately pleased with the
sample videos linked from
Submitted at 12/20/2009 4:57:00 AM
It's hard to imagine complaining
YouTube. The only major flaw
indicated was the "permanently
about a stylish compact camera
that packs a stabilized 28-128mm
zoom range and does 720p video
exposed" lens, but we can't
imagine it being a deal breaker
for most of you nice folks out
capture at 30fps, but Panasonic's there, right?
Lumix DMC-FP8 didn't garner Panasonic Lumix DMC-FP8
any raves from the crew at
reviewed: as good as 'a loaf of
PhotographyBLOG either. Image
plain white bread' originally
quality was found to be decent in
appeared on Engadget on Sun, 20
well-lit conditions and no more
Dec 2009 04:57:00 EST. Please
than ISO 800 -- typical
see our terms for use of feeds.
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Artopz Minitopz Ion-based nettop
lamp rains down confusion, wonder
By Paul Miller (Engadget)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 11:58:00 PM
We don't get it. At all. That said,
we're totally enamored with this
Artopz Minitopz, which manages
to both be an impressively-
specced Atom and Ion-based
nettop, and simultaneously a
completly confounding piece of
"art." Apparently it's supposed to
be perceived as a lamp, but we'd
say that stretches the limits of
imagination. But it stretches them
in a good way, that's all we're
saying. Oh, and the Minitopz
CrunchDeals: Buy an Olive 4 or 4 HD and get Beatles
Remastered
By John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 1:09:40 AM
So the guys at Olive really like
you. We gave our free one away
to Reader Fares but you guys can
pick one up alongside a full 17-
disc collection of Beatles hits just
Guy brings whole computer rig into B&N, the
world snickers
By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 6:37:04 AM
This dude probably had to get
some work done and decided to
costs $2,250, just in case you
thought you'd penetrated this fog
of luxurious gadget oddity to the
point of pulling out a wallet.
as quick as two shakes of a
lamb’s tail. Here’s what’s going
on:
Buy any Olive 4 or Olive 4 HD
by Monday, December 28th and
get the remarkable, remastered
Beatles 17-Disc collection
FREE! This is the Beatles
mooch off of B&N’s free
Internet. But seriously? Did he
really have to do it in this
fashion? I mean, he’s just further
advancing the general public’s
Maybe the video after the break
will help clear some things up?
Nope, not really.
Continue reading Artopz
Minitopz Ion-based nettop lamp
rains down confusion, wonder
Artopz Minitopz Ion-based
nettop lamp rains down
confusion, wonder originally
appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19
Dec 2009 23:58:00 EST. Please
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Collection you’ve been waiting
for. Every song in the Beatles
catalog, every album from Please
view of nerds.
E-reader News Edition
Data.gov Captchas Get
Political
By Richard MacManus
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 12:31:22 AM
Marketing manager Elyssa Pallai,
Spotted this evening on the U.S. who stumbled upon this humor
government's public data web gem today.
site, Data.gov. A Republican Sponsor
programmer at captcha provider Discuss
reCAPTCHA having some fun?
Hat-tip ReadWriteWeb's
with your purchase of an Olive 4.
Pop over here to pick up your
unit. Happy holidays.
Please Me to Let it Be remastered
to today’s highest standards. A
$200 value – it’s yours FREE
Socks with sandles, buddy?
That’s it. You’re out of the club.
Hand back in your nerd card. [
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If you wrote the

words you own
the copyright
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 11:32:23 PM

At Poynter Paul Bradshaw asks

a question with an obvious
answer.
Paul Bradshaw: In the E-mail
Era, Who Owns the Interview?
Obviously the person who wrote
the words owns the copyright.
Avatar has hit telesync, but Fair use allows the reporter to
Poor iPhone reception quote them. I can't imagine a
by all reports you should graduates to SNL 'Weekend lawyer advising or a court
deciding otherwise.
And of course this highlights the
just pay your money Update' joke status
fact that a lot of people help
reporters and news organizations,
By John Biggs (CrunchGear) where it’s coming out on without any hope or expectation
Submitted at 12/20/2009 12:52:51 AM
December 24, you might as well By Joshua Topolsky Continue reading Poor iPhone of compensation. It's funny that
whet your appetite with this (Engadget) reception graduates to SNL none of these people are
Imagine this in 3D. With like CAMELOT release. 'Weekend Update' joke status
Submitted at 12/20/2009 1:06:00 AM mentioned in the sad pieces that
aliens popping out onto your lap. Says scnsrc: Poor iPhone reception graduates wonder if the news industry has a
This telesync won’t be like that. Here is a nice telesync from "It was reported this week that to SNL 'Weekend Update' joke future. And no one seems to see
Avatar is now a telesync, in CAMELOT, the sound is good Google would soon launch its status originally appeared on an even more interesting question
English, but it seems the aliens in and the video is a bit blurry but own cellphone as a challenge to Engadget on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 -- in the age of blogs, do we still
the copy are gray and everyone – this is in english. However I the iPhone. Also a challenge to 01:06:00 EST. Please see our need reporters? (I think we do,
I mean everyone – says to go see recomand the iMAX, definitely the iPhone? Making phone calls." terms for use of feeds. Permalink| but not as much as we used to.)
it in the theaters. If you can’t wait worths it. Cue uproarious applause. | Email this| Comments
and/or you live in Central Europe Update: Video after the break!
Thanks Michael!

SNL: Google phone to challenge iPhone by "making calls"

By Michael Grothaus (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 12/20/2009 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: Humor, iPhone
Saturday Night Live's 'Weekend
Update' with Seth Meyers joined
the fray of people who were sick
of AT&T's poor network
reception:
"It was reported this week that
Google would soon launch its
own cellphone as a challenge to
the iPhone. Also a challenge to
the iPhone? Making phone calls."
While Saturday Night Live hasn't
been funny for years(IMHO), and
the joke was rather feeble, this is
further cause for embarrassment
from Apple and AT&T and just
additional fodder for Verizon's
case as to why they should have
the iPhone.
[via Engadget]
TUAW SNL: Google phone to
challenge iPhone by "making
calls" originally appeared on The
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(TUAW) on Sun, 20 Dec 2009
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18 Tech/
HOW TO: Use Facebook Privacy Controls on Your Fan Page
By Mollie Vandor (Mashable!)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 6:24:57 AM
Mollie Vandor is the Product
Manager for Ranker.com and
Media Director for Girls in Tech
LA. You can find her on Twitter
and on her blog, where she writes
about the web, the world and
what it’s like to be a geek chic
chick.
Lately it seems like Facebook
changes its privacy options more
often than most people change
their statuses. Late last week,
Facebook rolled out yet another
set of new privacy settings,
replacing regional networks with
concentric circles of connections.
Before, Facebook’s default
privacy settings were largely
location-based — people who
lived near you, or went to the
same college as you, were able to
see more information about you.
Now, access is all about who you
know and who knows them.
The new Facebook publisher
privacy controls are a core
component of this change. Now,
instead of simply posting
something to your entire
network, you can choose to
specify who sees your posts. It’s
pretty easy to figure out how to
use these changes to your
advantage when handling your
personal Facebook page — those
happy hour pics should probably
only get posted to people who are
actually your friends. But
figuring them out for fan pages is
a very different proposition,
especially because privacy
settings for Fan Pages are still all
about location, location, location.
What Are the Fan Page Publisher
Privacy Controls?
The publisher privacy control is
the icon that, ironically, looks a
little bit like the MySpace logo.
You can find it on the publishing
area of your Fan Page, right next
to the share button. When you
hover over it, you should see a
prompt that says “Everyone.”
This is the default, so if you
don’t do anything to change it,
your posts will automatically go
out to all your fans’ feeds.
However, if you click on the
privacy control, you can
customize your posts so that they
only go out to fans who speak a
certain language, fans who live in
a certain country, or even fans
who live in certain cities and
states.
You can also create
combinations of customizations
by sending the post out to people
in multiple cities, multiple states
or multiple countries. There are
some limitations — at the
moment it doesn’t appear that
you can specify certain cities and
states within a country and also
share that same post with certain
cities and states within another
country. You can, however, share
with multiple countries at once.
Using the controls is pretty easy.
The hard part is figuring out why
you would want to use them in
the first place. Spread the Good
Stuff Out
There’s a thin line between
engaging your Facebook fans and
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(but demographically similar) certain fans. But, more
regions. Once your posts are up, importantly, you can post more
there are plenty of ways to content more often. Because you
measure engagement and find out won’t be posting every piece of
which one worked and which content to every fan, you can post
didn’t. a higher volume of content, so
Even if a post fails, your you get more information into the
Facebook fans will likely be Facebook stream and more
more forgiving than the relevant content to each region of
annoying them. Target and time audiences on most other major your user base. It’s a win-win for
your content correctly, and you’ll social media platforms. Unless everyone. Take on the Trends
get all the clicks you could it’s outrageously offensive, bad Let’s face it, what’s cool in
possibly want. Don’t, and you’ll content on Facebook tends to just California isn’t necessarily
either miss the boat or make your get swept away in the stream, blowing up in Burma. The world
f a n s w a n t t o t h r o w y o u which makes the publisher is a big place, and the World
overboard. That’s where the privacy controls the perfect way Wide Web is too. While there are
privacy controls can really come to find out if your fans want to some memes that make their way
in handy. follow you in that new direction around the globe, there are many
Say you’ve got a great piece of you’re contemplating. Control trending topics that take off in
content that you want to promote, for Culture particular places, or for particular
and you want it to reach as many With 350 million users and 70 groups of people. And I’m not
of your fans as possible. If your different translations, it’s no just talking about the topics
fans are spread out into multiple wonder that Facebook is a whole people are tweeting about. From
time zones, you’re going to run world unto itself. Your Facebook major events to sporting matches
into issues trying to time the post fans could be coming from any to local news, there are all sorts
for a window when everyone’s corner of the globe. Unless of bandwagons your fans could
likely to be checking Facebook. you’re selling something that be jumping on. And if the people
And you definitely don’t want to e v e r y o n e i n t h e w o r l d i s you want to communicate with
post the same piece of content interested in, there are probably are on the bandwagon, shouldn’t
over and over — that’s a recipe some posts that will entice one you be there too?
for really annoying your fans. group to click through and Of course, you don’t want to
Now you can target your posts by another to click away. That’s the cram content about every single
time zone, so you don’t waste perfect publisher privacy control trend into every user’s Facebook
your best content by throwing it situation. feed. That’s why you should use
into the feeds of fans who are First, you should know the the publisher privacy controls on
probably asleep. Just use the demographics of your users. If your Fan Page. Target your post
publisher privacy controls to roll you don’t, there are plenty of to the place your topic is
that good content out region-by- great tools to help you track and trending. That way you can jump
region throughout the day and triangulate them. Once you do, on all the bandwagons you want,
you’re all set. Get Tested it’s relatively simple to figure out without causing content overload
What better way to test the web which regions of fans will want for all your fans. Conclusion
waters than with a good A/B which types of content. By When it comes to managing
experiment? Post two different targeting your posts to particular
pieces of content to two different regions, you can avoid offending HOW page 22
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U.N. climate talks end with bare-minimum deal
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 3:54:34 PM
COPENHAGEN--U.N. climate
talks ended with a bare-minimum
agreement on Saturday when
delegates "noted" an accord
struck by the United States,
China, and other emerging
powers that falls far short of the
conference's original goals.
"Finally we sealed a deal," U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
said. "The 'Copenhagen Accord'
may not be everything everyone
had hoped for, but this...is an
important beginning."
A long road lies ahead. The
accord--weaker than a legally
binding treaty and weaker even
than the "political" deal many
had foreseen--left much to the
imagination.
It set a target of limiting global
warming to a maximum 2
degrees Celsius over pre-
industrial times--seen as a
threshold for dangerous changes
such as more floods, droughts,
mudslides, sandstorms, and rising
seas. But it failed to say how this
would be achieved.
It held out the prospect of $100
billion in annual aid from 2020
for developing nations but did
not specify precisely where this
money would come from. And it
pushed decisions on core issues
such as emissions cuts into the
future.
"This basically is a letter of
intent...the ingredients of an
architecture that can respond to
the long-term challenge of
climate change, but not in precise
legal terms. That means we have
a lot of work to do on the long
road to Mexico," said Yvo de
Boer, head of the U.N. Climate
Change Secretariat.
Another round of climate talks is
scheduled for November 2010 in
Mexico. Negotiators are hoping
to nail down then what they
failed to achieve in Copenhagen--
a new treaty to replace the Kyoto
Protocol. But there are no
guarantees.
Nonbinding accord
A plenary session of the
marathon 193-nation talks in the
Danish capital merely "took
note" of the new accord, a
nonbinding deal for combating
global warming finalized by U.S.
President Barack Obama, China,
India, Brazil, and South Africa.
Work on the pact had begun in a
meeting of 28 leaders, ministers,
and officials, including EU
countries and small island nations
most vulnerable to climate
change.
The European Union, which has
set itself ambitious emissions
cuts targets and encouraged
others to follow suit, only
reluctantly accepted the weak
deal that finally emerged.
"The decision has been very
difficult for me. We have done
one step, we have hoped for
several more," said German
Chancellor Angela Merkel.
In the final hours of the talks,
which began on December 7 and
ended early on Saturday
afternoon, delegates agreed to set
a deadline to conclude a U.N.
treaty by the end of 2010. At
stake was a deal to fight global
warming and promote a cleaner
world economy less dependent
on fossil fuels.
The accord explicitly recognized
a "scientific view" that the world
should limit warming to no more
than 2 degrees Celsius--although
the promised emissions cuts were
far short of the amount needed to
reach that goal.
"We have a big job ahead to
avoid climate change through
effective emissions reduction
targets, and this was not done
here," said Brazil's climate
change ambassador, Sergio Serra.
A final breakthrough came after
Obama brokered a final deal with
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and
leaders of India, South Africa,
and Brazil that they stand behind
their commitments to curb
growth in greenhouse gases.
Obama said the "extremely
difficult and complex" talks laid
the foundation for international
action in the years to come.
"For the first time in history, all
of the world's major economies
have come together to accept
their responsibility to take action
on the threat of climate change,"
Obama said at the White House
on Saturday after returning from
Copenhagen.
The outcome underscored
shortcomings in the chaotic U.N.
process and may pass the
initiative in forming world
climate policy to the United
States and China, the world's top
two emitters of greenhouse gases.
Overnight session stormy
In a stormy overnight session,
the talks came to the brink of
collapse after Sudan, Nicaragua,
Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia
lined up to denounce the U.S.-
and China-led plan, after heads of
state and government had flown
home.
Sources close to the talks told
Reuters the Danish hosts and
U.N. lawyers had not obtained
formal backing from the
conference for a smaller group of
leaders and ministers to agree on
a final text, leading to chaos
when this was finally presented
to a plenary meeting of all 193
countries.
U.N. talks are meant to be
concluded by unanimity. Under a
compromise to avoid collapse,
the deal listed the countries that
were in favor of the deal and
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those against.
An all-night plenary session,
chaired by Danish Prime Minister
Lars Lokke Rasmussen, hit a low
point when a Sudanese delegate
said the plan in Africa would be
like the Holocaust.
The document "is a solution
based on the same very values, in
our opinion, that channeled 6
million people in Europe into
furnaces," said Sudan's
Lumumba Stanislaus Di-aping.
"The reference to the Holocaust
is, in this context, absolutely
despicable," said Anders
Turesson, chief negotiator of
Sweden.
The conference finally merely
"took note" of the new accord.
This gives it the same legal
status as if it had been accepted,
senior United Nations official
Robert Orr said. But it is far from
a full endorsement, and it was
also condemned by many
environmental groups as showing
a failure of leadership.
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Three station fliers prep for launch to lab complex
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 8:51:04 AM
Engineers at the Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
readied the Soyuz TMA-17
spacecraft for launch Sunday on
a mission to ferry three fresh
crew members to the
International Space Station.
Soyuz commander Oleg Kotov,
a station veteran, Japanese
astronaut Soichi Noguchi, a
shuttle veteran, and rookie
astronaut Timothy Creamer are
scheduled for launch at 4:52 p.m.
EST from the same pad used by
Yuri Gagarin at the dawn of the
space age.
Liftoff was targeted for roughly
the moment Earth's rotation
carries the launch pad into the
plane of the space station's orbit.
The Soyuz TMA-17 crew,
bound for the International Space
Station. Left to right: Soyuz
commander Oleg Kotov,
Timothy Creamer, Soichi
Noguchi.(Credit: NASA)
After a nine-minute climb to
space, the capsule's antennas and
solar panels will deploy and later
this evening, Kotov will oversee
two rendezvous rocket firings to
fine-tune the craft's approach to
the lab complex. A third rocket
firing is planned for Monday and
if all goes well, the TMA-17
spacecraft will execute an
automated approach to the Earth-
facing port of the station's Zarya
module Tuesday for a docking
around 5:54 p.m.
Waiting to welcome the new
crew members on board will be
Expedition 22 commander
Jeffrey Williams and Maxim
Suraev, launched to the outpost
Sept. 30. Suraev and Williams,
who has a previous station flight
to his credit, have had the lab to
themselves since December 1,
when cosmonaut Roman
Romanenko, European Space
Agency astronaut Frank De
Winne and Canadian Robert
Thirsk returned to Earth after a
six-month stay in space.
"One of the things we've learned
over the last couple of years is it's
really beneficial to have
(experienced) crew members (on
board) when a new crew arrives,"
said Kirk Shireman, deputy
manager of the space station
program at the Johnson Space
Center in Houston.
"So while it'll be a new
experience for these guys, the
fact that Max and Jeff have
already been up there, they'll
know where everything is, they'll
know how things work and that'll
allow these three guys to quickly
adapt and be able to hit the
ground running."
According to an Associated
Press report, Creamer told
reporters he would miss his
family over the Christmas
holidays, but "we are going as a
family together to a family in
space." He has been using
Twitter to keep friends, family
and the public up to date and
plans to continue posting from
space.
"I thought if I can give you the
status of what I am doing, what
we are hoping for, what we are
looking forward to seeing, those
would be good little teasers," he
said.
The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft
on the launch pad at the Baikonur
C o s m o d r o m e i n
Kazakhstan.(Credit: NASA)
After a break for Christmas and
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the New Year holidays, the crew
will face a busy month in
January.
Using the station's robot arm, a
NASA pressurized mating
adapter currently attached to the
left side of the central Unity
module will be relocated Jan. 5 to
clear the way for attachment of a
new U.S. module in February.
Suraev and Kotov plan a
spacewalk January 14 to finish
outfitting a new Russian docking
port known as Poisk, or MRM-2,
that was recently attached to the
Zvezda command module's
upward-facing hatch. Once that
work is done, the Soyuz TMA-16
spacecraft now docked to
Zvezda's aft port--the capsule
that carried Williams and Suraev
to the station--will be moved to
Poisk on January 20.
The shuttle Endeavour is
scheduled for launch from the
Kennedy Space Center on
Fabruary 7 to deliver Tranquility,
or Node 3, a roomy module that
will be attached to Unity's left-
side port. Once installed and
checked out, a toilet now
installed in the Destiny lab
module will be moved into
Tranquility, along with exercise
equipment and other life support
gear that has been temporarily
housed elsewhere.
"This increment really sets the
stage for the last year of the
shuttle program," Shireman said.
"It's a big growth year...the last
major growth spurt for the
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Moodagent: Going iTunes Playlists one better
By David Winograd (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 12/19/2009 3:00:00 PM
Filed under: iTunes, iPhone,
iPod touch, App Review, Music
Moodagen t [ iTunes Link] (free
for now) puts a new spin on the
iTunes Genius Playlist system.
Instead of leaving it up to Apple
to give you category based
Genius Playlists, Moodagent,
gives you some control over what
songs will appear in a 25 song
customizable playlist of your
music.
You are given 5 colored bars,
each with an icon representing an
aspect of music. The symbols
didn't make much sense to me,
but by hitting an info button, I
found that the icons represented,
in order: Sensual, Tender, Joy,
Aggressive and Tempo. I could
have used a full explanation of
what they meant by Aggressive
and Tempo, but trial and error
gave me a rough idea. By
increasing or decreasing the size
of each of the bars, a 25 song
Playlist is created, complete with
cover art icons, that can be
played or saved for later recall.
Increase or decrease one or more
of the bars and the playlist
Is Star Trek’s “Gorn Cannon” Mere Myth? Find Out On Mythbusters
By Robert Seidman
(TVbytheNumbers)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 1:04:14 PM
Can a cannon really be made out
instantly changes, so if you like a
playlist, it's a good idea to save it
before changing anything. Once
saved, a tap will play your
chosen playlist. When saving,
you are also given the
opportunity to title the playlist
any way you like, with the first
song being the default title.
Another way of making a
playlist, again similar to the
iTunes Genius playlist, is to
select a seed song to base the list
upon. Choose one song and then
adjust the bars to tailor the list to
your liking.
When first loading the app, you
run a sync that indexes all the
music on your iPhone/iPod touch
running OS 3.0 or better, with
their server. My iPhone has about
2100 songs on it and syncing
took about 10 minutes. When
done, I was told that it couldn't
sync about 750 songs. This
wasn't surprising since my tastes
tend toward the arcane, but
there's a solution for that. You
are asked to download a
Moodagent Profiler application
that, as does iTunes Genius
playlists, upload anonymous
information from the iTunes
library on your computer, which
is assumed to have more music
on it than does your mobile
of bamboo, sulfur, charcoal and
diamonds like the one Captain
Kirk made on the Star Trek
episode “Arena”?
Find out on Mythbusters
device. This information is used
to expand the Moodagent
database. After running the
Moodagent Profiler on my
roughly 6100 song Macbook Pro
iTunes library, which took over
an hour, I re-synced Moodagent
and this time the number of
songs that couldn't be synced
reduced to 149.
So why didn't it find 149 songs?
One reason is that Moodagent
doesn't handle anything encoded
with DRM. I haven't yet
discovered other reasons, since I
only had about 60 songs in my
iTunes Purchased folder. At its
introduction the Moodagent
Monday Dec. 28, at 9 p.m. on the
Discovery Channel
Star Trek fans will definitely
want to check out this video
preview.
database was reported to contain
over 7 million songs, which is a
start, but as more people use the
Moodagent Profiler and increase
the database, similar to the
Genius Playlist system, results
should get better.
Moodagent has only been out for
a few days and as expected, some
results are a bit odd. For no good
reason, I turned Sensuality all the
way up and everything else all
the way down. Many of the
results made sense, but
Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel?
Pretty weird. My guess is that if
Moodagent sells well, and the
database gets dramatically
expanded, results will get more
predictable.
I like this app quite a lot, but I
like its potential even better. The
more people that upload library
data using the Moodagent
Profiler, the better Moodagent
will become over time. On the
downside: I'd like to see the 25
song restriction taken off letting
the user determine the size of the
playlist. I also have a few other
nits to pick, like the Save and
Open Playlist button positioning.
As it stands, those options are
always in a space just above the
first song, so if you're scrolling
around your list, you won't find a
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way to save it. This I consider
minor since I was able to figure it
out in under a minute, but it
would be nice to have these
buttons be persistent.
Download it and check it out.
The price is certainly right, and
I've already created a number of
very enjoyable playlists that the
sledgehammer (can't get that
song out of my mind) approach
of the iTunes Genius system,
couldn't touch. Like Bookmark,
for audio books, Moodagent
takes an Apple system and fine
tunes it, giving you something
you didn't know you needed until
you start playing with it and find
it invaluable.
Check out this video to see
Moodagent put through its paces.
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HOW
iPhone, Blackberry Storm offer contrast in continued from page 18

your Fan Page, the publisher

browsers privacy controls let you post
more content, more intelligently.
By targeting your posts to
(CNET News.com) the Safari browser on the iPhone page and the zoom features of the the original Storm, Curve 8530
3GS. This is nothing short of two phones, respectively, the and Bold 9700) now runs specific people, you can post
Submitted at 12/20/2009 8:42:00 AM
phenomenal. It's the closest a iPhone 3GS (bottom) beats the BlackBerry OS 5, which features more often without saturating the
The quality and speed of the smartphone user can get to the Storm handily. a number of browser streams of all your fans, and you
browser is an essential feature for full-fledged browsing on a It is important to note that the enhancements. Page load times can pinpoint the people who are
smartphones these days. And it's laptop. Storm 2's built-in browser will have been improved with faster most likely to respond to and
here that the BlackBerry Storm 2 And the browser will only speed up significantly if you turn JavaScript and CSS processing, engage with every piece of
has some catching up to do vis-a- become more important as the off (uncheck) "Support and support has been added for content you post. Use the new
vis rivals such as the iPhone smartphone screen size creep javascript" in the "Browser standards such as Partial HTML5 privacy controls to pick the
3GS. continues, from the 3.5-inch Configuration" settings. And in and SVG Tiny 1.1 in order to perfect demographic for a
The Storm 2 is an underrated diagonal screen on the iPhone the side-by-side page load-time improve rendering fidelity. The particular piece of content, test
smartphone in many respects. 3GS to the 3.7-inch screen on the comparisons with the iPhone BlackBerry platform also now new types of content, and time
The interface is clean and easy to Droid to the 4.1-inch display on 3GS (embedded videos), support supports Gears, which is another your posts for maximum return.
navigate, the standard software the Toshiba TG01 (sold in for javascript is turned off. indication of RIM's intent and Controlling where your content
feature set competitive, and the Europe). But RIM needs to hurry up and direction with respect to goes helps you better control
ability to integrate all email So, what was RIM thinking? The match the competition. A fast, browsing on the BlackBerry your brand and build your user
a c c o u n t s i n t o o n e s c r e e n Storm 2's browser (like its high-quality browser is standard platform. Earlier this year, RIM base. That’s an awful lot of
convenient. predecessor's--which I had equipment now for premium announced it is working with power for one puny little privacy
But unbelievably--to me, at least previously been using) can be smartphones. Am I alone in this Adobe to bring full Flash to the button. More Facebook resources
--RIM failed to improve the glacially slow when loading Web opinion? BlackBerry platform and RIM from Mashable:
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me put it this way: RIM failed to users opt for downloading the BlackBerry Storm 2. ) company that specializes in Group
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(See RIM statement below.) these browsers have glaring official inquiry to RIM, asking its ongoing efforts to provide an With Your Blog
This is no small oversight. The defects of their own, so they don't why they didn't do more to increasingly better browsing - HOW TO: Set Up a Winning
key reason why the Motorola necessarily serve as satisfactory improve the browser in the experience to customers in Facebook Fan Page
Droid has been a hit is because it replacements for the Storm's built Storm. This was RIM's response: 2010." - 3 New Facebook Strategies for
couples a big screen with a high- -in browser. (The Bolt browser "Internet browsing is one of a Five Filters featured article: Building Your Personal Brand
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Which brings us to the gold videos, which demonstrate the BlackBerry platform. The MySpace
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E-reader News Edition Tech/ Entertainment/ 23

Digg Buries Reddit and StumbleUpon in Reader

Vote [POLL]
By Ben Parr (Mashable!) was Reddit, which garnered Week 9:
Submitted at 12/19/2009 3:57:22 PM
11,466 ballots (39%). - Apple iPhone vs. Google
StumbleUpon was left in the dust Android
We’ve seen some epic battles in with only 2507 votes (8%). - WINNER: Google Android, SNL Mocks
our weekly Web Faceoff series, This was, by far, our most
where we put opposing social popular and heated Web Faceoff
3323 votes (Apple iPhone: 1494
votes, Tie: 228 votes)
iPhone’s Network
media and tech tools into the yet. We’re going to do it again Week 10: Coverage [VIDEO]
Colosseum and have them go to next week though, so watch out - AT&T vs. Verizon By Pete Cashmore
war for your vote. Our very first for the next edition. Until then, - WINNER: Verizon, 1161 votes (Mashable!)
faceoff, Firefox vs. Chrome, had let us know what you think of - WINNER: Facebook, 2484 (AT&T: 538 votes, Tie: 118
over 8000 votes, while only 31 t h i s w e e k ’ s r e s u l t i n t h e votes (Twitter: 2061 votes, Tie: votes) Submitted at 12/20/2009 8:55:06 AM

votes separated Last.fm vs. c o m m e n t s . 588 votes) Week 11: The Google Phone(aka the
Pandora. Who would win in a fight: Digg, Week 5: - Google vs. Bing Nexus One) got a Saturday Night
None of those battles compared StumbleUpon, or Reddit?( survey - WordPress vs. Typepad - WINNER: Google, 2180 votes Live mention last night as Seth
to the clash that occurred this software) - WINNER: WordPress, 2714 (Bing: 519 votes, Tie: 97 votes) Meyers mocked the poor
week, though. We asked you, the Web Faceoff: Overall Results votes (Typepad: 267 votes, Tie: Week 12:
reception provided by AT&T.
readers, to choose between Digg, Week 1: 357 votes) - iPod Touch/iPhone vs. Said Meyers in the Weekend
Stumbleupon, or Reddit for - Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Week 6: Nintendo DS vs. Sony PSP Update portion of the show: “It
social media supremacy. But Chrome - Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard - WINNER: iPod Touch/iPhone, was reported this week that
while thought there would be a - WINNER: Firefox, 4600 votes - WINNER: Windows 7, 3632 704 votes (Sony PSP: 639 votes, Google would soon launch its
lot of passionate people for this (Chrome: 3310 votes, Tie: 911 votes (Snow Leopard: 3278 N i n t e n d o D S : 4 8 2 v o t e s )
own cellphone as a challenge to
faceoff, we didn’t expect nearly votes) votes, Tie: 121 votes) Reviews: Bing, Chrome, Digg, the iPhone. Also a challenge to
30,000 votes, shattering all of our Week 2: Week 7: Facebook, Firefox, Google, the iPhone? Making phone calls.”
previous records. - Tumblr vs. Posterous - TweetDeck vs. Seesmic G o o g l e D o c s , P a n d o r a ,
I’m sure that got a laugh from
So who won this battle for the - WINNER: Tumblr, 1809 votes Desktop Posterous, Seesmic Desktop, Verizon, which has been taking
ages? It was close, and the lead (Posterous: 1496 votes, Tie: 256 - WINNER: TweetDeck, 3294 S t u m b l e U p o n , T u m b l r ,
shots at AT&T’s coverage for
changed several times, but in the votes) votes (Seesmic Desktop: 1055 TweetDeck, Twitter, TypePad,
months.
end… Week 3: votes, Tie: 260 votes) WordPress [via Engadget] Reviews: Google
… Digg was able to secure the - Pandora vs. Last.fm Week 8: Tags: digg, reddit, social media, Tags: google phone, iphone,
victory. After Reddit took the - WINNER: Last.fm, 1187 votes - Microsoft Office vs. Google stumbleupon, web faceoff nexus one, snl
lead in the beginning, Digg (Pandora: 1156 votes, Tie: 122 Docs
fought back with its massive votes) - WINNER: Microsoft Office,
community and gained 14,762 Week 4: 1365 votes (Google Docs: 994
votes, or 50%. In second place - Twitter vs. Facebook votes, Tie: 315 votes)

Kate Gosselin: I'd Like to Be on 'Dancing with the Stars'

(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 11:18:00 AM
Following the news that her
divorce with Jon is official, a Leno Show." show she'd like to be a contestant said. "I want to laugh at myself. I
jovial Kate Gosselin dished some Kate, appearing live via satellite on. so cannot dance. It would be a
revealing tidbits about her newly from Washington, D.C., was "Yes, 'Dancing with the Stars' sad sight."
single self on Friday night’s " Jay asked by Jay if there's a reality because I cannot dance," she
24 Tech/ Politics/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition

Hungary votes for open standards Palin Twitters

(CNET News.com) between open-source and
proprietary software. It's actively
About Climate
Submitted at 12/19/2009 1:10:16 PM

Many governments, particularly

fostering competition between
open and closed systems.
Change
those in developing nations, are The devil is in the details, of (Little Green Footballs)
increasingly legislating course, but the approach is Submitted at 12/19/2009 3:15:47 PM
preferences for open-source promising. There are still
software. A much smarter questions to be answered, e.g., Sarah Palin is sharing her bizarre
approach may be that recently will Microsoft file formats like views on climate change with the
adopted by Hungary, however, .docx be considered open world via Twitter: Sarah Palin
which has mandated the use of standards? Some suggest the (SarahPalinUSA) on Twitter.
open standards. answer is yes. These little tweets are more
Hungary's flag Smarter, because Does this degrade the value of revealing than Palin knows; it’s
for all the noise about open- the legislation? clear that her objections to
source mandates in places like On a related note, it's also very climate change stem from her
Latin America, I've been hearing possible that "open standard" radical religious right view that
from contacts in these markets may be redefined, as Glyn mankind cannot affect God’s
that government IT workers have Hungarian law. The goal? To electric power supply by means M o o d y p o i n t s o u t m a y b e creation, and should not even try.
continued to use the software "promote the spread of monopoly of a wall socket. Connecting a happening with the European Copenhgen=arrogance of
they prefer, not the software -free markets that foster the television set or a refrigerator to Interoperability Framework, to man2think we can change
mandated by legislation. development of interchangeable the mains does not require the include not-so-open standards. nature’s ways.MUST b good
And smarter, because it focuses and interoperable products," expertise of an electrician. And if Even so, it's good to see a stewards of God’s earth,but
on creating real competition in thereby opening up the market to the refrigerator is unplugged and government focused on the arrogant&naive2say man
government IT, which arguably "broad competition." a television plugged in instead, i n t e r c o n n e c t i o n s b e t w e e n overpwers nature
is a much better way to keep It's a laudable goal, and arguably the television will work, too. software, rather than the licenses Another tweet reiterates her
vendors honest and citizens much better than those efforts to Similarly, the two types of portal thereof. As we increasingly see scientifically ignorant view that
empowered than an open-source mandate a particular licensing set out by Hungarian legislation with open source in cloud humans are not causing global
license. If you can have both, approach to software, which (the administrative portal and the computing, licenses matter little warming.
even better, but the right place to could result in adoption of client portal serving individual for ensuring openness. Standards, Earth saw clmate chnge4
start government policy is in the software that doesn't work as users) will function as statutory however, continue to have a big ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R
realm of standards. well as its proprietary peers. s t a n d a r d ' s o c k e t s ' i n role to play. duty2responsbly devlop
The Open Standards Alliance I l i k e t h e w a y t h e O p e n intercommunication between Five Filters featured article: resorces4humankind/not
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Well, at least it’s believable that

Kevin Jonas Wedding News! she actually wrote this stuff

(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 3:05:00 PM
Kevin Jonas is off the market!
The oldest of the Jonas trio
reportedly got married on
Saturday evening to fiancé
Danielle DeLeasa in Long Island,
NY.
The couple wed at a French-style
chateau on an estate in Long
Island, says People.com.
herself.
"We're so happy that we're
finally married and we were able
to share the special moment with
family, friends and loved ones,"
the couple told the site.
E-reader News Edition Tech/ Sports/ Popular News/ 25
Son Charged With
FanGuide self-guided architectural tours for Suffocating Father,
iPhone 83, With Pillow
(FOXNews.com)
By Steven Sande (The was visiting the Windy City. available a few years back when I
Unofficial Apple Weblog Featuring an elegant and easy- was visiting the Windy City. Submitted at 12/20/2009 5:59:24 AM
(TUAW)) navigated user interface, the Featuring an elegant and easy-
Chicago Loop Architecture navigated user interface, the ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. A St.
Submitted at 12/20/2009 12:00:00 PM
Petersburg, Fla., man is charged
Guide provides six tours, each Chicago Loop Architecture
with suffocating his 83-year-old
F i l e d u n d e r : M u l t i m e d i a , with anywhere from 5 to 9 stops. Guide provides six tours, each
father with a pillow.
S o f t w a r e , A p p S t o r e , A p p The tours range in length from 30 with anywhere from 5 to 9 stops.
Forty-year-old Stephen Coffeen
Review Fans of great architecture minutes to a full hour, and stops The tours range in length from 30
love to take guided or self-guided for food, coffee, or photography minutes to a full hour, and stops was being held Saturday at
Pinellas County Jail after Robert
tours to learn more about the can stretch out the time. Tapping for food, coffee, or photography
Coffeen's lifeless body was found
buildings or homes designed by on a globe icon during a tour can stretch out the time. Tapping
at the elder man's home. He was
classic architects like Mies van provides a Google map view of a on a globe icon during a tour
arrested Friday and taken without
der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, stop, overlaid with a photo of the provides a Google map view of a
and Louis Sullivan. Guided tours building and arrows that point stop, overlaid with a photo of the struggle.
According to St. Petersburg
are usually somewhat expensive you to the previous or next stop. building and arrows that point
police, the son claims he
and subject to the knowledge and Y o u d o n ' t n e e d a c e l l u l a r you to the previous or next stop.
suffocated his father in self-
whims of the tour guide, while connection to use the app; there You don't need a cellular
defense. Police say he lives in
self-guided tours can force are also self-contained offline connection to use the app; there
architecture buffs to juggle m a p s t h a t a r e m o r e t h a n Davis, Calif. It wasn't
architecture buffs to juggle are also self-contained offline immediately know if he obtained
books, maps, and MP3 players sufficient to provide you with books, maps, and MP3 players m a p s t h a t a r e m o r e t h a n an attorney.
while searching for the details of location information. Fans of while searching for the details of sufficient to provide you with Bond was set at $100,000.
a particular architect or style. great architecture love to take a particular architect or style. location information.
Five Filters featured article:
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impetus behind the creation of learn more about the buildings or Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
impetus behind the creation of architectural tours for iPhone PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
the FanGuide Tour & Audio homes designed by classic the FanGuide Tour & Audio originally appeared on The Term Extraction.
Companion iPhone apps by architects like Mies van der Companion iPhone apps by U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g
Prairie Design Group. I recently Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Prairie Design Group. I recently (TUAW) on Sun, 20 Dec 2009
had an opportunity to test the Louis Sullivan. Guided tours are had an opportunity to test the 12:00:00 EST. Please see our
Chicago Loop Architecture usually somewhat expensive and Chicago Loop Architecture terms for use of feeds.
Guide[US$2.99, iTunes Link], subject to the knowledge and Guide[US$2.99, iTunes Link], Read| Permalink| Email this|
and wish that this app had been whims of the tour guide, while and wish that this app had been Comments
available a few years back when I self-guided tours can force

Fantasy Football Tailgate: Week 15

By Tom Herrera (Fanhouse
Main)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 2:15:00 AM
Filed under: Fantasy Football
Tailgate, Expert Chats As snow
blankets the northeast, your Christmas. the jump. More Fantasy Football:
fantasy football playoff battles We'll start if off at 10:30AM ET Latest Player News| Over/Under|
heat up. Fantasy FanHouse's and finish up around Sunday's Rankings| Sleepers
crew will be here to answer all first kickoff. So keep your
your questions about lineups, get Santa's Little Helper for fingers on the keyboard -- away
injuries, weather, or even what to from frostbite -- and join us after
26 Tech/ E-reader News Edition

No Nook by Christmas? Here's a Dozen Daily Deals for

$100 gift card December 19, 2009
(CNET News.com) given a pre-holiday estimated customers not to expect delivery By Victor Agreda, Jr. (The HDD Docking Station, for $60 +
Submitted at 12/19/2009 5:47:48 PM
shipping date should receive their until December 11. Originally, Unofficial Apple Weblog free shipping
devices in time for the holidays. early orders were supposed to (TUAW)) • LA Computer Company: [iPod
Some customers who placed We are working very hard to ship by the end of November. Submitted at 12/19/2009 1:30:00 PM Accessories] AppleCare for iPod
early orders for Barnes & Noble's keep up with the demand and to Toward the end of November, nano or shuffle for $10 + $5 s&h
Nook may not see their e-reader get all nook orders out the door the Barnes & Noble Web site Filed under: Deals'Tis the season • Walmart: [15" And Smaller
arrive in time for Christmas. and to customers on or before declared the Nook was out of shop until your brains melt (or LCD TVs] Curtis 7" Under-
Barnes & Noble told some Dec. 24. Unfortunately, there stock. Back then, Keating told skip it all entirely, depending on Cabinet LCD TV for $88 + $1
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our sincerest apologies, we will with the following: a nook Barnes & Noble stores for sale or mind that while our posts will Player from $54 after rebate +
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Noble spokeswoman Mary Ellen first Android-powered e-reader. Term Extraction. • Apple Store: [iMac] TUAW Dozen Daily Deals for
Keating said: A few weeks later, Barnes & Refurbished current-generation December 19, 2009 originally
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28 Tech/
Not too late to send some free
holiday cards from Mail.app
By Mel Martin (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 12/19/2009 4:30:00 PM
Filed under: Odds and ends,
Freeware, Deals, Holidays Ah,
the virtues of email. Quick,
convenient and free -- but most
email greetings don't really look
all that spiffy. Jumsoft comes to
the rescue with some free email
templates you can easily
customize and get to your friends
in plenty of time for the holidays.
Jumsoft makes all sorts of apps
and and adds on to Keynote,
Aperture, Numbers and web
templates. They've offered a nice
sampling of goodies for free, and
I like their holiday card mail
templates designed as Apple Mail
stationery.
I think most users never check
the stationery feature, either
because they don't know it exists,
or because they find the
templates tacky or not relevant.
If you've never seen the
templates at all, open Apple
Mail, create a new message, then
click on stationery in the upper
right of the message window and
you'll see the default catalog.
Jumsoft provides some tasteful
and graphically dynamic holiday
cards that are certainly worth
exploring. They also offer a paid
set of mail stationery that covers
just about anything, and are the
best I've seen offered.
It might be worthwhile to
explore the Jumsoft goodies
page. There are free downloads
for Keynote objects, iWeb,
Freeway and RapidWeaver
themes, and some polished
themes for Keynote. They are all
samples of larger sets that
Jumsoft sells, and a great
introduction to the quality of
their work.
And do get those greeting cards
out before the 26th!
Thanks to Dick for the tip on the
freebies.
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Man Proposes Marriage
via Foursquare Check-
In
By Jennifer Van Grove
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 6:34:18 PM
It’s no longer cool enough to
propose on Twitter. That’s been
done before. Several times.
So Alex Marsh of Raleigh-
Durham decided to take it up a
notch. The clever guy used
Foursquare, the mobile location-
based game, to propose to his
girlfriend, Susan Wilkison,
during dinner at Raleigh Times
Bar.
In case you’re unfamiliar with
Foursquare, once you check-in at
a location, your friends receive
an instant notification of your
check-in and any accompanying
text that you’ve added to the
check-in.
Using this to his advantage,
Marsh decided to check-in at
dinner with his then girlfriend,
now fiancé, and wrote “popping
the question!” in the text field.
Wilkison got the notification
immediately and said “Yes,” via
Foursquare of course.
In an email to Dennis Crowley,
Foursquare’s co-founder, the
newly engaged Wilkison wrote:
Subject: My fiance proposed to
me last night using Foursquare!
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Hello! I’m so glad Foursquare
has come to Raleigh-Durham!
I wanted to share that my fiance
proposed to me last night using
Foursquare. We we’re at dinner,
both of us had our phones out,
him to check
in, me looking up something else
and ping! there was his check in
shouting
“popping the question!” After he
put the ring on my finger, I also
checked
in to the location and shouted
“and I said YES!”
Now just try to top that! In fact,
we hear that Foursquare has a
special surprise in store for the
happy couple.
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Become the master of many monitors Don’t Like Your Facebook

with NewerTech's USB 2.0 Display Friends? Blow Them Up with
the Star Wars Death Star
Adapter By Jennifer Van Grove
(Mashable!)
By Steven Sande (The use Quartz Extreme, Quartz
Unofficial Apple Weblog Composer, and other related Submitted at 12/19/2009 8:08:40 PM
(TUAW)) frameworks are not full
supported. This means that If you’re Adidas and you’ve got
Submitted at 12/19/2009 6:00:00 PM
a Star Wars-inspired collection
Keynote, iPhoto, and iMovie will
rolling out in January, what better
Filed under: Hardware, not see the benefit of OpenGL
way to promote it than by using
Peripherals, Developer, Graphic acceleration.
social media? Adidas, however,
Design Some Mac users just To use the adapter, your Mac
don't want to be limited to one has taken its online marketing
must have an Intel processor and is where the Google Maps
initiative one step further integration comes into play; you
monitor, but would like two... or c a n s u p p o r t a m a x i m u m be running Mac OS X 10.4.11 or
resolution of 2048 x 1152. The better. integrating Facebook and Google can even fine tune the laser’s
three... or more.
Maps to create the Star Wars exact target using Street View if
Having only one display port on device also supports Windows, TUAW Become the master of
Death Star Superlaser. you so desire.
your Mac can put a real crimp in and can be used with Boot Camp. many monitors with NewerTech's
your plans to be the master of the Cloning and extended desktop U S B 2 . 0 D i s p l a y A d a p t e r The Adidas Originals application All in all the Adidas application
uses Facebook Connect to is clever, fun, and addicting.
monitor universe, so NewerTech modes are supported by the USB originally appeared on The
personalize the application Plus, according to the
has launched the USB 2.0 2 . 0 D i s p l a y A d a p t e r . A U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g
experience, even granting you information we have, there are
Display Adapter. The adapter, secondary adapter (VGA and (TUAW) on Sat, 19 Dec 2009
power over the Death Star apparently numerous variations
with a suggested retail price of HDMI adapters are supplied) 18:00:00 EST. Please see our
US$96.00, lets users add an extra must be attached to connect VGA terms for use of feeds. control deck so you can blow up of the application in circulation
your Facebook friends’ streets on retail partners’ sites. It’s quite
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U n f o r t u n a t e l y , t h e a d a p t e r Comments with help from Google Maps. the adventure. If you find any of
their Mac. Up to four of the bus-
d o e s n ' t a l l o w OpenGL The application experience is them, definitely share a link in
powered adapters can be hosted
acceleration, so applications that straight out of a Star Wars movie, the comments.
on each Mac, and each adapter
and on the first go around you’ll Play yourself or watch my

Hoyas Frozen by ODU on Snowy Night
By David Steele (Fanhouse
Main)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 1:55:00 PM
Filed under: Georgetown, Big
East In hindsight, maybe it wasn't
the best night for Georgetown to
play.
In one of the few events in the
Washington, D.C. area that was
not canceled by the near-record
snowstorm, the 11th-ranked
Hoyas lost for the first time this
season, as Old Dominion
dominated them throughout and
notice that your location is the
first target of the superlaser.
location fall victim to the
superlaser in the video below:
held on for a 61-57 victory at After your street is blown to Reviews: Facebook, Google
Georgetown's on-campus arena. smithereens, however, you can Maps
It was by far the sloppiest game - target a friend’s location by Tags: adidas, death star
- and one of the coldest selecting any one of your superlaser, MARKETING, social
offensively -- of the season for Facebook friends to attack. This media
Georgetown (8-1), which was
playing its only game of the
season in McDonough Arena, its
58-year-old, 2,500-capacity
campus gym, which was home to
the program until 1981-82.
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continued from page 20
International Space
Station...We're looking forward
to a really, really exciting year."
As it currently stands, four
Soyuz flights to the station are
planned in 2010, NASA's final
five shuttle missions and up to
six unmanned Progress supply
ships. Along with Tranquility, a
new Russian module will be
delivered by the shuttle, along
with a cargo transfer module that
will be left aboard the station
after the final shuttle visit.
"This is the beginning of another
phase where we learn to operate
with a larger crew size, more
demands on the hardware, more
Bing! Ballmer Says You’re Fired
[VIDEO]
By Jennifer Van Grove
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 7:43:03 PM
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is
known for his antics, but — if a
video recently uploaded to
YouTube is to be believed — this
incident takes the cake.
Apparently, Ballmer fired a
Microsoft employee for not being
enthusiastic enough about Bing.
The video shows a man claiming
to have been laid-off by Ballmer
at a Microsoft meeting related to
Bing.
demands on the space station,"
said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's
associated administrator of space
operations. "So for the systems to
work right requires a lot of extra
preparation and this is the
beginning of that preparation."
Said chief astronaut Peggy
Whitson: "It's obviously very
complicated. I think we have
done in the past several years a
fantastic job of making very
difficult things look easy. We
always have problems, but we
always seem to be able to
overcome them and I think that's
kind of NASA's theme for
survival.
As the story goes, Ballmer was
excitedly and repeatedly yelling
Bing at the meeting, even
pointing to staffers, putting them
in the hot seat and telling them to
say Bing. When the man in
question didn’t exude the right
E-reader News Edition
Nelson Agrees to Sign Health
"We expect that adding on a new
module, two new modules this Bill, Malkin's Commenters
year ... it's going to be pretty
exciting, expanding the station
even further. I know when I was
Call for His Death
(Little Green Footballs) bring rocks, torches, and signs.
up there when we increased the
They then need to tell him that if
station volume with three new Submitted at 12/19/2009 12:53:47 PM
he votes to break the next
modules it was just really
After holding out for months to fillabuster for any reason he
exciting, opening up this huge
insert anti-abortion restrictions won’t have a home to come back
new space to live in and explore."
into the Senate’s health care to and that if he does come back
Five Filters featured article: reform legislation, Sen. Ben they will use the rope to decorate
Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
N e l s o n ( D - N e b r a s k a ) i s a tree with him.
PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
apparently now ready to sign the We need to get blunt with these
Term Extraction.
bill: With Nelson on board, traitors. They need to be put if
health-care bill could pass by free of their lives to remind them
Christmas. that they work for us or we
Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the reserve not only the right to vote
final Democratic holdout on them out but the right to kill
health care, announced to his them.
colleagues Saturday morning that […]
he would support the Senate On December 19th, 2009 at
reform bill, clearing the way for 12:58 pm, tiredofit08 said:
final passage by Christmas of tar, feathers, stockades,
President Obama’s top domestic pitchforks, tourches, if that
enthusiasm, Ballmer fired him on policy priority.
doesn’t work…well 1775/1776
the spot. Asked if he had secured the 60 w e r e v e r y b a d y e a r ’ s f o r
We can’t verify if the video is votes needed to overcome a t y r a n t s … .
authentic in nature, but we have Republican filibuster, Senate […]
contacted the guy who uploaded Majority Leader Harry Reid On December 19th, 2009 at 1:27
it for comment, and we’ll update (Nev.) told reporters, “It seems pm, tevans776 said:
this post when we know more that way.” “The tree of liberty must be
details. What do you think: real C o m m e n t e r s a t M i c h e l l e refreshed from time to time with
or fake? Malkin’s blog are taking this the blood of patriots and tyrants.
(Warning: strong language) hard. In fact, they’re calling for … God forbid we should ever be
[ I m g c r e d i t : t u p u n g a t o , Nelson to be murdered. twenty years without such a
iStockphoto] Reviews: Bing, On December 19th, 2009 at rebellion; what country can
iStockphoto 12:09 pm, southdakotaboy said: preserve its liberties if their rulers
Tags: bing, humor, microsoft, What needs to be done is the are not warned from time to time
Steve Ballmer, viral video people of Nebraska need to meet that their people preserve the
Nelson at his home in Nebraska spirit of resistance? Let them take
at Christmas time. They need to arms.” ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1787
E-reader News Edition
Hot Air Comments of the Day
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 8:27:42 PM
Here we go again, with another
selection of comments from
wingnut site Hot Air advocating
death, destruction, revolution,
and eternal damnation. All of the
comments you’re about to read
were posted today in just one
thread: Ed Morrissey’s post
about Sen. Ben Nelson’s decision
to support the health care reform
bill.
This is a Coup de Etat. The
Commies have taken over.
Reid, Pelosi and the rest of those
who voted to take the Liberty of
their fellow citizens away, need
to go to the gallows, or at least to
jail for life.
In the Consitution, there were
only 3 Federal crimes, Piracy,
Counterfieting and TREASON. I
think a Jury of those affected by
this could help those offenders to
the rope for a dance.
Sic Semper Tyrannus!
blaque jacques on December 19,
2009 at 10:53 AM
[…]
He [Sen. Nelson] deserves thirty
pieces of lead.
SKYFOX on December 19,
2009 at 12:29 PM
[…]
Anyone here know how to build
a missile? We need to wipe out
this congress and start over.
UltimateBob on December 19,
2009 at 11:46 AM
[…]
Praying the angel of death would
come for Senator Bryd and
perhaps a few other Senators.
Praying for a massive spirit of
choas and confusion to reign over
the Senate. God sent a snow
storm to try slowing this down,
God bring the next wave to stop
this. This bill is evil as are the
people voting for it.
Godis2good on December 19,
2009 at 11:31 AM
[…]
After their trial for Treason,
there will be plenty of room for
RINOS, whether they are proud
of not, on the Gallows.
Mussolini’s fate was piano wire.
blaque jacques on December 19,
2009 at 12:49 PM
When they aren’t calling for the
murder of elected officials at the
hands of a lynch mob, Hot Air
commenters indulge in sadistic
fantasies about elected officials
burning in hellfire and being
tormented by demons.
Rot in hell, Ben Nelson.
Everyone I’ve ever met from
Nebraska is a gem, but you are an
evil scumbag. May you be locked
in a Tristan & Isolde embrace
with that other scumbag Harry
Reid for eternity.
Western_Civ on December 19,
2009 at 9:54 AM
[…]
Bastards..this is what he is….rot
in hell you moron senator.
hawkman on December 19, 2009
at 9:54 AM
[…]
Watching Nelson on Fox News
now. What’s the complaint? He’s
doing exactly what you would
expect from a democrap.
May he rot in hell with all who
vote for this America killer!
donh525 on December 19, 2009
at 10:06 AM
[…]
Ben Nelson, and all your com-
padres,
I wish you an eternity of fitful,
sleepless nights plagued by he
vision of being eternally
tormented & roasting in Hell.
You traitorous, stubborn fools.
30 pieces of silver indeed.
JoeAvg on December 19, 2009
at 11:09 AM
[…]
Well… seems Chavez was
right… There is the smell of
sulfur coming from DC…
Skywise on December 19, 2009
at 10:33 AM
[…]
No foreign enemy has ever
inflicted such grievous damage
and may the names Specter,
Nelson, Lieberman, Lincoln and
Landrieu (along with Pelosi, Reid
and Obama) be forever cursed
along with Benedict Arnold and
may their graves be defiled and
their souls roast for eternity.
The worst thing is now, for the
first time, thanks to this new bill,
ALL TAXPAYERS WILL BE
COMPLICIT IN ABORTION
MURDERS.
MaiDee on December 19, 2009
at 2:56 PM
As always, there are dozens and
dozens of fantasies about a
Second American Revolution,
looming large in the alleged
minds of the Hot Airheads.
The senators act as if they’ve
been promised martial law and a
suspension of elections next year,
plus nice hunks of that phantom
government money.
My prediction: nothing short of
masses of citizens storming
Capitol Hill and keeping these
bloodsucking traitors forcibly
from doing their reprehensible
work will stop the bill.
Osama Obama’s speechwriters
are probably polishing his
signing speech even now.
MrScribbler on December 19,
2009 at 6:05 PM
[…]
There is no need for a rebellion
when the government fears the
people. One would imagine that
in 1809 there was a sufficient
fear of the people as to keep the
government in check.
This is no longer the case. The
government has no fear of the
American people whatsoever.
That is a sure recipe for a
disaster.
Until the government starts
fearing the people again, there
will be no liberty, there will be
no freedom.
gary4205 on December 19, 2009
at 1:49 PM
[…]
Is it time for the revolution to
begin yet? I’m ready.
Geochelone on December 19,
2009 at 9:53 AM
[…]
Watershed for revolution.
Fletch54 on December 19, 2009
at 10:16 AM
[…]
For 25 years people have scoffed
Politics/ 31
at me for saying Red Dawn was
an accurate picture of the future.
bloviator on December 19, 2009
at 10:20 AM
[…]
Seems that the Tree of Liberty
grows thirsty. What is happening
now is EXPRESSLY against the
way that the founders envisioned.
They would be locking and
loading right now for a sleigh
ride into downtown DC.
Why are we not?
Sic Semper Tyrannus!!
blaque jacques on December 19,
2009 at 10:36 AM
[…]
Buy more ammo. Be ready
bill30097 on December 19, 2009
at 10:50 AM
[…]
I’ve been loading Pmags all
morning.
And before SimpleSimon calls
me a redneck, I am a redneck and
proud of it.
C’mon down to Georgia if you
want to cull me, and bring
friends.
quax1 on December 19, 2009 at
3:39 PM
[…]
What comes next is very
discomforting to think about. But
we have now crossed that line
from what our country was into
something else, and that
something else has nothing
whatsoever with the country
being a Republic. There will be a
reckoning for this, and it will not
be pleasant — not for anyone.
HOT page 32
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continued from page 31
artist on December 19, 2009 at
10:53 AM
[…]
Revolution 2.0
True_King on December 19,
2009 at 10:58 AM
[…]
The United States of America
will be the United Soviet States
of Amerika on Christmas eve.
Wow – Happy Winter Solstice,
comrades!
Buy a gun if you know what is
good for you. At least you can go
down fighting. Besides, soon you
will be more heavily burdoned by
your “Insurance” provider
because the gun in your home is
a bigger danger to the children
that needed to be aborted.
When Barry signs this – and he
certainly will – The US is gone
forever. Barry, Reid and Pelosi
will be the new founding fathers.
blaque jacques on December 19,
2009 at 11:10 AM
The Second Amendment was put
into the Constitution for a reason
and it was not self defense.
elduende on December 19, 2009
at 11:16 AM
[…]
Great, another win for the
feckless crapweasels. Is it time to
start the revolution yet?
califcon on December 19, 2009
at 11:16 AM
[…]
I wonder how this is all going to
play out? Countries are not easily
collapsed when its citizens are
armed… I can hear big trouble
coming. People are WIDE awake
now.
Nils2en on December 19, 2009
at 11:22 AM
[…]
I don’t yet know if this is just a
further step in the dismantling of
our once great nation, or if it will
be the spark that ignites the same
fires that stoked our ancestors to
fight and die for what would
become the greatest nation in
human history.
And if none of that happens,
then it will be time to either
secede or dissolve the union.
LeftCoastRefugee on December
19, 2009 at 11:23 AM
[…]
It,s plain to see that the fools
don,t listen or care what the
people want.The days of phone
calls rallies or Emails or over.The
day of revolution is near.I for one
will not just sit back and say Oh
well nothing we can do.These
people are traders and are
shredding the constitution.If we
don,t make a stand now then
when?We must have new people
running that say plain and simple
.We are going to Washington to
roll back and over turn as much
of Obama socialism as we can
not to work with this Marxist
Pres. on anything.
thmcbb on December 19, 2009
at 11:35 AM
[…]
What are our options?
Is it coming to Revolution?
Yakko77 on December 19, 2009
at 11:50 AM
Ooohhhkay.
And then we have hundreds of
commenters predicting the end of
freedom, martial law, doom, etc.,
all because Ben Nelson will be
voting for cloture.
Violating the laws of God has
consequences for individuals and
nations. We are witnessing the
consequences of the efforts to
replace the moral law upon
which this nation was founded,
with the wisdom of men; the
consequences thereof, a nation in
decline and headed toward doom.
SheetAnchor on December 19,
2009 at 4:56 PM
[…]
They don’t care because there
will be no 2010 elections. There
will be a national emergency and
elections will be suspended for
the good of the country. Within
two years the Senate will be
dissolved and our republic will
be replaced with a parliamentary
system used by much of Europe.
It’s that simple and it will work
and it will happen. The coup is
well underway and there is
nothing and I do mean nothing
that can stop it.
RagTag on December 19, 2009
at 10:10 AM
[…]
That feeling you all have right
now…that feeling of
hopelessness, that feeling of not
being able to control your future,
of becoming a subject instead of
the citizen you were born, of
having the government dictate to
you what to buy, and what will
happen to you if you
refuse,…that feeling…is how
they feel in Caracas everyday.
Welcome to tyranny.
elduende on December 19, 2009
at 10:33 AM
All of this from just one thread.
And it goes on and on and on in
this vein — dozens more hateful
comments have been posted as I
wrote this.
The American right wing is lost,
and the right wing blogosphere is
playing the Pied Piper.
(Hat tip: simoom.)
E-reader News Edition
Droplr Offers Simple
Drag and Drop File
Sharing for Mac OS X
[Downloads]
By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 3:00:00 PM
Mac OS X: Feeling left out
because of all the neat file-
sharing applications for
Windows? Droplr adds drag and
drop support to OS X for sharing
just about everything.
Droplr adds a drop zone to the
OS X titlebar that makes it super
simple to share pictures,
screenshots, video, files, notes
and snippets of code, and other
files. It sports Twitter integration,
keyboard shortcuts for those of
you that could care less about
"drag and drop" anything, and
comes with 1GB of free online
storage. Check out the video
below to see it in action:
Droplr is free and requires Mac
OSX 10.6+. Have a great tool for
sharing files from your Mac?
Let's hear about it in the
comments. Thanks Angie! Droplr
E-reader News Edition Politics/ Entertainment/ 33

Oklahoma Far Right Abortion Law A 'Down and Dirty'

Blocked By Court Again 'Sherlock Holmes'
(Little Green Footballs) suit challenging the law will be she can’t afford a child. (ETonline - Breaking News) by the military, and Holmes
Submitted at 12/19/2009 5:20:12 PM
heard: Judge Keeps New “We are very pleased with Submitted at 12/19/2009 4:01:00 PM
would have acquired a different
Oklahoma Abortion Law On today’s ruling. This law is a group of martial arts perhaps
In an attempt to threaten and Hold. profound intrusion on women’s There's lots of action in director from his studies around the
scare women out of having A district court in Oklahoma on privacy and a waste of taxpayers’ G u y R i t c h i e ' s r e - i m a g i n e d world, and that kept it exciting,
a b o r t i o n s , R e p u b l i c a n s i n Friday blocked a new abortion money,” said Jennifer Mondino, version of Arthur Conan Doyle's kept it fresh every time we had a
Oklahoma (Sen. Todd Lamb, R- law that would require women to staff attorney at the New York- classic character 'Sherlock new fight -- and then by the end
Edmond, and Rep. Dan Sullivan, provide detailed information based Center for Reproductive Holmes,' with Robert Downey Jr. it just got down and dirty."
R-Tulsa) crafted a new law that a b o u t w h y t h e y w a n t t h e Rights, which is challenging the in the title role, Jude Law as his So down and dirty, in fact, that
blatantly violates the state and procedure. That information, law. “Women in Oklahoma loyal sidekick Watson and Robert required stitches. "We had
federal constitutions, requiring names omitted, would then be should not have to jump through Rachel McAdams as Sherlock's some big fight sequence in a
physicians to provide the state posted on a state Web site. hoops to access legal medical love interest. shipyard," explains Robert. "I
w i t h d e t a i l e d p e r s o n a l Judge Daniel Owens extended care and the government has no "The original books are filled think we had done too many
information about women who the temporary restraining order business violating the state with adventure and twists and moves in a row, [my opponent's]
have abortions — information already in place, which means the constitution to impose those t u r n s a n d i n c r e d i b l y d a r k supposed to come up on top, and
that would be posted on a public law continues to be blocked for obstacles.” criminals in a dark and exciting I'm supposed to block, whatever -
website and could easily be used now. The measure includes more Anti-abortion groups say the law London," Jude tells our own - anyway, I got some stitches."
to identify and locate them. than 30 questions a woman would help the state find out why Kevin Frazier. "Watson would be He adds that he dished out a bit
Yesterday a judge extended the seeking an abortion would have women are seeking abortions and more like the old fashioned of pain himself, though not
temporary restraining order to answer, including details about that could lead to changes in pugilist boxer, trained probably intentionally.
against this atavistic legislation w h e t h e r s h e i s h a v i n g public policy.
until February 19th, when the relationship problems or whether (Hat tip: Sharmuta.)

German Reporter to Inhofe: 'You're Ridiculous'

(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 11:06:14 AM
Dominionist Senator and
hardcore climate change denier
James Inhofe went to the
Copenhagen climate summit to
subvert the Obama
administration’s policies, but
nobody was interested.
COPENHAGEN — Sen. Jim
Inhofe flew across the Atlantic
and — on little sleep — braved
the snow, the cold and the dark to
deliver his skeptical message at
the international climate
conference.
What he found when he got
here: a few aides and a single
reporter. “I think he’s going to be
a little disappointed,” one of his
aides remarked. …
But Inhofe’s aides eventually
rustled up a group of reporters,
and the Oklahoman — wearing
black snakeskin cowboy boots —
held forth from the top of a flight
of stairs in the conference media
center. …
A reporter asked: “If there’s a
hoax, then who’s putting on this
hoax, and what’s the motive?”
“It started in the United Nations,”
Inhofe said, “and the ones in the
United States who really grab
ahold of this is the Hollywood
elite.”
One reporter asked Inhofe if he
was referring to California Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Another
reporter — this one from Der
Spiegel — told the senator:
“You’re ridiculous.”
34 Tech Tips/
Five Best Collaboration Tools [Hive Five]
By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:00:00 AM
The internet has ushered in a
level of collaboration
unimaginable to workers of
decades past. Today we're taking
a look at five popular tools for
collaborating with your team to
get things done.
Photo by ralphbijker.
Earlier this week we asked you
to share your favorite
collaboration tool, and now we're
back to with the five most
popular tools for the job.
Basecamp(Web-Based, Free-
$149 per month)
Basecamp is an easy-to-use, all-
in-one collaboration dashboard
for your team. To-do lists,
calendars, brain-storming white
boards, chat, and file sharing are
all integrated into your Basecamp
portal. All the information for
your team and the projects you're
working on can be easily
reviewed from the Overview tab
to give you a quick at-a-glance
view of how things are
progressing, due dates, and recent
activity. Basecamp pay plans
range from $24 a month for a
small volume of projects (limit
15, 5GB of storage) to $149 a
month for large companies
(unlimited, 75GB of storage).
You can sign up for a free
account which is limited to a
single project and has no
Basecamp-provided storage—not
a bad compromise if you're
already using 3rd party storage
and you want to try it out.
Google Wave(Web-Based, Free)
Google Wave is the new kid on
the collaborative block. Google
Wave just isn't a new
collaborative tool, but a new way
of collaborating—so much so
that it is initially confusing to
many users. Google Wave
merges elements of tools you're
already familiar with: email, IM,
social networking, and wikis. A
wave is like a real-time
collaborative document that also
doubles as a living archive of the
project you're working on. One
of the interesting features of
Google Wave is that when you're
new to a given project, you can
"play" the wave to see how the
development of the project has
unfolded and what branches and
forks discussion and planning
have taken. Want to get a better
grasp of Wave? Check out some
of our previous articles like this
video on Google Wave, Google
Wave 101, and check The
Complete Guide to Google Wave
by our own Gina Trapani and
Adam Pash.
Microsoft Office
E-reader News Edition
On the scene long before Google
Wave, Google Docs provides an
easy to set up collaborative office
space. From text documents to
spreadsheets, Docs allows you to
quickly and easily create and
share documents with anyone.
Google Docs certainly isn't the
only cloud-based document
collaboration service, but thanks
to ease of use, no fees, and
additional features like the ability
to edit offline using Google
Gears, it has won over a sizable
share of the market.
Email(Cross-platform, Free)
Sometimes the best collaboration
tool isn't the one with the most
bells and whistles, it's the one
that the most number of people
are familiar and comfortable
with. A significant number of
people reading this article right
now were born after email was
invented, and it's been around
long enough that even people
born well before email became a
S h a r e P o i n t ( W e b - B a s e d , popular communication tool are
Variable) quite comfortable using it. It has
SharePoint is a diverse set of i t s l i m i t a t i o n s — w e ' v e a l l
tools created by Microsoft for c e r t a i n l y b e e n a n n o y e d a t
doing everything from managing attachment limitations and other
a p r o j e c t w i k i t o s h a r i n g matters—but email has played a
documents and files to group h u g e r o l e i n w o r k p l a c e
collaboration. It isn't the kind of collaboration for more than forty
tool you'd deploy for a small years. Photo by iammunroe.
project with only a handful of Now that you've had a chance to
participants, but for enterprise- look over the top five contenders,
l e v e l p r o j e c t a n d p o r t a l it's time to cast your vote:
management, SharePoint offers a Best Collaboration Tool?(
host of tools that are well answers)
integrated and customizable. Can't believe your favorite tool
Google Docs(Web-Based, Free) didn't make the top five? Let's
hear about it in the comments.
E-reader News Edition
This Week's Top Downloads [Download
Roundup]
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 5:00:00 PM
• T3Desk Brings 3D Eye-Candy
to Your Windows
Desktop(Windows) If you want a
little extra eye-candy in your
Windows management, T3Desk
is an alt-tab alternative that gives
you 3D windows arrangement
and more.
• Memory Fox Manages
Firefox's Memory Use, Aims to
Keep It Low(Firefox w/
Windows) While traveling the
internet, sometimes we don't
realize how much memory our
browser is hogging until it starts
acting sluggish, hangs, or crashes
altogether. Firefox extension
Memory Fox optimizes your
memory so you can surf without
slowing down.
• VirusTotal Uploader 2.0
Instantly Scans Files for Viruses
Against 41 AV Apps(Windows)
Previously mentioned VirusTotal
Uploader automatically uploads
any file to online virus scanner
VirusTotal, scanning it for
viruses with 41 different popular
antivirus applications-and now
it's even better and faster, with
instant hash checking, letting you
skip uploads altogether.
• Get the Classic Network
Activity Indicator Back in
Windows 7(Windows) If you
miss having a network activity
icon that actually indicates if
your network is active or not, this
handy little hack will swap the
static Windows 7 icon for the
classic version.
• Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 Available,
Faster, and Less
Buggy(Windows/Mac/Linux) If
you've been riding the Firefox
3.6 beta train, Mozilla just
pushed out the whopping fifth
beta of Firefox 3.6-with over a
hundred bug fixes to improve
performance, stability, and
security, along with several all-
around improvements.
• Googsystray Notifies You of
New Activity Across Google
Services in One System Tray
App(Windows/Linux) Google
has so many different services
these days that installing a
notification app for each one gets
cumbersome quickly. Free
system tray utility Googsystray
watches Gmail, Google Voice,
Calendar, Reader, and Wave so
you can set it and forget it.
• LogMeIn Express Makes
Screensharing Simple(Windows)
LogMeIn Express is a
screensharing tool from the
makers of the popular remote-
desktop software, LogMeIn.
With this new offering, sharing
your desktop is as simple as
sending your friend or associate a
URL.
• Bodega Is a One-Stop Shop for
New Apps for Your Mac(Mac)
Trying out new software is fun.
Digging around all over the
internet to find cool stuff-not so
much. Bodega is a download that
does makes quick work of
finding new apps for your Mac.
• Multifox Makes Using
Multiple Accounts
Simple(Firefox) It's easy to
accumulate multiple profiles on
various services. If it's always
annoyed you to have to perform
browser-acrobatics to use your
two Gmail accounts or other
services, check out Multifox and
never be hassled by multiple
logins again.
• Google Wave Desktop Notifier
Keeps You On Top of Your
Wave Inbox(Windows) Google
Wave has a lot of potential, but
it's also another inbox to keep
track of. Google Wave Desktop
Notifier is a small system tray
application that will let you know
when you've got new messages in
your inbox.
Tech Tips/ TV/ 35
Review: Saturday
Night Live - James
Franco/Muse
By Annie Wu (TV Squad)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 12:50:00 PM
(S35E10) I hope you all rolled a
towel against the crack of the
door before watching James
Franco host. This was the most
I've laughed at an episode in
quite a while, but I am still not
entirely sure if it's because
watching for ninety minutes gave
me a bit of a contact high. Okay,
even if you argue that I'm
inferring a lot because bits of
Pineapple Express are still
lingering in my brain, there's no
denying Franco was definitely
extra-squinty, extra-grinny, and
was half-slurring, half-spitting
his speech through most of the
night.
There was also a lot of making
out. No man, woman or tree was
safe. Or bong, I guess. Maybe.
Continue reading Review:
Saturday Night Live - James
Franco/Muse
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Night Live, Episode Reviews,
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36 Tech Tips/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition

Improve Your Guitar Amp's Sound with a DIY Avatar reels in

Sound-Enhancing Stand [Music]
By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 8:00:00 AM
If you're looking for a super-
cheap way to squeeze some extra
performance out of your guitar
amp, this simple and inexpensive
hack can help you turn something
like a thrift store printer stand
into a sound-boosting amp stand.
DIY-focused Make magazine
combined a little science with
some elbow grease to make a
stand that would boost the quality
of sound produced by a basic
guitar amp. You can buy a
commercial version of the stand
they build, but the stands start at
$150. The tinkerers at Make built
a DIY version for $15. How does
it work?
In theory, a perfect speaker box
would be a speaker mounted in
the middle of a wall of infinite
size, because that would let the
sound from the front reach your
ear without having been partially
canceled by the inverse sound
from the back," he says. "Mom
won't let us build anything
infinite anymore, not after what
happened last time, so we
approximate the infinite wall by
putting speakers into sealed
boxes, also known as infinite-
This speaker stand bends the
back sound around a corner,
which makes it even less like the
front sound, and then sends it out
the front, where its slightly
altered power is added to your
already Majestic Volume in a
rich and tonally pleasing way.
You'll need some donor furniture
to get hacked up (you could use
plywood, but finding old
computer furniture at Goodwill is
going to be much cheaper) and
some basic tools like a saw and
screw driver. With some careful
cutting and application of caulk
and weather stripping you can
turn your cheap furniture into a
baffle enclosures. sound-enhancing stand for your
Unfortunately, infinite-baffle amp. Check out the article at
enclosures make it really hard for Make for additional details.
the speaker to move, so the sound Have a clever hack, music-
i s q u i e t e r . A n d o f c o u r s e , related or otherwise? Let's hear
quietness is not very rock 'n' roll, a b o u t i t i n t h e c o m m e n t s .
is it? So designers make a lot of Flashback: The Sweet Sound of
amps louder (and a little funny- Particle Board[Make]
sounding) by opening the backs.
$73m on opening
weekend
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:51:13 AM
Avatar, the keenly anticipated
3D film from News
Corporation’s 20th Century Fox
studio, scored $73m on its
opening weekend in the US, a
respectable performance which
nonetheless fell shy of other big
openings this year from films
such as New Moon.
The film has been hailed as a
transformative event in modern
cinema because it is the first live-
action release to be shot entirely
in 3D, a format Hollywood is
betting will spur future industry
growth.
Five Filters featured article:
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Wantz.it Turns the Entire Web into Your Wishlist [Wishlist]

By Jason Fitzpatrick list. "dowant" to bookmarks or via create a wishlist? Check out the
(Lifehacker) You can add to and share your Twitter by adding the hash tag Hive Five on best wishlist tools.
Submitted at 12/19/2009 2:00:00 PM
wishlist in a variety of ways, "dowant" to your update. Have a favorite tool of your
including a direct link to your list In addition to sharing your own? Let's hear about it in the
It might be cutting it close for on the Wantz.it site, by adding wishlist, you can also share comments[via Download Squad]
this holiday, but there's always the Wantz.it Facebook app to things that would help someone
next year for guaranteed gifts. your Facebook profile, or by who is shopping for you pick the
Wantz.it is a universal wishlist embedding a widget into your right item like your suit jacket
bookmarklet, or via Del.icio.us
tool that lets you add anything blog. You can add things you size, shoe size, or favorite color.
bookmark service by adding
you can find on the web to your want on the site, via a handy Want to check out more ways to
E-reader News Edition
Turn an IKEA Storage Pole into a
Carpet-Friendly Bike Rack [Bike]
By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 1:00:00 PM
Last year we shared a clever
hack for turning a Stolmen
storage pole into a compact and
apartment-friendly bike rack. The
hack didn't work on carpet, but
this modification makes it more
adaptable.
The problem with the original
design was that it relied on
consistent tension between the
ceiling and the floor. Great for
firm floors like hardwood, tile, or
concrete, but not so great for
carpet. Over time, the carpet and
the carpet pad would compress
and loosen the tension just
enough to send the pole
toppling—along with your
bikes!—to the floor.
Dark Void dev diary introduces us to 'Teslapunk' technology
By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 7:30:00 PM
Quick question: In a
hypothetical war between
inventor extraordinaire Nikola
Tesla and an advanced race of
robots, who would win? The
The secret sauce to this mod is
using a toe-spike speaker stand
set. When mounted to the bottom
of the pole, the toe-kick spikes
push down through the carpet
and grip the sub-flooring, so your
bike rack will never come
crashing down on your
unsuspecting cat or nephew.
answer is, of course, entirely
dependent on the version of Tesla
we're talking about. Real-life
Tesla stands a pretty good chance
-- after all, that debonaire
mustache is probably capable of
disabling most electronic devices.
The safe money's on The
Check out the full article for
closeup pictures and part
numbers for the toe-spike they
used.
Have your own hacks
maximizing your storage space?
Let's hear about it in the
comments.[IKEAHacker]
Prestige's Tesla, who was played
by David Bowie, who can
disintegrate any synthetic
material using nothing but the
power of his rocking.
The Tesla in Dark Void looks
like he'd stand a fair chance as
well. Check out the above dev
Tech Tips/ Tech Blog/ Game/ 37
Store Twitter URLs in
earth's oceans?
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 11:10:17 PM
Mike Wheeler: "how about
embedding links etc in geodata?
Each service gets a 1deg X 1deg
area of ocean and uses the
decimals for numeric metadata"
Brilliant. Wish I had thought of
it. A great idea that illustrates
how silly this situation is --
where links are treated as an
afterthought. Links, which form Then the numbers to the right of
the foundation of the web, are the decimal points would map to
shortened, made more fragile, URLs on the site, the same way
meaning removed, the web made short URLs map to them. Each
slower. If Tim Berners-Lee site would manage its own space.
weren't alive he'd be rolling over Voila! No need to include URLs
in his grave. in the 140 characters. Goodbye
But what Mike says is actually shorteners. Now all you have to
slightly practical. Come up with a do is get the client companies
way to map domains to tiny plots (and that includes twitter.com,
of ocean space (presumably the largest client) to go along.
people can't occupy space in the If it weren't so sad it would be
ocean and 2/3 of the planet is funny. Maybe that's why it's so
covered with water). How many funny.
domains would that be? A lot. Come on Twitter -- Make room
Can you estimate the actual for the URL as metadata. It's way
number? Any help would be past too late.
appreciated.
diary to see the warring factions Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:30:00 EST.
of technology present in the Please see our terms for use of
game, and to get a few more feeds.
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38 Tech Tips/ Tech News/ E-reader News Edition

Hide Your Electronic Clutter in a Clever Vase-

Turned-Charging Station [DIY]
By Jason Fitzpatrick especially when they were all accessibility or heat-dispersion.
(Lifehacker) tethered and charging. Check out the full tutorial for
Submitted at 12/19/2009 4:00:00 PM
Commercial charging stations pictures and tips. Have your own
can help wrangle and conceal crafty way of hiding electronic
Gadgets are great but nobody your cords but they don't do clutter? Let's hear about it in the
wants a hallway table littered much to diminish the look-at-my- comments. How to Transform an
with charging gadgets and cables. pile-of-stuff effect of having your IKEA Vase into a Charging
This novel hack turns an opaque phone, MP3 player, and other Station for Your Gadgets[via
vase into a secret charging gear plugged in. He decided to Unpluggd]
station. turn a vase into a charging station
Instructables user Michael Pap by drilling a hole for a power A few silk-flowers on top hide
was sick of the clutter that cord and using a cork mat to the charging gadgets from view
s u r r o u n d e d h i s g a d g e t s , make a tray inside the vase.: b u t d o l i t t l e t o h i n d e r

Put Your Startup on Holiday Autopilot with Twilio

By Dana Oshiro holidays. Twilio may be one transcription and triaging. If a based door application. In this
(ReadWriteWeb) company that can help. client needs a reminder during case, users can grant timed
Submitted at 12/19/2009 3:00:00 PM
Sponsor the holidays you can automate a building access to visitors by
Twilio is a web-service API that message and pre-program it to programming the door buzzer
Holidays can be a tough time for allows businesses to build their conference call. After 10 lines of call them on a specific date. If with a password. Rather than
those of us with startup own customizable phones code he had a call-in number, you want to remain available in waiting for deliveries, Twilio
companies. While the rest of the services and communications mute settings, admin prompts and case of an emergency, you can ensures that you're warm at home
world is carving turkeys, lighting apps. Hosted on Amazon Web more than 50 members of the forward a list of pre-determined when deliveries arrive to your
Menorahs and singing carols, Services, Twilio's infrastructure audience calling in during his numbers to your mobile while building entryway.
we're sneaking moments away grows depending on customer live demo. After seeing the leaving the rest in voicemail. And At this early stage, we know
f r o m f a m i l y t o c h e c k o u r demand. The company's per-call audience respond to the service, if you're looking to create a we're just scratching the surface
messages. You've created your pricing model is affordable and we realized that Twilio would be simple directory, you can use on all of Twilio's capabilities. If
vacation responses, forwarded after watching CEO Jeff Lawson a great for putting your company Twilio to create a list of people, you've hacked together a cool
your phone to voice mail and demo the service, we were on holiday autopilot. options or customer service application or holiday game plan
emailed your emergency contacts surprised to see how user- Twilio offers a variety of usages contacts. using Twilio or a similar service,
to clients. But a good business friendly it truly is. At this week's including notifications, phone In late September let us know in the comments
person makes sure services run SF New Tech Event, Lawson polls, call forwarding, voice R e a d W r i t e W e b c o v e r e d below. Discuss
smoothly, even during the was given 5 minutes to set up a Buzzeromatic's latest Twilio-
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Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible

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Just Cause 2 visits small island, kills everyone

By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) Aside from the obvious Tomb the theme of deposing a South the gameplay itself looks like a appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 19
Submitted at 12/19/2009 9:30:00 PM
Raider/ Final Fantasy crossover East Asian dictator, the ripe barrel of monkeys and we're Dec 2009 21:30:00 EST. Please
that we all know is bound to pronounced "Engrish," and the looking forward to its release on see our terms for use of feeds.
The acquisition of Eidos by happen, the above trailer for Just musclebound American March 23, 2010. Permalink| Email this|
Japanese publisher Square Enix Cause 2 ends with a glaring protagonist in the trailer -- or Gallery: Just Cause 2 (11-13-09) Comments
earlier this year brought with it Square Enix logo that still feels a maybe it's just us being weird! Just Cause 2 visits small island,
some strange consequences. bit out of place to us. Maybe it's Who knows?! We do know that kills everyone originally
E-reader News Edition TV/ Sports/ 41

Best and Worst TV of 2009: Allison's list

By Allison Waldman (TV me that I had just as much angst
Squad) with bullies in high school as
Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:24:00 AM
these kids. Every episode hasn't
been perfect, but it's perfectly
What a year! Once we got over fine that they keep striving.
the WGA strike, the networks Continue reading Best and
kicked it into high gear and got Worst TV of 2009: Allison's list
busy making TV. Except for Filed under: Food/Home/DIY,
NBC. Even Jeff Zucker has Industry, Programming, OpEd, Sources: MGM Will be
admitted that NBCU has failed to Lost, Celebrities, 30 Rock,
respond to the need for new Friday Night Lights, Ratings,
Site of Floyd
programming. NCIS, TV Squad Lists, Emmys, Mayweather vs. Manny
Fortunately, the other channels Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Burn Pacquiao
have been busy and there's been a Notice, The Big Bang Theory,
lot of great television... and some these 2008 best choices -- from. Parks and Recreation, Nurse By Lem Satterfield (Fanhouse
Breaking Bad, Friday Night Best Main)
that's just plain awful. But I'm a Jackie, Glee, Community,
half-glass full kind of person and Lights, NCIS, The Big Bang 1. Glee. If there was ever a show Cougar Town, Modern Family Submitted at 12/19/2009 12:05:00 PM
I have good feelings about 2009. Theory and Mad Men-- on my that was made just for my Permalink| Email this| |
However, since I don't want to list again. But I'm going to go for personal taste, this is probably it. C o m m e n t s Filed under: WBA, WBC, IBF,
repeat my list from last year, I'll an all new list and, thankfully, I I love the singing and dancing. I WBO, HBO Unbeaten Floyd
just mention that I could put had plenty of 'bests' to choose get the characters. It even tickles Mayweather and Manny
Pacquiao will contest their
megabout for Pacquiao's WBO
The Twelve Days of Festivus: Four webby series welterweight (147 pounds) title
on March 13 at the MGM Grand
By Jason Hughes (TV Squad) original content, many times on and Felicia Day into a mad in Las Vegas, according to
Submitted at 12/20/2009 11:22:00 AM
par with what you'll see on scientist musical world created sources with knowledge of the
television. by Joss Whedon. Even the decision.
On the fourth day of Festivus, Syfy's Sanctuary is a show that networks have gotten in on the "It's the MGM. It's definite," said
TV gave to me... four webby began as a web series and has action, creating original content a source.
series. since become a successful TV for their own websites. The MGM was chosen over the
There's probably more original series. But many web series live Continue reading The Twelve Dallas Cowboys' Stadium, whose
content being created for the and thrive on the web, and Days of Festivus: Four webby owner, Jerry Jones, had offered
internet than there even is for belong only there. series $25 million to host the bout. The
television. A lot of that is your A lot of our favorite celebrities Filed under: OpEd, Animation, promoters of both fighters,
neighbor sitting in his basement have turned to this unrestricted Festivus, Talk Show, Reality- however, had indicated that they
in front of his webcam seeing format to create gems, like Will Free, Webisodes felt the MGM's offer could
how many croutons he can shove Ferrell's modern classic " The Horrible's Sing-Along Blog that P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | | surpass that of Jones.
in his mouth in thirty seconds, Landlord" from a few years back, brought Neil Patrick Harris, C o m m e n t s The choice of the MGM Grand,
but there are places to find great or even last year's sensational Dr. Nathan Fillion, Simon Helberg whose deal specifications are
unclear, is largely based in both
fighters' familiarity with the
location as well as their past
success there.
42 TV/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition

Right now on What's On Tonight: Iran’s top

Survivor, Christmas in dissident cleric
Cinematical Montazeri dies
By Kona Gallagher (TV
Squad) Washington, The Jacksons (Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 10:16:00 AM
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
• Call me crazy, but I'm not in Submitted at 12/20/2009 12:04:00 PM
Submitted at 12/20/2009 1:28:51 AM
The folks at our sister site love with the Spider Man
Cinematical are working hard to franchise. The Batman franchise, Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali
give you news and reviews of the on the other hand, is an entirely • At 7, CBS has a new 60 Montazeri, Iran’s most senior
best -- and worst -- the silver different story. Cinematical lists Minutes, followed by the season dissident cleric, has died, official
screen has to offer. Here are the best Comic Book Flicks of finale of Survivor. media reported on Sunday.
the Decade. 9, followed by Sex Rehab with Staff in Mr Montazeri’s office in
some of their musings on the • NBC has a new Football Night
• The highest-grossing female Dr. Drew. Qom, 140 km south of Tehran,
latest blockbusters, indies, and in America at 7, then the Vikings
star of the decade is younger than • Fine Living has Martha told the Financial Times, that the
everything in between: vs. the Panthers.
you, so what the hell have you Stewart's Christmas Special at 9, ayatollah died of heart attack and
• Lifetime has 12 Men of
then Martha Stewart's Holiday said that he would be buried in
• I love this: Cinematical Seven been doing for the past ten years? Christmas at 7, then Eve's
Cookies. the city on Monday morning.
names the Best Mayhem of 2009. • If everyone was jailed for not Christmas.
returning movies on time, then • At 10, A&E has a new The Ahmad Montazeri, his son, was
Happy Holidays! • At 8, TNT has Christmas in
Jacksons: A Family Dynasty. quoted as saying that his father
• I'm so confused. I've seen my baby would grow up without Washington 2009.
• VERSUS has Sports Soup at had died of an illness overnight
trailers and extended previews a mother. Here's hoping that this • AMC has the 1984 version of
10. on Saturday.
for Avatar, and they all look kind Iowa woman doesn't have kids. A Christmas Carol at 8, followed
of horrendous. Yet everyone by Prancer. Five Filters featured article:
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Christmas.
• VH-1 has a new Tough Love at

Best and Worst TV of 2009: Joel's list

By Joel Keller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 2:04:00 PM
I don't think I did one of these
lists last year, and I have no idea
why. The election all by itself
would have generated a pretty
fun best/worst list. Maybe we
were all suffering from
information overload, and were
just exhausted. Not sure. Parks and Rec has made the Worst TV of 2009: Joel's list
But 2009 had a lot of interesting biggest improvement from first Filed under: Sports, News,
TV, too, just not all in one season to second since... well, OpEd, Daytime, The Office, Talk
category. As I've done in the since The Office. It's no Show, Breaking Bad, Reality-
past, I'll dispense with the usual coincidence; Greg Daniels and Free, Mad Men, Parks and
"best show" and "worst show" Mike Schur's Office experience Recreation
lists and just make up categories: taught them that patience would Permalink| Email this| |
GOODNESS be rewarded, both on the part of Comments
Best comeback from a shaky Recreation. As I mentioned in my the writers and the viewers.
f i r s t s e a s o n : P a r k s a n d " return of the sitcom" story, Continue reading Best and
E-reader News Edition
USA wants more White Fun with Guns: Viligante DC Cop
Collar Dishes Draconian Martial Law for
By Allison Waldman (TV
Squad) Snowball Fight [Justice]
Submitted at 12/20/2009 11:41:00 AM
File this under the "I was
expecting nothing less" category.
USA Network has ordered a
second season of White Collar,
the Matthew Bomer caper drama.
The announcement was made not
via a press release, but using
Twitter. Welcome to the new
reality. Jeff Eastin, White
Collar's creator, tweeted the
news: "Congratulations to the
best cast and crew on television."
This makes total sense for USA.
With Monk having ended its run
this month, White Collar can now
fill the bill joining Psych, Burn
Notice, In Pain Sight and Royal
Pains as the net's original series.
How ironic that this NBCU
network is doing a better job with
original programming than NBC
proper?
Continue reading USA wants
more White Collar
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Shows, OpEd, Pickups and
Renewals, Reality-Free
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Comments
TV/ Entertainment/ 43
By Foster Kamer (Gawker) about then that I decided to back
Submitted at 12/19/2009 2:30:00 PM
up a little bit. The guy was in
A small faction of people completely plain-clothes, but it
Well, as it turns out, Washington d e c i d e d t o t a r g e t i t w i t h turns out that he was actually a
DC residents know exactly how snowballs. They're throwing detective. As such, he radioed in
much of a joke 911 is in their snowballs at the Hummer. It some support. Snowballers
own town, after a cop. Pulled a turns out the driver of the rallied around as soon as some
g u n . O n k i d s . T h r o w i n g Hummer is a detective. He gets order was established, yelling at
snowballs. Yeah, and they're out. He's waving a walkie talkie. him for bringing a gun to a
reading this cop the riot act. It's not going well. Then he starts snowball fight. Naturally, a few
[ There are people yelling bad w a v i n g a g u n . H e h a d n ' t more people chucked snowballs
words at that cop! So if you are identified himself at this point. at him, and that's when he
in a place where bad words are There was a point where things charged the crowd. The police
not safe to be heard than that cooled off a bit, more police tried to keep order, but this
video is NSFW!] showed up, and he identified detective was being a total utter
Via the Washington City Paper himself at that point. The name dickhead. He bum-rushed the
and DC's ABC affiliate, a bunch was Det. Baylor. My guess was crowd, all chaos broke out, and
of kids were having a snowball B-A-Y-L-O-R. about 30 seconds later he made
fight, a few pegged a Hummer And another one, from the his way out dragging an innocent
with some snowballs, the cop comments of blog Prince Of b y s t a n d e r , w h o h e w a s
gets out of the car, starts Petworth: undoubtedly planning on
screaming at the kids, and I was standing right next to him b o o k i n g . . .
decides to threaten them and their when this happened. We were And there's more video here!
fun with the power of the law. In pelting the hummer (as we'd done Question: When did snow lose
other words: his gun, that can put to about 4 other hummers), when its innocence? Remember the
holes in people and make them this guy decided to get out of the good old days?
dead. As opposed to a snowball, car. He proceeded to walk Life's hard enough with
the highest grade of which will towards the crowd, and naturally, existential angst. But outlawing
give you a welt. people started to throw more fun? It's too much. It's all too
The City Paper's eyewitness snowballs at him. That's when he much.
report: brandished the gun. It was right
44 Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition

2005's 123 Reasons to Love New York Right Now [Vintage

Gawker]
By Foster Kamer (Gawker) delivered to our doors.
Submitted at 12/19/2009 7:15:00 PM
4. Because all we have to do is
walk down the street in order to
Welcome to the inaugural be propositioned for sex.
edition of The Vintage Gawker 5. Because we get to push
Collection, where we'll roll out tourists if we're late for work.
old posts from the vault in full to 6. Because we only pretend to
provide perspective on the recycle.¹
present. Tonight: Jessica Coen's 7. Because Tompkins Square
2005 post, 123 Reasons to Love park is still friendly to junkies.¹
New York Right Now. 8. Because whether you make
New York Magazine's first year $50k or $200k, you're still
running their Reasons to Love "middle class."²
New York feature was in 2005, 9. Because "fuck" is intrinsic to
when the below post ran on this our local dialect.
site. Since then, it's been one of 10. Because there's a Starbucks
their most successful and eagerly on every block.
awaited yearly features. People 11. Because you can get
love their lists. Especially New anything you want on Craigslist.
Yorkers. Ask Time Out. They 12. Because Anderson Cooper.
publish one every three weeks. 13. Because our restaurants are
But all that shit aside... so cramped, we can hear if our
Besides being my personal neighbor is being an asshole.
favorite, this post, published four 14. Because you can live in the
years ago on Monday, was also same place for 10 years and
to those I've spoken to who read never have to see or meet your
it and remember it—counting neighbors
7,176 hits to this day, a 15. Because a pink paper like the
comparatively small group when stayed the same, for better or spectacularly frustrating transit squirrels and fancy shoes, but New York Observer can survive.¹
looking at Gawker's audience and worse. For example! We'll strike, this week's New York those things don't really get to the 16. Because assistants.
readership these days—one of the always be able to fart on the provides a much needed warm heart of why we adore New York 17. Because everyone's Gay.
more memorable ones we've run street without anybody noticing, fuzzy with its " 123 Reasons to so totally and completely. In fact, 18. Because we can make
over the history of the site. It at least until Bloomberg starts to Love New York Right Now" we can think of 123 completely someone like Blackface Jesus
resonated as patently true, and it tax us for it. Until then, long live cover story. After all, we all different reasons to love New into a celebrity.³
wasn't the kind of thing anybody this great, great city. sometimes need a reminder as to York, all of which make a bit 19. Because sometimes it smells
in print, but especially the Without further ado, 2005 why we put up with the bullshit. more sense to us. After the jump, like maple syrup.¹
magazine it was riffing on— Gawker co-editor Jessica Coen's Alas, as we read the piece and Gawker's 123 Reasons to Love 20. Because there's always a
New York—would've run with. original post in full, and after, the grew infected with the warm New York Right Now. secret room behind the VIP
But you'll see the times have (in magic of hindsight. glow of lust for NYC, we 1. Because we scorn the fat. room.²
many, many ways) very much Gawker's 123 Reasons to Love realized that there was a lot 2. Because we can drink until 4
changed. Other things? Shit's New York Right Now missing from the listicle. Sure, AM. 2005'S page 45
Given the bitter weather and the w e l o v e C e n t r a l P a r k a n d 3. Because we have our drugs
E-reader News Edition
2005'S
continued from page 44
21. Because we can get fake
TiVo for $9.95/mo.
22. Because our tabloids are
considered newspapers.²
23. Because the transit strike
keeps us from really working.
24. Because Jocelyn Wildenstein
exists.²
25. Because you can go to the
East Village Baths and not get
raped.
26. Because David Cross's
imposters live here.³
27. Because Brooklyn is for
domesticating.³
28. Because i-bankers and
hipsters can peacefully coexist.²
29. Because there's always a free
drink available somewhere.
30. Because we know Sex and
the City is a crock of shit.²
31. Because we know Friends is
a crock of shit.
32. Because it only takes $30
million to launch and burn a
magazine.³
33. Because we think Vitamin
Water is a real beverage.³
34. Because we never have to
shovel snow (unless it's coke).
35. Because we all know we're
actually better than Tinsley
Mortimer.
36. Because "road trip" just
means Ikea.
37. Because even Lenny
Kravitz's toilet gets clogged.
38. Because smoking is
encouraged.
39. Because we only have one
mall, and it's not any good
anyhow.
40. Because people read.
41. Because we invented PNP.
42. Because words like Otto
Tootsie Plohound make sense to
us.
43. Because we eat McDonald's
ironically.
44. Because ANYONE can lie to
Page Six.³
45. Because Jews.
46. Because you can take a
dump at the Apple Store.
47. Because you can buy
anything, even a stolen baby.
48. Because mani/pedis are
affordable.
49. Because George Whipple.
50. Because our public opinion
can turn on a dime.
51. Because real estate is a
professional sport.
52. Because only black is the
new black.
53. Because it's acceptable to
Shoot the Freak.³
54. Because our pigeons have
rabies.
55. Because Conde Nasties don't
threaten our food supply.³
56. Because anyone can get into
Soho House and see that it's
nothing.²
57. Because everyone's got a
blog.³
58. Because Paris Hilton moved
to Los Angeles.
59. Because Bloomberg has that
adorable bald spot.³
60. Because it's easy to stalk
famous people.
61. Because everyone you know
has slept with one another.
62. Because Woody Allen is
allowed.
63. Because Fresh Direct has
every single product's nutritional
info on its website.
64. Because Peter Braunstein
stabbed himself in the neck.
65. Because we have a looser
definition of substance abuse.
66. Because everyone has a cat
or a book deal.¹
67. Because you only need a
Village Voice to get a chick with
a dick.³
68. Because anybody can be a
DJ.
69. Because even if you can only
play "Wish You Were Here" on
the guitar, you can make a few
bucks at a subway station.
70. Because Robin Byrd.
71. Because everybody knows
the 1-800-Mattress song.³
72. Because sometimes it's just
fun to give tourists wrong
directions.
73. Because you can buy live
jellyfish from a wooden box in
Chinatown.
74. Because your parents love to
come visit and pay for dinner.
75. Because your parents don't
love to come visit.
76. Because you can walk down
the street and fart and nobody
will notice.²
77. Because if you want a cat,
you can walk into any deli and
just steal one.
78. Because you can do your
Sunday morning walk of shame
undetected.
79. Because Teen Vogue is only
$1.99.¹
80. Because fifth floor walk-up
apartments are great for the
glutes.
81. Because nobody uses
condoms anymore.
82. Because Dr. Zizmor is a
celebrity.
83. Because you can drop a
penny in an empty water jug and
make some dude's day.³
84. Because everyone looks like
shit in the morning.
85. Because there's such a thing
as $300 sushi.
86. Because you can be a gay
man and reasonably keep both a
wife and a boyfriend.
87. Because bagels.
88. Because there's just enough
Brits around to keep us speaking
proper English.
89. Because we worship high
fashion in collapsible tents.
90. Because vegetarians keep to
themselves.³
91. Because our knock-offs are
often better than the real thing.
92. Because there's always
someone naked in Times Square.
93. Because the New York Press
is still trying.²
94. Because your cab driver is
probably more interesting than
you are.
95. Because you can get mustard
on everything.
96. Because it's perfectly fine to
answer your phone mid-sentence.
97. Because H&M: Our Gap is
Eurotrash on purpose.³
98. Because we don't stand in
line, we stand on it.
99. Because we tolerate the New
York Sun.³
100. Because gift bags.¹
101. Because you can ride the
Staten Island ferry all day at only
the cost of your stomach.²
102. Because "summer" really
does make sense as a verb.
103. Because we know what
"new bar smell" is, but not "new
45
car smell."
104. Because 666-6666 has
nothing to do with Satan.
Technically.
105. Because even your intern
has an intern.¹
106. Because only old people
have land lines.³
107. Because parts of Central
Park still smell like a poopy
country farmyard.
108. Because you can make a
career out of being Amanda
Lepore.¹
109. Because everyone drinks at
brunch.
110. Because our tap water won't
kill you.
111. Because it's easy to steal
wifi.²
112. Because as much as you
hate it, Rockefeller Center is still
kind of neat.
113. Because city kids have been
there and done that before you
even got here.²
114. Because everyone's
painfully human, even the staff of
the New York Times.³
115. Because used clothes cost
more than new ones.
116. Because we'd rather be
emaciated than healthy.¹
117. Because in one morning,
you can look like a jackass in the
background of four different
morning shows.
118. Because it's perfectly
acceptable to give the finger to
anyone at any time.
119. Because the smell is
concentrated in Chinatown.²
120. Because doing your own
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laundry is for rich suckers.
121. Because you can buy
Vagisil at the bodega at 4 AM.
122. Because we keep Jersey at
arm's length.
123. Because we gave silly
Adam Moss a job.³
As you can tell, spot-on, in so
many ways, whether things have
or haven't changed. Hats off.
But here's how it breaks down:
¹: Only kinda changed. Now we
get fined if we don't recycle, and
landlords take that shit out on us.
Assuming you're not smart
enough to blame the other
neighbors. Tompkins is still
friendly to junkies in that junkies
still have friends hanging around
Tompkins Square Park. Just try
and make the dumb, touristy
mistake of "buying" drugs there
these days and experience what a
first-class NYPD beatdown is
like. Tragically—really:
upsettingly—we learned what the
maple syrup smell came from
(Jersey, The Garden State of
Smells, of course), but that
doesn't mean it won't still happen
or stop us from enjoying it, even
though it's different, now that we
know. If you call the (wonderful,
but few) remaining New York
Observer writers clinging onto
gigs after Jared Kushner
dispatched with Peter Kaplan and
unceremoniously fired most of
their talent, Spencer Morgan's
shameless instigating of eyeballs
through faux-trend pieces, and
the slow evolution towards
becoming Jared Kushner's pink
advertorial spread, then yes: the
New York Observer is still
surviving. Besides everyone
having a cat or a book deal, now
everyone's cat has a book deal,
and Kate Lee's made it. Teen
Vogue? Try $3.50. Gift bags are
still around, they just suck now.
Now, your intern's intern has an
intern, and none of the three are
paid, but at least two have
graduate degrees. Amanda
Lapore's career probably makes
her feel like a den mom, now.
Not only would we rather be
emaciated than healthy, but
there're citywide initiatives to
keep this the case.
2: More than ever. The middle
class? Growing, because
everyone's getting poorer. In
other words, unless you're
working at Goldman, welcome to
the center. This city will always
have one more VIP room behind
the VIP room's VIP room: the
rabbit hole keeps growing
deeper. Not only our are tabloids
still real newspapers, but the
Wall Street Journal's now owned
by the tabloids, and if you're
Mark Penn, takes money for
copy like a tabloid does, too. The
New York Press will never die,
and neither will Jocelyn
Wildenstein. The Sex and the
City movies remind us just how
full of shit that show always was.
Now that SoHo House is trying
to get rid of rich people, it's
especially nothing. The Staten
Island Ferry's one of the few free
things left in this city. City Kids
have now been there and done
everything you've experimented
with at 30 by the time they're
sophomores at Horace Mann.
Our parks have WiFi, but it's still
better to steal it. The smells of
Chinatown grow more diverse
every year and you learn to love
them. And you will never, ever
not be able to fart while walking
detected. We will kill to preserve
that liberty.
3: Shit's changed. Conde Nasties
are now beginning to threaten our
food supply, but given that
they're handing out gift cards for
the cafeteria this year for holiday
presents, efforts are still being
made to keep this the case to
some, if any extent. David Cross
impostors are out; hipster grifters
are in. Brooklyn's not just for
domesticating anymore; it's a
nice getaway from all the
moneyed bankers taking over the
East Village, or it was until they
all moved back in with their
parents in Connecticut. It now
takes way less than $30M to
make a magazine crash and burn,
just ask Maer Roshan. Twice.
Now that the rest of America
believes Vitamin Water's a real
beverage, we see through it, and
instead worship the funky ass-in-
a-glass that is Kampuchea. It's
only acceptable to Shoot the
Freak for however many
summers the freak has left,
which, as always: it's year-to-
year thing. Blogs are dead, now
everyone—everyone—has a blog
network. Or a Twitter or a
Tumblr or a startup. Anyone can
lie to Page Six but us, because
former Gawker intern Neel
Shah's runs it. Bloomberg's bald
spot? After three terms of
looking at it, no longer adorable,
now: menacing. Chicks with
dicks? Go Craigslist, not Village
Voice, which has also, like the
Observer, been stripped bare of
everything but their Chicks With
Dicks ads. Why not cut out the
middleman? Our ability to turn
Blackface Jesus into a celebrity
has been subverted by the fact
that 2009's Blackface Jesuses
have Twitter feeds and can do it
themselves. Also, the ascent of
Julia Allison to Sony
Spokeswoman makes Blackface
Jesus look like a minor-league
waterboy. Who remembers the 1-
800-Mattress song? You can still
make someone's day by dropping
them a penny, but the UHO was
just ruled an illegal organization,
so: they're done with.
Vegetarians now absolutely
refuse to shut the fuck up, but so
do active meat-eaters and the
hipster butchers who service
them. Everyone else has H&M,
and it used to be ours,
goddamnit. Then again, we've
still got Uniqlo and TopShop,
which tourists have no idea what
to do with. Not only did we
tolerate the New York Sun, but
now that it's gone, we miss it.
Most of the old people who had
land lines are dead, or well on
their way. We now know, more
than ever, just how painfully
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human the staff of the New York
Times is, as their ranks are cut to
size buyout by buyout, layoff by
layoff, person by person.
And finally, not only did we
give silly Adam Moss a job that
he still has, but a few years after
she wrote this, silly Adam Moss
gave Jessica Coen one of the
most clutch jobs at New York
Magazine as their website's
managing editor.
It's clear that things are different.
And so is the New York we live
in and love now. It could use a
new list to remind us of why we
still love this place and put up
with the shit that it serves us
daily ( unless you're in London).
A new list needs to emerge, and
it will.
In the comments, if you want an
item to be submitted for
Gawker's 123 Reasons to Love
New York Right Now, which
we'll run next week, tag your
comment in this post with#123,
or submit them on the tag page
here. I'll be coming up with some
of my own, looking for help from
some other writers around town,
and looking to pick a bunch from
you guys. It was a hell of a post
about a hell of a town, and
respectively, we'll try to do it the
justice and give this city the love
it deserves: ours.
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The Wedding of Kevin Jonas and Inevitably Subsequent

Sacrifice of His Virginity or "V-Card" [Gossip Roundup]
By Foster Kamer (Gawker) made me smile!...Mike "The
Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:00:00 AM
Situation" Sorrentino and DJ
Pauly D flew here the other night
Kevin Jonas got married, for the network's Christmas party
probably laid. Jersey Shore kids at the MTV building in Times
in New York. Are they loved or Square. "They were surprisingly
hated? Kate Hudson's parents nice and friendly," a spy says.
love her sooooooooo much. "People kept asking Mike to see
People wants to kill Brad Pitt's his abs, and he'd always oblige."
spirit. SJP vs. Dress. Presenting Right? That's nice to hear.
your Sunday Morning Gossip Apparently, hot girls were
Roundup! following them around Marquee,
• Kevin Jonas got married on which is also kinda funny, and
Long Island in a "Fairy Tale" nice. I think it's time to admit that
wedding, but is anything on Long America has fallen in love with
Island really a "Fairy Tale" these things. They're like Zhu
anything? Need to know. Also, Zhu Pets, everyone's gonna want
now he can take off that purity one under the tree for Christmas.
ring and have sex. Next: crack Don't let them eat all your self-
cocaine. While having sex. Hope tanner, though. [ Page Six]
he doesn't start calling his penis • I guess I forgot this picture of
"Bonus Jonas." [ NYDN] Sarah Jessica Parker that had the
• Page Six's lead story is more genius no-holds-barred headline
Tiger Woods nonsense, but I'll of "Dress Looks Stuck To SJP,"
save that for later, because it's all and I didn't actually click on it,
TOO MUCH. I'm tired of writing but christ it's as funny as you'd
about this guy and his dick and want it to be. [ NYDN]
all the magical places it went. It's • Oh GOOD LORD. There's a
not like travel writing where you picture of skeevy celebrity
want to even live vicariously expose writer Ian Halperin in
through the words and pictures of Page Six and his fashion sense
places. It's just not, you know? falls somewhere between
But here's what is magical: their Watergate-era Bob Woodward
second-place story, an item and late 90s Prince (or the Artist
called "Jersey Gang Wades Formerly Known as That Symbol
Ashore," as if the kids from Formerly Known as Prince).
Jersey Shore are ducks, or rather, What is that man's day like? I
swamp creatures. Apparently, don't want to know. [ Page Six]
The Creature Who Goes By • AW. Boris and Natasha-esque
Snooki tipped a bathroom
attendant at Marquee $0.75 after using her hairspray and is a total "diva," which, I mean, whatever, sure. Not surprising. But this WEDDING page 48
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gossip duo Rush & Molloy set
their Moose and Squirrel sights
today on Goldie Hawn and Kurt
Russell, who are trying to help
Kate Hudson get over A-Rod, but
you just know that as much as
everyone loves Goldie Hawn,
Kate Hudson has to deal with
those moments where she's like
"OMG Mom, STFU. Seriously.
You know what that means? It
means shut the fuck up. Because
News if they hire old man
poopypants Lou Dobbs over
there. Which is a great way to get
rid of Geraldo. [ R & M, top
item]
• Katie Couric and Diane
Sawyer each had competing
holiday parties where they both
footed the bill. The item sets
them up like Sharks and Jets. It's
kinda great. [ Page Six]
• I didn't mean to put this bullet
help, or something. [ R & M, last
item]
• Best sighting of the day:
"Bernadette Peters looking
remarkably young as she
devoured hors d'oeuvres at
Donna Karan's loft at the party
for Trudie Styler's new "Mind
Body Fitness" DVD series."
DEVOURED. Three snaps for
Bernadette going to town on
some pigs-in-blankets. [ Page
TMZ]
• Brad Pitt turned 46 yesterday
and PEOPLE has words for him.
Not people-people, but People
magazine, who feel entitled to a
portion of his soul after awarding Extremely ugly
him World's Sexiest Man twelve Clash of the Titans
times. They want to cut off his
magical beard. [ People] screenshots released
By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Hey everyone! Sorry we're
running late this morning, I'm Submitted at 12/19/2009 5:30:00 PM

you're embarrassing me." and
then Goldie's like
"Whaaaaaaaaaat Katie? Yah
father and I just want you to find
a nice man who isn't a centaur, is
it too much to make suggestions?
Am I not allowed to love my
daughta?" and Kate's like
"UGH." [ NYDN]
• Harvey Weinstein once took
the cast of Nine, who got along
really well, apparently, to sing
karaoke with him at some
English pub. Unfortunately, his
rousing rendition of " Inna-
Gadda-Da-Vida," an industry
legend, went unheard. [ Page Six]
• Geraldo is going to quit Fox
Ware, Cowboys end Saints' pursuit of perfection
By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 7:21:27 AM
Fast Facts
• The Cowboys got their second
win over a team with a 10-0
record or better; they beat the 11-
0 Redskins in Nov. 1991.
• Tony Romo is 6-10 as a starter
in December. He was 22 for 34
point here but now that it's errant Six] pretty sure after going back and
Click to Titan-size Whoa, now.
I kind of feel like keeping it here. • America's Best Dance Crew reading this that I have Swine
When we say "ugly," we're not
So I will. judge Shane Sparks is apparently Flu! Whee. So today should be
talking about the visual fidelity
• A CBS TV exec you've never being extorted, he says. Shane fun and by fun I mean let's see
of the aforementioned Clash of
heard of—unless you are Scott Sparks is kind of a random guy to how long I last in a vertical
the Titans screenshots. Rather,
Koondel—is trying to represent extort, no? But most of them are! position. Altarcations is coming
we're talking about the subjects
himself in court against Think about this. [ TMZ] at you at 2:30, with a cameo in it
they depict -- horrible, nether-
accusations that he's cheap while • If this turns out to be true by Will Ferrell! You won't want
spawned creatures, covered in
trying to get a reduction in WOW will my grandmother be to miss it. Also, um...nope! That's
uninviting tusks, pincers and
"spousal support." Yes. Because happy. Jennifer Gray is rumored it! Happy Sunday Morning, don't
fangs. Where are all the
the one thing you want to do to to be in negotiations to be on get lost in all the SNOW out
beautiful, half-clothed
make you look not cheap is not Dancing With The Stars. Dirty there. And by SNOW I mean
goddesses? The scenic Grecian
hire a lawyer. [ Page Six] Dancing is G-Ma's favorite frozen slushy ice and not cocaine.
environments? The looming,
• Madonna is going to look like movie. RELATED, obviously. [ Just for clarification. meticulously built temples?
a Japanese building-squishing Page Six]
We're not sure -- but we do know
monster if she keeps working out • Here's a picture of the
they're not in the gallery below.
the way she does, so she's going SnookieMonster in her
Gallery: Clash of the Titans
to another voodoo doctor for cheerleading days. Whee! [
Extremely ugly Clash of the
Titans screenshots released
originally appeared on Joystiq on
Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:30:00 EST.
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NFL to Ask
The Emails that Brought Down Disgraced NYPD Players to Donate
Chief Bernie Kerik [Internal Documents] Brains for Study
By Foster Kamer (Gawker) Interstate Industrial, was run in (FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 12:15:00 PM
part by Frank DiTommaso, who Submitted at 12/20/2009 8:12:10 AM
is referred to as "FD" in Kerik's
Disgraced NYPD Police email to the White House. Kerik The NFL is partnering with
Commissioner/villain Bernard lied when he wrote he had Boston University brain
Kerik was this close to a gig refused to accept renovation researchers who have been
under Dubya as Homeland work from DiTommaso because critical of the league's stance on
Security Secretary. Now: he's "FD is doing business with the concussions, The Associated
getting ready to serve hard time City." Press has learned.
for eight different fraud Kerik gave the White House a The league is going to encourage
convictions. The emails that time-line stating he paid tens of current and former NFL players
brought him down are now thousands of dollars himself for to agree to donate their brains to
public. the renovation work. "Kerik pays the Boston University Center for
These wonderful notes come to the architect about $1200 and the the Study of Traumatic
us via NBC New York, who contractor about $30,000 around Encephalopathy.
culled them via U.S. District over 8 months. Kerik spends NFL spokesman Greg Aiello
Court Judge Stephen Robinson other money on a fence outside confirmed the league also is
by a request for public and window work." But committed to giving $1 million
information after Kerik's guilty investigators have said that was or more to the center. Aiello said
plea. just a fraction of the cost of the the league has held discussions
Long story short: Bernie Kerik work that was actually done. with the NFL Alumni
withdrew his own nomination Prosecutors said Kerik was broke Association about suggesting
after being busted for an illegal at the time and he took the free retired players look into
immigrant nanny. Now, he's everything free, or in this case, was trying to make to Brian work in exchange for helping the participating in BU's work.
doing hard time for eight separate puts Bernie Kerik, the jailer, the Besanceney, the White House DiTommaso's lobby and try to The BU group has said it found
convictions. Kerik admitted to hand of justice, in prison. spokesman at the time. He secure contracts with the city. links between repeated head
lying in these emails to the White Note the email domain from outlined all of the major issues, And synthesized them into a trauma and brain damage in
House—of all people; apparently, which Kerik sent this from: yes, and even gave a big-up to Russ wonderfully bizarre third-and- boxers, football players and,
even Bernie Kerik assumed the that's beloved former New York Buettner, the New York Times/ first person summary form. Neat, most recently, a former NHL
Bush administration to be that Mayor Rudy Giuliani's. [ Photo New York Daily News reporter right? player.
stupid—for failing to disclose via Getty Images/AFP] who beat this story into the Most of this shit turned out to be Five Filters featured article:
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News You Can Booze: The Whiskey-Vodka
Hangover Scale Adjusted [Not Afraid To Be
Servicey]
By Foster Kamer (Gawker)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 1:45:00 PM
When making beverage
selections for the remaining
holiday parties, actual holidays,
and the oncoming New Year's
Eve benders, one should employ
discretion, lest you end up with a
terrible hangover and a sauce gut.
Not afraid to be servicey:
Whiskey is now hands down
suggested to be a riskier
proposition for a hangover.
Wasn't this the conventional
wisdom already? Maybe now
even more so than ever, because
we have advanced so far in
science as to figure this kind of
thing out, or have been able to
acquire the boozehounds
coherent enough to help
humanity, I guess. Observe:
The reason might lie in the
number of molecules called
"congeners" which it contains
compared to vodka, the Brown
University team said. But the
study also suggested that sticking
to vodka all night rather than
whisky would not improve your
performance at work the next
day.
That's because your subjects,
dear science—"all healthy
E-reader News Edition
California City's
Police to Wear Head
-Mounted Cameras
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 1:35:41 AM
SAN JOSE, California Police
in California are testing head-
mounted cameras to record
interactions with the public.
The test using 18 patrol officers
comes as citizens' groups
criticize the department for too
often using force during arrests.
Officers are to turn on the
cameras every time they talk with
anyone. They download the
recordings after every shift.
The cameras are the size of a
Bluetooth cell phone earpiece
and attach by a headband above
the ear.
San Jose is the first major
American city to try the devices,
made by Arizona-based Taser
International. Taser is paying for
alcohol users"—were a fucking drink containing no alcohol." Svedka.
the experiment, but the price
drunk mess. Also, note a few Yes, because that's not enough to Previously, in upsetting BBC-
could be high if San Jose equips
things: send "healthy" drinkers into...an p r e s e n t e d d r i n k i n g n e w s ,
all 1,400 officers.
1."Suggested." So for those of alcoholic rage. exercising won't reverse the
Each kit costs $1,700, plus a $99
you holding out hope, feel free to 3."Chris Sorek, the chief damage you to do yourself by
per officer monthly fee. That's $4
prove science wrong, get drunk, executive of charity Drinkaware, drinking. Nothing will. So you've
million department-wide each
and call the Brown Scientists at said that social drinkers should got two choices, here: get
year.
3AM to be like, I'M GONNA BE be aware that no alcoholic drink ceremoniously drunk and kill
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already gotten done. knowhow. Awesome. They still Hm. Decisions.
2. How cruel these studies are to don't have a cure for "whiskey
other humans. "On the third night d i c k , " h o w e v e r . I s m e l l a
they were given a "placebo" conspiracy. And it smells like
E-reader News Edition
Climate Change's Bad Lieutenants, Barack and
Hillary: Bustin' Down Doors [Awesome Things]
By Foster Kamer (Gawker)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 4:00:00 PM
Wow. Talk about burying the
lede. Obama and Clinton went
BAD. ASS on some sucka
climate change opposition. The
two've been chipping away at this
Copenhagen summit, but it took
them busting down a door to get
things "handled." Observe:
Via the New York Times, our
president announced that there
had been an "unprecedented
breakthrough" on climate change,
negotiated between five major
nations last night after taking
matters into his own hands.
Forget that the negotiation didn't
mean much (" bare minimum").
When addressing all of this,
Obama appeared to have been
dusting himself off from
dispatching with some bullshit-
bullshit. Some Chinese bullshit:
Mr. Obama's announcement
came late in a day that began
with his 11-minute address to
world leaders shortly after noon,
and that was filled with
brinksmanship and 11th-hour
negotiations. Mr. Obama, whose
speech included remarks that
appeared pointed at China's
Entertainment/ Sports/ 51
NFL to ask
players to donate
brains for study
By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:24:24 AM
The NFL is partnering with
Boston University brain
researchers who have been
critical of the league's stance on
concussions, The Associated
Press learned Sunday.
The league now plans to
encourage current and former
NFL players to agree to donate
their brains to the Boston
University Center for the Study
of Traumatic Encephalopathy,
which has said it found links
between repeated head trauma
and brain damage in boxers,
resistance to mechanisms for they think they're trying to pull a the deal, American officials said. football players and, most
monitoring emissions reductions, fast one on? If you don't know, For those who can't picture it, a recently, a former NHL player.
m e t p r i v a t e l y w i t h P r i m e now you know, China: dramatic reenactment: "It's huge that the NFL actively
Minister Wen Jiabao afterward. The deal eventually came Do not try to get one past us, or gets behind this research," said
But Mr. Wen did not attend two together after a dramatic moment The U.S., sneaky people. We will Robert Cantu, a doctor who is a
smaller, impromptu meetings i n w h i c h M r . O b a m a a n d kick in your doors and then your co-director of the BU center and
during the day that Mr. Obama S e c r e t a r y o f S t a t e H i l l a r y f a c e s i n o r d e r t o r e d u c e has spoken negatively about the
and United States officials Rodham Clinton burst into a everyone's long-term greenhouse league in the past. "It forwards
conducted with the leaders of meeting of the Chinese, Indian g a s e m i s s i o n s . S a y o n a r a , the research. It allows players to
other world powers, an apparent and Brazilian leaders, according mothafuckas. Music, please: realize the NFL is concerned
s n u b t h a t i n f u r i a t e d to senior administration officials. [ Photo via Getty Images, Tip via about the possibility that they
administration officials and their Mr. Obama said he did not want Ant DeRosa.] could have this problem, and that
European counterparts. them negotiating in secret. the NFL is doing everything it
Right? Who do they think they The intrusion led to new talks can to find out about the risks
are? Or rather, who the hell do that cemented central terms of and the preventive strategies that
can be implemented."
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello
told the AP on Sunday that the
league also is committed to
giving $1 million or more to the
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center. Aiello said the league
already has held discussions with
the NFL Alumni Association
about suggesting that retired
players look into participating in
BU's work by offering their
brains for study after they die.
The league also will contact the
nearly 100 retired football
players who have been diagnosed
with Alzheimer's or dementia and
are receiving benefits from the
league to ask their families to
consider donating those players'
brains to the BU study.
"The people affiliated with the
center have identified the
donation of brains, both from
healthy people and those that
have had multiple concussions,
as their most critical need right
now to further the research into
this disease," Aiello said. "We ...
will discuss with the center its
research needs as we go forward
in this partnership."
Cantu said he and NFL
commissioner Roger Goodell met
in October to discuss concussions
and the BU project.
Sunday's news represents the
latest in a series of moves the
NFL has made in recent weeks to
step up its attention to
concussions in the aftermath of a
congressional hearing on the
topic.
That included stricter return-to-
play guidelines detailing what
symptoms preclude someone
from participating in games or
practices; a mandate that each
team select a league- and union-
approved independent
neurologist to be consulted when
players get concussions; and the
departure of the two co-chairmen
of the NFL's committee on brain
trauma.
"They have done a bit of an about
-face. Pressure probably has
played a role in that," Cantu said
in a telephone interview. "But I
honestly think that Goodell does
believe in player safety and the
product is just better with your
best players on the field, not your
best players injured."
Aiello said Sunday that a
concussion study the league has
been conducting since 2007 is on
hold until the former committee
co-chairmen -- Ira Casson and
David Viano -- are replaced.
They resigned last month. He
said the league is interviewing
candidates, none of whom is
currently affiliated with the
league or any team.
"Now that we're changing the
committee, we want to make
some revisions in how the study
proceeds," Aiello said in a
telephone interview.
The New York Times first
reported that the study is on hold.
Casson is slated to testify at a
House Judiciary Committee
hearing Jan. 4 about football head
injuries. He did not attend the
panel's hearing Oct. 28, when
BU's Cantu said there is
"growing and convincing
evidence" that repetitive
concussive and subconcussive
hits to the head in NFL players
leads to a degenerative brain
disease.
Another co-director of the BU
center, Ann McKee, showed the
committee images of brains of
dead football players with the
disease and told lawmakers, "We
need to take radical steps" to
change the way football is
played.
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Associated Press
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Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad
Ochocinco says he won't wear Chris
Henry's No. 15 against San Diego Chargers
By ESPN.com news services from reimbursing Ochocinco for
(ESPN.com) any fines he would've incurred
Submitted at 12/20/2009 8:53:00 AM
had he worn Henry's number.
NFLPA spokesman George
B e n g a l s r e c e i v e r C h a d Atallah had tweeted Saturday that
Ochocinco says he wouldn't mind his organization would cover the
paying the fine that would result fine.
from his wearing Chris Henry's The organization has already
No. 15 jersey Sunday but has established a memorial fund for
decided to stay with his No. 85 Henry and plan to match any fine
when Cincinnati plays at San for Ochocinco to that fund and/or
Diego. the Players Assistance Fund.
In texts sent to ESPN NFL But the NFLPA is prohibited
I n s i d e r A d a m S c h e f t e r o n from reimbursing the fine money
Sunday morning, Ochocinco said that would be automatically
he didn't want what would have withheld from Ochocinco's
been a tribute to his former paycheck by the league.
teammate, who passed away Ochocinco is familiar with NFL
Thursday, to become a diversion. rules. He was prevented from
" I t ' s b e c o m i n g m o r e o f a changing the name on his jersey
distraction for myself and my two years ago unless it was his
team," Ochocinco texted. "Chris legal name; later Chad Johnson
wouldn't want it to go the way it changed his legal name to Chad
is. Ochocinco.
"It can turn into a big negative if The Bengals are planning to
we don't perform the way we wear a No. 15 decal on their
should. I'll have his jersey in helmets.
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His jersey is also 4 times bigger Insider Adam Schefter was used
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SUV bought for USC tailback Joe Atlanta Falcons' Matt

McKnight's girlfriend, owner Scott Ryan, Michael Turner
Schenter says active vs. Jets
By ESPN.com news services University of Washington fan eligibility. It is against NCAA By Associated Press inactive and was replaced by
(ESPN.com) who has "nothing to do with rules for athletes to accept (ESPN.com) Chauncey Davis. Cornerback
Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:27:18 AM
agents, marketing players or benefits from agents or marketing Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:31:22 AM
Chris Houston(hamstring) also
representing athletes" despite his representatives, or to accept was not active, with Brent
The owner of the SUV that USC ownership of the Web domain "extra benefits" based on their EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Grimes filling in. Right guard
T r o j a n s r u n n i n g b a c k J o e www.4joemcknight.com, which ability. Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Harvey Dahl(ankle) missed his
McKnight has been seen driving he says has not been renewed. Despite being in attendance for a Ryan and Pro Bowl running back third straight start and was
says it was bought for the junior's "I own so many Web site USC men's basketball game Michael Turner will play against replaced by Quinn Ojinnaka.
girlfriend as a favor. domains that I only purchased against Tennessee in Los Angeles the New York Jets after missing Also inactive for Atlanta were
In e-mails to the Los Angeles www.4joemcknight.com [didn't on Saturday night, athletic the last two games with injuries. fullback Verron Haynes, wide
Times and Los Angeles Daily renew] because I thought it was director Mike Garrett was not Both Ryan (turf toe) and Turner receiver Troy Bergeron, and tight
News, Scott Schenter, a Santa clever along with the many other made available to local reporters. (sprained ankle) warmed up a ends Jason Radar and Keith
Monica, Calif., businessman, said ones I own/owned," Schenter "I read the letter [by Schenter] few hours before the game to test Zinger. John Parker Wilson was
the car is driven by Johana wrote in the e-mails. and found it interesting," said a their availability for the Falcons, the No. 3 quarterback.
Michelle Beltran -- McKnight's Schenter said a company he statement from Garrett, read by a who were eliminated from Jets center Nick Mangold, who
girlfriend -- and that he helped founded in May 2008, USC Trojans spokesman to the playoff contention Saturday with missed two days of practice with
purchase the Land Rover because Marketing, stood for for "United reporters at halftime as Garrett Dallas' victory. an illness, was active and in the
Beltran's family had trouble States China Marketing," and that sat next to him. "Our compliance NFC South blog starting lineup. Inactive were;
qualifying for a loan. despite being an employee for the people are handling the matter. I ESPN.com's Pat Yasinskas wide receiver David Clowney,
"It is her car," Schenter wrote. Los Angeles County's Assessor's have nothing more to say." writes about all things NFC offensive lineman Robert Turner,
"She makes the payments and she office, he would "rather be USC plays Boston College in the South in his division blog. quarterback Kevin O'Connell,
is responsible for insurance. The known for my expertise in Emerald Bowl on Dec. 26 in San • Blog network: NFL Nation cornerback Marquice Cole,
payments are a little over marketing and finance ventures." Francisco. Ryan had been sidelined since r u n n i n g b a c k C h a u n c e y
$500/month [not a big amount]." USC, already under review by Information from The the first series of a win over Washington and linebackers
McKnight has denied driving the the NCAA and Pac-10 regarding Associated Press was used in this Tampa Bay on Nov. 29. His Kenwin Cummings and Marques
car, but the Los Angeles Times accusations that running back report. replacement, Chris Redman, lost Murrell. Erik Ainge was the
said in a story that one of its Reggie Bush and basketball star Five Filters featured article: two straight starts. Turner missed emergency quarterback.
reporters has seen USC's leading O.J. Mayo received improper Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: three of the last four games with Copyright 2009 by The
rusher driving the SUV several benefits during their time at the PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, a recurring ankle sprain. Associated Press
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The Times first reported the McKnight's use of the vehicle. Mark Sanchez was in the starting Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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Schenter also said he is a NCAA rules, it could affect his a sprained right knee. Term Extraction.
Falcons starting defensive end
Jamaal Anderson(chest) was
54 Sports/ Game/ E-reader News Edition

Stanford Gives
Tennessee Unforgettable
'Butt-kickin''
By Michelle Smith (Fanhouse
Main)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 2:15:00 PM

Filed under: Stanford,

Tennessee, Pac-10, SEC,
Women's Basketball
STANFORD, Calif. - A rare
thing happened Saturday
afternoon.
Stanford was better than
Tennessee.
Not better on this day. Not
luckier. Not the beneficiary of
well-timed break or two.
The Cardinal are a better team
that the Lady Vols and that hasn't
been the case very often in a
rivalry that goes back more than
20 years.
Tennessee coach Pat Summit
couldn't nor wouldn't argue with
that, not after the second-ranked
Cardinal defeated No. 3
Tennessee 67-52 at Maples
Pavilion Saturday afternoon.
"Stanford was by far the best
Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is
team on the floor today,"
Summitt said. "They look like a
delaying the Holidays
Final Four team. They gave us a By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
blueprint, we've just got to use Submitted at 12/19/2009 11:30:00 PM
it."
"You saw a butt-kickin' today. There's absolutely no way we'll
Don't forget it. I won't." be able to afford all the games
coming out in the first quarter of
next year -- however, with a little
help from our remarkably
wealthy friends and family, we
might be able to catch 'em all, so
to speak. With that in mind, we're
making an Official Joystiq
Decree[TM] -- the holiday season
has been bumped back to
February 21, 2010. To avoid
proximity to other holidays,
Valentine's Day is ... tomorrow.
Please rearrange your schedules
and decorations accordingly.
Below are our seven favorite
gaming-related webcomics from
this past week -- perfect for you
to share with a lover on this cold,
cold Valentine's Eve. Check them
out, and vote for your favorite in
the poll after the jump! If we
missed any, drop a link in the
comments!
The Axiom(Penny Arcade)
Avatar: The Game(Another
Videogame Webcomic)
Balance Patch(Nerf Now)
A Mushroom Kingdom Carol
Part 6(Brawl in the Family)
Whistle While You
Warp(Digital Unrest)
And We Even Hate The
Font(Virtual Shackles)
Dragon Age: Sour Grapes
Edition(Dipswitch)
Continue reading Weekly
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VGA 2009: Claudia Black talks about our favorite subject,
Claudia Black
By Kevin Kelly (Joystiq)
Submitted at 12/20/2009 11:30:00 AM
This past Saturday brought us
the Spike TV Video Game
Awards and - before
experiencing the litany of world
exclusives that awaited us inside
- we spent some time outside
cruising the red carpet and
talking (briefly!) to many of the
game developers and talent. We
squeezed them for information as
fast as we could while
simultaneously wishing them
holiday cheer and good tidings.
Yes, it was as awkward as it
sounds. Here's what we learned
from the voice of Chloe from
Uncharted 2, and star of
Farscape, Stargate, and more,
Claudia Black..
So you've jumped genres from
science fiction television shows
to swashbuckling video games.
How has that been?
Oh, I think it is all one in the
same, isn't it? It is all part of the
same genre. So I mean for me, it
has been a very easy segue into
this, and I think it has sort of
corresponded at the same time
with the industries starting to
coalesce, too. You know, the film
industry, which is sometimes
considered, I think, to be a
snobbish cousin of the gaming
industry, is now really starting to
take notice.
I'm sure the smell of money is
helping a bit.
Yeah. I mean I think it really
came to the floor when Van
Helsing the film was kind of like
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also, they were very specific and
particular about whom they hired
based on personalities because
they wanted us to be a really tight
knit family. And every single day
it was fun. Every single day. And
I know that games have become a
very serious business, but they
wanted the levity and the
bonding to be the overriding
essence on the set.
What is next for you?
Well I just wrapped up a little
independent film called Rain
from Stars which is written and
directed by Steven Wallace and
French Stewart, a wonderful
comedic actor, and Jeremy
London, Brian Krause ... a really
lovely cast. It's called Rain from
the launch pad for the game, and respect and appreciate the magic
Stars, and is like 12 Angry Men
the game was sort of more that occurs over time between the
meets Saw.
relevant and important, in a way, performers. That you can have a
VGA 2009: Claudia Black talks
than the movie. great script, and you can have
about our favorite subject,
You've done a lot of video game great voice actors in the booth,
Claudia Black originally
voices, but was this the first time but you are never going to
appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 20
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At 100, Boy Scouts
say they're still
`essential' (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 9:31:43 PM

POCONO SUMMIT, Pa. – A

fifth-generation Boy Scout, 11-
year-old Brad Corr is steeped in
all the lore and tradition: the
Scout Oath and Scout Law,
campcraft and community
Reminder: Enter to win service, the daily doing of good
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Joystiq's 'Naughty or Rumor: Super Street If he were recruiting a friend for

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be his best pitch? "We got to

Nice' holiday bundles Fighter IV getting 10 build catapults and launch

pumpkins from them."

new characters in total

By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 3:30:00 PM
obligatory legal mumbo-jumbo.
Update: Just to clear up any
Old-fashioned fun is part of the
Scout heritage. So is doing one's
duty to God and country. And so
c o n f u s i o n , y o u ' l l n e e d t o By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) four of which are still
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its ranks, overriding requests
from some local units to soften
those policies.
"We do have folks who say we
probably should rethink this,"
Bob Mazzuca, the chief Scout
executive, said in an interview.
"We can agree to disagree on a
particular issue and still come
together for the common good."
The Scouts — though their
numbers have dropped in recent
decades — remain a pervasive
presence across America, vibrant
in many suburbs and heartland
towns, pressing minority
recruitment campaigns in urban
areas where enrollment often has
lagged. Mazzuca and others in
the Scouts' extended family view
the centennial as an opportunity
to look forward as well as back.
"We're going to reintroduce folks
to the impact Scouting has made
and the reality that Scouting is
more essential today than it's ever
been before," he said.
___
No centennial campaign is
needed to convince the Corr
family that Scouting is essential.
They've been engaged since
1928, when Edgar Corr became
scoutmaster of Troop P-2 in
Easton, Pa., and his son, Andrew,
became one of the Scouts.
Andrew's son, Ted Corr, now 71,
became a Scout in 1950 and
remains active as a unit
commissioner. Warren Corr,
Ted's 40-year-old son, earned his
Eagle Scout rank in 1987 and has
served in various leadership posts
since then. And Brad, Warren's
son, joined Cub Scouts in 2004
and crossed over into Boy Scouts
last February as a member of
Troop 29 in Forks Township, Pa.
A sixth grader, Brad is a
Tenderfoot, the first rank a Scout
can earn, with the ambitious goal
of becoming an Eagle Scout
within three years.
Some of Brad's friends are in the
Scouts, others have dropped out
or never joined. A common
refrain from many families, in
Troop 29's area and nationwide,
is that they just don't have the
time for Scouting.
For the Corrs, though, forgoing
Scouting isn't an option — even
with Brad playing soccer,
basketball and lacrosse, as well
as cello and drums in the school
band.
"Scouting gives enough
flexibility that boys can do all
kinds of activities — it's not one
or the other," said Warren Corr.
For the boys, said Corr, a big
draw is "doing some cool stuff."
But as a former Scout turned
adult leader, he sees a bigger
picture.
"It's about leadership, the
confidence that comes with
accomplishing something, the
service to your country and
community," he said. "When
you're in Scouting, even three or
four years of it sticks with you
for the rest of your life."
Ted Corr, the family patriarch,
joined son Warren and grandson
Brad for an in-depth discussion
of Scouting at Camp Minsi, a
1,200-acre Scout facility in
Pennsylvania's Pocono
Mountains.
The biggest changes he's seen in
60 years of Scouting?
"Aerospace and computer merit
badges," Ted Corr replied. "As a
kid growing up in the 1940s,
who'd have thought it?"
And the worst change? Corr
brandished his cell phone.
"They take these on camping
trips now," he grumbled good-
naturedly.
___
Had cell phones existed in 1909,
or the GPS devices that Scouts
now sometimes use for
orienteering, perhaps the Boy
Scouts of America wouldn't have
come to be — at least not in the
manner depicted in the BSA's
hallowed story of the " Unknown
Scout."
According to this tale, American
businessman William Boyce
became lost in the London fog,
and was guided to his destination
by a helpful youth. When Boyce
offered a tip, the boy replied that
he was a Scout (they were
formed in Britain in 1907) and
couldn't accept money for doing
a good turn.
Boyce was so impressed that he
studied up on British scouting
and incorporated the BSA on
Feb. 8, 1910.
During World War I, Scouts
contributed on the U.S. home
front by selling bonds and
planting war gardens. They
expanded their efforts in World
War II, collecting rubber and
aluminum, distributing civil
defense posters, assisting fire
brigades.
The BSA grew steadily, with
membership peaking at more
than 6 million boys and adult
leaders in 1972. As of 2008, the
total had dropped below 4
million — 2.83 million boys and
1.13 million adults.
Reasons for the decline are many
— the explosion of other after-
school activities and sports, a
perception among some families
that the Scouts were too old-
fashioned or conservative, and
sporadic scandals that generated
bad publicity while undercutting
the BSA's commitment to
integrity. Among the problems:
_Allegations in several states that
membership rolls of some
Scouting programs were inflated
to boost contributions. The
Scouts tightened verification of
enrollment data.
_Several sex-abuse cases
involving troop leaders and BSA
officials, which prompted the
Scouts to strengthen background
screening.
Perhaps the biggest long-term
jolt to the Scouts came in the
form of a legal victory — the
June 2000 ruling by the U.S.
Supreme Court which said the
BSA, as a private organization,
had a right to exclude gays from
its adult and youth ranks.
It prompted numerous local
governments and charities to
curtail support for the Scouts
because the exclusionary policies
toward gays and atheists violated
anti-discrimination codes.
Kevin Cathcart of Lambda
Legal, a New York-based gay
rights organization, said the
current Boy Scout executive
57
council seems immovable on the
membership debate, but he
predicted change would come.
Mazzuca, asked about the
exclusion of gays, replied: "We
recognize that not everyone is
going to agree with us on this
particular issue. This issue is
going on in every nook and
cranny of our country. We're just
not at the point where we're
going to be leading on this."
As for atheists, BSA leaders
have signaled no interest in
amending the Scout Oath, which
includes a pledge of duty to God.
Religion is fundamental to the
Scouts; the Mormon, United
Methodist and Roman Catholic
churches are the largest sponsors
of units across the country.
"We do believe that to become
the best you can be, you need a
belief in something bigger than
yourself," Mazzuca said.
Many atheists think otherwise.
"The Boy Scouts are
synonymous with American
values and patriotism," said
David Niose, president of the
American Humanist Association.
"By excluding atheists and
secular Americans, they are
essentially saying we cannot be
good citizens."
___
The BSA has been striving to
correct underrepresentation of
minorities in its ranks, with
recruiting efforts by the BSA's
Scoutreach Division and now a
vigorous new campaign to recruit
Hispanics — including a Spanish
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What's in health care proposals for 5 Americans (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Brown works part time and nonprofit groups. Medicare eligibility age to 55 or a health insurance exchange.
Submitted at 12/19/2009 9:20:46 PM
studies medical imaging at Household income: $55,000, 60 would create jobs. "I know a Neither of the bills would require
College of Lake County. She has including wife's earnings. lot of people who would like to him to provide coverage. Both
As Congress gets closer to a a chronic lung condition and was Coverage: Uninsured since retire early, but can't because of bills provide tax credits to help
final health care bill, many in the emergency room in COBRA expired in May. health care," he said. small companies with average
Americans want to know: What's N o v e m b e r w i t h f l u a n d Nishimura left a full-time job ____ wages of less than $40,000
in it for me? pneumonia. She's paid about with benefits in October 2007 Name: David W. Brown provide health insurance. But pay
The answer is: It depends. $1,000 in medical bills this year thinking he'd be able to find Home: Philadelphia levels in Brown's agency are
On your age and household that her insurance didn't cover. another good position. Age: 47 above that cutoff.
income. Whether you own a She doesn't know how she'll pay Then the recession hit. Employment: Owner of ___
business and whether it's big or her $500 premium this month He's now a self-employed BrownPartners, an advertising Name: Robert Hansen
small. Whether you're insured because a government subsidy consultant. Since May, he's been and marketing agency. Seven Home: Seattle homeless shelter
now and who provides that that helped her afford the without health insurance. For 18 employees. $336,000 in annual Age: 58
insurance. In the end, it will premium has expired. months, he bought insurance wages paid. Employment: vendor, Real
depend on how House and Senate "It's scary to think about what's through the COBRA program. Household income: $150,000, Change street newspaper.
negotiators will merge the going to happen if I can't make When that ran out, he tried to including wife's earnings. Household income: $12,000,
proposals, and how their vision the payment by the end of the find other coverage. He's been Coverage: Provides health, including tips.
gets translated into regulations. month," Brown said. turned down by five insurance dental and vision coverage to Coverage: Uninsured.
Five Americans shared their The health care overhaul taking companies because he has high employees. Hansen used to work selling
stories with The Associated shape in Congress would require blood pressure and high blood An ad agency owner, Brown has beer and peanuts at Seattle's now-
Press. Here's an educated guess her to buy health insurance or sugar levels, even though he's been able to offer health demolished Kingdome. "Age
on how the health care package pay a penalty. She could pick a otherwise healthy, has never been insurance to his seven caught up to me, running up and
taking shape in Congress might plan offered through new state- hospitalized and controls his employees, but has had to cut down the stairs, the physical
affect them. based insurance exchanges and conditions through diet and benefits because of rising costs. labor," said the 58-year-old
___ she would qualify for a subsidy exercise. Like other business owners, Seattle native.
Name: Holly Brown to help pay her premiums "I could get H1N1 or get into an Brown is trying to figure out Hansen has been homeless since
Home: Round Lake, Ill. because she makes less than 400 accident and I would be what will emerge from Congress 1994. A top-selling vendor of a
Age: 28 percent of the poverty level potentially bankrupt," Nishimura and how it will affect him. weekly newspaper called Real
Employment: Student, working ($43,320 for an individual in said. "It's an untenable situation." "We haven't been able to be as Change, he makes about $1,000 a
p a r t t i m e , r e c e i v i n g 2009). But all those benefits The Medicare buy-in proposal generous as we have in the past," month. He eats his evening meal
u n e m p l o y m e n t b e n e f i t s . wouldn't kick in until 2013 in the considered in the Senate could Brown said of the insurance plan and finds a bed at a Catholic
Household income: about House bill (2014 in the Senate have helped Nishimura get he offers his workers. "The good Community Services shelter.
$15,000. legislation). Because of her insurance, as would portions of thing is, not a lot of folks are The tingling in his feet and the
C o v e r a g e : I n s u r e d , b u t medical problem, she may be both the House and Senate bills leaving because somebody else occasional purplish color of his
s t r u g g l i n g t o a f f o r d i t . able to qualify for coverage that would ban denials for pre- has a better plan." hands worry him. It's been so
Brown was laid off last year during the transition period by existing conditions. But Health care overhaul might help long since he's had a thorough
from a job she'd held for four g o i n g t h r o u g h h i g h - r i s k opposition from moderates and a Brown and his wife with physical exam that he's not sure
years. She's stayed insured insurance pools called for in the few liberals is forcing Senate coverage for their daughters, now if his symptoms could mean a
because of the government legislation. Democratic leaders to scrap the age 17 and 20. The proposals serious health problem such as
COBRA program, which allows ___ idea of a buy-in to get a bill would allow young adults to stay diabetes. He's uninsured and
workers to remain on a health Name: Glenn Nishimura completed. on their parents' insurance plans finds care in community clinics
plan for 18 months after they Home: Little Rock, Ark. Nishimura said he e-mailed as dependents into their mid-20s. and emergency rooms.
leave their jobs, if they pay the Age: 60 President Barack Obama Brown would be able to shop for
premiums. WHAT'S page 64
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Storm crawls into New England, leaving mess behind (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) southern New Jersey its highest were stranded on a Long Island Airport was shut down Saturday contributed to another traffic
Submitted at 12/20/2009 8:51:39 AM
single-storm snowfall totals in Rail Road train for more than night but began to reopen early death there. A third death in
nearly four years. five hours by a combination of Sunday. Spokesman Phyllis Van Virginia is believed to have been
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A major The National Weather Service snow drifts, icing, traffic Istendal said operations would caused by exposure. In Ohio, two
storm clawed its way up the East said the storm gave Philadelphia, problems and equipment failures ramp up later in the day. people were killed in accidents
Coast on Sunday, crippling travel which began keeping records in due to the weather. The train Al Wachlin, 70, lives in on snow-covered roads hit by the
and disappointing New England 1884, its second-largest snowfall: eventually had to be towed to a Philadelphia but grew up in same storm system.
merchants the weekend before 23.2 inches. Even more was nearby station and the passengers Maine and was well prepared for Greyhound shut down service in
Christmas after blanketing parts recorded in the Philadelphia put on a second train. No injuries the storm, with a truck and an Washington, D.C., and farther
of the mid-Atlantic with record suburb of Medford, N.J., at 24 were reported. attached plow. north, and ferry service in
snow — nearly 2 feet in places inches. Airports in the Northeast that With a scraper in one hand and a Delaware and New Jersey was
— and causing at least five Around New York City, the were jammed up in the storm brush in another, he worked to canceled. Attractions such as the
deaths. brunt of the storm hit Long Saturday were working their way clear off his truck. Smithsonian museums in
Blizzard warnings remained in Island, with whiteout conditions. back to normal operations. "This part of it's great," said Washington and the Philadelphia
effect Sunday for parts of Rhode Nearly 25 inches was recorded in About 800 flights at the New Wachlin, who has lived in the Zoo were closed. The National
Island and Massachusetts, with Upton by Sunday. Nearly 11 York City area's three major city since 1960. "It's the cleanup, Mall, normally swarming with
gusts up to 60 mph. As much as inches of snow fell on New York airports remained canceled the rutted streets where you go tourists, instead was the scene of
16 inches of snow was expected City by Sunday morning, and the despite clear conditions on the sliding into the intersection, that's snowball fights. Many retailers,
to cover parts of southern New storm could be the worst the city runways. the whole problem." hoping for a rush of shoppers on
England. has seen since about 26 inches By Sunday morning, one runway In many places the problem was the last weekend before
The early arrival of wintry fell on Central Park in February at Dulles International Airport in where to put the show. On south Christmas, spent a quiet day
weather on a quiet Sunday 2006, National Weather Service Washington was open, handling Philadelphia's narrow streets, among the merchandise.
morning could not have been meteorologist Patrick Maloit arriving flights, spokeswoman residents shoveling sidewalks ___
better timing, said Peter Judge, said. Tara Hamilton. At Reagan resigned themselves to the snow Contributing to this report were
spokesman for the Massachusetts Pragmatic New York Mayor National, crews were still eventually returning as traffic Associated Press writers Geoff
E m e r g e n c y M a n a g e m e n t Bloomberg encouraged residents "moving the huge quantities of displaced it from the street. Mulvihill in Cherry Hill, N.J.;
Agency. and holiday visitors to take snow" dumped on the area, and The storm began wreaking Sarah Karush in Washington;
" O t h e r t h a n s p o i l i n g t h e advantage of school and event Hamilton said the airport should misery Friday in South Florida, Dena Potter in Chesterfield, Va.;
Christmas shopping, from the c a n c e l a t i o n s b y s e e i n g a be opening for business by where it caused flooding and Jacob Jordan in Atlanta; David
emergency manager perspective Broadway show. The mayor says midday. knocked out electricity to more Porter in Atlantic City, N.J.;
it was the perfect timing," Judge city retailers weren't hard hit by Baltimore Washington airport, than 85,000 customers in the Bruce Shipkowski in Trenton,
said. "Even the cleanup today, the storm Saturday, because the which got 16 inches of snow was Carolinas before turning to snow N.J.; Ron Todt and Patrick
we're not fighting the people who snow held off until late in the open Sunday but still struggling as it moved its way north. On Walters in Philadelphia; and AP
would be trying to get to work." day. to back up to full speed, with Saturday, the governors of photographer Jacquelyn Martin
To the South, others struggled Even as the storm winded down some airlines still canceling Virginia, West Virginia, in Arlington, Va.
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Washington on Saturday — the train routes. Monday looked to be a normal killed in a traffic accident caused
most ever recorded there for a Near Farmingdale, N.Y., on day, he said. by slick roads, and authorities
single December day — and gave Long Island, about 150 people Philadelphia International said the weather may have
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GOP vows fight as White House defends health bill (AP)
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Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:46:40 AM
WASHINGTON – The White
House and its Senate allies
defended a final push for historic
health care legislation Sunday as
outflanked Republicans pledged
a fight to the end. A dead-of-
night vote neared in a frenzy one
GOP lawmaker said lacked
"legislative sanity."
Republican Sen. John McCain,
President Barack Obama's
opponent in last year's election,
said there was probably nothing
to keep Democrats from passing
the bill by Christmas Eve.
Still, he said, the GOP would not
relent in the battle for public
opinion.
"We'll fight the good fight. We
will fight until the last vote," said
McCain, R-Ariz. He said the
political climate under Obama
has become more partisan than
ever.
To keep the process moving
under Senate rules, Democrats
will need to show 60 votes —
now secured, with the locked-in
support of Nebraska Sen. Ben
Nelson— in a series of votes.
The next one is set for 1 a.m.
Monday.
"I think the American people are
entitled to a vote," said David
Axelrod, a senior adviser to
President Barack Obama, as the
Senate bill moved toward
passage on Christmas Eve.
At its core, the legislation would
create a new insurance exchange
where consumers could shop for
affordable coverage that
complies with new federal
guidelines. Most Americans
would be required to purchase
insurance, with subsidies
available to help defray the cost.
New protections would be
offered to ensure people don't
lose coverage because of health
problems.
Yet major differences between
the Senate version and the bill the
House already passed, ranging
from abortion restrictions to the
new taxes that would help pay
for the legislation. The White
House refused to weigh in on
that, focusing on the landmark
action in the Senate.
Signs of difficult House-Senate
negotiations ahead were already
becoming apparent.
The House must stick close to
the Senate's version of health
care reform or risk losing the 60-
vote coalition needed to
overcome Republican opposition
in the Senate, said Kent Conrad,
D-N.D., the chairman of the
Senate Budget Committee said
Sunday.
To get Nelson's deciding vote,
Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid, D-Nev., agreed to a series
of concessions on abortion and
other issues. McCain said Obama
and Democratic lawmakers chose
a partisan path that left them
"having to purchase the last vote
or two."
Democrats shot back that the
health care debate has unfolded,
exhaustively, for months.
The Senate bill has not drawn
support from a single
Republican.
One GOP lawmaker who had
been in talks with the White
House, Sen. Olympia Snowe of
Maine, said the bill was being
pushed through without a chance
for meaningful debate or change.
She said the "beat the clock"
approach "is really overruling
legislative sanity."
Axelrod defended the bill
against criticism that Obama had
given up too much ground and
angered core supporters from his
own party in an effort to get a
deal done this year. He said the
bill offers more choices and
security for Americans and
savings for the government.
"There is no major piece of
legislation that's ever been passed
in this country that doesn't
include compromise," Axelrod
said. "That's the legislative
process. But the question is, in
the main, does it achieve what we
want it to achieve? It's not
perfect."
Vice President Joe Biden wrote
in The New York Times Sunday
that senators should support the
bill because "it represents the
culmination of a struggle begun
by Theodore Roosevelt nearly a
century ago" to improve health
care.
"I would vote yes for this bill
certain that it includes the
fundamental, essential change
that opponents of reform have
resisted for generations," he
wrote.
Senators were set to resume
debate Sunday afternoon.
The deal to get Nelson's vote
was built around the issue of
abortion.
The compromise tries to
maintain a strict separation
between taxpayer funds and
private premiums that would pay
for abortion coverage. It would
also allow states to restrict
coverage for abortion in new
insurance marketplaces.
No health plan would be
required to offer coverage for the
procedure. In plans that do cover
abortion, beneficiaries would
have to pay for it separately, and
those funds would have to be
kept in a separate account from
taxpayer money.
Moreover, individual states
would be able to prohibit
abortion coverage in plans
offered through the exchange, but
after passing specific legislation
to that effect. The only
exceptions would be those
allowed under current federal
law.
Obama welcomed the
breakthrough on health care
legislation on Saturday, saying in
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a statement at the White House,
"After a nearly century-long
struggle, we are on the cusp of
making health care reform a
reality in the United States of
America."
The Congressional Budget
Office said the Senate bill would
extend coverage to more than 30
million Americans who lack it. It
also imposes new regulations to
curb abuses of the insurance
industry, and the president noted
one last-minute addition would
impose penalties on companies
that "arbitrarily jack up prices" in
advance of the legislation taking
effect.
CBO analysts also said the
legislation would cut federal
deficits by $132 billion over 10
years and possibly much more in
the subsequent decade.
In a concession to Nelson and
other moderates, the bill lacks a
government-run insurance option
of the type that House Democrats
inserted into theirs. In a final
defeat for liberals, a proposed
Medicare expansion was also
jettisoned in the past several days
as Reid and the White House
maneuvered for 60 votes.
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Storm's Snow Assault Heads Up East Coast

(FOXNews.com) conditions, including football storm was so bad on Saturday "It was fantastic," said Chris including Reagan National and
Submitted at 12/20/2009 5:04:20 AM
fields nicknamed "frozen that attractions such as the Bailey, who got pictures of his 4- Dulles in the Washington area;
tundras," pushed back the Smithsonian museums in year-old daughter Olivia. Philadelphia International; New
CHERRY HILL, N.J. A slow- scheduled start times of games Washington and the Philadelphia Shops at the mall and nearby York's three major airports and
moving storm that blanketed S u n d a y i n B a l t i m o r e a n d Zoo were closed. The National restaurants closed hours early. Logan Airport in Boston. The
swaths of the mid-Atlantic with P h i l a d e l p h i a . Mall, normally swarming with Salt trucks and plows were out cancellations rippled across the
nearly 2 feet of snow headed Around New York City, the tourists, instead was the scene of in force. The speed limit was country; more than 150 flights
northward Sunday, continuing its brunt of the storm hit Long snowball fights. reduced on several roadways, were canceled in and out of
assault on the East Coast after I s l a n d , w i t h n e a r l y 2 f e e t Not all shoppers were deterred including the New Jersey Chicago's airports, as were a
causing at least five deaths, r e c o r d e d i n U p t o n . C r e w s by the snow. Turnpike. But those measures handful in Denver.
crippling travel and leaving clearing roads early Sunday "It really helped me get in the didn't prevent scores of cars from Philadelphia Airport
empty stores normally crammed reported whiteout conditions, Christmas spirit," said the slipping into ditches. spokeswoman Phyllis
with holiday shoppers. said Lt. Robert P. Iberger of the Kathryn Mariani, who took a One person in Virginia was VanIstendal said snacks and
The storm approached New Southampton police. train to downtown Philadelphia killed in a traffic accident caused pillows were being handed out
England on the cusp of the winter Ten inches of snow had already from her home in the by slick roads, and authorities there to travelers stranded
solstice, having already caused fallen on New York City by Germantown neighborhood. said the weather may have overnight.
flooding in South Florida and Sunday morning, and the storm The mayors of Washington and contributed to another traffic She said with continuing bad
knocked out electricity for more could be the worst the city has Philadelphia and the governors of death there. A third death in weather and planes out of place,
than 85,000 customers in the seen since about 26 inches fell in Virginia, West Virginia, Virginia is believed to have been problems would continue
C a r o l i n a s o n F r i d a y . O n Central Park in February 2006, Kentucky, Maryland and caused by exposure. In Ohio, two Sunday.
Saturday, it dropped 16 inches of N a t i o n a l W e a t h e r S e r v i c e Delaware all declared states of people were killed in accidents At National, Juan Carlos Franco
snow on Reagan National Airport meteorologist Patrick Maloit emergency. on snow-covered roads hit by the waited in line Saturday with his
outside Washington — the most said. Transit workers in New In West Virginia, blankets were same storm system. wife, 2-year-old son and 6-month
ever recorded there for a single York were clearing subway given to hundreds of drivers, and In New Jersey, a bus got stuck -old daughter to rebook their
December day — and gave tracks and platforms overnight, some motorists were stranded for on snow-covered railroad tracks flights to Quito, Ecuador, but was
southern New Jersey its highest and delays were expected on bus, up to 27 hours on highways, Red in Pennsauken and was hit by a expecting to fly out no sooner
single-storm snowfall totals in subway and train routes, city Cross spokesman Jeff Morris train. The 26 passengers were than Wednesday. They had
nearly four years. transit spokesman Paul said. evacuated from the bus 10 checked and rechecked the status
Some of the deepest snow Fleuranges said early Sunday. The storm hit on the last minutes before the crash, and the of their flight for two days, but it
Saturday was recorded in the The National Weather Service weekend before Christmas, a only reported injury was a minor wasn't canceled until a few
Philadelphia suburb of Medford, expected the storm to dump as time when roads are traditionally one suffered by the train's minutes after they entered the
N.J., at 24 inches. much as 15 inches in southern mad with holiday shoppers. But engineer, NJ Transit spokesman security line, Franco said.
"For those who are looking for a New England with the heaviest around shopping centers in Dan Stessel said. "The backpacks were in the X-
white Christmas, this certainly snowfall expected early Sunday. Philadelphia's New Jersey Greyhound shut down service in ray machine," he said.
w i l l s t i c k a r o u n d f o r A blizzard warning was in effect suburbs on Saturday, traffic was Washington and points north, and Five Filters featured article:
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Even the NFL, with its hallowed With strong wind gusts to keep Hill Mall. And inside, there was also jammed up. Most flights
tradition of playing in all weather the powdery snow swirling, the no line for a picture with Santa. were canceled at several,
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Maine to consider cell phone cancer warning (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) phones. phone users among its 1.3 it," he said outside a sporting and that the European Parliament
Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:07:32 AM
Under Boland's bill, million residents "do not know good store in Topsham. "It has passed a resolution calling
manufacturers would have to put what the risks are." wouldn't deter me from buying a for governmental action to
AUGUSTA, Maine – A Maine labels on phones and packaging All told, more than 270 million phone." address concerns over health
legislator wants to make the state warning of the potential for brain people subscribed to cellular While there's been no long-term risks from mobile phone use.
the first to require cell phones to c a n c e r a s s o c i a t e d w i t h telephone service last year in the studies on cell phones and But the National Cancer Institute
carry warnings that they can electromagnetic radiation. The United States, an increase from cancer, some scientists suggest said studies thus far have turned
cause brain cancer, although warnings would recommend that 110 million in 2000, according to erring on the side of caution. up mixed and inconsistent
there is no consensus among users, especially children and CTIA-The Wireless Association. Last year, Dr. Ronald B. results, noting that cell phones
scientists that they do and pregnant women, keep the The industry group contends the Herberman, director emeritus of did not come into widespread use
industry leaders dispute the devices away from their head and devices are safe. the University of Pittsburgh in the United States until the
claim. body. "With respect to the matter of Cancer Institute, sent a memo to 1990s.
The now-ubiquitous devices The Federal Communications health effects associated with about 3,000 faculty and staff "Although research has not
carry such warnings in some Commission, which maintains wireless base stations and the use members warning of risks based consistently demonstrated a link
countries, though no U.S. states that all cell phones sold in the of wireless devices, CTIA and on early, unpublished data. He between cellular telephone use
require them, according to the U.S. are safe, has set a standard the wireless industry have always said that children should use the and cancer, scientists still caution
National Conference of State for the " specific absorption rate" been guided by science, and the phones only for emergencies that further surveillance is needed
Legislators. A similar effort is of radiofrequency energy, but it views of impartial health because their brains were still before conclusions can be
afoot in San Francisco, where doesn't require handset makers to organizations. The peer-reviewed developing and that adults should drawn," according to the Cancer
Mayor Gavin Newsom wants his divulge radiation levels. scientific evidence has keep the phone away from the Institute's Web site.
city to be the nation's first to The San Francisco proposal overwhelmingly indicated that head and use a speakerphone or a Motorola Inc., one of the
require the warnings. would require the display of the wireless devices do not pose a wireless headset. nation's major wireless phone
Maine Rep. Andrea Boland, D- absorption rate level next to each public health risk," said CTIA's Herberman, who says scientific makers, says on its Web site that
Sanford, said numerous studies phone in print at least as big as John Walls. conclusions often take too long, all of its products comply with
point to the cancer risk, and she the price. Boland's bill is not James Keller of Lewiston, whose is one of numerous doctors and international safety guidelines for
has persuaded legislative leaders specific about absorption rate cell phone serves as his only researchers who have endorsed radiofrequency energy exposure.
to allow her proposal to come up levels, but would require a phone, seemed skeptical about an August report by retired A Motorola official referred
for discussion during the 2010 p e r m a n e n t , n o n r e m o v a b l e warning labels. He said many electronics engineer L. Lloyd questions to CTIA.
session that begins in January, a advisory of risk in black type, things may cause cancer but lack Morgan. The report highlights a Five Filters featured article:
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but with a speaker to keep the color graphic of a child's brain "It seems a little silly to me, but phone or cordless phone use.
phone away from her head. She next to the warning. it's not going to hurt anyone to Also, the BioInitiative Working
also leaves the phone off unless While there's little agreement have a warning on there. If Group, an international group of
she's expecting a call. At issue is about the health hazards, Boland they're really concerned about it, scientists, notes that many
radiation emitted by all cell said Maine's roughly 950,000 cell go ahead and put a warning on countries have issued warnings
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Massive US storm heads north

(BBC News | Americas | One was killed when a car hit a
World Edition) tree, a second died of exposure
Submitted at 12/20/2009 9:52:58 AM
and a third was also apparently
killed in a road traffic accident.
One of the worst US blizzards in In Ohio, two people died in
decades is continuing north, with accidents on snow-covered roads
parts of New England likely to hit by the same storm system.
record up to 16in (41cm) of The system originated over the
snow. Gulf of Mexico, unleashing flash
Long Island has suffered floods in much of the US south-
whiteout conditions and New east.
York City saw nearly 11in of The rain turned to snow as the
snow by Sunday. storm tracked north-eastward into
The slow-moving monster - sub-freezing temperatures.
known as a nor'easter - has Have you been affected by the
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Washington and Philadelphia, at Bloomberg said thousands of for five hours on a Long Island householders earlier lost power in yourself or others, take any
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Stranded train on Sunday. Hundreds of flights were Kentucky, Virginia and North laws.
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continued from page 57
-language Scout Handbook.
But an ethnic gap remains.
Though the BSA doesn't have
precise racial numbers because
declaring ethnicity is optional, an
analysis it commissioned last
year indicated that about 11
percent of Scouts were black or
Hispanic — compared to about
28 percent of the national
population.
By contrast, the Girl Scouts of
the USA— which has no formal
ties with the Boy Scouts — says
blacks and Hispanics constitute
23 percent of its 2.6 million
youth members.
Among those on the urban front
lines is Ron Timmons, 38,
director of field services for the
Scouts' New York City councils.
A Scout in Brooklyn as a youth,
he makes recruiting missions into
inner-city schools.
"When you walk in to a
classroom with the Scout
uniform on, you always have
some giggles," he said. "But
when we start talking about the
outdoor experience, the camping,
US general defends pregnancy ban
(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
Submitted at 12/19/2009 5:00:51 PM
A US Army general in northern
Iraq has defended his decision to
add pregnancy to the list of
reasons a soldier under his
command could face court
martial.
rappelling and climbing, they
kind of sit up in their chair."
Urban recruiters face multiple
challenges, Timmons says: Many
boys don't live with both parents,
and many families face
hardships, complicating the task
of getting enough adults to enroll
their sons and help run a unit.
The recruiting challenges are
different two hours away in
northeast Pennsylvania, where
Glen Lippincott, 59, helps
oversee Scouting activities in the
small town of Sciota.
Lippincott says the local unit,
Troop 84, is holding its own with
21 active Scouts, but has
struggled to attract boys from the
black and Hispanic families
moving into the region — often
with a breadwinner commuting
into New York and feeling there's
scarce time left for Scouting.
"Us white, middle-aged leaders
— we've tried to understand why
we can't get them involved," he
said. "Probably it will take a
couple of generations."
Lippincott has been active in
It is current army policy to send
pregnant soldiers home, but Maj
Gen Anthony Cucolo told the
BBC he was losing people with
critical skills.
That was why the added
deterrent of a possible court
martial was needed, he said.
The new policy applies both to
female and male soldiers, even if
Scouting for 50 years. His
family's BSA ties span four
generations, starting with his
father, Jack, and extending to his
brother's grandson, Cody Weiss,
a Scout with Troop 84.
Cody, 13, joining other troop
members at a cookout in the fall,
discussed the Scouting pursuits
he likes best — camping, shelter-
building, learning first aid. He
aspires to be an Eagle Scout, yet
he guessed that most of his
schoolmates consider Scouting
"not cool."
That's a common perception, as
the Scouts acknowledge. In fact,
a key goal of the BSA's strategic
plan for 2011-2015 is "to be seen
by youth as cool" as it seeks to
reverse the long membership
decline.
"We've been slow to realize the
changing landscape of how
people form their opinions," said
Mazzuca, who noted that the
Scouts are making greater use of
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
He sees two contrasting forms of
competition — youth sports and
married.
It is the first time the US Army
has made pregnancy a punishable
offence.
Gen Cucolo told the BBC it was
a "black and white" issue for
him.
He said married soldiers in
combat zones should either put
their love lives on hold - or take
"unhealthy things" like video
games.
"If our competition is some other
recreation program, we deliver a
whole lot more," he said.
Glen Lippincott drew the
contrast this way: "In sports, if
you're not good, you sit on the
bench. In Scouts, nobody sits on
the bench."
Lippincott became emotional as
he discussed Scouting's core goal
— lifetime character-building.
"It's a game with a purpose," he
said. "It gives you a moral
compass on how you conduct
yourself."
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"I've got a mission to do, I'm
given a finite number of soldiers
with which to do it and I need
every one of them."
"So I'm going to take every
measure I can to keep them all
strong, fit and with me for the
twelve months we are in the
combat zone," he said.
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Hansen and most other poor
adults without young children
don't qualify for Medicaid, the
state-federal program that helps
low-income families with health
care. The proposals in Congress
would expand Medicaid coverage
to people such as Hansen.
In the leading Senate proposal,
people with incomes up to 133
percent of the federal poverty
level($14,404 for an individual in
2009) could enroll in Medicaid.
The House bill makes the cutoff
150 percent of the poverty level
($16,245 for an individual in
2009).
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Name: Carol McKenna
Home: Pembroke Pines, Fla.
Age: 68
Employment: Retired payroll
coordinator
Household income: About
$39,000 from Social Security and
some earnings by husband as
mattress salesman.
Coverage: Medicare Advantage
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Colombia beefs up border forces Guantanamo inmates

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Venezuelan border.
At the same time, the Colombian
army activated the new airborne
Mr Chavez to prepare for war
and the Venezuelan army starting
blowing up bridges that link the
flown home
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battalions, which are equipped two nations, Colombia has been (BBC News | Americas | Security fears
World Edition) "These transfers were carried out
The Colombian government has with US helicopters. overhauling its defence strategy.
announced it is building a new The helicopter fleet, made up Until now this strategy has been Submitted at 12/20/2009 7:58:47 AM
under individual arrangements
military base on its border with mainly of Blackhawks, now geared almost exclusively to between the United States and
Venezuela and has activated six n u m b e r s 1 2 0 , m a k i n g t h e fighting the country's 45-year The US has transferred 12 relevant foreign authorities to
new airborne battalions. Colombian Army Air Corps the Marxist insurgency. detainees from its Guantanamo ensure the transfers took place
Relations between the two b e s t e q u i p p e d a n d m o s t With the increasing build-up of Bay prison camp to Afghanistan, u n d e r a p p r o p r i a t e s e c u r i t y
nations are at a historic low with experienced in Latin America, military on both sides of the Yemen and the Somaliland measures," the Department of
Venezuelan President Hugo the BBC's Jeremy McDermott in border, the potential for conflict region, the Justice Department Justice said in a statement.
Chavez already telling his Colombia says. is heightened, particularly when says. "Consultations with foreign
generals to prepare for war. Preparing for war one considers 2,000 rebels in the Six Yemenis, four Afghans and authorities regarding these
He moved 15,000 more troops President Chavez has criticised a border region prepared for a fight two Somali detainees were sent individuals will continue."
up to the border, accusing pact announced last month between the two nations, our to their homelands over the Yemenis account for almost half
Colombia and its ally, the US, of allowing US troops to use several correspondent says. weekend, it said. of the 198 detainees who remain
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formation of a new base in La area. or to third countries willing to
accept them. GUANTANAMO page 66
Guajira in the north, near the Since Venezuelans were told by

Spyker submits new Saab bid to GM

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Dutch luxury car maker Spyker
has submitted a new offer to
General Motors (GM) for its
Swedish car brand Saab.
GM said this week that it would
close Saab after talks with
Spyker had collapsed.
Spyker has submitted a new 11-
point proposal to GM, addressing
the issues that ended talks.
Spyker chief Victor R. Muller
said he was "very confident" that
the new offer would make GM
resume negotiations and lead to a
sale.
"We have made every effort to
resolve the issues that were
preventing the conclusion of this
matter and we have asked GM
and all other involved parties to
seriously consider this offer," Mr
Muller said.
"We are very confident that our
renewed offer will remove the
impasse that was standing in the
way of an agreement on Friday,
and this would still allow us to
conclude the deal prior to the
expiry of the deadline originally
set by GM."
The original deadline was 31
December.
Saab employs 3,400 people in
Sweden and GM has estimated
8,000 people will suffer
indirectly from its planned
closure.
Last year, Saab lost 3bn kronor
(£255m; $412m). It has not made
a profit since 2001 and made up
1.1% of GM's global sales.
GM pledged to become a leaner
company when it emerged from
bankruptcy protection in July this
year. It had been hit by a sharp
slump in sales - partly because of
the financial crisis, but also
because of stiff competition from
Japanese rivals.
The company is now 62%
owned by the US government.
GM said its focus would remain
on its four core brands - Buick,
Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC -
as well as its European business
Opel.
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policy administered by AvMed
Health Plans.
If McKenna believes the claims
of the insurance industry and
many Republicans, she and her
husband are among the most at
risk to be hurt by Congress'
health proposals. If Democrats
are telling the truth, they will be
among those with the most to
gain.
The 68-year-old retiree refrains
from any worry, or any
premature celebration. She
simply believes, "It'll work out."
McKenna and her husband,
Morty, who turns 78 on Sunday,
are in private Medicare
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transfers were the result of
months of high-level talks with
the government in Sanaa.
It said US officials are prepared
to repatriate more Yemenis if the
transfer goes well.
President Obama has pledged to
shut the controversial detention
centre in 2010, and announced
last week that many of the
detainees would be sent to a
prison in the US state of Illinois.
Some will face trials in US
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Democrats have called wasteful
and which have been made a
prime target for major cuts. But
Morty McKenna also falls in the
coverage gap in Medicare's
prescription drug program— the
"doughnut hole" — that the
health bills have promised to
close. More than 3 million
Medicare beneficiaries a year hit
this gap and start paying the full
cost of their drugs until they
qualify for catastrophic coverage.
She said the government must
"get rid of the abuses" and that
pharmaceutical companies "need
to step up and be accountable."
criminal or military courts, while
others are expected to be
transferred abroad.
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waiting to see what actually
happens.
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Associated Press writers Matt
Sedensky in Miami, Jesse
Washington in Philadelphia and
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar in
Washington contributed to this
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companies are banking on
consumers feeling the same way
(2 of 3) about their reading options.
The holiday numbers for e- Besides books, many believe
books are even more impressive consumers will also be interested
given the state of the economy, i n r e a d i n g n e w s p a p e r s ,
said Andrew Eisner, director of magazines and other information-
content for online shopping and related content through e-readers,
review site Retrevo.com. Van Beeck said.
"As bad as economic times are, The allure of high profit margins
people seem to be interested in also doesn't hurt. Although some
buying e-book readers ... and e- e-readers command prices that
book readers are expensive," rival that of netbooks and low-
Eisner said. "We did a survey end laptops, their technology,
with a pretty big sample size which is still primarily based on a
recently and more than 20 black-and-white display with no
percent said they plan to buy an e backlighting, isn't necessarily
-book reader this year." that expensive to produce.
Gaining steam Then there's the promise of
The red-hot performance of the e future growth through product
-reader sector isn't lost on other updates as demonstrated by
companies now eager to cash in. digital cameras and the iPod.
Besides Amazon, Sony and With cameras, for example, one
B a r n e s & N o b l e , s e v e r a l way manufacturers attract new
international companies are sales is by regularly releasing
expected to announce their entry new versions that have more
to the U.S. e-reader market megapixels or are thinner,
during the Consumer Electronics according to Van Beeck.
Show in January. Then there's the "You can have those same
8 0 0 - p o u n d g o r i l l a f r o m advancements done with e-book
Cupertino that's lurking in the readers, whether it be adding
background. color (to the display) or including
"The big news next year will be more features," Van Beeck said.
if and when Apple launches a "Manufacturers are smart. They
tablet," Eisner said. know consumers want the best
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