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Helping Haiti: the nightmare scenario

By Andrew Cawthorne (Front Red Cross here estimates 45- Haitians are still feeling
Row Washington) 50,000 dead, and 3 million abandoned, and are without the
Submitted at 1/14/2010 1:57:01 PM
injured and homeless. most basic necessities — water,
It could not have happened to a bandages, shelter — as they
About the only thing that has more vulnerable nation. populate makeshift refugee
g o n e r i g h t i n t h e H a i t i a n Battered by storms in recent centers all over the capital.
earthquake is the weather. years, and still suffering from a ”Of all the places for this to have
The dry, warm nights have been long history of political turmoil, happened, Haiti is the probably
k i n d t o t h e m u l t i t u d e s o f Haiti has struggled in the past to the least able to respond,” said an
homeless, injured and terrified cope with far lesser disasters. Its American rescue worker, who
Haitians sleeping out in streets, government has precious few identified himself simply as John
parks and pavements all over the resources and the collapsed roof and said he was a veteran of
nation. Not to mention the ever- of the white presidential palace disasters around the world.
growing legion of foreign in downtown Port-au-Prince “I’m a pretty hardened sort of
r e s c u e r s , a i d - w o r k e r s a n d symbolizes its impotence. And guy, but I haven’t seen much like
journalists who — like the locals of course many officials and this. It’s nasty, real ugly.”
— fear sleeping indoors because policemen are too busy hunting Reuters photos by Kena
of still-rumbling aftershocks. for friends and relatives of their Betancur and Jorge Silva.
Apart from that, it has been a own, and picking through the For more multimedia coverage,
sheer nightmare for millions of rubble of their own homes, to s e e
Haitians, and for aid-groups turn their attention to any sort of supplies. That makes it far harder before the earthquake struck. http://www.reuters.com/article/id
wanting to help them, after the nationwide rescue effort. for the many foreign groups “How unlucky was that?” one of USTRE60 B5IZ20100114
worst disaster on record in the Local aid groups are decimated piling into Haiti with lots of them said, sitting on a tractor in For relief efforts, go to
Western hemisphere’s poorest too. Many organizations — enthusiasm to help, but no one to front of a mound of rocks he was h t t p : / / w w w . a l e r t n e t . o r g /
nation. No one knows the death- including the United Nations, work with. supposed to move.
toll, and many bodies still lie which has 9,000 peacekeepers U.N. staff look as stunned as the Aid is coming into Port-au-
untouched in the street, but here — have suffered damage to Haitians. I spoke to a group of Prince airport fast now, but there
clearly thousands, or tens of t h e i r b u i l d i n g s a n d l o s t Chilean soldiers who arrived for is no structure to order, transport
thousands, have perished. The p e r s o n n e l , e q u i p m e n t a n d their tour of duty just a few days and distribute it. So many
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2 Top News/ Business/ Gadgets/
What did you expect from a financial meltdown
hearing?
By Tabassum Zakaria (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 12:41:58 PM
If anyone was looking for Wall
Street executives to say “sorry”
at the financial meltdown
hearing, they would have been
disappointed.
If anyone was looking for the
Justice Department to offer a
firm “Yes” to the Financial
Crisis Inquiry Commission’s
request for sharing information,
they would have been
disappointed. (Attorney General
Eric Holder did pledge
cooperation).
But one commission member
declared “this is the happiest day
of my life” (we’re thinking
perhaps he needs to get out
more).
Doug Holtz-Eakin thanked the
panel of regulators for resolving
whether the “uptick rule matters,
whether short sellers ruined the
world, and how much mark-to-
market accounting matters. I
have been waiting for this day
and look forward to your
reports. It’s going to be
Iron Man 2 will be shown on IMAX screens
By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:40:59 AM
This is awesome news. Iron
wonderful.”
But another commission
member was totally unimpressed
with the “uptick rule” and asked
the SEC chief for a memo from
the agency’s economist on it.
“Many people care very deeply
about it on both sides,” SEC
Chairman Mary Schapiro said.
“Right. And I can’t figure out
why,” commission member
Man 2 will be Marvel’s first
IMAX movie when it hits
screens on May 7, 2010. Too bad
that the whole movie wasn’t shot
Keith Hennessey responded.
OK then.
(In full disclosure I am not an
expert on the uptick rule, but my
colleagues tell me it was adopted
after the 1929 stock market crash
and abolished in 2007 by the
SEC which concluded it was
ineffective in restraining certain
types of trading.)
The White House believes Wall
on IMAX’s 70mm film. It will
Street firms owe an apology for
the financial mess.
White House spokesman Robert
Gibbs said on Wednesday about
the Wall Street officials
testifying at the commission
hearing: “It would seem to me
that an apology would be the
least of what anybody might
expect.”
President Barack Obama on
Thursday, in proposing a fee on
the biggest banks to recoup the
financial bailout, said Wall Street
firms should roll back bonuses
for top earners and executives
and “embrace, rather than fight,
serious financial reform.”
Let us know where you stand on
the Obama bank fee, the uptick
rule, and a Wall Street apology.
Photo credit: Reuters/Jason
Reed (Attorney General Holder
preparing to testify at
commission hearing),
Reuters/Jim Young (Obama
urges Wall Street to roll back
bonuses)
get The Dark Knight treatment
and some, if not most, of the film
will be remastered for the huge
format. [ CBR via io9 via Giz]
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Geron (GERN):
'First in Class' in
Stem Cell Research
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Submitted at 1/15/2010 1:00:00 PM
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"Geron ( GERN) is developing
first-in-class biopharmaceuticals
for the treatment of cancer and
chronic degenerative diseases,
including spinal cord injury,
heart failure and diabetes," says
Tom Bishop.
In his BI Research advisory he
explains, "The company is also
a, if not the, world leader in the
development of human
embryonic stem cell-based
therapeutics." Here's his in-deth
analysis of the company.
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Doomsday Clock rolls back — what Clinton says Haiti’s
would you do with an extra minute? development prospects
By Deborah Zabarenko (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 12:07:23 PM
Good news! We’re one
symbolic minute further away
from total annihilation!
The Doomsday Clock,
created in 1947 to dramatize the
nuclear threat, was reset today to
six minutes before midnight,
back from five minutes before
midnight — midnight being the
symbol of the Ultimate Big
Kaboom. Or as the board of the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
puts it, “the figurative end of
civilization.”
The board, which includes 19
Nobel laureates, has only
adjusted the clock’s virtual hands
18 times, most recently in 2007
when the board moved it forward
by two minutes. They cited
North Korea’s test of a nuclear
weapon, Iran’s nuclear ambitions
and a renewed U.S. emphasis on
the military utility of nuclear
weapons.
President Barack Obama gets a
bit of credit for the latest move
away from midnight. So do
Way cool: Google Mobile App e-mail
search for BlackBerry
By Jessica Dolcourt
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 1:08:00 PM
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can still be good
By David Morgan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 7:57:37 AM
Former President Bill Clinton,
who is helping to coordinate
global relief for Haiti with
former President George W.
Bush, says the quake-stricken
country could bounce back much
more quickly than people might
think.
Clinton told NBC’s Today show you lost everything, you were
that Haiti had made it onto the wandering around streets at night
path to modernization when the that were all dark, you were
d e v e l o p m e n t s o n n u c l e a r one symbolic minute more to earthquake struck on Tuesday. tripping over bodies living and
weapons control and climate work with. But he denied claims that the dead, and you didn’t have water
change. Learn more about it W h a t s h o u l d t h e U . S . devastation may have set the to drink or food to eat,” he told
here. government spend that extra i m p o v e r i s h e d c o u n t r y ’ s CNN.
So it’s not as late as you might minute on? And what would you development back by half a “That’s why giving money now
t h i n k , i n t e r m s o f a n y do? Let us know. century. in small amounts … even if you
a p p r o a c h i n g a p o c a l y p s e . For more Reuters political news, “Because they started from a low just have $5 or $10 to give, this
A s W a s h i n g t o n t a c k l e s click here base, we can reconstitute where is a big deal,” added Clinton,
seemingly insoluble problems — Photo credit: REUTERS/Kieran they are quicker than everyone who is also the U.N. special
fixing the U.S. healthcare Doherty (Big Ben, behind thinks. I just do not agree that envoy to Haiti.
system, tracking down al Qaeda, environmental protesters on the they’ve been set back 50 years,” “They have made a decision to
s e n d i n g a i d t o e a r t h q u a k e r o o f o f t h e P a l a c e o f he said. “If we go back to work, claim the future for the first time
ravaged Haiti — there is some Westminster, October 12, 2009, we’ll be all right.” in my lifetime. We can do this, if
comfort in knowing that there’s London) Clinton, whose wife Secretary we can survive the next week or
of State Hillary Clinton is at the two.”
forefront of U.S. government
relief efforts, also made an
Photo credits: Reuters/Lucas
Jackson (Bill Clinton);
impassioned plea for donations Reuters/U.N. handout (A Family
to meet the immediate needs of
people thrust violently into a
in Port-au-Prince); Reuters/U.N.
handout (Bodies of the Victims)
An updated Google Mobile App BlackBerry. hellish existence.
now launches phone calls, SMS O r i g i n a l l y p o s t e d a t T h e “Think how you would feel if
messages, and e-mail replies D o w n l o a d B l o g
from its search app for
4 Top News/ World/ Tech/ E-reader News Edition

FBI gives Osama bin Laden shave Last word in Rome

and a haircut tombs fetches €938,000
By Tabassum Zakaria (Front
Row Washington)
of 18 terrorist suspects listed on
the State Department’s Rewards
for Justice website,” a joint
at auction
Submitted at 1/14/2010 2:31:39 PM
By John Hooper (World news three-bedroom flat in a block on
statement from the two agencies and comment from the
Everyone gets older, even the said. the edge of one of Rome's
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) loveliest parks.
most wanted terrorism suspect. “Federal investigators hope these
So more than 8 years after the updated images will enable the Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:29:13 AM AMA announced last year that it
Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI has public to better identify these was putting up for auction 34
used digital forensic techniques wanted suspects.” Location and famous neighbours tombs and mausoleums that had
to figure out what al Qaeda The U.S. government has a $25 drives up price for one of fallen into decay after failing to
leader Osama bin Laden might million reward for finding bin c e m e t e r y ' s m o s t d e s i r a b l e trace the surviving members of
look like now. Laden, who is in his early 50s residences the families that built them.
In one new picture, bin Laden and has mainly been seen in the It is unquestionably a desirable The final resting place that
has a closely-cropped beard and West on videotapes aired to residence, with its imposing fetched the highest price is a
short, stylish grey hair — a far publicize his occasional entrance flanked by fine neo- roofed structure like a tiny
cry from the photo that has been message. classical columns. And it is in chapel. It stands in a tree-shaded
on the most wanted terrorism For more Reuters political news, one of the leafiest and most corner of the prestigious Verano
website of a man with a long, sunken eyes. click here sought-after parts of Rome. cemetery, where its eventual
bushy, dark beard. “Using sophisticated digital Photo credit: Reuters/stringer So it is perhaps not surprising occupant will lie alongside some
Another depiction is of bin e n h a n c e m e n t t e c h n i q u e s , Afghanistan (bin Laden at a that, when it came up for of Rome's most illustrious
Laden with a white headdress, forensic artists at the FBI’s news conference in Afghanistan auction, it fetched €938,000 citizens, including the novelist
long salt-and-pepper beard and a laboratory in Quantico, Virginia in 1998) (£831,000). But there is a snag: Alberto Moravia, the actor
face with more hollows and have ‘age progressed’ old photos you have to be dead to live in it. Marcello Mastroianni and the
The Azienda Municipale cinema directors Roberto

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You Extra For Water If You Pick Wrong celebrating the outcome of an Panzironi. The money will go
auction of tombs that suggested towards cemetery upkeep.
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) the FCC stepped in to say such water and trash. And... the FCC Romans are as concerned about • Italy
Submitted at 1/15/2010 4:05:00 AM deals were illegal. But, of says these kinds of deals are their accommodation in the next
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Fox hunt: cracks in Murdoch dynasty as TV news chief finds

himself in firing line
By Andrew Clark, James London public relations supremo penned a biography of Murdoch, stockbroking firm Benchmark, slogan "fair and balanced", Fox
Robinson (World news and married to Murdoch's daughter, believes Freud's outburst may be and Ailes is a key piece in the News horrifies political
comment from the Guardian | Elisabeth, told the New York part of an orchestrated attempt to News Corp jigsaw. "There aren't moderates with the hectoring
guardian.co.uk) Times that members of the undermine a lieutenant who is too many Roger Aileses around rhetoric of its prime-time
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:38:24 AM Murdoch family had become getting a little too powerful. He … If he were to leave, it would evening anchors. One man in
embarrassed by Fox's output: "I points out that none-too-discreet leave a huge hole." particular, Glenn Beck, raises
• Mogul's son-in-law goes public am by no means alone within the "whispering campaigns" pre- With a pay package of $23m in liberal hackles with his furious
to attack journalism family or the company in being empted the departure of other top 2009, Ailes made more money diatribes against Obama.
• Whispering campaign could ashamed and sickened by Roger executives. than Murdoch himself. Advertisers including Procter &
unseat channel boss Ailes's horrendous and sustained "In many instances, it takes Unusually, he has revealed that Gamble and the insurer Geico
Rotund, bald and ferocious, the disregard of the journalistic about a year to fire someone at a he personally lobbied Murdoch withdrew commercials from
Fox television boss Roger Ailes standards that News Corp, its high level within News Corp. after hearing that his US papers Beck's nightly show in August
is said to have two speeds – founder and every other global They kind of marginalise you, might endorse Barack Obama. when the anchorman accused
attack and destroy. Every night media business aspires to." stop speaking to you and That irritated younger members Obama of being "racist" towards
under his watch, millions of Freud is said to be adamant that eventually you get the message of the Murdoch dynasty, while white people. Just this week,
A m e r i c a n s a r e e n t h u s e d , he was speaking on his own that it's over." Fox's coverage of Obama since Beck used a blackboard and
engrossed or appalled by a lively b e h a l f , b u t h e i s a l s o A former political strategist who has left some of them horrified. chalk to illustrate the supposed
diet of angry rightwing rhetoric unrepentant. His words were worked on the successful Andrew Neil, who edited similarities of Obama's policies
served up on Fox's rolling news calibrated to exert maximum campaigns of three Republican Murdoch's Sunday Times for to those of the Venezuelan
channel. But the heady mix of damage and are a stunning blow presidents, Ailes was hired by over a decade and is also a president, Hugo Chávez.
hectoring, finger-pointing and to one of Murdoch's longest Murdoch in 1996 to launch Fox former News Corp executive, Beck is by no means unique.
liberal-bashing may be proving serving and most successful News, in a widely scorned effort says James Murdoch and Freud's Conservative commentator Bill
too spicy even for the strong lieutenants. Their impact was all to challenge the broadcast wife Elisabeth both supported O'Reilly has used his primetime
stomachs of his employers, the the more powerful because such establishment. Obama, while Elisabeth raised Fox show to label Mexicans
Murdoch clan. moments of indiscretion are Some 14 years later, Fox is by funds for the Democrats. Neither immigrant "wetbacks". A
Rupert Murdoch's family, a anathema to Murdoch, as one far America's favourite specialist are liberal, he concedes: "They passionate opponent of abortion,
close-knit, powerful and discreet high-ranking former employee news channel, pulling in 2.1 just happen to be marginally he was criticised last year after a
dynasty scattered across three recalls. "When you are in the million prime-time viewers every more liberal than Rupert. It's a Kansas abortion doctor, George
continents, prefer to air their inner circle, you are expected to evening – more than its two main difference of tone." Tiller, was murdered. Repeatedly
d i r t y w a s h i n g i n p r i v a t e . keep your mouth shut. The mafia rivals, CNN and MSNBC, Neil doesn't buy the theory that dubbing him "Tiller the baby
R u m o u r e d s q u a b b l e s o v e r call it omerta – the code of combined. In business terms, it is Freud was acting with Murdoch's killer", O'Reilly had eviscerated
inheritance, succession and over silence." a jewel in the crown of consent, but agrees that "he is him for operating a "death mill"
Murdoch's choice of wife have On the face of it, Freud's remark Murdoch's global media empire, reflecting the views of the and "executing babies" for profit.
generally played out behind indicates a rift within the family. tipped to make $700m (£430m) younger Murdochs". "What Fox's weekend line-up also
closed doors. But some Murdoch-watchers in operating profit in a difficult better way to let their liberal includes a chatshow hosted by
But a gaping crack appeared in believe it may be a more subtle year for News Corp. Hit by asset friends know they are upset the former Republican
the edifice of unity this week as signal. When Freud spoke, it was writedowns, the parent company about the way Fox News is presidential candidate Mike
Murdoch's son-in-law, Matthew not his voice but Murdoch's that made a loss of $3.3bn last year. behaving than on the front page Huckabee, while Sarah Palin was
Freud, delivered an astonishingly many media observers in the US "Fox is a star performer, without of the New York Times, the signed up this week as a political
public broadside against Fox and Britain heard. The author a doubt," says Edward Atorino, a liberal journal of record?"
FOX page 9
News. Freud, a media-savvy Michael Wolff, who recently media analyst at Wall Street Although promoted under the
6 World/ E-reader News Edition

Prince William embarks on first official tour - a four-day visit

to New Zealand
By Stephen Bates (World fervour for the royals?", its Just as important, he is not his priority. It's just a matter of time Zealand. "It means we don't have
news and comment from the website wonders as if not father. Prince Charles is not and generational change." to worry about them and we
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) entirely certain, adding widely esteemed in either That infuriates committed effectively have a crowned
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:47:10 AM hopefully: "While the older country, seen as too stuffy, too republican campaigners. Lewis republic already."
royals are a bit of a bore, it must English, too rotten to Diana and Holden, an Auckland IT Thomas Flynn, Abbott's
• Opportunity for future monarch be said that the prince is pretty too critical of the environmental consultant who chairs the New successor as executive director
to 'learn the ropes' hot stuff." cost of agricultural exports to Zealand movement, said: "The of Australians for a
• Unofficial stopover in Australia TVNZ is asking Prince William Britain. royal family come over here Constitutional Monarchy, said:
also planned fans, "or anyone hoping to catch So William provides a chance every five years and the premise "They can come here as often as
In retrospect, the two young a glimpse of him", to email in; for the monarchy to redefine that they are essential to the they like. People say Australians
women drinking lattes outside though whether its decision to itself in a more youthful fashion functioning of the state is don't like Prince Charles and
the Vulcan coffee bar off screen the movie The Queen in countries where the trend nonsense. We have had a wouldn't like Camilla, but if they
Auckland's Queen Street may not Sunday evening is entirely towards republicanism has been working government since 1853 got to know her, I think they'd
have been the best people to ask tactful, concerning as it does the stronger than anywhere else in and it is a stretch to say that the change their mind - she likes a
about New Zealanders' attitude monarchy's reaction to the death the Commonwealth. monarchy had much to do with drink and a smoke, so I think
t o t h e m o n a r c h y . " P r i n c e of Princess Diana, William's The moment could be propitious creating it." she's very Australian in
William?" one said, "Is he the mother, is less clear. because the debate in both Across the Tasman Sea, General character."
one with the chubby cheeks, or The prince's four-day trip will countries has stalled. In 1999 Mike Keating, chair of the William may be spared the
the one with red hair?" take him from Auckland to Australians voted by a narrow Australian republican movement, attentions of Sam Bracanov. The
After this weekend she might Wellington then, unofficially, to margin not to abandon the said: "William's having a two- octogenarian Croatian immigrant
have less excuse for ignorance. Sydney and Melbourne. For the monarchy, but then last month day familiarisation visit here, who once sprayed Charles with
This Sunday, William, who one royal family it will be a test of the conservative opposition party tacked on to going to New air freshener " ... to get rid of the
day may be monarch of New how the 27-year-old prince replaced its pro-republican leader Zealand. Give me a break – stench of royalty", has turned to
Zealand, Australia and 13 other performs and a key to his future Malcolm Turnbull with Tony what's he going to learn about a spraying local politicians instead.
countries as well as the United marketing skills as he trips from Abbott, a man who says he will country of 5 million square miles The last time the Queen came,
Kingdom, opens a new chapter one event to another: meeting the always be a monarchist. in that time? Here's someone the authorities made a deal with
in the royals' saga on his first All Blacks here, touring a The Melbourne Age recently who's not been here since he was him: the police would supply
official overseas visit, during h o s p i t a l t h e r e ; g r e e t i n g bemoaned: "It's highly likely that a baby, who could one day be him with an aerosol can
which he will stand in for his Australian troops fresh from after the Queen's death the our head of state. How can he providing he only used it after
grandmother in opening the new service in Afghanistan and Australian ethos of the 'fair go' possibly empathise or she had passed.
supreme court building in survivors of last February's will probably deliver the next understand? It sounds to me like For now that just leaves the 800
Wellington. disastrous bush fires; enjoying a monarch." he's another 27-year-old having a members of the NZ republican
That in itself is a sign of change: barbecue with the New Zealand New Zealand is unlikely to holiday with his mates." movement emailing TVNZ to
New Zealand's judicial decisions prime minister and lunch with move before Australia. The But the pro-monarchists feel say no, they don't want to see the
are no longer subject to appeal to Australia's governor general. former New Zealand prime they are on a roll. "I think there prince.
the privy council 12,000 miles In the words of Major Jamie minister Jim Bolger, himself a is a positive virtue in having a • New Zealand
away. Lowther-Pinkerton, his private committed republican, told the head of state 12,000 miles • Australia
N e w Z e a l a n d t e l e v i s i o n secretary, it is "an instance of Guardian: "The prince will be away," said Noel Cox, professor • Prince William
company TVNZ is doing its best H e r M a j e s t y s e e i n g a n very welcome – no drama of constitutional law at Auckland • Monarchy
to stir up excitement. "Will opportunity for her grandson to whatsoever. The future of the University of Technology and
PRINCE page 7
Prince William revive our learn the ropes". monarchy is a pretty low-level chairman of Monarchy New
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JP Morgan's $9bn payout stokes bonus fury
By Andrew Clark (World news
and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:10:16 AM
• Bank made year-end profits of
$11.7bn
• Darling's bonus tax to hit hard
• Profits fall short of analyst
forecasts
The Wall Street bank JP Morgan
Chase has reignited a political
furore over City pay packets by
disclosing that it will hand out
$9.3bn (£5.73bn) to its
investment banking staff around
the world despite facing a likely
hit of "several hundred million
dollars" from Britain's special
tax on bankers' bonuses.
JP Morgan's 24,654 investment
bankers, including nearly 5,000
employees in London, will get an
average of $379,000 each after
the financial services group
surfed a wave of recovery in
global markets to notch up year-
end profits of $11.7bn, more
than double its earnings of
$5.6bn during crisis-stricken
2008.
The bank's bonuses are lower
than analysts had anticipated. In
an apparent response to political
and public concern, JP Morgan is
shifting some of its payouts from
cash into shares. In the final
quarter of the year, the
PRINCE
continued from page 6
Stephen Bates
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proportion of revenue allocated
to remuneration fell from a
typical figure of 40% to just
11%. JP Morgan's finance
director said the compensation
total was reduced by a need to
"offset British tax on bonuses" -
the first admission that banks are
responding to Alistair Darling's
bonus tax.
But JP Morgan's payout still
attracted swift condemnation.
Brendan Barber, general
secretary of the TUC, renewed
calls for a global tax on financial
transactions and said: "These
obscene bonuses paid so soon
after the world's taxpayers had to
rescue the banking system show
that there is something
fundamentally wrong in the
relationship between banking
and the rest of society."
Depressed by ongoing losses on
bad loans made by its recession-
battered high street banking
chain in the US, JP Morgan's
profits were at the low end of
Wall Street forecasts. Chief
executive Jamie Dimon admitted
he was disappointed with the
firm's rate of recovery: "Though
these results showed
improvement, we acknowledge
that they fell short of both an
adequate return on capital and
the firm's earnings potential."
The numbers were revealed just
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24 hours after president Barack
Obama attacked banks for
reverting to "risky bets" for
quick rewards and set out plans
for a levy on financial
institutions to recoup US
taxpayers' money spent on
bailouts.
Striking a defiant tone, JP
Morgan's chief executive, Jamie
Dimon, criticised the White
House for singling out banks:
"We generally agree with the
concept that the industry should
pay for its own clean-up. But the
Tarp [bailout] got extended to a
lot of things beyond banks -
insurance companies, car
companies - and I don't
understand why we should pay
for that."
Dimon's overtures to Darling
In Britain, chancellor Alistair
Darling intends to impose a 50%
supertax on bankers' bonuses of
more than £25,000 per person.
Dimon has made representations
over the tax to Darling, pointing
out to the chancellor that JP
Morgan is a major investor in
London and received no state aid
from British taxpayers. JP
Morgan is due to decide later this
year whether to press ahead with
a planned new £1.5bn European
headquarters office block at
Canary Wharf and the tax is
expected to be a factor in this
Feeds
decision.
Speaking on a conference call
with analysts, Dimon said he
expected Britain's tax to cost
"several hundred million dollars"
although the precise figure will
depend on the detailed wording
of legislation that will determine
exactly how many of JP
Morgan's staff will be affected.
The bank intends to share the
impact of the tax, bearing part of
the cost itself and passing on part
of it to its individual bankers.
Considered one of America's
most financially robust banks, JP
Morgan's sprawling financial
services empire employs a total
of 222,000 people globally and
topped $100bn in revenue last
year. The firm was one of the
few Wall Street institutions to
emerge from the financial crisis
in a healthy state - it never
reported a quarterly loss and it
bought the remnants of two
victims of the credit crunch, Bear
Stearns and Washington Mutual.
Although JP Morgan received
$25bn in bailout funds from the
US Treasury, it was among the
first to repay the money,
returning it in June.
The collapse of weaker players,
together with a vigorous stock
market recovery, has turned
surviving banks' trading floors
more lucrative than ever. But the
World/ 7
spectre of bankers pocketing
near record bonuses has
infuriated members of the public
who are still experiencing rising
unemployment, failures in the
high street and severe austerity.
Another US bank, Citigroup,
reportedly intends to cap cash
bonuses at $100,000, with any
additional rewards in shares
maturing over a period of years.
"People looking at it from the
outside look at the dollars and
say they are high," said Kenneth
Raskin, the head of law firm
White & Case's executive
compensation practice in New
York. "There is no question the
dollars are high. The question is
whether they were deserving."
• JP Morgan
• Banking
• Executive pay and bonuses
• US economy
• United States
• Alistair Darling
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PolyTune: The Violet
China shuts down Mr Gay pageant Femmes tune all their
guitar strings at once on
By Tania Branigan (World community. The winner was to asked questions about "It would have fostered a good
news and comment from the take part in the Mr Gay homosexuality, said Ryan international image of China and the bus
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Worldwide final in Norway next Dutcher, one of the organisers. benefited not only gay people By John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:59:49 AM month. He added: "I'm very here, but also China as a whole,
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:00:20 AM
"I'm about to cry," said Xue Fei, disappointed because we worked because it would have shown the
Mr Gay China branded a one of the eight contestants. "We hard for this event, but I don't see image of a harmonious society
'sensitive issue' by officials but really wanted to promote the You know how when you play
it as a major step back. with gay people living happily in
event would benefit whole sunny side of gay people." someone’s guitar for the first
"Anyone who's been in China China."
country, say campaigners time at a party and one string is
He said he believed the pageant has seen how much the gay Gay sex was decriminalised in
Chinese police shut down the had already achieved some of its way high or low and you start to
community has grown and how 1997, but Sara Davis, executive
country's first gay pageant aims because advance coverage tune it and find that the guitar is
people – even the authorities – director of the US-based Asia
tonight, just one hour before the had highlighted gay issues. total garbage and can’t be tuned
have become more accepting." Catalyst, which supports
event was due to begin. anyway and so you play “Closer
But he added: "It's been a long The organisers had hoped the grassroots activists, said the
Participants hoped the contest time since China's reform and to Fine” on an untuned guitar in
contest would be acceptable to authorities' attitudes towards gay
would help challenge domestic opening policies began and I the corner of the part and people
officials because of other recent events were still very mixed.
stereotypes about homosexuality, think it really should follow the are all like “Who’s the douche
events. Last year, activists in "There are progressive elements
classified as a mental illness until steps of the international world. playing Indigo Girls in 2010? I
Beijing held a gay film festival which show recognising people
2001, and show the rest of the "In China, the population of gay think his guitar is out of tune.”
for the first time; previous as gay is not a threat to the
world that gay people could be people is large, but many of them Has that ever happened to you?
attempts in 2001 and 2005 were government's stability, but also
accepted in China. But officers cannot live in the sunshine. I Definitely, right?
shut down. Shanghai saw the very conservative elements who
arrived at a Beijing nightclub really hope we can live with our Well Polytune tunes all your
first gay pride festival on the are threatened by this activity."
shortly before the Mr Gay China heads held high and face the strings at once. You strum and it
mainland, although some events • China
competition started and told world happily." tells you which strings are out of
were cancelled, despite attempts • Gay rights
organisers it was not properly tune. You fix those strings, strum
Another participant, Simon to keep it low-key.
licensed. They are understood to W a n g , s a i d h e w a s again, and then people will never
"I think this is a very stupid Tania Branigan
have told the venue's owners that "disappointed, but not surprised". make fun of you again.
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Work It: Labor Market Sees a Little Sunshine

By Maccabee Montandon
(Fast Company)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:46:58 AM
While last week's
unemployment news was, let's
say, less awesome than we had
all hoped, some bright spots did
emerge. Among them were
figures on state-by-state initial
unemployment claims for late
December. The picture was
slightly cloudy--Pennsylvania
saw 9, 653 new filers, due
largely to construction and
transportation sector layoffs--but
there were finally encouraging
signs. The much-battered Golden
for unemployment that week desperate for good news, this
than it did the one prior. Part of seems like the right moment to
the dip was because of a shorter savor some.
workweek, but there were also Infographic: Rob Vargas
considerably less layoffs in fields
such as construction and the
service industry. True, this happy
State, California, for example, trend might not last, but for a
had 23,160 fewer people filing l a b o r m a r k e t t h a t ' s b e e n
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commentator. communications arm of the portraying Freud as an outsider. world's business and political
Fox's style was inspired by Republican party". A spokeswoman said: "Matthew elite. Unusually, Freud won't be
America's legion of rightwing Fox argues that during daylight Freud's opinions are his own and attending. Murdoch watchers
radio "shock jocks", according to hours its coverage is objective, in no way reflect the views of may seize on that as evidence
Kerwin Swint, author of Dark drawing a distinction between Rupert Murdoch, who is proud that Freud has been frozen out by
Genius, a biography of Ailes. daytime reporting and opinion- of Roger Ailes and Fox News." Murdoch, at least for now.
"It's very anti-government, very driven evening shows in the Ailes himself sought to defuse Ultimately, however, it may be Comcast acknowledges
anti-establishment," he says. same way that newspapers any notion of a rift, telling the the rumbustious Ailes who is left 2005 by slowly rolling
"Part of Ailes's philosophy for distinguish between news pages Los Angeles Times that "the out in the cold. out remote DVR
television is that it should be and editorials. And Fox has a entire Murdoch family" had • Fox News
confrontational. That draws track record of breaking major always been supportive of him: • News International scheduling
viewers, it's exciting for people stories – including news "There is nothing to the idea that • News Corporation By Doug Aamoth
and it's always been a staple of damaging to Republicans. But I have any problem with the • Television industry (CrunchGear)
talk radio." clashing with the White House children." • US politics
Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:00:00 AM
Irritated by Fox's partisan may not help Murdoch's other Jack Shafer of the website Slate • United States
coverage, the White House has business interests, and he has suspects Ailes is getting too Do you have a Comcast DVR? I
upped the ante. Obama has faced pressure to tone Fox down. uppity for his boss's liking: Andrew Clark James Robinson do. I also have a TiVo, which
described the Fox network as "He has members of his family "There's only one star in the guardian.co.uk© Guardian has had remote scheduling since
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administration" and has time," says Wolff, adding that and it's Rupert Murdoch. You Use of this content is subject to recordings remotely to my
repeatedly snubbed its shows. Murdoch has become succeed there by keeping your our Terms & Conditions| More Comcast DVR. Not yet, but
The White House has been increasingly embroiled with the head down and working hard. Feeds almost – it’s not available in
accused of failing to call on Fox liberal "chattering classes" of Murdoch despises glory- Boston yet, apparently. If you
journalists at press conferences Manhattan and Hollywood under grabbers." Neil, who was sacked have a Comcast DVR, check out
and freezing the channel's the influence of his wife, Wendi by Murdoch, concurs. "He hates www.comcast.net/mydvr/ to see
reporters out on overseas trips. Deng. "He spends a lot of time it when the hired hands get if the service has been switched
Obama's officials are socialising with people who tell above themselves, so Ailes's on in your area.
unapologetic – Anita Dunn, him rather constantly that Fox days are numbered." If it has been switched on, you’ll
former White House News is contemptible." Murdoch will be flying to the be able to schedule recordings,
communications director, News Corporation was quick to Swiss ski resort of Davos in two view upcoming recordings,
described Fox as "the dismiss the row this week, weeks to rub shoulders with the modify scheduled and series
recordings, and manage multiple
Cookie Dough Shortage in our Future? DVR boxes. It’s called myDVR
Manager. The trick, from a
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Civil weddings for Houses of Why Does Movie

Parliament
By Johnny McDevitt, Paul
Lewis (World news and
comment from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:53:40 AM
application, which cost
parliament £687 to submit, by 17
February.
"My very confident expectation
is that we will get a licence and I
hope that it will be within a
Gallery Even Bother
If successful, the application
would break with more than six
centuries of tradition at the
with Restructuring?
By Zac Bissonnette
Palace of Westminster. (BloggingStocks)
Gordon Brown is understood to
have first asked parliamentary Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:20:00 PM

Europe minister Chris Bryant matter of weeks," John Bercow, authorities to investigate whether
could be first to make use of the Speaker of the Commons, Filed under: Industry,
they could host civil partnership
historic change Blockbuster Inc 'A' (BBI)
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legitimate place for marriage
weddings a year at the Houses of place on the parliamentary estate following its ill-conceived have been made. One possibility
with permission from a local
Parliament have moved a step before the election, if the acquisition of Hollywood Video, is that Movie Gallery could file
authority.
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to the licensing authority, The Europe minister, Chris restructuring effort in two years, reorganization in coming
century chapel of St Mary
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Bryant, and his partner, Jared Undercroft, in the basement of
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William Hague, Charles
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Kennedy and Michael Mates
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The council will decide on the each year.

Google makes mobile search suggestions a popularity contest

By Jessica Dolcourt Google has optimized its site for making search suggestions
(Webware.com) Android phones and iPhone, contextual to your U.S. location.
E-reader News Edition Business/ 11

Top Jobs 2010: How to Search Smarter

By Chris Dannen (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 11:01:18 AM

The fast-food industry is hiring,

but don't go all American Beauty
on us yet. The next decade is all
about HOW you search, not
where you search.
The job market isn't about to
right itself, but aggressive job-
searchers can improve their lot
by using two potent resources:
their friends and their computers.
Last year, FastCompany.com
told you about the growth sectors
for the next decade. No changes
there, unfortunately. In 2010,
you'll need to innovate if you
want to participate. We can help
with our shovel-ready job search
toolkit.
Get Ready
If you're looking for a job,
there's a good chance you just
lost one. But don't move on too
quickly. "Know what you're
entitled to if you get laid-off,"
says Alison Doyle, About.com's
guide to job searching. "Review call for an interview, but it rarely Andy Speer, VP of technology Read, read, read. If the last year legal professionals, there's
your contract and know your happens that easily anymore." solutions for Technisource, a has been any indication, the state AboveTheLaw and the ABA
rights: severance, health Hone Your Resume nationwide outplacement firm. of American industries will be Journal.
insurance coverage, pension Resume sites like Emurse and "Today, for example, our changing literally by the week in If you think you know your
vesting," and so on. That will ResumeBucket allow you to customers are looking for 2010, so you may not be as up to industry beat already, search
help you clarify your financials create and share an online hardcore coders who can put on date as you think. Browse more creatively; there may be
and make contingency plans. resume that can also be PDF'd or analytical hats, talk to customers, industry blogs, trade journals, sources you overlooked in the
Once you start looking, printed out. Keep things brief serve on committees, develop a and niche sites to keep abreast of past. If you're a logistics
remember a few ground rules, and concise--you can expound in business process--do something the latest dirt in your sector so professional, for example, you
says Doyle: customize your your cover letter and interview-- more creative," he says. In your that you can emphasize the right may have spent some time
resume for every job you want, and please, oh please, say the resume and cover letter, layer assets in your resume and reading BreakBulk and
and do the same with your cover experts: avoid jargon. your different experiences on interview. American Shipper. But you may
letters. "Many job seekers still These days, many companies whatever foundation you've If you don't know the sources, not have perused Fairplay.co.uk,
think it's enough to send out are eeking by on lean staff. "Be created. Broaden your potential. that's no excuse. Creatives have TOP page 12
resumes and wait for a phone broad on your cover letter," says Do Your Homework sites like Core77 and Variety; for
12 Politics/
TOP
continued from page 11
another trade site across the
pond.
Lastly, look for mailing lists
specific to what you want; they
often get the freshest job listings
and host real-life meetups.
Ed2010, for example, dishes to
people in publishing, while
Headsets & Highballs caters to
workers in the film and
television industries.
Search Smarter
It's not enough to slap a resume
on Monster.com and saunter off
to watch American Idol. On
today's Web, there are dozens of
avenues to spot jobs and get
noticed, and you should be
paying attention--outplacement
firms and HR departments
certainly are.
General job search sites have
evolved. There's nothing wrong
with CareerBuilder and Monster,
but these days, LinkUp, Indeed,
and SimplyHired lead the pack.
But don't stop there; look for
niche listing sites that fit.
TheLadders.com, for example,
specializes in managerial
positions that pay over 100K.
Other sites get even more
specific. "There are sites for
retirees looking for consultancy,
there are sites for former military
folks, and there are sites that are
"reunion" based for former
employees or projects," says
Speer.
Thursday Night Music: John Mayer, 'Daughters'
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 5:51:33 PM
Do a little Googling, and don't
be afraid to get specific. If your
search engine skills aren't up to
snuff, ask the natural-language
search engines at Mahalo and
ChaCha where you can find
listings for your niche.
Search by industry, too. If you're
a tech nerd, hit up HackerNews,
Reddit Jobs, or Startuply. For
media, there's MediaBistro,
Mandy.com, IWantMedia, and
Variety. Non-profiteers have
Idealist.org and designers have
Coroflot. For contract work,
there is Solvate.com and, of
course, Craigslist.
Whatever your industry, find
where the best companies are
posting their jobs, even if it
means calling the HR
departments at your dream
companies and asking where
they advertise online. Chances
are, their competitors are posting
there too.
In slow-growth quarters,
government jobs often supply
what private industry can't.
Thanks to the recent Recovery
Act, the Federal government will
be hiring over 270,000 workers
between 2010 and 2012. You can
find out where the stimulus
money is going at Recovery.org
and where to find the ensuing
jobs at this site published by the
Partnership for Public Service.
Build Your Network
John Mayer [R] and Robbie
McIntosh [L] play the livin’ heck
out of Mayer’s “Daughters,” a
Once you know where you want
to work, get a guerilla network
working for you. "If you want to
control your own destiny, you
need to tap into an internal 'sales'
person who will sell your skill-
set" inside that company, says
Speer.
That means finding someone
who works where you want to
work, and getting them on your
team. "Buy him lunch and say, "I
want to have the experience
you've had; what's the best way
to get introduced to the people
that make the decisions?"" says
Speer. "That's the best way for
any prospect to go where they
want to go." (Need to build up
your gumption? Check out this
post on " recruiting a small
army" by author Chris
Guillebeau.)
So, how do you find these
"internal salespeople?" Chances
are, you already know them, so
hit the Web and start rekindling
relationships. "I hear a lot of
people saying, "I'm not interested
in the new age stuff like
LinkedIn," says Speer. "And
that's fine--if you don't want to
get called."
Track down all the old cronies
and classmates you can think of
on LinkedIn, Speer says, and see
where they all landed--they
might be able to offer a "link" to
a decision-maker at a company
song from the 2003 album
Heavier Things.[Video]
you like. Also remember that
many companies compensate
their employees for referral hires.
If you can't find someone you
used to work with, do a people
search with sites like Pipl.com or
Yahoo People.
Be the Best Candidate
Once you get your foot in the
door, you'll have unprecedented
competition, so it's important
you communicate that you're the
best fit for the job. This year, that
means being amenable to doing
"tours of duty"--that is, being
flexible about your location.
Maybe a company needs
someone to work on a project for
a year in Chicago or for six
months in Palm Beach.
"I can't tell you how pleased we
are with transportability," says
Speer. "Finding a resource from
Phoenix that can go to Chicago
and work on a project was
unheard of three years ago. Now,
there's a willingness to do a tour
of duty supporting [an
employer], and that's attractive."
If you're not amenable to
moving, be up-front about it. If
your locale is a top priority,
consider states that are
experiencing job growth, like
Minnesota, New Jersey, and
Vermont, which showed the
largest increase in new job
listings this past quarter,
according to LinkUp. (Big job
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losers were Texas, New York,
and California.)
Don't Fight the System
Yes, we all hate automated
resume sites: they're impersonal
and they smack of black holes.
But HR departments use those
systems as their central database,
so being in that black hole is
important.
If you're a people person, go
ahead and do your schmoozing
in person--but make sure you
also submit your resume to their
system, says Speer. "They're not
going to load your resume in
their system if you walk it in," he
explains, so when it comes time
for them to do a search, your
name won't be in their
computers.
Once you've exhausted yourself
and your resources, go ahead and
get old fashioned. "Collect
business cards from your
interviewers so you can send an
old-fashioned paper thank-you
note," says Doyle.
Now, don't you have some
American Idol to catch up on?
E-reader News Edition Business/ Politics/ 13

Facebook, Twitter Turn Social Powers to Disaster Relief

By Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:45:59 AM

In the wake of the disaster in

Haiti, Facebook's launched a
portal for people who want to
help: The Global Relief page.
Twitter's playing its part too.
Superficially frivolous social
networks driving social
responsibility--who'd've thought
it?
Facebook's own non-profits
manager Randi Zuckerberg
announced the initiative on
Facebook's blog, noting that the
"Internet's critical role in
connecting the world's
population in times of tragedy" is
undeniable, and could be a
valuable tool for good. To governments. Its status update, about disasters. The lifecasting can help. Both of these efforts are
exactly this end, Facebook's new chat and micropayment systems service practically filled up with And since Monday is Martin symbols of two things: That a
Global Relief page is a fan-style would seem ideally suited to Tweets about Haiti over the last Luther King day, Twitter's community can mobilize itself
Facebook page that is designed support all of these aims, and day or so--everything from actually taking some direct very quickly to help others in
to be a central information portal Facebook notes that the requests for assistance, links to action to promote the efforts of trouble, even if they are remote
about disasters. charitable efforts of some charity organizations and moving the Corporation For National from the scene--the Internet is a
But the service is actually organizations have already raised personal stories from the island Community service--its fabulous medium to assist in this.
intended to be much more than "hundreds of thousands" of itself. Twitter as an organization promoting the same sort of And it also shows that the social
that: It's supposed to be a dollars for Haiti disaster relief needs to do almost nothing to charitable assistance that network crazes that sometimes
"collaborative resource for efforts. assist in this--though it's worth Facebook is, but directed at appear frivolous and even time-
individuals, non-profits, And though Twitter doesn't have noting that the company is aware finding volunteer assistance in wasting actually can be used as a
governments and industry to the level of sophisticated user of its vital role, and even delayed local communities. Twitter's blog force for good. All that's required
raise awareness for those in need tools that Facebook does, it a planned server upgrade during post acknowledges that its users is a decision to act among its
around the world." In effect, benefits from its easy one-to- the Iran protests so as not to are making the most of Twitter, userbase.
Facebook is setting itself up as a many transmission system and disrupt the efforts of Twittering and that "on an international [Via Facebook, Twitter]
central point for debate, plans, the simplicity of its short Tweets protestors. Biz Stone has, level this week, people are
personal donations, and relief --creating a perfect venue for nevertheless, gathered together joining forces to heal Haiti.
effort coordination at all levels pithy and emotive pleas for help, some links in a blog post that Together, we're proving that
from members of the public to and news and personal opinions illustrate some ways the public we're wired to help."

Totten Interviews Hitchens, Part 2

(Little Green Footballs) Today’s read: part two of with Christopher Hitchens.
Michael J. Totten’s interview
14 Business/ Gadgets/
Twitter to Compete With Ever-Expanding
Facebook Connect
By Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 11:23:50 AM
Facebook's Connect system, the
unseen code that makes logging
in to many other Web sites much
easier, marches on--it's just
reached MySpace for example.
But Twitter isn't planning on
being left out, and it's improving
its own version.
Facebook Connect has come so
very far since its mid-2008
launch, and it's been so very
successful it's basically stamped
out competing services from
Google. And now there's news
that it's hitting MySpace--which
is an even more potent
demonstration of Connect's
power, since MySpace was a
vicious Facebook rival in the
early days, and it actually had its
own competing service just two
years ago. The new effort is all
part of MySpace's desperate
scramble to resurrect itself from
a ruined social network into a
social media-sharing service, and
though it brings all the traditional
advantages of Connect (easy log
in, widgets) it's sure to be a
slightly bitter pill for MySpace's
management. For now Connect
is mainly tied to the Fan Video
system inside MySpace--where it
lets you share music videos with
your friends--but it wouldn't be
surprising to see it more fully
integrated into MySpace soon.
Meanwhile Twitter, Facebook's
newest rival on the social
network scene, is apparently
determined to get into the same
sort of cross-Web site login
business that Connect operates
in. Various code hooks and
libraries to make it all possible
are already embedded in
Twitter's API, but over at
TechCrunch they've heard from
insiders that Twitter wants to
wrap it all up in a much more
user-friendly package. The idea
is that if Twitter makes it super-
easy for Web site managers to
add in Twitter logins and
sophisticated status-updating
connects back to Twitter to their
sites, the system will get used
more. Which will drive more
users and traffic to Twitter, of
course...and that'll push up its
importance in the real-time status
update market (where Twitter
may have just turned its first
profits.)
One advantage of Twitter's
system is that it is an open
format, compared to Facebook's
proprietary Connect code, and
that may prove attractive to
some. But exactly how well
Twitter will fare with its efforts
is impossible to predict. What is
clear though is that where social
networking was once seen as a
strange time wasting bit of online
fun, the systems that make it
possible are carefully insinuating
their way deeper into the
workings of the Web--and
they're actually delivering
additional, useful services as a
result.
[Via InsideFacebook,
TechCrunch]
E-reader News Edition
Free Wi-Fi at
McDonald’s starts today.
Buh, buh, bup, buh, bah,
I’m lovin’ it!!!
By Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:30:00 AM
Ah yes. Nothing better than
toting your laptop into
McDonald’s and going through a
handful of napkins every time
you need to type something or
move the mouse cursor. The
food there is greasy, I guess
would be the main takeaway
from that sentence.
Wireless internet access is free,
starting today, at 11,500 out of
14,000 McDonald’s locations
throughout the country. It had
previously cost $2.95 for two
hours of access — roughly an
hour and 45 minutes longer than
just about anyone has ever spent
inside a McDonald’s.
McDonald’s to start free Wi-Fi
a t m o s t U . S .
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Scared of Using "Twitter for Credit Cards?" But Blippy Makes
Sharing Personal Info So Cute!
By Ben Paynter (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 11:41:22 AM
In Blippy's world, everyone gets
deals on everything! All you
have to do is share your credit
card information online!
Hey, wait. Where are you
going?
The social media start up, which
has been described as "Twitter
for credit cards"--provides
radical transparency about who
is paying what and where by
encouraging users to live-stream
their credit card purchases. That
might sound creepy, but the
company is already leading by
example. They just raked in $1.6
million in venture capital and
EA Sports Lets Gamers Decide Tiger's Fate
By Ben Paynter (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:43:53 AM
Tiger Woods marital
indiscretions and poor driving
record may have cost him
endorsement deals with
Accenture and General Motors,
but there is at least one company
out there willing to gamble that
he'll comeback: EA Sports. The
video game producer has already
committed to releasing Tiger
have broken it down like the line
items on your monthly expense
report. Among the givers?
Twitter co-founder and CEO
Evan Williams.
So how will joining up save you
money? It likely won't, at first.
But enough transactions would
provide an incredibly nuanced
balance sheet of what, say, hotels
and airlines, are charging
different customers for the same
service. Make the best deals
more obvious and you've just
touched off a mega price war
among formerly impervious
industries. So your boss learns
you spend way too many lunches
at Hooters. Small price to pay
when you can eventually afford
that vacation in Saint-Tropez!
Woods PGA Tour Online this
month. Fittingly, future dealings
now hinge on a MMORPG--
that's Massively Multiple Player
Online Role-Playing Game for
Still scared? Perhaps you're
aware of that $9.8 million class
action lawsuit just settled against
your "friend" Facebook. They
got in trouble for not disclosing
they were exposing your
personal information to third-
the non-geek set--of their own
creation.
News has leaked that the
company is sponsoring an online
customer survey to figure out
Business/ 15
except that, while very specific,
it can also limit your level of
exposure by letting you register
only one credit card at a time.
Want to know if you're getting a
break on groceries or health
insurance? Sign up. Eventually,
the crowdsourced numbers will
reconcile. In the meantime,
Walmart might notice that you
are buying all your shampoo
from Target and send you a $10-
off coupon to change over. Let
the retailer bidding war begin!
party e-commerce vendors. [Via VentureBeat]
They've since revamped, but
when you opt in without
changing your privacy settings,
retailers mine your personal data
for trends now anyway. Blippy
works on the same principle,
virtually laid and crashing cars as
positive scenarios. It makes
sense to let the increasingly
interactive fan base pick their
own role-models. That defuses
some of the culpability if he
winds up having to dig out of the
rough again. If gamers have their
say, maybe Woods will even get
whether Woods public
multiple continues to try again.
perception has been sullied
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tionscapital// CC BY 2.0
indoctrinated to view getting
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Can Shopping Go Viral? Can JPMorgan's Earnings
By Tom Johansmeyer
(BloggingStocks) Help It Fight Through
Technical Resistance?
Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:40:00 PM
Filed under: Competitive
strategy, Amazon.com (AMZN),
Marketing and advertising,
Target Corp. (TGT), Best Buy
(BBY)
Looking back on what became a
tough end to a tough year for the
retail sector, the one bright spot
was the online sector. Shoppers
whipped out their plastic at a
record rate on Black Friday, a
trend that continued throughout
the season.
The Amazon ( AMZN) Kindle
killed the competition,
reinforcing the status of the
online channel as the future of
the retail business. Social media,
in particular, had its first real test
this year, as many companies --
including Best Buy ( BBY),
JCPenney ( JCP) and Target (
Boeye's OEM E900 reader is the Kindle DX's cheaper twin
By Laura June (Engadget)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 11:32:00 AM
Ever wondered what an exact
replica of the Kindle DX would
look like? Well, if you were
thinking that it would look like
an exact replica of the Kindle
DX, you're a winner. You're
currently checking out the Boeye
TGT) -- used the likes of Twitter
and Facebook to engage
customers, publicize sales and
generally increase revenue. The
next stage in the evolution, of
course, is to use shopping
behavior to trigger viral results.
Continue reading Can Shopping
Go Viral?
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E900, a 9.7-inch reader hailing
from Guangdong, China. Besides
the obvious lack of branding
here, we're hard-pressed to spot
another difference -- though we
do only have the one photo. Both
sport WiFi, Bluetooth, and text-
to-speech, plus apparently the
exact same internals as the DX, resolution, 3G, 128MB built-in
i n c l u d i n g a n 8 2 5 x 1 2 0 0 flash memory, and a microSD
By Mark Fightmaster
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Earnings reports,
JPMorgan Chase (JPM),
Technical Analysis
JPMorgan Chase ( JPM) has
continued the earnings roll for
U.S. banks. Friday morning,
JPMorgan announced earnings
of $3.28 billion -- thanks mainly
to the company's investment
banking and its trading business.
Both of these segments benefited
from the market's recent rally,
helping the company make up
for a continued weakness in the
world of lending.
So, why was the stock lower in
morning trading action? Total
revenue checked in at $25.23
billion, which was an increase of
32%, but expectations were set at
$26.81 billion. This revenue
miss, along with the fact that
JPMorgan did not hike its nickel-
per-share quarterly dividend,
served to push the stock lower.
Continue reading Can
JPMorgan's Earnings Help It
Fight Through Technical
Resistance?
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card slot. We'll tell you this -- the
price, at around $311, is way
cheaper than Amazon's actual
reader. That is however,
seemingly a wholesale price as
the minimum order accepted is
apparently 100 pieces. Anybody
need 99 fake Kindles?
Boeye's OEM E900 reader is the
Kindle DX's cheaper twin
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Microsoft's
Ballmer: We're
staying in China
By Tom Krazit
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 2:11:00 PM
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
reiterated his company's
commitment to staying in China
and following local laws, in
response to Google's statements
that it might be leaving.
Originally posted at Relevant
Results
Jan. 15, 1929: Birth
of a Moral Compass,
Even for Science
By Tony Long (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 9:00:00 PM
It's Martin Luther King Jr.'s
birthday. He cautioned in 1964
about a growing disconnect
between technological advances
and ethical awareness.
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TV Industry Turns Blind Eye To Non-3D Viewers [3dTv]
By CNET (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:21:16 AM
When it comes to 3D television,
I don't see it. Literally. The
technology that's supposed to
convince me that a 3D image
exists when I look at a 2D screen
doesn't work for me.
Nor does it work for a small but
significant percentage of the
population—4 percent to 10
percent, depending on which
expert you ask. Millions of
people like me are being left
behind by content and hardware
companies as they move to 3D.
I don't mean to complain. It's
not the end of the world. Flat-
viewers, like me, can watch 2D
versions of 3D content. I saw
"Avatar" in the non-3D version.
As a bonus, the theater was
nearly empty—the 3D showing
down the hall was more
crowded. Plus, we didn't have to
wear those dorky glasses.
Of course, we are social beings,
and not being able to view 3D
means that group or family
outings to 3D showings are
awkward for the flat viewers,
who may have to sit through a
showing that will cause
headaches or just look bad to
them. But the flat-viewer's
experience with 3D imagery can
vary. While I find viewing 3D
imagery uncomfortable, Daniel
Terdiman, another person at
CNET who can't see 3D, saw the
3D version of Avatar and wore
the 3D glasses. It looked fine to
him, just not 3D.
Manufacturers are mute
At CES this year, the trend
toward 3D in home television
sets was unmissable, but there
was no mention by the
manufacturers of how this move
would affect flat viewers. I was
curious how the hardware
companies, which fight for every
point of market share jealously,
could cavalierly ignore the large
number of us who won't like this
new direction. It's a lot of
market. How are they planning
to deal with losing it?
Oddly, none of the HDTV
manufacturing companies I
reached out to could provide a
direct comment on this topic, but
I did talk with people familiar
with the industry and with an
optometrist who has a vested
interest in promoting the growth
of 3D content viewing.
Bruce Berkoff of the LCDTV
Association and formerly a
marketing executive at LG, noted
that for all the hype around 3D,
the television manufacturers are
not really investing much in
putting products on store
shelves, nor are they expecting
consumers to pay for it yet.
Adding the capability for
televisions to display alternating
images for stereoscopic viewing
through electronic shutter glasses
is not expensive. It's the glasses
themselves that are, and only a
few 3D-capable sets actually
come bundled with them. So
consumers will be able to soon
buy televisions ready for 3D
without spending much.
Berkoff, and everyone else I
talked to about 3D TV, reminded
me that a good 3D TV is also a
good 2D TV. You should be able
to turn off the 3D display
features and view content
designed specifically for 3D but
in 2D: You just show the view
for only one eye. If the refresh
rate of the program is high
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enough, you should not notice
much of a difference in picture
quality.
Get your eyes examined
From the optometrist's
perspective, the inability to
process stereoscopic imagery is,
for many people, a treatable
condition. Dr. Brad Habermehl,
president of the College of
Optometrists in Vision
Development, told me, "You
don't have to be a 3D refugee if
you get to the root of the
problem. The majority of stereo-
blind people really can be
helped."
Habermehl says that there are
methods to teach people to see in
3D. Using graduated methods
and physical aids (lenses) as
"training wheels," he says,
people can eventually learn how
to "point both eyes to focus on
the same space." It's like riding a
bike. Once you learn, the training
wheels come off and you can't
imagine not doing it. "Vision is
definitely learned," he says.
"That's what vision training is."
The doctor sounded to me
suspiciously like a spokesperson
for the 3D television
manufacturers, or at least a
recipient of some marketing
dollars from them. But he's not.
"It would be nice if they would
fund us," he said. But after
reminding me that "Avatar" had
already made $1 billion in box
office receipts, he added, "I don't
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Apple rumor roundup: iPhone patent continued from page 17

think the industry is worried the reverse, which is the case in

4.0 edition about this."
Personally, I have no interest in
today's 2D movies. Good 3D
movies today will appear subtly
By Nilay Patel (Engadget) -- but Apple's going to release an undergoing medical treatment more stately and cinematic than
Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:28:00 PM accessory for older iPods to just so I can spend more money 2D shows.
enable this functionality as well. o n c o n s u m e r e l e c t r o n i c s . The future of the 3D feature
On today's edition of the never- Our take: This would be like a Although Dr. Oliver Sacks, in a For all the hype at CES, 3D for
ending Apple rumor roundup, we d r e a m c o m e t r u e f o r t h e compelling New Yorker article, the next few years is likely to be
take a quick detour into the consumer, and a crazy heroin Stereo Sue, did make me wonder a "feature" in the new crop of
murky realm of the United States nightmare for Apple to actually w h a t m y k i n d i s m i s s i n g . TVs, according to Gary Merson
patent database, topped off with implement -- can you imagine an (Related reading: Fixing My Gaz of the HDGuru3D site. "It's not
a charming unsourced tip and i P o d w i t h a f r e a k i n g e, by Sue Barry, a subject of black-and-white to color,"
some delightful analyst CableCARD slot? Neither can Sacks' story.) Merson says. "It's a feature, like
conjecture. Let's blaze. we. Besides, it's not like Apple to And regardless of whether you Internet connectivity and stereo."
The rumor: A recent Apple push content sales from anything see in 3D or not, the technology He also points out that the
p a t e n t a p p l i c a t i o n f o r a it can get away with -- it's never other than the iTunes Store, and is inexorably changing the visual content is not there yet, and that
capacitive touchscreen-specific been wise to read too much into it's especially not like Apple to l a n g u a g e o f m o v i e s a n d many consumers have only
stylus may or may not mean The them. extend functionality to older television shows. When directors recently upgraded their tube
Tablet uses a stylus for input. create shows for 3D, they can't televisions to HD flat screens.
The rumor: Another Apple iPods when it can just release a rely on cinematic methods For people like me, for whom
O u r t a k e : W e ' v e a l r e a d y patent application hints that newer one in a slightly different
promised to eat our hat if Apple portable DVR functionality is metallic finish. Next! viewers are used to in 2D for the world is flat, this feature can
puts a removable battery in the coming to the iPod / iPhone-- Continue reading Apple rumor conveying action, depth, and not roll out slowly enough.
iPhone, so what's next? A shoe? you'll be able to grab TV and roundup: iPhone patent 4.0 m o v e m e n t . H a r d c u t s a n d This story originally appeared
We will eat a shoe if Steve Jobs r a d i o c o n t e n t f r o m c a b l e , edition swooping camera moves can on CNET
introduces a product that requires s a t e l l i t e , O T A , o r u s i n g Apple rumor roundup: iPhone disorient viewers new to 3D. The
the use of a stylus. Besides, this "services" with your portable patent 4.0 edition originally new standard of practice is to
product already exists: it's called device and then load that into appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 lock down the camera and move
the Pogo Stylus, and it's not iTunes. Not only will you be Jan 2010 12:28:00 EST. Please the action around it, instead of
exactly rocking minds (although able to connect new iPods to a see our terms for use of feeds.
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CrunchDeals: Xbox Live Gold for $30 By Jessica Dolcourt
(Webware.com)
By Doug Aamoth If you’re still chugging along Submitted at 1/14/2010 10:00:00 PM
(CrunchGear) with the free Silver membership, Should the service be free? I
here’s what upgrading to Gold vote for YES! But Microsoft will Seesmic adds a slew of
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:00:00 AM
gets you: never listen to me. And $30 is previously lacking features to its
Walmart is selling 12-month • Multiplayer games better than $50, I guess. Twitter app for BlackBerry. It's
Xbox Live Gold cards for $30. • “TrueSkill matchmaking” Xbox Live 12-Month Gold time to take another gander.
The full retail price when • Parties (not real-life parties) Card[Walmart via dealnews] Originally posted at The
p u r c h a s e d d i r e c t l y f r o m • Gamer feedback (vote down • Netflix (you have to also have Download Blog
Microsoft is $50. jerky players) a Netflix membership)
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Entelligence: 'Don't be evil' isn't the basis for a relationship

By Michael Gartenberg Nexus One is the latest and the Archos5 Internet Tablet, for
(Engadget) greatest Android device, with a example, can't make official use
Submitted at 1/15/2010 11:02:00 AM
bit of a twist. The Nexus One is of the Android marketplace. But
available without contract and nothing is as strange as Google
Entelligence is a column by unlocked directly from Google getting into the hardware
technology strategist and author for $530, as well as subsidized business directly and selling
Michael Gartenberg, a man from T-Mobile on a two-year devices, albeit unlocked and
whose desire for a delicious cup contract for $179. Even with T- unsubsidized ones, directly to
of coffee and a quality New Mobile service, the device is consumers.
York bagel is dwarfed only by only available from Google. Continue reading Entelligence:
his passion for tech. In these Interesting, but hardly the 'Don't be evil' isn't the basis for a
articles, he'll explore where our groundbreaking business model relationship
industry is and where it's going -- that was expected as soon as the Entelligence: 'Don't be evil' isn't
on both micro and macro levels - words "Google phone" began to the basis for a relationship
- with the unique wit and insight make the rounds. originally appeared on Engadget
only he can provide. As nice as the Nexus One is -- business, let alone selling phones it's turned up on some rather on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:02:00
After a weeks of speculation, and in my opinion it's the nicest directly to consumers. I'd ask the interesting devices, but none of EST. Please see our terms for
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Netflix Keeps Getting Reamed: The Best Streaming Movies

Might Go Away [NetFlix]
By matt buchanan (Gizmodo) movies over the next few years, repeat themselves with basically
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:18:50 AM and it wants a lot more money every major studio, and expect
from people who watch Starz them to get bloodier. Nobody's
The freshest movies on Netflix o n l i n e — l i k e t h r o u g h conquered internet video, at least
Watch Instantly come via Starz Netflix—and if things go badly, not the way iTunes wrapped its
Play, an arrangement where it could mean no more Disney or arms around digital music, but
Starz resells Netflix their movie Dreamworks movies for Netflix Netflix is, in many ways, damn
licenses. As predicted, studios s t r e a m i n g , a c c o r d i n g t o near the closest, a fact not lost on
are playing hardball with Netflix, B l o o m b e r g . studios. And they're not going to
and Disney movies could be the It's going to be a rough patch for make it any easier for another
up a whole month for new tab arrangement on the Netflix
f i r s t t o p o o f f r o m i n s t a n t Netflix and its ambitious plans company to wield that kind of
releases from Warner Bros. in homepage, putting Watch
streaming. for streaming, which is now power. [ Bloomberg]
exchange for better streaming Instantly first.) Expect these
Disney's current in negotiations obviously the focus of its
rights? And notice the switched battles for streaming rights to
with Starz for the rights to its business. (Why else would give
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Rumor: Windows Mobile 7 Will Have Gestures,
Really Debut in February [Windows Mobile 7]
By Jason Chen (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:20:49 AM
There's still some question about
whether Windows Mobile 6.6 or
Windows Mobile 7 will be
shown in February, but a solid
tipster just told us that it will be
WM7. And then he describes it.
Here are a couple things
described about WinMo 7 that
mesh with the rumors we've
heard before. First, it'll have the
Natal-like gestures to be able to
use the phone without touching
it. We first heard about gestures
on WM7 two years ago, and then
sprinkled about the rumors in the
past year.
Then, he says that you won't be
able to upgrade to Windows
Mobile 7, because the OS
actually requires you to have
better hardware (faster processor,
Silverstat7 Zigbee-packin' thermostat to debut this fall for
$600?
By Joseph L. Flatley
(Engadget)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 11:59:00 AM
Every day it seems that
companies are finding better
ways to keep an eye on the non-
renewable resources we're
sucking down to enable our
voracious appetite for Xbox
more memory, etc) and includes
support for the motion-sensing
gestures above.
This bit also meshes with the
rumored specs of the "Zune
phone", which is basically
Windows Mobile 7. From that
rumor:
gaming and Hulu viewing. Not
that we're complaining! And
now, thanks to a gracious tipster,
we've received some deets on
that Silverstat7 home energy
management solution (er,
touchscreen thermostat) we first
hepped you to a couple days ago.
Along with 802.11g WiFi, this
guy supports the Zigbee and
ARM v6+ processor, with an
Open GL ES 2.0-capable
graphics chip-this may be the
TI3430 or the Nvidia Tegra. To
show all the eye candy there will
be a 3.5" 800 x 480 or 854 x 480
pixels touchscreen. The
specification also points out at
Zwave protocols (as you
probably guessed), so it should
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accelerometer, USB, Bluetooth, Submitted at 1/14/2010 10:30:00 AM
and full Wi-Fi support.
But then how does that account Few will be surprised to hear
for the HD2, which HTC Russia that China has reiterated its
claimed will be getting a WM7 belief that Web sites should
upgrade? Because HD2 is adhere to government oversight,
basically the top of the line right and that Google no longer wants
now, which—looking at its to play ball.
specs—put it into the Windows Originally posted at Relevant
Mobile 7-capable category. Results
So yes, it seems like we'll be
seeing Windows Mobile 7 at
Mobile World Congress in
February. It better be pretty
damn good for Microsoft's
projection of being able to regain
25% of the phone market by
2014.
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Cold Feet wedding bouquet responds Couple Claims That Merely

to your nerves on the big day
By Laura June (Engadget)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:32:00 AM
When geeks get married, there's
always room for some nerdy
insanity. This new take on the
bouquet comes to us via just that
route -- a couple of geeks getting
hitched decided to DIY
themselves an LED bouquet
which responds to changes in
Galvanic skin response (GSR).
So, when the LEDs are blue, the
person holding the flowers is
essentially calm, whereas white
LEDs indicate excitement. Now,
the bouquet cannot actually tell
us if the excitement stems from
being overjoyed or horrified to
find out that your intended owns
a fully realized and accurate
Quark costume, but at least it'll
Talking About A Photo Is
give you some clues to start
with. Regardless, this awesome
contraption is also capable of
recording heartbeat rates for both
bride and groom and makes use
of a 1GB SD card to store the
data, and other features like
infrared proximity sensors to
record how many times a day the
bride and groom are near each
other. Check out the video of the
bouquet after the break.
[Photo credit: Jonas Eriksson]
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Copyright Infringement
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) have the permission to show this
Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:48:00 AM picture.
Everything so far seems more-or
Bert Reyntjens writes"Some -less normal, except that one
time ago, the (nude) photograph magazine (Story) was also sued
of the wife of Helmut Lotti, a even though it didn't publish the
Belgian singer, was used in a photograph(that link is in Dutch
famous Flemish quiz 'de slimste -- here is the Google translation),
mens ter wereld' (or in English it only mentioned it. According
'the smartest man in the world'). to the lawyer for Lotti -- 'a mere
S e v e r a l n e w s p a p e r s a n d reference to an image should be
magazines reported on this, some considered a reproduction of the
displayed the photograph, others image'!"
didn't. Now Lotti and his wife Permalink| Comments| Email
are suing several of these This Story
publishers for copyright
infringement because they didn't

Sony's COO says no new OLED TVs in 2010, BRAVIA

Internet Video Link is coming to PS3
By Paul Miller (Engadget) judge? -- but won't do any new enough of Taylor Swift in 3D to
Submitted at 1/15/2010 1:01:00 PM OLED TVs this year. The know what he's missing?
problem is, naturally, cost, but Sony's COO says no new OLED
Want to blast some BRAVIA hopefully 2011 will bring better TVs in 2010, BRAVIA Internet
Internet Video Link content from things in sizes larger than 11- Video Link is coming to PS3
your PS3 to your million-inch inches -- LG won't have a 30- originally appeared on Engadget
Sony-built 3D OLED TV this incher until 2012 at least, and on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:01:00
year? Well, you're half in luck. that seems too long to wait. Sony EST. Please see our terms for
Sony's bringing the Internet COO Stan Glasgow, in his use of feeds. Permalink| Sony
Video Link service to the PS3 -- interview with Sony Insider that Sony's doing 3D-capable TVs for bought after the fact, and calls Insider| Email this| Comments
which seems to us to provide turned up these nuggets, also is essentially zero price the 3D channel rollout
little that isn't already possible refreshingly non-bombastic differentiation, with separate "complex." But who knows,
on the PS3, but who are we to about 3D. He points out that glasses and emitters that can be perhaps he's just never seen
22 Gadgets/ Politics/ Tech News/
Apple Wants to Do the Same Thing for Mobile
Ads It Did for Digital Music [Unconfirmed]
By matt buchanan (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:07:46 AM
Apple's interest in mobile
advertising clearly goes beyond
flicking Google in the nads,
since they spent $275 million on
mobile ad company Quattro after
losing AdMob to Google. In fact,
according to BusinessWeek,
Apple's mobile ad plans are
downright ambitious.
" Mobile ads suck" is a sentiment
BusinessWeek vaguely ascribes
to Steve Jobs through a "source
familiar with his thinking." So
Jobs, along with "his
lieutenants," have been talking
Forget Boston, Even Dubai Isn't Ready For the
BoA Floating Mega-Structure [Architecture]
By Sean Fallon (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:18:00 AM
Kevin Schopfer, the same
delusional, megalomaniac
architect behind NOAH is back
with the Boston Arcology(BoA)
floating city concept for Boston
Harbor. I'm not from Boston, but
my guess is that their reaction
would be: "this is wicked
retahded."
But I digress. If constructed, the
Gate
(Little Green Footballs)
about "ways to overhaul mobile
advertising in the same way they
had revolutionized music players
and phones," two sources told
BusinessWeek.
Why care so deeply about
BoA would be LEED certified
and be capable of housing
15,000 people distributed in
hotels, offices, retail, museums,
mobile ads? Besides the ongoing
Google rivalry, which stands to
get even testier in the mobile
space—just check out figures
like ones out of this 424-page
Morgan Stanley report, which
condominiums, and a new city
hall. Of course, there would also
be sky gardens and some sort of
public, carbon neutral
talk about how the mobile
internet will be twice as big as it
is on the desktop. (Also, this.)
The first guy to really figure out
mobile ads (whatever that
entails)? Wins a truckload of
money. Case in point: Google
figured out search advertising.
Look where they are today.
Mobile browsers aside, just
think of all of those free and
cheap iPhone apps with room for
innovative advertising to make
somebody even more money.
Not us, though. [ BW via Alley
Insider]
transportation system that would
eliminate the need for cars.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate
Schopfer's progressive thought
process on this design, but there
has to be more emphasis put on
feasibility. Even if all of the
construction goals could be
accomplished, how much do you
think something like this would
cost? [ Schopfer via Yanko
Design via Inhabitat]
E-reader News Edition
Woot!
Refurbished Sansa
Clip for $13
By Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:21:00 AM
Here’s a wheel of a deal on
SanDisk’s answer to the original
iPod Shuffle, the Sansa Clip. It’s
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management (you can also use
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File support includes: MP3,
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How to Amp Up
a Laser Pointer
By Terrence Russell (Wired
Top Stories)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 5:00:00 PM
Your standard laser pointer
could be sculpting ice or
sparking campfires. Here's how
to intensify the beam.
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Week in review: Google slams China censorship

(CNET News.com) its worst decision: to self-censor into effect Among other things, Ethanol alternative gains
Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:00:00 AM search results in China for almost as an injunction preventing sales ground with new plant
four years in hopes of improving of certain versions of Office Tech companies pitch in for
In a stunning about-face, Google overall access to information. takes effect, most versions of the Haiti relief Google and
announced it would no longer FAQ: The attacks on Google suite are temporarily unavailable Microsoft give seven-figure
censor search results in China, What Google might leave on from Microsoft's online store. donations, while Apple and cell
and if the Chinese government the table in China 2009 PC shipments inch into carriers make it easy for
balks, Google says it may take its Microsoft, Yahoo to follow positive territory The fourth customers to donate to the
servers and go home. Google's lead in China? quarter of 2009 saw the first time earthquake-stricken country.
The change in Google's policy Google's peers mulling their in more than a year that Online masses text to offer
toward doing business in China options in China shipments of laptops and desktop Haitian quake relief
came after Google discovered Microsoft's Ballmer: We're grew. Relief money via texting
that it and other companies were staying in China Mac shipments up 23 percent in surpasses $4 million
the victims of a "highly Google, China define positions the U.S. In urgent times, avoiding online
s o p h i s t i c a t e d a n d t a r g e t e d over censorship New IE hole Facebook looking to beef up e- charity scams
attack" aimed at gathering exploited in attacks on U.S. commerce team Two years after Video game sales explode in
Famous Knots of the information about human rights firms Microsoft warns about zero rumors abounded about a PayPal industry's best month ever
activists. It is not clear whether -day hole in Internet Explorer -like transaction platform atop Reversing months of year-over-
World Illustrated in the Chinese government was that was used in targeted attacks the social network, the company year declines, the industry
Earbuds [Image Cache] behind the attacks, which Google on Google and other U.S. is posting job listings for a recorded December sales of
By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) said in a blog post were also companies, and which Google "Facebook Payment Operations" $5.53 billion, up 4 percent from
directed against other U.S. claims originated in China. team. a year earlier, according to The
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:00:00 AM
companies. Unpatched Adobe holes link Finally! Comment on Facebook NPD Group.
I can't tie a sheepshank knot off Google has always been a Google, earlier attacks through e-mail EA wants your thoughts on
the top of my head, but more company with a moral pulse, one More headlines 'Anonymous' Facebook Tiger Woods
than once, I'm pretty sure I've that in its early days attracted a Intel earnings surge 875 percent interview: Real or fake? Also of note
tangled one by accident. (Yes, certain sort of idealistic engineer Chipmaker's quarterly earnings Fugitive who teased police on Firefox 3.6 due this month; next
this is a Ford Sync ad, but it's who truly believed the world jump on the back of very healthy Facebook caught comes 'Lorentz'
quite clever.) [ AdsoftheWorld could be made a better place by a gross margins, which hit a record U.S. to inject $187 million into Minnesota Twins stadium to
via 9GAG via TheNextWeb] responsible corporation that 65 percent, all despite a series of fuel efficiency Funding, which recycle rainwater
efficiently spread information payouts. includes more than $100 million IBM is the year's patent champ,
and technology around the Microsoft, HP push businesses from the U.S. economic stimulus again
world. Yet Google is also one of to clouds Three-year, $250 plan, will cover nine projects to Five Filters featured article:
America's largest and richest million effort is aimed at helping improve fuel efficiency in trucks Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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with growing even larger. technology spending by moving Hybrids the early winners in Term Extraction.
The collision of those two forces their computing resources online. electric-car race
led Google into what the Understanding the HP- Electric cars advance in Detroit
c o m p a n y f o u n d e r s m a y Microsoft deal Survey hints at strong demand
eventually come to consider as Microsoft Word injunction goes for electric cars
24 Tech/ E-reader News Edition

5 Industries an Apple Tablet Could Revolutionize

By Ben Parr (Mashable!) newspapers with you. Apple’s tablet and easily hand it over to you wanted to.
Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:54:57 AM tablet will almost certainly have someone else when the situation Now imagine that the devices
a focus on bringing all of print arises. A tablet would be a far does have a few input ports,
If you haven’t heard an Apple into the digital world, whether more effective way of sharing specifically two USB ports.
Tablet rumor by now, you’ve the industry is ready for it or not. financial data or even making Now you have a device that can
most likely been living in a cave 2. Healthcare payments. The need for be connected to your keyboard
somewhere for the past year. It’s Above: The AirStrop OB paperwork would be gone. and mouse, as well as your other
all anybody can talk about, iPhone App. It allow doctors to Personal Finance: With apps devices potentially. Stick the
especially since it could launch check on their patients vitals on- iPhone app. Having the ability like Mint at your fingertips, tablet on a stand and it’s a
at the end of the month. the-go. to view TV from anywhere is no managing your finances would computer. Unplug and take it
With the daily deluge of rumors A few days ago, a rumor spread small deal. be a snap. If tablets have a with you and your computer can
flooding your Twitter stream and that Apple was designing the It’s not just the TV and movie wireless way to communicate come with you, even easier than
RSS feeds, it’s easy to become t a b l e t s p e c i f i c a l l y f o r t h e experience that could potentially with one another, it could also a laptop.
cynical about the mythical healthcare industry. While we, be upended, either. Gaming prove to be the ultimate payment While this was a thought
device. Why should you care of course, have no idea whether would get a completely new system. exercise, this is the type of thing
about a device that has no the tablet is being made for platform, paving the way for a Investment Banking: In addition Apple has clearly thought about
c o n f i r m a t i o n a t a l l o f i t s doctors or whether it’s being new wave of touchscreen games, to facilitating faster and more in the tablet process. If the
existence? made at all, the notion is very depending on how the tablet is effective trading, investment Apple Tablet proves to be real,
The answer is that its potential logical. designed (I wouldn’t want to banks could use them to quickly you can expect this type of
impact could be nothing short of First, the iPhone is already a hold the tablet in one hand and conduct research and swap notes. imaginative thinking to be
revolutionary. Like the iPod and tool that doctors use to save touchscreen with the other). It The right software and the right present in every aspect of the
the iPhone, an Apple-built tablet lives. If the tablet can run apps, probably won’t have the same i n t e r f a c e c o u l d s t i r m a n y tablet’s design, interface, and
c o u l d n o t o n l y b e c o m e a then those tools will immediately effect on the music industry as financial institutions to purchase functionality.
consumer hit, but actually be at their disposal. Second, it the iPod had, though. 4. Finance A p p l e T a b l e t s i n b u l k . 5 . This is why the media and
redefine multiple industries and has the capability to replace the The finance industry is a giant C o m p u t i n g millions of early adopters care so
how they do business. Here are clipboard by accessing digital behemoth with many arms — Consider the big picture with much about the potential tablet
just some of the ways an Apple records, making medical data trading, banking, personal this final industry. For years, and the rumors: Its potential as a
Tablet could spark a revolution. easy-to-search, and having finance, and investment banking, we’ve relied on desktops and revolutionary device is very real.
1. Publishing and Media references built right into the just to name a few. The tablet laptops with bulky keyboards. More Apple resources from
Let’s start with the most obvious tablet. could have a dramatic impact on O n l y r e c e n t l y h a s m o b i l e Mashable:
choice: Media. We’ve covered Healthcare is a lagging industry all of these areas. become a computing force, but - 5 Mac Apps to Boost Your
the previous rumors that Apple i n t e r m s o f t e c h n o l o g i c a l Trading: Traders need to have even that is nothing compared to Productivity
wants to redefine print with its adoption, but if any company has information at their fingertips the computing industry. - Mac Gift Guide: 10 Buying
rumored tablet. While the the resources to break that and make trades in an instant. Imagine that the Apple Tablet Ideas for Apple Fans
Kindle has done a lot to bring b a r r i e r , i t ’ s A p p l e . 3 . Many use their mobile phones or comes with a new type of tactile, - HOW TO: Create a Mac
print into digital form, a tablet E n t e r t a i n m e n t specialized devices for this, but a g e s t u r e - b a s e d k e y b o a r d , Theme for Windows 7
could be far more suited for Entertainment is another tablet could present a lot more something a recent Apple patent - Top 10 iPhone Apps as Judged
reading the newspaper, opening i n d u s t r y t h a t c o u l d b e information and be far more supports. Imagine you can type by Mashable Readers
up your textbook, and even immediately affected by an dynamic. You could see tablets almost as well on it as you can - APPLE TABLET: Ultimate
sharing notes. Hell, Wired’s Apple Tablet. It’s big enough to e v e r y w h e r e o n t h e f l o o r with a keyboard, or even 75% as Gallery of Concept Designs and
already preparing for the tablet. provide easy viewing for your eventually. well. It immediately becomes a Prototypes
The simple point is that it’s movies and television shows. Banking: Bank tellers could great device for computing on
easier to carry a smart tablet than And if the 3G rumors are true, process information with the the go, an object that could be INDUSTRIES page 25
300 hardcover books and 20 you could access that data via an used as a primary computer if
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TV fans! Name the best shows missing on Hulu

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:11:13 AM

Hulu only offers the first three

seasons of the great NBC police
drama, 'Hill Street Blues.' Where
are the other four
seasons?(Credit: Hulu.com)
Readers, I need your help.
Actually, TV fans everywhere
need it.
Because Hulu is free, I've never
gone to that great site with the
expectation of finding any
specific TV show or movie that I
wanted to watch. Sometimes I've
been pleasantly surprised to find
a gem of a show or a movie, and
other times I've felt utterly
disappointed by a lack of quality
content. It's all depended on my tucked away in the archives that Hulu doesn't have, and on the site, and to keep them moment, and leave your
mood and what kind of thing I somewhere. Actually, though, it's which its millions of users are there as long as possible. suggestions in comments below.
wanted to see. not, and it's not even available on clamoring for. Which brings me to you: I'd like Unfortunately, this little exercise
But there are some shows it DVD anywhere. Searching for it As we type that "H" and that to know which TV shows--let's probably won't help you and I
seems to me are just out-and-out once, I discovered someone "U" and that "L" and that "U" keep the focus there, as movies get what we want, but it would
missing on Hulu. And the one purporting to sell it on VHS, but and finish off with "dot-com" in would be too cumbersome--you be interesting to see what people
that stands out most, to me, at that seemed like a scam, so I our browser address bars, we, of would like to see on Hulu that are missing out there in TV land.
least, is the great mid-1980s stayed away. course, have to keep in mind that are not currently available there. And after you're all done
Steven Bochco legal drama, Still, after discovering the first Hulu can only feature content Or even which seasons of shows submitting your suggestions, if
"L.A. Law," which starred, three seasons of Bochco's that it has rights to. that are only partially available. there's enough good stuff, I'll do
among others, Jimmy Smits, wonderful and genre-defining I was told by someone at Hulu Like, for example, "Hill Street a follow-up post listing some of
Corbin Bernsen, Blair police drama, " Hill Street that one of the major hurdles to Blues," which is missing seasons the best ideas, and your thoughts
Underwood, Harry Hamlin and Blues" on Hulu, also an NBC acquiring rights include getting four through seven on Hulu. about those shows.
John Spencer. show, I had thought perhaps streaming clearances from the How fair is it to get someone Five Filters featured article:
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sort of assumed it might be
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26 Tech/
Nexus One sells only 20,000 phones its first week
By Chris Rawson (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 1/14/2010 10:00:00 PM
Filed under: Retail, Odds and
ends, iPhone Another "iPhone
killer" has failed to deliver on its
hype. According to mobile
analytics firm Flurry, Google's
Nexus One phone sold a mere
20,000 units in its first week in
the market.
The Flurry report goes on to
compare the Nexus One launch
with other smartphones,
including the Motorola Droid,
which sold 250,000 units in its
first week. In its comparison to
the iPhone 3GS launch, however,
the report is a bit disingenuous.
The iPhone 3GS was an update
to an existing & wildly popular
product, not a completely new
product launch. In that light, the
1.6 million iPhones sold in the
first week of the 3GS launch,
while indeed 80 times the
number of Nexus One sales,
aren't a true apples-to-Apple
comparison.
Instead, a better comparison
may be to sales of the original
iPhone. According to Apple's Q3
2007 results, released on 25 July
2007, the iPhone sold 270,000
units during the quarter. The
original iPhone was released
nearly a month earlier, on June
29. That works out to around
10,000 original iPhones sold per
Google's "soft launch" of the
phone. Both Droid and the
iPhone had aggressive marketing
campaigns leading up to their
respective launches, while the
Nexus One has had to rely
largely on industry hype and
Google's own advertising. Nexus
One also launched directly after
the holiday season, which seems
like a boneheaded move; a
launch even three weeks earlier
could have gained them much
more robust sales. Google is also
sort of "going its own" compared
to Apple and AT&T's
partnership with the iPhone and
Verizon's vigorous hyping of
Droid.
All these factors aside, both the
low sales numbers and criticism
of both the handset itself and
Google's abysmal customer
support boil down to one thing:
while it may be a good phone on
its own merits (or not), the
Nexus One is no iPhone killer.
day following its 2007 release, If anything, these numbers
[Via The Business Insider]
which dovetails nicely with an highlight the popularity of the
TUAW Nexus One sells only
early 2008 analysis of iPhone Droid compared to the Nexus
20,000 phones its first week
sales from Ars Technica. Far One. Droid sold nearly as many
originally appeared on The
from the flabbergasting sales phones in its first week as the
Unofficial Apple Weblog
lead of the 3GS, the original original iPhone sold in its first
(TUAW) on Thu, 14 Jan 2010
iPhone sold about 3.5 times as month, which is nothing to sneer
22:00:00 EST. Please see our
many units in its 2007 launch as at. By comparison to the Droid,
terms for use of feeds.
Nexus One did in 2010; also, the h o w e v e r , t h e N e x u s O n e
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original iPhone sold for a hefty launched with a whimper, not a
Comments
$599, even with an AT&T bang.
contract, while the Nexus One is Flurry notes, correctly, that the
$179 with a new T-Mobile Nexus One launch has suffered
contract ($529 without). low numbers in part because of
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Segway Announces
The Most Understated
Merger Ever
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 5:56:00 AM
Considering the amount of hype
and buzz that came about when
Dean Kamen's Segway was first
introduced, it seems like the
company is going for the exact
opposite in discussing its recent
merger with a UK company.
The company didn't even
mention it for nearly a month,
and only said something once
rumors started spreading, and
then the blog post they put up
about it gives very little in the
way of detail. They don't even
mention the company's name:
Segway Inc. is pleased to
announce that in connection with
a merger that occurred on
December 24, 2009, Segway was
acquired by a company that is
based in the United Kingdom.
The acquiring company is
backed by Jimi Heselden, a
prominent U.K. businessman and
the Chairman of Hesco Bastion.
Mr. Heselden is also an investor
in the independently owned
Segway U.K. distributorship.
The company also got some
funding (and lost its latest in a
long, long, long line of CEOs),
but in an interview with the local
paper, Dean Kamen admits that
he doesn't even know who the
new investor is.
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Conan to 'sell' the 'Tonight Show' on Florida Not A Fan Of

Craigslist The Internet; Potentially
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:20:53 AM Rules Out Lawyer Blogs
show up for sale on Craigslist.
His jest seemed quite real, as
O'Brien, in the clip I have
who might be interested:
"Measures 100' x 100' x 32' -
plenty of room for a futon,"
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Rule 4-7.2(c)(1)(F). I also can't
America has been gripped this embedded, presented the ad and "Designed for 11:35 but can be
week by the battle between two explained: "You might never get easily moved," "Band can be Submitted at 1/15/2010 7:27:00 AM include testimonials; therefore, I
men, each with one portion of a chance like this again." sold separately," and "Buyer request any former students or
his head oversized: Conan I am grateful to the the shivering must honor Barry Manilow You may recall recently that the clients not to post comments
O'Brien and Jay Leno. fingers at Mashable, which booking next Thursday." Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory saying what a wonderful lawyer
The baiting and the bile have seems to have tracked down this Finally, with all the gusto of a Committee issued an opinion a n d / o r p r o f e s s o r I a m .
spilled over into the online actual ad in the Los Angeles dying man's banter, the seller saying that judges shouldn't use Dramatizations and many other
world. The"I'm with Coco" section of Craigslist. And if you declares: "MAKE ME YOUR Facebook to connect with any creative marketing devices are
Facebook group already has don't find it ragingly funny, you BEST OFFER!!!!! (Also willing lawyers. This made little sense also verboten. Of course, my
more than 157,000 fans and a will, I am sure, at least feel the to trade for Coldplay tickets.)" since judges can, in fact, be personal concerns about the new
lovely icon of O'Brien with "raging" part. I know there may be some of friendly with lawyers in real life. bar rules are trivial when set
which people are adorning their The ad is headlined: "4 SALE: you out there ready to pull out There must be something in the beside those of all the Florida
personal, but highly public, BARELY-USED LATE NIGHT the trust fund Granny left you in water down there, as new rules law firms who must now spend
profiles. TALK SHOW - MAKE ME AN order to buy this show and revive from the Florida Bar are so broad vast sums of money to revamp
Friday, I awoke to a Leno OFFER!!! (Universal Studios)." it. Television is a difficult placethat they could potentially ban their websites to try to comply
fightback. The Huffington Post Should you be a fan of O'Brien, to make money. There are egos. lawyer blogs because of an with the new rules, not to
reports that NBC executive Dick you will find the text more than a There are tantrums. There are attempt to more carefully limit mention the concerns of non-
Ebersol described O'Brien as "an little moving. It begins: "This is secrets. It's a little like trying how lawyers "advertise" (found Florida firms that hire Florida
astounding failure." He also said a chance of a lifetime to own launching an Apple tablet. v i a M i c h a e l S c o t t ) : T h e attorneys. That same blog post,
his jokes about Leno were your very own late night talk Five Filters featured article: substantive rules provide, among by Lyrissa Lidsky, reasonably
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the "Tonight Show" show a little see to appreciate." Term Extraction. characterize the quality of legal advertising as long as it's not
more valor. Wednesday evening The ad offers some more services being offered." Rule 4- inherently misleading. Of
O'Brien jested that he had put the information for those like Fox 7.2(c)(2) Thus, I can't tell you in course, this issue has come up in
this post that I'm committed to the past as well. Five years ago,

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Obama Administration
Considers More Public Access
To Publicly Funded Research
It's Not An Open vs. Closed Internet, By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Yet, they hated it so much that
they even got Rep. John Conyers
But Ours vs. Theirs Submitted at 1/15/2010 1:55:10 AM
to try to pass a law ending the
It's hard to comprehend who requirement -- which thankfully
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) is ours and our culture is ours. "open" internet is that it will could be against the idea that went nowhere after lots of people
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:10:00 AM There aren't too many other decrease any incentive for federally-funded research (i.e., protested.
things that are ours in that way. participation. There is definitely research funded by your tax The good news is that it looks
Dave Weinberger has a thought- If we allow others to make a sense that part of the reason d o l l a r s ) s h o u l d n ' t b e c o m e like the Obama administration is
p r o v o k i n g p o s t w h e r e h e decisions about what the Net is why some folks would like to available to the very public who looking to go in the other
discusses why an "open" internet for -- preferring some content pull back on openness is to turn paid for it. But many publishers direction. The EFF points us to
is so important, and suggests that and services to others -- the Net the internet from a platform for pushed back hard when the the news that the Office of
we may be thinking about things won't feel like it's ours, and we'll users towards a more controlled National Institute of Health Science and Technology Policy
incorrectly due to the term lose some of the enthusiasm (= broadcast sort of platform. That (NIH) began enforcing a rule that (OSTP) is looking at ways to
"open." The Net as a medium is l o v e ) t h a t d r i v e s o u r i s , i t w o n ' t b e a b o u t required the research it funded to have this requirement go beyond
not for anything in particular -- participation, innovation, and c o m m u n i c a t i o n , b u t a b o u t be published openly a year after just NIH and require public
not for making calls, sending collaborative efforts. content delivery -- and when you it was published in a journal. access for all federally funded
videos, etc. It also works at every So, if we're going to talk about do that, it loses a significant Again, this was really incredible. r e s e a r c h , i n c l u d i n g f r o m
scale, from one to one to many to the value of the open Internet, we portion of its value. And I think Journals get all of their content organizations like the National
many. This makes it highly have to ask what the opposite of that's where the shift from "ours" for free. They do not pay the Science Foundation (NSF).
unusual as a medium. In fact, we "open" is. No one is proposing a to "theirs" comes from. Not authors. The journals often OSTP is asking for comments
generally don't treat it as a closed Internet. When it comes everyone can put a show on TV, claim the copyright over those and input on the idea -- and it's
medium but as a world, rich with to the Internet, the opposite of but anyone can put a video on works as well -- despite the lack an idea that makes a ton of sense.
connections, persistent, and "open" is "theirs." I'd certainly Y o u T u b e o r j u s t c r e a t e a of payment. The journals also It seems likely that journal
social. Because everything we never thought about it that way, website. The internet is about do not pay the peer reviewers publishers will protest, but
encounter in this world is but it does make a point. I do communication, and when you either. The biggest expenses of hopefully common sense will
something that we as humans think that many more people feel s t a r t m i t i g a t i n g w h o c a n most publications... not even prevail and federally funded
m a d e ( a l b e i t s o m e t i m e s "at home" on the internet in a communicate and how, you lose p r e s e n t i n s u c h a c a d e m i c research will become open,
indirectly), it feels like it's ours. way that they never could or the value of community. journals. And yet they still accessible and available to
Obviously it's not ours in the would in other platforms or Permalink| Comments| Email c h a r g e h u g e f e e s f o r t h e everyone.
property sense. Rather, it's ours media. And part of the fear that This Story publication itself. It's a great Permalink| Comments| Email
in the way that our government people have about losing an scam, and they don't want it to This Story
end. But even the NIH rules still
give them a year's monopoly.

Chrome dev for Mac earns minor but useful bump

By Seth Rosenblatt An update to the Google stability-fixes.
(Webware.com) Chrome developer's build for Originally posted at The
Mac introduces more than just Download Blog
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TCM iPhone App Brings Movie Sarcasm Gets Its Own

Classics to Your Pocket Emoticon
By Christina Warren presented in the correct aspect By Brenna Ehrlich
(Mashable!) ratio. It’s really neat to see how (Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:20:46 AM
movie trailers from the 1950s Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:32:57 AM
and 1960s looked. You can also
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) view photos and press kits from Are you prone to that most
has recently released an iPhone select films, look at classic actor glorious form of humor known
app that promises to bring movie and actress images, and see stuff as sarcasm? Do your e-mail
classics to your pocket. The app, like posters and lobby cards. You contacts frequently misinterpret
which is $2.99 in the App can also read the latest entries your superior wit as outright
Store[iTunes link], has movie the best aspects of the website to from TCM’s movie blog, though cruelty? SarcMark has the
message, comment or opinion is
clips and trailers, photos and your phone. I wish the entries were a little solution you require.
left behind Equal Rights for
access to the TCM schedule. The schedule lets you see three better formatted for the app. At present, you probably use
Sarcasm – Use the SarcMark.”
I ’ m a f i l m f a n a t i c ( I months worth of data, and you Images are not clickable and text emoticons in order to make your
You can download the
am@film_girl, after all) and as can select a seven-day view or isn’t spaced out in a way that feelings known via text or e-mail
SarcMark at the company’s
an Atlantan, Turner Classic choose a specific day on the makes it easy to read on a — cushioning a slight reprimand
website for Windows 7,
Movie has always held a special calendar. On February 1, TCM handheld. to a co-worker or friend with a
Windows XP, Windows Vista
place in my heart (except for that starts its annual “31 days of Qualms aside, this is a good app friendly:
and mobile devices for use in
period of colorization, which we Oscar” celebration, and I only with lots to enjoy for TCM and Now there’s a whole new
Word documents, e-mail, instant
should just try to ignore). TCM wish there was a search feature, classic movie fans. symbol to add to your lexicon,
messaging and more. After
airs more than 300 movies every similar to what HBO has for its While just on the iPhone for the SarcMark, which looks
downloading, all you have to do
month, all uncut and commercial app, to make it possible to find now, TCM plans to release a something like a whirlpool with
is hit “Ctrl” and “.” and the mark
-free, spanning different decades and set reminders for showtimes. version for the Android and a dot in the middle (see image
When you click on a film, you B l a c k B e r r y p l a t f o r m s i n will appear, instantly giving wry
and periods of film history. above). Here’s what the website
impact to the sentence in
What you might not know if you can read a full synopsis, cast F e b r u a r y . has to say about the product:
question.
haven’t been to the TCM website information, trivia and see any What are your favorite movie- “With the spoken word, we use
The symbol costs $1.99, which
before is that it also has quite a essays or other stuff related to related mobile apps? Let us our tone, inflection and volume
seems a small price to pay for
wealth of information and the film. know! to question, exclaim and convey
conversational clarity.
historical data, as well as essays There’s also a collection of film Tags: app review, iphone, our feelings. The written word
Fun Fact:“Sarcasm” comes from
about films and different genres. clips and trailers (small now, but Movies, TCM has question marks and
the Latin sarcasmos, which
The iPhone app brings much of hopefully growing) that are exclamation points to document
means “to tear flesh.” How bad-
those thoughts, BUT sarcasm has
Bachmann Suggests Obama Told KSM to Plead NOTHING! In today’s world
with increasing commentary,
ass is that?
Tags: humor, media, Mobile
Not Guilty debate and rhetoric, what better
time could there be than NOW,
2.0, Sarcmark, social media,
trending
(Little Green Footballs) Holder advised Al Qaeda leader to see who can uncork the to ensure that no sarcastic
Submitted at 1/14/2010 11:59:59 AM Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to wackiest accusation.[Video]
plead not guilty so he could have (Hat tip: KT.)
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R- a show trial in Manhattan.
Mars) suggests that President Sometimes it seems as if right
Obama or Attorney General wing politicians are in a contest
30 Tech/ Tech News/ Entertainment/
Samuel L Jackson Now Gets Explicit Apple considering stylus
on Your iPhone
By Samuel Axon (Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:40:45 AM
Samuel L. Jackson has his own
iPhone app soundboard, with
more than 150 exclusive, studio-
recorded quotes and the option to
download more.
iSamJackson is the name of the
app, and there are two versions
available in the Apple App Store:
clean[iTunes link] for ages 12
and up, and explicit[iTunes link]
for 17 and up. With more than
100,000 apps in the App Store
now, it looks like you can find a
little something for everybody.
The included sound clips were
all recorded exclusively for the
app by Samuel L. Jackson
himself. Unfortunately, that
means that it lacks famous movie
quotes, but don’t fret; there are
plenty of examples (in the
explicit version) of his well-
known, artful delivery of a
certain exclamation involving
mothers — if that’s what you’re
Alt Text: Wilderness Survival,
iPhone-Style
By Lore Sjoberg (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 5:00:00 PM
When it's you against the natural
world, it's time to turn your
Apple phone into a lifeline. A
for the tablet? They've
applied for a patent, but...
looking for.
Some of the clips belong to
special categories, including
meetings (“I can see where you
might think this was a highly
organized group, but trust me —
it’s not”) and retorts (“I don’t
need your attitude; I have one of
my own,” and yes, “That’s what
she said”). You can download
more packs from within the app
for $0.99 each — so far there’s a
Sports Pack and “MMO
potentially lifesaving list of apps
that can miraculously transform
a garden-variety communication
device into a multitasking tool
capable of outwitting that callous
evil-doer, Mother Nature.
pwnership” — and at the
moment there’s one free quote
for download, too.
The app gives you the option of
plugging it to your Facebook
friends with Facebook Connect.
If you do that, you’ll get another
free quote: “I’m not an expert on
what’s cool — oh no, wait! Yes I
am!”
There’s also a faux thumbprint
reader that “scans” you so
Jackson can tell you what he
thinks of you, and an 8-Ball-
esque “Query” function. It might
be the most elaborate
soundboard app we’ve seen —
probably a good thing, since
most of them are free or just
$0.99 while this one costs $2.99.
[via Oh Gizmo!] Reviews: App
Store, Facebook
Tags: apple app store,
celebrities, facebook connect,
iphone, iPod Touch, samuel l
jackson
Newsweek Gives Non-
Journalist Plum
Assignment [Barack
Obama]
By Pareene (Gawker)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:55:14 PM
Barack Obama will "write" a
Newsweek cover story on Haiti.
That is stupid.
E-reader News Edition
By Steven Sande (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 1/15/2010 7:00:00 AM
Filed under: Hardware, Odds
and ends, Apple Steve Jobs hates
styluses (styli?). At the January,
2007 Macworld Expo keynote
where Jobs introduced the
iPhone to the world, he went so
far as to ask " Who wants a
stylus?" and expressed his
distaste for stylus input with a
"Yeccch!"
However, that hasn't kept Apple
from applying for a patent on acquired by Apple in 2005 for its
using a stylus on devices like the pioneering work on multi-touch
iPhone that are designed for interfaces. What this all means
finger input. The iPhone and for tablet devices is unknown,
other touchscreen devices use but it's fascinating to see that the
capacitive screens that require word "stylus" is still echoing
styluses with conductive tips. around at least some of the
Older resistive screens, such as conference rooms in Cupertino.
the one on the Apple Newton [via MacRumors]
MessagePad (at right), could use TUAW Apple considering
stylus for the tablet? They've
virtually any plastic-tipped stylus
for navigation and handwriting applied for a patent, but...
originally appeared on The
input.
The patent application, filed on Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW) on Fri, 15 Jan 2010
January 14th, is titled "Stylus
adapted for low resolution touch 07:00:00 EST. Please see our
terms for use of feeds.
sensor panels", and lists John G.
Elias as the applicant. Elias is Read| Permalink| Email this|
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one of the co-founders of
FingerWorks, a company
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Found Footage: Steadicam releasing
Smoothee for iPhone 3GS
By Steven Sande (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Designed specifically for the
iPhone 3GS, the Steadicam
Smoothee weighs a scant 25
potential of citizen journalism
and movie-making with the
platform. One of these would be
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Volvo (Who Else?) TUAW Livechat:
Brings Practicality Promoting your
to Electric Cars App Store products
By Chuck Squatriglia (Wired By Erica Sadun (The
Top Stories) Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 1/15/2010 6:15:00 AM

Submitted at 1/15/2010 11:00:00 AM ounces and features the same great for doing TUAW TV Live Submitted at 1/15/2010 11:45:00 AM

counterweighted construction of from Ustream Broadcaster on the DETROIT - Volvo has been
Filed under: Accessories, Video, the professional models. While floor of Macworld Expo 2010... pretty quiet among the Filed under: App Store<a
Found Footage, iPhone no price has been announced for [via Engadget] automakers developing electric href="http://www.coveritlive.co
In the world of professional film the Smoothee, it's sure to be TUAW Found Footage: vehicles, but that doesn’t mean it m/mobile.php?option=com_mob
and video photography, the much less expensive than the pro Steadicam releasing Smoothee isn’t working on one. It plans to ile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_co
Steadicam stabilizing camera video and film versions that sell for iPhone 3GS originally roll out a test fleet next year and de=66fd693d0a" >App Store
mount revolutionized tracking for $50,000 - $60,000. appeared on The Unofficial put some in showrooms by 2013. Promotion Clinic</a>
shots by allowing a camera The promotional video above Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, Welcome to our informal App
operator to "hand hold" a has several examples of the type 15 Jan 2010 11:00:00 EST. Store promotion clinic! Today,
camera, but keep the camera of smooth tracking shots that are Please see our terms for use of we'll be chatting with Brian
steady. This Academy Award- the signature of Steadicam feeds. Akaka of Appular and our own
w i n n i n g i n v e n t i o n i s n o w movies. The fact that Tiffen has Read| Permalink| Email this| Steve Sande about marketing and
available for the rest of us in the c h o s e n t h e i P h o n e f o r a Comments promoting apps.
form of the Tiffen Steadicam Steadicam model appears to Brian Akaka's Appular focuses
Smoothee for iPhone 3GS. show that the company sees the on providing Marketing and PR
strategy and execution to iPhone
App developers, helping them to
A tale of two iPhone sequels: Zenonia 2 and gain visibility for their Apps in a
quickly growing and maturing
Raging Thunder 2 market. TUAW blogger Steve
Sande has worked with iPhone
developers to improve the
By Mike Schramm (The popular iPhone games. Zenonia And from Polarbit comes No date for Raging Thunder 2
Unofficial Apple Weblog 2 brings back one of the App Raging Thunder 2, another yet, but we'll keep our eyes out marketing of their apps. To chat
(TUAW)) Store's first RPGs, Zenonia [ sequel to one of the first games for it later this year. live with the participants, follow
iTunes link], with a whole new to make a splash on the iPhone, TUAW A tale of two iPhone the directions in the widget
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:00:00 AM
adventure and four different even before the App Store. As sequels: Zenonia 2 and Raging above. Note that comments are
Filed under: Gaming, Software, classes, compared to the last you can see above, the sequel Thunder 2 originally appeared on moderated. Enjoy!
Odds and ends, Developer, game's three. Ranged attacks will will have some shinier graphics, The Unofficial Apple Weblog TUAW TUAW Livechat:
iPhone also be possible, as well as new what looks like smoother (TUAW) on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 Promoting your App Store
It looks like 2010 will be the difficulty modes and even an gameplay, a bigger variety of 10:00:00 EST. Please see our products originally appeared on
year of the iPhone game sequels asynchronous multiplayer mode. powerups, and (we presume) the terms for use of feeds. The Unofficial Apple Weblog
-- we first saw Zen Bound 2 the Sounds like fun -- the new same accelerometer steering that Read| Permalink| Email this| (TUAW) on Fri, 15 Jan 2010
other day and now Touch Arcade version of the game is due out in made the iPhone platform such a Comments 11:45:00 EST. Please see our
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Rumor: Aperture 3 release
imminent?
By Steven Sande (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 1/15/2010 1:00:00 PM
Filed under: Rumors, Software,
Apple Here's another possible
item for Apple to announce at
the January 27th event (if there is
an event...).
Photography pros have been
waiting for a new version of
Apple's Aperture for way too
long. A Google search of the
term "Aperture 3" shows that as
long as a year ago, there were
many impatient photographers
who were hoping for a new
release of Apple's pro
photography application. The
existing version, Aperture 2, was
released on February 12, 2008
and last updated to version 2.1.4
on August 27, 2009.
According to a post on Dutch
website One More Thing, the
wait might be over soon. Several
Dutch photography sites are
listing a book about Aperture 3
with mid-February availability
dates. Aperture 3, by author
Johan Elzenga, is a Dutch-
language book and is listed for
availability on February 15th.
A quick search of Amazon.com
and other U.S. booksellers
showed no similar texts in the
works for the near future, but the
Dutch discovery may mean that
the long wait for a new release of
Aperture is nearing its end.
Thanks to Tim for the tip!
TUAW Rumor: Aperture 3
release imminent? originally
appeared on The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri,
15 Jan 2010 13:00:00 EST.
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feeds.
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Google Hack Attack
Was Ultra Sophisticated,
New Details Show
By Kim Zetter (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 5:00:00 PM
The hackers who struck Google,
Adobe and other companies used
Pants on the Ground:
unprecedented tactics that
combined three levels of Enter the Neil
encryption and steal
Young/Jimmy Fallon
programming, according to new
Cover
details.
By Brenna Ehrlich
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:21:38 AM
Despite navigating the tangled
mess that has been the late-night
wars this week, Jimmy Fallon
managed to tap into the cultural
zeitgeist last night with his
unique spin on viral
sensation,“Pants on the Ground.”

Oracle to sack half of Sun? Ridiculous, says Sun
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:06:01 AM
Oracle's expected $7.4 billion
acquisition of Sun Microsystems
will undoubtedly be followed by
at least a few layoffs, but as
much as half of the company's
workforce?
Not a chance, says Sun, which
issued an all-hands memo
reassuring employees that a
recent report from research outfit
UBS that suggests Oracle might
sack 13,800 when the deal
finally closes is off the mark--
and way off the mark.
"You may have seen an article
published by Bloomberg,
subsequently picked up by other
media, that references a UBS
analyst report speculating that
Oracle could cut up to 50% of
the Sun workforce," the memo
reads. "Oracle has asked me to
assure Sun employees that this
Yup, the video of American Idol
joke de rigueur General Larry
Platt has barely hit the Internets,
talents of Sun employees to and the inevitable remixes and
achieve this vision. Please parodies are already cropping up
dismiss these reports as they are all over the place.
report is absolutely untrue." not based on any information
Changing course, the memo that Oracle has provided." Not content to merely mimic the
soulful singer, Fallon chose to
strikes at the source of the story. Story Copyright (c) 2010
"It is regrettable that an analyst AllThingsD. All rights reserved. add a whole new layer of
absurdity by performing the tune
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The “Me” Generation
Alive and Well On T-
Shirts Too
By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:05:29 AM
Here’s a different type of year-
end list: the top words worn on t-
shirts in 2009, according to the
website Spreadshirt.
However, if you were looking
for a counter-argument to the
assertion that we’re all a bunch
of narcissists, this isn’t it. The
most used word on Spreadshirt
created threads in 2009? “I”.
On the other hand, “you” came
in at #2, while “team” was the #4
most worn word (though who
knows how many “there’s no I in
team but there’s an I in WIN”
shirts were sold).
In the “names” category of
Spreadshirt’s listings, Obama
took the top spot, with the
7 Best
Augmented
Reality Apps
By Daniel Dumas (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 5:00:00 PM
From the iPhone's Yelp
Monocle to the Android's Layar
Reality Browser, check out the
seven best augmented reality
apps.
omnipresent Chuck Norris at #2,
Washington Redskins star Chris
Cooley #3, and someone who
knows a thing or two about “me”
— Chad Ochocinco — at #4.
Did you have a favorite shirt in
2009? Was “me” a part of it?
Let us know about it in the
comments.
Tags: humor, social media,
Spreadshirt, t-shirts
Think Pink:
Hollywood's Hottest
Ladies Are Pretty in
Pink!
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:20:00 AM
From a simple pop of hot pink
to being a head-to-toe, bubble-
gum princess, Hollywood's most
stylish ladies love to think pink!
Take a gander at these sexy gals
who are oh-so-pretty in pink!
Tech/ Tech Tips/ Tech News/ Entertainment/ 33
Recharge Your
Resolutions in This
Week's Open Thread
[Open Thread]
Foodspotting Catalogs By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:00:00 AM
Delicious Dishes [Food] It's been a week since we were
on the full-on resolution
By Jason Fitzpatrick search for entries by name or w a r p a t h ; r e c h a r g e t h o s e
(Lifehacker) geographic location, and flag resolutions—and simply unwind,
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:05:00 AM
food "Nom It" if you've eaten it ask questions, and shoot the
and approve of the food and breeze—in this week's open
If you like documenting a good "Want It" if you're craving it. In thread.
meal and enjoy checking out the addition to name and location- Photo by AtomFury.
delicious culinary delights other based search you can browse the The open thread is our weekly
foodies are finding, Foodspotting most popular food by the number call for readers looking to talk
offers a platform for cataloging of people who have given it their with their fellow commenters,
and browsing delicious eats from approval or put it on their wanted ask questions, offer advice, and
around the world. list.
discuss any topic they like—no
Foodspotting was founded on Foodspotting is currently only matter how off-topic. You can
the idea that it's more about a accessible via their website, continue the conversation at any
good dish than it is about the although according to their FAQ t i m e o f t h e w e e k a t
entire restaurant. Rather than file an iPhone app is slated for the#openthread hashtag page, but
review entire establishments, this quarter. Foodspotting is a this is the day you're sure to get
F o o d s p o t t i n g f o c u s e s o n free service that requires a basic the most replies. All you'll need
delicious dishes and where you registration. Have a favorite tool to participate is a commenter
can find them. or service for finding great account. Happy Friday!
After signing up for a free meals? Let's hear about it in the Incidentally, cat lovers: you'd
account at Foodspotting you can comments. Foodspotting[via better step up your submissions
browse entries by other amateur GeekSugar]
in the#openthreadpicture forum;
food photographers and critics, we're pretty dog heavy at the
moment.
34 Tech Tips/
Find the Best Spots in New Cities with These Tools [Travel]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:30:00 AM
Ever take a trip to a city you're
excited to visit, then realize
shortly after arriving you've got
no idea how to get around, where
to go, and what to do? Next time,
arrive as an expert with these tips
and tools.
In March, I'm attending SXSW
Interactive for a second year, and
this year, I really want to explore
Austin, TX. Here are the web
sites, apps, and research tools I'm
using to ensure far more
exposure to local awesomeness
this year.
As with any conference, SXSW
has panels, keynotes,
schmoozing opportunities, and
hotel room keys that are easy to
lose. The real excitement, at least
for a guy from upstate NY that
doesn't get out much, is
exploring the city and nearby
areas, finding the local eatery
that none of your fellow visitors
have discovered, and getting a
feel for how things work and
flow in the surrounding city.
By nature, I'm terrible at
knowing which way to walk and
where the cool stuff might be. In
the mini-trips I've taken since
last year's shindig, though, I've
devoted some time to prepping
for fun, both in time spent before
the trip and stocking up my
phone and pockets with helpful
apps and notes. You might find a
few of these useful before, and
during, the next trip where
you've got some free time to
wander. Planning ahead
No matter how powerful your
smartphone, it's easier and faster
to search out, plan, and prepare
for your walks and wnaderings
from a real computer, with a full
keyboard. Here are a few pre-trip
steps you can tackle in 10-minute
bursts that'll pay off big when
you get there.
Plot your points with My Maps
Google Maps is an easy-peasy
way of finding any business or
address inside pretty much any
town or city. If you're signed into
a Google account, the little-
mentioned My Maps section is
also an easy way of setting up
waypoints around a town and
making them quick to pull up
later. Click the "My Maps" link
in the upper-left corner of your
Google Maps page, while you're
signed in. If you haven't created
any maps yet, click "Get
Started." In my case, I'm naming
it "SXSW," and switching it
from a Public map to a private
one.
Next, I'll search out a place like,
say, Casino El Camino, click the
"Save to My Maps" link, and
select my SXSW map. Do the
same for anywhere and
everywhere else you're thinking
about visiting or shopping in
your destination.
When you've got your My Map
sketched out, email yourself a
copy of it or print it, both from
the links in the upper-right
corner of the map window.
When you get to your
destination, you can easily pull
up your My Map on your laptop
in a hotel room, or on a
smartphone, by visiting Google
Maps. Because you've pre-
pinned your destinations, getting
walking, driving, or public
transit directions is much quicker
and easier, especially if Maps
knows where you are by GPS
location.
Load up on Wi-Fi-finding apps
and tools: This one's fairly easy
to explain, because Gina already
covered it. Free highlights for the
casual traveler include JiWire for
iPhones, WeFi for Windows
laptops and Android, Windows
Mobile and Symbian
smartphones, iStumbler for
Macs, and phone-friendly web
sites like WiFinder, Hotspot
Haven, and HotSpotr, along with
JiWire's web site.
Crowd-source your plans: You
may not have thousands of
Twitter followers, but between
your Facebook friends, the
friendly co-workers who don't
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mind an occasional personal
query, and your email contacts,
you can probably find someone
who'd love to give a
recommendation or two.
Better still? If you know you're
a micro-brew person, a steak
lover, or a record store type,
now's the time to join and dig
through some relevant web
forums. Hit up BeerAdvocate's
forums, get familiar with
Chowhound's boards, and any
other pastime you find yourself
acting on in new cities.
Prepare for work: If you know
you'll really, really need to crank
on work and keep a net
connection while you're
traveling, dig into our previous
coverage of tethering
solutions—hooking up your
smartphone with net service to
your laptop. Gina just rounded
up all the Android solutions, and
we've previously covered Palm
Pre, and the semi-sometimes-free
PdaNet works on Windows
Mobile, (jailbroken) iPhones,
and many other platforms.
As for staying productive, we've
covered that in our 10 downloads
for road warrior laptops. Bit of
hyperbole, we know, but they're
great tools for never having to
call the office and explain to
your co-worker how to email a
file to you. When you're there
You can only plan so much in
advance. A craving for authentic
Mexican, or museum showing
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impressions you could
you heard about from a friendly your searches on Google's SMS community-based reviews of all characters—which you can then ever want, if all you
local, and many other surprises simulator. One you might want kinds of places. There's a lot ofrun your site:blogname.com
can send you into the field. to try out ahead of time is taxi, opinions, some overly positive scavenger hunt on. Nextstop has want is five
Here's how to look like, or at followed by the city you're in. and some needlessly snarky. some great guides written and By Danny Gallagher (TV
least feel like, a local: • 4INFO (44636): Great for Your best bet is to pin down the lovingly photographed by locals, Squad)
Google's Near Me Now link: checking flight status and delays, data to within a block or two of if your city is lucky enough to be Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:00:00 PM
Make Google.com your iPhone as Gina previously demonstrated. you and find a stand-out review graced with them.
or Android phone's start page. Send the airline and flight of a great local dish or unique Flickr's Places: A lot of people both in and
Whenever you want to know if a number, and you'll get back local store. People who love photography, around the media have been
bar is worth checking out, or detailed information on what's and their city, will take the time bashing Jay Leno, and maybe it's
what kind of shop has those going on with that flight. If you D i g i n t o t h e l o c a l to geo-tag their shots on Flickr. a little unfair. After all, it's the
crazy T-shirts, Google will likely ever get stuck, send "help" and
blogs/weeklies: A while back, These people also tend to know dunderheads at the top who are
be able to tell you, assuming you'll get back some explainerR i c k B r o i d a a s k e d a b o u t the coolest spots in town. Do forcing Conan O'Brien to prove
you've got GPS turned on. texts. exploring new cities, and our what I've done when I've visited his willingness to preserve the
Use SMS for reliable search and • Google Calendar (48368): commenters came through with a town recently and head to sanctity of The Tonight Show,
look-ups: Yes, you may end up Even if you're not a Google great suggestions. Among them Flickr's Places directory, and not Jay. That doesn't mean we
in places without Wi-Fi, or even Calendar user, it might make was searching out the alternative t y p e i n t h e n a m e o f y o u r still can't enjoy more fun at Jay's
bare-minimum data service. If sense to synchronize any weekly for that destination, then destination. From inside that expense!
you have basic cellular service, calendar to Google before you using a little Google juice to find Places page, you can then search Mental Floss has compiled a list
though, you can always search depart, then use day and nday i t s " B e s t O f " i s s u e — for whatever you're looking for, of the best Leno impressions that
and pin down need-to-know data when necessary. site:austinchronicle.com "best and you're bound to find some have appeared on a television
with some helpful SMS of" did the trick for me. great local inside info and near you, from Jim Carrey on In
addresses. Here's the shortlist: Local-minded apps and sites: Local blogs and travel blogs can recommendations. Think about Living Color to Dana Carvey on
Want to find a point of interest be a great resource as well, if it—if you live in Austin, or just (even shorter lived than The Jay
• GOOGLE (466453): Useful nearby, but just searching for you know how to navigate them. happen to be visiting, you're Leno Show) The Dana Carvey
for nearly everything. Text it "good micro-brews Austin TX" Gridskipper, a former Gawker shooting your barbecue mostly to Show. Here's my personal
whatever you'd normally search won't work? Here are the sites Media property, tags its travel brag and remember, which helps favorite of the bunch: Crow T.
for on the web, and you'll get and mobile apps that make p i e c e s i n t h e s t y l e o f those of us looking for brag- Robot from Mystery Science
web results. Text directions 123 finding good stuff locally much gridskipper.com/tags/austin, and worthy food quite a lot. Theater 3000.
Spooner St., Boston, MA to 321 easier: its mission to not be like the Got your own favorite methods Filed under: Video, Celebrities,
Fork Ave., Quincy, MA and • Urbanspoon:(Web, iPhone) Fodor's and Lonely Planets for finding your way around a Reality-Free, Jay Leno
you'll get driving directions. Great at finding restaurants in the franchises make it refreshing to new terrain with aplomb? Tell us Permalink| Email this| |
Send weather, flight, and many category (sushi, Tex-Mex, steak) browse through. about it in the comments. Comments
other keywords, usually followed and price range ($-$$$$) near Technorati's blog directory is, if
by a ZIP code or city name, and wherever you are. a bit clinical and sometimes tech-
you'll get other special powers. • Yelp:(Web, iPhone, Android, minded, still a great place to
Before you go offline, test out Pre) The gold standard for stumble across local voices and

Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno's Verbal Sparring Continues

(ETonline - Breaking News) took more swipes at each other claimed he’d been offered a role replaced by Jay before the scene real honor to sit in the same chair
Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:36:00 AM in their monologues Thursday in an adult film. He said he was through. as Steve Allen, Jack Parr, Johnny
night. imagined shooting a scene with a "No matter what happens," Carson, Jay Leno and Jay Leno."
Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno On the “Tonight Show,” Conan beautiful co-star -- and getting Conan continued, "it has been a
36 Tech Tips/ TV/ E-reader News Edition

Look for a Good App Before Buying a New Sneak Peek: The
Human Target
Device [Saving Money] opening credits
By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:30:00 AM
Submitted at 1/15/2010 1:00:00 PM

We live in an era of multi- There's been a lot of talk coming

functional devices. Our phones
aren't just phones—they're
internet-connected computers,
GPS devices, cameras, and more.
So before you go buying new
gear to fill a need, take blogger
Fred Wilson's advice: Look for
an app.
Wilson explains how he
attempted to find a better
solution for entering text into
and controlling his home theater
PCs, having been dissatisfied
with his current setup. His first
instinct was to buy some new
gear—specifically an Apple
Wireless Keyboard and a
Gyration Air Mouse, both of
which set him back around $160
total. What he got was more
frustration. Then he went with a
friend Andy's advice, who
suggested a $2 iPhone/iPod
touch app:
So in frustration, I pulled out the
out of the Television Critics
Association press tour about the
opening credits for FOX's new
version of The Human Target,
which premieres this Sunday.
Here's a look. I like the graphics,
but the music isn't as moody or
energetic as it should be. It's
more "majestic," which seems
wrong for this kind of show.
But hey, it's an actual opening
credits sequence and a theme
iPod touch we use as a Sonos (iPhone style keyboard) all for multifunctional device, Wilson song, which is more than most
and Boxee remote in our family $1.99. had one takeaway: "Bottom line shows have today, so let's not
room and downloaded the The Apple keyboard was for me: apps beat devices. argue. ( Here's the opening of the
Mobile Air Mouse app from the roughly $80 and the Gyration Lesson learned. Relatively 1992 Rick Springfield version of
iTunes store for $1.99. You have Air Mouse was about the same. cheaply." the show.)
t o d o w n l o a d f r e e " s e r v e r $160 down the drain. The $2 Have you had similar Filed under: Other Drama
software" for the device from the solution was better. experiences? What apps have Shows, Video, Reality-Free
Mobile Air Mouse website as As Wilson is quick to point out, you used that've taken the place Permalink| Email this| |
well. you would need an iPhone or of buying new gear? Let's hear C o m m e n t s
Guess what? Andrew was right. iPod touch on hand—and those about it in the comments. The
It works very well. And you get d o c o s t g o o d m o n e y — b u t $ 1 6 0 L e s s o n : A p p s B e a t
a trackpad and a keyboard assuming you already have a D e v i c e s [ A V C ]

Review: 30 Rock - Black Light Attack!

By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) So Tina Fey got a lot of action else to do with the show, just was another good episode.
Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:45:00 AMin this special double-header. In plots involving the personal lives Facebook!
the first episode, she did it with of the characters (with the Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock,
(S04E10) "For four years I've James Franco (and a pillow - I occasional plot about a Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
had to make do with what passes don't want to know more than problem/scheme Jack has Permalink| Email this| |
for men around here, with their that), and in this one she makes concerning NBC and Comments
untucked shirts, boneless faces, out with Danny. Which reminds executives). I'd like to get back
their Stars, both Wars and Trek." me: we need more episodes going on with TGS. We don't see to more of that.
- Jack where they actually show what's many skits anymore or anything In the meantime though, this
E-reader News Edition Tech Tips/ Entertainment/ 37
Madonna and
ShootShifter Unifies Photo Names and Tyler Perry Pledge
Synchronizes Timestamps [Downloads] to Help Haiti
(ETonline - Breaking News)
By Jason Fitzpatrick stamps. You can tweak
(Lifehacker) individual images or bulk shift Submitted at 1/15/2010 7:57:00 AM

Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:00:00 AM

the time stamps of entire folders
and collections. You can also Madonna and Tyler Perry are
Mac OS X: If you've ever used standarize the naming scheme so the latest celebs to pledge their
two cameras or tried to sync up that photos from Camera A that support to the people of Haiti.
the photos from your camera and are in DSCXXXX.jpg format "I had planned to give a private
that of a friend, you know what a and photos from Camera B that donation," Tyler tells ET. "But
frustrating experience it can be. are in P1020XXXX.jpg are all then I thought about the people
ShootShifter makes merging unified with a name like who may want to give but don't
batches of photos painless. EventXXXX.jpg. have the ability to look deeply
When you're organizing photos ShootShifter is freeware and into some of these
you can run into all sorts of m i s m a t c h e d t i m e s t a m p s , easy to correct these problems. requires Mac OS X 10.4 or organizations." Some scam
issue: pictures taken by a camera pictures taken with two different Once you import pictures into above. Have a favorite tool for operations have popped up in
with a clock that isn't set cameras that have the correct shootShifter you can modify syncing your photos up? Let's recent days, which Tyler calls
correctly, pictures taken at the time but have different file- them either by dragging and hear about it in the comments. "cruel." "If you want to make a
s a m e e v e n t b u t f r o m t w o naming schemes, and so on. dropping them on a timeline or Thanks Mortimer! shootShifter donation," he adds, "you can do
different cameras that have ShootShifter makes it incredibly by modifying the actual time so to the Tyler Perry Foundation
and I will add it to what I'm

Prism HUD Puts Detailed Stats Anywhere on
Your Desktop [Downloads]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 7:00:00 AM
Windows only: Prism HUD
provides a heads-up view of the
memory, processor power, and
hard drive activity your system is
using, but doesn't do it all the
time. The lightweight monitor
app only pops up when your
system really moves.
You don't have to do much more
than decide the size and
placement of the panels where
Prism HUD will show you the
stats, if you don't want to. Prism
HUD's defaults are decent for
alerting you to notable activity
on your system, but if you want
to dig into deeper statistical read-
outs, you certainly can. If all that
interests you is memory usage,
that's all you have to have show
up, though you can decide how
giving. I can assure you that
every dime, 100 percent of what
you give will get to an
organization that will use it to
help the Haitian people."
opaqe the readouts are, the color Madonna is also helping out by
of the panels, and whatever else pledging a donation to Partners
is needed to fit your perfect in Health and is urging others to
desktop. do the same.
Prism HUD is a free download,
light on system resources (about
10 MB on Windows 7, matching
what FreewareGenius reports),
and available for Windows
systems only. Prism HUD[via
FreewareGenius.com]
38 Tech News/ E-reader News Edition

Social Media Marketing: You Fear, You Fail

By Guest Author forever ruined is such an still exert control over what their average. Testing, Experimenting,
(ReadWriteWeb) anomaly that brands need not consumers know and see. Trying
Submitted at 1/15/2010 5:00:00 AM
worry. The act of interacting Consumers no longer need the The best way to allay a brand's
with a customer inherently brand for information. Any concerns is through knowledge.
A few weeks ago a company I humanizes the brand, which semblance of brand control was Nothing is a better teacher than
work with lost an amazing protects it from potentially brand lost when each consumer became testing, experimenting, and
opportunity. We gave them the - s h a t t e r i n g b a c k l a s h e s . the equivalent of a newspaper. trying. Trying social media
idea to create one of the best Consumers are more likely to Blogs, twitter and product marketing and interacting with
brand blogs I've ever seen. support and champion a brand online reputation management. reviews have enabled consumers consumers is the best way to
They said no. Instead, they that they feel connected to. Realizing that smart brands can to define a brand with the push learn.
decided to create a social media R e m e m b e r M o t r i n ? D i d n ' t engage in social media of a button. However, the learning curve can
strategy that was boring and T h i n k s S o marketing with minimal risk can When a customer writes about be steep and not many are
dictated by legalities. Just Even the most well-known help overcome the fear of their horrible experience, a brand comfortable putting themselves
imagine a blog that doesn't allow s o c i a l g a f f e s a r e q u i c k l y backlash. should be afraid of leaving that at the mercy of their consumers.
c u s t o m e r c o m m e n t s . T h e forgotten. For example, Motrin's In a digital world where comment unanswered. However, For some, an online department
campaign not only offered zero controversial YouTube ad caused consumers have a low attention most brands fear interacting with (with actual power and
value to customers, but in the little long-term brand damage. span and news moves quickly, their consumers one-on-one. resources) that can dedicate
end it ignored them by turning The Motrin story starts with the the fear of permanently ruining a Restaurant owners, because of themselves to learning and
the blog into a press release release of what many mothers brand by engaging online need their huge dependence on word- gathering data is a viable
platform. Ultimately, the brand considered a controversial ad. not be entertained. At most, a of-mouth marketing, are one of solution. For others, a consultant
decided to trash the project and When a number of mothers on brand will experience short-lived the best examples of great or coach may offer meaningful
walk away from social media. Twitter found it offensive, obstacles and minor backlashes customer interaction. They insights on what to do and, more
Sponsor Motrin responded quickly, as it grows to understand how to realize that a single unhappy importantly, what not to do.
This is guest post was written by removed the ad, and posted an engage online. customer can mean the loss of Knowledge isn't the only way to
Samir Balwani, an emerging a p o l o g y . S h o r t l y a f t e r a n The fear of error is a natural potentially 10 patrons. If a overcome fear; conviction helps
t e c h n o l o g i e s s t r a t e g i s t a t apology was posted, Motrin one, but it's not the only one that manager sees someone that isn't one rise to the challenge. A
Morpheus Media. You can consumers stopped caring about can cause a brand's social media happy, more often than not he'll brand that is sincerely dedicated
follow him on Twitter the marketing mistake. They marketing campaign to fail. Most find a way to make the consumer to interacting online will find a
The biggest reason most social recognized that someone made a brands tend to also be afraid of have a better experience. way to make it work. When C-
media marketing campaigns fail mistake, and the story blew over. losing control over their image. Similarly for a brand, the class executives show interest by
is fear - fear of jumping into Although mistakes occur, the It's ironic that most companies Internet has evolved beyond allocating resources and making
something new and trying a effects can be controlled with an are afraid to trust their simple advertising to one that is social media a priority, managers
social media marketing strategy. understanding of online PR and consumers but expect their dominated by word of mouth become less afraid of failure.
Social media marketing doesn't p r o p e r o n l i n e r e p u t a t i o n customers to trust them. Next marketing. Fear of interacting Social media marketing requires
always guarantee short-term m a n a g e m e n t . T h e a v e r a g e page: Define a Brand With the with consumers means foregoing a company-wide culture shift
results, could be risky and c o n s u m e r s w o n ' t f i n d a Push of a Button Define a Brand this potentially lucrative avenue that works best when inspired
doesn't always work. But what marketing failure unless they With the Push of a Button of marketing. from the top down.
most brands don't realize is that specifically search for it. A Instead of realizing the truth that A smart social brand would By overcoming the fear that
doing nothing may be even Google search for Motrin on Jan. consumers are already talking forego any fears of losing total brands have, they can dedicate
riskier. 11, 2010 returned only Motrin about brands and republishing control and embrace the idea of themselves to a social strategy
Engaging consumers online product information for the first brand asset ( remixing, as pull marketing, opening itself to instead of faltering between
requires a brand to stop worrying eight results. The 9th position is Lawrence Lessig would say), attracting new customers through
and become personable. The the actual commercial. However, most brands act as if they can innovation and distinctiveness. SOCIAL page 40
scenario where a brand image is even that can be remedied with Fear is what makes a business
E-reader News Edition
Facebook Now Running Virus Scans on Users' PCs
By Sarah Perez
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:23:21 AM
Earlier this week, Facebook and
security company McAfee
announced a partnership which
offers Facebook's 350 million
users a free six-month
subscription to McAfee's
security software. Interested
parties can visit the Protect Your
PC tab on the McAfee Page on
Facebook to sign up for the deal.
However, the most interesting
part of this new partnership isn't
the online coupon, it's the drastic
change Facebook is taking to
protect their network involving
required virus scanning of user
PCs. As of now, users whose
accounts have been
compromised won't be permitted
to log back into Facebook until
their PC is scanned for malware
and the infections are removed.
Is Facebook overstepping their
role by getting into the virus-
scanning game? Or is this new
move a brilliant strategy that will
help make Facebook a safer
place?
Sponsor
Virus Scanning Now Required
Prior to Login for Infected
Computers
In a related blog post,
Facebook's Jake Brill notes that
one of the company's biggest
challenges is helping people
whose accounts have been
compromised by spammers.
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Users who have had their would argue that those backing nature on the unappealing small
accounts hijacked are now being this argument may be just a little size of their install base is
identified and are temporarily too sensitive to privacy concerns, constantly debated). The
locked out from logging into the though, but that's a matter of problem has become so bad over
social network until they personal opinion. the years that Microsoft finally
network have malware-free
complete a verification process. A more valid point may be the released a free anti-virus
computers. It's not unusual for
Facebook sends the affected user fact that users are required to use program called Security
companies to run a scan as part
an email to verify that they are McAfee software as opposed to Essentials which is available to
of the user account verification
the legitimate owner of the their own already installed and anyone running a legal copy of
process prior to login to check
account. Unfortunately, most configured security suite. (In Windows.
the computer for viruses and
hackers are savvy enough to truth, McAfee runs a web scan Requiring this subset of
other malware and to make sure
change the email address and on your machine but like any uninformed users to shape up or
that the computer is running the
security question after web-based virus scan, code is stay out will certainly help the
appropriate version of the
compromising your account, downloaded and installed on social network stay safer for the
company's security software.
which means many users will your machine.) Unfortunately, rest of its users. Nevertheless,
Thanks to Facebook's new
still have to contact Facebook current anti-malware programs cynics may wonder how much of
partnership with McAfee, the
support. have no mechanisms that can Facebook's decision was truly
company is basically doing the
A better solution, as it turns out, report to a website about the done in the name of security and
same thing businesses have done
is to make sure that users' PCs status of a user's machine - that how much was simply a desire to
for years. However, unlike
are protected before they ever is, whether or not it's infected or take part in what's likely a very
corporate networks, only
log in to the site. This way, clean. Maybe it's time that they lucrative deal with McAfee. The
Facebook accounts that have
Facebook can be sure that there should? security company is the other big
been compromised will be
isn't any malicious software A third opinion (and frankly, the winner here - they now get their
subjected to a scan prior to login.
running on the user's computer. one this author can get behind) is name in front of hundreds of
Is Virus Scanning Facebook's
Since many hackers are able to that this policy change is, in fact, millions of Facebook users -
Job?
spread their malware on a brilliant move by the company. specifically the ones who need
Obviously, the goal with this
Facebook by way of an infected No other social networking their help the most. Talk about
new policy is to protect
user's computer, this new process service goes so far as to verify its targeted advertising!
Facebook users. Even one
assures that only clean, users are entering their site with It should be interesting to see
infected machine can have a
uncompromised computers are clean, virus-free PCs. And since how big of an impact this policy
ripple affect on the network as
able to access Facebook. Facebook is only scanning change has on the safety and
the hacker or spammer spreads
While Facebook isn't running a previously compromised security of the social network
their malware across the site
scan on all PCs (yet!), the idea to computers, one could argue that over time. Assuming it has a
through the compromised
run scans prior to granting access they're actually doing these users notable impact, we may even see
account. Still, some people may
is one that comes from the world a favor. Despite years of other social networks and online
feel that Facebook is
of business networks. Most warnings, a surprising number of communities take the same
overstepping its role by requiring
companies that allow remote Windows users still don't run measures in the future. Whether
users to grant the company (by
access to their internal systems anti-virus programs on their that would a good thing for the
way of McAfee) the ability to
either by way of a VPN, Wi-Fi, computers. (Macs and Linux internet as a whole is still open
download and run code on their
or an intranet site often also have have less issues with malware - for debate. Discuss
machine which scans all the files
security measures in place to whether that has more to do with
stored on their hard drive. We
verify that users accessing their their inherently more secure
40 Tech News/ E-reader News Edition

Entrepreneurs: It's Not What You U.S. Government Says:

Do, It's Why You Do It Overcharging for Text
By Chris Cameron
(ReadWriteWeb)
theory in practice is of a
historical sense. Sinek recounts
the story of Samuel Pierpont
Messages is A-OK
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:55:00 AM
By Mike Melanson
Langley, who was given money (ReadWriteWeb)
Motivational speaker and author and resources by the U.S. Justice Department has now
of the book Start With Why government to invent "the flying Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:36:00 AM declared that investigation over
Simon Sinek believes he has machine" only to be beaten to the and announced that they will do
found a way to map out the way If you're still paying a per text nothing to stop these companies
within this center "Why" circle p u n c h b y u p s t a r t a n d message fee, we can only figure from charging as much as they
inspiring leaders and innovators
When he talks about why a impassioned Wright Brothers. one of two things. Either you please for a service that costs
think. Young entrepreneurs who
company makes a product, he Sinek says it didn't matter that haven't opened up your phone them nearly nothing to provide.
may think they aren't up to snuff
doesn't mean "to make money," Langley - who he says was bill and taken a look at how Randall Stross of the New York
with the big boys of innovation
because that's the result of the d r i v e n b y g r e e d a n d t h e much you're being charged Times shows us in a recent
should be encouraged by Sinek's
"What." Instead, the "Why" possibility of fame - had more versus a monthly plan or you're article how the cell phone
theories which seek to break
represents an innovator's beliefs money, more people and more one of the remaining troglodytes companies are even making out
down inspiration into an easily
and passions that drive them resources, because the Wright that doesn't really use text like bandits on most customers
replicated formula. Brothers were driven by their
toward success. messaging. Either way, you're with monthly plans, comparing
He calls his concept " The
In a TEDx speech in Puget b e l i e f a n d t h e i r p a s s i o n . about to pay more, and the the consumers to customers at an
Golden Circle," a series of three
Sound, Wash., Sinek repeated a E n t r e p r e n e u r s l o o k i n g t o government couldn't care less. all-you-can-eat buffet, and the
concentric circles that represent
mantra several times to the innovate today should take note An article in gadget-guide companies as the cafeteria
the different ways we think about
a u d i e n c e t h r o u g h o u t h i s of what makes a great leader, and Electronista pointed out this o w n e r s . C u s t o m e r s w i t h
a product or goal. The outermost
presentation that sums up his it all starts with "Why", says m o r n i n g t h a t a r e c e n t unlimited plans, like diners
circle, labeled "What," Sinek.
"Golden Circle" theory. investigation is over and the bringing a healthy appetite to an
represents, for instance, a
"People don't buy what you do, "The goal is not to do business verdict is in. all-you-can-eat cafeteria, might
company's product. The next
they buy why you do it. And with everybody who needs what Sponsor think they're getting the best out
circle, "How," would be the
what you do serves as the proof you have," he says. "The goal is During the period from 2005 to of the arrangement. But the
technology behind this product, to do business with people who
of what you believe," he said. 2008, six major cell phone carriers, unlike the cafeteria
and the innermost circle
While Sinek points out today's believe what you believe." carriers were pared down to four owners, can provide unlimited
represents "Why" the company
l e a d e r s a n d i n n o v a t i v e Discuss and text message prices doubled, quantities of "food" at virtually
makes the product.
companies, like Steve Jobs and going from 10 cents to 20 cents a no cost to themselves -- so long
Sponsor
Apple, the best example of his piece. That is, competition as it is served in bite-sized
The crux of Sinek's ideas lie
decreased and prices increased - portions.
SOCIAL a tell-tale sign of moving closer So, keep text messaging away
continued from page 38
to a monopoly. and filling the cell phone
broadcast models and consumer Ribeiro. Wisconsin's Senator Herb Kohl companies' coffers - we know we
interactions. Until a brand . Discuss a n d t h e S e n a t e a n t i t r u s t will.
embraces a social culture of subcommittee decided to look Photo of cell phone by Flickr
transparency, instead of one of into the companies' practices and user Noel A. Tanner. Discuss
guarded marketing speech, it is urged an investigation. The
doomed to being a digital pariah.
Photo by Flickr user Tiago
E-reader News Edition Tech News/ TV/ Entertainment/ 41

OneRiot Opens Up Real-Time Ad What's On Tonight: Ghost

Network to All Developers Whisperer, Ben 10, Sanctuary,
By Frederic Lardinois what people are clearly Critics Choice Awards
(ReadWriteWeb) interested in, it doesn't come as a By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:00:00 AM Starting today, any developer surprise that these ads would Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:15:00 PM

w h o w a n t s t o i m p l e m e n t perform quite well.

Real-Time search engine
OneRiot in an app can do so. Some of the developers that
OneRiot just announced that its have already implemented ads • At 8, ABC has a new
Sponsor
advertising network RiotWise is
According to OneRiot, the f r o m O n e R i o t i n c l u d e t h e Supernanny, followed by new
now open to all developers.
service's ads perform very well. popular multi-service IM client episodes of Shark Tank and
RiotWise is OneRiot's attempt to
With regards to click-through Digsby and the BlackBerry 20/20.
monetize real-time streams by
rates, OneRiot argues that Twitter client ÜberTwitter. Ads • CBS has a new Ghost
focusing on trending topics and Wishing Well.
RiotWise ads perform three-to- are delivered through OneRiot's Whisperer at 8, then new
giving advertisers the • At 10, Food Network has a
four-times better than standard A P I a n d d e v e l o p e r s h a v e
episodes of Medium and
opportunity to highlight their new The Best Thing I Ever Ate.
ads. We don't have access to the considerable freedom in how Numb3rs.
own content in these streams or
service's actual statistics, so we they use these ads. • NBC has new episodes of Law
through regular banner ads. The Check your local TV listings for
will have to take these numbers For additional information about and Order, Dateline, and The Jay
private beta of RiotWise began more.
with a grain of salt. Given that OneRiot's advertising network, Leno Show.
in October 2009 and the After the jump, the late night
R i o t W i s e f o c u s e s o n also have a look at our earlier • PBS has a new Washington
company has steadily opened up talk shows.
highlighting content based on coverage here. Discuss Week at 8, followed by new
the service to more developers. episodes of NOW and Bill Continue reading What's On
Moyers Journal. Tonight: Ghost Whisperer, Ben

Pastefire: Launch iPhone Tasks From • At 8:30, Cartoon Network has

Your Desktop Browser
By Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:00:28 AM
The guys at AppsFire have done
it again - they've built a simple
but compelling little iPhone app
that you should probably
download right away. Pastefire is
an app that lets you capture and
act upon information sent with a
click from your computer's
browser to your iPhone.
See a phone number on the web
you want to call? Text or a link
you want to paste into an SMS?
a new Ben 10: Alien Force.
10, Sanctuary, Critics Choice
Awards
Filed under: Late Night,
• At 9, FOX has a new
Dollhouse.
• Syfy has a the two-hour season
Programming, Celebrities, Talk
Show, What To Watch Tonight,
Google" option in Pastefire, finale of Sanctuary at 9. Reality-Free
which would be really nice. I'm • VH-1 has The Critics Choice Permalink| Email this| |
sure these things will be worked Awards at 9. Comments
out. • Also at 9: Hallmark has The
Click the Pastefire bookmarklet Not to overstate things, but this
on your browser, then launch the is a great example of device
Pastefire app on your phone and convergence that makes the
the most appropriate action for iPhone all the more valuable, is it
Thankfully, a Bitch is
the type of media captured will not? We love handy little
happen automatically. It's easy, services like this and the crew at Still Not One [Problems]
fast and free. Appsfire comes up with things By Pareene (Gawker)
Sponsor like this all the time. Are there Submitted at 1/15/2010 11:51:19 AM
The app has some bugs, but it's other handy little must-have resolved.
a good start. For some reason a iPhone hack apps we should One of Annie Leibovitz's ten
captured address doesn't get know about? Let us know in z i l l i o n p r o b l e m s h a s b e e n
presented with a "search in comments below. Discuss
42 Apple/ E-reader News Edition

How-To: Create Your Own iTunes LP

By Andrew Flocchini
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 7:45:38 AM

The iTunes LP is the new format

Apple has been pushing in
iTunes. It’s more like a DVD
than anything else. You have
menus, music, photos, liner notes
and videos. Since this is such a
fresh format, not many albums
are available in it yet. The good
news is, you can make your own.
I’ll take you through the process
of creating your own iTunes LP
that you can distribute yourself.
Getting Started
Apple offers a template to help
you out, which can be found
here(ZIP). After it is unzipped,
you should see an iTunes-LP-
Example.itlp file. Right click on
the file and select “Show
Package Contents.”
If you open up the index.html
file in Safari, you’ll see the LP. images/interface/bleed.png file in music. The music doesn’t live Next, lets add some photos. I deleted them out of
First, we want to edit the your image editor of choice. For inside the LP itself. The LP file used Google to grab a handful of views/home.html.
iTunesMetadata.plist file in now, you might just want to just references songs in your images related to the band. Then Then I had to edit the
TextEdit and enter some info make the image a solid color, iTunes library. There is an audio I replaced the photos in the css/home.css file to move the
about the LP we are creating. I otherwise it may look cluttered. folder, where the intro music that images/photos folder and used liner notes button up.
decided to do the Neutral Milk The buttons are simply images plays on the LP lives. Apple the same naming convention of Things are really starting to
Hotel album, In the Aeroplane that can be replaced easily. The suggests keeping this short, so I photo01.jpg. come together.
Over the Sea. Filling out this LP format is really just HTML opened up one of the songs off The photos will get resized and Adding Songs & Lyrics
information helps iTunes import with some nice JavaScript and the album in iTunes. I then cropped automatically to Adding songs is probably the
the LP correctly. Make sure the CSS. Because of this, you can edited the Start and Stop times. 600×400 when they are hardest part of the whole iTunes
artist and album name are correct make your LP’s as complicated After I made sure it played back displayed, so size doesn’t seem LP creation process. The LP
at a minimum. as you see fit. The CSS folder properly, I created an AAC to be too important. references songs by their XID.
Now we can get into the good contains all the CSS files that version of it by right clicking and Now I want to add some liner The XID is a serial number of
stuff. We want to create the reference the positioning of the selecting “Create AAC Version.” notes, so I used the band’s bio sorts that Apple assigns to every
background image and the bleed buttons. Editing the home.css This created a new m4a file that information from Amazon. Just song available for purchase in
image. The bleed image is what file, I can change the position of was the specific length I wanted. edit the views/linernotes.html the iTunes store. This means the
the user see’s if they are viewing my title on the home page. I renamed the file to intro.m4a file and add your own text. LP can play any song that it
the album at a resolution larger The one thing your LP will and replaced the original I decided that I didn’t want the HOW-TO: page 45
than 1280×720. Open up the need, no mater how simple, is intro.m4a file in the audio folder. credit or video sections so I
E-reader News Edition Apple/ Entertainment/ 43

New Year’s Resolutions iPhone Apps: Get in Better Shape

By Alfredo Padilla warned, none of these apps will Using your iPhone’s GPS to
(TheAppleBlog) actually burn calories for you, track your runs, RunKeeper let’s
Submitted at 1/14/2010 10:30:45 AM
they’ll just help you get the you track your progress, view
feedback and build the routines your routes and control your
With the new year now a few you’ll need to make that happen. music directly from the app.
weeks old, it’s time to stop and Note: All links point to the Information can also be backed
remember those resolutions you iTunes store. up and viewed on the RunKeeper
made at the dawn of 2010. New Lose It! website. If the $9.99 price for the
Year’s Resolutions are perhaps Price: Free Pro version of RunKeeper is a bit
best known for the likelihood Rating: 3.5 stars too rich for your blood, there’s
that they will fall by the wayside. This free applications has sat also a free ad-supported version
If you’re serious, however, one n e a r t h e t o p o f A p p l e ’ s with the same basic
of the best tools for making sure Healthcare & Fitness category includes photos, videos and you have a 3GS, all you’ll need functionality.
you achieve your new year’s for a long time. Attractive and written instructions for how to to do is jump into the settings to iCan
resolutions is your iPhone. easy to use, Lose It! is basically properly do each exercise and activate the Nike+ app, and then Price: 99 cents
W i t h t h e v a s t a r r a y o f a calorie counter. Tell it a bit lets you set up custom workouts. go out and buy the $29 sensor Rating: 3.5 stars
applications available for the about yourself, how much Weightbot for your shoe. The app let’s you Not specifically related to
iPhone it might be hard to pick weight you want to lose and it Price:$1.99 synchronize your progress to getting in better shape, but a
the right ones if you want to get will give you a daily calorie Rating: 4 stars Nike’s website, choose a playlist good app for any resolution,
in better shape, save money or allowance. You can then track If you want to eschew the bother while jogging, including the iCan is basically a goal tracker
get a date this year, so we’re what you eat and how you of tracking every calorie and just famous power song to get your with an inspirational bent.
going to pick out some of the exercise, all with simple charts to want to keep an eye on your over that hump, and gives you Simply enter in any goal and
best for you . First up we’re see how you’re doing. The weight, then Weightbot is for feedback when you’ve reached a you’ll immediately get an
going to start with applications newest version also includes the you. The interface is gorgeous milestone. Unfortunately if you inspirational quote. If at any
that will help you get in better ability to sync your information and it’s extremely easy to use. have an older iPhone, you’re out point you find yourself lagging,
shape. with a website and even tweet You can chart your progress over of luck. simply press a button for more
The most popular new year’s your progress. time and immediately get your RunKeeper inspirational text. An attractive
resolution of all time, likely due iFitness BMI when you enter your Price:$9.99(free version also and simple way to keep track of
to the expanding waistline that Price:$1.99 weight. available) your resolutions so you don’t
over one month of feast and Rating: 4.5 stars Nike+ Rating: 5 stars forget them and remember what
drink bestows upon us, getting in If you want to start building Price: Free (for 3GS owners) + If you don’t have an iPhone you’ve achieved.
better shape can be a frustrating some muscle mass, then iFitness $29 for sensor 3GS, or just don’t want to use
challenge. Thankfully there are is a great companion app. The Rating: N/A the Nike+ system, RunKeeper
p l e n t y o f g o o d i P h o n e application allows you how to Apple and Nike’s partnership to Pro is a great alternative,
applications available to help track a large number of different track your jogging finally arrived although we should note it
you keep this resolution. Just be weight-lifting exercises. It on the iPhone with the 3GS. If doesn’t work on the iPhone 2G.

What You Didn't See on Last Week's 'The Bachelor'!

(ETonline - Breaking News) of the women of "The Bachelor: week's episode. "I started noticing two days ago
Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:15:00 AM O n t h e W i n g s o f L o v e " Check out as Elizabeth, Gia and that Rozlyn and the staffer were
discussing the Rozlyn scandal, Vienna reveal exactly what they too close," Gia tells the
ABC has just released this clip which was edited out of last saw! assembled women.
44 Apple/ Entertainment/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition

Could a Tablet Replace Your Notebook? Jessica Biel on

By Charles Moore
(TheAppleBlog)
that a tablet will be a really well-
suited tool for workaday
handwriting recognition could
potentially condense those
Posing Nearly
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:26:15 AM
production use.
Of course there are many as yet
operations into one, but only if
scribbling on the tablet proved
Naked at 18
PC World’s Jeff Bertolucci imponderables, especially in the ergonomically comfortable. My (ETonline - Breaking News)
posed the rhetorical question context of an Apple tablet, such flirtations with using Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:41:00 AM
recently, “Could a tablet replace as whether the machine will handwriting recognition in OS X
your notebook?” Referencing not support the standard Mac OS and have not been encouraging on ET First Look: Jessica Biel
only Apple’s anticipated tablet application software or will run that front, and personally, I looks stunning on the cover of
computer but also new PC tablets with a variant of the iPhone OS, really is going to be an “iPhone the February issue of Vogue, on
would miss the tactile
like the Microsoft-HP tablet limiting one to iPhone apps, and on steroids,” that would also newsstands January 26, and in
satisfaction of putting pen to
pitched at CES, the chatter about if there will be some provision make prospects for external the magazine the 'Valentine's
good, old, low-tech paper, which
which inclined him to wonder if for supporting a work-worthy keyboard and pointing device Day' star reveals her regrets
seems to help me organize my
a tablet/slate would work as a external keyboard and mouse, support murky, to say the least. about posing nearly naked when
thoughts more effectively.
suitable notebook replacement. rather than limiting users to I simply can’t conceive doing she was 18!
Without Mac OS support,
Jeff thinks that for folks who touchscreen input. production work on a machine Watch Jessica behind the scenes
Dictate is out (along with much
use their laptops and/or netbooks On the OS support front, recent without a physical (QWERTY) of her Malibu photo shoot!
else), although MacSpeech or
primarily for light-duty Web scuttlebutt is not encouraging. keyboard. I’m only a “semi- "I really wanted to go to college,
some other developer might
work like email and casual Earlier, Gizmodo reported new touch” typist, but I’m pretty fast, and it all kind of happened at the
eventually fill that void with an
surfing, the answer may be the intelligence from someone they using most of my fingers in an same time," she says about
iPhone OS compatible dictation
affirmative, and of course many say has been a reliable source in idiosyncratic typing technique posing for Gear magazine, which
app. I’m not going to hold my
have pretty much switched to the past that the new tablet will I’ve developed over the years — freed her from her "7th Heaven"
breath waiting for that. I
using their iPhones or iPod be basically an “iPhone on part visual and party spatial contract after the show's fourth
anticipate that I’ll be using
touches for that type of duty. A steroids,” and will be running an reference — and I find the lack season. "I did this photo shoot.
laptops as my do-all tools for
tablet would presumably provide ARM CPU on the iPhone kernel of tactile feedback with The photo shoot came out. It was
years to come yet.
a l a r g e r d i s p l a y s i z e a n d rather than Intel Core power with touchscreen virtual keyboarding terribly embarrassing. I had to
How about you? Can you
presumably greater feature t h e M a c O S , s o M a c O S unacceptable for typing more apologize to everybody,
envision a tablet, especially one
depth, so for that cohort, and in a p p l i c a t i o n s w i l l n o t b e than a paragraph or two. Not a including my parents. It was a
running the iPhone OS,
that usage context, such a supported. If that is accurate problem, perhaps, for tweeting big learning experience --
displacing your laptop?
m a c h i n e c o u l d b e q u i t e information, then it would pretty and texting, but not the thing for learning how to have boundaries
Related GigaOM Pro Research:
satisfactory, and a step up from much rule out the Apple tablet as long form typing projects. and how to say no."
Is The Age of the Web Tablet
the handhelds in performance a serious work platform as far as Both handwriting and voice
Finally Upon Us? and Rumored
terms. dictation support could have
I’m concerned, and if this rumor Apple Tablet: Opportunities Too
However, for those of us who do i s a c c u r a t e , a l o n g w i t h potential. I use MacSpeech
Big to Ignore
serious production work on our prognostications of a $1,000 Dictate a lot for entering text
laptops, not so much. I’m price tag, I would say good luck both as straight dictation and for
resolved to keep an open mind, with that, Apple. transcribing material drafted by
but I’m exceedingly doubtful If the iTablet/iSlate or whatever hand. Efficient and accurate

Wall Street unimpressed by earnings news

(Financial Times - US By Jamie Chisholm, Global 08:27 | Last updated: January 15 Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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HOW-TO:
Vodafone Sold 50,000 iPhones on continued from page 42

knows the XID for, regardless if edit the manifest.xml file and
Launch Day the user renamed the file in
anyway. If it’s a song you didn’t
replace the default XID with the
one from our track.
By Darrell Etherington handset, now that the iPhone is purchase from iTunes, you have Then we edit the data.js file and
(TheAppleBlog) available on all major carriers to create your own XID. do the same.
Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:01:35 AM
here in Canada, I would’ve We’ll look at how to find the Now open up your LP in iTunes,
gladly waited until it became XID for songs you’ve purchased play the first song and admire
The selling strength of Apple’s o f f i c i a l l y a v a i l a b l e o n a l l from iTunes. First, you need to your work. These same steps
iPhone appears not to be waning networks before making a final enable author mode for iTunes. need to be done for every song
very much at all with the passage decision. As it is, I bought my Make sure iTunes is closed and on the LP.
of time, if the Vodafone UK iPhone back when only one then run this command in Let’s add some lyrics to our
launch of the device is any only the third largest in the UK, provider offered it, and the other Terminal: song next. The lyrics are just an
indication. The newest iPhone following the merger of T- t w o d i d n ’ t e v e n h a v e t h e defaults write com.apple.iTunes image file located in the
provider in the UK, which joins Mobile and Orange. The number network capability to support it. WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool images/songs/ folder. They are
recent entrant Orange and disparity would make more sense The 50,000 figure, then, has true named simply lyrics01.jpg and
original exclusive carrier O2, proportionally if Vodafone more to do with many more Now open iTunes back up, right so on. You can either just create
sold a reported 50,000 handsets already had more market share people making up their minds -click on a purchased song and a simple image with text in it or
when it officially started selling than did Orange. now that all the cards are on the choose Get Info. Under the Info get creative. What about
the iPhone on Jan. 14. tab you will see an XID field. scanning lyrics from the original
It could just be that Vodafone t a b l e t h a n a n y s i g n i f i c a n t
It’s an impressive number for a was more flexible with early advantage offered by Vodafone That is how to tell your LP what vinyl/CD art? You could go even
launch this late, when the iPhone contract upgrades and other over other carriers. song to play. further and scribble the lyrics
3GS has already been on the incentive programs for its This strong launch is yet another But what if this isn’t a song you down on paper then scan it in.
market for six months. Even existing subscribers, but I think reason Apple should really purchased through iTunes? Then Replicate these steps for each
more impressive is the fact that it what we’re seeing has more to considering following Google’s the XID field will be blank. We song and remember to be
beat Orange’s launch day total of do with the growing outward N e x u s O n e s t r a t e g y a n d need to generate our own. Go to creative. The LP will only be as
30,000 by a wide, 20,000- a p p e a r a n c e o f f r e e d o m o f reconfiguring its sales strategy of Terminal and enter the following cool as you want it to be. I like to
handset margin, only two months c u s t o m e r c h o i c e . F e e l i n g t h e i P h o n e t o w a r d s m o r e command: think of it as digital scrap-
after that company’s introduction corralled into making a carrier openness. More choice is better uuidgen booking. If you love the music,
of the device. You will now get back a random you will be inspired to go all out.
decision based on available for business, and with a device
The massive sales day comes hardware is not a pleasant thing, as popular as the iPhone, there’s UUID string that can be used for If you create an LP and use
despite the fact that Vodafone speaking from experience. I little carriers can do to prevent a song. You have to do this for XID’s from songs purchased
d o e s n ’ t r e a l l y o f f e r a n y would much rather choose my Apple from selling its device in every song so they each have a through iTunes, you could give
significant pricing advantages p r o v i d e r b a s e d o n t h e whatever way it chooses. unique XID. Find your song in the LP to someone else. As long
over either Orange or O2. In fact, testimonials of people I know Related GigaOM Pro Research: iTunes and get to the XID field. as they also purchased the songs
pricing and terms on all three who’ve actually lived with and Why AT&T Should Be Ready Apple wants us to prefix this in iTunes, it will work for them.
c a r r i e r s a r e s c a r c e l y used the service. for an iPhone Slowdown UUID with TEST:uuid: to create You could also find a small local
i n d i s t i n g u i s h a b l e . A n d If I was still in the market for a the complete XID string. Now band that you dig and create one
Vodafone’s subscriber base is our song has a unique XID that for them. That should get you
can be referenced in our LP. some backstage passes.
There are two places these
XID’s need to be entered. The
manifest.xml file and the
controllers/data.js file. First we
46 Apple/ TV/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition

Official MobileMe Gallery iPhone Al Pacino thinks through a

App Released by Apple simple question about Jack
By Darrell Etherington
(TheAppleBlog)
reel, and basically carry around
my entire library in my pocket
Kevorkian - TCA Report
for showing off to friends and By Joel Keller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 11:47:46 AM
relatives anywhere I have Submitted at 1/15/2010 11:29:00 AM
Apple released a dedicated Internet access.
MobileMe iDisk app not too A feature that’s very promising Yesterday was cable's first day
long ago for those of us who is the ability to configure Safari at the press tour, and a morning
stubbornly continue to pay good to open MobileMe Gallery links full of panels by the Discovery
money for a subscription, but directly in the app, sort of the networks and a few other
iDisk, as the app is called, is way the new Facebook uses assorted cable entities was
really just a file manager and “fb://” links to open its own followed by three hours of star-
nothing more. Today, Apple application. I say promising studded panels for HBO. I mean, Bronx native spoke in a modified
unveiled another MobileMe- Gallery feature of MobileMe. In because although it seems we're talking about one huge Midwestern lilt that made us
specific iPhone application, this fact, I had to upload a new album terribly convenient, especially if name in entertainment after think he hadn't gotten Kevorkian
one called Gallery(iTunes link). (“Dogs”) for the purpose of this you do a lot of mobile browsing, another: Claire Danes, David out of his system yet. When
You can probably guess what it post, having only had my which I do, I’ve never actually Simon ( The Wire), Rosie asked what it was like filming a
does. Random one from before, with a v i s i t e d a n o t h e r p e r s o n ’ s O'Donnell, Susan Sarandon, movie for HBO, he replied, very
Gallery allows you to browse grand total of four photos. Even MobileMe gallery in my entire Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Zen-like: "Well, it's television.
your MobileMe photo galleries, using established platforms like year and a bit of being a Ricky Gervais. Oh, and Al It's HBO, and so HBO is
something you aren’t able to Facebook and Flickr, I tend not subscriber. Pacino. television."
access using iDisk. The app has to have or share too many It wouldn’t be the first time an Pacino is playing Jack Continue reading Al Pacino
all the polish and intuitive UI pictures. iPhone app has resulted in me Kevorkian in the HBO movie thinks through a simple question
design you’d expect from Apple, That said, I like the way the actually using a service I never You Don't Know Jack(Sarandon about Jack Kevorkian - TCA
and it keeps things simple and to MobileMe Gallery app works on thought I would, and it likely is also in the movie), and during Report
the point. Even if you’re an avid my iPhone, and can see how it won’t be the last, either. Plus it’s the panel discussion, Pacino was Filed under: Celebrities, TCA
MobileMe Gallery user with would be great in conjunction free, though you have to have a acting a bit... odd. Press Tour, Reality-Free
many albums, you should have with iPhoto for both backing up MobileMe subscription to use it, How odd? He wore sunglasses Permalink| Email this| |
no trouble browsing through and making it easy to share but it does help justify the cost of on stage for the first half of the Comments
albums and finding specific photos from events like family t h a t b y a n o t h e r c o u p l e o f panel. His answers were often
photos. get-togethers and birthdays, etc. degrees. Good news for suckers rambling statements punctuated
My problem is, as you may That way, I could store a lot less like me. with occasional insight. And the
notice from the screenshots, I’m photos on my iPhone’s camera
not really an avid user of the

Wyclef Jean Text Campaign Raises $1 Million for Haiti

(ETonline - Breaking News) over $1 million for victims in Wyclef teamed up with "Give to the charity," says Matt delighted to be chosen by Wyclef
Haiti with a text-based campaign
Submitted at 1/15/2010 5:56:00 AM On The Go," a fundraising McKenna, president of Red Fish as the exclusive mobile
in which cell phone users send division of Red Fish Media. Media. "Our goal is to raise $1 donations provider for the Yele
While more help is needed, " T e l e " t o 5 0 1 5 0 1 f o r a n "100 percent of the donations million per day for the sufferers Haiti foundation."
Wyclef Jean has already raised a u t o m a t i c $ 5 d o n a t i o n . that are made are given directly of this catastrophe. We are
E-reader News Edition
Intel Promo Material Points to Core
i5 MacBook Pros
By Darrell Etherington
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 3:32:49 PM
An internal employee incentive
program aimed at Intel retail
salespeople seems to have let the
cat out of the bag about a major
upcoming revision to Apple’s
MacBook Pro line, according to
AppleInsider. If the flyer
detailing the program is accurate,
the MacBook Pro will soon sport
the Intel Core i5 processor,
replacing the Intel Core 2 Duo
chip that has long driven Apple’s
upscale line of notebooks.
A prize draw for passing the
training for sales associates for
the month advertises two prizes
of MacBook Pro laptops,
featuring the Intel Core i5
processor. Intel, for its part,
maintains that although the flyers
are indeed company material, the
suggestion that MacBooks will
soon feature Core i5 tech is
merely a typo.
The Intel Core 2 Duo has been
Notre Dame Student Paper Apologizes for Anti-
Gay Violence Cartoon [Cartoon Violence]
By Pareene (Gawker)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:45:53 PM
"Earlier, the cartoonist... posted
running the show in MacBook
Pros since the very same year
Intel took over chip-making
duties for the Apple line of
computers in 2006, although
originally the upscale notebooks
ran Core Duos, and were
upgraded late in the year. That
means it’s been nearly four years
since we’ve seen a major
platform upgrade, although we
have seen minor spec bumps and
the introduction of the Santa
Rosa platform in 2007, which
the original version of the
cartoon on his blog. In this
version, it shows the punch line
as 'AIDS' instead of 'a baseball
incorporated the NVIDIA
GeForce 8600M integrated
graphics card.
Intel formally introduced the
new Core i3, i5 and i7 chips last
week during CES, and the
mobile i5 is definitely the most
likely suspect for inclusion in
subsequent generations of
Apple’s powerful notebook
line. If Apple does decide to go
with the Core i5 chips, contrary
to earlier rumblings, future
MacBook Pro owners can expect
a nice little increase in
performance over the Core 2
Duo chips, while at the same
time not sacrificing anything due
to increased power demands.
Advantages also include
increased battery performance,
more speed and better graphics,
and they could allow Apple to
assign less internal space to the
motherboard, which could clear
up room additional battery
volume or other things. 3G
antenna, anyone?
bat.' The paper, he claimed,
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Doctor Who in good
hands with Moffat
By Nick Zaino (TV Squad)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:41:00 PM
For those of you who might be
worried about Steven Moffat
taking over as lead writer and
executive producer of Doctor
Who, take comfort in the man's
lifelong dedication to the show.
In this video, fans get to see a bit
more of departing Doctor David only to find it was the kids show
Tennant walking around the Blue Peter, which often
studios where Doctor Who has promoted and previewed
been filmed over the years and episodes of Doctor Who, and
talking about the show. burst into tears.
Moffat, who takes over for Continue reading Doctor Who
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producer Russell T. Davies, Filed under: Doctor Who,
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Doctor Who was on. It wasn't the Comments
show's regular night, but Moffat
rushed to the television anyway,
preferred 'not to make light of
fatal diseases.'"
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Learning doesn't stop at 22
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 1:01:56 PM
At least some young people
have a blind spot, and it's easy to
find if you try a little experiment.
I stumbled across this at a
workshop a number of years ago,
when I was 44. You might
wonder how I remember my age
so specifically. It's part of the
puzzle.
Picture this. A group of about 20
people seated on the floor in a
circle. A young man, opposite
me, says directly to me, "I know
as much as you do." It's part of a
discussion about the differences
between people of varying ages.
According to the younger folk,
they have everything we have,
and of course their bodies are
younger, and stronger. We older
folk are nothing but older. This
was the point the young man was
trying to make.
I wondered for a moment if it
was true, but then I thought back
to what I did and didn't
understand when I was 22. I was
tall and slim and beautiful. I had
a 19-year-old girlfriend who was
cute as a button and had a body
made of elastic. The sex was
fantastic. Life was great. But I
didn't know very much about life
beyond going to school and
concerts and eating, having sex,
taking drugs, drinking beer,
hiking, reading, going to the
movies. I knew I didn't want to
go into the army. I loved writing
software. But I didn't understand
much about the life in front of
me. I was scared of a lot of
things that now I think it was
silly to be afraid of. If I had to
visualize myself at age 40 or 50 I
would have been completely at a
loss. I dealt with it by assuming I
wouldn't live to be 40 or 50. It
was my way of shutting my eyes
to the unknown. It really was
unknown.
Back to the 22-year-old in front
of me.
I asked him a question.
"Do you know more now than
when you were 12?" (I picked an
age before puberty, when he
lived with his parents. Before he
had a beard. Back when college
would seem as vague as high
school, when he would have had
no sense of his future life
independent of his family.)
"No comparison! I didn't know
shit when I was 12."
"Do you think learning stops at
22?"
It's as if he didn't hear me. He
didn't extrapolate. Had I pressed
it (I didn't) I imagine he would
have admitted that learning
probably didn't stop at 22, but
nonetheless he knew just as
much as I did, even though I had
22 more years of learning than
he did.
Over the last couple of days I've
had younger people tell me I'm
ageist when I say I know more
than they do because I've lived
longer. Of course I don't agree.
Would it be ageist to say they
can run faster than I can? Or heal
from injuries faster? That their
blood pressure is lower or their
metabolism more efficient? What
if I said they could please a
woman in some ways I couldn't?
But what if I said I could please
a woman in ways they don't even
know exist? Heh.
One of the things you learn as
you go through this journey is
that every age has its advantages.
I love myself now much more
today than I did when I was 22.
Back then I didn't even get that
you could love yourself. I
tolerate my limits much better,
even though I had limits then as I
have them now. I wouldn't even
know how to describe it to a
younger person, it's as if we were
different species in some ways.
But you'll never get me to say
there aren't big differences betw
being 54 and 22, even 54 and 44.
But I think I could have a more
interesting conversation about it
with someone who is 44.
Because one of the things that
happens as you get older is that
you learn to listen better. And I
can have an interesting
conversation with a 70 or 80 year
old, one that's more balanced
than I could have had 32 years
ago when I was 22.
The thing that we shouldn't do is
limit what someone can do based
on their age. Age itself already
imposes enough limits. If a
younger person wants to hazard
a guess as to what it's like to be
our age, let them have fun and
don't laugh. And if an older
person says they understand
electronics and blogging and
texting, likewise, humor them.
You never know what you might
learn. People of all ages should
keep their minds open. It might
suprise some young people to
learn that this advice applies to
them as much as it does to older
people.
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D-League's
Sundiata Gaines
Saves Day for Jazz
By Matt Moore (Fanhouse
Main)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 5:45:00 PM
Filed under: Cavaliers, Jazz, D-
League
You deal with the low pay, and
the long travel. You play in
convention centers and hockey
arenas. You travel to Bismarck,
Bakersfield and McAllen, Texas.
You listen to your coaches tell
you that if you work hard and
keep focused, you'll get where
you want to go. A shot to play in
the NBA. You stick with the
NBA D-League, believing in the
system, and believing in
yourself, believing that you'll get
your shot.
Sundiata Gaines got that shot
with the Utah Jazz. And with that
shot, he took the shot, and won a
game for the Jazz over LeBron
James and his sidekicks, the
Cleveland Cavaliers, 97-96.
There are moments in sports that
really speak to the human
experience, that reflect the value
of persistence, of dedication, of
effort, and the underdog making
it count. Tonight was one of
those stories.
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Resident Evil 5: Gold
Year Zero for Journalism Edition looks like a
(Scripting News) excitement. The only way to find A few years ago Berkman had sequel in new trailer
Submitted at 1/14/2010 11:34:16 AM out is to be there. the baton, we were pushing what
2. NYU and Manhattan are was possible by doing. Now By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq)
First, an announcement. I've going to be very interesting they're focusing more on Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:45:00 AM

accepted a position at NYU as a places in the coming months and studying, which is fine, that's
Visiting Scholar. It's a great years, in exactly the areas I'm what academics usually do. But After numerous trailers for the
school, great people, a perfect fit. interested in. There are projects the young people whose lives upcoming Resident Evil 5: Gold
Jay Rosen, who I will be getting underway that I can't talk we're helping to launch must Edition's zany costumes,
working for, wrote a post on our about yet, but when you hear view it differently. They, we Capcom has finally released a
Rebooting The News website about them you'll probably hope, are the ones who will trailer focusing on both of the
that explains the position, and understand why I had to go. provide the information and extra DLC story chapters. " Lost
provides context. 3. I have the same feeling about perspectives to help us make in Nightmares" takes place
From my point of view, this is journalism today that I had about better decisions, to be inspired to before the events of Resident
why I'm doing it. computer science in the 1970s. greatness, to solve the hard Evil 5 and includes a mansion
1 . I t p u l l s m e b a c k i n t o Sure, we had textbooks and problems we face. Now is not inspired by the setting of the
academia. A good university teachers, and projects and That intuition proved correct. the time to study, imho, as much very first RE game. " Desperate
provides a cauldron where some grades, but there was also an Today, 2010, is Year Zero for as it's the time to do. Escape" takes place during the
pretty great stuff can happen opportunity to invent it as we journalism the way 1970 was the I'm keeping the house in end of Resident Evil 5, as Jill
quickly. When I was at Berkman, were going along. Computer dawn of modern computer B e r k e l e y , a n d w i l l s p e n d and Josh race to save Chris and
w e r e a b l e t o b o o t s t r a p science felt like the greatest science. approximately half my time in Sheva from the endgame's
podcasting, unconferences, and place to be because there were Over the last few years I've both places through the next exploding volcano.
take blogging out of the tech no older people entrenched with looked at a number of journalism year. What happens after that, I With Jill serving as the "main
world and onto campuses and gates erected to keep out bright programs, and of all the people don't know. I just heard that one character" for the additional
into politics, all in a two-year ambitious young people. That's out there Jay is closest to where I of my Berkman colleagues, content, the Gold Edition
fellowship. But more important one reason I gravitated there. I w a n t t o b e . L a s t w e e k , Rebecca Mackinnon, who along expansion looks like a genuine
is the opportunity to reconnect felt equally excited about media, Columbia, our uptown rival (that with Ethan Zuckerman founded sequel, a la Resident Evil 3:
with young minds. Harvard in as a grad student, but I didn't go f e e l s p r e t t y w e i r d , b t w ) Global Voices, has accepted a Nemesis. Most importantly,
2003 was a hotbed of interesting i n t h a t d i r e c t i o n b e c a u s e announced they had raised $15 position at Princeton. I hope we're glad to see Jill's masterful
thought. Remember it was in that intuitively I felt that I'd spend my m i l l i o n t o s t u d y t h e n e w New York and NYU don't mind, unlocking skills put to good use
period that Facebook was born, career climbing a ladder, and as I journalism. My immediate but it looks like we're getting in this trailer. The first batch of
right there in Cambridge. I have approached the top, the ladder reaction, which of course I ready to have some fun over on RE5 DLC will be available on
a very strong feeling that NYU would be disintegrating. A better tweeted, was that it was way too the other coast. February 17.
in 2010, esp in journalism, is way to matter in media, I felt, early to study it -- first we have Continue reading Resident Evil
attracting the same kind of was through computer science. to do it. 5: Gold Edition looks like a
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Real Housewives of Orange County: Slumber Party Massacre

[Recaps]
By Richard Lawson (Gawker) since the dawn of human Anyway, Gretchen and Lynn Bennigan's, Lynn is quick with a the way?
Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:58:00 PM civilization. Tamela, like any were at loggerheads and they cutting remark. Though she says Moving down the sunburnt
normal person, was a bit couldn't figure out what to do, so it so daftly and dumbly that I pavement, we come to Tamra
Oh finally some fun! After befuddled by Gretchen's sudden, they just took their dogs and wonder if she's being clever or if and her curdling life. Husband's
unending episodes of grim camera-followed interest in her walked off in opposite she just has no filter. Like if being a shamed grump —
cloudy skies and sad rubbery Teen Blues, so she went to her directions. Gretchen mad that words just sluice out of her useless now that he's broke and
faces, we finally got some mom and was all "Why does that she'd been found out as a self- mouth and she has no control his trophy wife wants to learn
Housewives joy last night. I blonde rabbit want to send me to promoting sneak, and Lynn mad over it. Whatever the case, she how to cut and chew her own
mean, sure there was also McLean's?" that someone had noticed that said appropriately mean things food — and her oldest son from
fighting and weeping, but there This made Lynn angry. And she doesn't so much pay about Gretchen appearing nude a previous mistake just can't get
was also laughing. So much Lynn angry is much like Lynn attention to her children's needs or whatever on the internet and his life together. He's facing jail
laughing. anything else — same face, same as try to superficially mimic getting sooo drunk at that dinner time for unpaid parking tickets,
But before we get to the voice, same brackish, deep- them, standing the way they party that one time last season. he stole Tamra's car while she
laughing, we have to start with pooled eyes — except she gets stand, wearing jeans the way You know, Gretchen stuff. was on vacation and now Simon
the murmuring. Do you hear it, kinda snippy and says bitchy they wear jeans. Lynn doesn't Boingy boingy rabbity Gretchen hates him even more, and worst
in the trees? Whispering through little things. Mostly she said to have kids. She has role models. stuff. of all he looks like a shark.
the leaves like the creepiest parts Gretchen that Gretchen just can't Ah well. They were to meet I wondered if Gretchen was sad Tamra just doesn't know what to
of Lost? It's got a low, lazy possibly understand anything again and hash things out once that she didn't have kids or what do with this broken life that she
timbre, a hum like dragonflies. about anyone because she's not a more, this time with their men in the F was going on. And then I broke. Ryan swears he's going to
And it's getting closer. Closer mom. Which is true. Gretchen is tow, all dopey and flatly thought with a shiver about get his act together, but haven't
and closer and now it is joined not a mom. Unless you count offended. Doug Smiley was Gretchen with kids. A cozy we heard that before from
by the sound of feet shuffling Doug "Slade" Smiley, who is acting all snaky and gross like he Christmas morning, the kids everyone on this show and they
along and the growls and breath like an overgrown, hairy, Ed always is, trying to lecture Lynn giddy, even in sleep, curled up in never really do.
of a ferocious hell-dog and closer Hardy-wearing child. A child about various bullshit that didn't their snowman pajamas. And Later in the episode Ryan talked
and closer and — oh don't with his own children. Yeesh. mean anything. He got a wild then suddenly Gretchen kicking about how his buddy was going
worry! It's just Lynn. But yes, mostly Gretchen look in his eyes and said the door in wearing a sombrero, to get him a job as a "brand
Yeah, Lynn went out to the park doesn't have any kids. That something about how he and brandishing two bottles of manager" or some such nonsense
f o r a d o g - w a l k i n g / s e r i o u s doesn't mean that she doesn't Lynn are friends and if they're tequila, crisscrossing bandoliers and we all groaned and rolled
discussion-having outing with understand kids, but that wasn't friends he's going to tell it to her of shot glasses and salt shakers our eyes and thought
Gretchen. See, remember last what Lynn was saying. Lynn, in straight and Lynn and everyone lashed across her bouldered "Suuuuure." And we were right
week's episode when Gretchen the grand fashion of these else just seemed so confused. chest. She'll dance a manic cha- to think "Suuuuure." We weren't
decided that the best thing to use housewives, wasn't talking about Because, wait. Lynn and Doug cha for the kids for a moment, being sarcastic and we didn't
to wash the blood off her hands her kid or looking out for her are friends? I don't think Doug shrieking "Margaritassssss!!!" even know it! Because Ryan
was someone else's teenage best interests. No, Lynn was knows what that word means. only to stumble down the hall DID get this coveted brand
d a u g h t e r ? Y e a h , b e c a u s e talking about herself. Lynn was Either way, Lynn pretty much and pass out a few minutes later, manager job from his buddy and
everyone hates her because of annoyed that Gretchen didn't emerged the victor. Because, yes, sitting on the carpet with her Tamra was awfully proud and
Jeff, she decided to impress understand why Lynn was mad anyone who's allied with Doug head on a couch cushion. How Simon raised his orange
everyone by counseling Lynn's that Gretchen had talked to her loses by default, but also because special Christmas will be in the eyebrows and he seemed vaguely
daughter Tamela (or whatever) kid. That's what it was about. despite her brain being nothing Smiley household. I mean, it's impressed, because at this point
about the Teen Sadness epidemic These women are never not more than a half-eaten Pot O' already so pleasant for Doug's
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that's been sweeping teendom talking about themselves. Yay. Gold appetizer sampler from existing kids. Where are they, by
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Jersey Shore: The Wild Animals of Atlantic City [Recaps]
By Brian Moylan (Gawker)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:41:00 PM
For the most important
sociological experiment of our
time, we must observe our seven
guidos not only in environments
they are comfortable in, but
abroad as well. Still, it as in their
native habitat where they truly
flourish.
Last night the crew got to spend
the night in Atlantic City.
Unfortunately, we didn't get to
see any of the town other than
the inside of a rather generic
Italian restaurant and a nightclub
called Providence. It is not
named after the hometown of DJ
Paulie Diplomat nor any sort of
divine intervention, because
there were no angels there. In
fact, it was the scene of the
robbery. In the second bonus
hour of our study, our crew was
returned back to its rightful
place, terrorizing the boardwalks
and sidewalks of Seaside
Heights. Though internal conflict
threatens to tear the tribe apart,
there greatest attacks are still
from without and their greatest
struggles of the mating variety.
In fact, the most successful at
propagating the race—other than
Sammi and Ronnie whose rough
relationship already mirrors that
of the average guido
marriage—is Vinny Cellophane.
He has gone from the missing
link to the King of All Eyebrows
in just a few short episodes. Last
night, his two best groomed
features not only wooed a cougar
and a skanky model (of the the
Penthouse variety), but also The
Situation's sister, Extenuating
Circumstances.
Young Vinny is now so virile
that he lost Extenuating
Circumstances because he started
flirting with his cougar (the one
he stole from bossman Danny)
and managed to win Extenuating
Circumstances back later that
night. That is because EC sees
herself as a Juliet figures and she
is only attracted to men that her
relatives deem unworthy or
untouchable. Because of the
striking physical similarities in
their inbred family, she feels the
need to assert her independence
by choosing mates who will raise
the ire of her siblings. That is
why she creeps into Vinny's bed
in the middle of the night. Next
episode, she will be rushed to the
hospital after ingesting a poison
that she found under Vinny's bed
that was made with milk, cheese,
mayonnaise, and just a little bit
of pickle juice. While it will
render her inert for a long period
of time, it is not lethal. It may
stink, but not as bad a puke
breath.
This caused surprisingly little
tension in the house, but just
about every other petty grievance
was aired as if it were the first
night of Festivus. Actually, while
DJ Paulie Disciple asserts his
Catholicism and many members
wear markings of Christianity,
they all seem to celebrate this
fictional holiday known for its
squabbles, feats of strength, and
erect poles.
If you don't know what we're
talking about, maybe we should
investigate some other terms that
are germane to today's lesson on
tribal politics.
• Benny: This derogatory term
for a guido is used by the natives
of the Jersey Shore, the
summertime playground of our
lovely lads and ladies. It is
actually an acronym standing for
Bayonne, Elizabeth, Newark,
and New York, the four places
where most of the guidos hail
from. It connotes the big hair,
tans, trashy clothing, and all the
other physical attributes that we
associate with the guido, but cast
in a negative light.
• Prehistoric Kindergarten: The
oldest age known to man, when
the first things to walk on two
feat were belligerent, muscle
bound, heavily-browed
humanoids who liked to pump
their fists in the air. This is the
age to which the guido traces his
origins.
• Clinger: A woman who
demands constant attention from
a man, especially after they have
just met. They go in stages from
Stage One to Stage Five, the
final one being the worst. Stage
Five of this rare disease is
marked by excessive phone calls,
tracking down the male in
question, giving him odd gifts,
and other stalkerish behavior.
• Taste: While many may argue
that guidos have no taste, that is
decidedly not true. When a male
makes out with a woman, his
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very potent saliva causes a little) but a performance for the
chemical reaction with hers other men in the house. He is
which will leave a distinct taste constantly trying to assert his
in her mouth for any other man superiority as the alpha male and
that makes out with her. It is a he does this by showing his
way for them to mark what is sexual potency. This is why it is
theirs important for him to score every
• Belligerent: Getting so drunk night, even if the women is
that one is not accountable for unattractive. It also explains why
his actions. This is not he needs to flirt with and attempt
necessarily a bad thing. to steal the women that the other
• Robbery: The stealing of a men in the house are interested
sexual conquest of one male by in. His behavior should not be
another male. While many may confused with a natural drive to
see this as a cheap tactic, for be a leader, but by very deep
some pulling off such a seated existential pain and
maneuver is a source of pride. horrifically low self-esteem.
• Ammo: Mean things that one This, of course, leads us to
has stored up to say about his Paula, who not only doesn't wear
tribe mates, usually hurled when her thong in the hot tub, she has
cornered and to cause maximum sex with Mike in the Jacuzzi
psychological harm. right in front of Vinnie and his
• Clown Out: To treat a woman Old Lady. When the pair finally
badly or to fool her. leave to go inside the house, she
is so drunk that she slips on the
N o w t h a t w e k n o w t h e top step. Oopsie.
passwords let us venture into the The next morning the crew is
guido's secret lair. awoken by the pounding of the
Meet Paula: Somehow while Tanning Salon Chick, who is
trolling the finer nightlife there to tell Paula that her car is
e s t a b l i s h m e n t s o f S e a s i d e missing, she has missed the first
Heights, The Situation managed day of her new job (and is
to find the trashiest girl in the probably fired), her mother
whole land. Her name is Paula. thinks she's dead in a ditch, and
But before we get to Princess that she is altogether a horrible
Paula of Pooptown, let us take a human being. See, Paula has a
minute to discuss The Situation's new job (probably after not
tactics when it comes to bedding having one for a long time after
women. He will stop at nothing the birth of her second child) and
to bring home a girl every night. was not supposed to be out
This has nothing to do with his drinking. She broke her word,
sex drive (which may be boosted
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keep his arms big and his body
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continued from page 50
Simon doesn't really have a job
himself. I mean, sure he runs
bootleg tequila across the border,
but that's not something you can
really put on your tax returns. So
Ryan the Brand Manager is now
the breadwinner for the Barney
clan. (Isn't it just perfect that
Tamra's last name is Barney?)
Godsy St. Jesus, nee Juggs
Jackson, showed up for a bit to
get a massage and talk about "me
time." Yes, she does need a lot of
me time. Because she's got those
three little people that are always
making noise and she only has
two nannies to take care of them.
Plus her husband Ed Hardy is
always wanting to put strange
powders in her drinks and then
she wakes up and all she
remembers is the sound of
bologna being thrown at salami
and for some reason she's got a
new diamond ring and a thank
you note lying on the pillow next
to her. So yes, she really does
need her religious massages. It
gives her the energy to go and
get her necessary manicures and
face treatments. It's hard out
there for a simp.
All of these above paragraphs
are just preamble to last night's
big, laugh-filled event. Vicki had
a sleepover. Yes even though
Vicki really hates all these
women and she'd rather be
playing a game she and Donn
invented called Pogo Sticks, she
signed this damn TV contract
and has to hang out with the
goils. But she really doesn't want
to leave the house. So she invited
them all to come stay over for a
slumber party and it just brought
back such memories.
Remember when you were a kid
and sleepovers were like the best
thing ever? (I mean, they're still
the best thing ever, but for very
very different reasons.) And
remember all the sleepovery
activities you'd do? Like scream
and shriek a lot and make jokes.
And pig out on delicious food
and stay up late. And get
completely puke-in-your-pants
shitfaced? That last one
especially. Oh, such memories!
Well that's exactly what these
ladies did. They all showed up
with their rolly suitcases (for a
night) and immediately started
glooping jell-o shots down their
gullets and slurping wine and
Gretchen got out her El
Margarita Mariachi outfit and it
was just a big hootenanny.
Everyone did a pretty good job
of pretending they were having
fun.
One of the best things that
happened was that Lynn was
late. Of course Lynn was late.
She is always late and getting
lost. One time she didn't come
home for three days and finally
some squeaky-voiced stockboy
found her buried under a pile of
cabbage at the supermarket,
slowly trying to gnaw her way
out. "It tathetht purple," she said,
cabbage bits dribbling out of her
mouth. Another time she said she
was going for a jog and a week
later they found her running a
small, modestly-successful
stationery store in Spokane. "Oh
right..." she said softly when the
police told her all about her life
in Orange County on the long car
ride home.
When she finally showed up all
the other girls were tittering
about her and Lynn said "I just
walked into the screen door! Did
anyone else do that??" And the
others just sort of giggled and
said "No..." and Lynn shrugged
her shoulders. "Well I've gone
right through 'em before. Just
right through." And I really,
really believed her. I fully
believed that Lynn has spent a
reasonable amount of her life
walking clear through screen
doors, barging and stumbling
into the house like a monster or
zombie, "Oh... for God's... oh...
door! There's a door here... Oh
jeez... Not again..." If Lynn was
Polish, she'd be the first one out
of the submarine.
After everyone laughed at poor
old Lynn, Vicki said she had a
surprise. Gretchen, I'm sure,
eagerly expected a stripper.
Tamra hopefully imagined Vicki
handing them all huge sacks of
money. Lynn frustratedly tried to
figure out what "supper eyes"
could possibly be. And Juggs
smoothed her hair and
straightened her dress, sure that
Jesus would soon come crashing
through the screen door to take
her to women's heaven. But only
Vicki knew the true surprise.
And the surprise was...
DOOGAL!!!
Oh. Wait. No, I'm sorry. It
wasn't that Doogal. It was a gay
psychic named Doogle who
could read auras. Hm. All the
girls, but especially Gretchen,
were all "What kinder name is
Dooooogle! Dooooogle! Hee hee
hee." Because they are mature
women. Most of them were
skeptical of the psychic, but for
different reasons. Lynn didn't
trust him because she considered
herself psychic, and she could
use her psychic abilities to see
that Doogle the Color Reader
wasn't actually a psychic. Sounds
scientific to me! Gretchen didn't
believe in it because he said not
very nice things about Doug
Smiley, so... deal, broken. Godsy
didn't like him because she
doesn't believe in "that kind of
profession", which is Jesus code
for "witchcraft." After wrestling
poor Doogle out of Godsy's arms
while she tried to throw him in
the pool to see if he'd float like a
witch, the gals all had their
colors read.
Most of the readings were fairly
accurate, because I'm sure
Doogle just watched past seasons
of the show on DVD before
coming over that night. Also,
you can kind of meet any of
these women and immediately
decipher: "Oh, they are
completely dependent on their
husbands, terrible to their
children, and wildly insecure." I
mean, that's like reading a
picture book. Poor Doogle just
really needs another job.
Though, apparently ditzy Orange
County women are willing to
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pay him big bucks to show up at
their ladyadult sleepovers, so,
actually... Keep on truckin',
Doogle. Keep on truckin' along.
During the seance, Tamra broke
down and cried and said "I'm
scared my son is going to die
young" (she hadn't seen the rest
of the episode yet and didn't
know that Ryan would soon be a
highly successful brand manager
for a nationally-managed
brand!). Doogle frowned
concernedly and said "He's not
going to die young." Which,
whoa whoa whoa Doogs. What if
he does? You're going to feel
pretty awful if he dies young and
then Tamra shows up to your
house and pounds your chest
with her be-ringed fists and
shouts "You were wrong,
Doogle! You were wrong! Oh,
Doogle..." But whatever. He
probably hopped in his gypsy
wagon right after this and rolled
off into the night, the rainmaker
shuffling on to the next rube-
filled, unsuspecting town.
After Doogle flourished his cape
and disappeared in a puff of
smoke (you could see him diving
through some french doors and
stumbling away through the
bushes if you used DVR on the
high-def), it was time for the
evening's main event: The TP'ing
of Jeana! Yes, mean old Jeana
who quit the show and tried to
make everyone else feel bad
because she thinks she's too
fancy for this show and she
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and when she realized she slept
through work, she just went back
to bed.
Now Tanning Salon Chick is
trying to help her find her clothes
and fix the situation she got into
(when really she is in this
situation because The Situation
wanted to get into her). While
this is happening, Mike runs for
cover in the bathroom, which is
the only place in the house where
a guido feels safe from
confrontation. She leaves in a
strangers sweats and T-shirt and
leaves her clothes behind. Yes,
ladies and gentlemen, meet
Paula—the only woman fit to
replace Trash Bags for season
two.
Tribal Politics: Our test sample
of vacationing guidos have only
been trapped in their Skinner
Box for three weeks and the
familial atmosphere that
prevailed at the onset of the
experiment is starting to change
to one of factional animosity. As
Snook points out, Sammi and
Ronnie are off on their own, The
Situation and DJ Paulie
Disregarded are out hunting
pussy, Snooki and ShamWOWW
are trying to find new ways to
get punched, and Vinny is off
alone—probably scoring. None
of the factions are getting along,
and they are fighting for reasons
to bicker that are even more
retarded than the manufactured
incidents that keep the Blond-
Headed Bimbo Babes of The
Hills making pouty faces at one
another.
This dramatic altercation
between ShamWOWW and The
Situation happened because
ShamWOWW got a major case
of puke breath at the club and
needed to be escorted home so
that no one would be in the line
of fire of her very potent exhales.
The Situation refused because he
was going to score with a chick
and get the self-esteem boost that
he so desperately needs. She
goes home alone and no one was
harmed. However, when The
Situation gets back, she attacks
him. He is very afraid until
security steps in, and then he
hides behind the big men and
talks shit. ShamWOWW is truly
a warrior princess. She is like
Xena but with bad extensions
and less of a Sapphic streak.
This whole drama was a silly as
the fight between Ronnie and
Sammi Quiznos and Snooki
about whether or not the couple
spends enough time with the
group or the fight between The
Situation and Vinny about
whether or not Vinny should
have watched The Situation give
it to Paula in the hot tub. Stupid!
It seems that at least The
Situation and Quiznos of Troy
have no way of interacting with
other people unless it involves an
altercation. We don't know the
cause of this, but unless it stops,
they will grow old alone with no
one to behold their wrinkled,
leathery faces and tumor-ridden
lungs as they sit in their Ed
Hardy hospital gowns in St.
Anthony's Retirement Home.
But the tide is turning against
The Situation, not only in the
house but among the millions of
behavioral scientists watching
this unfold every week. At first
he seemed crazy and fun, but
now he just seems like a jerk
who has no loyalty, will do
anything to get laid, hides from a
fight, and likes to start shit with
his housemates. We have
assessed The Situation, and the
prognosis is not positive.
Danielle, Agent of Mossad: One
night out at the club, DJ Paulie
Diabolical picks up a lady named
Danielle. She is from Israel and
is a spy sent by her mother
country to convert the powerful
male guido soldiers to Judaism
and bring them back to the
motherland to introduce their
aggressive, strong ethnic traits
into their gene pool. She is
determined not to fail on her
mission, but she is a little too
stalwart in her quest and plays
her hand too readily. Also, she
does not know her pray. She
tempts DJ Paulie Danger with
promises of Kosher food and
marriage. What she should be
using is a good red sauce and
easy hook ups.
She doesn't realize that the
biggest crime a woman can
commit is to appear to interested
in a man. As we have learned,
the guido does not have an easy
time attracting and maintaining
his women, so they are not used
to it being too easy. Her
persistent calling even angers the
Duck Phone—the guidos'
household god—and makes its
eyes burn red with ire. In fact, if
a girl makes the path to her heart
too clear, the guido will get
quickly bored and look for
something with a lot more
complications. That is why DJ
Paulie Disconnected ends it over
the phone with her.
But when she comes back to the
club a few nights later, DJ Paulie
Diagnosis sees that she is clearly
crazy. Now that is something he
can work with. Her bosses in Tel
Aviv must have briefed her on
the mores of our clan, and she is
back in their good graces.
No Nooki for Snooki: Why can't
poor Snooki get laid? If the guy
she picks isn't throwing up on
her or ditching her to go chase
other girls, then he has a
girlfriend who is watching in
horror as they make out in the
club. Snooki—who is the most at
home soaking her entire body in
warm water—can not find a man
to save her life. This strange
phenomenon is one that we have
no answer for and is, in fact, the
greatest mystery we have
unearthed during our study.
It is especially irksome after she
meets Keith, a farm worker who
is unbelievably hot. We're
talking Channing Tatum shirtless
commercial for Dear John hot,
He-Man and the Masters of the
Universe hot, gay-for-pay porn
hot. She rejects him because he
is Irish and she "doesn't speak
cowboy," but, Snooki, Keith is
your soul mate. He won't ever be
able to tan, but he will treat you
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well and give you the relentless
rogering you so deserve. You
can become a vet and you two
can start a petting zoo where you
will entertain all the guido
children for decades to come.
Please, Snooki, marry Keith!
Unjustified Assault: Last week
when Ronnie and Sammi
Quiznos were stalked and
harrassed by Strawberry
Shortcake and the Purple Pie
man and Ronnie beat the shit out
of him and sent his pansy ass
back to whatever scented village
he came from, we felt sympathy.
That guy had a beat down
coming. This week, Ronnie's
antics weren't so valiant.
A fight between a bunch of
"townies" and our guidos broke
out when Snooki's "cor-sette"
was so provocative that they
couldn't help hurling insults at it.
The fight was resolved by the
crew's security guards (is this a
common reality show practice
and we've just never seen them
before, or was extra security
needed to maintain the integrity
of our social experiment?) and
everyone walked away. But that
wasn't enough for Ronnie who
rushes back and cold cocks the
guy, knocking him out.
We initially believed that the
guido would only attack when
provoked and had to fight for his
honor. Between ShamWOWW's
completely illogical attack an
Ronnie's unprovoked abused, we
now realize that they just like to
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doesn't know what she's talking
about so we'll show her. Luckily
she lives next door, so it was the
perfect crime. "Hey, Vicki, was
it you and your sleepover guests
who came running onto my front
lawn throwing toilet paper
around, chased by a camera
crew, at midnight last night?"
"Um... no... that must have been
a different old lady sleepover
being filmed for a different TV
show." "Oh, OK. Makes sense to
me."
All the ladies dressed up in their
black costumes and luckily
Tamra had brought some masks
(though she supposedly didn't
know about the TP'ing before
she showed up? Were the masks
for something else? Hm. One
word: Fidelio.) Before they left
the house, they barged into
Vicki's son's room (Lynn was
glad he didn't have a screen
door) and he was lying there
shirtless with his laptop open on
the bed. Which... Oh dear. All
the ladies just giggled and
screamed and the little baked
potato wrapped himself more
snugly in his tin foil and dreamt
of his own place where he can do
his... nighttime word
prcoessing... in peace. Then it
was time to go on their mission!
I'm sure Godsy felt wildly
awkward, because she didn't
know Jeana from Eve. (Eve
Kretzler, who lives down the
block.) But whatever, it was part
of the deal she'd signed. So they
all shriek-whispered and
skittered over to Keough Farms.
Vicki said it was mostly a
harmless little prank, because she
and Jeana had the same gardener
and Julio would probably just
take it all down. Because yes,
that's the agreement most
reasonable people have with
their gardeners (if most
reasonable people had
gardeners): "Hm... OK. Well let's
see. Lawn needs watering about
three times a week if it isn't
raining. And these azalea bushes
can get a bit unwieldy so you'll
need to keep those trimmed.
These thorny bushes should be
kept small because the kids keep
tracking the prickers in and then
the dog or someone with barefeet
steps on them. Oh, and you'll
occasionally need to clear a lot
of toilet paper out of everything
because some drunken
middleaged women will have
thrown it up there during a
sleepover." Perfectly sensible.
Once the ladies got back from
their big adventure, the sleepover
fell apart. Usually there's one
whiny kid at the slumber party
who can't make it through the
night, but today there were four.
Everyone wanted to go home to
their own beds and Vicki didn't
want to sleep down on the floor
anyway, so she said goodbye to
everyone and they all drove off
in their enormous cars, drunk as
monks, and no one thought
anything of it. Vicki stood in the
driveway, waving goodbye. Up
above her a blue glow in a
window finally turned off and
her son went to sleep, sans light
but still blue. Vicki padded back
into the house, shut the huge
mahogany door, and crept up
into her enormous bed. As she
lay there falling asleep, she
swore she could hear the lapping
of waves. "Oh, Donn..." she said
as she drifted off. He was staying
in a hotel that night, but she'd see
him tomorrow, once the sun rose
again, as it does every day.
In the morning, with the
faraway dogs barking and the
sprinklers pfitz-pfitzing and the
birds darting noisily from tree to
tree, Jeana trundled outside to
fetch the San Diego Wealthy
Patriot, the area's political paper
of record, and she saw the whole
mess. Toilet paper strung and
draped over everything, wet and
sticky now from dew, bits of it
fluttering in the breeze. Her mind
flashed back to Halloweens
many years ago, the sharp
wicked thrill of that night, all the
things she'd done back then, or
rather all the things she'd
watched slouch-shouldered boys
do, snickering to each other,
while she and the other girls
waited passively in the car,
smoking cigarettes and
inspecting mirrors. She wasn't
sure why, but something about
seeing that toilet paper that
morning made Jeana's chest feel
tight with sadness, with the loss
of ages and time.
She knew it was Vicki and her
sleepover friends, had seen them
creeping around doing
something the night before. As
she stood regarding the damage,
Vicki came stumbling out of her
own house, on her phone. Jeana
could hear her saying "Donn?
Donn? You're breaking up..."
She finally gave up and ended
the call and as she looked up she
saw Jeana standing there. A
guilty look flashed across her
face but then it quickly morphed
into a smile and she gave Jeana
big hearty wave. Jeana smiled
wanly in return and fluttered her
hand and turned back inside.
She'd need to call Julio.
While she waited for him to
come rumbling up in that rusty
old truck, she sat in the empty
house and thought about waking
up at slumber parties when she
was a girl. How decadent and
perfect the night always seemed,
all the possibility of the eternal
gap between two days laid out
before you. But then in the
morning how strange it was, to
wake up not in a bed, not in your
home. How suddenly faraway
you felt, how disconnected and
lost from all that you loved. All
you wanted was to return, to go
back go back go back. To
something familiar and easy. Fun
was fun, but life was life. And
life was more important. "I don't
miss the cameras," she said out
loud. To no one. To herself.
Outside the sprinklers were
done and the sun had come out
to warm the world, to shine
brightly and evaporate all of it.
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Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:02:31 AM
DALLAS A 30-year-old Dallas
police officer has been fired after
an internal investigation revealed
he sent nude photos of himself to
a high school student.
Police Chief David Kunkle on
Thursday fired Officer Bryan
Crews. The officer's attorney
says Crews will appeal and
criticized the investigation.
According to the Dallas
Morning News, the internal
investigation started after Crews'
wife gave authorities several
items including his personal cell
phone memory card. Crews'
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proceedings.
The investigation found Crews
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hit things. They like to fight an
hit things and then they lie about
it and try to make themselves out
to be the victims. This must
happen often, because everyone
seems to know the exact legal
process that Ronnie is about to
enter into. They know who to
call, who to pay, and whether or
not they should be worried about
his incarceration as if they have
all either lived through this or
bailed out a friend at least 18
times in the past. This is
unfortunate, but not
unroutine—much like when you
walk to the local subway station
on a Saturday to find the train
isn't running. It throws one's
plans for a loop, but is easily
overcome with a little creative
navigation. We can't wait to see
them steer the course next week
when Danielle Agent of Mossad
and Paula assemble the Female
Force and bust Ronnie out of
prison.
Native Tongue:
Sammi: "If you wanna punch
somebody, punch somebody, but
not me"
The Situation: "The only thing
Deron Williams Re-Injures Wrist
By Tom Lorenzo (Fanhouse
Main)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 10:00:00 PM
Filed under: NBA Last Night, teammate Carlos Boozer. He
F a n t a s y B a s k e t b a l l H o m e stayed in the game, but I figured
D e l i v e r y i s y o u r m o r n i n g the hit was worth mentioning,
roundup of last night's action in e s p e c i a l l y a f t e r t h e L o u i s through an elbow to the jaw,
t h e N B A f r o m a f a n t a s y Williams fiasco when he played only to find out the following
we care about is getting girls,
getting girls and going to the
gym."
Snooki: "First off I see muscles
so I'm like, he's my type. But he's
Irish and he talks like a cowboy."
Snooki: "I"ve been with goats,
sheep, cows, horses."
Snooki: "I'm not a guido, I'm a
guidette"
Snooki: "We didn't have to have
sex. I don't know why. If I had to
have sex with one guy here, it
would be him. He's a nice guy,
he's gotta be clean."
Snooki: "I do want to have sex
with him. I'm saving myself for
cowboy."
Vinny: "She's riding you like a
fucking donkey ride."
The Situation: "If you're
sexually frustrated, that's OK.
Get it out in the shower."
DJ Paulie D: "I'm Catholic
dude."
DJ Paulie D: "I don't understand
that religion or what it is, I just
want to get to the business."
DJ Paulie D: "You like your
girls like you like your
underwear, dirty."
Snooki: "Fuck my life.
perspective.
Deron Williams got Boozer'd
last night. He took a hefty elbow
to the face by none other than his
Seriously, fuck my life."
Snooki: "I feel like a cooking
turkey."
Snooki: "This feels like a porno,
honestly."
Sammi: "I like your unibrow."
Sammi: "Mike didn't even have
the audacity to go after her and
apologize."
Snooki: "I wanted to stab him in
the fucking eyeball with my
fork."
Ronnie: "Sam and I leave
around four o'clock, I couldn't
take it anymore. You know what
I mean. We been here since
midnight. Five hours is enough."
Snooki: "Fuck me, right. Fuck
me."
The Situation: "You better grab
your girl tight when I'm around."
Snooki: "If you leave. I'm gonna
stuff your fucking nose with
tampons."
Snooki: "I really don't remember
his face, because I was wasted"
Snooki: "I think my crotch is
sticking out."
Snooki: "I'm not trashy, unless I
drink too much."
The Situation: "She likes her
mouth full of pickles, she'll like
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her nose full of pickles."
Snooki: "I'm pissed off that
mike and paulie like wasted two
pickles. Dorks."
The Situation: "I bring a girl
home every night. Have they all
been pretty? Some days no, some
days yes."
Ronnie: "I've had shit in
between my toes that looks better
than her."
Snooki: "My boobs are so tight I
can't breath. Is that normal?"
Snooki:"What's so wrong with
meeting guys at the club and
kissing them. It's not like we're
having sex, which I haven't had
yet."
Snooki: "Get me out of Seaside,
honestly."
Ronnie: "You want a sausage
when we get home?"
Townie: "Go back to Jersey."
Snooki: "I'm wearing my cor-
sette. I was like, I look slutty, but
I don't give a fuck."
day it was fractured. I'm not
trying to scare you, I'm just in
the mood to reminisce.
Oh, and by the way, Williams
left early as he found himself
back on the ground. This time it
had to do with his previously
inured right wrist. Now this can't
be good. The early word is that
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Stunning black and
white photos with
a touch of color
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 1:06:55 AM
Black and white photos have
always possessed their nostalgic
beauty, but add in a splash of
color highlighting the precise
point of focus like the photo
above, well it's just pure art.
Susan Elaine Cooper put
together an amazing collection of
black and white photos with a
touch of color.
More about Photography and
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he'll miss the remainder of this
week, and possibly the beginning
of next week. Ronnie Price
anyone? Better yet, Sundiata
Gaines? Can you believe this guy
hit the game winner? I can. He's
from Queens!
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The Strange Case of the Nephew of the Board
Chair of the 92nd Street Y [Very Rich People]
By Doree Shafrir (Gawker)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:39:55 PM
Thomas Kaplan is the chair of
the 92nd Street Y's board of
directors. He is devoted to
gaining control of the Orthodox
conversion process and saving
panthers. His 32-year-old
nephew Guma has gone crazy,
and he's tangled up in it.
It's a super-complicated story,
but what you need to know is
this: Kaplan and his 32-year-old,
multimillinaire Israeli nephew,
Gumo Aguiar, had been funding
the efforts of a shady ultra-
Orthodox rabbi named Leib
Tropper as he attempted to gain
The Count: Arenas’s On-Court Liability
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 11:43:34 AM
Could Gilbert Arenas’s gun-
related suspension be good news
for his team, the Washington
Wizards? Reuters The Wizards
were no better this year with
Gilbert Arenas on the court than
without him.
On the surface, the question
makes little sense. Before his
suspension, Arenas led his club
in scoring. He still has more than
twice the number of assists of
anyone on the Wizards. He’s
also the troubled franchise’s
most recognizable star.
But there is reason to believe the
control of the Orthodox
conversion process. Except
Tropper's plans were derailed
when a tape was discovered
showing him trying to "sexually
coerce" (yeah, we don't know
Wizards are at least as good a
team without Arenas. He was
shooting just 41% this season
from the field, was turning the
ball over 3.7 times per game and
had the worst adjusted plus-
minus— a measure of how good
a team is with a player on the
court compared to without him
— among the four Wizards who
have played the most minutes
this season. David Berri
estimates that Arenas’s
contribution this season, per
minute, was about half what it
was in 2006-07, and was below
average in the NBA.
“Given Arenass inefficiency on
offense, generally poor defense
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Kaplan is now strained over the
little matter of $2.55 billion in
proceeds from the sale of a
natural-gas venture, and he had
taken to leaving threatening
voicemails for Kaplan and trying
to gain custody of his kids.
Beat jetlag
Because of his erratic behavior,
Aguiar's family had him
with 8 easy
committed to a mental hospital.
Anyway, give this Tablet
Magazine chronicle a read. Super
tips
(Holy Kaw!)
what that means either. Rape? rich Jews! Rabbis! Sexual
BJs?) a prospective convert. coercion! Mental hospitals! It's Submitted at 1/14/2010 10:19:00 PM
Aguiar is a former evangelical all there.
Nice: Only hours ago you slept
Christian who moved to Israel in [Pic: Guma Aguiar, right, posing through a tour of the Taj Mahal,
2007 with his wife and three with Texas Governor Rick Perry and now it’s 4 am, and your eyes
children; his relationship with (!?!?!?!?) in Jerusalem, via AP] are wide awake. Sounds like
you’ve got jetlag. We’re all
familiar with the horrendous side
effects associated with traversing
time zones, like general
$32 million over the next four confusion between day and
y e a r s ; W a s h i n g t o n w a s night, headaches, fusiness, and
scheduled to pay Arenas $80 unhappy travel buddies. Luckily,
million over the next four years. Dumb Little Man has eight tips
If his suspension leads to a on how to beat it. Three of them
v o i d i n g o f h i s c o n t r a c t , are:
Washington can put that $80 1. Keep to your usual routine.
million toward a player whose 2. Focus on comfort.
and the reserve of firepower on performance is actually worth 3. Stay hydrated.
the Washington bench, I think that amount. “What is at stake is Read the full article for all
theyll be able to survive his the ability for a Washington team explanations and tips.
absence,” Jon Nichols writes at t h a t h a s b e e n a m a j o r Satisfy your travel bug.
the New York Times. disappointment in 2009-10 and Photo credit: Fotolia
Here’s how this possibly neutral now is sporting a major public Permalink| Leave a comment »
effect can turn into a bonanza for relations black eye to be able to
Washington: With Arenas’s rebuild almost overnight,” Pelton
d e c l i n e , K e v i n P e l t o n a t writes.
Basketball Prospectus suggests
the star would be worth about
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No Volunteers for Tennessee Job Yet
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:35:57 AM
Temperate climate, great
tradition, loyal fans, greatly
increased chances of meeting
Peyton Manning during alumni
events — there are a lot of
reasons why the head-coaching
job at the University of
Tennessee might be appealing.
None of them seems to be doing
the trick at the moment. Left in
the lurch when Lane Kiffin and
assistants Ed Orgeron and Monte
Kiffin bolted for the University
of Southern California,
Tennessee’s football program
remains in limbo as candidates
turn down offers to coach the
school. Reports on Friday
morning that Duke coach David
Cutcliffe would choose to remain
in Durham further shortened
Tennessee athletic director Mike
Hamilton’s short list of coaching
candidates. Air Force head coach
Troy Calhoun demurred earlier,
and Texas assistant Will
Muschamp turned down a
reportedly lucrative job offer, as
well. Associated Press Like
much of the rest of America,
Texas assistant Will Muschamp
does not want to coach the
Volunteers.
“What is Tennessee at the
moment?” Dennis Dodd wonders
at CBS Sports. “Scrambling, for
one, after the loss of the snarky
34-year-old boy-coach.
Desperate for another as a
recruiting class slips away.
Maybe on probation, soon, after
Kiffin’s push-the-envelope
interpretation of the NCAA
rules. Rich and proud, too, but
those qualities don’t count as
much right now as the school
struggles to get back its
reputation and recruiting amid
the destruction left behind by
Kiffin.”
An already difficult situation has
been complicated by the sense
that Hamilton needs to hire a
new coach not now, but right
now. Hamilton’s publicly
expressed wish to get the
position filled by this weekend
didn’t necessarily take the
pressure off. The Tennessean’s
David Climer thinks the most
important thing is getting the
correct coach. “This is a career-
altering hire for Hamilton, who
is in his seventh year as UT’s
athletics director,” Climer writes.
“Simply put, he has to get this
right. If he does, the collateral
damage of the Lane Kiffin
debacle can be contained. If not,
we are entering the nuclear
winter of Vol Ball. The guy with
the most to lose is Hamilton. If
he messes this up, he’ll be the
next one out the door.”
In a mailbag column at Sports
Illustrated, Stewart Mandel
suggests a way to make the
supersonic pace of the offseason
coaching carousel a little less
nauseating: either push Signing
Day up, or move it back.* * *
The human cost of the
devastating earthquake that
struck Haiti on Tuesday is still
being tallied, but it is already
clear that the damage to that
unluckiest of nations is
tremendous. Philadelphia 76ers
big man Samuel Dalembert is
probably the most famous
professional athlete from Haiti,
and has given countless hours
and millions of his NBA dollars
to his impoverished and star-
crossed homeland. At Yahoo,
Adrian Wojnarowski writes that
the incomprehensible tragedy
that hit Haiti on Tuesday has
rededicated Dalembert to his
goal of turning his athletic good
fortune into better lives for his
fellow Haitians.
“Why him? Well, now Sam
Dalembert knows,”
Wojnarowski writes. “This
earthquake, this devastation, has
sobered him in a way nothing
else ever could. Why did he get
out, and make it big? Because
they would need him now,
because they need everyone.”
There are countless ways to
donate to what promises to be a
massive relief effort, but here is a
link to a Fixer-endorsed
organization: Partners in Health.
The Journal’s Dispatch blog has
more donation suggestions.* * *
Think back a decade: Postgame
rants by athletes — well, those
and ironic anti-rants— weren’t
really all that rare. But as leagues
have become more image-
sensitive, and media training
more ubiquitous, old-school kill-
the-ref ranting has become
something of a lost art. That
makes the already infamous
postgame tirade that Vancouver
Canucks forward Alex Burrows
executed at NHL referee
Stephane Auger’s expense earlier
this week a fairly entertaining
throwback. But the NHL was not
at all amused by Burrows’s
accusations — namely that
Auger skated up to Burrows
during pre-game warm-ups,
threatened him with “payback”
for a previous incident, and then
proceeded to deliver on that
promise via several questionable
calls.
In Sports Illustrated, Jim Kelley
further illuminates the
considerable gray area
highlighted by Burrows’s
accusations. “In the end, the
NHL did the only thing it could
do,” Kelley writes. “It fined
Burrows $2,500 for criticizing an
official (a detrimental conduct
rule that is in the books and an
infraction that Burrows clearly
committed) after finding no
evidence to fine or take action
against the referee. Was justice
served? Probably not. Can I
prove it? No.”
In the Edmonton Journal, John
MacKinnon elevates Burrows to
the pantheon of NHL
troublemakers.* * *
The U.S. figure skating national
Sports/ 57
championships begin Friday in
Spokane, Wash., with the
announcement of the skaters who
will represent the U.S. in the
Vancouver Winter Games
coming Monday. Chances are
good that all but the most ardent
figure-skating fans would have a
hard time naming the top dog in
U.S. figure-skating (Evan
Lysacek, duh). Johnny Weir is a
different case entirely. The 25-
year-old Weir will have to skate
well to claim a spot on the U.S.
squad, but his celebrity is likely
to remain intact, given his ultra-
flamboyant personality and
knack for the spotlight: Whether
he makes the team or not,
Monday will mark the debut of
“Be Good Johnny Weir,” an
eight-part documentary series
about him that will air on the
Sundance Channel. Weir came to
the sport late and has had his ups
and downs, but his mastery of
figure skating’s uniquely over-
the-top theatrics is beyond
question, and makes him a
fascinating profile subject even
for those of us with little interest
in his sport.
In the New York Times, Juliet
Macur tells the story of Weir’s
rededication to skating after
nearly quitting in 2009. And in a
longer, more involved profile at
ESPN.com, Jim Caple elicits all
kinds of gems from Weir on
everything from his unsuccessful
career in youth soccer to his
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Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas
charged with felony gun possession
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:47:06 AM
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WASHINGTON -- Washington
Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas
has been charged with a felony
in connection with last month's
locker room confrontation with a
teammate.
But, Arenas has reached a plea
agreement that would result in
little or no jail time, several
sources close to the case told The
Washington Post. The newspaper
had reported if convicted, Arenas
could face a maximum five years
in jail and a fine.
Arenas is expected to plead
guilty Friday afternoon before
D.C. Superior Court Judge
Robert E. Morin, The Post
reported. His court appearance is
scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET.
Arenas, who last week was
suspended indefinitely without
pay by NBA commissioner
David Stern, was charged with
carrying a pistol without a
license outside a home or
business.
The charges were filed in D.C.
Superior Court in an
"information," a document that
generally signals a plea deal. The
charge came directly from
prosecutors and not in the form
of an indictment.
"We are aware of the charge
filed against Gilbert Arenas
today and will continue to follow
the ongoing legal process very
carefully," the Wizards said in a
statement issued Thursday. "We
will also continue to cooperate
fully with the proper authorities
and the NBA."
Arenas charged
Gilbert Arenas was charged in
Washington D.C. with a felony
for his possession of a gun at the
Verizon Center. Document
Arenas' lawyer had no
immediate comment. The NBA
also declined to comment.
Arenas, a three-time All-Star,
had admitted to taking unloaded
guns out of his locker in a
"misguided effort to play a joke"
on a teammate following a
gambling dispute during a team
flight.
Arenas has said he kept multiple
guns in his locker at the Verizon
Center. He claims he wanted to
keep them away from his
children and didn't know it was
illegal.
At least seven Wizards players
and coach Flip Saunders have
appeared before a grand jury or
been questioned by authorities
regarding the matter.
The teammate involved in the
spat, Javaris Crittenton, had
authorities search his apartment
for a semiautomatic handgun in
connection with the incident on
Thursday afternoon but no
evidence was seized.
The Doug Gottlieb Show
Ric Bucher says if Gilbert
Arenas is convicted on a felony
charge, the Wizards can void his
contract. Bucher would not be
surprised if Arenas is suspended
for the rest of this season.
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The outcome of the legal
process will have profound
implications for Arenas' future in
the NBA and with the Wizards
specifically. Possession of a gun
at an NBA arena is a violation of
the league's collective bargaining
agreement. Stern was
particularly upset that Arenas
joked about the matter and said
that Arenas' conduct will
"ultimately result in a substantial
suspension, and perhaps worse."
The Wizards could also attempt
to invoke the morals clause
found in standard NBA contracts
and void the remainder of the six
-year, $111 million deal Arenas
signed in summer 2008. The
players' union would almost
certainly contest such a move.
"We will continue to lend our
full support to Gilbert and will
assist him in every way possible
to see this matter through," union
executive director Billy Hunter
said.
Arenas has played in only 34
games since signing the contract
because of a knee injury and the
guns-related suspension. He was
averaging 22.6 points and 7.2
assists this season for the
Wizards, who are 12-25 and in
last place in the NBA's Southeast
Division.
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If you’ve been blogging for a
while, it may be time to go back
and rejuvenate some of your old
posts. Rob Birgfeld explains six
ways to give your old content
some new life:
• Update the post.
• Reference the post.
• Add comments.
• Check the tags.
• Add plug ins.
• Start all over.
Useful and interesting reading to
those who have archives of old
posts, so read his post for the
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Dallas Cowboys hire Paul Pasqualoni to replace

Todd Grantham as defensive line coach
By Tim MacMahon
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:44:13 AM
Dolphins' defensive coordinator, seasons as the Cowboys' State (1996-98) before spending
was a Cowboys assistant for defensive line coach, helping the past 11 seasons in the NFL.
three seasons. He coached tight nose tackle Jay Ratliff earn two "I'm very excited about being

Cowboys didn't take long to hire

ends in 2005 and linebackers the
IRVING, Texas -- The Dallas next two seasons.
Grantham informed the
Pro Bowl invitations and one All
-Pro selection.
Grantham, the Cleveland
part of a staff that will work
tremendously hard to return
Georgia football to one of the
17 unique
Paul Pasqualoni as their new Cowboys at the beginning of
defensive line coach. It actually Thursday morning's practice that
Browns' defensive coordinator
the previous three seasons,
premier teams in the SEC,"
Grantham said in a statement
and nerdy
took a matter of minutes. he intended to accept Georgia's
The University of Georgia offer. Owner/general manager
contributed to a defense that
allowed the fewest points in the
released by the school. "To the
fans and boosters of the earrings
announced the hiring of Todd Jerry Jones and head coach NFC this season. University of Georgia, I (Holy Kaw!)
Grantham as its defensive Wade Phillips agreed to attempt "It's been great to have Todd," understand the passion and
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:32:05 AM
coordinator Friday, and shortly t o r e p l a c e G r a n t h a m w i t h Phillips said. "He's contributed a standard of excellence expected.
t h e r e a f t e r , t h e C o w b o y s Pasqualoni, who went 107-59-1 tremendous amount to the I look forward to developing an If your earlobes feel naked
a n n o u n c e d i t h a d h i r e d with nine bowl appearances as defense. He's grossly aggressive, physical, attacking without a few accessories, then
Pasqualoni to replace him. Syracuse University's head coach overqualified to be a defensive style defense that offenses will you must check out Toxel’s 17
More on the Cowboys from 1991 to 2004. line coach. I knew that he'd be a not look forward to playing Unusual and Creative Earrings.
C a l v i n W a t k i n s a n d T i m Jones got on the phone, and the coordinator pretty quick or even against." You certainly won’t find these
MacMahon have the Cowboys deal was done 10 minutes later. a head coach. He has all those Tim MacMahon covers the ear decorations in the clearance
blanketed for ESPNDallas.com. "We're really pleased to have qualities. We appreciate all he's Cowboys for ESPN Dallas. You bin at Claire’s.
Check in with their constantly Paul back," Phillips said. "He's done." can follow him on Twitter or Find all your fashion tips and
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For Florida Teen, Sweetest of Senior Moments

By David Whitley (Fanhouse
Main)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 2:18:00 AM
ORLANDO -- A girls' soccer
team retired the No. 12 jersey the
other night. The person wearing
it hadn't scored a goal or even
played a game all season.
Just attending Freedom High
School's final game was reason take. But if you're a bit accelerator.
enough for the crowd to cheer. exhausted by the usual sporting Bree was pinned between the
Bree McMahon wasn't satisfied headlines, you could probably bumper and a brick wall. Her
with merely being there. Number use a Bree break. legs were crushed. Her spirit was
12 got out of her wheelchair, Her story began on a Saturday untouched.
grasped her crutches and morning in September. Her
wobbled across the field on her soccer team was having a car
loaner leg. wash to raise money. A player
They were the latest steps in a
"It meant so much to be able to got in an SUV and her foot
journey nobody would want to
walk on Senior Night," she said. slipped off the brake and hit the
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Ex-St. Louis Cardinals slugger Jack Clark: Mark Anil Ambani

McGwire among 'creeps' of MLB focuses on bid
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
didn't warrant consideration for career. being tested and he blames it on for MGM
Cooperstown. "They're not really a man's the era. Why would you blame (Financial Times - US
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:26:39 AM
"All those guys are cheaters -- A- man," Clark said. "They're just baseball for taking steroids? homepage)
Rod [ Alex Rodriguez]. Fake, whimpering boys who are just "That's like me saying the reason
Submitted at 1/15/2010 4:45:49 AM
Clark, Van Slyke Sound Off On phony. Rafael Palmeiro. Fake, a sad to watch. They try to put it I was drunk driving was because
McGwire Clark, Van Slyke p h o n y , " C l a r k t o l d t h e off on somebody else. I don't I knew that on this particular Anil Ambani is expected to bid
Sound Off On McGwire newspaper. "[Roger] Clemens, know how they sleep at night, highway, they didn't have for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the
Jack Clark's time in the spotlight [Barry] Bonds. [Sammy] Sosa. looking at all their fame, let anything for me to blow into." film studio behind classics such
fell mostly in the years before Fakes. Phonies. They don't alone the money they took by Van Slyke was also a teammate as Gone with the Wind, in a
the so-called steroid era. deserve to be in the Hall of faking everybody out and lying of Bonds. Van Slyke said he move that would mark the Indian
That didn't stop the former Fame. to everybody." hoped the home run king would billionaire businessman’s
Cardinals and Giants All-Star "They should all be in the Hall of Clark's former Cardinals be truthful if he ever did reveal deepest foray into Hollywood.
slugger from revealing an Shame," Clark said. "They can teammate, Andy Van Slyke, took weather steroids played a role in Mr Ambani’s Reliance Big
extreme distaste for players that afford to build it. They've all got a more subtle tack when his conditioning and Entertainment, which already has
might have availed themselves of so much money. And they could speaking with the Post-Dispatch. performance. a tie-up with director Stephen
a performance-enhancing drug all go there and talk about the "I never condoned a player who "One thing about Barry -- he's Spielberg, is one of at least a
during their time in the big next way to rub something on used steroids while they played, not afraid to speak the truth," dozen groups poised to make an
leagues. your skin. The whole thing is but I've never been mad at a Van Slyke said. "For the last four offer for the debt-laden MGM,
"A lot of them should be banned creepy. player," Van Slyke said. "But I years [since his appearance whose assets includes the James
from baseball, including Mark "They're all creeps. All these think if you have an opportunity before a congressional Bond franchise.
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in a group of players that clearly during much of his major league continued. "He blames it on not

Southern Indiana's Jeron Lewis Dies After Fall During Game

By Chris Burke (Fanhouse
Main)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 6:23:00 PM
Filed under: Injuries Jeron
Lewis (right), a player at D-II
Southern Indiana, died Thursday
night after hitting his head on the
court during a game against
Kentucky Wesleyan College in
Owensboro, Ky. 9:52 PM CT. be. He will be truly missed, not
According to the Evansville "The University community is only by his teammates, but by
Courier and Press, Lewis, 21, fell heartbroken with the passing of the University community. Our
to the ground after his feet this outstanding young man," prayers are with Jerons family in
became tangled during a play. Southern Indiana President their time of need."
Multiple witnesses said that Linda L.M. Bennett said in a
Lewis hit his head on the fall. statement on the school's
Lewis, a 6-foot-8 forward, began website. "Jeron was an excellent
Mercy Health System, where he
convulsing as trainers attended to example of a student athlete who
was later pronounced dead at
him. He was taken to Owensboro strove to be the best that he could
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Al Groh named Georgia Tech continued from page 57

proudly out-there costumes. That passion can approach Ray Lewis

Yellow Jackets' defensive Caple gets many of these quotes
from Weir while the two get
manicures and pedicures together
levels of intensity. Witness, for
instance, the work of Fixer
Emeritus Jason Fry, who has set
coordinator is really neither here nor there,
but seems worthy of mention.* *
himself to the task of compiling
baseball cards for every player
By Heather Dinich Johnson. Groh, 65, has not been wanted to reunite with Bill * ever to suit up for the New York
(ESPN.com) an assistant since 1988, when he Parcells, who is the Dolphins' Sports-talk radio, in its current Mets. In what Fry admits is a
Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:36:04 AM
was the offensive coordinator at executive vice president of iteration, isn’t something most “spectacular feat of OCDism,”
South Carolina. football operations. The two people would want to take credit he later decided to create, in
Former Virginia head coach Al The Yellow Jackets allowed at have a long history together -- for inventing. Who really wants Photoshop, his own cards for the
Groh will become the next least 30 points in six games but Groh was an assistant under to take responsibility for making unlucky few Mets players never
defensive coordinator at Georgia still finished the season with an Parcells with the New York Colin Cowherd possible? Art to have been immortalized by
Tech. 11-3 record. G i a n t s a n d N e w E n g l a n d Rust Jr. wasn’t exactly the father Topps. At Faith and Fear in
Groh said Friday that he and the Georgia Tech had one of the Patriots. of sports-talk radio, but his Flushing, Fry goes into gleeful
school have an agreement in nation's most prolific offenses "Bill's not the coach," Groh said. pioneering work behind the detail in describing the
principle, but did not disclose with Johnson's trademark triple- "And the coach is the person you microphone, with his show on culmination of his quest to track
terms of the contract. option, averaging nearly 34 work with on a daily basis. Bill New York’s WABC in the down a decent photo of ultra-
"I'm pleased about it," Groh said. points and more than 295 i s v e r y d i s c i p l i n e d a s h e 1980s, did much to launch the obscure ex-Met Al Schmelz.
"It was my intention right from rushing yards per game. But the explained it to me to be non- m e d i u m a n d t o d e f i n e i t s Found a good column from the
the start to continue to be defense struggled, leading to intrusive in that process and let u p p e r m o s t b o u n d a r i e s . A world of sports? Don’t keep it to
actively involved. I have a lot of high-scoring games such as a 49- the coach coach the way he baseball historian as well as a yourself — write to us at
energy and a lot of ambition and 44 victory at Florida State, a 30- wants to, just as Bill always radio pioneer, the Harlem-born dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll
I feel I have as much to prove as 27 loss to rival Georgia and a 39- wanted it to be when he was the Rust died at the age of 82 on consider your find for inclusion
I did 30 years ago. So we're 34 win against Clemson for the coach. . . . There was just a set of Tuesday. Richard Goldstein in the Daily Fix. You can email
ready to go." ACC title. criteria there that I thought that memorializes Rust in the New David at droth11@gmail.com.
ACC blog Georgia Tech concluded the Paul's program and Georgia Tech York Times.* * *
ESPN.com's Heather Dinich season with a 24-14 loss to Iowa met very well." Collecting baseball cards isn’t a
writes about all things ACC in in the FedEx Orange Bowl. Heather Dinich covers the ACC sport. But the passion with which
her conference blog. Groh, who was 59-53 in nine for ESPN.com. Information from certain collectors pursue their
• Blog network: years at Virginia, interviewed for The Associated Press was used
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Duke Blue Devils' David Cutcliffe
out of running for Tennessee
Volunteers job
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:47:54 AM
Cutcliffe To Remain At Duke
Cutcliffe To Remain At Duke
Duke coach David Cutcliffe on
Friday withdrew his name from
consideration for the Tennessee
head coaching job.
ACC blog
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writes about all things ACC in
her conference blog.
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Cutcliffe, a former offensive
coordinator with the Vols, had
talks with Tennessee on
Thursday to potentially replace
Lane Kiffin, who bolted the
program on Tuesday to become
USC coach.
"You follow your heart in big
decisions," Cutcliffe told
ESPN.com's Heather Dinich. "I
have a lot of ties and a lot of
people that I'm very close to, and
a lot of respect for the University
of Tennessee, but my heart is
here. We've worked very hard
these two years to change the
culture, to change the team
physically. You feel like the job's
not done, and in this era, it
bothers me, what we do as
coaches, moving here and there.
This is mid-January. Nothing
about that felt right to me as a
person."
Duke is 9-15 in two seasons
under Cutcliffe after winning
only 10 games in the previous
eight seasons combined.
Duke athletic director Kevin
White said Cutcliffe told him
Friday morning that he "intends
to remain the Duke football
coach for a long time."
"Simply put, we could not be
happier or more excited about
the future of the Blue Devils
football program," White said.
Cutcliffe's withdrawal from
Tennessee's search follows that
of Texas defensive coordinator
Will Muschamp, the Longhorns'
head coach-in-waiting, who
turned down a lucrative offer
from Tennessee, sources close to
the situation told ESPN.com.
Tennessee athletic director Mike
Hamilton continues to work
toward having a coach in place
by this weekend. The recruiting
period goes live again on
Sunday, and the Vols are
working feverishly to have a new
coach in place by then.
Louisiana Tech's Derek Dooley
also is on Tennessee's list, as is
Temple coach Al Golden.
Kippy Brown, in his third stint
at Tennessee, is the Vols' interim
coach. Brown on Wednesday
said he's been told that he also
would be considered for the
permanent head-coaching job.
Information from ACC blogger
Heather Dinich and SEC blogger
Chris Low was included in this
report.
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Career
By Lem Satterfield (Fanhouse challenger noticed a man in the
Main) crowd, sitting in the front row.
Submitted at 1/14/2010 8:31:00 PM
That man was Ruben Contreras.
And all at once, the intense fear,
Filed under: WBA, WBC, IBF, the paralyzing doubt, and the
WBO, HBO, Showtime, IBO heavy guilt that had plagued him
Brian Viloria already was a f o r t h e p a s t f o u r m o n t h s
cauldron of nerves as he strode evaporated from Viloria's body
toward the ring at the Staples like a speck of spit on a hot
Center in Los Angeles to meet stove.
Mexico's hard-punching, WBC "Just to see Ruben standing right
light flyweight king, Eric Ortiz. at ringside, right next to me, as I
Nicknamed, "The Pinoy Punch," was walking up, with his wife
as well as, "The Hawaiian and his family. When I saw that,
Punch," Viloria was a former I was like, 'Wow!' You're here,"
U.S. Olympian known for his said Viloria, now 29, recalling
two-fisted power -- as evidenced that moment on Sept. 10, 2005.
by his 17-0 record that included "It was a crossroads for me,
11 knockouts. getting to meet him. It was the
But as Viloria began to make his difference between whether or
final climb -- surely, thought not I was going to go on with my
some, to register his fourth career."
consecutive knockout -- the
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By Chris Burke (Fanhouse
Main)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 2:25:00 AM
Filed under: Arizona Cardinals,
Saints, NFL Playoffs, NFL
Analysis The Saints' three worst
offensive games of the year came
in the final three weeks of the
regular season. After averaging
33.2 points per game and never
scoring less than 24 in any one
game en route to a 13-0 start,
New Orleans mustered just 44
points combined in Weeks 15, 16
and 17 -- losing 24-17, 20-17
and 23-10 in those weeks.
Tight end Jeremy Shockey
started each of those first 13
contests, as the Saints' offense lit
up the scoreboard. He missed the
last three games with a toe
injury. Coincidence? New
Orleans doesn't think so.
Struggle to keep Haiti
survivors alive
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 7:22:27 AM
Conditions on Friday morning at
the makeshift hospital set up in
the United Nations compound in
Port-au-Prince to treat survivors
of this week’s earthquake in
Haiti were indicative of the
desperate struggle to help the
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"The importance of a tight end
with what we do -- both in the
run game and the pass game -- is
significant," Saints head coach
Sean Payton said earlier this
week. "Whether it's in the
intermediate routes or down the
field more, those are both things
that factor in to what we do
Activision survey: 82% of gamer
passing the ball." parents aware of ESRB ratings
By Mike Schramm (Joystiq) when buying a game either for shows up to play games with you
Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:15:00 PM themselves or for their families.
Note that it doesn't say they
for a Microsoft commercial.
Okay, you got us, we lied about
That woman buying her 12-year follow the ratings, only that they
-old a copy of Modern Warfare 2 are aware of the system and pay
that last stat. When anyone from
Glee shows up, it's 100% fun.
millions of affected people. at Gamestop right now may not attention to how games are rated. Activision survey: 82% of
The ground was packed with know about it, but Activision Gaming families spend a lot of gamer parents aware of ESRB
camp beds, with many of the says a recent survey concluded time playing games, too: 76% of ratings originally appeared on
v i c t i m s s c r e a m i n g , o t h e r s that 82% of gamer parents are parents agree that video games Joystiq on Fri, 15 Jan 2010
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First Risk: Factions screens released, surprisingly cartoony

By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) bout. Not that we have anything game. Anyone wanna place bets
Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:45:00 PM against the idea, per se -- it's just on the remaining three? Our
never occurred to us to try. money's on Spartans, Huns and
Click to Kitty-size Usually, The first batch of screenshots puppies.
when playing the physical, real- from EA's upcoming XBLA Gallery: Risk: Factions
life version of Risk, we like to version of the strategic board First Risk: Factions screens
pretend that we're bloodthirsty game, Risk: Factions, depicts the released, surprisingly cartoony
conquerers -- ones capable of scenario mentioned above in an originally appeared on Joystiq on
forging (and betraying) alliances unexpectedly animated fashion. Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:45:00 EST.
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think we've ever envisioned which brought Gabe and Tycho extremely Penny Arcade-looking which accompanied the images,
ourselves to be person-sized t o l i f e i n t h o s e H o t h e a d - soldiers seen above, we're humans and cats are just two of
felines during a heated global developed adventure titles, also guessing they had some input on the five factions featured in the

Mega Man Zero series to be re-released as DS collection

By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 11:45:00 AM
If you took an extended break
from Mega Man in the 2000s,
until the release of Mega Man 9,
you missed out on some great,
punishing games developed by
MM9 creator Inti Creates -- and
it appears that Capcom's going to
give you a chance to go back to
them. Capcom Japan opened a
site for "Rockman Zero
Collection," a DS compilation of
all four Game Boy Advance
Rockman Zero/Mega Man Zero
games, featuring the adventures
of Mega Man X's buddy Zero
after the X series. He has a
sword.
The collection will be released
in Japan on April 22. Capcom
has yet to announced a
localization, but we're confident
the publisher will, given the
general attitude of pro- Mega
Man sentiment surrounding the
upcoming release of Mega Man
10.
[Via The Mega Man Network]
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JPMorgan fourth-quarter profits soar

(Financial Times - US its investment banking business. JPMorgan would earn about
homepage) Net income at the bank more $2.5bn, or 63 cents.
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Rumor: Mass Effect 2
DLC details leaked
By David Hinkle (Joystiq)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 1:15:00 PM
[Image source: DagBladet]
Norwegian newspaper
DagBladet is reporting DLC will
likely be available day one or
soon thereafter for Mass Effect
2. DagBladet says the usual
items like armor and weapons
will be available, but also other
things, such as an unlockable
planet and even a new ally by the
name of Zaeed Messani, the
grizzled bounty hunter pictured
above. The piece also mentions
an in-game store for unlocking
DLC called "Cerberus Network,"
which sounds a lot like Dragon
Age: Origins' DLC platform.
There's more info available, but
in the interest of being as spoiler-
free as possible, we won't go into
it. So, if you don't mind braving
spoiler territory, hit up the link
below.
[Thanks, Thomas]
Source- DagBladet article [
machine translation]
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Energy costs fuel
2009 consumer
price rise
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homepage)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 6:58:01 AM
US consumer prices jumped by
2.7 per cent last year on the back
of rising petrol costs, but a flat
December should ease fears
about inflation.
Separately on Friday, the
Federal Reserve said that US
Rock Band Weekly: industrial production rose for the
sixth consecutive month and the
latest Reuters/University of
Tom Petty, Phoenix, Michigan survey of consumer
sentiment ticked up.
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also includes tracks from
Phoenix and Silvertide.
OK, so next week's Rock Band Check out pricing and track
DLC doesn't include "Mary details for the console releases
Jane's Last Dance" (pictured after the break.
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anthology pack-- but that video Silvertide
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that and the "Don't Come appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 15
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Collection Crush: Vika Gazinskaya Wyclef and John

Spring 2010 Bartlett Help You Help
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog) herself creates in her eponymous
RTW line, Gazinskaya is
below—my favorite—represents
a crumpled, discarded piece of
parchment.
Haiti
Submitted at 1/14/2010 3:28:44 PM
someone who, like Lagerfeld, By ELLE.com (ELLE News
With a price point between $725 Blog)
Vika Gazinskaya. I adore this you wouldn’t be surprised to and $2,900 and currently only
girl. And no, not just because learn even dreams about fashion available by custom order, Submitted at 1/15/2010 7:54:09 AM

s a y i n g h e r n a m e o u t l o u d in her sleep. Gazinskaya’s designs don’t

(VeeeeeKAH!) makes you feel In her newest collection (her It has been hard to focus on
come inexpensively. In their
like Angelina Jolie looked in that seventh), Gazinskaya puts forth fashion and college with what is
defense, though, they are all
leathered-up scene in Mr. and 14 looks, all of them dresses, going on in Haiti. A poverty-
hand-sewn, sourced from the
Mrs. Smith, but because the with the “creative process of an stricken nation at the offset of
same materials as Lanvin and
young Moscow-based street style artist” serving as its inspiration. this natural disaster, now the
YSL’s, and as Gazinskaya
icon cum fashion designer, Wanting to illustrate everything Haitian people are waiting for
succinctly put it, are of “perfect
w h o — f u l l d i s c l o s u r e , h a s from “waking up” to “the big aid that is simply not coming fast
quality”.
become an e-pal of mine over the idea” to “editing,” even “stacks enough, or not coming at
To see more from the designer,
past year—has one of the most of sketch paper,” Gazinskaya all. This morning, footage aired
visit her website here(or just
individual points of view, translates into each look (most of on the BBC that showed Haitians
click onto any street style
sartorially, I’ve ever come which bear her favored mid-calf literally grabbing and tearing at
website during Fashion Week
across. Evidenced by what she hemline and roomy cocoon aid packages, wrestling and
season). collect donations. Ten percent of
wears, of course (that’s a photo silhouette) at least one, if not scrambling over one another.
Three dramatic dresses from all sales from his shop this
of her taken by ELLE.com’s several of these steps through her If you want to help, then Wyclef
Gazinskaya’s new RTW weekend will go directly to the
Kelly Stuart outside a show last color palette, use of texture, and Jean and John Bartlett are giving
collection Red Cross in aid of the relief
September), but also by whom o v e r s i z e d , a s y m m e t r i c you easy ways to reach out to the
Photos: Kelly Stuart and efforts in the shattered island
she admires (hint: Stefano Pilati, sculpturing. Though she didn’t distressed nation. By texting
courtesy of Vika Gazinskaya nation.
Nicolas Ghesquière and Phoebe say so, I like to think the "Yele" to 501501, you will
Follow ELLE on Twitter. Every effort can help make a
Philo rank high) and what she shoulder knot in the black dress donate $5 to Wyclef's charity,
Become our Facebook fan! difference, no matter how small,
Yele Haiti, which according to
MTV.com, has already raised so let's all try to do our parts.
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through the SMS initiative.
— Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin
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Original Food Series John Bartlett is making himself

personally available at his West
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(MediaPost | Media News) Brooklyn fringe artist, Thu Tran, combining culinary delights, Village shop all weekend to
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serve as her culinary crew. In conversations with acclaimed
IFC is debuting two food- their surreal live-action cartoon- indie bands.
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ELLE News Quiz: 1/15
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 7:30:00 AM
How well do you know this
week's most stylish happenings?
1. What is the title of BBC
One's new Ugly Betty-esque
series, which debuted last night?
2. What Victoria's Secret model
sports a "topless" bikini in the
spring 2010 swim catalogue?
3. Mila Kunis wore an
asymmetrical LBD by what
designer to the premiere of The
Foyle's: Central Saint Book of Eli?
4. Where will Isabel Marant
open her first U.S. store in
Martins' Go-To Hangout February?
5. Rachel McAdams wore a
By ELLE.com (ELLE News surprise that you will often find green one-shoulder gown by
Blog) the designers of Saint Martins what designer to the Berlin
getting their caffeine fix there. premiere of Sherlock Holmes?
Submitted at 1/14/2010 1:19:49 PM
You can always expect a fun —Erin Clements
Next door to Saint Martins is atmosphere, and though you may 1. Material Girl
one of London's most beloved have to fight for a seat, the two
bookstores, Foyle's. While giant shots of espresso in every coffee
stores like the Borders across the surely make up for it. If in
Around the Net In Media: Judges Seen As
street have gone out of business, London, Foyle's is definitely a
Foyle's has remained intact and place to stop off, read a book, Likely To Toss FCC Profanity Case
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to-spot in this neighborhood with some of the most creative
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known for creativity. It's a place people in town.
where wireless internet is free, — Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin Three judges on a federal
the food is healthy (and often Follow ELLE on Twitter. appeals court seem ready to toss
organic), live jazz plays in the Become our Facebook fan! out a government policy that can
evenings, and students get a lead to broadcasters being fined
discount. So it doesn't come as a for allowing even a single curse
word on live television, with
three judges hearing arguments
sometimes mocking the
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government's position.
The judicial panel of the 2nd
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
Manhattan kept a government
lawyer on the defensive with
dozens of questions suggesting
that the current policy violates
the First Amendment. Judge
Rosemary Pooler said she
understood broadcasters'
argument that the threats of fines
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Haiti quake puts
parents' adoption
dreams in limbo (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 4:47:35 AM
Jill Lear has decorated
bedrooms waiting for the 9-year-
old boy and girl she calls her son
and daughter even though she
hasn't brought them home from
Haiti. Kim Lewen wants to wrap
her arms around the two smiling
girls she left at an orphanage last
fall with a promise to return.
Though both know their
children are safe after the
magnitude-7 earthquake that
devastated Haiti this week, what
they don't know is when they'll
be able to proceed with their
dream of bringing the children to
the United States. They fear for
their children's safety in the days
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would have a chilling effect on
live coverage. "You know what a
good lawyer would say, 'If in
doubt, don't run it,"' she said.
"And that's the chill." The judges
then reserved decision.
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Gates: Military fails to spot danger within ranks (AP)
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Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:01:36 AM
WASHINGTON – Defense
Secretary Robert Gates said
Friday an investigation into the
Fort Hood shootings found the
military isn't sufficiently
prepared to prevent similar
attacks in the future.
Commanders must be
encouraged to intervene if they
think someone within the ranks
is a threat, Gates said. He
directed Army Secretary John
McHugh to make changes and
expects new policies to be in
place by summer.
As many as eight Army officers
could face discipline for failing
to do anything when the alleged
shooter in the Fort Hood
rampage displayed erratic
behavior early in his military
career, two officials familiar with
the case said, speaking on
condition of anonymity before
the report's release.
Speaking to reporters at the
Pentagon Friday, Gates said he
could not talk in detail about
some elements of the review
involving Army Maj. Nidal
Hasan, the man charged in the
mass shootings at the Texas
military base in November.
Gates did say the review shows
that "it is clear that as a
department we have not done
enough to adapt to the evolving
internal security threat." The
secretary also said it
demonstrates that the Pentagon
"is burdened by 20th century
processes and attitudes mostly
rooted in the Cold War."
Officials said Thursday that
several midlevel officers
overlooked or failed to act on red
flags in Hasan's lax work habits
and fixation on religion. Hasan
was seen by the reviews as a
loner who was passed along
from office to office and job to
job despite professional failings
that included missed or failed
exams and physical fitness
requirements.
Findings about Hasan and those
who supervised him are
contained in a confidential
addendum to a larger report
about the Pentagon's handling of
potential extremism in the ranks
and readiness to handle the sort
of mass casualties Hasan
allegedly inflicted.
An official familiar with both
documents detailed their findings
on condition of anonymity
because the larger unclassified
report has not yet been released,
and the one dealing with Hasan
in detail will not be publicly
released.
Earlier, another official familiar
with the findings said the five- to
eight officers who could face
discipline were supervisors who
knew about Hasan's
shortcomings and looked the
other way or who did not fully
reflect concerns about Hasan in
professional evaluations.
The officers supervised Hasan
when he was a medical student
and during his early work as an
Army psychiatrist at Walter
Reed Army Medical Center in
Washington.
Findings about Hasan are
limited to a one-page summary
in the main report. The report,
called "Protecting the Force,"
concludes that the Defense
Department had outdated and
ineffective means to identify
threats from inside as opposed to
outside the military. It also says
the department's means of
sharing and collating information
about a potential troublemaker
are inadequate, one official said.
The inquiry also questions
whether the Pentagon is fully
committed to FBI-run Joint
Terrorism Task Forces. The
report calls on the Defense
Department to fully staff those
teams of investigators, analysts,
linguists and others so the
Pentagon can quickly see
information collected across
government agencies about
potential links between troops
and terrorist or extremist groups.
The report found that although
emergency response at Fort
Hood was generally good, there
are gaps elsewhere and
sometimes a failure to link
emergency response operations
on military installations with
those in the surrounding
communities.
The findings are the result of
two months of work by a panel
convened by Gates to look for
holes in Pentagon policies and
procedures revealed by the
Hasan case.
The review, which was led by
retired Adm. Vernon E. Clark
and former Army secretary Togo
D. West Jr., did not consider
whether the shootings were an
act of terrorism and did not delve
into allegations that Hasan was
in contact with a radical cleric in
Yemen. Those questions are part
of the separate criminal case
against Hasan.
Hasan got passing grades and a
promotion in part because
disturbing information about his
behavior and performance was
not recorded by superiors or
properly passed to others who
might have stepped in, the report
found.
As Hasan's training progressed,
his strident views on Islam
became more pronounced as did
worries about his competence as
a medical professional. Yet his
superiors continued to give him
positive performance evaluations
that kept him moving through
the ranks and led to his eventual
assignment at Fort Hood.
Recent statistics show the Army
rarely blocks junior officers from
promotion, especially in the
medical corps.
The report does not answer
whether intervention by one of
Hasan's superiors might have
prevented the shootings, one
official said. It is possible that
full knowledge by some
superiors or a more proactive
response to disturbing aspects of
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Hasan's behavior could have
either helped him or gotten him
fired, that official said, but there
is no clear evidence that anything
would have been different.
Hasan was often late or absent,
sometimes appeared disheveled
and performed to minimum
requirements. The pattern was
obvious to many around him, yet
not fully reflected where it
counted in the Army's
bureaucratic system of
evaluation and promotion,
investigators found.
Hasan nonetheless earned some
good reviews from patients and
colleagues. His promotion to
major was based on an
incomplete personnel file, one
official said, but also on
performance markers that Hasan
had met, if barely.
Hasan showed no signs of being
violent or a threat. But parallels
have been drawn between the
missed signals in his case and
those preceding the thwarted
Christmas attempt to blow up a
Detroit-bound U.S. airliner.
President Barack Obama and his
top national security aides have
acknowledged they had
intelligence about the alleged
bomber, Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab, but failed to
connect the dots.
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Makeshift camps are sprouting
up in Port-au-Prince
Up to 10,000 US troops will be
on the ground or off the coast of
Haiti by Monday to help deal
with the earthquake aid effort,
US defence officials say.
Aid distribution has begun but
logistics continue to be
extremely difficult, UN officials
say.
Tuesday's earthquake has left as
many as 45,000-50,000 people
dead.
Correspondents say survivors
seem increasingly desperate and
angry as bottlenecks and
infrastructure damage delay
relief efforts.
No-one is in charge. The
president is sleeping at the
airport with quite a few
journalists and aid workers.
Earlier this morning, I stood on
top of the rubble of the Supreme
Court, the Foreign Ministry, the
Interior Ministry and the Senate -
where a few senators had been
killed when the quake hit. Their
bodies have been dragged out
and put in body bags. The
representatives of state are
literally lying on the pavement
slowly rotting away.
This is a citizenry left to its own
extremely meagre resources.
You've got ordinary people
trying to administer IV drips to
their family members who are
slowly dying, but not a single
doctor or nurse at the general
hospital.
Many are spending another day
without food and shelter in the
ruined capital.
UN humanitarian chief John
Holmes told reporters that 30%
of buildings throughout Port-au-
Prince had been damaged, with
the figure at 50% in some areas.
The US has already sent an
aircraft carrier, the USS Carl
Vinson, to Haiti and the USS
Bataan, carrying a marine
expeditionary unit, is on its way.
The chairman of the US Joint
Chiefs of Staff, Adm Mike
Mullen, said a hospital ship and
more helicopters would be sent
in the coming days, carrying
more troops and marines.
He said the total number of US
troops would rise to between
9,000 and 10,000.
"Right now, I mean, literally as
we speak, the Vinson (aircraft
carrier) and the company from
the 82nd Airborne who got there
last night are focusing on
delivering water from the
helicopters offshore to the people
of Haiti."
US defence secretary Robert
Gates said the relief effort was
the "highest priority for US
military assets in this
hemisphere", and all necessary
resources would be made
available.
He described infrastructure
problems which have led to
delays in aid distribution as
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appeal for $550m later on
Friday, officials said.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-
moon said that distribution of
food and medicine was under
way, but correspondents say
there is little immediate sign of a
co-ordinated relief effort on the
ground.
The UN's World Food
Programme says two million
people will need food aid, but it
has so far managed to feed just a
few thousand.
Meanwhile the head of the
charity Medecins Sans Frontieres
(Doctors Without Borders) said
thousands of people were
waiting for surgery in Haiti's
hospitals, AFP news agency
reported.
Port-au-Prince's small airport is
"facts of life".
filled to capacity and US air
"I don't know how ... [the US]
traffic controllers have taken
government could have
charge to help manage the influx
responded faster or more
of planes.
comprehensively than it has," he
Mr Holmes said everyone was
said.
"working desperately" to resolve
The announcements came after
the problems and the capacity to
US President Barack Obama
deal with flights was rising.
pledged full American support in
The port is too damaged to use
a phone call to his Haitian
and roads are blocked by debris,
counterpart Rene Preval.
although the main route from the
Relief problems
Dominican Republic is now
The UN said a total of about
clear.
$310m (£190m) in international
The BBC's Andy Gallacher, in
aid had been pledged so far for
Port-au-Prince, says survivors
the relief effort.
are dying in huge numbers, and
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-
"We hear on the radio that rescue
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critically short supply"
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to come, and that their months-
long effort to adopt the children
could be stalled by the chaos.
"I have this bed sitting there with
a doll and a teddy bear, and little
pink daisies, and she is in an
orphanage with 150 kids without
water tonight," said Lear, of
Watertown, S.D.
The earthquake has thrown U.S.
adoptive families into a state of
limbo. Many are finding
themselves mired in a desperate
search for answers about how
their children are faring. Some
fear paperwork — which can
take months or years to finalize
— may be buried or lost forever
in crumpled buildings, stalling
the adoption process for good.
Adoptions from Haiti make up a
fraction of international
adoptions to the United States
each year, but the number has
been growing steadily as
countries such as China and
Guatemala have slowed or
closed to international adoption
in recent years. The U.S. State
Department issued 330
immigrant visas to Haitian
children last year, up from 96 in
1999.
In the eyes of the Haitian
government, many of those
waiting to bring children home
are already legal parents.
Adoptions are finalized in Haiti,
but it can still take months for
final approval to bring the
children home to the United
States.
Even those who haven't
completed the Haitian adoption
process may have already met
the children they hope to call
their own. Unlike other
countries, Haiti matches
prospective parents and orphans
early in the adoption process, so
families have photographs for
months, said Heather Breems,
Haiti coordinator and
international supervisor for
Adoption-Link in Oak Park, Ill.
"It's what makes a situation like
this so difficult for families,
because they've been matched
with children already," said
Breems, whose agency has five
families matched or waiting to
travel, including a single mother
who was supposed to leave this
weekend to bring home her HIV-
positive daughter.
Brett Schlenbaker and his wife,
Kendra, of Bellingham, Wash.,
are in the process of adopting
two children, an 8-year-old
daughter, Dejennika, and her 6-
year-old brother, Djouvensky.
They had already met them, and
hoped to bring them home next
month.
"You just don't know what's
going on with your child," said
Schlenbaker. "Are they hurt, are
they injured, are they safe? It's
any parent's fear."
Adoption advocates met
Thursday in the Capitol Hill
office of Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-
La., to discuss the quake's impact
on adoptions. Many parents have
been pushing to see if the State
Department can expedite
adoption proceedings, because
they fear orphanages will need to
serve other children left
homeless or alone after the
quake.
Chuck Johnson, chief operating
officer of the National Council
for Adoption, said the experts
agreed that efforts should be
made to expedite proceedings for
the relatively small number of
U.S. families whose adoptions
were nearly complete. But there
almost certainly will be
substantial delays in most of the
roughly 900 pending adoption
applications because of the chaos
in Haiti, including widespread
loss of essential documents.
"Many of the orphanages have
probably been damaged, records
lost," he said. "It's going to be
very difficult to proceed with
intercountry adoption in the
imminent future."
State department officials did
not return a request seeking
comment Thursday.
Tom DiFilipo, president of the
Joint Council on International
Children's Services, said his
group would be setting up a Web
-based registry through which
families could try to get
information about the Haitian
children they hoped to adopt.
"Once we compile that data, we
can determine which cases we
might be able to speed up," he
said. "The important thing is the
status of the kids — are they
OK?"
The immediate focus is on the
safety of the children and
providing emergency relief, he
said. Adoption is "part of the
plan, but it's not the priority
today," DiFilipo said. "The
devastation is just phenomenal.
We have a lot of work to do
before we can move forward
with the adoptions."
That leaves parents in the U.S.
filled with worry about what
comes next. Lear and her
husband Bruce had visited their
9-year-old Hatian children,
Pierre and Ange-Laurette, twice.
They had planned a third visit,
which is now on hold because of
the earthquake.
They learned the children were
OK about 10 minutes after the
earthquake, just before cell
phone signals went down across
Haiti. But they've since received
reports that conditions are
worsening.
Lewen, 40, of Willowbrook, Ill.,
knows the two young sisters she
is adopting are safe — for now.
The single parent-to-be started
the adoption process in
September and visited 1-year-old
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in October.
"I felt like the luckiest person in
the world," she said. "I got there
on a Monday and Wednesday
night I was so in love with them
that I couldn't sleep."
She learned by e-mail
Wednesday afternoon that the
girls were safe. Now she, too, is
hoping for an emergency visa to
get the girls out of the orphanage
to make room for other children
orphaned by the earthquake.
"I need them to be here to be
safe. I want them to know they
have food and that they are not at
risk of disease and they are not
terrified," she said. "I can't
imagine how terrified they are."
___
Associated Press Writers
Charles Wilson in Indianapolis,
David Crary in New York and
AP videojournalist Mark Carlson
in Chicago contributed to this
story.
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N.J. Church Group Returns Home From Haiti

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HACKETTSTOWN, N.J.
Members of a New Jersey
church group who were in Haiti
on a humanitarian mission when
a massive earthquake struck the
island nation this week have
returned to the United States,
recounting the horrors they
experienced and thankful to be
home.
Relatives and friends were
waiting at John F. Kennedy
International Airport early Friday
to greet the 15-member group
from the Trinity United
Methodist Church in
He said the group took a school
bus to the airport for a flight out
of the decimated country and
saw chaos and misery along the
crumbled roadways.
"Total devastation, buildings
down, supermarkets just crushed
in," he said. "People looking in
the rubble for people, trying to
dig them out, but they couldn't
do it."
The church members who
visited Haiti included two high
school students and were led by
the Rev. Frank Fowler. They
provided birth kits, diapers and
other supplies to the
impoverished country.
Fowler's wife, Karen Fowler,
student, but they announced late
Thursday that three students
believed to have been found
were not. They said they had
received "bad intelligence."
Gianacaci's grandfather James
Hall, of Hopewell, was anxiously
awaiting word.
"That's the hardest part of this —
the waiting," he said.
Hall said that Gianacaci's
parents had traveled to Florida
and that he hears from them
often, but he didn't know much
about the trip his granddaughter
was on.
Another New Jersey native on
the trip, 19-year-old Lindsay
Doran, of Rumson, was with a
reported that four New Jersey
men who were in Haiti on a
humanitarian mission to build
housing for orphans remain
stranded in Les Cayes, about 85
miles southwest of Port-au-
Prince.
Speaking Thursday with family
members through an online
video chat, the group said they
plan to do what they can to help
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Hackettstown, a town of about
11,000 residents in northwest
Jersey. They hugged and kissed
their loved ones in front of a
banner saying, "Welcome back,
Haiti team. We love you."
Frank Procaccini, returning
from his fifth Haitian aid trip,
said the church group was in an
open field playing ball with
children from an orphanage
when he heard an explosion and
felt the ground shake.
"The ground was actually like an
ocean, and we were actually like
riding the waves," said
Procaccini, of Long Valley, N.J.
"It just kept rolling."
called the group's safe return "a
happy ending."
But a New Jersey college
student on a separate trip to Haiti
was still unaccounted for early
Friday.
Officials at Lynn University in
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said four
of its 12 students who were in
Haiti when the earthquake hit
Tuesday were missing. Among
them was Christine Gianacaci, of
Hopewell, N.J.
Two faculty members also had
not been located.
For much of the day Thursday,
university officials said that
Gianacaci was the only missing
group of eight students who
arrived safely in Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic, on
Thursday, the university said.
Members of another church
mission from New Jersey also
were safe. A group from three
Mercer County congregations
was at the U.S. Embassy in
Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, on
Thursday awaiting evacuation to
the Dominican Republic.
Cooper University Hospital, in
Camden, and Hackensack
University Medical Center
announced they were organizing
medical missions to Haiti.
The Record of Bergen County
Frank Fowler, the leader of the
Trinity church members, said
God played a role in rescuing his
group. When the church group
arrived at the airport, he said, it
found the crew of an Icelandic
search and rescue plane that had
just dropped off supplies and
was leaving — with enough
room to take people out.
"I believe God's hand," he said,
"is in everything."
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Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:41:41 AM
SAN FRANCISCO – A
Cambridge University
psychologist testifying in a
federal trial on California's same-
sex marriage ban says children
raised by same-sex parents are as
well-adjusted as children raised
by a mother and father.
Developmental psychologist
Michael Lamb also said Friday
that many children with two
mothers or two fathers would
thrive even more if their parents
were able to get married.
Lamb's testimony is being used
in an attempt to undercut
arguments by Proposition 8
sponsors that restricting marriage
to a man and woman can be
justified by the need to foster
procreation and to make sure that
children are raised by their
biological parents.
The trial, now in its fifth day, is
the first in a federal court to
examine whether preventing gay
Americans from marrying
violates their constitutional
rights.
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SAN FRANCISCO(AP) — A
Columbia University social
scientist says California's voter-
enacted ban on same-sex
marriages contributed to the
social stigma that makes gay
men and lesbians more
susceptible to depression, suicide
and substance abuse.
Testifying in the federal trial to
decide if Proposition 8 violates
the U.S. Constitution, Ilan Meyer
said the measure sent a message
of "You are not welcome here"
to gay people by erecting a
barrier to a "desirable and
respected" institution.
"People in our society have goals
that are cherished by all people,
that are part of the social
convention," Meyer said. "We
are all raised to think there are
certain things we want to achieve
in life, and this Proposition 8
says if you are gay or lesbian,
you cannot achieve this
particular goal."
The trial, the first in a federal
court to examine the
constitutionality of state gay
marriage bans, is scheduled to
resume Friday with testimony
from Michael Lamb, a
Cambridge University
psychologist who will discuss
gay and lesbian parenting and the
benefits to children of allowing
same-sex couples to marry.
During Thursday's session,
Howard Nielson Jr., a lawyer for
the measure's sponsors, mounted
an exhaustive cross-examination,
using Meyer's own research
showing that black and Latino
gays had fewer mental health
problems than white gays to try
to undercut the professor's
assertion. Meyer had
hypothesized in his study that
black and Latino gays would
have more mental health issues
because of their dual minority
identities.
Nielson also challenged Meyer
on his statement that California's
domestic partnership law, which
grants same-sex couples the
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same legal benefits and
responsibilities as married
spouses, was itself a source of
stigma and emotional distress.
Equality California, the state's
largest gay rights group,
sponsored the 2003 law.
"Do you believe Equality
California would sponsor
legislation that would stigmatize
(gay) individuals," Nielson
asked.
"No, but that doesn't change my
answer," Meyer said. "Having a
second type of an institution that
is clearly not the one that is
designed for most people clearly
is stigmatizing."
Earlier Thursday, an economist
for the city of San Francisco
testified that preventing gays
from getting married costs the
city millions of dollars a year in
lost revenue and increased
services.
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Survivors of Hudson jet landing gather year later

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(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) appreciate everything." Cross for relief efforts in Haiti. toast to life.
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:34:03 AM Chimed in Zych: "We don't take He made the check in the name The return to the water has
anything for granted. We of the victims of the fatal crash brought up mixed feelings for
NEW YORK – A year after 155 c e l e b r a t e d t h e o n e - m o n t h of Continental Connection Flight some of the survivors. But many
people lived through the water anniversary, two, three, four. 3407 in Buffalo, N.Y. last are eager to reunite with the
landing of an incapacitated US We've been waiting for this day." February. others who shared in the
Airways flight in the middle of Bostic said he still feels "a little Bank of America, who had 20 harrowing experience. Some say
the frigid Hudson River, many of anxiety" about flying. But he employees on the flight, they consider the group to be a
t h e m g a t h e r e d F r i d a y t o said having Zych with him presented the Red Cross with a kind of family.
celebrate the anniversary of their makes it easier. $21,549 donation for Haiti relief. "It does bring back memories of
unlikely survival. Sullenberger said that to date he Mayor Michael Bloomberg cited being out there and what we
A crowd of about 100 applauded has met two-thirds of all the the Haiti earthquake, saying, "it's went through," Bostic said
a s C a p t . C h e s l e y " S u l l y " passengers and hoped to meet all great that an organization like the previously. "But with those
S u l l e n b e r g e r , s m i l i n g a n d of them eventually. Red Cross ... is always there." memories, it also reinforces that
wearing his pilot's uniform, American Red Cross of Greater Later, Sullenberger was gratitude we have."
arrived for a breakfast. Rescuers N e w Y o r k C E O T h e r e s a expected to join other crew and Whether it's traveling together
were thanked at the event, which Bischoff introduced Gov. David passengers to revisit the site or just spending quiet time with
launched a day of activities. Paterson at the gathering, where he deftly set down his each other, Bostic says he's
"We're so happy to have so much crediting him with coining the Airbus A320 on Jan. 15, 2009, intent on making sure he doesn't
to celebrate. We have so much to phrase "Miracle on the Hudson." after a flock of geese disabled its miss out on anything. After all,
be grateful for," Sullenberger "It was the happiest day I have engines. there could be another encounter
said. spent or ever will spend as In the afternoon, they'll meet with death at any time.
Forty-eight of the passengers on governor," Paterson said. with boat crews and other "If it happens," he said, "it's
Flight 1549 were participating in Sullenberger's co-pilot Jeffrey rescuers to board one of the going to happen this time
the day's events, including Laura Skiles called all the rescuers, passenger ferries that plucked without any regrets."
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JP Morgan reports $3.3bn profits Google hackers 'used IE

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Mr Dimon also praised staff for
helping to protect the bank in its
recovery from the banking crisis
on Thursday of plans to claw
back nearly $120bn from US
banks to pay back bail-out costs.
weakness'
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Wall Street bank JP Morgan vibrant". enough shape to afford massive human rights activists
Chase has reported profits of Investors appeared unimpressed bonuses, they are surely in good Submitted at 1/15/2010 2:42:34 AM
worldwide, showed a level of
$3.3bn (£2bn) for the last three with JP Morgan's results, with enough shape to afford paying sophistication above that of
months of 2009. Microsoft has admitted that its typical, isolated cyber criminal
shares in the bank falling 2% in back every penny to taxpayers,"
That compares with profits of early trading, though they later Internet Explorer was a weak efforts.
President Obama said,
$702m reported at the end of recovered. link in the recent attacks on McAfee's vice-president of
announcing the measure.
2 0 0 8 a t t h e h e i g h t o f t h e "The top-line results were Google's systems that originated t h r e a t r e s e a r c h D m i t r i
JP Morgan received $25bn of
financial crisis. in China. Alperovitch told AFP that
disappointing and there were funds from the government's bail
Total profits for the year were pressures on credit card lending The firm said in a blog post on although the firm had "no proof
-out fund, known as the Troubled
$11.7bn, the bank said, with and retail banking," commented Thursday that a vulnerability in that the Chinese are behind this
Asset Relief Programme (Tarp),
investment banking providing David Buik from BGC Partners. the browser could allow hackers particular attack, I think there are
but repaid it in full in June last
the bulk of the earnings. to remotely run programs on indications though that a nation-
"It shows the US economy is far year.
Staff compensation - made up of from out of the woods yet." infected machines. state is behind it".
Unlike many of its rivals, the
salaries and bonuses - totalled The bank lost $2.2bn through its Following the attack, Google The recent spate of attacks was
bank did not report a quarterly
$27bn for the year. threatened to end its operations alleged to have hit more than 30
credit card business last year, loss during the financial crisis,
Investment bankers earned and retail banking also made a in China. companies including Google and
having benefitted from a
$9.3bn in pay and bonuses. loss in the fourth quarter. M i c r o s o f t h a s r e l e a s e d Adobe, but security firms have
relatively low exposure to the US
Mixed performance preliminary guidance to mitigate since said that such invasions are
Bonus payouts sub-prime mortgage market.
Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan's JP Morgan's 200,000 employees the problem and is working on a routine.
The US's other major banks
chairman and chief executive, were paid a total of $27bn in formal software update. Mr Reavey echoed this in the
including Goldman Sachs,
said he was pleased with the salaries and bonuses over the So far, Microsoft "has not seen post.
Morgan Stanley and Citigroup
bank's performance, but said it year - an 18% increase on 2008 - widespread customer impact, "Unfortunately cyber crime and
will report their results from
could be better. rather only targeted and limited c y b e r a t t a c k s a r e d a i l y
though a figure for bonus Monday.
"Though these results showed payments alone was not given. attacks exploiting Internet occurrences in the online world.
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Survivors of Hudson River Jet
Landing Gather 1 Year Later
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Submitted at 1/15/2010 6:29:47 AM
NEW YORK A year after 155
people lived through the water
landing of the incapacitated US
Airways Flight 1549 in the
middle of the frigid Hudson
River, many of them gathered
Friday to celebrate the
anniversary of their unlikely
survival.
A crowd of about 100 applauded
as US Airways Flight 1549 Capt.
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger,
smiling and wearing his pilot's
uniform, arrived for a breakfast.
Rescuers were thanked at the
event, which launched a day of
activities.
Click here to see photos.
"We're so happy to have so much
to celebrate," said Sullenberger.
Participants included passengers
Laura Zych and Ben Bostic of
Charlotte, N.C., who started
dating after the splashdown's six-
month anniversary.
Life, said Bostic, is "a lot better.
I'm more open to opportunities. I
appreciate everything."
Chimed in Zych: "We don't take
anything for granted. We
celebrated the one-month
anniversary, two, three, four.
We've been waiting for this day."
Bostic said he still feels "a little
apprehension, a little anxiety"
about flying. But he said having
Zych with him makes it easier.
American Red Cross of Greater
New York CEO Theresa
Bischoff introduced Gov. David
Paterson at the gathering,
crediting him with coining the
phrase "Miracle on the Hudson."
"It was the happiest day I have
spent or ever will spend as
governor," Paterson said.
Later, Sullenberger was
expected to join other crew and
passengers to revisit the site
where he deftly set down his
Airbus A320 on Jan. 15, 2009,
after a flock of geese disabled its
engines.
In the afternoon, they'll meet
with boat crews and other
rescuers to board one of the
passenger ferries that plucked
them from the icy water.
Together, they'll return to the
place where they made their
escape.
At 3:31 p.m., the moment of
impact, they'll raise glasses in a
toast to life.
The return to the water has
brought up mixed feelings for
some of the survivors. But many
are eager to reunite with the
others who shared in the
harrowing experience. Some say
they consider the group to be a
kind of family.
"It does bring back memories of
being out there and what we
went through," Bostic said
previously. "But with those
memories, it also reinforces that
gratitude we have."
Whether it's traveling together
or just spending quiet time with
each other, Bostic says he's
intent on making sure he doesn't
miss out on anything. After all,
there could be another encounter
with death at any time.
"If it happens," he said, "it's
going to happen this time
without any regrets."
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Millions of Americans cracked a
smile earlier this week at the
sight of 62-year-old Larry Platt
performing an original song
titled“Pants on the Ground” for
the “American Idol” judges in
Atlanta. Platt’s spirited
performance swept across the honored him with his own
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internet, giving A.I. its first viral
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AP Source: Man arrested in airplane
bomb threat (AP)
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Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:03:10 AM
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – A
passenger on board a small
commercial plane was arrested
Friday after making a bomb
threat as the plane neared a
northern Michigan airport, a
government official said.
No bomb was found, and the
man was taken off the plane after
it landed safely at Cherry Capital
Airport in Traverse City, said the
official, who wasn't authorized to
speak publicly and spoke on
condition of anonymity.
The Transportation Security
Administration said the
passenger had entered the
bathroom of the United Airlines
Flight 6036 from Chicago as it
approached the Michigan airport
Friday morning. The passenger
was questioned after the flight
landed, and the airport
suspended operations for about
30 minutes, the TSA said.
Passenger David Boyer, 47, a
Chicago attorney who has a
home near Traverse City, said he
was seated seven rows behind
the man, who got up and went to
the bathroom, stayed about five
minutes and then sat back down.
Boyer said there was no
disturbance, no reason to believe
anything was wrong until the
plane landed.
Police came onto the plane and
detained the man, who he
estimated to be in his late 30s,
and they took him off the plane.
He was cooperative and didn't
put up a struggle. The passengers
were then taken to the airport fire
department building where they
were questioned by authorities,
he said.
"Everything's fine. It's just a hair
-trigger misunderstanding as far
as I'm concerned. It's a non-
event. It was a completely
routine flight," he said as he was
walking toward the terminal
from the parking lot.
The incident comes as airlines
and airports have boosted
security in the wake of the failed
attack on a packed Detroit-bound
Northwest Airlines flight on
Christmas. A Nigerian man,
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,
has pleaded not guilty to charges
that he tried to blow up the plane
using a chemical-laden device.
Friday's United Airlines flight
was operated by St. George,
Utah-based SkyWest Inc., the
holding company for SkyWest
Airlines. The medium-sized,
twin-engine Bombardier CRJ-
200 passenger plane had 11
passengers and three crew
members on board, said Marissa
Snow, a SkyWest spokesman.
United Airlines spokeswoman
Sarah Massier said there was a
"disruptive passenger" on the
flight that departed from O'Hare
International Airport in Chicago.
She said the flight crew
requested that law enforcement
officials meet the flight once it
landed but would not provide
more details.
____
Associated Press Writers Joan
Lowy in Washington and
Michael Tarm in Chicago
contributed to this report.
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Up to eight US army officers report on the incident.
face disciplinary action over the 'Evolving security threat'
behaviour of a major accused of Mr Gates did not comment
a shooting spree, officials quoted directly on the reports of officers
by US media say. being disciplined over the Fort
Thirteen people died when Hood case, but he did admit that
psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan the incident raised "serious
opened fire at the Fort Hood base questions" about the defence
in Texas last November. department's ability to address
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20th Century attitudes rooted in He was also something of a

in Haiti Still Missing
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 1/15/2010 5:38:13 AM
BOCA RATON, Fla. A South
Florida college said late
Thursday that three students who
were believed to be safe in Haiti
actually remain unaccounted for.
Kevin M. Ross, the president of
Lynn University in Boca Raton,
said the private contractor the
school hired to help find the
missing students had received
"bad intelligence" earlier in the
day when it told the school that
the students had been located and
taken to the airport in Port-au-
Prince for transport out of the
earthquake-ravaged city.
"This is hard news to deliver," he
said. "But it is more difficult to
hear for those family and friends
with whom, only hours earlier,
such good news had been shared.
I am deeply sorry for that."
The students are Stephanie
Crispinelli of Katonah, N.Y.;
Courtney Hayes of Boca Raton,
Fla.; and Britney Gengel of
Rutland, Mass.
They were among 12 students
and two faculty members
traveling with the aid group
Food For The Poor.
Eight of the students have been
evacuated to the Dominican
Republic after a 7.0-magnitude
earthquake struck Haiti on
Tuesday. Those eight were due
in Fort Lauderdale early Friday.
Ross said an anonymous donor
provided a plane to bring them
back from the Dominican
Republic.
One other student, Christine
Gianacaci, of Hopewell, N.J.,
remained missing, as did faculty
members Patrick Hartwick and
Richard Bruno.
The university said it has hired a
second group of private
contractors to join the search for
its students and faculty members.
Hall said uncertainty remained
about how the mix-up happened.
Earlier in the day, Gengel's
the Cold War," he said.
He added that there had been no
loner, failing to socialise with
work colleagues, and developed
father said he was shown a w e l l - i n t e g r a t e d m e a n s o f ever more strident views on
photograph provided by the gathering and disseminating the Islam.
searchers in Haiti that he wide range of behavioural Yet he had been repeatedly
believed showed his daughter. i n d i c a t o r s t h a t c o u l d h e l p promoted, and was awarded a
Ross said it now appears that the i d e n t i f y a t h r e a t . military fellowship to continue
woman was not his daughter. Mr Gates announced that the his studies.
"They are devastated by this i n v e s t i g a t i o n ' s i m m e d i a t e The army, the Los Angeles
news," Ross said. "They are still findings would be implemented Times reported, seemed to
a very, very hopeful group." by March. overlook his behaviour because
Adding to the confusion is that Maj Hasan, a 39-year-old they were delighted to have
seven of the students were American-born Muslim, will be found a doctor with a good
reported safe at the U.S. embassy tried in a military court, but it undergraduate record, previous
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Officers May Be Punished for Fort Tech.view: Decimated

(The Economist: Daily
Hood Rampage columns)
1+2 0= 63. There is nothing
magical about such a number,
though November 11th does
(FOXNews.com) " H a d t h o s e f a i l i n g s b e e n an officer ill-suited to be an Submitted at 1/15/2010 12:50:45 AM
happen to be the birthday of a
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:28:07 AM properly adjudicated, he wouldn't Army psychiatrist. Tech.view member of your correspondent’s
have progressed," the official Recent statistics show the Army Jan 15th 2010 | LOS ANGELES family. For his own amusement,
As many as eight Army officers told the Times. rarely blocks junior officers from From Economist.com What if 63 of something will figure in
may be punished for failing to Additionally, the Pentagon promotion, especially in the Napoleon hadn’t abolished the celebration.
heed warning signs and take review into the deadly rampage medical corps. decimal time? All this playing around with
action against suspected Fort that killed 13 found that the Hasan showed no signs of being SINCE the start of 2010, your binary numbers has made him
Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Hasan, Defense Department does not do violent or a threat. But parallels c o r r e s p o n d e n t h a s a m u s e d wonder why binary time—or, for
a U.S. official said Thursday. an adequate job of sharing have been drawn between the himself by interpreting the date that matter, decimal time—never
First reported in the Los information about internal missed signals in his case and as a binary number, and then caught on in the Western world.
Angeles Times, an official personnel, and it focuses more those preceding the thwarted converting that into its decimal Decimal time has been tried on
familiar with a Pentagon review on hunting spies than ferreting Christmas attempt to blow up a e q u i v a l e n t . E x p r e s s e d many occasions. Indeed, a
of the case, which will be out extremists. Detroit-bound U.S. airliner. internationally as dd.mm.yy, the decimal calendar based on a ten-
discussed at a briefing Friday, The Defense Department made President Barack Obama and his first day of this year was 010110. month year was used by Romans
said the officers who face public its own review of the top national security aides have In decimal form, that works out during the time of Romulus and
discipline hold ranks of colonel rampage earlier this week and a c k n o w l e d g e d t h e y h a d to be 2 4+2 2+2 1=22. The game Remus. Their calendar ran from
and below. found that doctors overseeing intelligence about the alleged is pointless, of course. But it has March to December. The two
The review reportedly found H a s a n ' s m e d i c a l t r a i n i n g b o m b e r , U m a r F a r o u k made him ponder the whole date missing months needed to make
that superiors allowed Hasan, an repeatedly voiced concerns over Abdulmutallab, but failed to and time arrangement people up a solar year were dismissed as
Army psychiatrist, to advance his strident views on Islam and connect the dots. take for granted. winter when nothing grew or
within the ranks despite his his inappropriate behavior, yet T h e A s s o c i a t e d P r e s s There are only four years a happened—and therefore not
failings to meet physical and continued to give him positive contributed to this report. century when you can play this worth worrying about.
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TECH.VIEW: 11th) in three months (January, the end of the cycle to complete
continued from page 79 October and November) that the solar year. By the time of
lasted for little more than a even currency. But seconds and Republic to adopt the déci-jour lend themselves to this phoney A u g u s t u s , t h e s o - c a l l e d
dozen years before Napoleon minutes, hours and days, weeks and centi-jour (a tenth and a binary treatment. Alexandrian calendar had even
abolished it in 1806. and months were left unscathed. h u n d r e d t h o f a d a y , Obviously, the smallest binary incorporated an additional day
Ironically, when the French That, along with the failure to respectively). But the decimal number in this century’s set was f o r l e a p y e a r s . T h i s w a s
invented the metric system in decimalise the compass, was calendar was deemed enough of January 1st at the turn of the essentially the decimal calendar
1795, two years after they p e r h a p s t h e m e t r i c a t i o n a gesture to the new age of m i l l e n n i u m ( 0 1 0 1 0 0 ) . T h e that the French introduced during
changed the calendar, they commission’s biggest setback. rationalism, even though it did largest will be November 11th the revolution. But the French
decimalised everything except Its august president, the noted not comply with the strict next year, when all the bits in the Republic’s official ten-day week
time. There were base units for mathematician Joseph-Louis six-digit sequence are present
length, area, volume, weight and Lagrange, tried in vain to get the TECH.VIEW: page 80 (111111). In decimal terms, that TECH.VIEW: page 79
is equal to 2 5+2 4+2 3+2 2+2
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divisions and multiples of ten,
and used none of the metric
system’s prefixes (milli-, centi-,
deci-, deca-, hecto-, kilo-, etc).
Even so, the idea of a centi-jour
(14.4 minutes) has cropped up on
several occasions since. One
reason is that a ten-hour clock,
with each hour divided into 100
decimal minutes, and each
decimal minute sub-divided into
100 decimal seconds, would
m a k e n a v i g a t i o n
easier—provided, of course, you
had a decimal sextant and
compass to go with it. Decimal
time and longitude would then
correlate directly without the
need for logarithmic conversion
tables. Even the Royal
Geographical Society in
Victorian England was keen on
decimal navigation, and
published tables to convert
sexagesimal angles and hours
into centi-jours and their decimal
subdivisions.
Numerous clocks were made in
France and elsewhere during the
19th century with faces showing
both the numbers 1-12 for
standard time and 1-10 for
decimal time. The supposed
advantage was that any observer
with a decimal chronometer and
a view of the sun’s height above
the horizon would then know
instantly where on the planet he
was. With 100 decimal degrees
(or “gons” as they became
known) to a right-angle, and the
distance from the pole to the
equator being almost exactly
10,000 kilometres, 1 km along
the surface subtends an angle of
one centigon (a hundredth of a
decimal degree) at the centre of
the Earth. Had it come to pass,
decimal time and decimal
angular measurement might have
done for the 19th century what
GPS did for the 20th.
But the French were not the first
to think of the ten-hour day, nor
even the centi-jour. Like the
Egyptians with their decimal
calendar, the Chinese used
decimal (not to mention
duodecimal) time several
millennia before Christ. Since
the beginning of history, they
have divided the day into a 100
equal parts called ke(14.4
minutes), and split each of those
into 60 fen(14.4 seconds). When
Jesuit missionaries introduced
Western clocks to China in the
17th century, the local
inhabitants simply changed the
number of divisions in a day
from 100 to 96, making a ke
equal to exactly 15 minutes.
To this day, the term ke is used
in China to denote “a quarter of a
hour”. In Japan, the same
character (pronounced either
“koku” or “kizamu”) translates
roughly into “carving out a small
amount of time” and was used,
until the Meiji era, to signify
“hour”, while the character for
fen(pronounced “fûn” in
Japanese) is used to this day to
denote “minute”.
Ultimately, the only unit of time
that really matters is the second.
Originally, the internationally
accepted system of units known
as SI (Système International
d’Unités) defined the second as
1/86,400 of a mean solar
day—simply the inverse of the
number of seconds in 24 hours.
But irregularities in the rotation
of the Earth made that unreliable.
Thus, in 1967, SI adopted a more
precise definition based on the
frequency of the radiation a
caesium atom emits when it flips
between two energy states. No
ifs and buts, at absolute zero
temperature, this is exactly
9,192,631,770 hertz.
Physicists have no trouble using,
on the one hand, picoseconds
(trillionths of a second) or even
femtoseconds (quadrillionths of
a second) to discuss time at the
atomic scale. They also talk
cheerfully of 10 18 seconds
needed for light to travel from
the farthest reaches of the
universe. Likewise, in
computing, “Unix Time” gives
the date and time in terms of the
number of seconds since January
1st 1970, and Microsoft’s
“Filetime” is recorded as
multiples of 100-nanosecond
units since January 1st 1601.
But computer scientists are just
as likely to divide their day into
hexadecimal hours, with each
hour broken up into hexadecimal
minutes. (The 16-base
hexadecimal system uses the
numbers 0-9 followed by the
letters A-F.) The hexadecimal
day begins at midnight at .0000.
One second after midnight, the
time is .0001. Half a day later,
noon arrives at .8000. A second
before the next midnight is
.FFFF. Got it? Your
correspondent neither.
In normal life, people have to go
to work, arrange schedules, catch
planes and trains, and pick up
children from school at given
times. The number of seconds
needed to do such useful things
has to be given names everyone
recognises and agrees upon. It
would be nice if such units of
time were decimal multiples of
one another. Unfortunately, here
on planet Earth, with its
decidedly undecimal sidereal
year of 365-and-a-quarter days,
that is just not going to happen.
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The Massachusetts Senate race
Jan 15th 2010 | NEW YORK
From Economist.com The
Republican candidate for senator
is doing surprisingly well in
Massachusetts
MASSACHUSETTS is the
Democratic Alabama.
Republicans deride the liberal,
coastal state as “Taxachusetts”
and worse. It has produced two
failed Democratic presidential
candidates, John Kerry and
Michael Dukakis, successfully
portrayed as coastal cissies. It is
also home to America’s most
enduring Democratic dynasty:
the Kennedys. Its combination of
unions, intellectuals and blacks
makes it one of the safest
Democratic states in the country.
The state as a whole does not
have a single Republican
member in the House or Senate.
Democrats are alarmed, then,
that just before an election on
Tuesday January 19th for
Edward Kennedy's old seat, polls
are surprisingly close. The
Democratic candidate, Martha
Coakley, the state’s attorney-
general, should be a shoo-in. But
Scott Brown, her opponent, even
had a slender lead in one opinion
poll, though he was 17 points
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behind in another. A more recent
snapshot of voters’ intentions,
taken between Monday and
Wednesday, now has Ms
Coakley four points behind. But
Mr Brown has momentum, and
hauled in the better part of a $1m
in an online “money bomb” fund
-raiser on Monday. Barack
Obama has expressed his
support, but has not visited the
state. This could be because his
own poll ratings have fallen and
are now roughly even between
approval and disapproval.
Calling in the president could
make Ms Coakley appear
desperate.
The final debate between the
two candidates, held on Monday,
concentrated on high-profile
national issues rather than local
problems. Terrorism and health
care, which are both politically
too hot for comfort for
Democrats, came under
particular scrutiny.
On terrorism Mr Brown, an
army reservist and keen
triathlete, took the tough-guy
approach. He accused Ms
Coakley of giving American
constitutional rights to terrorists.
Mr Obama’s plans to close the
Guantánamo Bay prison and
move its inmates to a
“supermax” prison in Illinois,
and to try the September 11th
mastermind, Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed, in an ordinary New
York court, have infuriated
conservatives and, increasingly,
independents too. The Christmas
Day attempt to blow up a
Northwest Airlines plane, in
which different bits of the
government overlooked
information they had about Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab, the
Nigerian who tried to bomb the
Detroit-bound plane, has revived
fears that Democrats cannot be
trusted on national security.
On health care, Mr Brown says
that if elected he would stop the
bill from passing. But the
different versions are being
stitiched together swiftly by the
House and Senate so, in the
unlikely event that he wins, the
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MediaDailyNews: Job Market Bringing Color to E-

Improves, Remains 'Intense:' PR Up, Readers (Technology
Ad Agencies Down Review)
(MediaPost | Media News) Mediabistro, the top 10 job 4) East Coast sales director for (Yahoo! News Search Results good color screen for an e-
Submitted at 1/15/2010 4:45:41 AM posters in 2007 accounted for social media advertising and for e-readers) reader, and they are eager to get
19% of all job postings. The marketing firm - 81% application Submitted at 1/15/2010 8:06:57 AM
in the game.
The media industry employment same 10 companies accounted completion rate. This morning at the CES, Pixel
marketplace is beginning to for 16% of all job postings in 5) Advertising sales director for One of the hot topics at the Qi demonstrated its new display
improve, according to a report 2 0 0 8 , w h i l e i n 2 0 0 9 t h e y niche online publisher - 79% Consumer Electronics Show technology, targeted for use in
r e l e a s e d T h u r s d a y b y accounted for only 8% of total application completion rate. (CES) this week in Las Vegas is netbooks, e-readers, and tablets.
M e d i a b i s t r o . c o m . W h i l e postings. The report shows that public color e-readers, with several In high-power mode, the 10.1-
competition for jobs in the media The report notes that while some relations related jobs experienced companies showcasing new i n c h d i s p l a y a c t s l i k e a
sector remains "intense," with job postings get lots of views, it the highest growth rate in 2009, products. While E Ink has been a t r a d i t i o n a l L C D s c r e e n : a
many help wanted postings is the completion rate of job up 22% vs. 2008, while l e a d e r i n e - r e a d e r d i s p l a y backlight provides light that is
r e c e i v i n g h u n d r e d s o f applications that is the best marketing related jobs rose 18%, technology, the company has yet filtered by red, green, and blue
applications, the analysis finds determinant of "desirability," and and online/new media jobs to produce a color display sub-pixels to create desired
some improvement in the past the report finds that based on that climbed 15%. capable of showing video, and colors. However, the display also
two quarters. criterion, the most desirable jobs Categories showing declines in the next generation of devices has a low-power mode. In this
According to Mediabistro's 2009 are: share growth included TV (down c o u l d t h r e a t e n E I n k ' s mode the backlight is turned off,
"Media Jobs Report," a quarter 1) Marketing director for multi- 19%), teaching/academia (- dominance. and reflective, mirror-like,
of all job postings received more title publisher - 86% application 13%), and magazine publishing, E Ink's monochrome screens are elements--placed alongside the
than 100 applications, while the completion rate. advertising agency, graphic made up of microcapsules full of red, green, and, blue subpixels--
average was 81 applications per 2) Senior advertising sales design/art director, all of which p o s i t i v e l y c h a r g e d w h i t e take over the job of displaying
job. The greatest number of executive for publisher of were down 9%. particles and negatively charged the image, now in black and
applications for a single job was lifestyle and hobby publications - Five Filters featured article: black particles. Applying a white. (How these elements are
1,309. 85% application completion rate. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: negative charge causes a pixel operated and distributed across
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the media companies that once account manager for leading Term Extraction. white, while a positive charge Pixel Qi.)
dominated the employment digital media and e-commerce results in a black appearance. Switching from the backlit
landscape gave way to newer company - 81% application Color versions use the same mode, to the reflective one drops
p l a y e r s . A c c o r d i n g t o completion rate. basic technology, but with the display's power consumption
c o l o r e d f i l t e r s a d d e d . from 2.5 Watts to 0.5 Watts.
Unfortunately, these filters tend This is for a refresh rate of 60 Hz
to reduce the brightness of the --fast enough to display video.
display, leading to a washed out Pixel Qi claims that using
appearance. software to put the display into
Companies such as Pixel Qi, an e-reader mode--suitable for
Qualcomm M E M S reading text, where the screen
Technologies, Liquavista, and might only update ten times a
Kent Displays all have new ideas
about the best way to make a BRINGING page 85
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Jenkins: E-readers hot items at Las Vegas

electronics show (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
(Yahoo! News Search Results these. event for the end of January and content from several providers
for e-readers) * Tablets are generally defined the constant refrain online is that and should be in production
Submitted at 1/14/2010 9:01:16 PM
as notching between cell phones the long-suffering Apple tablet shortly. Look for magazines,
and laptops in size and function, seekers will get their wish. textbooks and perhaps
T h i s y e a r ' s C o n s u m e r although there is no reason they I've long ago learned not to newspapers to find a home here -
Electronics Show in Las Vegas could not be larger or smaller. assume anything about Apple, - very impressive.
was different from past shows in Tablets are usually considered to regardless of the "for sure this There were a few other
many respects. Probably the be fully functional devices time" rumor mill. It does look promising introductions in the e-
biggest news was the large similar to a computer or phone more likely that they will book and tablet product space, a
number of tablets and e-book that can perform several tasks, announce some new product at few of which I discuss in this
readers announced. It's difficult including an e-book reader the upcoming event, and we can week's podcast. I will of course
to draw a clear line of distinction function in some. only hope it will be such a Tablet be updating you as these
between these two types of There is no clear line of PC device. products are shipped and I get a
devices, but generally they break demarcation here yet between e- My favorite e-book/tablet chance to try them out.
down like this: book readers and tablets as some announcement was not a device Finally, USB 3.0 is soon to be
* E-book readers tend to be models of each tend to move into but a platform that could run on with us. This next generation of
dedicated devices designed to the other's area at times. This several devices. Ray Kurzweil the common USB connector is
present books, magazines and will probably change as the announced the Blio platform for incredibly fast and will be great
newspapers in digital form. market defines itself and sorts digital content, and the videos for hard drive and printer
There were at least 10 such out what products will be they showed are impressive and technology. Video and audio
devices announced at CES, and popular. very forward thinking. The professionals in particular will
many more were rumored to be One big, mysterious factor in content is attractive, can be benefit greatly from its updated
in production. I tend to dislike the tablet/e-book reader area is interactive and receive live feeds speed and efficiency.
the notion of a device that can Apple. It seems more likely all from the Web, and should adapt Five Filters featured article:
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E-reader News Edition
E-readers: the compatibility
conundrum (The Christian Science
Monitor)
(Yahoo! News Search Results
for e-readers)
Submitted at 1/14/2010 1:39:06 PM
At this month’s International
Consumer Electronics Show in
Las Vegas, the biggest tech
convention of the year,
attendants found a trove of e-
reader devices.
Just as iPods replaced your
record collection with a click
wheel and a pair of white
headphones, the Amazon Kindle,
Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble
Nook, and untold others now
want to digitize your bookcase.
However, they all want to do it
in different ways.
If you bought a Kindle a year
ago, loaded it up with e-books
but then became smitten with the
Nook, your purchased books
cannot follow you over to the
new device – the Kindle files
will be inscrutable to a Nook.
For now, e-books are not like
DVDs – where a movie will
work in a Panasonic, Toshiba, or
any other company’s player.
Transferring e-books is more like
sticking that DVD into a VCR
tape deck.
The issue here lies in the age-old
plight of early adopters: file
formats. There are more than 10
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second--could drop the power until the on-screen content needs
consumption to as low as 100
milliwatts. The displays are
currently in mass production and
to change. A little ambient light
is also all that's needed to see the
screen. These displays are
a number of device
manufacturers are expected to
consequently ideal for a task
such as reading, when the screen
e-book formats. But luckily, one piracy. These safeguards, often announce products incorporating doesn't have to change very
seems to have emerged as an called DRM for digital rights Pixel Qi's display shortly. often. But the Qualcomm device
industry standard. management, severely restrict Story continues below differs greatly when it comes to
The format of choice for the what customers may do with the "This is the year where you're other applications, such as video
Barnes & Noble e-book store is files they paid for. That means g o i n g t o s e e s o m e v e r y or text messaging, that require
e P u b . G o o g l e a n d P r o j e c t the e-books are yours for the life interesting designs come to frequent changes on screen. In
Gutenberg collectively offer of the original device. After that, market," says Jim Cathey, vice those scenarios, Cathey says,
more than 1 million out-of- it’s anyone’s guess. president of business Marisol's displays perform much
copyright ePub books free of Over several years, the music development for Qualcomm better than E Ink's because they
charge, including the works of industry realized that such MEMS Technologies. "I don't require less power per screen
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and measures inconvenience only think they'll even be called e- change. "As the content changes,
William Shakespeare. Even their customers, since the pirates readers in the near future." With the user experience changes and
Sony, which regularly backs its will inevitably find a way around a myriad of features such as Web so do the requirements," he says.
own formats such as Betamax the protections anyway. Most access, e-mail, and e-reader Five Filters featured article:
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Despite this growing consensus, book-publishing industry will c a n h a n d l e a l l o f t h o s e
Amazon shows no interest in reach the same conclusion, applications and even display
w a v e r i n g f r o m i t s o w n allowing an ePub book you video. Much like E Ink screens,
proprietary format. Kindles can bought for one reader to freely Marisol displays are reflective
read TXT files and PDFs, transfer over to another. and require little to no power
c o n v e r t M i c r o s o f t W o r d Until then, take comfort in an
documents (something the Nook encouraging trend among e-
does not do), but they do not readers. Amazon and Barnes &
recognize even Google’s free Noble won’t share with direct
ePub files. competitors, but both make it
Also, although Sony’s Reader easy to read their e-books on
and the Nook recognize ePub, iPhones and soon on BlackBerry
neither device can read most of handsets. Baby steps.
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