January 2010
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A History Teacher Writes About Salinger And Zinn →
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Punxsutawney Phil to text his Groundhog Day prediction
Sign up to get a text of Punxsutawney Phils Febuary 2, 2010 Weather prognostication from Gobblers Knob via your moble device by texting “Groundhog” to 247365 between now and Groundhog Day.
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A thought on Apple’s iPad: If, as Tyler Cowen suggests, the key market objective of the iPad is to obtain significant university adoption as a replacement for the paper textbook, one wonders how Apple’s lawyers are planning to handle the inevitable litigation from disabled-rights advocates.
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Pope2You: Become a Fan and Gain Plenary Indulgence
Share pictures of Pope Benedict XVI with your friends on Facebook.
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“The State of The Union has been boring since the second season. I dunno why NBC...”
– (via peterfeld)
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Terbium, Lanthanum, Neodymium: Not What the Mayans... →
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“Turn off the computer and go to bed.”
Shocking Report Ought Not to Be So Shocking
Those who wonder how it’s possible that a child can rack up more time using electronic media than most people spend earning a living are perhaps unaware that nearly 70 percent of American children have television sets in their bedrooms. As well, most kids personally own computers, gaming systems, and increasingly, mobile devices that provide full...
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The Writing Is On The Wall
After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday’s Web Site — In late October, Newsday , the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall, so in media circles it has been followed with interest. …
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Where your thrift store donations go →
(via putthison)Where your thrift store donations go (hint: often not the thrift store)
Many years ago, the “rag man” would stroll through the back streets and alleys crying “Rags, rags, give me your rags.” When I was a child, my “busia” told me about the “sheenies”, to whom she would sell me — and the rags, if I wasn’t...
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Watchsoupsoup:
Official Apple iPad demo.
This really tells the story better than anything I have seen so far. If you need to look at one thing to understand what the iPad is, this is it.
Now I get it. Even if I really won’t be getting it. It still sounds like a hygiene product.
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200 Bank Failures Expected in 2010
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Apocalypse Not
MISSING: global recession, 6 billion careless owners. No, really, why do I see thousands of people milling around in the shops as though the credit crunch was nothing more than an … [Read More]
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Swine Flu Epidemic Ends With a Whimper →
CDC spokesman agrees with survey numbers: an estimated 61 million people — or about 20 percent of the population — got a shot or nasal spray vaccination against the H1N1 virus since the vaccine became available in the fall of 2009.
That shows that 4 out of 5 Americans DID NOT get a vax…
An estimated 55 million became ill from swine flu from the time it was first identified in...
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Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous →
heyitsnoah:
jayparkinsonmd:
How come Posterous is eating dust from a small startup started by a high school dropout?
The answer is as easy as it is counter-intuitive: Tumblr is a New York company and Posterous is a Silicon Valley company.
Or, to put it another way: Posterous is an engineered product, while Tumblr is a designed product.
While I don’t disagree with any of the stuff they...
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Air India flight delayed after passenger found...
New Delhi: A Bangkok-bound Air India flight from Delhi was today delayed by about three hours after a person allegedly boarded the plane carrying a match-box and all passengers had to undergo the security check once again.
All that for a little toy car? Oh? Well then that’s different. Never mind.
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Talk about a midnight dreary.
Talk about a midnight dreary.
For the first time since 1949, the Poe Toaster failed to visit Edgar’s grave on the writer’s birthday.
Every year, a mysterious visitor has made the pilgrimage to Poe’s grave, while visitors look on to witness the tradition, but this year’s group was disappointed. From the Associated Press article:
“But early Tuesday, [Poe House...
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'New York Times' To Charge For Web Access In 2011
via NPR:
“Our news and information are being featured in an increasingly broad range of end-user devices and services, and our pricing plans and policies must reflect this vision.” - New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson
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Map: Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, And Surrounding Area
Click on the orange dots below for information about earthquake devastation and recovery efforts in Port-au-Prince.
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“Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.’”
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Science Project Leads to Evacuation at San Diego...
Luque said the project was made of an empty half-liter Gatorade bottle with some wires and other electrical components attached. There was no substance inside.
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Mark Doyle, BBC News, Haiti: “The scene an hour’s drive west of Port-au-Prince is apocalyptic. Almost every single building on the road I’m driving on now has been flattened. The destruction here is even more dramatic than the dreadful conditions in the capital. People have fled to the surrounding sugarcane fields or into mangrove swamps - anything to get away from the nightmare...
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Pakistan hit by US missile
from United Press International:
U.S. drone kills 15 in Pakistan
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Jan. 17 (UPI) — A missile attack from an unmanned U.S. plane Sunday killed at least 15 militants in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, military officials said.
The target was a militant compound in the Shaktoi area near Miranshah, Geo TV reported.
The death toll was expected to rise as rubble from the...
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Secure Your Checked Bags – Fly With a Gun →
And give your best: “On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!”
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What You're Not Hearing about Haiti (But Should...
What You’re Not Hearing about Haiti (But Should Be)
Published on Thursday, January 14, 2010 by CommonDreams.org by Carl Lindskoog
In the hours following Haiti’s devastating earthquake, CNN, the New York Times and other major news sources adopted a common interpretation for the severe destruction: the 7.0 earthquake was so devastating because it struck an urban area that was...
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What Are The Unemployed Saying On Tumblr?
the405club:
As you may know, our site/blog here is hosted by the microblogging service Tumblr, whom we love dearly. We don’t say it enough, so here it is in all its glory… Thank you Tumblr.
One of the features we love is the community itself. The ability to search posts and find others with like interests is super-easy and even fun. Every now and then we like to surf Tumblr and see what the...
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Losing the Internet as We Know It →
azspot:
But did you know that we’re at risk of losing the Internet as we know it? Millions of Americans don’t know that a battle over the future of the Internet is being played out right now in Washington. How it ends will have deep repercussions for decades to come.
On one side are public interest and consumer groups, small businesses, Internet entrepreneurs, librarians, civil libertarians...
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excerpt from email from Haiti
This is an excerpt from an email that we received from some friends in Haiti today:
“I wanted to to update you. Michael, Jessie and the whole rest of the team are safe in Ti Goave. They had been detained in the city of Port-au-Prince , surely an intervention by the hand of God,which had them still in the city when the earthquakes hit. They were in their vehicle, and as buildings...
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New punctuation mark invented to convey sarcasm →
How helpful… Almost like an emoticon for snarkiness. Sounds like it looks like a bullseye on a target. I wonder what that’s supposed to mean.
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Take a minute to block Facebook from indexing you... →
soupsoup:
peterfeld:
Take a minute to read this Mashable post and if you’ve been delaying till now, I think you’ll agree:
It’s time to block Facebook from indexing you with Google.
A. Why should you keep your Facebook profile off Google?
1) Embarrassment. First things first! Say you belong to some silly group a friend invited you to, or you friend-requested Julia Allison and she used her...
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