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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
"entirely devoted to attacking my riding him hard about this all the News Corporation firmament News & Media Limited 2010 | 2005. I can almost schedule
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
By Beth Gaston Moon crisis soon with a treat that's Shortage in our Future? marketing standpoint, is to
(BloggingStocks) even more sinful: cookie dough. Cookie Dough Shortage in our lowercase the “my” part of it and
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supposed to cut and bake that BloggingStocks on Fri, 15 Jan “my” and “DVR” so as to show
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Consumer experience how many of us haven't opted, our terms for use of feeds. Read| Comcast Remote DVR
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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)
said. "I am cautiously optimistic ceremonies in October.
Plans to hold about 20 civil t h a t t h e f i r s t s u c h c i v i l Movie Gallery ( MVGR), which
Any venue can become a
partnership ceremonies and partnership ceremony will take plunged into bankruptcy
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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The Commons crypt in the 14th-
to the licensing authority, The Europe minister, Chris restructuring effort in two years, reorganization in coming
century chapel of St Mary
Westminster council. and could close 1,000 of its months, said the people familiar
Bryant, and his partner, Jared Undercroft, in the basement of
The plans are understood to be Cranney, want to become the 2,700 locations as part of an with the situation."
the palace, has been a venue for
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Church of England marriages
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privileged few. The MPs
p a r l i a m e n t a r y g r o u n d s . application includes a map of business that is in a permanent Why Does Movie Gallery Even
William Hague, Charles
"Due to the complexities of parliament, with two rooms state of decline. The Wall Street Bother with Restructuring?
Kennedy and Michael Mates
when the house is sitting during allocated for marriages. The Journal reports(subscription originally appeared on
were all married there.
the week, there will probably Jubilee Room, which overlooks required) that the company could BloggingStocks on Fri, 15 Jan
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hotels, probably not more than a in the application, which also Feeds
few hundred pounds for extra states that "approximately 20"
security." ceremonies would take place
The council will decide on the each year.
another trade site across the Do a little Googling, and don't Once you know where you want you like. Also remember that losers were Texas, New York,
pond. be afraid to get specific. If your to work, get a guerilla network many companies compensate and California.)
Lastly, look for mailing lists search engine skills aren't up to working for you. "If you want to their employees for referral hires. Don't Fight the System
specific to what you want; they snuff, ask the natural-language control your own destiny, you If you can't find someone you Yes, we all hate automated
often get the freshest job listings search engines at Mahalo and need to tap into an internal 'sales' used to work with, do a people resume sites: they're impersonal
and host real-life meetups. ChaCha where you can find person who will sell your skill- search with sites like Pipl.com or and they smack of black holes.
Ed2010, for example, dishes to listings for your niche. set" inside that company, says Yahoo People. But HR departments use those
people in publishing, while Search by industry, too. If you're Speer. Be the Best Candidate systems as their central database,
Headsets & Highballs caters to a tech nerd, hit up HackerNews, That means finding someone Once you get your foot in the so being in that black hole is
workers in the film and Reddit Jobs, or Startuply. For who works where you want to door, you'll have unprecedented important.
television industries. media, there's MediaBistro, work, and getting them on your competition, so it's important If you're a people person, go
Search Smarter Mandy.com, IWantMedia, and team. "Buy him lunch and say, "I you communicate that you're the ahead and do your schmoozing
It's not enough to slap a resume Variety. Non-profiteers have want to have the experience best fit for the job. This year, that in person--but make sure you
on Monster.com and saunter off Idealist.org and designers have you've had; what's the best way means being amenable to doing also submit your resume to their
to watch American Idol. On Coroflot. For contract work, to get introduced to the people "tours of duty"--that is, being system, says Speer. "They're not
today's Web, there are dozens of there is Solvate.com and, of that make the decisions?"" says flexible about your location. going to load your resume in
avenues to spot jobs and get course, Craigslist. Speer. "That's the best way for Maybe a company needs their system if you walk it in," he
noticed, and you should be Whatever your industry, find any prospect to go where they someone to work on a project for explains, so when it comes time
paying attention--outplacement where the best companies are want to go." (Need to build up a year in Chicago or for six for them to do a search, your
firms and HR departments posting their jobs, even if it your gumption? Check out this months in Palm Beach. name won't be in their
certainly are. means calling the HR post on " recruiting a small "I can't tell you how pleased we computers.
General job search sites have departments at your dream army" by author Chris are with transportability," says Once you've exhausted yourself
evolved. There's nothing wrong companies and asking where Guillebeau.) Speer. "Finding a resource from and your resources, go ahead and
with CareerBuilder and Monster, they advertise online. Chances So, how do you find these Phoenix that can go to Chicago get old fashioned. "Collect
but these days, LinkUp, Indeed, are, their competitors are posting "internal salespeople?" Chances and work on a project was business cards from your
and SimplyHired lead the pack. there too. are, you already know them, so unheard of three years ago. Now, interviewers so you can send an
But don't stop there; look for In slow-growth quarters, hit the Web and start rekindling there's a willingness to do a tour old-fashioned paper thank-you
niche listing sites that fit. government jobs often supply relationships. "I hear a lot of of duty supporting [an note," says Doyle.
TheLadders.com, for example, what private industry can't. people saying, "I'm not interested employer], and that's attractive." Now, don't you have some
specializes in managerial Thanks to the recent Recovery in the new age stuff like If you're not amenable to American Idol to catch up on?
positions that pay over 100K. Act, the Federal government will LinkedIn," says Speer. "And moving, be up-front about it. If
Other sites get even more be hiring over 270,000 workers that's fine--if you don't want to your locale is a top priority,
specific. "There are sites for between 2010 and 2012. You can get called." consider states that are
retirees looking for consultancy, find out where the stimulus Track down all the old cronies experiencing job growth, like
there are sites for former military money is going at Recovery.org and classmates you can think of Minnesota, New Jersey, and
folks, and there are sites that are and where to find the ensuing on LinkedIn, Speer says, and see Vermont, which showed the
"reunion" based for former jobs at this site published by the where they all landed--they largest increase in new job
employees or projects," says Partnership for Public Service. might be able to offer a "link" to listings this past quarter,
Speer. Build Your Network a decision-maker at a company according to LinkUp. (Big job
including Best Buy ( BBY), So, why was the stock lower in Resistance? originally appeared
on BloggingStocks on Fri, 15 Jan It's Martin Luther King Jr.'s
JCPenney ( JCP) and Target ( morning trading action? Total
2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see birthday. He cautioned in 1964
revenue checked in at $25.23
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billion, which was an increase of
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32%, but expectations were set at
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Segway Announces
Nexus One sells only 20,000 phones its first week The Most Understated
By Chris Rawson (The Google's "soft launch" of the Merger Ever
Unofficial Apple Weblog phone. Both Droid and the
(TUAW)) iPhone had aggressive marketing By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
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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
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end. But even the NIH rules still
give them a year's monopoly.
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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Google Hack Attack
Rumor: Aperture 3 release Was Ultra Sophisticated,
New Details Show
imminent? By Kim Zetter (Wired Top
Stories)
By Steven Sande (The availability on February 15th.
Unofficial Apple Weblog A quick search of Amazon.com Submitted at 1/14/2010 5:00:00 PM
(TUAW)) and other U.S. booksellers
The hackers who struck Google,
Submitted at 1/15/2010 1:00:00 PM showed no similar texts in the
Adobe and other companies used
works for the near future, but the Pants on the Ground:
Filed under: Rumors, Software, unprecedented tactics that
Dutch discovery may mean that
Apple Here's another possible the long wait for a new release of
combined three levels of Enter the Neil
existing version, Aperture 2, was encryption and steal
item for Apple to announce at released on February 12, 2008 Aperture is nearing its end. Young/Jimmy Fallon
the January 27th event (if there is programming, according to new
and last updated to version 2.1.4 Thanks to Tim for the tip! Cover
an event...). details.
on August 27, 2009. TUAW Rumor: Aperture 3
Photography pros have been release imminent? originally By Brenna Ehrlich
According to a post on Dutch (Mashable!)
waiting for a new version of website One More Thing, the appeared on The Unofficial
Apple's Aperture for way too wait might be over soon. Several Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, Submitted at 1/15/2010 10:21:38 AM
long. A Google search of the Dutch photography sites are 15 Jan 2010 13:00:00 EST.
term "Aperture 3" shows that as Please see our terms for use of Despite navigating the tangled
listing a book about Aperture 3 mess that has been the late-night
long as a year ago, there were with mid-February availability feeds.
many impatient photographers Read| Permalink| Email this| wars this week, Jimmy Fallon
dates. Aperture 3, by author managed to tap into the cultural
who were hoping for a new Johan Elzenga, is a Dutch- Comments
release of Apple's pro zeitgeist last night with his
language book and is listed for unique spin on viral
photography application. The
sensation,“Pants on the Ground.”
Oracle to sack half of Sun? Ridiculous, says Sun Yup, the video of American Idol
joke de rigueur General Larry
Platt has barely hit the Internets,
(CNET News.com) UBS that suggests Oracle might talents of Sun employees to and the inevitable remixes and
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:06:01 AM sack 13,800 when the deal achieve this vision. Please parodies are already cropping up
finally closes is off the mark-- dismiss these reports as they are all over the place.
Oracle's expected $7.4 billion and way off the mark. report is absolutely untrue." not based on any information
Changing course, the memo that Oracle has provided." Not content to merely mimic the
acquisition of Sun Microsystems "You may have seen an article soulful singer, Fallon chose to
will undoubtedly be followed by published by Bloomberg, 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
at least a few layoffs, but as subsequently picked up by other absurdity by performing the tune
much as half of the company's media, that references a UBS can be so irresponsible without Five Filters featured article:
any facts. Oracle is acquiring Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: as Neil Young. Oddly enough,
workforce? analyst report speculating that it’s kind of a catchy number — if
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need to rely heavily on the Tags: humor, jimmy fallon, late
recent report from research outfit assure Sun employees that this night, neil young, viral video
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Find the Best Spots in New Cities with These Tools [Travel]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) mind an occasional personal
Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:30:00 AM query, and your email contacts,
you can probably find someone
Ever take a trip to a city you're who'd love to give a
excited to visit, then realize recommendation or two.
shortly after arriving you've got Better still? If you know you're
no idea how to get around, where a micro-brew person, a steak
to go, and what to do? Next time, lover, or a record store type,
arrive as an expert with these tips now's the time to join and dig
and tools. through some relevant web
In March, I'm attending SXSW forums. Hit up BeerAdvocate's
Interactive for a second year, and forums, get familiar with
this year, I really want to explore Chowhound's boards, and any
Austin, TX. Here are the web other pastime you find yourself
sites, apps, and research tools I'm acting on in new cities.
using to ensure far more Prepare for work: If you know
exposure to local awesomeness you'll really, really need to crank
this year. on work and keep a net
As with any conference, SXSW connection while you're
has panels, keynotes, wander. Planning ahead any maps yet, click "Get pinned your destinations, getting traveling, dig into our previous
schmoozing opportunities, and No matter how powerful your Started." In my case, I'm naming walking, driving, or public coverage of tethering
hotel room keys that are easy to smartphone, it's easier and faster it "SXSW," and switching it transit directions is much quicker solutions—hooking up your
lose. The real excitement, at least to search out, plan, and prepare from a Public map to a private and easier, especially if Maps smartphone with net service to
for a guy from upstate NY that for your walks and wnaderings one. knows where you are by GPS your laptop. Gina just rounded
doesn't get out much, is from a real computer, with a full Next, I'll search out a place like, location. up all the Android solutions, and
exploring the city and nearby keyboard. Here are a few pre-trip say, Casino El Camino, click the Load up on Wi-Fi-finding apps we've previously covered Palm
areas, finding the local eatery steps you can tackle in 10-minute "Save to My Maps" link, and and tools: This one's fairly easy Pre, and the semi-sometimes-free
that none of your fellow visitors bursts that'll pay off big when select my SXSW map. Do the to explain, because Gina already PdaNet works on Windows
have discovered, and getting a you get there. same for anywhere and covered it. Free highlights for the Mobile, (jailbroken) iPhones,
feel for how things work and Plot your points with My Maps everywhere else you're thinking casual traveler include JiWire for and many other platforms.
flow in the surrounding city. Google Maps is an easy-peasy about visiting or shopping in iPhones, WeFi for Windows As for staying productive, we've
By nature, I'm terrible at way of finding any business or your destination. laptops and Android, Windows covered that in our 10 downloads
knowing which way to walk and address inside pretty much any When you've got your My Map Mobile and Symbian for road warrior laptops. Bit of
where the cool stuff might be. In town or city. If you're signed into sketched out, email yourself a smartphones, iStumbler for hyperbole, we know, but they're
the mini-trips I've taken since a Google account, the little- copy of it or print it, both from Macs, and phone-friendly web great tools for never having to
last year's shindig, though, I've mentioned My Maps section is the links in the upper-right sites like WiFinder, Hotspot call the office and explain to
devoted some time to prepping also an easy way of setting up corner of the map window. Haven, and HotSpotr, along with your co-worker how to email a
for fun, both in time spent before waypoints around a town and When you get to your JiWire's web site. file to you. When you're there
the trip and stocking up my making them quick to pull up destination, you can easily pull Crowd-source your plans: You You can only plan so much in
phone and pockets with helpful later. Click the "My Maps" link up your My Map on your laptop may not have thousands of advance. A craving for authentic
apps and notes. You might find a in the upper-left corner of your in a hotel room, or on a Twitter followers, but between Mexican, or museum showing
few of these useful before, and Google Maps page, while you're smartphone, by visiting Google your Facebook friends, the
during, the next trip where signed in. If you haven't created Maps. Because you've pre- friendly co-workers who don't FIND page 35
you've got some free time to
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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
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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
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circle. A young man, opposite was my way of shutting my eyes ageist when I say I know more old, one that's more balanced
than they do because I've lived Filed under: Cavaliers, Jazz, D-
me, says directly to me, "I know to the unknown. It really was than I could have had 32 years League
as much as you do." It's part of a unknown. longer. Of course I don't agree. ago when I was 22.
Would it be ageist to say they You deal with the low pay, and
discussion about the differences Back to the 22-year-old in front The thing that we shouldn't do is the long travel. You play in
between people of varying ages. of me. can run faster than I can? Or heal limit what someone can do based
from injuries faster? That their convention centers and hockey
According to the younger folk, I asked him a question. on their age. Age itself already arenas. You travel to Bismarck,
they have everything we have, "Do you know more now than blood pressure is lower or their imposes enough limits. If a
metabolism more efficient? What Bakersfield and McAllen, Texas.
and of course their bodies are when you were 12?" (I picked an younger person wants to hazard You listen to your coaches tell
younger, and stronger. We older age before puberty, when he if I said they could please a a guess as to what it's like to be
woman in some ways I couldn't? you that if you work hard and
folk are nothing but older. This lived with his parents. Before he our age, let them have fun and keep focused, you'll get where
was the point the young man was had a beard. Back when college But what if I said I could please don't laugh. And if an older
a woman in ways they don't even you want to go. A shot to play in
trying to make. would seem as vague as high person says they understand the NBA. You stick with the
I wondered for a moment if it school, when he would have had know exist? Heh. electronics and blogging and
One of the things you learn as NBA D-League, believing in the
was true, but then I thought back no sense of his future life texting, likewise, humor them. system, and believing in
to what I did and didn't independent of his family.) you go through this journey is You never know what you might
that every age has its advantages. yourself, believing that you'll get
understand when I was 22. I was "No comparison! I didn't know learn. People of all ages should your shot.
tall and slim and beautiful. I had shit when I was 12." I love myself now much more keep their minds open. It might
today than I did when I was 22. Sundiata Gaines got that shot
a 19-year-old girlfriend who was "Do you think learning stops at suprise some young people to with the Utah Jazz. And with that
cute as a button and had a body 22?" Back then I didn't even get that learn that this advice applies to
you could love yourself. I shot, he took the shot, and won a
made of elastic. The sex was It's as if he didn't hear me. He them as much as it does to older game for the Jazz over LeBron
fantastic. Life was great. But I didn't extrapolate. Had I pressed tolerate my limits much better, people.
even though I had limits then as I James and his sidekicks, the
didn't know very much about life it (I didn't) I imagine he would Cleveland Cavaliers, 97-96.
beyond going to school and have admitted that learning have them now. I wouldn't even
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
sequel in new trailer
Simon doesn't really have a job them all to come stay over for a stationery store in Spokane. "Oh wasn't that Doogal. It was a gay pay him big bucks to show up at
himself. I mean, sure he runs slumber party and it just brought right..." she said softly when the psychic named Doogle who their ladyadult sleepovers, so,
bootleg tequila across the border, back such memories. police told her all about her life could read auras. Hm. All the actually... Keep on truckin',
but that's not something you can Remember when you were a kid in Orange County on the long car girls, but especially Gretchen, Doogle. Keep on truckin' along.
really put on your tax returns. So and sleepovers were like the best ride home. were all "What kinder name is During the seance, Tamra broke
Ryan the Brand Manager is now thing ever? (I mean, they're still When she finally showed up all Dooooogle! Dooooogle! Hee hee down and cried and said "I'm
the breadwinner for the Barney the best thing ever, but for very the other girls were tittering hee." Because they are mature scared my son is going to die
clan. (Isn't it just perfect that very different reasons.) And about her and Lynn said "I just women. Most of them were young" (she hadn't seen the rest
Tamra's last name is Barney?) remember all the sleepovery walked into the screen door! Did skeptical of the psychic, but for of the episode yet and didn't
Godsy St. Jesus, nee Juggs activities you'd do? Like scream anyone else do that??" And the different reasons. Lynn didn't know that Ryan would soon be a
Jackson, showed up for a bit to and shriek a lot and make jokes. others just sort of giggled and trust him because she considered highly successful brand manager
get a massage and talk about "me And pig out on delicious food said "No..." and Lynn shrugged herself psychic, and she could for a nationally-managed
time." Yes, she does need a lot of and stay up late. And get her shoulders. "Well I've gone use her psychic abilities to see brand!). Doogle frowned
me time. Because she's got those completely puke-in-your-pants right through 'em before. Just that Doogle the Color Reader concernedly and said "He's not
three little people that are always shitfaced? That last one right through." And I really, wasn't actually a psychic. Sounds going to die young." Which,
making noise and she only has especially. Oh, such memories! really believed her. I fully scientific to me! Gretchen didn't whoa whoa whoa Doogs. What if
two nannies to take care of them. Well that's exactly what these believed that Lynn has spent a believe in it because he said not he does? You're going to feel
Plus her husband Ed Hardy is ladies did. They all showed up reasonable amount of her life very nice things about Doug pretty awful if he dies young and
always wanting to put strange with their rolly suitcases (for a walking clear through screen Smiley, so... deal, broken. Godsy then Tamra shows up to your
powders in her drinks and then night) and immediately started doors, barging and stumbling didn't like him because she house and pounds your chest
she wakes up and all she glooping jell-o shots down their into the house like a monster or doesn't believe in "that kind of with her be-ringed fists and
remembers is the sound of gullets and slurping wine and zombie, "Oh... for God's... oh... profession", which is Jesus code shouts "You were wrong,
bologna being thrown at salami Gretchen got out her El door! There's a door here... Oh for "witchcraft." After wrestling Doogle! You were wrong! Oh,
and for some reason she's got a Margarita Mariachi outfit and it jeez... Not again..." If Lynn was poor Doogle out of Godsy's arms Doogle..." But whatever. He
new diamond ring and a thank was just a big hootenanny. Polish, she'd be the first one out while she tried to throw him in probably hopped in his gypsy
you note lying on the pillow next Everyone did a pretty good job of the submarine. the pool to see if he'd float like a wagon right after this and rolled
to her. So yes, she really does of pretending they were having After everyone laughed at poor witch, the gals all had their off into the night, the rainmaker
need her religious massages. It fun. old Lynn, Vicki said she had a colors read. shuffling on to the next rube-
gives her the energy to go and One of the best things that surprise. Gretchen, I'm sure, Most of the readings were fairly filled, unsuspecting town.
get her necessary manicures and happened was that Lynn was eagerly expected a stripper. accurate, because I'm sure After Doogle flourished his cape
face treatments. It's hard out late. Of course Lynn was late. Tamra hopefully imagined Vicki Doogle just watched past seasons and disappeared in a puff of
there for a simp. She is always late and getting handing them all huge sacks of of the show on DVD before smoke (you could see him diving
All of these above paragraphs lost. One time she didn't come money. Lynn frustratedly tried to coming over that night. Also, through some french doors and
are just preamble to last night's home for three days and finally figure out what "supper eyes" you can kind of meet any of stumbling away through the
big, laugh-filled event. Vicki had some squeaky-voiced stockboy could possibly be. And Juggs these women and immediately bushes if you used DVR on the
a sleepover. Yes even though found her buried under a pile of smoothed her hair and decipher: "Oh, they are high-def), it was time for the
Vicki really hates all these cabbage at the supermarket, straightened her dress, sure that completely dependent on their evening's main event: The TP'ing
women and she'd rather be slowly trying to gnaw her way Jesus would soon come crashing husbands, terrible to their of Jeana! Yes, mean old Jeana
playing a game she and Donn out. "It tathetht purple," she said, through the screen door to take children, and wildly insecure." I who quit the show and tried to
invented called Pogo Sticks, she cabbage bits dribbling out of her her to women's heaven. But only mean, that's like reading a make everyone else feel bad
signed this damn TV contract mouth. Another time she said she Vicki knew the true surprise. picture book. Poor Doogle just because she thinks she's too
and has to hang out with the was going for a jog and a week And the surprise was... really needs another job. fancy for this show and she
goils. But she really doesn't want later they found her running a DOOGAL!!! Though, apparently ditzy Orange
to leave the house. So she invited small, modestly-successful Oh. Wait. No, I'm sorry. It County women are willing to REAL page 54
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and when she realized she slept This dramatic altercation But the tide is turning against household god—and makes its well and give you the relentless
through work, she just went back between ShamWOWW and The The Situation, not only in the eyes burn red with ire. In fact, if rogering you so deserve. You
to bed. Situation happened because house but among the millions of a girl makes the path to her heart can become a vet and you two
Now Tanning Salon Chick is ShamWOWW got a major case behavioral scientists watching too clear, the guido will get can start a petting zoo where you
trying to help her find her clothes of puke breath at the club and this unfold every week. At first quickly bored and look for will entertain all the guido
and fix the situation she got into needed to be escorted home so he seemed crazy and fun, but something with a lot more children for decades to come.
(when really she is in this that no one would be in the line now he just seems like a jerk complications. That is why DJ Please, Snooki, marry Keith!
situation because The Situation of fire of her very potent exhales. who has no loyalty, will do Paulie Disconnected ends it over Unjustified Assault: Last week
wanted to get into her). While The Situation refused because he anything to get laid, hides from a the phone with her. when Ronnie and Sammi
this is happening, Mike runs for was going to score with a chick fight, and likes to start shit with But when she comes back to the Quiznos were stalked and
cover in the bathroom, which is and get the self-esteem boost that his housemates. We have club a few nights later, DJ Paulie harrassed by Strawberry
the only place in the house where he so desperately needs. She assessed The Situation, and the Diagnosis sees that she is clearly Shortcake and the Purple Pie
a guido feels safe from goes home alone and no one was prognosis is not positive. crazy. Now that is something he man and Ronnie beat the shit out
confrontation. She leaves in a harmed. However, when The Danielle, Agent of Mossad: One can work with. Her bosses in Tel of him and sent his pansy ass
strangers sweats and T-shirt and Situation gets back, she attacks night out at the club, DJ Paulie Aviv must have briefed her on back to whatever scented village
leaves her clothes behind. Yes, him. He is very afraid until Diabolical picks up a lady named the mores of our clan, and she is he came from, we felt sympathy.
ladies and gentlemen, meet security steps in, and then he Danielle. She is from Israel and back in their good graces. That guy had a beat down
Paula—the only woman fit to hides behind the big men and is a spy sent by her mother No Nooki for Snooki: Why can't coming. This week, Ronnie's
replace Trash Bags for season talks shit. ShamWOWW is truly country to convert the powerful poor Snooki get laid? If the guy antics weren't so valiant.
two. a warrior princess. She is like male guido soldiers to Judaism she picks isn't throwing up on A fight between a bunch of
Tribal Politics: Our test sample Xena but with bad extensions and bring them back to the her or ditching her to go chase "townies" and our guidos broke
of vacationing guidos have only and less of a Sapphic streak. motherland to introduce their other girls, then he has a out when Snooki's "cor-sette"
been trapped in their Skinner This whole drama was a silly as aggressive, strong ethnic traits girlfriend who is watching in was so provocative that they
Box for three weeks and the the fight between Ronnie and into their gene pool. She is horror as they make out in the couldn't help hurling insults at it.
familial atmosphere that Sammi Quiznos and Snooki determined not to fail on her club. Snooki—who is the most at The fight was resolved by the
prevailed at the onset of the about whether or not the couple mission, but she is a little too home soaking her entire body in crew's security guards (is this a
experiment is starting to change spends enough time with the stalwart in her quest and plays warm water—can not find a man common reality show practice
to one of factional animosity. As group or the fight between The her hand too readily. Also, she to save her life. This strange and we've just never seen them
Snook points out, Sammi and Situation and Vinny about does not know her pray. She phenomenon is one that we have before, or was extra security
Ronnie are off on their own, The whether or not Vinny should tempts DJ Paulie Danger with no answer for and is, in fact, the needed to maintain the integrity
Situation and DJ Paulie have watched The Situation give promises of Kosher food and greatest mystery we have of our social experiment?) and
Disregarded are out hunting it to Paula in the hot tub. Stupid! marriage. What she should be unearthed during our study. everyone walked away. But that
pussy, Snooki and ShamWOWW It seems that at least The using is a good red sauce and It is especially irksome after she wasn't enough for Ronnie who
are trying to find new ways to Situation and Quiznos of Troy easy hook ups. meets Keith, a farm worker who rushes back and cold cocks the
get punched, and Vinny is off have no way of interacting with She doesn't realize that the is unbelievably hot. We're guy, knocking him out.
alone—probably scoring. None other people unless it involves an biggest crime a woman can talking Channing Tatum shirtless We initially believed that the
of the factions are getting along, altercation. We don't know the commit is to appear to interested commercial for Dear John hot, guido would only attack when
and they are fighting for reasons cause of this, but unless it stops, in a man. As we have learned, He-Man and the Masters of the provoked and had to fight for his
to bicker that are even more they will grow old alone with no the guido does not have an easy Universe hot, gay-for-pay porn honor. Between ShamWOWW's
retarded than the manufactured one to behold their wrinkled, time attracting and maintaining hot. She rejects him because he completely illogical attack an
incidents that keep the Blond- leathery faces and tumor-ridden his women, so they are not used is Irish and she "doesn't speak Ronnie's unprovoked abused, we
Headed Bimbo Babes of The lungs as they sit in their Ed to it being too easy. Her cowboy," but, Snooki, Keith is now realize that they just like to
Hills making pouty faces at one Hardy hospital gowns in St. persistent calling even angers the your soul mate. He won't ever be
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doesn't know what she's talking Vicki said it was mostly a but still blue. Vicki padded back Vicki came stumbling out of her Over Nude Photos
about so we'll show her. Luckily harmless little prank, because she into the house, shut the huge own house, on her phone. Jeana
she lives next door, so it was the and Jeana had the same gardener mahogany door, and crept up could hear her saying "Donn? Sent to Student
perfect crime. "Hey, Vicki, was and Julio would probably just into her enormous bed. As she Donn? You're breaking up..." (FOXNews.com)
it you and your sleepover guests take it all down. Because yes, lay there falling asleep, she She finally gave up and ended Submitted at 1/15/2010 9:02:31 AM
who came running onto my front that's the agreement most swore she could hear the lapping the call and as she looked up she
lawn throwing toilet paper reasonable people have with of waves. "Oh, Donn..." she said saw Jeana standing there. A DALLAS A 30-year-old Dallas
around, chased by a camera their gardeners (if most as she drifted off. He was staying guilty look flashed across her police officer has been fired after
crew, at midnight last night?" reasonable people had in a hotel that night, but she'd see face but then it quickly morphed an internal investigation revealed
"Um... no... that must have been gardeners): "Hm... OK. Well let's him tomorrow, once the sun rose into a smile and she gave Jeana he sent nude photos of himself to
a different old lady sleepover see. Lawn needs watering about again, as it does every day. big hearty wave. Jeana smiled a high school student.
being filmed for a different TV three times a week if it isn't In the morning, with the wanly in return and fluttered her Police Chief David Kunkle on
show." "Oh, OK. Makes sense to raining. And these azalea bushes faraway dogs barking and the hand and turned back inside. Thursday fired Officer Bryan
me." can get a bit unwieldy so you'll sprinklers pfitz-pfitzing and the She'd need to call Julio. Crews. The officer's attorney
All the ladies dressed up in their need to keep those trimmed. birds darting noisily from tree to While she waited for him to says Crews will appeal and
black costumes and luckily These thorny bushes should be tree, Jeana trundled outside to come rumbling up in that rusty criticized the investigation.
Tamra had brought some masks kept small because the kids keep fetch the San Diego Wealthy old truck, she sat in the empty According to the Dallas
(though she supposedly didn't tracking the prickers in and then Patriot, the area's political paper house and thought about waking Morning News, the internal
know about the TP'ing before the dog or someone with barefeet of record, and she saw the whole up at slumber parties when she investigation started after Crews'
she showed up? Were the masks steps on them. Oh, and you'll mess. Toilet paper strung and was a girl. How decadent and wife gave authorities several
for something else? Hm. One occasionally need to clear a lot draped over everything, wet and perfect the night always seemed, items including his personal cell
word: Fidelio.) Before they left of toilet paper out of everything sticky now from dew, bits of it all the possibility of the eternal phone memory card. Crews'
the house, they barged into because some drunken fluttering in the breeze. Her mind gap between two days laid out attorney says she handed police
Vicki's son's room (Lynn was middleaged women will have flashed back to Halloweens before you. But then in the those items during divorce
glad he didn't have a screen thrown it up there during a many years ago, the sharp morning how strange it was, to proceedings.
door) and he was lying there sleepover." Perfectly sensible. wicked thrill of that night, all the wake up not in a bed, not in your The investigation found Crews
shirtless with his laptop open on Once the ladies got back from things she'd done back then, or home. How suddenly faraway sent nude photos to a 17-year-old
the bed. Which... Oh dear. All their big adventure, the sleepover rather all the things she'd you felt, how disconnected and high school student, had many
the ladies just giggled and fell apart. Usually there's one watched slouch-shouldered boys lost from all that you loved. All conversations with her and
screamed and the little baked whiny kid at the slumber party do, snickering to each other, you wanted was to return, to go exchanged text messages. The
potato wrapped himself more who can't make it through the while she and the other girls back go back go back. To details of their relationship was
snugly in his tin foil and dreamt night, but today there were four. waited passively in the car, something familiar and easy. Fun not clear.
of his own place where he can do Everyone wanted to go home to smoking cigarettes and was fun, but life was life. And Five Filters featured article:
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I'm sure Godsy felt wildly everyone and they all drove off morning made Jeana's chest feel Outside the sprinklers were
awkward, because she didn't in their enormous cars, drunk as tight with sadness, with the loss done and the sun had come out
know Jeana from Eve. (Eve monks, and no one thought of ages and time. to warm the world, to shine
Kretzler, who lives down the anything of it. Vicki stood in the She knew it was Vicki and her brightly and evaporate all of it.
block.) But whatever, it was part driveway, waving goodbye. Up sleepover friends, had seen them
of the deal she'd signed. So they above her a blue glow in a creeping around doing
all shriek-whispered and window finally turned off and something the night before. As
skittered over to Keough Farms. her son went to sleep, sans light she stood regarding the damage,
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hit things. They like to fight an we care about is getting girls, Seriously, fuck my life." her nose full of pickles."
hit things and then they lie about getting girls and going to the Snooki: "I feel like a cooking Snooki: "I'm pissed off that
it and try to make themselves out gym." turkey." mike and paulie like wasted two
to be the victims. This must Snooki: "First off I see muscles Snooki: "This feels like a porno, pickles. Dorks."
happen often, because everyone so I'm like, he's my type. But he's honestly." The Situation: "I bring a girl
seems to know the exact legal Irish and he talks like a cowboy." Sammi: "I like your unibrow." home every night. Have they all
process that Ronnie is about to Snooki: "I"ve been with goats, Sammi: "Mike didn't even have been pretty? Some days no, some
enter into. They know who to
call, who to pay, and whether or
sheep, cows, horses."
Snooki: "I'm not a guido, I'm a
the audacity to go after her and
apologize."
days yes."
Ronnie: "I've had shit in
Stunning black and
not they should be worried about guidette" Snooki: "I wanted to stab him in between my toes that looks better white photos with
his incarceration as if they have Snooki: "We didn't have to have the fucking eyeball with my than her."
all either lived through this or sex. I don't know why. If I had to fork." Snooki: "My boobs are so tight I a touch of color
bailed out a friend at least 18 have sex with one guy here, it Ronnie: "Sam and I leave can't breath. Is that normal?" (Holy Kaw!)
times in the past. This is would be him. He's a nice guy, around four o'clock, I couldn't Snooki:"What's so wrong with Submitted at 1/15/2010 1:06:55 AM
unfortunate, but not he's gotta be clean." take it anymore. You know what meeting guys at the club and
unroutine—much like when you Snooki: "I do want to have sex I mean. We been here since kissing them. It's not like we're Black and white photos have
walk to the local subway station with him. I'm saving myself for midnight. Five hours is enough." having sex, which I haven't had always possessed their nostalgic
on a Saturday to find the train cowboy." Snooki: "Fuck me, right. Fuck yet." beauty, but add in a splash of
isn't running. It throws one's Vinny: "She's riding you like a me." Snooki: "Get me out of Seaside, color highlighting the precise
plans for a loop, but is easily fucking donkey ride." The Situation: "You better grab honestly." point of focus like the photo
overcome with a little creative The Situation: "If you're your girl tight when I'm around." Ronnie: "You want a sausage above, well it's just pure art.
navigation. We can't wait to see sexually frustrated, that's OK. Snooki: "If you leave. I'm gonna when we get home?" Susan Elaine Cooper put
them steer the course next week Get it out in the shower." stuff your fucking nose with Townie: "Go back to Jersey." together an amazing collection of
when Danielle Agent of Mossad DJ Paulie D: "I'm Catholic tampons." Snooki: "I'm wearing my cor- black and white photos with a
and Paula assemble the Female dude." Snooki: "I really don't remember sette. I was like, I look slutty, but touch of color.
Force and bust Ronnie out of DJ Paulie D: "I don't understand his face, because I was wasted" I don't give a fuck." More about Photography and
prison. that religion or what it is, I just Snooki: "I think my crotch is Photoshop.
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Sammi: "If you wanna punch DJ Paulie D: "You like your Snooki: "I'm not trashy, unless I
somebody, punch somebody, but girls like you like your drink too much."
not me" underwear, dirty." The Situation: "She likes her
The Situation: "The only thing Snooki: "Fuck my life. mouth full of pickles, she'll like
Saints Expecting a
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to come, and that their months- children home to the United Thursday in the Capitol Hill information about the Haitian Sandina and 3-year-old Benciana
long effort to adopt the children States. office of Sen. Mary Landrieu, D- children they hoped to adopt. in October.
could be stalled by the chaos. Even those who haven't La., to discuss the quake's impact "Once we compile that data, we "I felt like the luckiest person in
"I have this bed sitting there with completed the Haitian adoption on adoptions. Many parents have can determine which cases we the world," she said. "I got there
a doll and a teddy bear, and little process may have already met been pushing to see if the State might be able to speed up," he on a Monday and Wednesday
pink daisies, and she is in an the children they hope to call Department can expedite said. "The important thing is the night I was so in love with them
orphanage with 150 kids without their own. Unlike other adoption proceedings, because status of the kids — are they that I couldn't sleep."
water tonight," said Lear, of countries, Haiti matches they fear orphanages will need to OK?" She learned by e-mail
Watertown, S.D. prospective parents and orphans serve other children left The immediate focus is on the Wednesday afternoon that the
The earthquake has thrown U.S. early in the adoption process, so homeless or alone after the safety of the children and girls were safe. Now she, too, is
adoptive families into a state of families have photographs for quake. providing emergency relief, he hoping for an emergency visa to
limbo. Many are finding months, said Heather Breems, Chuck Johnson, chief operating said. Adoption is "part of the get the girls out of the orphanage
themselves mired in a desperate Haiti coordinator and officer of the National Council plan, but it's not the priority to make room for other children
search for answers about how international supervisor for for Adoption, said the experts today," DiFilipo said. "The orphaned by the earthquake.
their children are faring. Some Adoption-Link in Oak Park, Ill. agreed that efforts should be devastation is just phenomenal. "I need them to be here to be
fear paperwork — which can "It's what makes a situation like made to expedite proceedings for We have a lot of work to do safe. I want them to know they
take months or years to finalize this so difficult for families, the relatively small number of before we can move forward have food and that they are not at
— may be buried or lost forever because they've been matched U.S. families whose adoptions with the adoptions." risk of disease and they are not
in crumpled buildings, stalling with children already," said were nearly complete. But there That leaves parents in the U.S. terrified," she said. "I can't
the adoption process for good. Breems, whose agency has five almost certainly will be filled with worry about what imagine how terrified they are."
Adoptions from Haiti make up a families matched or waiting to substantial delays in most of the comes next. Lear and her ___
fraction of international travel, including a single mother roughly 900 pending adoption husband Bruce had visited their Associated Press Writers
adoptions to the United States who was supposed to leave this applications because of the chaos 9-year-old Hatian children, Charles Wilson in Indianapolis,
each year, but the number has weekend to bring home her HIV- in Haiti, including widespread Pierre and Ange-Laurette, twice. David Crary in New York and
been growing steadily as positive daughter. loss of essential documents. They had planned a third visit, AP videojournalist Mark Carlson
countries such as China and Brett Schlenbaker and his wife, "Many of the orphanages have which is now on hold because of in Chicago contributed to this
Guatemala have slowed or Kendra, of Bellingham, Wash., probably been damaged, records the earthquake. story.
closed to international adoption are in the process of adopting lost," he said. "It's going to be They learned the children were ___
in recent years. The U.S. State two children, an 8-year-old very difficult to proceed with OK about 10 minutes after the On the Net: http://www.jcics.org
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In the eyes of the Haitian month. comment Thursday. worsening.
government, many of those "You just don't know what's Tom DiFilipo, president of the Lewen, 40, of Willowbrook, Ill.,
waiting to bring children home going on with your child," said Joint Council on International knows the two young sisters she
are already legal parents. Schlenbaker. "Are they hurt, are Children's Services, said his is adopting are safe — for now.
Adoptions are finalized in Haiti, they injured, are they safe? It's group would be setting up a Web The single parent-to-be started
but it can still take months for any parent's fear." -based registry through which the adoption process in
final approval to bring the Adoption advocates met families could try to get September and visited 1-year-old
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Hackettstown, a town of about called the group's safe return "a group of eight students who Frank Fowler, the leader of the
11,000 residents in northwest happy ending." arrived safely in Santo Domingo, Trinity church members, said The pool for Your Best Shot
Jersey. They hugged and kissed But a New Jersey college Dominican Republic, on God played a role in rescuing his 2009 closes for submissions
their loved ones in front of a student on a separate trip to Haiti Thursday, the university said. group. When the church group tomorrow. We hope you’ll take a
banner saying, "Welcome back, was still unaccounted for early Members of another church arrived at the airport, he said, it moment to review last year in the
Haiti team. We love you." Friday. mission from New Jersey also found the crew of an Icelandic photos you took and share with
Frank Procaccini, returning Officials at Lynn University in were safe. A group from three search and rescue plane that had us Your Best Shot 2009.
from his fifth Haitian aid trip, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said four Mercer County congregations just dropped off supplies and For The Love of Yellow!,
said the church group was in an of its 12 students who were in was at the U.S. Embassy in was leaving — with enough curated by TPorter2006 from
open field playing ball with Haiti when the earthquake hit Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, on room to take people out. Your Best Shot 2009 pool.
children from an orphanage Tuesday were missing. Among Thursday awaiting evacuation to "I believe God's hand," he said, Photos from mlibrarianus,
when he heard an explosion and them was Christine Gianacaci, of the Dominican Republic. "is in everything." christiaan_25, Dyrk.Wyst,
felt the ground shake. Hopewell, N.J. Cooper University Hospital, in Five Filters featured article: macisaguy, and** Tania **.
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landing of the incapacitated US apprehension, a little anxiety" some of the survivors. But many
Airways Flight 1549 in the about flying. But he said having are eager to reunite with the Millions of Americans cracked a
middle of the frigid Hudson Zych with him makes it easier. others who shared in the smile earlier this week at the
River, many of them gathered American Red Cross of Greater harrowing experience. Some say sight of 62-year-old Larry Platt
Friday to celebrate the New York CEO Theresa they consider the group to be a performing an original song
anniversary of their unlikely Bischoff introduced Gov. David kind of family. titled“Pants on the Ground” for
survival. Paterson at the gathering, "It does bring back memories of the “American Idol” judges in
A crowd of about 100 applauded crediting him with coining the being out there and what we Atlanta. Platt’s spirited
performance swept across the honored him with his own
as US Airways Flight 1549 Capt. phrase "Miracle on the Hudson." went through," Bostic said holiday in Atlanta, Larry Platt
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, "It was the happiest day I have previously. "But with those internet, giving A.I. its first viral
hit of the season, but the story Day, on September 4, 2001. On
smiling and wearing his pilot's spent or ever will spend as memories, it also reinforces that that day, the Georgia General
uniform, arrived for a breakfast. governor," Paterson said. gratitude we have." behind the singer makes him far
more interesting than the Assembly declared: “For the past
Rescuers were thanked at the Later, Sullenberger was Whether it's traveling together 40 years, Larry Platt has given of
event, which launched a day of expected to join other crew and or just spending quiet time with William Hungs and Bikini Girls
that came before him on the Idol himself in service to the people
activities. passengers to revisit the site each other, Bostic says he's of the City of Atlanta, the State
Click here to see photos. where he deftly set down his intent on making sure he doesn't stage.
Larry Platt’s legacy dates back of Georgia, and the
"We're so happy to have so much Airbus A320 on Jan. 15, 2009, miss out on anything. After all, nation…Larry Platt merits the
to celebrate," said Sullenberger. after a flock of geese disabled its there could be another encounter to the 1960s when the now
quirky rapper volunteered as a highest recognition for his many
Participants included passengers engines. with death at any time. valuable contributions to the
Laura Zych and Ben Bostic of In the afternoon, they'll meet "If it happens," he said, "it's teenage crusader for the Civil
Rights Movement in Georgia. Civil Rights Movement and his
Charlotte, N.C., who started with boat crews and other going to happen this time dedication to the struggle for
dating after the splashdown's six- rescuers to board one of the without any regrets." Platt even served as a student of
Martin Luther King Jr, which is equality and human rights.”
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divisions and multiples of ten, distance from the pole to the Japanese) is used to this day to hour broken up into hexadecimal Senate race: Too
and used none of the metric equator being almost exactly denote “minute”. minutes. (The 16-base
system’s prefixes (milli-, centi-, 10,000 kilometres, 1 km along Ultimately, the only unit of time hexadecimal system uses the
close for comfort
deci-, deca-, hecto-, kilo-, etc). the surface subtends an angle of that really matters is the second. numbers 0-9 followed by the (The Economist: News
Even so, the idea of a centi-jour one centigon (a hundredth of a Originally, the internationally letters A-F.) The hexadecimal analysis)
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several occasions since. One the Earth. Had it come to pass, as SI (Système International One second after midnight, the
reason is that a ten-hour clock, decimal time and decimal d’Unités) defined the second as time is .0001. Half a day later, The Massachusetts Senate race
with each hour divided into 100 angular measurement might have 1/86,400 of a mean solar noon arrives at .8000. A second Jan 15th 2010 | NEW YORK
decimal minutes, and each done for the 19th century what day—simply the inverse of the before the next midnight is From Economist.com The
decimal minute sub-divided into GPS did for the 20th. number of seconds in 24 hours. .FFFF. Got it? Your Republican candidate for senator
100 decimal seconds, would But the French were not the first But irregularities in the rotation correspondent neither. is doing surprisingly well in
m a k e n a v i g a t i o n to think of the ten-hour day, nor of the Earth made that unreliable. In normal life, people have to go Massachusetts
easier—provided, of course, you even the centi-jour. Like the Thus, in 1967, SI adopted a more to work, arrange schedules, catch MASSACHUSETTS is the
had a decimal sextant and Egyptians with their decimal precise definition based on the planes and trains, and pick up Democratic Alabama.
compass to go with it. Decimal calendar, the Chinese used frequency of the radiation a children from school at given Republicans deride the liberal,
time and longitude would then decimal (not to mention caesium atom emits when it flips times. The number of seconds coastal state as “Taxachusetts”
correlate directly without the duodecimal) time several between two energy states. No needed to do such useful things and worse. It has produced two
need for logarithmic conversion millennia before Christ. Since ifs and buts, at absolute zero has to be given names everyone failed Democratic presidential
tables. Even the Royal the beginning of history, they temperature, this is exactly recognises and agrees upon. It candidates, John Kerry and
Geographical Society in have divided the day into a 100 9,192,631,770 hertz. would be nice if such units of Michael Dukakis, successfully
Victorian England was keen on equal parts called ke(14.4 Physicists have no trouble using, time were decimal multiples of portrayed as coastal cissies. It is
decimal navigation, and minutes), and split each of those on the one hand, picoseconds one another. Unfortunately, here also home to America’s most
published tables to convert into 60 fen(14.4 seconds). When (trillionths of a second) or even on planet Earth, with its enduring Democratic dynasty:
sexagesimal angles and hours Jesuit missionaries introduced femtoseconds (quadrillionths of decidedly undecimal sidereal the Kennedys. Its combination of
into centi-jours and their decimal Western clocks to China in the a second) to discuss time at the year of 365-and-a-quarter days, unions, intellectuals and blacks
subdivisions. 17th century, the local atomic scale. They also talk that is just not going to happen. makes it one of the safest
Numerous clocks were made in inhabitants simply changed the cheerfully of 10 18 seconds Back to top ^^ Readers' Democratic states in the country.
France and elsewhere during the number of divisions in a day needed for light to travel from comments The state as a whole does not
19th century with faces showing from 100 to 96, making a ke the farthest reaches of the The Economist welcomes your have a single Republican
both the numbers 1-12 for equal to exactly 15 minutes. universe. Likewise, in views. member in the House or Senate.
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the horizon would then know roughly into “carving out a small multiples of 100-nanosecond Democratic candidate, Martha
instantly where on the planet he amount of time” and was used, units since January 1st 1601. Coakley, the state’s attorney-
was. With 100 decimal degrees until the Meiji era, to signify But computer scientists are just general, should be a shoo-in. But
(or “gons” as they became “hour”, while the character for as likely to divide their day into Scott Brown, her opponent, even
known) to a right-angle, and the fen(pronounced “fûn” in hexadecimal hours, with each had a slender lead in one opinion
poll, though he was 17 points
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