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Posted by the_wako_kid, at 05:15PM 07/25/08 :
Cyber-nationalism | The brave new world of e-hatred
Note: Social networks and video-sharing sites don’t always bring people closer together
Posted by mosesgunner, at 05:12PM 07/25/08 :
Book Review: The Devil's Delusion: Atheism And Its Scientific Pretensions
Note: The most enjoyable aspect of The Devil's Delusion is that Berlinski is every bit as militant in his theism as Dawkins and company ever thought about being in their atheism, and he is clever and witty to the point of providing the reader with several full belly laughs.
Posted by the_wako_kid, at 04:44PM 07/25/08 :
Obama campaign says Pentagon felt visit to wounded troops would be a 'campaign event
Note: From Berlin, USA TODAY's Kathy Kiely files this statement from retired Air Force general Scott Gration, an adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, about why the senator did not visit U.S. troops at at Ramstein Air Base and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany during his visit there yesterday or today:
Posted by the_wako_kid, at 04:29PM 07/25/08 :
'Airplane!' director eyes Michael Moore
Note: The comedy director who gave us such immortal movie lines as “Oh stewardess, I speak jive” and “Don’t call me Shirley” is now leveling his sights at documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.
Posted by the_wako_kid, at 04:27PM 07/25/08 :
The Commentocracy rises online
Note: When Erick Erickson, editor in chief of the conservative Web site RedState.com, wrote a post that called Cindy Sheehan a “left-wing media whore,” he expected angry feedback.
Posted by Kimberley McKee, at 03:34PM 07/25/08 :
Probably the Funniest Cat Video You'll Ever See
Note: don't mind the corny intro - it just keeps getting better and better.
Posted by driftabit, at 03:14PM 07/25/08 :
End of the Affair: Barack Obama and The Press Breakup
Note: Around midnight on July 16, New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Obama's press office.
Posted by driftabit, at 03:11PM 07/25/08 :
Wired Working on a Google-Baiting Widget
Note: Also considering launch of ... an extreme sports blog?
Posted by driftabit, at 02:46PM 07/25/08 :
Memphis police director sues for critical bloggers' names
Note: Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis have filed a lawsuit to learn who operates a blog harshly critical of Godwin and his department.
Posted by g8rrrry, at 01:56PM 07/25/08 and by 1 others:
Should This Guy Blow Up His Range Rover? You Decide.
Note: Theres no way around it: 13 MPG sucks. But what do you do with a Range Rover thats already on the road? Selling it just passes the burden on, so, should we blow it up? Drive it off a cliff? Convert it to a biodiesel or plug-in hybrid and give it to an organization that can use it to do something great? This guy will use the best idea he gets...
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 01:51PM 07/25/08 :
Mystery Explosions Point to Iran's Secret Arms Shipments to Terrorists
Note: July 25, 2008 - Telegraph - Con Coughlin in Vienna - For an organisation that prides itself on being a well-run administrative machine, the leadership of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards is having a rather testing time. It’s not just last Saturday’s mysterious explosion in a suburb of Tehran that killed 15 people that is causing the leadership sleepless nights, although the nationwide news black-out imposed immediately afterwards does suggest the Revolutionary Guards, the storm troops of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, are rattled.
Posted by walkertr, at 01:49PM 07/25/08 :
Senator Introduces Bill To Keep Adult-Rated Games From Minors
Note: U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (D-Miss.) has introduced a game-restriction bill aimed at preventing the sale of adult-rated video games to minors. Although the full text of the measure is not available yet, the title of the bill states that it’s intended to “prohibit the sale of rental or video games with adult content to minors.” The bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation without cosponsors.
Posted by walkertr, at 01:44PM 07/25/08 :
“Napoleon Dynamite” Star To Do A Web Series
Note: Jon Heder of “Napoleon Dynamite” fame will jump into an online series as the star of Electric Farm Entertainment’s zombie comedy “Woke Up Dead.” Heder also will serve as a producer on the scripted online series, created by John Fascano, which centers on a USC student who wakes up under water in the bathtub one morning and suspects that he might be dead. “Dead” will include 50 three-minute episodes for online and mobile distribution in the U.S.
Posted by walkertr, at 01:42PM 07/25/08 :
Netflix Reports 25% Increase In Subscribers
Note: Netflix ended the second quarter of 2008 with a 25% increase in subscribers compared with the same period a year before (from 6.742 million to 8.411 million). Overall, the entertainment rental firm had a net increase of 168,000 subscribers in this year’s second quarter, compared with a net loss of 55,000 a year ago. Revenue at Netflix improved 11% (from $303.7 million to $337.6 million).
Posted by walkertr, at 01:40PM 07/25/08 :
Mobile Map Use Grows 82% In U.S.
Note: According to data from comScore, mobile maps are growing increasingly popular in the U.S. and Europe, with 8% of U.S. mobile subscribers and 3% of those in Europe accessing maps from their mobile phone in the three months ending in May. This represents a growth rate of 82% in the U.S. and 49% in Europe compared with a year ago. In comparison, growth for map use online is more modest.
Posted by danglingwrangler, at 01:33PM 07/25/08 :
Obama’s Berlin Speech Video-Transcript-Analysis
Note: Barack Obama delivered a major foreign policy speech in 30-minutes to 200,000 enthusiastic onlookers and supporters at the base of the “Victory Column” - the Siegessäule in the middle of a roundabout called the Grosser Stern in the Tiergarten Park - Berlin’s sprawling park in the center of the city. When a reporter asked the senator if he considered the address a campaign event, he said with a puzzled look: “As opposed to?” “It’s not a political rally,” he added. “Hopefully, it will be viewed as a substantive, articulation of the relationship I’d like to see between the United States and Europe. I’m hoping to communicate across the Atlantic the value of that relationship and how we need to build on it.”The entire text (added bonus pictures also from the Berlin Speech), to the Obama Berlin speech is down loadable at end of this narrative.
Posted by the_wako_kid, at 01:21PM 07/25/08 :
Dispatch from Minnesota: Al Franken v. Norm Coleman
Note: Saturday, July 12, Humboldt High School auditorium, St. Paul. Al Franken has just taken the podium to address the central committee of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party, a rowdy force of several hundred seated by district.
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Posted by the_wako_kid, at 05:15PM 07/25/08 :Cyber-nationalism | The brave new world of e-hatred
Note: Social networks and video-sharing sites don’t always bring people closer together
Posted by mosesgunner, at 05:12PM 07/25/08 :Book Review: The Devil's Delusion: Atheism And Its Scientific Pretensions
Note: The most enjoyable aspect of The Devil's Delusion is that Berlinski is every bit as militant in his theism as Dawkins and company ever thought about being in their atheism, and he is clever and witty to the point of providing the reader with several full belly laughs.
Posted by the_wako_kid, at 04:44PM 07/25/08 :Obama campaign says Pentagon felt visit to wounded troops would be a 'campaign event
Note: From Berlin, USA TODAY's Kathy Kiely files this statement from retired Air Force general Scott Gration, an adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, about why the senator did not visit U.S. troops at at Ramstein Air Base and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany during his visit there yesterday or today:
Posted by the_wako_kid, at 04:29PM 07/25/08 :'Airplane!' director eyes Michael Moore
Note: The comedy director who gave us such immortal movie lines as “Oh stewardess, I speak jive” and “Don’t call me Shirley” is now leveling his sights at documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.
Posted by the_wako_kid, at 04:27PM 07/25/08 :The Commentocracy rises online
Note: When Erick Erickson, editor in chief of the conservative Web site RedState.com, wrote a post that called Cindy Sheehan a “left-wing media whore,” he expected angry feedback.
Posted by Kimberley McKee, at 03:34PM 07/25/08 :Probably the Funniest Cat Video You'll Ever See
Note: don't mind the corny intro - it just keeps getting better and better.
Posted by driftabit, at 03:14PM 07/25/08 :End of the Affair: Barack Obama and The Press Breakup
Note: Around midnight on July 16, New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Obama's press office.
Posted by driftabit, at 03:11PM 07/25/08 :Wired Working on a Google-Baiting Widget
Note: Also considering launch of ... an extreme sports blog?
Posted by driftabit, at 02:46PM 07/25/08 :Memphis police director sues for critical bloggers' names
Note: Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis have filed a lawsuit to learn who operates a blog harshly critical of Godwin and his department.
Posted by g8rrrry, at 01:56PM 07/25/08 and by 1 others:Should This Guy Blow Up His Range Rover? You Decide.
Note: Theres no way around it: 13 MPG sucks. But what do you do with a Range Rover thats already on the road? Selling it just passes the burden on, so, should we blow it up? Drive it off a cliff? Convert it to a biodiesel or plug-in hybrid and give it to an organization that can use it to do something great? This guy will use the best idea he gets...
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 01:51PM 07/25/08 :Mystery Explosions Point to Iran's Secret Arms Shipments to Terrorists
Note: July 25, 2008 - Telegraph - Con Coughlin in Vienna - For an organisation that prides itself on being a well-run administrative machine, the leadership of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards is having a rather testing time. It’s not just last Saturday’s mysterious explosion in a suburb of Tehran that killed 15 people that is causing the leadership sleepless nights, although the nationwide news black-out imposed immediately afterwards does suggest the Revolutionary Guards, the storm troops of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, are rattled.
Posted by walkertr, at 01:49PM 07/25/08 :Senator Introduces Bill To Keep Adult-Rated Games From Minors
Note: U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (D-Miss.) has introduced a game-restriction bill aimed at preventing the sale of adult-rated video games to minors. Although the full text of the measure is not available yet, the title of the bill states that it’s intended to “prohibit the sale of rental or video games with adult content to minors.” The bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation without cosponsors.
Posted by walkertr, at 01:44PM 07/25/08 :“Napoleon Dynamite” Star To Do A Web Series
Note: Jon Heder of “Napoleon Dynamite” fame will jump into an online series as the star of Electric Farm Entertainment’s zombie comedy “Woke Up Dead.” Heder also will serve as a producer on the scripted online series, created by John Fascano, which centers on a USC student who wakes up under water in the bathtub one morning and suspects that he might be dead. “Dead” will include 50 three-minute episodes for online and mobile distribution in the U.S.
Posted by walkertr, at 01:42PM 07/25/08 :Netflix Reports 25% Increase In Subscribers
Note: Netflix ended the second quarter of 2008 with a 25% increase in subscribers compared with the same period a year before (from 6.742 million to 8.411 million). Overall, the entertainment rental firm had a net increase of 168,000 subscribers in this year’s second quarter, compared with a net loss of 55,000 a year ago. Revenue at Netflix improved 11% (from $303.7 million to $337.6 million).
Posted by walkertr, at 01:40PM 07/25/08 :Mobile Map Use Grows 82% In U.S.
Note: According to data from comScore, mobile maps are growing increasingly popular in the U.S. and Europe, with 8% of U.S. mobile subscribers and 3% of those in Europe accessing maps from their mobile phone in the three months ending in May. This represents a growth rate of 82% in the U.S. and 49% in Europe compared with a year ago. In comparison, growth for map use online is more modest.
Posted by danglingwrangler, at 01:33PM 07/25/08 :Obama’s Berlin Speech Video-Transcript-Analysis
Note: Barack Obama delivered a major foreign policy speech in 30-minutes to 200,000 enthusiastic onlookers and supporters at the base of the “Victory Column” - the Siegessäule in the middle of a roundabout called the Grosser Stern in the Tiergarten Park - Berlin’s sprawling park in the center of the city. When a reporter asked the senator if he considered the address a campaign event, he said with a puzzled look: “As opposed to?” “It’s not a political rally,” he added. “Hopefully, it will be viewed as a substantive, articulation of the relationship I’d like to see between the United States and Europe. I’m hoping to communicate across the Atlantic the value of that relationship and how we need to build on it.”The entire text (added bonus pictures also from the Berlin Speech), to the Obama Berlin speech is down loadable at end of this narrative.
Posted by the_wako_kid, at 01:21PM 07/25/08 :Dispatch from Minnesota: Al Franken v. Norm Coleman
Note: Saturday, July 12, Humboldt High School auditorium, St. Paul. Al Franken has just taken the podium to address the central committee of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party, a rowdy force of several hundred seated by district.
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