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Boing Boing
It's been a year and Obama has yet to fill the empty seats on the government's main civil liberties oversight committee: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was recommended initially by the bipartisan September 11 commission as an institutional voice for privacy inside the intelligence community. Its charter was to recommend ways to ...
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Cory Doctorow
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Boing Boing
Zombie/NPR fanfiction
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Kirby sez, "Spot on parody of the NPR News Quiz Show during a Zombie Apocalypse. Peter Sagal, Carl Kassel, Mo Rocca, Paula Poundstone, and Tom Bodett don't miss a beat as they broadcast their last show before retreating to the cave system. The author gets the personalities perfect. You can imagine that this is exactly how the panelists would ...
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Cory Doctorow
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Boing Boing
Liquid glass will change your life, eliminate detergent profits
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A Turko-German consortium has announced a liquid glass product "that will revolutionize everything" (it's a "new kind of glass," as Mr Wolfram might put it). Seriously, it sounds like the applications for this stuff are endless, and yes, that's what everyone said about aerogel and the Segway, but maybe this time... They're shipping to the UK soon,
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Obama to Meet Dalai Lama Despite China Warnings
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BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama still plans to meet the Dalai Lama, the White House said on Tuesday, despite China's warning that such a meeting would hurt ties already strained by U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan.
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Liberties oversight panel gets short shrift
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President Obama is coming under pressure from Democrats and civil liberties groups for failing to fill positions on an oversight panel formed in 2004 to make sure the government does not spy improperly on U.S. citizens.
The Agonist
The madding crowd
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Oh god, if this is what The Economist is going to pass off as informed debate then letting my subscription lapse was an incredibly wise financial and emotional decision. I have to wonder if people like Boaz and Kamarck get their jobs because of or in spite of inane, ideological drivel? Obama is a failure - and he's a huge failure - because he's ...
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Jesus Diaz
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Gizmodo
Someone has been able to break into Apple's Cupertino headquarters and steal the document containing the biggest secret behind the iPad. This is it. [ 9gag ]
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Matt buchanan
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Gizmodo
A Peek at Apple's Plans to Re-invent Textbooks
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ScrollMotion's been tapped to transmogrify textbooks published by McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and every standardized test-taking student's favorite, Kaplan. The WSJ says that education was indeed a "focal point" in the iPad's development, which we reported months ago. If you're over-analyzed the iPad keynote as much as we have, by now ...
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Jon
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CyberJournalist.net
Will the iPad save the news business?
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Everyone seems to have an opinion on whether the iPad will transform the news business or do nothing of the sort. Here’s a roundup of some of the thinking. What the iPad could mean for the news business (Seeking Alpha) Will Apple’s iPad save the news industry? (OJR) Can the iPad save media? Skeptics weigh in (Reflections of [...]
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Seoul (Korea Newswire) February 3, 2010 -- LG Electronics (LG), a global leader and technology innovator in mobile communications, today announced that its LD100 data modem has become the first long-term evolution device (LTE) to receive Telecom Engineering Center (TELEC) certification, clearing the way for the modem to be used in Japan.
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Matt buchanan
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Gizmodo
Olympus PEN E-PL1 Hands On: The Cheap Micro Four Thirds Camera for Everybody
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It leaked earlier today , but we're still pretty struck by Olympus's latest micro four thirds camera, the E-PL1. Why? It has a built-in flash (finally!). And it's $600, making it the cheapest micro four thirds camera around. The E-PL1 takes the opposite tack of the E-P2 , stepping down a rung. So, you're probably wondering what you give up to ...
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, left, and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified Tuesday at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington.
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Mike Masnick
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Techdirt
A bunch of folks have sent in the Citizens United Supreme Court decision and asking for my opinion on it. The ruling came out last week when I was traveling, and I didn't have that much time to look at the details or think about what it all meant until now. It's one of those cases where I see both sides of the argument, but am troubled by what ...
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Joanna Stern
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Engadget
It certainly took them long enough, but Olympus has finally (finally!) introduced a Micro Four Thirds camera with a price tag that's a little closer to earth. If you'll recall, both of the previous PENs cost upwards of $750, but the E-PL1 touts a much more reasonable MSRP of $599.99. And that doesn't mean Olympus has been stingy on features. Nope,
Matt buchanan
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Gizmodo
Internet Explorer 8 is the best browser Microsoft's ever shipped. It actually sorta tries to be compliant with modern web standards, or at least more so than its predecessors, so it's a huge leap forward, even if it's nowhere near WebKit-based browsers like Safari or Chrome on that front. So, I'm glad to see it's now the world's most-used browser,
Matt buchanan
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Gizmodo
This is a still image of an AT-AT walker. But! If you go here using any WebKit browser (Safari, Chrome), it dances to life. Like a Flash animation, except it's not . It's pure CSS3 . Point taken . [ Anthony Calzadilla via DF ]
Daily Kos
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Daily Kos
David Streitfield writes : The number of Americans who owed more than their homes were worth was virtually nil when the real estate collapse began in mid-2006, but by the third quarter of 2009, an estimated 4.5 million homeowners had reached the critical threshold, with their home’s value dropping below 75 percent of the mortgage balance. ...
With a general election in the United Kingdom due by June 3, 2010, polls now indicate a tightening race. The latest poll by The Independent shows the Conservative party down to 38 percent, down seven points since December, with Labour up two points to 31 percent. The Liberal Democrats polled third with 19 percent. Based on these projections, the ...
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The New York Times, The Austin American-Statesman and The Huffington Post are all experimenting with ways to generate ad dollars using Twitter and Facebook, Poynter’s Mallary Jean Tenore reports.
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Dennis Crowley (top) created a mobile app called Dodgeball and sold it to Google. But its base never expanded beyond quirky blogger kids like those shown here, and now Google's shutting it down. Nobody's surprised, but some of us are sad.
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Mike Masnick
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Techdirt
Last month, we wrote about a local news website in Illinois that was getting frustrated with the dialog in its comments, and it instituted a "cooling off period" where it shut down its comments for a while, hoping that it would drive away the less desirable comments. The whole thing made no sense to us. Those types of commenters would eventually ...
Jason Kottke
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Kottke.org
Freefall survival tips orig. from Jun 06, 2008 Aerial map of NYC from 1924 orig. from Feb 01, 2010 First two minutes of Lost season six orig. from Feb 01, 2010 The elements of the incendiary blog post orig. from Feb 02, 2010 * Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can find ...
Ross Miller
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Engadget
In the market for new desktop machinery? Gateway 's gone ahead and given its gaming-centric FX series a facelift for the new year -- nothing Alienware-esque crazy, but we do like the accessible ports up top, right next to the control dial for LED-infused lighting effects. Enough about the superficial, let's go inside: a 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 ...
Daily Kos
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Daily Kos
Tonight's Rescue brought to you by ItsJessMe, YatPundit, mem from somerville, jennyjem, grog, and pico. Diary Rescue is all about promoting good writers, so remember to subscribe to diarists whose work you enjoy reading. In The Raw Politics of Immigration Reform Should Lead to Legislation , Duke1676 suggests the dynamics may actually be ...
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