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OECD warns 25m

‘New GM’ Gets a Visit from a Shareholder jobs at risk from
By Bernie Woodall (Front Row applause. After winning deep
Washington) concessions from the UAW in crisis
Submitted at 9/15/2009 3:28:21 PM 2007, GM agreed to invest $500 (Financial Times - US
million to retool the plant to make homepage)
GM's Lordstown, Ohio assembly a new fuel-efficient small sedan,
Submitted at 9/16/2009 4:59:08 AM
plant has become a symbol of the Chevy Cruze.
both GM's hard times and its best Obama had nice things to say The recession could mean 25m
hopes for a turnaround after a $50 about the Cruze, which GM people in high-income countries
billion federal investment. A expects to get more than 40 miles- will have lost their jobs by the end
recent bump in sales because of per-gallon in highway driving. of next year as the unemployment
the government's "Cash for "I just sat in the car," Obama rate approaches a record 10 per
Clunkers" program has allowed said of the Cruze. "I asked for the cent, the Organisation for
GM to call back more than 1,000 keys. They wouldn't give me the Economic Co-operation and
workers from layoff. So it was a keys. I was going to take it for a Development warned on
natural backdrop for a return visit little spin. But it was nice sitting Wednesday.
by President Obama, who held a in there. It was a roomy car." The Paris-based OECD said
roundtable with workers and then Consumers will not get the keys that, while recent signs of
gave a stump speech from the to a new Cruze, either, until the economic recovery may mean
factory floor for his economic middle of next year when it unemployment peaks earlier and
policies and health care reform. arrives in showrooms. In the at a slightly lower level than its
But this is not your father's GM meantime, Lordstown is forecast, governments must
anymore and nothing about it member of the union right now, Obama administration, which s t u c k b u i l d i n g t h e C o b a l t , intervene “quickly and
as clear- cut as it seems -- even if you’re spending all your time demanded that union autoworkers a budget-minded Chevy and decisively” to prevent the sharp
you are the leader of the free negotiating about health care. You accept lower wages -- as a vestige of the "old GM." rise turning into persistent long-
world and head of the government need to be spending some time condition to the bailout that saved Consumer Reports in its term joblessness.
that holds a controlling stake negotiating about wages, but you Lordstown -- to match non-union October edition branded the
in the automaker. At one point, can’t do it," he said. workers at Toyota plants in Cobalt as one of the five
Obama -- veering from his In fact, the UAW locked itself Kentucky and Honda plants in "cruddiest cheap cars" on the
prepared remarks -- suggested that into a contract limiting wages and Ohio. market.
health-care reform would allow changes to health care, without E v e n s o , (Writing by Kevin Krolicki.
the UAW-represented workers in the ability to negotiate with a Lordstown is something of a R e u t e r s p h o t o b y L a r r y
the audience to negotiate better threat of strike, until 2015. success story for both the UAW Downing.)
wages. These stands were agreed to by and GM, and Obama's remarks
“Think about it. If you are a the union at the prodding of the were punctuated with enthusiastic
Sept. 16, 1736: One Degree of Separation — Fahrenheit Dies
By Randy Alfred (Wired Top The inventor of the mercury
Stories) thermometer and the Fahrenheit
scale gives up the heat.
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The First Draft: Healthcare, anger and race

By David Alexander (Front reform bills introduced so far decision to speak to students on an interviewed aired Wednesday tiptoed around the race issue, but
Row Washington) have had Republican support. the first day of school prompted on the “Today” show. Carter’s comments pushed the
Submitted at 9/16/2009 6:37:38 AM The question is whether the some to keep their children home. Carter, who sat down with NBC debate into public view.
Baucus effort will win over some The Washington Post reported ahead of his 85th birthday Oct. 1, Republican pollster Frank Luntz
Senate Finance Committee Republicans. So far even the on the issue Wednesday, saying said the country had come a long told NBC the anger was not
Chairman Max Baucus is due to Republicans negotiating with him around the Capitol the previous way in its racial attitudes, but the racially motivated, but rather a
release a proposal Wednesday for have shied away from pledging to day “at any given moment, “racisim inclination still exists.” fear of the future and concern
reforming the $2.5 trillion U.S. vote for the measure. someone was expressing outrage “I think it’s bubbled up to the their children will be worse off
healthcare system, giving a boost Opposition to healthcare reform, — or counter-outrage.” surface because of a belief among than they are.
to President Barack Obama’s top and other government initiatives, Former President Jimmy Carter many white people, not just in the “The anger is not directed just
domestic policy goal. has become increasingly bitter in told NBC News much of the South but around the country, that towards Barack Obama. It’s
Or maybe not. recent months. anger was racially motivated. African-Americans are not directed towards members of
Baucus has been working with Town hall meetings produced “I think an overwhelming qualified to lead this great Congress, it’s directed towards
two fellow Democrats and three o u t p o u r i n g s o f a n g e r . portion of the intensely country. It’s an abominable the Senate, it’s directed towards
Republicans — the so-called R e p r e s e n t a t i v e J o e W i l s o n demonstrated animosity toward circumstance and grieves me and the media, towards unions,
Gang of Six– to produce a shouted “You lie” at Obama as he President Barack Obama is based concerns me very deeply,” said towards institutions that we feel
bipartisan healthcare compromise. addressed a joint session of on the fact that he is a black Carter, a Georgia native.
None of the other healthcare C o n g r e s s . T h e p r e s i d e n t ’ s man,” Carter said in portions of The White House has generally FIRST page 4
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After much delay, Baucus unveils healthcare plan

By David Alexander (Front plan. as “an important step forward” people purchase insurance. Some The public insurance option has
Row Washington) Early reaction is not great. because it would not add to the 46 million people in the United been strongly opposed by
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:14:32 AM HuffingtonPost.com headlined it federal deficit and would take States have no health insurance Republicans. Hoping to
“Baucus Bill Bust” because of the steps to reduce long-term coverage. circumvent opposition, the
After weeks of delay as he lack of Republican support. healthcare costs. Under the program envisioned Baucus plan proposes the creation
n e g o t i a t e d f o r R e p u b l i c a n Consumer Watchdog charged it “Meeting these standards, also by President Barack Obama, of non-profit cooperatives to offer
s u p p o r t , S e n a t e F i n a n c e would force middle class families set forth by the president, is people who do not have insurance insurance in competition with
C o m m i t t e e C h a i r m a n M a x to pay 20 percent of their incomes critical to reining in deficits and through their employers could private insurers.
Baucus Wednesday unveiled a 10- on healthcare. protecting our economy for future purchase a plan through an In a speech to Congress
year, $856 billion plan to overhaul Julius Hobson, a policy adviser generations of Americans,” insurance exchange. recently, Obama said he favored a
the U.S. healthcare system. at the Bryan Cave law firm, noted Representative Stephanie Herseth The insurance exchange would public option. But he urged liberal
The measure still has no it “not only lacks Republican said in a statement on behalf of include plans by private insurers Democrats to be open to other
promise of Republican support, support but it is not clear if it even the Blue Dogs. as well as a public insurance ideas, like cooperatives, that could
even though Baucus dumped the has ‘full’ Democratic support.” The Baucus plan would require option. Obama argues a public achieve the same goal of
public insurance option favored But the Blue Dog coalition — all U.S. citizens and legal plan is needed to provide effective improving competition.
by most Democrats and agreed to an important grouping of fiscally residents to have health insurance. competition to drive down costs. A pdf of the plan, the
other Republican changes in c o n s e r v a t i v e c o n g r e s s i o n a l Subsidies would be provided on Opponents fear it would drive
hopes of producing a bipartisan Democrats — praised the measure a sliding scale to help low-income private insurers out of the market. AFTER page 4
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What a difference a year makes
By Patricia Zengerle (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 9/15/2009 3:36:48 PM
A year ago, Senator Arlen
Specter was on the campaign trail
in Pennsylvania — appearing for
a fellow Republican senator, John
McCain, who was in an intense
race for the presidency against a
Democratic senator, Barack
Obama. The two presidential
candidates both spent a great deal
of time in the swing state, which
ended up going Democratic in the
November election.
A year later, Specter is busy on
the campaign trail again in
another tough Philadelphia
political battle, his own bid for
reelection. But this time, the
former moderate Republican is a
Democrat. And he wielded the
Democrats’ most formidable
election weapon at an evening of
fundraising on Tuesday —
President Barack Obama.
Specter left the Republican
party earlier this year, helping to
strengthen the Democratic
majority in Congress. To thank
the 79-year-old, Obama had said
he would stand by Specter even in
a primary fight to be nominated as
the Democratic candidate to retain
his Senate seat in 2010.
And he stood by him on
Tuesday. Obama spoke at two
different fundraising events in
Philadelphia. The Philadelphia
Inquirer said the twin Specter
events were expected to raise
close to $2.5 million, the goal of
'Heroes' Stars on Season 4: Deathbed, Yes; Lesbians, Maybe
By Hugh Hart (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 9/15/2009 3:00:00 PM
the evening. Obama touted
Specter’s record and qualities to
an audience of several hundred
supporters who had donated
$1,000 to $4,800 each. Slightly
hoarse after a day of speeches to
auto workers, the AFL-CIO
and Specter supporters,
Obama later spoke again at a sit-
down dinner for a group of big
donors to Specter and the
Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee. Aides said
Obama posed for 100 pictures
with the 200 dinner attendees, two
of them at a time.
Obama hailed Specter as “a man
who has always put his state
The twisty, time-travel plotting struggling sci-fi show? Masi Oka
threw some viewers for a loop. and Hayden Panettiere talk about
C a n n e w c h a r a c t e r s a n d a the upcoming season.
shortened run revitalize NBC's
before politics, before party.”
Specter praised Obama as “a
transformational candidate
moving toward being a
transformational president.”
Specter knows about
transformation.
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PHOTO CREDITS: Specter and
Obama arrive in Philadelphia,
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McCain and Palin campaign in
autumn 2008, Brian
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have failed us,” Luntz said. focus on the slowly recovering
But Michael Eric Dyson, a global economy, trade issues
Georgetown University provoked by U.S. “buy
sociologist, said it was clear American” rules and the
racism was a factor, citing those environment.
who challenge Obama’s For more Reuters political news,
birthplace or objected to the click here.
president speaking to Photo credit: Reuters/Yuri
schoolchildren. Gripas (Baucus speaks to
“How much evidence do you reporters after Gang of Six
need,” he said. “It amazes me that meeting Tuesday);
white Americans are incapable of Reuters/Jonathan Ernst (Harper
acknowledging what is before our and other Canadian officials
faces.” outside the Canadian Embassy in
Obama meets with Canadian Washington Wednesday)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Wednesday. Talks are likely to
AFTER
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“America’s Healthy Future Act of For more Reuters political news,
2009 is available here. click here.
What do you think? Photo credit: Reuters/Jim
Does it have broader appeal Young (Baucus after a healthcare
than the Democratic measures meeting on Tuesday)
already introduced in the House
and Senate? Or does it still
contain elements that will
generate wide opposition?
Facebook shows investors the money
By Tom Taulli
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 12:40:00 PM
Filed under: Forecasts, Rumors
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America is focused on cutting
costs, Facebook is trying to
manage hypergrowth. It's a nice
problem to have -- especially
during a recession.
But the question remains: will shows investors the money
the growth stall? No doubt, Facebook shows investors the
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Protests against Obama: race or Garridos in missing girls

policy?
By Tabassum Zakaria (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:52:10 AM
Former President Jimmy Carter
said out loud what Democrats had
been whispering for a while, that
the protests against the country’s
first black president are tinged
with racism.
Carter’s forceful words threw
the issue into the forefront of
public debate.
“I think an overwhelming
portion of the intensely
demonstrated animosity toward
President Barack Obama is based
on the fact that he is a black man,
that he’s African American,”
Carter said in an i nterview on
NBC.
While others had raised the
issue, it wasn’t until Carter’s blunt
words that it reached a crescendo
as loud as the protests.
Carter mentioned his southern
roots in saying ”that racism
inclination still exists” in the
country and many white people
believe African Americans are not
qualified to be president.
Critics of Obama have protested
at town hall meetings around the
country, rallied in Washington,
and even yelled out on the floor of
the House of Representatives
(Congressman Joe Wilson’s “you
lie”).
Michael Steele, the first black
chairman of the Republican
National Committee, issued a
statement that said: “President
Carter is flat out wrong. This isn’t
about race. It is about policy.”
Steele accused Democrats of
trying to shift attention away from
the president’s unpopular
healthcare plan.
“Characterizing Americans’
disapproval of President Obama’s
policies as being based on race is
an outrage and a troubling sign
about the lengths Democrats will
go to disparage all who disagree
with them,” he said.
Obama did not respond to a
probe
(BBC News | Americas | World Dublin Police Services said 13-
Edition) year-old Ilene Misheloff vanished
Submitted at 9/16/2009 2:12:58 AM 20 years ago from his city - an
hour from the Garridos' house.
A couple accused of kidnapping "Recently the investigation and
an 11-year-old girl and holding arrest of Philip and Nancy
her captive for 18 years are being Garrido for the 1991 kidnapping
probed over the disappearance of of Jaycee Dugard came to light
two more girls. and our investigators immediately
Police are searching the house started looking into the possibility
of Phillip and Nancy Garrido that the Garridos had some
from Antioch, California. connection to the Ilene Mischeloff
They have both denied the disappearance, " he said.
kidnap, rape and false "As a result of our investigation,
imprisonment of Jaycee Dugard. we found enough similarities to
Police are looking for links to obtain a search warrant for the
the disappearances of Ilene Walnut Avenue property of the
Misheloff and Michaela Garecht. G a r r i d o s a s w e l l a s a
Detectives are back searching n e i g h b o u r i n g p r o p e r t y . "
the house near San Francisco In addition officers from the
where last month they found a nearby town of Hayward are
hidden compound. searching for links to the
shouted question by a reporter They say Phillip Garrido, 58 - a kidnapping of nine-year-old
about Carter’s racism comments. convicted sex offender - and his Michaela Garecht in 1988.
Is there an objective barometer wife Nancy, 54, held Jaycee They say Michaela and Jaycee
for whether a protest is based on Dugard prisoner there. Dugard were of similar age and
racism or policy? Similar vehicle appearance when they were both
What do you think? Are the Now officers from two nearby abducted.
protests about race or policy or police forces are searching the It is clear the case of Jaycee
both? same property for links to the Dugard has led authorities to
Click here for more Reuters other two missing girls. consider whether the Garridos
political coverage A car taken from the Garridos' could be connected to a string of
Photo Credit: Reuters/Eric house is similar to vehicles other crimes.
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Senate panel unveils US healthcare plan

(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:22:29 AM
After months of intense
negotiations, centrist Democrats
finally produced their “bipartisan”
healthcare plan on Wednesday –
except that it was unable to attract
even one Republican supporter.
The $856bn ten-year bill, which
was unveiled by Max Baucus,
Democratic chairman of the
Senate finance committee, went a
long way towards meeting
Republican objections following a
summer of increasingly high-
octane conservative allegations
against healthcare reform.
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Carter says race is issue for some
Obama opponents
By JoAnne Allen (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/15/2009 7:25:05 PM
Some of President Barack
Obama’s more demonstrative
opponents list any number of
reasons why they oppose him and
why they’re angry — from the
bank bailout, to his plan to
overhaul the U.S. healthcare
system, the direction the country
is heading and the ballooning U.S.
deficit. But former President
Jimmy Carter thinks a lot of the
opposition is really about
Obama’s race.
“I think an overwhelming
portion of the intensely
demonstrated animosity toward
President Barack Obama is based
on the fact that he is a black
man,” Carter said in an NBC
interview on Tuesday.
Here’s what the Georgia
Democrat had to say:
“I live in the South, and I’ve
seen the South come a long way,
and I’ve seen the rest of the
country that share the South’s
Execution date set for US sniper
(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:58:42 AM
A US judge in Virginia has set a
10 November execution date for
the man behind the 2002 sniper
attacks on the Washington DC
area.
John Allen Muhammad was
attitude toward minority groups at
that time, particularly African
Americans. “And that racism
inclination still exists. And I think
it’s bubbled up to the surface
because of the belief among many
white people, not just in the South
but around the country, that
African-Americans are not
qualified to lead this great
country. It’s an abominable
circumstance, and it grieves me
sentenced to death for the murder
of Dean Meyers, one of 10 people
killed during the shootings.
Muhammad's teenage
accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo is
serving life in prison for his part
in the attacks.
Muhammad's lawyer said his
client would appeal to the US
Supreme Court.
and concerns me very deeply.”
Click here for the NBC video.
Disputes over race are not
unheard of in U.S. presidential
politics. Click here for a list of
some of them.
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Political News.
Photo Credit: Reuters/Tami
Chappell (Carter at a baseball
game in Atlanta in June)
The lawyer, Jonathan Sheldon,
also said he would ask Virginia
Governor Timothy Kaine for
clemency.
Muhammad and Malvo killed
six people in Alabama and
Louisiana before moving on to
Maryland, Washington and
Virginia.
Mr Meyers was shot at a petrol
Miley Cyrus Weighs In On
Kanye West/ Taylor Swift
VMA Incident - MTV.com
(Most Popular - Google News)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:34:09 AM
Miley Cyrus is a good friend of
Taylor Swift's, so it's fitting that
she would be upset with Kanye
West for ruining Swift's big
moment at the VMAs on Sunday.
Cyrus told Portland, Oregon,
radio station Z-100 that if that had
happened to her, she wouldn't
have let West steal her thunder so
easily.
"I'd tell him to get off the stage.
It's her moment. For those times
that you are able to tell your
speech, you do it," she said in a
radio interview on Monday. "And
it's disrespectful as an artist, and I
know he even said his family
would not be happy if someone
did that to them."
The singer, who, despite being
nominated, couldn't attend the
show because she was prepping
for her tour, said that West only
did it to get people's attention and
that, well, obviously it's working.
"It's what he does it for. He does it
for press. Don't feed into it. He's
gonna get what he wants by
station in Manassas, Virginia.
In August a federal appeals
court rejected Muhammad's
argument that prosecutors
withheld critical evidence and that
he never should have been
allowed to act as his own attorney
for a portion of his trial because
he was too mentally impaired.
The attorney general's office
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getting to be in tabloids because
of that," she explained, adding
that any apology he has offered is
because of all the negative
attention. "His apologies are just
because he's getting flak for it."
In addition to weighing in on
the West/Swift VMA controversy,
Cyrus also commented on two
other big events of the night: the
performances by Beyoncé and
Lady Gaga. "I heard there was
some crazy stuff and I heard
Beyoncé's performance was off
the chain," she said of the woman
she picked as her VMA winner
last week. "People said that it was
so perfect; you don't know how it
was real."
As for Lady Gaga's bloody and
theatrical performance, well,
Cyrus thinks that's just Gaga
being Gaga. "That's why people
love her! Because you never
know what she's gonna do and
something unique," she explained.
"There's no one like her. She's
bigger than life. Same thing as
Beyoncé. That's why you want to
watch them. They're so unique."
had requested last week that the
execution be on Monday 9
November.
But Prince William County
Circuit judge Mary Grace O'Brien
chose Tuesday, so the courts
would be open the day before for
any last-minute appeals.
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Log blames Ohio execution problems on drug use (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) technicians searched for a vein old Tryna Middleton after left arm, began moving the arm "With three botched executions in
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:06:58 AM strong enough to deliver the three- abducting her in Cleveland in up and down and flexed and as many years, it's clear that the
drug lethal injection. The issue September 1984 as she walked closed his fingers. The execution state must stop and review the
LUCASVILLE, Ohio – A prison arose three years after Ohio home from a Friday night football team was able to access a vein, system entirely before another
log blames a condemned Ohio r e v i s e d i t s l e t h a l i n j e c t i o n game with two friends. but it collapsed when technicians person is put to death."
i n m a t e ' s p a s t d r u g u s e f o r protocol due to problems with Prisons director Terry Collins tried to insert saline fluid. Florida has also experienced
problems finding a usable vein another inmate's IV. said the execution team eventually Broom turned onto his back and problems with lethal injection.
during an execution attempt that No Ohio governor has issued a told him they didn't believe covered his face with both hands. The state halted executions after
was stopped Tuesday after an similar last-minute reprieve since Broom's veins would hold if the His torso heaved up and down and the death of Angel Diaz in
unprecedented two hours. the state resumed executions in execution reached the point when his feet shook. He wiped his eyes December 2006 was delayed for
The log of Tuesday's scheduled 1999. the lethal drugs would be and was handed a roll of toilet 34 minutes because needles were
execution of Romell Broom The night before his scheduled administered. paper, which he used to wipe his accidentally pushed through his
indicates that executioners made execution, Broom told his brother Collins said he contacted the brow. veins, causing the chemicals to go
the observation at 3:11 p.m., more over the phone that he was ready governor at about 4 p.m. to let The team tried to insert shunts into his muscles instead. Florida
than an hour after first trying to to die. him know about the difficulties through veins in Broom's legs, resumed executions in 2008 under
find a vein. "He is tired of being in prison and request a reprieve. causing him to appear to grimace. new procedures.
"Medical team having problem and having people tell him what A medical evaluation Monday A member of the execution team Problems accessing veins also
maintaining an open vein due to to do everyday," according to the had determined that veins in patted him on the back. delayed Ohio executions in 2006
past drug use," said the log prison log. Broom's right arm appeared Broom, who did not have any and 2007.
reviewed by The Associated Richard Dieter, director of the accessible. Collins said that witnesses present, requested that In 2006, the execution of Joseph
Press. nonprofit Death Penalty before Broom's next scheduled one of his attorneys, Adele Shank, Clark was delayed for more than
Broom said at one point he was Information Center, said he execution, the team would try to come to the witness area. She an hour after the team failed to
a heavy heroin user, but then said knows of only one inmate who determine how to resolve the asked to speak with Broom but properly attach an IV, an incident
at another time that he wasn't, was subjected to more than one problem encountered Tuesday was told that once the process that led to changes in Ohio's
prisons spokeswoman Julie execution. About an hour into Tuesday's started, it's protocol that attorneys execution process.
Walburn said Wednesday. A first attempt to execute Willie execution effort, a lawyer for can't have contact with their The state also had difficulty
Broom, 53, has been placed in a Francis in 1946 by electrocution Broom, Tim Sweeney, sent an e- client. finding the veins of inmate
cell in the infirmary at the in Louisiana did not work. He was mail and fax to Ohio Supreme "I want to know what Romell Christopher Newton, whose May
Southern Ohio Correctional returned to death row for nearly a Court Chief Justice Thomas J. wants," Shank told a prison 2007 execution was delayed
Facility in Lucasville where he is year while the U.S. Supreme Moyer asking him to end the official, who told her that he was nearly two hours.
on close watch similar to the Court considered whether a procedure. Sweeney said being cooperative. Since Clark, the state's
constant observation of death row second electrocution would be continuing the effort would deny "He's always cooperative," execution rules have allowed team
inmates in the three days before unconstitutional. Broom his constitutional rights responded Shank. "I want to know members to take as much time as
an execution. Dieter said he expects legal against cruel and unusual what he wants me to do." they need to find the best vein for
"It was the right place to keep challenges will mean Broom will punishment and violate Ohio law Collins said the difficulty in the the IVs that carry the three lethal
him," Walburn said. "The less we not face execution again in a that requires lethal injection to be process "absolutely, positively" chemicals.
can transport an offender, the week's time. quick and painless. does not shake his faith in the Ohio has executed 32 men since
better." "I think this is going to be The team had started working state's lethal injection procedure. Wilford Berry in 1999, an
Death row inmates are housed challenged, whether under our on Broom, in a holding cell 17 The problems prompted the execution slightly delayed also
in a Youngstown prison and standards of decency subjecting steps from the execution chamber, American Civil Liberties Union of because of problems finding a
executed in the death chamber at someone to multiple executions is at about 2 p.m., four hours after Ohio to ask state officials to vein.
Lucasville. There's no precedent cruel and unusual ... whether this his execution was originally immediately halt executions. ___
for housing an inmate whose is in effect experimenting on scheduled. That initial delay was "Ohio's execution system is Associated Press Writer Andrew
execution didn't work. human beings, whether or not due to a final federal appeals fundamentally flawed. If the state Welsh-Huggins in Columbus
Gov. Ted Strickland on Tuesday they're sure what works in Ohio," request. is going to take a person's life, contributed to this report.
issued a one-week reprieve to he said. After about an hour, Broom they must ensure that it is done as
Broom, who spent more than two Broom was sentenced to die for tried to help. He turned onto his humanely as possible," ACLU
hours awaiting execution as the rape and slaying of a 14-year- left side, slid rubber tubing up his Ohio counsel Carrie Davis said.
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SC man died hungry, solo in tent, baffling friends (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) bookworm Condon in 1990 at Boseman. $500-a-month rent for his one- after they left the museum, even
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:38:18 AM Limestone College in nearby His driver's license listed him at bedroom apartment. Two years though his phone was sometimes
Gaffney. "To be such a great 190 pounds, but Boseman said earlier, his truck had been towed disconnected. She said he never
ANDERSON, S.C. – David friend with him, I just don't know Condon weighed 140 when he away because he couldn't afford asked her for help.
Condon died broke and alone in a what happened. It's just like he died. That stunned Drennon, who repairs. Condon also never shared his
zipped-up tent on the banks of a took off. Maybe he was on an said his friend looked normal "I wished he would have come money woes with his best friend,
South Carolina lake, his stomach adventure." when he last saw him two months in and told me about the situation. who said the two were so close
empty and his lungs filling with The 39-year-old loved to hike earlier. I would have given him food, that Drennon would ask Condon
fluid. and camp and often sought Drennon called police Aug. 1 anything he needed to help him for advice on what to get his wife
His friends and family hadn't solitude. His friends are having after he hadn't heard from Condon out," said Waller, who is for Christmas. Instead, they talked
seen the bright but reclusive Civil trouble accepting that he might in nearly three weeks. Condon's organizing a food drive in his about good times and pie-in-the-
War buff in more than two have needed help and never brother and father came from memory. sky dreams, like building their
months. He lost his job as a asked. Massachusetts to search, but The help is needed in Anderson, own canoes, putting them into the
program coordinator at the local He ended up 10 miles down the found nothing. which once thrived with textile river just down the road and
museum last year, fell behind on road from his apartment in a tent Visits to local homeless shelters mills but was ranked this year by floating hundreds of miles to the
his rent and seemed to retreat on the shores of Lake Hartwell, and soup kitchens were fruitless. Forbes magazine as the 10th ocean.
even more into himself than usual. where it was easily visible just The missing person's report said worst small city in the U.S. to find "Dave was a pretty interesting
Sometime in early July he yards from cars roaring by on the Condon had been depressed in the a job. Unemployment in guy, very humble, a little shy
disappeared. On Labor Day state Highway 24 bridge. past and may have stopped taking Anderson County was 12.5 when you first met him," Drennon
weekend, a group of college kids His grandfather once had a anti-seizure medicine. His family percent in July, higher than the said "But once you got to know
vacationing at a condo complex a house there, and another friend did not return messages from The state average of 11.8 percent and him, he'd let it all hang out, full of
few hundred yards from his tent who worked with him at the Associated Press. above the national average of 9.7 wisdom a lot of fun."
found his body. The local coroner museum thinks it was a place that Condon and Drennon drifted percent for August. South Condon loved camping and
said he died of pneumonia, made brought back good memories. apart after college, when Condon Carolina hasn't fared much better hiking, the movie " Animal
worse by malnutrition. He was Three days after his body was spent several years in Mississippi, as of July, it had the nation's sixth House" and the songs of Jimmy
dehydrated and had lost 50 found, the only signs of him were but they became close again nine -highest unemployment rate. Buffet, said Brown, who doesn't
pounds in a few months. tent poles scattered around the years ago when he came back to Condon never found another job want the way her friend died to be
Now those who knew him are bank amid plastic gloves used by work at the college library. They after he left the museum, where the main thing people recall about
left to wonder why he never paramedics. Two camp dishes the met weekly to talk about movies he had worked for 2 1/2 years. He him.
reached out for help. His best size of dessert plates were nearby, and football especially Condon's told Drennon he was laid off, but "I don't want him to be
friend, Craig Drennon, saw no along with boxer shorts and socks. beloved New England Patriots. county records show he was fired remembered as the guy that died
sign Condon was having problems Condon was nude when the Holly Waller, property manager for unsatisfactory work in a tent," she said, "because that's
when the two got together nearly s t u d e n t s f o u n d h i m , l i k e l y for the apartment complex where production. The museum director not who he was."
every week to drink beers and because he was running a high Condon lived, saw him looking a refused to give more details. ___
play backgammon. fever. There was nothing in his bit more disheveled than usual a Dianne Brown, a friend and Katrina A. Goggins reported
"That's what's so baffling to me," stomach, and no sign of foul play few weeks before he disappeared. former co-worker who said she from Columbia.
said Drennon, an athlete who or drug use, said Anderson He told her he was fine, but was fired the same time as
became fast friends with the County Deputy Coroner Charlie Waller said he was behind on the Condon, stayed in touch with him

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Baucus Offers Health Plan, Trimming Cost to $856 Billion -

New York Times
(Most Popular - Google News) accounts for roughly one-sixth of obtain coverage or face a penalty has indicated he could accept. plans offered through employers.
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:14:26 AM the American economy. of up to $3,800 a year for Instead, Mr. Baucus seems to The proposal would also impose
The White House issued a low- families. have left the public option to the new fees or taxes on various
WASHINGTON Senator Max key statement characterizing the The bill would create new state alternate health care legislation sectors of the health insurance
Baucus, the Montana Democrat, Baucus plan as a positive step. insurance marketplaces, or developing in the House, where industry, including drug-makers,
on Wednesday unveiled his plan “Last week, the president laid out exchanges, where consumers more liberal Democrats strongly medical device makers and
to extend health coverage to more his plan to bring stability and could shop for insurance and support the idea and the House clinical laboratories. The proposal
t h a n 3 0 m i l l i o n u n i n s u r e d security to Americans who have compare plans. speaker, Nancy Pelosi, has called provides an exemption from some
Americans, providing a detailed insurance, and high-quality, All of the plans offered through it crucial to getting a bill adopted small businesses in these areas.
look at a legislative proposal that affordable coverage for those who the exchange would have to meet in her chamber. While Mr. Obama had strongly
meets many of the requirements don’t,” said Dan Pfeiffer, a White strict new requirements. Insurance The federal subsidies in the endorsed the broad outlines of the
that President Obama laid out in House spokesman. “The Senate companies could not bar coverage Baucus plan would be available to Baucus plan in his speech to a
his address to Congress last week. Finance Committee mark released based on pre-existing medical individuals and families who earn joint session of Congress last
The proposal is the result of by Chairman Baucus is another conditions, and could only too much to qualify for Medicaid, week, the proposal does not
more than a year of preparation by boost of momentum for the increase the cost of premiums but less than 300 percent of the exactly give Democrats a unifying
Mr. Baucus, the chairman of the president’s effort to reform the based on a few factors like age, federal poverty limit, or $66,150 proposal to rally around.
Finance Committee, and three health system.” tobacco use and whether a plan is for a family of four. Those The more liberal Democrats on
months of intense talks among a It would extend benefits to for an individual or a family. earning between 300 percent and the Senate Finance Committee
small group of Democrats and millions of people who are The Baucus plan calls for the 400 percent of poverty, up to have harshly criticized the plan,
R e p u b l i c a n s . T h e t h r e e uninsured by broadly expanding creation of private, nonprofit $88,200 for a family four, would and some like Senator John D.
Republicans in that group are so M e d i c a i d , t h e s t a t e - f e d e r a l health insurance cooperatives to be protected by the cap on health Rockefeller IV of West Virginia
far refusing to endorse the bill but insurance program for the poor, compete with private insurers, a insurance premium costs. have accused Mr. Baucus of
negotiations will continue in the and by offering subsidies to compromise aimed at bridging the Senators in both parties, sacrificing crucial Democratic
days ahead. individuals and families with gap between Democrats who want however, are questioning whether priorities in pursuit of Republican
In a news release accompanying modest incomes to help them buy a government-run insurance plan at the end of the day insurance votes.
his 223-page proposal, Mr. insurance. and Republicans who adamantly will be affordable to the people At the same time, the three
Baucus said that he had pared the The proposal would also set oppose that idea. who need it most. Republican negotiators who for
10-year cost of the bill to $856 limits on out-of-pocket health care As insurers, the cooperatives To pay for the overhaul, which months have worked closely with
billion, the lowest of the major expenses. It would cap at 13 could offer their coverage plans Mr. Baucus has said he will meet Mr. Baucus on the legislation,
health care proposals advancing in percent of household income not on the exchanges. Mr. Obama’s requirement that it Senator Michael B. Enzi of
Congress so far. Other plans had including cost-sharing such as co- And in a nod to the stiff not add to the federal debt, the Wyoming, Senator Charles E.
come in with price tags of $1 payments and deductibles the Republican opposition, the proposal would impose a new, 35 Grassley of Iowa, and Senator
trillion or more, and the high cost cost of insurance premiums for proposal does not include a percent excise tax on the most Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, have
was seen as an obstacle to public middle-class Americans who just trigger calling for the creation of a expensive group insurance plans, balked at signing on to the
support. miss qualifying for the new public plan if the legislation fails those costing more than $8,000 proposal so far, saying it still does
The legislation would vastly government subsidies. to make affordable health for individuals and $21,000 for not meet their demands.
reshape the $2.5 trillion-a-year Starting in 2013, it would insurance widely available, a families.
health care industry, which require nearly all Americans to compromise step that Mr. Obama In many cases, these would be
Barclays creates $12bn credit vehicle
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US consumer prices
Torah that survived Holocaust finds home in climb in August
Miami (AP) (Financial Times - US
homepage)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) museums and other groups as ghetto. Her mother died at the would have faded away long Submitted at 9/16/2009 6:57:54 AM

Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:43:53 AM symbols of survival of the faith Treblinka extermination camp. before Ahavat Olam gained roots
and a connection to all the Jews "My parents just walked out of in South Florida five years ago. Prices in the US rose slightly last
M I A M I – R a b b i D a n n y lost during the Holocaust. our apartment, which was Hitler's army would have killed month thanks to the climbing cost
Marmorstein uses the Yiddish "We've sent them all over the beautifully furnished with the men and women who bore its of petrol, but inflation remains
word "bashert" to describe how a world," said Evelyn Friedlander, antiques and Oriental rugs and we congregants. And the Torah never muted, easing fears that bold
Torah created in 19th-century the London-based curator of the just walked out and that was it," would have left SS hands. government stimulus measures
Eastern Europe survived the Nazi trust, "and they've come back to she said. "Since then, I've thought Marmorstein knew he wanted a will elevate the cost of living.
regime in near-perfect condition life." material possessions don't mean Holocaust-surviving Torah since In August the consumer price
and landed a world away at his The scroll came to Miami after anything." But a Torah, Lerner the congregation was born. He index rose by 0.4 per cent, leaving
tiny synagogue. Marmorstein placed the said, is different: It's not just the wanted to pay tribute to the Jews it 1.5 per cent lower than the same
"It means 'meant to be,'" he said, synagogue's name on a waiting central symbol of her faith, but who died and could think of no month a year ago, the labour
"and this was meant for us." list several years back. Like all something used in actual prayer better way than through the faith's department said on Wednesday.
The 131-year-old Torah is being the trust's scrolls, it remains the and worship. most prized possession. The result showed prices rising
celebrated at Congregation p r o p e r t y o f t h e L o n d o n Irving Whitman, 88, says he The 54-year-old rabbi shows a faster than economists expected
Ahavat Olam for the first time on organization, on indefinite loan to was a young Army private from black-and-white picture of 11 and faster than the previous
R o s h H a s h a n a h , o f f e r i n g a the temple. Congregations are New Jersey when he helped relatives, his great aunts and month when they were flat.
p o w e r f u l s y m b o l o n t h e chosen, in part, based on their liberate the Buchenwald uncles, grandfather and great-
endurance of the Jewish faith. desire to incorporate the scroll concentration camp. Those grandparents. Only two in the
The sheepskin scroll was into their worship. memories are seared in his mind. photo survived the Holocaust: his
believed to have been completed At Ahavat Olam, the Torah was And he sees the Torah as an father and an uncle who both were
in 1878, the date of the inscription welcomed last month with a extension of his wartime liberated from Auschwitz.
on its wooden handle. The handle procession from Marmorstein's experience. When asked why getting the
also bears the name of the couple house to the Methodist church "It's all part of the same story," Torah was so important, his eyes
w h o d o n a t e d i t t o t h e i r about a mile away where the 100- he said. "It's all part of the same well with tears. iTwinge tactile
c o n g r e g a t i o n i n M o r a v s k e member congregation has been historical moment." "It's in my blood, this whole
Budejovice, in what is now the renting space for worship. It was Susan Boyer, the U.S. director history is in my family," he said. keyboard for iPhone
Czech Republic. to be read for the first time and be of the trust, also heads the Czech "It's easy for us to sit and talk By Doug Aamoth
It was kept in a warehouse with the subject of the rabbi's sermon Torah Network in Sherman Oaks, about it. But when it was your (CrunchGear)
other Torahs and Judaica after when the congregants celebrate Calif., which has helped reunite own father, your own uncle, when Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:00:43 AM
Hitler came to power, coming the Jewish new year on Friday. Holocaust survivors with scrolls your grandfather was killed.
under the Nazis' control. After the Already, its history has from their hometowns. That's why." The $30 iTwinge keyboard may
Nazis fell, the cache from the resonated with members. When she thinks of the ___ be able to grab some brand new
Central Jewish Museum in Prague Bianca Lerner, 80, survived the surviving Torahs, she wonders Memorial Scrolls Trust: iPhone owners who have a bit of
was controlled by communists Holocaust in part by being taken what happened to the people from http://www.czechmemorialscrollst trouble adjusting to the on-screen
who eventually sold the scroll and in by the parents of a Christian its synagogue, the people who rust.org/ keyboard, but most people will
1 , 5 6 3 o t h e r s t o a L o n d o n friend and then hiding in a prayed with it. It is a sad story, Ahavat Olam synagogue: tell you that you get used to it in
synagogue in 1963. Catholic orphanage. She she admits, but she says it is http://ahavatolam.org/ about a week. Although with a
That repository, the Memorial remembers being forced with her buffered by hope, because the potential customer base of
Scrolls Trust, has given the parents from their home. Her faith has lived on. however many bajillion iPhone
T o r a h s t o c o n g r e g a t i o n s , father was killed in a Polish If the Nazis had prevailed, Jews owners there are out there, Mobile
US stocks cling to rising commodity prices Mechatronics (the company
behind the iTwinge) probably has
(Financial Times - US US stocks clung on to rising data. Analysts had been expecting the a leg up by being first-to-market
homepage) commodity prices in choppy The consumer price index rose index to gain 0.3 per cent last with this thing.
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:39:12 AM trading early on Wednesday as by 0.4 per cent in August, after month.
investors shrugged off inflation showing no change in July.
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Yale tech's fiancee writes on MySpace: Don't
judge - The Associated Press
(Most Popular - Google News)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:11:18 AM
(AP) – 57 minutes ago
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The
fiancee of a Yale University
animal research technician says
on her MySpace page that she's
not perfect, but cautioned people
not to judge her.
"Who are you to judge the life I
live? I know I'm not perfect and I
don't live to be, but before you
start pointing fingers make sure
your hands are clean!!" writes
Jennifer Hromadka, the 23-year-
old woman engaged to Raymond
Clark III.
Clark was released from police
custody on Wednesday after he
was questioned in the killing of
graduate student Annie Le. He has
not been charged, but is called a
"person of interest."
The date of the MySpace
posting is unclear. The page has
since been taken down.
Clark and Hromadka were both
animal research technicians in the
lab where Le worked. Her body
was found stuffed behind a wall in
the laboratory Sunday.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS
UPDATE. Check back soon for
further information. AP's earlier
story is below.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) —
Police released a Yale University
animal research technician on
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By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:50:59 AM
Leave it to our sex expert Debby
Herbenick to find artifacts like
Wednesday after collecting DNA
samples and questioning him in
the killing of a graduate student
who worked in the same lab.
Raymond Clark III was taken
into custody Tuesday night at his
apartment in Middletown, Conn.,
and was released into the custody
of his attorney about 3 a.m.
Wednesday, New Haven police
said.
Police left the apartment
Wednesday morning after
searching the scene for hours
overnight looking for evidence in
the killing of Annie Le.
Clark has been described as a
person of interest, not a suspect,
in Le's death. Her body was found
stuffed behind a wall in the
laboratory Sunday, which was to
have been her wedding day.
Overnight, state police officers
sorted through items on a card
table set up outside the ground-
floor apartment's door.
A tow truck took away a red
Ford Mustang neighbors say was
used by Clark.
A resident of the complex, Rick
Tarallo said he, his wife and 6-
month-old daughter live in a unit
next to Clark and his fiancee,
Jennifer Hromadka.
He said the couple was "really
quiet" and lived with an older
man, whom he speculated was
one of their fathers.
"He seemed like a good guy,"
this giant penis chandelier,
apparently made by a Dutch
company called Rock and Royal.
Their pirate skull and crossbones
chandelier is quite good too.
Tarallo said of Clark. "They didn't
strike me as someone who would
try to kill somebody."
Police started tearing down the
yellow crime scene tape as
daylight broke. At that point there
had been no sign of Clark's return
to his apartment, and neighbors
said they hadn't seen Hromadka in
the area for days.
Loraine Falcon, 32, a nurse aid
who lives in Clark's building, said
the police activity kept her and
her three kids — ages 15, 10 and
8 — up much of the night and left
her fearful for their safety.
"I just want to know if he did it,"
Falcon said.
Clark's apartment appeared
empty Wednesday morning after
police left. No one answered the
door. The brown flowered
doormat remained.
During the search, one officer
commented that the apartment
smelled like animals. Multiple
neighbors said they saw Clark and
Hromadka load luggage, cats and
two rodents into a vehicle on
Saturday.
Falcon said she also saw Clark
loading a suitcase and a duffle bag
into a car Sunday at about 5 p.m.
Investigators are hoping to
figure out within days whether
Clark can be ruled out as the
killer.
New Haven Police Chief James
Lewis said police were hoping to
As much as I'm sure that some
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compare DNA taken from Clark's
hair, fingernails and saliva to
more than 150 pieces of evidence
collected from the crime scene.
That evidence may also be
compared at a state lab with DNA
samples given voluntarily from
other people with access to the
crime scene.
"We're going to narrow this
down," Lewis said. "We're going
to do this as quickly as we can."
Police have collected more than
700 hours of videotape and sifted
through computer records
documenting who entered what
parts of the research building
where Le was found dead.
Le worked for a Yale laboratory
that conducted experiments on
mice, and investigators found her
body stuffed in the basement wall
of a facility that housed research
animals.
On Tuesday, state prosecutors
blocked the release of Le's
autopsy results, reasoning that
they could hinder their
investigation. The Connecticut
medical examiner had already
called the death a homicide but
hadn't reported the manner of Le's
death.
Copyright © 2009 The
Associated Press. All rights
reserved.
people will find penises quite
decorative, I think I'll definitely
pick the second one. [ Rock and
Royal via Mysexprofessor]
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The New iPod Touch
Really Is About 50%
Faster...OK, Maybe a
Bit Less [Benchmarks]
By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:40:00 AM
Apple says their latest 32/64GB
iPod touch is 50% faster than the
old iPod touch. Macworld tested
the claim, and they found the new
touch is certainly close to that
benchmark, even if a bit short in
some testing.
Booting the old touch took 31
seconds. The new touch takes 19.
Loading a web page dropped from
34 seconds to 15. And most
games teetered between loading
33% and 50% faster.
Despite Apple not reaching that
50% benchmark across the board,
Macworld is still impressed
because the "the new iPod touch
feels much faster at any task you
throw at it: applications launch
(and quit) faster, Web pages load
more quickly, processor-intensive
games and programs perform
better-you name it."
And the new touch should be
faster. TUAW confirmed that this
latest ipod to have a very similar
ARM Cortex A8 processor as the
quick iPhone 3GS, which is a
surprise to absolutely no one. [
Macworld and TUAW via The
iPhone blog]
12 Top News/ Gadgets/
Jimmy Carter: Racism behind Joe Wilson outburst
- Christian Science Monitor
(Most Popular - Google News)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:35:28 AM
Former President JimmyCarter,
in an interview with NBC News,
said that racial politics played a
role in Republican South Carolina
Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst last
week during US President Barack
Obama's speech to Congress and
in certain parts of the opposition
faced by the president since
taking office.(NEWSCOM)
Photos ( 1 of 1) By Jimmy Orr|
09.16.09
If you thought the buzz behind
Congressman Joe Wilson’s “You
lie” outburst last week was over,
think again.
Think baseball bat meets
hornet’s nest.
Nothing stirs up things more
than a charge of racism. You put a
high-profile figure behind the
charge – like former President
Jimmy Carter – and you’ve got
front page news again.
And that’s exactly what Carter
is saying: Wilson’s two-word bit
of emotionalism last week?
Racism.
“I think an overwhelming
portion of the intensely
demonstrated animosity toward
President Barack Obama is based
on the fact that he is a black man,
that he’s African American,”
iTwinge Is the Stupidest iPhone Accessory of All Time, Ever [IPhone]
By matt buchanan (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:30:44 AM
iTwinge is a dumb, ugly holster
that attaches to your iPhone so
you can tap out emails using a
shitty "real" keyboard instead of
Carter told NBC yesterday (see
video below).
“I live in the South, and I’ve
seen the South come a long way
and I’ve seen the rest of the
country that shared the South’s
attitude toward minority groups at
that time … and I think it’s
bubbled up to the surface,” Carter
said, “because of a belief among
many white people, not just in the
South but around the country, that
African-Americans are not
qualified to lead this great
country.”
Maureen Dowd, incidentally,
lobbed a similar charge over the
weekend. Of course, not
everyone’s buying it. Former
House Speaker Newt Gingrich,
who’s smashed a few hornets’
nests of his own, says enough
with the race card.
“I think it’s very destructive for
America to suggest that we can’t
criticize a president without it
being a racial act,” Gingrich told
FOX News this morning.
Wilson’s son Alan, who is
running for Attorney General in
South Carolina, also disputed the
charge. “There is not a racist bone
in my dad’s body,” Wilson said.
“It’s unfortunate people make
that jump. People can disagree —
and appropriately disagree — on
issues of substance, but when they
good touch keyboard.
I mean, if you're going to pay
$30 to horribly disfigure your
iPhone, it should at least be for a
good keyboard. Not to mention
the implementation—it draws
power from the phone, suggesting
make the jump to race it’s
absolutely ludicrous. My brothers
and I were raised by our parents
to respect everyone regardless of
background or race,” he added.
Maybe there’s consensus in the
blogosphere? HA! Not so much…
The National Review’s Peter
Kirsanow lathers on the sarcasm
in his blog this morning:
Fresh from having his latest
book endorsed by renowned civil-
rights leader Osama Bin Laden,
former president Jimmy Carter
sagely pronounces that Rep. Joe
Wilson’s “You lie!” outburst was
based on racism. It’s this type of
extraordinary, almost telepathic
insight that made Mr. Carter one
of the most successful presidents
in history.
Our friend Yael Abouhalkah,
meanwhile, over at the Kansas
City Star sounds a bit like Jack
Nicholson in “A Few Good Men”
telling those who dispute Carter’s
claim that they can’t handle the
truth:
He’s just stating the facts,
whether Americans want to hear
them or not. Carter’s complaints
aren’t aimed at all Americans, just
at those who don’t think a black
person deserves to be president.
And there are millions in this
country. So as the conservative
base and others get whipped into a
it's just got nubs inside that
touches the screen where you
frenzy over Carter’s remarks, they
need to cool down.
Will President Obama weigh in
on this? He’s got one meeting this
afternoon where reporters might
be able to ask him about it. We’ll
keep you posted…
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New iPod touch
gets a speed test,
zips right on by
By Laura June (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 11:06:00 AM
The new generation of the iPod
touch, we've been told, is roughly
50 percent faster than the previous
iteration. Well, the fine folks over
at the iPhone Blog have done a bit
of information collecting on just
that topic -- to see if Apple's latest
is actually that much faster. Both
Macworld and TUAW did testing
which showed a reduction in boot
times from 31 to 19 seconds, web
page loading (using the New York
Times) went from 34 to 15
seconds, while app launching saw
time reductions across the board.
So -- in essence -- yes, the newest
iPod touch is about 50 percent
faster than the previous model in
terms of performance. Hit the read
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Lab tech released from custody in Yale slaying

(AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) have been her wedding day. try to kill somebody." That evidence may also be
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:48:46 AM Clark and and his fiancee, Police started tearing down the compared at a state lab with DNA
Jennifer Hromadka were both yellow crime scene tape as samples given voluntarily from
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Police animal research technicians in the daylight broke. At that point there other people with access to the Blaze Nintendo DSi
released a Yale University animal lab where Le worked. had been no sign of Clark's return crime scene. game selector improves
research technician on Hromadka wrote on her to his apartment, and neighbors "We're going to narrow this cart management, uglies
Wednesday after collecting DNA MySpace page that she's not said they hadn't seen Hromadka in down," Lewis said. "We're going
samples and questioning him in perfect, but cautioned people not the area for days. to do this as quickly as we can." up your handheld
the killing of a graduate student to judge her. Loraine Falcon, 32, a nurse aid Police have collected more than By Darren Murph (Engadget)
who worked in the same lab. "Who are you to judge the life I who lives in Clark's building, said 700 hours of videotape and sifted Submitted at 9/16/2009 12:52:00 PM
Raymond Clark III was taken live? I know I'm not perfect and I the police activity kept her and through computer records
into custody Tuesday night at his don't live to be, but before you her three kids ages 15, 10 and 8 documenting who entered what Have a habit of losing those DSi
apartment in Middletown, Conn., start pointing fingers make sure up much of the night and left her parts of the research building carts on the bus, in between the
and was released into the custody your hands are clean!!" the 23- fearful for their safety. where Le was found dead. couch cushions or in other darker,
of his attorney early Wednesday, year-old wrote. "I just want to know if he did it," Le worked for a Yale laboratory more taboo locales? Fret not, as
New Haven police said. The date of the MySpace Falcon said. that conducted experiments on the carefree crew over at Blaze
Investigators are hoping to posting is unclear. The page has Clark's apartment appeared mice, and investigators found her has your best interests in mind.
figure out within days whether since been taken down. empty Wednesday morning after body stuffed in the basement wall Hailed as the first 3-in-1 game
Clark can be ruled out as the Overnight, state police officers police left. No one answered the of a facility that housed research selector for Nintendo's DSi, this
killer. sorted through items on a card door. The brown flowered animals. mildly unsightly attachment
C l a r k ' s a t t o r n e y , D a v i d table set up outside Clark's ground doormat remained. In addition to Clark and simply plugs into your game port
Dworski, of Fairfield, said -floor apartment's door. During the search, one officer Hromadka, Clark's sister and and then houses a trio of your
Wednesday his client is A tow truck took away a red commented that the apartment brother-in-law were also favorite titles. Once you've got it
" c o m m i t t e d t o p r o c e e d i n g Ford Mustang neighbors say was smelled like animals. Multiple technicians at Yale's Animal mounted, just flip the switch to
a p p r o p r i a t e l y w i t h t h e used by Clark. neighbors said they saw Clark and Resources Center, according to change the title, though we'd
authorities." He would not A resident of the complex, Rick Hromadka load luggage, cats and Yale records. suggest powering your DSi down
comment further. Tarallo said he, his wife and 6- two rodents into a vehicle on On Tuesday, state prosecutors before doing so. It's available now
Police left the apartment month-old daughter live in a unit Saturday. blocked the release of Le's to solve a problem you probably
W e d n e s d a y m o r n i n g a f t e r next to Clark and his fiancee, Falcon said she also saw Clark autopsy results, reasoning that only think you have for £14.99
searching the scene for hours Jennifer Hromadka. loading a suitcase and a duffel bag they could hinder their ($24).
overnight looking for evidence in He said the couple was "really into a car Sunday at about 5 p.m. investigation. The Connecticut Filed under: Gaming,
the killing of Annie Le. quiet" and lived with an older New Haven Police Chief James medical examiner had already Handhelds
Clark has been described as a man, whom he speculated was Lewis said police were hoping to called the death a homicide but Blaze Nintendo DSi game
person of interest, not a suspect, one of their fathers. compare DNA taken from Clark's hadn't reported the manner of Le's selector improves cart
in Le's death. Her body was found "He seemed like a good guy," hair, fingernails and saliva to death. management, uglies up your
stuffed behind a wall in the Tarallo said of Clark. "They didn't more than 150 pieces of evidence handheld originally appeared on
laboratory Sunday, which was to strike me as someone who would collected from the crime scene. Engadget on Wed, 16 Sep 2009
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Capuano entering race to succeed Kennedy in
Senate (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:16:20 AM
BOSTON – U.S. Rep. Michael
Capuano said Wednesday he will
run for the late Edward M.
Kennedy's Senate seat, arguing he
is the best candidate to continue
his fellow Democrat's liberal
philosophical tradition and better
tested in the national political
arena than leading rival Martha
Coakley.
The blunt, plainspoken former
mayor of Somerville said he plans
to formally declare his candidacy
at an event on Friday and then
pursue a vigorous campaign
before the Dec. 8 primary. The
special election to succeed
Kennedy, who died Aug. 25 of
brain cancer, will be on Jan. 19.
"When it comes to the issues we
deal with here in Washington, I
have no idea where she stands on
the war in Iraq," Capuano said of
Coakley, the state's attorney
general and the first Democrat to
declare her candidacy for
Kennedy's seat.
"She says she's for health care,
but I don't know what that means.
We've been dealing with those
issues for years. And is there any
history of her being able to work
with a large body of legislators?
CrunchDeals: Sirius XM employee discount this week, up to 50 percent off radios
By Nicholas Deleon
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:00:20 AM for example, you can get the
This is one of the better Sirius which is down from $230.
XM deals I’ve ever come across.
This week only you can get the the satellite radio company, mind
No, there is a history of her being
able to manage an office, but this
is different."
The six-term congressman
added: "Why leave it to a
question, when there's somebody
in the race who has proven they
can do it over a long period of
time?"
A Coakley spokeswoman did
not immediately respond to a
request for comment.
Capuano, 57, combines old-line
Democratic values like party
loyalty with the more liberal
leanings of Cambridge and
Harvard Square, which help
anchor his suburban Boston
district.
He has blue-collar roots in
Somerville's wards but an Ivy
League pedigree after attending
Dartmouth College.
His seat is steeped in history.
Boston's roguish ex-mayor James
Michael Curley, President John F.
Kennedy, former House Speaker
Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill and
former Rep. Joseph Kennedy II
once held it.
Capuano succeeded Kennedy in
1999.
Capuano has made his mark in
Congress serving on the House
Financial Services and
Transportation committees. He's
same employee discount that, yes,
employees receive. That means,
XMP3 portable radio for $115,
The deal is for both halves of you: the Stiletto 2 is $150 this
also been active fighting liberal
causes such as the turmoil in
Sudan. House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi tapped him to head a
congressional task force on ethics,
and to lead the transition when
Democrats regained control of the
House in 2006.
During the interview, Capuano
said he wanted to move from the
lower to upper chamber of
Congress because it promised
even more influence. He often
laments he made more decisions
in a morning as mayor than he
does in a year as a member of
Congress.
"I know being 1 out of 100, you
can have more impact more
quickly than being 1 out of 435,"
he said. "I got involved in politics
originally to make the world a
better place. When I was mayor, it
was about making Somerville
safer. ... When I came to
Congress, it was about housing,
health care, war and peace, civil
liberties. In the Senate, the issues
will be same but the interference
will be less."
He said he would have used
such added clout to more
effectively push the Obama
administration for a federal
stimulus bill more focused on job
creation, while fighting the Bush
administration over the Patriot
Act.
As he was with Coakley,
Capuano was laudatory about the
personal attributes of other
potential rivals, even as he
dissected them.
Of Boston Celtics co-owner
Stephen Pagliuca, who is
considering running for the
Democratic nomination, he said:
"I really, really, really think that it
is incomprehensible to me that the
Massachusetts Democratic party
would nominate someone who
supported Mitt Romney against
Ted Kennedy(in 1994). He's
entitled to do that, but I would be
shocked."
And he joked that he could be
more successful, if less flattering,
than state Sen. Scott Brown. The
Republican candidate and former
model woke up Wednesday to
find a 1980s seminude photo of
himself on the Boston Herald's
gossip page.
"He probably looks better in
underwear than me nor do I
expect to find out," Capuano said.
___
Associated Press Writer Andrew
Miga contributed to this report.
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to admit. Granted, I listen
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OS X to listen, since the Sirius
XM Web site is 100 percent
Internet News Record
Buffalo mayor beats the
trousers off his opponent
by promising new flat
screen TVs to seniors
By Nicholas Deleon
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:30:47 AM
What’s the best way to ensure
that you win the Buffalo mayoral
primary? Why, by promising an
entire voting bloc brand new flat
screen TVs! Byron W. Brown just
won the Democratic primary (he’s
unopposed in November, so this
victory means he just won the
mayorship), and you can see him
here (around the 50 second mark)
promising to help seniors out by
installing a new TV.
Why is this on CrunchGear?
Because 1) it’s a fun, light-hearted
story and 2) who doesn’t want a
new TV every now and then?
No word on what brand or size
Mayor Brown promised, nor if he
actually plans to deliver said TV
to the senior center. Here’s
hoping.
via Wonkette
garbage, so the stream never
connected in either Safari or
Firefox) so it’s not really for me,
but maybe you want to grab an
early Christmas gift?
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Carter says Obama row is 'racist'
(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 2:19:53 AM
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Jimmy Carter: "There is an
inherent feeling among many in
this country that an African-
American should not be
president"
Former US President Jimmy
Carter says much of the vitriol
against President Barack Obama's
health reforms and spending plans
is "based on racism".
Mr Carter told a public meeting
there was "an inherent feeling
among many in this country that
an African-American should not
be president".
Republican lawmaker Joe
Wilson was rebuked on Tuesday
in a House vote.
He shouted "You lie!" while Mr
Obama was delivering an address
on healthcare to Congress last
Wednesday.
The House resolution of
disapproval described it as "a
breach of decorum".
Regarding Joe Wilson, over the
weekend we saw people pointing
out that he was once a junior aide
to a segregationalist politician -
and that he was one of the few
politicians to vote for the
Confederate flag to fly over the
state congress in his home state.
Mr Wilson hasn't answered
these allegations.
But conservatives are furious.
They think their opponents are
Arizona Dumping Redflex Cameras... But Giving Redflex An Award For Innovation?
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 3:35:59 AM
Arizona has become ground zero
playing the race card. They regard
it as a cheap shot, because in
some ways racism is the worst
insult that you can hurl at
someone in America.
But Mr Wilson's eldest son,
Alan, has denied racism was a
factor in his father's outburst.
Some conservatives have
accused the president's supporters
of playing the race card.
'Abominable'
Angry town hall meetings and a
recent taxpayers' demonstration in
Washington have been vitriolic
towards the president, reports the
BBC's North America editor
Mark Mardell.
with the backlash against redlight
cameras, with plans to get rid of
them across the state. And yet...
Dave Records alerts us to the
Many have not just protested
against the president's policies but
have accused him of tyranny, and
have promised to "reclaim
America".
"Those kind of things are not
just casual outcomes of a sincere
debate on whether we should have
a national programme on
healthcare," Mr Carter said at a
public meeting at his Carter
Center in Atlanta held prior to the
Congress vote on Tuesday.
"It's deeper than that."
Responding to a question
specifically on Mr Wilson's
outburst, he said Mr Obama was
the head of state as well as the
news that the annual "Governor's
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from more serious issues.
"My goodness, we could be
doing this every day of the week,"
said Republican Minority Leader
John Boehner.
But Democratic Majority
Leader Steny Hoyer insisted that
Mr Wilson's outburst could not be
ignored.
"At issue is whether we are able
to proceed with a degree of
civility and decorum that our rules
and our democracy contemplate
and require," he said.
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The moment Republican
lawmaker Joe Wilson heckled
President Obama
Mr Wilson himself maintained
that his personal apology to Mr
Obama should have been enough
to resolve the matter.
Mr Obama "graciously accepted
my apology and the issue is over",
head of government and - like
heads of state elsewhere - he he said.
should be "treated with respect". Mr Wilson's remark came in
response to a passage of Mr
It was a "dastardly thing to do",
he said. Obama's speech in which he
His comments were rejected by asserted that his reforms "would
Joe Wilson's son, Alan, an Iraq not apply to those who are here
veteran who is running for state illegally".
attorney general in Georgia. Under the terms of Mr Obama's
"There is not a racist bone in my reform package, undocumented
dad's body," he said. immigrants would not be able to
claim healthcare subsidies, but
Apology
In Tuesday's vote, lawmakers they also would not be explicitly
voted 240-179 in favour of the barred from buying private
resolution to censure Mr Wilson. insurance through the new health
The move was backed by most insurance exchanges.
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EXCLUSIVE: Jon Gets Rid Of His Yale murder case detainee

Dogs, Blames Kate - Radar Online freed
(BBC News | Americas | World the investigation", he added.
(Most Popular - Google News) Kate for just about everything." comment to People.com about the Edition) New Haven Police Chief James
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:13:17 AM Jon gets a homecoming from his dogs. "Those kids beat them up, Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:58:12 AM Lewis said the DNA samples
kids and dogs climb on them, pull their tails, bite voluntarily given by Mr Clark
Okay animal lovers, divorcing a Jon spends time with his canine at them, drag them around and A US man detained by police would be compared with more
spouse is one thing, but getting rid friends everything you can imagine not to over the discovery of a woman's than 150 pieces of evidence taken
of your dogs is quite another. Jon Jon has given several interview do to an animal, they've done." body at Yale University has been from the scene.
Gosselin is sending his two recently and been brutal on Kate, The Humane Society of Berks released without charge after "We're going to narrow this
German Shepherd's back to the saying he "despises" her and love County, Pa., where the Gosselins providing DNA samples. down," Mr Lewis told the AP
breeder as part of the fallout of his girlfriend Hailey Glassman more live, received numerous Raymond Clark, a 24-year-old news agency, "We're going to do
divorce from Kate. than he ever loved his wife. complaints about the family and Y a l e e m p l o y e e , h a s b e e n this as quickly as we can."
Click here to see Jon spending More on Kate’s relationship animal cruelty, prompting Jon to described by police as a person of Ms Le, 24, was reported missing
his last minutes with his German with her bodyguard release a statement to teh HSBC. interest, not a suspect. last week. She had been due to
Shepherds and the dogs being He's also in the middle of "I would like to clarify a recent He was taken into custody after marry on the day her body was
taken away another scandal, with his kids' statement I made regarding my police obtained a warrant to discovered.
Kate gets a brand new look babysitter, Stephanie Santoro now family's two German Shepherd search his house in Middleton, Police say it was a targeted
While the eight Gosselin coming forward and confirming puppies, Shoka and Nala. The Connecticut. killing and other students are not
children are staying in the family's she had a sexual relationship with statement - if taken literally and The state's chief medical in danger.
Wernersville, PA home, their Jon - a fact first reported by out of context - could be examiner said the death of Annie Ms Le's fiance is not a suspect
parents are splitting time there, RadarOnline.com. misinterpreted and I'd like to set Le, a student at the university, and has helped police with the
trying to avoid disrupting the kids' But Jon's attempts to blame the record straight. We was homicide. investigation.
lives but also not wanting to be Kate for getting rid of the dog understand the esponsibilities of The precise cause of death has Print Sponsor
around each other. simply isn't fair, one source told being good dog owners. been withheld "to help facilitate
Kate has a meltdown RadarOnline.com. The dogs have Whenever my kids are with Shoka
Now, Shoka and Nala, the always been Jon's and while Kate
family dogs are being discarded was willing to do whatever she
and Nala, everyone is carefully
supervised to ensure that no one -
Jurors Required To Sign
and Jon has been telling pals it's had to she simply can't handle
Kate's fault because she won't them and Jon didn't make any
dog or child - is injured. Shoka
and Nala are loyal companions
Promises Not To Google Details
take care of them when he's not at other arrangements for them to be
the house. taken care of. He now lives in an
who we consider members of our
family. We would never do Of Case
Click here to see jon spending apartment in New York City and anything to hurt them, and treat By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) spoken warning. My guess is that
his last minutes with his German never considered getting a place them with the respect and love Submitted at 9/16/2009 1:01:00 AM many will ignore the signed
Shepherds and the dogs being where he could keep his dogs, the that they deserve." promise as well -- in fact, as some
taken away source told us. • My Big Fat Comic Wedding: There have been plenty of stories behavioral research has shown,
Jon blasts his estranged wife "Kate's being gracious about the Archie Finally Makes His Choice concerning judges warning jurors just telling them not to do it, may
"Jon blames Kate for having to situation, she's not going to blame • And The New Judge On not to research any additional make them even more likely to do
give up the dogs," a source close Jon," said the source. SYTYCD Is ... items about a case online, but JJ so. At some point, the courts are
to the situation told Jon wants to end war with Kate points us to what is apparently a going to have to realize that you
RadarOnline.com exclusively. Earlier in the summer Jon first (at least in California). A simply can't prevent people from
"Of course these days, Jon blames caused an uproar when he made judge has ordered the jury to sign looking up more info, and will
Microsoft Sets Up Zune HD for Failure — Again a document that they will not use have to come up with ways to
the internet to research the case, adapt.
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Stories) cannot easily code for. Observers if they're caught doing so. This Story
Submitted at 9/15/2009 4:26:00 PM in the mobile industry agree this Apparently, the reasoning is that
strategy is setting Microsoft up most jurors tend to ignore the
Microsoft launches the Zune HD for failure.
with a "closed store" -- an app
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US senator tables healthcare bill DC sniper scheduled to

(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:45:08 AM
cover people without employer-
sponsored coverage.
Like other draft bills produced
patients, for health care providers
and for our economy."
Rejected
be executed in
by various House committees and
US Senator Max Baucus, a key the Senate health committee, Mr
figure in the drive to reform the Baucus's bill would mandate all
So far, however, his bill has not
received any Republican backers.
And one of the leading
November
American healthcare system, has Americans to get insurance, and Democrats on the committee, (World news and comment governor, or clemency.
published his version of a bill. would provide subsidies to help Senator Jay Rockefeller, has from the Guardian | Muhammad was sentenced to
The Senate Finance Committee, less well-off Americans pay for rejected the plan, because it does guardian.co.uk) death for the slaying of Dean
which Mr Baucus chairs, will now their coverage. not include a public option. Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:01:31 AM Meyers, one of 10 people shot to
consider his draft and suggest But while the House committees If the Finance Committee does death during a 2002 rampage that
amendments. proposed to pay for the increased eventually agree on a bill, the full John Allen Muhammad, terrorised the Washington area.
If the committee approves a bill, coverage by placing a surtax on senate will attempt to come up mastermind of the 2002 attacks Muhammad and teenage
it will go before the full Senate. families earning over $350,000 a with a bill, based on the versions that killed 10 people, is scheduled accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo
Passing a healthcare reform bill year, Mr Baucus would cover the produced by the Finance to be executed on 10 November killed six people in Alabama and
is President Obama's top priority costs of his proposals by levying Committee and the Health A Virginia judge today set 10 Louisiana before moving on to
for 2009, but so far lawmakers new fees on more generous Committee. November as the execution date Maryland, DC and Virginia,
have been unable to agree on a private insurance schemes. Simultaneously, the House of for John Allen Muhammad, where Meyers was shot at a
bill. Mr Baucus had hoped to attract Representatives will attempt to mastermind of the 2002 sniper Manassas, Virginia petrol station.
Moderate Republican support for his plan, come up with its own draft of a attacks in the Washington DC, Six others were wounded.
The House of Representatives is which is more moderate than the bill. area that left 10 dead. Malvo, who was born in
expected to pass a bill which will b i l l s p r o p o s e d b y o t h e r Once both chambers have The attorney general's office last Jamaica, is serving life in prison
allow Americans who do not have c o m m i t t e e s . approved bills, a conference week requested that the execution for the shooting spree. Last month
employer-provided health "This is a unique moment in committee, made up of lawmakers be on 9 November, but Prince a federal appeals court rejected
insurance to choose a publicly-run history where we can finally reach from both houses, will convene to William county circuit Judge Muhammad's argument that
insurance scheme. an objective so many of us have reconcile the two versions. Mary Grace O'Brien chose a day prosecutors withheld critical
But Mr Baucus's bill will not sought for so long," said Mr If both chambers then vote in later. The date, which falls on a evidence and that Muhammad
o f f e r t h e s o - c a l l e d " p u b l i c Baucus. favour of the reconciled version, it Tuesday, was picked so courts never should have been allowed
option". "The Finance Committee has will be sent to President Obama would be open the day before in to act as his own attorney for a
Instead, he would create not-for- carefully worked through the for his approval, and become law. case they have to take up last- portion of his trial because he was
profit co-ops, which would details of health care reform to Print Sponsor minute appeals, said Jonathan too mentally impaired.
compete with private insurers to ensure this package works for Sheldon, Muhammad's attorney. • United States
The date was picked during an • Gun crime
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By John C Abell (Wired Top Facebook is making enough on Tuesday, proving the Internet’s with the judge, the attorney News & Media Limited 2009 |
Stories) money to cover its costs and now newest star industry can be a general's office and Sheldon. Use of this content is subject to
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Can't Buy 'Em? Sue 'Em For Patent Infringement!

By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 6:09:41 AM
JohnForDummies alerts us to
Broadcom's latest patent
infringement suit, this time
against Emulex. Broadcom is
quite aggressive on the patent patent book at them. Patent
front, so at first this didn't seem lawsuits as revenge? Just like
like a big deal. But, this time it's Thomas Jefferson intended...
more interesting, because Permalink| Comments| Email
Broadcom just spent about a year This Story
trying to do a hostile takeover of this seems like a sour grapes agree to be taken over, so
Emulex, which failed. Basically, patent lawsuit. Emulex wouldn't Broadcom decided to throw the
18 World/
How UK oil company Trafigura tried to cover up African
pollution disaster
By David Leigh (World news
and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:54:17 AM
• Trafigura offers payout to
31,000 victims of toxic dumping
• Secret email trail exposes truth
behind £100m legal battle
• Read the emails here
The British oil trader Trafigura
has offered to pay out in a historic
damages claim from 31,000
Africans injured by the dumping
of toxic waste in one of the worst
pollution disasters in recent
history, the Guardian can reveal.
The compensation deal for the
victims of toxic oil waste
dumping in west Africa – likely to
be confirmed imminently – means
the full extent of attempts to cover
up what really happened can be
spelled out for the first time.
The truth is laid bare in
Trafigura's hitherto secret
documents, published by the
Guardian today.
The company's internal emails
show the true nature of the toxic
waste dumped around Abidjan,
the capital of Ivory Coast.
Trafigura had publicly claimed
the waste was harmless.
The exposure of the company
files has contributed to Trafigura's
climbdown after three years of
bitterly contested legal battles.
We are publishing them online
today.
Martyn Day is a senior partner
at the British law firm Leigh Day,
which has brought one of the
biggest group actions in legal
history, seeking damages of
£100m. He said today in Abidjan,
where he has been negotiating the
settlement: "The claimants are
very pleased."
He was in the process of putting
a global deal to the victims, he
said. "The sum being discussed is
based on the range of short-term
symptoms claimed by our
clients."
Thousands of west Africans
besieged local hospitals, and a
number died, in 2006 after the
dumping of hundreds of tons of
highly toxic oil waste around
Abidjan.
Official local autopsy reports on
12 alleged victims showed fatal
levels of the poisonous gas
hydrogen sulphide, one of the
waste's lethal byproducts.
The traders have been publicly
insisting for three years that their
waste was routine and harmless.
They claim it was "absolutely not
dangerous".
They have until now denied the
compensation claims, and their
lawyers repeatedly threatened
anyone worldwide who sought to
contradict their version. They
launched a libel case against BBC
Newsnight, forced a "correction"
from the Times, demanded the
Guardian deleted articles, and
yesterday tried to gag journalists
in the Netherlands and Norway
with legal threats.
But dozens of damning internal
Trafigura emails have now come
to light. They reveal how London-
based company employers were
told in advance that their planned
chemical operation, a cheap and
dirty process called "caustic
washing", generated such
dangerous wastes it was widely
outlawed.
Claude Dauphin, the managing
director, was told by the London
manager, Naeem Ahmed, on 28
December 2005: "Caustic washes
are banned by most countries due
to the hazardous nature of the
waste (mercaptans, phenols,
smell) … there are not many
facilities remaining in the market.
There is a company in Rotterdam
that burns such waste in a high
stack chimney and charges are
approximately $200/kg."
An email from Ahmed the
previous day to the head of
gasoline trading spelled out:
"US/Singapore and European
terminals no longer allow the use
of caustic soda washes since local
environmental agencies do not
allow disposal of the toxic caustic
after treatment."
Transport of such toxic waste
across EU borders was outlawed,
he told his bosses. It was illegal to
dump it on any EU landfill.
The London-based traders
pressed on regardless, the
documents reveal. They hoped to
make profits of $7m a time by
buying up what they called
"bloody cheap" cargoes of sulphur
-contaminated Mexican gasoline.
They decided to try and process
the fuel on board a tanker
anchored offshore, creating toxic
waste they called "slops".
One trader wrote, on 10 March
2006: "I don't know how we
dispose of the slops and I don't
imply we would dump them, but
for sure, there must be some way
to pay someone to take them."
The resulting black, stinking,
slurry was eventually dumped
around landfills in Abidjan, after
Trafigura paid an unqualified
local man to take it away in tanker
trucks at a cheap rate.
Trafigura's libel lawyers, Carter-
Ruck, recently demanded the
Guardian deleted published
articles, saying it was "gravely
defamatory" and "untrue" to say
Trafigura's waste had been
dumped cheaply and could have
caused deaths and serious injuries.
Both the Dutch paper Volkskrant
and Norwegian TV said they were
yesterday also threatened with
gagging actions.
Trafigura launched a libel action
against BBC Newsnight,
complaining Trafigura had been
wrongly accused of causing
deaths, disfigurement and
miscarriages, and had "suffered
serious damage to their
reputation".
The BBC filed a fighting
defence this week, accusing
Trafigura of knowing its
chemicals were "highly toxic,
potentially lethal and posed a
serious risk to public health". The
BBC also alleges a cover-up,
saying Trafigura's denials "lack
credibility and candour".
Newsnight plans to transmit
another programme on the subject
on BBC2 tonight.
The UN human rights special
rapporteur Professor Okechukwu
Ibeanu criticised Trafigura for
potentially "stifling independent
reporting and public criticism" in
a report the oil traders tried and
failed to prevent being published
in Geneva this week.
The report said Ibeanu "views
with great concern reports that the
company has filed or threatened
to file lawsuits against various
civil society and media
institutions that have reported …
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in a critical manner".
He wrote: "According to official
estimates, there were 15 deaths,
69 persons hospitalised and more
than 108,000 medical
consultations … there seems to be
strong prima facie evidence that
the reported deaths and adverse
health consequences are related to
the dumping."
The report is written in cautious
terms, but Trafigura's lobbyists,
Bell Pottinger, responded by
claiming to be "appalled", saying
it was "premature", "inaccurate",
"potentially damaging", "poorly
researched", and "deeply flawed".
Yesterday Greenpeace, which
has been investigating the issue,
along with Amnesty, launched a
legal action in Amsterdam calling
for the oil firm to be prosecuted
there for homicide or grievous
bodily harm. It said: "This
intentional pollution … has
caused many people to suffer
serious injuries and has even led
to death."
Trafigura said it "utterly
rejected" claims of a cover-up.
"Every statement that has been
made … has been made in good
faith."
The traders said the autopsy
reports were unreliable, and that
hydrogen sulphide in the waste
was only there in "potential"
form. It has never actually been
released. They said the emails
contained "crude and distasteful"
language, but had been taken "out
of context" and should "not be
taken literally".
They repeated denials that the
slops could have caused death or
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Israel rejects war crimes findings of UN Gaza continued from page 18
serious injury, and were highly

inquiry toxic. They denied lying about the

composition of the slops.
Trafigura says it is the world's
By Rory Carroll (World news team enter Israel or the occupied reaches the UN security council. and therefore an act of self- third-biggest private oil trader,
and comment from the West Bank. It said the UN human Other senior figures from the defence. Instead, it found the war and declared a $440m profit last
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) r i g h t s c o u n c i l , w h i c h Israeli government are expected to w a s " a d e l i b e r a t e l y year. Its 200 traders are reported
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:00:07 AM commissioned the inquiry, was begin a round of telephone calls disproportionate attack designed to receive annual bonuses of up to
biased against Israel. w i t h m i n i s t e r s f r o m o t h e r to punish, humiliate and terrorise $1m each.
Prime minister Binyamin "The mandate was biased from governments, particularly the five a civilian population". Israeli • Ivory Coast
N e t a n y a h u ' s s p o k e s m a n the beginning and it would have p e r m a n e n t m e m b e r s o f t h e actions depriving Gazans of • Trafigura and the Probo Koala
denounces 'propaganda and bias' been a mistake to give credibility security council, to head off any m e a n s o f s u b s i s t e n c e , • Pollution
Israel refused to accept the to a mission that has more in decision that might lead to employment, housing and water, • Oil
findings of a highly critical UN common with a kangaroo court p r o s e c u t i o n s . T h e H a ' a r e t z and denying their freedom of • Oil
inquiry into the Gaza war and said than it does with a serious newspaper said priority calls m o v e m e n t " c o u l d l e a d a David Leigh
t o d a y i t w o u l d l a u n c h a investigation," Regev said. would go out to EU nations, in the competent court to find that the guardian.co.uk© Guardian
diplomatic offensive to prevent For its part, Hamas also rejected hope of influencing the debate at crime of persecution, a crime News & Media Limited 2009 |
any risk of prosecutions. the criticism. "The Palestinian the UN human rights council in against humanity, had been Use of this content is subject to
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last January would be held, a clear self-defence and not of attack. that Israeli military personnel Hamas. It said Palestinian rocket
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recommendation from the UN capabilities of the resistance with responsibility" for grave breaches between civilian and military
report. t h e g r e a t s t r e n g t h o f t h e of the laws of war. Although targets, caused terror among
The inquiry, headed by a former occupation," said Ismail Haniyeh, critical of both sides, it singled Israeli civilians and "would
South African judge, Richard a Hamas leader and former out Israel and its policy towards constitute war crimes and may At Last! First Real
Goldstone, delivered a detailed Palestinian prime minister. the Palestinians of Gaza for the a m o u n t t o c r i m e s a g a i n s t
and damning criticism of the war, After the inquiry was published most serious condemnation. It humanity". Gazan security forces Evidence for a Rocky
accusing both Israel and armed yesterday evening, a legal team accused Israeli troops of using – controlled by Hamas – carried Exoplanet
Palestinian groups, notably from Israel's foreign ministry met Palestinians as human shields, a out extrajudicial executions and
H a m a s , o f w a r c r i m e s a n d with other government officials to war crime, and said the long the arbitrary arrest, detention and By Hadley Legget (Wired Top
possible crimes against humanity. prepare an analysis of the UN Israeli economic blockade of ill-treatment of people, especially Stories)
It was by far the most serious report. Netanyahu reportedly held Gaza amounted to "collective political opponents. It also called Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:57:00 AM
international inquiry into the three meetings into the night on the punishment intentionally inflicted for the release of Gilad Shalit, an
-week war, which left 1,400 impact of the findings. by the government of Israel on the Israeli soldier held captive in There’s finally proof that Earth-
Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead Israel is concerned that, when people of the Gaza Strip". Gaza for more than three years. like planets can exist outside our
and which triggered a wave of the UN human rights council It recommended that the UN • Israel solar system: Scientists manage to
criticism across the world. discusses the report later this security council should require • Middle East measure the mass of exoplanet
"This report was conceived in month, it could agree to pass it to I s r a e l t o i n v e s t i g a t e t h e • Palestinian territories COROT-7b, revealing that it's the
sin and is the product of a union the UN security council. The allegations raised, and if it failed • Gaza first exoplanet with a confirmed
between propaganda and bias," security council could then decide to do so within six months the • United Nations density similar to ours.
said Mark Regev, spokesman for to pass the findings on to the case should be passed to the Rory Carroll
t h e I s r a e l i p r i m e m i n i s t e r , international criminal court, prosecutor of the international guardian.co.uk© Guardian
Binyamin Netanyahu. "Israel is a where arrest warrants could be criminal court. Each country that News & Media Limited 2009 |
c o u n t r y w i t h a f i e r c e l y issued ahead of prosecutions. is a high contracting party to the Use of this content is subject to
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Everything done by the military in Danny Ayalon, who is on a visit search for and prosecute those Feeds
Israel is open to judicial review by to Washington, said he would responsible, it said.
the independent judiciary." meet the US ambassador to the The inquiry rejected Israel's
Israel had refused to co-operate UN, Susan Rice, to minimise the argument that the war was a
with the inquiry, not letting the impact of the report before it response to Palestinian rocket fire
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Emissions target is unrealistic for China, says

adviser
By Jonathan Watts (World Dai – whose think tank works scale economic restructuring. world. We don't want this hat, but
news and comment from the under the government's powerful Dai said he thought it was we may have to wear it for many
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) National Development and unlikely that the two most more years," he said.
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:45:35 AM Reform Commission – blamed optimistic scenarios could be The Chinese state council is
rich nations for excessive achieved because of the huge cost currently debating a major new
China's emissions unlikely to fall consumption and for failing to of expanding solar and wind plan for renewable energy and
low enough because 2C target reach the targets set at Kyoto. power and capturing carbon. Even there is speculation that it will
'does not provide room for "Twenty percent of the world's under the least ambitious scenario also announce a carbon intensity Seagate's FreeAgent
developing countries' population takes 80% of wealth China would have to invest 89.9 target in its economic plan for the
Don't expect China to keep and emits 70% of greenhouse trillion yuan by 2050. first time, but they have yet to DockStar Network
global warming below 2C, a gases," he said. "I think two Professor He Jiankun, a co- show their hand ahead of Adapter Brings Access
senior government adviser warned degrees is a vision that is author and the former executive Copenhagen. To Your Files Courtesy
in Beijing today at the launch of difficult to fulfill because few vice president of Tsinghua President Hu Jintao is expected
an influential report on the countries have reached Kyoto University, said China faced huge to outline some measures at a of Pogoplug [Nas]
nation's prospects for low-carbon protocol targets, except the UK obstacles in moving to a low major United Nations summit on By Jason Chen (Gizmodo)
growth. and some others in the EU." carbon path because it was still in climate change next week.
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:20:00 AM
Even in a best-case scenario Dai stressed that his comments the midst of development. "There Until now, Beijing has focused
with massive investment in solar are not official government are a huge number of cities to be its efforts on technological Remember Pogoplug, the device
e n e r g y a n d c a r b o n c a p t u r e policy, but they are consistent built. They will consume a large development. Dai said this was a that lets you take any USB disk
technology, Dai Yande, deputy with a hardening of positions amount of steel and cement. This hope, though it was a wild card. and make it accessible to
chief of the Energy Research ahead of the Copenhagen climate means that emissions will not be "Technological innovation is anywhere on the internet?
Institute, said China's emissions change summit in December. reduced for some time." hard to measure," he said. Seagate's just licensed that
were unlikely to fall low enough Dai was speaking at the launch He said the report was not "Nobody could imagine in the technology and put it into the
to remain below the temperature of the most influential study ever national policy, but it was a blue- 1960s that everyone would have a DockStar Network Adapter for
goal recommended by the G8 and carried out in China on the print for change. cellphone and internet access." their own DockStar hard drive.
European Union. possibility of the country moving The WWF signed the • Climate change The concept is the same: you
His prediction will alarm those toward a low carbon path of recommendations and Yang • Carbon emissions plug in the FreeAgent DockStar,
governments and scientists who development. Fuqiang, director of global • China from Seagate, and the Network
warn that a rise more than 2C The detailed study, which was climate solutions at the China • Energy Adapter will bring the drive
risks disastrous consequences in conducted by 10 institutions office of WWF, said developing • Solar power online for access from across the
terms of food security, migration, including universities and the nations were making a "heroic" • Carbon capture and storage internet (or just somewhere in
sea-level rises and extreme World Wildlife Fund, was built on effort to reduce carbon. He added (CCS) your own home network).
weather events. a preparatory study published last that governments in richer • Copenhagen climate change Seagate's solution also includes
"You should not target China to month. countries used the excuse of summit 2009 three extra USB ports to get three
fulfill the two degree target. That Under its most ambitious democracy to claim it was • Kyoto protocol other devices online as well, and
is just a vision. Reality has s c e n a r i o , C h i n a ' s o v e r a l l "politically impossible" to make • Climate change will be available for $100, which
deviated from that vision," said emissions would peak between bigger cuts. • Renewable energy includes a year of Pogoplug
Dai. "We do not think that target 2 0 3 0 a n d 2 0 3 5 , a s s u m i n g He said China would suffer Jonathan Watts service. Each subsequent year
provides room for developing generous financial assistance from more than any other country as a guardian.co.uk© Guardian costs $30 per year. [ Seagate]
countries." China argues that its r i c h n a t i o n s , t e c h n o l o g i c a l result of climate change, but it News & Media Limited 2009 |
priority must be economic growth transfer, changed consumer was unlikely to shift direction on Use of this content is subject to
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Fox Paid $60k For Video
Preparations for new Afghan vote begin Footage Of Madoff On
A Yacht... And Still Gets
By Declan Walsh (World news statement. of the security problem of further remain committed to the election
and comment from the A senior western official told Taliban attacks, some areas will process," Aleem Siddiqui, a Sued For Copyright
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) the Guardian that the Afghan be left out of the vote," the spokesman for the mission, said. Infringement
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:03:57 AM Independent Election Commission western official said. The row is thought to centre on
had "pencilled in" a run-off vote So far, 93% of votes have been the UN's public stance on fraud By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Second round will take place in for the third week of October, counted. The Independent allegations, with Galbraith Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:30:00 AM
five weeks if Hamid Karzai's despite earlier predictions that a Election Commission is expected favouring aggressive criticism
s h a r e o f v o t e i n d i s p u t e d fresh poll would be impossible to release a full preliminary tally while Eide advocates a "behind JJ sends in the news that Fox
presidential election drops below before the onset of the harsh later today,, but the UN-backed the scenes" approach. News apparently paid some guy
50% Afghan winter. Electoral Complaints Commission One UN insider said the $60,000 for some video footage
Afghan election officials have The IEC has ordered new (ECC), which adjudicates argument had divided opinion he took of Bernie Madoff on a
begun logistical preparations for a ballots from the UK and new disputes, has quarantined votes yacht in 2003 for use on Fox
inside the mission, reflecting a
s e c o n d r o u n d o f v o t i n g t o stocks of indelible ink, used to from 2,500 of the country's wider split over the poll. News and Fox Business, and the
determine the controversial stain voters' fingers, from Canada, 26,300 polling stations. guy is now suing Fox for more.
"There's a heated debate in lots
presidential election marred by the official, speaking on condition The ECC has already thrown Specifically, the guy licensed the
of embassies," the insider said.
allegations of large-scale rigging of anonymity, said, but an exact out votes from 83 stations – work for 45 days for $10,000.
"The difference is that ours has
in favour of Hamid Karzai, it date has not been set. mostly in areas in which Karzai come into the open." After that period ended and Fox
emerged today. A second vote could resolve a won, in some cases scoring 100% The debates in Kabul comewas still using the video, the guy
The second round will take tense dispute with Karzai's main of votes cast with a 100% turnout. sent a cease & desist, and Fox
against the backdrop of a war of
place in five weeks only if presidential rival, Abdullah European Union election paid him another $50,000 for a bit
words in Washington, where the
Karzai's share of the vote – which Abdullah, who claims the 20 observers say 27% of results over another month. Once that
top US military official, Admiral
currently stands at 54% – falls to August poll was rigged. Results published so far indicate fraud. ended, Fox was still using the
Mike Mullen, is fighting to win
less than 50%. so far give Abdullah 28% support. Despite the potential over senior Democrats who arevideo, and the guy sued,
With 10% of ballots currently But it would also be expensive difficulties, many see an demanding at least another
opposed to increasing US troop
under scrutiny, that scenario and dangerous, disinfranchising imperfect second round as deployment. $500,000. First of all... $60,000
appears increasingly likely. Afghan voters in remote snow- preferable to a long winter of for the use of a single video of
Three US soldiers died when
Karzai's team today dismissed bound provinces. perilous limbo. Bernie Madoff on a yacht for ~90
their vehicle hit a roadside bomb
EU claims of fraud, after Phillippe By the third week of October Alternatively, a second round in southern Afghanistan days of usage? Damn.
Morillon, head of the EU election parts of northern Badakhshan and could be averted if Karzai and But, separate from that, I would
yesterday, a Nato spokesman said.
monitoring mission, said 1.1 eastern Nuristan provinces are Abdullah were to strike a power- think that, even though it licensed
The deaths bring the number of
million of about 3 million votes likely to be inaccessible because sharing deal – but neither so far the video originally, Fox could
US fatalities in Afghanistan this
cast for Karzai were suspect. of heavy snowfall. appears inclined to compromise. month to 22. make a decent fair use argument,
"Hamid Karzai's election There would be a risk of further The fraud controversy has split • Afghanistan claiming that the video was for
campaign team believes today's Taliban violence – in the last the UN mission to Kabul, whose • Hamid Karzai reporting purposes. On top of that,
announcement of the number of round, a small number of voters American deputy head, Peter Declan Walsh the guy is demanding to know
suspected votes by the head and had their fingers chopped off after Galbraith, has left for New York guardian.co.uk© Guardian how much ad revenue Fox
deputy head of EU Election casting their ballot. following a dispute with his News & Media Limited 2009 | brought in from certain
Monitoring commission is partial, The authorities would also have Norwegian boss, Kai Eide. advertisers, as if the video alone
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with Afghanistan's constitution," history of proven vote-rigging. there are bound to be differences Feeds seems odd that Fox would license
his campaign office said in a "It could be a nightmare. On top of opinion. But Peter and Kai video for news purposes for a
limited time only. Does anyone
Oprah Winfrey Reflects on Her Interview with Michael Jackson really think it's still possible to put
video online for just a limited
(ETonline - Breaking News) her time spent on Neverland interview with Jackson. to be and as forthcoming as he time?
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:45:00 AM Ranch when she interviewed the The talk show host also referred wanted to be," Oprah reflected. Permalink| Comments| Email
King of Pop in 1993. to the music icon as "very likable. This Story
Oprah Winfrey referred to "I sensed from him how lonely it After this interview, I really
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lonely" as she reminisced about Oprah said while watching her He was as honest as he knew how
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Police release man in Yale murder Can Best Buy revenue

investigation soon match huge gains in
By Daniel Nasaw, Matthew
Weaver (World news and
comment from the Guardian |
person of interest, not a suspect.
In a case that has horrified one
of America's most prestigious
Clark's home on Monday, a day
after they discovered Le's body
hidden in a basement wall of a
market share?
By Brian White
guardian.co.uk) universities, the bloodied, battered facility at Yale's medical school (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:04:46 AM body of the 24-year-old that housed research animals. She Submitted at 9/16/2009 1:00:00 PM
pharmacology student was was last seen on 8 September.
Raymond Clark had been taken discovered crammed in a utility Clark moved to Middletown six Filed under: Competitive
into custody in connection with shaft in a heavily-secured research months ago from New Haven strategy, Best Buy (BBY)
the death of graduate student building on the campus on the day where he shared an apartment Best Buy Inc.(NYSE: BBY) has
Annie Le she was to be married. Lewis said with his girlfriend and three cats, been the subject of media
Police in the US have released a police were hoping to compare according to a former neighbour. speculation since the first quarter
laboratory technician who was DNA taken from Clark's hair, Authorities had been tight- implosion of now-defunct retailer
earlier taken into custody in fingernails and saliva with more lipped since Le was reported Circuit City. Billions of consumer Wal-Mart Stores Inc.(NYSE:
connection with the murder of the than 150 pieces of evidence missing last week, saying only electronics revenue dollars needed WMT), where customers have
Yale University graduate student collected from the crime scene. that they have ruled out as a to go somewhere, after all. Based been taking refuge from the
Annie Le, whose body was found That evidence may also be suspect her fiance, a Columbia on Best Buy's most recent economic storm in the U.S. since
on Sunday. compared with DNA samples University graduate student. quarterly results, revenue dollars last fall. Can Wal-Mart really
Raymond Clark was led away in given voluntarily from other Officials were to release an aren't just spilling into its coffers, compete head-to-head for
handcuffs from his home in people with access to the crime autopsy report but prosecutors even as the default market share dedicated consumer electronics
Middletown, Connecticut to the scene. blocked this out of concern that it gain from Circuit City went nuts customers once the money fog
cheers of neighbours. Clark was "We're going to narrow this could hinder the investigation. last quarter. Will it continue? lifts as it is starting to do?
taken into custody while police down," Lewis said. "We're going • United States All indications point to yes. Continue reading Can Best Buy
searched for evidence in his to do this as quickly as we can." Daniel Nasaw Matthew Weaver Best Buy is the lone nationwide revenue soon match huge gains in
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without charge early this morning. 700 hours of videotape during the News & Media Limited 2009 | retailer that is making all kinds of Can Best Buy revenue soon
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Chrysler releases five-year plan

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24 Economy/ Fashion
Kingdom come
(The Economist: News
analysis)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 3:25:18 AM
Sep 16th 2009
From the Economist
Intelligence Unit ViewsWire
Uganda's president faces serious
opposition from a region that was
once the bedrock of his support
The Ugandan president, Yoweri
Museveni, who has held power
since 1986, is facing serious
opposition from a region that was
previously the bedrock of his
support.
A row with the Buganda region
over aspirations of self-
government boiled over in mid-
September. At least 15 people
died and hundreds were arrested
during two days of rioting sparked
when police stopped the Buganda
king, Ronald Mutebi, from
attending a rally in the Kayunga
district, an area where the Banyala
ethnic group is seeking to secede
from the Buganda kingdom. The
violence reflects an increasingly
fraught struggle between the
Buganda authorities and the
Ugandan government over access
to land and its concomitant power.
Of Uganda's four historical
kingdoms which were restored in
1993, Buganda is by far the most
popular among its subjects and,
from the ruling party's viewpoint,
the most dangerous threat to the
National Resistance Movement
(NRM)'s political hegemony. The
kingdom has a constitutional
monarchy, a local parliament,
regional assemblies and, crucially,
about 17% of the Ugandan
population. Relations with the
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government have deteriorated
badly during the past year over
differences on a proposed lands
bill. The kingdom views the bill
as a government scheme to gain
control over its land resources
while the administration argues
that it will simply improve land
security.
The confrontation acquired
fresh impetus in August, when the
king repeated calls for the
reintroduction of "federo"--a quasi
-federal system of government
that existed before the kingdoms
were abolished in 1966. This
would give the kingdom the
ability to raise its own resources,
tax its subjects and reduce its
reliance on the central
government, but is not generally
popular outside Buganda. Thus,
while the riots were partly a show
of Buganda force, they were also
borne out of fear of the
secessionist desires of districts
such as Kayunga, which would
diminish the kingdom's influence
and reduce its overall power if
federo was restored.
These events represent a large
reversal in popularity for the
Ugandan president, Yoweri
Museveni, who has previously
enjoyed the strong backing of the
country's largest ethnic group. He
came to power with the help of
Baganda peasants that had
suffered during the Amin and
Obote regimes, and he shored up
this support by granting the wish
of traditionalists for the return of a
monarchy to the Buganda
kingdom in 1993. Since then,
most Baganda have cast their vote
for the NRM, and the party's
André Balazs, the face of
Brioni's Fall 2009 campaign.
Buganda caucus is a substantial
force in parliament. However,
with the memory of suppression
under previous regimes fading--
Mr Museveni has ruled for 23
years--and with the allocation of
senior government positions (at
some stage the prime minister,
vice-president and finance
minister have all been Baganda)
insufficient to appease hard-line
Buganda nationalists pressing for
more autonomy, a showdown is
looming. Valuable voting block
The fracture is growing in
significance as elections are only
18 months away and the Baganda
people are the most valuable
voting block in the country. The
political atmosphere has become
increasingly febrile, with anti-
government sentiment fed by
Baganda-owned local radio
stations. Otherwise ineffectual
opposition politicians, eager to
find a vehicle to tap anti-
government public sentiment,
have allied themselves with the
Buganda cause. Meanwhile the
president is reluctant to cede
anything, aware that to do so
would make him look weak at a
time when he is already under
pressure from potential successors
in the NRM. Following the riots
the government shut down four
local radio stations supportive of
the Buganda cause, while Mr
Museveni summoned Baganda
legislators to State House and
called on the king to avoid
meddling in politics. However, it
is likely that Mr Museveni will
make more concessions to
appease the Baganda, possibly
involving some watering-down of
the lands bill coupled with an
increase in public funds directed
towards the kingdom's dilapidated
infrastructure.
Running for election in 2011 is
looking like an increasingly
daunting prospect for Mr
Museveni, who has become
accustomed to winning fairly
easily. The battle with Buganda
will remain the epicentre of
opposition to an extension of his
rule, but other factors add to his
troubles. The discovery of large
oil reserves in the kingdom of
Bunyoro (discovered oil reserves
are estimated at 2bn barrels, with
less than one-third of the oil
region explored) raised the spectre
of further ethnic unrest in August,
as representatives called for the
return of land expropriated under
colonial rule and the reservation
of political positions. Opposition
politicians branded Mr Museveni
a tribalist when his preference for
a compromise--involving ring-
fencing top political positions for
ethnic Banyoro--was leaked.
Adding to his troubles are famine
conditions in the north and west,
where his inability to bring a final
end to the brutal Lords' Resistance
Army detracts from any other
achievements there. The high
food inflation of the past two
years has led to deterioration in
living standards for most
Ugandans, and the combination of
increasing urbanisation, youthful
population and lack of jobs is
creating urban conditions
conducive to civil unrest and open
to exploitation by opposition
parties. Fighting back?
Nevertheless, Mr Museveni is
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an astute political operator and it
would be folly to write him off.
He has presided over 20 years of
stability and uninterrupted
economic growth, an immense
achievement for a country
emerging from years of misrule in
the 1980s. Some of the posturing
from Buganda would die down if
they were given assurances about
control over their land and
persuaded that a re-elected NRM
government would direct more
resources towards them,
something Mr Museveni has the
ability to do given that oil revenue
will be coming on stream during
the next presidential term. If the
Baganda are not persuaded by
this, Mr Museveni has total
control of the Ugandan army and
a Presidential Guard which is
effectively his own personal
army, while he has strengthened
his grip on the police force. The
opposition parties remain
fragmented and their ability to
harness the full backing of the
Buganda authorities to pose a
serious threat will recede as long
as cross-party bickering over
positions continues. Mr Museveni
therefore remains the favourite for
the 2011 election, but much will
depend on his ability to mollify
the Buganda in what will be a
contentious, and perhaps bloody,
process.
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Business.view: The age of hostility
(The Economist: Daily
columns)
Submitted at 9/15/2009 2:56:07 AM
Business.view
Sep 15th 2009
From Economist.com The new
merger wave may bring more
hostile takeovers than ever
THE battle for Cadbury is
already turning nasty. One week
after Kraft, an American food
conglomerate, made an
unsolicited bid for it, the British
confectioner hit back on
September 12th. Roger Carr,
Cadbury’s chairman, wrote an
open letter in which he described
the bid as an “unappealing
prospect” that would serve only to
lock the chocolate-maker into
Kraft’s “low growth,
conglomerate business”. Kraft
says it is pressing on regardless. It
is expected to have to improve its
terms to win over Cadbury’s
shareholders. Officially, Kraft’s
offer is friendly. Irene Rosenfeld,
its chief executive, says she looks
forward to “constructive
dialogue” with Cadbury. But in
reality the moment Kraft made
public its rejected offer, the bid
became hostile. In this respect, it
may mark the start of a trend.
Kraft’s offer for Cadbury is one
of several recent signs that life is
returning to the mergers and
acquisitions (M&A) business.
Executives and investment
bankers have returned from their
summer holidays in better spirits,
Jon Gosselin Gets Dropped By Divorce Lawyer
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 6:51:00 AM
The divorce proceedings for Jon
and Kate Gosselin just got a little
confident that even if recovery
may be slow the worst is over for
the economy and that credit is
becoming available. Share prices,
though off their lows, look cheap
by historic standards. These are
ideal conditions for a new merger
wave to form.
Yet compared with previous
waves, the conditions are also far
more favourable for hostile
bids—perhaps on a scale not seen
since, or even surpassing, the
1980s. That was when such deals,
often accompanied by predictions
of cutting jobs to boost profits,
earned themselves such a bad
name that a concerted attempt was
made to abolish them even in free
-market America.
It came close to succeeding, and
hostile takeovers became as rare
in the 1990s as an underpaid chief
executive. Indeed, as recently as
2002, worldwide there were only
15 hostile bids of $500m or more.
That number increased from the
middle of this decade to a high of
81 in 2006, before plunging along
with all other M&A activity
(except shotgun marriages of
troubled banks) during the
economic crisis. This year, as of
the end of July, there had been 21
hostile bids.
There are two main reasons
why, in the words of a new report
by the financial-strategy team at
Citigroup, “hostile M&A is
poised to surge”. The report,
“M&A: Hostility on the Horizon”,
by Carsten Stendevad, Anil
messier, with Jon's divorce lawyer
reportedly bailing out on the case.
According to a Fox News
affiliate in Philadelphia, Pa., local
court papers show that attorney
Shivdasani and Gavriel
Kimyagarov, notes that there has
been a sharp reduction in the
protections that managers can use
to resist a hostile bid. In the 1990s
there had been a dramatic increase
in the adoption by firms of so-
called “poison pills” that could
take effect in the event of a hostile
bid, such as the ability of the firm
to issue vast amounts of shares to
friendly investors, thereby greatly
reducing the value of shares
already bought by the bidder and
making the price of buying a
controlling stake prohibitively
high. Likewise, many firms
adopted “staggered boards” in
which only some directors (say,
one-third of the board) were up
for re-election in any given year,
making it a long and expensive
process for shareholders to vote in
a board favourably inclined to a
bidder.
However, shareholder activists
have in recent years had great
success in getting poison pills and
other defences against hostile
takeovers removed. Proposals to
scrap poison pills became a
regular feature on annual proxy
votes, often garnering the support
of enough shareholders to make a
difference. According to the
Citigroup report, in 2002 some
300 of the companies in the S&P
500 index—in other words, 60%
of them—had a poison pill, and
302 had a staggered board. As of
July 31st 2009 this had fallen to
94 poison pills (19%) and 164
Charles J. Meyer filed a petition couple filed the divorce papers in
in Montgomery County, Pa. to June of this year.
withdraw himself as the counsel
for the "Jon & Kate Plus 8" dad.
Meyer represented Jon when the
Economy/ Entertainment
staggered boards (33%).
In the aftermath of the economic
crisis, low share prices make lots
of firms look more attractive as
targets than they have been for
many years, while the removal of
defences makes it increasingly
hard to resist a hostile offer. That
is why the Citigroup report argues
that firms should try harder to
make themselves less attractive as
targets by, say, doing the sort of
restructuring that an acquirer
might do, or even reintroducing
shareholder defences.
Various academic studies have
found that anti-takeover defences
seem to pay. The premium of the
purchase price over the share
price before the bid is higher on
average when the target has a
poison pill or staggered board
than when it does not. Having an
anti-takeover defence can allow
managers to extract a higher price
from a bidder.
This data is likely to be
mentioned at every opportunity by
company bosses as they now try
to restore their defences.
However, it will be surprising if
they convince many shareholders,
as they were mostly already aware
of the data when they voted to
remove poison pills and staggered
boards. Rather than placing their
faith in controversial statistical
analysis, they preferred a system
that made sense to them as
owners, by allowing them to sell
their firm to a bidder without fear
of the sale being sabotaged by the
25
bosses they employ. That is why
most companies are likely to
remain relatively defenceless, and
Kraft’s bid for Cadbury will be
but one of many in this coming
era of hostility.
It remains to be seen whether
this wave of hostile bids will turn
out any better than those in the
1980s. Many of them ended up in
bankruptcy, although their overall
effect was to make the economy
more efficient, as relatively
unproductive firms were taken
over and reorganised.
One big positive difference this
time, though, is that hostile bids
are more likely to be driven by a
clear business strategy (such as
Kraft’s attempt to buy Cadbury to
plug its products into the Kraft
distribution system) than by the
ready availability of debt to
“financial” buyers. Although
credit markets are reopening, they
are not yet ready to lend heavily
to private-equity firms. This
should mean that there is no
immediate repeat of the leveraged
buy-out hostile bids of the 1980s,
many of which were disastrous
and gave the whole business of
takeovers and mergers a bad
name.
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War crimes in Gaza: Crimes of war

(The Economist: News international legal action not only Israel conducted the military on the credibility of the whole 575 In its formal reaction, Israel
analysis) against Israel, but also against operations,” the Goldstone -page report. Israel refused to co- declares itself “appalled” at the
Submitted at 9/16/2009 12:01:10 AM Hamas, for war crimes and mission concludes. It accuses operate with the mission report. Officials say privately they
possible crimes against humanity. Israel of “indiscriminate attacks” (although individual Israelis did had expected a tough document
War crimes in Gaza It has recommended that the that resulted in civilian deaths and testify), noting that the UN accusing the army of a
Sep 16th 2009 | JERUSALEM findings are handed to the injuries, and also, on several Human Rights Council, which disproportionate response to the
From Economist.com A UN prosecutor of the International occasions, of deliberately established it, has a long record of years of incessant but largely
mission concludes that war crimes Criminal Court (ICC) in The targeting civilians. egregious bias against the Jewish ineffective firing of rockets and
were committed in Gaza Hague and also urged the UN It also concluded, among other state. In correspondence with mortars from Gaza into Israel.
ISRAEL is reeling from the Security Council and, separately, findings, that 240 Palestinian Justice Goldstone, Israel noted They were shocked, they said,
accusations of a UN fact-finding the General Assembly, to ensure policemen were killed unlawfully, pointedly that other eminent that the mission accused Israel of
mission that it deliberately sowed that those responsible for the 99 of them in bombings on the jurists had declined to serve on deliberately targeting the
death and destruction among crimes are brought to justice. In first day of the operation, even the mission because of its Palestinian civilian population.
civilians in the Gaza Strip during particular the mission would like though some of them may have provenance. The prime minister, Binyamin
a three-week military operation to see the Security Council set up been Hamas fighters. The Israel’s government argues, too, Netanyahu, has given orders for a
ending in January. a committee of experts to monitor bombing of public buildings, that one of the mission’s four diplomatic campaign to discredit
The mission was chaired by a w h e t h e r I s r a e l a n d H a m a s including the parliament and the members, Professor Christine the report and counter the
respected South African judge, conducts domestic investigations main prison, was found to be Chinkin of the London School of mission’s effort to have Israelis
Richard Goldstone and published and, if so, to see how thorough unlawful. Israel’s warnings to Economics, had expressed charged with war crimes.
its report on Tuesday September these are. It also urges that, if the civilians to flee targeted areas “prejudgmental assertions, The Israelis dismiss the
15th. It concludes that “While the experts are not satisfied, the were described as inadequate. The including that ‘the rocket attacks mission’s ostensible
Israeli government has sought to Security Council should refer the report notes that the mission on Israel by Hamas do not amount evenhandedness in recommending
portray its operation as essentially matter to the ICC prosecutor. found no evidence of the to an armed attack entitling Israel that the Palestinians, too, be held
a response to rocket attacks in The death toll in Israel’s Palestinians firing from mosques, to rely on self-defence’.” The to account for firing rockets at
exercise of its right to self- “Operation Cast Lead”, between hospitals or UN facilities, other two mission members are Israeli civilians and for acts of
defence, the Mission considers the December 27th and January 18th, although “this might have Hina Jilani, a Pakistani jurist and brutality and repression against
plan to have been directed, at least i s p u t a t a r o u n d 1 , 4 0 0 b y occurred”. The mission also Desmond Travers, a retired Irish their own people. In the prevailing
in part, at a different target: the Palestinian sources and non- concludes that “It may be that the army officer. atmosphere at the UN, they say,
people of Gaza as a whole.” governmental aid agencies. Israel Palestinian combatants did not at Justice Goldstone, who was a this will remain a dead letter
The purpose, the mission added, estimates the toll at 1,166. Three all times adequately distinguish prosecutor at the international while the recommendations
w a s “ p u n i s h i n g t h e G a z a Israeli civilians were killed by themselves from the civilian criminal tribunals for Yugoslavia against Israel will be assiduously
population for its resilience and rocket fire into Israel, and ten population.” In addition it and Rwanda, insists that his followed up.
for its apparent support for soldiers were killed during the concluded that repression within mission had “unbiased and even- Back to top ^^ Readers'
Hamas”. It held that Israel’s fighting, four of them by “friendly Israel fosters “a political climate handed terms of reference” and comments
partial blockade of the Gaza Strip fire”. in which dissent with the functioned as a “completely The Economist welcomes your
since Hamas took power there “The data provided by non- government and its actions in the independent body.” Israeli views.
t h r e e - a n d - a - h a l f y e a r s a g o governmental sources with regard Occupied Territories is not officials wondered privately
a m o u n t e d t o c o l l e c t i v e to the percentage of civilians tolerated.” yesterday whether he had set the
punishment and violated the among those killed are generally Israeli officials argue that the tone of the report, or was swept
Geneva Conventions. consistent and raise very serious last two points are so patently along by other mission members
The mission recommends concerns with regard to the way biased that they ought to reflect and staffers.
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Will Regulation Hobble Capitalism?
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 6:03:48 AM
Will regulation hobble
capitalism? I think the opposite is
true. Properly done – and I think
most of the financial regulation
that is envisioned fits into this
camp – government regulation of
the financial industry will move
the industry closer to the capitalist
ideal. By capitalism, I mean
where those who take the risks
and put up the money get the
fruits of their labor. And,
importantly, where those who
take the risks and put up the
money actually do take the risks,
bearing the full costs of failure as
well as success.
Capitalism means bearing the
costs
I sometimes miss the rugged
beauty of Utah, where I spent
some of my pre-Wall Street years.
From my house on the foothills of
the Wasatch mountains, I could
see the cliffs of Mount Nebo to
the south, nearly fifty miles away.
Ten miles north, the western face
of Mt. Timpanogas, capped with
snow into early summer. To the
west, the sun reflecting on Utah.
Oh, and on the eastern shore of
the lake, the black smoke
billowing out the stacks of
Geneva Steel.
Geneva Steel was built to
produce steel during the war
effort, and kept in operation until
seven years ago. It teetered at the
edge – and at least two times over
the edge – of bankruptcy, closing
for good in 2002. Left behind
were assorted furnaces, presses
and scrap metal sold to a Chinese
steel producer, and a giant pond
of toxic sludge.
Fortunately, we’ve learned a
thing or two about toxic sludge in
steel production. The steel
producer, in this case the original
parent of the Geneva plant, U.S.
Steel ( X), has to set aside a fund
to pay for the clean-up. The
sludge is part of the production
process, and the clean-up is a cost
of production, even though it is a
cost that is not realized until many
years down the road. As a result,
steel costs are little higher and the
shareholders fare a little worse
than if this longer-term expense
were not forced onto the
producers. The regulation that
requires setting aside funds for the
clean up might be considered
intrusive to the core values of
capitalism. But it is the contrary.
It is forcing the steel mills to
recognize all of their costs rather
than leave society to foot part of
their bill.
Wall Street’s Toxic Sludge
Wall Street has its own forms of
toxic sludge, longer-term costs
and negative externalities from
products and strategies: The
increase in the risk of crisis that
comes from the opacity of
complex derivatives; the fat tail
risk of positions that are short
credit or liquidity; negative
gamma trading strategies,
strategies that in various guises
are like naked call writing,
making money most of the time,
but on occasion failing
spectacularly; the forced
deleveraging and liquidity crises
that come from high leverage.
These costs are easy for the
Wall Street capitalist to ignore,
because unlike the sludge pond
behind the steel mill, they are not
visible until they finally hit.
Indeed, they are not even
deterministic. They might hit or
they might not – so what we have
in financial markets is invisible
and probabilistic toxic sludge.
Which makes sludge-producing
strategies all the more popular
with banks and traders, because if
you can do things where you
don’t have to bear some of the
costs, the odds are better you will
turn an apparent profit.
The limited liability assault on
capitalism
The banks and trading firms
don’t have to bear these costs
because of the widespread use of
limited liability. Limited liability
creates a ‘heads I win tails you
lose’ relationship. The template
for limited liability is the
corporation, a template that has
been copied to create the trader’s
option and short-term
compensation, paid out before the
full costs of a product or strategy
are manifest.
If I want to get the most value
out of limited liability, I will
gravitate toward fat tailed and
complex businesses, where most
of the time I pump money out
with regularity, but face some
prospect of a catastrophic loss.
How catastrophic? The bigger, the
better. It doesn’t matter to me
how bad things get once they have
passed my liability limit. And the
larger that catastrophic case, the
more costs I am passing on, and
thus if a general risk-return
relationship holds, the more return
I will get as long as the
catastrophe is kept at bay.
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Put in other terms, I will look
for businesses and strategies that
produce the highest level of costs
that I can slough off, that will be
unrecognized by others. Is this the
direction Wall Street has
gravitated? Are the exposures of
traders and banks biased toward
taking credit risk, being short
liquidity risk, and short gamma?
Do they prefer the complex to the
simple? Do they push leverage as
far as regulation allows?
Regulation and capitalism
Regulation that exposes these
costs and forces the trader or bank
to absorb them makes the markets
more true to capitalist ideals.
Capitalist regulation forces the
producers to recognize all of their
costs. It undoes the harm to
capitalism that comes from
limited liability and its kissing
cousins, the trader’s option and
short term compensation deals.
The flip side is that with capitalist
regulation, no one can take on
more risk than they are capable of
absorbing. Which means requiring
higher levels of capital on the one
hand, restricting leverage on the
other, which in turn means
reduced capacity to generate high
returns.
The aspiring capitalists among
us will decry such regulation
because it invariably makes our
lives harder; we can’t make as
much money. But if the reason is
that the regulation is now forcing
us to bear all of the costs of our
enterprise, then we are feeling the
pain of having the socialist
trappings removed, and entering
into a more robust capitalist
regime.
27
Alumnus Sues NYU
Over Logo That The
School Asked Her To
Design
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:52:00 AM
I'm trying to understand where
the legal issue is here, but a
"freelance artist" and alumnus of
NYU is apparently suing the
school because it used the bobcat
mascot she designed. But here's
the thing: she designed it while
she was employed by the school's
athletic director. In this case, she
was just an equipment room clerk,
but the associate director (a
superior) asked her to create the
mascot. And then the school used
it. How is that possibly a
copyright violation? She was
employed by the school. Her boss
asked her to do some work for the
school. She did it. I'm having
trouble understanding where
there's a copyright violation.
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Benches clear as brawl
mars Jays' rout of Yanks
By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 4:07:48 AM
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Venezuela's foreign policy: Friends in low places

(The Economist: News courted condemnation by inviting to Russia. Mr Chávez, a former seven military bases in the
analysis) Sudan’s pariah president, Omar al lieutenant-colonel in Venezuela’s country.
Submitted at 9/15/2009 3:45:29 AM -Bashir, to Caracas, and breezily army, says these weapons will Undaunted, he continues to
announced a nuclear co-operation make it “very difficult for foreign pursue “greater world leadership”.
Venezuela's foreign policy deal with Mahmoud aircraft to come and bomb us”. If attention is what he is seeking,
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Venezuela’s president, Hugo material from its controversial In pursuit of his goal to “break individuals close to Mr Chávez introduced earlier this week, turns
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What You Missed Last Night: The Audacity of Hos
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) into the ACORN organization. a very funny piece on it. ( Video The Daily Show, Watercooler
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probably know about the Glenn prostitution ring. Last night Jon best.
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Patrick Swayze
A balancing act Tribute Planned
(The Economist: News possible deal has been rife for The agreement would not be the effectively over. Since the 1980s, (ETonline - Breaking News)
analysis) almost a year, but a report in a RAFO's first experience of however, the US has increased Submitted at 9/16/2009 5:48:00 AM
Submitted at 9/15/2009 3:26:08 AM recent edition of the Gulf States dealing with BAE Systems. In the military ties with Oman. It has an
Newsletter suggests that mid-1980s Oman signed a agreement with the sultanate for One of the biggest shows on TV
Sep 15th 2009 negotiations could be close to a contract with British Aerospace the pre-positioning of support is reportedly set to pay tribute to
F r o m t h e E c o n o m i s t conclusion. The Eurofighter (as the company was then known) equipment for 26,000 personnel at Patrick Swayze.
Intelligence Unit ViewsWire Typhoon is built by a consortium to buy eight Tornado aircraft. Masirah, Thumrait and Seeb The 'Dirty Dancing' star will be
Oman preserves friendly ties with o f E u r o p e a n a e r o s p a c e However, an oil price crash in airports, and an agreement for the honored on "Dancing with the
both Iran and the West manufacturers, including the UK's 1986 led to questions over use of these airports as bases. In Stars" in a special tribute this
The Omani ruler, Sultan Qaboos BAE Systems. whether such a sophisticated early June Oman signed a contract Sept. 23, according to People.
bin Said al-Said, was the first The Royal Air Force of Oman aircraft was affordable and with Lockheed Martin for the The beloved actor made a guest
head of state to visit Iran after the (RAFO) needs to complete the suitable for a small air force such purchase of a C-130 Super appearance on the show during its
controversial re-election of replacement programme for its as Oman's, and the contract was Hercules plane, which will join first season -- showing his friend
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June. ageing Jaguar aircraft fleet, which cancelled. Oman subsequently the three C-130Hs that were John O’Hurley some moves in
H i s d i s c u s s i o n s i n c l u d e d a was first introduced in the late purchased from British Aerospace purchased in the early 1980s. The rehearsals. He also came out to
proposal for Iran to pump gas to 1970s. There are 16 British- a fleet of 15 Hawk jets, which it new aircraft has the ability to show his support by attending the
the Gulf Arab state, some of supplied Jaguars still in operation has been operating since the operate out of remote airstrips, a finale.
which could be exported using following the replacement of a 1980s. useful attribute in desert
Oman's liquefied natural gas squadron of Jaguars with F-16 The sultanate has a long history operations. To further complicate
(LNG) facilities. At the same fighter jets made by Lockheed of association with the British Oman's hardware purchasing
time, Oman is one of the longest- Martin, a US defence contractor, military and defence industry, decision, the French president,
standing and most reliable allies i n 2 0 0 5 a n d 2 0 0 6 . T h e which stretches back to military Nicolas Sarkozy, visited the
of the West in the Middle East, prospective Typhoon deal is assistance provided by the UK to sultanate in February 2009 with
and it is said to be close to r e p o r t e d t o b e w o r t h o v e r overcome a rebellion in the north the hope of persuading the RAFO
finalising a major order to US$2bn. If agreement is reached, of Oman, in the late 1950s. The that it should buy French-built
u p g r a d e i t s a i r f o r c e w i t h it would be extremely timely for current sultan trained as an officer Rafale jets as replacements for the
Eurofighter Typhoons. the British government and the at the Royal Military Academy Jaguars
Reports have resurfaced in the UK's Royal Air Force. The Sandhurst in the UK and served in Back to top ^^ Readers'
press that Oman is in discussions purchase by Oman would help the British Army in the early comments
with the British government over subsidise the UK's order for 89 1960s. A small number of serving The Economist welcomes your
the purchase of 24 Typhoon jets, m o r e a d v a n c e d T r a n c h e 3 British forces personnel are still views.
with talk of an agreement being Typhoons, which the UK can ill seconded to Oman's military,
finalised within the next few afford in the current economic although the days when the UK
months. Speculation about a climate. posted a contract officer are now

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30 Economy/ Entertainment Internet News Record

The CFPA and Small Banks

(Financial Sector and Stocks remove the obfuscation and “bureaucrats,” while later in the
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) refocus the competition on price. comment he says there should be
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:12:14 AM Once more, smaller lenders would more regulators – to regulate non-
benefit from this increased banks, not him. Note that he
By James Kwak transparency and leveled playing doesn’t call those other regulators
To be clear, I favor the field. “bureaucrats;” he calls them
Consumer Financial Protection Now, Stephen Ranzini, an “bank examiners.” I agree that
Agency. I favor it because I think executive at a small bank, did non-banks need more regulation,
it will be good for consumers. I write in with this comment on but I don’t agree with the implicit
also like to think that it will be Pottow’s article: assumption that this can be done
good for small banks relative to Since the penalty for offering by traditional prudential
big banks. My main argument for any product that isn’t ‘plain regulators; we’ve already seen
this is that should not harm the vanilla’ will be severe if that where that got us. Also, blaming
main competitive advantages of product is ‘after the fact’ found to subprime lending on “non-banks,”
smaller banks, which should be be not to the liking of these new is disingenuous, although they did
customer service and local CFPA bureaucrats, only plain
underwriting. But I’m still in vanilla products will be offered.
play a major role. Not only did the
top 25 subprime lenders include
Declaration of Accounting
favor of the CFPA even if it Since large banks can leverage
doesn’t help small banks. economies of scale and a lower
John Pottow(hat tip Mike compliance burden per dollar of
banks such as Citi, Wells,
Wachovia, Chase, HSBC, Games
IndyMac, and National City, but (Financial Sector and Stocks continues to deteriorate and even
Konczal) agrees on the small bank assets to outprice smaller banks most of the others were supported Analysis from Seeking Alpha) if the "value" when you made the
point. His main argument is that and we won’t be able to compete by large banks that provided loan originally was hyperinflated
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:21:20 AM
the CFPA should lower fixed a n y m o r e b y c r a f t i n g n i c h e financing by buying up their on a bunch of hot air and willfully
regulatory costs by making it products to serve niche needs, we mortgages. Gee, isn't this enough for -blind lending "standards" that
easier to get approval for basic will be screwed (as will our Still, though, if the commenter everyone (including in Congress)? amounted to outright fraud in the
products. He also adds this point: customers). Gov’t needs to better is right that the small bank 12:29 *WELLS FARGO CITES underwriting process, thereby
The current credit market, with regulate the non-banks. Michigan strategy is “niche products to ' E C O N O M I C S O F fueling a speculative asset bubble.
its indecipherable multi-page has only 15 bank examiners for all serve niche needs,” then he may LIQUIDATING ASSETS' This, of course doesn't change
contracts, is not competitive. the mortgage firms in the state. have a point. I’m still skeptical, 12:29 *WELLS FARGO whether a "non-performing asset"
Actually, that’s not true: It’s These non-banks created 95% of because his entire argument rests P R E F E R S T O H O L D is generating cash flow.
perniciously competitive — the t h e t o x i c e x o t i c m o r t g a g e s on the premise that regulation will NONPERFORMERS RATHER It is not.
competition focuses on better because they aren’t effectively be so severe that it will be chilling THAN SELL This "strategy" is in fact nothing
hiding fees in small print. Burying regulated. to the market – and when have we 12:26 Wells Fargo Says Non- more than intentional, willful
terms in legal documents is an Now, there’s a fair amount of seen that in the last thirty years? – Performing Assets Expected to b l i n d n e s s a n d t h a t o u r
activity where larger banks again hysteria and blame-the-other-guy but there could be something Increase "regulators" allow it is an outrage.
hold the advantage. By contrast, a in here. First, he throws in the there. Yeah. For the reason they're allowing
true plain vanilla market would insult of calling CFPA regulators The "economics" are that you it you can look right here:
HTV: C. Thomas Howell on Patrick have to take the market price if That's what has to happen
your liquidate assets. "going forward" for those "assets"
Swayze's Smoking But the government will allow to recover their "value."
you to make something up if you Good luck Wells.
(ETonline - Breaking News) concerned about that," Howell "hold it", even if the value
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:19:00 AM says. "But as Patrick would tell
you, 'if you smoke, smoke 'em, if
Actor C. Thomas Howell, who you don't -- don't start!'"
co-starred with Patrick Swayze in Watch the video for more and
'The Outsiders' and 'Red Dawn,' click here to see our full Patrick
comments about the actor's Swayze coverage.
smoking habit to Hollywood.tv.
"He was a smoker, we were
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Does True Competition Among
Credit Card Issuers Exist?
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 5:08:12 AM
John B just left me an interesting
comment on the subject of credit
cards:
Your statement on banks
needing to focus on competing,
rather than pages of agate type is
correct. but is there a substantially
large enough market of major
credit card issuers to sustain true
competition? I don’t think so. And
probably not in a more regulated
environment.
It’s a good question, so I used
the data here to chart the share of
the credit card market held by the
biggest issuers. The percentages
aren’t of the total market, just of
the top 15 issuers, but it’s close
enough:
It’s pretty clear from this chart
that between them, the big credit
card issuers absolutely have the
ability to set prices. It’s also clear
just by looking at their marketing
materials that none of them is
particularly interested in
competing with the others by
Jonathan Coulton weighs in on Fall TV
By Annie Wu (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 11:03:00 AM
Like most people in this world, I
often turn to master geek
musician Jonathan Coulton when
I'm trying to figure out how I
should feel about something (you
can smell hair burning when I try
to think for myself).
So imagine my horror when the
Fall schedule started filling out
reducing the maximum interest
rate that they charge.
In most contexts, a chart like the
one above would I think bespeak
a competitive market. But in
credit cards, I’m not so sure. On
the other hand, do we want credit
cards to be highly competitive?
I’m not sure that we do: what we
really want is for credit cards to
be transparent.
At the margin, if the card issuers
and Mr. Coulton was still dealing
with strictly music-related
matters. Well, I can finally have a
Economy/ Gadgets/ TV 31
Comcast to rape subs even
more by raising cable modem
rental fee to $5 nationwide
By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:28:57 AM
Apparently Comcast is in dire
financial straights. If America’s
largest cable provider doesn’t
raise the cable modem rental fee
to $5 from $3, it will not be able
to roll out the faster Internet
service, DOCSIS 3.0, and
the executives won’t be able to
get new trousers. Sure, the
provider had enough cash to build
a massive skyscraper and an
impressive HD video wall
in Philadelphia, but if you want
faster Internet, some folks are
bring down their interest rates, going to have to pay more. It’s
that will only result in even more probably a good idea to point out
people borrowing even more that you can save a lot of money
money on their credit cards. But by purchasing your own cable In a statement, Comcast said:
doing so is nearly always the modem. “We continually invest in
worst possible way of borrowing Amazon has the Motorola providing customers with next-
money, except for maybe going to Surfboard SB5101 Cable Modem generation equipment and
the loan shark down the street. for only $55. At that price, it technology that delivers advanced
Ideally we want the whole credit- would only take you eleven voice and Internet services with
card market to shrink, and for months to recover the cost. But if enhanced capabilities. Our costs
banks to go back to offering your area has the faster DOCSIS for this new equipment will
personal loans. 3.0, you may want to spend a little increase by 167% over the next
extra and get the $85 SB6120 two years. As a result, we will
that’s compatible with Internet increase modem equipment
connections over 30Mbps. But charges by $2.”
The rate hike will start this fall
restful night of sleep, because remember, you’ll still save money in select markets, but eventually
John Sellers of True Slant has in 17 months. (and you won’t be the whole Comcast nation will be
gotten Jonathan Coulton's take on giving more money to evil affected.
Fall TV. Comcast)
Continue reading Jonathan Multichannel News,
Coulton weighs in on Fall TV
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Zune HD Review: The PMP, Evolved [Review]
By Dan Nosowitz (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:00:00 AM
The big question: Can the Zune
HD compete with the iPod
Touch? I get the sense that
Microsoft isn't trying to, exactly.
While the Touch and its apps
are a multi use pocket computer,
the Zune HD is an evolution of
the PMP—not a devolution of
some smartphone model. Every
new feature it has is used to
expand the way you absorb
media, from the HD video output
to the HD radio to the redesigned
UI.
Hardware
The Zune HD is not a simple
curved rectangle with a screen,
like the iPod Touch, but a
resolutely industrial, luxurious,
angular and slim design. From the
angled back to the visible screws
to the long and thin home button,
the Zune HD is a look all its own.
Constructed of aluminum,
rubberized black plastic and glass,
the Zune HD feels tough and solid
in the hand. The widescreen
display offers less space for non-
media applications like web
browsing, but for media (which,
after all, is the Zune HD's raison
d'etre), it's a really nice size. It
won't quite fit in the change
pocket of your jeans, but it'll slip
into even the tightest of regular
pockets. The iPod Touch may be
a hair thinner, but the Zune HD's
narrower body makes it feel much
smaller.
The gorgeous 3.3-inch
capacitive OLED touchscreen
takes up the majority of the
device's face. More on that below.
It's surrounded by three hardware
buttons: Underneath the screen on
the face is the home button, on the
top edge is the power/hold button,
and in lieu of a volume rocker the
Zune HD has a button on the left
side that brings up Quickplay
options. These options drift onto
the screen and offer volume, track
forward/back and play/pause.
Quickplay can be enabled to work
even while the player is locked.
On the bottom of the device is
the proprietary Zune port (the
Zune HD will work with all of the
surprisingly easy-to-find existing
Zune accessories) and the
headphone jack. It's rated for 33
hours of audio and 8.5 of video,
which is very strong if it's true
(especially since previous Zunes
were lacking in battery life, to say
the least). The Zune HD lacks
both a speaker and a camera,
though neither is necessarily a
mark against it. Still, both options
would be welcome.
Screen
One of the first PMPs with an
OLED screen (the Sony X-Series
being the other major one), the
Zune HD theoretically has a
sharper picture and deeper blacks
compared with LED screens like
the one on the iPod Touch.
The Zune HD's screen is a 3.3-
inch multitouch capacitive
touchscreen, in a 16:9
(widescreen) ratio running at an
ironically non-HD 480x272. The
iPod Touch, in comparison, is a
3.5-inch multitouch capacitive
LED, but in 4:3 (fullscreen) ratio
running at 480×320, which is
more efficient for web browsing
but a waste of space for
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Part of this difference is due to
technology and part of this is due
to UI. The iPod touch uses black
text on white for music and video
browsing, while the Zune HD is
reversed. The Zune HD's black
background acts as a mirror,
making it difficult to see anything
but your own annoyed face.
Video
To take advantage of that
premium OLED screen, Microsoft
is really pushing high-quality
video playback on the Zune HD.
iPod comparisons aside, my
sample HD clip (a 720p episode
of Battlestar Galactica bought
from the Zune store) sparkles. Tap
the screen while video's playing
and "Quickplay controls" bring up
every button you need.
Codec support, however,
reduces the Zune HD's appeal as a
general purpose video player. It
plays WMV, MP4, H.264 and
DVR-MS (recorded video from
Windows Media Center), which
means it will play iPod-formatted
clips (though of course not
straightforward media playback. DRMed videos). That's missing
T h e y ' r e p r e t t y e q u a l i n every codec video pirates care
responsiveness, both being about about, most importantly DivX for
as accurate a touchscreen as SD and MKV for HD. If you've
you're likely to find. got a load of torrented HD video
The Zune HD's screen is in MKV like I do, you're a bit
definitely sharper and with truer s c r e w e d — I t r i e d s e v e r a l
colors than the iPod Touch, when converters (iSquint, Cucusoft,
compared with the same video (a Handbrake) and never managed to
standard-def episode of Anthony transcode MKV to a decent-
Bourdain: No Reservations). The quality Zune-compatible file. If
iPod Touch's pixels were clearly Microsoft isn't going to include a
visible and the color seemed converter in the software, the
washed out and weak compared to Zune HD should at least support
the Zune HD. However, it's not a DivX (like Samsung's P3).
perfect win for OLED: The Zune The thing is, the Zune HD is
H D ' s s c r e e n i s e x t r e m e l y actually on par with the category
reflective, making it difficult to leaders (iPod Touch, Sony X-
read in sunlight, while the iPod Series) in codec support: All three
Touch's LED was quite easy to
read in the same conditions. ZUNE page 33
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force you to either get your video
directly from the manufacturer's
stores or transcode your video
into their specific formats.
Microsoft could have scored huge
with video freaks by supporting
DivX and MKV. It's frankly a
huge pain in the ass to have to
convert every single video I want
to watch on my PMP.
If you're really into torrented
videos, I'd recommend the
Samsung P3, although in just
about every other way the Zune
HD is a far superior device.
Zune as Media Center
The Zune HD's unparalleled
ability to output video in 720p is a
major selling point for the device,
and let me tell you, it's everything
you'd hope it would be. Video is
crisp, clear and smooth, looking
just as good as the same video
played through any bulky media
streamer. The interface as a whole
actually translates really well to a
bigger screen, slightly dumbed
down for speed's sake (for
example, there's no background
artist image on the now playing
screen). It's not as full-featured as
an HTPC, but for just playing
back your media, it does a great
job. The screensaver on the now
playing screen looks especially
awesome on a big HDTV.
But to take advantage of HD
content on your television, you'll
need to buy the $90 AV dock,
which comes with the dock itself
(including antenna for radio), a
remote, an HDMI cable and a
composite cable. Is it worth it? I'd
say yes, if you've got an HDTV
and plan to buy a lot of HD
content from Zune marketplace. If
you just want to display some
video on a TV, you can buy the
last-gen Zune's standard-def AV
pack for less than $20, all of
which is compatible with the
Zune HD. However, if you go the
cheapskate route, you'll be
missing a major part of what
separates the Zune HD from the
pack. Not that it's bad to toss a
few 128kbps mp3 files on for a
bus ride, but you wouldn't really
be taking advantage of what the
Zune HD can do. User Interface
Using the Zune HD and the
iPod Touch together is
jarring—they do mostly the same
things, but they look vastly
different. The Zune HD's UI is
everything but an example of
Apple minimalism, constantly
teetering between digital eye
candy and complete ocular over-
stimulation. It's a white text on
black layout, and has the very
cool (and a little ballsy) design
choice to zoom in to certain items
so much that they're actually
cropped out of the screen. For
example, on the homescreen, the
word "marketplace" is cut off at
the penultimate letter. Some will
hate the design, but I think it's a
really interesting, aggressively
artsy choice. Even when the UI
feels too cluttered, which it
sometimes does, it's still great to
look at.
Homescreen
The homescreen is actually two
homescreens in one. You've got
the standard list of features, in this
case "music, videos, pictures,
radio, marketplace, social,
podcasts, internet, settings," but
there's also a Quickplay menu
shrunk to the left side of the
screen.
The Quickplay menu mirrors
the new front page of the Zune
software: It shows the album art
and song title of the song that's
currently playing (if there is one
currently playing), but also your
"Pins," "History," and "New."
Pins are like favorites—you can
tap and hold any item (song,
podcast, video, photo) and pin it
to this top menu. It's great if
you're listening to something long
like an audiobook or podcast.
History is your recently played
items, and New shows the most
recent items you've synced to the
Zune HD. That last is my favorite
of all—I've got a huge and always
expanding music collection, and
tend to forget which albums I've
just added to my PMP. It's also
great if you use the ZunePass
subscription service, since you'll
be downloading so much you'll
forget what you meant to listen to.
Content Browsing
The Zune HD uses the same
grab-and-flick method of
touchscreen navigation as the
iPod Touch and Sony X-Series,
though like the X-Series it doesn't
feel quite as fluid or organic as
the iPod Touch. Trying to scroll
really quickly through a long list
of artists feels like it takes longer
than it should, which is probably
why Microsoft implemented an
alphabet system. As you scroll
through the lists of artists, albums
or whatever, the actual letters are
placed in their appropriate spots
(on mine, the list of artists will
read "Iron and Wine, Islands, J,
Jay Reatard, Joe Strummer and
the Mescaleros). Tap any of these
letters to bring up the full
alphabet, any letter of which can
be tapped to take you right there.
This is a decent method to get
around long lists quickly, but I'd
have preferred to separate the
letters from the lists of actual
items. I've accidentally hit a letter
when I meant to hit an artist, and
that could easily have been solved
with a scrolling alphabet bar on
the side.
Browsing through artist lists is
mostly straightforward—mostly.
There's a bit of a continuity issue
with the "one step back" function.
On the now playing screen, it's a
left-pointing arrow in the top left
corner, which is extremely
obvious. But once you hit it,
you're on the song's page (with
options like email and rate), but
now there's no back button.
Instead, there's a word written in
huge letters, so huge in fact that
they're cut off and not readable.
Those letters actually spell out the
name of the album, and tapping it
functions as a back button, taking
you back to the album. This can
be fixed with a firmware
update—just add a clear "back"
icon like on the now playing
screen!
Now Playing
The Now Playing screen
cleverly finds a photo of the artist
and uses that as the wallpaper,
and I love the screensaver that
slowly scrolls the artist, track
name, album name, length and
album art. Microsoft nails the
advanced design work—what
about the obvious? How do I
pause, navigate forward and
backward, and adjust volume? It's
not as easy as it should be.
All of those controls are
relegated to another Quickplay
menu, activated either by the left
side button or by tapping
anywhere on the now playing
screen that's not another button. I
don't want to bring up a sub-menu
to do things like pause music or
adjust volume when relatively
unimportant options like ratings
get their own space on the screen.
Again, I get the sense that
Microsoft was so enamored with
the beauty of the UI (and it is
certainly full of eye candy) that
they refused to adjust it to insert
simple playback controls.
Radio
33
Surprisingly, FM radio has
become a hot topic in PMPs,
thanks to Microsoft's
announcement that the Zune HD
will support HD radio and now
Apple's reversal on its long-held
aversion to FM with its new iPod
Nano. But HD radio is another
example of Microsoft expanding
the boundaries of the PMP: "So
you support FM radio? We're
going to support it better."
HD radio allows for both more
stations and (hopefully) higher
quality broadcasts. The Zune
HD's radio will often pick up two
simultaneous broadcasts from one
station, like San Francisco's
KFOG-1 and KFOG-2. The Zune
HD's reception is excellent, at
least as clear as the iPod Nano,
able to pick up a handful of HD
stations, all with RDS data (artist,
song name). Like the Nano, the
Zune HD can pause and cache
live radio, a great function,
though it also cannot record.
Internet Browser
This is a serious surprise, after
seeing the similar Sony X-Series's
browser crash, burn, and then
explode shards of awful all over
me, but the Zune HD's internet
browser is awesome. The
narrower 3.3-inch widescreen isn't
as spacious as that of the iPod
Touch and pages definitely load a
little slower, but besides that it's a
full-featured, fast and responsive
browser. The accelerometer is
very quick, panning is smooth and
easy, and the standard multitouch
gestures (pinch, drag) work
nicely. Unfortunately, the Zune
HD does not support YouTube or
any other Flash video, which
would have been a nice feature for
quickly listening to new music.
The soft keyboard is functional
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ARM breaks 2GHz barrier with dual core Cortex-A9 processor

By Doug Aamoth Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ hard embedded applications across a Both ARM dual core Cortex-A9
(CrunchGear) macro implementations for the broad spectrum of demanding hard macros will share a common
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:00:00 AM TSMC 40nm-G process, enabling consumer and enterprise devices,” seven-power domain, dual-
silicon manufacturers to have a said Eric Schorn, VP marketing, NEON™ technology
Great Neptune’s trousers! rapid and low-risk route to silicon Processor Division, ARM. configuration supporting SMP
ARM has just announced the for high-performance, low-power “ARM’s parallel development of (symmetrical multiprocessing)
development of a dual core C o r t e x - A 9 p r o c e s s o r - b a s e d advanced, optimized physical IP operating systems with up to 8MB
mobile processor capable of devices. The speed-optimized components demonstrates a new of Level2 cache memory and will
breaking the 2GHz barrier. The hard macro implementation will level of collaborative be delivered with all scripts,
40nm Cortex-A9 CPU will use enable devices to operate at differentiation while enabling our vectors and libraries required to
conventional silicon chips and frequencies greater than 2GHz. high-margin performance- Partners to expand their integrate the macro directly within
each CPU core will consume less The dual core hard macro oriented applications. penetration into high margin any SoC device.
than 0.25 watts of power. implementations are the result of Power Optimized domains traditionally occupied by To enable the development of
While ARM’s aiming the chip ARM’s significant investment in In many thermally constrained proprietary architectures.” high-efficiency, low risk SoCs
at “applications such as set-top a d v a n c e d p h y s i c a l I P applications such as set-top boxes, “ARM’s long-standing using other Cortex-A9 processor
boxes, DTVs, printers, and other development in unison with DTVs, printers and other feature- i n v e s t m e n t i n l o w - p o w e r configurations, ARM also
feature-rich consumer and high- p r o c e s s o r a n d f a b r i c I P rich consumer and high-density leadership and ability to develop provides the silicon-proven SoC-
density enterprise applications,” technology, and leading-edge enterprise applications, energy such high-performance devices level ARM Physical IP platform
t h e S m a r t B o o k a n d M I D implementation flows from the e f f i c i e n c y i s o f p a r a m o u n t enables licensees to lower the cost used to build these hard macros,
movements could probably make EDA industry. Advanced physical importance. The Cortex-A9 power and risk of entering the high- and a range of AMBA-compliant
some waves by using dual-core IP techniques have enabled - o p t i m i z e d h a r d m a c r o margin markets currently system development components
2GHz setups as well. critical circuits within the design implementation delivers its peak a d d r e s s e d w i t h c o m p e t i n g and tools.
The technology will become to be replaced with highly tuned performance of 4000 DMIPS proprietary solutions,” said Will In addition, the ARM Active
available to hardware builders in l o g i c c e l l s a n d m e m o r i e s , w h i l e c o n s u m i n g l e s s t h a n Strauss, principal analyst at Assist consulting service,
Q4 of this year, although “the increasing performance while 250mW per CPU when selected Forward Concepts. “With single- developed in conjunction with the
Cortex-A9 hard macros and the l o w e r i n g o v e r a l l p o w e r from typical silicon. thread performance capable of hard macros, enables ARM
corresponding optimized physical c o n s u m p t i o n . T h e h a r d m a c r o supporting very intensive Partners to efficiently integrate
IP used to develop the speed- Speed Optimized implementations include ARM workloads, the unprecedented the hardened macro into their SoC
optimized and power-optimized The Cortex-A9 speed-optimized A M B A ® - c o m p l i a n t h i g h level of power efficiency will design to realize maximum
implementations are available for hard macro implementation will performance system components enable licensees to introduce system performance with lowest
license today.” provide system designers with an to maximize data traffic speed and compelling new products.” risk and fastest time-to-market.
Full press release: industry standard ARM® minimize power consumption and “ARM and TSMC have enjoyed Availability
ARM Announces 2GHz p r o c e s s o r i n c o r p o r a t i n g silicon area. Each Cortex-A9 hard a long standing relationship of The Cortex-A9 hard macros and
Capable Cortex-A9 Dual Core aggressive low-power techniques m a c r o i m p l e m e n t a t i o n a l s o collaboration to ensure the the corresponding optimized
Processor Implementation to further extend ARM’s includes the CoreSight™ Program development and delivery of best- physical IP used to develop the
A R M C o r t e x p r o c e s s o r performance leadership into high- Trace Macrocell (PTM) which in-class products optimized for speed-optimized and power-
technology and physical IP margin consumer and enterprise provides full visibility into the our manufacturing process,” said optimized implementations are
developed in unison to deliver d e v i c e s w i t h i n t h e p o w e r processor’s instruction flow, ST Juang, Sr. Director, Design available for license today with
high performance and low-power envelope necessary for compact, enabling the software community Infrastructure Marketing Division, delivery in the fourth quarter of
processing for consumer and h i g h - d e n s i t y a n d t h e r m a l l y to develop code for optimal TSMC. “This provides OEMs 2009. ARM’s 40G physical IP
enterprise markets constrained environments. This performance. developing feature-rich consumer platform is also available today at
CAMBRIDGE, UK – Sept. 16, hard macro implementation “The Cortex-A9 MPCore and enterprise devices access to designstart.arm.com.
2009 – ARM [(LSE: ARM); operates in excess of 2GHz when processor has already been widely T S M C ’ s m a n u f a c t u r i n g
(Nasdaq: ARMH)] announced selected from typical silicon and accepted as the processor of excellence and the power of ARM
today the development of two represents an ideal solution for choice for high-performance processor IP”
Internet News Record
ZUNE
continued from page 33
(if a little small), built-in Bing
search works well, and even an
intense site like Gizmodo loads
with no problem. Please,
Microsoft: Stick this browser in
Windows Mobile. Syncing
The Zune software has been
updated with a few features and
slight UI changes to match the
Zune HD. It now has a front page
similar to the Zune HD's
homescreen Quickplay, and puts
more of an emphasis on Smart DJ,
which is an evolution of
Microsoft's Pandora-like
recommendation service. If you're
not a member of the ZunePass
subscription service, it'll
recommend music in your own
library, and if you are, it'll dig
through the ZunePass's massive
collection. But it's largely
unchanged, which is a good thing.
The Zune HD is, like the other
Zunes, Windows only. It can only
sync with the Zune software,
which is restricted to Windows.
This is, of course, a huge
mistake on Microsoft's part. Mac
users would be right in the
demographic sweet spot to be
interested in the Zune HD: Media-
loving, style-conscious, with
money to burn on gadgets. Hell,
the 32GB platinum Zune HD even
matches the unibody MacBook
Looks like iTunes LP can be pirated after all: Muse album found online
By Nicholas Deleon
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:40:40 AM
Maybe there’s no DRM on
iTunes LP after all? I could have
sworn that when Apple
announced the completely useless
new feature last week that it had
said there would be measures in
place to prevent people from
Pro models. But with yet another
Zune shunning Mac compatibility,
it seems certain that Microsoft has
given up on converting Apple
zealots.
Apps
Well, there are apps,
technically. But Microsoft has
stressed that the Zune HD is a
media device first and
foremost—there's no SDK, so
independent development is out
for now, and the Zune team seems
to have little interest in competing
with Apple's App Store. At
launch, the Zune HD has seven
games and two utilities (calculator
and weather) available. The
games are just ports of the games
from older Zunes, like poker and
sudoku. Even further, Microsoft
has confirmed that Facebook and
Twitter apps will come to the
Zune HD, but only around
November. For some, this may be
the big weakness. The iPod Touch
is really a pocket computer with
an excellent touch-based music
and video app. When you grab a
Touch, you're just as likely to play
a game or check your email as
you are to play some music.
Meawhile, Archos and Creative
both use Android, a mobile
computing OS, to do similar
things. The Zune HD doesn't have
sharing iTunes LP files with one
another. Apparently not, since I
was able to find the iTunes LP
version of the new Muse album
online a few minutes ago. Exactly
where I found it is irrelevant;
what’s newsworthy is that, yeah,
it seems that these things can be
passed around pretty easily.
The file is one .itlp file that comparison’s sake, a standard
weighs in at around 326MB. (For scene rip of the album is 76MB.)
the benefit of these ecosystems.
The app selection just confirms
that the Zune HD is a PMP and
not a mobile computer. You can't
even move an app to the
homescreen; they stay stuck in the
"apps" section, way down the list,
confined like a grounded child to
their bedroom.
However, the XNA team has
just released an add-on for XNA
Game Studio 3.1 that will allow
developers to create apps for the
Zune HD. They've demonstrated a
multi-touch drawing app as proof,
which is very cool, but remember,
apps (like music and video) need
to be loaded onto the device via
the Zune software—and who
knows whether Microsoft will
allow third-party apps into the
marketplace.
Best of Breed
The Zune HD is the best
touchscreen PMP on the market.
It's got the most unique vision, the
most impressive hardware and the
most stylish software. It's priced
fairly at $220 for 16GB and $290
for 32GB, though I'd call the $90
dock a required accessory.
But I'm not sure that's enough.
PMPs like the Zune HD and Sony
X-Series try to advance the genre
with new and impressive media
playback features, but the success
Gadgets/ Entertainment
of the iPod Touch shows that that
media playback alone isn't
necessarily enough anymore.
People seem to want pocketable
computers, either in smartphone
or near-smartphone form, or
simpler, smaller devices like the
iPod Nano and SanDisk's Sansa
line. So it's not going to steal sales
from the iPod Touch, but it should
make some Samsung and Sony
executives pretty jealous.
I'm left wishing Microsoft could
get its Zune team to work with
(read: boss around) the Windows
Mobile team to put together a
media phone. The Zune HD is a
great PMP, but it could have been
a jaw-dropping, unbelievable
phone.
Flashy and unusual hardware
Excellent software integration
Advanced media features like
HD video-out and HD radio
Surprisingly excellent internet
browser
Requires $90 accessory to be
actually "HD"
UI is beautiful, but sometimes
confusing
Capacity restricted to 16GB and
32GB
Disappointing codec support
By merely dragging that one .itlp
file into your iTunes library you
now have access to the full iTunes
LP album. I checked out a few
pictures, but seeing as though I
wouldn’t know who Muse is if
they’d punch me in the face (I’m
more of a house and hip-hop guy;
rock, eh…) it didn’t interest me a
great deal.
One word of caution to would-
35
Jenna Elfman Baby
News!
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:30:00 AM
ET has the latest...
Actress Jenna Elfman has
revealed she's expecting baby
number two!
Elfman announced her big news
today on CBS' "The Early Show"
while talking with Julie Chen
about her new comedy
"Accidentally on Purpose."
Jenna and her husband, Bodhi
Elfman, already have one son, 2-
year-old Story Elias.
Video: KORG places an
iPhone pocket in its
microSAMPLER, calls it
a day
ByThe
Joseph
kids L. Flatley
over at Korg are a
(Engadget)
savvy bunch -- they know that the
be iTunes LP pirates: it seems that
your iTunes account info is
embedded in the files, so I
wouldn’t go around uploading
your .itlp of The Blueprint 3 to
Rapidshare or whatever.
And yes, that USB drive is
named WWE. I’m a dork.
36 Gadgets/ Tech News/
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continued from page 35
best way to perk up jaded
bloggers (such as ourselves) is to
somehow attach an iPhone to their
device. Unfortunately, what we
thought at first glance was an
innovative/insane new way to
make music on Apple's flagship
handset turns out to be, in fact,
little more than a sampler with a
pocket for your media player and
a 1/4-inch audio input. While we
have you here, however, we'd be
remiss if we didn't mention that,
as samplers go, this one is pretty
awesome. Featuring a 37-key
keyboard, a number of sample
modes (including autonext mode,
which auto-magically slices a beat
into individual hits, not unlike
Propellerhead's ReCycle), a preset
sound library, 21 KAOS-driven
multi-parameter effects, and a
USB cable for managing sounds
on your Mac or PC (with the
included Editor Librarian
software), this could be the
perfect companion for the
microKORG that's already
collecting dust in your bedroom.
Of course, Korg wouldn't be able
to sell this thing at Guitar Center
without a heavy-handed,
borderline silly promo vid
("Suddenly... you receive a gift...
FROM YOUR OWN MIND... in
the form of: THE PERFECT
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Vuzix Wrap 310 video eyewear actually isn't the ugliest thing of
all time
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:44:00 AM
Could it be? Could it really be?
Has Vuzix actually deployed a
video eyewear solution that isn't
completely unsightly in every
imaginable way? Our eyes may be
deceiving us, but we're going with
"yes, amazingly" for the time
being. Unlike the company's
iWear line -- which looks pretty
much exactly like the specs worn
by Geordi La Forge -- the
unpriced Wrap 310 resembles a
set of sunglasses. Now, these
aren't apt to be mistaken for
Aviators or those patented Kayne
joints, but at least you'd look
halfway civilized if caught in
public with these on your face.
Packing a pair of video displays
and promising a virtual 55-inch
image, these get juiced by just
two AA cells and can play nice
with pretty much any video
source, iPod and iPhone included.
There's also an expansion port
that'll give it VGA / component
outputs in the near future, and if
you subscribe to science fiction, it
could also be used to read minds
in around a score.
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The Onion Releases an iPhone App

By Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/15/2009 9:33:16 PM
Comedy website The Onion has
released an iPhone application
called The Onion Microfiche
Reader. It's pretty cool. The app
lets you flip through very short
joke-headlines in an interface that
looks like the old microfiche
readers. There's no satire news
stories associated, just funny
headlines. The Onion understands
that "you must be very busy to
have such an important phone."
download of the company's video
and audio podcasts and easy
sharing on Facebook and Twitter.
It's definitely worth the 99 cents
they are charging for it. Unless
you're broke, in which case don't
bother.
The app also offers easy Sponsor
Will this "flip through the
stories" application end up
making more money than
Google's too-serious (yet light-
weight) Fast Flip, launched
yesterday? That doesn't seem
outside the realm of possibilities.
Discuss
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Mouse steals cheese, iPhone 3.1

jailbreak released
By Kevin Harter (The Unofficial unlock; however the original
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) iPhone should be unlocked
Submitted at 9/15/2009 11:30:00 PM without this additional step.
You will need a Mac to run
Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, Pwnage Tool 3.1, but a Windows
Jailbreak/pwnage The legendary version is expected in the near
Dev-Team has done it again. It future. Also expected soon is
just released the new version of redsn0w, for both Mac and
the Pwnage Tool, a desktop Windows, that further simplifies
application that's used to create the jailbreak process by avoiding
custom firmware packages to the need to create a custom
Super Talent's 2TB jailbreak iPhones and iPod
touches.
firmware package.
Keep in mind, if you've been
RAIDDrive shipping next Jailbreaking is the act of waiting for a jailbreak solution
modifying the official firmware in the first firmware loophole was before upgrading to the latest
order to run applications not exploited and the original iPhone firmware, many users have had
month to the rich and silly approved by Apple. Chief among was unlocked.
those applications, at least for the
fairly substantial issues with
Well, the mouse has stolen the iPhone 3.1. My fellow TUAW
By Darren Murph (Engadget) model that tops out at 2TB. For iPhone crowd, is the SIM unlock cheese once again, and the blogger, Josh Carr, has reported
Submitted at 9/16/2009 12:21:00 PM those able to deal with "just" 1TB, that allows the phone to be used Pwnage Tool released today will that lots of iPhones and iPod
there's the RAIDDrive ES and on unofficial cell phone service jailbreak the latest firmware, touches are working poorly after
Remember that 2TB PCIe RAIDDrive WS, both of which providers. version 3.1.* upgrading. You may wish to hold
RAIDDrive we peeked earlier this are detailed further in the read The Dev-Team has found holes The big asterisk at the end of off and stick with 3.0 or 3.0.1
year? Yeah, that was no April link. No exact pricing has been in previous versions of the iPhone that previous sentence is that the until a solution is found, either by
Fool's joke. Super Talent's answer nailed down yet for the flagship O S t h a t a l l o w t h i s c o d e Tool will only work on about half Apple or some other group of
to OCZ Technology's Z-Drive is unit, but considering that the 1TB modification and has developed of the devices that use the iPhone smart people.
on track to ship next month, RAIDDrive GS is pegged at tools to make exploitation easier OS -- only the original iPhone, But, if you're so inclined, you
shortly after it makes a quick stop $4,999 for OEMs, we'll let your f o r t h e a v e r a g e u s e r t o original iPod touch, and iPhone may find links to download
by IDF next week. The device imagination do the rest. accomplish. Once implemented, 3G. The iPod touch line just Pwnage Tool 3.1 on the Dev-
slots into one's PCIe bus and Filed under: Storage the jailbreak process installs an released, as well as the 2nd Team's official blog. Make sure to
utilizes a RAID architecture Super Talent's 2TB RAIDDrive app that acts an unofficial App generation iPod touch and the read the instructions thoroughly,
specifically tailored to work with shipping next month to the rich Store of sorts. The iPhone or iPod iPhone 3GS, cannot be jailbroken and take heed of all of the
NAND flash memory. In fact, the and silly originally appeared on touch user can browse and install at this time. That means if you've warnings. They are there for a
outfit has actually boosted the Engadget on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 games, utilities, themes, and already upgraded to 3.1 on your reason.
transfer speeds from the 1.3GBps 12:21:00 EST. Please see our general applications. Cydia, one 3GS, you still won't be able to TUAW Mouse steals cheese,
estimate to a 1.4GBps promise. terms for use of feeds. Read| of these installer apps, even has a SIM unlock it as of the time of iPhone 3.1 jailbreak released
The aluminum enclosure houses Permalink| Email this| Comments store with applications for sale. this post. originally appeared on The
four discrete SATA SSDs, with Traditionally, when Apple So, if you want to SIM unlock U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g
the RAIDDrive GS being the releases a new iPhone OS version, your iPhone 3G or the original (TUAW) on Tue, 15 Sep 2009
that software upgrade breaks any model, Pwnage Tool 3.1 should 23:30:00 EST. Please see our
jailbreak and SIM unlock present do the trick. On the 3G, you'll terms for use of feeds.
on the device. And so, you end up need to use Icy or Cydia to also Read| Permalink| Email this|
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Steve Jobs alluded to shortly after actually performs the software
38 Tech/
Mashable’s Weekly Social Media & Marketing Job Guide
By Tamar Weinberg
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:34:09 AM
If you’re seeking a job in social
media, we’d like to help out. For
starters, Mashable’s Job Lists
section gathers together all our
resource lists, how-tos and expert
guides to help you get hired. In
particular, you might want to see
our articles on How to Leverage
Social Media for Career Success
and How to Find a Job on Twitter.
But we’d like to help in a more
direct way, too. Mashable’s job
boards are a place for socially-
savvy companies to find people
like you. This week and every
week, Mashable features its
coveted job board listings for a
variety of positions in the web,
social media space, and beyond.
Have a look at what’s good and
new on our job boards: Mashable
Job Board Listings Community
Chief at kgbweb in New York,
NY.
As the Head of Community
Development and social media
you will be a core member of our
leadership group. You will
immediately have the ability to
drive our overall direction for user
acquisition, community
development and maintenance,
and social media engagement.
You will be the translator between
us, our community of users, and
the overall tech community.
Read more about this
opportunity here. Senior
Interaction Designer at kgbweb in
New York, NY.
As a Senior Interaction
Designer you will be a core
member of our User Experience
group, a small team of highly-
talented wizards responsible for
the entire design and interactivity
of our site. We expect you to push
the limits of technology and
interactive design. With so much
to get done, every member of the
team is encouraged to participate
in all areas of the group. We
expect this to excite our
candidates and find that the right
candidates often make great
contributions outside their area of
focus.
Read more about this
opportunity here. CTO at a stealth
prediction market company in
New York, NY.
A stealth prediction market
company seeks a CTO. This C-
level team member will have
considerable freedom to develop
an already successful product.
You will be compensated via a
mix of cash and equity.
Read more about this
opportunity here. Senior Web
Analytics Manager at Digitaria in
San Diego, CA.
As a member of Digitaria’s
growing analytics practice, the
successful candidate will work
with our clients to meet their
reporting needs through ongoing
analytics and strategic planning.
The successful candidate will
blend analytic and technical skills,
and will be as comfortable
working with clients to establish
their analytics requirements as
they are implementing analytics
code on existing sites.
Read more about this
opportunity here. Assistant
Content Manager at BFG
Communications in Savannah,
GA.
Your friends call you a social
media addict. You think 140
characters at a time. You have a
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You’ll oversee, create and
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One of the fastest-growing
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Large ecommerce retailer
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Marketing Manager at American
Express in New York City.
American Express is seeking a
Social Media Marketing Manager
to help develop innovative social
media marketing campaigns and
content that deliver on business
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Content Distribution at Beliefnet
in New York City.
You’ll develop and drive traffic
syndication strategy using content
distribution channels, develop and
drive content syndication strategy
using widgets, feeds and other
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develop and sell widget
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Engineering at Mr. Youth in New
York City.
The VP of Engineering will play
a key role in helping to conceive,
build and oversee the next
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We need a full-time developer
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Analyst at Visible Measures in
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TechCrunch50: Real-time stream is more like a flash flood
By Caroline McCarthy
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/15/2009 5:49:00 PM
SAN FRANCISCO--By late
afternoon on Tuesday, it was
getting awfully hot in the
conference venue hosting
TechCrunch50. Blame it on the
body heat, or maybe the scores of
laptops humming away.
But the air was sure to get a
little hotter when it came time for
the "Social Media Streams"
category of start-ups to present.
The organizers of
TechCrunch50 decided to save the
last slot on the final day of the
event (you know, right before
everybody starts downing booze
at the cocktail reception) to
showcase new start-ups that deal
with Silicon Valley's most hyped
niche of the moment: real-time
social media. As if Facebook and
Twitter couldn't be dominating
enough headlines here, there were
six start-ups filling up the
"stream" category: Threadsy,
Lissn, Radiusly, Stribe, Clixtr,
and The Whuffie Bank. And the
panel of judges was joined by
Twitter-savvy rapper
Chamillionaire as a surprise guest.
Guess what? The judges, some
of whom have been known to
drink Silicon Valley hype Kool-
Aid as though it were the world's
finest wine, didn't think we
needed most of these companies.
Oh, boy.
Threadsy's CEO Rob Goldman
demos the site.(Credit: CNET /
Josh Lowensohn)
Threadsy, whose founders
called it "the world's first
integrated commnications client,"
was the best received of the bunch
by far. It's a messaging client that
aggregates e-mails, Facebook
messages, Twitter replies, instant
messages, and also "unbound"
communications like general
tweets and status messages that
aren't necessarily geared to you.
"We built Threadsy to pull you
back together," CEO Rob
Goldman told the audience, citing
the rapidly growing percentage of
Americans who are using more
than one messaging client ona
regular basis.
It's got a slick interface, can also
aggregate automated profiles for
your contacts' social-network
feeds, and can track Twitter
queries in an almost dizzying
visual format.
"I think Robert Scoble's head
was about to explode," conference
organizer Jason Calacanis
commented afterward, referring to
the Valley mainstay's near-
pathological obsession with social
feed aggregation.
Scoble's response was
remarkably pragmatic.
"I'm just wondering if it has the
FriendFeed problem," he said,
"which means there's not enough
people in the world that care
about aggregating all their friends'
social networks," but added that
he wanted to try it out as soon as
possible. A few of the other
judges raised questions about how
Threadsy will make money,
considering inboxes have never
been a huge trove for ad dollars.
Goldman's answer was a little bit
convoluted, which this reporter
took to mean that Threadsy hasn't
quite figured it out yet.
Up next was Lissn, which
appeared to be a combination of a
news aggregator, a chat room, and
a question-and-answer service.
"Lissn starts with a conversation,"
founder Myke Armstrong said,
and then demonstrated the app by
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Next in the lineup was Stribe,
which is in the same vein as
Meebo's chat toolbar and Google
Friend Connect--in other words,
something that a smattering of
established companies are already
trying--adding social-networking
features to any site by adding a
chunk of code. Stribe can provide
metrics pertaining to traffic and
engagement, too.
Stribe's social network on a
page (click to enlarge).(Credit:
CNET / Josh Lowensohn)
This was another well-designed
one, but it was met with more
skepticism. "I think one of the
hardest things about these
networks is actually getting the
community to sign up," Facebook
exec Mike Schroepfer said on the
panel of judges. Dick Costolo
gently reminded the Stribe team,
"You can do too many things and
then it becomes difficult for
people to understand what they
should use your product
for...when you try to do a lot of
things at once, it confuses people
posting the question "What would communication problems for as to how they should use it and
happen if the moon disappeared?" companies and brands that want then they just don't use it."
and watched comments and to use microblogging and other The fifth company in the lineup
answers roll in. What wasn't social-media tools--many of received a somewhat better
really clear was exactly why which aren't terribly customizable. reaction. Called Clixtr, it's an
anyone would use it, what with A company can build a Radiusly iPhone app (and eventually
Twitter, Facebook statuses, and profile to create a directory of expanding to more handsets) that
various "conversation" trackers official social-network profiles for combines photo-sharing with
out there already. its employees, manage them location awareness, turning the
"Why would I leave Twitter to internally, and share media like phone into what CEO Fergus
join this?" Scoble asked. Harsh product images and videos for Hurley called "the ultimate social
words coming from the guy who marketing and customer service camera." Clixtr's hook is event
loves to rave about the next shiny purposes. photos: The iPhone app lets you
thing that streams words across "I think you guys aimed at the browse pictures from geo-tagged
your laptop screen. right target but your dart hit the events, send photos instantly to
Lissn lets people begin wall and not the target," Scoble other Clixtr users' phones, and
conversations about whatever said. LinkedIn founder Reid find events near you.
they want.(Credit: CNET / Josh Hoffman chimed in, "In a rare "I think that was awesome,"
Lowensohn) position I agree with much of Schroepfer said, but expressed
Lissn was followed by Radiusly, w h a t R o b e r t ( S c o b l e ) w a s
which aims to solve scaling and s a y i n g . " O u c h . TECHCRUNCH50: page 44
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Opera Mini 5 beta browser strikes it rich

By Jessica Dolcourt single line. To address another Because it doesn't access the
(Webware.com) long-overdue fix, Opera now lets Internet directly but delivers
Submitted at 9/15/2009 11:00:00 PM you type directly into a text field. online content through Opera's
In previous versions, clicking a servers, it can't handle network
These days, Mozilla's Fennec field opened up a blank page, limitations like a Wi-Fi sign-in
and the Skyfire browser have where you were prompted to start page. The workaround is to
been stealing all the thunder in the typing before you could return to simply accept the Wi-Fi
mobile browsing space. On the main interface. provider's terms from the phone's
Wednesday morning (that's Opera Mini gets into Opera default browser and then skip
Tuesday night for us in San D e s k t o p ' s S p e e d D i a l s t a r t back into Opera Mini to do the
Francisco), Opera yanked some of screen.(Credit: Opera Software) real browsing. However, this does
it back with the release of Opera Opera Mini's navigation menu disrupt the otherwise fluid
Mini 5 beta for Java phones. received another overhaul in Mini experience. Opera Mini isn't the
Introducing a graphically 5 beta. Opera moved it up to the only one with this issue; Skyfire
enriched layout topside and new top and made it completely icon- (which competes right now with
features below decks, the new based. Press downward (on a D- Opera Mobile, not Opera Mini)
Opera Mini beta browser is pad for a keypad phone) to engage produced the same road block,
snappier, more attractive, and more items, like bookmarks, too.
more advanced than last year's history, settings, and the Find in Apart from these drawbacks,
predecessor, Opera Mini 4.2. Mini Page search tool, a new one for Opera Mini 5 beta is shaping up
5 beta brings over several features Opera Mini. Find in Page has to become a worthy upgrade from
from Opera's desktop browser ( previously been available in Opera 4.2. It showed solid Wi-Fi
Opera 10 for Windows| Mac.) Opera Mobile for Windows and 3G performance during our
Tabbed browsing is among them, Mobile and Symbian phones, but five days of testing (on a Sony
as is a password manager. Each this is the first time Opera has Ericsson W995), and the four
page opens with Speed Dial, a tailored it for Java phones. text, opening the image, and now, Java phones.(Credit: Opera main improvements--Speed Dial,
grid of nine thumbnail images and Also new to Mini, the password for opening content in a new tab. Software) tabbing, Menu, and Password
Opera Desktop mainstay, that you manager works as expected, What's missing We keep hoping that Opera will Manager--can be put to immediate
assign to favorite Web sites and producing a dialog box the first Opera shook out a few features do something interesting with use. Keep it coming, Opera.
can select among to quickly time you log into a site asking if found in Opera Mini 4.2 when it video other than produce klugey You can download Opera Mini
launch a Web page. The Speed you'd like it to remember your developed Mini 5 beta. Skins alternatives like triggering the 5 b e t a f o r f r e e f r o m
Dial view replaces Opera Mini's credentials. You can turn this off were one casualty, as are the phone's media player to play h t t p : / / m . o p e r a . c o m / n e x t .
previous landing page, a tangle of in the Privacy portion of the ability to create a new search them. You still can play video BlackBerry owners will see a
links capped with a search box Settings submenu. engine from any Web site, and within the browser when you visit slightly different version, one that
and URL field. These thumbnail Many additional features carry most importantly, Opera Link. a site like YouTube's mobile site, integrates BlackBerry's context
images make the landing page over from previous Opera Mini The latter is Opera's service for but they won't play from the menus and copy/paste. It also
more meaningful, both in giving versions, including options to syncing your bookmarks and standard YouTube.com. An Opera triggers an e-mail message when
users a visual they can instantly view the page as you would from Speed Dial between your various spokesperson told CNET that you click a Mailto: link in a Web
recognize, and creating an easier the desktop versus a mobile view. browsers, like desktop and t h e r e ' s n o c u r r e n t p l a n t o page.
target for users to accurately hit There are also the usual shortcut mobile. Since Speed Dial is such transcode video, especially when What do you think of the new
on touchscreen phones than a keys and support for landscape an elemental part of the new there is a workaround that doesn't beta?
scrawny little link. mode on most phones (not on design, it's almost certain to return strain Opera's development Originally posted at The
While the URL field and search BlackBerrys, unfortunately, an by the final version. Opera says it resources. They're focusing on Download Blog
bars haven't joined together in this ongoing omission). There are also also plans to reinclude customized browser speed and compression
beta as they have in other mobile additional options that pop up in search, and, at some point, the first.
browsers and in most desktop response to long presses on the multihued skins. We've got one more complaint
browsers out there, Opera has at 'select' key or on the touchscreen, Behold: Tabbed browsing for with Opera Mini as a whole.
least consolidated the two onto a like for selecting and copying
42 Tech/ Fashion
Web 2.0 security risks scrutinized
By Vivian Yeo (Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:45:00 AM
Web 2.0 sites that enable people
to create content are increasingly
used to carry out a wide range of
attacks, according to a new
security study.
Websense's State of Internet
Security" (PDF), released
Tuesday, notes that attackers are
focusing their attention on
interactive Web 2.0 elements.
Some 95 percent of user-
generated comments on blogs,
message boards, and chat rooms
are either spam or contain
malicious links, the security
vendor warned.
"The very aspects of Web 2.0
sites that have made them so
revolutionary--the dynamic nature
of content on the sites, the ability
for anyone to easily create and
post content, and the trust that
users have for others in their
online networks--are the same
characteristics that radically raise
the potential for abuse,"
Websense said in its report.
Web 2.0 sites, the company
added, comprise "many" of the
most visited sites on the Internet.
The top 100 most visited Web
properties, tended to be classified
as social-networking or search
sites. Nearly half, or over 47
percent, of the top 100 Web sites
support user-generated content.
This is how Websense
categorizes the Web and security
risks.(Credit: Websense)
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By blogeditor1 (Material
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Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:37:14 AM
At four floors and 22,000 square
At the same time, sites that
allow user-generated content
make up the majority of the top
50 most active distributors of
malware. Over 60 percent of the
top 100 Web properties either
hosted malicious content or
redirected users to malicious sites
without their knowledge.
"With their large user base, good
reputations and support of Web
2.0 applications, these sites
provide authors of malicious code
with abundant opportunity to
easily reach a wide number of
victims with their attacks," the
report continued.
Meanwhile, efforts to self-
feet, Tommy Hilfiger's just-
opened Fifth Avenue flagship is
(as you might expect) the world's
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you a fill a store that big? A
police Web 2.0 properties have
been "largely ineffective,"
Websense noted. The security
company said its research during
the first six months of 2009
indicated that community-driven
security tools, which enable
people to report inappropriate
content, on sites including
YouTube and BlogSpot are 65
percent to 75 percent "ineffective
in protecting Web users from
objectionable content and security
risks."
According to Websense
statistics, the number of malicious
sites between January and June
grew 233 percent over the second
whole hell of a lot of
half of 2008, and 671 percent
compared with the same period
last year.
The security company also
found that during the first six
months of 2009, 78 percent of
new Web pages with
objectionable content such as
pornography or gambling,
contained at least one malicious
link. Some 77 percent of Web
sites with malicious code were
compromised legitimate sites.
Vivian Yeo of ZDNet Asia
reported from Singapore.
Originally posted at News -
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restrained note—in particular, a
few pairs of suede and leather low
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TC50: Two new ways to get the news

By Josh Lowensohn
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/15/2009 5:48:00 PM
SAN FRANCISCO--Two new
companies are launching products
designed to get the news to users
faster--and from a wider variety
of sources. Both are in private
beta and not yet available to the
general public but were demoed
live at the TechCrunch50
conference.
Thoora is a new tool that
clusters and aggregates news. It
offers people a way to track the
latest headlines with a simple
ranking tool, ordering incoming
stories by "Web reaction." It uses
a mix of sources, including
Twitter messages, blog posts, and
breaking stories from more
traditional news outlets. These
stories are then filtered and
pushed to a front page as well as
Thoora's category pages.
One of the things that factors
into what ends up on Thoora's
front page is real-time chatter.
The company tracks how many
news-related tweets there have
been about that topic in the last
hour, as well as "Twitter impact,"
which is a percentage of density
about that topic per 500 messages
across all of Twitter over the past
hour. It also tracks things like
blog comments and linkbacks.
Thoora tracks hot news topics
across a variety of chatter
networks including blog
comments, tweets, and news
stories.(Credit: Josh
Lowensohn/CNET)
Insttant, on the other hand, cuts
out traditional news sources
entirely and uses Twitter's public
stream instead. It takes these
tweets and turns them into an
interactive news page that covers
people, places, and companies,
including a way to track trending
topics and user sentiment. All of
this goes on a front page, which
can be reordered and personalized
with topics the user wants to see.
One of the service's more
interesting tricks is that it
automatically creates profile
pages for people containing links
and interests based on what
they've shared in their tweets.
This also happens for trending
news topics, which makes for a
more in-depth news-reading
experience, since you can drill
down on any topic and see things
like recent mentions, related news
and links, and a history of how
popular it's been in the past few
weeks.
Instant's front page is made up
entirely of real-time
chatter.(Credit: Insttant)
Related:
Yahoo's Delicious adds a little
Twitter
Full TechCrunch50 coverage
Originally posted at Web
Crawler

iPhone photo news: tripods and water drop lenses

By Steven Sande (The isn't a "real" macro camera. What damped out before the photo is
Unofficial Apple Weblog if I wanted to take close up snapped. The app is going through
(TUAW)) pictures of a tiny insect or a detail the labyrinthine approval process
of a flower stamen? right now, and will hopefully be
Submitted at 9/16/2009 12:30:00 PM
The Apple Press has a great approved by Apple in the near Aviary launches
Filed under: Accessories, little tutorial today on how to take future.
Hardware, Peripherals, Odds and better macro photos with the In the meantime, I'm going to impressive audio
ends, iPhone The iPhone has iPhone using alternative lenses. go out and take some more
made photography fun for me I'll leave reading the post as an pictures and video with my editor, Myna
again. I frankly hated the cameras exercise for our readers, but let it iPhone. What's your biggest wish By Rafe Needleman
I had in some of my other, older suffice to say that you can do a lot for iPhone photography? A (Webware.com)
phones, and I don't like carrying of really cool macro shots with an telephoto lens? A flash? Leave
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:00:00 AM
around my big Canon digicam all iPhone by putting a small drop of your comments below.
the time, so having a fairly water onto the lens. The Apple designed to help you take better TUAW iPhone photo news: Aviary is great at making
capable camera in my pocket has Press also provides a link to photos with your iPhone. The tripods and water drop lenses advanced Web-based artists' tools
opened up my photo-taking Amazon for an inexpensive Blur Tripod($US14.99) consists originally appeared on The that I haven't a hope of being able
horizons again. magnifier that can fit in your of an iPhone tripod adapter, a Unofficial Apple Weblog to fully use. Case in point, the
When I got the 3GS this wallet, perfect for those who are a mini tripod, and an upcoming (TUAW) on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 new audio editor, Myna, that joins
summer, one of my first tests was bit queasy about putting even a companion app called Blur 12:30:00 EST. Please see our the company's suite of graphics
to take some macro pictures using drop of agua on their iPhones. Software that provides an terms for use of feeds. tools like the Phoenix image
the camera. Sure, the 3GS is Meanwhile, the geniuses at adjustable delay to your Read| Permalink| Email this| editor and the Raven vector
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original or 3G models, but it still selling an inexpensive product in the iPhone / tripod combo are
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44 Tech/ Entertainment
Google Acquires reCAPTCHA
By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:35:47 AM
You know those boxes with
funky looking letters that are
becoming increasingly common
on website registration forms, or
on Facebook Pages when you
want to post an update? They’re
called captchas and they’re used
primarily to deter spammers and
bots.
One of the biggest providers of
the technology is a company
called reCAPTCHA, and now,
Google owns them. The search
giant just announced on their blog
that they’re buying reCAPTCHA,
which is used on more than
100,000 websites worldwide.
Why exactly does Google want
to own this technology? For
starters, reCAPTCHA has a
unique solution. As Google
describes:
“But there’s a twist — the words
in many of the CAPTCHAs
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editor.
I have dabbled a bit in
GarageBand and I do some of my
own podcast production work, so
I get the concept in Myna,
although I'm far from skilled at
editing audio. The app is a multi-
track audio editor, and for a Web-
based app it's freakishly capable.
It's easy and fast to pop clips and
loops into tracks, drag them
around, apply standard effects and
fades, and then mix the whole
thing down so you can download
it as one file.
Myna comes with a large library
provided by reCAPTCHA come
from scanned archival newspapers
and old books. Computers find it
hard to recognize these words
because the ink and paper have
degraded over time, but by typing
them in as a CAPTCHA, crowds
teach computers to read the
scanned text.”
And where does that fit within
the Google portfolio of products?
Google Books. The company
continues:
“This technology also powers
large scale text scanning projects
like Google Books and Google
News Archive Search. Having the
text version of documents is
of royalty-free riffs from
Quantum Tracks and a few sound
effects from other sources. You
can upload your clips to the
service as well, and record
directly from your computer.
However, Aviary co-founder
Michael Galpert warns that there
are limits: You can only lay in 10
tracks, and total playing time has
to be under five minutes. Galpert
says this is due to limitations in
Flash, but that Aviary may find
ways around them in the future.
The technology comes from
Digimix, which Aviary acquired
important because plain text can
be searched, easily rendered on
mobile devices and displayed to
visually impaired users. So we’ll
be applying the technology within
Google not only to increase fraud
and spam protection for Google
products but also to improve our
books and newspaper scanning
process.”
In other words, those 100,000+
captcha forms are now Google-
powered, with the data being used
to improve Google’s ability to
digitize old books and newspapers
to make them Web searchable. It
makes a lot of sense, and gives
Google yet another strategic
advantage over would-be
competitors.
On the other hand, is this yet
another example of Google
having too much power on the
Web? Share your thoughts in the
comments. Reviews: Google
Tags: Google, recaptcha
earlier this year.
Just because I can, doesn't mean
I should be editing music. But
Myna does make it easy.(Credit:
Screenshot by Rafe
Needleman/CNET)
Myna is a "hobbyist's tool now,"
Galpert admits, but he also says
there are pro-level features
coming in future releases. I found
GarageBand more capable, but
Myna is more approachable.
I was surprised to see Aviary
get into the audio-tool business
after creating its first five apps,
which are for handling graphics.
Kelly Clarkson on Patrick
Swayze: 'He Was Just the
Nicest Guy'
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:43:00 AM
Kelly Clarkson performed a free
concert in Los Angeles on
Monday night, where she shared
her thoughts about the passing of
Patrick Swayze, and opened up
about the blog she wrote
criticizing Kanye West for
interrupting Taylor Swift's VMA
acceptance speech.
"I just found out two seconds
ago that Patrick Swayze died, and
he was one of the first people that
I met right after I won 'Idol,'"
Kelly said. "I did this event, and it
was a private event, and he was
But Galpert says, "an artist is an
artist," and he wants to make tools
that let creative people work
across media, or to create
remixes.
Myna is a free app. It's
impressive and it's a ton of fun. It
might even be useful.
Aviary won the Webware 100
Technical Achievement award in
2009.
Originally posted at Rafe's
Radar
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there and he sought me out. I
thought it was so cool because
obviously 'Dirty Dancing' is
everyone's favorite film. He was
just the nicest guy. And I just
think it’s awesome that you can
remember someone that’s actually
classy in the industry. Obviously
he had a big impact on pop
culture."
Watch the video to hear the
"American Idol" champ discuss
the news that Ellen DeGeneres
will replace Paula Abdul as the
fourth judge on the hit singing
competition.
TECHCRUNCH50:
continued from page 40
some confusion over exactly how
geotagging could sync up to an
event. Scoble complimented its
sign-up process, but said "I'm not
sure it causes enough gameplay,
or enough something-else that
gets me into this." He wasn't the
only one to point out that getting
people to use the app would be a
challenge. "I would up the level of
incentive for participation," Reid
Hoffman said, and added that
Facebook could easily build
location-awareness into the photo
feature of its mobile apps.
The last company was what
Calacanis called "one of our wild-
cards," The Whuffie Bank.
Named after the deplorable term
preferred by marketing-buzzword-
loving social media consultants
everywhere (basically, it's slang
for social capital, a term coined
TECHCRUNCH50: page 45
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Revised AIM app for iPhone hooks
into new Lifestream service
By Michael Rose (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:45:00 AM
Filed under: Internet Tools,
iPhone There's a first time for
everything: while the updated
premium version of AOL Instant
Messenger for the iPhone [ iTunes
link] was scheduled to arrive later
this month, CNET reported that it
actually went through the
approval process early(no!) and as
such it represents the first of the
AIM clients to support the new
AIM Lifestream multi-service
status update capability.
If you check out the landing
page for the service at
lifestream.aim.com, you'll be able
to update and monitor your posts
and pictures on Delicious, Digg,
YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, and
Twitter alongside your AIM status
(and with your AIM buddies in
the mix). The Mac and Windows
clients for the service are
expected on 9/22; it's not known
yet when the Lifestream goodness
will make its way to the free & ad
TECHCRUNCH50:
continued from page 44
by science fiction author Cory
Doctorow), The Whuffie Bank is
a non-profit organization for
building a virtual currency around
online reputation and influence.
You can then use that currency to
pay others with "whuffie," like
tossing a bribe someone's way to
-supported AIM client for iPhone.
Although you can certainly
handle multiple social services
from several Mac apps (
EventBox, Tweetdeck,
MoodBlast), and the iPhone has
multi-chat tools like Nimbuzz and
Beejive, having the flow of
statuses pouring in for AIM users
will up the ante considerably.
We'll keep an eye out for the
official Lifestream launch next
week.
Forgot to mention: Can we
please, please have an AIM client
for iPhone that supports group
chat? If we're going to pony up
ask them to retweet something
you've posted on Twitter.
Note to the Whuffie Bankers: At
the very least, please choose a
different name for your
organization. "Whuffie" sounds
like something that would happen
in porn movies. And the judges
$2.99 for the premium AOL client
or even more for Beejive, it
should have this bit of
functionality, don't you think?
[via DLS]
Note: AOL is the parent
company of Weblogs, Inc. and
TUAW.
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seemed to think that however cool
of an idea it might be, it might be
best if the currency stays in
science fiction.
"The problem with these kinds
of currencies is you generally
need some kind of banking
system to regulate them," Reid
Will the Zune HD Fail
Without an App Store?
By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:27:24 AM
On Tuesday, Microsoft launched
its answer to Apple’s iPod touch
with the Zune HD. And while the
Zune Marketplace will be offering
plenty of content in the way of
music and movies, what it won’t
be offering is an App Store to
compete with the Apple iTunes
model.
Market analysts appear to be
lining up to condemn that plan —
or lack thereof. With the wild
success of the App Store setting
apart Apple’s player (with almost
2 billion apps downloaded in a
little over a year) the argument
goes, how can the Zune stand a
chance?
There are some other head-
scratchers involved with the
device launch as well, from “why
not have the Facebook and
Twitter apps that will be offered
for the device ready at launch?” to
“why not integrate the Zune
Marketplace with some or all of
what will be going on in the
Windows Mobile Marketplace?”
In some ways it almost seems like
Microsoft is going out of its way
to ignore some obvious synergies.
On the flip side, the company
reported later on launch day that
Hoffman said. "A lot of cool
things...I think conceptually it's
going to be extraordinary
difficult."
"I want to hear in one line, what
do I get?" celebrity judge
Chamillionaire asked. "It seem
like you've got to do a lot of work
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they had actually run out of stock
of the Zune HD (see tweet above).
That would seem to indicate some
nice consumer demand brewing
— either that, or extremely poor
inventory planning. We might
also look to how Nintendo played
the launch of the Wii to ensure
that it was continually out of
stock, essentially inflating
demand through artificial scarcity.
Is market demand for the Zune
HD really off the charts, or has
Microsoft carefully orchestrated it
to appear so?
What’s your verdict, readers:
will the Zune HD be an also-ran
without an App Store? Is the Zune
HD selling like hotcakes, or did
Microsoft low-ball the inventory?
Did you or are you considering
picking one up? Reviews:
Facebook, Twitter
Tags: app store, apple, itunes,
microsoft, Mobile 2.0, zune hd,
zune marketplace
for them to raise your
reputation...It seems like you can
fake it."
And with that, it was happy
hour. Or so everyone hoped.
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The Cognitive Mismatch Between Newspaper

Execs And Newspaper Readers
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) other local sources first. 45% said
Submitted at 9/15/2009 10:44:00 PM television. 37% said other
regional/national online
I've been having an email debate publications. 35% said radio. I
concerning newspaper business believe a key point of
models with the David Carr of the disagreement between Carr and I
NY Times for PBS' MediaShift, reflects this same sort of issue.
which I believe will be published Carr suggests that there aren't
later this week, so I won't reveal many outlets for people to go to if
too much now. However, the key the newspapers walled up. I
points are that Carr believes argued that there are an immense
paywalls/micropayments make number of options -- and they're
sense and I don't. We've gone growing daily. The problem is if
back and forth on it, and I think you think of the market as being
it's been quite an interesting "newspapers" or "sources that
discussion, but one key point that disconnect between how they they took down their web content, people go to for news." I believe Gimme some sugar,
I keep trying to make is that Carr t h i n k r e a d e r s w i l l r e a c t t o 75% of readers would switch to t h a t i t ' s t h e l a t t e r . M a n y baby: Army of Darkness
seems to think enough people will p a y w a l l s , a n d h o w r e a d e r s t h e p a p e r v e r s i o n o f t h e newspaper people seem to think
pay to make such things a viable themselves actually say they'd newspaper. Meanwhile, readers it's the former. sounds on the iPhone
model. I have trouble believing react to paywalls: If you can't see w h o w e r e a s k e d t h e s a m e Permalink| Comments| Email By Tim Wasson (The Unofficial
this, and some recent research that image clearly (you can click question had only 30% saying This Story Apple Weblog (TUAW))
(highlighted by Steve Outing) on it to get a larger image), they would go to paper sources. Submitted at 9/15/2009 7:00:00 PM
suggests that many newspaper newspaper execs believe that if Above that? 68% said they'd go to Filed under: iPhone, App Store,
execs have a stunningly large

iTwinge: The Keyboard Sleeve That Turns Your iPhone Into a

BlackBerry
By Stan Schroeder with real, physical ones. Cool, one translate well to iTwinge. Not to typing errors by 70 – 80%”.
(Mashable!) might think for a split second: I mention the fact that it won’t If you’re interested, bear in
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:35:23 AM can finally type without looking! work particularly well when you mind that it must be plugged into
However, a closer inspection of flip the iPhone over to its side. the iPhone, and it uses some of its
Newsflash: the iPhone doesn’t iTwinge reveals a number of Still, it might be useful in power, but luckily it doesn’t
have a physical keyboard. Does problems. certain situations. For example, if require any software. It works
this mean one has to crammed First of all, it makes your you must write a blog post or a with the iPhone 3G and 3GS and
into (or onto) it at all costs? If iPhone a lot fatter than such a long email, and the only device you can get it for the price of
you’re a former BlackBerry s e x y g a d g e t s h o u l d b e . you have at your disposal is the $29.99.
addict, perhaps it does. Furthermore, iPhone’s keyboard iPhone, iTwinge might come in Tags: iphone, iTwinge,
Enter the oddly named iTwinge, h a s s o m e a d v a n t a g e s o v e r you need it), it gives you a choice handy. According to the keyboard
an iPhone sleeve that does the physical keyboards: it adapts to of typing some alternative manufacturer, “an average user
trick in the simplest of fashions: it different situations (for example, symbols if you press and hold a will improve their speed by 30%
merely covers the software keys the “.com” key is only there when key, etc. None of those will really to 40% and simultaneously reduce
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iPod touch, App Review Long
before I was an Apple nerd, I was
a horror nerd. More specifically, I
was an Evil Dead/Sam
Raimi/Bruce Campbell freak, and
even maintained a website
devoted to their 1993 masterpiece.
I'm both surprised and excited to
see my two obsessions collide in
the form of an iPhone app devoted
to Army of Darkness [ iTunes
link], the third of the Evil Dead
series. Sure, some people use their
iPhones to be more productive
and create spreadsheets, but
sometimes you just need a simple
app that screams "shop smart,
shop S-Mart!" or "see this? This is
my BOOMSTICK!"
The app is a simple soundboard
app, consisting of 16 audio clips
from the film that can be played at
the touch of a button. There's also
a "slideshow" mode where you
can hear all the clips in a row
accompanied by an image
slideshow. It is definitely not the
HOW TO: Share Files From Your Hard Drive to Twitter and Facebook
By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 5:36:20 AM
Recently we profiled a number
of great gadgets for social media
lovers, and Pogoplug made the list
for its ease of socially sharing
local files on your hard drive.
Today the device takes sharing a
step further, by adding quick and
easy sharing of files from your
most full-featured iPhone app, but
for the horror fans out there it will
make a great addition to your
iPhone dock.
The app is free and, as far as I'm
concerned, essential to every
iPhone. If you like it, be sure to
check out the other MGM
soundboard apps [ iTunes link]
with audio clips from Robocop,
Silence of the Lambs, Fargo and
Rocky (all free except for Rocky,
which is $0.99).
[via iPhone Savior]
Thanks to Seth for the tip!
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baby: Army of Darkness sounds
on the iPhone originally appeared
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local hard drive right to Twitter,
Facebook, and Myspace.
In other words, unlike other
services that help you share files
with your Twitter followers, you
don’t actually need to upload
anything to enable sharing. With
the Pogoplug device, the files you
want to share already simply live give your friends access to
on your external hard drive or whatever you like over the web.
USB thumb drive, and you can
Myna: Garage Band in
Your Web Browser
By Christina Warren
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:16:22 AM
Aviary is already well-
established as an online image
editing suite, but today the
company is expanding its creative
reach and bringing multi-track
audio editing to the cloud.
The service, called Myna, is sort
of like Garage Band in your web
browser. You can import audio
directly into it, record a track into
the application, or use clips from
one of Aviary’s provided clip
libraries.
All audio effects are non-
destructive and you can automate
fades and pans, modify gain over
time, loop, stretch and reverse
audio clips and more. Once
you’ve got your track just the way
you want it, you can mixdown to
your desktop or publish directly to
your Aviary account.
The entire process takes place
inside your web browser (Adobe
Flash is required) and the
interface is both robust and easy
to use. Anyone familiar with multi
-track audio apps will be familiar
with Myna’s layout, and I was
impressed with the speed of the
app. You can playback clips
before dragging them to the time
line, which is really nice.
Check out this video
demonstration:
I’ve always been opposed to
using online audio editing tools,
because I haven’t found them to
be robust or fast enough to be
compelling to use. Myna just
might change that, because think
about how convenient it could be
to start a project on one computer
and pick it up some place else.
How do you edit your audio?
What do you think about using
online editing tools? Reviews:
Aviary
Tags: audio editing, Aviary,
Aviary Myna, Myna
Besides saving yourself some
time on uploads and setting up
sharing, the new features give you
a range of options depending on
what privacy level you’d like for
your files: publicly in your
Twitter stream, or relatively
privately if you protect your
updates, or to match the privacy
settings you’ve already enabled
on your Facebook account.
Tech/ Sports 47
Dana White
Furious at
Rampage Jackson
By Michael David Smith
(FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:13:00 AM
by Michael David Smith
Filed under: MMA Videos,
UFC
UFC President Dana White says
he's so mad at Quinton
"Rampage" Jackson for
postponing a fight with Rashad
Evans in order to play B.A.
Baracus in an upcoming A-Team
movie that he isn't even talking to
him. Video below.
Dana White Furious at
Rampage Jackson originally
appeared on Fanhouse MMA
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Do you see yourself wanting to
make use of file-sharing from
your local drive to your social
networks? Reviews: Facebook,
MySpace, Twitter
Tags: facebook, file sharing,
myspace, pogoplug, twitter
48 Tech/ Internet News Record

Bruce Sewell to join

Apple as General Counsel
& senior vice president
By Steven Sande (The expect this to be a seamless
Unofficial Apple Weblog transition."
(TUAW)) Sewell has been responsible for
Submitted at 9/15/2009 10:00:00 PM leading Intel's legal, corporate
affairs, and corporate social
Filed under: Apple Corporate r e s p o n s i b i l i t y p r o g r a m s ,
Apple has a new General Counsel managing a team of attorneys and
and senior vice president on its policy professionals located
executive team. Bruce Sewell, throughout the world. In his new
who held the same position at role at Apple, Sewell and his team
Intel Corporation, will be joining will defend Apple against attacks
A p p l e i n p l a c e o f D a n i e l on the company's intellectual
Cooperman. Cooperman, who has property. We'd like to give Mr.
been General Counsel and senior Sewell one big piece of advice for
vice president of Legal and his new job -- read up on the
Government Affairs for the past Psystar case as soon as you can.
two years, is retiring at the end of TUAW Bruce Sewell to join
September. Apple as General Counsel &
Apple CEO Steve Jobs was senior vice president originally
quoted in a press release as appeared on The Unofficial Apple
saying"We are thrilled to have Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 15 Sep
Bruce join our executive team, 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please see
and wish Dan a very happy our terms for use of feeds.
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ReQall gets useful link to Evernote experience in litigation, securities Comments

and intellectual property, we
By Rafe Needleman items you get will be those that $24.99 a year, to use this feature.
(Webware.com) have "Joan" in them or the word I'm most interested in this
Submitted at 9/16/2009 6:00:00 AM "present." And since Evernote addition since I'm a big Evernote
recognizes text in photos you've user, and one of Evernote's
The clever memory jogger stored on the service, you might biggest weaknesses is that it
service and voice-recognizing find related pictures as well. If doesn't have a to-do list manager.
mobile software app ReQall is you have the Evernote app on This isn't quite that, but if you do
getting a link to my favorite note- your phone, when you click on use ReQall for to-dos, now they'll
taking app, Evernote. the related item, ReQall will hook into related topic pages from
The new iPhone version of launch Evernote for that note. Evernote.
ReQall puts a "related items" The Related Items button links The link will be available only
option on all entries. That option you to Evernote and ReQall in the mobile app for the time
will link you to other ReQall entries that share keywords. In the being; the ReQall Web service
entries as well as Evernote items rightmost of these screenshots, the will get the link "soon," CEO
that match up. image items are in Evernote. The Sunil Vemuri told me.
Items are linked by text. If you others are in ReQall.(Credit: Read: More stores about ReQall|
have a ReQall item that says, ReQall) Evernote
"Buy present for Joan," the related You need a pro ReQall account,
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5 Easy Steps to Stay Safe (and Private!) on Facebook

By Sarah Perez they're just too confusing for most high school, your college, a You're not friends with any of
(ReadWriteWeb) non-tech savvy people to handle. professional organization you these people anymore for a
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:05:57 AM And often, folks don't want to listed, etc. reason, right?
bother to take the time to learn. You can also block certain As it turns out, you can still
When the President of the To simplify the process, we're groups from seeing these sections, enjoy Facebook without some
U n i t e d S t a t e s w a r n s offering five easy steps you can when selecting who can see what too. On any item that offers an folks ever knowing or finding you
schoolchildren to watch what they take today to help make your (or who can't!) when configuring "Edit Custom Settings" option, thanks to the search privacy
say and do on Facebook, you Facebook experience safer, more the security settings described you can click that link to display a settings.
k n o w t h a t w e ' v e g o t a secure, and more private. Step 1: below. pop-up box where you can choose Click on the "Settings" menu on
problem...and it's not one limited Make Friend Lists Step 2: Who Can See What on people or lists to block (see where Facebook's homepage and then
to the U.S.'s borders, either. Yes, it will take some time, Your Profile it says "Except these people"). If click "Search" on the following
People everywhere are mindlessly especially if you're connected to a At the top right of Facebook, you haven't made custom lists as page. You'll be taken to a Search
over-sharing on the world's couple hundred friends already. there's a menu that many people explained in step 1 above, you can Privacy page where you can
largest social network, without a But this step, while not the probably ignore: "Settings." But enter individual names here specify who gets to find you on
second thought as to who's quickest, is fairly simple. And it this menu is now going to become instead.(Sorry, mom, dad, boss - Facebook. Want to be wide open?
reading their posts or what effect will be one of the most useful your best friend. To get started, this is where you get blocked.) Change the "Search Visibility"
it could have on them further things you can do on Facebook. hover you mouse over the Step 3: Who Can See Your drop-down box to "Everyone."
down the road. For example, did Friend lists, like they sound, are Settings menu and click "Privacy Address and Phone Number Want to keep it a little more
you know that 30% of today's lists for categorizing your friends Settings" from the list that Did you list your address and limited? Select "My Networks
employers are using Facebook to into various groups. The nice appears. On the next page, click phone number on Facebook? and Friends," "Friends of
vet potential employees prior to thing about this feature is that "Profile." This takes you to a page While that's a handy feature, you Friends," or "My Networks and
hiring? In today's tough economy, once you set these lists up, you where you can configure who gets may not want everyone you Friends of Friends" instead. Don't
the question of whether to post won't have to do it again. We to see certain information on your friended to have this information. want anyone finding you on
those embarrassing party pics suggest that you put your work profile. To access this configuration page, Facebook? Change it to "Only
could now cost you a paycheck in colleagues and professional Before making changes, think you follow the same steps as Friends." That means only the
addition to a reputation.(Keep that acquaintances into a friend list carefully about the sorts of things above in step 2 to display the people who you've already
in mind when tagging your designated "work," personal you want public and the things Profile Privacy page. You'll notice friended can find you in a
friends' photos, too, won't you?) friends you're not very close with you want private. Should that the page has two tabs at the Facebook search.
But what can be done? It's not into a list called "Acquaintances," "everyone" get to see photos top - click on the one that reads On this page, you can also
like you can just quit Facebook, and people you're related to into a you're tagged in? Or would you "Contact information." configure what information
right? No - and you don't have to list called "Family." Those three like to limit this only to those As previously described above, displays when your info is
either. You just need to take a few main categories will separate out you've specifically chosen as you can again use the drop-down returned as a search result (e.g.
precautions. the groups of "friends" who you Facebook friends? lists provided to designate who your profile picture, your friend
Sponsor may want to hide some Underneath each section on this gets to see what and/or block list, etc.). In addition, you can
Unbeknownst to most information from. page (basic info, personal info, certain people or lists from check and uncheck the boxes for
mainstream Facebook users, the To create a friend list, click on status, etc.), you can designate viewing this information. The network-based searches too. For
social network actually offers a "Friends" at the top of the who gets to see that particular bit sections on this page include "IM example, if you don't want anyone
slew of privacy controls and Facebook homepage. In the left- of information. For anyone not Screen Name," "Mobile Phone," from high school to find you,
security features which can help hand column, click "Friends" using custom lists (see step 1), the "Other Phone," "Current uncheck the box next to "people
you batten down the hatches, so to again under the "Lists" section. best thing to enter here is "Only Address," "Website," and your in high school networks."
speak. If used properly, you'll Now you'll see a button at the top Friends." Anything else opens up email. Step 5: Stop Sharing Personal
never have to worry about that says "Create New List". Click your profile information to people Step 4: Change Who Can Find Info with Unknown Applications
whether you should friend the it. In the pop-up that appears, you you may or may not know. For You on Facebook via Search Remember when we told you
boss and your mom. You can can name your list and pick example, choosing "Everyone" Sick of getting friend requests about what Facebook quizzes
friend anyone you want while members. If you've ever shared an makes that info public, "Friends from old high school pals? While know about you? Using
comfortable in the knowledge that application with your friends, the of Friends" lets your friends' for some the beauty of Facebook Facebook's default settings, you're
n o t e v e r y o n e g e t s t o s e e process of doing this will be very friends see it, "My Networks and is that it lets you reconnect with unknowingly sharing a plethora of
everything you post. familiar. Friends" opens up your info to everyone you ever knew personal information (and your
The problem in implementing When you've finished making anyone in your networks - that throughout your life, others find
these privacy options is that lists, you'll be able to use them means anyone in your city, your this intrusive and annoying. EASY page 53
50 Tech News/ Fashion Internet News Record

Apple Explains How to Use iPhone's New Anti-Phishing

Feature
By Sarah Perez update, the new feature didn't don't launch the Safari browser as not to incur any additional data
(ReadWriteWeb) actually materialize until this prior to charging their device - if fees for the end user. But
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:24:15 AM month when the company anything, they close down any launching the browser? We
released the OS 3.1 iPhone/iPod open applications before plugging almost wonder if it wouldn't have
Amid the hubbub over new Touch software. According to in the phone to charge. Poorly made better sense for Apple to
iPods and iTunes' LPs announced A p p l e , t h e a n t i - p h i s h i n g Implemented, Poorly Explained implement the feature in the new
at last week's annual Apple event, protection feature will display an If you follow the above steps, iTunes update instead. The
one feature that was a little under- on-screen warning message when the feature will work. However, desktop software could retrieve
h y p e d w a s t h e n e w " a n t i - you attempt to visit a known most users will never know to do the updated anti-phishing
phishing" protection built into the malicious website. this unless they happen to closely database from the internet upon
iPhone's Safari web browser. The Once the update was released, follow technology news and launch and could then sync it to
added feature, available via an security researchers and other blogs. The general mainstream the iPhone or iPod Touch the next
iPhone software update, warns Apple enthusiasts began testing population - the very demographic time it was plugged in. That
users when visiting fraudulent the new technology. The results Apple so craftily attracts via their would also alleviate another
websites using Safari. This sort of were immediately disappointing. source: he asked Apple. Apple billion dollar marketing common problem with the current
t e c h n o l o g y i s a l r e a d y "I've not been able to get it to Says "You're Doing it Wrong" campaigns - expects things to implementation - if the phone isn't
commonplace on the web, but is block anything," Michael Sutton, Apparently, this was not a case "just work." That is the Apple plugged in long enough, the
r a r e l y s e e n o n t h e m o b i l e vice president of research at of the anti-phishing technology promise, after all. update won't complete and users
platform. security firm Zscaler was quoted being broken. It was a case of Yet even on Apple's own will only be partially protected.
Unfortunately, there seemed to as saying. He had been testing the everyone simply "doing it website where they detail the On the other hand, the inclusion
be a problem with the new feature using known phishing wrong." As it turns out, in order various new features in the OS 3.1 of the database via a sync would
s e c u r i t y f e a t u r e : i t w a s n ' t websites identified by the anti- for Safari's anti-phishing database update, there is no mention as to have ensured that all the data was
working...or at least, so it seemed. phishing database hosted at to update, there are a few how the anti-phishing protection copied over to the phone.
As it turns out, the problem was PhishTank. The Mac Security particular steps that need to be should be utilized. It simply lists In the end, though, Graham
that users weren't informed as to Blog also found after extensive followed, explained an Apple that the feature exists. A helpful Cluley, a senior technology
how to properly activate the anti- testing that it simply "does not spokesperson. After updating the link to a "how to" guide would consultant at Sophos, reminds us
phishing protection, an issue that s e e m t o w o r k . " M a c W o r l d , phone to the OS 3.1 update, users seem appropriate here or, at the that maybe we shouldn't be too
points to a poor implementation however, found that the feature need to do the following: very least, a footnote. hard on Apple. "Many other
of what could and should have worked sometimes, but the • Launch the Safari web Having to perform the smartphones don't offer even the
been a major breakthrough in inconsistency hinted that the browser. somewhat unintuitive steps to get most elementary form of anti-
mobile computing technology. technology was not "ready for • Connect to a Wi-Fi network. the anti-phishing protection phishing protection to their users,"
Sponsor public consumption," they • Charge the iPhone with the feature to function properly seems he says. That may be true but,
The Problem: Anti-Phishing r e p o r t e d . screen off. like an unusual miss for a unfortunately, the way Apple
Protection Doesn't Appear to What gives? Did Apple really The spokesperson added that for company who generally makes chose to deliver their anti-
Function release a broken feature? Were "most users" this process should things simple and straightforward. phishing protection feature means
Although Apple touted the anti- they even aware of the problem? happen automatically when they Why does it need Wi-Fi, for that most iPhone users won't be
phishing protection back in March Blogger Jim Dalrymple of The charge their phone. We would example? Apple claims that the protected either. Discuss
when they announced their 3.0 Loop decided to go straight to the have to disagree. "Most users" Wi-Fi connectivity is required so
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Astro Boy Gets the Hollywood-Blockbuster Treatment

By Article: Brian Ashcraft,
Slideshow: Hugh Hart (Wired
Top Stories)
Submitted at 9/15/2009 5:00:00 PM

Astro Boy—the beloved '60s

Japanese anime series—is
launching on the big screen on
October 23! Woo ... wait a
minute. Haven't we been here
before? The Technicolor
hemorrhage that was Speed Racer
recently taught us that anime
doesn't necessarily benefit from
the Hollywood-blockbuster
treatment.
Astro Boy, however, promises
to be different. For starters, it's
not live-action; it's CG produced
by Imagi Studios, Hong Kong's
version of Pixar. The company's
founder, Francis Kao, not only
secured the movie rights but also
hired the son of Astro Boy creator
(and god of manga) Osamu
Tezuka as a creative consultant. "I sound effect, and we use it a little Sutherland. abstract works inspired the >>
was encouraged to expand on the bit in our movie as an homage." But make no mistake: Astro filmmakers to use simple shapes Cartoon characters with saucer-
universe," says the flick's director, We hear that. Behind the Scenes Boy himself is the star. Created that they then brought to life shaped eyes didn't start with
David Bowers. "But at its core the Slideshow by Osamu Tezuka as a manga through advanced computer anime. In the course of prepping
movie is still faithful to the By Hugh Hart| next image >> comic book character in1951, the lighting, texturing, and modeling the film, Bowers learned that
original." Case in point: Our Get ready for Astro Boy. They boy robot hooked more fans when techniques.| next image >> Tezuka was influenced by
favorite rocket tyke sports a call him the Mickey Mouse of he starred in a 1963 TV series. This pencil sketch captures the Disney's Pinocchio character.
windbreaker and slacks (good-bye Japan, and this fall American Inducted into the Robot Hall of essence of Astro Boy as imagined The sickly green background is
red undies and go-go boots), but audiences will get a chance to see Fame in 2004 and immortalized by director David Bowers, who no surprise: Astro Boy inhabits a
his original powers (x-ray vision the iconic anime character on the on Japanese postage stamps, made Hugh Jackman's animated world in which pollution has
and turbo butt) remain unchanged. big screen in an English-language Astro Boy, complete with a high- rat movie Flushed Away.| next ruined Earth's atmosphere.| next
Even Nicolas Cage, who voices movie. crested haircut, jet-powered boots, image >> image >>
scientist Dr. Tenma, was a stickler The film, set for an October 23 and mighty cannon arms, Renderings were produced by Animators for Astro Boy drew
for accuracy. "The first time we release, features a big-powered commands center stage in director Hong Kong-based animation inspiration from 19th-century
met, Cage went into incredible voice cast, including Freddie David Bowers' adaptation. outfit Imagi Studios. Founder woodblock artist Katsushika
detail about the '60s version, Highmore ( Charlie and the Here's a look at Astro Boy in Francis Kao said, "We worked Hokusai, whose landscapes
including the very specific sound Chocolate Factory) along with the making.| next image >> very closely with Tezuka eliminated visual clutter in favor
Astro's feet make when he walks," Samuel L. Jackson, Charlize Production designers developed Productions and with the creator’s of a stripped-down image.
Bowers says. "So we went to the Theron, Nicolas Cage, Kristen the film's look by borrowing from son, Macoto Tezka, to ensure we
Tezuka archive and found the Bell, Eugene Levy, and Donald architect Isamu Noguchi. His got everything right.”| next image
52 Tech News/ Tech Tips/ Fashion
Could the eBook Version of 'The Lost Symbol'
Outsell the Hardcover Edition?
By Frederic Lardinois
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:26:07 AM
Even though some people are
seriously asking this question
today, the answer is obviously a
resounding "no." There can be no
doubt that The Lost Symbol, Dan
Brown's sequel to the immensely
popular Da Vinci Code, will sell
extremely well on the Kindle and
may easily turn out to be the
bestselling fiction title on the
Kindle of all time. The fact that
the Kindle edition is currently
outselling the hardcover edition
on Amazon hints at some of the
advantages eBooks have over
regular books, but there can be no
doubt that the paper editions of
The Lost Symbol will easily
outsell the eBook version.
Sponsor
Instant Delivery vs. Pre-Orders
It's almost ludicrous to argue
that the eBook edition of The Lost
Symbol could outsell the
hardcover edition. Yes, the eBook
version is currently outselling the
hardcover version on Amazon.
However, with 5 million copies of
the hardcover version printed for
the U.S. market alone, these
numbers simply won't hold,
especially because this is a book
that will draw in a lot of readers
who don't usually pick up
hardcover books and don't usually
buy books from Amazon but pick
Street Chic: New York Fashion Week
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 4:00:00 AM
them up at their local Barnes &
Noble, airport bookstore, or
grocery store.
It's also worth noting that
Amazon had been accepting pre-
orders for the book for months -
indeed, the pre-orders kept The
Lost Symbol in Amazon's Top
100 for the last 150 days. If you
own a Kindle, however, you don't
need to pre-order the book as it's
immediately delivered to your
device anyway. Chances are that
there was simply a lot of demand
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Wear: Zero + Maria Cornejo
for the Kindle version today and
most of Dan Brown's fans without
a Kindle had already ordered
theirs or planned to pick a copy
up at a brick-and-mortar
bookstore. A Symbol of Things to
Come?
That said, though, the fact that
the eBook version is doing so well
shows that eReaders and eBooks
are on the right track. The real
killer feature, here, is the instant
delivery that eBooks can offer and
the cheaper price (which Amazon
dress, Preen bag
currently subsidizes). Sure, you
could leave the house and actually
walk or drive to a local bookstore,
but you could also get it delivered
to your eReader within seconds
and without ever having to get out
of your pajamas. It would also be
interesting to see how many of
these copies end up on iPhones,
but Amazon doesn't publish these
numbers.
We did, however, get some
interesting data from ShortCovers,
a small but interesting eBook
vendor who sells books in the
ePub format and offers a number
of mobile apps as well. For
ShortCovers, the release of The
Lost Symbol meant a 2x increase
in sales yesterday and the book
sold more copies in one day than
the Twilight series did in the last
2 months.
The demand for eBooks is
picking up and is starting to reach
a mainstream audience. Once the
new eReaders from Plastic Logic,
iRex, Asus, Sony and others
become available in the next few
months, the increased competition
will surely drive prices for
eReaders down and adoption rates
up - unless, of course, Steve Jobs'
prediction that nobody wants a
single-purpose eReader device
turns out to be right. Discuss
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Best Virtual-Desktop
Manager: Compiz
[Hive Five Followup]
By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:30:00 AM
Last week we asked you to share
your favorite tool for managing
virtual workspaces, we tallied the
results, and you voted on your
favorite among the top five. This
week we're back to share the
results of the poll.
The top five contenders covered
Windows, Mac, and Linux
operating systems—there is
something for nearly everyone in
the Hive. Because of the diverse
nature of the poll we asked you to
vote on which virtual-desktop
manager you could use if you
weren't constrained by your
operating system. With that
direction in mind, you voted
Linux-based Compiz into a
landslide victory followed by Mac
-based Spaces and rounding out
the top three with VirtuaWin, a
Windows-based manager.
For more information about the
top five contenders, check out the
full Hive Five.
Daily.
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EASY
Aviary Rocks with Free, Web- continued from page 49
friends' info too!) with various Applications page and delete the

Based,GarageBand-Like Audio Facebook applications and the

developers who created them. The
problem is so bad that the ACLU
apps you're not using anymore.
(Use the "X" to remove them.)
You see, once you authorize an

Editor recently created their own

Facebook Quiz to demonstrate
how much information an app has
application, you're telling it that
it's OK to access any information
associated with your account that
By Jolie O'Dell serviceable variety of audio access to. it requires to work. While some
(ReadWriteWeb) effects, such as pitch shift and It's time to take back control! developers may only pull what's
Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:32:32 AM reverb. From the Facebook homepage, actually required, many others
Projects saved online are by hover your mouse over the just pull in everything they can.
Aviary, the free, web-based suite design collaboration-friendly and "Settings" menu and choose Scary, isn't it?
of image-editing apps, is hatching make for great educational tools "Privacy Settings" from the drop- Conclusion
a new addition today: A free, web The very fact that the app has for students and hobbyists. Aviary down list. On the next page, click While this is by no means a
-based audio editor to rival been so long in development sells $25 yearly subscriptions that "Applications" then click the tab comprehensive guide to Facebook
GarageBand and its ilk. c o m p l e t e l y c o n t r a d i c t s t h e allow for some privacy and IP
that reads "Settings" which is next security and privacy, these five
The application, called Myna, "launch early, launch often" protection; non-subscribers must to the "Overview" tab. (Oh, and if steps can help you get started in
will allow users to create and mix mindset; the result is a very save their audio projects publicly you want to really be freaked out, creating a safer, more secure, and
up to 15 tracks of up to 5 minutes polished product. for other users to browse. read that overview!) more private environment on the
in length, composed from "A bunch of artists I've been The app runs fairly lightweight, On this page, you can check and social network.
Aviary's library of 3,000 loops talking to just want to give us as well. "The file size itself ends uncheck boxes next to your However, if you choose not to
and beats and/or user-recorded their stuff," said Galpert, who also up being small. Because of the personal information (picture, take any precautions, then you'll
tracks. Obviously, this is leading said he doesn't see the app storage, we built the technology to education history, wall, religious only have yourself to blame when
to the next logical step: A free, replacing professional audio minimize the size and not kill the views, etc.). This controls what an errant wall post or naughty
online video editor. editors any time soon. "For record servers," said Galpert.
labels, they're interested in using applications your friends are using photo makes its way online and
Sponsor In addition to working on AIR- can see about you. Yes, your straight into Grandma's News
To kick off the Myna launch, our tools on their websites to based desktop versions of all the f r i e n d s ' a p p s c a n s e e y o u r Feed, or worse, your boss's. These
Aviary is staging a remix contest engage fans." Aviary apps, Galpert revealed that
with band Major Lazer. In addition to pulling from the a video editing program is in the personal info if you don't make days, it's better be safe than sorry,
this change! Believe it or not, you so go ahead and delve into those
The project has been underway extensive Aviary library of loops, works. don't have the same control over settings! Discuss
for about a year, according to riffs, and fills, users can record "We plan on releasing a video your own apps. The best you can
c o f o u n d e r a n d p r o d u c t audio of their own, a feature best editor," said Galpert. "But to get d o i s h e a d o v e r t o t h e
d e v e l o p m e n t l e a d M i c h a e l suited to vocal tracks. And though the video right, we needed to get
Galpert, who spoke with us there's currently no input for the audio, as well. As Flash,
yesterday. recording instruments, users can memory, and browsers improve,
"We're excited to see what upload their own audio tracks in we try to be at the front of that
people will do with this," he said. most standard formats. technological curve." Discuss
"It's been a long time coming." The app also offers a limited but

Order a Free Copy of the Consumer Action Handbook [Free] CitySourced

By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:05:00 AM
You can grab a free PDF now, or
have it mailed to anybody.
about anywhere. It's a decent
resource if you're looking for
gives Ranters
The tech-savvy types will
The Consumer Action Handbook probably just want to download a
unbiased answers. Consumer
A c t i o n an iPhone App
is a free government publication, PDF or browse its topics online. If Handbook[ConsumerAction.gov By Dana Oshiro
stuffed with advice on filing you know you've got a lot of via Consumerist] (ReadWriteWeb)
consumer complaints, finding buying and money issues coming
money for college, resolving air up, or you want to help out a reading a dead-tree version, free Submitted at 9/15/2009 8:46:00 PM

travel issues, and much more. friend or relative more prone to copies (up to 10) can be sent just

CITYSOURCED page 54
54 Tech Tips/ TV
CITYSOURCED
continued from page 53
Are you pissed off about
potholes, graffiti or broken street
lights? Similar to the Federal
government's efforts with
Data.gov and Google's recent
Public Sector release,
CitySourced is offering users a
chance to take government
matters into their own hands. This
year's TC50 third place runner-up,
CitySourced is a crowd pleaser on
a number of levels. If you're the
type of person who writes letters
to congressmen, editors and
counsillors, you're likely to help
power this app.
Sponsor
CitySourced offers citizens a
chance to photograph their local
pet peeves directly from their
iPhones. Users send their pictures
and complaints to their local
municipalities with a couple
clicks. From here, governments
are recognize the needs of their
constituencies and are forced to
President Obama to appear on Letterman this Monday
By Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:00:00 AM
Writing about this is just asking
for trouble from the more
politically extreme, but it's
television news so I'm writing
about it. President Barack Obama
will be appearing on The Late
Show with David Letterman this
take action.
While programs like Apps for
America and Apps for Democracy
work to crowd source
programmer-driven applications,
CitySourced can be utilized by a
non-technical user. In addition to
the decision-making data being
generated from this service, cities
also offer users an active outlet
for their frustrations. Instead of
sending out arbitrary rants and
suggestions to their Twitter
accounts, users still get a chance
to complain while receiving a
direct line to their municipal reps.
If cities have the courage to make
these complaints public, the site
could become as entertaining as
Craigslist's Best Of page while
still maintaining its usefulness.
Discuss
coming Monday, Sept. 21. He is
the sole guest and will take up the
full hour of the program.
It is the first time a sitting U.S.
President will be appearing on
Letterman's CBS show. Obama is
likely trying to promote his new
health care reform. Usually a campaign trail for the office.
television appearance like this one Desperate times call for desperate
is reserved for those on the
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Waze Generates and Reports and Real
-Time Traffic Data on Your Phone
[Downloads]
By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 6:30:00 AM
iPhone/Android/Windows
Mobile: Waze turns your GPS-
enabled phone into node in a
network of real-time traffic
reporters. As you use Waze you
build maps, get traffic data, and
alert other commuters to events
on the road.
Waze is focused on bringing
you live traffic information and
maps via crowd sourcing. Each
phone with Waze installed
generates map data and through
user-interaction also providing
information about construction, analyzes the areas you regularly additional information to the maps
traffic jams, and other road- drive in and suggests optimal to help other commuters. Even if
related events important to routes. you don't use Waze on your
drivers. Check out the demo from Waze phone, you can still visit the Waze
Waze also provides turn by turn to get a better feel for how the site and view their live map of
driving directions, which are system works: your area.
adopted in real time based on In addition to the application on Waze is free and requires an
traffic conditions and other your phone, there is also a iPhone, Android, Windows
information in the Waze dashboard system on the Waze Mobile, or Symbian phone.
network—it should be noted web site. There you can flag areas Waze[via jkOnTheRun]
however that Waze currently of the map that need to be edited
doesn't function as a long range or repaired, make changes to the
navigation tool but instead map to correct errors, and add
measures. will do for now.
Why stop with Letterman? He Filed under: Programming,
could stay another hour on CBS OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
and appear on Craig Ferguson. Permalink| Email this| |
And why not appear on Leno's Comments
new show? Or Conan? Or Jimmy
Fallon? Or even Jimmy Kimmel?
However, the President is likely a
busy man and doesn't want to
spread himself too thin. Letterman
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Maximize Firefox 3.5's Viewing Area for Your Netbook
[NetBooks]
By Gina Trapani (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:00:00 AM
Your netbook's screen is tiny and
processor less than mighty, so you
want to maximize the web page
viewing area without any
performance-killing Firefox
extensions. Here's how to
consolidate Firefox 3.5's chrome
for your Windows or Linux-based
netbook.
Even if you don't have a
netbook, these modifications still
work if you want to consolidate
Firefox 3.5's chrome on your
regular PC.
(This whole Firefox
consolidation undertaking sound
familiar? For longtime readers, it
should be. Way before netbooks
got hot, we consolidated Firefox 2
back in 2006, and then Firefox 3
with the help of Stylish in 2008.
This version addresses a few
Firefox 3.5-specific items and
clears out the clutter sans add-
ons.)
Here's what Firefox 3.5 looks
like by default (on my Eee PC
running Windows XP). Click to
view actual size.
There's quite a bit of whitespace
on Firefox's chrome just asking to
get utilized more efficiently. You
can trim the highlighted areas in
the image below from Firefox
3.5's interface:
After a little toolbar
rearrangement and interface
decluttering, here's what
consolidated Firefox 3.5 looks
like. You can see that a whole
other Lifehacker post fits into the
viewport after the consolidation.
Click to view actual size.
Here's how to maximize your
web page viewing area and
declutter Firefox's chrome.
Relocate the navigation toolbar,
buttons, and search box to the
menu bar. To get this done, right-
click on Firefox 3.5's toolbar and
choose Customize. From there,
drag and drop elements on the
lower toolbars to the menu bar,
and check off "Use small icons."
(That will flatten the fat "keyhole"
back button.) Hit play for a 30-
second demonstration of the
process (featuring old-school
Lifehacker design).
Trim unnecessary interface
doodads with userChrome.css.
Just like you can style web pages
with CSS, you can also style
Firefox's chrome. In order to
modify certain aspects of
Firefox's chrome without using an
add-on like Stylish, you edit a file
called userChrome.css, which is
stored in your Firefox profile
directory. This file is user-specific
and you can easily copy it from
one Firefox installation to
another. Here's where Windows
and Linux netbook users can find
userChrome.css.
Windows XP
C:\Documents and
Settings\[User Name]\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxx
xxxxx.default\chrome\
where xxxxxxxx is a random
string of 8 characters.
Linux
~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.defau
lt/chrome/
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/* remove new tab button next to
last tab */
.tabs-newtab-button {display:
none !important}
Remove the search box's
magnifying glass. You can just hit
the Enter key to execute a search
from Firefox's search box, so the
magnifying glass "go" button is
just unnecessary eye candy. With
your address bar up on the same
level as the menus, you want as
much horizontal space for typing
search terms and web site
addresses, so it makes sense to
kill the magnifying glass. Here's
the userChrome.css bit that will
do just that.
/* remove magnifying glass from
search box */
.search-go-button { display:
none !important}
Remove and combine disabled
buttons. When there's no page to
go back to or forward to, nothing
loading to stop, or nothing loaded
With Firefox closed, open the t o r e f r e s h , a l l t h o s e
userChrome.css file and append buttons—back, forward, stop, and
whatever CSS bits listed in this reload—just sit there, greyed out,
article you want to apply. If a doing nothing but taking up space.
userChrome.css file doesn't exist, You want as much horizontal
save userChrome-example.css as space as possible, so you can hide
userChrome.css. disabled (useless) back and
Got your userChrome.css file f o r w a r d b u t t o n s , a n d e v e n
open and ready for modifications? combine the stop and reload
Let's declutter. button to make a dual-use single
Remove Firefox 3.5's new tab button. Here's the userChrome.css
button. Tab bar space is at a code that will do just that.
premium on your netbook, and /* combine stop and reload
you already use the Ctrl+T buttons */
keyboard shortcut to open a new #stop-button[disabled] { display:
tab—so you don't need the new none }
(and kind of annoying) Firefox #stop-button:not([disabled]) +
3.5 new tab button. Add this bit to #reload-button { display: none }
userChrome.css to kill that button /* don't show back or forward
and make room for more open
tabs.
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MAXIMIZE
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buttons if there's nothing to go
back or forward to */
#back-button[disabled="true"] {
display: none }
# f o r w a r d -
button[disabled="true"] { display:
none }
Optional: Hide bookmarks bar.
A lot of my web work depends on
easily-accessible bookmarklets, so
I did not hide my bookmarks bar,
but others who don't feel the same
can gain more vertical space by
doing just that. From the View
menu, Toolbars, uncheck
"Bookmarks Toolbar."
All the CSS in one shot
To get all these changes in one
fell copy-and-paste swoop, grab
them from here and drop them
into your userChrome.css, and
restart Firefox.
/* remove new tab button next to
last tab */
.tabs-newtab-button {display:
none !important}
/* remove magnifying glass from
search box */
.search-go-button { display:
none !important}
/* combine stop and reload
buttons */
#stop-button[disabled] { display:
none }
#stop-button:not([disabled]) +
#reload-button { display: none }
/* don't show back or forward
buttons if there's nothing to go
back or forward to */
#back-button[disabled="true"] {
display: none }
# f o r w a r d -
button[disabled="true"] { display:
none }
How do you customize
Firefox—or any other app, for
that matter—on your netbook?
Let this newbie netbooker know
in the comments. (For more
userChrome.css fun, see our list
of functional Firefox user styles.)
Gina Trapani, Lifehacker's
founding editor, likes her Firefox
pared down on her netbook. Her
weekly feature, Smarterware,
appears every Wednesday on
Lifehacker. Subscribe to the
Smarterware tag feed to get new
installments in your newsreader.
Internet News Record
Front Row Designer Devotion
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 9/15/2009 8:57:25 PM
M odel/actress Devon Aoki
arrived at Rad Hourani's spring
2010 runway show wearing a pair
of sexy sequined, slashed pants by
the designer. In an unexpected
uptown-meets-downtown twist,
she paired the tough-as-nails
trousers with an Armani corset.
There’s no denying Aoki looked
like the chic poster-child for line, Rad by Rad Hourani, will be
H o u r a n i ’ s b r a n d o f e d g y available online in November.
androgynous cool, but what do —Violet Moon Gaynor
Follow ELLE on Twitter.
you think about wearing a
designer’s clothes front row at Photo: Kelly Stuart
their show?
Rad's equally-chic lower-priced

Bring thin clients to the home

(CNET News.com) of PCs of all stripes with locally give you a standard desktop company that offers what it calls anything approaching a
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:47:00 AM installed and administered image along with a profile that Desktops-as-a-Service. widespread way.
software. And this, to basically could be personalized (including Essentially, it sells software that Such a service wouldn't be for
I visited my dad in Maine over look at photos, play solitaire, and your desktop background) and enables enterprises and service everyone--or even most. Many are
the weekend and, as is often the read e-mail through a browser. space for your user data. They'd providers to build a hosted more than willing to trade off the
case, part of the weekend was The frustrating thing to me is back up the whole thing and desktop infrastructure. sometimes frustrating
devoted to "IT administration," that we basically know how to would be able to restore to the Service providers can then resell complexities of a full-fledged PC
a k a a t t e n d i n g t o P C s a n d deal with this problem. It just isn't standard desktop image in the these hosted desktops to others. for the flexibility it brings.
associated gadgetry. implemented in anything event of problems. For example, in April Desktone (Although I do wonder if it
While some of the time approaching a widespread way. The thin client doesn't even announced a deal with ICC wouldn't be interesting for a
involved transferring photos It's also an approach that various need to be a desktop. Mobile thin Global hosting around offering supplemental device intended
among various devices, a decent people have been bringing up off clients are also readily available. cloud-based virtual hosted primarily for browsing even in a
chunk was devoted to working on and on for years. Take this article It would have no local storage-- desktops based on the Desktone house with one or more PCs.)
a PC whose operating system had by Rupert Goodwins from ZDNet that is, no local hard disk to crash. Virtual-D Platform to But it does seem to me as if the
decided to irretrievably corrupt in 2004. There are various wrinkles that organizations in the academic, cable and telecommunications
itself somehow, requiring a fresh This solution is delivering a service providers would need to public sector, and mid-tier companies have fallen down when
rebuild. And, yes, it was Windows hosted desktop over broadband to work out--such as dealing with business markets. it comes to offering what could be
--Windows XP to be precise--but a client device offered as part of additional applications that users So hosted desktops, which you a very useful service for many.
please don't try to tell me that this an ISP's service. In other words, might want to install and drivers can think of as a cloud-computing And, not incidentally, one they
sort of thing never happens with for some additional monthly fee, for locally attached USB devices -oriented implementation of could charge an additional fee for-
your favorite OS of choice. you'd rent a thin client from such as printers. virtual desktop infrastructure -something that they're never shy
This story isn't about Windows; Comcast or Verizon just as you But we, as an industry, know (VDI) are real. They just haven't about doing.
it's about the inherent complexity can rent a DVR today. They'd how to do this. Desktone is one made it out to consumers in
Internet News Record Tech Reviews Sports 57

PC shipments still have that sinking Zito stops Rockies as

feeling Giants cut wild-card lead
By Associated Press We're not going to trail. We've
(CNET News.com) percent. toward thin, light laptops using (ESPN.com) still got a lead. But the
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:05:00 AM However, the growth in CULV(consumer ultra-low Submitted at 9/15/2009 11:37:37 PM opportunity of having a cushion
portables came at a cost. voltage) processors will limit the versus giving it back -- that's what
It's still dog days for those in the Traditional laptops saw shipment market share of Netbooks, Rockies Nervous? tomorrow is all about."
business of making and selling growth of 13 percent for the boosting the value of overall PC With the Giants creeping up on Shortstop Troy Tulowitzki:"I
PCs. quarter, but the financial value of shipments. the Rockies in the NL wild-card mess around with our trainers all
Global PC shipments fell 2.4 those shipments declined 6 "Although mininotebooks have chase, is Colorado feeling the the time and I say, 'We don't want
percent in the second quarter of percent. hurt margins of traditional heat? Here's their take: to run away with this thing. We
the year compared with the same Netbooks proved the most notebooks, we can expect Manager Jim Tracy:"Here's the want to play meaningful games all
quarter last year, and the value of popular, with shipments rising Ultrathin Notebooks based on deal. Here's our situation. It's very the way through because come
those shipments dropped 19.1 almost 25 percent, from 5 percent new low voltage processors from simple. It's black and white. playoff time, that's what we're
percent over the same period, a year ago. But again, this trend Intel and AMD to somewhat stem There's no gray. There's no going to have to do anyway, and I
according to a report released brought down overall value, with the tide," said Jay Chou, research m i d d l e a r e a . W e ' v e g o t a n think that helps.' So I like where
Wednesday by IDC. Netbooks costing around $400 analyst for IDC's Worldwide opportunity to win a game in this we're at, that we're keeping it
Desktop shipments dropped 17 c o m p a r e d w i t h $ 9 0 0 f o r Quarterly PC Tracker. series, which is something that close and not running away with
percent for the quarter as more t r a d i t i o n a l l a p t o p s . Over the longer haul, shipments we're obviously striving for, and this thing." Do the trainers like
and more people continue to opt IDC sees better times ahead, of portable PCs should rise 17 you move on and you're 3½ that kind of talk? "No, they don't
for portables, according to IDC's expecting the market to improve percent on average through 2013, ahead. Or you lose and you're 1½ like to hear that," a laughing
Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker for both unit growth and value. delivering 11 percent growth in ahead and then everything's up for Tulowizki said.
report. Consumer laptops and Desktop volume is forecast to be total PC shipments and close to 5 grabs. I'm not sitting here saying --Jayson Stark
Netbooks accounted for the only flat in 2010, but portable PCs will percent in the value of those to anybody that we're trailing.
b r i g h t s p o t , w i t h o v e r a l l grow 16.5 percent, said the report. shipments.
shipments growing 44 percent The Netbook market will
over a year ago from a low of 28 continue to rise. But the trend

Modern Warfare 2 limited edition Xbox 360 revealed

(CNET News.com) and an Xbox 360 headset. regarding specialty products
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:51:30 AM The Modern Warfare 2 console designed specifically for Sony's
is black and features a prominent console or the PC.
The new Modern Warfare 2 "2" on the face of the device. The limited edition Modern
X b o x 3 6 0 . ( C r e d i t : M a j o r Elsewhere on the product are Warfare 2 bundle is available for
Nelson/Microsoft) different markings from the game. pre-order now. It costs $399 and
Microsoft and Infinity Ward An Infinity Ward spokesman said will be released on November 10-
announced a limited edition Call i n a p r o m o t i o n a l v i d e o o n -the same day Call of Duty
of Duty Modern Warfare 2 bundle Microsoft's site that his company's Modern Warfare 2 hits store
in Los Angeles on Tuesday. vision with the console design shelves.
The bundle features a limited was to "make it look like a piece Although the limited edition PlayStation 3 and PC. So far, Check out Don's Facebook
e d i t i o n X b o x 3 6 0 M o d e r n o f m i l i t a r y e q u i p m e n t . " console is exclusive to the Xbox n e i t h e r I n f i n i t y W a r d n o r profile, Twitter stream, and
Warfare 2 console, a copy of the According to the company, every 360, Modern Warfare 2 will also Activision, the game's publisher, FriendFeed.
g a m e , t w o b l a c k w i r e l e s s marking "has meaning to the b e m a d e a v a i l a b l e o n t h e has made any announcements
controllers, a 250GB hard drive, game."
58 Tech Reviews TV Internet News Record

Curb Your
Enthusiasm, season
seven -- An early look
By Jonathan Toomey (TV
Squad)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:02:00 AM

The beauty of Curb Your

Enthusiasm has always been its
roots. Born from the mind of a
man who launched a show about
nothing, Curb is little more than
an edgier version that's still...
about nothing. It only makes
sense that one day we would
witness the colliding vortex
created by those two masses of
nothingness and that day has

Aviary launches impressive audio editor, Myna finally arrived. Well, almost.
Season seven of Larry David's
Curb Your Enthusiasm premieres
(CNET News.com) track audio editor, and for a Web- tracks, and total playing time has Myna is more approachable. on HBO this Sunday night,
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:00:00 AM based app it's freakishly capable. to be under five minutes. Galpert I was surprised to see Aviary September 20, at 9 p.m. ET and
It's easy and fast to pop clips and says this is due to limitations in get into the audio-tool business having seen the first three
Aviary is great at making loops into tracks, drag them Flash, but that Aviary may find after creating its first five apps, episodes, I'll say this about the
advanced Web-based artists' tools around, apply standard effects and ways around them in the future. which are for handling graphics. long-awaited Seinfeld reunion -
that I haven't a hope of being able fades, and then mix the whole The technology comes from But Galpert says, "an artist is an it's real and it's spectacular.
to fully use. Case in point, the thing down so you can download Digimix, which Aviary acquired artist," and he wants to make tools Continue reading Curb Your
new audio editor, Myna, that joins it as one file. earlier this year. that let creative people work Enthusiasm, season seven -- An
the company's suite of graphics Myna comes with a large library Just because I can, doesn't mean a c r o s s m e d i a , o r t o c r e a t e early look
tools like the Phoenix image o f r o y a l t y - f r e e r i f f s f r o m I should be editing music. But r e m i x e s . Filed under: OpEd, Curb Your
editor and the Raven vector Quantum Tracks and a few sound Myna does make it easy.(Credit: Myna is a free app. It's Enthusiasm, Early Looks, Episode
editor. effects from other sources. You S c r e e n s h o t b y R a f e impressive and it's a ton of fun. It Reviews, Reality-Free
I have dabbled a bit in can upload your clips to the N e e d l e m a n / C N E T ) might even be useful. Permalink| Email this| |
GarageBand and I do some of my service as well, and record Myna is a "hobbyist's tool now," Aviary won the Webware 100 Comments
own podcast production work, so directly from your computer. Galpert admits, but he also says Technical Achievement award in
I get the concept in Myna, However, Aviary co-founder there are pro-level features 2009.
although I'm far from skilled at Michael Galpert warns that there coming in future releases. I found
editing audio. The app is a multi- are limits: You can only lay in 10 GarageBand more capable, but
Internet News Record
Tesla raises $82.5 million for new
retail stores
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:16:00 AM
Tesla Motors in Los Angeles,
Calif.(Credit: Tesla Motors)
Tesla Motors has garnered
$82.5 million in "Series F"
funding for the purpose of
expanding its chain of stores in
North America and Europe.
The deal was first announced
Monday by participating investor
Fjord Capital Partners. Tesla
Motors then confirmed the deal to
several news outlets on Tuesday.
Daimler, already a 10 percent
investor in Tesla, and Abu Dhabi
fund Aabar Investments also
contributed to the fund.
The California-based electric-
vehicle manufacturer has had
stores in Los Angeles and Menlo
Park, Calif., for some time. It
recently opened stores in New
York, Chicago, Miami, London,
Seattle, and Munich. It has plans
to open a store in Monaco before
the end of the year, and has said
it's scouting for locations in
Washington, D.C., and Toronto.
But don't call them dealerships.
Because the electric cars are
light on service work, and don't
need things like oil changes, Tesla
plans to forgo the traditional
dealership/service business model
of yesteryear's car industry.
Instead the company plans to
maintain full retail control over its
cars and brand, Tesla announced
in early September.
Tesla Motors in Menlo Park,
Calif.(Credit: Tesla Motors)
"Tesla takes its showroom cues
from Apple, Starbucks and other
customer-focused retailers. Tesla
stores provide a welcoming spot
to surf the Web, test drive cars
and learn more about Tesla, the
only production automaker selling
highway-capable EVs in North
America or Europe," Tesla said in
statement.
News of the latest funding deal
also follows the unveiling of
Tesla's production model of the
Model S sedan, as well as a tuner
version of its Roadster, at the
2009 Frankfurt auto show this
week.
The prototype of the Model S
was unveiled in March as a way
to augment Tesla's lineup with a
more "economical" option to its
Roadster luxury sports car. The
Model S is expected to cost
around $50,000--about half the
cost of the Roadster.
Tech Reviews Apple 59
Nano Ad Screen Goofs?
By Chris Ryan (TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 9/15/2009 1:00:17 PM
With the new iPod nano
featuring a built in video camera,
Apple’s latest commercial really
highlights how easy it is to use.
Entitled “ Nano Shoots Video,”
the spot makes it look super easy
and trendy to shoot video, but
correctly (indicating it was added
does the commercial really tell the after the fact, something Apple
truth?
actually admits in fine print at the
Looking at the structure of the end of the spot). At first, I just
iPod nano, the camera is actually
thought this was a result of
found in the lower left corner of motion blur, but going frame by
the backside. For some, this
frame, it’s fairly inconsistent
would be be a bit awkward when throughout the entire piece.
holding it, to ensure not covering
The very last scene of the
up the camera. commercial showcases all of the
Generally speaking, Apple’s
nanos in a row. Here is another
commercial takes this into example of where the video shifts
account, with careful positioning
inside the blue nano as it is added
of holding the iPod. But in reality, to the group. Look at the vertical
is the location of the camera the
alignment of the video. As the
best possible place? For those of nano comes into the frame, it’s
you who have already purchased
more aligned towards the bottom
one, what are your thoughts? A of the iPod and when it sits into
Few Goofs?
place, it becomes centered (most
We know Apple’s award obvious when you compare
winning ad campaigns are
frames 1 and 2 to frames 3 and 4).
creative, inspirational and very Another interesting catch is
memorable. (How many of you
around 19 seconds in when the
have bought songs on iTunes guy who is moonwalking is being
because they were featured in an
filmed by an iPod nano that is
iPod commercial? Consequently, being held up by just a thumb.
this song in the latest ad is called
Have you noticed anything like
Bourgeois Shangri-La, by Miss this in Apple’s ads before? If
Li.)
you’ve bought the new nano, is
Sometimes though, a close look this commercial a realistic
at the commercials can reveal a
representation of the video
bit about how they are made, and quality, color accuracy and the
show a few goofs. For example, like? I’d love to hear what you
look close at the screen grabs think.
from this commercial below.
You’ll see things like video that
isn’t quite centered on the screen
60 Apple Internet News Record

Retro Gaming Roundup: 40 iPhone Games to Take You Back

in Time
By Andrew Bednarz Price:$4.99 iTunes Price:$5.99
(TheAppleBlog) Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Adventures Links: Wikipedia, Webpage,
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:11:26 AM iTunes The classic point and click iTunes
Missile Command adventure games let you guide Flight of the Amazon Queen
There are few iPhone games that Release Year: 1980 your character around a scene, Release Year: 1995
I will immediately buy. Most of Original Platform: Arcade interacting with computer Original Platform: Amiga, PC
the ones I do, however, are the Price:$4.99 characters and objects by either Price:$4.99
classic games I played as a Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, entering text or clicking on action Links: Wikipedia, Webpage,
teenager. iTunes words. Sierra and Lucas Arts were iTunes
The iPhone/iPod touch is more PAC-MAN the kings of this genre until the Shooters
than powerful enough to handle Release Year: 1980 3D graphics revolution when they The memories of borrowing my
these games and it seems that Original Platform: Arcade seemed to die out. Myst took a school’s greyscale brief-case
there are many people like me Price:$5.99 different take on the genre while sized 386 for the weekend to play
who are keen to experience these Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, InfoGames was one of the the shareware version of
classics again. So, here’s a iTunes original companies where text Wolfenstein 3D are still with me.
roundup of modern ports of Ms. PAC-MAN adventures all started (Frotz is an It started a new era of gaming can
classic games. Only official ports Release Year: 1981 open source interpretor of text now be fondly relived on the
of classic games are detailed here Original Platform: Arcade adventure games and includes the iPhone. Duke Nukem 3D is
— clones and the like do exist but Price:$5.99 M.I.T version of Zork). Zork another old favorite, athough ID
I had to draw a line in the sand. Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, (available in Frotz) was clearly the leader. Wolf 3D
I’ve also included links to iTunes Release Year: 1977 Release Year: 1992
Wikipedia for those interested in Galaga Original Platform: DEC PDP-10 Original Platform: PC
the history of the games. Classic Release Year: 1981 Price: Free Price:$1.99
Arcaders Original Platform: Arcade Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Links: Wikipedia, Webpage,
The Video Arcade is where Price:$4.99 iTunes iTunes
mainstream gaming began, and Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Mystery House Duke Nukem 3D
there are plenty of original ports iTunes Original Platform: Arcade Release Year: 1980 Release Year: 1996
from this era to re-live your youth Frogger Price:$1.99 Original Platform: Apple II Original Platform: PC
shoving coins into cabinets. I’d Release Year: 1981 Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Price:$5.99 Price:$2.99
still like to see BubbleBobble Original Platform: Arcade iTunes Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Links: Wikipedia, Webpage,
make an appearance here to Price:$1.99 Space Ace iTunes iTunes
completely satisfy my urges. Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Release Year: 1984 Secret of Monkey Island Platformers
Space Invaders iTunes Original Platform: Arcade Release Year: 1990 While the original jump’n'run
Release Year: 1978 Dig Dug Price:$4.99 Original Platform: Atari ST, platformer Super Mario Bros isn’t
Original Platform: Arcade Release Year: 1982 Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Macintosh and PC available (yet?), Sega’s main
Price:$4.99 Original Platform: Arcade iTunes Price:$7.99 competition Sonic The Hedgehog
Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Price:$4.99 Time Crisis Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, is, as well as other classic
iTunes Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Release Year: 1995 iTunes variations of platform games
Super Breakout iTunes Original Platform: Arcade Simon The Sorcerer (including hack’n’slash
Release Year: 1978 Pole Position Price:$5.99 Release Year: 1993 platformers like Golden Axe).
Original Platform: Arcade Release Year: 1982 Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Original Platform: PC Golden Axe
Price:$1.99 Original Platform: Arcade iTunes Price:$4.99 Release Year: 1989
Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Price:$2.99 Alpine Racer Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Original Platform: Arcade
iTunes Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Release Year: 1995 iTunes Consoles (Sega System 16)
Centipede iTunes Original Platform: Arcade Myst Price:$4.99
Release Year: 1980 Q*Bert Price:$1.99 Release Year: 1993
Original Platform: Arcade Release Year: 1982 Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Original Platform: Mac RETRO page 61
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iTunes UI: Deconstructing 8 to 9

By Chris Ryan (TheAppleBlog) “adding to shopping cart” versus specific episodes. When syncing
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:31:25 AM buying with Amazon’s licensed 1- photos, users can take advantage
Click technology. Added is an of the iPhoto ‘09 Faces and Places
The one thing many people did option to use the full window aspect to sync photos of particular
not expect with a new version of when browsing the iTunes Store. people or a particular place. Many
iTunes was that Apple would use iTunes 9 Store Preferences of these areas also provide a
the opportunity to cause dissent iTunes 8 Store Preferences search field, making it easier to
among its fanbase by introducing Browsing Content quickly narrow down and select Jay Leno's set
another new user interface. Some Browsing content within iTunes the specific content you’re
classify the new styling as has also received a refresh. While looking for. reminds me of ...
“ n e e d e d ” a n d “ e l e g a n t a n d browsing music in List Mode, the Syncing TV Shows By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
r e f i n e d ” w h i l e o t h e r s h a v e artists have been grouped along Syncing Ringtones
Submitted at 9/16/2009 11:29:00 AM
resorted to a variety of hacks to the left, making it easier to narrow Syncing iTunes U
return to the UI of yesteryear. down your selection rather Syncing Music Watching The Jay Leno Show
We’ve gone through every quickly. them a more glossy, shiny three Syncing Photos
dimensional look. The toolbar has the other night, I was trying to
corner of iTunes we could find iTunes 9 Music List Mode The biggest feature in the figure out what his set reminded
and dug up all of the major When browsing in Grid View, also been realigned, removing the redesigned sync options is the
‘View’ label and moving the ability to organize your iPhone me of. Not the main stage where
changes in the interface. Here’s the first thing you will notice is he does his monologue or the area
what we found. Welcome to that the dark black background is ‘Search’ label instead the Search and iPod touch apps directly
field. The information area has within iTunes. Check the ones where the band plays (which is so
iTunes 9 gone and now albums are far away it seems like another zip
The first thing many noticed is scattered amongst an off white also been updated, providing you wish to add, highlight to
more useful information during select them and drag them to code), I'm talking about the chairs
that iTunes 9 now launches with a background. Badged content, such where he interviews his guest.
Welcome to iTunes screen, as Podcasts, TV Shows, iTunes U syncing and downloading of whichever home screen you
content from the iTunes Store desire. Selecting multiple apps is Leno made a big deal about how
offering quick links to videos and Movies feature blue badges he wouldn't have a desk, as if
showcasing some of iTunes instead of the original red. Gone (such as time remaining). a cinch and moving them between
iTunes 9 also brings about many home screens is equally easy. that's innovative (and it's not true
features. Similar to apps like from this view are the tabs to sort either - he uses a desk for
iPhoto and iWeb, users can content within an area (such as refreshed icons, including many Syncing Apps Everything Else
of the icons in the sidebar. "Headlines"), and the chairs and
disable this by ticking a checkbox. Music) by Albums, Artists, Upon a user’s first visit to a end tables he's using remind me
iTunes Preferences Genres and Composers. This can Specifically, playlist icons have section, such as creating a new
gotten the most attention, while Playlist, or visiting the Podcast of something.
iTunes Preferences also featured be re-enabled via the View menu. Movieline.com has it all figured
a few notable changes, ITunes 9 Podcasts TVs, Movies, Audiobooks, and area, they are greeted with a new
Applications have seen slight UI that discusses how that out: it's an airport!
specifically adding support for Cover Flow view is pretty much Filed under: Reality-Free, Jay
grouping iTunes U content. the same, with the refining of the refreshes as well. particular concept works.
Syncing Leno
iTunes 9 General Preferences “full screen” icon. iTunes 9 New Playlist Permalink| Email this| |
iTunes 8 General Preferences iTunes 9 CoverFlow Syncing is by far the area that While this overview is fairly
received the most attention in this exhaustive, there are likely many Comments
Parental Control also received a The iTunes 9 Equalizer also
new icon (matching the icon in received a refresh, styling the revision. Specifically, users now other features that users will
Snow Leopard) as well as some control knobs with blue accents. have the ability to sync content continue to discover. If there’s
more selectively. When choosing one we’ve missed, please use the
RETRO
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slight rewording. iTunes 9 Equalizer
iTunes 9 Parental Controls iTunes 8 Equalizer Icons & a TV show, for instance, they can comments to let us know! Links: Wikipedia, Webpage,
iTunes 8 Parental Controls Buttons sync specific seasons or specific iTunes
Removed from iTunes 9 are Buttons and displays in iTunes 9 episodes. When syncing a Rick Dangerous
references in the Store section to have been overhauled to give podcast, they can choose to sync Release Year: 1989
Street Chic: New York Fashion Week Original Platforms: Amiga,
Amstrad CPC, Atari ST,
By ELLE.com (ELLE News ensemble lets her statement Daily. Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum,
Blog) necklace stand out. Follow ELLE on Twitter. DOS
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Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, 400/800, Apple II, MSX, ZX
Apple Negotiating Deal
iTunes
Sonic the Hedgehog
Release Year: 1991
iTunes
Sim City
Release Year: 1988
Spectrum, Commodore 64,
ColecoVision
Price:$4.99
With Second Chinese
Original Platform: Sega Mega
Drive / Genesis
Price:$5.99
Original Platforms: Amiga, Mac
Price:$4.99
Links: Wikipedia, Webpage,
Links: Wikipedia, Webpage,
iTunes
Crystal Quest
Cell Carrier
Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, iTunes Release Year: 1987 By Liam Cassidy
iTunes Civilization Original Platform: Apple Mac (TheAppleBlog) apparently negotiations hit a
Streets of Rage Release Year: 1991 Price:$0.99 Submitted at 9/15/2009 2:05:02 PM roadblock over Apple’s business
Release Year: 1991 Original Platform: PC Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, model which, at that time, was
Original Platform: Sega Price:$4.99 iTunes No one said Apple’s partnership based around revenue-sharing. In
MegaDrive / Genesis Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Pinball Dreams with China Unicom is exclusive, November 2007, speaking at the
Price:$4.99 iTunes Release Year: 1992 right? It’s an open relationship. GSM Association’s Mobile Asia
Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Puzzlers and Others Original Platform: Amiga Y’know how it is, dinner dates, Congress in Macau, Mr Wang
iTunes From the original puzzle game Price:$4.99 the cinema, maybe even told attendees that he did not like
Flashback Tetris, to early classics like Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, occasionally meeting the parents. the new business models
Release Year: 1992 Bomberman. Rogue iTunes But it’s totally cool for them both emerging in the mobile phone
Original Platform: Amiga Release Year: Early 1980s Pinball Fantasies to see other people, OK? industry — specifically, device
Price:$4.99 Original Platform: UNIX Release Year: 1992 And that’s precisely what’s manufacturers seeking to share
Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Price: Free Original Platform: Amiga happening. Back in July, I revenues with cellular network
iTunes Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Price:$6.99 reported here that China Unicom operators. Instead, he asserted,
Super Methane Bros iTunes Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, had secured the deal to supply to “We still think we can maintain
Release Year: 1993 Bomberman iTunes the iPhone in China. Just two the operator-centric model
Original Platform: Amiga Release Year: 1983 Worms weeks ago other sites were because we have the customers,
Price:$0.99 Original Platform: MSX, NEC Release Year: 1994 reporting the same thing and now, the end users.”
Links: Webpage, iTunes PC-8801, NEC PC-6001, Sharp Original Platform: Amiga according to the Wall Street They certainly do. China Mobile
Strategy / Simulation MZ-700, FM-7, ZX Spectrum Price:$4.99 Journal, rival carrier China is the country’s largest cell
Sim City and Civilisation are Price:$7.99 Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Mobile appears to be getting in on network operator with over 420
two of the most well known and Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, iTunes the action, too. million subscribers. That’s more
loved strategy simulation games iTunes Vay Speaking at the World than the entire population of the
and of course they make a Tetris Release Year: 1994 Economic Forum, China Mobile’s United States.
showing in this list. Personally I’d Release Year: 1984 Original Platform: Sega CD chairman Wang Jianzhou said that This move marks the first time
love to see the old Bullfrog Original Platform: PC Price:$4.99 Apple’s deal with competitor since the launch of the iPhone in
Amiga classics PowerMonger and Price:$4.99 Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, China Unicom was “…absolutely 2007 that Apple has not expressly
Populous appear on the App Store Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, iTunes not exclusive.” fostered an exclusive arrangement
too. Archon iTunes “We are still in talks,” added Mr with a single carrier in a country,
Release Year: 1983 Boulderdash Wang, “so I can’t say anything but is instead pursuing
Original Platform: Atari Release Year: 1984 else.” arrangements with multiple
Price:$2.99 Original Platform: Atari China Mobile was, for a time, carriers.
the favorite for securing a deal to
offer the iPhone in China but
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How-to: Get Google Gears Working Brad, let's get together

(Scripting News)
in Snow Leopard Submitted at 9/15/2009 6:31:39 PM

By Alfredo Padilla any hack, proceed at your own Brad Fitzpatrick did what I used
(TheAppleBlog) risk, but my own experience has to do, say what he really thinks in
Submitted at 9/15/2009 4:00:52 PM been flawless. Once I installed a blog post about RSS stuff. It's
this version of Gears, Mailplane fine, but it is just his point of
Snow Leopard was a remarkably to do a clean installation that will and Fluid were once again able to view. There are other points of
painless upgrade for me, but one run into problems. take advantage of the offline view that are valid, like mine.
particularly important piece of Specifically the new 64-bit features of sites like Gmail. About "just happen to work at
software was broken: Google version of Safari includes updated Even with this version of Gears Google" -- come on, man -- how
Gears. s e c u r i t y f e a t u r e s t h a t a r e installed you won’t be able to use many people who don't happen to pretend it doesn't because it does.
For those who don’t know, incompatible with Google Gears. Gears with 64-bit Safari. If you do work at Google can add code to You blew every kind of smoke at
Gears is Google’s framework for If you tried to install Google want to use Gears with Safari you the following products: 1. it when we talked. That's really
storing browser data offline. It Gears for OS X you would get a will need to run it in 32-bit mode. Feedburner, 2. Google Reader, 3. good motivation for a guy like me
works with many Google services warning telling you that Google This can be done easily by right- Blogger. who takes pride in his work.
as well as some third-party Gears won’t install on a version of clicking on the Safari package, Further, prior art is really Now why did I get busy with
products. I use Gears primarily OS X higher than 10.5. Now this choosing Get Info and putting a important, it's how you keep the rssCloud? Primarily because I
with Site Specific Browsers makes some sense since Gears check in the box next to “Open in breadth of the pile of tech we wanted to remember how it
(SSBs) like Mailplane and Fluid, simply won’t work with the 64-bit 32-bit mode”. Those of you who create as small as possible, worked. Once I got started, I
which give me offline access to version of Safari, but it also use Gears with Firefox may be allowing us to build higher with remembered why I liked it, so I
G m a i l , G o o g l e R e a d e r a n d means that other programs like wondering what all the fuss is the finite brain capacity each of us kept going. That's all.
Remember The Milk. Mailplane and Fluid, which will about as Gears works fine with has. The cloud element was right Brad, we should get together
These are some of my most work fine with the current version that browser. That’s because there in the spec. And when we and talk about bringing our
used programs, and as such it of Google Gears, are unable to get Gears for Firefox is actually a talked, you knew about it. So to projects together. This is what you
became eminently obvious to me access to it’s features. Firefox extension, rather than an say you never heard of it, well -- I were going to have to do whether
after the Snow Leopard upgrade Google gears won't install on a operating system service as Gears think you had. I reactivated rssCloud or not,
that Google Gears was no longer clean Snow Leopard installation. for OS X is. It's true -- I was pretty freaked because RSS is there, and it's
working. To be clear, not all Thankfully, the helpful folks I hope this helps out all those when I saw the note at the top of huge, and you were trying to
Snow Leopard installs will cause who developed Mailplane have other Snow Leopard users who your spec that RSS didn't matter. ignore it.
Google Gears to stop functioning. created a hacked installer for depend on Google Gears and lost Sometimes I think Google really
If you do a standard upgrade, Google Gears that skips the the functionality during a clean believes that. Now I'm here to say
Gears functionality should be version check and allows you to install. Hopefully Google updates RSS does matter. You can't
carried over. Rather, it’s those install the program in Snow Gears to work natively with Snow
like me who see a new operating Leopard. You can pick up the Leopard soon so workarounds like
system update as an opportunity modified installer here. As with these are unnecessary.

Screen saver in Snow Leopard

(Scripting News)
Submitted at 9/15/2009 10:20:50 AM
Believer it or not there's been a
lot of controversy about the
screen saver in Apple's new
operating system release.
I know this isn't something most
people spend a lot of time
thinking about, but I happen to
think one of the nicest things
about the Mac is its screen saver, as if the "Choose Folder" option Used to be there could only be
cause I love high-res photography on the screen saver had one folder, now you get as many
and one of the nicest ways to use disappeared. But I figured as you like.
great photos is to hang them on someone on Twitter would know Just thought I'd leave a pointer
the wall on a 50-inch HD monitor what happened, and sure enough, here to anyone else who gets
and use the Mac screen saver to Mike Murry pointed me to the confused.
drive it. Try it sometime, you new way of doing things.
won't be disappointed. There's a plus and minus at the
That's why I was bummed when computer, first Leopard then bottom of the list. When you click
I did a complete fresh install on a Snow Leopard, when it appeared the plus you can add a folder to
Mac that's being turned into an art the list. Nice little improvement.
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Rumor Has It: New iMacs and MacBooks

Coming Just in Time for Windows 7
By Darrell Etherington The iMac is also well behind its
(TheAppleBlog) PC counterparts in terms of
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:18:03 AM internal specs, so the prediction
that it could see the introduction
Apple beat Microsoft to market of Core i5 or i7 processors is
in terms of new operating systems probably not too far off base. We
(although “new” doesn’t really may also see Apple’s first move
apply in the case of either 10.6 or away from NVIDIA’s GeForce
Windows 7), but that means 9400M as the fallout from GPU-
Microsoft will have the spotlight gate continues. Expect any
uncontested when it launches internal hardware changes to
Windows 7 on Oct. 22. That’s specifically compliment user
why one research firm, Wedge experience with the new Snow
Partners, is predicting new Leopard operating system.
MacBook and iMac hardware in
the coming weeks.
While some point to the
significance of the recent iPod
Did you hear the one
A significant hardware upgrade event as evidence that Apple about an Arianna
on Apple’s core lineup of iMac would not make another major
desktops and the lone MacBook announcement so closely on its Huffington sitcom?
notebook would indeed go a long heels, it was only last year that By Allison Waldman (TV
way towards stealing the wind Apple’s “Let’s Rock” iPod and Squad)
from Microsoft’s sails. Especially me at the beginning of September has been in play since August of music special event in September Submitted at 9/16/2009 12:04:00 PM
if it prices the new models lower, that new iMacs were definitely on 2007, and the white plastic was followed immediately in
as the same research firm suggests the horizon, and that retail MacBook case goes back to May October with its major notebook When I first read the headline
it may. management was being prepared 2 0 0 6 . T h e s p e c i f i c d e s i g n event, at which it introduced the about Arianna Huffington getting
Normally, I don’t have much for a major launch of the updated predictions made by Wedge new unibody MacBook and into the TV comedy business, I
patience for the ramblings of computers. partners stand little chance of MacBook Pro design. Clearly, it’s had visions of her as Maude or
those soothsayers in the so-called No mention was made of the being accurate, but a new look historically possible, and Apple something equally as bizarre.
“analyst” line of work, but this MacBook, but it, like the iMacs, would definitely be in order. has seen the financial sense it Fortunately, it was just my
r e p o r t s t r u c k a c h o r d w i t h are definitely due for a refresh, Expect Apple to leverage its makes in the sales numbers it skewed sense of humor at work,
something I heard earlier in the and, as Wedge Partners predicts, a unibody construction method for recorded last holiday season. because Arianna Huffington, the
month, which alone wasn’t visual design change as well. The b o t h , s i n c e i t r e p r e s e n t s political talking head and co-
substantial enough to write up. A aluminum and glass iMac design significant investment on its part.
source who works for Apple told

Does Shaquille O'Neal Have a Bright Boxing Future? Freddie Roach Thinks So
By Ariel Helwani (FanHouse) Roach. As a result of his fight against Miguel Cotto. He appeared on Fanhouse Boxing
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:36:00 AM numerous appearances on the also talked about why he thinks Blog on Wed, 16 Sep 2009
show, Roach, the owner of the Shaquille O'Neal could beat either 07:36:00 EST . Please see our
by Ariel Helwani Wild Card Boxing Club in Los Klitschko brother if the NBA star terms for use of feeds.
Filed under: Boxing Video, Angeles, has become arguably the trained with him for a year. Check Permalink| Email this| Linking
H B O , F a n H o u s e E x c l u s i v e most famous boxing trainer in the out the full video interview below. Blogs| Comments
Perhaps the biggest star to come world. Does Shaquille O'Neal Have a
out HBO's critically-acclaimed FanHouse recently spoke to getting his prized pupil, Manny Bright Boxing Future? Freddie
24/ 7 series has been Freddie Roach about his next challenge: Pacquaio, ready for his Nov. 14 Roach Thinks So originally
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creator of The Huffington Post, is
not starring in a sitcom. ABC has
bought Huffington's idea for a
multicamera sitcom. And just to
make sure it's funny, they've hired
executive producer Greg Malins (
Friends, How I Met Your Mother)
to develop the project.
20th Century Fox TV is
producing the show for ABC and,
yes, it is about politics. See, there
are these three freshman members
of the House of Representatives,
two men and a woman (but no
pizza place). They share an
apartment in the D.C. area. "One
is swept up in the movement of
change... one has been in politics
for a long time, and one is a
master of the media and sound
bites," said Malins.
Continue reading Did you hear
the one about an Arianna
Huffington sitcom?
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Donovan McNabb of Philadelphia Eagles being
held out of practice
By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:47:36 AM
PHILADELPHIA -- Eagles
coach Andy Reid says
quarterback Donovan McNabb is
making progress in recovering
from a cracked rib, but adds it's
too early to say if he will start
Sunday against the New Orleans
Saints.
NFC East blog
ESPN.com's Matt Mosley writes
about all things NFC East in his
division blog.
• Blog network: NFL Nation
McNabb was held out of
practice Wednesday because of
his cracked rib.
Kevin Kolb is expected to take
the snaps with the starters
Wednesday. Reid again made
clear that Kolb will start against
the Saints if McNabb can't play.
Recently acquired Jeff Garcia
Sports 65
would be Kolb's backup. He will
be the No. 3 emergency
quarterback if McNabb starts.
Michael Vick and Garcia will
share snaps running the scout
team this week. Vick is not
eligible to play.
Information from The
Assocoiated Press was used in
this story.

Ohio State Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel won't give up

playcalling
By ESPN.com news services criticized Tressel's conservative an easy field goal on fourth-and- Tressel said. "So, no, I (1-1) preparing to play Toledo at
(ESPN.com) approach to the game and his goal at the USC 1 early in the philosophically wouldn't go Cleveland Browns Stadium on
Submitted at 9/16/2009 5:12:49 AM handling of the team. second quarter. He also favored against that." Saturday, the glow of that 2002
Tressel's offensive philosophy punting on fourth-and-1 at the The vitriol Tressel has faced national championship game
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio basically is built on playing for USC 45 in the third quarter. after the game is unlike any he seems light years away.
State coach Jim Tressel says he field position, avoiding turnovers With around 8 minutes left in has encountered in his eight-plus Tressel said he has received
has no desire to give up calling at all cost and relying on defense the game and Ohio State gripping years as Buckeyes coach. His first critical e-mails, but said the fans'
plays and will not change his and special teams to win the a 15-10 lead, the Buckeyes drove Ohio State team went 7-5 in 2001 poison makes him feel sorry for
offensive philosophy in the wake game. to a first down at the USC 35. but beat Michigan, earning him them.
of the Buckeyes' sixth consecutive "I'm not sure exactly what a After a run gained three yards, genius status with the Buckeyes' "When I read some of them I
loss to a top-10 team. wholesale change would entail. I quarterback Terrelle Pryor threw frequently fickle fans. feel terrible for them because
Big Ten blog mean, are we going to go to the an incompletion and then was Since then, he led the Buckeyes there's no way they're happy," he
ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg Navy triple option? Probably not," sacked for a four-yard loss that to a surprising national said. "They've got to be some of
writes about all things Big Ten in Tressel said Tuesday. "Will we go meant kicker Aaron Pettrey would championship in 2002 and has the most unhappy people in the
his conference blog. conceptually to this or that? If you have a 53-yard attempt on fourth- dominated the series with the world, and I feel bad because we
• Blog network: look at our teams from 2001 on, and-11 at the USC 36. Tressel archrival Wolverines, winning just made them less happy, and I
College Football Nation they haven't been exactly the elected to punt again. seven of eight meetings. hate to be a part of making
For the first time in his now- same because, you know, you That punt led to the Trojans But landslide losses in the 2006 someone less happy. I mean,
nine-year tenure in Columbus, don't have the same people. But I taking control for an impressive and 2007 national title games to they're already miserable."
Tressel is catching fire from all don't know that we would make a 86-yard drive that won the game. Florida and LSU, and subsequent Information from The
directions in the wake of Saturday wholesale [change]." "I'll always believe that you win defeats in high-profile games to Associated Press was used in this
night's 18-15 loss to No. 3 USC. Tressel, who said he makes tough ballgames by making sure USC, Penn State, Texas and again report.
Letters to the sports editor of the most of the play calls even though that you're the group that makes to USC have caused the critics to
local newspaper, bloggers, Web Jim Bollman has the title of less mistakes, wins that field- come after the guy in the sweater
sites, columnists, radio talk shows offensive coordinator, disdained position battle, [and] wins the vest.
a n d T V a n a l y s t s h a v e a l l going for a touchdown in favor of battle in the trenches statistically," With the 11th-ranked Buckeyes
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A Unique Brand of Broke Baseball in Texas
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:16:38 AM
The Texas Rangers enter
Wednesday’s action 5.5 games
behind the Boston Red Sox in the
American League Wild Card race,
but miles ahead of even the most
optimistic preseason expectations.
The Rangers’ 80 wins (over 144
games) already puts them ahead
of their season total from 2008.
The Rangers’ next victory will
guarantee them their highest win
tally since 2004. But while Texas
has been one of the season’s most
striking stories, there’s a unhappy
subplot to this tale. Despite their
on-field success, the Rangers are
an economic mess, and essentially
in receivership. Getty Images If
only there were some brash,
sports-loving, super-rich guy in
the Dallas area to help the
Rangers and their owner, Tom
Hicks (right).
“Owner Tom Hicks essentially
has lost fiscal control of the team,
which has had to borrow at least
$15 million from major league
baseball,” the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram’s Jim Reeves reported
Saturday. “MLB is making many
of the calls regarding Rangers’
moves, including the one that cost
them the ability to sign No. 1 draft
pick Matt Purke.” The report led
to speculation that the Rangers
might shut down starting pitcher
Kevin Millwood — who is 4 1/3
innings shy of triggering a $12
million option for next season —
in the heat of a pennant race due
to the unwillingness of the team’s
de facto owners to absorb that
cost. What is going on here?
Millwood’s case is complicated,
as Evan Grant writes in D
Magazine, by the fact that the
veteran starter has been terrible
lately. “From a business
perspective, the choice would be
an easy one: Sit him down and
avoid saddling the club with a big
and unnecessary salary for 2010,”
Grant writes. “But, now, the issue
has become more complicated
because it might just be in the best
interest of the Rangers’ 2009
season.”
That the debate is even
happening at all is a testament to
just how strange things have
become. Team president Nolan
Ryan engineered an amazing
turnaround of the team’s culture
in general and pitching staff in
particular. Gary Thorne lauded
the team’s stepped-up
conditioning in USA Today,
while ESPN’s Tim Keown wrote
an in-depth feature on the team’s
new attitude. But Ryan doesn’t
have an actual contract, and is
operating under a handshake
agreement with Hicks. And while
the team’s television ratings and
attendance are up, the sense
persists — witness the Montreal
Expos comparisons in this post by
Cory Dunlap of Dallas Sports
Fans — that the team’s newly
found success is tenuous.
In Forbes, Mike Ozanian argues
that Congress needs to investigate
what’s going on with the team.
No, seriously. It’s that bad.* * *
Daisuke Matsuzaka’s
unconventional approach and
unusual pitches made him a
smashing success in 2007 and
helped him win 18 games in 2008.
In those years, he was better than
most pitchers in the game. This
year, Dice-K put up an 8.23 ERA
for the Red Sox through June 19,
which — by the numbers, at least
— made him worse than just
about any starter in baseball. The
Red Sox shut him down and had
him work his way back up
through the minor leagues in a
series of rehab starts, and there
were questions about whether
he’d be able to help the team
again this year, or possibly ever.
Those questions were answered,
in the short term, on Wednesday
night, when a commanding
Matsuzaka fired six shutout
innings against the Los Angeles
Angels in his first big-league start
since June.
“He was Dice-K, which means
he was unlike anyone else,” the
Boston Globe’s Bob Ryan writes.
“Pitching from behind on the
count doesn’t faze him, any more
than pitching ahead of the count
emboldens him. First-pitch strike,
no first-pitch strike, it didn’t
matter. He was in charge,
continually coming up with the
right pitch for the occasion.”
The Red Sox would have some
truly intimidating postseason
pitching depth with a dialed-in
Dice-K slotting in at the back of
the rotation, Danny Knobler
writes at CBS Sports. “This is a
guy who has started seven
postseason games the last two
Octobers, with the Red Sox
winning six of them,” Knobler
writes. “This is a guy who was
named the Most Valuable Player
in the World Baseball Classic —
both of them. And this, right now,
is the Red Sox’s fourth starter
come playoff time.”* * *
Saturday’s clash between
Florida and Tennessee is the
week’s most anticipated college-
football game, and justifiably so.
But Yahoo’s Matt Hinton argues
that the matchup between Oregon
and Utah may actually wind up
being the weekend’s most
important contest — if not in the
BCS race, at least because it could
be a make-or-break game for two
suddenly shaky-seeming
programs.
“The winner still has a chance
(with apologies to Dennis Green)
to be who it thought it was,
moving on into their respective
conference schedules with visions
of the top-20 and possibly a
darkhorse BCS bid intact,” Hinton
writes. “At the very least, this
kind of win assures them of some
respectability. The loser slinks
away virtually guaranteed of
landing in a second or third-tier
bowl game, with the added
uncertainty of losing one of the
key, winnable games that can
make the entire season.” Hinton
may be overstating things
somewhat, as it’s still September.
In the Washington Post, Steve
Yanda reports on a very serious
early-season challenge facing all
college teams this season. That
would be swine flu, which is
currently sweeping campuses and
has already sickened scores of
players in different major-college
locker rooms.* * *
Yes, there is a long history of
Jewish boxing champions. It just
happened to unfold in the three
decades before World War II. The
ring has been the property of
various ethnicities in the decades
since, but Russian-born, Brooklyn
-based middleweight Yuri
Foreman, who will fight for the
WBA super welterweight title on
the undercard of November’s
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Manny Pacquiao/Miguel Cotto
match, is a self-styled throwback,
and the subject of a nice profile
by the Newark Star-Ledger’s
Jerry Izenberg.
“There is so much more to
Foreman’s story than his long-
shot chances,” Izenberg writes.
“Never (David vs. Goliath doesn’t
count) has a potential rabbi taken
a week off Talmud study to come
to a place where victory goes not
necessarily to the guy who can
quote the Psalms but to the guy
with the strongest left hook.
Welcome to the strange odyssey
of a bicycle-riding, yeshiva-
shaped Jew who breaks every
stereotype you ever heard about
his ethnicity.”* * *
Close your eyes and imagine the
basement of an NFL defensive
back. Do you see a game room? A
THX-equipped home theater? A
shrine-like collection of that
player’s lifetime of football
memorabilia? There are surely
many such cellars in the NFL, but
they’re worlds away from the
basement-bound personal project
of Baltimore Ravens cornerback
Domonique Foxworth, who has
used the millions he has made in
the NFL to fund a personal
museum of memorabilia from the
American civil-rights movement.
Surprising? Maybe, but so is
Foxworth. In the New York
Times, Alan Schwarz profiles the
speedy young star, who comes
across as one of the most self-
aware, self-effacing and
intelligent athletes to come down
the pike in quite awhile.* * *
Hal McCoy of the Dayton Daily
News spent 37 years of his life
covering the Cincinnati Reds,
which is a half-dozen more years
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Argentina’s Tower of Tandil Reigns Over Federer

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) like a one-man fireworks display, Bills follower was wondering most teams would panic at losing
Submitted at 9/15/2009 8:01:38 AM bash everybody in sight, and wrap about this team,” Gerry Sullivan their top defensive stars, the
up another U.S. Open writes in the Buffalo News. “A lot Chicago Tribune’s David Haugh
All signs pointed to a sixth c h a m p i o n s h i p . ” of people were simply hoping writes that the Bears have enough
consecutive U.S. Open “It was the night disbelief took they’d be competitive, that they depth to survive.
championship for Roger Federer over center court, the night wouldn’t embarrass themselves. Washington, on the other hand,
on Monday. The Swiss star faced fantasy overcame logic, the night Instead, they outplayed the could enter panic mode if it
an inexperienced Argentine, Juan Roger Federer lost control, the Patriots for much of the night.” doesn’t defeat at least two of its
Martin del Potro, whom he had night a dynasty tumbled,” Art The Pats’ rally was just like old next three opponents, Tracee
b e a t e n i n a l l s i x p r e v i o u s Spander writes for CBS Sports. Nadal’s worst defeat in a Grand times. “This would have been Hamilton warns in the
meetings. Del Potro, all of 20, “There’s a new champion in the Slam, a 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 semifinal surprising were it not so familiar. Washington Post.* * *
was making his first appearance U.S. Open, Juan Martin Del rout on Sunday,” Deitsch writes. The smarter team won,” the The difficult economy has
in a Grand Slam final. This Potro, who’s still a few days from “Marat Safin, who beat Pete Boston Herald’s Ron Borges contributed to falling attendance
matchup looked like another his 21st birthday but already has Sampras at the 2000 Open, was writes. “The more aggressive in many baseball cities, but the
standard Federer romp. Getty come of age in tennis. Del Potro, the last No. 6 seed to win the team won. The team that plays to Cincinnati Reds’ losing ways
Images Through an optical the 6-foot-6 guy those homeboys Open title. But that win came in a the end every week won. The have left their fans disillusioned,
illusion, Juan Martin del Potro from a meatpacking town in blowout; Del Potro defeated team that, frankly, knows it will leaving the team on pace for its
actually appears shorter than Argentina have nicknamed the Federer in one of the epic U.S. win, won.” lowest home attendance since
Arthur Ashe Stadium. Tower of Tandil, indeed towers Open finals.”* * * In Monday’s late game, Darren 1998, Tom Groeschen writes in
But del Potro prevailed in a over all the improbability of Buffalo’s losing streak against Sproles’s touchdown with 18 the Cincinnati Enquirer.* * *
stunning five-set upset over sport.” New England should have ended seconds left lifted San Diego over The NBA is a year away from
Federer, who had won 40 straight As the match progressed, del at 11. The Bills took an 11-point Oakland, 24-20. And while it was the 60th anniversary of African-
matches at Flushing Meadows. At Potro was the dominant player lead with under six minutes left in a tough loss for the Raiders, the Americans breaking the color
one point in the fourth set, and Federer looked out of place. their season opener in Foxboro, Oakland Tribune’s Cam Inman barrier. At Yahoo Sports, Marc J.
Federer stood only two points “ I n t h e f i n a l s e t s , F e d e r e r Mass. But that was enough time thinks better days lie ahead for the Spears says that’s the perfect time
away from the championship sometimes could not turn his for quarterback Tom Brady to long-suffering team. to honor the league’s barrier
before del Potro rallied to force a normally supple body, could not rally the Patriots to a 25-24 Not everyone agrees. In the Los breakers, Earl Lloyd of the
fifth set. Federer would not win give himself the normal follow- victory. Brady, making his first Angeles Times, T.J. Simers Washington Capitols, Chuck
his 16th Grand Slam. It was del t h r o u g h t h a t p r o d u c e s h i s start since his season-ending blames owner Al Davis for the Cooper of the Boston Celtics and
Potro’s second big upset in two w o n d e r f u l t o r q u e , ” G e o r g e injury in Week 1 last season, Raiders’ abysmal showing in Nat ‘Sweetwater’ Clifton of the
days, after he ousted Rafael Nadal Vecsey writes in the New York threw TD passes 76 seconds apart recent years. New York Knicks.
in straight sets in the semifinals. Times. “He looked leaden-legged to rally the Patriots, aided by a In the San Diego Union- – Tip of the Fix cap to reader
“It isn’t Roger’s Rumpus Room and tentative against a man little Leodis McKelvin fumble on the Tribune, Nick Canepa writes that Don Hartline.
any more,” the Boston Globe’s known, until recently, outside the kickoff return after Brady’s first the Chargers played nowhere near Found a good column from the
Bud Collins writes. “He was meatpacking hill town of Tandil, TD pass to Benjamin Watson. the level expected of a team with world of sports? Don’t keep it to
served an eviction notice from a Argentina.” “Considering the recent run of Super Bowl aspirations.* * * yourself — write to us at
playroom called Arthur Ashe Sports Illustrated’s Richard events — replacing Turk The Chicago Bears not only lost dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll
Stadium to which he thought he Deitsch says del Potro’s win Schonert, cutting Langston their season opener on Sunday, 21 consider your find for inclusion in
had a lifetime title. It had become might not be that much of an Walker, the horrid preseason — -15 to Green Bay; they also lost the Daily Fix. You can email
an annual custom for Roger upset. “Del Potro is 17-1 since even the most relentlessly upbeat linebacker Brian Urlacher for the Garey at ris84rap@gmail.com.
Federer: drop in on New York Wimbledon and responsible for season with a wrist injury. While
UNIQUE
continued from page 66
than your Fixer has spent honored in a pregame ceremony thanks former Reds infielder world of sports? Don’t keep it to
breathing. That tenure earned before Wednesday’s Reds game. Aaron Boone for a pep talk that yourself — write to us at
McCoy, who will retire at the end In the Daily News, Tom prolonged the writer’s career. dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll
of this baseball season, a berth in Archdeacon pens an appreciation — Tip of the Fix cap to reader consider your find for inclusion in
the writer’s wing of the Baseball of his colleague, while McCoy Fred Sternburg. the Daily Fix. You can email
Hall of Fame, and he will be himself delivers a column that Found a good column from the David at droth11@gmail.com.
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Front lawn of Buffalo Bills CB Leodis McKelvin

vandalized after defeat
By Associated Press not say it was McKelvin's home. earlier in the day. "He's a dynamic runner and he
(ESPN.com) Mitchell warned fans that such "To see that type of response was trying to win a football game,
Submitted at 9/16/2009 4:05:30 AM behavior is disturbing. from so-called passionate fans is ice a football game," Jauron said,
"W/ all the safety issues n the taking things to the extreme," said adding that McKelvin attempted
HAMBURG, N.Y. -- Bills NFL its not funny at all," Mitchell Wilson, who is the team's union to protect the ball with two hands.
players are concerned with their wrote. "We have Fam at our representative. "You can blog and "It's just one of those things that
privacy and safety after the front homes to protect. If u show ur
lawn of a home belonging to face on my prop Ill make sure I do
make your opinions, but to go to a
person's residence, you're taking it
happens, but I don't have any
problems with Leodis. He plays
Boxing's
cornerback Leodis McKelvin was everythin to keep my Fam safe."
vandalized following Buffalo's Mitchell warned that he would
to a whole new level."
McKelvin, selected in the first
the game hard."
With a nod to Terrell Owens,
Biggest Fan:
season-opening loss to New consider vandalism threatening
England. behavior if it happened to his
round of the 2008 draft out of
Troy, set a team record and
defensive end Aaron Schobel was
upbeat a day after yet another Hugh Hefner
AFC East blog home. ranked second in the NFL with Monday night meltdown by the By Elie Seckbach (FanHouse)
ESPN.com's Tim Graham writes "Its my job to protect my home 1,468 kickoff return yards last Bills. Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:30:00 AM
about all things AFC East in his as it is the job of all home owners. season. He also scored a "I think Terrell said it best
division blog. Dont push the limit," Mitchell touchdown. before and after the game," by Elie Seckbach
• Blog network: NFL Nation wrote. He opened this season by taking Schobel said. "He said he's been Filed under: WBA, WBC, IBF,
Hamburg police on Tuesday Though Bills fans are passionate over a starting job opposite on a lot of teams and said we've WBO, Boxing Video, FanHouse
confirmed the home of a Bills about their team, Monday's night's veteran cornerback Terrence got talent. We've just got to put it Exclusive, IBO Elie Seckbach, the
player was vandalized, but vandalism is surprising. Bills McGee. together. I think he's right." Embedded Correspondent, brings
declined to release details of their players previously have hailed the After the game against the Schobel did express concern his exclusive video reporting to
investigation after an obscenity team's fans for being respectful Patriots, McKelvin was criticized that the Bills continue to struggle FanHouse. Check back regularly
and the score of Monday night's a n d a l l o w i n g p l a y e r s t h e i r for running the ball out of the end to seal victories. They lost 29-27 for more videos.
game -- a 25-24 loss to the p r i v a c y . zone rather than taking a knee. to Cleveland on a Monday night While the sport of boxing is
Patriots -- were painted in white Bills spokesman Scott Berchtold After being hit by Brandon last season on Phil Dawson's 56- extremely popular online, it's far
on the player's lawn in suburban declined comment by saying the Meriweather at the Bills 30, yard field goal with 1:39 left. Two from the front pages in the
Buffalo. team considers this a police McKelvin attempted to gain an years ago on a Monday night, mainstream media. In this
McKelvin fumbled a kickoff matter. extra yard before being stripped Buffalo gave up 9 points in the FanHouse video we talk to a few
return with under two minutes to A message left on a phone listed of the ball by Pierre Woods. final 20 seconds in a 25-24 loss to hardcore boxing fans including
play and the Bills leading 24-19. to McKelvin was not returned. Following the game, McKelvin Dallas. Hugh Hefner(who tells us what
Three plays later, New England's It's not clear if there was anyone said he was disappointed that he "The bottom line is when you the sport needs to do to get back
Tom Brady hit Benjamin Watson at home at the time the vandalism fumbled but noted he would run have a chance to win the game, front and center) and Reno 911!
for the go-ahead touchdown as the occurred. the ball out of the end zone again win the game. We didn't do that," actress Jesse Camacho, who loves
Patriots overcome an 11-point Bills players had the day off if given the same opportunity. he said. "It's a long season and Manny Pacquiao.
deficit in the final 2:06. before returning to practice "Next time I get the opportunity, we're going to be all right. We've Check out the video after the
Bills linebacker Kawika Wednesday to prepare to host I am going to hold on and make a just got to get on a roll." jump.
Mitchell referred to a teammate's Tampa Bay this weekend. better decision," he said. Copyright 2009 by The Boxing's Biggest Fan: Hugh
home being vandalized in a post Bills safety George Wilson was Coach Dick Jauron defended Associated Press Hefner originally appeared on
on his Twitter page, though he did shocked upon learning the news McKelvin. Fanhouse Boxing Blog on Wed,
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The Count: Federer Faltered on Jake Peavy to Start Saturday

By Tom Fornelli (FanHouse)
Serve and in the Clutch Submitted at 9/16/2009 11:50:00 AM

by Tom Fornelli
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Open titles. More obscurely, it
Submitted at 9/15/2009 2:48:49 PM snaps his streak of 126 Filed under: White Sox, AL
consecutive Grand Slam matches Central, MLB Injuries When
Juan Martin del Potro knocked won against players ranked White Sox general manager
off Rafael Nadal in the semifinals outside the top five. That streak Kenny Williamspulled off a late
of the U.S. Open, then got inside ends only on a technicality, shocker minutes before the MLB
Roger Federer’s head like only though; del Potro, ranked sixth at trade deadline back on July 31 to
Nadal has been able to do before the time of the match, was going land injured starter Jake Peavy he
in a Grand Slam final. Getty to move up in the rankings to No. had two motives in mind. One
Images Juan Martin del Potro saw to 66% in his last four wins. But 5 after the match whether or not was that adding Peavy, who is
a lot of second serves against the better indicator of Federer’s he won. Still, for accuracy’s sake, signed through 2012 with a club
Federer and won on 44% of them. problems with Nadal was his w e c a n r e d e f i n e F e d e r e r ’ s option for 2013, to his team's
Before Monday’s big upset by inability to convert break points. incredible consistency against rotation leaves the White Sox set
del Potro, Federer was 13-0 in Federer won 35% of all points on players outside the highest tier by to contend in the AL Central for
Grand Slam finals against players Nadal’s serve when Nadal didn’t saying he retains a streak of 120 years to come. The other was that
other than Nadal (he’s 2-5 against have a break point in hand. But consecutive Grand Slam matches should Peavy be able to return
from his ankle injury quick peak at the team's future this
Nadal). Del Potro’s shotmaking when Nadal was facing break won against players outside the Saturday in Chicago when Peavy
and fitness deserve a lot of the point, Federer won just 22% of top six. That adds to his ongoing enough, he might be able to help
the White Sox reach the playoffs makes his White Sox debut.
credit for ending that streak. But the time. That’s a very un-clutch streak of 22 straight Grand Slam Jake Peavy to Start Saturday
Federer’s shaky serving played a ratio of 0.64; a ratio of 1 would semifinals reached, as well as this season.
Well, seeing as how it's the originally appeared on Fanhouse
role. And the serve, the only shot suggest that Federer was equally seven straight finals and 17 of the MLB Blog on Wed, 16 Sep 2009
a player can control entirely, good returning serve with a break last 18. middle of September and the
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toughness. Federer landed just Against del Potro, that ratio was an opponent of Federer’s was the Detroit Tigers in the AL
Central, it's probably too late for Permalink| Email this| Linking
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and hit 11 double faults, double in Grand Slam finals, the ratio Potro, who before the match was Peavy to make a playoff push.
faulting on 6% of his points was a clutch 1.54. successful only one-third of the Still, the team isn't giving up and
played on serve. The wind may Del Potro is the fifth opponent time when challenging calls, got White Sox fans can get a sneak
have been a factor, as del Potro Federer has faced in the last five three calls overturned on four
double faulted six times himself. finals. As other players stepped up attempts. One of these gave him a WWE CEO Linda McMahon to
But the Argentine did land 65% of with Nadal sidelined or short of break point he converted to stay in
his first serves in, while hitting full strength for several recent the second set. Del Potro could Run for Senate in CT
them equally hard. Both players Slams, Federer saw more variety have been four for five, but he By Ryan Wilson (FanHouse)
averaged 116 miles per hour on in the final round. It will be decided not to challenge a call
Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:00:00 AM
their first serve. interesting to watch how he that CBS later showed would
In his three most recent losses to adjusts when next playing del have been overturned when the by Ryan Wilson
Nadal, at consecutive Slams from Potro — and whether other chair umpire told del Potro he Filed under: Pro Wrestling
last year’s French Open through players on the rise can push thought the call was right. That Vince McMahon's official title is
this year’s Australian Open, Federer out of his comfort zone. missed call gave Federer a break Chairman of the Board of World
Federer’s nerves also betrayed Two other observations on the point early in the fourth set but, in Wrestling Entertainment. And his
him. That was reflected somewhat men’s final: keeping with the theme of the wife, Linda, is currently WWE's
in the serving stats. He landed Federer’s loss to del Potro snaps match, Federer failed to convert. CEO. But she's got her sights set
61% of his first serves in play his streak of five straight U.S. on something more than
during those matches, compared overseeing an operation that has
made millions on the backs of a
bunch of sweaty dudes running around in their underpants.
Via The Fix, page
WWE Mrs.70
McMahon,
70 Sports Game
WWE
continued from page 69
Republican, "will formally enter
the Connecticut Senate race
today, adding a celebrity element
to a contest that promises to be
among the most competitive in
the country."
WWE CEO Linda McMahon to
Run for Senate in CT originally
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DSiWare puzzle-
platformer 'Reflection'
By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:47:00 AM

click for gallery Konami has

decided to dip its massive toes
into the murky waters of the
DSiWare platform with Reflectio
Anatomy of a Trade: Bill Guerin n, a downloadable puzzle-
platformer designed to invoke the
Goes to the Penguins handheld's dual-screen
capabilities. In the game, you play
By Adam Gretz (FanHouse) Ray Shero discusses the anatomy
Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:00:00 AM of a trade, focusing on the
deadline-day acquisition of Bill
No plans for 250GB Xbox as Kirra, an adventurer on a
journey to recover a broken magic
mirror. Actually, you play as
by Adam Gretz Guerin from the New York
F i l e d u n d e r : I s l a n d e r s , Islanders. drive outside Modern Kirra's good and evil halves
simultaneously on the two screens
Penguins, FanHouse Exclusive Anatomy of a Trade: Bill
Pittsburgh Penguins general Guerin Goes to the Penguins
manager Ray Shero was kind originally appeared on Fanhouse
Warfare 2 bundle, MS says -- a nasty side-effect of the
aforementioned mirror-breaking.
By Kevin Kelly (Joystiq) you could afford it anyway. Though the game's art (seen in
enough to spend nearly an hour on NHL Blog on Wed, 16 Sep 2009
the phone with FanHouse's Adam 10:00:00 EST . Please see our Submitted at 9/16/2009 11:45:00 AM So, Microsoft doesn't have the gallery below) isn't exactly
Gretz discussing a variety of terms for use of feeds. "plans" per se, but Pinello pointed stunning, that concept actually
topics. This is the second of a Permalink| Email this| Linking Shortly after the announcement out that, historically, these things sounds pretty neat. According to
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throughout the remainder of the Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle, we then, if you want a massive announcement, it's set to drop this
offseason. Wednesday's entry: had a chance to grill Microsoft's 250GB of Xbox storage, your fall, so we should be seeing
Albert Penello, director of only avenue is purchasing the Reflection in the DSi Shop soon.
platform marketing for Xbox, $399 Modern Warfare 2 bundle. We also expect to see it in a snow
about the bundle. While Pinello Gallery: Xbox 360 Modern -covered hill, shortly before the
confirmed the bundle's absence of W a r f a r e 2 L i m i t e d E d i t i o n landslide brings us down.
any additional accessories - no C o n s o l e Gallery: Reflection (DSiWare)
high-definition cables, no WiFi No plans for 250GB Xbox drive Konami announces DSiWare
adapter - he also commented on outside Modern Warfare 2 bundle, puzzle-platformer 'Reflection'
the 250GB hard drive. When MS says originally appeared on originally appeared on Joystiq on
asked if Microsoft had any plans Joystiq on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:47:00 EST.
t o s e l l t h e s i g n i f i c a n t l y 11:45:00 EST. Please see our Please see our terms for use of
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Free Realms coming to PS3

mid-2010, may support
PlayStation Eye
Euro Wii 'Ambassadors' to receive By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 12:15:00 PM
would be specifically tailored for
the MMO's console outing,
saying, "For the PlayStation 3
keys to the Virtual Console The Q&A session following the
Free Realms-centric keynote
speech, delivered earlier today by
version, it's very likely that the
Eye is going to be something we
support." We hope the Eye's
By James Ransom-Wiley Wii Points). (Presumably, when far better: Hit your twenty
(Joystiq) connecting for the first time, there connections and -- you guessed it Sony Online Entertainment implementation isn't of a
Submitted at 9/16/2009 11:15:00 AM will be an option to credit an -- you've attained "platinum president John Smedley at GDC voyeuristic nature -- if there's
Ambassador.) status," essentially granting you Austin, contained a hopeful tidbit anything our late-night Uno
Eager to show its disconnected And if you extend your services the keys to Nintendo's Virtual for those looking to play the sessions taught us, it's Camera +
patrons that their Wiis can do to the maximum of twenty Console catalog. That's right, all aforementioned free-to-play Internet Strangers = Terror.
more than Wii Sports-- you don't p r e v i o u s l y o f f l i n e c o n s o l e first- and third-party NES, SNES MMO on their consoles. When we Free Realms coming to PS3 mid
even have to eject the disc! -- owners? You're looking at a and N64 games -- for free. asked about the release window -2010, may support PlayStation
Nintendo has appointed pretty 10,000-point payout ($100 worth Quick! Google map the twenty for the PS3 version of Free Eye originally appeared on
much anyone in Europe savvy of old games you probably have nearest old folks homes and get Realms, Smedley cheekily Joystiq on Wed, 16 Sep 2009
enough to visit Wii's Connection tucked away in cart form, plus all ambassadoring! replied, "I'm wondering, too!" He 12:15:00 EST. Please see our
Settings menu an "Ambassador." those WiiWare options) -- not Euro Wii 'Ambassadors' to then added, "It's next year terms for use of feeds.
Here's how the "Connection bad, eh? receive keys to the Virtual sometime, toward the middle of Permalink| Email this|
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Beginning in October (as seen in tempting perk to this promotion. Joystiq on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 During his speech, Smedley also
Japan), if you help another Wii A s A m b a s s a d o r , o n c e y o u 11:15:00 EST. Please see our addressed the functions which
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72 Game
Dutch retailer boycotts sale of
PSP Go
By Alexander Sliwinski
(Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:15:00 AM
Eurogamer reports that
Nedgame, Holland's "largest
specialized retail outlet," won't
sell the PSP Go when it launches
this October. The €250 price for
the device (the PSP-3000 sells for
€80 [$117] less), along with the
absence of UMD drive, is cited as
justification for the boycott. It's
speculated that the core reason
Nedgame doesn't want to sell the
device is because the company
won't be able to sell games with
the handheld -- and, well, selling
games is how game stores
typically make money.
According to Eurogamer,
Nedgame isn't the only no-Go
retailer in Europe, with
Eurogamer Spain also claiming to
hear whispers from retailers
refusing to sell the handheld.
We've yet to hear of any North
American retailers officially
boycotting the system.
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Nick Mason: We'd consider
Pink Floyd Rock Band or Guitar
Hero
By David Hinkle (Joystiq) just like other celebs do), he did
Submitted at 9/16/2009 12:45:00 PM add, "Everyone's looking at new
ways of selling the music because
Despite how some musicians the business of selling records has
feel about music 'n' rhythm almost disappeared." Especially
games, Pink Floyd drummer (and those vinyl ones, which (gasp!)
part-time T-Zero agent) Nick weren't even interactive.
Mason isn't entirely ruling it out Nick Mason: We'd consider
for his band. With The Beatles: Pink Floyd Rock Band or Guitar
Rock Band having just released, Hero originally appeared on
the BBC asked him if we could be Joystiq on Wed, 16 Sep 2009
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Internet News Record Fashion 73

Sitting Next To My Style Icon Datebook: 9.16.09

By ELLE.com (ELLE News outfits because I was staring at her By blogeditor1 (Material International Ozone Day. Begone,
Blog) Interest on Men.style.com) ye methane producers, begone!
and there she was: life-size doll funky-cool Brian Reyes gold suit- - Today in 1630, the village of
Submitted at 9/16/2009 4:36:00 AM
Submitted at 9/15/2009 6:08:36 PM Rachel Bilson. I have always dress ensemble, but when I did Shawmut underwent a name
loved her style, because it never turn my attention toward the Five things worth knowing today change. Haven't heard of the
Today I hit the Brian Reyes seems too planned out, and runway I was equally blown
show, which was incredible! Not always seems organic to her. She away. Everything was feminine - The brothers Caten—better "before"? You've probably heard
only because of the clothes (more takes chances, and always owns with an edge. The torsos are so k n o w n a s t h e d e s i g n e r s o f of the "after": We now know it as
on those later), but because I sat it. One thing we have in common beautifully constructed. I can tell Dsquared²—have become the Boston. Probably for the best.
next to my very own personal (that I couldn't help but loudly that Rachel and I will be happily latest designers to star in their "The Shawmut Red Sox" just
style icon, Rachel Bilson. own reality show. Launch My doesn't have the same ring.
blurt out to her) is that we are fighting over a few of the pieces, Line, which finds the brothers - And today in 1952, the one, the
I took my seat and said hi to the both 5'3”. Some would call this like the black strapless gown
ELLE gang. I have been waiting limiting in the world of high (minus a few feet of course) and advising ten hopefuls on founding only, Mickey Rourke was born.
to see one of Brian's shows ever fashion, but Rachel has never the bright green short strapless their own labels, premieres He's had his ups and downs,
since I saw the dress he made for once, in all the photos I've seen of number. So happy I could see tonight on (where else?) Bravo. s u r e — s t y l i s t i c a l l y a n d
America when she won her first her in every fashion magazine out Brian's show, and hope I didn't - T h e A r m a n i - s p o n s o r e d otherwise—but it's hard not to
Emmy. I have heard nothing but there, seemed "short" in any way. scare Rachel with confessions of exhibition of pop artist Richard route for the guy. Especially
nice things about him as a person. She knows her proportions, and my girl crush! Hambleton, co-curated by fashion when, as below, he's capable of
And every time I slip on one of what works for her body, and Photo: Getty Images -world progeny Vladimir Restoin- speeches like Randy the Ram's
his dresses, I feel effortlessly put pulls off everything she attempts. Follow ELLE on Twitter. Roitfeld, opens today in New epic "piece of meat" speech from
together. Just as the show was I almost missed the first few York. The Wrestler.
about to start, I turned to my right - That takes care of artistic MATTHEW SCHNEIER
philanthropy. For the day's green
initiative, be advised that it's
Toronto Film Festival: Day 4
By ELLE.com (ELLE News designed and contributed the
Blog) school uniforms.) Movie has a
Submitted at 9/15/2009 6:32:17 PM scattering of stars—an under-used
Amy Sedaris plus Chris Kattan
Yesterday began and ended with and Tom Everett Scott as two
two good debuts. First was very different but equally
Derrick Borte's The Joneses about shameless hitters on young girls.
a very odd but perfect-seeming But the movie belongs to its four
suburban family with a taste for fine young unknowns. The image
the good life. Headed by David that stays in my mind isn't from
Duchovny and Demi Moore (has the film—it's the girls lined up on
anybody noticed lately how good stage afterwards with their equally
she is in everything?), it's a sharp, f r e s h - f a c e d
funny, and very timely satire all producer/writer/directors, the lot
about antimaterialism, bless its of them stalky and blooming on
decent little heart. The premise is almost comically extravagant high
so clever and creepy I won't give heels like so many long-stemmed
it away; this is a movie to be seen flowers as the audience sent them
with as little advance info as Furstenberg and Francesca wave after wave of applause.
possible. Then later on to the Gregorini. (Von Furstenberg is — Karen Durbin
modest but very enthusiastic Diane's daughter— and contrary Photo: Retna
evening gala for the refreshingly to a malicious rumor, the film was Follow ELLE on Twitter.
unsentimental private girls-school financed by the usual desperate
drama Tanner Hall, impressive indie patchwork and NOT by
first flick by Tatiana Von Diane or Barry Diller. Diane
74 Fashion Internet News Record

S.T. Dupont's strong suit

By blogeditor1 (Material available in America—was the
Interest on Men.style.com) classically detailed, assertively
Submitted at 9/15/2009 2:11:17 PM tailored S.T. Dupont suit on the
exec next to me. Men's suiting is a
At a dinner last night hosted by pretty crowded market on these
S.T. Dupont CEO Alain Crevet to shores, so you can understand the
celebrate the legendary French company's decision to stick with
We'll drink to Black Fleece's new scent accessory brand's reentry into the its core pens-bags-and-lighters
U.S. market, attendees were given business, but I'll say this to the
t h e c h a n c e t o o g l e s e v e r a l folks at Dupont: If you ever
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Interest on Men.style.com) expect, a lot like pepper. If this $ 1 2 5 , a v a i l a b l e a t intriguing new releases, from a change your mind, you've got one
Black Fleece man is drinking, he's b r o o k s b r o t h e r s . c o m line of leather goods treated with potential customer all lined up.
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sipping a vodka-and-grapefruit PLUS: While at Black Fleece, diamond dust (for both durability S.T. Dupont's in-store boutique
Brooks Brothers' new Black Greyhound: Sharp notes of the we also had a chance to preview and, one assumes, because, dude, at Davidoff of Geneva opens
Fleece cologne, according to citrus fruit abound, with a not Browne's Spring 2010 footwear it's diamond dust) to a new tomorrow, 535 Madison Ave.,
d e s i g n e r T h o m B r o w n e , i s unwelcome edge of ginger. for the line. No big surprises lightweight ballpoint pen made N Y C , ( 2 1 2 ) 7 5 1 - 9 0 6 0 ,
"evocative of that man sitting in a And speaking of gray—hounds here—shoes like the double-soled with technology from the Airbus d a v i d o f f m a d i s o n . c o m ; s t -
library or parlor, smoking and and otherwise—the package wingtip brogue (below) are A380 (luckily, it's not a double- dupont.com TYLER THORESON
drinking whiskey." Why, these deserves special attention (above). collection standards. But for decker wide body). Just as Photo: Courtesy of S.T. Dumont
are a few of our favorite things! The flacon comes tricked out in a Spring, the brogue got a tune-up impressive—though, sadly, not
We put it to the test to see if it box filled with die-cut gray felted- in an appealing new cream color.
stacks up. The results: yes and no. flannel textiles—a cool, creative MATTHEW SCHNEIER
Library? No. Smoking? No. touch, and a nod to both Browne's Photos: Elissa Wiehn; Josh
Whiskey? No—there's bourbon preferred fabric and Geoffrey Peskowitz
mentioned in the parfumeur's Beene's landmark Grey Flannel
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Editors) plumb goes out to him.
Submitted at 9/15/2009 11:21:58 AM But Chloe, it turns out, has not
only a devious streak but designs
Toronto Film Festival: Round on Moore, which. . . oh, the hell
Three been pretty gnomic, too. Starring etc.) could give a Cuisinart an with it. Didn't photographing poor
Why remake somebody else's Nicolas Cage in Harvey Keitel's inferiority complex, the director's Alison Lohman with vaginal juice
movie? To a studio, that's a no- old role, the movie is a glorious documentary side gets an airing on her chin in Where The Truth
brainer: ca-chung. Franchises get crock: Not only have the original's via the post-Katrina New Orleans Lies sate Egoyan's zest for
a new lease on life, proven crowd- b a d - C a t h o l i c t h e m a t i c l o c a t i o n s , w h i c h a r e s o conning comely young actresses
pleasers are recycled for a new underpinnings been dumped like evocatively photographed you can into going lesbian for art's sake?
generation, well-reviewed foreign so much moldy lasagna, but feel the mugginess. There's no While Chloe might have been
films can be transformed by Herzog's trademark fascination good reason for the mix to work, tolerable as either a nasty comedy
reverse alchemy into crappy with the romance of willful but movies don't always need 'em. or a forthrightly meretricious
A m e r i c a n o n e s . B u t w h e n craziness has all the depth here of Me, I'm just hoping Herzog will thriller, it's grotesque as an
directors allegedly in it for the art a Wile E. Coyote tribute dinner. tackle Dr. Dolittle next. If ever ostensible showcase for Egoyan's
opt to piggyback on pre-owned That didn't stop Port of Call New there was a movie he was born to ostensible humanism. If he ever
material, it's usually for one of Orleans from being the most get right, that's the one. deserved that rep, his work this
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two reasons. Either the earlier purely enjoyable movie I've seen
movie is a stimulus for something in Toronto so far.
fresh that suits their own flukey
These days, I'm not convinced time out makes you appreciate the
Atom Egoyan could even get The c a n d i d p r u r i e n c e o f P a u l
If you've got a weakness for Sweet Hereafter right—and since V e r h o e v e n ' s S h o w g i r l s .
ATP New
priorities—cf. Philip Kaufman's Cage in full bug-eating mode, you that's still the directing credit his That's why my heart also went
Invasion of The Body Snatchers, won't be disappointed. Even festival bios tout a dozen years out to Seyfried, an appealing
David Cronenberg's The Fly— or though, as usual, whether he later, it's fair to say his recent performer with more than a hint
York
else they're fresh out of ideas of k n o w s h e ' s o v e r a c t i n g i s output hasn't been a succession of of Drew Barrymore's blithe early By stylemens (GQ: The
their own. Not too surprisingly, anybody's guess, his performance triumphs. After the botched charm. A regular on HBO's dandy Editors)
filmmakers acting on Reason B is a blast from start to finish: wild Where The Truth Lies and the Big Love, she may have imagined Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:46:49 AM

have an amazing capacity for s t a r e s , u n p r o m p t e d g r i n s , fumbling Adoration, the Toronto her well-publicized Toronto
deluding themselves it's really windmilling body language and a programmers who haven't stopped twofer—she's also in Jennifer's Yes, festivals like Coachella,
Reason A. Bonnaroo, and SXSW attract
guided tour of all the neat things casting him as Canada's gift to Body—would show off her range. legions of fans and some of
Today's examples are Werner he can do with that phlegmy voice world cinema may be privately But tendentiously conceived parts
Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of of his. Despite a human cast that w i s h i n g t h e y ' d a n o i n t e d like Chloe have a way of irking music's biggest names year after
Call New Orleans, which spins off includes Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer Cronenberg or Guy Maddin reviewers into faulting the year. But there's something to be
like a banshee from Abel Ferrara's a n d t h e a l w a y s w e l c o m e instead. Chloe would benefit from blameless actress instead of the said for New York's yearly three-
1992 Bad Lieutenant, and Atom Brad(Deadwood) Dourif, who either one's sense of absurdity. director's dumb fantasies, day All Tomorrow's Party
Egoyan's Chloe, which leans for even gets to play someone sane festival, which holds a couple
The increasingly painful-to- especially when said director is thousand folks rather than the
inspiration on Anne Fontaine's for a change, Cage is upstaged watch combo of self-love and someone in whom they've got a
2004 Nathalie like a Q-Tip only by a number of animals, at radiant masochism we once knew prior investment. Especially since 150,000 that packed into this
propped up by balsa. In neither least some of whom are the hero's a s J u l i a n n e M o o r e i s a n nobody will see Chloe anyway, year's Coachella. Held in the
case was the public baying for a hallucinations; I'm pretty sure unconvincingly successful ob/gyn Seyfried has enough going for her Catskills (about two hours from
2.0 version, so each is best seen as about the iguanas, undecided doctor—you wouldn't trust this that she'll probably overcome it, Manhattan) at Monticello's
an index of the director in about the crocodiles. But all of neurotic jitterfest to deliver a but I still couldn't help wondering Kutschers Country Club—a
question's creative energy. kitschy, '70s-style joint complete
them, in true Herzog fashion, are letter, let alone a baby—who hires as I headed exitward whether I'd with an indoor pool, a lake, and
From Aguirre, The Wrath of treated as more deserving of call girl Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) seen her promising big-screen
God up through Grizzly Man and respect than their two-legged to test her music-prof husband's career peak and flame out in all of multiple bars—ATP New York
Rescue Dawn, Herzog's reasons counterparts. gathers indie rock's biggest
fidelity now that the zing has gone 72 hours. heavyweights and most promising
for doing anything have always In the midst of this circus, out of their marriage. He's played
been pretty gnomic. But my best whose plot (gambling debts, a by Liam Neeson, who's had such newcomers to play shows in
guess is that updating Ferrara was murder investigation, drug binges, a horrendous year not only banquet halls so intimate they feel
his idea of fun—which has always a little like the coolest prom ever.
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witness the fuss first-hand and it
was an all-out sensory overload.
The day was ushered in by the
crooning of indie heartthrob
Sufjan Stevens—he of the
admittedly impossible vow to
release an album inspired by
every state and likely the most
earnest act on the hipster-
endorsed music scene—who
nursed a room full of hangovers
from the previous night's Feelies
and Drones performances with the
entirety of his Seven Swans, a
banjo-strummin' folk album that
predates his Illinois success.
Instead of rocking out with a full
orchestra and that massive set of
wings he's infamous for, he
delivered a restrained, mostly
acoustic set with the help of three
bandmates, all dressed in over-
sized tie-dye tees from a local gift
shop.
In the afternoon and early
evening, attendees took breaks
from their mid-day naps,
afternoon swims, and lakeside
beers to check out on-site
Criterion screenings of cultish
film classics If… and Paris,
Texas, and performances by
Black Dice, the Melvins, and one
of our latest favorites around the
office, Sleepy Sun, whose debut
album Embrace we urge you to
download right now. It's moody,
sexy, slightly ominous, and totally
worth the $7.92 iTunes will
charge you, but don't just take our
word for it. Wayne Coyne from
The Flaming Lips—who curated
the three-day event—stood
backstage fist-pumping in delight
during their 45-minute set of acid-
rock goodness. Take a look at
their performance of "New Age"
for more proof.
The rest of the evening,
Wayfarer-wearing cool kids ate
free Ninja Turtle ice cream bars,
drank Bud, and played table
tennis in anticipation of one the
festival's headlining acts, Animal
Collective, who started promptly
on schedule at 12:15. Their show,
mostly songs from their most
recent Merriweather Post Pavilion
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album, was no different than their
others, in that it was, simply put,
the kind of experience that
reminds you why you're
compelled to see live music in the
first place. There are no
wallflowers. No crossed-arms. No
posturing. Just bands of folks,
arms in the air, moving like
there's no tomorrow to some of
the noisiest, mind-rattlingly good
music you could hope for. And
around 1:30, as glowsticks
streamed through the air during
their final song, "Fireworks," we,
dead tired and sufficiently drunk,
gave a few last hollers before
loading out and heading home for
some shut eye.
A few days later, our ears are
still ringing a little, but we're all
the better for it. And we'll be
down for it again this time next
year, if the party's still on.—
andrew richdale