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Boing Boing
It's been a year and Obama has yet to fill the empty seats on the government's main civil liberties oversight committee: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was recommended initially by the bipartisan September 11 commission as an institutional voice for privacy inside the intelligence community. Its charter was to recommend ways to ...
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Cory Doctorow
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Boing Boing
Zombie/NPR fanfiction
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Kirby sez, "Spot on parody of the NPR News Quiz Show during a Zombie Apocalypse. Peter Sagal, Carl Kassel, Mo Rocca, Paula Poundstone, and Tom Bodett don't miss a beat as they broadcast their last show before retreating to the cave system. The author gets the personalities perfect. You can imagine that this is exactly how the panelists would ...
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Cory Doctorow
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Boing Boing
Liquid glass will change your life, eliminate detergent profits
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A Turko-German consortium has announced a liquid glass product "that will revolutionize everything" (it's a "new kind of glass," as Mr Wolfram might put it). Seriously, it sounds like the applications for this stuff are endless, and yes, that's what everyone said about aerogel and the Segway, but maybe this time... They're shipping to the UK soon,
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Daily Kos
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Daily Kos
David Streitfield writes : The number of Americans who owed more than their homes were worth was virtually nil when the real estate collapse began in mid-2006, but by the third quarter of 2009, an estimated 4.5 million homeowners had reached the critical threshold, with their home’s value dropping below 75 percent of the mortgage balance. ...
Iraq’s Justice and Accountability Board, formerly known as the National De-Baathification Committee, recommended last Thursday that 14 parties which derive the bulk of their support from the minority Sunni population be barred from contesting the March 7 national election. The basis for the proposed ban is that they have promoted the ideology ...
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Daily Kos
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Daily Kos
Tonight's Rescue brought to you by ItsJessMe, YatPundit, mem from somerville, jennyjem, grog, and pico. Diary Rescue is all about promoting good writers, so remember to subscribe to diarists whose work you enjoy reading. In The Raw Politics of Immigration Reform Should Lead to Legislation , Duke1676 suggests the dynamics may actually be ...
Daily Kos
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Daily Kos
It's official: Alexi Giannoulias will face off against Mark Kirk this November to fill Barack Obama's former senate seat. It only took four plus hours after the polls closed to call it, but Giannoulias held off a challenge from David Hoffman, 39% - 34%. The Republican side was never in doubt, with Kirk crushing his teabagger opponent 57% - 19%. ...
The Obama administration and the FBI are making a big push tonight to rebut criticism of trying Abdulmutallab in American courts rather than submitting him to torture and a military tribunal by revealing that he has been cooperating with investigators for days. The claim, which is not that surprising, is that it has been precisely the use of ...
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Www.nytimes.com
Official Says Terrorism Suspect Is Cooperating
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WASHINGTON — Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a jetliner bound for Detroit on Dec. 25, started talking to investigators after two of his family members arrived in the United States and helped earn his cooperation, a senior administration official said Tuesday evening.
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Jason Fitzpatrick
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Lifehacker
iPhone/iPod touch: TouchMouse is a free application for the iPhone/iPod touch that, when paired with its accompanying control software on your Mac or Windows computer, turns your touchscreen into a mouse and keyboard. Once you download the software to your iPhone or iPod touch and pair it with the server software—Logitech has versions of ...
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Lisa Hoover
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Lifehacker
BackOff Shortens Long iPhone and iPod touch Sync Sessions
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iPhone/iPod touch: If you carry a ton of stuff around on your iPhone or iPod touch, you know syncing it can take forever. BackOff turns off iTunes' automatic backup process so you can sync faster. Okay, before you go galloping off to download this slick free utility, let's go over the most important point one more time. BackOff prevents iTunes ...
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Adam Pash
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Lifehacker
Earlier today, several Twitter users received emails from Twitter prompting them to change their passwords because of suspicious activity that appeared to have resulted from phishing. Turns out it was something different from a traditional phishing scam altogether, and it involved BitTorrent. From the Twitter Status blog: It appears that for a ...
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Adam Pash
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Lifehacker
Remains of the Day: Conquer Your Email Inbox with the Trusted Trio, Video Edition
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Chrome's browser share gets goosed in January, our own Gina Trapani offers some video advice for conquering your email inbox, and I find a workaround for my biggest Snow Leopard annoyance. Browser Version Market Share Shows Chrome Growth According to one internet tracking company, Chrome use grew significantly in January, up to 5.2% of the web ...
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For most of the last year, time has been health care reform's enemy. Could it now be reform's friend? That's the gamble reform's proponents in the administration and Congress are making now.
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The White House's 2011 budget is only the second-most interesting budget proposal released recently. First prize goes to Congressman Paul Ryan, the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, who's released a budget proposal that actually erases the massive long-term deficit.
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One of the sadder spectacles to watch since Scott Brown's win in Massachusetts has been House progressives suggesting that now is their chance to ram a public option through the Senate. Nancy Pelosi tried to give a reality check on that point today.
Jenny Sanford, soon-to-be-ex-wife of disgraced Gov. Mark Sanford, says that when the two were married Mark insisted on excising the promise of fidelity from their wedding vows.
Film-maker Noah Hutton has just released an excellent 15-minute documentary on the Blue Brain project that captures the team as they work and explains the goals of the ambitious attempt to simulate animal, and eventually, human scale neural networks on computer. It's an interesting look both inside the scientific mission and inside the mind of ...
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Thebeautifulbrain.com
BLUEBRAIN – Year One: Documentary Film Preview
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We are very proud to present the world premiere of BLUEBRAIN – Year One, a documentary short which previews director Noah Hutton’s 10-year film-in-the-making that will chronicle the progress of The Blue Brain Project, Henry Markram’s attempt to reverse-engineer a human brain. Enjoy the piece and let us know what you think.
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Jason Fitzpatrick
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Lifehacker
Last week we asked you to share your favorite BitTorrent tracker , then we rounded up the results so you could cast your vote on the top five contenders. We're back with the results. Before we dive in, it's worth noting that this week's Hive Five required a little in-progress clarification. Our initial call was a request for best public trackers,
" A statement released Friday by Virgin Limited Edition, the luxury arm of Virgin Hotels, described the Nymph's launch like a plane's takeoff. 'Gliding on the water's surface like an aeroplane on a runway, one of the three pilots will operate the joystick to smoothly dive down.' " The irrepressible Richard Branson unveils Virgin's newest ride, ...
On Thursday, I shall be taking part in a live debate hosted by The Times Online entitled 'Is screen culture damaging our children's brains?' where I will be debating psychologist Tracey Alloway who recently made headlines by suggesting Facebook 'enhances intelligence' but Twitter 'diminishes it'. It one of those online chat things but you are ...
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Bookofjoe
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Bookofjoe
About a year and a half ago, reader� Joel Ordesky � tipped me off �to this nifty� site ��— "Give it an image and it�will tell you where the image appears on the web." From time to time a reader notes that one of my "What is it?" posts can be quickly traced and identified using TinEye's reverse image search to find the source. I think that's ...
At a town hall style event in New Hampshire a short time ago, President Obama acknowledged that cap and trade might have to be cleaved from the energy bill in the Senate and passed separately, which is to say, not passed at all.
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