1. Including LatiNegr@s In Black History Month 1 hour ago   permalink

Including LatiNegr@s In Black History Month
Vivirlatino.com

Regardless of your position on the allocation of months to highlight specific racial and ethnic groups, I think many of us can agree that LatiNegr@s are often not included as much as we can be in Latino Heritage Month and Black History Month. As a result, several writers/bloggers (many of whom are self-identified LatiNegr@s/Afro-Caribeños/Afro- ...

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2. Ukraine: Citizen Activists vs Illegal Construction 2 hours ago   permalink

Ukraine: Citizen Activists vs Illegal Construction
Veronica Khokhlova / Global Voices Online

Citizen activists tore down a fence at yet another illegal construction site in downtown Kyiv: 25 photos, as well as earlier updates (UKR) - here and here - atDerybanu.net.

3. Criticism of IPCC Continues American media still missing in action 5 hours ago   permalink

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American media are still missing in action on the controversy currently embroiling the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In addition to the criticisms related to glaciers and natural disasters, the IPCC came under fire last week for a statement in its 2007 report that said 40 percent of the Amazon is vulnerable to even a small change in ...

4. Official says terrorism suspect is cooperating 5 hours ago   permalink

MATT APUZZO AND PETE YOST / Salon

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Nigerian man accused of trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day has been cooperating with investigators since last week, a federal law enforcement official said Tuesday.

5. Audit Notes: Reuters Withdraws; Leaving Las Vegas; Reregulation, etc. 5 hours ago   permalink

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—Talking Points Memo had a nice catch of Reuters pulling a story headlined “Backdoor taxes to hit middle class” after the White House pointed out “errors of fact.” Reuters straightforwardly explains why here.

6. Lost 5 hours ago   permalink

Lost
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By Bonnie Covel, About.com Guide

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7. Jackson's doctor arrives in Los Angeles 7 hours ago   permalink

THOMAS WATKINS and LINDA DEUTSCH / Salon

Michael Jackson's physician has arrived in Los Angeles in anticipation of a decision from the district attorney's office on whether to charge him for the singer's death, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

8. Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking 8 hours ago   permalink

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Moustafa Hammad and Mohamed Elhawary, a couple engineers in our search quality group, just did a nice post about improving Arabic language searches: Our algorithm employs rules of Arabic spelling and grammar along with signals from historical search data to decide when to leave out spaces between words or when to remove unnecessarily repeated ...

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Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking A recent improvement for Arabic searches   —  We've learned that when performing a search on Google, people sometimes forget to separate words with spaces. Moreover, people often mistakenly repeat a letter within a single word. For instance, when writing the query [amazingly beautiful poem], you might write it as [amazingly beautiifullpoem].

9. Target-Rich Environment 10 hours ago   permalink

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We’re all for flood-the-zone coverage of the budget, so a tip of The Audit’s green eyeshade to The Wall Street Journal, which unfurls the story in full glory, with charts, breakdowns, analysis for individual federal departments and agencies, plus, for no extra charge, a handy Q & A on what it all means for taxpayers.

10. An Unlikely Haven For Rock ’n’ Roll Entrepreneurs 10 hours ago   permalink

An Unlikely Haven For Rock ’n’ Roll Entrepreneurs
Rich Whittle / Business Opportunities

This small town in Pennsylvania Dutch country, in the midst of cornfields and dairy farms, would seem an unlikely home for a warehouse filled with the detritus of rock concerts past and future — a large section of the stage for the next Black Eyed Peas tour, the sets for an Elton John concert and [...]

11. This Is CNN Is there still a market for a cable news station that tries not to take sides? 10 hours ago   permalink

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CNN, the granddaddy of cable news, has won accolades for its coverage of the unfolding disaster in Haiti. Working with a far larger number of reporters and producers than its competitors at MSNBC or Fox, the network has provided valuable and affecting on the ground coverage—and plenty of it.

12. Got A Decision To Make? Get Some Sugar In Your System 11 hours ago   permalink

Got A Decision To Make? Get Some Sugar In Your System
Rich Whittle / Business Opportunities

Researchers at the University of South Dakota asked 65 students to answer a series of questions in which they had to choose between getting a smaller sum of money “tomorrow” or a larger sum in the future, according to a story at Physorg.com. The study participants responded to half the questions on an empty stomach and [...]

13. Captain Ice Cream Now Franchising 11 hours ago   permalink

Captain Ice Cream Now Franchising
Dane Carlson / Business Opportunities

Captain Ice Cream from ABC’s The Shark Tank is now offering franchises. More info from their press release is after the jump. The Captain Ice Cream Franchise: “Ice Cream on 3-Wheels to Go Anywhere the Business Is.” Captain Ice Cream is a taking the mobile novelty ice cream franchise business to an entirely new level with his ...

14. IntelliJ IDEA & JRebel tutorial 12 hours ago   permalink

IntelliJ IDEA & JRebel tutorial
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In this document we’ll cover how to setup JRebel (formerly JavaRebel) for your project while using IntelliJ IDEA as your IDE of choice. We’ll be covering general configuration tips and the two plugins that we have for IntelliJ IDEA users. We concentrate mostly on the 8.x version of IDEA, though sections 1-2, 5 and 6 also apply for 6.x ...

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15. Blast from the Past 12 hours ago   permalink

Blast from the Past
Dane Carlson / Business Opportunities

Here are a couple of great posts from this day in 2009. Is College A Good Investment? Sell Boring Stuff that People Actually Need This blog has been updated almost every weekday since November 2001 — check out the archives, or use the search box on the top right. You’re sure to find something to inspire you. From [...]

16. Working at Home in Pajamas Sounds A Lot Like Being Laid Off 12 hours ago   permalink

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After reporting on the phenomenon of start-ups as virtual workplaces, telecommuting, the rise of the four-day work-week and other cost cutting workplace innovations made possible thanks in part to technological things like Google and the Internet and electricity, Inc. magazine is conducting its own experiment in the virtual workplace.

17. Post Pics 12 hours ago   permalink

Post Pics
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Meet Matt Prager, a 42-year-old, Princeton-trained therapist who works as an “online dating facilitator” on the side. Think of him as the modern-day cyber-Cyrano: Just as the famous French poet took to his quill and parchment to woo Roxane on behalf of another, Prager hides behind the anonymity of his computer screen, seducing ...

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18. Use of Twitter, Facebook rising among gang members 14 hours ago   permalink

THOMAS WATKINS / Salon

When a gang member was released from jail soon after his arrest for selling methamphetamine, friends and associates assumed he had cut a deal with authorities and become a police informant.