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The First Draft: Musharraf Has Obama’s Answer
on Afghanistan
By David Morgan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 5:53:11 AM
If President Barack Obama
wants some extra advice on what
to do in Afghanistan, he need look
no farther than Pakistan’s former
President, Pervez Musharraf.
The retired army general, who
seized power in Afghanistan’s
next-door neighbor during a 1999
coup, knows exactly what the
United States should do.
Send more troops?
* “Yes, absolutely. A military
man understands that. The space
is too large and your troop level is
low,” Musharraf said in an
interview with ABC’s “Good
Morning America.”
How soon should the decision
be taken?
* “I think we should take it
immediately. You should have
taken it yesterday.”
What would you tell an
American public that’s
increasingly worried about
casualties?
* “The message is certainly that
we have to win. We must avoid as
much as possible casualties. But
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The top U.S. and NATO
commander in Afghanistan, Army
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has
concluded that more U.S. forces
are now needed. The U.S. force
level is already set to more than
double to 68,000 troops by the
end of the year, compared with
about 32,000 last December.
Some administration officials
fear too large a force could begin
to look like a U.S. occupation and
set the Americans up for the same
sort of defeat suffered by previous
world powers, including the
Soviet Union and imperial
Britain.
Musharraf’s optimism about the
chances of a 21st Century victory
seems undiminished, however.
* “There’s always a first time,”
when soldiers move and armies terrorism by pressing Islamabad he said.
act, casualties will be there and to act against militants in its Photo Credits: Reuters/Stringer
we must accept casualties.” Federally Administered Tribal I n d i a (Musharraf);
The war in Afghanistan presents Areas along the Afghan border. Reuters/Ahmad Masood (U.S.
a quandary for the Obama Musharraf did act. But he also M a r i n e s ) ; R e u t e r s / K e v i n
administration, which entered struck peace deals in FATA, L a m a r q u e ( O b a m a )
office in January promising to which U.S. military officials say
correct what it cast as the policy allowed militants to regroup for
missteps of Obama’s predecessor, c r o s s - b o r d e r a t t a c k s i n
George W. Bush. Afghanistan that helped drive
Bush put Musharraf’s Pakistan violence there to its highest levels
at the forefront of the U.S. war on since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.
Another kind
of death panels
By Emily Kaiser (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:59:40 AM
U.S. Representative Barney
Frank has never been shy about
expressing his opinions. His
opening remarks at a hearing he
chaired with Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner on Wednesday
was no exception. Frank poked
fun at a political squabble over
healthcare reform as he detailed
his position on what to do about
non-bank financial firms
considered "too big to fail."
"There will be death panels
enacted by this Congress, but they
will be for non-bank financial
institutions that will not be
considered too big to die.
I say that because we have this
euphemism that we are going to
be 'resolving' these institutions. It
has not been my experience that
when someone says they are
going to resolve something, they
kill it. We are talking about
dissolution, not resolution. We are
talking about making it unpleasant
for the entities. This is not a fate
people will want."
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Obama takes on anti-Americanism,
calls for new era
By Tabassum Zakaria (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:34:15 AM
President Barack Obama began
his first speech before the U.N.
General Assembly by taking on
the anti-Americanism that spread
overseas in the aftermath of the
2003 invasion of Iraq (six years
before his presidency).
“I took office at a time when
many around the world had come
to view America with skepticism
and distrust,” he told world
leaders.
Misperceptions, misinformation,
opposition to U.S. policies, and a
belief that the United States acted
unilaterally “fed an almost
reflexive anti-Americanism
which, too often, has served as an
excuse for collective inaction,”
Obama said.
He called for embracing “a new
era of engagement based on
mutual interest and mutual
respect.”
Obama basically put on the line
his hopes for a new chapter in
U.S. relations with other
countries, and made clear that he
was breaking from the unpopular
policies of his predecessor, former
President George W. Bush.
He ticked off action taken on
issues of friction, saying he has
prohibited torture, ordered
Guantanamo Bay prison closed
and worked on combating
extremism “within the rule of
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Charles, Democrat, Small town
law.”
At home, Obama faces
Republican and conservative
critics who question whether he is
tough enough on national
security.
The Republican National
Committee was quick with a
response to Obama’s U.N. speech:
“Last week President Obama
backed off his pledge to protect
America and our allies in Eastern
Europe with a strong missile
defense shield. This week, we are
seeing the president back off his
March pledge of providing the
resources necessary for our men
and women in Afghanistan.”
“The president has already lost
credibility with his commitment
to our allies, so why should we
believe his words today before the
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United Nations?” the RNC said in
a statement.
Obama is trying to change
world perception of the United
States. Republicans are trying to
change American perception of
Obama.
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succeed in reducing anti-
American opinion abroad? Will
Republicans succeed in turning
American opinion against
Obama?
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US charges suspect in
'bomb plot'
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Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:15:51 PM
An Afghan-born US man has
been charged with plotting to
carry out bomb attacks on the US.
Najibullah Zazi, 24, was
charged by the New York Grand
Jury with planning to use "one or
more weapons of mass
destruction" in the attacks.
He is alleged to have received
bomb-making training in
Pakistan.
Ahmad Afzali, an imam arrested
along with Mr Zazi, has been
charged with lying to
investigators and released on
$1.5m (£1m) bail.
Mr Afzali, Mr Zazi and Mr
Zazi's father, Mohammed, were
detained last Saturday - all three
deny any involvement in the
alleged plot.
Mohammed Zazi had already
been released on bail.
In a statement, the US
Department of Justice said Mr
Zazi had "knowingly and
intentionally conspired with
others to use one or more
weapons of mass destruction,
specifically explosive bombs and
other similar explosive devices,
against persons or property within
the United States".
Attorney General Eric Holder
said investigators were examining
"a wide range of leads" and would
"continue to work around the
clock to ensure that anyone
involved is brought to justice".
He said that officials believed
any "imminent threat" from the
alleged plot had been disrupted.
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Mr Zazi and his father were
arrested in their home city of
Denver while the third man,
Ahmad Wais Afzali, 37, was
arrested in Queens, New York,
where he works.
Investigators have told the
media that bomb-making
instructions were found in Mr
Zazi's house in Denver, Colorado,
although no explosives have been
found.
A legal resident of the US since
1999, Mr Zazi is alleged to have
received "detailed" explosives and
weapons training at a camp in
Pakistan last year.
He is also accused of
conducting "extensive" internet
research on bomb-making and to
have bought the components for
building explosive devices.
Court papers allege he tried to
communicate with another person
on multiple occasions seeking
advice on how to correct the
ingredients for a bomb mixture,
with "each communication more
urgent in tone than the last".
But in a recent telephone
interview with the Denver Post
newspaper Mr Zazi denied the
allegations and said he had
nothing to hide.
The BBC's Adam Brookes in
Washington says investigators
will attempt to establish a link
between Mr Zazi and Islamist
extremists in Pakistan.
If the allegations are proved to
be true, it would be the first home
-grown US terror plot with direct
links to Pakistani extremists, our
correspondent says.
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Senate healthcare debate: hot time in Man claims Boston
cold room
By Donna Smith (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:41:06 AM
It’s been likened to watching
paint dry - the long-awaited
debate in the Senate Finance
Committee over a sweeping
overhaul of the U.S. healthcare
system.
The panel, which prides itself as
one of a few in Congress that
operates in a bipartisan
atmosphere, is in its third day of
deliberations. But it has dispensed
with only a few of the more than
500 amendments proposed to the
legislation put forward by
Committee Chairman Max
Baucus.
After a delay at the start of
Thursday’s session as Baucus
waited for senators to arrive to
present their amendments, things
started to heat up in the freezing
cold hearing room.
Discussion began over a
proposal by Republican Senator
Orrin Hatch that would have
required a certification that no
more than 1 million people would
lose their insurance as a condition
of implementing the bill. The
debate quickly turned into an
angry exchange over which party
has the better ideas when it comes
to fixing a $2.5 trillion system
that almost everyone agrees is too
costly and leaves too many people
without medical coverage.
Tempers flared when Baucus, a
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Democrat who has remained
upbeat about his bill’s prospects
despite taking fire from all sides,
made a remark about the lack of a
plan from the opposition party.
That brought howls of protests
from Republicans and Senator Jon
Kyl shot back: “We don’t believe
in a massive government
takeover. You will not see a
massive Republican bill to do
anything like that.”
As the arguments continued,
Baucus interrupted Kyl to try to
move things along. Kyl said he
was not trying to delay and said it
was “not courteous” for the
chairman to interrupt someone in
the middle of a sentence.
Democratic Senator Kent
Conrad broke into the dispute,
urging senators to “take a deep
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breath.” The debate over the
Hatch amendment continued and
when the time came to vote, the
measure failed along strict party
lines.
Things cooled down, the
committee moved on to other
amendments and the paint began
to dry again.
Baucus is under pressure from
Democratic leaders to quickly
move the bill through his
committee, the last of five
congressional panels assigned to
write the healthcare overhaul.
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(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) O'Brien's neck "and began
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:08:50 PM choking him by applying pressure
to his neck," according to the
BOSTON – A correctional lawsuit.
officer filed a civil rights lawsuit When O'Brien's phone was
against six Boston police officers returned to him by police, there
Thursday, claiming they severely was no video of the encounter,
beat him because they became said attorney Howard Friedman,
angry when they saw him filming who is representing O'Brien.
them with his cell phone. A spokesman for the Boston
Michael O'Brien, 29, who works Police Department said he had not
for the Middlesex Sheriff's Office, seen the lawsuit and could not
said in a lawsuit filed in U.S. immediately comment. Williams
District Court that he suffered a could not immediately be reached
brain injury in the March 16 for comment. An officer who
beating. He said he has been answered the phone at police
unable to return to work as a headquarters said Williams was
correctional officer or as a not working Thursday.
member of the Massachusetts O'Brien was charged with
Army National Guard. disorderly conduct, resisting arrest
O'Brien claims Officer David and assault and battery on one of
Williams led an attack on him the officers.
after responding to a car accident The lawsuit accuses police of
involving O'Brien's friend. making an unlawful arrest and
O'Brien claims that after his using excessive and unnecessary
friend accidentally struck a BMW f o r c e . O ' B r i e n i s s e e k i n g
that was double-parked in unspecified damages.
Boston's North End, Williams and Friedman said that the charges
a n o t h e r o f f i c e r b e c a m e against O'Brien were dropped
"aggressive, intimidating, and after he performed 50 hours of
threatening" to his friend. He said community service.
he began to film the officers after Williams, who was hired as a
they "came charging towards police officer in 1991, was fired
him" after he questioned them in 1999 for his alleged role in the
about the BMW owner's claim beating of a fellow police officer
that he worked for a federal during the confusion of an early
agency. morning chase of murder
One officer grabbed his phone, suspects. He was reinstated by an
while Williams threw him to the arbitrator in 2005. Williams
ground, O'Brien said in the d e n i e d p a r t i c i p a t i n g i n t h e
lawsuit. officer's beating.
Williams put an arm around
4 Politics/ Top News/ Gadgets/
The First Draft: Gaddafi, the tent and Census workers trained to
The Donald
By Deborah Zabarenko (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:28:36 AM
Official Washington is gazing
northward this morning toward
New York and the United
Nations, where President Barack
Obama will be followed in the
General Assembly by Libya’s
Muammar Gaddafi. The big
question in the blogosphere is not
what Obama will tell the gathered
diplomats of the world — the
White House has indicated he will
stress a new tone in foreign policy
— but where Gaddafi spent the
night.
Unlike the rest of the assembled
envoys, Gaddafi prefers a
Bedouin tent to a hotel (hates
elevators, reportedly) but his
plans to pitch a tent in the
suburban town of Bedford, New
York, hit a snag with local
authorities. Construction of the
tent, featuring draperies with a
camel print, was halted on
Tuesday. ABC News reported that
he bedded down in Manhattan
close to the United Nations.
The titillation factor grew when
it was discovered that the estate in
Bedford was owned by none other
than Donald Trump, New York
real estate magnate and publicity
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By John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:30:50 AM
A company called Swiss
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of them – ran their heavy duty
diver through a few clever tests
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General Assembly (and the G20 2007) 2000 after she approached a home doing smaller surveys on various
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Senate rebukes Libya, and it wasn’t for Brazil fireworks blast kills 10
(BBC News | Americas | World were stored.
Gaddafi’s speech… Edition)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:07:08 PM
Authorities are investigating
whether the store's owners had the
By Tabassum Zakaria (Front minutes in and another — permits needed to be holding
Row Washington) somewhat calmer — voice took At least ten people have been explosives.
Submitted at 9/23/2009 11:43:49 AM over. killed and many injured in a blast Television footage showed
But not before the first one had at a fireworks store on the firemen with rescue dogs
Coincidence? Maybe. a chance to rattle off Gadaffi’s outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazilian searching through a swathe of
The U.S. Senate rebuked Libya musings on everything including media reports. rubble amid houses destroyed by
Wednesday during the nearly two- who killed JFK. The powerful explosion hit the the large blast.
hour speech that leader Muammar While Gaddafi praised President town of Santo Andre. The explosion occurred just
Gaddafi gave to the U.N. General Barack Obama in his speech, the It overturned cars and destroyed after midday.
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(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) convention center where the front windshield. Some protesters banner that read, "No borders, no identified himself as "the Rev.
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:23:53 PM summit is being held. used pallets and corrugated steel thanks." Another banner read, Billy from the Church of Life
Police in riot gear stood guard to block a road. Police said the "No hope in capitalism." After Shopping."
PITTSBURGH – Police threw near the protesters, who banged windows at one bank branch were Protesters unfurled a large The G-20 summit begins
canisters of pepper spray and on drums and chanted "Ain't no broken. banner reading "NO BAILOUT Thursday evening with a welcome
smoke at anarchists protesting the power like the power of the Officers fired pepper spray and NO CAPITALISM" with an ceremony and ends late Friday
Group of 20 summit Thursday people, 'cause the power of the smoke at the protesters. Some of encircled "A," a recognized sign afternoon after a day of meetings
after the marchers responded to people don't stop." those exposed to the pepper spray of anarchists. at the David L. Lawrence
calls to disperse by rolling trash The marchers did not have a were coughing, complaining of An activist from New York Convention Center.
bins and throwing rocks. permit and, after a few blocks, eyes watering and stinging. City, dressed in a white suit with a Dignitaries were arriving in
The march turned chaotic at just police declared it an unlawful Some of the protesters were preacher's collar, kicked off the waves and were heading to a city
about the same time that President a s s e m b l y . T h e y p l a y e d a n seen ducking into alleyways to march with a speech through a under heavy security. Police and
Barack Obama and first lady announcement over a loudspeaker change out of their all-black bullhorn. National Guard troops guarded
Michelle arrived for a meeting telling people to leave or face clothing. "They are not operating on Earth many downtown intersections,
with leaders of the world's major arrest and then moved in to break The hundreds of marchers had time. ... They are accommodating and a maze of tall metal fences
economies. it up. included small groups of self- the devil," he said. "To love and concrete barriers shunted cars
The clashes began after several Protesters split into smaller described anarchists, some democracy and to love the earth is and pedestrians.
h u n d r e d p r o t e s t e r s , m a n y groups. Some rolled trash bins wearing dark clothes and to be a radical now."
advocating against capitalism, toward police, and a man in a bandanas and carrying black flags The activist, Billy Talen, travels
tried to march from an outlying black hooded sweat shirt threw and others wearing helmets and the country preaching against
n e i g h b o r h o o d t o w a r d t h e rocks at a police car, breaking the safety goggles. Some held a consumerism. He initially
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It is not, Mackenzie Phillips
said, either as simple or as
reprehensible as the news stories
make it seem. Her father, John
Phillips, was not a monster, and
that 10-year “affair” she is said to
have had with him is not as easily
categorized as it would seem.
“My father was not a bad man.
He was a very sick man,” Phillips
told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira
Thursday in one of a series of
interviews about her tell-all book,
“High on Arrival,” and her folk-
rock superstar father, “Papa John”
Phillips of The Mamas & the
Papas.
“If anyone out there can possibly
separate his body of work from
his personal demons, that would
be the honorable thing to do. He
didn’t set out to hurt me. He did
the best with what he had. He was
a damaged guy,” Phillips said.
She says it is true that on the
night before her first marriage at
the age of 18, she woke up in a
drug-induced fog to find John
Phillips having sex with her. And
it is true that 10 years would go
by before she finally stopped the
incestuous relationship after she
aborted a child because she didn’t
know if it was her father’s or her
husband’s. But, Phillips told
Vieira, it is not accurate to
describe that decade as a
continuous relationship.
“At 18 I was molested, then
maybe three years later, I started
waking up with my pants down
around my ankles. And then
maybe two years after that, it
became consensual,” Phillips said.
“So to call it a 10-year affair, a 10
-year relationship, is not correct.
That is something I would like to
get out.”
Book has divided her family
Phillips said she did not intend
to reveal so much when she began
writing her memoir, but she
decided that it would be dishonest
to do otherwise and a disservice to
others who have suffered the
emotional horrors of abuse and
incest.
Her stepmother, Michelle
Phillips, has said that Phillips is
imagining what happened. Her
half sister Chynna said the stories
are too incredible to be made up.
Her other sister, Bijou, and her
brother, Tamerlane, have shown
measured support.
Phillips did not criticize those in
her family who have not shown
unflinching support for her. For
one thing, she said, to her
knowledge her sisters were not
abused by John Phillips. For
another, they are reacting the way
most families react to such
unwelcome and embarrassing
news.
“If you open a textbook on incest
you can see a picture of the
Phillips family,” Phillips said.
“We are behaving in a typical
way. The instinct is to say it’s not
true. The instinct is to deny. The
instinct is to brush it under the
table. The instinct is to protect the
abuser. I love my family … I
understand this is very difficult,
and to be revealed on a public
level such as this makes it ever
more difficult, and my heart goes
out to them. I know that, God
willing, as a family we will all be
stronger when this dies down.”
Phillips said she also
understands that many will find
the story disgusting and either
condemn her for revealing it or
question her veracity.
“I’m not asking you to
understand and say, ‘Of course,
that’s what happened.’ I’m asking
you to see how it could and how it
does and how this is a problem
that’s going on all over the
world,” Phillips said.
The one segment of society that
has responded most positively to
her book, Phillips said, is others
who have been through similar
experiences.
“This is a universal story, and
since the publication of this book
yesterday, the outpouring of
support from other incest
survivors has been phenomenal,”
Phillips told Vieira. “This is a
subject that is so incredibly taboo,
as well it should be, but there
needs to be a dialogue about it.
Covers need to be pulled. You
can’t keep sweeping this under
the carpet. This is affecting
families all over the world.”
Sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll
The former child star of “One
Day at a Time” had a childhood
that was defined by sex, drugs and
rock ’n’ roll from an early age. At
10, she wrote, she shared pot
brownies with the singer Donovan
of “Mellow Yellow” fame. At 11,
she was snorting coke in her
classroom at school. At 12, she
gave up her virginity in a closet
with a classmate at a party. At 18,
she slept with Mick Jagger, who
told her he had been waiting to
bed her since she was 10.
Although it looks incredibly
abnormal and abusive from the
outside, she said that as a young
girl, she assumed it was simply
normal.
“It was like a fantasy world, but
to me it wasn’t. We experience
what we know and what we know
is what we experience,” she told
Vieira.
In a later interview with
TODAY’s Al Roker, she
expanded on that, saying that as
she was entering her teens, she
saw that her childhood was not
normal.
“Maybe at 12 or 13 I realized it
wasn’t like this for everybody,”
Phillips said.
High on heroin on TODAY
Her drug addictions led to her
being fired several times from
“One Day at a Time.” She even
shot up cocaine while she was
pregnant with her son, Shane,
who somehow was born a healthy,
normal and intelligent boy.
Phillips would clean herself up
and remain sober for 15 years, but
prescription painkillers pulled her
back into an addiction to heroin.
As Phillips tells it, she was high
nearly constantly, including
during an appearance on TODAY
in 2008 in a reunion interview
with the cast of “One Day at a
Time.”
Phillips assured Vieira she is
clean and sober now. “You got a
pee cup, I’ll pee in it for you. I
have no problem. There’s a very
different look in my eyes, there’s
a very different type of
composure, there’s a very
different vibe,” she said.
Phillips will soon be 50. She
said she did not become a full-
blown addict as a child.
“It was a very permissive time in
a very rock ’n’ roll world,”
Phillips said. “Pretty much
anything went. I can’t
characterize it as being strung out
as a child. That came later.
Certainly, things were set into
motion early, but I wasn’t strung
out as a 10-, 11- or 12-year-old. It
sort of grew. It’s a snowball
effect. Nobody starts out as a full-
on junkie. It comes over time.”
Her account of how she ended
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what had become a consensual
incestuous relationship with her
father was riveting.
“I became pregnant and I was in
a relationship with my son’s
father at the time and my father,
and I didn’t know whose child it
was,” Phillips told Vieira. “I was
horrified. It brought me smack-
dab into present time. The
implications of it were just so
intensely disturbing to me that I
had an abortion. I never let him
touch me again.”
She said she told her father
about the pregnancy and he paid
for the abortion. “The life that
was growing within me was not
meant to be, for obvious reasons,”
she said.
After she again talked about
what a good person her father
was, Vieira said that the reaction
of many readers is to hate him.
“If you think about it, his book,
‘Papa John,’ if you can get your
hands on that book and read it, it
might give you more of an
understanding of how neglect as a
child can bring you into drug
abuse, can bring you into the
place where you could actually
consider doing something like
this,” Phillips said. “I would like
people to try and give Papa the
benefit of the doubt.”
To Roker, she added, “You
can’t forgive something like this,
but you can understand.”
Phillips said she hopes that she
can become an advocate for other
victims of incest.
“I’m beginning to feel more and
more that maybe I can just be a
voice for this large community of
incest survivors that don’t know
where to go or what to do or how
to talk about what happened in
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Feds: Suspect hit beauty stores for bomb supplies - The

Associated Press
(Most Popular - Google News) disrupted." a solvent commonly found in nail large quantities of hydrogen with a phone call that
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:11:02 PM Counterterrorism agents have polish remover — from beauty peroxide or acetone supplies had investigators had been asking
said they feared Zazi and others supply stores in the Denver been purchased. about him — knew anything
By TOM HAYS and DEVLIN might have been planning to metropolitan area, the document At Hidden Beauty in Queens' about a plot.
BARRETT (AP) – 31 minutes detonate homemade bombs on says. He searched the Internet for Flushing neighborhood, a quick "Obviously, the government
ago New York City commuter trains. home improvement stores in walk from the apartment where would not be consenting to bail if
NEW YORK — An Afghan The two-page indictment of Queens before driving a rental car Zazi stayed this month, a it thought he was involved in a
immigrant plotted for more than a Zazi — who appeared in a Denver for a two-day trip to the city, the plainclothes officer stopped by terrorism conspiracy," he said.
year to detonate homemade court on Thursday — offers few document says. and asked whether anyone had A second, unrelated indictment
bombs in the United States, had details, but a separate document A senior official familiar with been there to buy a large amount unsealed Thursday in the same
recently bought bomb-making — a government motion seeking the investigation said Zazi had of acetone, store employee Sam court charged a Brooklyn man
supplies from beauty supply to deny bail — lays out evidence associates who visited Colorado Chin said Thursday. The manager with supporting terrorism in what
stores and was looking for gathered by investigators. from New York to help him buy told him that no one had, Chin authorities say is an investigation.
"urgent" help in the past two The airport shuttle driver began the chemicals. The official, who said. An indictment alleges Betim
weeks to make explosives, an plotting to "use one or more spoke on condition of anonymity John Choy, a salesman for 707 Kaziu traveled to Pakistan this
indictment charged Thursday. weapons of mass destruction" because the case is ongoing, said Beauty Supply and Fashion Plus year to try to receive training from
Najibullah Zazi — a 24-year- between Aug. 1, 2008, and they used stolen credit cards to in the Denver suburb of Aurora, a militant group linked to al-
old airport shuttle driver who September 2009 against the make the purchases and then said FBI agents went to his store Qaida, and tried to go to
a u t h o r i t i e s s a i d r e c e i v e d United States, the papers say. returned to New York. about two weeks ago and asked Afghanistan and Iraq to fight
explosives and weapons training The document says that on Sept. The official did not say whether him whether he sold hydrogen against U.S. forces there.
from al-Qaida during a trip to 6 a n d 7 , Z a z i t r i e d t o the associates included those peroxide to anyone recently. Choy Kaziu was to be arraigned later
Pakistan last year — was charged c o m m u n i c a t e w i t h a n o t h e r already charged or whether they said that the store sells only a few Thursday. Prosecutors did not
in New York with conspiracy to individual "seeking to correct were new to the investigation. small bottles a year and that no have the name of his attorney.
use weapons of mass destruction. mixtures of ingredients to make Zazi has publicly denied any one who bought it fit the ___
His arrest in Denver a week ago explosives." terrorist plotting. But a series of description of Zazi. Barrett reported from
on charges that he lied to "Each communication," the searches in Denver and New York Zazi's father, Mohammed Wali Washington. Associated Press
terrorism investigators sparked papers say, was "more urgent than City over the past two weeks — Zazi, and a New York City imam, writers Steven K. Paulson and P.
home and business searches in the last." including high-profile raids on Ahmad Wais Afzali, also Solomon Banda in Denver and
New York and Denver, as well as On those days, Zazi rented a Queens apartments that netted appeared in court Thursday on Samantha Gross in New York
a flurry of national warnings of suite at a hotel in his hometown of backpacks, cell phones and a scale charges of lying to investigators contributed to this report.
possible bomb attacks on transit, Aurora, Colo., authorities charge. — haven't found any evidence of of the terror plot. (This version DELETES the
s p o r t s a n d e n t e r t a i n m e n t The room had a kitchen, and explosives. Authorities say they Mohammed Zazi was ordered in incorrect detail that Mohammed
complexes. subsequent FBI testing for found bomb-making instructions Denver to be freed under court Zazi is being transferred to New
Authorities hadn't determined a explosives and residue in the suite on a hard drive on Zazi's laptop supervision until an Oct. 9 York.)
time and place of a possible found the presence of residue in computer. hearing. Afzali was released in Copyright © 2009 The
attack, and Attorney General Eric the vent above the stove. Beauty supply store employees New York on $1.5 million bond. Associated Press. All rights
Holder said in Washington, "We In July and August, Zazi bought in New York and the Denver Afzali's attorney, Ron Kuby, reserved.
believe any imminent threat unusually large amounts of suburbs said authorities had been denied that his client — who
arising from this case has been hydrogen peroxide and acetone — there recently asking whether authorities said helped tip Zazi off
PHILLIPS:
continued from page 6
their lives, and the only way they Phillips went on. “There’s so things can destroy a person, and I hope to continue to be well
know how to deal with it is to turn much damage being done to think they might be slowly eating enough to be of service.”
it inward and self-destruct,” she people, they’re doing the damage away at the fabric of our country
told Vieira. to themselves because of what and our youth and I certainly am
“It’s time for that to stop,” they’ve lived through. These an example of both sides of it. I
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UN council endorses nuclear curbs
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US President Barack Obama
issues nuclear disarmament call
The UN Security Council has
unanimously adopted a resolution
calling for nuclear disarmament,
in a session chaired by US
President Barack Obama.
The resolution calls for further
efforts to stop the spread of
nuclear arms, to boost
disarmament and to lower the risk
of "nuclear terrorism".
It was the first time a US
president had chaired a Security
Council summit.
The resolution comes amid
growing concerns among Western
powers over Iran's nuclear
ambitions.
"The historic resolution we just
adopted enshrines our shared
commitment to the goal of a
world without nuclear weapons,"
Mr Obama told the Security
Council after the resolution was
adopted.
He said the next year would be
"absolutely critical in determining
whether this resolution and our
overall efforts to stop the spread
and use of nuclear weapons are
successful".
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-
moon called the resolution "a
fresh start toward a new future".
'Proliferation risk'
The resolution does not
specifically mention countries by
name, such as North Korea and
Iran, but reaffirms previous
Security Council resolutions
relating to their nuclear plans.
The unanimous backing for the
US-drafted resolution is a
measure of the growing sense of
urgency.
There is a growing fear amongst
disarmament experts both inside
and outside government that the
whole machinery intended to
prevent the spread of nuclear
weapons - whose cornerstone is
the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty or NPT - is looking
increasingly fragile.
The NPT agreement is up for
revision in May and the new
consensus at the UN Security
Council sends a powerful signal
that this key agreement must be
bolstered.
Iran's nuclear programme has
been criticised by the US and five
nations who are set to hold talks
next week.
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"Just one nuclear weapon
exploded in a city, be it New York
or Moscow, Tokyo or Beijing,
London or Paris, could kill
hundreds of thousands of people."
'Preposterous' allegations
Also on Thursday, a UN
ministerial conference adopted a
declaration urging compliance
with the CTBT, which has been
signed or ratified by 100 countries
since 1996.
US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton presence at the meeting
marked the first US participation
at the biannual conference since
1999, when the US Senate refused
to ratify the treaty.
On Wednesday, the first day of
the UN General Assembly, Iran's
plans came under fire from
several world leaders, including
French President Nicolas Sarkozy
and UK Prime Minister Gordon
Brown.
Iran says its nuclear ambitions risks.
are for peaceful energy purposes, It also urges states to: Russia signalled that it might be
prepared to soften its opposition
but others fear it is developing • join and comply with the
weapons. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to sanctions against Iran over its
nuclear plans, though China,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (NPT)
Netanyahu reflected those fears in • refrain from testing nuclear another Security Council member,
his speech to the UN General w e a p o n s a n d r a t i f y t h e said increasing pressure on Iran
Assembly on Thursday, saying Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty would not be effective.
that stopping Iran acquiring (CTBT) But in a statement circulated
nuclear weapons was the world's • ensure safeguards of nuclear outside the Security Council on
most urgent task. material and prevent trafficking Thursday, Iran said France and
After the resolution was passed, Mr Obama stressed that the US the UK had not complied with
Iran rejected allegations about its would play its part, seeking a new their own nuclear disarmament
nuclear programme as "totally strategic arms reduction treaty obligations, and were therefore
u n t r u e " a n d r e i t e r a t e d i t s with Russia and moving ahead not in a position to judge others.
"readiness to engage in serious with ratification of the test ban It accused Mr Sarkozy of
making "preposterous" claims,
and constructive negotiations with treaty.
interested parties". "Although we averted a nuclear and said the UK "deliberately and
The resolution commits member nightmare during the Cold War, cynically [had] ignored its legal
nations to work toward a world we now face proliferation of a commitments" to the NPT.
without nuclear weapons, and s c o p e a n d c o m p l e x i t y t h a t "Our commitment to non-
endorses a broad framework of demands new strategies and new proliferation remains intact," the
actions to reduce global nuclear approaches," Mr Obama said. statement said.
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Honduras lifts three-day curfew Intercontinental

(BBC News | Americas | World but he has given no details. Tegucigalpa. mission in the capital of
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Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:39:18 PM had been killed. Mr Zelaya tried to hold a non- The UN has suspended any back is buy opportunity
During a brief respite from the binding public consultation to ask assistance for elections scheduled
The interim government of curfew on Wednesday, people people whether they supported for 29 November. By Joseph Lazzaro
Honduras has lifted the curfew rushed to the shops and petrol moves to change the constitution. A statement said Secretary (BloggingStocks)
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Kennedy US Senate successor named

(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 10:20:01 AM
The governor of Massachusetts
has named Paul Kirk as a
temporary replacement to fill the
Senate seat left vacant by the
death of Edward Kennedy.
Mr Kirk, 71, is a former
Democratic Party chairman and
worked for Sen Kennedy for eight
years.
The move means that
Democrats in the US Senate have
regained the majority needed to
push through President Obama's
healthcare reform agenda.
They fell one seat short through
the death of Sen Kennedy.
The Massachusetts state senate
voted on Wednesday to allow the
state governor to appoint a
temporary replacement senator.
Without the change, Sen
Kennedy's seat would have stayed
vacant until January.
The rule change was one of
Edward Kennedy's last wishes.
'Highest honour'
The late senator feared that if
his fellow Democrats did not have
a full complement of senators,
passing a healthcare reform bill
would be more difficult.
Mr Kennedy campaigned
throughout his career for universal
healthcare, and did not want his
death to jeopardise prospects for
reform.
His widow Vicki Kennedy and
son Edward Kennedy Jr had urged
Governor Deval Patrick to choose
Paul Kirk.
"He (Sen Kennedy) often said
that representing the people of
Massachusetts in the Senate of the
United States was the highest
honour that he could possible
imagine, and it is certainly
nothing that I imagined, but it will
be my highest honour, as well,"
said Mr Kirk.
He is expected to be sworn in on
Friday and will serve until 19
January.
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Anglo-Saxon gold hoard is the 'Full attack' on Southern

biggest - and could get bigger - California wildfire (AP)
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guardian.co.uk Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:01:43 AM
production sites and electrical
transmission lines, remained
threatened.
(Most Popular - Google News) illegally excavated and sold, and transition from paganism to MOORPARK, Calif. – A fleet of Efforts were being focused on
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:55:02 AM we will never fully understand it. Christianity, the conduct of battle helicopters made water drops as the northeast corner of the fire,
By contrast, thanks to Herbert's and the nature of fine metalwork – bulldozers carved firebreaks where helicopters were making
Link to this video professional skills and attitude, to name only a few of the many Thursday to stop a 25-square-mile drops with water taken out of the
This hoard will change lives. we know everything we could huge issues it raises." And, she wildfire burning through an Santa Clara River, Nash said.
Terry Herbert, the finder, and the about the Staffordshire gold's adds wistfully, perhaps we'll all agricultural region of Southern Eight injuries have been
anonymous landowner will be context. That adds immensely to realise "that Anglo-Saxons are California. reported, none serious, he said.
well compensated: by how much its academic value. different from Vikings – and so High heat and very low The fire began near an
no one knows, but such is the We don't yet know how big it is. much more interesting". humidity kept fire danger high agricultural mulch pile, but the
scale of the treasure that when the The present list runs to 1,345 For now, the discovery is a even though meteorologists said cause remained under
valuation committee meets, it will objects, including 56 lumps of black hole into which everything the dry Santa Ana winds that investigation, authorities said.
have to consider the depressive earth. X-rays show them to be we thought we knew about the spread the flames through rural Firefighting costs topped $3
effect of unleashing on to the studded with pieces of metal. You era, along with the Lindisfarne Ventura County were weakening. million.
market a record quantity of can make out tiny decorative gospels, the Sutton Hoo treasures The 16,400-acre blaze Elsewhere in Southern
supreme gold artistry. The farmer animals and jewel settings, but and – to take but one small northwest of Los Angeles was 40 California, a 16-year-old boy was
who not long ago sold the field to until the lumps are taken apart we example – a sword handle for percent surrounded, and the effort arrested for investigation of
its present owner might lose a few will not know what's there. In which the British Museum paid to increase containment involved starting a 475-acre wildfire
nights' sleep, too. other words, archaeologists have £125,000 two years ago (there are 21 helicopters, 21 bulldozers, 214 Wednesday near Yucaipa in San
But what does it mean for the the prospect of themselves being 310 sword parts in the new fire engines and 1,800 firefighters. Bernardino County. The fire was
rest of us? How exceptional is the able to excavate part of the hoard), has been swept into Eight air tankers were also 60 percent contained.
Staffordshire hoard? And how country's most spectacular ancient disarray. On seeing the find, available. The teenager was spotted on a
will it change the way we think hoard. normally restrained academics "It's a full attack," said Ventura bicycle where the blaze started,
about our past, about Anglo- As for what it means, at this immediately began to compare it County Fire Department said Bill Peters, a spokesman for
Saxon kingship, war, art and the stage no one knows (a career's to Sutton Hoo. And, almost as spokesman Bill Nash. the California Department of
origins of England? battle spoil from a king's hall, soon, the process was reversed: Winds were ranging between 6 Forestry and Fire Protection.
Without question this is the perhaps?). It represents that "How will this change the way we mph and 12 mph, about half the Northeast of Los Angeles, the
largest group of gold artefacts cultural maelstrom between the think about the ship burials?" speeds of the previous day, he smoldering remnants of a month-
ever found in British soil. Many departure of the Romans and the Delicate ornament, stunning said. But triple-digit temperatures old, 251-square-mile forest fire in
of the pieces are of the highest formation of England: think craftsmanship and gold were like persisted along with relative the San Gabriel Mountains was
quality design and technique, iconic kings like Penda and Kalashnikovs in the battle for land humidity levels in single digits. listed as 94 percent contained, and
from a time that excelled in the Aethelbald, carving out Mercia as and loyalty. Now, 1,300 years on, The fire erupted Tuesday north officials expected to declare it
creation of fine jewellery and it becomes one of the most they command our intellect and of the city of Moorpark and has fully surrounded by Thursday
weaponry. There really is nothing powerful kingdoms in Britain. our awe. "It's going to shake up spread and west through hills, evening. Winds in the Angeles
like it, but it reminds me of a Leslie Webster, a former British all our ideas," says Webster. "And mountains and agricultural lands, National Forest were also milder,
p r e h i s t o r i c f i n d m a d e n e a r Museum curator and specialist in what fun that will be!" The including avocado orchards. Two but the air remained hot and dry.
Salisbury in the 1980s. Anglo-Saxon culture, saw the Mercian flag is on the march. outbuildings have been destroyed
Here, too, archaeologists were treasure last week. "It will make Mike Pitts is editor of British and 75 homes, along with oil
staggered by the sheer scale: there historians, literary scholars, Archaeology magazine
were more than 500 bronze items, archaeologists and art historians,"
including curious miniature she says, "think again about rising
shields. But that hoard was (and failing) kingdoms, the
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Google Outages Defy Customer Closing bell: home sales

Confidence - PC World don't help (AONE, BAC,
(Most Popular - Google News)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:18:17 PM
than what it offers free. Even if
that is true, it is not likely to win
WFC, GE, CHTP, JPM)
Google many friends. Either By Douglas McIntyre
Google keeps telling us its Gmail is totally reliable, or it isn't. (BloggingStocks)
applications are business ready, Google's problems should not Submitted at 9/24/2009 4:00:00 PM
but again this morning we have be overstated, but the company is
learned otherwise, thanks to beginning to sound like AT&T Filed under: After the bell,
another Gmail outage. OK, it has with its service-related issues. Major movement, General
been a bad week, but a Google AT&T is a company people love Electric (GE), JPMorgan Chase
N e w s o u t a g e o n T u e s d a y , to have been much smaller than to hate, while Google is a (JPM), Bank of America (BAC),
followed by a Gmail failure today the huge outage in February or the company people love to love. But, Wells Fargo (WFC), S and P 500,
is just too much to bear. smaller outage on Sept. 1. Of a reputation for poor reliability is DJIA, NASDAQ
I know all the excuses, from course, we only have Google's one of the worst curses a tech The market seems to want to go have remained.
how huge demand makes Google word for what happens on its company can face. up each day as it has relentlessly Here were today's unofficial
a "victim of its own success" to network. Google needs to protect its almost every trading session since closing numbers:
"what do you expect for free?" Earlier this week, when Google reputation--and the marketability April. But yesterday, it had a tiny Dow 9,706.99 -41.56 (-0.43%)
Nevertheless, they are just N e w s c r a s h e d , t h e o u t a g e o f i t s c l o u d s e r v i c e s - - b y setback after the FOMC S&P 500 1,050.78 -10.09 (-
excuses. appeared to be more widespread improving reliability and being announcement. Today the culprit 0.95%)
Rather than adding features that than the company acknowledged. more open with users about the was housing. The National Nasdaq 2,107.61 -23.81 (-
add only questionable value to our My Gnews was stalled for hours details of even small outages. Association of Realtors said 1.12%)
lives, such as Sidewiki and Fast well before the outage Google Right now, this is only a small existing home sales declined 2.7% Continue reading Closing bell:
Flip news, maybe Google needs to actually admitted to. And there crisis of confidence. Google needs in August. Every economist worth home sales don't help (AONE,
stop, take a deep breath, and focus were other Gnews outages back in to stop it right away. his salt said the number would BAC, WFC, GE, CHTP, JPM)
on quality and reliability for May. David Coursey tweets rise. Closing bell: home sales don't
products many of us use every Maybe Google's paid services, a s @ t e c h i n c i t e r a n d c a n b e Good news on the help (AONE, BAC, WFC, GE,
day? including Gmail, are more reliable contacted via his Web page. unemployment front did give the CHTP, JPM) originally appeared
Today's Gmail outage appears market an early boost this on BloggingStocks on Thu, 24
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Live blog: G20 Pittsburgh summit

By Daniel Nasaw, Matthew news person and who is not. be a long speech. 7.04pm: convention centre.
Weaver (World news and Careful out there Andy! "I'm not going to speak any more Small protests are beginning in He said the city is spending
comment from the Guardian | 8.45pm: than Gaddafi; Gaddafi has said and around downtown Pittsburgh. $18m on public safety during the
guardian.co.uk) Thomas Noyes writes on Cif everything there is to say. No clashes reported yet. summit but expects $20m to
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:21:28 PM America that just because (clapping his hands) This show of 6.53pm: $30m in economic benefit from
financial markets are improving, hands is for Gaddafi's speech. But European Commission visitors filling hotels and spending
Protesters have called for a doesn't mean G20 leaders should I won't speak any less than President Manuel Barroso just money locally. With humvees on
"people's uprising" in Pittsburgh let risk-taking bankers off the Obama either, or Lula." gave a speech on climate change every corner, Ravenstahl admitted
as the G20 summit begins. Follow hook. Apparently seeing delegates to the University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is "a little different
live updates here 8.42pm: walking into the hall, he waves Key points: today" but said he hoped his
9.20pm: "Pittsburgh welcomes the them forward. First, to the developing world – electors would be patient: "We've
Here's a write up from Andy on world!" Several levels of irony in "Those of you who are arriving, if you are serious about the asked them to understand that the
the happenings on the streets of this photo, uploaded to flickr just walk in." challenge of cutting emissions, we short-term sacrifice they're going
Pittsburgh. Tuesday. 8.11pm: will be there to help, including to have to make is worth it for the
9.01pm: 8.38pm: Back at the UN, Venezuelan with financial support. But we long-term benefit."
Andy Clark is on the scene in Back at the UN, Chavez just leader Hugo Chavez has taken the need developing countries to Ravenstahl is keeping mum
Laurenceville, the Pittsburgh said the podium in the general rostrum at the general assembly. contribute to mitigation. In other about an anarchist march expected
n e i g h b o u r h o o d t h a t h a s assembly hall no longer smells of He opened with a promotion for words, no action, no money. this afternoon except to say:
experienced clashes between sulphur. That's a reference to his new Oliver Stone movie "South of Second, to others in the "We're expecting the unexpected."
protesters and police. 2006 barb at President Bush, who the Border". developed world – as well as 5.32pm:
He describes 300-400 "mainly Chavez said left a stench of 8.03pm: delivering on our binding David Waskow, climate change
youthful protesters", wearing sulphur at the rostrum. Twitterer G20ActionAlert mitigation targets, we need to director at OxFam America, notes
black, with many wearing masks Now, Chavez, the podium writes that police have ordered the make a credible financial on Comment is free America that
a n d b a l a c l a v a s , w i t h s o m e smells "of hope". unpermitted protest to disperse. commitment to the developing Manhattan, site of the UN, and
carrying black flags. They're The remark is at once a twisted 7.59pm: world. In other words, no money, Pittsburgh, location of the G20
shouting things like "whose compliment to Obama, whom KDKA radio has streaming no deal. meeting, both sit in the midst of
streets? Our streets!" and carrying Chavez seems to like, and another video on its website of planes 6.44pm: rivers.
banners that read "Fuck world jab at Bush. landing at the pittsburgh airport. Back in New York, Guardian These venues should especially
trade" and "I'm mad as hell". 8.35pm: On the screen now: A plane Washington bureau chief Ewen remind us what faces the world's
"they've had several standoffs President and Michelle Obama belonging to the German MacAskill reports that the US is poorest people, who are least to
with riot police who are carrying just alit from the plane in government, presumably bearing easing its policy on Burma and blame for the climate crisis but
batons and wearing masks and Pittsburgh. Chancellor Angela Merkel. may engage in high-level talks are being hit first and hardest by
full gear. There has been tear gas 8.26pm: 7.45pm: with the junta. rising sea levels, intensifying
deployed at one point and a few Air Force One, the plane that The Guardian's US business 6.30pm: storms and declining fresh water
demonstrators have thrown stones carries the president of the United reporter Andrew Clark reports: On Cif America, Kevin supplies.
at the police." States, has just landed in A line of dignitaries has Gallagher, professor of As the host, officially at the G20
The police have loudspeakers Pittsburgh. Across town, police assembled to welcome Chinese international relations at Boston and less formally in New York,
with Robocop like voices warning are clashing with protesters, many leader Hu Jintao, who is expected University and a research fellow Barack Obama has a special role
t h a t t h e d e m o n s t r a t i o n i s of them clad in black, with hoods shortly at the Westin hotel. Four at the Global Development and to play in reminding his
unlawful, everyone must disperse over their heads and masks huge truck trailers have been Environment Institute, says he colleagues of the consequences of
immediately, and that anyone who covering their faces. parked opposite to block the view hopes the G20 will wake America this moment. While he is focused
does not may be arrested or 8.20pm: of a small group of demonstrators, up to the urgent need for financial on an enormous fight over
subject to other police action MSNBC is showing gas in the some of who are wearing Falun reform and climate change healthcare in Congress, as well as
"which may involve actual air near a protest in Pittsburgh, Gong teeshirts. legislation. other pressing issues, he has a key
physical removal, use of riot w h e r e d e m o n s t r a t o r s w e r e 7.43pm: 6.11pm: opportunity to reshape the
control or non-lethal munitions". o r d e r e d t o d i s p e r s e . Pittsburgh's KDKA radio says Guardian US business reporter international and US debate on
CNN reporter Brian Todd just 8.18pm: protesters gathered in Pittsburgh's Andrew Clark just grabbed an climate issues.
took a faceful of tear gas and says Ever a showman, Chavez is Arsenal Park are hollering at the interview with Pittsburgh's 29- 5.15pm:
the police are paying little working to charm his audience police officers there. The group is year-old mayor, Luke Ravenstahl,
attention to who is a bonafide and draw them in to what could heading downtown now. who is wandering around the LIVE page 13
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An adhoc group of Pittsburgh
residents called Don't Be a G20
Jackass writes on its website:
Whether you're a protester or an
officer working crowd control,
please remember that Pittsburgh is
our home. We live, work and play
here, and we're quite proud of our
city. After the days of protests and
direct action, it's going to be the
residents that are left with the
mess. These are our homes, our
businesses, and we would like to
remind everyone to be respectful.
On the website Pittsburgh-area
residents can add their names to
the plea.
5.03pm:
Here is a widely circulating
photo of a line of police in riot
helmets marching through a
typically busy intersection in
Pittsburgh. No protestors in site.
4.57pm:
One Pittsburgher is gleeful
about the G20 disruptions.
University of Pittsburgh computer
engineering student Michael
Flynn tweets:
"I slept in til 11 this morning cuz
my prof cancelled my class due to
g20. Woohoo! I feel great!"
4.54pm:
Meanwhile, from back in New
York we have audio of Gordon
Brown telling the UN security
council to get tough on Iran.
4.50pm:
The sign around this
Pittsburgher's neck says it all: "I
am not a protestor, just trying to
get to work."
4.48pm:
Folks on the ground in
Pittsburgh: Please send me photos
and news tips at
daniel.nasaw@guardian.co.uk or
through twitter.
4.40pm:
Police have moved the
Pittsburgh's homeless out of the
G20 security cordon, the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
The city's social services
organisations are scrambling to
help the vulnerable population,
adding beds and stocking up on
medication and hygene supplies in
shelters outside the G20 zone.
4.34pm:
Guardian political editor Patrick
Wintour wrote in today's paper
that the White House snubbed
Gordon Brown's five requests for
a bilateral meeting on the
sidelines at the UN or in
Pittsburgh during the G20.
The White House is pushing
back today against the report,
denying any snub, he reports.
4.32pm:
Dan Roberts, head of business
for the Guardian and Observer,
fears that with the world having
passedout of the worst of the
economic crisis, motivation for
reform has ebbed among the G20.
Ostensibly, all sides are pretty
much agreed that something still
needs to be done: no one is
complacent enough to believe that
the few months of calm which
followed that concerted global
intervention in the spring means
we can just go back to business as
usual. But the fragile state of the
world economy means America
and Britain are uncomfortable
with the idea of hobbling Wall
Street and the City just when they
are starting to become net
contributors to the exchequer
again. With less to lose, France
and Germany find themselves
playing the more appealing role of
financial reformers – raising
uncomfortable questions about
bank bonuses and long-term
sustainability.
4.30pm:
Daniel Nasaw in Washington
taking over from here. Thanks
Matt, and thanks readers for your
comments.
4.19pm:
Andrew Clark, the Guardian's
US business correspondent, has
just arrived at the convention
centre in Pittsburgh. He writes:
The downtown area is a ghost
town, barely anybody on the
street. All but a handful of routes
into the so-called golden triangle
are blockaded and most shops are
boarded up.
There are Humvees surrounded
by soldiers at most major
junctions. There's a boat
positioned in the middle of the
river right outside the centre in
case anybody threatens a naval
attack.
Not much activity inside yet
apart from lots of NGOs floating
around offering briefings.
According to the local news, the
Indonesian president has arrived
and the Saudis are there too
(although the Saudi king, for
some reason, isn't coming despite
being expected).
4.07pm:
In Pittsburgh's Arsenal Park
protesters are preparing placards
and talking to the medi a ahead of
demonstration later today.
Tibetan monks have begun their
march.
3.51pm:
Brown called for tougher
sanctions against Iran. "As
evidence of its (Iran's) breach of
international agreements grows,
we must now consider far tougher
sanctions."
He also pledged that the UK
would retain only "absolute
minimum" nuclear deterrent
capability, and he confirmed plans
to cut the Trident fleet from four
submarines to three.
3.49pm:
Back in New York it's Gordon
Brown's turn to talk to the
security council about nuclear non
-proliferation.
3.39pm:
Why Pittsburgh? The
Guardian's Paul Owen explains
and the Washington Post reports
on the city's revival.
Daniel adds: "Pittsburgh is the
Sheffield of the US, but it's had
quite a turnaround in recent years,
and has a mayor who's about 30."
The mayor Luke Ravenstahl,
turns 30 next February.
3.34pm:
Another appeal against
vandalism from a "family owned"
restaurant in downtown
Pittsburgh, courtesy of kdkaradio.
3.27pm:
It is legal to eavesdrop on the
Pittsburgh polic e, according to
my Washington colleague Daniel
Nasaw. "In most cities in
America, probably all of them,
police dispatch radio traffic is on
the public airwaves and you can
buy scanners to listen in. It's a key
tool for police reporters and old
men who want to listen in on the
action," he emails.
3.20pm:
Oxfam activists have dressed up
as world leaders in Pittsburgh
Steeler strips.
There's more on Oxfam's anti-
poverty campaign here.
3.10pm:
What about the G20 partners?
Politico says the summit is
Michelle Obama's"biggest
diplomatic outing biggest
diplomatic outing so far, and a
chance to showcase a
quintessentially American city as
well as her pet projects." But the
"spousal" visit to the Andy
Warhol museum is a diplomatic
incident waiting to happen if they
check out the cartoons on show.
2.59pm:
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Back in Pittsburgh you can
eaves drop on Police radio by
going to Radio Reference. Is that
legal?
2.50pm:
The council unanimously
approved a draft resolution calling
on states to prevent the spread of
nuclear weapons and promote
disarmament.
Julian Borger's new Global
Security blog has more.
2.38pm:
Meanwhile, back at the UN in
New York, Barack Obama is
addressing the security council on
nuclear non-proliferation. You
can watch it on channel 8 of the
UN's webcast.
2.15pm:
Reuters has fully embraced
social media - it is carrying live
tweets from the summit and the
streets of Pittsburgh. Like the
Guardian's G20 coverage in April
it is collecting tweets from
various sources in ScribbleLive.
You saw it here first.
One of its reporters, Steve
Holland, tweeted: "Just went thru
extensive security sweep to get to
G20 summit site. Bags sniffed by
one dog, searched by hand, then
sniffed by another dog."
CNN is also using ScribbleLive
to liveblog the summit.
1.57pm:
Many of the streets and
freeways in Pittsburgh have been
sealed off. Hundreds of shops and
businesses are reported to be
boarded up. One restaurant which
remained opened appealed to any
would-be protesters not to smash
in the windows."Family owned
business," a poster in the window
said.
1.32pm:
Indymedia has created a
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Kiev council plans hotel at Holocaust site continued from page 13
Googlemap of "recent activity"
By Peter Beaumont (World Leonid Chernovetsky. members of the Jewish and 30 September. with details of planned protests,
news and comment from the Melnik has told the Jewish community proposed building a Although Babi Yar is most flash mobs, and reports of arrests
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Telegraphic Agency that 67 of museum and religious complex in remembered for the massacre of and police raids.
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:28:25 AM Kiev's city councillors approved the same area in 2006 their plans Kiev's Jewish community, the The groups involved in the
the hotel plan without knowing ran into city opposition. Nazis used the ravine for mass protests are an eclectic mix. They
Euro 2012 football fans may be what they were voting for. "What we know," Bleich told the murder until they retreated from include: Burmese Monks, rough
housed where 33,771 Jews died According to Melnik, the Babi Guardian today, "is that a the Soviet Union. Their victims sleepers, climate activists, anti-
The biggest mass murder by Yar site has been included in a list resolution was passed by the city there included Soviet PoWs, war protesters, and a community
shooting of the Holocaust of dozens of the city's parks and council for a hotel in Babi Yar. members of the Ukrainian farm. A"people's march" is due to
occurred during two days in late other open spaces earmarked for There is an underground already resistance, Roma and mentally ill set off later today.
September 1941. Then, 33,771 possible construction of hotels to there and no one screamed. But people. In all, it is estimated that 1pm:
Ukrainian Jews – by the Nazis' house the hundreds of thousands perhaps people should have between 70,000 and 120,000 Police in Pittsburgh have
own accounts – were ordered to of football supporters expected for screamed." people were killed there, but some already arrested 14 Greenpeace
gather at a Jewish cemetery near a the competition, which is being co Bleich added that he hoped that estimates suggest that as many as demonstrators for hanging a
ravine called Babi Yar, on the -hosted with Poland. the concern now being expressed 200 ,000 may have died. banner from a steel arch bridge
outskirts of the capital, Kiev. The decision has attracted would ensure the hotel was not The plan to build in Kiev's over the city's Ohio river.
They believed they were going to controversy in the Israeli media built, but added: "We do have to parks, including close to the Babi The banner read: "Danger:
be transported for resettlement in and angered some members of be very alert." Yar memorial park, has been climate destruction ahead, reduce
work camps. Kiev's city council, not least The development plans are driven by a lack of tourist C02 emission now. Greenpeace
Instead they were machine- Melnik, who is using the issue to doubly sensitive because of the accommodation in Kiev, which USA has an account of what
gunned in small groups by two attack the council leadership. postwar history of the massacre has only 125 hotels and 17,000 happened, told in Twitter updates
lines of German SS While the city council has site. For decades of Soviet rule, beds. from activists.
Einsatzcommando troops assisted admitted that a development plan Babi Yar lacked any memorial to The Babi Yar memorial park, Here's a film of the protest.
by Ukrainian auxiliary police and exists for Euro 2012, it has so far the killings. The Soviet Union with its trees and lawns, features A group called G20 Resistance
local Nazi collaborators. Their refused to discuss the details. discouraged any remembrance several monuments, including a Project is calling for a people's
bodies were pushed into the The controversy has been that singled out the Jewish substantial statue and a stone uprising. Pittsburgh's Indymedia
gorge, where they were later clouded by the fact that the area character of a large part of the menorah carved with ghostly has more on the planned protests
buried. already has an underground atrocity, a fact that inspired both hooded figures. today, as does the group Seeds of
Now Babi Yar, one of the most station and some other buildings, Yevgeny Yevtushenko's dissident The Secret Life of War: Peace Collective.
sensitive sites for Ukrainian Jews, structures that some leaders of the poem of 1961 poem, Babi Yar, Journeys Through Modern • G20
has been slated by Kiev's city city's Jewish community believe and Dmitri Shostakovich's 1962 Conflict by Peter Beaumont is • Global economy
council for the building of a hotel should not have been built in the Symphony Number 13, based on published by Harvill Secker. • Global recession
to house visiting football fans for first place. the poem. • Holocaust • Obama administration
Euro 2012, opening a new chapter They argue that there are two When the Soviet regime finally • Germany • Gordon Brown
in its already controversial issues at stake: firstly the did erect a memorial in 1976 it • Second world war • United Nations
history. proposed new hotel would was to "Soviet citizens" who lost • Euro 2012 Daniel Nasaw Matthew Weaver
The proposal, discussed at a probably be built within an area their lives. It was only in 1991, Peter Beaumont guardian.co.uk© Guardian
closed meeting of the city council that many have been campaigning after the collapse of the Soviet guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 |
last week, has been described to for years to have designated as a Union and 50 years after the News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to
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opponent of the city's major, chief rabbi, Yakov Bleich, when days and nights of killing on 29
Roasted Marshmallow Shooter: Yes, it shoots flaming marshmallows
By John Biggs (CrunchGear) It catches on fire. You shoot it. As far as I tell it uses a a toilet Also, don’t try this at home.
This, in a nutshell explains how p a p e r t u b e t o l i g h t t h e
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:00:29 PM
the mazing Roasted Marshmallow marshmallows which then blow
You put a marshmallow into it. Shooter works. out of the the tube.
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Man charged in US terror investigation

By Chris McGreal (World news
and comment from the
a year ago.
"Zazi received detailed bomb-
to make them highly
concentrated. The court papers
transit, sports and entertainment
complexes.
KB Home third
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:43:44 AM
making instructions in Pakistan,
purchased components of
say that on 6 and 7 September,
Zazi attempted to communicate
In a memorandum prosecutors
filed in court seeking to deny Zazi
quarter earnings
improvised explosive devices, and
Najibullah Zazi targeted New travelled to New York on 10
with another person "seeking to
correct mixtures of ingredients to
bail they say that he was intent to
the last on carrying out an attack. preview
York City subway system for September 2009 in furtherance of make explosives". "The evidence at trial will show By Michael Fowlkes
attack, according to investigators his criminal plans," court papers "Each communication," the that Zazi remained committed to (BloggingStocks)
A young Afghan immigrant, say. papers say, was "more urgent than detonating an explosive device up Submitted at 9/24/2009 4:20:00 PM
Najibullah Zazi, has been charged On returning from Pakistan the last." until the date of his arrest," the
with conspiracy to use weapons of earlier this year, Zazi moved to The court papers do not specify prosecutors say. Filed under: Earnings reports,
m a s s d e s t r u c t i o n i n w h a t Colorado where he is alleged to the targets Zazi is alleged to have The US attorney general, Eric Forecasts, Competitive strategy,
investigators suspect was a plot to have rented a hotel suite this planned to attack but the US press Holder, said today that "any KB HOME (KBH), Housing,
bomb New York's transport month and used the kitchen to has reported FBI agents as saying imminent threat" from the plot has Recession, Financial Crisis
system. attempt to mix explosives. FBI they believe that the New York "been disrupted". California based home builder KB
According to the indictment tests found residue of bomb- subway train system was a likely "We are investigating a wide Home(NYSE: KBH) will have its
against Zazi issued today, the 24- making ingredients in the vent target. They say the discovery of range of leads related to this turn to impress Wall Street Friday
year-old airport bus driver spent above the stove but searches of backpacks and mobile phones alleged conspiracy, and we will morning when it reports its third
the past year plotting the attacks several properties have not turned suggest that Zazi was planning an continue to work around the clock quarter earnings numbers.
but in the past fortnight began up any explosives. attack similar to the bombings of to ensure that anyone involved is The last time that KB Home
"urgently" looking for help to Zazi and unnamed associates the London Underground and brought to justice," Holder said. reported earnings was back on
manufacture explosives and had are alleged to have bought trains in Madrid. "We believe any imminent threat June 26 when it missed analyst
recently bought bomb-making unusually large amounts of Zazi was originally arrested in arising from this case has been estimates miserably. Analysts had
supplies from beauty stores. He is hydrogen peroxide and acetone Denver with his father, disrupted, but as always, we been expecting to see the
also alleged to have obtained products from beauty supply Mohammed, 53, and a New York remind the American public to be company show a loss of 64 cents
instructions on how to make stores around Denver over several City imam, Ahmad Wais Afzali, vigilant and to report any per share for its second quarter,
explosives and made notes on weeks. The papers also say that on charges of lying to federal anti- suspicious activity to law but the actual earning were much
t h e m t h a t i n c l u d e d t h e Zazi searched the internet for terrorism investigators about enforcement." worse, with a loss of $1.03.
specifications for the bombs used home improvement stores in bomb-making literature. • Global terrorism Continue reading KB Home
in the 2005 attacks on the London Queens, a New York borough, The New York Times reported • New York third quarter earnings preview
Underground and the attempt by and then looked to see if the store today that investigators were • United States KB Home third quarter earnings
the alleged "shoe bomber", s t o c k e d a n o t h e r e x p l o s i v e forced to move against Zazi Chris McGreal preview originally appeared on
Richard Reid, to blow up a c o m p o n e n t , m u r i a t i c a c i d . earlier than they had wished after guardian.co.uk© Guardian BloggingStocks on Thu, 24 Sep
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According to court papers, Zazi document, including information The arrests were followed by
"and others" travelled to Pakistan about heating bomb components warnings of possible attacks on

GE is in an uptrend
By Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 3:00:00 PM
Filed under: General Electric
(GE), Stocks to Buy If you agree
that technical analysis can provide
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16 World/ Finance/ Gadgets/ Internet News Record

Germany's parties pursue vital grey vote

By Kate Connolly (World news ignore the fact that there are 20 the initiative of Germany's most Tellingly no one in his party has
and comment from the million of us," said Albrecht, powerful senior citizen lobbyist, sought to defend him.
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) adding that like 85% of her age Ulrike Mascher, president of the Finance minister Peer
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:18:54 AM group (compared with a national biggest pensioners' union, which Steinbrück, of the Social
average of 78%) she felt it was with 1.4 million members, boasts Democrats (SPD), also attracted
Sitting under a hot dryer during a her "sacred duty" to vote. more than all the Bundestag criticism when he warned that
weekly trip to the hair salon, Otto Wulff, chairman of the parties combined. "Dear pension rises were sending the
Gisele Albrecht readily outed Senior Union, the senior citizens' politicians, you can be sure we wrong signal and could isolate
herself as an Angela Merkel fan. wing of Merkel's Christian will continue to pester you," she younger voters. Viliv S10 Blade
" D i d y o u s e e h e r c h e e k y Democratic Union (CDU), said said at a recent gathering of Polls show only 8% of 18- to 24
campaign ad?" said the 78-year- that in Germany "you now have pensioners and politicians in -year-olds now support the CDU, netvertible
old, patting the pins that were no chance of winning an election Allersberg, Bavaria, having and only 9% the SPD as they drift
digging into her scalp. She was if you go against the will of senior
referring to a poster that is citizens".
complained that a recent 2.4%
pension increase for most was
towards fringe parties or refuse to
vote. "The current pensioner
hands-on at IDF
spanning the length of an eight- The result has been an election "not even enough to buy a cup of generation has never had it so By Nilay Patel (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 3:34:00 PM
lane road in Berlin, on which a campaign which has been tailored coffee and a piece of apple good," Steinbrück said. "The ones
beaming German chancellor to the interests of the older voter. strudel". who will feel the pinch are the 25-
Viliv has one of the best-looking
states: "I still learn something new P e n s i o n s , s o c i a l s e r v i c e s , But critics argue that doing to 35-year-olds who want to startconvertible tablets we've ever
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hairstyle can be." dominated the agenda, while a huge mistake at a time when better care of them". Blade. It's actually quite striking
It is a reference to the time politicians have canvassed in unemployment is on the rise and Merkel is widely expected to in person -- it's thin and light,
when stylists shaped the German places frequented by over-60s public finances are in a mess, and secure re-election in Sunday's while still offering a convertible
chancellor's pudding bowl cut into such as allotments, retirement the birth rate is now so low that vote, but the big question is touchscreen and a decent
a more flattering form. And it has homes, and spas funded by state by 2040 German pensioners will whether she will be able to form a
keyboard. Sadly the version
struck a chord with Albrecht and health insurers. Interviews have outnumber workers by three to new centre-right coalition or will
pictured here has a pretty slow
other pensioners in the salon in been given to seemingly obscure two. have to form a "grand coalition" single-touch resistive touchscreen
north Berlin. publications such as Caravan Yet Jens Spahn discovered the with her party's traditional rivals,
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60, never has there been such a Before the summer recess grey lobby, who he dared to say • Germany November for around $570, but
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precisely the type of voters the rushed through legislation that money. Since then the 29-year-old guardian.co.uk© Guardian resistive model will hit early next
mainstream parties have been will guarantee pension levels even CDU politician has received more News & Media Limited 2009 | year with Windows 7 Home
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By John Jagerson markets can also be very volatile Continue reading Oil and gold on
(BloggingStocks) as oil and gold traders are finding drop fast as the dollar gains Filed under: Laptops
Submitted at 9/24/2009 3:20:00 PM out this week. Oil and gold drop fast as the Viliv S10 Blade netvertible
Oil inventories are up (not good dollar gains originally appeared hands-on at IDF originally
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Commodities in general and oil refineries is down, which has put Sep 2009 15:20:00 EST. Please Sep 2009 15:34:00 EST. Please
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Senate Says Amateur
China remains opposed to Iran sanctions Journalists Don't
Deserve Shield
By Julian Borger (World news that sanctions and exerting the permanent five states and peaceful era," Brown said. " And
and comment from the pressure are not the way to solve Germany, the group of countries as evidence of its breach of Protection
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) problems and are not conducive that handles nuclear negotiations international agreements grows,
for the current diplomatic efforts with Iran. we must now consider far tougher By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:24:05 PM
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:08:00 PM
on the [Iran] nuclear issue," That meeting agreed to a joint sanctions together."
Brown, Obama and Sarkozy call spokeswoman Jiang Yu said. text, threatening Iran only with Nicolas Sarkozy delivered an
for tough sanctions on Iran if it China has historically sought to further, undefined, "steps" if it did impassioned address in which he Congress has been working on a
continues to reject uranium a v o i d b e i n g i s o l a t e d not compromise on uranium lambasted Iran for defying the federal "shield" law that that
enrichment compromise diplomatically, particularly enrichment. Russia and China United Nations over its nuclear allows journalists to protect their
China emerged today among the five permanent wanted all the officials there to programme. sources. This is an important
maintained its opposition to members of the security council. stick to the text and not to give "There comes a time when concept, and many states already
f u r t h e r s a n c t i o n s o n I r a n , Western diplomats had assumed their own interpretations in stubborn facts will compel us to have local laws on that front.
disrupting western attempts to that once they had convinced public. take a decision if we want a world Unfortunately, as the Senate was
present a united front to Tehran at Russia to agree to sanctions, China is anxious not to disrupt without nuclear weapons," working on its version of the bill,
a critical meeting next week. China would follow, or at least future oil supplies from Iran, and Sarkozy told the security council. it's apparently decided that the
Barack Obama, Gordon Brown abstain. the Financial Times today • United Nations law should only apply to
and Nicolas Sarkozy all used their Western officials at the UN reported that Chinese state • China professional journalists who make
speeches to the UN security general assembly today said it companies had this month started • Iran their living that way. If you
c o u n c i l s e s s i o n o n n u c l e a r was unclear how deep China's selling petrol to Iran. Iran is • Barack Obama happen to just write a blog post
w e a p o n s t o c a l l f o r t o u g h opposition was. Some suggested dependent on such supplies at it • Gordon Brown that exposes some sort of wrong,
sanctions on Iran if it continues to that the foreign ministry might be has very limited oil refining • France you'll have no shield protections.
reject compromise on its uranium following the current party line, capacity, and its petrol imports are • Nuclear weapons Or if you write for a participatory
enrichment programme at the which may yet be reconsidered by seen in western capitals as a • Nicolas Sarkozy media site and blow a whistle,
meeting in Geneva on 1 October. t h e l e a d e r s h i p b e f o r e n e x t possible target for sanctions. • Hillary Clinton again, you'll have no shield
They had been encouraged by Thursday's meeting with Iranian At today's security council • Russia protection for your sources. While
the statement the day before by officials. meeting, both Brown and Sarkozy • US foreign policy not all that surprising (do you
the Russian president Dmitry The foreign ministry statement used strong language to call for • United States really think our Senators
Medvedev, who said that could also reflect Chinese action on Iran. Julian Borger understand the value of
sanctions were seldom productive irritation at Hillary Clinton and "Today, I believe we have to guardian.co.uk© Guardian participatory journalism), it's still
but sometimes "inevitable". David Miliband, who both made draw a line in the sand. Iran must News & Media Limited 2009 | disappointing.
However, China's foreign public statements last night about not allow its actions to prevent the Use of this content is subject to Permalink| Comments| Email
ministry maintained its opposition the threat of sanctions after a international community from our Terms & Conditions| More This Story
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Note to Apple: Please Put This in the iPhone, Now [IPhone]

By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo) -phone.ch and we will consider
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:40:00 PM you early access to the
programme.
I need SmartScreen in my information in my iPhone without Motoblur in the new Motorola publish an SDK for it: I'm looking forward to the
iPhone, an application that allows having to access the applications Cliq. A SmartScreen SDK will be widgets people can come up with.
you to place Dashboard-like themselves. Calendar, Twitter, Sadly, it won't be available from a v a i l a b l e t o e v e r y o n e i n I just hope SmartScreen doesn't
widgets on the lock screen, so you weather, Facebook updates... the Apple iTunes Store: It November 2009 but widget require me to paint my nails with
can quickly access small pills of widgets that will only display data requires to jailbreak your phone. developers are being selected to glitter in order to use it. I like my
information quickly without and, with one click, go straight to However, it's completely worth participate in a Beta programme, current fluorescent green, thank
having to get into applications. the app itself to do an action. That the effort, especially if they if you feel you could participate you very much. [ Media Phone]
Smart, smooth, and oh-so-nice. will allow the iPhone to have a include some useful widgets with and would like to produce
I don't know about you, but I customized front end like the it. The developer is going to widgets, please email dev@media
wish I could have access to bits of
18 World/ Gadgets/ Internet News Record

Pride and joy, or a waste of money?

By David Smith (World news On a rubbish-strewn path below, South Africa, said: "All cities going through a profound crisis.
and comment from the impoverished residents endure need signatures, but in Dakar we Our economy is dying. People are
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) incessant power blackouts and have had only monuments which struggling to eat. We should be
flooding. For some, the situation existed during colonisation. spending money helping people
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:30:14 AM
is so desperate that they risk their Africa needs its own great survive." No, Microsoft
Its advocates describe it as lives crossing the sea on flimsy monuments like the Eiffel tower Others are ambivalent. George
Africa's long-overdue answer to wooden boats bound for Europe. and the Statue of Liberty. This Ajjan, an American political will not buy EA.
the Eiffel tower or Statue of The statue shows a muscular symbol of African renaissance analyst in Dakar, said: "I pass that
Liberty. Its detractors call it an m a n i n a h e r o i c p o s t u r e , will motivate people to statue at least once a day, and Just sayin’.
ugly £17m monument to hubris in outstretched arms wrapped around rehabilitate and work with more often than not, the taxi By Nicholas Deleon
a country that can ill afford his wife and child. Nearly 50 Africa." driver accompanying me makes a (CrunchGear)
grandiose gestures. North Korean workers were He added that the site has snide remark about what a waste Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:10:52 PM
The 49 metre bronze statue, on a brought in to build it, because of exhibition, multimedia and of money it is in a country where
hilltop overlooking the Atlantic in their expertise with bronze art, conference rooms, as well as a top many people struggle to eat. Where did this rumor that
Dakar, Senegal, has provoked a n d s o m e S e n e g a l e s e h a v e -floor viewing platform giving a "But for tourist purposes, the Microsoft wanted to buy EA
debate about the role of public art complained of its communist-era bird's eye view of Dakar. "It will statue is well-placed, because start? You know what, it doesn’t
and whether it represents an design. It has also drawn criticism be a cultural place. Around the travellers journeying from the matter where it started, because
inspiration or an insult to the poor from Muslims, who make up 94% monument there will be a theatre current airport and chic area near it’s not true. No, Microsoft has no
suffering in its shadow. of Senegal's population, because and shops. Many tourists will visit the beach to downtown Dakar plans to buy EA, so don’t sweat
The towering structure, of Islamic prohibitions on there, so the economic effects will pass right below it on well-paved, the technique ($1 if you get that
d e p i c t i n g a f a m i l y r i s i n g representations of the human benefit the population." well-maintained roads that hug reference).
triumphantly from a volcano, is form. But the president has sparked the coastline. So despite being a One of Microsoft’s corporate
intended to symbolise Africa's Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal's anger by maintaining that he is boondoggle, it could make a heck vice-presidents told this to
renaissance and prove that the octogenarian president, has entitled to 35% of any tourist of a first impression for a visitor Reuters:
continent can build its own compared the work to some of the revenues it generates, because he upon arriving in Senegal." David We have no plans to acquire
m o n u m e n t s t o r i v a l t h o s e west's best-known landmarks, and owns the "intellectual rights". Smith EA. They remain a very important
b e q u e a t h e d b y E u r o p e a n some Senegalese do regard it as a Critics say the £17m could have guardian.co.uk© Guardian partner to us. No acquisitions
colonialists. symbol of pride that has economic been used for more pressing News & Media Limited 2009 | Besides, you know if Microsoft
C r i t i c s r e g a r d i t r a t h e r spin-offs. concerns. Djiby Diakhate, a Use of this content is subject to bought EA it’d screw it up, just
differently, as Africa's latest Alassane Cisse, a Senegalese sociologist at Dakar's Cheikh our Terms & Conditions| More like when it bought Rare back in
lavish expression of presidential delegate at the world summit on Anta Diop university, told the Feeds the day. How well did that turn
ego at the expense of the people. arts and culture in Johannesburg, Associated Press: "Senegal is out? Not as well as people had
hoped, that’s for sure. Plus, I’m
Don’t look now, but the Fonera2n router is now available sure Sony wouldn’t want to lose
Madden and FIFA to Microsoft
By Nicholas Deleon U.S.. The big thing is that it works new one costs $99—on the overnight. Those titles are too big
(CrunchGear) with 802.11n. I guess that’s what condition that you share your to just let go.
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:30:07 PM the “n” is for. Internet connection with other
As the fun little pic shows, the Fonera users, thus building a mini
The Fonera name doesn’t really router has built-in clients for a Fonera Internet. Sorta. You know
mean much here in the U S of A, couple of popular Web sites, like what I mean. Again, I haven’t
but it’s a little more popular in YouTube and Facebook. That seen too many of these here in the
Europe. (I know I occasionally means if you have the router U.S., but, for example, I’ve never
ran into Fonera Wi-Fi networks in connected to a netbook, your been to tech-crazy San Francisco
Barcelona last year, and I had netbook could be totally turned in my life. Maybe it’s big out
never seen one in Manhattan or off and you’d still be able to What the heck is Fonera, you there?
Queens in New York.) In any upload content to YouTube and ask? It’s a company that’ll sell
event, Fon has, indeed, released Facebook. Why you’d need to do you a router on the cheap—this
the Fonera 2n router here in the that, I don’t know.
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Germany's federal election: The final furlong

(The Economist: News candidate is cornered by a woman “personalised proportional to her; the ex-communist Left
analysis) clutching a small dog who wants representation” people in each Party is mainly pursuing second
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:32:20 AM to know if the CDU will let state have two votes. With the votes. “When it is clear from the
nuclear power stations be built in first they choose representatives beginning that the losers in a
Germany's federal election the Black Forest. Ms Maag in some 299 geographical district can also get into
Sep 24th 2009 | STUTTGART reassures her. districts, including Stuttgart parliament you cannot talk of a Video: Intel's Light Peak
From The Economist print Voters are in an anxious mood. North. But it is the second personalised election,” complains
edition The voting system could Stuttgart North, one of two vote—for a party, not a a critic. running an HD display
have a decisive effect on the electoral districts in Baden- person—that is more important. It A quirk in the system could cast while transferring files...
election in Germany Württemberg’s capital, is a allocates the rest of the seats to doubt over the poll’s overall on a hackintosh
AMONG the candidates relatively poor area in a rich state. candidates drawn from party lists, fairness. If a party wins more
contesting the Stuttgart North It makes engines for Mercedes- topping up the totals to make districts in a state than the number By Nilay Patel (Engadget)
constituency in Germany’s federal Benz and car parts for Bosch. But them match the parties’ shares of of seats it ought to get according Submitted at 9/24/2009 2:36:00 PM
election on September 27th, Karin t h e w e l l - p a i d w o r k e r s a r e second votes. to its share of second votes, it
M a a g , o f t h e C h r i s t i a n outnumbered by poorer craftsmen, Under this system the keeps these “overhang seats”. Intel just did a pretty impressive
Democratic Union(CDU), is shopkeepers and office workers, Bundestag is meant both to link This could happen in Baden- demo of its new Light Peak
unique: she could win, but she many of them immigrants. In a voters’ to a local representative Württemberg. The constitutional optical device interconnect,
might also lose. In contrast, the recession they suffer first: rather and to reflect their overall court has demanded changes to driving a greater-than-HD display
fate of the other candidates looks t h a n s a c k i n g w o r k e r s , b i g political preferences. The reality this part of the electoral law by while saturating an SSD RAID all
certain. Even if defeated, three of companies are cutting purchases is messier. Uta Kumpf has won 2011. But this weekend, the CDU over one cable, but we couldn't
her four main competitors are from suppliers. “Everyone is Stuttgart North three times and could win as many as 20 overhang help but notice the monster
likely to re-enter the Bundestag worried about his job”, says Fatih expects to do so again. But if she seats, which might be enough to Frankenstein test rig on stage was
because they have high spots on Soylu, owner of the Café In near loses to Ms Maag she will still tip the balance away from a running OS X -- looks like
their party lists. The fourth, t h e M e r c e d e s f a c t o r y i n return to the Bundestag thanks to renewed grand coalition and someone's violating their EULA!
Marion Hess of the Free Untertürkheim. her number seven ranking on the towards a CDU-FDP coalition. Video after the break.
Democratic Party(FDP) has little Ms Maag’s bid to unseat SPD list. Ms Maag, probably too These are not “second-class Continue reading Video: Intel's
hope: she is low on her party list. S t u t t g a r t N o r t h ’ s S P D far down the CDU list to be seats”, Ms Merkel insists. But Light Peak running an HD display
Ms Maag, on her maiden representative in the Bundestag elected this way, says she is some of her opponents disagree. while transferring files... on a
campaign, gives herself an even strikes few sparks in part because fighting harder. Not so, counters Jürgen Trittin, a senior Green, has hackintosh
chance of winning Stuttgart the CDU and SPD are partners in Ms Kumpf. She still rises at dawn muttered darkly about her Filed under: Peripherals
North, which the CDU lost G e r m a n y ’ s p r e s e n t “ g r a n d to hand out leaflets. And as a governing with an “underhanded, Video: Intel's Light Peak
narrowly to the Social Democratic coalition”. The CDU wants to end district representative, she reckons unconstitutional majority”. After running an HD display while
Party(SPD) in 2005. But the air t h a t a w k w a r d m a r r i a g e o n to have more independence than election day, that rhetoric might transferring files... on a
hardly crackles with suspense at a September 27th. Angela Merkel, do those who get in only through come to seem mild. hackintosh originally appeared on
forlorn information stand she has who looks likely to be re-elected the party list. Back to top ^^ Readers' Engadget on Thu, 24 Sep 2009
s e t u p a t t h e G r i e g s t r a s s e as chancellor, would prefer to The incentive to fight for first comments 14:36:00 EST. Please see our
Shopping Centre in Botnang, a govern with the liberal FDP. But votes is weaker for candidates The Economist welcomes your terms for use of feeds. Permalink|
p r o s p e r o u s , C D U - f r i e n d l y if she fails, the two biggest parties from the three smaller parties, views. Email this| Comments
neighbourhood. She and her are likely to have to rule together since they almost never win
young retinue outnumber the few again. districts. Ms Kumpf says the
passers-by, most of whom dodge The electoral system itself is Green Party is informally nudging
the proffered pamphlets. The p a r t l y a t f a u l t . U n d e r supporters to give their first votes
Butterflies Use Antenna GPS to Guide Migration
By Hadley Leggett (Wired Top hour molecular clock that guides turns out the circadian clock is such as ants and bees, who may
Stories) monarch butterflies on their located in the insects' antennae. also use antennae clocks to guide
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:19:00 AM annual 2,000-mile migration Biologists say this surprising their movements.
south. But instead of being in the finding will change how they look
Scientists finally locate the 24- brain where everyone expected, it at the antennae of other insects,
20 Economy/ Gadgets/
AIDS vaccines: Double, not quits
(The Economist: News
analysis)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:46:56 AM
AIDS vaccines
Sep 24th 2009
From Economist.com A big
AIDS-vaccine trial reports
encouraging results
SOME good news about AIDS.
After more than two decades of
research those labouring to find a
vaccine against HIV, the virus
that causes the disease, have
found a method that might
actually work.
This method, known as “prime-
boost”, has been tested on more
than 16,000 volunteers in
Thailand. The volunteers were
drawn from the general public,
rather than specifically from
groups at particular risk such as
gay men, recreational-drug
injectors or prostitutes. The
preliminary results of the trial,
which was called RV144 and was
organised by Thailand’s Ministry
of Public Health, were announced
on Thursday September 24th.
The upshot is that the technique
on trial seems to reduce the risk of
an uninfected individual
contacting the virus by about
31%. That is below the 50%
reduction rate defined as showing
“unequivocal clinical benefit”,
and the margin of error is wide, so
it does not suggest that the
experimental vaccine should now
be deployed for general use. It is,
Microsoft Opening Windows Cafe In Paris [Microsoft]
By Sean Fallon (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:20:00 PM
How do you get the French
excited about Windows 7?
Apparently, the sales pitch goes
however, enough to justify putting
effort into improving this
approach.
Traditional vaccines work
mainly by priming the immune
system so that it knows how to
make antibodies to a particular
infectious agent. Antibodies are
proteins that stick onto a pathogen
and gum up its works. The active
principle of the vaccine, known as
an antigen, is the bit of the
pathogen that the immune system
recognises and that the antibody
sticks on. Prime-boost techniques,
which are also being developed to
attack malaria, work mainly by
stimulating another part of the
immune system—one that kills
infected body cells rather than
“naked” pathogens. This cell-
killing system, too, recognises
antigens, but it finds them on the
surface of an infected cell.
The experimental evidence
suggests that a particularly good
way of activating the cell-killing
arm of the immune system is to
use two vaccines based on
different antigens. One primes the
response and the other boosts
it—hence the technique’s name.
In the case of RV144 the boosting
vaccine, AIDSVAX, had been the
subject of a previous trial in
Thailand, and also of one in North
America and Europe. Those two
trials, intended to raise a
traditional antibody-based
response, were regarded at the
time as the best hope for an
down better with some coffee and
pastry. That's why they're building
a full-on cafe in the heart of Paris
(47 Boulevard Sebastopol).
The cafe will open for a few P a t r o n s w i l l b e t r e a t e d t o ,
weeks starting on October 22nd.
effective vaccine. They were a
bitter disappointment. When they
reported in 2003 they showed no
benefit whatsoever. They did,
however, show that AIDSVAX
was safe, and although it was
abandoned by its commercial
backers at the time, it was picked
up by a Californian charity called
Global Solutions for Infectious
Diseases.
The antigen in AIDSVAX is a
genetically engineered version of
gp120, a protein that HIV uses to
lock onto the cells it subsequently
infects. By contrast the priming
vaccine, called ALVAC and made
by Sanofi Pasteur, a French firm,
contains synthetic versions of
three HIV genes. It, too, had been
tested for safety in previous trials,
but none of those trials were
designed to see if it was also
efficacious. Unlike AIDSVAX,
ALVAC is made of highly
engineered viruses into which the
antigenic genes have been
incorporated. These viruses are
versions of canarypox, which is
nothing like HIV (so there is no
risk of someone contracting AIDS
from them) and, in any case, they
have been tinkered with so that
they cannot reproduce. A full
course of the RV144 regime
lasted six months and consisted of
four shots of ALVAC and two of
AIDSVAX.
One criticism of RV144 is that
the versions of the antigens it used
came from subtypes B and E of
HIV. These are the most common
forms in, respectively, North
America and Europe, and in South
-East Asia (including Thailand).
Given where the trial was carried
out, that makes sense. But the
place crying out for a vaccine is
sub-Saharan Africa, where two-
thirds of the world’s HIV-infected
people live, and two-thirds of new
infections are happening. This
continent, the place where HIV
originated, has the greatest variety
of subtypes. Subtypes B and E,
though, are not common there.
There is also some doubt about
how much actual boosting is
going on. AIDSVAX, after all,
failed the first time round and
since ALVAC has, until now,
been tested only for safety and not
for efficacy, how well it would
work by itself (and thus how
much contribution the AIDSVAX
is making) remains unknown.
But these are minor quibbles
about what was intended as an
experimental proof of principle.
The RV144 trial suggests that an
AIDS vaccine can indeed work in
principle. Now it is time to get
down to the nitty-gritty of making
it work in practice.
Back to top ^^ Readers'
comments
The Economist welcomes your
views.
well...treats along with the they get a cafe. Do you think the
opportunity to play around with cafe concept would fly in the
various M i c r o s o f t States? [ TechCrunch]
products—although nothing but
food will actually be sold there.
So we get Microsoft stores and
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Intel Atom CE4100
Is a Beast of a
Media Chip [Intel]
By Dan Nosowitz (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:50:53 AM
Here at IDF, Intel introduced the
Atom CE4100 media chip, which
is likely coming to set-top boxes
and Blu-Ray players. It's got some
serious power: We're talking
simultaneous decoding of two
1080p streams, 3D rendering and
more.
The Atom CE4100 is pretty
similar to the CE3100, except it
replaces the CE3100's Pentium M
core with an Atom core (hence the
name change). It also supports
MPEG-4 and can actually capture
uncompressed 1080p video, not to
mention support for every high-
end audio codec you can think of.
We don't know for sure where the
CE4100 is headed, but it's a fair
chance that we'll see it popped
into high-end DVRs and media
streamers at some point soon.
[Image from Softsailor]
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USDA Subprime
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 9:05:28 AM
Stare at wall...
Look at computer screen....Stare
back at the wall...Shake head
slowly...
I don't even have the words.
Via BusinessWeek, not the
Onion.com(emphasis mine):
• Builders and lenders are
dusting off a familiar pitch:
mortgages with $0 down and
100% financing. The deals, which
take advantage of a little-known
loan program at the U.S.
Agriculture Dept., are bolstering
sales in some areas. These new
mortgages share some
characteristics with the old ones
now wreaking havoc on the
housing market—and critics fear
lending standards could slip.
• Says Daniel Oppenheimer, an
analyst with Credit Suisse:
"Unlike beef, these loans should
be described as USDA subprime."
• In the grand scheme of the
$1.89 trillion residential real
estate market, the USDA
program—founded in 1949 to
spur home sales and development
in rural areas—is still a blip. But
since the financial crisis, the
program has exploded in size.
• The result: The number of
home loans guaranteed by the
USDA swelled to nearly 120,000
in the first nine months of 2009,
Plea Deal Clears Intelligence Analyst of Felony
Hacking
By Kevin Poulsen (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 10:07:00 AM
A federal intelligence analyst
pleads to a misdemeanor charge,
up from roughly 35,000 in all of
2007.
• Given the rampant
development during the boom,
many communities where the
USDA loans are available aren't
technically "rural" anymore—and
include exurbs near big cities.
• The government-backed loan
program is buoying builders and
lenders. (and why not - money is
free) Analysts say federal loans,
including those guaranteed by the
USDA, accounted for 64% of
sales at builder D.R. Horton (
DHI) in the latest quarter. In Port
St. Lucie, Fla.—a coastal town
littered with foreclosures and
empty subdivisions—roughly one
in five mortgages is coming
through the Agriculture Dept.,
according to local industry
players. "Everyone is fighting for
every little sale they can get, and
the USDA financing is a huge
opportunity," says Jim Belfiore,
president of Belfiore Real Estate
Consulting in Phoenix.
• Housing experts question the
wisdom of 100% financing for
any borrower.
You think? I mean, having "no
skin in the game" worked out well
the last time.
• Similar questionable lending
decisions during the housing
boom lie at the root of many
distressed properties today. In the
current environment the
mortgages are particularly
allowing him to dodge felony
hacking charges for poking
around in system being used in a
terrorism investigation.
problematic since prices continue
to fall in the areas where the
Agriculture Dept. loans have
proliferated. In one such place,
Menifee, Calif., record
foreclosures continue to depress
home values. For owners, falling
prices and no equity in their
homes have proven a toxic
combination, especially when
they try to sell.
• A similar program run by the
Federal Housing Administration
has experienced a significant
uptick in fraud since the agency's
share of the market ballooned this
year."Some people have cleverly
figured out this [USDA program]
is the way to target a good chunk
of people," says Michael R.
Widner, an analyst at Stifel
Nicolaus Equity Research. "The
question is, do they have the
capacity to handle it? If you are
getting massive growth, you are
probably getting a good number
of the wrong people."
Anecdotal example:
• Ashley-Gayle Boothe and her
husband Scott have applied for a
USDA-backed loan to buy their
first home, a three-bedroom house
30 minutes north of Tampa, for
$127,500. "We didn't want to put
anything down," says Ashley-
Gayle Boothe. "We figured we'd
have to buy appliances."
Translation: What a trip! I
thought I missed the great times
of 2003-2006 where money was
Logitech Racing Wheel Will Thrill Armchair
Andrettis
By Terrence Russell (Wired
Top Stories)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 10:00:00 AM
If you want the feeling of driving
a Ferrari without ever leaving
Economy/ Tech/ Tech News/
free and mortgages were crazy.
But the answer to any problem in
the country is to repeat the root
causes, but only bigger. This is
even better than renting where I'd
at least have to come up with a
security deposit - how unfair!
Buying a home in America is
even cheaper than renting! Thank
you government! When this
mortgage goes bad on the back
end circa 2012 we'll just have the
taxpayers pay for it. We can
probably get away with at least 18
months of no payments in 2011-
2012 before they kick us out of
our underwater foreclosure - that's
another cost savings versus
renting! Now let's get some
appliances charged on our VISA
card since we have no money to
actually put into a down payment.
Yeaaah!!!!
Oh yeah, one more thing: if we
lose our job, it sure looks like the
government will pay for that too!
Awesome!
I don't know where it ends.
No.... I do know where it ends - at
some point the government will
be buying the whole house for us.
Give it 10-15 years. Until then, I
just continue to blink rapidly as I
stare at this wall and chastise
myself for ever disconnecting
from the Matrix.
your house, the Logitech G27
racing wheel and a copy of Need
for Speed just might be your best
bet.
21
Found footage:
Dashboard for iPhone
on your lock screen
By Erica Sadun (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:30:00 PM
Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch,
Jailbreak/pwnage
Why didn't Apple think of this?
SmartScreen lets you add widgets
to your iPhone lock screen,
providing an interactive
dashboard experience whenever
you wake up your device. The
software is jailbreak-only (as
you'd probably expect, given its
standard system-defying
functionality) and will be
launched in November 2009.
Widget developers are currently
being accepted to an invitation-
only beta program. Details for the
beta program and the SmartScreen
product are available at the media
-phone web site.
Yes, this isn't the only lock-
screen information system out
there. Intelliscreen and LockInfo
provide calendar and email
updates. At the same time,
SmartScreen offers a fresh new
approach that's a worthy
alternative. I really like the visual
flair and paged presentation, and
the ability to move widgets
around via direct interaction.
[ Thanks, pytey and Steve
Streza]
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Climate change and the UN: Nice words Obama Administration:

(The Economist: News rapid climate change, urging the 175m hectares, of Chinese land is about climate change, he has a
analysis) world to act “boldly, swiftly and forested today; the government limited ability to enforce new New State Secrets Rules
Submitted at 9/23/2009 1:02:49 AM together” to avert an “irreversible wants to see another 40m hectares policies. He has the power to do = Really, You Can Trust
catastrophe”. But he offered little added by 2020. China is now the some things by executive
Climate change and the UN that was practical or specific, world’s biggest greenhouse-gas decision, and has done so with Us
Sep 23rd 2009 | NEW YORK beyond noting that America emitter, and its emissions are efficiency standards on light bulbs By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
From Economist.com Leaders w o u l d s t a r t m e a s u r i n g i t s rising rapidly as its economy and cars. And a 2007 court Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:11:52 PM
offer little of substance at the greenhouse-gas emissions more grows. Mr Hu wants to show the decision has ruled that the
latest climate change gathering in exactly, to better assess what world that he is taking concerns Environmental Protection Agency So, we keep seeing more of what
New York progress is being made. He struck about the climate seriously. can directly regulate greenhouse- the promised "transparency" of
JUST over 70 days to go and an urgent tone but there was little However the Chinese president gas emissions which are the Obama administration means
there is miserably little progress punch to the speech. A spokesman did not offer hard targets on the considered an “endangerment”, a in real terms. Despite
yet. The outlook for the global f o r O x f a m , a n a i d a g e n c y , main issue, carbon intensity, only power that Mr Obama has campaigning against warrantless
summit on climate change to be responded ruefully that someone promising a reduction by a threatened to use. But all sides in wiretapping, the administration
held in Copenhagen in December had “switched the coffee to decaf “notable amount”. As long as America agree that legislation has come out with new rules for
is uncertain. The current version at today’s UN climate summit”. China continues to add coal-fired would be more comprehensive how it will use the "state secrets"
of the draft outcome document for To some extent Mr Obama was power at an alarming rate, Mr than an executive order. privilege that amount to "no,
the meeting is hundreds of pages upstaged by China’s president, Hu Hu’s promises will not satisfy But the slow progress of the bill really, we'll only use it when we
long, with thousands of passages Jintao, who at least offered some those who worry that global through Congress has foreign need to... just trust us" and
in brackets representing points of specific details of steps that his carbon emissions are growing too partners running out of patience continued to insist that evidence
disagreement. Climate-watchers country is taking. He described quickly. Nor is his speech likely with the excuse that the health- over warrantless wiretapping
are steadily lowering their how, in China’s five-year to be enough to convince sceptics care bill must come first, or that should be tossed out for state
expectations. They had hoped that economic plan from 2006-2010, in America’s Congress who want Congress really is complex. secrets reasons. And it's left up to
activities this week in New York, the country has set itself targets of China to commit to hard targets America must move at the same a former comedian, now politician
scheduled around the UN General energy intensity—the energy before—or at least at the same time as other economies, rich and to remind the Justice Department
Assembly, might move things required to produce a unit of time as—America does. poor alike, a dilemma Scott of the Fourth Amendment? The
forward. So far there is little to GDP. Mr Hu says that China will The cap-and-trade bill in Barrett, an economist at Columbia "just trust us, we won't abuse the
cheer. go further in the coming years, by Congress offers a target that many University, calls the “biggest system" justification isn't
A speech by Barack Obama on trying to cut the carbon emissions Europeans consider to be collective-action problem in particularly comforting, especially
Tuesday September 22nd was per dollar of GDP produced, for weak—a 17% reduction in human history”. The lack of pace when that clause is being used to
e a g e r l y a w a i t e d . H e example by developing renewable emissions on 2005 levels by 2020. of cap-and-trade in the Senate is cover up what is almost certainly
acknowledged t h a t and nuclear energy. “We will But even that is imperilled by an ominous sign. illegal activity by the federal
America—which failed to ratify endeavour to increase the share of almost total Republican Back to top ^^ Readers' government.
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e m i s s i o n s o f g r e e n h o u s e 2020”, he said. He also touted vulnerable electoral districts. views.
gases—has some catching up to plans to extend an existing Whatever Mr Obama’s personal
do. He made clear the dangers of reforestation programme: 18%, or commitment to doing something

Firefighter Boots Leave Goopy, Glowing Trail of Firefly Carcasses [Concepts]

By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:40:00 AM
I can't pretend to have
experienced the danger of
firefighting first-hand, but it
seems like losing a partner while a
burning building crumbles around
you is a very real possibility. And
these boots, while just a concept, scenario sounds fantastic.) lot of fun...especially if you can
might help. Maybe these boots would help buy em in an men's size 12 and
Loaded with a mysterious, firefighters, and maybe they the liquid permanently stains
unnamed glowing substance (one wouldn't (firefighters in the carpets. [ Yanko Design via
can only assume hordes of ground audience, please share your ubergizmo]
-up lightning bugs), the shoes thoughts). But as some sort of
leave a simple footprint trail that child's toy involving special
can be tracked in case of sudden would be more sticky than goggles, Nerf darts and booby
panic. (We're assuming this goop slippery, though honestly, neither traps, the glow boots sound like a
Internet News Record
Bank Products: A Eulogy for Vanilla
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:38:14 PM
I was at a dinner party with some
friends a few weeks ago, and the
topic of credit cards came up. One
friend talked about how she had
just realized she had been paying
for “credit card insurance.” What
is that? If she died, her balance
would be paid off. She is a 24
year old law student, who doesn’t
carry a balance and has no
dependents – it didn’t seem like it
was a great value for her. She had
to jump through some paperwork
to get it turned off, and ultimately
did, but for a few months there
her credit card company was
earning fees off something their
customers didn’t want.
The funny and sad part is that
we all had these stories (what are
yours?). I had “unemployment
insurance” on my checking
account, where I’d get like two
months salary if I was laid off – or
something, the terms seemed so
off for what I wanted (I was 22), I
also shut it off after a few months
of paying fees for it. The table
was a collection of very well
educated people who work in new
economy jobs and lead upper-
middle class with no families, so
we could chuckle at the fact that
the companies that provide us
financial services were able to
“get us” for maybe a couple
hundred bucks, and felt a pang of
Artist Creates 'New Yorker' Cover With iPhone App
By Wired.com Video
Department (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:00:00 PM
Jorge Colombo draws the June 1
sadness and guilt about what that
difference would mean if we lived
paycheck to paycheck. The
question we asked ourselves was,
what do you do about it?
The answer is obvious: you
create a baseline, a vanilla option,
and then let consumers decide
what extra options they want to
have in addition to it. Credit card
insurance and unemployment
insurance is probably valuable for
someone, and that person would
be excited to pay extra fees to
have it. As Daniel Davies
famously said, good ideas do not
need lots of lies told about them
in order to gain public acceptance.
A corollary for innovation would
be that you shouldn’t need to trick
people into signing up for
something that is genuinely
innovative. Nobody was tricked
into the internet.
Creating an innovation market
The technical term for what this
is a “market”, and there’s no
reason to be afraid of it. Rather
than a creeping socialist plot, the
vanilla contract is actually
creating the conditions where
innovation could flourish, where
we could see consumers and
markets do what they do best –
express choices over what they
want to spend their money on,
what goods and services they
would like to bundle with their
default contracts, and have
businesses compete to provide
those services. Without it, we get
cover of 'The New Yorker' using (ETonline - Breaking News)
Brushes, an app for the iPhone, Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:02:00 AM
while standing for an hour outside
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
in Times Square. carpet in Hollywood!
“gotcha fees” and people become
cynical about what innovations in
consumer finance can actually
accomplish. You end up with
dinner parties of people trying to
come up with the best “I’ve been
had” story by businesses that
should be working overtime to
provide us with good services.
Our finance sector can do better
than that.
We need a vanilla option
Video: 'Fame' Hits Hollywood
Watch Now: 'Fame' hits the red
The stars of the film -- including
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because it is difficult to simply
not be part of the finance sphere
of our economy. If you don’t like
X, don’t buy it is more than
enough for many markets, but it is
very difficult to function without
a checking account or a credit
card in the greater economy. And
there are genuine informational
problems that exist at this level;
you want consumers to be able to
easily compare rates on products
Naturi Naughton and Asher Book-
- talk about the long road to the
big premiere, plus Kelsey
Grammer brings out his adorable
little girl to see the inspiring film.
"The world is going to love this
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across providers, because that is
how competition works.
So I’m disappointed to see that
the vanilla option has been
dropped.
At a hearing before the House
Financial Services Committee,
Treasury Secretary Timothy F.
Geithner announced that the
administration had dropped one
provision in its plan for a
consumer financial protection
agency — a requirement for
banks and other financial services
companies to offer “plain vanilla”
products, like 30-year fixed
mortgages and low-interest, low-
fee credit cards.
I don’t think it was ever
explained very well by anyone in
the administration, and perhaps I
should have done a better job
trying to explain how it is less
adversarial than it looked on first
examination. It is adversarial to
the current way things are done,
with massive profits coming from
providing services consumers
don’t want; and it is my fear that
those profits contribute so much
to the “safety and soundness” of
large banks, the Fed’s first
responsibility, that the Fed will
have zero interest in breaking this
terrible equilibrium financial
services have gotten themselves
into.
movie," Debbie Allen tells ET.
"We're going to start a whole new
generation of ... singers and
dancers. I couldn't be more
thrilled to be a part of this."
24 Economy/ Gadgets/ Tech Reviews/ Internet News Record
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One million PS3 Slims sold worldwide since its launch

By Nicholas Deleon
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:30:49 PM
Finally, actual PS3 Slim sales
numbers. Before all we had were
percentages—sales up 300
percent over last week, that type
of thing. Anyhow, Sony sold one
million PS3 Slims since its launch
back on September 1. That’s
worldwide, mind you. now did it? years in the wilderness. If the PSP
What does that mean? Well, for It also means that, um, THE Go sells well, expect to see article
one, and this is the most obvious, CONSOLE WAR isn’t really after article saying “Sony Is
is that the PS3 Slim is something over, the fact that nearly everyone Back.” They’d be right, but it’s
of a hit. It also does away with the on Planet Earth owns a Nintendo sorta predictable.
notion that people had “tuned Wii notwithstanding. Never mind Flickr
their back” on Sony’s little system that so many games are multi-
that could; it probably just means platform these days.
that, yeah, the PS3 was just too hundred and ninety-nine dollars I, for one, am reasonably
damn expensive for many people slight really did Sony no favors, pleased to see Sony finally get
in the PS2 userbase. That five things together, after three long
Internet News Record Economy/ Gadgets/ TV/ 25
Mr. Sub dad has a
Lloyds Banking Group Just May Be Able to Exit big surprise for his
Bank Bailout family
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
(Financial Sector and Stocks all,” he said. “£15bn of net (we record rights issue. A small cash UK Government and private
Submitted at 9/24/2009 3:25:00 PM
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) forecast £16bn including a £1bn call might be feasible. Yet it is shareholders.”
Submitted at 9/24/2009 9:17:59 AM termination fee to [the Treasury]) fanciful to believe that Lloyds West LB’s Neil Smith see the I'm not familiar with the
non-Government capital is likely could raise any equity without the bank as a “valuable UK franchise, Canadian sub shop chain Mr. Sub,
The prospect for Lloyds Banking to reduce Lloyds’s cost of funding APS, let alone any of the other if not spoiled by state aid
Group( LYG) escaping the UK substantially.” but their new commercial is rather
alternatives Mr Daniels seems so disposals,” but maintains a interesting. It features a husband
Goverment’s bank bailout scheme For those worried about whether keen to pursue.” Neutral rating pending resolution
have gotten a boost from a new Lloyds could raise the amount and wife who have several
The Scotsman reported that of the APS issue. children, and one night at dinner
r e s e a r c h r e p o r t o n t h e U K required, he added that a “£16bn most analysts think Lloyds will ING’s Andreas Mavrikakis also
banking sector from Execution capital raise is not a big ask the husband has a big
have to raise money to reduce the is taking a wait-and-see approach, announcement to make.
analyst Joseph Dickerson. because, if [the Treasury] takes up amount of assets in the APS, and maintaining a Hold status. “On
The Independent reports that its rights, the amount of capital Sure, it's a shocking
hence the government’s stake in normalised EPS we see up to announcement, but this guy is all
D i c k e r s o n i s s u e d a “ b u y ” needed from the market is the bank, but not exit it altogether. 100% upside in the long term and
recommendation on Lloyds, [around] £9bn”. ” about family values. I mean, the
“The idea of Lloyds exiting the more limited downside. However, entire family is at the dinner table
arguing that the bank would be FT Alphaville offers further APS is unlikely primarily because we believe LLOY will
better off without the asset analysis, adding that based on at the same time. You don't see
raising £15bn to £20bn isn’t a underperform short term that much nowadays.
protection scheme (APS), which Dickerson’s calculations “Lloyds viable option,” said Exane BNP especially if the plan works,
he said was a “sub-optimal way to would emerge with a fortress [via Adfreak]
Paribas analyst Ian Gordon. despite management’s signal that Filed under: Video,
recapitalise the sector and should balance sheet and a leverage Also bullish on Lloyds is UBS, impairments peaked in 1H09.”
be reconsidered”. Commercials, Reality-Free
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He hopes that the group opts for banks.” on Sep 8. Analyst John-Paul felt the most likely alternatives for
a rights issue instead, suggesting Comments
The FT’s Lex was skeptical on Crutchley argues that the bank is” Lloyds would be a renegotiation
that “banks with substantial Sep 18 about LLoyd’s chances of fundamentally an undervalued of the terms of GAPS and/or a
government ownership have a pulling off such a deal: company. ” reduction in the assets to be
higher cost of capital than those “Lloyds is thought to need at “On the basis of normalised covered by GAPS, in conjunction
that do not”. Reduced funding least £15bn-£20bn to avoid the earnings, around two years out, with a capital raising exercise,
costs would benefit the net APS altogether, maybe more. But we see Lloyds as worth around rather than a full withdrawal from
interest margin, which in turn that is a tall order. Even if it 180p-200p/share, making the the scheme.”
w o u l d b o o s t e a r n i n g s , M r raised £6bn by selling Scottish company worth around £80bn. In For the latest analyst comment
Dickerson explained. Widows and Clerical Medical, our view, the debate around the on Lloyds, see Alacra Street
“Lloyds has an opportunity to that would leave a shortfall of APS comes down to how this Pulse.
change this by not participating at £14bn – more than HSBC’s value is carved up between the

Updated iMac lineup rumored for near-term release

By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 3:01:00 PM
Do you know how old the
current iMac is? Half a year. Or
two years, if we're talking form
factors. In terms of major Apple
design overhauls, six months isn't
a very long time, but considering
that the all-important holiday
shopping season is about to kick
off, it follows logic to think that
Apple would update its most
consumer-facing Mac lineup in
preparation. AppleInsider seems
to have a pretty good read on a
purported refresh, noting that a
thinner chassis (predictable, but
appreciated) and all-around lower
prices are on tap. We're told that
the enclosures could closely
mimic the firm's new Cinema
Displays in terms of industrial
design, and while details on actual
specification changes are next to
nil, we are told that a few
amenities "not previously
available" would become so.
Who's down for throwing out wild
suppositions? (And no, Blu-ray
doesn't count.)
Filed under: Desktops
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SEC Charges BofA for Merrill Against the

Bonuses Securitization
(Financial Sector and Stocks bring additional charges against assets worth $118 billion
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:16:44 PM
BofA on the basis of evidence that
might develop in course of the
associated with the Merrill
takeover.
Contrarians
trial. This indicates that regulators This step was part of the bank’s (Financial Sector and Stocks securitized. Can that really
The US Securities and Exchange may draft civil fraud charges broader effort to loosen various Analysis from Seeking Alpha) suggest, as Jelveh says, that
C o m m i s s i o n ( S E C ) w i l l against top bank executives in the forms of government support. Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:29:05 AM securitization might not be to
aggressively pursue a trial against coming weeks. While the option was never used, blame for the decline in lending
Bank of America Corp.(BAC) for Bank of America, however, the government has argued that As Stacy-Marie Ishmael says, standards? If lending standards
allegedly misleading investors continues to defend itself by the bank benefited from the “there has been an outbreak of dropped at the same time as the
during the acquisition of Merrill proclaiming that disclosures on promise of protection.BofA has contrarian thinking on the links securitization rate soared, I’d say
Lynch & Co. late last year. The the Merrill deal met all legal been one of the largest between ratings, securitisation and there’s a strong correlation
SEC accused BofA of failing to requirements. The bank had beneficiaries of the federal bailout the mortgage market” of late. She between the two, and a pretty
disclose to shareholders that it had earlier agreed to pay a fine to program, receiving $45 billion points to a paper by Ronel Elul, good prima facie case for a causal
authorized Merrill to pay up to avoid legal hassles with the SEC from a total of the $700 billion. while Zubin Jelveh, who has been relationship too.
$ 5 . 8 b i l l i o n i n b o n u s e s t o at a time of market uncertainty. Bank of America did overpay following the contrarian line for a At heart, it all comes down to
employees in 2008 even after it The SEC lawsuit comes as an for Merrill but the deal makes while now, picks up on a different information: loans are stronger
lost $27.6 billion that year. added blow to Bank of America. strategic sense now. BofA gained paper by Ryan Bubb and Alex and more desirable than bonds,
Last month, the SEC and BofA The New York Attorney General's a global investment-banking Kaufman. because a bank intends to hold its
had reached a settlement on the office is carrying out its own platform, profitable retail But the fact is that none of these loan to maturity and does a lot of
charges that required the bank to investigation into the Merrill deal brokerage addition and significant findings are all that powerful. underwriting, shoring it up with
pay a $33 million fine. But US and has been drafting what are equity-underwriting capacity, all Elul, for instance, essentially covenants. Bonds, by contrast, are
D i s t r i c t J u d g e J e d R a k o f f likely to be civil fraud charges of which it lacked earlier. For the confirms that securitization causes often held only briefly, and are
condemned the deal, saying the against top bank executives in the first half of 2009, Merrill a decline in performance: “a often bought by investors who do
corporate fine would further coming weeks. The bank also contributed $1.84 billion. t y p i c a l p r i m e A R M l o a n precious little fundamental
unfairly penalize the shareholders missed a Monday noon deadline We anticipate continued originated in 2006 becomes analysis; what’s more, they
instead of the people actually to provide additional information synergies from the company’s delinquent at a 20 percent higher simply don’t have the kind of
guilty of misleading investors. about the deal to a congressional large scale operation and balance rate if it is privately securitized,” granular information that bank
Both the SEC and BofA have committee. sheet restructuring. However, he writes, and the fact that a lenders have. And securitizations
defended the earlier settlement Separately, Bank of America higher credit costs, various legal similar pattern can’t be seen in are even worse than bonds — no
proposal as appropriate. But after agreed to pay $425 million to issues and worsening credit subprime loans is basically just a one really knows what’s in them,
Rakoff's ruling, the SEC weighed government agencies, including quality will be a drag on BofA’s function of the fact that “very few and they’re ultimately based more
its options - to go to trial, drop the the Treasury Department, to exit upcoming results. As such, we are subprime loans were actually held on models than on shoe-leather
charges or attempt to renegotiate an arrangement under which maintaining a Neutral in portfolio” — substantially all underwriting. So it’s entirely
the deal with BofA. public funds might have been recommendation on the stock. of them were destined for the predictable that the boom in
The SEC also said that it could used to shoulder losses on risky securitization machine. mortgage securitization was bad
As for the Bubb-Kaufman for the overall quality of the debt.
paper, the chart that Jelveh picks And attempts to show otherwise
up on shows a good 90% of are ultimately doomed.
subprime mortgages getting
A question for DNS gurus out there in InternetLand
(Scripting News) approve these things, but they know how to debug DNS. you get to call me stupid in the
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:55:45 PM finally have, and I've changed the I just know that it's not comments and I won't moderate it
DNS to ns1.slicehost.com and resolving on any of my machines. out.
I bought a cool domain for a ns2.slicehost.com (where I now Can you tell what the problem is
project I'm working on, r2.ly. have an account, with DNS going wrong cause I don't really with it?
It takes Libya forever to control) but I can't tell what's And if you solve the problem
Internet News Record
Gadget Deals of the Day [Dealzmodo]
By Don Nguyen (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:00:00 PM
It's been a while since we've
featured good LCD and TV deals,
but we've rectified that today—be
sure to check out the 55-inch LG
behemoth that would look great
above the mantel.
Top Deals:
• 24" Dell S2409w HD LCD for
$199.00 plus free
shipping(normally $279).
• 55" LG 55LH40 1080p 120Hz
LCD TV for $1279 plus free
shipping(normally $1779 - use
coupon code: TEST400).
• New Yorker 2010 Calendar for
$0(use this form).
Computing and Peripherals:
• Dell XPS 430 Core2Quad
Desktop for $499.99 plus free
shipping(normally $899).
• Dell Vostro 220s Slim Desktop
with 22" LCD for
$399.99(normally $529).
• 18.4" HP HDX18t Laptop for
$899.99 plus free
shipping(normally $1449 - use
coupon code: NBMY22547).
• 15.6" Dell Studio 15 Laptop
wity quad-core and Radeon
HD4570 for $999(normally
$1199).
• 11.6" Acer Aspire One
Netbook for $289.99 plus free
shipping(normally $320 - use
coupon code: END30).
• 24" Dell S2409w HD LCD for
$199.00 plus free
shipping(normally $279).
• 2TB Western Digital Caviar
Green 3.5" HDD for $179.99 plus
free shipping(normally $210 - use
coupon code SUPERSTEAL20).
• 2TB Seagate Barracuda LP
3.5" HDD for $180 plus free
shipping(normally $220).
• 1TB Fantom GD1000EU
GreenDrive External HDD for
$69.99(normally $110 - use this
form and this form).
• Logitech diNovo Mac Edition
Wireless Keyboard for
$39.99(normally $88).
Gaming:
• Xbox Live 12 month
Subscription Gold Card for
$39.99 plus free
shipping(normally $50).
• H.A.W.X. (360) for
$19.90(normally $26.99).
• Wolfenstein (360/PS3) for
$39.98 plus free
shipping(normally $46.99).
• Mario Power Tennis (Wii) for
$19.99(normally $27.99).
• Pac Man (iPhone/iPod Touch)
for $2.99(normally $5.99).
• Champions Online (PC) for
$29.98 plus free
shipping(normally $48).
Home Entertainment:
• 58" Samsung PN58B550
1080p 600Hz Plasma TV for
$1,694.00 plus free
shipping(normally $1749 - use
Gadgets/ Tech/ 27
Another $100
million for
Twitter?
By Caroline McCarthy
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 9:21:00 AM
Twitter's long-anticipated
business plan had better be close
coupon code EMAIL922). free shipping(normally $51). on the horizon, because according
• 55" LG 55LH40 1080p 120Hz • Kodak EasyShare M893 IS to the Wall Street Journal, the site
LCD TV for $1279 plus free 8.1MP Digital Camera for $80 has some new investors on board:
shipping(normally $1779 - use plus free shipping(normally Mutual fund T. Rowe Price,
coupon code: TEST400). $100).
Insight Venture Partners, and a
• 47" Vizio SV471XVT 1080p • Canon PowerShot SX200 IS handful of others have reportedly
120Hz LCD TV for $1104 plus Digital Camera for $289 plus pumped $100 million into the
free shipping(normally $1220 - shipping(normally $330).
microblogging phenomenon.
use coupon code • Flip Mino Series Camcorder TechCrunch reported last week
6 F W J 2 4 7 J 1 P 4 4 C K ) . f o r $ 9 9 . 9 9 p l u s f r e e that Twitter was putting together a
• 37" Zenith Z37LC6D 720p shipping(normally $142.83). round of funding at around a $1
LCD TV for $499.99 plus free Hobomodo:
billion valuation. But that report
shipping(normally $806). • 2009 Free Night of Theater for suggested that the company would
• Yamaha RX-V665 7.2-Ch. $0(Valid Oct. 15 - use this form). do so by raising about $50 million
Home Theater Receiver with Polk • New Yorker 2010 Calendar for --half of what it actually has, per
A u d i o T S i 1 0 0 B o o k s h e l f $0(use this form).
the WSJ, in a deal expected to
Speakers for $499.00 plus free • Honey Bunches of Oats for close Thursday.
shipping(normally $543). $0(use this form).
Twitter still doesn't make
• Kung Fu Hustle (Blu Ray) for • Aqualution The Beginning significant revenue. But its
$12.99(normally $19.96 - use (iPhone) for $0(normally $.99). founders have said that paid
coupon STAYBLU3). If a deal looks too good to be corporate accounts, in the form of
• Dexter Seasons 1-3 (DVD) for true, investigate the store and see a sort of "analytics dashboard,"
$59.99 plus f r e e if it's a good, reputable place to are imminent. Advertising isn't
s h i p p i n g ( n o r m a l l y $ 7 0 . 2 6 ) . buy. Safe shopping!
out of the question either, despite
• 18 By Moby (MP3) for [ Thanks TechDealDigger, Fat what some of the company's
$1.99(normally $7.49 download Wallet, GamerHotline, Cheap executives have said in the past.
here). C o l l e g e G a m e r s ,
The company's initial round of
P e r s o n a l P o r t a b l e s a n d C h e a p S t i n g y B a r g a i n s a n d Series B funding last year valued
Peripherals: TechBargains.]
it at about $80 million, but soon
• Plantronics Pulsar 260 Stereo added to the round in a deal that
Bluetooth Headset for $30 plus
upped the valuation well into the
hundreds of millions.
Originally posted at The Social
28 Gadgets/ Entertainment/
Today @ Giz Gallery '09: Mud Computers and
Exclusive Spy Drones! [Giz Gallery 09]
By Adrian Covert (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:15:00 PM
Gizmodo Gallery '09 started off
with a bang yesterday, as it was
packed full of people despite a
minor problem with the air
conditioning. But we're back
today with the exclusive new
Draganflyer X8 UAV and the
Mud Tub computer.
The X8 is the latest and greatest
to come from DraganFlyer, who
improved upon the X6 by giving
the UAV 8 rotors and a
lightweight, carbon fiber design.
Plus, this is the first time the
actual device has ever been seen.
The Mud Tub computer is also
at the gallery, and in a nutshell,
you can push a pile of mud
around, and a projected ball of
light will react according to what
direction and how hard you push
the mud. Trust me, it's much
cooler and less gross than it
seems.
And let's not forget that
ArcAttack will be performing
with their singing Tesla coils at
1p, 4p and 7p today (and
everyday), with a couple of
impromptu performances
scattered here and there. You
really can't miss that (literally). G a l l e r y
Gizmodo Gallery 2009
Groupe
267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012
Gallery Dates:
September 23rd-27th
Internet News Record
A 'Twilight' Star
Takes a Stand on
Animal Welfare
Times: (ETonline - Breaking News)
9/22 Tuesday Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:59:00 AM
Media Day by appointment
only. For info please contact One of the stars of 'Twilight'
gallery@gizmodo.com. shows his concern for our four-
9/23 Wednesday legged friends by supporting
12-8 World Animal Week.
9/24 Thursday Kellan Lutz, who plays Emmett
12-8 Cullen in the 2008 film 'Twilight'
9/25 Friday and in the soon-to-be-released
12-8 'New Moon,' has joined Brooke
9/26 Saturday Shields, Kristin Davis, Christina
11-8 Applegate and Joanna Krupa in
9-? - Live Musical Performance signing the "Animals Matter to
9/27 Sunday Me" petition for a Universal
11-6 Declaration on Animal Welfare.
Read more about our Giz The purpose of the document,
09 here, which urges the United Nations to
follow@gizgallery on Twitter and adopt an international agreement
see what else we'll be playing on the welfare of animals, is to
with at the event.And special raise awareness about animal
thanks to Toyota's Prius — welfare issues during World
without their sponsorship, there Animal Week from October 4 to
would be no Gizmodo Gallery. October 10, 2009.

MIT researchers tout progress with retinal implant - yes, it

comes with a visor
By Donald Melanson seems to have the researchers at would only work on folks that keep it powered wirelessly
(Engadget) MIT excited, who say that tests have lost their sight due due through a set of coils.
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:57:00 PM with blind patients could begin retinitis pigmentosa or age-related [Via The Register]
within the next three years. The macular degeneration, and it Filed under: Wearables, Science
As impressive as that tooth-eye b a s i c i d e a b e h i n d i t w a s wouldn't restore complete sight, MIT researchers tout progress
implant was, we're guessing most a p p a r e n t l y i n s p i r e d b y t h e but could let them see enough to with retinal implant - yes, it
folks had something more like cochlear implants that have find their way through a room or comes with a visor originally
this in mind when they considered proven successful in restoring walk down a sidewalk (which is appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24
the future of sight restoration. people's hearing, although in this certainly no small feat). They'll Sep 2009 13:57:00 EST. Please
While it's still a bit early in case the implant works by also have to wear a special set of see our terms for use of feeds.
development, and has yet to electrically stimulating damaged to the brain. According to the glasses (or visor, if you prefer), Read| Permalink| Email this|
actually be implanted in anyone, nerve cells that would ordinarily researchers, however, the system which will not only wirelessly Comments
this new retinal implant certainly send visual signals from the retina send images to the implant, but
Internet News Record Gadgets/ Tech/ 29

Getting Paid
Might Kill
You?
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 8:48:00 AM

Okay, I don't have much of a

comment on this one either way,
other than that I found it to be
quite an amusing topic for study,
and thought some of you might
appreciate it as well -- for the
humor factor. Via Paul Kedrosky
comes the news of an NBER
research paper that found that
people tend to die right after
$4,000 Alienware Aurora ALX getting paid. Well, sorta: Many
studies find that households
increase their consumption after
benchmarked: domination this the receipt of expected income
payments, a result inconsistent
world has never seen with the life-cycle/permanent
income hypothesis. Consumption
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 4:04:00 PM of DDR3 memory. Oh, and blue iriver Story e-reader hits pre-
CrossFire configuration and 6GB can increase adverse health
events, such as traffic accidents,
lights. Lots of blue lights. Put heart attacks and strokes. In this
Alienware's Aurora ALX, which simply, the one-two CPU / GPU
was just unveiled this week punch produced results that led to
order status in Korea, gets paper, we examine the short-term
mortality consequences of income
alongside ATI's blisteringly fast domination that made pretty much
Radeon HD 5870 GPU, gets anything else out there look weak.
priced receipt. We find that mortality
increases following the arrival of
going at $2,299. If that doesn't Don't believe us? Hit that link for By Laura June (Engadget) eventually get global, we've still m o n t h l y S o c i a l S e c u r i t y
bother you, the late-October the bar-charted proof. Submitted at 9/24/2009 2:28:00 PM yet to heard pricing or release payments, regular wage payments
estimated ship date might. Filed under: Desktops dates for the US of A. Until then, for military personnel, the 2001
Somehow, the benchmarking $4,000 Alienware Aurora ALX We've been keeping our eyes we'll just have to keep curled up tax rebates, and Alaska Permanent
fiends over at HotHardware were benchmarked: domination this peeled for any news of iriver's on the sofa with our sad, dog- Fund dividend payments. The
able to grab hold of one of these world has never seen originally Story e-reader-- and it looks like eared, public library copy of The increase in short-run mortality is
rigs, and the results are fairly appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 it's on the verge of appearing in Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar large, potentially eliminating
s t u n n i n g ( i f n o t e x p e c t e d ) . Sep 2009 16:04:00 EST. Please reality -- at least in Korea. The Wao. some of the protective benefits of
Granted, their test configuration see our terms for use of feeds. company is now taking pre-orders Filed under: Handhelds additional income.
was a fully loaded $4,074 model, Read| Permalink| Email this| f o r t h e 6 - i n c h , Q W E R T Y iriver Story e-reader hits pre- Permalink| Comments| Email
complete with a 3.33GHz Core i7 Comments keyboarded device, which runs order status in Korea, gets priced This Story
Extreme Edition 975 CPU, twin 358,000 KRW ( around $290). originally appeared on Engadget
ATI Radeon HD 5870's in a The reader will come packaged on Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:28:00
with a 2GB SD card, the book- EST. Please see our terms for use
impersonating folding case we've of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email
spied it wearing in the past, and this| Comments
two free book downloads. While
we've heard that the reader will
30 Gadgets/ Tech/ Picture/ Internet News Record

iMacs to be refreshed as soon as New Evernote beta brings face-lift,

next week?
By Devin Coldewey
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:55:12 PM
There’s nothing solid on this, but
the usual mysterious sources are
whispering about an iMac refresh
coming next week. We knew this
was forthcoming, but the changes
themselves are anybody’s guess.
We expect upgraded CPU and
GPU, possibly a slimmer design,
and some people even suggest Blu
-ray is in the cards. Those people
aren’t right, though. If Apple was
changing its mind about Blu-ray,
it’d do so with more than an iMac change the way it looks. What do
refresh.
The predictions above aren’t
exactly going out on a limb, but
then again, the iMac isn’t exactly current stock, so once they get who use clients on both platforms
an experimental new product.
This is what happens: it gets
better, it gets old, and then it gets
better again. Sometimes they
Flickr at Oktoberfest
By Heather Champ (Flickr
Blog)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 10:05:43 AM process. Get comments, notes, though. At first glance the already
• About Flickr
Flickr is a revolution in photo
storage, sharing and organization,
drawing tools
By Josh Lowensohn
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 7:00:00 AM
Evernote is giving its Windows
desktop application a huge face-
lift on Thursday. The new version
of the writing and archiving tool
has more in common with its Mac
counterpart, borrowing features
like thumbnail previews and a
three-pane view that lets users
quickly hop through notes they
have saved in one of their
Evernote notebooks.
The change may be jarring for
you want from me?! some longtime Evernote users
Apple Insider notes that Apple who have only used the Windows
has been offering discounts on version, but for people like me,
most of that old junk out the door --on a daily basis, the unification
they’ll pull the trigger. is welcome.
Old versus new versions of
Evernote compared. Note that the
new version has a thumbnail
view. (Click to see full
making photo management an s i z e . ) ( C r e d i t : C N E T )
easy, natural and collaborative There are some peculiarities
and tags on your photos, post to anemic text editor is missing a
any blog, share and more! few buttons that were found on
the old one. Options such as
indenting, or adding a bulleted list
are still there, but now they're
nestled into a right-click
contextual menu instead of being
buttons as they were before (and
still are on the Mac and Web
versions). In their place are the
simple, but screen real estate-
sucking, buttons for printing, e-
mailing and deleting any note
you're working on. Though unlike
on the Mac, this group of options
cannot be minimized. On a big,
wide-screen monitor this isn't a
big deal, but on smaller screens it
means you have less room to view
your work.
What makes up for that, is spell
check--a long-overdue inclusion.
Whatever you're writing gets the
spell check treatment as you type,
just as it does in versions of the
program on other platforms. This
may seem like a really minor
addition, but if you're using
Evernote as a primary text editor,
this is important.
Evernote's Ink feature lets users
draw out notes.(Credit: CNET)
Also quite cool, is a more easily
accessible canvas mode made
exclusively for Windows users
with tablet PCs, which lets them
more easily create hand-drawn
notes. Users who don't have
tablets could previously also
access the feature by holding
Ctrl+9 when in any note, although
now it's its own type of note.
Worth noting is that these notes
cannot be seen on the current
version of the Mac software,
something that will be added in a
future update.
All in all, this is a good update
with some big changes that may
take some getting used to for folks
who haven't used the Mac
version. Because of the many
changes in this version, the
Evernote 3.5 update is being
released in beta, instead of an
automatic update within the
software. Windows users of the
current version can download it
from Evernote's site.
Correction: This article
originally misstated the newness
of the ink writing feature as well
as the software's capability to
index handwritten notes. Users
who don't have tablets could
previously also access the feature
by holding Ctrl+9 when in any
note, although now it's its own
type of note.
Originally posted at Web
Crawler

Baby Dancing to Single Ladies: No Really, The Greatest Video of All-Time!

By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!) episode with a Single Ladies never saw that video the first time overload, check out the video
Submitted at 9/24/2009 10:24:12 AM tribute, and an old YouTube video around. But such is the power of below.
of an unbearably cute baby viral video: it’s liable to get a Tags: baby dancing to beyonce,
The internet is the place where dancing to Beyonce gets new life. second wind when a related topic beyonce, kanye west, music, viral
memes never die. Case in point: It’s sometimes hard to trends again — as Diane Sawyer videos, youtube
t a k e a l i t t l e K a n y e W e s t remember that for every web geek probably half a dozen folks who was recently reminded.
interruption, add a new Glee crying, “OLD!!!” there are For your daily dose of cute
Internet News Record
Canadian Law Professors Insist Banning The Sale Of Word Is
Good For Society & Innovation
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:04:44 AM
Rob Hyndman points us to two
Canadian law professors, Michael
Trebilcock and Edward Iacobucci,
insisting that patents are "the
mother of invention" in an article
that mostly spends its time trying
to defend the silly
injunction(already put on hold)
barring Microsoft from selling
Word or Office, because it
supposedly violates a patent,
5,787,449, on XML editing of a
word processed document. There
are all sorts of problems with the
column, kicking off with
Hyndman's question as to how
law professors should be
considered experts on
innovation...
But, let's dig further into the
details. Patents are essential to the
modern system of innovation.
Once produced, information can
be transmitted at zero cost. In the
absence of patent protection,
would-be inventors become
vulnerable to competition that
would drive the value of their
discovery to zero, leaving them
with no compensation for the
costs of producing that
information in the first place. This
is the usual story. And it sounds
good. But there's no factual
evidence to support it. That's
because it ignores reality. Yes,
information can be transmitted at
zero cost, but that does not mean
that implementation is assured, or
that the market stands still.
Besides, I'm curious as to the
claim "vulnerable to competition,"
as if competition is a bad thing.
Most people recognize that
competition drives innovation --
and yet, these law professors are
suggesting the exact opposite.
That you need less competition to
drive innovation.
Furthermore, they are wrong in
claiming that in the absence of
patent protection "the value of
their discovery" is driven to "zero,
leaving them with no
compensation." They say this as if
the compensation is for the idea,
rather than the implementation.
That is simply wrong. No one
compensates you directly for an
idea. If you have a good idea, you
need to bring a product to market
and sell it. If someone else copies
that idea, you still have a large
first mover advantage and you
understand the market better. On
top of that, you should be ahead
of the curve in terms of improving
on the concept for the next
iteration. That's competition. It
doesn't mean the value of the idea
is zero or that there's no
compensation. Claiming such
makes no sense.
Again, beyond common sense,
the historical evidence suggests
that these law professors are
simply wrong. Countries with no
or weak patent protection have
seen tremendous innovation over
time. And it's because it's
competition that's the mother of
innovation, not a lack of
competition. For well over two
hundred years, economists have
recognized that monopolies that
remove competition are bad for
innovation. These lawyers are
insisting that the opposite is true,
and present no proof. Microsoft
objects that the injunction ordered
by the trial judge goes too far. (It
has been put on hold until after
the appeal, which is to begin
Wednesday.) But injunctions are
almost always ordered to prevent
continuing infringement, and for
good reason. To simply order
money damages for future
infringement would be to force i4i
to license out its technology at a
court-imposed price. This is
misleading. While it is true that in
the past injunctions were the
norm, since the US Supreme
Court's MercExchange ruling
more than three years ago, courts
recognize that injunctions often
do not make sense. The reason
they don't make sense is because
they require stopping the sale of
an entire product (or lines of
products) due to a single
infringing feature. That makes no
sense, and the courts have
recognized this. I'm not sure why
these law professors do not. Just
as there are good reasons not to
compel citizens to sell or rent out
their homes at prices set by
judges, there are very good
reasons in general to avoid
compulsory licensing of
intellectual property. Court
determinations of the value of
intellectual property are
necessarily somewhat conjectural,
yet damages awards require courts
to act, in effect, as price
regulators. By contrast,
injunctions do not prevent a
licensing deal from being done,
but rather cede to the owner of the
property the authority to set a
price. Just as giving homeowners
the right to decide whether to sell
or rent out their houses does not
destroy the housing market, in
terrorem arguments about the
death of Word under this
injunction are without merit.
Again, this is quite misleading. It
implies that an injunction leads to
the natural market setting the
price for licensing, but nothing
could be further from the truth. If
someone is pointing a gun at your
head and negotiating over how
much you have to pay to stay
alive, that's not exactly a fair and
open economic transaction that
both parties enter into under their
own free will. Claiming that this
is somehow a more accurate
market is pure folly. Meanwhile,
Microsoft has vociferously argued
that despite the trial judge's
careful vetting of the evidence, i4i
did not establish at trial a firm
basis for its damages claim for
past infringement. This claim
about the speculative nature of
past damages sits uncomfortably
with Microsoft's opposition to
injunctions. Given the complexity
of measuring supply and demand
for a unique product, it must be
true that there is some empirical
uncertainty about the precise level
of past damages. But if patents are
to have value, this uncertainty is
unavoidable: A damages award is
the only available remedy for
infringement that has already
taken place. Again, I have to
admit confusion over these
claims, which seem to have no
basis in reality. It is not "the
patent" that has value. It is the
product. For sale in the market.
And it's the consumer who values
it. The fact is that many more
people seemed to value a
complete package of Microsoft
Word. They were not buying it
because of i4i's silly and
Tech/ 31
questionable patent. They were
buying it because Microsoft Word
is a useful product. The difference
in sales for Microsoft Word if it
had not included XML editing
would likely be negligible at best.
There is no evidence of damages.
If i4i and these lawyers are
claiming that the "damages" are
i4i's inability to sell its own
product, again, that is difficult to
square with reality. Competition
happens all the time, and it's as
good thing. i4i's inability to come
up with a product or marketing
plan that people wanted is its
problem, not Microsoft's.
Also, the lawyers, in claiming
that there was "careful vetting of
the evidence," conveniently leave
out that this was done in East
Texas, which has a long history of
vetting in favor of patent holders.
Don't ask me, ask the bull that
TiVo bought. Protecting i4i's
patent protects incentives to
invent and the competitive
process. In this case, the trial
judge wisely offered such
protection, while recognizing the
court's own institutional
limitations, by ordering damages
for past infringement and
injunctions going forward. While
the decision was not a good one
for Microsoft, it was clearly in the
best interests of society. Really?
So, completely banning the sale of
an entire office suite offering
because one tiny, rarely used,
feature might infringe on some
random other company's products
is "in the best interests of
society"? That seems wholly
without support. That would mean
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10 Sites to Learn Something New in 10 Minutes a Day

By Josh Catone (Mashable!) information during your lunch owns The Discovery Channel and and anyone else can edit it and
Submitted at 9/24/2009 10:02:54 AM break. 2. MonkeySee Animal Planet, is a great make it better by refining the
MonkeySee is another information site that endeavors to steps, adding photos, or correcting
Allow me to lay a scene: It’s instructional video sharing site clearly explain how things work mistakes. The site has over 61,000
7:00 am. The kids need to be fed that invites experts to share both in layman’s terms. Articles are articles and all of them are free
and bundled off to school. The a m a t e u r a n d p r o f e s s i o n a l l y paginated, illustrated, and written and Creative Commons licensed.
toast is burning. The cat just created how-to and advice videos. in a format that makes reading 10. Shvoong
knocked a pile of papers off the Though many of the videos are and digesting them quickly very The oddly named Shvoong is a
counter, and you’ve got a big over 10 minutes in length, they’re doable. Many articles are user generated summary site on
presentation to give in an hour broken up into short 3-4 minute accompanied by videos that make which users submit summaries
and you haven’t even begun to segments, allowing you to view 99 cents each, while longer, multi u n d e r s t a n d i n g a b s t r a c t o r (and short reviews) of everything
prepare. Okay, so that bit of them in chunks whenever you -track lessons are sold for $3.99 unfamiliar concepts even easier. — from books to blogs to movies
fiction certainly doesn’t describe have spare time. The site is also (6 tracks) up to $24.99 (72 The site has a huge team of well to news articles. For those who
all of us, but there is a universal unique in that videos come with tracks). -credentialed writers that produce are in a hurry, but still want to be
truth to it: our lives are busy and printable transcripts, can be T h e i M i n d s c o n c e p t o f the content. 7. Instructables in the know so they can
hectic and we have little in the downloaded to mobile devices for delivering short, high quality Instructables is a huge participate in water cooler
way of spare time. So how can we on-the-go viewing, and include audio books is sound, and we community of do-it-yourselfers discussions at work, Shvoong
ever find the time to actually learn biographical information about think they offer an interesting way who actively engage in creating might be the site for you. Because
something new? the expert to help you determine if for busy people to absorb new and sharing well-illustrated, step- the summaries are user submitted,
This list of web-based resources this is someone you’d like to trust information. The Australian-based b y - s t e p h o w - t o a r t i c l e s o n they are of varying quality, but
will point you toward web sites to teach you something new. 3. company is adding one to two everything from building robots to they’re all short enough to be read
that will help you learn how to do YouTube new tracks per week and plans to repairing torn clothing to creating in under 10 minutes and the better
new things, stay on top of current You may not immediately think have several hundred audio books 3D anamorphic sidewalk art ones are certainly edifying.
events, and learn about topics of YouTube as a place to go to on a variety of topics available by (really). The guides are written by For those who prefer more
where your current knowledge learn, and certainly the site is the end of 2010. 5. The Week the extremely vibrant community, professionally produced
may be lacking. And these filled with more than its share of The Week is a printed current and all follow the same, step-by- summaries, check out
resources will do all that in under silly, brain-cell-erasing videos. events magazine delivered, rather step illustrated format that make SparkNotes. The site, which was
10 minutes each day. Do you But buried beneath all the fluff is predictably, once per week. The comprehending the information founded in 1998 by a group of
know of any other sites where a treasure trove of great how-to magazine summarizes the news of quickly a snap. Harvard students, offers hundreds
people can absorb quality, new and educational content, and the previous week by drawing on Each guide can also be of free summarized versions of
information in under 10 minutes? because of the site’s 10 minute a variety of sources to present a downloaded as a PDF file for easy books, textbooks, and entire
Add them in the comments! 1. time limit on most videos, you short, but balanced, overview of offline viewing and printing. 8. subject overviews for a wide
5min can learn new things in no time issues. A recent summary of US eHow range of topics. The notes on the
5min bills itself as a “life flat. Start at the YouTube EDU President Barack Obama’s The ten-year-old eHow is one of site are written by students or
videopedia,” which essentially section, which aggregates content shifting policies relating to the largest how-to sites on the recent graduates at top-tier
means that it aggregates and hosts from colleges and universities, Afghanistan, for example, drew Internet, with over 160,000 videos universities.
instructional and DIY how-to then branch off and search the site on information from articles and and a whopping 600,000 articles. Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
videos from sites all over the web. for how-to clips on any topic you editorials in the Washington Post, The majority of the articles, which ARTappler Reviews: YouTube,
The site hosts tens of thousands of want to learn about. 4. iMinds Slate, Politico, and from the blog are often presented in a clear and iStockphoto
videos on everything from The just-launched iMinds Hot Air. concise step-by-step format, can Tags: 5min, ehow, how to,
cooking to ethics, from fighting publishes original, short audio On their web site, The Week be consumed in under 10 minutes, howstuffworks, iminds,
the common cold to living with podcasts about liberal arts topics does the same thing but without as can their how-to videos. Of instructables, learning, Lists,
cancer, from parenting to playing (such as history, economics, the 7-day delay, providing a great course, the things they teach you monkeysee, shvoong, sparknotes,
the guitar. Though the 5min current events, and business) that way for busy readers to learn how to do might take up more the week, wikihow, youtube
moniker is a bit misleading — are approximately eight minutes about current events — with links than 10 minutes of your day. 9.
many videos on the site are longer in length each. The idea is to original sources in order to dig wikiHow
than 5 minutes — most of the allow people to learn new things, deeper if they have the time. 6. wikiHow is the last “how-to”
content is under 10 minutes long, from a credible source while on HowStuffWorks site on our list. It’s built using the
meaning you can easily absorb the go. The tracks are available HowStuffWorks, which is now familiar Wikpedia model: anyone
e d u c a t i o n a l n u g g e t s o f via iTunes and Audible.com for owned by the same company that can contribute a how-to article
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Online tools for making you a smarter traveler
By Don Reisinger
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 9:10:25 AM
Finding the right services to help
you save some cash (and
headaches) when you travel can
be difficult. That's where this
roundup comes in. Below you will
find a few resources to help you
enjoy a better traveling experience
whenever you want to get out of
the house.
Get your trip on
Campus Visit If you have a high
school student who wants to look
for colleges outside of your area,
go to Campus Visit and get an
Amtrak coupon that gives that
student 50 percent off his or her
rail fare.
From now through December
13, Amtrak is offering students
visiting a college campus the
opportunity to save half of the
cost of their train tickets.
Whoever accompanies the student
still needs to pay full price.
Campus Visit, a site that's
operated by Collegia, takes care
of the coupon process for Amtrak.
You'll need to input where you're
going, what school you're visiting,
and whether or not there's an
interview scheduled. As long as
the application is approved, you'll
have a discount coupon you can
use when booking an Amtrak trip.
It's a highly commendable
service.
Campus Visit helps you get
some discounts on Amtrak
trips.(Credit: Screenshot by Don
Reisinger/CNET)
Hello Travel Hello Travel is the
site for those who don't want to
deal with booking a trip on their
own.
When you first get to Hello
Travel, you'll have the option to
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seats on the flight won't have any
color, making them normal
airplane seats. If you see seats
colored in yellow or especially
red, stay away and move your seat
--they are uncomfortable.
I can't tell you how many times
I've used SeatGuru to help me
find better seats on a flight. More
often than not, I find myself in a
bad location. But with the help of
SeatGuru, I can find the right seat
and go back to the airline with
some locations I'd like. It's a great
service that any traveler should
try out.
SeatGuru is a must-see for
anyone who wants to be
comfortable.(Credit: Screenshot
by Don Reisinger/CNET)
TripAdvisor Fees Estimator
Although TripAdvisor provides
several search tools for finding
flights or creating a trip itinerary,
the site's "Flights" page features a
new tool called Fees Estimator.
The problem with booking
flights is that the total cost of
research different countries your trip.(Credit: Screenshot by hotel, get contact information, and traveling isn't included. Most
around the world. Once you Don Reisinger/CNET) even see pictures of it. Think of it times, sites only show the ticket
determine where you want to go, Rainforest Alliance If you're as an environmentally focused cost, but don't account for
Hello Travel lets you create a full concerned about the impact your Expedia. baggage fees, in-flight amenities,
travel itinerary on the site. It's trip might be having on the The Rainforest Alliance helps and whether or not you're a
then posted on its agents page environment, the Rainforest y o u f i n d e c o - f r i e n d l y frequent flyer. Fees Estimator
where travel agents can review Alliance provides several tools hotels.(Credit: Screenshot by Don shows the real cost of your ticket
your itinerary, get in touch with t h a t w i l l h e l p y o u f i n d a n Reisinger/CNET) to provide you better information
you, and build you the trip you e n v i r o n m e n t a l l y - f r i e n d l y SeatGuru If you're concerned on what you should expect to pay.
want. itinerary. about where you sit on a plane, When I tried Fees estimator for
I wasn't overly impressed by When you first get to the SeatGuru is a must-see. a flight from New York City to
Hello Travel. Although the Rainforest Alliance's tourism The idea behind SeatGuru is Atlanta, the site gave me cheap
service is great as a premise, page, you'll find a series of tools simple: book your flight, find a tickets for about $265 per person.
creating an itinerary took much to check out. Perhaps the most seat, and determine what kind of But after I input that I wanted to
longer than I would have liked. useful tool is its search, which plane you'll be flying on. From check two bags, the cost jumped
I'm also unsure what kind of agent h e l p s y o u f i n d c a r - r e n t a l there, go to SeatGuru, find your to $385. That cheap flight quickly
response each trip will get. I'd companies, hotels, bed and plane by searching for the airline b e c a m e a m o r e e x p e n s i v e
prefer to work with an agent I breakfast spots, and more that and its aircraft, and view the alternative to some of the other
know, but that's just me. Hello h a v e b e e n c e r t i f i e d a s display of seats on the flight. options. Fees Estimator should
Travel is a nice idea, but your environmentally responsible. Green-colored seats are ideal. help you save some cash.
mileage will vary. When you find a place you'd like They usually provide the most
Hello Travel helps agents find to stay, you can learn about the comfort. The vast majority of
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HOW TO: Launch Your Own Indie Journalism Site
By Maria Schneider
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:25:34 PM
Maria Schneider left mainstream
publishing behind last year to start
Editor Unleashed, a site covering
writing, publishing and social
media. Share tips and advice for
startup journalists here.
Downsizing, layoffs, newspaper
and magazine closings have put
journalism on the most
endangered careers list. But
hundreds of smart journalists are
realizing the opportunity and
using their connections, reporting
savvy and deep knowledge of
their subjects to start sites
covering their familiar beats.
These bootstrapping indie
journalists are learning to run
their own small business,
including tending to many details
they never had to worry about
before—ad sales, marketing,
promotion, tech and design to
name a few.
Here, five former mainstream
media reporters share their tips
and best advice for creating a
startup journalism site. The
Reporters
James Erik Abels was recently
laid off from Forbes where he
covered the digital media beat.
He’s launching a network focused
on video reports of media going
digital on Three Minute Media.
Laura Rich was downsized from
Portfolio magazine, which folded
earlier this year. She recently
joined several Conde Nast
refugees in the launch of
Recessionwire.
A virtual postcard tour of Algiers
By Cris Stoddard (Flickr Blog)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 10:52:58 AM
Tom Foremski left his
newspaper job five years ago and
now reports on his own site
Silicon Valley Watcher.
John Rebchook covered real
estate for the Rocky Mountain
News, which folded last year.
H e ’ s l a u n c h e d
InsideRealEstateNews.com.
Elizabeth Larson was a
journalist working for the local
weekly newspaper when she left
the corporate newspaper scene
three years ago to launch the Lake
County News.
Here are some of the biggest
factors to consider if you’re
thinking about going the indie
journalist route: Startup Costs
The biggest startup cost is most
likely going to be your time. With
powerful open-source platforms
like WordPress.org readily
available, startup costs tend to be
negligible.
But don’t quit the day job yet.
Most indie journalists support
their efforts in the beginning
through freelancing or holding on
to their day jobs while working on
startup sites in their off-time.
Advertising and Sponsorship
This is a sticky point for many
indie journalists who have upheld
the typical church vs. state stance
about advertising. Some sites,
such as RecessionWire, bypass
this problem by establishing
relationships with ad Networks.
Federated Media handles ad sales
for RecessionWire. Another ad
network to check out is
BuySellAds.
And for Silicon Valley Watcher,
Foremski has built partnerships
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Flickr is a revolution in photo easy, natural and collaborative any blog, share and more!
storage, sharing and organization, process. Get comments, notes,
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readership. But for hyper-local plan for keeping the site fresh.
journalists, face-to-face Either consider posting several
community building is also times a day with smaller bits, or
crucial to the mission. “When post even just once a day with
you’re ready to launch, make something meaty. Having a good
contact with community members structure for content – categories
you trust and respect as well as of topics, regular feature types
the local leaders who you’ll be (we have regular features like
covering to introduce your site,” Recession Concessions,
says Larson. “Community support Recession Lexicon, The
with several sponsors who pay for your effort is critical, and Recession Will End…) will help
him on a regular basis, leaving having the respect and response organize your thinking about
him free to concentrate on from your sources will help you stories.”
journalism rather than sales. lead the pack.” Best Advice for Abels:“I say do it. Not everyone
( Editor’s note: Federated media Indie Journalists will succeed, but I really believe
is a partner of Mashable) Tech Foremski: “ It’s a tremendous that business is about gut
and Design amount of hard work. If you want instincts, hustling, and taking
Many indie journalists rely on a a nine-to-five job don’t do it. risks. Launching your own
cadre of talented friends and Advertising won’t be able to product is a part of how the
family members, and bartering for support you unless you have very market works—it respects people
getting their site up, logo designed high traffic and that will take time who have an idea and figure out
e t c . P r e f e r r e d p l a t f o r m : to build. The noise level is huge how to make it a reality.” More
WordPress.org with a template or and getting louder, it is ever more journalism resources from
premium theme. challenging to stand out and build Mashable:
“If you want to write text on a traffic.” - The Journalist’s Guide to
single topic area, the most cost- Rebchook:“I think it is crucial Facebook
effective and efficient method to have a targeted niche. In my - The Journalist’s Guide to
may be publishing your words on case it is real estate. I would then YouTube
a simple WordPress theme,” says get sponsors for the site. I heard - Is Crowdfunding the Future of
Abels. of one person who launched an Journalism?
Some journalists with tech help online real estate blog in another - The Journalist’s Guide to
build sites with Joomla! or state who has no sponsors, no ad Twitter
D r u p a l . B u t m o s t s t a r t u p revenues. He is writing for free. I - Everything I Need to Know
journalists say WordPress is the t h i n k t h a t m o d e l i s About Twitter I learned in J
most cost-effective option and u n s u s t a i n a b l e . ” School
easiest to master so you can focus Larson:“First, realize that this is Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
primarily on the content. going to be an incredible amount enot-poloskun Reviews: Drupal,
For low-cost logos and design of hard work, with the occasional Mashable, Twitter, WordPress,
help, two more good resources are 2 0 - h o u r d a y a n d l o t s o f iStockphoto
99 Designs and Crowdspring. headaches. Also realize that when Tags: how to, journalism,
Audience Development you own it, all the work you do Journalist, online journalism
Of course, developing an active really belongs to you, and the
social media presence through rewards can be amazing and
Twitter and a Facebook Fan Page gratifying.”
is critical to developing a Rich:“Do it! But have a good
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Chamber Of Commerce Gets Basic
Google announces Project 10^100 Stats Backwards, Calls For Stronger US
themes Patent Protection For No Good Reason
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) countries, it turns out, are
By Tom Krazit (Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 7:31:00 AM perceived to have weaker IP
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:17:00 PM
protection than the US. To choose
Google has finally whittled David Levine points us to an an obvious example, China has
down the more than 150,000 ideas analysis by Kevin Smith (not the the fastest economic growth rate
submitted as part of its Project movie maker) at Duke University of any of the G-20 economies, but
10^100 to 16 themes that will of a recent report from the World is ranked far below the US -- at
compete for $10 million in Economic Forum, placing the US 61st -- on the list of strong IP
funding. as 19th in how strong our protectors.
It's taken far longer than Google intellectual property laws are. It is easy to lie with statistics, of
had originally predicted, but the T h i s r e p o r t c a u s e d t h e U S c o urse, but this simple
results of the company's 10th Chamber of Commerce to say it's comparison suggests that weaker
anniversary project to solicit ideas evidence that the US needs IP protections might actually
that could change the world are stronger IP laws. Yet, Smith correlate with economic growth....
ready for inspection. Google is points out how silly this analysis This is not surprising, and has
asking the public to vote on the is. First, being 19th out of 133 is been supported by plenty of
most worthy of the 16 "idea already pretty damn near the top studies in the past. Eric Schiff's
themes" that it has identified from of the list. Second, the way the f a m o u s l o o k a t h o w t h e
the submissions it has received Create more efficient landmine highlight tax policy as a perhaps WEF ranked the strength of IP Netherlands and Switzerland had
over the past year. removal programs: "Fund global surprisingly fertile area in which systems was based entirely massive growth rates during a
Google had originally planned organizations that are developing intelligent, data-driven analysis on"executive perceptions" of IP time without patents (or with very
to choose individual ideas, but efficient strategies for landmine could make a huge difference in laws in certain countries -- hardly weak ones) is instructive here, but
w a s " o v e r w h e l m e d " b y t h e d e t e c t i o n a n d r e m o v a l . the effectiveness of the public a definitive measure. But, most there are numerous other studies
number of submissions, which ...Numerous suggestions for this sector." important, the report shows as well. It's quite clear that
took 3,000 employees to properly topic include robotic, human, and Now that the themes have been nothing of the actual impact on stronger patent law does not mean
vet, said Jamie Yood, a Google animal-facilitated detection chosen, Google is asking the innovation. So, Smith did a quick greater innovation or economic
spokesman. In addition, many of strategies." public to vote on the best ideas, back-of-the-envelope look, and growth... and yet why would the
the ideas were extremely similar Create real-time natural crisis the results of which will be noticed something interesting: I US Chamber of Commerce falsely
or overlapping, so Google decided tracking system: "Make rapid- submitted to a committee that will started with this list of countries interpret the study that way? The
to emphasize project categories response crisis-mapping data pick up to five ideas for funding. based on economic growth (the most basic theory? Patents have
that resonated with the company, available to help policymakers Google will undertake a RFP growth rate of the Gross Domestic never been about innovation or
rather than individual ideas. better coordinate response efforts (request for proposal) process in Product) using data from the CIA economic growth. They've always
Some of those themes, and during hurricanes, earthquakes, order to solicit companies or World Fact Book. The US is 67th been about protecting incumbents
Google's comments on those t s u n a m i s a n d o t h e r n a t u r a l organizations that can implement in GDP growth rate, and I made a against competition. Guess who
ideas, follow below: disasters." the chosen ideas, and those groups list of ten countries from the G-20 are members of the US Chamber
Enhance science and Work toward more socially will receive the money. group of nations with higher o f C o m m e r c e ? Y u p . . . t h e
engineering education: "Users conscious tax policies: "Fund the Voting ends on October 8th. growth rates than that of the US incumbent business owners...
from many countries agreed that most promising efforts to make Originally posted at Relevant and compared that list of ten Permalink| Comments| Email
encouraging science education the tax system more transparent Results countries to the rankings of This Story
was an ideal way to insure the and better at supporting societal perceived strength of IP
brightest future for technology sustainability and development. protection. All ten of these
development itself." ...User ideas in this category
CANADIAN
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making every user of Microsoft's of a small 30 person company that concept. How is that possibly in Permalink| Comments| Email
office suite suffer, for the benefit developed a rather obvious the best interests of society? This Story
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Gmail outage hits 'small subset of users'
By Stephen Shankland
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 8:17:00 AM
Gmail was unavailable Thursday
morning for what Google said
was a "small subset of users," the
latest outage from a company that
prides itself in running advanced
computing systems.
On the Google Apps status
dashboard, the company said at
7:29 a.m. PDT that it was aware
of the problem. However, using
IMAP (Internet Message Access
Protocol) to access e-mail through
software such as Outlook or
Thunderbird still works, the
company said.
Even a small subset can be a lot
of people, though, as carping on
Twitter indicates.
Gmail outages hit Google itself
sometimes, providing extra
incentive to improve reliability.
One company spokesman, Adam
Kovacevich, said on Twitter,
"Gmail down (for Googlers too)."
Google had Gmail outages in
February, April, and very widely
on September 1.
Gmail was working for me
Thursday morning, but slowly and
without access to my contacts at 8
a.m. PDT. By 8:13 a.m., it was
behaving properly.
Updated 9:15 a.m. PDT - Many
users are reporting that their e-
mail is back to normal, but there
are still problems with Gmail
www.google.com/contacts/a/your
domain-name.com."
Updated 9:54 a.m. PDT -
Google asked for more time
before it feels ready to declare an
all-clear. "We are continuing to
investigate this issue. We will
provide an update by September
24, 2009 10:30:00 AM UTC-7
detailing when we expect to
resolve the problem."
Updated 10:10 a.m. PDT - It's
now safe to return to your
computer, according to Google.
"The problem with Google Mail
should be resolved. We apologize
for the inconvenience and thank
you for your patience and
continued support."
contacts. Google posted the Tom Krazit contributed to this
following advisory at 8:29 a.m. report.
PDT. The Google Apps status
"The Gmail issue should now be dashboard flagged the Gmail
resolved for most of our users. p r o b l e m Thursday
There still might be issues with morning.(Credit: Screenshot by
your contacts. For Gmail users: Stephen Shankland/CNET)
Use www.google.com/contacts to Originally posted at Deep Tech
access your contacts For Google
A p p s C u s t o m e r s :
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'Dancing with the
Stars'' Debi Mazar
Tweets MRI Results
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:37:00 AM
Actress Debi Mazar arrived to
Wednesday night's "Dancing with
the Stars" results show in a neck
brace, and today she revealed the
outcome of her MRI.
The "Dancing" contestant
tweeted, "Good news! Back from
MRI ... I have a muscle tear ...
blood in muscle, edema ... but this
too shall pass! The show must go
on ... just need to be careful!"
Mazar took to her Twitter
account on Wednesday, revealing
her injury, writing, "'DWTS!'
After premiere, hospital. I'm okay
-- torn muscle in neck to chest!
Foxtrot ... cruel and sadistic
[dance]. If only judges knew."

Point, Click, and Lose Weight … On iPhone

By Christina Warren
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:09:01 AM
I think most of us would agree
that tracking your diet and caloric
-intake is a key part of any good
nutrition plan. Electronic calorie
counters and food diaries have
been around for years, and there is
a strong market for these types of
applications on mobile phone
platforms too.
Today, DailyBurn(formerly
known as Gyminee) is releasing a
new kind of food journal for the
iPhone: FoodScanner.
As the title suggests,
FoodScanner uses the iPhone’s
built-in camera to scan barcodes
of food items. Using DailyBurn’s
database over 200,000 food
products, you can scan what you
eat (or what you are thinking
about eating) and get the
nutritional information and your
daily calorie count.
If the item you are eating
doesn’t have a barcode or if it
isn’t in DailyBurn’s database, you
can search for the product and
select it, or add new foods to the
database and add photos and UPC
codes.
I tested the app on some of the
items sitting on my desk and I
was impressed with the speed an
accuracy of how it worked. Even
on an aluminum soda can that is
both a rounded and reflective
surface, the barcode scanning
picked up and worked as
expected.
It’s also nice that you get a
running count of all your calories
for the day at the bottom of the
app, and that the app can also
sync with your existing DailyBurn
account, with the updates showing
up instantaneously.
If I had any complaint it would
be that while you can log your
food charts for past days, you
can’t view your counts for those
days. The free DailyBurn iPhone
app does show this data, but it
would be nice if you could track
at least a weekly log with
FoodScanner (which costs $2.99)
too.
Do you count calories? How do
you keep track of your diet?
Tags: calorie counter, dailyburn,
diet, foodscanner, health, iphone,
nutrition
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CameraBag makes it to the desktop
By Mel Martin (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/24/2009 3:00:00 PM
Filed under: Multimedia,
Software We took a look at
CameraBag for the iPhone in
June. It's a nifty little app that
applies several pre-set filters to
your photos. Now, the developers
have released an almost identical
app for the desktop.
Users got hooked on the ease of
adding filters and altering photos,
and they wanted it on their
desktops and laptops too, so now
it's a reality.
CameraBag Desktop for the
Mac gives you 9 basic filters, 7
vary the color to match various
films, and 2 filters provide gray
scale filters.
The filters can be layered one
on top of the other if you desire,
and with the 'reprocess' command.
Every time you press it you get a
variation on the original filter.
As on the iPhone app, you can
choose a border for your picture,
and then output the picture at the
WorldMate Live adds Yelp search for BlackBerry
By Jessica Dolcourt
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:14:00 PM
Travelers don't always get to do
their homework about restaurants
and nightlife before they leave,
and you don't want to be stuck
relying on the advice of someone
who winds up sharing different
tastes than you.(Credit:
WorldMate)
That's the theory, anyway,
behind WorldMate's latest update
to its travel app for BlackBerry.
WorldMate 3.0 for BlackBerry
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Fees Estimator saved me some conceivably cut down on the time
give a user almost unlimited cash on airline tickets.(Credit: you spend sitting in an airport.
control of the look of the images. Screenshot by Don I should note that you can use
As it is, your starting point is Reisinger/CNET) TripIt for free, but you'll lose
always what the designer of the TripIt TripIt is a simple travel many of its compelling features. If
filter had in mind. While you can itinerary service that lets you you're a frequent traveler, TripIt
reprocess, you have no control, input every leg of your trip to Pro is the version to use.
and the parameters change at make sure you're prepared when TripIt lets you input several
random. you go. But it's the site's alerts plans.(Credit: Screenshot by Don
In the gallery I've included function that makes you a better Reisinger/CNET)
some variations on a single photo traveler. My top 3
to show you some of the When you first start using 1. SeatGuru: Maybe it's just me,
possibilities. You can also visit a TripIt, you'll need to create a trip. but being comfortable on a long
web page to see how customers From there, you can add a full plane ride is extremely important.
have used the CameraBag itinerary, inputting everything 2. TripAdvisor Fees Estimator: I
original size or you can scale it t e c h n o l o g y . from attending a concert to like knowing exactly what I'm
down. CameraBag is US$19.00 and holding meetings. The site even paying. How about you?
The filters mimic the look of old can be ordered direct from the lets you book a concert, 3. Campus Visit: A nice
instant camera films, and a host of developer. restaurant, or play from within the program should be commended.
other camera, film and lens Gallery: CameraBag app when you have TripIt Pro. Check out Campus Visit before
combinations. screenshots That service costs $69 per year. you bring your kids to visit a
CameraBag is not for the TUAW CameraBag makes it to Also with TripIt Pro, you'll get college.
advanced digital photographer, the desktop originally appeared on what I think is the site's best If you're looking for more travel
but if you want to take an image The Unofficial Apple Weblog feature: alerts. If your flight is roundups, click here for some
and quickly apply a filter and a (TUAW) on Thu, 24 Sep 2009 delayed, your gate changed, or travel-search sites or here for sites
border this is a welcome tool. 15:00:00 EST. Please see our there is a cancellation, TripIt Pro that help you share your vacation
I'd like to see some more things terms for use of feeds. will alert you to it via text plans.
added, like saturation controls and Read| Permalink| Email this| message. It also gives you
sliders for color temperature and Comments alternate flights that will get you
sharpness. Adding those features to your destination sooner. In
combined with the filters would other words, this service could
MediaDailyNews:
Correction: TV Data
now features a local dining and Amtrak, EuroStar, and Sent By Nielsen
entertainment search option TheTrainLine. Version 3 also Company
powered by Yelp.com. Utilizing switches to BlackBerry's movable
the phone's GPS, WorldMate, via map instead of presenting a static (MediaPost | Media News)
Yelp, can suggest establishments map. Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:18:53 PM
nearby or near airports. Clicking With this mostly minimal
to see more details takes you to tweak, WorldMate Live continues In the story "Sony's '2012' Spot
Yelp's mobile site; we wish it to offer freemium services for Blankets TV Homes," ( Media
were better incorporated within domestic and international Daily News, Sept. 24, television
the app experience. Right now the service to keep time zones in travelers, particularly frequent ratings data should have been
supported countries are also quite mind when populating your corporate professionals. attributed to The Nielsen
limited; it will work for cities schedule. The hotel booking Originally posted at The Company, not Nielsen Media
within the U.S., Canada, and the engine acquires thumbnail images Download Blog Research.
U.K. and special offers, and can
The updated version also equips manage train reservations from
WorldMate Live's calendar sync
38 Tech/ Tech Tips/ Entertainment/ Internet News Record

Photoshopping Illegal?
France Set to Regulate
Airbrushed Pics
By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:57:36 PM
USB Car Adapter
File this squarely under “would Charges Any USB
never happen in the U.S.” but
French lawmakers have a Device On-the-Go [Stuff
fascinating new idea to combat We Like]
body image issues: require
disclaimers on Photostopped or
otherwise “enhanced” images of
CoverSutra updated to be By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:00:00 AM

people.
The required warning would be faster and Snow Leopard The iLuv Micro USB Car
adapter turns your car's cigarette
needed in newspaper and reality, and can develop
magazine advertising, press
photos, product packaging,
complexes from a very young age.
In some cases this leads to
compatible outlet into a universal USB
charger, so you don't have to buy
specialized car chargers for all of
political campaigns and art anorexia or bulimia and very By Mike Schramm (The with Snow Leopard and iTunes 9,
photography, according to the serious health problems.” Unofficial Apple Weblog b u t t h e y ' v e b e e f e d u p your USB-chargeable gear.
The device is tiny (1.7-inches
Telegraph. The language will More than 50 French politicians (TUAW)) performance, taking advantage of
long), so once plugged in only
reportedly be: “Retouched have voiced support for the law. If Submitted at 9/24/2009 2:00:00 PM all available CPU cores and, they
photograph aimed at changing a passed, advertisers who break it say, dramatically loading album have a small portion of the gadget
person’s physical appearance.” would be subject to a fine of Filed under: Software, iTunes, artwork and searching music will stick out from your dash, so it
The proposed law comes from £30,000 (about $48,200 USD), or Music faster. I haven't tried it yet, but if shouldn't be much of an eyesore.
French MP Valerie Boyer and is 50 percent of the campaign cost. I picked up CoverSutra a little you've had the same problems Then, rather than buying car
chargers for your cellphone, your
inspired by a recent report she What do you think: should this while ago in a bundle purchase, with CoverSutra I have, it's worth iPod, your camera, or whatever
authored on anorexia and law pass? Is Photoshopped body and I generally liked it -- it's an picking up the new version and else you've got that can already
bulemia. She points to the imagery a public health issue? iTunes controller with the added testing it out. 2.2 is of course a
deterimental effect that unrealistic[via Ars Technica] features of regular notifications free upgrade to current users, and charge via USB, you can just plug
your cheap USB charging cable
body images can have on Tags: body image, france, with album art, a music search, the app itself is available for into the USB car adapter and call
adolescents: “Many young people, imagery, law, legal, Photoshop and Last.fm scrobbling. My one $19.95.
particularly girls, do not know the complaint with the software was TUAW CoverSutra updated to it good. The gadget will set you
difference between the virtual and that it was a bit of a CPU hogger - be faster and Snow Leopard back $15, so it's probably just as
- my little Mac mini chugged right compatible originally appeared on cheap (if not cheaper) than
Les Moonves and Julie Chen Welcome along trying to keep it running, The Unofficial Apple Weblog dedicated chargers. It's currently
Baby! and I occasionally had to turn it (TUAW) on Thu, 24 Sep 2009 not available from the iLuv store,
off completely if I was doing 14:00:00 EST. Please see our but it's supposed to be sometime
(ETonline - Breaking News) Chen gave birth to a son, something else CPU-intensive. terms for use of feeds. in September, meaning it should
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:00:00 AM Charlie Moonves, in Los Angeles But maybe with newly released Read| Permalink| Email this| be available sometime in the next
at 9:40 a.m. on Thursday. ET has version 2.2 they'll have fixed that Comments week. Micro Size USB Car
ET has learned that CBS learned that both mother and child problem -- not only have they Adapter[iLuv via Gizmodo]
Corporation President and CEO are doing well. made the app fully compatible
Leslie Moonves and his wife, Chen announced her pregnancy
CBS' "The Early Show" co- on "The Early Show" back in
anchor and "Big Brother" host April.
Julie Chen, welcomed their new
bundle of joy Thursday!
Internet News Record Tech/ TV/ 39

Saurik live chat: Learn

about Apple's new
signature server
By Erica Sadun (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/24/2009 4:00:00 PM
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion,
iPod Family, Bad Apple, iPhone
Something new, unexpected, and
possibly worrying has popped up
in iTunes. iTunes now "calls
home" to the Apple mothership
whenever you restore an iPhone
or iPod touch. It tells you that it's
"Verifying restore with Apple...",
checking your device identifier
and the firmware with Apple's
new signature server.
Today, TUAW has the pleasure
of talking with Jay Freeman,
otherwise known as "Saurik", the
developer of Cydia. Saurik has
constructed a server that
duplicates Apple's functionality,
ensuring that you'll be able to
downgrade your iPhone or iPod in
the future, even if you have not
jailbroken your device. This topic
is for all iPhone users, regardless
of whether they use jailbreaking.
Please join us with your questions
and comments as we hear from
Freeman about why this move
matters to you.
< a
href="http://www.coveritlive.com
/mobile.php?option=com_mobile
&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=
b0bd5f4a4b" >TUAW Live Chat
with Jay "saurik" Freeman</a>
TUAW Saurik live chat: Learn
about Apple's new signature
server originally appeared on The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW) on Thu, 24 Sep 2009
16:00:00 EST. Please see our
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Stock Photo Site Owner Claims House bombshell:
Infringement Costs The Industry Jennifer Morrison is
out
5X The Entire Industry's Size By Jonathan Toomey (TV
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) article is still deferential to the Squad)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 10:01:00 AM idea that $10 billion might not be Submitted at 9/24/2009 4:10:00 PM
that far off, and thus, obviously,
We've seen all sorts of ridiculous there's a huge problem. Wouldn't Just when we started to think
claims about the supposed "costs" it be nice if reporters actually that things might be getting back
of copyright infringement. In explored where such numbers to normal on House...
almost every case, these claims come from and why they're totally EW's Michael Ausiello is
break down under even the ridiculous? Does anyone actually reporting that Jennifer Morrison is
slightest scrutiny. Yet, throwing think that most of the people who being written out of House and
around big numbers tends to get u s e s u c h p h o t o s w i t h o u t that her last episode will air in
press coverage, and apparently the authorization would pay for them November. I don't want to say
photography industry has finally otherwise? Does anyone actually much more than that - details after
jumped onto the trend. Rose M. think the vast majority of those the jump.
Welch points out that the CEO of uses are "losses?" Then why Continue reading House
a stock photo site is claiming that report them as such? Why not bombshell: Jennifer Morrison is
i n f r i n g e m e n t c o s t s t h e focus on the real issue: that the out
industry$10 billion per year. Now, m a r k e t h a s c h a n g e d a n d Filed under: House, Celebrities,
t h a t ' s q u i t e i m p r e s s i v e , photographers (and stock photo Casting, Reality-Free
considering the entire current sites) need to learn to adapt. Permalink| Email this| |
stock photo industry is only $2 Permalink| Comments| Email Comments
billion. And, while the reporter This Story
expresses some skepticism
towards the number, the overall

Announcement: Saurik live chat at 4:15 (ET) today

By Erica Sadun (The Unofficial server and what that means to you existing firmwares by keeping live chat at 4:15 (ET) today
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) as an iPod or iPhone owner. people from restoring to them in originally appeared on The
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:30:00 AM Have you noticed a new the future. To do this they simply Unofficial Apple Weblog
message in iTunes when you would refuse to ever sign, for (TUAW) on Thu, 24 Sep 2009
Filed under: Bad Apple, iPhone, restore an iPhone or iPod touch? example, iPhoneOS 3.0 again." 11:30:00 EST. Please see our
A p p S t o r e , i P o d t o u c h , "Verifying restore with Apple..."? Freeman will explain why this is terms for use of feeds.
Jailbreak/pwnage Please join us iTunes is now checking your unit a real problem to both the Read| Permalink| Email this|
this afternoon at 4:15 Eastern for against a registered database and standard App Store community Comments
a live chat with Jay "Saurik" deciding whether to allow you to downgrades to previous firmware and to the jailbreak community.
Freeman. Jay is going to talk to us install your firmware or not. versions. According to Freeman, Join us with your questions.
about Apple's new signature Potentially, Apple could disallow this move allows Apple to "recall TUAW Announcement: Saurik
40 Tech/ Tech Tips/ Entertainment/ Internet News Record
Mackenzie Phillips to
WOW: Twitter to Raise $100 New, redesigned iMac Return to 'Oprah' with
Million in New Funding models could be coming Half-Sister Chynna
(ETonline - Breaking News)
By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
shortly
Submitted at 9/24/2009 9:07:27 AM Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:57:00 PM

By Joachim Bean (The ET confirms that "One Day at a

Although it’s yet to earn any
significant revenue, Twitter is
about to get a major infusion of
cash.
According to The Wall Street
Journal, the microblogging
service is about to close a deal for
$100 million in new venture
capital from multiple investors
that will value the company at $1
billion.
At the billion dollar mark,
Twitter has nearly quadrupled its
valuation since early this year,
when it raised $35 million in
capital.
How did Twitter’s valuation
shoot up so fast? According to
WSJ’s report “A person familiar
with the deal said investors are
applying a similar value to
Twitter as that applied to
Facebook.” Facebook, which has
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 9/24/2009 3:30:00 PM
Filed under: Desktops, Rumors,
iMac As we reported last week,
more than 10x the users of Apple seems to be working on
Twitter, was recently valued at r e f r e s h i n g t h e i M a c , b y
$6.5 billion. redesigning it and possibly adding
So now the obvious question: is some new professional "features"
it completely ridiculous to value (maybe related to audio) at the
Twitter at $1 billion, or does same time. Now, AppleInsider is
Twitter still have enough of a reporting that these new iMacs
growth and revenue opportunity will be released shortly. They
in front of it to justify the point to some probable signs,
numbers? Share your thoughts in including Apple's education sales
the comments. teams offering discounts on
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, current iMac models to education
t f o r g o R e v i e w s : F a c e b o o k , customers.
Twitter, iStockphoto It's expected that the new
models will take design cues from
Tags: twitter
the Apple LED Cinema Display,
introduced last October, which
features a thinner and more
consistently-sized profile than the
current iMac design.
Finally, these new iMac models
could be released anytime from
next week to mid-October, around
the same time Apple introduced
the Unibody MacBook and
Time" child star Mackenzie
Phillips will join her half-sister
Chynna Phillips on Oprah
Winfrey's live show on Friday.
Mackenzie will appear via
satellite, while Chynna will be
live in the studio of "The Oprah
Winfrey Show," Us magazine is
reporting.
The actress' interview with
Oprah aired on Wednesday, and
Mackenzie made claims of having
an incestuous relationship with
her father, The Mamas and the
Papas lead singer John Phillips,
for 10 years.
MacBook Pro models last year.
TUAW New, redesigned iMac
models could be coming shortly
originally appeared on The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW) on Thu, 24 Sep 2009
15:30:00 EST. Please see our
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Apple Gets Okay to Block Third-Party Gadgets (Like the Palm Pre) from Syncing with
iTunes [Apple]
By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 10:30:00 AM
When we put together our
iTunes wishlist, item number
three on the list got wistful that
someday Apple might considering
allowing non-iPod devices to sync
with their music player. Palm
went so far as to pretend its Pre
was an iPod so users could sync
with iTunes—an action that
started a cat and mouse game
between Apple and Palm for
blocking and enabling Palm-Pre-
to-iTunes syncing. Palm then
complained to the USB
Implementers Forum, a non-profit
g r o u p t h a t o v e r s e e s U S B don't expect Apple to open that
standards. According to the New walled garden any time soon. [
York Times, not only did Palm NYT]
not get the answer they were
looking for—they were actually
told that using Apple's vendor ID
to spoof that the Pre is an iPod is
a violation of policy. In short,
Internet News Record
USA Today Goes "Reefer Madness" on the Real-
Time Web
By Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:04:22 PM
Jon Swartz wrote a long article
in USA Today this morning about
the phenomenon of the real-time
web. The article blames "the real-
time web" for declining test
scores in school, anti-social
addictions, short attention spans
and texting-while-driving. Swartz
smooshes YouTube, social
networks, online banking,
location-aware search and social
media marketing all under the
same umbrella of doom.
We'd like to highlight Swartz's
work as our Real-Time Web
Article of the Day because it's a
great example of the same old
Fear of the Internet getting a new
name. As a result, USA Today
readers lose an opportunity to
understand an important new
wave of change and opportunity.
Sponsor
The real-time web is of course
far more coherent and less
frightening than Swartz's article.
Isn't the sun setting on the era
when grown adults are afraid of
Facebook and cell phones?
We're highlighting articles
written off-site each day about the
real-time web that we think are
helpful in understanding this
emerging trend, all leading up to
what we believe is going to be a
fabulous face-to-face event on the
topic: the ReadWrite Real-Time
Web Summit on October 15h in
Mountain View, California.
Miniscule attention spans and anti
-social additions are not required -
in fact we expect a great day of
brainstorming, collaboration and
networking. Early bird
registration ends tonight. But
enough about us, let's talk about
USA Today's fear of the real-time
web.
The article's premise:
The latest iteration of the
Internet -- deemed the "real-time
Web" by some analysts, is
exemplified by the obsessive use
of PCs or cellphones for quick
interactions and dips into the
online information stream. This
hyper-connectedness is fueled by
the rise in social media and
distinguished by quick, short
communication and, increasingly,
an absence of privacy. The Real-
Time Web's Potential
Three future, hyper-geeky,
scenarios.
From a conversation with
Google's Brett Slatkin, co-creator
of the Pubsubhubbub protocol
• Immediate public release of
financial data for SEC compliance
• 3D spatial imaging using
sensor networks with open,
standardized data transfer
• Social networking as a
decentralized communications
protocol instead of on centralized
corporate properties
Here's how we explained it in
under 100 words: The Real-Time
Web is a paradigm based on
pushing information to users as
soon as it's available - instead of
requiring that they or their
software check a source
periodically for updates. It's being
implemented in social
networking, search, news and
elsewhere - making those
experiences more like Instant
Tech News/ Tech Reviews/
the company must have been
pleased when USA Today called
to talk about the real-time web.
They must have been displeased
when they saw that Weatherman
made the mistake of mentioning
the devil's spawn that is multi-
network chat clients Adium or
Trillian and that's what the
reporter grabbed hold of.
Swartz concludes his article
with a collection of rapid-fire
links to various factoids about the
negative consequences for society
wrought by Facebook and text
messaging. To be fair, not all of
Swartz's criticisms seem entirely
off-base or irrelevant, but
focusing only on how distracting
these new flows of information
are is taking the easy way out.
Messaging and facilitating In truth, or perhaps in addition
unpredictable innovations. Early to some of the semi-related fears
benefits include increased user Swartz brings up, the real-time
e n g a g e m e n t ( " f l o w " ) a n d web is making possible richer,
decreased server loads, but these more efficient communication
are early days.
between people and between
I think our definition is clearer computers. It's an exciting
and more useful; Swartz clearly foundation for innovation in
doesn't like the real-time web and almost every field you can think
arguably doesn't understand what of.
it is. Remember though kids, when
Swartz's article is peppered with those Twitter search results get
q u o t e s f r o m p e o p l e i n t h e pushed to you automatically, you
industry, but my favorite was this might think that the real-time web
one: is fun and useful - but it's actually
"It all can be distracting at the beginning of the end of the
times," says Kevin Weatherman, rest of your life.
27, who is in business
For a more accurate and useful
development for an Internet discussion of this important trend,
advertising start-up in Palo Alto, s t a y r i g h t h e r e w i t h
Calif. He uses at least six instant- ReadWriteWeb and join the
messaging services -- often at conversation about how we can
once. effectively utilize these new
Weatherman works for a real- technologies. Discuss
time ad network called PubMatic;
41
Report: Apple ready
to release new
iMacs with Blu-ray
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:08:00 PM
Apple may be ready to introduce
a new line of iMac all-in-one
desktop computers before the end
of year, according to a new report
on AppleInsider.
Citing "people familiar" with
Apple's plans, AppleInsider said
the new iMacs got the go-ahead in
early September and have been in
production for the past couple of
weeks.
In addition to a new thinner
enclosure, the new iMac line is
rumored to possibly include a Blu
-ray optical drive. This would
mark the first time Apple would
include a Blu-ray drive in one of
its desktop or portable computers.
Based on previous updates from
Apple, it's reasonable to expect
the company to also include faster
processors, perhaps newer
graphics cards, and increased hard
drive capacity. Current models
feature processors ranging from
2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo to
3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.
Hard drive capacities go from
320GB on the low-end model to
1TB on the high end.
Apple also usually keeps the
prices of its updated machines
pretty close to the previous ones,
although they have reduced prices
on occasion. Current prices range
from $1,199 to $2,199.
42 Tech News/
ReadWriteWeb's List of Kid-
Friendly Online Resources
By Dana Oshiro
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 10:32:03 PM
In an ironic twist of fate, Fox's
IGN Entertainment, a company
known for its game reviews of
products like Zombie Apocalypse
just acquired What They Play.
The newest member of Fox
Interactive is touted as the "family
guide to video games" and offers
reviews, warnings and suggested
products. Under the umbrella
company of What They Like,
What They Play uses the
"Entertainment Software Rating
Board" (ESRB) to warn parents of
games containing explicit lyrics,
cartoon violence and drug
references.
Sponsor
In an age when gross-out sites
like goatse are just a click away, a
number of services offer parents
the information they need to find
quality online entertainment.
While past generations were
raised on unfiltered television and
video games, today's parent take a
more active role in the process of
media consumption.
AOL's PlaySavvy: PlaySavvy is
another site that offers parents a
chance to check out age-
appropriate kids games. Similar to
What They Play, this site lists the
ESRB ratings next to games and
information is categorized by
topic and gaming system.
Products for console favorites like
Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii
are often featured on the site.
Internet News Record
PostRank Launches New
Dashboard to Track
Engagement Around Blog Posts
available in English and Spanish.
This site tends to weigh the By Frederic Lardinois
benefits of mainstream media (ReadWriteWeb)
sites. Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:16:53 AM
PBS KIDS Island: This site
offers parents reading resources, PostRank just launched a new summary of your blog's
videos and games in English and analytics tool that promises to engagement activity to very
Spanish. While the majority of the give publishers a better way to detailed reports about specific
content is best queued up by a track the social engagement posts.
parent or teacher, the videos are around their content across the The most interesting data can be
of particularly high quality and web. To do so, PostRank found under the 'analyze' tab.
completely commercial free. Analytics, which costs $9 per Here, you can see a mashed-up
National Geographic for Kids: month after a free 30-day trial, view of all the posts on your blog
This site offers kid-friendly combines engagement metrics its and drill down to specific metrics
AOL also offers parents daily g a m e s , v i d e o s , s t o r i e s a n d already collects from social for every post. PostRank
articles and a section to view the activities for nature lovers. The networks with traditional aggregates data from all the major
most popular games. same photography that has made analytics data from Google social networks and sharing sites
Parents' Choice: Established in National Geographic a hit with Analytics. Given that the majority like Twitter, Facebook, delicious,
1978, this site is run by the grownups is likely to please kids. of engagement around a blog post Reddit, and digg. In addition, it
Parents' Choice Foundation - a Not surprisingly, the video now happens off-site and within also uses BackType to track
nonprofit organization that offers content is equally compelling. an hour after a post goes up, conversations around posts and
awards to the top children's media Discovery Kids offers a similar PostRank's ability to give users a displays traditional metrics like
and toys. Some of the award experience and is a great site for real-time view of how a story is number of unique visitors and
categories include websites, video visual learners. being shared on multiple social bounce rates from Google
games, DVDs, software, Totlol: Totlol is a parent- networks can be quite useful. Analytics.
television programming and toys. moderated version of YouTube. Sponsor Most of the info in PostRank
This site definitely skews towards The site offers video options Setup is pretty easy - the only Analytics can obviously be found
narrative-based educational specifically designed for children slightly annoying part of the for free on the Internet already,
materials. If your kid has a shorter and even offers "age optimized registration process is that you do but getting an aggregate view of
attention span, you might want to interfaces" to ensure that kids of have to provide PostRank with a all of this data definitely gives
visit PBS Kids instead. different ages get the most credit card to sign up for the 30- you a new way to track
C o m m o n S e n s e M e d i a : appropriate content. In 2008, day trial. After this, you simply engagement around your blog
C o m m o n S e n s e m e d i a i s a ReadWriteWeb covered Totlol's grant PostRank permission to posts. PostRank Analytics is
nonprofit organizations dedicated beta launch. As of today the site access your Google Analytics obviously not an enterprise-class
to offering parents reviews and c h a r g e s a $ 3 p e r m o n t h account and you are good to go. social media tracking service like
s u g g e s t i o n s o n a p p r o p r i a t e subscription fee or $54 until your On its overview page, PostRank Radian6 or Sysyomos' MAP and
content. The group produces child grows up. will display standard metrics like Heartbeat, but for $9 a month, it
movie, website, TV, game, book Photo Credit: Swaminathan total page views, a PostRank provides a lot of value to
and music ratings as well as a Discuss engagement score and, optionally, publishers who are looking for a
number of educational tools for the number of Twitter followers convenient way to track
classroom use. The site can be you have. PostRank Analytics engagement around their posts
personalized for kids between the also offers a wide range of across a multitude of services.
ages of 2-17 years old and it's additional features, ranging from Discuss
daily 'Concierge' emails with a
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With So Many Startups, Where Does Barack Obama Loves
One Get Customers? Startups: New Federal Office
By Mick Liubinskas for Early-Stage Entrepreneurs
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:19:47 PM
With DEMOfall 09 now behind
us, pitch season has given us a lot
of "Wow": solid businesses with
promising applications. The
majority of new ventures we're
seeing today are variations on
familiar themes, new
combinations of old technology,
and niche plays. Not all of them
have convincing business models,
but the bigger challenge seems to
be acquiring a customer base at
all.
At the earlier TechCrunch 50,
Paul Graham of Y-Combinator
asked a number of the startups
that presented, "Who do you think
your best target is?" Acquiring
and retaining a large enough
customer base to make a venture
worthwhile has always been a
challenge for young companies,
but it seems particularly an issue
these days. Here are a few reasons
why.
Sponsor
Increased Competition
New companies are facing
talented, quick-responding
competition at a pace never before
seen. New teams can be formed in
days, and new products launched
in weeks. The marketplace is
global, and the next competitor
Party at the Plaza: Betsey Johnson Shows off Her Spring 2010 line!
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 7:00:00 AM
could come from any one of a
dozen innovation hubs. The
window of opportunity is
shrinking, and differentiation is
harder to claim. For some, this
means less attention to protecting
intellectual property and more
attention to getting to market
quickly and then iterating.
Stronger Incumbents
Creating completely new value
is rare. New companies typically
get their customers from existing
companies, and those companies
aren't letting go easily. Many
incumbents were themselves new
companies less than a decade ago,
and they are nimbler than the big
guys they toppled. They
constantly work on innovating,
staying ahead, and keeping
customers happy. Disrupting their
market is possible, but being just
a little better is certainly not
enough. New Product Fatigue
The Web is not new anymore,
and anyone who is not an early
Pink champagne bottles, neon-
c o l o r e d are just some of the eye candy
bows, polka dots galore, exaggera
ted tutus, and dancing models
adopter is not interested in the
latest thing. Consumers will
occasionally fall for gimmicks,
but startups cannot build a
business around a $0.99 iPhone
app that people use only once.
The vast majority of consumers
usually prefer to leave things as
they are rather than add yet
another complication to their busy
lives. History Proves It Is Hard
The simple fact is that the list of
companies that have tried and
failed is growing. Those
companies know it's hard because
they've actually done it. Despite
what so many founders of startups
think, there is no pent-up demand
for their products from customers
ready to pounce. Most products
fail to gain attention, create value,
impress, or sustain interest.
Despite these challenges, the
tone of presenters at these events
are notable for their optimism. We
were on the precipice of a global
financial crisis one year ago.
Now, we're all talking about
opportunities and how to thrive
(rather than merely survive).
Hopefully, many of the businesses
that have emerged this pitch
season will find a way to
overcome these risks, attract
paying customers, and build their
brands. Discuss
that filled the ballroom in New
Tech News/ Fashion/
By Jolie O'Dell
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:40:15 PM
According to a Bloomberg report
this morning, early-stage startups
have a new friend in very high
places.
The U.S. Commerce
Department is establishing a new
Office for Entrepreneurship and
Innovation specifically to help
entrepreneurs develop great ideas
into workable business plans by
giving them training, funding,
advisement, access to data, and a
big pair of federal-sized scissors
for cutting through the red tape of
starting a new business.
Sponsor
The office is being announced
by Secretary of Commerce Gary
Locke, who has a track record of
supporting entrepreneurship.
Earlier this month, he examined a
backlog at the U.S. Patent Office
that was holding up many
applications for years. "This has a
direct, negative impact on
America's economic
competitiveness, creating
uncertainty for entrepreneurs and
inventors," he said.
And in light of America's
current economic crisis, he
echoed remarks made by Obama
in a speech given on September
21st. The President cited a need
for more federal support of
York City's infamous Plaza Hotel
during last week's SS10 fashion
extravaganza.
All Photos: Kelly Stuart
43
innovation and entrepreneurship
at a time when the country is
reelying from "cycles of boom
and bust." Lock said, "Instead of
working to build a great company
or discover a new invention, too
many of our brightest minds were
busy engineering credit-default
swaps."
Locke will direct the new office
in supporting entrepreneurs and
startups through the coordinated
efforts of many government
programs and entities.
We look forward to reporting
more on this office as news
becomes available; however, we
also acknowledge that not
everyone agrees with the
President's economic initiatives.
As members of the American
startup community, how do you
feel about the likelihood of more
federal involvement in our
sphere? Is the government's help,
including possible grants or loans,
welcome?
Let us know your opinions in
the comments. Discuss
44 Tech News/ Tech Tips/ Fashion/ Internet News Record

WSJ: Twitter Will Raise

Another $100 Million in
VC Funding Today
By Frederic Lardinois
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 10:28:14 AM

According to the Wall Street

Journal, Twitter is about to close a about Twitter's $1 billion
$100 million funding round from valuation, which seems somewhat
as many as seven investors, disproportionate to Twitter's
including T. Rowe Price, Insight current revenue stream. While
Venture Partners, Spark Capital, companies around Twitter are
and Institutional Venture Partners. using the ecosystem that Twitter
Even though Twitter has yet to has created to make money,
actually make money, these Twitter itself still hasn't
investors are valuing Twitter at announced how it plans to make
about $1 billion. The Wall Street
Journal, which is relying on
information from an anonymous
money.
This kind of valuation is going
to give Twitter a long runway
Evernote 3.5 Beta Brings Tons of
person "close to the deal," states
that the deal could close today and
before it actually has to make
money, but at the same time, it
also makes it unlikely that
Tiny Fixes to Windows [Downloads]
would be Twitter's third and By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) please power users. Choose a also look a lot more polished, and
largest round of VC funding to anybody is going to acquire
Twitter in the near future. Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:30:00 PM notebook and tags you want to Evernote's team says there's
date. start under, then start your search "better handling" of long text
Sponsor We will obviously keep an eye
on this developing story and will Windows: If you're a happy in the right-hand search bar. The notes, though I've never really
Rumors about this new round Evernote desktop user and only whole thing is written out as a encountered problems with my
started to appear about one week update it once we get more
information. wish it looked nicer, moved sentence, one you can remove or own massive missives.
ago, though at the time, the actual faster, and was smarter about how add descriptors and restrictions to. Ready to jump in and grab the
amount was rumored to be around Image used courtesy of Flickr
user tao zhyn Discuss it handled your organization tools, Better still, once you've got your beta? Don't be so quick. Evernote
$50 million. Around the same the just-released 3.5 beta will long, intricate searches figured suggests that if you're already
time, we already wondered a bit make you very happy. out, you can set them as Saved using Evernote for Windows, you
Evernote for Windows doesn't Searches to run at any time. That, need to take a few extra steps:
And meanwhile, on Savile Row... get one big, shining, brand-new at least for this editor, is a big, big • Export any local notebooks
feature in this release, but a lot of relief. • Completely quit Evernote 3.1
By blogeditor1 (Material E. Tautz, the historic (and annoyances were removed, code If you're a text fiend, Evernote (including the taskbar clipper)
Interest on Men.style.com) occasionally Churchill- c l e a n e d u p , a n d f i n e - g r a i n 3.5 has a lot of tools to offer. It • Install Evernote 3.5 Beta
Submitted at 9/24/2009 9:54:22 AM frequented) house revived of late features were implemented. Click can import and understand tables, • Allow Evernote to sync your
by dapper tailor Patrick Grant. No the image above to check out bullet points, and other rich notes from the server (this make
Much of the action in London popcorn for yesterday's debut some of Evernote's more polished formatting, and recreate them
yesterday was at MANday, where s c r e e n i n g , a s y o u m i g h t take some time)
look in the "mixed" view mode, from its own editor. Misspelled • Import the local notebooks
the city's most forward-thinking expect—the flick was shown to providing both note item details words are underlined in subtle
exhibited their Spring collections. editors and buyers with a proper Evernote 3.5 Beta is a free
and the ability to sort by creation red, Firefox-style, and you can set download for Windows systems
But the august suit makers of English cup of tea. You can have date, size, title, and other features. a default font style and size if
Savile Row were showing their a look (with or without the tea) only. Evernote's Big Win(dows)
Search, in particular, got a you're sick of squinting at your Beta Release[Evernote Blog]
wares, too. Over at The Q, below. pretty nice overhaul that will notes. Hand-drawn "Ink" notes
Michael Williams calls out the MATTHEW SCHNEIER
Spring 2010 video presentation by
Internet News Record Tech Tips/ 45

Lifehacker Workspaces: Jason Fitzpatrick Edition [Lifehacker

Workspaces]
By Jason Fitzpatrick memory pool and do more work
(Lifehacker) in virtual machines. I dragged my
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:00:00 PM feet but finally got around to
installed Windows 7 64-bit. I
In the spirit of Supercharge Your could kick myself for not doing it
Workspace Week, we're all prying sooner. As seen in the photo
open our office doors and sharing above, running off one quad-core
our workspaces with you. Today system with 8GB of RAM, I'm
you'll be visiting my home office rocking Windows 7, Windows
and getting a peak at the gadgets XP, and Mac OS X (Tiger, but
and gear that run it. now that I have my hands on a
This isn't the first time Snow Leopard install, I'm
Lifehacker readers have gotten a working on setting up a Virtual
peek into my office. A little over a Machine for that too). Even with
year ago I completely revamped both XP and Mac OS X in
my office to save it from the virtualization and each with 2GB
mountain of clutter that was of ram and one of the processors
crushing it. You can read all about off the quad-core, all three
my extreme home office operating systems are lightning
makeover here. Shortly after that I fast.
wrote up a guide to using rope Other changes to my workspace
lighting as a source of ambient include ditching the dedicated
light, and that was the last we saw tickler file on my desk. I've
of my office for some time. moved the tickler file folders to
While many things have stayed the front of one of the file cabinet
the same since the overhaul you drawers, although if I'm being
saw last year, I've tweaked and honest I've just never gotten into
modified a few things here and using a physical tickler file so I
there and I have quite a list of might phase that out soon
things I'd like to experiment with started off with a standard 17" bigger. If anyone has a suggestion ago I built a media server which altogether. The inbox I had before
on my to-do list. LCD, added a flanking 15" LCD, for an articulating triple-monitor means the miscellaneous external was an extra deep wire basket
My office is a long and narrow and I loved it. Unfortunately if arms, I'd love to hear it. hard drives and storage related with fairly big spacing between
room at the back of my house. On you've got one monitor dead In the old setup I had the clutter is gone from my office. It's the bars. It was too big and the
the upside there is tons of center and one to the side you turn computer hidden behind the file nice to have the storage out of my spacing allowed small things like
sunshine, you never feel boxed in. your head in one direction a lot. cabinet out of site. While visually main work machine and safely flash drives to slide right out. I
On the downside it can get a bit To balance things out I watched pleasing it ended up to be entirely tucked away elsewhere in the upgraded to a multi-tier four
warm in the room during the Craigslist for a matching LCD impractical. On top of all the dust house. This has the added bonus basket system from Rubbermaid. I
summer. If I ever get around to and threw it on the other side. If I that accumulated it was just a pain of me never having to interrupt like it much better and I have
putting some plants in there, were going to make any changes in the ass to crawl under the desk. my wife and daughter while they more spots to stash paper, 3x5
they'll be quite pleased with their at all to this setup it would be to When I upgraded my machine I are watching a movie streamed cards, and so on.
new home—the addition of a few invest in three uniformly sized left the case up top where I could over the network if I have to Around the time I upgraded my
thriving and tropical looking monitors and a single stand that I access it more easily. reboot while testing software. inbox, I upgraded my shredder. I
plants is definitely on my list of could mount to the wall or desk. On the topic of upgrades, one Regarding software testing: The was buying a $30-50 shredder
office tweaks. The stands chew up a fair amount area of my office that became How-To Geek had encouraged me every 1-2 years and eventually
Since I last shared my office I of space and although it doesn't significantly lighter was the wire for a long, long, time to switch just destroying it. Finally I
scrounged up an additional LCD bother me too much, it is a bit odd metro-rack I was using for a from XP to at least Vista 64-bit so
to match the 2nd one I added. I having the middle monitor be 2" charging station. A few months I could take advantage of a larger LIFEHACKER page 46
46 Tech Tips/ Tech Blog/ Internet News Record

Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day [Dealhacker] I want to

By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
• Sony DSLRA230L dSLR with
18-55mm Lens for $440 + Free
divorce my
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Discounted monitors, laptops,

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• Etymotic Research ER20 HiFi iPhone
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LIFEHACKER
continued from page 45
PS: I have my contacts in
GMail. Must be able to synch
invested in a nice shredder from nearly seven feet tall and the three of desktop baubles and a veritable can. with them. One of my favorite
Royal—the SC180MX if you're shelter kittens my family adopted change-log of my recent office Don't forget to add your own iPhone features.
curious—and I haven't had a earlier this spring love it to death. upgrades, I'll wrap things up on workspace to the Lifehacker PPS: I never use it as an iPod. I
single problem with it. Had I Two of them are nearly always on the "Awww kitty!" note. You can Workspace Show and Tell Pool prefer my Walkman.
bought a shredder this nice five it and the third—pictured click on the picture of the office on Flickr!
years ago, I'd have come out above—spends most of the day on above to get a closer look and if
ahead. my lap. you have any specific questions
The final significant addition to In an effort to not make the tour throw them in a comment below.
my office is a huge cat tree. It's of my workspace an encyclopedia I'll answer all of them as best I
Internet News Record Tech Tips/ Tech Reviews/ Sports/ 47

Google announces Project 10^100

themes
(CNET News.com) to emphasize project categories disasters."
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:17:00 PM that resonated with the company, Work toward more socially
rather than individual ideas. conscious tax policies: "Fund the
Google has finally whittled Some of those themes, and most promising efforts to make
down the more than 150,000 ideas Google's comments on those the tax system more transparent
submitted as part of its Project ideas, follow below: and better at supporting societal
10^100 to 16 themes that will Enhance science and sustainability and development.
compete for $10 million in engineering education: "Users ...User ideas in this category
funding. from many countries agreed that highlight tax policy as a perhaps
It's taken far longer than Google encouraging science education surprisingly fertile area in which
had originally predicted, but the was an ideal way to insure the intelligent, data-driven analysis
SpotifiTunes Helps Smooth results of the company's 10th
anniversary project to solicit ideas
that could change the world are
brightest future for technology
development itself."
Create more efficient landmine
could make a huge difference in
the effectiveness of the public
sector."
Your Transition from ready for inspection. Google is
asking the public to vote on the
removal programs: "Fund global
organizations that are developing
Now that the themes have been
chosen, Google is asking the
most worthy of the 16 "idea efficient strategies for landmine public to vote on the best ideas,
iTunes to Spotify [Music] themes" that it has identified from
the submissions it has received
detection and removal.
...Numerous suggestions for this
the results of which will be
submitted to a committee that will
By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) More than anything, an iTunes- over the past year. topic include robotic, human, and pick up to five ideas for funding.
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:30:00 AM playlist-to-Spotify converter is a Google had originally planned animal-facilitated detection Google will undertake a RFP
tool we'd kill for, and while it's to choose individual ideas, but strategies." (request for proposal) process in
Upload your iTunes Music n o t c u r r e n t l y a v a i l a b l e i n w a s " o v e r w h e l m e d " b y t h e Create real-time natural crisis order to solicit companies or
L i b r a r y X M L f i l e t o w e b SpotifiTunes, the developer says: number of submissions, which tracking system: "Make rapid- organizations that can implement
application SpotifiTunes, and it There's no way, at the moment, took 3,000 employees to properly response crisis-mapping data the chosen ideas, and those groups
generates a page full of links to to take your iTunes library and vet, said Jamie Yood, a Google available to help policymakers will receive the money.
artists, genres, and albums that make a playlist out of it, but I can spokesman. In addition, many of better coordinate response efforts Voting ends on October 8th.
point directly to Spotify to help promise that as soon as Spotify the ideas were extremely similar during hurricanes, earthquakes,
you smooth your transition to the release an API that allows playlist or overlapping, so Google decided tsunamis and other natural
excellent cloud-based desktop creation I will be on it.
music player. With any luck, Spotify will get
To be honest, SpotifiTunes isn't o n t h e A P I A S A P . I n t h e Adrian Peterson of Minnesota Vikings: Back
the migration tool we wished it meantime, SpotifiTunes isn't a
was, but at least it's a start. Rather bad idea—it's just not the end-all injury 'not a big deal'
than requiring you to go one of iTunes-to-Spotify migration. By Associated Press writes about all things NFC North Henderson missed practice
album at a time through your Currently Spotify is not available (ESPN.com) in his division blog. Wednesday because of a shoulder
iTunes library and start saving in the U.S., so if you want to get a Submitted at 9/24/2009 10:46:42 AM • Blog network: injury. Defensive coordinator
albums to your Spotify account, better idea of what it's all about, NFL Nation Leslie Frazier said Thursday he
for example, you can upload that check out our first look at Spotify. EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Peterson was limited in practice believes Henderson will be fine.
iTunes XML file, then click S p o t i f i T u n e s [ v i a D o w n l o a d Minnesota Vikings running back on Wednesday because of the Henderson leads the team with
through to any of your artist or S q u a d ] Adrian Peterson says his back injury. He rushed for 92 yards and 17 tackles this season after
albums straight to Spotify. injury is "not a big deal," meaning a touchdown last week against missing most of last year with a
he should play Sunday against Detroit, and leads the NFL in foot injury.
San Francisco. rushing heading into the Vikings' Copyright 2009 by The
NFC North blog home opener against the 49ers. Associated Press
ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert Starting middle linebacker E.J.
48 Tech Reviews/ Apple/ Internet News Record

iPhone farting-app rivals clear up the WorldMate Live adds

stink Yelp search for
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:11:23 PM
didn't they call the company Air-o
-Mantic?) decided to release
Touch finger pullers.
Clear the Air, the product of BlackBerry
lawyers upon the alleged bums at some brilliant 30,000-foot (CNET News.com) supported countries are also quite
You have, perhaps, been taking InfoMedia, the makers of iFart. thinking, offers you four methods Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:14:00 PM limited; it will work for cities
additional fiber since you heard "You're pulling our legs, if you to make the oxygen around you within the U.S., Canada, and the
about the iPhone farting-app use the phrase 'pull my finger'," more uplifting. You can turn on a Travelers don't always get to do U.K.
litigation. the Airheads might have said. desk fan, spray a little deodorizer, their homework about restaurants The updated version also equips
iFart was fingered by Pull My "We have the trademark." open a window, or even push your and nightlife before they leave, WorldMate Live's calendar sync
Finger for using a phrase redolent Yet the infidels from Infomedia finger on an aircon button. and you don't want to be stuck service to keep time zones in
of nothing more than a very happy contended that the phrase was part This vastly imaginative solution relying on the advice of someone mind when populating your
night among very sad people. of the language. As steam rose is proof that any dispute can be who winds up sharing different schedule. The hotel booking
I can now reveal that the evil from each company's base, no one solved, once you create the right tastes than you. engine acquires thumbnail images
odor is over. Fresher air has could be sure if these fine atmosphere. That's the theory, anyway, and special offers, and can
prevailed. The two farting apps companies would be able to smell While declaring that letting the behind WorldMate's latest update manage train reservations from
have partaken of a peace pipe and the roses. lawyers win in litigation was to its travel app for BlackBerry. A m t r a k , E u r o S t a r , a n d
declared the spat to have blown Even our generation's Walter clearly beneath both companies, WorldMate 3.0 for BlackBerry TheTrainLine. Version 3 also
over. They have even created a Cronkite, Jon Stewart of "The InfoMedia's Joel Comm went on now features a local dining and switches to BlackBerry's movable
new app to prove that the air is Daily Show," failed to exert the to suggest in a press release that it entertainment search option map instead of presenting a static
now safe to breathe. principles of Camp David upon was "more in the spirit of powered by Yelp.com. Utilizing map.
However, should you have not these purveyors of stench warfare. humanity to find a way to work the phone's GPS, WorldMate, via With this mostly minimal
had so much as a sniff of these So how nostril-positive it is to together". Yelp, can suggest establishments tweak, WorldMate Live continues
happenings, please let me throw hear that the noxiousness has been What a lovely day it is, when nearby or near airports. Clicking to offer freemium services for
caution to the wind and explain. replaced by a joint app created in the bottom falls out of a lawyer's to see more details takes you to d o m e s t i c a n d i n t e r n a t i o n a l
You see, many inspiring minds one corporate bathroom? fees. Yelp's mobile site; we wish it travelers, particularly frequent
have been dedicated to creating Yes, let us welcome the Clear were better incorporated within corporate professionals.
the most fragrant farting apps. Yet The Air app, which is being the app experience. Right now the
the chaps at Air-o-Matic (why offered free to all iPhone and iPod

iPhone Maps Icon: Close to Apple’s Heart

By Olly Farshi (TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 8:00:31 AM
Apparently, as far as the folks at
Apple are concerned, all roads
lead to Cupertino.
Toying with your latest Apple
purchase, it’s not unusual to
marvel at the visual joys of the
Cupertino company’s product
design — gorgeous electronic
objects one and all, whether it be
the pristine sheen of a brand new
Unibody Mac Book Pro or the
iconic form factor of an iPod
classic.
Dazzled by these aesthetically
excellent devices, it’s sometimes
easy to forget the software. You
might still get that warm glow as
you swipe your finger across your
brand new iPhone’s oleophobic
screen, but did you ever stop to
consider any of those lovely
looking icons speeding past your
extended index digit?
An icon that’s certainly worth a
moment of your time is the one
that Apple created for Maps. Grab
your iPhone now and took a good
look at it — notice anything
familiar? Try looking a little
closer.
Just in case you’re not familiar
with that address – 1 Infinite
Loop, Cupertino, CA— it’s
precisely where the magic
happens, the place where dreams
are made: the location of Apple’s
headquarters in California.
It’s not coincidental that the
iPhone Maps icons references
Apple’s headquarters. The
Address Book application for OS
X features the very same address
for Apple’s HQ, and the
Cupertino folks certainly aren’t
strangers to incorporating curious
details and other such Easter Eggs
in their product designs.
If you’ve discovered any other
interesting Apple Easter Eggs, let
us know! Read our latest analysis
piece, " Why Startups Aren’t
Changing the World." Only on
GigaOM Pro.
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Wacom Updates Bamboo Line With Penn & Teller: Magicians
Multi-Touch by night, detectives by day?
By Darrell Etherington
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:00:11 AM
This news isn’t specific to
Apple, but it definitely affects
Apple users. As a longtime Mac
user and amateur digital artist,
I’ve also owned many a Wacom
tablet over the years. Most
recently, I graduated to a Cintiq
12WX, but the Graphire was my
primary workhorse for many
years. The Bamboo is the
successor to that mantle.
Now, the Bamboo line is getting
a much-needed update, and part of
that update includes multi-touch
gesture support. That’s right, the
staunchly stylus-oriented Wacom
is releasing touch-enabled
devices, available today.
Gradually, Wacom has
introduced customizable buttons,
scrolls, rockers, and touch strips
to make them easier to use
without the aid of a keyboard and
mouse. And they’ve made great
strides. My 12WX has 10
customizable keys and two touch-
sensitive scroll strips, all of which
result in a much less clumsy
drawing experience than I ever
had using any of my Graphire
tablets. Still, it can’t help but feel
somewhat awkward and counter-
intuitive.
The new multi-touch controls so
closely resemble those already in
use on Macs with trackpads that
experienced Mac laptop users will
likely feel right at home with
them. Judging by the promo
video, in fact, having a Bamboo
with touch could actually
completely eliminate the need of
using a mouse at all, which
represents a massive technical
leap for the tablet maker.
Pinch to zoom and spread to
expand, two-finger swipe left and
right to scroll or move backwards
and forwards, two-finger swipe up
and down to scroll, and two-finger
rotation are all included as usable
gestures, and more besides.
The new Bamboo line now
includes five distinct products,
including one that doesn’t support
touch at all, so if you’re thinking
about getting one, think carefully
about what you want out of the
device. Since I already have a
drawing tablet, I’m thinking about
picking up the Bamboo Touch
($69), which doesn’t allow pen
input at all and basically just
brings multi-touch to your
desktop. Could come in handy for
browsing through large photo
libraries, for example.
For the same price, you can get
the Bamboo Pen, which doesn’t
allow finger input at all. Maybe
good for digital artists who only
need the very basics, or for
business people who only use it to
digitally sign documents, but I
don’t see this one being a hot
seller.
The Bamboo ($99), Bamboo
Fun ($199), and Bamboo Craft
($129) all offer both pen and
multi-touch input. Price
differences account for size,
mostly, since every device
includes the same ExpressKeys
and pressure levels sensitivity. If
you manage to get your hands on
one of these, let us know how the
multi-touch experience stacks up.
Check out the following video for
more info.
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gain access to our Webinar, "
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Apple/ TV/ Media 49
By Jason Hughes (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 4:26:00 PM
Las Vegas magicians and
Bullshit! hosts Penn & Teller
have inked a deal with ABC for
an hour dramedy based on their
real lives. To make it a little more
interesting, they've added a
fictional crime-solving element.
Playing essentially themselves,
Penn & Teller in the show will
have a Las Vegas magician act at
night. But during the day, they're he'll stay silent. There's a lot of
"reluctant" detectives, solving sight gags they can do with a
crimes and saving lives. silent Teller and a chatty Penn.
One of the big questions I have I've enjoyed the guest stints
is if Teller will talk. I suspect that they've had on other shows, and
he won't, even though we all think they're one of the most
know he can. He doesn't during entertaining acts in the world, so
their work together because it I'm intrigued.
creates more humor that way with Filed under: Other Drama
Penn blabbing on and on. If this is Shows, Other Comedy Shows,
supposed to be loosely based on OpEd, Celebrities, Pickups and
their real lives, though, wouldn't Renewals, Casting
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However, since this is still a Comments
Penn & Teller "show," I'm sure
MediaDailyNews: 'Life' Stories Gets New
Life Online
(MediaPost | Media News) historic weekly run, from 1936-
Submitted at 9/24/2009 9:31:44 AM 1972 -- more than 1,860 issues in
all, reports AP. While Life makes
Decades of Life magazine have its images available online at
been scanned and posted online, Life.com, this partnership, also
g i v i n g r e a d e r s t h e f i r s t with Google, makes stories
comprehensive electronic access available as well.
to its archives that cover the mag's
50 Apple/ TV/ Entertainment/ Internet News Record

TomTom iPhone GPS Kit Debuts in Perfect Showcase bid was a

Apple Store "dark day" on The Price is
By Darrell Etherington
(TheAppleBlog)
but as I’m sure TomTom is
painfully aware, the cat’s already
Right, says Drew Carey
out of the bag, so it’ll look like By Joel Keller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 9:30:22 AM
the company’s just backpedaling, Submitted at 9/24/2009 2:09:00 PM

Those of you hoping to augment with customers losing out in the

your TomTom GPS iPhone
experience shouldn’t have to wait
too much longer. As Engadget
reports, the TomTom iPhone Car
Kit page on Apple’s online store
temporarily went live earlier
today in the UK, with an asking
price of £99.95 (around $162). It
also later went live for the rest of
mainland Europe. Briefly.
It was set to ship in about two or
three weeks, according to Apple’s
web site. I say “was,” because it
isn’t there anymore. At all. The
device has been pulled from the
product listings for the time being,
and Apple isn’t saying why.
Many suspect that the real
reason Apple has temporarily
stopped taking pre-orders is
because TomTom was offering
the car mount and GPS signal
booster bundled with its actual
navigation app, the one that was
released awhile ago with its own
nearly $100 price tag — the one
which many people already
purchased, not suspecting that
TomTom would offer the
software free with purchase of
this new hardware. This was
apparently generating complaints.
So alienating your No. 1 target
user base for a product at launch
probably isn’t the best possible
marketing strategy. How
TomTom and Apple decide to get
around this is going to be
interesting to see. On the one
hand, they could offer rebate
vouchers towards the hardware to
any customers who’ve already
purchased the navigation app on
its own. But that would probably
result in them taking a huge bath
on at least this round of mount
sales.
On the other hand, they could
simply remove the part in the
blurb about the Car Kit including
software, and not bundle anything
with the device. It’s the solution
that makes the most fiscal sense,
end.
My advice to TomTom: Take
the hit and offer the hardware
with a discount for existing
navigation app customers. Sure,
it’ll probably result in a fair size
loss until the market of people
who already have your app are
sated, but you’ll retain customer
confidence and good will, and it
won’t make you look incompetent
and dishonest, which is what will
happen if you try to say the bit
about the app being included was
just a typo.
Those interested in the hardware
itself, regardless of selling
conditions, will be interested to
find that while the Car Kit dock is
said to be compatible with all
iPhone models, the navigation app
only works with the 3G and the
3GS. Looks like the brave claims
of iPod touch compatibility have
yet to be substantiated. We’ll see
if TomTom redacts that particular
claim, too. Read our latest
analysis piece, " Mobile Sites
Show Little Improvement." Only
on GigaOM Pro.
When I came upon Drew Carey
at CBS's TCA party over the
summer, he was tapping away on
his iPhone. He was sending a
tweet to one of the responders on
one of his two Twitter feeds, and
was generally having a ball. So I
figured he was in a good mood to
talk about the show he's most
known for these days, The Price
Is Right.
It was a season of change for
Drew and the show; the prizes got
more creative, Drew changed his
look, and the show in general did
a lot to break out of the mold of
the Bob Barker years.
Of course, those changes didn't
go unnoticed, as some of the Continue reading Perfect
show's more "devoted" fans took Showcase bid was a "dark day" on
to sites like Golden-Road.net to The Price is Right, says Drew
disparage Drew and say the show Carey
was going downhill. There was Filed under: Daytime,
even a minor controversy this past Interviews, Game Show, TCA
season, as a contestant made a Press Tour, Reality-Free
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Showcase bid, and Drew's Comments
reaction to it was less than
enthusiastic (for good reason, as
he mentions in the interview).

New Video: Ashley Hamilton Hangs Up His Dancing Shoes

(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 11:36:00 AM
New backstage video: Ashley
Hamilton and Macy Gray were
eliminated in the first round of
“Dancing with the Stars” this
season. Will they step on the
dance floor again?
Ashley told ET that he is
retiring from dancing. He said he
won't dance again "unless I ever
have to in a movie. I doubt I'll
ever get hired as a dancer in a
movie." The heeled shoes and
sequined costumes are now in his
past. He said, "I feel like
Cinderella now at midnight.
Everything goes away."
Dallas Cowboy Michael Irvin
was spared being sent home.
Michael and Ashley were the final
two men to find out the results,
making the athlete suffer through
a lengthy duration of suspense.
The champion football player told
ET, "When you win one Super
Bowl ring, you have to wear it to
remind people you won one, but
when you have three, they know
you have them, so you don't have
to wear them. With what I just
went through, I will have to look
at my rings, my trophies and say,
'Okay, get your confidence back
up here because you've been
humbled in a mighty way right
now.'"
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NetNewsWire for OS X and iPhone Stephen Root to guest star on

24
Officially Released By Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
By Andrew Bednarz will go up to $4.99. Submitted at 9/24/2009 2:28:00 PM
(TheAppleBlog) As well as the obvious
Submitted at 9/24/2009 7:11:24 AM synchronization with Google Stephen Root has had an
Reader, version 2 contains Twitter incredibly prolific career. He may
NewsGator released today and Instapaper integration. This is not be a headliner, but you always
NetNewsWire 3.2 for OS X. At a complete rewrite of the remember him as something that
the end of July, NewsGator application; it contains a new UI has influenced pop culture
announced the ending of its news and is much faster than version (usually NewsRadio or the movie
feed subscription service and 1.0. It does require iPhone OS 3.0, Office Space). Now he will be
released a beta version of but I wonder who’s still on 2.2 adding to his long acting resumé
NetNewsWire 3.2 with Google these days? The ability to forward by appearing on the Fox series 24
Reader synchronization. an article by email without as a parole officer.
The way NewsGator handled leaving the app is great and I wish The wonderful thing about Root
the ending of its service and missing from the initial beta. On all apps would be updated to do is how he can play a multitude of
migration to Google Reader left a the OS X platform there are now a that (I’m looking at you, Byline). characters. To use the previous
lot to be desired. After sending few options brewing for native The biggest missing feature, examples, his character on Office
out an email advising people to Google Reader support, providing which is a deal-breaker for me, is Space, Milton Waddams, is
immediately switch to the beta, it healthy competition in this area, being able to set an article’s status nothing like his character on This is an incredible gain for 24.
received many complaints due to from which we all benefit. as unread. In the FAQ, they NewsRadio, Jimmy James. I may tune in just to see what sort
the numerous bugs and the large Also released today was the recommend using the ’star’ Neither of them are like his of character he'll be playing in this
embedded ad in the bottom left of long-awaited NetNewsWire 2.0 function to flag the article instead character from True Blood, Eddie. one.
the window. for iPhoneOS. In a similar manner of a ‘mark as unread’ function, Well, you get the idea. Filed under: OpEd, 24,
The ad was removed for to its desktop brother, there are but that doesn’t suit my workflow. I'm also impressed with his Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
remaining betas — until today, n o w t w o v e r s i o n s o f While I’m impressed with the ability to go from comedy to Permalink| Email this| |
when it was brought back at half NetNewsWire for the handheld improvements, until I can set drama and back while mastering Comments
the previous size. To remove the devices. The free version ( iTunes articles back to unread I need to both types of performance. Yes,
ad you must purchase a license for link) remains available with full stick with Byline for my Google I'm a Stephen Root fan.
$10. I’m not sure if this is a functionality but now contains Reader syncing. I think Byline is
special introductory price or not, a d s . T o r e m o v e t h e a d s , still faster, too. But as I said
but for me $10 is a great deal and NetNewsWire Premium ( iTunes before, competition is a good
buying a license was a no-brainer. link) can be purchased. This thing. Read our latest analysis
As well as many bug fixes and premium version is available for piece, " Mobile Sites Show Little
speed optimizations, the official an introductory price of $1.99 Improvement." Only on GigaOM
release restores the much-loved until October, at which point it Pro.
Clippings functionality that was

The Cleveland Show -- An early look

By Brad Trechak (TV Squad) Guy humor and asides are still Quahog with the cast of Family Continue reading The Cleveland
Submitted at 9/24/2009 3:02:00 PM there, but generally the plots feel Guy. The entire circumstance Show -- An early look
a little more linear and directed behind Cleveland's departure from Filed under: OpEd, Animation,
Having watched the first three towards a goal. Of course, going that show is explained before the Early Looks, Reality-Free
episodes of The Cleveland Show, f o r w a r d t h a t c o u l d b e a n opening theme song. And what a Permalink| Email this| |
I find it's a bit like a 70's black exception and not the general rule. theme song! It's better than Comments
sitcom such as Good Times or The show could end up being a Family Guy's. Very catchy. It's
What's Happening, but more complete Family Guy copy, but The first episode (airing Sunday the sort that sticks in your mind
demented. The standard Family with a black family. at 8:30 ET on FOX) begins in like Fun Tac.
52 Apple/ Sports/
Need Staff? There’s an Apple Store for That
By Liam Cassidy
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 5:00:23 PM
It took the designer-store
concept from Apple. It took the
Genius Bar concept from Apple.
What’s left for Microsoft to take
from Apple as it gears-up to the
launch of its first brick-and-
mortar retail stores?
Well, the staff, of course.
According to The Loop,
Microsoft is poaching Apple’s
retail store managers with the
promise of “significant” salary
increases and, in some cases,
offering to cover all moving
expenses. The Loop doesn’t say
who its source is, only that it
spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple writes;
Once hired, the ex-Apple
employees are then contacting
some of the top sales people in the
Apple retail organization offering
them positions at Microsoft retail.
They have also been offered more
money than what they made at
Apple.
Dalrymple says this poaching is
a smart move, though I’m not so
sure of that. Apple’s staff are
Donovan McNabb unable to practice, unlikely to play
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:01:54 PM
PHILADELPHIA -- Donovan
McNabb is still not able to
practice and it appears unlikely he
will play this week.
McNabb, who suffered a broken
rib in a season-opening win over
the Carolina Panthers, is expected
to miss his second straight game
as the Philadelphia Eagles(1-1)
trained, shaped and brainwashed
inspired by the Cupertino Mother
Ship. The Apple Retail Store
philosophy runs through their
veins. Apple Stores are successful
not only because they offer
‘insanely great’ products, but
because the staff are carefully
versed in the Apple way of life.
Truly, they are Mapple People.
That little slogan on their t-
meet the Kansas City Chiefs(0-2)
at Lincoln Financial Field.
NFC East blog
ESPN.com's Matt Mosley writes
about all things NFC East in his
division blog.
• Blog network: NFL Nation
With the Eagles on a bye next
week, resting McNabb gives him
more time to heal before the
Eagles host the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers on Oct. 11. McNabb
was at Thursday's practice, but
shirts and badges that reads, “I
could talk about this stuff for
hours”? They mean it, and it’s
easy to see why. Forgive me for
drinking the Kool-Aid here, but
consider how seamlessly software
and hardware works in the Apple
ecosystem. For the most
part things “just work,” right?
And when things work well, the
experience is a happy one.
only watched.
Third-year QB Kevin Kolb
started last week in a loss to the
New Orleans Saints and is
expected to start again.
Veterans Jeff Garcia and
Michael Vick, back from his
league suspension, will be the
backups.
Eagles offensive coordinator
Marty Mornhinweg said Thursday
that Vick definitely will see action
in Sunday's game.
Internet News Record
Now imagine those same
enthusiastic technology-loving
Mapple People going to work at a
Microsoft Retail Store where
Windows 7 doesn’t work the
same way on every PC, where
OEM crapware and errant drivers
cause slowdowns and DLL
headaches on a daily basis and it’s Edmonton Oilers
near impossible to easily
demonstrate even the most basic Dynasty: Players
of digital media management Turned Head Coaches
without being forced to sign-in to
Windows Bloody Live just to get By Adam Gretz (FanHouse)
anything done… Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:31:00 PM
I doubt things will “just work”
quite as seamlessly. Not as happy by Adam Gretz
an experience, I imagine. And I’m Filed under: NHL Coaching The
not speaking as a fanboy either — old cliche in sports is that often
I’m speaking as a power-user of times the best players turn out to
every iteration of Windows since be the worst coaches, and Wayne
3.1. Gretzky, arguably the greatest
hockey player ever, is, perhaps,
If Microsoft thinks poaching
Apple’s employees will bring a one of the finest examples. The
Great One resigned from his
little of the Jobsian Magic to its
retail venture, good luck to them, position as head coach of the
Phoenix Coyotes on Thursday
but I reckon they’re in for a nasty
shock. Read our latest analysis following four unsuccessful
seasons behind the bench in the
piece, " Mobile Sites Show Little
Improvement." Only on GigaOM desert.
As a team, the Edmonton Oilers
Pro.
of the 1980s were one of the best
collections of talent the NHL has
ever seen, winning five Stanley
Cups -- four with Gretzky --
between 1983 and 1990.
Four members of those Stanley
"He'll play. How much we'll see Cup winning teams, including
a s t h e w e e k g o e s o n , " Gretzky, went onto become head
Mornhinweg told reporters, coaches in the NHL with mixed
according to The Morning Call. "I results behind the bench.
think he's in top physical Edmonton Oilers Dynasty:
condition. We'll see how he Players Turned Head Coaches
handles a few things we have in originally appeared on Fanhouse
for him." NHL Blog on Thu, 24 Sep 2009
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New iPod Nano Raises Privacy Mark Sanchez of New York

Concerns With Fitness Chain Jets has tendinitis in right
By Darrell Etherington knee, expected to play Sunday
(TheAppleBlog) By Associated Press among reporters. "I don't mean
Submitted at 9/23/2009 3:00:26 PM (ESPN.com) anything by that."
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:20:02 PM The Jets, of course, were fined
One of the great things about the by the NFL last week for failing
iPod nano is that you can use it FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- New to put Brett Favre on injury
with Nike+ to track your York Jets rookie quarterback reports over the final third of last
workouts. Or you could, if the Mark Sanchez has some tendinitis season even though the team
fitness center would let you bring in his right knee that isn't knew the quarterback had a torn
the media player in to the gym. expected to affect his availability right biceps tendon. The team was
Life Time Fitness, a U.S.-based for this weekend's game against fined $75,000, while general
gym chain, is officially Tennessee. manager Mike Tannenbaum and
blacklisting the device according Coach Rex Ryan said Sanchez former coach Eric Mangini were
to TwinCities.com, and others
will likely follow suit. covered by their existing As someone who already visits "had a little tendinitis," but fully each fined $25,000.
The reason, of course, is the regulations. The YMCA, for a gym daily with an iPhone in an participated in practice Thursday. As far as other injuries,
Sanchez appeared to reach down cornerbacks Lito Sheppard(right
recently introduced video capture instance, already restricts photo armband case, I doubt new anti- at his knee a few times and flex it q u a d r i c e p s ) a n d D o n a l d
capability the nano now sports. and video gadgets to lockers, and nano regulations will end up
during the 40-minute period the Strickland(right ankle) didn't
Yes, it allows the iPod to compete argues that this applies to the new having much of an effect on the media is allowed to watch. practice for the second straight
with devices like the Flip pocket nano, too. average fitness center attendee.
"It's not that big a deal," Ryan day. While Sheppard appears to
camcorder, but it also raises Of course, the problem with any But in order to protect yourself, it
said. "He has something. I don't be a possibility to play against the
privacy concerns in environments such ban is enforcement. Are gym is a good idea to be aware that know how to describe it than just Titans, Ryan wasn't so optimistic
where video and image recording staff really going to stop each less scrupulous individuals might to say it's a little tendinitis. But, about Strickland.
devices traditionally haven’t been patron each time they visit to be using the new iPods for he's fine. I mean, he fully "I don't think he's going to be
permitted. make sure that nano they’re nefarious purposes, and keep an
wearing on their arm isn’t a eye out accordingly when you’re participated and moved around able to play this week," Ryan
Life Time has already put a great, I thought." said. "I'm not declaring him out
restriction on the books banning c u r r e n t - g e n e r a t i o n m o d e l , working out or in the locker room. Ryan said Sanchez would right now, but I don't think there's
the nano from its 84 facilities, especially when the average Subscribe to GigaOM Pro and
appear on the team's injury report any way he's playing this week."
spread across 19 states. Others are person probably couldn’t spot the gain access to our Webinar, " Thursday. Copyright 2009 by The
considering a similar move, or difference unless the device is Biggest Opportunities in the
removed from its case? Smart Grid," on Oct. 7, 2009. "Make sure he's on that list," Associated Press
argue that the device is already Ryan said, causing a few laughs

The Count: Saves Can’t Save Fuentes in Anaheim

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Jepsen, whose season ERA is want to win the World Series, often, giving its bullpen plenty of
Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:03:14 PMalmost identical to Fuentes’s but they probably need to stop giving save opportunities — tied for
who has a sparkling 1.72 ERA Fuentes so many high leverage third most in the majors. Last
Brian Fuentes has more saves, since July 1. Getty Images Brian opportunities,” Cameron writes. year, Francisco Rodriguez
44, than any other major-league Fuentes may not get many more “Hes not their best relief pitcher, benefited from his teammates to
closer. But he may get passed on save opportunities like this one even if he does lead the league in save a record 62 games. This year,
the leaderboard before the end of against the Yankees on Monday. a remarkably meaningless with an ERA more than one run
the season. That’s because Fuentes’s precarious situation, statistic.” better than Fuentes’s, Rodriguez
Fuentes also has a 4.21 ERA. belied by his saves total, means Indeed, he leads the league in has just 33 saves for the
Angels manager Mike Scioscia is h e ’ s “ d e b u n k i n g s a v e s Cameron noted in a recent blog saves for the same reason the woebegone Mets.
planning to split the closer job singlehandedly,” as Wall Street post at FanGraphs. “If the Angels Angels have a chance at the
between Fuentes and Kevin J o u r n a l c o n t r i b u t o r D a v e World Series: The team wins
54 Tech Blog/ Sports/ Internet News Record

Sharing links in the River2 Pirates Close Upper Deck

community
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 5:54:56 AM
A new feature makes it easy to
share links to stories from the
River2 news page to followers on
Twitter.
http://newsriver.org/r2ly.html
It also maintains a Top 40 list
for River2 users.
This feature is itself a bootstrap
since one of the key ingredients
are the people using it. Just the
right number and the right kind
(thoughtful, passionate, forgiving,
visionary) are needed. The result
can be an editorial product in its
own right. And the first
experiences will probably
certainly suggest the second and
third level of features.
Bootstrapping is for users too.
In fact at some point, without
users participating, the bootstrap
stops. You have to wait until they
show up, or keep trying to figure
out what it will take to entice
them to participate.
I realized something yesterday,
that bootstrapping is hard because
you have to use things that don't
exist yet.
I often use bridges as metaphors
to describe bootstraps in software.
Here goes..
People hardly notice driving
across the Golden Gate Bridge,
they might notice the scenery, or
the walkers or bike riders, or think
about the oncoming traffic. But
one day, a long time ago,
someone stood on one side or the
other -- in San Francisco or Marin
-- and looked at the Golden Gate
(which was the waterway before it
was the bridge) and thought "I bet
we could put a bridge here." Nice
thought, but then what? What's
the first step? And when that
doesn't work, what's the next first
step? Long before there's a bridge,
someone has to make the trip in a
bucket hanging from a cable.
Today, River2 users are those
kinds of people.
I've been having an on-and-off
discussion with Marshall about
this. He's been frustrated by the
software. I understand. But I need
people like him to struggle
through it, tell me what went
wrong, so I can try to fix it, and
then tell me if it worked. The
rewards mostly come from within,
to know that you played a role in
making something new happen. In
this case it will be a distributed
loosely-coupled 140-character
message network that is free from
YWFFTMMR. And there might
be business opportunities to
provide services to users. No
one's saying you can't get rich.
But it has to be fair, and people
should always have lots of choice.
One more note -- it's taking a
long time for the domain I'll use,
r2.ly, to come through the
registration process. So to begin
with we'll use a teamrss.com
domain to share links. If you see
one of these on Twitter it's
coming from this part of River2.
Due to Miniscule Crowd
During G-20
By Pat Lackey (FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 2:21:00 PM
by Pat Lackey
Filed under: Pirates, NL Central
There is a perfect storm of sorts
going on in Pittsburgh this week.
The Pirates have lost 22 of their
past 25 games (and are in the
process of losing number 23 as I
type this), which is the worst
streak for the franchise since well attendance as the first pitch was
before the turn of the 20th (not thrown may have been below 200
21st) century. Meanwhile, the city people ( UPDATE: apparently,
is hosting the G-20 summit, which attendance climbed during the
has resulted in a huge spate of game a bit to around 2,000, per
business and school closings in both Kovacevic and MLB.com
the downtown area as the city beat writer Jen Langosch)
ratchets up security for the Pirates Close Upper Deck Due
visiting heads of state. to Miniscule Crowd During G-20
The result is a crowd at originally appeared on Fanhouse
Thursday afternoon's Pirates-Reds MLB Blog on Thu, 24 Sep 2009
game that is so small, the entire 14:21:00 EST . Please see our
upper deck at PNC Park is closed. terms for use of feeds.
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blog; he estimates that the actual

Big East Notebook: Where QB Stands for Quality Basketball

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Why Let Stats Cloud an MVP Debate?
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:57:48 AM
It’s not news that the Minnesota
Twins and New York Yankees
won Tuesday night. The Twins’
win helped the team keep pace in
an attempt to catch the Detroit
Tigers in the AL Central, while
New York’s clinched a playoff
berth. Nor is it news that those
teams’ two top stars — Joe Mauer
and Derek Jeter — each spent
roughly half their nights on base.
They’ve been doing it all year,
and that’s why they have been at
the center of a debate over the
rightful American League Most
Valuable Player. How and why
that debate has grown so
unusually heated is another story.
Reuters Does Derek Jeter deserve
a lifetime-achievement MVP
award?
Mauer leads the league, by
generous margins, in batting
average (.372), on-base
percentage (.442) and slugging
percentage (.609), has hit a career
-best 28 homers despite missing
the first month of the season to
injury, and has keyed the Twins’
improbable late run in the AL
Central. Jeter, for his part, has less
impressive stats but is enjoying a
terrific season for a winning team,
is one of the game’s most revered
players and has never won an
MVP. By the numbers, be they
averages and homers or advanced
metrics like WAR, it’s hard to
make an argument for Jeter over
Mauer as MVP, but many have
made the case for Jeter
nonetheless MLB.com’s Hal
Bodley, for instance based on
both Number Two’s intangible
contributions and the fact that the
future Hall of Famer has not yet
won an MVP.
The relative squishiness of the
pro-Jeter case has led to a
backlash in the more stat-friendly
online baseball community. The
Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s
Michael Rand was more polite
than some in his dismissal (it’s
Minnesota, after all), but no less
dismissive. Yahoo’s Gordon Edes
predicts that Mauer will win the
argument, and the MVP, in the
end.
At this point, though, the debate
less is about which player has
been more valuable than about the
interlocutors themselves the
traditionalists arguing for Jeter on
near-mystical grounds and the
increasingly enraged objectivists
in Mauer’s corner. Ken Rosenthal
of Fox Sports, for one, picks
Mauer as his MVP but feels
picked on by the statheads making
the case for him. “Sabermetricians
were ignored for so long, they had
to shout to be heard,” Rosenthal
writes. “Now they are getting
heard — properly heard in the
highest levels of baseball media
and front offices. But some
continue to shout, dismissing
those who disagree as ignorant
dolts. Last I checked, it’s a free
country.”
Joe Posnanski thinks
Rosenthal’s dialing up the huff a
bit too much, given that “the
mainstream media is still, you
know, mainstream.” “It strikes a
fun image of stat-heads holding
mainstream media members
hostage with slide rulers and
mechanical pencils,” Posnanski
blogs. “[But] Ive got to believe
that Kens whole notion that
baseball bloggers are so powerful
and overbearing that they are
stifling free speech and peoples
willingness to push for Derek
Jeter as MVP over Joe Mauer is
Sports/ 55
at least partially tongue in cheek. Couch celebrates the return of
At the Daily Deal, Matthew “the best women’s tennis player
Wurtzel imagines Prokhorov as a in the world.”* * *
Russian answer to Dallas NBA commissioner David
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. Stern’s hard line in negotiations
The prospect of an NBA team with the NBA referees union —
— even a team that one hugely discussed in this recent Fix—
talented and utterly shameless seems destined to lead to a
Nets fan tagged a serious disgrace lockout and replacement refs. In
pretty comical. I think the power in its current iteration — passing the New York Times, Howard
that comes from the best bloggers into the hands of a Russian Beck remembers 1995, the last
who use statistics is that what they oligarch will surely result in more time the NBA broke out
write MAKES SENSE.” interesting articles along the way. replacement referees. “Fourteen
An argument for ambiguity an While you wait, check out Julian years ago, the N.B.A. locked out
argument for the argument, if you G a r c i a ’ s a b l e r e c a p o f its referees, handed their whistles
like comes from the temple of Prokhorov’s interesting past in the to an army of wide-eyed
objective stats that is Baseball New York Daily News.* * * substitutes and watched the
Reference. At BR’s Daily Blog, Considering that Kim Clijsters insanity unfold,” Beck writes.
Bill Baer makes the case for a wound up winning the U.S. Open “The games got messy. The
nebulously defined MVP. “If we in just her third tournament after players got antsy. They wanted
follow the statistics and simply e n d i n g a t w o - y e a r c a r e e r their old referees back — the
mechanically hand out the awards sabbatical, it’s perhaps not that same ones who, in any other
based on what FanGraphs and surprising that Justin Henin, the season, would be the targets of
Baseball Reference say,” Baer 2007 U.S. Open champion and their fury.”
writes, “then theres no more winner of seven Grand Slam At the blog 48 Minutes of Hell,
reason to hold any interest in the tournaments, announced Tuesday Graydon Gordian steps back from
end-of-season awards.”* * * that she was ending her own 16- the negotiating table jockeying
It’s not an appealing word. But month retirement. While all these and examines the human stakes of
there isn’t really a more accurate c o m e b a c k s m a k e f o r n i c e a referee lockout.* * *
term than “oligarch” to describe television narratives, they have During NBC’s Sunday night
M i k h a i l P r o k h o r o v , a also raised the question of why so broadcast, the network’s
controversial Russian nickel- m a n y t e n n i s p l a y e r s f e e l broadcasters all but wrote a love
mining magnate with an estimated compelled to leave the sport — if poem to the budget-busting
net worth of $9.5 billion and an only for a little while — at their gaudiness of the new Cowboys
increasingly serious interest in peaks. Stadium. A few of the less-
purchasing the NBA’s New Jersey “Despite its genteel roots, discussed downsides to Jerry
Nets. Of course, it’s still kind of m o d e r n t e n n i s h a s b e c o m e Jones’s new palace: Parking costs
hard to tell exactly how serious p r o g r e s s i v e l y c o n d u c i v e t o $40, a 20-inch pizza really costs
this is — Nets executive Brett f l a m e o u t s , ” U S A T o d a y ’ s $60, and the tax burden placed on
Yormark is one of the most Douglas Robson writes. “From a the community by construction
relentlessly on-message human young age, players are subjected overruns is a whopping $933
beings on earth, and he isn’t t o i n c e s s a n t g l o b a l t r a v e l , million.
talking. Prokhorov, for his part, increasingly physical matches and Eric Deggans of the National
expressed his interest in a Russian a grinding season that runs until Sports Journalism Center injects
language LiveJournal post. The N o v e m b e r f o r w o m e n a n d some welcome perspective with a
Newark Star-Ledger’s Dave December for men. Examples of column that ponders the thin line
D’Alessandro blogs the goofily players in their prime that took between enthusiastic reportage
Borat-ian Google translation. At time off and returned, or left the and outright boosterism. “If youre
Field of Schemes, Neil deMause s p o r t f o r g o o d , l i t t e r t h e
wonders if Prokhorov’s post was landscape.” At Fanhouse, Greg WHY page 58
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Tigers, Twins Provide MLB’s Only Divisional Drama
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 8:34:19 AM
The pennant race might better be
described as a pennant stroll this
year, with all but one of the
division winners basically
crowned as they head towards
Major League Baseball’s final
regular-season week. It’s enough
for many fans without a horse in
the race to turn their attention to
football. Reuters Who cares if
Justin Verlander’s Tigers have
seven fewer wins than any other
division leader?
But Detroit qualifies as an
outlier. The Lions are redefining
losing, while the Tigers have
surprised many people and lead
the AL Central by 2½ games over
Minnesota. Detroit routed
Cleveland Wednesday to maintain
its lead over the Twins, who beat
the Chicago White Sox 8-6. The
AL Central title might be decided
when the Twins and Tigers meet
for four games next week at
Comerica Park. A year ago the
Tigers finished last in their
division, 14 ½ games behind
Chicago.
Detroit, a city roiling from high
unemployment, economic
uncertainty and urban blight, can
take a measure of satisfaction
from its Tigers, who rank among
the better draws in baseball.
“Comerica Park may be located
in the heart of the majors’ most
depressed market, but you
wouldn’t know it on game days,”
Sports Illlustrated’s Lee Jenkins
Street Chic: London
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 4:00:00 AM
Menswear blazers and liquid
writes. “Former Tigers outfielder
Willie Horton, who used to
deliver newspapers as a boy on
Woodward Avenue, walks the
street before games and gets chills
as he sees buses full of fans
rolling in from as far away as
Toronto, Toledo and Michigan’s
Upper Peninsula. At CZ’s Sports,
a souvenir shop bordering the
stadium, part-owner Ernest Carr
estimates that his profits are up
almost 40% from last year due to
the team’s improved record.”
In the Detroit Free Press, Drew
Sharp isn’t too pleased about SI’s
cover story, which usually equals
the kiss of death. His advice: just
enjoy the ride, Tiger fans. “It’ll
have no effect on city coffers
collecting cobwebs, three out of
10 people looking for work or a
decaying public-school system,”
Sharp writes. “But it creates a
diversion from the real worries of
economic strife — paying bills
and wondering when the next
paycheck’s coming.”
While the Tigers might be a
bright spot in the Motor City,
metro high-school football is
suffering from a lack of funding,
coach resignations and player
defections to the suburbs, the
Detroit News’s Tom Markowski
and Vincent Goodwill write.* * *
Bobby Cox will return for one
more season as manager of the
Atlanta Braves, the team he led to
14 straight division titles and a
World Series championship.
Atlanta has struggled since its last
division crown in 2005. Still, the
bike shorts are two of our favorite
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s
Jeff Schultz agrees with Cox’s
return. “This isnt about giving
him a retirement present,” Schultz
blogs. “The rocking chair will
come later. This is about giving
one of baseballs most able
managers the tools he deserves to
have in his toolbox. When the
Braves announced Wednesday
that Cox will manage for one
more season and then retire, it
was the right move for him and
for them.”* * *
The NFL’s offenses seem to
prefer air delivery so far this year.
As the NFL prepares for Week 3,
only seven running backs are
averaging more than 100 yards
per game, led by Adrian
Peterson’s 136-yard average for
the Minnesota Vikings.
Conversely, we’ve already seen
13 300-yard passing games,
including two each by New
Orleans’s Drew Brees and
Indianapolis’s Peyton Manning.
“Yeah, I know, there are more
spread offenses,” Clark Judge
writes at CBS Sports. “Rule
changes have given receivers and
pass blockers more freedom.
There are more high-percentage
appear in ELLE.com's Street Chic
passes. And there is more passing,
period, with Philadelphia’s Andy
Reid routinely criticized for
throwing more than he runs the
ball.”
With Michael Vick eligible to
play this weekend, The
Philadelphia Inquirer’s Phil
Sheridan writes that the Eagles
signed the quarterback because of
coach Andy Reid’s love of the
wildcat offense.
The 1-1 Washington Redskins
are tied for 30th in scoring and are
only 18th in passing yards and
rushing yards, but the Washington
Post’s Mike Wise writes it’s too
early to panic.* * *
Most retired athletes enjoy life
away from the spotlight. If they’re
secure financially, many travel the
globe, play golf, maybe work to
improve their communities. But
Michael Jordan may still have
some competitive fire left. While
a lot of people thought he was
joking during his recent induction
into basketball’s hall of fame
about another return to the NBA,
TrueHoop’s Henry Abbott
investigates whether Jordan could
play basketball at age 50. It’s not
as far-fetched as you might think,
Abbott writes.* * *
It’s been a quarter-century since
the New York Islanders’ glory
days of winning four straight
Stanley Cups. They’ve been an
economic and competitive basket
case for so long that they’re
hoping this year’s No. 1 draft
pick, John Tavares, can fill the
seats and get the Islanders a new
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building. While it was only a
preseason game, only about 4,000
showed up Wednesday for his
first game on Long Island,
Newsday’s Arthur Staples
writes.* * *
Staying motivated athletically
can be a challenge. If that’s the
case, you might consider taking
up Mojo Kickball, one of a
number of bizarre sports created
in the past few years, the
Journal’s Anjali Athavaley writes.
One sport that’s been around for a
half-century but still pretty rare is
underwater hockey, the Miami
Herald’s Christina Veiga writes.*
**
Many players love to give back
to their communities after retiring.
James Forrest, the Georgia Tech
basketball player whose biggest
claim to fame was hitting a buzzer
-beater against USC in an opening
-round upset in the 1992 NCAA
tournament, has returned to
Atlanta after a career in Europe.
Now he’s trying to improve sports
for kids living in a city that’s
closed 22 rec centers in the past
year, ESPN’s Dana O’Neil writes.
– Tip of the Fix cap to reader
Don Hartline and to fellow Fixer
David Roth.
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Phoenix Coyotes coach Wayne Gretzky steps down
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:56:15 PM
Gretzky Resigns As Coyotes
Head Coach Gretzky Resigns As
Coyotes Head Coach
PHOENIX -- Wayne Gretzky's
tenure as coach of the Phoenix
Coyotes, a period marked largely
by on-ice futility, ended abruptly
Thursday when "The Great One"
announced he would be stepping
down amid the financial turmoil
surrounding the team.
Not so Great One
In Wayne Gretzky's four
seasons as coach, the Phoenix
Coyotes had a .473 winning
percentage, better than only the
St. Louis Blues (.471) and the Los
Angeles Kings (.468) in that
period. A look at notable NHL
head coaches who had 1,000 or
more career points as players, and
how they fared behind the bench:
Gretzky's departure -- he also
was director of hockey operations
-- had been rumored as the
bankruptcy court battle between
Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie
and the NHL over the sale of the
financially troubled team dragged
on. Gretzky confirmed he was
leaving on his Web site.
"This was a difficult decision
that I've thought long and hard
about," Gretzky said in a
statement Thursday on his Web
site. "We all hoped there would be
Meet the NBA's Replacement Referees
By Tim Povtak (FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:10:00 PM
by Tim Povtak
Filed under: NBA Referees, D-
League The NBA has opened its
training camp in New York for
a resolution earlier this month to
the Coyotes ownership situation,
but the decision is taking longer
than expected.
"Since both remaining bidders
have made it clear that I don't fit
into their future plans, I
approached general manager Don
Maloney and suggested he begin
looking for someone to replace
me as coach. Don has worked
hard and explored many options. I
think he has made an excellent
choice, and so now it's time for
me to step aside."
Gretzky, who is due to make
$8.5 million this season, coached
the Coyotes from 2005 to 2009,
finishing with a 143-161-24
record, and the team missed the
playoffs in all four seasons.
Gretzky, 48, also owns a small
piece of the franchise.
Former Dallas Stars coach Dave
Tippett will be introduced as
Gretzky's successor at a 6 p.m. ET
news conference, a source told
ESPN.com's Pierre LeBrun.
Associate coach Ulf Samuelsson
had been serving as interim head
coach during the preseason. The
team this week hired former
Calgary Flames and Columbus
Blue Jackets head coach Dave
King as an assistant.
The Coyotes said the team's
Thursday practice at Jobing.com
Arena would be closed to media
and fans.
Hours after news of Gretzky's
replacement officials, a group that
includes 35 with experience in the
NBA's Development League, six
with WNBA experience and two
that worked in the NBA before
being fired in recent years.
Those numbers are based on the
resignation broke, NHL
commissioner Gary Bettman
issued a statement thanking him
for his "dedicated service" since
joining the organization.
"Wayne is often credited with
the rise of hockey in southern and
western markets," the statement
said. "He was proud to represent
one of those very franchises, and
the Coyotes were fortunate to
have him. Although his time with
the Coyotes has come to an end,
the examples he set and the legacy
he leaves will undoubtedly have a
lasting impact on everyone
associated with the franchise."
Gretzky is the leading scorer in
NHL history, but he brought little
of his magical on-ice form when
he moved behind the bench.
Gretzky's tenure as coach was
marked by turmoil as the Coyotes
struggled to survive in a crowded
sports market.
Gretzky joined the franchise on
Feb. 15, 2001, when Jerry Moyes'
ownership group completed its
purchase of the club. Moyes last
May took the team into Chapter
11 bankruptcy, igniting a lengthy
and complicated court fight over
the team's future.
Gretzky took over as coach in
2005-06. The Coyotes went 38-39
-5 in his debut season, winning 16
more games than in the previous
season. The team was 36-36-5
with Gretzky on the bench; he
missed five games for family
list of 44 officials -- obtained by
reasons.
It was, at times, a trying year for
Gretzky. His mother, Phyllis, and
grandmother, Betty Hockin, both
died during the season.
Assistant coach and friend Rick
Tocchet was arrested for allegedly
running an illegal sports gambling
ring. The scandal touched Gretzky
when it was revealed that his
wife, Janet, had placed bets.
The on-ice promise of Gretzky's
first season never materialized.
The Coyotes slipped to 15th in the
Western Conference in 2006-07
and didn't finish higher than 12th
during his tenure.
Gretzky surrounded himself
with friends, including his former
player agent, Michael Barnett,
who was fired as general manager
following the 2006-07 season.
Another close friend, Hall of
Famer Grant Fuhr, became the
Coyotes' goaltending coach. Fuhr
was replaced this week by Sean
Burke.
Gretzky's brother, Keith, serves
as the Coyotes' director of
amateur scouting.
When he signed a five-year
extension in May 2006, Gretzky
talked about bringing a Stanley
Cup to the desert. When he was
asked if it would take that long to
build a championship team,
Gretzky laughed and replied, "It
better not, or I won't be here in
five years."
With their future owner
FanHouse-- who had agreed to be
part of the camp. (You can find
the list, which has not been
confirmed by the NBA, at the end
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undetermined, the Coyotes have
struggled mightily to sell tickets
for the coming season, which
begins next week.
Balsillie on Wednesday made
the pledge to keep the team in
Glendale, Ariz., this season if he
wins an auction for the franchise.
He does, however, plan to move
the team to Hamilton, Ontario, as
part of his $242.5 million bid.
"It's been impossible to sell
tickets because nobody knows if
it's going to be here," Moyes said
earlier this week after yet another
hearing in bankruptcy court. "So I
think this will be the opening of
the floodgates, and if the fans are
convinced that the team needs to
be here, and sponsors, this will be
an opportunity for them to prove
that the team should be here.
"That's what I've said all along --
my first choice has always been to
leave the team here and find
support to leave it here."
The Coyotes have lost more
than $300 million since the team
moved from Winnipeg, Manitoba,
in 1996. The franchise has lost at
least $34 million in each of the
past three years and was given
financial assistance by the NHL
last season.
Information from The
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report.
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Binghamton guard Emanuel Mayben Plaxico Burress Heckled by

Fellow Inmates Upon Arrival at
arrested on drug charges Rikers
By ESPN.com news services Mayben, 22, has never been in Broadus since he took over the By Chris Burke (FanHouse)
(ESPN.com) trouble before, Cholakis said. program in 2007.
Submitted at 9/24/2009 3:00:00 PM
Submitted at 9/24/2009 12:07:54 PM "I did all I could," head coach Former player Miladin
Kevin Broadus told The New Kovacevic, who wasn't recruited by Chris Burke
TROY, N.Y. -- Binghamton York Times on Wednesday night. by Broadus, left a classmate in a Filed under: NFL Police Blotter
University basketball player "I tried to help the kid." coma for several weeks after a Plaxico Burress received a rude
Emanuel "Tiki" Mayben pleaded Binghamton athletics director barroom brawl in May 2008. welcome to prison life Tuesday.
not guilty at his arraignment Joel Thirer did not immediately Kovacevic jumped bail and fled to When he arrived at Rikers Island
Thursday to possessing and return a call seeking comment his native Serbia, setting off a to begin a two-year sentence, his
selling cocaine. Thursday. dispute between the U.S. and fellow inmates taunted him --
Mayben, who led Binghamton Mayben set a school single- Serbia over Kovacevic's sometimes obscenely -- and
last year to its first appearance in season record for assists last year. extradition and prosecution. heckled him with taunts of "
the NCAA basketball tournament, He was named to the America Kovacevic has remained in Plaxico Burress Heckled by
Giants Suck," jail guards told the Fellow Inmates Upon Arrival at
was arrested Wednesday night in East Conference All-Tournament Serbia, where officials have New York Post.
his hometown of Troy. team in March and was a second- promised to prosecute him with Rikers originally appeared on
Cue the most obvious statement Fanhouse NFL Blog on Thu, 24
Investigators were taking him into team All-Conference selection. assistance from New York you'll read all day:
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police said. Syracuse University out of high deal. but everyone was yelling at him."
Mayben was arrested as a result school, but academic In November, Malik Alvin, a
of a three-month undercover shortcomings prevented him from transfer student brought in by WHY
continued from page 55
probe of cocaine sales in Troy, playing for the Orange. He instead Broadus, was charged with
police said. began his college career at the stealing condoms from Wal-Mart. going to wow us with breathless
He was ordered held on $20,000 University of Massachusetts, After Binghamton's NCAA facts on the size of the joint and
bail. where he sat out one season appearance, Broadus signed a celebrate the games record-
Greg Cholakis, Mayben's before playing 31 games in the contract extension through the breaking status,” Deggans writes,
lawyer, said he hoped to get the 2006-07 season. He transferred to 2013-2014 season. “surely theres also a little time to
bail paid right away and have his Hudson Valley Community Information from The acknowledge any downside to the
client back in Binghamton for a 5 College, where he played during Associated Press was used in this debut of this behemoth — or at
p.m. class Thursday. Mayben the 2007-08 season. report. least tone down the genuflecting.”
didn't make a statement in court Mayben's arrest is the latest – Tip of the Fix cap to fellow
Thursday. legal problem for a player under Fixer Garey Ris.
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'Scene It? Twilight'

dazzles Wii this
autumn, DS in 2010
By Alexander Sliwinski
(Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 3:58:00 PM

Users report Halo 3: ODST Oh my gawd, oh my gawd, the

TGS 2009: Xbox 360 disc read errors
twinkly blood-suckers of Twilight
are coming to Wii in a Scene It?

Creator Panel Discussion By Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)

Submitted at 9/24/2009 3:30:00 PM
game this fall! Yes, the vampire
seems to be isolated to the ODST f r a n c h i s e - - w i t h o n l y o n e
campaign and Firefight mode. released movie under its coffin --
recap The Halo 3 multiplayer disc will be the subject of an entire
According to a rather lengthy appears to be unaffected. multimedia-based trivia game for
By Ludwig Kietzmann (Joystiq) up (see above gesture for context). thread on Bungie.net, several Bungie is looking into the Wii, featuring some 500 multiple-
Submitted at 9/24/2009 3:01:00 PM Keiji Inafune was the one to Halo 3: ODST players are having problem, with a member of the choice questions based on clips,
bring it up, noting that the technical issues with the game. test team asking forum users for music and audio from the film.
Dubbed a "public brainstorming evolution of controllers was "way Users are reporting that disc read s p e c i f i c i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t There are no details about the
session" in a sorry-I-couldn't- behind the evolution of graphics." errors are occurring during the p r o b l e m s t h a t h a v e b e e n DS version of the game, which
make-it introductory video from According to Inafune, "Body game, rendering it unplayable. encountered. For those out there will release sometime next year.
M i c r o s o f t ' s I n t e r a c t i v e language is part of this important Some believe the issue only with a copy of ODST, let your (There's also no mention of an
Entertainment Business VP, Don evolution. With Natal we can affects older consoles, specifically voice be heard in the poll below. Xbox 360 or PS3 version.) We'd
Mattrick, the Xbox 360 Creator involve ourselves. I'm getting those with older DVD drives. View Poll call this the "shovelware cash-in
Discussion Panel saw three really excited and show it in my Anecdotally, our own David Users report Halo 3: ODST disc of trivia games," but we'd be
e s t e e m e d J a p a n e s e g a m e body or action. Instead of pressing Hinkle encountered the DRE issue read errors originally appeared on afraid that in doing so, pale,
developers share their dreams and the button, it can be truly on a 2008 Elite. According to Joystiq on Thu, 24 Sep 2009 starving actors covered in glitter
designs for Project Natal. immersive experience." Hinkle, installing the game to the 15:30:00 EST. Please see our would come and suck our blood --
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no ideas or concepts -- erupting X b o x 3 6 0 C r e a t o r P a n e l problem. He later bought a second Read| Permalink| Email this| enraged tweens and housewives
from Hideo Kojima ( Metal Gear D i s c u s s i o n r e c a p copy of the game and hasn't Comments that would rip our lifeless bodies
Solid), Keiji Inafune ( Mega Man, TGS 2009: Xbox 360 Creator encountered the issue again. It's to shreds. So ... we'll just call it
Dead Rising) and Toshihiro Panel Discussion recap originally also worth noting that this issue not the game for us.
Nagoshi ( Monkey Ball, Yakuza) appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 24 'Scene It? Twilight' dazzles Wii
-- should be considered actual, in- Sep 2009 15:01:00 EST. Please this autumn, DS in 2010
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Assassin's Creed II: Discovery
confirmed for DS, will use DSi Australia to receive several
camera 250GB PS3 bundles
By Randy Nelson (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 4:29:00 PM
Seeing how the game was
already rated by the ESRB and
shown in playable form on
iPhone, today's announcement via
press release of Assassin's Creed
II: Discovery for Nintendo
DS/DSi is hardly a surprise -- at
least not as much as a guy in
white popping out of a haystack
and stabbing someone.
Slated for a November 17
release, the game is a side-scroller
that supports the DSi's built-in
cameras for placing photos of
yourself (or, well, anything really)
onto "wanted" posters plastered
Catch a gold bar from Yusuf Amir in the new Ballad of Gay Tony trailer
By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:58:00 PM
It would be outright unfair to
spoil any of the hilarious, minute-
long trailer for upcoming GTA IV
expansion The Ballad of Gay
across Spain, where it takes place
-- just as can be done in the
iPhone version. Griptonite Games
is developing AC2: Discovery,
which is a very good thing, given
how impressed we were recently
with its other portable AC title,
Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines for
PSP.
Assassin's Creed II: Discovery
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Tony that we've dropped above.
We would like to highlight its
introduction of Yusuf Amir, a
character who seems to be on the
level of Brucie in terms of sheer
personality. With any luck, we'll
get to hang out with Mr. Amir
By David Hinkle (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 2:29:00 PM
Aussie reader, if you've been
salivating over the prospect of
owning a 250GB PS3 Slim, know
your day is coming. SCE
Australia has confirmed the
console is headed down under and
will be bundled with one of the
following titles:
• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
• Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in
Time
• Singstar Motown
• EyePet
The bundles will go on sale
quite a bit while playing through
The Ballad of Gay Tony when it's
released on October 29.
Gallery: GTA IV: The Ballad of
Gay Tony
Catch a gold bar from Yusuf
Amir in the new Ballad of Gay
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Odin, open
By blogeditor1 (Material
Interest on Men.style.com)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:21:26 AM
As we reported last month, it's
been a busy season for the guys at
Odin: a new collection of
colognes, a collaborative line with
Duckie Brown, and a little retail-
space musical chairs. The new
starting October 15 and retail for West Village shop is now open in
$599.95RRP, coinciding with the Oliver Spencer's old Greenwich
release date of Uncharted 2. Street digs (and Spencer's up and
Perfect timing! You're going to running on East 11th Street).
need every last one of those Here's a peek inside: From the
gigglebytes to store the countless look of it, grabbing brunch at the
Machinima fan fictions you've neighboring Spotted Pig just got a
already concocted in your head. lot more dangerous for your
[Thanks, Adrian]
bottom line.
Australia to receive several 750 Greenwich St., NYC, (212)
250GB PS3 bundles originally 420-8446, odinnewyork.com
appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 24
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Sep 2009 14:29:00 EST. Please SCHNEIER Photos: Courtesy of
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A town about MAN Valentino: The Last

By blogeditor1 (Material
Interest on Men.style.com)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 8:10:08 AM
shirts, Joe Casely Hayford's suits,
Husam el Odeh's jewelry, Mr.
Hare's new Hot Steppers shoe
Emperor on DVD
collection (connoisseur alert: the By ELLE.com (ELLE News
It's only the second time that whole-cut wingtip brogue in an Blog)
London fashion week has devoted unsealed, vegetable-tanned leather Submitted at 9/23/2009 4:51:45 PM
a full day to menswear, but will age like heaven). Jordan
already it feels less like a kid Askill is as much a sculptor as he V is for Valentino. Visceral.
brother to the womenswear and is a jeweler—for his presentation, Vibrant. But what Valentino does
more like a studly date. British he draped a pendant over a so effortlessly would take us mere
menswear has hit critical mass, stunningly sculpted wave of white mortals multiple lifetimes to
kicked into gear by a healthy new horses. replicate—and that’s the point
wave of talent and a lot of support Somerset House itself is a director Matt Tyrnauer gets across
from Topman and Fashion East, neoclassical building with in his documentary, Valentino:
Lulu Kennedy's incubator for the dramatic river views and a choice The Last Emperor, out on DVD
up-and-coming. There are now of venues: high-ceilinged rooms, now.
tent poles for the men's fashion atmospheric vaults, plus that Chronicling the last year of
scene, designers who are courtyard. That was where the Valentino’s career, Tyrnauer
generating the kind of anticipation actual Topman-sponsored MAN shows us the man behind the
that we've seen for years in show, where in the past designers eponymous red. He sashays all
women's fashion in London. like Long got their start, was around Europe with his
One of those is James Long, staged. The buzz this year was entourage—including his five shed more light on the designer’s
first out of the block on MANday Christopher Shannon, the latest portly pugs—going from his guarded persona.
at the British Fashion Council's heir to Kim Jones' sportswear chateau in France (because every The big ooh la la moments are
new tent in the courtyard of throne. His clothes looked to me emperor needs a palace) to Rome reserved for the timeless gowns
Somerset House. His "acid army" season was a frayed denim jacket like the kind of wardrobe a for his 45th anniversary Valentino produces. It’s
looks, inspired by—among other r e - c r e a t e d i n k n i t . E q u a l l y extravaganza (imagine the fascinating to see his designs from
national team might wear if
v e r y p a r t i c u l a r i r r e s i s t i b l e w e r e t h e i r England were to compete in the Colosseum, only RED!). conception to creation, all hand-
interests—Warhol's oxidation collaborations with artist Noah America's Cup. But I expect I'll be But it’s in Valentino’s made by his flock of hot-tempered
paintings and Mapplethorpe's Scanlin and the Smiley Company: backtracking on my reservations relationship with his partner, Italian seamstresses.
photos, were an intense, coherent optical skulls on one hand, happy- in six months. Giancarlo Giammetti, that the So if you want to feel as
statement about men at war face sweaters on the other. Click here for a slideshow of film finds its stride. With a fabulous as Gwyneth, SJP, or
(pictured). At another extreme The breadth of individual, professional and personal even Elton John (who all have
highlights > TIM BLANKS
was knitwit trio Sibling. Their expertly crafted stuff pointed to a Photo: Getty Images partnership that has spanned his cameos), but don’t have the
trompe l'oeil technical feat this bright future: Martine Rose's career, Valentino and Giammetti dough, then watch The Last
argue like a married couple. Every Emperor for a glimpse into the
disagreement turns into three life of the real Italian stallion.
disagreements that then turn into a —Paola Capó-García, features
cackling bicker fest and ends with intern
one calling the other fat. But their Follow ELLE on Twitter.
tender exchanges are real and
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Collection Crush: French

Connection’s Affordable
Fall Dresses
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog) February’s shows, especially with
Submitted at 9/23/2009 11:21:04 AM their dresses. Their collection
includes the fembot shoulder (in
After a long spell focusing on several sleeve styles), the long-
the upper end of the hi-lo mix, I sleeved mini, the green and black
The Wild
thought it was time to revisit those Balmain sparkle, the asymmetric
pieces we both love and have the neckline, the bodycon Mouret-
Project
power to purchase. So, over the esque sheath, and the distorted By ELLE.com (ELLE News

My Saturday with the weekend I made trips to H&M, floral print. Something for
ZARA, Reiss, Topshop, Club everyone.
Monaco, and French Connection And even more enticing than the
Blog)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:22:12 PM

Second Amendment to see what cool weather offerings variety are the price points,
filled the racks at the most w h i c h , s a v e f o r t h e m o r e
reasonably priced fashion-forward intricately embellished evening
Visit the Wild Project, an eco-
conscious gallery (they have a
solar-powered roof!) in NYC’s
By blogeditor1 (Material among the trees with five of my chain stores. At each, I found dresses, cap at $200. East Village for a photography
Interest on Men.style.com) pals, each cloaked in English enough body candy to reach my Get thee to thy closest French show by recent Yale MFA grad
Submitted at 9/23/2009 2:20:34 PM hunting jackets and toting loaded dressing room maximum, but Connection location, or click here Bryan Graf, who makes New
shotguns. Let's break down what surprisingly, it was neither my before all the goods in your size Jersey look ethereal with
When Barbour invites you to test makes the hunt for those pesky standby (Club Monaco) nor the beautiful, meditative photographs
out their gear in its natural clay pigeons so much fun: 1. The most buzzed about of the group are gone. of expansive landscapes and the
environment on the grounds of activity is centered on discharging (ZARA) but French Connection A selection of the well-priced
dresses from French Connection’s small details within them. The
Orvis Sandanona, America's firearms; 2. Dog-friendly facilities that came out the overall winner. show is curated by the young duo
oldest permitted shooting club, mean man's best friend doesn't on-trend Fall line
Best in fit and most respectful Photos: Courtesy of Hilary Schaffner and Kate
you cancel your weekend brunch have to stay home; 3. When of the notion of runway inspired, Greenberg. Both women have
plans and go. At least that was my executed stylishly, sporting clays French Connection’s Fall line hits F r e n chConnection.com
amazing art world pedigrees at
thinking. How could I resist requires heavy doses of tweed, all the high points from last their ages: Greenberg has worked
e x p e r i e n c i n g t h e u l t i m a t e Barbour coats, and other waxed- for art book publisher Aperture
c u l m i n a t i o n o f u n a b a s h e d canvas variants (plus all sorts of and does publicity for a variety of
manliness? The facility offers fly other gear); 4. No animals are cool arts organizations (Melanie
fishing instruction, a shooting harmed in the adventure; and 5. Flood Projects, Humble Arts
school, gun safety classes, and, of Did I mention guns? All in all, it Foundation, and indie publisher
course, world-class courses for was a day well spent. With a little Charles Lane Press, to name a
sporting clays. Sandanona was the Scotch (post-hunt, of course) and few), and Shaffner, the director of
perfect day trip from New York a steak, and my friends and I did the Wild Project, has worked at
City to blow off steam from my 9- our part to remove capital-M Man Chelsea gallery Yancey
t o - 5 T P S - r e p o r t - g e n e r a t i n g from the endangered species list. Richardson and managed
existence. For $75, you, too, can Orvis Sandanona, 3047 Sharon photographer David Levinthal’s
soak up the outdoors, bond with Turnpike, Millbrook, N.Y., (845) studio. At the same time, they're
your fellow shooters, and try your 677-9701, orvis.com completing their MFA at the
hand at 100 clays. Spending time MICHAEL WILLIAMS Photos: School of Visual Arts'
in the woods is fun, but for my Michael Williams Photography, Video, and Related
money I want to be standing

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The Feather Report Offers

Outfit Inspiration
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 11:52:43 AM

You wake up in the morning and

groggily sip coffee while
pondering what to wear that day.
Twenty minutes later and
completely uninspired, you throw
on whatever and head out the door
only to realize it's 20 degrees
cooler than you thought and
sprinkling. Can't dress yourself?
There's an app for that!
Enter the Feather Report
application (as in
featherreport.blogspot.com, a
great site for non-iPhoners or
those who don't want to pay it's "a hot mess" outside—the
$2.99). Feather =fashion + Feather Report has you covered.
weather, but beyond a daily It's the next best thing to having
report, the app lets you customize Cher Horowitz's computerized
the occasion you're dressing for as closet system.
well as your body type, giving –Janna Johnson, Beauty
you outfit inspiration at your Assistant
fingertips. Perhaps you're a "Petite Follow ELLE on Twitter.
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Media program, where they are Kate Greenberg (left) and
this exhibition tailoring their final year to focus
on curatorial practices. I can’t
Hilary Schaffner
Follow ELLE on Twitter.
By blogeditor1 (Material mother's seventies-era Singer; the is sewn from an old drop cloth wait to see what they come up
Interest on Men.style.com) result is Alteration, an exhibition from his studio; another is pieced with next.
Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:10:00 PM of meticulous, hand-made together with mementos of a trip — Jacqueline Bates, Senior
garments-as-artworks. Many are to Paris he took with his wife. "It's Photo Editor
There's no escaping the famous riffs on the sort of classics you got the vocabulary of a store,"
name, but Greg Lauren—nephew m i g h t f i n d i n h i s u n c l e ' s Lauren says of the exhibition.
of Ralph and son of Jerry Lauren, collection: a safari jacket inspired Alteration: New Works on
a longtime designer for the family by one in a photo of Hemingway, Paper runs through November 1 at
empire—picked a career in art or a wide-lapelled pinstripe suit 28 Wooster St., NYC, (646) 620-
rather than fashion. His latest (above), all hand-constructed 2338; greglauren.com MICHAEL
work bridges the two worlds. A from Japanese paper. In another SLENSKE Photo: Greg Lauren
year and a half ago, Lauren taught section, 20 fabric jackets serve as
himself to sew on his late a series of journals in cloth: One
64 Culture/ Media
E. Tautz's Spring Cinema
By stylemens (GQ: The
Editors)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 4:15:39 PM
In case you haven't heard,
designer Patrick Grant is on a roll.
Back in 2006, he resurrected
Norton & Sons, the famed 187-
year-old Savile Row institution.
These days, Grant has turned his
attention to reviving the British
sporting and military tailor E.
Tautz. With London Fashion
week in full swing, Tautz invited
editors and buyers yesterday to
No. 16 Savile Row for a cup of
tea and a look at the company's
Spring/Summer 2010 collection
via a curious and distinctly British
MediaDailyNews: ABC Sitcoms Post Strong
Openings
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 1:53:43 PM
ABC's adventurous plan to
launch multiple new shows on
Wednesday night started strong
on its premiere night.
Two of ABC's highly touted
comedies -- "Modern Family" at 9
p.m. and
"Cougar Town" at 9:30 p.m. --
each scored a big Nielsen
preliminary 4.3 rating/12 share
among 18-49 viewers. Those
shows were the highest-rated
shows in that demo for the night.
ABC's new 10 p.m. drama,
"Eastwick," did okay -- but was
not stellar, at a 3.0/8. It came in
second-place to the season
premiere of CBS'
"CSI: NY." Overall, ABC was up
about 20% in adults 18-49 against
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Hysteria. So far this season,
Think about it: No models
showing up late, no lighting ratings are down across all the
snafus, no guest seating drama. demos we bothered to look at for
Multimedia is the new, civil way nearly every broadcast network.
to present even the most high-end Not even the second-tier
clothing. While the video is fun to networks, like NBC, are immune
watch, nothing beats seeing the to such viewer apathy. (Their
expertly-constructed collection "late-access" show, "The Jay MediaDailyNews:
firsthand. It's clearly a nod to the Leno Show," has so far failed to
brand's heritage and the bring the heat. Maybe the netlet Saving the Prime-Time
workmanship of The Row, and s h o u l d h a v e c o n s i d e r e d a Season: The American
nearly all of the line is made from promotional campaign and done Challenge
British materials in the some PR to introduce this TV
U.K.—which may not help our unknown.) (MediaPost | Media News)
short film (watch it above). Yes, economy stateside, but makes the After two complete nights of the Submitted at 9/24/2009 10:44:58 AM
it's a little more inspiration than clothes feel that much more season in the books, we're ready
f u n c t i o n , b u t t h e v i d e o authentic.— michael williams to call this a defeat for America, you're on notice. This
presentation seems to have taken is your Television speaking, and
the place of the fashion show. it's not happy.
Broadcast television -- the
lifeblood of any true American
household, followed closely by
Life, Liberty and that other thing -
- is suffering. American audiences
have left their broadcast home,
leaving prime-time network
its premiere on Wednesday a year Perhaps a bigger surprise was that television alone in the dark with
ago. its venerable drama "Law & only an empty bowl of food and a
ABC and CBS, in preliminary Order: SVU" was at a 2.5/7 for its spilled water dish for sustenance.
results, tied for the evening with a first episode of the season. That Sure, you promised to be home
3.5/10, with ABC doing a bit was down 34% from its 10 p.m. after spending all day with your
better among the younger viewers time period on the night a year cable and your sports, but we're
18-34 with a 2.6/8 to CBS' 2.5/8. ago. "Jay Leno" moved down a starting to think you're insincere
In the first battle of the dance bit from Wednesday to a 2.0/5. in your pledge to "be back later
shows -- ABC's "Dancing with the CW's "America's Next Top with some treats and maybe we'll
Stars" came out on top among 18- 4.2/11 -- down 11% from a year Model" was at a 1.3 rating among go run in the park." Shame on
49 viewers with a 3.2/10. Fox's ago. Fox's "Glee" held steady with 18-49 viewers and a 2.3 rating you, viewers. Shame. You're
"So You Think You Can Dance?" a 3.0/8, down just one-tenth of a among women 18-34. Both awfully lucky that the networks
earned a 2.5/8. rating point from its premiere a numbers were about the same are housebroken. But don't push
"Dance" was up a bit from a week ago. versus a week ago. it. They're liable to bite the hand
week ago, but down from the 3.0- Fox landed in third place overall But things weren't pretty for that views them. If you're not
plus average it was pulling in its with a 2.8/8, but it was the easy "The Beautiful Life: TBL" at 9 careful, the national couch could
u s u a l s u m m e r r u n . " S t a r s " winner among the 18-34 crowd, p.m. It sunk to a microscopic 0.5 be used as a broadcast view toy.
currently is running a bit lower from strong younger-viewing rating/1 share among 18-49 But are we barking up the
than its first week a year ago. shows "Dance" and "Glee." viewers, a 0.6 among the 18-34 wrong tree here? Hardly.
In the tough 9 p.m. time period, Against a competitive night demo; and a 0.9 for women 18-34. While this might be
ABC's "Modern Family" came on overall, NBC had trouble gaining misconstrued as premature panic,
top with a 4.3/12. Right behind traction, with its new "Mercy" we prefer to consider it Insightful
was CBS' "Criminal Minds" at earning a modest 2.3/7 at 8 p.m.
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broadcasting everywhere. Case in
point: compared to the first two
nights of broadcast programming
from last season, 21% of ABC's
18-49 viewers are gone. That's
over 1 million fewer humans
watching a live broadcast of such
televised classics as
"Castle" and the cleverly named
"The Forgotten." It's difficult to
support calling this a "Golden
Age" of television when alchemist
viewers keep turning the gold
back into lead.
Right now, before this thing
gets out of hand, we're here to
right this egregious wrong. The
industry needs to take a stand
against this impropriety, so we're
going to suggest that Congress
declare a "War on Tune-Out,"
hoping to replicate the runaway
success of other
"Wars," such as the "War on
Terror," the "War on Poverty" and
the
"War on Employment" (patent
pending).
By declaring that this situation
has become so unwieldy and
important that the government has
to step in, perhaps some 18-24
viewers will
"get the message" and turn off
their text-messaging machines
and start watching more TV
again.
Those who fail to contribute to
the Broadcast Season with an
appropriate level of VPVHs will
be shepherded to a number of Re-
videoization Camps spread
throughout many mid-tiered
DMAs across the United States.
For example, Milwaukee will
have the "Schlemiel! Schlimazel!
Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!"
Buddy Sitcom Center, where
lapsed viewers can acquaint
themselves with current shows,
like "Big Bang Theory" and "Two
and a Half Men."
Unfortunately, due to changing
cultural requirements, this facility
has been moved to a much smaller
location and is only open one hour
per week. Whereas the "Almost
Anything Goes" Reality
Experience Pavilion will be
spread over most of the unused
land surrounding Las Vegas,
including much of the Grand
Canyon and possibly Cancun,
Mexico.
But it's not too late to create the
change that is necessary to
provide you, the dedicated, non-
time-shifting viewer, with the
support that you need to enjoy
such quality entertainment, six
nights a week. In addition to the
forced-viewing camps, volunteer
executives from the broadcast
networks will be participating in a
community reach-out program to
those neighborhoods that are
particularly at risk.
These inner-suburb
neighborhoods of high incomes
and decreased viewing will have
access to the very latest in high-
def, big-screen viewing, often in
their own homes, with little or no
government assistance.
Rumors of so-called "Unplug
Panels," which will decide who
gets to watch and who doesn't, are
untrue. The goal of this program
is to make sure all people have
equal access to the entertainment,
which should be the goal of the
most powerful nation on Earth.
We should have an entertainment
Media 65
system at least equal to Sweden or
Canada, but so far, that's just not
the case. Also, no one will be
denied coverage in this new plan.
Act now, America! It's not too
late to rescue this broadcast
season! CBS has psychics and
crime-fighters everywhere, so
they'll know who you are and will
track you down to make sure
you're contributing to your
minimum procedural viewing per
week. But don't worry about
getting a visit from any of NBC's
Heroes anytime soon -- they've
got enough problems of their own
these days.
This is, after all, for the
common good. Although things
have been strained for us lately,
we all used to be Friends here, at
least in better times. It's not like
this is a place where everyone
knows your name, but it is How I
Met Your Mother, so get ready to
bring back some Good Times.
We're counting on you,
America. On. We're counting on
you, America. Let's get watching.

MediaDailyNews: TiVo: Ads Skipped In Acclaimed Shows

(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/24/2009 10:25:06 AM
TV commercials of critical and
award-winning TV shows are
typically fast-forwarded more
than other programs in DVR
homes.
TiVo's Stop||Watch ratings
service shows that this year's lot
of Emmy-winning shows posted
higher fast-forwarding numbers of
commercials -- as well as being
time shifted in general -- in TiVo
households.
Viewers of Emmy-winning
drama AMC's "Mad Men" fast-
forwarded through commercials
83% of the time. This was against
all drama, which was at a 73%
level. Likewise, "Men" was time-
shifted more -- 85% of the time,
versus 75% of the overall drama
group.
Emmy-winning animated
comedy "South Park" was at a
66% fast-forwarding level, against
55% for all TV animation. "South
Park" was time-shifted at an 82%
level versus 69% for the group.
Same with variety winner "The
Daily Show with Jon Stewart,"
which had its viewers fast-
forwarding at a 66% rate versus
58% for similar shows. Time-
shifting was at a 78% clip versus
53% overall.
Somewhat of a special note to
NBC -- "30 Rock" viewers were
the least prone to fast-forward
through commercials of any
Emmy-winning program: 64%.
The show was also slightly lower
versus the 66% for all comedies.
TiVo notes that of those prime-
time non-sports Emmy program
categories, variety programming
is time-shifted the least -- just
53% of the time. Reality
programming as a group comes
next, at 65% of the time; then
sitcoms at 68%; animated
programming, 69%; and dramas,
75%.
Stop||Watch ratings service data
comes from a daily, anonymous
and random sample of 250,000
TiVo subscribers.