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It’s not quite dishing, but Palin chats to Oprah about Levi, Couric By JoAnne Allen (Front Row Washington)

other party’s candidate — Barack Obama. The interview with Oprah Submitted at 11/12/2009 7:39:07 PM Winfrey will air Monday to kick Apparently all is forgiven. off a book tour for Palin’s Sarah Palin tells Oprah Winfrey memoir, “Going Rogue: An she wants to welcome Levi American LIfe.” Johnston back into the fold. Last year, Palin was skewered Her daughter’s ex-fiance and for fumbling a question about father of her grandchild has been what she read, and she tells all over TV shows and in print Oprah she knew that interview m e d i a m a k i n g u n f l a t t e r i n g with CBS anchor Katie Couric comments about Palin, but the had gone badly. former Alaska governor says he’s “The campaign said ‘Right on, part of the family. good. You’re showing your Palin, who ran for vice president independence. This is what on the Republican ticket with America needs to see’ and, of Senator John McCain last year, course, I’m thinking ‘if you bad interview was.’ So I knew it also had nice things to say about t h o u g h t t h a t w a s a g o o d wasn’t a good interview,” Palin Oprah, who had supported the interview, I don’t know what a says in a clip of the taped Oprah

interview released Thursday. She also talks about what went on inside the McCain campaign and entertains questions about her family, Oprah said on her Web site. Winfrey asked whether Johnston would be at the Palins’ Thanksgiving Dinner table. “He is a part of the family and we want to bring him into the fold and kind of under your wing, and he needs that too, Oprah. ” “I think he needs to know that he is loved and he has the most beautiful child and this can all work out for good. It really can. We don’t have to keep going down this road of controversy and drama all the time,” Palin

responded. You can see more on Monday. Much more, says Palin. She wrote on her Facebook page that the taping went way over on time and the rest will air on Oprah.com. But anyone looking for drama or tension may go away disappointed. Palin says she and Oprah got along just fine. “Oprah was very hospitable and gracious, and her audience was full of warm, energized and (no doubt) curious viewers,” Palin said. Click here for more Reuters political coverage Photo credit: Reuters/Steve Marcus (Palin at a rally in Nevada October 2008)

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As you’ll recall, the C64 emulator for the iPhone was shut down by the App store for being too awesome. Apple has

approved the app but took off the BASIC support. Not great but not bad, either. You can download the app here and this time there is no secret back door for enabling the BASIC emulator right in the app,

which caused the emulator to run afoul of Apple’s draconian “no fun” policy. Here is a cheerful Australian man running you through the app. It allows you to play classic games including that Kung Fu

game that you remember but don’t quite know the name of but had a picture of the Sydney opera house in the background (it was called International Karate). It comes with eight games.

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Clinton pays tribute to U.S. war dead at Manila cemetery By David Alexander (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 11/12/2009 10:48:02 PM

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton laid a wreath on Friday at the Manila American Cemetery, paying tribute to American war dead in the Pacific two days after the U.S. Veterans Day holiday. Most of the 17,202 Americans buried in the 152-acre (61.5hectare) cemetery were killed in the defense of the Philippines and East Indies during World War II in 1941 and 1942 or in the battle

to recapture the islands. The cemetery, located on part of the former Fort William McKinley U.S. military reservation, has a limestone tower at its center with a small chapel inside and a relief sculpture adorning one side. The memorial courtyard is ringed by two hemicycles whose walls bear the names of 36,285 missing. Clinton placed a wreath at the The Security and Escort chapel during the ceremony, Battalion of the Armed Forces of which was attended by a small the Philippines played “Stars and group of veterans. Stripes Forever” and “Semper

Fidelis” and a pair of buglers played “Taps.” The site is maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission, which oversees the U.S. military cemeteries in Normandy and other locations. For more Reuters political news, click here. Photo credit: Reuters/Erik de Castro (Clinton at Manila American Cemetery ceremony)

Google buys Gizmo5 for Google Voice By Tom Krazit (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/12/2009 4:49:00 PM

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McDonald's to add another thousand Google says Docs to catch up to Office next year golden arches next year By Tom Johansmeyer (BloggingStocks)

billion. For 2009, McDonald's expects its capital expenditures to reach $2.1 billion on 900 new Submitted at 11/13/2009 11:00:00 AM restaurant openings. The chain is Filed under: Competitive increasing its rate of new strategy, China, Russia, restaurant openings by more than McDonald's (MCD) 10% from 2009 to 2010. For McDonald's ( MCD), 32,000 Continue reading McDonald's to restaurants in 100 countries isn't add another thousand golden enough. The quick service is closing its three restaurants arches next year r e s t a u r a n t a n n o u n c e d i n a there and has no plans to return McDonald's to add another meeting with Wall Street analysts in the near future. thousand golden arches next year that it will open 1,000 new The company is also looking to o r i g i n a l l y a p p e a r e d o n restaurants next year. Most will rehabilitate the interiors and BloggingStocks on Fri, 13 Nov be in the United States, China, exteriors of another 2,300 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see Australia, Russia, Germany and locations in 2010 - approximately our terms for use of feeds. France. Don't expect to see any in half of them in Europe. In all, Permalink| Email this| Comments Iceland, though, as the company this should cost around $2.4

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SINGAPORE--In a year, most enterprises will have the choice to "get rid" of Microsoft Office if they so choose, suggests Dave Girouard, president of Google's enterprise division. Girouard said in an interview here with ZDNet Asia that he expects Google's online suite of applications, Google Docs, to reach a "point of capability" next year that it will serve the "vast majority's needs." He acknowledged that Docs is

currently "much less mature" than Google Mail or Calendar. "We know it. We wouldn't ask people to get rid of Microsoft Office and use Google Docs because it is not mature yet," he said. But this is expected to change in about a year, after the company's introduces another "30 to 50" updates. Read more of " Google: Firms can 'get rid' of Office in a year" at ZDNet Asia. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Wikipedia sued by German killers in privacy claim By Charles Arthur (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

life without being publicly stigmatised" for their crime, Stopp told the New York Times. "A criminal has a right to Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:23:49 AM privacy, too, and a right to be left Two men claim that article on alone." online encyclopaedia Wikipedia German editors of Wikipedia, infringes their right to privacy which is available in multiple Two German men who killed an languages around the world, have actor in 1990 are suing the already removed the killers' charity behind the online names from the Germane n c y c l o p a e d i a W i k i p e d i a , language version about the claiming that its inclusion of victim, Walter Sedlmayr. But detail of their crimes infringes Stopp has also filed suit in their right to privacy. German courts to demand that The case has become an instant the Wikimedia Foundation, online cause celebre – with one which funds and runs Wikipedia, lawyer saying that the integrity of remove their names from the history itself is at stake – because English-language article. i t r a n g e s t h e U S ' s F i r s t In fact Wikipedia administrators Amendment, which guarantees – the unpaid group that helps freedom of speech, against oversee the running of the site – German privacy and criminal h a v e b e e n d i s c u s s i n g t h e laws, which dictate that after a challenge for more than a year. certain period a crime is "spent" But there is deep disagreement and cannot be referred to. The about whether the individuals' UK has similar rules on the German-determined right to reporting of lesser crimes. privacy overrides the US First The two men, who cannot be Amendment. named here because the Guardian The Electronic Frontier is available in Germany, became Foundation, an online civil infamous for the killing, for liberties group, said in a bulletin which they were sentenced to life on Thursday that "he who in prison in 1993. They were controls the past, controls the released in 2007 and 2008. But future" – intentionally echoing Alexander Stopp, the lawyer for George Orwell's 1984, in which t h e t w o m e n , n o t e d t h a t the government controls the G e r m a n y ' s c o u r t s a l l o w a records of the past in order to criminal's name to be withheld in control the population. news reports once they have Jennifer Granick, a lawyer for served a prison term and a set the EFF, wrote: "This slogan period has expired. from Orwell's Ministry of Truth "They should be able to go on is anathema under US law, which and be resocialised, and lead a takes it as an article of faith that

people must be allowed to publish truthful information about historical events. A foreign power should not be able to censor publications in the United States, regardless of whether doing so suits the country's domestic law. "At stake is the integrity of history itself. If all publications have to abide by the censorship laws of any and every jurisdiction just because they are accessible over the global internet, then we will not be able to believe what we read, whether about Falun Gong (censored by China), the Thai king (censored under lèse majesté) or German murders. Wikipedia appears ready to fight for write once, read anywhere history, and EFF will be watching this fight closely." The English-language Wikipedia article about Sedlmayr notes that the details of the killers' names are available from a number of online sources in Germany. Floyd Abrams, a prominent First Amendment lawyer who has represented the New York Times, told the paper that every judge on the US Supreme Court would agree that the Wikipedia article "is easily, comfortably protected by the First Amendment". But Germany's courts have come up with a different balance between the right to privacy and the public's right to know, Abrams said, and "once you're in the business of suppressing speech, the quest for more speech to suppress is endless".

The German law springs from a decision of Germany's highest court in 1973, which has led to publications there referring to people whose convictions are "spent" are as, for example, "the perpetrator or, Mr L" But the German duo may discover that their attempts to remove their names from the electronic record has precisely the opposite result – a phenomenon known online as the "Streisand effect", after the singer, whose attempts to remove pictures of her beach house from online records outraged people, who then copied the pictures and distributed them over the internet. Michael Godwin, the general counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation, said the foundation "doesn't edit content at all, unless we get a court order from a court of competent jurisdiction … if our German editors have chosen to remove the names of the murderers from their article on Walter Sedlmayr, we support them in that choice." But, he added: "The English-language editors have chosen to include the names of the killers, and we support them in that choice." Wikipedia, as one of the topranking sites for information from many searches, is often a key source of information about events or people. It has reined in editing on biographies of people who are still alive after a number of embarrassing incidents where people's details were altered to

create libels. And when David Rohde, a New York Times reporter, was seized by the Taliban in Afghanistan, the cofounder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, personally appealed to the site's editors to keep details about it quiet. Yet the information was available on other smaller sites. Wikipedia has more than 12m articles, including 3m in English, but has just 30 staff – and Godwin comprises its entire legal staff. The killers' lawyer contacted Wikimedia about both men, citing cases since 2006 that had suppressed publication of their names in Germany. He has won a default judgment against Wikimedia for one of the men in a German court, and last month sent the foundation a letter regarding the other, whose case against Wikimedia is pending. "The German courts, including several courts of appeals, have held that our client's name and likeness cannot be used any more in publication regarding Sedlmayr's death," he wrote. Wikimedia told Stopp it questioned the relevance of any judgments in the German courts, since, it said, it has no operations in Germany and no assets there. • Wikipedia • Internet • Privacy and the net • Germany Charles Arthur WIKIPEDIA page 12

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Israel 'personally attacking human rights group' after Gaza war criticism By Chris McGreal (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:53:29 AM

Human Rights Watch denies having political agenda or seeking funds from Saudi Arabia America's leading human rights organisation has accused Israel and its supporters of an "organised campaign" of false allegations and misinformation, including "extremely personal attacks" on its staff, in an attempt to discredit the group over its reports of war crimes in Gaza. Human Rights Watch (HRW) ties the campaign – which has included accusations that the group's reports on the Jewish state are written by "anti-Israel ideologues" and that it has sought funds from Saudi Arabia – to a statement by a senior official in the Israeli prime minister's office in June pledging to "dedicate time and manpower to combating" human rights organisations. The criticism began with Israeli pressure groups and rightwing blogs, but in recent weeks it has drawn the support of influential individuals such as Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel peace prize winner, and HRW's own founder, Robert Bernstein, who said the organisation's reports were "helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah

state". He called on HRW to focus more on abuses by Arab governments. Iain Levine, HRW's programme director, said that while the organisation had long attracted criticism, in recent months there had been significant attempts to intimidate and discredit it. "I really hesitate to use words like conspiracy, but there is a feeling that there is an organised campaign, and we're seeing from different places what would appear to be co-ordinated attacks ... from some of the language and arguments used it would seem as if there has been discussion," he said."We are having to spend a lot of time repudiating the lies, the falsehoods, the misinformation." Spearheading some of the criticism is NGO Monitor in Jerusalem, an Israeli group funded by wealthy US donors which includes Wiesel on its advisory board. It has accused HRW staff of having a "political agenda" to attack Israel. Criticism has particularly focused on the director of HRW's Middle East division, Sarah Leah Whitson, over a visit to Saudi Arabia. NGO Monitor accused Whitson of attempting to raise money from Saudi officials by highlighting HRW's criticism of Israel, a charge also made in a comment piece for the Wall

Street Journal online that was subsequently widely distributed by the most powerful of the proIsrael lobby groups, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac). Shortly afterwards, the director of policy planning in the Israeli prime minister's office, Ron Dermer, denounced Human Rights Watch. "We are going to dedicate time and manpower to combating these groups; we are not going to be sitting ducks in a pond for the human rights groups to shoot at us with impunity," he said. Levine said that Whitson's visit to Saudi Arabia was similar to trips by other HRW officials to Tokyo, Johannesburg and Tel Aviv to win the support of individuals interested in supporting human rights in their own countries and abroad. "This idea that somehow the Saudi government is going to be able to influence us is nonsense. It's a cardinal principle of the organisation that we don't take government money," he said. But Levine added that Dermer's threat marked the escalation of the campaign against HRW. "It was clear that you had a new government in Israel under Binyamin Netanyahu with a harder right approach. He certainly recognised that the criticisms of Israeli conduct in Gaza from a humanitarian law perspective was extremely

politically damaging," he said. Levine said he believes many of the attacks were aimed at distracting attention from the report of the UN investigator, Richard Goldstone, which was highly critical of Israel's killing of civilians in its three-week attack on Gaza that started last December. Goldstone is a former member of the HRW board and the group has strongly backed his report. "We have been under enormous pressure and tremendous attacks, some of them very personal, as have been the attacks against Richard Goldstone with really vituperative language used to describe him: obsequious Jew, self-loathing Jew and all the rest of it," said Levine. HRW came under renewed criticism last month from its founder, Robert Bernstein, in an opinion article in the New York Times in which he accused it of criticising Israel more than undemocratic governments in the rest of the Middle East. "Human Rights Watch has lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly attacked by Hamas and Hezbollah, organisations that go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as human shields," he wrote. Bernstein accused HRW of basing its accusations against Israel on the testimony of

Palestinian "witnesses whose stories cannot be verified and who may testify for political advantage or because they fear retaliation from their own rulers". Levine said that Bernstein went public only after the HRW board rejected his call for a change in direction. A few days later, Wiesel and others published a letter in the Guardian drawing attention to Bernstein's article, accusing HRW of playing a "destructive role" and calling for a review by the organisation's board. In September, HRW was shaken by accusations that its military expert and collector of war memorabilia, Marc Garlasco, is a Nazi sympathiser after describing an SS jacket as "so cool" in comments on a blog. Both he and HRW vigorously deny the charge, but Garlasco has been suspended pending an investigation. At the time, Levine called the attacks on Garlasco the latest salvo in the Israeli government's campaign "to eliminate the space for legitimate criticism" of the Israeli military. • Israel • Human rights • Gaza • Binyamin Netanyahu • Palestinian territories • Middle East ISRAEL page 12

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Migration spreading creationism, claims academic (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

intelligent 16, 17 and 18-yearolds doing Advanced Level biology who do not accept evolution. That's either because Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:51:12 AM they come from a fundamentalist Immigration means more and Christian background or from more people in the UK do not Muslim backgrounds." accept evolution, says former This rejection of evolution even director of education at the Royal e x t e n d e d t o y o u n g p e o p l e Society Michael Reiss training for the medical Mass migration has led to a rise profession. "Around 10% of UK in creationist beliefs across undergraduates in some medical Europe, according to a British schools are creationists. Some scientist. people think this is unacceptable M i c h a e l R e i s s , w h o i s a and that such students are not professor of education at the worthy to become doctors." Institute of Education in London But when asked if their patients and an Anglican priest, said the should be concerned, he said: "I evolution-creationism debate am quite comfortable with people could no longer be thought of as being first-rate doctors but not s o m e t h i n g t h a t h a p p e n e d accepting evolution." elsewhere and that more and He made the remarks as more people in the UK did not hundreds of scientists and accept evolution. academics from around the world Reiss told the Guardian that gathered in Alexandria, Egypt, c o u n t r i e s w i t h a h i g h e r for a three-day conference to p r o p o r t i o n o f M u s l i m s o r discuss evolution and society. fundamentalist Christians in their Organised by the British Council, population were more likely to Darwin's Living Legacy, An reject evolution. He added: International Conference on "What the Turks believe today is Society and Evolution will host what the Germans and British speakers from Morocco, Turkey, believe tomorrow. It is because Jordan, the UAE, Lebanon, the of the mass movement of people UK and the US. between countries. Conference sessions will look at "These things can no longer be approaches to teaching evolution, thought of as occurring in other the variety of religious responses countries. In London, where I to Darwinism, the creationist work, there are increasingly quite movement in America and l a r g e n u m b e r s o f h i g h l y contemporary attitudes towards

evolution in the Muslim world. Reiss, who was forced to resign his position as director of education at the Royal Society last year after expressing his views about discussing creationism in science lessons, will take part in a forum on science and education. He said he would be arguing that some students found it difficult to accept evolution and that educators should help them to understand the evidence for it. But, "we should not be surprised if a few science lessons are not enough to change their minds." Holding the conference in Alexandria will shift the focus onto Islam and other religions, he said, adding that the belief science and faith were incompatible was widespread. "There are lots of people who are convinced that if you're Christian or Muslim you cannot accept science as an atheist would. Some atheists hold that if you have a strong religious faith that it is incompatible with a scientific mind." While Islam did not suggest that the world was very young – a tenet of Christian creationism – its texts did say that different kinds of organisms had separate origins. He cited surveys in Muslim-majority countries suggesting a widespread belief that organisms did not share a

common ancestry. Reiss said he would like to see young people being allowed to discuss these issues in religious education lessons. But if they brought the subject up in science lessons then the teacher, if comfortable, should use the opportunity to have a discussion about the strength of the evidence for evolution. "Some people feel that when I suggest this I'm going soft on creationism. They're worried I'm not really convinced myself of evolution. I'm very comfortable about difference in society. I'm a bit concerned about overenthusiastic atheists who ridicule people who don't accept evolution and I'm equally concerned with people of strong religious faith who denigrate science and say [scientists] can't be moral." Reiss attracted controversy last year when he said that creationism should be discussed in science lessons, if only to prove it had no scientific basis. The ensuing furore led to him stepping down from his post at the Royal Society. He told the Guardian how the uproar had led to "wonderful feedback from the overwhelming majority of scientists" and that he had been "very touched" by the large numbers of people who contacted him following the

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episode. He believed a lot of scientists were reluctant to express their views freely. "They keep their heads down. It's extremely important that scientists feel comfortable being able to give independent advice and talk about their findings without any worry," he said, possibly alluding to the confrontation between the Home Secretary Alan Johnson and the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. But he encouraged scientific experts to have greater patience with government. "There are times when scientists do not appreciate the reality of life for politicians. What a scientist needs to understand is that there is not a simple route from scientific advice to the formulation of good policy." • Evolution • Controversies in science • Religion • European Union • Teaching • Medicine • Science • Creationism • Religious studies and theology • Schools guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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Obama: fair New York trial for alleged 9/11 mastermind By Justin McCurry, Mark Tran (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, Abd al-Rahim alNashiri, will face a military commission, as will a handful of other detainees yet to be Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:00:07 AM identified. President Barack Obama pledges The White House has said it will f a i r t r i a l f o r a l l e g e d 1 1 tell a Guantánamo military judge September plotter Khalid Sheikh by Monday whether to try several Mohammed and his five co- detainees, including the five accused accused of planning 9/11, before Barack Obama has pledged that US federal courts or military the alleged mastermind of the tribunals – a decision central to 9/11 attacks will receive a fair Obama's pledge to close the trial ahead of an announcement prison. that the five key suspects will be Senior officials have tried in New York. acknowledged that the Obama, who is in Japan as part administration is unlikely to meet of an Asian tour, confirmed that a deadline the president set two the US attorney general would be days after taking office to close m a k i n g a n a n n o u n c e m e n t Guantánamo by 22 January. regarding the trial of Khalid T h e r e a r e c u r r e n t l y 2 1 5 Sheikh Mohammed and other d e t a i n e e s . key suspects being held at The New York case may force Guantánamo Bay. the court system to confront Asked for a reassurance that difficult legal issues surrounding Mohammed and the others would counterterrorism programmes receive a fair trial in New York, begun after the 2001 attacks, Obama – who has described including the use of torture on Guantánamo as a "misguided some of the suspects while in experiment" – said: "I am CIA custody. Waterboarding was absolutely convinced that Khalid used on Mohammed 183 times in Sheikh Mohammed will be 2003 before it was banned. subject to the most exacting Any legal team defending the d e m a n d s o f j u s t i c e . T h e five suspects can be expected to American people insist on it. My argue that it would be difficult – administration insists on it." if not impossible – for their The US attorney general, Eric clients to get a fair trial in New Holder, is expected to announce York, where the World Trade that the leading suspect in the Centre was destroyed by two

hijacked planes. Finding an impartial injury can be expected to be a mammoth task. It was not immediately clear where commission-bound detainees such as Nashiri might be sent, but a military prison in South Carolina has been high on the list of considered sites. The transfer of detainees to New York is not expected to happen for many more weeks because formal charges have not been filed against most of them. According to the Associated Press, the attorney general has decided that the case of the five 9/11 suspects should be handled by prosecutors working in the southern district of New York, which has held a number of terrorism trials in recent decades at a courthouse in lower Manhattan, blocks away from the World Trade Centre site. Holder had been considering other possible trial locations including Virginia, Washington and another courthouse in New York City, the Associated Press has reported. Those districts could end up conducting trials of other Guantánamo detainees sent to federal court. Under the military system the five 9/11 suspects faced the death penalty, but it is unclear whether the justice department would seek capital punishment. The administration sent one

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Guantánamo detainee, Ahmed Ghailani, to New York to face trial and did not ask for execution. At the last major trial of al-Qaida suspects held at the courthouse in 2001 prosecutors sought death penalties for some of the defendants. Mohammed already has an outstanding indictment against him in New York for an unsuccessful plot called Bojinka to simultaneously take down airliners over the Pacific in the 1990s. Some members of Congress have fought any effort to bring Guantánamo Bay detainees to trial in the US, saying it is too dangerous. The Obama administration has defended the planned trials, saying many terrorists have been safely tried, convicted and imprisoned in the US, including the 1993 World Trade Centre bomber Ramzi Yousef. Mohammed and the four others – Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad alHawsawi and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali – are accused of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks that killed 2,973 people in 2001. The Centre for American Progress, a liberal thinktank, has urged the administration to try the suspects in federal criminal courts. "It will demonstrate meaningful

change, setting the tone for broader US detention policy. It is in the United States' strategic interest to refrain from seeking the death penalty no matter which forum it chooses, thus denying martyrdom to the 9/11 conspirators. Military commissions remain tainted by Bush-era mistakes and must be limited – if used at all – to battlefield crimes in order to gain a measure of legitimacy." Even as the Obama administration moves to deal with some of Guantánamo's most notorious captives, it faces tough challenges to closing the facility. It has failed to secure an agreement on the repatriation of about 90 Yemeni detainees and is still seeking asylum for others who cannot be repatriated for fear of abuse in their home countries. • September 11 2001 • Global terrorism • Guantánamo Bay • Obama administration • New York • United States Justin McCurry Mark Tran guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial poses huge challenges for US judiciary By Peter Beaumont (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

attacks as a "badge of honour". But the fact that Mohammed was subjected to prolonged torture is likely to reopen the thorny Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:02:44 AM question of how much of what The alleged 9/11 mastermind's the men have said can be relied c a s e w i l l b e f r a u g h t w i t h on not to have been tainted by difficulty, from security concerns torture. to the selection of an impartial The case is certain to force the jury to the behaviour of the US judiciary to confront a host of accused themselves difficult legal issues surrounding The trial of Khalid Sheikh counterterrorism programmes Mohammed and four other self- begun after the 2001 attacks, confessed plotters in the 9/11 including the harsh interrogation attacks in New York's southern techniques once used on some of district court – which includes the suspects in CIA custody. The Manhattan – is likely to present m o s t s e v e r e m e t h o d , considerable challenges for the waterboarding – or simulated United States. drowning – was used on The southern district is one of Mohammed 183 times in 2003, t h e m o s t e x p e r i e n c e d U S before the practice was banned. jurisdictions in trying terrorists, Jury selection is likely to be but such a high profile case, so another deeply complex issue. close to the emblematic epicentre Prospective jurors would be of 9/11, will not only involve required to go through what is major security issues – both for k n o w n a s a v o i r d i r e the court house and officials examination. According to the involved in the trial – but will jurors' handbook for the southern also have to consider how to deal district, potential jurors should be with what is likely to be an asked whether they "have any e x t r e m e l y l a r g e b o d y o f personal interest in the case, or classified evidence that the know of any reason why they prosecution will want to present. cannot render an impartial "KSM", as he has come to be verdict". k n o w n , a n d h i s f o u r c o - Crucially, other questions are defendants described themselves designed to determine "whether "as terrorists to the bone" in a any panel members have a f i l i n g b e f o r e a m i l i t a r y prejudice or a feeling that might commission at Guantánamo in influence them in rendering a March and have referred to their v e r d i c t " . T h e h a n d b o o k alleged involvement in the continues: "Any juror having

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Glasgow North East byelection: City preparing for far-right rally as fears grow of Scottish rise in YouTube to get high-def neo-nazi groups By Severin Carrell (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

England, is staging its first rally in Scotland near Glasgow central mosque under the name "Scottish Defence League". Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:39:00 AM The "Scotland United" counterTensions surge after BNP comes demonstration will be lead by fourth in Glasgow North East Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's byelection deputy first minister and MSP for Police in Glasgow are preparing the Glasgow Govan, which has f o r a n g r y c o n f r o n t a t i o n s the country's largest Asian tomorrow between anti-racist community, Annabel Goldie, the campaigners and supporters of Scottish Tory leader, and the the far-right English Defence U K ' s f i r s t M u s l i m M P , League as fears grow of a rise in Mohammed Sarwar, the Labour activity by Scottish fascist MP for Glasgow Govan. groups. Sturgeon said: "Scotland is Tensions over the activities of rightly proud of its multicultural racist and neo-nazi organisations diversity. A place where people have surged after the British f r o m a l l b a c k g r o u n d s – National party won its best result irrespective of their race, faith, so far in a Scottish election, belief and place of birth – feel coming fourth in Glasgow North respected. East with only 62 fewer votes " A s t h e f a r - r i g h t S c o t t i s h than the Tories. Defence League prepares an antiThe BNP's result, which saw I s l a m i c d e m o n s t r a t i o n i n them lose their deposit by just 20 Glasgow on Saturday, it is votes, came as anti-racist groups, important for the whole nation to mainstream party leaders, trade send a clear message condemning unions, and religious and all forms of bigotry and community groups prepared for a d i s c r i m i n a t i o n . " major protest rally and march in Anxieties increased this week Glasgow tomorrow. with the conviction of The English Defence League, Christopher Miller for the racist which has orchestrated violent and unprovoked murder of an confrontations with Muslim Indian naval officer, Kunal groups and anti-racist groups in Mohanty, in the Gorbals earlier

this year. Miller celebrated with a friend after he killed Mohanty by slashing him across the neck. The BNP has yet to win any councillors or MEPs in Scotland, but its candidate Charlie Baillie claimed his performance on Thursday gave the BNP a platform for the Scottish parliamentary elections in 2011. Baillie said last night that the BNP result "shows us to be a credible alternative. This one footstep will be the springboard for further success for the Holyrood campaign." The party could win a Holyrood seat if it can win more than 7% of the vote across Glasgow, but Glasgow MSPs believe that remains highly unlikely. The BNP has shown no signs of replicating its performance in Glasgow North East elsewhere and Sturgeon believes its gains yesterday are tiny. The BNP won 4.9% of the vote, but took 4.4% in the European elections in the area and 3.2% in 2005. Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, believes the BBC and other media are partly to blame for Baillie's increased vote, after the BNP leader Nick Griffin appeared on the BBC's Question Time and newspapers highlighted

fears of a BNP surge in the byelection. Salmond's sentiments are privately shared by senior Tories, who claim Labour helped generate publicity about the BNP in Glasgow North East to mobilise its supporters. "I bitterly regret the irresponsibility of the BBC and others for generating the ridiculous and wholly unwarranted volume of publicity the BNP received in Scotland," Salmond said last night. "Yet they didn't come third, they didn't save their deposit, and they were resoundingly rejected by the people of Glasgow North East." • Glasgow North East byelection • Byelections • BNP • The far right • Scotland • Scottish politics • Labour • Conservatives • Scottish National Party (SNP) Severin Carrell guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

1080p player By Rafe Needleman (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/12/2009 3:17:00 PM

YouTube exec announces another bump-up in available YouTube resolution. The new resolution, as well as a new fullscreen player, will roll out to all users within days.

Microsoft opens online mobile Marketplace By Jessica Dolcourt (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/12/2009 12:02:00 PM

Windows Marketplace for Mobile debuted as a smartphoneonly app store. Now Microsoft mirrors the storefront online.

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Thatcher dies – that's moggy, not Maggie By Maev Kennedy (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

The decision was taken not to make a public announcement at the event honouring Canadian military families. But the news Submitted at 11/13/2009 8:02:18 AM was broken discreetly at the top The letter of condolence was table and Dimitri Soudas, aide to almost written before Canadian the prime minister, Stephen Conservatives realised some Harper, was dispatched to a back alarming news was about a cat room to draft a suitable letter of BlackBerries flickered like condolence. summer lightning as the When he rang Buckingham appalling – yet not entirely Palace and 10 Downing Street, he unexpected – news spread among learned that the 84-year-old 2,000 Canadian Conservatives baroness blessedly remained in gathered in Toronto for a black- the land of the living. She tie dinner. Rarely has the death of attended the Armistice Day a cat caused such high-level service at Westminster Abbey consternation. this week. Most of the shocked audience After further inquiries it heard only the bald statement emerged that there had indeed "Thatcher has died", and not the been the tragic passing of a furry backstory. To many in the T h a t c h e r . T h e h e a r t b r o k e n room, Margaret Thatcher is a transport minister, John Baird, hero, one of the towering figures had texted from his home in of 20th-century politics. Faces Ottawa to a friend at the Toronto registered utter shock, and still dinner the news that his 16-yearthe news spread. old grey cat, named in honour of A buzz of horrified conversation the Iron Lady, was no more. rose from many tables, and the Thatcher is not the first top cat to organisers huddled in corners: cause consternation. Questions should the grim message be were asked in parliament in 1997 announced from the podium? Or when Alan Clark demanded the would that ruin the evening for ancient law of habeas corpus be those at the first True Patriot r e s p e c t e d , a n d t h a t t h e Love Tribute dinner who hadn't government either produce the yet heard? body of Humphrey the Downing

Street cat or prove that he was still alive. The political rumour mill had been churning out statements that Cherie Blair, then in residence as wife of the prime minister, so much disliked the creature who had flourished as chief mouser to the Cabinet Office under both Thatcher and John Major, that she had him assassinated. Downing Street duly issued a photograph of Humphrey in retirement, posing with that day's newspapers. When he really did die, a full nine years later, the tragic news was announced by Tony Blair in person. False reports of the deaths of mere human notables are commonplace. The most ghastly recent example of mass slaughter, which still causes journalists to break out in a cold sweat, happened in April 2003 when it emerged that scores of obituaries of world figures were stored without password protection in the development section of the CNN broadcasting website. The inevitable followed. Worse was that many were only partly complete and were based on a template made up from other obits: the pope's "love of racing" was duly celebrated, along with

Yes, it's coming: The Boxee Box By Scott Stein (Webware.com)

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Dick Cheney's surprising eulogy as the "UK's favourite grandmother", a description already applied to the Queen Mother who really had died the previous year. Bob Hope was prematurely mourned at least twice, but lived to celebrate his centenary before finally turning up his cowboy boot toes in 2003. Mark Twain was also killed off twice in the press, producing the famous pronouncement in the New York Journal in June 1897, infinitely parodied and usually misquoted: "The report of my death is an exaggeration." As for poor furry Thatcher, the free world mourns – except the mortified Soudas, who is reported to have snarled: "If the cat wasn't dead, I'd have killed it by now." • Canada • Margaret Thatcher Maev Kennedy guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

Mint makes Twitter an investor hub By Don Reisinger (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/12/2009 2:21:06 PM

Intuit's Mint.com has launched a new feature that will enable users to find financial information from Twitter.

Hannity Apologizes for Misleading Tea Party Footage (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 11/12/2009 11:07:34 AM

It’s not the most gracious apology I’ve ever seen, but Sean Hannity admits Jon Stewart was right, and says he’s sorry for using footage of large crowds from the September 12th tea party in his coverage of Michele Bachmann’s protest last week. Hannity says it was “inadvertent,” but it’s a little hard for me to imagine how a video editor could “inadvertently” insert footage from an entirely different event held on a different day.[Video]

Mercedes mbraces Telematics By Chuck Squatriglia (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:43:00 AM

Mercedes' new system all but puts a personal assistant in the seat next to you.

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Target's Black Friday prices are leaked

Iconix sets its sights on Playboy

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Lizard Interview Ripples Across Intarwebs (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 11/12/2009 5:58:07 PM

Filed under: Products and services, Marketing and advertising, Target Corp. (TGT), Black Friday Black Friday, as the day after Thanksgiving has come to be known, is the day when most retailers get themselves back into the black. It is also a bargain-hunter's delight. In the age of Internet, several websites emerged dedicated to helping shoppers decide in front of which store to pitch their tents. One of those sites, GottADeal.com, has reportedly landed Target's ( TGT) Black Friday ad. Target, it appears, is taking a rather aggressive approach to the upcoming Holiday shopping season. According to the website, the retailer will offer a 32-inch Westinghouse LCD HDTV for $246, which GottADeal.com's founder Brad Olson calls the "lowest price that we've ever seen

Filed under: Deals, Media World It's wabbit season! There's only good news for Playboy ( PLA) when someone expresses an interest in buying it. Shares of the ailing men's lifestyle company shot higher on Thursday when word got out that Iconix is interested in acquiring it. Iconix owns and licenses brands to manufacturers and counts Candie's and London Fog among its holdings. A deal isn't a for that model." The ad also touts sure thing, but Playboy now has $3 toasters and coffeemakers, something it hasn't in a while: and 50% discount on kids' hope. Iconix has been looking to clothes and toys. Continue reading Target's Black a c q u i r e m o r e b r a n d s . A n d Playboy has been looking for a Friday prices are leaked Target's Black Friday prices are knight in shining armor (and with leaked originally appeared on a hefty war chest in tow) since at BloggingStocks on Fri, 13 Nov least June, when Scott Flanders 2009 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

My interview with Erik Kain has been getting a fair amount of attention; Erik emailed to let me know it was linked by Fark.com and other high-traffic sites. Going by Tweetdeck’s search results, there was some Twittering too. Andrew Sullivan linked to it at took the helm. But it looked like Daily Dish, with these comments acquisition bait well before then, about neo-Confederate blogger thanks to a rough financial Robert Stacy McCain: Getting situation. Off The Bandwagon - The Daily Continue reading Iconix sets its Dish | By Andrew Sullivan. sights on Playboy McCain’s views are, strictly Iconix sets its sights on Playboy speaking, fascist in tone and o r i g i n a l l y a p p e a r e d o n intent. His open declaration that BloggingStocks on Fri, 13 Nov he would be open to the genocide 2009 09:45:00 EST. Please see of Palestinians is depraved. That our terms for use of feeds. he remains in the polite company Permalink| Email this| Comments of the bloggy right is a sign of just how degenerate much of it has become. Cough.

Feds Move to Seize Iranian Mosques and 36-Story Skyscraper (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 11/12/2009 2:27:37 PM

The Obama administration is making more than symbolic moves to pressure Iran, as federal prosecutors file complaints to

seize 4 mosques and a New York skyscraper owned by an Iranian front group. NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned

by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history,

prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets of the Alavi Foundation and an alleged front company. The assets include Islamic

centers in New York City, Maryland, California and Houston, more than 100 acres in Virginia, and a 36-story office tower in New York. (Hat tip: KT.)

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Blockbuster: A bomb of Google Chrome OS To Launch a quarter Within A Week By Steven Mallas (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 11/13/2009 8:45:00 AM

Filed under: Earnings reports, Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), Blockbuster Inc 'A' (BBI), Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), Media World Blockbuster ( BBI) is a terrible company and stock. After perusing the third-quarter report, published Friday after the bell, I don't see any reason to modify such a rough statement. Sorry about that, but what else can I say about a huge revenue decline and a wider loss coupled with a story that continues to deteriorate? According to the Q3 earnings release, Blockbuster experienced a 21% drop on the top line. On an adjusted basis, the

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devices that Google will say are ready to use Chrome OS. There will likely be others as well, but Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:45:35 AM don't expect to be able to install it Google's Chrome OS project, on whatever laptop or desktop first announced in July, will machine you have from day one. become available for download Google has previously said they within a week, we've heard from are working with Acer, Adobe, company lost 20 cents per share, a r e l i a b l e s o u r c e . G o o g l e those drivers. Whatever the truth, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlettcompared to 9 cents per share in previously said to expect an early and it's likely in between, having Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, the comparable period a year ago. version of the OS in the fall. a robust set of functioning drivers Texas Instruments, and Toshiba Helping to drive this abject What can we expect? Driver is extremely important to Chrome on the project. We've seen performance was a 14% support will likely be a weak OS's success. People will want to convincing and not so convincing contraction in same-store sales. point. We've heard at various download this to whatever screenshots of Chrome OS over Continue reading Blockbuster: A times that Google has a legion of computer they use and have it the last several months. The good bomb of a quarter engineers working on the not so just work. We expect Google news is the speculation is about Blockbuster: A bomb of a glamorous task of building will be careful with messaging to end, and you can try it out quarter originally appeared on hardware drivers. And we've also around the launch, and endorse a yourself. If you have one of the BloggingStocks on Fri, 13 Nov heard conflicting rumors that s m a l l s e t o f d e v i c e s f o r supported devices, that is. 2009 08:45:00 EST. Please see Google is mostly relying on installation. EEE PC netbooks, our terms for use of feeds. Read| hardware manufacturers to create for example, may be one set of Permalink| Email this| Comments

Earth [Space] By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:22:13 AM

Sometimes we are too concentrated reaching the stars to appreciate what we have right here, under our feet. But then again, if we weren't reaching for the stars, we would never realize this. Zoom in for the high definition version. Click on the image to see the high resolution

So simple, that little blue thing. So lost in the blackness of the Void of Nothingness. This unique perspective of Earth was taken by the OSIRIS narrowangle camera on board Rosetta, from 393,327 miles (633,000 kilometers) on 12 November 2009 at 13:28 CET. The image—which form by three exposures under orange, green, kilometer per pixel. and blue filters—shows the Rosetta is coming back home for South Pole at a resolution of 12 the last time, to take the impulse

necessary to reach the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. When it reaches it in 2014, Rosetta will first study the comment flying alongside, then it will attempt to set its mechanic feet on it. For that it will use the Philae lander that it carries along its decade-long trip around the Solar System. Philae will drill holes into the comet to study its nucleus in search for life's building blocks,

and it will land on firing two harpoons to avoid bouncing off its surface. That's will be when Captain Ahab—the mission controller back in Earth—laughs like a maniac, and Starbuck shakes his head in despair. [ ESA]

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Best Buy Black Friday ad By Doug Aamoth (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:06:04 AM

It’s here. Best Buy’s Black Friday ad is here. Stores open at 5AM and Best Buy will “pass out tickets for our Doorbuster Specials up to two hours before 5 a.m. store opening,” according to the circular. That means no running, probably. You can still do that thing where you walk really fast and sort of skip a little bit, but no running. Doorbusters are marked with an asterisk. Automotive Alpine 50-Watt x 4-Channel Car Stereo– $99.99 Pioneer 50 Watt x 4-Channel Car Stereo & Speaker Pair – $89.99 Cell Phones AT&T Sony Ericsson W518a – Free w/2 Year Contract * BoostMobile Motorola Clutch i465– $59.99 DLO Jam Jacket For iPhone– $9.99 Jabra BT-2080 Bluetooth Headset– $19.99 LG Chocolate Touch From Verizon w/Two Year Activation– $0.00 * MiFi 2200 By Novatel Wireless w/Two Year Activation – $0.00 Mobile Broadband Card 598U By Sierra Wireless w/Two Year Activation – $0.00 Motorola H710 Noise-Canceling Bluetooth Headset– $39.99 Motorola S9 HD Stereo Bluetooth Headset– $49.99

Net10 Samsung T401G– $39.99 Sprint BlackBerry Curve 8330 Smart Phone– Free w/2 Year

Contract Sprint Samsung Instinct S30– Free w/2 Year Contract

T-Mobile Motorola Renew Phone– $7.99 Verizon Wireless DROID–

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Best Buy Black Friday Ad Leaks [Black Friday] By Adam Frucci (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:59:03 AM

Oh Best Buy, won't you save us from the legions of mediocre Black Friday deals that have leaked so far? Please? No, not really? Well, at least there are some great video game deals. * Indicates a doorbuster item Cell Phones AT&T Sony Ericsson W518a Free w/2 Year Contract * BoostMobile Motorola Clutch i465 - $59.99 DLO Jam Jacket For iPhone $9.99 Jabra BT-2080 Bluetooth Headset - $19.99 LG Chocolate Touch From Verizon w/Two Year Activation $0.00 * MiFi 2200 By Novatel Wireless w/Two Year Activation - $0.00 Mobile Broadband Card 598U By Sierra Wireless w/Two Year Activation - $0.00 Motorola H710 Noise-Canceling Bluetooth Headset - $39.99 Motorola S9 HD Stereo Bluetooth Headset - $49.99 Net10 Samsung T401G - $39.99 Sprint BlackBerry Curve 8330 Smart Phone - Free w/2 Year Contract Sprint Samsung Instinct S30 Free w/2 Year Contract T-Mobile Motorola Renew Phone - $7.99 Verizon Wireless DROID $199.99 w/2 Year Contract Verizon Wireless Motorola Rival - Free w/2 Year Contract * Virgin Mobile Kyocera X-tc -

$49.99 Computer Accessories Logitech C250 Webcam $19.99 Logitech V450 Nano Cordless Laser Mouse - $24.99 Rocketfish AC Power Adapter $39.99 Computers Compaq Netbook w/Intel Atom Processor, 1GB Memory, 160GB Hard Drive - $179.99 Compaq Netbook w/Intel Atom Processor, 1GB Memory, 250GB Hard Drive - $229.99 Dell 10.1" Netbook w/Intel Atom Processor, 1GB Memory, 160GB Hard Drive - $379.99 eMachines Desktop w/AMD Athlon Processor, 3GB Memory, 320GB Hard Drive, Windows 7, w/18.5" LCD Monitor and HP Deskjet D1530 Color Printer $299.97 HP 15.6" Notebook w/AMD

Turion II Dual Core Processor M500, 6GB Memory, 320GB Hard Drive, Windows 7 $599.99 HP 15.6" Notebook w/AMD Turion II Dual Core Processor M500, 8GB Memory, 500GB Hard Drive, Windows 7 $699.99 Macbook 13.3" Notebook w/2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR3 Memory, 250GB Hard Drive, w/$150 Gift Card $999.99 Sony 15" Laptop w/Intel Dual Core Processor, 4GB Memory, 320GB Hard Drive, Windows 7 $399.99 Sony 15" Laptop w/Intel Dual Core Processor, 4GB Memory, 320GB Hard Drive, Windows 7, Sony Headphones, Built-In Bluray Player, Blu-ray Movie $479.97 Toshiba 16" Laptop w/Intel Core

2 Duo Processor, 3GB DDR3 Memory, 250GB Hard Drive (Model # L505-S5984) - $399.99 Toshiba 16" Laptop w/Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 4GB DDR3 Memory, 320GB Hard Drive (Model # L505-S5984) w/Printer and Case - $499.97 Digital Cameras Canon EOS Rebel Tli D-SLR Camera w/18-55mm IS Lens $699.99 Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS 10.0 Megapixel Digital Camera (Grey) - $149.99 Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS 10.0 Megapixel Digital Camera (Teal) - $149.99 Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS 10.0 Megapixel Digital Camera w/Extra Battery and Case (Grey) - $179.99 Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS 10.0 Megapixel Digital Camera w/Extra Battery and Case (Teal) -

$179.99 Canon Rebel Tli Camera w/55250mm IS Telephoto Lens and Lowepro D-SLR Bag - $849.97 Fujifilm Finepix Z37 10.0 Megapixel Digital Camera w/Extra Battery and Case $149.97 Fujifilm Finepix Z37 Polka Dot 10.0 Megapixel Digital Camera $119.99 Insignia 720p HD Camcorder $69.99 Insignia NS-DSC10A 10.0 Megapixel Digital Camera (Pink) - $49.99 * Insignia NS-DSC10B 10.0 Megapixel Digital Camera (Blue) - $49.99 * Kodak EasyShare C140 Digital Camera With 7" Kodak Digital Photo Frame - $109.99 Nikon Coolpix P90 12.1 Megapixel Digital Camera $299.99 Nikon Coolpix P90 12.1 Megapixel Digital Camera w/Extra Battery and Case $329.97 Nikon Coolpix S60 10.0 Megapixel Digital Camera (Red) - $179.99 Nikon Coolpix S60 10.0 Megapixel Digital Camera w/Extra Battery and Case $209.97 Nikon D3000DX 10.2 Megapixel D-SLR Digital Camera w/10-55mm and 55200mm Lens and Bag - $599.97 Nikon D3000DX 10.2 Megapixel D-SLR Digital BEST page 20

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Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue [This Cyborg Life] By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:00:00 AM

I'm touching a wet slab of protein, what feels like a paperthin slice of bologna. It's supple, slimy, but unlike meat, if you were to slice it down the center today, tomorrow the wound would heal. It's factory-grown living tissue. The company behind the living, petri-dish-grown substance known as Apligraf hates my new name for it: meat band-aid. "It's living," Dr. Damien Bates, Chief Medical Officer at Organogenesis, corrects me. "Meat isn't living." But no one argues with me that this substance is really just a band-aid. A living, $1500 bandaid, I should say. Apligraf is a matrix of cow collagen, human fibroblasts and keratinocyte stem cells (from discarded circumcisions), that, when applied to chronic wounds (particularly nasty problems like diabetic sores), can seed healing and regeneration. Unlike the research of Dr. Atala that we explored yesterday, Organogenesis is not interested in creating boutique organs for proof of concept scientific advancement. They're a business in the business of mass tissue manufacturingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the first of its kind. So when researchers like Dr. Atala develop their science to

a threshold of duplicable outcomes, companies like Organogenesis will be scaling the process into Ford-esque mass production models. I gave Dr. Bates our nowtraditional to-the-point Q&A. Here's what he said about the future of his field:

What can we do now? Organogenesis was the first company to successfully mass produce and commercialize a living, cell-based product. Our flagship product, Apligraf, is the only living cell-based product that is FDA-approved to treat two types of chronic

extracellular collagen matrices to be used as scaffolding for a variety of biosurgery procedures, including heart and tendon repair. With more than 250,000 patient applications, our products are one of only a handful of regenerative medicine products that are already used around the world. What will we be doing in 5 years? The next foray for our platform technology is to deliver the first living cell-based product to induce the regeneration of siteappropriate oral mucosa (i.e., gums). CelTx has been studied extensively, and recently completed a pivotal clinical trial. We expect to launch the product once U.S. FDA approval is secured. We are also developing the next-generation of our platform technology that has the potential for multiple indications. Over the next five years, Organogenesis expects to continue to pioneer regenerative medicine by completely automating the manufacturing process using robotics. This is expected to be a first within the woundsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;venous leg ulcers and field. diabetic foot ulcers. In 10 years? Apligraf secretes proteins We expect that cell-based including growth factors and technologies used to improve cytokines which are believed to h e a l i n g w i l l h a v e b e c o m e underlie the clinical improvement widespread. The idea of a in the rate and quality of healing. "systems-based" approach to Organogenesis also has licensing agreements for our biocompatible MEAT page 24

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Review: Alesis DM6 Drum Kit By Rick Barr (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:22:10 AM

Short Version: The Alesis DM6 drum kit is a full set of electronic drums that is extremely accessible, yet just as difficult to master as the real thing. In unpacking the box it came in, one thing was immediately clear; this is no kid’s toy. This is a ninepiece set (10, if you include the drum module that makes the magic happen), weighing in at around 40 pounds. The setup is easy enough, thanks to a simple, yet functional parts guide. I had it done within 30 minutes or so. I was struck by how much space this thing takes up. You might expect an electronic set to be smaller than its “real” counterpart, but you’ll still need to clear out some space for this one. One of the first things that impressed me was the modularity of the kit. I had set it up according to the recommended instructions (a high-hat, crash cymbal, dual-zone snare, and tom on the left, two toms and a ride cymbal on the right), but it’s clear that you can put each piece wherever you like. Each piece comes with its own clamp that you can attach to anywhere to the aluminum rack. There is also a second clamp that allows you to adjust the angle of the piece. There are two pedals, one for the bass kick, the other for hi-hat control. Both of these are extremely sturdy and well-built.

The only small complaint I had about the kick pedal was that, for as heavy as it is, it still moved ever-so-slightly after just a few minutes of drumming, even on carpet. Once your kit is set up, it’s time to plug it into something and turn it on. You’ll see your standard jacks, like headphones, 1/8 stereo, 1/8 mix in, and USB. There is also a very tiny switch to change the kick type from the pedal to a pad. I used a 1/8-to-1/4 cable to connect the drum kit to

my 8-track for immediate recording, and had my 8-track connected to stereo speakers so I could play without headphones. So, how does it sound? In a word, authentic. I was expecting to hear something good, but not great…..something more along the lines of a synthesizer. Instead, I was very pleased to hear sounds that could have come from a regular set of drums. When you hit each piece, a light blinon the module, indicating the hit. The pads themselves are rubber, and

are generally very quiet. The only exception would be the cymbals and hi-hat, as the sound of you hitting them with your stick is pretty noticeable. So, I played and recorded a bit. Then I tried out some of the other kits. There are 10 preset kits and five user kits available. Each are fairly distinct, and give you a nice variety. The pads respond dynamically to the force you exert on them. Hit them lightly, you’ll get a softer sound. Or, you can bang on them

as hard as you like to make it louder (and they are no worse for it). This is a nice feature, but I often found myself missing beats if I didn’t hit it exactly right, or with just the right amount of force. The snare was the biggest culprit, and even if I focused solely on it by hitting it with a solid rhythm, there seemed to be some loss of sound every so often. You can set the volume on each individual piece, so I REVIEW: page 25

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treatment will have replaced the traditional drug-based approach to many diseases. We will have a better understanding of which cells or cell combinations to use for what types of medical conditions. Regulatory agencies (such as the FDA) will have a more streamlined approach to dealing with cell-based therapies enabling a more efficient approval process. This will translate into more cell -based products being available on the market. Parallel discoveries will help us understand how to optimize the patient's response to cell-based products. Matrix-only products will be optimized to serve as a totally biocompatible scaffold with physical properties equal to native tissue. In 20 years? It is difficult to predict exactly where we will be in the next 20 years. However...we expect that cell-based products will be able

to direct site-appropriate differentiation of tissue without scar formation. We will be tantalizingly close to actually unlocking the body's true regenerative potential, in addition to our current abilities to improve the rate and quality of tissue repair. This new era may see the successful regeneration of entire appendages (e.g. fingers). With Regenerative Medicine, the field is so new and there are exciting developments announced almost daily. It really is a new frontier and the future is wide open. This week, Gizmodo is exploring the enhanced human future in a segment we call This Cyborg Life. It's about what happens when we treat our body less as a sacred object and more as what it is: Nature's ultimate machine. We met Dr. Damien Bates at this year's TEDMED.

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Would it be earlier than expected? By a lot. But given how long Google usually takes to test their products—and how long Android was public before the G1 launched—Techcrunch's report that Chrome OS is imminent isn't totally ridiculous. Previously, Google had set the release date had been set roughly at H2 of 2010. In their words, [T]he first netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010 Of course, that's when a dedicated product will launch, as in, a netbook from a prominent manufacturer running Chrome

number of computers—mostly netbooks—including a number of Eee PCs. The obvious question now is what will it look like, though I'd like to remind you that, in all likelihood we've been given a pretty good preview: Remember the version of Chrome browser for Chrome OS that leaked for Linux machines a few weeks ago? It had (or has, above) a nonoperational Start-style button, a clock embedded in the title bar, and a minimalist interface, and it's probably a pretty good indicator as to where Google's going with this. [ TechCrunch]

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Employees of the Republican National Committee will be pleased to know that if they should ever find themselves in the unfortunate position of needing an abortion, their insurance plan covers it. The Republican National Committee’s health insurance OS as sold. But Google did go on this year." So, that brings us to plan covers elective abortion – a to say in the same announcement the new rumor: TechCrunch has procedure the party’s own that that they'd "soon be working it from a "reliable source" that platform calls “a fundamental w i t h t h e o p e n s o u r c e we'll see Chrome OS within a assault on innocent human life.” community," after which Eric week, available as a download. Federal Election Commission Schmidt dropped a few hints that It'll have limited driver support, Records show the RNC we could see Chrome OS, most m e a n i n g G o o g l e w i l l o n l y purchases its insurance from likely in beta form, "as early as endorse installation on a limited Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s REVIEW: continued from page 23 policy covers elective abortion. experimented there, but wasn’t There are 108 sounds to choose You can actually record directly The amount of customizations Informed of the coverage, RNC able to completely alleviate the from, so you’ll really only be to the module and then export f r o m t h e h a r d w a r e t o t h e spokeswoman Gail Gitcho told issue. limited by your imagination. that out if you like. There is a software, is impressive. All of the POLITICO that the policy preIf you don’t like any of the You’ll also find a metronome 5,000-note limit for recording, so pieces are very sturdy, so the dates the tenure of current RNC preset kits, or wish you could with a variety of sounds and can d e p e n d i n g o n w h a t y o u ’ r e o n l y c h a n c e a t b r e a k i n g Chairman Michael Steele. change part of it, you can. By select any time signature you playing, the length of recording something would be to tip the “The current policy has been in selecting the VOICE button, and wish. The kit also comes with 40 time could vary greatly. whole thing over…..but even effect since 1991, and we are then hitting the piece of your patterns that you can play along Bottom Line then, you’ll probably be okay. taking steps to address the issue,” Gitcho said. choice, you can then change the with. You can change the tempo, With a street price of $499, it’s a sound of it to pretty much and this feature can be a helpful hefty investment for the casual whatever you want. When you’re practicing tool. musician. But if you’re serious done, you can save your custom If you don’t have an external about playing and possibly kit to any of the five user kits. recording device, not to worry. recording, this is a great value.

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Kivu's G-Five KTNO2 netbook sports ridiculous 'aerodynamic' design, could be the wind beneath your wings By Tim Stevens (Engadget)

Technology Co. apparently did, as the company has launched this G-Five KTNO2 netbook, a There are a lot of improvements machine that is at the same time we here at Engadget like to see in boringly derivative and patently netbooks -- more SSD storage, ludicrous. It was modeled after higher-resolution screens, less an aircraft's wing and, while it flimsy construction -- but not a looks sophisticated enough with o n e o f u s p u t " g r e a t e r that titanium hue, you'll have a aerodynamic lift" anywhere on hard time taking it seriously after comparing it to a bird's wing. our list. Someone at Kivu seeing the graphic after the break Specs? Everything you'd expect Submitted at 11/13/2009 9:20:00 AM

in an otherwise copycat 10-inch netbook, from the 1.6GHz Atom processor to the 160GB HDD. Fly away, little netbook, fly away. [Via PMP Today] Continue reading Kivu's G-Five KTNO2 netbook sports ridiculous 'aerodynamic' design, could be the wind beneath your wings

Hikari iFrame: Japan gets Android-powered, inexpensive tablet PC By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/13/2009 1:00:55 AM

NTT, Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest telecommunications company (its subsidiary NTT East, to be more exact) has unveiled the Hikari iFrame[JP] yesterday, an Android-powered tablet PC thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supposed to be extra-easy to use and doubles as a digital picture frame. NTT East has already set up a dedicated product web site[JP] for the iFrame, marketing it as a lifestyle product of sorts. The device features a 7-inch touch-panel display, an internal battery, a speaker, an alarm

clock, a USB port and an SD memory card slot. And yes, it can be used to access the web via WiFi. In an attempt to appeal to casual web users, NTT East says it will make heavy use of widgets

that just need to be tapped to display various content like the weather, recipes, or the latest news. The Hikari iFrame will be released in Japan only (initially,

at least) in the first half of fiscal 2010, which under the Japanese system means sometime between April and September next year. It will cost between $220 and $330, with NTT East saying the use of Android as the OS resulted in reducing costs by 20-30% per unit. The company is currently looking for test users residing in Japan, mainly targeting women in their 20s. This video shows the tablet in action: Via TechCrunch Japan[JP]

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Israelis Want a Pain Ray of Their Own By Noah Shachtman (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:58:00 AM

The U.S. military spent tens of millions of dollars and years of work developing a microwave 'pain beam,' but a combination of technical difficulties and political concerns kept the Pentagon from fielding the thing. Now, an Israeli team says they're working on their own own portable version. And it'll cost just $250,000.

In Escalating War With Verizon, AT&T Is Getting Tone Deaf and Outflanked By John C Abell (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/12/2009 9:00:00 PM

Verizon and AT&T are going to war: As it took direct aim at the 800-pound gorilla that is the iPhone with funny and cinematic

TV ads for the Droid rollout last week, Verizon is also flanking AT&T about the reach of its 3G coverage with a growing

r e p e r t o i r e o f t e a s i n g to 'set the record straight on commercials. AT&T is fighting V e r i z o n a d s . ' T a l k a b o u t back in court and, most recently, a s y m m e t r i c w a r f a r e . with a bland statement that aims

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Google's Chrome OS just a week away from launch?

YouTube Rolling Out 1080p HD Video Next Week [Streaming Video]

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We'd heard last month that this month was the month that Google would finally launch its highly-anticipated Chrome OS, and now we've got a "reliable source" over at TechCrunch asserting that the software is gearing up for launch "within a week." Granted, we can't ever be too certain when it comes to a rumor such as this, but if the system really does hit the wilds, we probably won't see it available for every machine on the face of the planet. The presumed Alpha build will likely only support a select few products that Google engineers have had a chance to specifically work with -- possibly something such as an Eee PC netbook, which has generally the same specifications regardless of design or model number. Either

UK Channel 4 set to throw some 3D programming our way

If you've been uploading really high-resolution stuff to YouTube, you'll see a real payoff next week. That's when the video sharing service starts streaming videos in 1080p, wide-screen-TV -friendly, high-definition video. Video fiends will dig the g o o d i e s l i k e F l e s h f o r crispness and clarity now way, we'd go ahead and prepare By Vladislav Savov Frankenstein and Friday the 13th, available on the de facto sharing ourselves for something new (Engadget) Part III. If we find can remember site, but we're more excited about before the end of November -- Submitted at 11/13/2009 10:53:00 AM t o g e t d o w n t o t h e l o c a l content being just the right size but don't let it spoil your holidays should things get pushed back a Sony and Panasonic are both Sainsbury's and grab ourselves a for HD televisions. Services like hellbent on convincing us their free pair of those rad-looking Boxee, XBMC, and others can bit, okay? forthcoming super-duper 3D three-dee glasses, you might even make use of YouTube's really [Via SlashGear] television sets are the future, but b e t r e a t e d t o o u r e y e s - o n high-def stuff, and the line Filed under: Software Google's Chrome OS just a week before we all start selling off the impressions. Watch this three- between television and web programming becomes even away from launch? originally children and re-mortgaging our dimensional space! blurrier. appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 homes, how about a little taster [Thanks, Mitch T] Filed under: Home The switch allowing 1080p Nov 2009 08:27:00 EST. Please of what it might be like? Channel streams goes live sometime next see our terms for use of feeds. 4, the British answer to a E n t e r t a i n m e n t Read| Permalink| Email this| question nobody ever asked, is UK Channel 4 set to throw some week. YouTube says those that about to offer up a selection of 3 D p r o g r a m m i n g o u r w a y have already uploaded highComments 3D programming this month, originally appeared on Engadget resolution vids will have their which it dubs as a return to "good on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:53:00 videos processed over to the new old fashioned fun." The menu EST. Please see our terms for format soon. 1080p HD Is includes a documentary about the use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Coming to YouTube[YouTube Queen's coronation (in other Email this| Comments Blog] words, ancient history), a magic show, and even a couple of

Best Sci-Fi Flicks of the '60s, '70s, According to You By Lewis Wallace (Wired Top Stories)

From Quatermass and the Pit to THX 1138, Wired.com readers share their favorite science

fiction movies from two decades brimming with classics.

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GameStop details instore DLC service, to be launched in 2010 By Nicholas Deleon (CrunchGear)

Google Chrome OS Available Next Week? [Rumors]

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It seems the Internet doesn’t like GameStop too much, so I’m not sure how this story will be received. The retailer announced at a conference in New York yesterday that it will launch some sort of in-store DLC service next year. That is, let’s say you buy Game, then immediately buy related DLC from inside the store via a special interface. (GameStop worked with both Sony and Microsoft to figure all this out.) Then, when you get home, the DLC is ready to be added to your game. It’s merely a convenience thing, as, come on, who has time to buy a game at the store, go home, navigate Xbox Live or PSN, then download and apply the DLC?

By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:00:00 AM

GameStop’s COO gave a specific example: If you love X-Men Origins: Wolverine, imagine being able to take home the physical copy at launch, plus have a few costumes and villains sent to your PS3 waiting for you when you get home. No, this isn’t going to totally By Darren Murph (Engadget) change the way you live your Submitted at 11/13/2009 10:19:00 AM life, but it should be useful to those of you who, gasp, still buy Look, we fully understand that someone, somewhere put a lot of things at a retail store. time and effort into designing a$250 handheld that does nothing but watch pixelated mobile TV for a lofty per-month price, but seriously, there has to be better uses of one's time. The 3.5-inch FLO TV Personal Television is on sale today at Amazon, Best Buy and RadioShack, though we (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) study (AFP) suspect that the $249.99 up front 9 s e c o n d s a g o 2 0 0 9 - 1 1 - price will probably keep most Submitted at 11/13/2009 8:02:16 AM 13T08:15:05-08:00 potential buyers at bay. Six David buzzed up: Invest in This content has passed through months of service are included, nature now, save trillions later: fivefilters.org. but afterwards you'll be paying at

Colorado balloon boy father plead guilty (AP)

Another week, another Google product launch rumor—but this one's a bit more notable than most. If TechCrunch's source is correct, the first iteration of the operating system may be available for download within a week from today—but it would least $8.99 per month (and a rate be far from a plug-and-play that low requires a three-year d o w n l o a d . U n l e s s G o o g l e contract) to keep the signals employees and/or hardware flowing. If we're being honest, manufacturers have a little this thing is still more useful than Manhattan-Project-type camp set Celio's REDFLY, but that sure up, hardware support is likely to be specific to a few netbook or ain't sayin' much. F i l e d u n d e r : D i s p l a y s , laptop models at first, and expanding out from there. We'd Handhelds FLO TV Personal Television previously seen suggestions that now on sale for $250, should be Chrome OS on netbooks would in cereal boxes soon originally appear this month, and Google appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 itself has pegged Chrome's Nov 2009 10:19:00 EST. Please release to this fall. Any which see our terms for use of feeds. way, we'll be eager to see what it Read| Permalink| Email this| actually looks and feels like. Let's hear where you think Comments Chrome OS will make its mark in the comments.

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URL Tooltip Moves Mouseover Info to the Cursor [URLs] By Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:30:00 AM

Firefox: If you're looking to reclaim screen real estate from that not-so-tiny expanse of space the Firefox status bar takes up can look pretty tempting. Don't let concern over missing URL mouseover information hold you back, install URL Tooltips. URL Tooltips is a simple Firefox add-on. Once you install it whenever you place your mouse over a URL a tooltip bubble will pop up and show you the full URL. If your only reason isn't good enough for your for keeping the status bar around audiophilic ears. Yeah, too bad at the bottom of the screen is for about the missing headphone checking URLs before clicking jack, but don't let this deter you on them, you can disable the from checking out the Mini 3i's status bar and still enjoy that look -before-you-leap security. full glory after the break. Continue reading Dell Mini 3i URL Tooltip is free and works unboxed in China, capacitive wherever Firefox does. Have a favorite URL-related add-on? stylus included Let's hear about it on the Filed under: Cellphones Dell Mini 3i unboxed in China, comments. URL Tooltip[via c a p a c i t i v e s t y l u s i n c l u d e d DownloadSquad] originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

Time Magazine's Best and Worst Inventions of Dell Mini 3i unboxed in China, capacitive stylus 2009 [List] included By Danny Allen (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:40:00 AM

Sure, I could go into how NASA's Ares Rockets and Project Natal ranked high amongst Time's top 50 inventions, but when it comes to end-of-year lists, I get a kick out of what's deemed the worst. A drum roll pleaseâ&#x20AC;Ś No ridiculous TwitterPeek in their worst 5, but it'd sure be on mine. What would be on yours? Check out Time's great walkthrough its 50 top inventions at: [ TIME] Time's 5 Worst Inventions: 1. Draconian electronic " Smile

Checks" for Japanese Railway workers who get alerted if they're not perky enough. 2. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Coming soon as a graphic novel, apparently. 3. Snuggies for Dogs. Screw that, how about all Snuggies in general. 4. The Gas-Mask Bra. It's real, and one of the award-winning inventions from this year's quirky Ig Nobel Awards. 5. Computers being used in the UK to automatically mark student's essays. Yeah that one sucked.

By Richard Lai (Engadget) Submitted at 11/13/2009 8:39:00 AM

One lucky Chinese blogger was kind enough to share his Dell Mini 3i unboxing experience beyond the Great Firewall, just a tad before Dell officially announced their first-ever smartphone. What's interesting is that the China Mobile version comes with a special stylus for the capacitive touchscreen -- a very handy tool for writing Chinese -- but there's been no mention of this accessory for the Brazilian 3iX. Dell's also bundled a 3.5mm adapter for the miniUSB port in case their handsfree

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Office 2010 Beta Hits BitTorrent One Week Before Debut [BitTorrent] By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/13/2009 8:00:00 AM

Like the Office 2010 Technical Preview, the Office 2010 Beta build, dubbed a "Beta 2" in some circles, has been spotted in the BitTorrent wilds, among other places, one week ahead of its presumed official debut at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference. This time, though, it's not all that hard By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) not yet online), but to buy or to guess how it happened, as p r e v i e w a n y t h i n g , y o u ' r e By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear) assembled in the form of dishes Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:56:14 AM certain bloggers and tech folks redirected into iTunes software. several square kilometers in size. have received beta-loaded thumb This probably won't affect your In that way, iTunes Preview Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:00:46 AM Solar energy in space is about drives from Microsoft. You still day to day life (yet), but it's an really lives up (or down) to its T h e J a p a n A e r o s p a c e five times stronger than on earth, might want to wait for the official i n t e r e s t i n g d e v e l o p m e n t h u m b l e n a m e â&#x20AC;&#x201D; i t ' s a n o n - Exploration Agency(JAXA) has and the solar enery will be beta to drop, though, if you're nonetheless. iTunes now allows interactive preview of iTunes big plans: It wants to conquer transformed into power in space. concerned about viruses, or you to window shop through content for people who haven't outer space to generate solar The dishes are supposed to zap would rather get an official beta your web browser. loaded the software (as well as energy by 2030. The idea is to the lasers and microwaves to invite. Intrigued by the looks of Called iTunes Preview, you can bloggers who'd just like to link a collect solar power in space and gigantic parabolic antennae Office 2010? See what it can do, now access any iTunes music webpage rather than an app). But beam it down to earth, in the located on earth, probably in m o t i o n - s t y l e , i n t h e v i d e o page through your browser by is it so crazy to imagine a day form of lasers or microwaves. r e m o t e a r e a s s u c h a s d a m previews. [ Neowin and Craving selecting "Copy Link" and when Apple allows us to buy The so-called Space Solar Power reservoirs, for example. JAXA Tech via CNET] pasting it Firefox, Safari, IE, music free from the confines of System project is led by big wants to begin conducting whatever you use. their software? corporations such as Mitsubishi, feasibility tests with a 100-kW At the moment, Apple isn't Yes, yes it is. [ iTunes Preview NEC, Fujitsu und Sharp. demo system before eventually doing very much with iTunes via AppleInsider] As a first step, JAXA wants to boosting that number to 1 Preview. Sure, you can view deploy photovoltaic elements in Gigawatt. music (videos and other media outer space where they will be

iTunes Enters the Web Browser with iTunes Preview [ITunes]

Japan to operate solar energy station in outer space

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Wednesdays on Discovery Channel remain strong with men By Robert Seidman (TVbytheNumbers) Submitted at 11/12/2009 3:25:41 PM

Palm Treo 650 boots into Android, lives a fulfilling life (video)

Sony's VAIO Bluetooth Laser Mouse pictured in the wild, almost as ugly as last week's OpenOfficeMouse By Tim Stevens (Engadget)

not do your carpal tunnels any favors. It's available now at By Darren Murph (Engadget) scrolls down and Android grows various internet destinations and, seconds closer to booting. It's While it may not sport the same if you're still interested, about Submitted at 11/13/2009 9:44:00 AM glorious, really. egregious number of buttons and $80 will get you into this party. It may be half a decade old, but [Thanks, Andrew] blue and white aesthetics as last Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, don't lie -- you still whip your Continue reading Palm Treo 650 week's affront to ergonomics, Wireless Treo 650 out from time to time, boots into Android, lives a Sony's VGP-BMS80 VAIO Sony's VAIO Bluetooth Laser toss on some jean shorts and fulfilling life (video) Bluetooth Laser Mouse certainly Mouse pictured in the wild, pretend that the size of your stub F i l e d u n d e r : C e l l p h o n e s , doesn't offer much better looks. It almost as ugly as last week's is synonymous with the big S o f t w a r e does, however, allow for wireless OpenOfficeMouse originally times. If we just rung your bell, Palm Treo 650 boots into control of either a PC or a PS3 appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 you owe it to yourself to have a Android, lives a fulfilling life and, with an optical sensor on Nov 2009 08:57:00 EST. Please peek at the video past the break. (video) originally appeared on top, can be used in the air like a see our terms for use of feeds. T h e r e a r e n o s t e p - b y - s t e p Engadget on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 trackpad or on a flat surface like Read| Permalink| Email this| instructions to accompany it 09:44:00 EST. Please see our a mouse -- a place where that Comments (they're out there, trust us), but terms for use of feeds. Read| "bar of soap" design will surely man, you can just see the life Permalink| Email this| Comments seeping back into it as the code Submitted at 11/13/2009 8:57:00 AM

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500 Leading Nominees in Mashable’s #openwebawards By Sharon Feder (Mashable!)

- YTwatchdog - The Hardy Show - SHAYTARDS Since we launched Mashable’s - BooneOakley 3rd Annual Open Web Awards - Open University Best Brand this past October, you’ve cast Use of Twitter over 349,000 votes for your -@TrueBloodHBO favorite nominees. Over the past - Crayola Creativitycast few weeks we’ve continued to -@NHLBlackhawks t r a c k t h e l e a d e r s i n e a c h -@LiveLifeSolid category, and now, with just two -@Philips_vs days left in the nominations -@140hours period we thought it would be -#socialmedia appropriate to take a look at 500 -@Smartcares of the current leaders in the -@Digsby competition’s 50 categories. -@KiWeets Best Corporate Blog Below are 500 of the top - Playstation Blog nominated individuals, tools, and - Grown Up Thinking by Mr organizations (in no particular Youth order) — each selected by you, - uTest our readers. Add your voice to - OkTrends this list by nominating your - SoGoPro favorites at mashable.com/owa. - ArcelorMittal: The Inside Story Nominations will remain open - Precision Time until 11:59 pm ET on Sunday, - Picnik Blog November 15th. - Kikikannibal Brand/Startup/Company/Agency - Milford Equity Living NYC Best Brand Use of Facebook Best Non-Profit Use of Social - The Children’s Place Media - Newegg.com - Spirit Jump - Comcast4College - Alex’s Lemonade - Dogs Trust - A Billion for A Billion - Zynga - Frougal Dougal - Playfish - Lupus Foundation of America - Pet Society - PETA - Bigzig Connect - Voices of Survivors - Facebuko - Sports Grants Foundation - Mousehunt Best Brand Use of - Space Tweep Society YouTube - Thank A Soldier Social Media - TotallyTrucked Ad Campaign - Coldwell Banker - Grasshopper 5,000 - Shane Dawson - Comcast4College - Internet Killed Television - MadMenYourself - Smosh - People’s Choice Awards on Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:18:39 AM

MySpace - Sarah Ezekiel - Hallow-Dega - Fiesta Movement - Exploiting Chaos - Flowersophy -#BeatCancer Social Media Agency - Mr Youth - Pixel Farm - Jam - TheKBuzz - Rocket XL - SocialMedia8 - Synhergy Entertainment - 360i - Room 214 - Rockfish Interactive Social Media Gadget - Digsby - AddThis - ShareThis - AddToAny - Property-Bee - Wetoku - Tigerbow - SocialGo - Yoono - WiseStamp Twitter Best News Source to Follow -@BreakingNews -@Statesman - Tweetepedia -@CNN

-@ivetesangalo -@TheFeed -@Causecast -@TheOnion -@FingertipNews - TweetPortal Funniest Tweet -@Shitmydadsays -@Serafinowicz -@Ivetesangalo -@JonathanRKnight -@ricky_martin -@BlakeShelton -@Dougiemcfly -@tommcfly -@kpereira -@phillisdorris Tweet of the Year “ T h i s i s history.”@BarackObama - “From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!”@Astro_Mike - “#Firefox reached 1000 million downloads on 2009-07-31 15:00 UTC.”@FirefoxTweets - “http://twitpic.com/135xa – There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.”@Jkrums/ Twitpic - “I #BlameDrewsCancer for asking @sarahcooley to marry me on Twitter…and for the impending parental smackdown for doing so.”@Drew - MonaTweeta II [ Flickr] - “Whoever started the RIP Kanye West hoax…Imma let you finish, but Balloon Boy had the best hoax of all time.” Unattributed

- “29/08: nothing is completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”@Paulocoelho - “The dog don’t like you planting stuff there. It’s his backyard. If you’re the only one who shits in something, you own i t . R e m e m b e r that.”@Shitmydadsays - “I’m not a blogger–I just tweet a lot.”@Jshirk Most Interesting Twitter User to Follow -@Ivetesangalo -@KitchenBitch -@PauloCoelho -@DerrenBrown -@MaureenJohnson -@Tornadoliese -@Donniewahlberg -@Shitmydadsays -@StephenFry -@Alyssa_Milano Twitter User of the Year -@SookieBonTemps -@Mpaynknoper -@Ivetesangalo -@Realwbonner -@Alyssa_Milano -@Collective_Soul -@Donniewahlberg -@StephenFry -@Tommcfly -@Tornadoliese Best Twitter App - Favotter - TweetDeck - Power Twitter - Tweetie - Digsby - Favstar.fm - Seesmic - Brizzly 500 page 33

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- Echofon - Twitter Karma Facebook Best Facebook App - Mousehunt - Ghost Trappers - FarmVille - PackRat - Pet Society - Battle Stations - Eyesores - Mafia Wars - Restaurant City - Fish Wrangler Best Facebook Game - Pet Society - Ghost Trappers - Mousehunt - PackRat - Battle Stations - Restaurant City - Mafia Wars - Fish Wrangler - Cafe World - Farmville Best Facebook Fan Page - Twilight - True Blood - Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations - Paulo Coelho - Sugarland - The Office - Girls Guide To - Newegg - Pooflinger’s Mousehunt Tools - Everything is Rent Most Creative Use of Facebook Connect - Girls Guide To - Startlike - OCBC Cycle Singapore - JibJab - OrgSync - Digsby

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and serves it up on a customizable home screen and integrates it through the phone. (CNET News.com) motor which is attached to a Plus, with MOTOBLUR you generator to make electricity, have peace of mind, because all Submitted at 11/13/2009 4:53:00 AM of your info is backed up and Kepshire explained. BOSTON--While hundreds of The key to making the overall secure. Discover MOTOBLUR other companies are trying to system is to reduce energy loss on Motorola CLIQ available at T make a better battery, start-up that happens in the compression -Mobile. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to spend less SustainX Energy Solutions is and decompression of air, he time managing life and more compressing air, an approach it said. He expects the first pilot time living it. says will let utilities more easily system to be about 50 percent Image courtesy of iStockphoto, add wind and solar to the power efficient but the full system to be m e v a n s R e v i e w s : B l i p . f m , grid. more like 70 percent efficient B r i z z l y , D i g s b y , E c h o f o n , Evernote, Facebook, Firefox, The president of the company, overall. Foursquare, Dax Kepshire, sketched out the Compressed air energy storage F l i c k r , company's technology and has a lot of potential because it's Gameleon.net, Gmail, Google product plans here on Thursday. r e l a t i v e l y i n e x p e n s i v e a n d Maps, Gowalla, Hulu, Last.fm, MySpace, SustainX was spun out of because utilities can store many M e e H i v e , Dartmouth College last year and hours worth of electricity. Pacific Newgrounds, Nimbuzz, Pandora, received $4 million in funding Gas & Electric is investigating Power Twitter, Seesmic, Shazam, from Polaris Venture Partners locations for compressd air Spotify, Tap Tap Revenge 3, s t o r a g e u s e s u n d e r g r o u n d deliver one megawatt of power. TripIt, TweetDeck, Twidroid, and Rockport Capital in August formations to store compressed In the near term, it plans to build storage capable of delivering 300 Twitpic, Twitter, Twitterrific, of this year. It now has 10 air which is released when a 100 kilowatt hour pilot system megawatts of electricity for 10 WhosHere, Wisestamp, Yoono, employees. needed to make electricity. Click to test the efficiency and then hours, or 3,000 megawatt-hours. geoDefense Swarm, iStockphoto, There are already a few on the image for a photo gallery validate the larger model in 2011, By contast, utility-scale battery jumperound, pet society, tweetie compressed-air energy storage storage systems in use now o f o t h e r t y p e s o f e n e r g y Kepshire said. Tags: open web awards, owa facilities in the world where air is storage.(Credit: PG&E) Its technology is also very deliver one or two megawatts for pumped underground for storage. a few hours. The primary difference with different from the existing When needed, the air is released SustainX's approach is that it compressed air storage facilities. SustainX has not yet gotten any and pushed through a turbine to doesn't need an underground salt With traditional compressed air customers. But Kepshire said the make electricity. Utilities make dome or limestone cavern to energy storage, a machine called company is targeting utilities electricity at off-peak times and store the compressed air. Instead, a compressor compacts air and looking to use more renewable draw on the stored energy during i t p r o p o s e s s t o r i n g t h e pumps it underground. To make e n e r g y . T h e c o m p a n y ' s peak-demand when power is compressed air in the off-the- electricity, the air is released and technology, if it proves efficient more valuable. It's a method shelf tanks. Its technical goal is run through special turbines and enough, can be scaled to stored that's getting more attention now many hours of energy and deliver to cram four megawatt-hours a generator to make electricity. as a way to store several hours worth of stored energy in a 40- SustainX is designing a system large amounts of power, he said. By twitter:@acton worth of wind power, which can foot long container in two years, that uses a hydraulic piston to This content has passed through (TweetMeme) produce the most at off-peak said Kepshire. The tank-filled compress air. When the air is fivefilters.org. Submitted at 11/13/2009 1:37:41 AM times. container would be able to released, it moves a hydraulic Traditional compressed air http://twitpic.com/pc2bd - Very humble pie for The Sun 0 comments Source: twitpic.com

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Dell unveils Android-based Mini 3 smartphone (CNET News.com) Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:08:00 AM

Three views of the Dell Mini 3(Credit: Dell) Dell said Friday that it's ready to enter the smartphone business with the Android-based Mini 3. Long rumored to have a smartphone in the works, Dell said that the first two carriers to sell the Mini 3 will be China Mobile and Brazil's Claro. In China, the Mini 3 will use OPhone, China Mobile's customized version of Google's Android operating system. "We are excited for Dell to be among the first manufacturers to introduce new technology based on the OPhone platform," an unnamed China Mobile representative said in Dell's press release. Dell would not offer any specifics about the software on the Brazilian phone, saying simply that "the initial Mini 3 smartphones are designed around the Android platform." The company also did not provide technical specifications or pricing information for the phone, saying those would be revealed when the devices arrive in stores--probably late November for China Mobile and by year's end for Claro. It also did not say when the phone would arrive in the U.S. or other

markets. Dell did confirm that the Mini 3 has a 3.5-inch high-definition touch screen, a detail that Michael Tatelman, a Dell sales and marketing executive, had earlier told the Associated Press. The Mini 3 sold in China won't have Wi-Fi at the start, but Tatelman said that would come later. Similarly, Apple's iPhone late last month made its official debut in China sans Wi-Fi. China Mobile has more than 500 million customers, and Claro serves more than 42 million people in Brazil as part of the America Movil network, Dell said. Dell did tout its "existing agreements with other leading global telecom providers," including Vodafone in Europe; AT&T and Verizon in the U.S.; M1 and Starhub in Singapore; and Maxis in Malaysia. The Texas-based PC maker also

played up the Internet connectivity angle of small mobile gadgetry. "Our entry into the smartphone category is a logical extension of Dell's consumer product evolution over the past two years," Ron Garriques, president of the Dell Global Consumer Group, said in a statement. "We are developing smaller and smarter mobile products that enable our customers to take their Internet experience out of the home and do the things they want to do whenever and wherever they want." But does the world need a smartphone from Dell? The device will have plenty of company: Android phones have begun arriving on the market in larger numbers in recent months. Most notably, U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless last week began selling the much-hyped Droid, made by Motorola, and the more modest Droid Eris, made by HTC. Updated at 5:31 a.m. PDT with more details and background information, and again at 8:08 a.m. PDT with clarification on the use of China Mobile's OPhone and confirmation of the screen size.. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Running The Clock Backwards To Judge Technological Progress By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

is to run the clock backwards and imagine that old technologies are new and vice-versa. Suppose Kevin Donovan points us to a someone announced:"Here is a short but interesting essay by development that will replace the Steven Pinker, on technological way you've been doing things. progress. In it, he discusses the From now on, you won't be able popularity of moral panics over to use Wikipedia. Instead you'll new technologies, and claims by use an invention called The folks who say that Google/text Encyclopedia Britannica. You messaging/the web/email/etc are pay several thousand dollars for a "making us stupid." He suggests shelf-groaning collection of hard a rather simple test for copies whose articles are determining how silly those are, restricted to academic topics, which includes seeing whether or c o m m i s s i o n e d b y a s m a l l not you'd exchange what you committee, written by a single have today for what you had in author, searchable only by their the past: I would suggest another titles, and never change until you way to look at the effects of throw the entire set and buy new technology on our collective ones." Would anyone argue that intelligence. Take the intellectual this scenario would make us values that are timeless and collectively smarter? The reason indisputable: objectivity, truth, technology progresses the way it factual discovery, soundness of does is because it is progress. argument, insight, explanatory Otherwise, people wouldn't be depth, openness to challenging using it. We use Wikipedia ideas, scrutiny of received because it has many features that dogma, overturning of myth and make it more useful. We use superstition. Now ask, are new e m a i l / T w i t t e r / t e x t technologies enhancing or messaging/mp3s and other undermining those values? And technologies for the same reason. as you answer, take care to judge They make life better in some the old and new eras objectively, way. Otherwise, they wouldn't rather than giving a free pass to get used at all. whatever you got used to when Permalink| Comments| Email you were in your 20s. This Story One way to attain this objectivity Submitted at 11/13/2009 1:10:00 AM

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Microsoft's new ad target: Windows 7 (CNET News.com) Submitted at 11/13/2009 3:27:00 AM

Seizing what is perhaps its most valuable advertising real estate, Microsoft said on Friday it has launched a pilot program to sell ads on the Windows desktop. Advertisers can buy the right to offer various themes that customize the desktop image and that promote various gadgets and even custom sounds for the Windows 7 operating system. Microsoft stressed, however, that users will choose which, if any, of the customizations they want to download. In addition to the usual collection of pretty pictures, Microsoft is now selling businesses the option of offering sponsored desktop themes for Windows 7.(Credit: CNET) The Windows Personalization Gallery offers a desktop branding experience for users throughout the operation of their Windows 7 -based PC, including backgrounds, slide shows, borders, and application audio elements. Microsoft's pitch is that the program will allow consumers to connect with brands they

particularly like. "The new Windows Theme Experience and Windows Personalization Gallery in Windows 7 allow consumers to customize their technology to reflect the things in life they are most passionate about," Microsoft vice president Darren Huston said in a statement. "These are great examples of Microsoft innovation and technology coming together to

enable top global brands to reach audiences in new and interesting ways." Microsoft said that the advertising program is a test that will run through October of next year. Early partners include Porsche, Infiniti, and Ducati, and Microsoft itself is participating. "Microsoft is a key partner in our global advertising strategy; they constantly provide new ideas and opportunities which are tailored

to our brand and exciting for our customers," Infiniti marketing director Jon Brancheau said in a statement. "The Windows Personalization Gallery and Windows Theme Experience are unique offerings that will provide Infiniti with a new set of tools to integrate our brand elements into the lives of consumers everywhere." Twentieth Century Fox, another early advertiser, will use the

Windows desktop to promote its movies. "People connect emotionally with films and the stories they tell," vice president Bettina Sherick said in a statement. "These are the same people who personalize their digital experience. We are thrilled to be able to bring our film properties to consumers and let them engage more deeply with the stories that move them." Microsoft said that the themes are available globally from Microsoft's Web site. "We pride ourselves on listening to our clients and developing the most innovative, accessible and relevant products based on their feedback," said John Nicol, general manager, Last Mile Innovation, Microsoft Consumer & Online. Although new to Windows, sponsored themes have been common in other PC experiences, such as instant-messaging programs. So, Windows 7 users, what do you make of this? This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Make a Date with 'Brothers & Sisters'' Gilles Marini (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/13/2009 1:49:00 AM

"Brothers and Sisters" star and last season's "Dancing with the Stars" runner-up Gilles Marini is

taking it all off for a good cause - a calendar to benefit a children's charity If you want to spend every day of the year 2010 with the hunky 'Sex and the City: The Movie'

star, pick up a copy of his calendar at amazon.com. The calendar will benefit Maximum Hope Foundation, a non-profit organization designed to help families dealing with the

financial hurdles that often accompany caring for a terminally ill child. "This year, [photographer Fred Goudon] asked me if I would love to do a calendar,' Gilles tells

ET. He decided if his proceeds would go to a charity, it was a good idea.

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If the finale of Dollhouse stays on Jan. 22 prepare for a “Whedonverse smackdown” By Robert Seidman (TVbytheNumbers) Submitted at 11/12/2009 4:07:10 PM

A nifty little detail via Mo Ryan if the current schedule plans for Dollhouse calling for a finale on (CNET News.com) Eris, Tilt 2, and Pure.(Credit: company said, but European the company is looking for strong January 22nd hold up: HTC) sales remain sluggish due to a sales volume from its overall line If Jan. 22 is indeed the date of Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:49:40 AM Prices on smartphones have also lack of brand awareness. o f A n d r o i d s m a r t p h o n e s , the “Dollhouse” series finale, After a string of weak quarters, dropped this year and are likely Market researcher IDC recently including the G1, Magic, Tattoo, p r e p a r e y o u r s e l f f o r a mobile phone maker HTC is to continue to fall, putting further reported that HTC sold 2.4 and the new Droid Eris. Whedonverse smackdown. eyeing more of the same for the pressure on HTC, which trails the million smartphones in the third Despite its new focus on “Dollhouse’s” final episode will current quarter but is hoping for market in fourth place behind quarter, a gain of 14.7 percent Google's Android operating air the same night as new better results next year. Nokia, Apple, and Research In over last year's third quarter. But s y s t e m , H T C s a i d t h a t i t s programs from two alums of Joss The Taiwan-based company Motion. Android sales for that quarter Windows Mobile phones remain Whedon’s various writing staffs. expects sales for the fourth The company's third quarter were lower than expected, mostly vital products. The company still Steven S. DeKnight, who wrote quarter to drop to between 40 continued its down streak, with due to tougher competition from ships more Windows Mobile for “Dollhouse,” “Buffy” and billion and 42 billion Taiwan full results reported earlier this other manufacturers and are smartphones than any other “ A n g e l , ” i s a n e x e c u t i v e dollars (between $1.23 billion week. For the quarter the ended likely to stay down in the fourth manufacturer and is looking to producer of “Spartacus: Blood and $1.3 billion), around 15 September 30, HTC watched its quarter. enhance their performance and and Sand,” which premieres Jan. percent lower than in last year's sales drop 10 percent to 34.01 The company has been striving touch capabilities in the near 22 on Starz. Also debuting that fourth quarter. billion Taiwan dollars from last to increase consumer awareness term. Hitting U.S. shores next night is “Caprica,” a “Battlestar C o m p e t i t i o n f r o m o t h e r year's third quarter. Earnings fell of its brand in both the U.S. and year will be the new HD2 Galactica” prequel that counts smartphones, especially the 18.5 percent to 5.7 billion Europe, a goal it plans to push Windows Mobile smartphone, J a n e E s p e n s o n a m o n g i t s i P h o n e 3 G S r e l e a s e d t h i s Taiwan dollars. further next year by boosting its which has already had positive executive producers. Espenson is summer, has tempered demand In a conference call this week, marketing budget. a veteran of many Whedon reviews. for HTC's products, which HTC outlined its current business For the holiday-shopping season, This content has passed through projects, including “Dollhouse.” include the Hero, Droid Eris, Tilt and forecast for the near term. HTC will be trying to grab more fivefilters.org. Read Mo’s full post on the 2, MyTouch 3G, Snap, and The U.S. market for HTC 's shelf space and sales for its new Dollhouse cancellation. Ozone. This content has passed through Android smartphones has Android Hero smartphone, HTC's (from left) Hero, Droid enjoyed strong growth, the released last month. Beyond that, fivefilters.org.

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TV Broadcasters Suing Songwriters' Hey, Google! There’s Org SESAC Over Pricing Power Another Programming Language Called Go! By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

show the syndicated shows -- and thus, it can ask for extremely high prices, or -- more commonly Missed this one when it first -- pressure the broadcasters into a came out, but Copycense points high-priced "blanket license." u s t o t h e n e w s t h a t T V Since the broadcasters can't broadcasters have sued SESAC, change out the music (it's in the one of the collections agencies shows already), they generally for songwriters and composers have no choice but to go along. (the smallest, after ASCAP and So, the argument goes, SESAC BMI), claiming that SESAC is effectively has a monopoly violating antitrust laws in how it position, and is abusing it. prices music used in television Of course, the real "monopoly" s h o w s - - e s p e c i a l l y f o r here is copyright. At a quick syndicated shows. The details glance, it certainly looks like are really quite fascinating. SESAC is doing exactly what Local stations quite often run copyright allows -- but the syndicated shows (such as sitcom s t r u c t u r e o f l i c e n s i n g f o r reruns). When they buy the syndicated TV content allows rights to run those syndicated SESAC to make life difficult for shows, the package includes all the broadcasters. So, I'm not of the related copyrights except really sure SESAC should really for performance rights for any of be faulted here, as it seems to be the music included. Those have doing exactly what it was to be purchased separately by the enabled to do thanks to overly broadcasters themselves. Now, broad copyright laws. At the for SESAC, representing the same time, it also makes you songwriters, this presents a wonder why the broadcasters golden opportunity. It's the only don't go back to the TV program thing standing between the owners themselves and demand broadcaster and being able to that they bundle the music Submitted at 11/13/2009 3:30:00 AM

performance rights as well, since there's more negotiating power there. So, while it does seem unfair for the broadcasters as the market is currently structured, I'm not sure it's an antitrust violation on SESAC's part. More a problem with how the industry licenses are set up, combined with copyright being way too broad in such situations. There's also a separate interesting element to this lawsuit -- which is why it's SESAC being sued rather than ASCAP and BMI. ASCAP and BMI are both already limited due to previous antitrust fights and consent decrees against them, whereas SESAC has been more or less free to act this way. Either way, it's yet another lawsuit concerning aggressive use of copyright to try to demand as much money as possible, even for music that is a small part of an overall presentation of content. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

Eurozone escapes recession after five quarters (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:51:39 AM

The eurozone escaped recession in the third quarter, with Germany's recovery gaining strength, but the rebound was

less dramatic than expected and less strong than in the US. Eurozone gross domestic product rose by 0.4 per cent compared with the previous three months, according to Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical office. The US economy

expanded by 0.9 per cent in the same period but the UK remained in recession. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

By Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:46:28 AM

When you’re a huge web company, and you choose a name for something as important as a new programming language, you should take great care to investigate whether the name is already taken. Apparently, Google didn’t do that. Frank McCabe, a developer working at San Jose, Calif.-based Starview Technologies, created a programming language and named it Go years ago. In fact, he published a research paper about it in 2004, and devoted an entire book to it, named “ Lets Go” in 2007. In an e-mail to Information Week, McCabe said he doesn’t own a trademark on the language, but he’s not happy about Google choosing the name Go nevertheless. “It takes a lot of effort to produce a reasonably well-designed language. I am concerned that the ‘big guy’ will end up steam-rollering over me. I do not have resources to invest in legal action; but do not intend to let Google keep the name without them being explicit that they are steam-rollering over us,” he says. If the folks at Google who

named the language didn’t know about the other “Go”, they were careless. If they knew about it and decided to name their language “Go” anyway, it sounds like a big company not caring much about the little guy. After all, how many names are taken when it comes to programming languages? Perhaps a couple hundred? Surely Google could have chosen another name. Google hasn’t given a definitive answer to this problem yet. So far, their spokesman merely said they “recently became aware of the Go! issue and are now looking into the matter further.” But ignoring the issue definitely won’t go well with Google’s oft quoted mantra – “Don’t be evil”. Reviews: Google Tags: Frank McCabe, Go, Google

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Star Wreck Filmmakers Experiment WordPress Now Knows With Iron Sky Where You Are By Michael Ho (Techdirt)

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background story. All of which is based on the WreckAMovie There are about 1,760 war bonds community that encourages more BullJustin points out to us that still available at 50€ a piece. films to be bootstrapped and the guys behind Star Wreck Though, you can get some of the crowdsourced from a collection (which we wrote about back in items separately from the Iron of both amateur and professional 2006) are trying a few interesting S k y o n l i n e s t o r e ( u n d y i n g filmmakers. things to promote their follow-up gratitude is presumably included So for much less than $200 movie project Iron Sky-- a story in all purchases). million, the Star Wreck crew is about Nazis who fled to the With only 240 war bonds sold developing creative ways to moon in 1945 with plans to since August 2008, the Iron Sky interact with their fans (and other return to Earth in 2018. To m o v i e i s n ' t g o i n g t o b e filmmakers) to get their projects connect with fans, the Iron Sky completely funded by fans. But a c c o m p l i s h e d m o r e c o s t project released some Creative it looks like the British Stealth effectively. They've given away Commons material for a movie Media Group has chipped in up free promotional materials for fan teaser remix and is selling " War to 1 million euros for worldwide remixing. They've set up a Bonds" to crowdfund part of the distribution rights -- and the process for fans to donate ideas movie production. To be clear, movie's total budget has grown to a n d m o n e y t o t h e p r o j e c t . the "War Bonds" aren't actually be at least 5 million euros. On T h e y ' r e c r e a t i n g m o v i e bonds -- just a limited-edition top of that, the Star Wreck folks accessories that get an audience p a c k a g e ( o n l y 2 , 0 0 0 ) o f seem to have even bigger plans -- excited about a movie that hasn't k e e p s a k e s t h a t i n c l u d e s : with a separate Iron Sky game even been made yet. Shouldn't • a 16-page book with very p r o j e c t c a l l e d I r o n S k y : this be the way more movies are pretty pictures Operation Highjump that is produced? • a DVD with the teaser trailer l o o k i n g f o r Permalink| Comments| Email and two documentaries contributions/suggestions from This Story • a signed certificate of support fans to create a single-player • official dogtags video game based on the movie's

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Kelly Osbourne Talks Swatch and the Semi-Finals in New York

Location is quickly becoming all the rage. Twitter has started to attach location to tweets(and a host of applications are expected to soon support the functionality), Foursquare has quickly expanded to new cities, and Loopt continues to expand to new platforms and carriers. Now, WordPress is getting into the game, by letting bloggers that host their sites on WordPress.com automatically attach their location to individual blog posts. Doing so will also make your post searchable by location, so other users can find blog posts from specific places. WordPress says that there’s more to come in the way of location features. In a blog post, the company writes, “we’ll gradually roll out more geotagging features, such as showing the location of your commenters, the location of poll votes, a live map view of blog updates on WordPress.com, or an annual report showing you where your posts were written and where your comments came

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Kelly says that Swatch has been a long-standing brand in her life, explaining that her parents, Ozzy Kelly Osbourne stepped out in and Sharon Osbourne, always NYC on Thursday to celebrate brought her a new Swatch watch the re-launch of the Swatch when they came back from being flagship store in Times Square. on tour. Submitted at 11/13/2009 4:53:00 AM

The "Dancing with the Stars" competitor talked to ET about making it to the semi-finals and opened up about what she and her partner Louis van Amstel are doing to prepare.

from.” Although maybe not as likely to spawn offline networking in the real-time way that Twitter and Foursquare can (you still have to write a blog post versus a tweet), attaching location could have interesting implications for searching out blog posts in a specific area, especially when news breaks there. Profiles can also be tagged, so if you want to find other WordPress users in your area, you can. Do you think attaching location to blog posts will be valuable? Share your thoughts in the comments. Reviews: Foursquare, Twitter, WordPress Tags: blogging, location, Wordpress

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Vega: Android Leaps from Phone to YouTube Gets Serious Tablet About High Definition With 1080p Support By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)

designed for low power consumption and long battery life. One of the promises of Google’s There’s no word on what that Android operating system has “low cost” price may be, and it always been that it need not stay may end up varying by carrier as confined to powering cell well (no word on whether you’ll phones. That’s already starting to be able to buy it outright without come to fruition, with an Android 3G yet, either). Nonetheless, the netbook on the way from Acer Vega is certainly an interesting and both the Barnes & Noble entrant into the once again Nook and the Spring Design nascent tablet device playing Alex eReaders also launching 11 and 15-inches. It will support field, with the Apple Tablet and soon with Android under the connectivity via Wi-Fi as well as the Microsoft Courier being the hood (thought apparently it’s no 3G, and be available at reportedly two hot tablets that no one will accident the latter two devices “low cost” (read: subsidized) admit are real yet. from major carriers throughout Check out a few more images of are so similar). Now there’s another Android North America, Europe, Latin the Vega below. Do you see a device on deck that’s not a America, and the Middle East. place for these tablet devices in phone, dubbed Vega. Made by Designed to be put to flexible the home? What would the price S e a t t l e - b a s e d c o m p a n y use throughout the home, the need to be for you to pick one Innovative Converged Devices, Vega will feature high-definition up? Would you rather it run the Vega is a tablet-like device entertainment and a touchscreen Android, Mac OS X, Windows, with a detachable stand to prop it along with a webcam, Bluetooth or something else? up, running Android 2.0 (the support, accelerometer, 512MB [via VentureBeat] s a m e v e r s i o n u s e d i n t h e RAM and storage via microSD. Reviews: Android, Bluetooth The brain of the machine will be Tags: 3g, android, ICD, Tablet, Motorola Droid). The device, slated to launch in NVIDIA’s Tegra processor, a vega the first half of 2010, will high-powered combination CPU actually come in three sizes: 7, and graphics chip that was Submitted at 11/12/2009 3:45:47 PM

9/11 suspects to be tried in New York (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:42:37 AM

WASHINGTON, November 13 – Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and four others will be

sent for prosecution in a criminal court in New York from the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, an Obama administration official said on Friday. The five were being prosecuted in US military commissions at Guantánamo, but the Obama

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Although YouTube has been supporting videos in high definition for at least a year now, the resolution has heretofore topped out at 720p. Without getting too far into the technical nitty gritty, 1080p is a higher resolution format made up of more vertical “lines,” resulting in a higher quality image. It’s also referred to as “full HD” or “true high-definition” because 1080p is currently the maximum resolution that anything supports (well, almost). Beginning next week, YouTube will be adding 1080p support to its video playback options. Of course, as with other high definition playback formats, you’ll need to have 1080p quality video going in to get the proper quality coming back out. But a growing number of consumer video cameras are now supporting the true HD format, so it makes sense that YouTube would want to up the stakes in terms of quality.

Good news for videographers who’ve already uploaded 1080p quality video in the past, too — YouTube will be re-encoding your videos for you to allow playback at the proper true HD resolution. They also plan to prominently feature great examples of 1080p videos in an upcoming homepage spotlight, so if you have some footage that really shows off what true high resolution can do, now is the time to upload it. Does your video camera record at 1080p? Will you be using the new true high definition feature when it launches next week? [Image courtesy of Michael Gauthier] Reviews: YouTube Tags: 1080p, full HD, hd, video, youtube

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Apple launches iTunes Preview for external browser links By Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

the same old gray page. But that'll probably change before long -- it's much smoother to see what you're clicking through to, Submitted at 11/13/2009 9:30:00 AM By Mike Schramm (The The story starts with a guy fact that the game using it has and of course there's the added Unofficial Apple Weblog named Tim Langdell, who started been around for years. Filed under: iTS, Multimedia, bonus for people who don't (TUAW)) a company a while back named Hence the indie game iTunes, Apple, Music This is the actually have iTunes installed. As Edge Games. Since he founded developers' "edge-volution." Submitted at 11/13/2009 8:30:00 AM that company, he has mercilessly They aren't actually renaming kind of thing that probably MacWorld points out, there are Filed under: Gaming, Software, gone after any other game their games in the store, just should have been done a long actually no "preview" buttons on Developer, iPhone, App Store company who dares to use the showing off solidarity with other time ago, but Macworld is the page -- you can't listen to App Store developers can be a word "edge" in their title, developers against what they see reporting that Apple has launched music there, only click through to rebellious kind -- we've already c l a i m i n g t h a t h e h a s t h e as Langdell's wrongdoing, and iTunes Preview, a page that the iTunes store. But like I said, covered the story of a company trademark to any and all "edge"- getting the word out about his appears when you click an it's better than a blank window shooting their price up to $40 just related gaming. He's gone after actions against "edge" on the iTunes link ( like this one) and and a browser popup asking for your browser sends you over to your permission. I wouldn't be to show their customers how EA's Mirror's Edge and a few App Store. much they could be charging, other titles, but the App Store has TUAW App Store devs get iTunes. Previously, you just got surprised at all to see this grow a and now, in response to an overly been a prime target, where he " e d g e " - y a s a r e a c t i o n t o that placeholder page that said lot more in the future. defensive trademark owner, simply contacts Apple, claims the trademark threats originally "One Moment Please" and asked TUAW Apple launches iTunes developers on the store are a p p i s i n v i o l a t i o n o f h i s appeared on The Unofficial if you wanted to open the link in Preview for external browser putting the word "Edge" in their trademarks, and gets apps pulled Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, an external application, but with links originally appeared on The titles. Even high profile releases without a problem. The latest 13 Nov 2009 08:30:00 EST. iTunes Preview, you get a nicely U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g like the sequel to Eliss and the target is a title called Killer Edge Please see our terms for use of laid out page with information (TUAW) on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 and reviews (and your browser 09:30:00 EST. Please see our popular Canabalt are becoming Racing by a company named feeds. Edgeliss and Canabedge. Critter PuzzleKings, and reportedly Read| Permalink| Email this| still opens up the iTunes store). terms for use of feeds. Currently it only seems to work Read| Permalink| Email this| Crunch becomes Critter Edge on Langdell has gone so far as to Comments w i t h m u s i c - - m o v i e s a n d Comments their main page, and so on. trademark that name, despite the television only get a small thumbnail, and applications get

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A trip around town with Traffic Live from Navigon By Mel Martin (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

Navigon app. The graphics are first rate. It automatically changes to night view, the text to Submitted at 11/12/2009 6:30:00 PM speech voice is very clear in a Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, noisy car, and the map doesn't lag Software, iPhone, App Review from my actual position. I've already reported on the The traffic option is US$19.99 updated Navigon iPhone app, [ as a one time payment, and not iTunes link] and noted that live overpriced in my view. My only traffic info was now included as caution is you may not get much an in-app purchase. I've spent the information if you are not in the last 2 days driving around town large metro areas, and it would testing it, and it works as be nice if Navigon posted where advertised -- but perhaps in not good traffic information is as many places as I would have available. hoped. For those in the bigger cities, it's Here in Southern Arizona, there a nice addition at a reasonable were very few traffic updates, so price. I set a destination for Phoenix from Navigon was 94 miles away TUAW A trip around town with and had lots of information. in the Phoenix metro area. Traffic Live from Navigon Clearly, Navigon is not always It was odd, because both systems originally appeared on The s o u r c i n g i n f o r m a t i o n f r o m source a lot of the same places U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g smaller U.S. cities. (like Clear Channel Radio) for (TUAW) on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 As a comparison, I tried the information. On the other hand, 18:30:00 EST. Please see our traffic info built into my car nav the traffic info from Navigon was terms for use of feeds. system, and it displayed 9 nearby more detailed, with nice close-up Read| Permalink| Email this| traffic incidents, some as close as maps of the trouble areas. Comments 4 miles away. At the same time, I like everything about the the nearest traffic incident I got

Rumor: Hypothetical hybrid GSM-CDMA iPhone for Verizon nowhere near production By Josh Carr (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 11/12/2009 7:30:00 PM

Filed under: Rumors, iPhone Last week we covered the possibility that the iPhone would get a hybrid chip allowing it to work on CDMA and UTMS carriers (like Verzion and AT&T) simultaneously. Today, Appleinsider is citing industry analyst Ashok Kumar who says that such a chip hasn't reached field trial status, and that the lead time required for this type of device makes him think consumers won't see it in 2010. Kumar goes on to suggest that this new "worldmode" chip would be more likely to show up in 2011. While it would be ideal for Apple to have one model of iPhone that would work on nearly all wireless providers in the world, the technology just doesn't appear to be there at this point. Kumar points out that even though the hardware is in

development, the software necessary for the basebands of such devices doesn't even exist yet but would get there eventually. So that's one vote against a 2010 debut for the Verizon iPhone, despite the corroborating rumors from other supply chain analysts. As eager as everyone is for an alternative to AT&T in the USA, I don't think this is the last we'll hear of the story. TUAW Rumor: Hypothetical hybrid GSM-CDMA iPhone for Verizon nowhere near production originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

Review: The Vampire Diaries - History Repeating By Jane Boursaw (TV Squad)

when we learned a whole lot of even though Damon killed stuff in the last few minutes. It Stefan's BFF last week and then was fun seeing the vamp brothers Stefan nearly killed Damon. Oh (S01E09) I was pretty much Stefan and Damon sort of buddy those kooky vampire brothers. riveted to this episode of The up, even if it wasn't really real. Continue reading Review: The Vampire Diaries all the way Given their long history, you Vampire Diaries - History brotherly ... something there, through, but especially at the end, have to think there must be some Repeating Submitted at 11/13/2009 3:34:00 AM

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It's about time: TomTom submits updated nav app to Apple

Boxee boxes available in 2010

By Mel Martin (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

By Josh Carr (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

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Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhone Very welcome news for owners of the TomTom iPhone nav app [ iTunes link for U.S. version]; the company has announced a free update that includes many of the features that people were craving.

Filed under: Multimedia, Open Source On the boxee blog this morning, Avner Ronen announced a new and exciting partnership with an undisclosed consumer electronics company that will result in a dedicated device for users who want to use Boxee as a home theater system. They were quick to say that they're still looking to develop Boxee for every possible device connected to your TV... computers, game consoles, settop boxes, they want to be the media software for your device of choice (like the Apple TV). However, I have to say that this isn't surprising. It's easier and quicker to develop an awesome application on the hardware of your chosing: any Apple fan knows that. This presents a new dilemma for Mac users who want to see Boxee on their computer or Apple TV -- you can't devote an equal amount of time to development when you add

• Advanced lane guidance giving drivers extra clarity when navigating difficult junctions. For the first time this is in both landscape and portrait mode. • Text-to-speech helping motorists to keep their eyes on the road by enabling street names and places to be read aloud as part of the spoken instructions. • "Help Me" providing direct access to emergency numbers and directions to the nearest emergency providers. • Updated map and safety camera database (Europe only) • Customizable audio warnings when approaching safety cameras or driving over the speed limit,

increasing driver safety and saving money. • iPod player control ensuring drivers can conveniently control their music from within the application.

is still the free Google Navigation app, which is trying to get onto the iPhone and will have a gaggle of features no one else is offering. [via Engadget] TUAW It's about time: TomTom TomTom submitted the new submits updated nav app to version to Apple yesterday, and Apple originally appeared on The as usual, it's anybody's guess U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g when it will emerge. It won't be (TUAW) on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 fast enough for TomTom owners, 11:15:00 EST. Please see our who have seen their app fall terms for use of feeds. behind the feature rich Navigon Read| Permalink| Email this| app and other GPS offerings. Comments The joker in this particular deck

another device into the mix. That said, Boxee development hasn't exactly been the quickest process to begin with, and the service has been in alpha for quite some time. So, this may be a good way for Boxee to get out of alpha and into something that will show its true potential. TUAW Boxee boxes available in 2010 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

New Moon Secrets from Dakota Fanning and The Volturi (ETonline - Breaking News)

Bright from 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon.' Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:59:00 AM The foursome play members of ET sits down with Dakota the ruling vampire clan, the Fanning, Jamie Campbell Bower, Volturi in the sequel to 'Twilight,' Michael Sheen and Cameron and they open up about their

characters' evil intentions. Veteran stage actor Michael Sheen says of playing his diabolical 2,000-year-old character, "I like the idea of someone who thinks of himself

as a nice, sweet grandmotherly type but who's actually a psycho killer underneath. ... So, I like the idea of playing someone who is sort of soft, quite loving and thinks of himself as being very

sentimental and then likes to pull people's heads off."

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Police Allowed To Hang Onto Seized Computers For Anti-Piracy Group, Despite No Gov't Prosecution By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:38:00 AM

We were just noting that the IFPI thinks it's going to start seizing computers directly to get evidence of unauthorized file sharing, and wondering how that would work. At least in the UK, they may have just received some legal support. Over the summer, we wondered why an anti-piracy group in the UK was given access to and allowed to keep computers from a criminal investigation into an online service, called Surfthechannel, accused of unauthorized file sharing. The police seized the computers, but decided not to pursue criminal charges. It never made much sense that private, industry-backed anti-piracy group FACT was a major part of the criminal investigation, as they're quite the biased party. They were given seized computers as a part of this investigation -- and once the police decided not to pursue criminal charges, FACT kept the machines, saying it was considering a civil suit. However, the lawyers for Surfthechannel noted that the

Massively Increasing Music Licensing Fees For Clubs Down Under Massively Backfires By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

the collections effort, and distribute that music to clubs and other establishments. Then, these We've noted the ridiculous and clubs, gyms, restaurants and the self-defeating efforts by many like can tell the PPCA to take a music collections societies hike, and still play music. We'd around the world to jack up their already seen that some clubs had rates by ridiculous amounts. started doing this on their own, None was more ridiculous than but now they've teamed up to the attempt in Australia by the share such music with each other PPCA where some of the rate in order to get out from under the changes would rocket up from PPCA entirely. So, nice job figures like $125/year... to PPCA. Once again, in your $19,344/year. Well, it looks like effort to get people to pay more it's already backfiring badly. for every single use, you end up Reader Dan alerts us to the news making it that much more t h a t t h e o r g a n i z a t i o n t h a t difficult for anyone to actually represents night clubs and similar hear -- or care about -- the b u s i n e s s e s i n A u s t r a l i a , musicians you supposedly appropriately named Clubs r e p r e s e n t . Australia, has set up a system Permalink| Comments| Email whereby the organization will This Story specifically go out and seek music by artists not covered by Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:28:00 AM

police and FACT had no right to keep the seized machines after the decision was made not to pursue criminal charges. Apparently (and unfortunately) a judge disagrees. Lennart Renkema alerts us (via comments on a totally separate story, rather than a submission -- not sure why) to the news that the judge in the case has said that police have every right to retain seized computers, even after they've decided not to pursue criminal

charges. The judges noted that the law allows police the retain anything seized "so long as is necessary in all the circumstances" and then ruled that the potential of a civil suit from FACT was one of those "circumstances" that qualified. It's difficult to see how that (Financial Times - US makes any sense, but so ruled the homepage) court. Permalink| Comments| Email Submitted at 11/13/2009 1:02:33 AM This Story British Airways and Iberia on Thursday night agreed the terms of a merger to create Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third-largest airline by revenue, one of the biggest deals in the global aviation industry.

BA and Iberia agree merger But the two airlines have agreed that Iberia will be able to terminate the accord if it is unhappy with BAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s handling of its swollen pension scheme, which has been one of the sticking points in the deal, first announced in July last year. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Sneaky Way To Get Past Section 230 Top 10 Twitter Photo Safe Harbors To Force Content Sharing Services Judged Offline by Mashable Readers By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

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We all know the importance of Section 230 safe harbors that protect a service provider from actions done by its users. While there have been a few cases that chipped away at those protections, on the whole, they're quite solid. However, Eric Goldman brings us the story of how some lawyers seem to be dealing with this. They've stopped suing the sites directly, but they then file a lawsuit against the party who actually created the content they want taken down -- but if that person does not show up in court, then the suing party can get a default judgment, and then use that default judgment to get the content taken offline-- since the default judgment can be used to

Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked your favorite Twitter photo -sharing service. Is your favorite service not represented — or not high enough! — in the list? Let us know in the comments! And to make sure your vote counts next time, be sure to check back tomorrow for the next edition of the Lunchtime Poll. Top 10 Mashable Twitter PhotoSharing Services 10. TwitrPix 9. Twitgoo 8. yfrog 7. twic.li/

enforce injunctions against third parties. From the perspective of the suing party, then, they have every incentive in the world to try to get a default judgment, rather than even fighting with the real person in court. Then, with the default judgment, they can force a site to take down the content. As Goldman notes: For

the price of a complaint and a defendant's default (which can be engineered by targeting a phantom author), plaintiffs obtain an effective cudgel to excise unwanted content throughout the web. That's not a good thing. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

6. Flickr 5. Mobypicture 4. Posterous 3. SmugMug 2. ow.ly 1. Twitpic Image courtesy of iStockphoto, ericsphotography Reviews: Flickr, Posterous, Twitgoo, Twitpic, TwitrPix, iStockphoto Tags: flickr, lunchtime poll, mobypicture, ow.ly, photo sharing, poll, posterous, smugmug, twic.li, twitgoo, twitpic, twitrpix, twitter, yfrog

UK Bing Gets Maps, Loses Beta Tag By Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:30:15 AM

When it comes to shedding the beta tag, Microsoft is far quicker than Google (some of whose products have been called perpetual betas). Bing UK just lost its beta tag, and gained

several interesting features, most importantly Bing Maps(which will replace Multimap, where visitors were redirected until now). The new UK Bing Maps sport an impressive array of features. You can check the entire list in detail here, but here are the highlights: S u r v e y M a p s ( g r e a t f o r redesigned navigation, Ordnance outdoorspeople), Tube Maps,

nearby stations and POIs, walking directions and user contributions. As far as the search portion of Bing UK goes, it sports visual search, more instant answers (ask a direct question, such as “How is Liverpool doing in the Premiership?”, and get an instant answer), real-time Twitter search,

and shopping search (courtesy of Ciao UK). And yes, those background images will now be UK-specific. Reviews: Twitter Tags: bing, maps, uk

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Apple to open 40 to 50 new Apple Stores next year By Lauren Hirsch (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

Fort Hood Suspect Wired Money to Pakistan? (Little Green Footballs)

Submitted at 11/13/2009 10:30:00 AM

connections to the Asian country, which faces a massive Islamist insurgency and is widely Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) b e l i e v e d t o b e O s a m a b i n has told the press there’s Laden’s hiding place. evidence that alleged Fort Hood Hoekstra, the ranking shooter Nidal Malik Hasan may R e p u b l i c a n o n t h e H o u s e have wired money to Pakistan. Intelligence Committee, would WASHINGTON – Authorities not identify the sources. But he have been examining whether said “they are trying to follow up Fort Hood massacre suspect on it because they recognize that Nidal Malik Hasan wired money if there are communications – to Pakistan in recent months, an phone or money transfers with action that one senior lawmaker somebody in Pakistan – it just s a i d w o u l d r a i s e s e r i o u s raises a whole other level of questions about Hasan’s possible questions.” … connections to militant Islamic Hasan earned more than $90,000 groups. a year and had no dependents, yet Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., lived in an aging one-bedroom said sources “outside of the apartment that rented for about [ i n t e l l i g e n c e ] c o m m u n i t y ” $300 a month. learned about Hasan’s possible Submitted at 11/12/2009 10:38:05 AM

Filed under: Apple Corporate, Retail At a media preview event yesterday designed to create buzz for Apple's newest store opening in Manhattan, Ron Johnston, Apple's senior vice president of retail announced that Apple would be opening 40-50 more Apple retail stores in the coming year. One focus will be on opening larger stores overall. While this is great news for anybody who has been frustrated by the zoo that is any Apple store on any given day recently (careful what you wish for when you wish for your platform of choice to finally get the market share it needs to ensure continued development).

The bulk of these stores will be overseas in cities like Paris, London, and Shanghai. So if you live in Paris, London, or Shanghai, congratulations! You, too, will have a store you can try to shop in when all you want is a new set of earphones for your iPhone and you can't get anywhere near the display.

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Mix Your Own Liquid Tamiflu For Kids [Swine Flu] By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)

shortages this winter, especially the specialty liquid Tamiflu given to children too young or adults If you've got a youngster in need unable to swallow capsules. If of Tamiflu to ward off H1N1 or your pharmacy's out of the liquid, standard flu, but the store's out of you can grab a sweet liquid, child-friendly liquid stuff, you break open a capsule, and mix can mix your own fairly easily, t h e t w o t o g e t h e r i n a n y according to the CDC and wise proportion, as long as the entire regular or sugar-free chocolate parents. liquid is consumed: syrup, that masks the flavor of Anything related to swine flu or What liquids can I use? the medicine can be mixed with H1N1 is subject to regional A thick and sweet liquid, such as Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:30:00 AM

the contents of the Tamiflu® capsule. Sugar-free sweet liquids are available. The child should

consume the liquid mixture entirely. Not every medication can be broken open and mixed, so it's good to know that Tamiflu can survive a little bath in some Hershey's Syrup. Q&A: Opening and Mixing Tamiflu® Capsules with Liquids if Child Cannot Swallow Capsules[CDC H1N1 Flu site via Consumerist]

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By Allison Waldman (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/13/2009 10:02:00 AM

The Addams Family is coming back. No, this times it's not a TV By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) offers an "I Have iTunes" link, series, nor a motion picture. No, along with individual "View in this time Broadway is taking Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:30:00 AM iTunes" links for song previews. C h a r l e s A d d a m s ' a m a z i n g Click a direct iTunes link in a It's mostly helpful to those dysfunctional gothic family and By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) m a t u r e d a g o o d b i t , a n d b r o w s e r , a n d A p p l e h a s looking to browse iTunes music putting their antics to music. continues to look a bit more traditionally opened the music catalog and price out what's That's right, The Addams Family Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:00:00 AM graphically forward-looking than app automatically, or asked you available, but it's also welcome is becoming a Broadway musical. OpenSUSE 11.2, the latest the relatively straight-forward to download it at a blank landing relief to those without iTunes One of the things that sounds Linux offering from the Novell- GNOME that's the default for page. That landing is now more tired of seeing a "Don't have really promising about the backed project, updates the core most Linux distributions. KDE soft and helpful, though missing iTunes?" message. It's also a musical is the casting. The two components of its GNOME 4.3 is, in fact, the default desktop song previews. music-only feature, but the clever leads seem perfect for their roles desktop and apps. What's really for openSUSE 11.2, though iTunes Preview, as it's known, App Store at AppSpot can look at -- Nathan Lane as Gomez and i n t r i g u i n g , t h o u g h , i s t h e GNOME, KDE, and the lighter drops browsers at a page with iPhone apps, music, and videos Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia. integration of KDE 4.3, which X f c e a r e a l l a v a i l a b l e f o r a r t i s t , t r a c k , a n d a l b u m without iTunes installed. Apple T h e y ' r e b o t h l i k e c a r t o o n looks snazzy and, seemingly, installation and as live try-outs information, along with track unveils browser-based iTunes characters already, and in that works better than previous on CD and USB. pricing, length, ratings, and P r e v i e w [ A p p l e I n s i d e r v i a bizarro world, they should be right at home. Hams on parade ... versions. OpenSUSE 11.2 is a free customer reviews. Better still, it G i z m o d o ] with music! It sounds glorious. We were initially impressed, and download for nearly any system. now doesn't just hijack your Continue reading The Addams eager to tweak, KDE 4 when it Hit the link for a run-down of iTunes copy and open it, but Family's latest incarnation is a first arrived as a Linux desktop new features and plentiful Broadway musical option. Then initial enthusiasm screenshots, and tell us what Filed under: OpEd, Casting, gave way to, well, "How do I get you're liking, or looking for, in Reality-Free my frakking wireless working?" the comments. openSUSE 11.2 Permalink| Email this| | and other productivity dead-ends. Released![openSUSE News] Comments Since then, though, KDE's

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How to Secure Your Jailbroken iPhone By Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)

meme of rickrolling), Privacy.A gives the user no indication that it is running on the device. Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:01:15 AM The new worm also operates a Earlier this week, the news of bit differently than iKee does, as the first iPhone worm made its it doesn't have sit on the iPhone way around the net. Since the itself in order to inflect its worm only targeted jailbroken damage or spread. The hacker devices and then only those can either load the worm onto which had the SSH program their personal device and then installed, there wasn't a need for m o n i t o r t h e n e t w o r k f o r concern on the part of most jailbroken devices to attack or iPhone users. However, a second they can load the worm onto a worm which uses the same computer. As Intego points out in security hole as the so-called their post, this computer could be iKee worm has reared its head on a public network at an Internet a n d t h i s o n e i s f a r m o r e cafe or retail store. In that dangerous. According to security scenario, the worm would then firm Intego, the new worm goes scan for any other jailbroken after personal data stored on the iPhones that came within range device including email, contacts, of the Wi-Fi network and attack S M S m e s s a g e s , c a l e n d a r s , them. How to Secure your photos, music files, videos, and iPhone any other data recorded by any Although many jailbreakers are iPhone app. tech-savvy enough to know how In other words, if you're the to lock down their devices to owner of a jailbroken phone, you protect themselves from attack, should now be concerned. there are quite a few who have Sponsor simply followed online New iPhone Worm Discovered instructions such as these to Unlike the relatively innocuous perform the jailbreak. This group, iKee worm which the creator while arguably somewhat techdesigned more as a "public savvy, doesn't necessarily know service" to alert users to the all the nitty-gritty details about potential for malware on the the iPhone filesystem or its iPhone, the new worm, dubbed security mechanisms. "iPhone/Privacy.A," is the real To make it easy on these users, d e a l . W h e r e i K e e s i m p l y we've provided steps on how to switched the iPhone wallpaper to c h a n g e y o u r i P h o n e ' s r o o t display a photo of singer Rick p a s s w o r d - t h e c o m m o n Astley(a nod to the internet denominator required in order for

malware...as least for now. Here's how: • Install the MobileTerminal application from Cydia. • Reboot your iPhone. • Launch MobileTerminal and type in the command: passwd • At the prompt which asks for the malware to gain access to the "Old Password," type in: alpine your device. While some may argue there's • At the new password prompt, no need to change your root type in a new password of your password if you haven't also choosing, making sure to pick installed the SSH program, something strong. another necessary element for • Re-enter the password to these attacks to work, we think confirm. that's a little short-sighted. It • You'll then be returned to the would be easy enough for a Mobile$ prompt which means the m a l i c i o u s h a c k e r t o t r i c k change was successful. jailbreakers into installing SSH • Now you'll need to change the by bundling it with some other password for the secondary third-party application offered admin. Type in the command through underground App Stores login root. l i k e C y d i d a o r I c y . B y • Again, you're prompted for the masquerading as something old password. Type in alpine. innocent like a wallpaper- • Now type in the command changer or ringtone bundle, a passwd hacker could easily set up a • You'll then go through the number of jailbreakers with SSH change password routine a without the victims even being second time, entering in alpine as aware that it has been installed. the old password, creating a new Although we haven't heard of password and then re-entering it anything like this happening yet, to confirm. if we thought of it then you can • When you are finished, close bet that the hackers out there the application. have thought of it too. Note: these instructions assume Changing the Root Password The best protection is to simply you are running iPhone OS 3.0 or c h a n g e y o u r i P h o n e r o o t higher. Discuss password. That will keep you safe from the current iPhone

Competition Heats Up at Victoria's Secret Boot Camp (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:53:00 AM

Competition to be the next Victoria's Secret Runway Angel gets a lot fiercer as a major elimination takes place, narrowing the field from ten finalists to five! Watch the video… ET is there at Chelsea Piers in New York for all the laughter and tears as the girls found out from Victoria's Secret Angel Miranda Kerr who would be moving on to the second Angel Boot Camp task. Victoria's Secret held open casting events in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles and Chicago to give the country's most beautiful women a chance to be the next Victoria's Secret Runway Angel. Starting with 10 finalists staying in The District, a luxury condo building in the heart of Manhattan's financial district, the girls are competing in a series of challenges to prove their abilities as a spokesmodel and show off their red carpet star quality while walking a runway in lingerie.

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iPhone Game Maker Apologizes for Stealing Phone Numbers, Calls Lawsuit "Meritless" By Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)

The complaint, filed on behalf of Michael Turner (and available in its entirety here), states that all Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:00:46 AM the games retrieved the user's cell A federal lawsuit filed on phone number and sent it over to Wednesday is charging an the company without informing iPhone development firm with the user that this is being done. collecting users' cell phone The suit also points out that n u m b e r s w i t h o u t t h e i r there's no reason for this to occur permission. The developer, a since playing an iPhone game game-making firm by the name doesn't require the developer to of Storm8, is the entity behind have access to this sort of popular games like iMobsters, p e r s o n a l l y - i d e n t i f i a b l e World War, Racing Live, i n f o r m a t i o n . Vampires Live, Kingdoms Live, While initially Storm8 claimed Zombies Live, and Rockstars the harvesting of these phone L i v e , a m o n g o t h e r s . T h e numbers was due to a "bug" in company has five titles ranked in their code, attorneys for the the top 50 free apps list in iTunes plaintiff were quick to point out and seven titles in the top 100. that specific software code was According to the pending class- required in order to retrieve the action suit, Storm8 used a well- numbers - no bug could have known backdoor method to done that. In other words, the "access, collect, and transmit" the c o l l e c t i o n w a s i n t e n t i o n a l . w i r e l e s s p h o n e n u m b e r s Storm8's Response: We Erred, belonging to their software's We Fixed It, Lawsuit is Meritless users. Now the company is changing Now the company has publicly its tune - well, a bit. Instead of responded to the suit by posting calling it a "bug," they're on their forums a sort of mea claiming that the phone number culpa as well as their plans to ask collection was due to legacy code for a dismissal of the lawsuit due that was put in place very early to its "complete lack of merit." on in the software development Sponsor process as a way to identify Download a Game, Give Up specific devices. Later, the Your Phone Number company decided to use the

iPhone's Unique Device ID (UDID) instead - a much more common and accepted practice for developers needing an identification method. UDID's aren't associated with a person's name or phone number - they just identify the iPhone itself. However, even though the company changed methods, they didn't remove the old code that performed the phone number collection. Storm8 claims that they did nothing with those phone numbers nor did they provide them to any other company. They also say that the database housing the numbers was destroyed in August after they were alerted to the issue. At that time, they took voluntary actions to update their applications to new versions with the legacy code removed. The company states that they plan to ask for a dismissal of the suit because no user "has incurred any damage or loss" as a result of their actions. Unfortunately, they may be right. As despicable as those actions were, the law may be on their side. According to legal news site FindLaw, the law requires that

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not only was a personal computer accessed, but that the computer was also damaged. Turner's lawyer then will have to prove that Storm8 caused damage because it "impaired the integrity of the data stored on a protected computer." Additionally, cell phone numbers are not considered "protected data" in the same way that social security numbers or bank account numbers are. In other words, despite how icky this privacy violation makes you feel, it may not actually be illegal. In our opinion, that's terrible news. Of course we wouldn't want this to start some sort of "sue the programmer" trend, but we do need to have more control over who's doing what with the personal data stored on our mobile phones - especially if Apple isn't going to look out for us in this case. Shouldn't there be some way to punish developers who go after this private info without our knowledge - whether intentionally and maliciously or not? It seems like we have enough concerns over privacy issues these days, we shouldn't have to worry if our iPhone apps are spying on us, too. Discuss

'Cougar Town''s Topless Hot Tub Honeys! (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/13/2009 1:16:00 AM

Jules ( Courteney Cox) has a wild birthday weekend at a resort with her two best friends -- who can't overcome their hatred of each other. Upset that her two best friends don't get along but determined to have a fun birthday nonetheless, Jules convinces Ellie ( Christa Miller) and Laurie ( Busy Philipps) to go on a wild birthday weekend away, which they do, begrudgingly. Jules packs items from her wardrobe that she doesn't normally wear -- like a bustier that could fit right in to a Whitesnake video -- but Laurie tells her not to worry, she won't need anything for their next activity.

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Ad-Driven Content - Is it Crossing The Line? By Richard MacManus (ReadWriteWeb)

use"), a concept rooted in the 1960s and common in lifestyle magazines such as Good Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:00:00 AM Housekeeping. This is content Yesterday we wrote about how such as tips and feature articles Demand Media produces 4,000 about fashion, food and travel. new pieces of content every day- Demand Media told us that it and whether it can sustain quality aims for "useful, used content." at that scale. There was vigorous The content it produces has an discussion about the quality issue "evergreen quality" to it, they in the comments, including from say. s o m e o f D e m a n d M e d i a ' s CEO Richard Rosenblatt told me thousands of freelance writers. at the Web 2.0 Summit last In this follow-up post, we look month that Demand Media will at the type of content that be syndicating content more to Demand Media outputs. It turns traditional media properties in out that much of it is driven by 2010 and beyond. They see advertising demand. Again we 'service journalism' content as feel compelled to ask: is this being complementary to not only good or bad for the Web's future? magazines, but large portal sites Sponsor like Yahoo. Demand Media is one of the An interesting observation from largest producers of content on Rosenblatt was that Demand the Web today and is ranked Media content is "very similar to among the top 15 Web properties Associated Press content." In in the United States. It's also other words, it "helps fill the syndicating content to large p a g e s " f o r n e w s p a p e r s , media sites like Yahoo. All of magazines and other media this means that the type of properties. Matching Content c o n t e n t D e m a n d M e d i a i s With Ads producing will get more and What may be more controversial more common on the Web. is that Demand Media makes no Service Journalism bones about their content being Demand Media claims that its produced in order to put ads c o n t e n t i s n o t j o u r n a l i s m . around it. OK, almost every However, it does compare its online publisher has a similar model to s e r v i c e objective: to make money with journalism(a.k.a. "news you can contextual ads. ReadWriteWeb

large media network like Yahoo is looking to "create content with ads," the next step for Demand Media is enabling their customers to "order content with ads." An example might be something like this: Demand Media produces a how-to article on playing tennis; then sells it to a Yahoo sports site accompanied by tennis equipment adverts placed around it. Conclusion Is what Demand Media is doing much different from mainstream media publications or blogs? One difference is that makes most of its revenue from ReadWriteWeb (along with many other online publications) is a online advertising. What's slightly different here is journalism business, so we strive that Demand Media is custom for editorial independence and producing content in categories there is a 'church and state' line where there is strong advertiser with advertising. Demand Media interest. A specific example of isn't journalism in the traditional that is a YouTube ad program sense - that isn't the reason for its with Target that is currently being and the company freely running. In this channel based admits that. Demand Media around holiday consumerism, produces content to make money, content created by Demand it's as simple as that really. What do you think: is what Media is featured side-by-side with advertising. Below is a Demand Media is doing just a screenshot showing an eHow natural extension of contextual video entitled "How to Make advertising? Or is it crossing a Cornbread Stuffing," with a line where content is too married to advertising? Discuss Target ad to the right. Demand Media told us that advertisers are crying out for new content to advertise against. If a

Happy 40th Birthday! Sexy Hunk Gerard Butler Through the Years! (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/13/2009 3:21:00 AM

Happy 40th birthday Gerard Butler! The hunky, Scottish star has melted hearts with his wicked charm and rugged good looks in 'Reign of Fire,' '300' and 'P.S. I Love You.' Recently, he has given fans an eyeful of his piercing eyes and his hot bod with his battle-of-the sexes comedy 'The Ugly Truth' and the heart-pounding thriller 'Law Abiding Citizen.' Take a look at the sexy birthday boy as he sizzles through the years!

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DRM for Real-Time Media: Justin.tv YouTube Videos Get Now Protecting Video Streams With Huger, High Def-er Digital Fingerprinting By Jolie O'Dell (ReadWriteWeb)

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entries in the reference database, known as the Vobile DNA Database. If a match is found, the Submitted at 11/12/2009 5:00:00 PM broadcasters found that the site querying application is provided This week, Justin.tv is rolling was being used to illegally with comprehensive data on the out new measures to protect redistribute their channels - m a t c h . T h e V i d e o T r a c k e r copyrighted live video streams especially sports and pay-per- component of this solution is from being pirated on their site. view events - online. At that intended specifically for content The technology the company is time, the site claimed traffic creators and has reportedly been using will allow them to remove greater than Hulu's; however a d o p t e d b y m a n y m a j o r pirate channels without having to having to uphold stricter piracy H o l l y w o o d s t u d i o s . issue a takedown notice first. standards has hurt those stats, Using this huge library of Using technology from Vobile, too. fingerprints, Justin.tv has worked an online video publishing "This has been part of our long- with publishers to integrate company, Justin.tv partners t e r m e f f o r t t o w o r k w i t h digital fingerprinting with live, (including FOX), will be able to copyright holders... How can we s t r e a m i n g m e d i a . I t ' s a u s e V i d e o D N A â&#x201E;˘ help them automate the process complicated solution requiring "fingerprinting" technology to of removing content?" said CEO the proactive responsibility of the watermark their digital content. If Michael Seibel in a recent copyright holders. the content is spotted elsewhere interview with NewTeeVee. Check out NewTeeVee's video o n t h e s i t e , J u s t i n . t v w i l l Vobile's solution, VideoDNA, is interview with Seibel below, and a u t o m a t i c a l l y r e m o v e t h e a c o m p a c t , u n i q u e d i g i t a l let us know in the comments infringing channel. Think of it as signature, a.k.a. a fingerprint, what you think of the new DRM for real-time, streaming that can be attached to online measures for copyright protection media. video without changing the of live, streaming media. Sponsor source content. To identify an Discuss These measures come in the unknown video, its fingerprint is wake of Justin.tv's legal and PR found and matched against the woes last year, when television

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TodayYouTube has announced its plan to support 1080p videos. This means that those amazing, high-definition videos you uploaded last year will now finally be converted to their original resolutions and will finally look as good as they do on your desktop. The new resolution represents a significant improvement over the current 720p maximum resolution, which leaves all those glorious, pirated segments of old movies tragically blurred and pixelated. Sponsor The fine folks at YouTube cited increased resolutions on consumer video recording devices as the impetus for the improvement. Here's YouTube's example of a 360p image: If you're not uploading videos from your phone, however, you're probably looking at something like YouTube's current HD setting, 720p: And, by way of comparison, this is the new maximum resolution YouTube HD videos will have:

Those images are from YouTube. Why they chose a dog's muzzle, we may never know. But we're awfully grateful for the resolution improvements. Also, users are specifically encouraged to upload videos that will showcase t he capabilities of the new hotness that is 1080p resolution. YouTube engineer Billy Biggs tells users in the related blog post, "Be creative and choose subjects that really show off the beauty of your camera. We will run the best examples on our homepage in a future spotlight." While it'll be nice to see our own classic jams restored to their original awesomeness, it will also be interesting to see professionally produced videos now appearing in better HD. Well done, YouTube, and thanks for allocating the resources. Discuss

Obama kicks off Asia tour in Japan (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/13/2009 1:35:24 AM

Barack Obama on Friday began his first Asia tour as US president, arriving in a chilly and foggy Tokyo for talks officials

hope will help smooth recent frictions with Japan's new leaders. Mr Obama was scheduled to

meet Yukio Hatoyama, whose Democratic party stormed to power in August's historic general election, on Friday

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Sponty: Revolutionizing the Meetup Hayden Panettiere and Tweetup Admitted to Harvard Medical School By Dana Oshiro (ReadWriteWeb)

then click the "I'm down" button to express their interest in joining you. Users can cancel or bail out Submitted at 11/12/2009 6:18:00 PM on events at anytime. Though I'm chronically checking While you may share calendars in on services like Brightkite, allows us to add events to a with your closest pals, a wider Loopt and Foursquare, it's rare schedule. Users can add their circle of friends would quickly t h a t I ' l l a c t u a l l y m a k e a n information via the company's make that overwhelming to track. appearance at the behest of a web interface or its newly Sponty is a great social calendar friend's status update. For the released iPhone app. If you know substitute and offers users a slovenly masses that work from y o u ' r e g o i n g t o b e a t a chance to plan impromptu events home, venturing out to meet conference, happy hour or w i t h o u t t h e c o n s t r a i n t s o f friends on a weeknight can seem concert you can add the event, multiple registrations. What's daunting. But rather than submit location and time to your Sponty interesting about this service is to the unkempt perils of pantless calendar. From here it's easy to the fact that instead of offering us utopia, there's hope. Sponty plan meet ups and tweet ups. real-time event updates, it's more offers us a chance to plan and Once you fill in your info, your usefully giving us a look at realfriends are notified via the time intentions. To register and prep for casual outings. Sponty community, Twitter, t e s t t h e s e r v i c e v i s i t Sponsor Instead of asking users to give Facebook, email or through an t h e s p o n t y . c o m . D i s c u s s their immediate locations, Sponty embeddable blog widget. Friends

(ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:57:00 AM

Hayden Panettiere is scrubbing in, according to a new report. The "Heroes" star is set to mark her producing debut as coexecutive producer of the CWs "HMS," according to The

Hollywood Reporter. The show will follow a class of intelligent Harvard Medical School students. Appealing to a younger audience than "Grey's Anatomy," the drama will have a similar feel to the hit ABC show.

Books + Online Video = Vooks: Watchable, Readable, & Very Cool By Jolie O'Dell (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 11/12/2009 5:00:00 PM

Vook is a new company that's come up with a method for blending text and premium video to create an interesting mobile multimedia experience around popular literature. It combines the (relatively) old skool readability of a Kindle with the engagement of a YouTube

series, all wrapped in the delicious flavor of a usable, interactive UI for web users and iFanboys alike. Sponsor Of course, no experiment involving new media and books would be complete without reference to our dear friend Mr. Gary Vaynerchuk, whose new title, Crush It!, was just published in every imaginable format, including this one. And as

offering. We see vooks being awesome for many verticals. Celebritypenned tomes interspersed with video interviews or anecdotes, skeptical as we were about the h o w - t o b o o k s w i t h v i d e o marriage of books and video, at tutorials, biographies, et cetera. least for this author and product, But how does the format work the format really seems to work. for literary fiction, pop attorney Another one of the Vooks we dramas, or romance? Time and saw was a cookbook- another experimentation will tell. product type that meshes very Still, for nonfiction works, we well with the hybrid book/video thing that ebook formats that can

integrate intelligently with online video are where it's at, and we applaud Vook's direction. If they can just get the licenses to splice The Princess Bride film footage with the ebook text, we'll personally invest our two cents. Discuss

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Cincinnati Bengals' Chad Ochocinco fined $20K for attempted 'bribe', sources say

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design from the Mac. Only, no, it doesn’t. Not according to a retort yesterday from Windows Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:47:35 AM Communications Manager, It boggles the mind, it really Brandon LeBlanc. Writing on does. Microsoft tries so hard but The Windows Blog, LeBlanc for each step forward, it seems to said: take three steps back. Windows An inaccurate quote has been 7, Redmond’s answer to the train floating around the Internet today -wreck that was Vista, has been about the design origins of out for just a matter of weeks and Windows 7 and whether its look has managed to garner mostly and feel was “borrowed” from positive reviews. But Microsoft Mac OS X. Unfortunately this can’t help itself. It has to do came from a Microsoft employee something silly, and, true to who was not involved in any form, it has. aspect of designing Windows 7. I It seems Microsoft’s middle hate to say this about one of our m a n a g e m e n t c a n ’ t d e c i d e own, but his comments were whether or not it ripped-off Mac inaccurate and uninformed. OS X when it was redesigning its The tech press is going bonkers flagship product. This is the about it, of course, but let’s be result of a bewildering comment honest — when it comes to from Microsoft Partner Group operating systems, the days when Manager Simon Aldous in an these two giants outright-copied interview this week with PCR. one another and it mattered are He’s neither a developer nor a far behind us. The common designer, and he didn’t work on elements of an OS user interface Windows 7. But Aldous didn’t are driven largely by user let that stop him saying this about need/behavior. High resolution Microsoft’s latest OS: color displays and the ubiquity of One of the things that people say the mouse and keyboard combo an awful lot about the Apple Mac w o u l d h a v e l e d t o t h e s e is that the OS is fantastic, that it’s similarities irrespective of the very graphical and easy to use. company behind them. Put What we’ve tried to do with simply, thirty-odd years of OS Windows 7 […] is create a Mac evolution would result inevitably l o o k a n d f e e l i n t e r m s o f in functional and aesthetic graphics. similarities. What Are They So. Aldous just made it clear; Looking At? Windows 7 copies borrows its When people say that Windows

7 “looks like” Mac OS X, I don’t understand exactly what it is they’re looking at. Mac OS X’s Dock and Windows 7’s Taskbar are similar in function, but not design. The desktop and windows are, again, similar in function — but they don’t look the same. Windows 7 has gone overboard with transparencies everywhere, to the detriment of ease of use. Mac OS X, on the other hand, introduced transparencies many years ago and has consistently dialled them down in successive OS updates. Windows was long-criticized for its drab, gunship grey interface. XP and Vista moved gradually away from grey, and now Windows 7’s UI is an explosion of green and blue (or red or pink or purple or whatever godawful theme you choose). Mac OS X, on the other hand, remains a stately, elegant… gunship grey. Not at all like Windows 7. I suspect people mistake Microsoft’s bold-yet-vomitenducingly-colorful design of Windows 7 with the elegance of Mac OS X. I’m aware that these observations are subjective. My opinions are just that — my opinions. You might agree with me that it’s wrong to say

Windows 7 and Mac OS X look “the same.” You might think I’m desperately uninformed and waste no time telling me as much. (In fact, the predictable result of any article comparing Windows with Mac OS X is the vitriol from commenters apparently unaware they’re reading The Apple Blog.) In any case, consider this; here we have two Microsoft execs, one in product sales, one in product design & development. The former sees how customers perceive the Mac to be a superior product, and tries to exploit that perception by ‘connecting’ Windows 7 to it. (“The Mac is great, so by copying it, Windows is great, too.” etc.) The latter has spent years working hard on this new OS and responds with understandable indignation to the suggestion his team copied anything from the competition. Either way, it’s embarrassing. At a time when they ought to be extolling the wonders and miracles an upgrade to Windows 7 may bring, they’re instead drawing attention to their biggest rival. I can’t help but imagine an email winging its way through Apple’s Marketing department this week, its subject line reading, “With competition like this, who needs an ad campaign?”

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Chad Ochocinco has been fined $20,000 by the NFL for flashing a dollar bill at an official during a replay challenge -- a joking attempt at a "bribe" -- in last week's Bengals- Ravens game, team and league sources tell ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen. The NFL also cited the Bengals wide receiver's use of the word "bribe" in his postgame comments to reporters. In the third quarter of last Sunday's 17-7 Bengals victory, Cincinnati quarterback Carson Palmer completed a 15-yard pass to Ochocinco. Baltimore challenged the call, contending that he was out of bounds, and the Ravens won the challenge. While the play was under review, Ochocinco held a $1 bill at this side. The official appeared to dismiss him. "I was just being me," Ochocinco told the NFL Network after the game. "I wasn't going to do it for real." This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Facebook Developer Turns Back on iPhone By Alfredo Padilla (TheAppleBlog) Submitted at 11/12/2009 8:50:48 AM

Facebook for the iPhone is one of my most used applications, and I’m not alone as it’s amongst the most popular iPhone applications ever. This success is due to the size of Facebook itself, that the application is free, and that it is very well done. That last is due mainly to Joe Hewitt, who has been the main developer for Facebook’s iPhone application. Unfortunately that’s about to change, as Hewitt tweeted that he is moving “…onto a new project.” At face value this may not be of any importance beyond a certain sadness to see a great developer leave a platform and an application so many love. In a conversation with TechCrunch, however, Hewitt made clear that the principal reason behind his departure from this project is his unhappiness with Apple’s management of the iPhone app store. Hewitt specifically mentions his philosophical opposition to the review process, indicating that it puts an unnecessary middleman between developers and users. He also fears that it sets a dangerous

precedent for other platforms. Hewitt will be moving onto a web project at Facebook, which offers the opportunity to work on an open platform. Hewitt is not the first developer to abandon the iPhone due to Apple’s perceived mismanagement of the app store, but he may be the highest profile. His departure from iPhone development highlights a critical danger that Apple faces with the app store. For a variety of reasons, ranging from an inability to get your application noticed, the danger of having your application rejected for unforeseen reasons and the very low prices charged on the app store, many developers are growing disillusioned with the iPhone as a platform. If this trend reaches a critical level it could deal a blow to the iPhone, which has touted the wide variety of high quality applications in its marketing. Even more dangerous is the possibility that developers will move in large numbers to other platforms, with Android being the most likely option. Of course Android has its own problems

related to app development, and there are still plenty of developers who are focusing on the iPhone as their principal mobile platform. It may be, however, that Apple is offering its competitors an opening to create a much more developer-friendly environment and steal one of its key advantages: the quality, not the quantity, of applications available. If Android, BlackBerry or Symbian can attract top developers to produce 1,000 high quality applications for its platform, that will probably be enough to erase the huge lead Apple has today. Who cares if you can’t choose between 500 tip calculators, or 30 different versions of the same public domain book as long as you can get high quality versions of the apps you actually want? It’s clear that Apple realizes there are problems with the way it is currently managing the app store. The question is whether it can make the necessary adjustments to attract and keep the best developers for the iPhone, or if the Joe Hewitt’s of the world decide it’s just not worth their time.

iPhone Quick Tip: Extract Photos From Captured Video By Nick Santilli (TheAppleBlog) Submitted at 11/12/2009 11:00:41 AM

I love having the luxury of video capture on my iPhone 3GS, because it’s available to me anytime I need it. The only problem is, it’s either video or photo capture, so I’m potentially out of luck if I captured one and decidedly would have rather had the other. Yeah, I kind of like having my cake and eating it all in a single sitting too. The good news — in this particular case at least — is that if you capture the event in video, you have a pretty good chance of getting decent still photos out of it when you’re through. While this tip is aimed at iPhone 3GS users who can shoot their own video, it’s possible to use on any model when viewing video. The beauty of editing 3GS video that you’ve shot, is the frame scrubber that is made available for editing purposes. That feature just makes it a lot easier to pinpoint the image that you want to pull from the video content. (This becomes important when one frame is blurry, and the next is not.) Once you’ve found the frame that you want to make into a

photo in your iPhone album, we just need to capture it. For the best results, make sure the control bezels are hidden from the screen. Usually tapping the screen once will cause them to slide out of view. Then, to perform the screen capture, press and hold the Home button. While holding the Home button, click the Sleep button on top of the phone. You’ve now saved that movie frame to your photo library as a stand-alone picture file. The quality of your resulting photo depends completely on the video that was captured first. If there are slow movements that limit or eliminate blur, that will give the best outcome to this process. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s better than no photos from an event at all!

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New Patent Application Suggests Apple Tablet Could Have Pen Input By Darrell Etherington (TheAppleBlog)

manager acquires ink information, such as ink strokes, entered at the pen-based input Submitted at 11/12/2009 8:26:42 AM device, and organizes that Apple apparently isn’t information into ink phrases. exclusively devoted to the idea of Along with the patent finger-based multi-touch input on description, Apple included an all its devices, a recent patent image of the proposed system in applications shows. The patent the application. The graphic is application, found by Apple very reminiscent of prototypes Insider, describes the use of a pen and concepts of the as-yet -like stylus to operate an “ink unannounced tablet computer information” input system, and that has the Apple community references tablet computing bubbling over with excitement. applications for the new tech by Note the bar at the bottom, which name. resembles the dock on the home “Ink information” refers to screen of the iPhone. I’d also like handwriting technology, to point out that the device looks specifically. The patent describes Calif., can suffer from failure a lot like a reader, given the that previous attempts in this modes that make the situation scroll buttons at the bottom. field, including in Apple’s own difficult for both end users and Maybe Apple is planning to Newton device, have been for application developers. For change the game by making sure insufficient to the task in the past. example, a word that accidentally its reader doubles as a writer, too. It suggests that the addition of an spans two input fields even a tiny Ideally, the digital ink and stylus “ink manager,” a kind of go- amount (due, for instance, to a input tech described in the patent between interpretive process, s t r a y a s c e n d e r , d e s c e n d e r , would operate alongside touch might reduce the occurrence of crossbar, or dot) may be broken input. This application will no mistaken or misplaced ink up into multiple sessions, causing doubt bring a lot of hope for detection. misrecognition and invalid data digital artists hoping to work Here’s the exact wording of entries that must be manually with the device, for whom pen Apple’s description of both the corrected. input is infinitely preferable to problem of ink detection and its The ink manager interfaces touch control. Hopefully, we proposed solution: between a pen-based input won’t have to wait long to find Even systems that attempt to device, one or more applications out if a pen system makes it into improve this situation by using (pen-aware or not) and one or a production device, since the each stroke to determine the more handwriting recognition tablet is rumored to be unveiled input field anew, such as the e n g i n e s e x e c u t i n g o n t h e in the first quarter of 2010. Apple Newton from Apple c o m p u t e r s y s t e m . T h e i n k Computer Inc. of Cupertino,

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The Very Funny Show premieres on TBS November 19 with back-to-back episodes By Robert Seidman (TVbytheNumbers) Submitted at 11/12/2009 6:25:15 PM

via press release: TBS Unveils Comedian Lineup for New Late-Night Series THE VERY FUNNY SHOW, Hosted by Tim Meadows THE VERY FUNNY SHOW, Which Combine Stand-Up with Stories Behind the Comedy. Premieres with Back-to-Back Episodes on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 12 a.m. (ET/PT) TBS is getting inside the heads of some of today’s top young comedians with an all-new, latenight series THE VERY FUNNY SHOW, hosted by Tim Meadows (Saturday Night Live). The halfhour series will feature standup performances taped at the famous Zanies Comedy Club in Chicago during TBS and Just For Laughs’ recent comedy festival. The show is unique among standup series, with each act intercut by short interview vignettes in which comedians talk about the inspirations behind their work. THE VERY FUNNY SHOW is set to premiere with back-to-back episodes on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 12 a.m. (ET/PT), following TBS’s new late-night talk show LOPEZ TONIGHT. Two comedians will be featured in each episode of THE VERY FUNNY SHOW. The following

is a complete lineup: Thursday, Nov. 19, at 12 a.m. (ET/PT) Henry Cho and Nick Thune Thursday, Nov. 19, at 12:30 a.m. (ET/PT) Danny Bhoy and Whitney Cummings Thursday, Nov. 26, at 12 a.m. (ET/PT) John Roy and Louis Ramey Thursday, Dec. 3, at 12 a.m. (ET/PT) Rocky LaPorte and Andrew Kennedy Thursday, Dec. 10, at 12 a.m. (ET/PT) Jeff Dye and Wendy Liebman Thursday, Dec. 17, at 12 a.m. (ET/PT) John Caparulo and Kyle Kinane Wednesday, Dec. 23, at 12 a.m. (ET/PT) Mike Palascak and Patti Vasquez Thursday, Dec. 31, at 12 a.m. (ET/PT) Sebastian and Tommy Johnagin Thursday, Jan. 7, at 12 a.m. (ET/PT) John Mulaney and Pete Correale Thursday, Jan. 14, at 12 a.m. (ET/PT) Al Madrigal and Billy Gardell Schedule subject to change. THE VERY FUNNY SHOW is produced by TBS Productions. The series is directed by Michael Dimich and includes written materials by Jeff Cesario and Bob Oschack. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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“ikee” iPhone Worm Progeny Not So For All My Children's 40th anniversary, Julia Barr and Harmless By Darrell Etherington (TheAppleBlog)

a computer on display in a retail store, which could then scan all iPhones that pass within the Submitted at 11/12/2009 8:45:51 AM reach of its network. Or a hacker Earlier this week, we reported could sit in an Internet café and that the first iPhone worm had let his computer scan all iPhones been created. It was called that come within the range of the “ikee,” and all it did was change Wi-Fi network in search of data. the default wallpaper on devices In order to secure your device to an image of Rick Astley with against this kind of attack, there “ikee is never going to give you are a few options. First, change up” printed across the top. It was the default SSH password if you relatively harmless, if annoying, haven’t already. So far, that and the hacker responsible appears to be the easiest way to claimed that it was more of a foil attempts to infiltrate your warning than anything else. jailbroken device. The best way Hopefully many heeded that to prevent this and any kind of warning, since now a new virus seem to be able to access future attack along the same has surfaced that uses the same information stored by other lines, however, is to not jailbreak M.O. as ikee, but that has a much applications on your iPhone, like your device in the first place, or more malicious intent and effect. password managers, but if you’re to restore it to factory settings if Specifically, the new malware affected, the only safe course of you’ve already jailbroken. Of mines personal data from your action is a full wipe and restore. course, for many who use their Theoretically, according to devices with carriers who don’t device, using the very same exploit ikee revealed earlier in i P h o n e s e c u r i t y r e s e a r c h e r officially offer the iPhone, that Charlie Miller speaking to isn’t an option. the week. T h e n e w w o r m , d u b b e d Computerworld, attacks based on Miller suggested that Apple may “iPhone/Privacy.A” by digital the same exploit could do more want to consider re-engineering security firm Intego, affects only than just mine data. Running up its security measures to account jailbroken iPhones, and grabs your phone bill, sending out bulk for jailbroken devices, but as that things from your device like text messages and spamming w o u l d m e a n t a c i t l y address book contacts, text your contacts are all well within a c k n o w l e d g i n g a n d e v e n messages, photos, music, video, the realm of possibility. Miller accepting a practice it stridently calendar entries and email goes on to describe how easy it disapproves of, I think the best messages. Basically, almost would be for a hacker to infect a bet for jailbreakers is just to shut anywhere it can look for sensitive device: down all SSH access, if possible. data, it will. The virus doesn’t This could easily be installed on

more will be back By Allison Waldman (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/13/2009 9:02:00 AM

There's reason to be hopeful about All My Children's move to Hollywood. Oh, yes, Thorsten Kaye has decided not to go -bye, bye Zach -- but there's a list of stars lining up for the anniversary that's pretty spectacular. In honor of All My Children's 40th Anniversary, Julia Barr is coming back as Brooke English. Also slated to appear are a bunch of other former AMC stars, including Eva LaRue, Taylor Miller, Laurence Lau, Eden Riegel, Leven Rambin and the previously announced Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos. Julia's return is a big get because she was such big part of the soap for so long. The two-time Emmy winner was on AMC from 1976 to her exit in 2006. This anniversary show will be a chance for fans to hear what Brooke -- Erica's rival for all those years -- has been up to. Next in line is Eva LaRue. She's

become a prime time star with CSI: Miami. She did two stints with AMC as Dr. Maria Santos Grey. Continue reading For All My Children's 40th anniversary, Julia Barr and more will be back Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Casting, Emmys, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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iPhone Increases Marketshare Again By Charles Jade (TheAppleBlog) Submitted at 11/12/2009 12:30:32 PM

For Q3 2009, Apple’s iPhone accounted for 17.1 percent of worldwide smartphone marketshare, a new high for the company. That’s the good news from Gartner, and there’s more where that came from. While overall mobile phone sales were flat for the quarter, smartphone sales were up 12.8 percent, some 41 million units. Carolina Milanesi, research director at Gartner, notes that smartphones “represent the fastest-growing segment of the mobile-devices market and we remain confident about the potential for smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2009 and in 2010.” How convenient for Apple. 3.4, 12.9, and 17.1 percent…that’s Apple’s market share for each third quarter from 2007 through 2009, the growth

rate easily besting even RIM’s doubling of its own market share over the same period of time. For the current quarter, Apple also outpaced RIM, the two companies growing by 49.2 and 46.9 percent, respectively. While that surge could be attributed to the launch of the iPhone 3GS, it should be noted that the iPhone 3GS was supply constrained

be gaining strength based upon Android. Google’s mobile OS “picked up momentum but with only a handful of Android devices available, its share remained modest at 3.5 per cent” of the mobile operating systems. No doubt phones like Verizon’s Droid will help to increase Android’s share of the market, but arguably not at Apple’s expense. The problem with Android is that each carrier is free to create its own mindnumbing implementation, resulting in a lack of consistency for the users of different phones. during the quarter. Further, share, down from 42.3 percent A case in point is the Droid, Gartner believes the fourth for the same period last year. The which currently lacks multiquarter “should be even stronger big losers for the quarter appears touch, even though Android 2.0 as Apple starts selling in China, to have been manufacturers s u p p o r t s i t . F o r t h e m o s t through one additional carrier in saddled with Windows Mobile 6. consistent and elegant mobile the UK, and in an additional 16 According to Gartner, Windows experience, the only choice countries.” Mobile 6.5 came “too late to remains the iPhone. W h i l e N o k i a d i d m a n a g e have an impact on the third growth, it picked up only 4.4 quarter, so sales of Windowspercent in units sold, putting the based smartphones saw another company at 39.3 percent market decline.” Apparently, HTC must

Review: Parks and Recreation - The Camel By Kona Gallagher (TV Squad)

This time, she was front and center, along with Jesus Greg Kinnear, and Indiana's pride, Submitted at 11/13/2009 10:23:00 AM Michael Jackson. Speaking of (S02E09) It's nice to see an which-- American Idol runner-up episode where everybody in the Adam Lambert was born in office (and Ann) is working Indianapolis, so he totally could together. They're usually broken have helped round out the table. up into their own smaller Jerry, another mainly storylines, so people like Donna background character, generally o f t e n g e t s h o v e d i n t o t h e serves as the show's whipping background, if we see her at all. boy, which I find really funny --

me. Continue reading Review: Parks and Recreation - The Camel Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Parks and Recreation Permalink| Email this| | Comments especially in the episode where they were all trying to dig up dirt on each other, and he found out he was adopted. Granted, that's

pretty bad, but I still laughed. This time though, where they ridiculed him and dismissed his mural, it didn't really work for

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Working on new editorial tools (Scripting News)

Then I went back to static on the back end, which is how Scripting News currently runs. Then I This week I set a goal to get my stopped linkblogging here and next generation of editorial tools started on Twitter, which still to a level where I could use them m u s t b e p a r t o f m y w o r k for almost everything I do online. environment, but I have a lot Not yet for others to use, this is more to say than fits easily in 140 how I develop stuff. I do more characters. The challenge has than eat the dog food, think of it been to create a tool that does this way -- I am the dog. both, in the same place, with So, while I have been writing agility. And empowers the very actively online for the last author. And makes it easy to few days, very little of it has been scatter the writing all over god's appearing here at scripting.com. creation and at the same time Eventually I'll figure out how to create a feeling of "home" for the migrate so that it is. Right now author. the place to go for it all is After Automattic adopted protoblogger.com. Which is an rssCloud I decided to look at apt name, because I feel like using wordpress.com as the backwhat I'm doing now is the end, rather with a static server. prototype for what blogging will As I explored WordPress, I be like in the future. realized it could solve a huge Like the first generation, the new amount of the problem for me, stuff mixes linkblogging and and I had no interest in doing yet writing of longer posts. another dynamic CMS, so I The first time I did this stuff, it embarked down this path. was easier, all the content flowed I gotta say, now that it's all to one place, a static server that I working, it's very fucking cool. ran. I have 8 different WordPress In the second gen life was more blogs and my links flow through complicated, I was running a T w i t t e r t o o , a l l f r o m o n e dynamic server on the back-end window. This gives me so much (Manila) and using an outliner more power than I had before, for the front-end. and I suspect a lot of other people Submitted at 11/12/2009 10:57:29 AM

are dealing with this kind of complexity too, but I am managing it. I love the complexity instead of it being in my way. It took a lot of work, both conceptual and programming to get this right, but I'm there now. Anyway there's no purpose to this post other than to Narrate My Work and let other developers know that this kind of editorial system is coming, and it has special needs on the backend. There's no single rendering of the content, since it's scattered all over the place (the lifestyle of our time). But there is a new position for a static server that stores the user's full content flow. It's a low-tech workhorse of a server, but it's super-important. I have to maintain a server for the unrendered content. That works fine for me, but won't work when I get users. So the back-ends should probably evolve to not just display the rendered HTML but to allow tools to store the source code for the writing along-side. That's how writing tools should be working, imho.

Sesame Street's 40th: Five funniest characters By Danny Gallagher (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/13/2009 11:02:00 AM

It's not surprising that a colorful and lively show like Sesame Street, one devised by the genius that was Muppets creator Jim Henson, was at heart a comedy. What is surprising is that so many adults who grew up with the show still find it so damn funny (or maybe that has more to do with the rise of marijuana use, but beggars can't be users, er, choosers). In fact, a recent box set of the show's earliest episodes came with a disclaimer that the episodes contained within it were " not for kids." That's also because it contained the rare lost episode from the early 1970s when Grover and Prairie Dawn accidentally wandered into the Plato's Retreat swingers club

where they learned the difference between "top" and "bottom". The point is adults can find just as much to laugh at as their kids do and here are the biggest chortle-makers. Continue reading Sesame Street's 40th: Five funniest characters Filed under: Video, Children, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

Leighton Meester is Prabal Gurungâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Newest Fan By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:39:00 AM

Prabal Gurung is quickly becoming the go-to designer

darling for Hollywoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chicest stars. In the past 6 months alone, Demi Moore has worn his designs three times. Now, fellow fan-clubbers Rachel Weisz and member. Style risk-taker Zoe Saldana can welcome a new

Leighton Meester chose his Rachel Weisz, Carey Mulligan, printed mini for the Library Zoe Saldana, Leighton Meester, Lions Benefit last week. Which and Demi Moore look is your favorite? Follow ELLE on Twitter â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Violet Moon Gaynor PG's fan club, from left to right:

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two years during its debut Wednesday, November 11, at 10PM (ET/PT). The series Submitted at 11/12/2009 3:43:27 PM delivered 2.07 million total via press release: viewers, 1.2 million Adults 18-49 GHOST H U N T E R S and 1.3 million Adults 25-54 A C A D E M Y B E C O M E S along with a 1.5 HH rating. SYFY’S HIGHEST RATED These were the highest REALITY SERIES PREMIERE viewership marks for a reality IN NEARLY TWO YEARS series premiere since the January Latest in Successful ‘Ghost 2008 debut of sibling Ghost Hunters’ Franchise Delivers Hunters International. More Than Head-to-head in the 10PM Two Million Total Viewers on (ET/PT) time period, Ghost Wednesday, November 11, at Hunters Academy trimmed FX’s 10PM (ET/PT) Nip/Tuck in Adults 18-49 and Head-to-Head, ‘Ghost Hunters Adults 25-54, while besting Academy’ Beats Comedy Central’s South Park in Comedy Central’s ‘South Park’ Adults 25-54. and FX’s ‘Nip/Tuck’ in Adults Compared to the series premiere 25-54 of Estate of Panic on the same New York, NY – November 12, night in 2008, Ghost Hunters 2009 – Continuing the popularity Academy was up 50% in HH of Ghost Hunters— the #1 ratings, 52% in Adults18-49, p a r a n o r m a l i n v e s t i g a t i v e 59% in Adults 25-54 and 58% in franchise on television — spin- total viewers. off Ghost Hunters Academy Coupled with Ghost Hunters at became Syfy’s most successful 9PM (ET/PT) – Ghost Hunters reality series premiere in nearly Academy catapulted Syfy into

the #2 slot among all basic cable networks for both Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54 during 8-11PM prime (ET/PT). Ghost Hunters Academy features a group of aspiring ghost hunters exploring some of the most haunted locations in the country and around the world. Led by veteran ghost hunters Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango, the students train, hands on, in the paranormal arts. The new recruits venture outside conventional classroom walls tackling new paranormal hotspots as well as favorite old haunts from Ghost Hunters including Fort Mifflin (Pennsylvania), Eastern State Penitentiary (Pennsylvania), and St. Augustine Lighthouse (Florida). By passing the course, students can graduate into investigating on Ghost Hunters or Ghost Hunters International. Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters International and Ghost Hunters Academy are produced in association with Craig Piligian’s

Pilgrim Films and Television ( Dirty Jobs, The Ultimate Fighter, My Fair Wedding). Piligian and Thomas Thayer, along with Rob Katz and Alan David, serve as executive producers. Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site ( www. Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business ( Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in 95 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies. ( Syfy. Imagine greater.) This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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15:50 GMT. The Wall Street trading manual was thrown out the window on Friday as a firm dollar, falling oil price and worse than expected economic data could not prevent a rally in stocks. In recent months the “great correlation trade” has followed a simple course: when the dollar is weak, buy riskier assets such as equities and commodities. Poor economic data were considered good for the dollar as they encouraged haven buying. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Hannity gets caught by Jon Stewart ... and apologizes?!? By Danny Gallagher (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/13/2009 8:33:00 AM

Once again people, I'm forced to ask the obvious question: what the hell is going on here? Have we crossed over into the bizarro world? Is up now down? Has

black become white? Did Lou Dobbs just announce that he's leaving CNN to take over the host chair of G4's Attack of the Show? The other day, Jon Stewart called out Sean Hannity and his self titled show for what appeared to be doctored footage

of Michelle Bachmann's recent health care rally dubbed the "

Super Bowl of Freedom" (does that have anything to do with the Tostidos Fiesta Bowl of Human Rights?) spliced together with images from Glenn Beck's "9/12 Rally" to make the crowd look bigger. Continue reading Hannity gets caught by Jon Stewart ... and

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Review: 30 Rock - The 30 Rock Gives Shout Out to ESPN’s Problem Solvers Around The Horn By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)

season and it has fallen apart, the show is in its fourth season and Submitted at 11/13/2009 3:04:00 AM it's still strong. This show has (S04E05) "He looks like all the more jokes (and funny jokes) in By Robert Seidman DVR, though the two spoof Reali in, they nailed it! (TVbytheNumbers) scenes aren’t on the screen long, In the picture below Tracy guys in my magazines!" - janitor, one episode than most sitcoms have in six episodes. In fact, it’s worth using the slow motion Jordan in one of his many about Danny Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:36:21 AM feature to catch the crawls. My (according tot he story) guest Another week, another " 30 tonight's episode had more jokes Rock isn't as good as it used to before the opening credits than A good Thursday night of favorite was the one of all the appearances. television that in addition to soccer scores where every score As of this writing yet, the 30 be" article. This one is from The most shows have in six episodes. Fringe’s Dr. Walter Bishop was 0-0 (see picture below). Rock episode is not up yet on Atlantic, of all places. The gist is And ladies, if you date a guy actually wearing a tinfoil hat, So in the picture above a Woody Hulu, though it is available on this:"30 Rock used to be funny, who doesn't think 30 Rock is still but now it's not!" The Onion great? That's a dealbreaker. included a 30 Rock shout out to Paige clone in the top left and NBC.com. Continue reading Review: 30 one of my favorite shows, I’m not sure if that’s Tim P.S. I didn’t really love last thinks so, too. Rock - The Problem Solvers ESPN’s Around The Horn(5pm Cowlishaw clone top right or a night’s Fringe episode, but the tin Oh, that's such crap. ET). The spoof, Sports Shouting, mashup between him and Bill foil hats on Walter and Astrid I was talking to Joel about this Filed under: 30 Rock, Episode i s b i l l e d a s t h e t i m e s l o t Plaschke. A raging J.A. Adande made for a funny image and a not earlier this week, and while it's Reviews, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | competition that always beats the in the lower left, or is that a -so-subtle poke at itself and the probably true that the show fictional TGS in the ratings. raging Kevin Blackistone? Jay pseudo-science the show covers. doesn't have that "new car smell" C o m m e n t s I wish Around The Horn could Marriotti clone lower right. With This content has passed through anymore, so what? It isn't like the show is halfway through it's first add fake crawls under the the exception that they didn’t fivefilters.org. panelists. If you have it on your find a way to work host Tony

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Soccer Fans Cope With German Goalie’s Suicide (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)

writes that the soccer scene has been ennobled by its outpouring of grief for Enke. “The Robert Enke was an understated memorials to the Germany presence in net as the goalkeeper goalkeeper in Hannover have for Germany’s national team and been put up by people who feel most recently for the Bundesliga that they knew someone they s q u a d H a n n o v e r 9 6 , a n d never met,” Cornwall writes. reportedly a reserved, likable “There is a lot that is wrong with man off the field. But after the 32 f o o t b a l l b u t i t s c u l t u r e o f -year-old goalie committed b r i n g i n g u s t o g e t h e r i n suicide Tuesday, many fans and unexpected and appropriate ways former teammates are still in grief and Remembrance is wondering how well they knew something of which the game Enke, who had been treated for should, quietly, be proud.”* * * depression since 2003 and lost Marat Safin won the 2000 U.S. his two-year-old daughter to a Open and 2005 Australian Open rare heart disorder in 2006. As is during a tennis career that also u s u a l l y t h e c a s e i n t h e s e included a pair of Davis Cup situations, no explanation quite wins and a stint as the No. 1 makes sense. Reuters Supporters player in the world. But it’s hard gather to mourn Robert Enke to escape the sense of potential outside the stadium of club unfulfilled as Safin wraps up his Hannover 96 in Hanover on professional career. The 29-yearWednesday. old Russian lost in three sets In London’s Daily Telegraph, Wednesday to Juan Martin Del Ian Chadband tries to put Enke’s Potro at the Paris Masters, his life and death into context. The final tournament. Times of London’s Matthew “To some fans, [Safin's] humor Syed points out that Enke’s and fury was endearing and depression was not necessarily impossible to resist,” USA surprising. “The reality is that Today’s Douglas Robson writes. depression is as prevalent among “Others saw him as wasteful, top sportsmen as it is among any tactless and self-indulgent. Like other diverse group of people, as rubberneckers at a car wreck, few is a sense of worthlessness, fear, could look away.” anxiety and low self-esteem,” At ESPN, Ravi Ubha bids a fond Syed writes. “The only real farewell to a player who, for surprise today… is not that many better or worse, always did things successful people are afflicted his own way. “If Safin never with depression and unhappiness hated tennis, you get the feeling but that we are still bemused by he didn’t like it that much,” Ubha this.” writes. “Nah, racking up Grand At Football 365, Philip Cornwall Slam crowns a la Pete and Roger Submitted at 11/12/2009 8:34:08 AM

possible.” At the indispensable boxing blog Queensberry Rules, Tim Starks gets excited for a fight that promises to deliver entertainment value to match the buzz. “The last mega-fight, Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel was never his thing. Partying, Marquez in September, was stacking blondes in his box and much more like most megaeschewing the practice required fights,” Starks writes. “A fight to dominate the sport was more that no one expected to be all that like it, much to the chagrin of his f u n t o b e h o l d a n d w a s n ’ t . past coaches. There was no Pacquiao has made himself famous outside the boxing fan turning point.”* * * Manny Pacquiao is the biggest base — when Shaquille O’Neal s t a r i n S a t u r d a y ’ s m u c h - changes his nickname to ‘Manny anticipated match with Miguel Shaquiao’ and Jay-Z name Cotto, but Pacquiao’s hope-of-an checks you, you’ve officially -entire-island-nation status has made it — but everyone expects consigned Cotto to a secondary this fight to be fun, and if it isn’t role. In the Newark Star-Ledger, it’ll be a more shocking upset of Jerry Izenberg discusses what’s the odds than any actual boxing result.”* * * at stake for Cotto. At Yahoo, Martin Rogers Hey, did you know that there’s wonders whether Cotto has fully an NFL game tonight? Don’t get recovered from the brutal 2008 too excited — it’s just the Bears beating he took from Antonio and 49ers squaring off on the Margarito, who was later caught NFL Network. Just because it’s using an illegal hardening agent kind of a lame game doesn’t on the gauze inside his gloves. mean that Garey and I are going Whether Margarito’s gloves were to leave it out of our weekly “loaded” against Cotto is still Daily Fix NFL Picks, though. subject to debate — Margarito’s We’d never get to write about the h a n d l e r s h a v e d e n i e d a n y Rams or Browns if that were our wrongdoing — but Cotto’s need policy, and that would be a t o m o v e p a s t t h a t l o s s i s shame. With that, I cede the floor inarguable. “There is only one to Garey Ris, with a brief way for Cotto to prove he is preview of the Bears and Niners. unaffected by the worst night of Garey? his career,” Rogers writes. “And Chicago at San Francisco (-3): that is to demonstrate it in the It’s been a disappointing season ring on Saturday, against the for Bears, who many thought most electrifying opponent would be much better than a 4-4

team, possibly a Super Bowl contender. They’re barely in the playoff race, and to keep any hopes of a wild-card spot alive, they must defeat the Niners. One reason for their struggles: a pass rush that’s weaker now than at the start of the season. Another is QB Jay Cutler’s 12 interceptions, tied for second-most in the NFL. But Niners QB Alex Smith is struggling, too, throwing three picks and losing a fumble last week. It’ll be interesting to see how fired up coach Mike Singletary has the Niners against his former team.– Garey Ris Pick: David: Chicago, Garey: San Francisco, Al Toonie: San Francisco Be sure to come back this and every weekend (and now every Thursday) for the rest of the Fix Picks.* * * Your Fixer spent last weekend in Martinsville, Va., for a friend’s wedding. Nascar fans will recognize Martinsville as the home of the Martinsville Speedway. I mostly recognized it as the absolute polar opposite of my usual home base of New York City. A large part of Nascar’s appeal, of course, lies in that very distinction — as relentlessly corporate and brandsensitive as Nascar is, it’s still a sport whose roots lie in bootlegging and general countrified lawlessness. In an entertaining piece for ESPN the Magazine (available to ESPN SOCCER page 64

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Hornets Fire Byron Scott Hornets Fire Byron Scott After nearly losing his job following last season's first-round exit in the playoffs, Byron Scott's coaching tenure with the New Orleans Hornets lasted only nine more games. The Hornets on Thursday responded to their 3-6 start -- and a limp effort on national television in Wednesday's 20point loss to Phoenix -- by firing Scott and replacing him with general manager Jeff Bower. It Don't Come Easy The Hornets' 3-6 start has not come against cupcakes. They're tied for the most games against teams that are .500 or better with seven -- and they've gone just 2-5 in those games. The firing is the second major move that the Hornets have made since the end of last season in an attempt to reverse their recent slide and ease the growing frustrations of star guard Chris Paul, although sources close to the situation stressed that Paul has remained a strong Scott supporter. "I felt like, maybe somebody would have at least consulted with me and asked how I felt before it happened," Paul told the New Orleans Times-Picayune after Scott's firing was formally announced. "It's not to get my approval, but we feel we should know about the decision before it

takes place." The Hornets' tinkering began in July with the trade of center Tyson Chandler-- who was plagued by foot problems throughout last season -- to the Charlotte Bobcats for Emeka Okafor. New Orleans has also rehired former coach Tim Floyd, who left USC in June in the wake of ongoing questions about the recruiting of O.J. Mayo, to serve as top assistant to Bower. Floyd posted a 41-41 record in 2003-04 in his only season as Hornets coach; Bower was an assistant to Floyd that season but has never been a head coach in either college or the pros. "I just think that we had gotten to the point where things that we were doing just weren't working, weren't being effective," Hornets forward David West told local reporters. Saying that the Hornets "needed to try some new things," West added: "Amongst the team I think there was a sense [that] a few guys weren't trusting what we had in terms of our system and our ability to know what we were going to get every single night from our system." Although he was named NBA Coach of the Year as recently as 2008 and despite obvious holes on the Hornets' roster that he had no power to fill -- particularly at the wing positions -- Scott has been under pressure since the playoffs last spring. The Hornets were pounded in the first round

by Denver after an injury-filled regular season, losing by a whopping 58 points in Game 4 in what wound up as New Orleans' final home game of the season. Scott managed to hang on to his job in spite of the concerns about how much sway he still had in New Orleans' locker room in terms of getting a response from his players. But various NBA coaching sources have maintained for months that Scott's survival had more to do with the $5 million he was owed this season in the final year of his Hornets contract than any endorsement from management. What Goes Up... Three of the past four recipients of the NBA Coach of the Year award have found that success can have a negative impact on job security, as Byron Scott learned Thursday. Team president Hugh Weber described the team as "broken" in a session with local reporters, pointing to the signs of subpar energy and effort in four of New Orleans' six losses to date. It's also believed that Scott's reluctance to play prized rookie Darren Collison and preference for Bobby Brown or Devin Brown were also factors in Thursday's decision. "He knows this team better than anyone, has the respect of players and in basketball circles, is regarded as one of the best basketball minds in the business," Hornets owner George Shinn said of Bower. "This is our best

opportunity to reach our goals this season." Said Weber in explaining Scott's dismissal: "It goes back to our performance last year. Obviously you see habits forming. You don't want to see those habits reform when you bring in new guys. You're hopeful through training camp, you're seeing signs of hope and glimmer, but again, the body of work has to come together in a way that you see progress and we saw that gap actually growing. We saw frustration throughout the organization." But Weber also said: "I told Jeff the genie is out of the bottle. Nobody can say he didn't have the right players. ... Jeff has hand -selected this team and we like the idea that now Jeff will be held accountable for the results." Yet it remains to be seen how Paul responds to this move. Paul was especially close with Chandler and maintained a good relationship with Scott even amid the Hornets' recent struggles, sources reiterated. Paul and West would undoubtedly welcome more scoring help, but the Hornets have been operating on a tight budget in recent months with their 2009-10 payroll already more than $3 million over the league's $69.9 million luxury-tax threshold. Given its lack of financial flexibility and limited cache of tradable assets, New Orleans surprised few league observers with the change even at

this early juncture. Firing Scott appeared to be the easiest shakeit-up card that Shinn could play. Scott also helped the Hornets through two seasons during which they split time between New Orleans and Oklahoma City (2005-06 and 2006-07) in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and posted an overall record with the Hornets of 203-216 after last season's dip to 49-33. Bower is in his 15th season with the franchise, having worked his way up from an advancescouting position after stints as a collegiate assistant coach at Penn State and Marist. Floyd rose to coaching prominence at the University of New Orleans in the early 1990s before his difficult stint as Phil Jackson's successor with the Chicago Bulls. "Accountability was our theme this past summer," Hornets vice president Chad Shinn said. "We talked about the fact that everyone on our staff is held to a certain standard of performance and we didn't feel that was happening at the head coach level. We feel like we still have an opportunity with our nucleus to get to where we want and Jeff is the right guy, right now, to move us in that direction from the bench." Marc Stein is a senior NBA writer for ESPN.com. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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subscribers only), Ryan McGee visits the “Moonshiners and Revenues Reunion” that preceded the induction of the first class at the Nascar Hall of Fame — a meeting of O.G. moonshine By ESPN.com news services Famer Jerry West's silhouette has until March 5 to send a runners, in short, with a few new(ESPN.com) adorns the NBA's logo], and if he formal request to the league school Nascar millionaires can't, something has to be done. I office to change his jersey thrown in. Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:43:05 AM feel like no NBA player should number. That request, though, “To the left of the aisle, seven Saying he is willing to initiate wear 23. I'm starting a petition, would only be pertinent if James bootleggers teeter in white the movement, LeBron James and I've got to get everyone in re-signs with his hometown Cavs r o c k i n g c h a i r s a n d d e n i m would like to see any NBA the NBA to sign it. Now, if I'm this summer. James is free to overalls. To the right sit five player who wears No. 23 to not going to wear No. 23, then pick any available number if he r e t i r e d r e v e n u e r s , ” M c G e e c h o o s e a n o t h e r n u m b e r a s nobody else should be able to signs with a new team for next writes. “Sprinkled among the homage to Michael Jordan. wear it." season. crowd, lit by the glowing coals of No. 23 or No No. 23? P l a y e r s c h a n g i n g j e r s e y James wore No. 6 as a member a still, are such team owners as Are you in LeBron James' numbers, at least during this of the 2008 U.S. Olympic team at Robert Yates and Jack Roush and corner, that no NBA player, decade, are not unprecedented. the Beijing Games. According to a legion of legendary crew chiefs. including himself, should wear James briefly switched to No. 45 the Plain Dealer, he's also worn It’s hard to imagine meth dealers N o . 2 3 ? V o t e n o w i n o u r a few years ago before going the number in Cavs practices in and vice cops rehashing old times SportsNation poll back to No. 23. Bryant, whose the past two years. 40 years from now. Then again, With Jordan looking on from a No. 24 is among the league's "My second-favorite player was they won’t be watching their third-row seat Thursday night, biggest sellers, switched from Julius Erving, and he wore No. legacy each week on ESPN, James scored 34 points to help No. 8 a few seasons ago. 6," James said, according to the either.”* * * the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the "If you see 23, you think about newspaper. "I wore 32 in high At this point, it’s news to H e a t 1 1 1 - 1 0 4 i n M i a m i . Michael Jordan," James said, school because Dr. J wore it at basically no one that football is Afterward, James told TNT he according to the Cleveland Plain first. My first child was born on hazardous to your health. And plans to switch his number from Dealer. "You see game-winning Oct. 6, it's my Olympic number, yet the game, while increasingly 23 to 6 after this season. shots, you think about Michael my second child was born in staking its brutal claim to "I just think what Michael Jordan Jordan; you see guys fly through June." national-pastime status, continues has done for the game has to be the air, you think about Michael Information from ESPN.com t o b l a z e n e w a n d s q u i r m recognized some way soon," Jordan; you see fly kicks, you senior NBA writer Marc Stein inducing trails of brutality. Take James said. "There would be no think about Michael Jordan. He was used in this report. the could-have-been-much-worse LeBron James, no Kobe Bryant, did so much, it has to be This content has passed through concussion incurred by Cal no Dwyane Wade if there wasn't recognized, and not just by fivefilters.org. running back Jahvid Best last Michael Jordan first. putting him in the Hall of Fame." Saturday below (but don’t watch "He can't get the logo [Hall of According to NBA rules, James if you’re squeamish). At first gloss, Best’s severe concussion — his second in two weeks —

looked like a serious spinal injury. At CBS Sports, the always-excellent Ray Ratto takes a second look at the culture surrounding football’s ongoing and going-nowhere head-trauma problem. “We are learning more and more about head injuries all the time, and one of the most obvious things is that they become repetitive injuries pretty quickly,” Ratto writes. “The Best case is a freak because it was so out of the norm, but two concussions in a week are still two concussions in a week. That can’t happen anymore, even with the best intentions and best in-house medical advice.” In the Journal, Reed Albergotti and Shirley S. Wang ponder whether banning the conventional hard-shell football helmet — yes, banning it — might not make the game safer. — Tip of the Fix cap to reader Fred Sternburg and fellow Fixer Garey Ris. Found a good column from the world of sports? Don’t keep it to yourself — write to us at dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll consider your find for inclusion in the Daily Fix. You can email David at droth11@gmail.com.

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blogs, called the Gold Gloves “as meaningful as the teen choice awards” and deserving of “the Seattle Mariners centerfielder deference a film watcher pays the Franklin Gutierrez was, by a Academy Awards,” respectively. wide margin, the best fielder in No wonder Tom Tango the major leagues according to discovered that “hardcore fans ultimate zone rating. He tied for are just as likely to believe in the major-league lead in runs e x c e p t R y a n Z i m m e r m a n . Santa Claus as they are to believe saved, which like UZR is based Gutierrez’s teammate Ichiro in the Rawlings Gold Glove, so on actual data about batted balls. Suzuki — by all measures a fine s a y s a n u n s c i e n t i f i c b u t He won a fan ballot for best outfielder, but not in Gutierrez’s obviously more than accurate fielding at his position, the class this year — won one of the poll conducted at The Blog for F i e l d i n g B i b l e a w a r d f o r AL outfield awards. Former Inside The Book dot com.” centerfielders — based on a poll Mariner Adam Jones — by Perhaps then we should listen to of leading baseball analysts — several measures below average what hardcore fans had to say and the nickname Death to with his glove — took another. a b o u t t h e r e m a i n i n g , Flying Things from Mariners So did Torii Hunter, who by now u n a n n o u n c e d a w a r d s . T h e broadcaster Dave Niehaus. And a p p e a r s t o b e c o a s t i n g o n Internet Baseball Awards in the despite not playing full seasons reputation when it comes to AL and NL tend to go to in 2007 and 2008, he was the fielding. deserving candidates, such as Joe s e c o n d - b e s t f i e l d e r a t a n y Sabermetrically-minded writers Mauer and Zack Greinke, in position over the last three years, are outraged. Michael Jong called landslides. according to UZR. Getty Images it “heinous” at Beyond the Meanwhile, for awards that only Franklin Gutierrez caught plenty Boxscore. Joe Posnanski saw “a exist online, check accounts from of fly balls this season, but not huge blight on this years Gold Max Marchi and Eric Seidman enough to win a Gold Glove. Glove award.” Voters “just flat about the best and worst batters And yet when the Gold Glove blew it,” ESPN’s Rob Neyer when it comes to not chasing bad awards were announced earlier writes. And Dave Cameron and pitches. t h i s w e e k , G u t i e r r e z w a s Tim Marchman, both occasional snubbed, as were the other top Journal contributors, questioned five fielders from 2007-2009, the whole enterprise on their Submitted at 11/12/2009 2:18:29 PM

By Tom Ziller (FanHouse) Submitted at 11/13/2009 8:08:00 AM

by Tom Ziller Filed under: Cavaliers, Heat The Heat drew mostly guffaws when it retired the jersey of Michael Jordan, who never played one second for the franchise. Heat prez Pat Riley suggested it was a move to honor the game's greatest player, but most saw it as a silly bit of marketing showmanship. MJ attended Thursday's HeatCavaliers game with Riley -- the TNT broadcast crew noted that Scottie Pippen also sat courtside, and suggested it might have been some subliminal "pair with Dwyane Wade!" messaging to LeBron James. MJ's presence made the game a bit more weird, and led to a rare political statement from LeBron: he thinks players should stop wearing No. 23 out of deference to His Airness, and he plans to lead the charge by switching to No. 6 next

Street Chic: Paris By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 11/13/2009 4:00:00 AM

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Doug Barron, first PGA Tour golfer Source: Browns Player banned for drug policy violation, seeks Hurt in Extra Drill court injunction to lift suspension By Dan Graziano (FanHouse) Submitted at 11/12/2009 10:30:00 PM

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player used. "I've never tried to gain any advantage over my peers," Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:57:22 AM Barron said, according to the MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The first Memphis Commercial Appeal. player to be suspended by the According to media reports, in PGA Tour for testing positive for the suit, Barron said he has been a p e r f o r m a n c e - e n h a n c i n g taking beta blockers for a heart substance is asking a federal condition for 22 years and court to lift his suspension. testosterone shots for low An attorney for golfer Doug testosterone since 2005 -- both B a r r o n f i l e d a l a w s u i t i n prescribed by doctors. Memphis on Thursday seeking Barron's agent, Arthur Horne III, an immediate injunction that said the PGA Tour did not note would allow Barron to play. in its news release announcing A hearing was being held in U.S. the suspension Nov. 2 that the District Court on Friday morning. medication Barron was using had Lawyer Jeffrey Rosenblum said been prescribed by his doctor. Barron was seeking a decision in "This was never a case of a guy time to compete next week in the in a back room taking creams or P G A T o u r Q u a l i f y i n g using needles," Horne said, T o u r n a m e n t i n H o u s t o n . according to Golf.com. "This was B a r r o n , a 4 0 - y e a r - o l d a guy taking what was prescribed journeyman who lost his tour to him by medical doctors for c a r d t h r e e y e a r s a g o , w a s conditions that others have been suspended for one year. Under its given exemptions for. We feel d o p i n g p o l i c y , t h e t o u r Doug has been treated unfairly." announces a suspension but does According to the lawsuit, the not disclose what substance a PGA Tour knew Barron had been

taking beta blockers at the time he was tested, during the St. Jude Classic in June -- the only PGA Tour event he played this year. Barron said he was prescribed testosterone in 2005, when he was diagnosed as having the testosterone levels of an 80-yearold man. He said the injections bring his levels of the hormone to only the low end of what is considered a normal range, according to the Commercial Appeal. "There is no way to enhance my performance at the level I was at," he said, according to the newspaper. "I was trying to live a healthy life as an adult male as seen by my physician that was treating me for good health." Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

by Dan Graziano Filed under: Browns, NFL Injuries, NFL Analysis On the same day that Browns running back Jamal Lewis said he thought coach Eric Mangini was working the team too hard, a Browns practice squad player named Keith Grennan ruptured his patellar tendon during an "opportunity drill." Grennan, a second-year defensive end out of Eastern Washington, will have surgery Monday and will be out at least eight months. Grennan's agent, Cameron Foster, confirmed the injury. A source with direct knowledge of the incident confirmed that the injury happened during the "opportunity drill" period -- a post-practice time when Mangini puts practice squad players and rookies through additional drills

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Cutler throws five INTs as 49ers hold off Bears By Associated Press (ESPN.com) Submitted at 11/12/2009 11:02:42 PM

Fast Facts • Jay Cutler set a career high with five interceptions, the last

coming in the end zone on the game's final play. Cutler is the first Bear to have at least four INTs in a game twice in a season since Billy Wade in 1962. • This was Cutler's fourth game with three or more interceptions

over the last two seasons, tied with Jake Delhomme for the most in the NFL. • Alex Smith completed 16-of-23 passes for 118 yards with one interception in the win. • Frank Gore rushed 25 times for

104 yards. It's his 17th career 100 -yard rushing game, the second most in 49ers history behind Joe Perry (20). • The Bears have lost four of their last five games. • The 49ers snapped a four-game

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Report: John Wetteland UFC 105 Weigh-In Taken to Hospital With Video 'Mental Issue' By Michael David Smith (FanHouse)

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by Michael David Smith Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC by Tom Fornelli All 22 UFC 105 fighters will step Filed under: Mariners, AL West, on the scale at the Manchester MLB Rumors Former major Arena Friday afternoon for the league closer and current Seattle UFC 105 weigh-ins, and if you Mariners bullpen coach John can't be there in Manchester, you Wetteland was taken to a Texas can watch right here at hospital on Thursday with what FanHouse. is being described as a "mental then taken to Denton Regional The UFC 105 main event will be issue," according to news reports. Medical Center outside Dallas. a light heavyweight matchup, It seems that police arrived at Report: John Wetteland Taken to meaning both Randy Couture and Wetteland's house shortly after Hospital With 'Mental Issue' Brandon Vera will need to make receiving a phone call around originally appeared on Fanhouse the light heavyweight limit of 1:30 PM ET about a "possibly MLB Blog on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 205 pounds, with a one-pound suicidal person." 19:44:00 EST . Please see our buffer allowed. After police arrived at the home terms for use of feeds. The weigh in starts at around Wetteland apparently came out of Permalink| Email this| Linking his house with both arms in the Blogs| Comments air and told police that he "needed help." Wetteland was Submitted at 11/12/2009 7:44:00 PM

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SEC Notebook: South's Oldest Rivalry By Jim Henry (FanHouse)

Known as the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry, the series began in 1892 and is the seventh-most by Jim Henry played in the country. The mutual Filed under: Alabama, Auburn, disdain has been passed down Florida, Georgia, Mississippi through the generations, and the State, South Carolina, SEC 113th meeting Saturday isn't Georgia vs. Auburn. expected to be any different. SEC Notebook: South's Oldest It doesn't get any better, or older, "Everybody has their team," Rivalry originally appeared on than this for these two schools. Georgia coach Mark Richt said. Fanhouse NCAA Football Blog Submitted at 11/13/2009 8:00:00 AM

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Jay Cutler's Five Picks Doom Chicago By FanHouse Newswire (FanHouse) Submitted at 11/12/2009 11:50:00 PM

by FanHouse Newswire Filed under: 49ers, Chicago Bears SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -Mike Singletary didn't exactly hand it to his old team. That didn't matter - Jay Cutler handed the desperate San Francisco 49ers a much-needed win. Frank Gore ran for 104 yards and a touchdown, Cutler threw a career-high five interceptions with his last coming in the end zone on the game's final play and San Francisco snapped a fourgame losing streak by beating the Chicago Bears 10-6 on Thursday night. Jay Cutler's Five Picks Doom Chicago originally appeared on Fanhouse NFL Blog on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:50:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

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Dwyane Wade Breaks Varejao's Face By Will Brinson (FanHouse) Submitted at 11/13/2009 12:30:00 AM

by Will Brinson Filed under: Cavaliers, Heat, NBA Videos Cleveland and Miami squared off Thursday night, and while the story leading up to the game was the unfathomably awesome possibility of Dwyane Wade and LeBron James playing on the same team, the story (at least microcosmically) coming out of the game is the following dunk that Wade threw down on Anderson "Flopsy" Varejao. It is, as the Hoop Docs put it, "posterization."

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Beatles: Rock Band 'Sgt. Pepper's' DLC debuts Nov. 17 By Xav de Matos (Joystiq)

Kite!" • "Within You Without You" Submitted at 11/13/2009 10:15:00 AM • "When I'm Sixty-Four" (MediaPost | Media News) just completed a six-month In a move no doubt inspired by • "Lovely Rita" global procurement-led review. t h e M o v e m b e r M o v e m e n t , • "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Submitted at 11/12/2009 8:51:59 PM Ikea's separate creative search Harmonix and MTV Games have Club Band (Reprise)" Swedish furniture chain Ikea has led by Boston-based consultancy revealed that the second DLC • "A Day In The Life." selected i n c u m b e n t Pile + Co. is ongoing. Deutsch, album for The Beatles: Rock Mediaedge:cia to retain its an IPG shop, which handles Band, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Xbox 360 and Wii owners can estimated $95 million U.S. media general-market U.S. ad chores, is Hearts Club Band, will release purchase the DLC on Tuesday, planning and buying business. p a r t i c i p a t i n g . S o i s A n i t a the week of November 17. November 17. The tracks will be Overseas, media chores in the Santiago Advertising, the chain's T r a c k s f r o m t h e B r i t i s h available as a complete Track U . K . h a v e s h i f t e d f r o m Hispanic shop. sensation's eighth studio album, P a c k f o r 1 0 8 0 ( $ 1 3 . 5 0 ) o r incumbent Mediacom to Aegis This content has passed through as featured in the DLC release, 160($2.00) individually on Xbox Group's Vizeum. The company fivefilters.org. include: 360; and 200 Wii Points ($2.00) per track on Wii. PlayStation 3 • "Fixing A Hole" players get a few extra days to • "She's Leaving Home" grow out their glorious • "Being For The Benefit of Mr. mustaches when the pack lands

on PSN on Thursday, November 19 for $13.49 (or $1.99 per track). As previously revealed, Beatles fans can look forward to next month when 1965's Rubber Soul will become available as the game's third full-album DLC. Beatles: Rock Band 'Sgt. Pepper's' DLC debuts Nov. 17 originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Final Fantasy XIII launches March 9, 2010 on PS3, 360

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John Yamamoto, president, chief executive officer and official title shouter of Square Enix, Inc. Submitted at 11/13/2009 10:30:00 AM "Coming simultaneously to Final Fantasy XIII will launch in PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 for North America and Europe on the first time, FINAL FANTASY March 9, 2010, just a few months XIII will be available to all after it debuts in Japan and nearly players who are looking for the four years after it was originally m o s t i m m e r s i v e g a m i n g announced. Since that time, e x p e r i e n c e o f 2 0 1 0 . " Square Enix's flagship role- And you'll have to look-- we playing game has become a h e a r Q 1 2 0 1 0 i s a l r e a d y multiplatform project -- the swamped with immersive gaming English version will debut on e x p e r i e n c e s . T h a t ' s n o t a PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 c o m p l a i n t ! simultaneously -- as well as the Gallery: Final Fantasy XIII first part of the Fabula Nova Final Fantasy XIII launches Crystallis series. It's also no March 9, 2010 on PS3, 360 longer the highest-numbered originally appeared on Joystiq on Final Fantasy game. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST. "We know that our fans have Please see our terms for use of been eagerly awaiting the next feeds. installation of the franchise -Permalink| Email this| FINAL FANTASY XIII will C o m m e n t s exceed all expectations," said

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With talent from "Blood the Last Vampire" and " Ergo Proxy" (oh, and " Samauri Champloo") involved, it should've been clear that " Dante's Inferno: The Animated Epic" was going to be sickeningly violent. A newly released trailer for the straight-tovideo anime spin-off reveals that this Dante's Inferno project isn't a single film, but rather a compilation of animated shorts, much like "The Animatrix," " Batman: Gotham Knight" and, most recently, " Halo: Legends." We're pretty certain Dante (almost enough to launch it into Alighieri is rolling in his grave the monthly top ten) and 66,000 right now, as this anthology of on PS3. This total fails to hit m u l t i p l e i n t e r p r e t a t i o n s o f analyst Jesse Divnich's prediction Visceral Games' interpretation of for the month. However, Divnich the original epic poem is so very suggested that Br端tal Legend far removed from the source. But would go on to be an attractive hey, it's Alighieri's fault for not holiday item -- something that having the foresight to write may also be true for the bulky about someone's head getting box with the cool turntable chopped in half! thingy in it. Expect The Animated Epic to Update: Removed reference to arrive on DVD and Blu-ray in Br端tal Legend as an Activision- February, the same month as the published title. We know better! game. Oct. NPD: Brutal Legend sold Dante's Inferno anime remains 2 1 6 k ; D J H e r o s o l d 1 2 3 k faithful to Visceral source originally appeared on Joystiq on originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:57:00 EST. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of Please see our terms for use of feeds. feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Permalink| Email this| Comments Comments

Oct. NPD: Brutal Legend sold 216k; DJ Hero sold 123k By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) Submitted at 11/13/2009 9:57:00 AM

Both Br端tal Legend and DJ Hero were conspicuously absent from October's NPD top ten. According to data given to GameSpot by NPD, DJ Hero, which was released at the end of the month, on October 27, managed 123,000 units in sales across four platforms, with the Xbox 360 version accounting for the highest number of sales (62,000 units) and, predictably, the PS2 version, the lowest (3,300 units). from Google' search index Double Fine's rocking, semi"within months" as the pay strategy game, Br端tal Legend, versus free content debate which debuted on Rocktober 13, reaches crisis point. totaled 216,000 units in sales 0 c o m m e n t s S o u r c e : across two platforms during www.telegraph.co.uk October: 150,000 on Xbox 360

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Report: Alan Wake stops snoozing May 2010 By Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq)

iPhone augmented reality game sets the world on fire By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)

App Store November 10, at a price of .99. Seriously, why is he cel-shaded? He's in the real The new Firefighter 360 for the world. See a video demonstration iPhone 3GS lets you experience of the game after the break. the thrill of seeing everything Firefighter 360 ($.99): around you burst into flames, Gallery: Firefighter 360 (iPhone without all that pesky heat and 3GS) death. The augmented reality Continue reading iPhone game, developed by Presselite, augmented reality game sets the superimposes fires -- and virtual world on fire victims -- over the iPhone iPhone augmented reality game camera's view of the world, with sets the world on fire originally f l a m e s g e n e r a t e d i n e v e r y appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 13 d i r e c t i o n , s p r e a d i n g a n d Nov 2009 04:35:00 EST. Please multiplying. And it's up to you, see our terms for use of feeds. as an inexplicably cel-shaded Read| Permalink| Email this| fireman, to douse the flames and Comments rescue the citizens. Firefighter 360 was added to the Submitted at 11/13/2009 4:35:00 AM

Dragon Age DLC has earned over $1 million

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Alan Wake will allegedly premiere in late May of next year on Xbox 360. MCV reports that "a source close to the game" gave By Alexander Sliwinski BioWare and its QA department t h e n e w r e l e a s e d a t e a n d (Joystiq) if they felt obligated to pick up suggested that the title would be the launch DLC, which expands promoted "in the style of a Submitted at 11/13/2009 11:09:00 AM in-game storage space for items. Hollywood movie." EA has touted that Dragon Age: A s s h a d y a s t h a t s o u n d s , Officially, we know that Wake's Origins has already brought in apparently it wasn't enough to drawn out development will over $1 million in sales of its deter significant purchases of the conclude in " Spring 2010" -around the 5-year mark. We've launch DLC. G4 reports on CFO optional content. also previously been told that the Eric Brown's presentation at a View Poll recent conference, where the EA Dragon Age DLC has earned game has been done since August exec revealed the figure and over $1 million originally and is in hibernation being reiterated, "The game was appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 13 polished over and over again. designed at the outset to have Nov 2009 11:09:00 EST. Please We've followed up with Remedy and Microsoft to see if either extensive [paid DLC] at launch, see our terms for use of feeds. as well through the next 12-plus Read| Permalink| Email this| would like to confirm today's reported release date. months of its lifespan." Comments Report: Alan Wake stops Dragon Age players should snoozing May 2010 originally remember to blame developer appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Victoria’s First Asian Angel: Liu Wen By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog)

Miranda, but in the short span of time she’s been modeling, Wen Submitted at 11/12/2009 2:39:32 PM By ELLE.com (ELLE News has been booked solid at every Blog) It’s hard not to sound fetishist Fashion Week since the FW08 Submitted at 11/12/2009 11:31:25 AM when you say you’ve got a thing season and has been featured in for Asian models, but whatever, I everything from editorials in Banana Republic unveiled its do (platonic, of course), and upon every major fashion magazine to redesigned Soho flagship last hearing the news that Victoria’s big-time ad campaigns for night at a festive bash that Secret decided to add Chinese DKNY, Benetton, CK One and included an introduction from runway regular Liu Wen to its Converse. Mary Louise Parker and a lineup for their to-be-televised Congratulations Wen, you’ve performance by the Weeds star’s lingerie show a week from today, earned your wings! (now put in a beau, Mississippi-bred singerI couldn’t have been giddier. The good word for Tao…) songwriter Charlie Mars. Fans of 21 year old Hunan born beauty Wen sheathed is likely a very the retailer sipped free-flowing only started modeling three years different Wen. champagne and browsed the new Be sure to check out Wen, ago, but as of this week, Wen space, which creative director now has the distinction of being Doutzen, Marissa and the entire Simon Kneen explained to me, is the first ever Asian Angel to walk Victoria’s Angel army when the designed as a more intimate in what will be the lingerie line’s runway show airs on CBS, shopping environment than its volunteer,” observed Kneen. 14th annual runway show. She December 1st at 10 pm EST. previous incarnation. “We “And a lot of the volunteer m a y n o t h a v e t h e n a m e Photo: Wire Image wanted a residential feeling, so organizations are looking for recognition of a Heidi or a that customers felt as though they professional people who have were at home. Each room has a experience. It’s not just about different story, whether it’s painting a wall—it’s using your casual, dressed-up, or formal.” profession to help out in the The other reason for the fête was community and that’s something One + All, BR’s new partnership that is very exciting.” Click here (FOXNews.com) with nonprofit ServiceNation, lab wall in September. to get involved. w h i c h a i m s t o Authorities say in the warrant Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:13:54 AM —Erin Clements connect participants with service released Friday that the green-ink Photos: WireImage opportunities relevant to their NEW HAVEN, Conn An arrest pen found under Le's body had Follow ELLE on Twitter. career. “A lot of people don’t warrant says DNA evidence on a her blood on it as well as DNA Become our Facebook fan! k n o w h o w t o bloody sock found in the ceiling from suspect Raymond Clark III and an ink pen found under the on its cap. body of a Yale graduate student SLIDESHOW: Yale Graduate l i n k s a n a n i m a l r e s e a r c h Student Murdered t e c h n i c i a n t o h e r k i l l i n g . Police say Clark signed into the The body of Annie Le was found secure building with a green pen stuffed behind a Yale research o n S e p t . 8 , t h e d a y L e

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Bloody Sock DNA Allegedly Ties Lab Tech to Yale Student disappeared. The warrant says DNA from both Le and Clark was on the bloody sock found hidden in a ceiling. The document also says Clark moved a box of wipes to hide that it had blood splattered on it. A message was left for Clark's public defender Friday. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Twilight Barbie By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 11/12/2009 8:38:34 AM

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You have seen Kristen Stewart all over promoting the launch of her new film The Twilight Saga: New Moon, but who would have thought the starlet would already have her very own Barbie doll? Well, technically, it's Bella Star who has her own Barbie, but of course, it's Kristen's features. When the miniature character was born in the Barbie labs, it was Kristen's brunette locks and innocent face that the Barbie artisans emhasized. And if that's not enough, her co-star Robert Pattinson, also has a doll created in his likeness, or rather Edward Cullen's, and this one emphasizes Edward's strong jawline and milky, vampire complexion. The dolls drop into stores on December 12, but if you are a

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A bidding war may be about to erupt for Playboy Enterprises. Inconix, a publicly traded brand management company is looking over the compnay's books, according to Bloomberg. Inconix just bought Marc Ecko and owns London Fog and Danskin. At least one undisclosed private equity player is also in the hunt, say sources. Providence Equity and Apollo are said to have taken a pass. Since May, Playboy has been for sale with an asking price of $300 million, far above its By ELLE.com (ELLE News their debut The Grey Bird EP. market capitalization. Blog) “Obsession” showcases Strunk’s Hugh Hefner remains very much b r e a t h y p i p e s a n d p l a y f u l at the helm of the magazine with Submitted at 11/12/2009 2:45:43 PM melodies, Isenhower’s control, a controlling 70% of the We love promoting female- a n d A r n s t e i n ’ s f o l k - f u n k company's stock. Daughter fronted bands whenever we get p e r c u s s i o n s t y l e . Christie resigned from her CEO the chance. For pure pop-folk, T o h e a r m o r e , c h e c k o u t job last year and in May left the check out Florida-based friends http://www.myspace.com/andrea Playboy board. No deal could be Andrea Strunk Trio, fronted by strunkmusic done without "Hef's" approval, the aforementioned Strunk, a — Paola Capó-García, Editorial which is why a buyer would be guitar-wielding pixie with a Intern forced to pay a premium price. sweet voice to boot. Rounding P h o t o : T a m m y J o h n s o n This content has passed through out the trio are bassist Jonathan P h o t o g r a p h y fivefilters.org. Isenhower and drummer Reid Follow ELLE on Twitter. Arnstein, whose Orlando-via- Become our Facebook fan! Seattle sound will tour the country in December to promote

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500 Leading Nominees in Mashable's #openwebawards By twitter:@mashable (TweetMeme) Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:19:13 AM

Since we launched Mashable’s 3rd Annual Open Web Awards this past October, you’ve cast over 349,000 votes for your

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Humane Society Hosts 5th Annual Cool vs. Cruel Awards By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 11/12/2009 2:30:23 PM

Last night, Charlotte Ronson, Nigel Barker, Daniel Merriweather, Sam Ronson (the evening’s guest DJ), and other stylish celebs gathered at the Bowery Hotel for the Humane Society of the United States’ 5th Annual Cool vs. Cruel Awards. The grand-prize winner of the ethically minded competition, which challenged young frock, inspired by an Alexander designers to create luxe, animalMcQueen design. friendly fashions, was Art —Erin Clements Institute of Vancouver student Photos: Getty/WireImage Ingrid Bergstrom-Kendrick, who Follow ELLE on Twitter. earned a five-day internship with Become our Facebook fan! anti-fur advocate Victoria Bartlett during New York Fashion Week for this gray felt

Who Really Shot Hasan During the Ft. Hood Massacre? (FOXNews.com)

man now charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder. The witness, whose account was It was a feel-good hero story that reported in The New York for several days gave Americans Times, declined to give his or her some comfort after the murder of name. 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas. Other official statements on the But like so many war stories — day of the shooting have also including the infamous rescue of t u r n e d o u t t o b e w i l d l y Private Jessica Lynch during the inaccurate, including a claim that 2003 invasion of Iraq — the Major Hasan had been killed. e x a c t d e t a i l s o f h o w l a s t "I would caution anyone from Thursday's mass shooting at Fort speculating about who did what Hood was brought to a violent u n t i l t h e i n v e s t i g a t i o n i s end are growing more murky by complete," said Chris Grey, a the day. spokesman for the U.S. Army's Initially it was claimed that a criminal investigation division, at slightly-built female police a press conference at the military officer, Sergeant Kimberly base last night. "Mighty Mouse" Munley, opened Grey confirmed, however, that fire on the suspect, Major Nidal "both [police oficers] engaged Malik Hasan, and kept shooting the suspect" and that Major even after being hit three times. Hasan "did not have a scheduled But at least one witness now appointment" at Fort Hood's claims that Sergeant Munley, 35, Soldier Readiness Processing was in fact hit by Major Hasan Center, where the shooting before she had time to get off a began. single round, and that it was her SLIDESHOW: Inside the Fort partner, Senior Sergeant Mark Hood Suspect's Apartment Todd, who actually felled the Hasan called himself a "soldier Submitted at 11/13/2009 12:45:10 AM

of Allah" on business cards found in his apartment after the shooting rampage. The Army psychiatrist reportedly obtained the business cards over the Internet. In addition to listing his profession and contact information, the cards contain a discrete reference to his religion: "SoA(SWT)." Watchdogs say the first letters are shorthand among militant Muslims to "soldier of Allah." The last letters refer to "Subhanahu Wa Ta'all," which means "glory to God." The business cards were among numerous discoveries in Hasan's apartment of interest to investigators, who also are looking into whether Hasan wired money to Pakistan before last week's massacre. More from The Times of London The Times of London contributed to this report. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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AG says Gitmo 9/11 suspects heading to NY trial (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)

Five other suspects at Guantanamo will be sent to military commissions, the official WASHINGTON – Attorney said, but it was not immediately General Eric Holder says self- clear where. proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind The official said Attorney Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and General Eric Holder planned to four other Guantanamo Bay announce the decision Friday detainees will be sent to New morning. The official was not York for trial in a civilian federal authorized to discuss the decision court and he expects to seek the before the announcement, so death penalty. spoke on condition of anonymity. At a news conference Friday, the Without confirming details of attorney general said five other the decision, President Barack suspects will be sent to military Obama said it was both a commissions. prosecutorial decision and Holder said the detainees in the national security matter. "I am New York case will be tried in a absolutely convinced that Khalid courthouse just blocks from Sheikh Mohammed will be where the Sept. 11 attackers subjected to the most exacting felled the twin towers. Bringing demands of justice," Obama said such notorious suspects to U.S. at a joint news conference in soil to face trial is a key step in Tokyo with Japanese Prime President Barack Obama's plan to Minister Yukio Hatoyama. close the terror suspect detention Bringing such notorious suspects center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. to U.S. soil to face trial is a key Obama initially planned to close step in Obama's plan to close the the detention center by Jan. 22, terror suspect detention center at but the administration is no Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obama longer expected to meet that initially planned to close the deadline. detention center by Jan. 22, but THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS the administration is no longer UPDATE. Check back soon for expected to meet that deadline. further information. AP's earlier It is also a major legal and story is below. political test of Obama's overall WASHINGTON (AP) — Self- approach to terrorism. If the case proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind suffers legal setbacks, the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and administration will face secondfour other Guantanamo Bay guessing from those who never detainees will be sent to New wanted it in a civilian courtroom. York to face trial in a civilian And if lawmakers get upset about f e d e r a l c o u r t , a n O b a m a terrorists being brought to their administration official said home regions, they may fight Friday. back against other parts of Submitted at 11/13/2009 8:10:46 AM

Obama's agenda. "This is definitely a seismic shift in how we're approaching the war on al-Qaida," said Glenn Sulmasy, a law professor at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy who has written a book on national security justice. "It's certainly surprising that the five masterminds, if you will, of the attacks on the United States will be tried in traditional, open federal courts." The New York case may force the court system to confront a host of difficult legal issues surrounding counterterrorism programs begun after the 2001 attacks, including the harsh interrogation techniques once used on some of the suspects while in CIA custody. The most severe method — waterboarding, or simulated drowning — was used on Mohammed 183 times in 2003, before the practice was banned. Holder also was to announce that five other detainees, including a major suspect in the bombing of the USS Cole, Abd al-Rahim alNashiri, will face justice before a military commission, the official said. The five suspects are headed to New York together because they are all accused of conspiring in the 2001 attacks. The five headed to military commissions face a variety of charges but many of them include attacks specifically against the U.S. military. It was unclear where commission-bound detainees like

al-Nashiri might be sent, but a brig in South Carolina has been high on the list of sites under consideration. The actual transfer of the detainees from Guantanamo to New York isn't expected to happen for many more weeks because formal charges have not been filed against most of them. The attorney general has decided the case of the five Sept. 11 suspects should be handled by prosecutors working in the Southern District of New York, which has held a number of major terrorism trials in recent decades at a courthouse in lower Manhattan, just blocks from where the World Trade Center towers tumbled on Sept. 11, 2001. Holder had been considering other possible trial locations, including Virginia, Washington, D.C., and a different courthouse in New York City. Those districts could end up conducting trials of other Guantanamo detainees sent to federal court later on. The attorney general's decision in these cases comes just before a Monday deadline for the government to decide how to proceed against 10 detainees facing military commissions. In the military system, the five Sept. 11 suspects had faced the death penalty, but the official would not say if the Justice Department would also seek capital punishment against the men once they are in the federal

system. The administration has already sent one Guantanamo detainee, Ahmed Ghailani, to New York to face trial, but chose not to seek death because other conspirators involved in his case did not face capital punishment for similar offenses. At the last major trial of alQaida suspects held at that courthouse in 2001, prosecutors did seek death for some of the defendants. Mohammed already has an outstanding terror indictment against him in New York, for an unsuccessful plot called "Bojinka" to simultaneously take down multiple airliners over the Pacific Ocean in the 1990s. Some members of Congress have fought any effort to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial in the United States; they have argued it would be too dangerous for nearby civilians. The Obama administration has defended the planned trials and pointed out that many terrorists have been safely tried, convicted, and imprisoned in the United States, including the 1993 World Trade Center bomber, Ramzi Yousef. Mohammed and the four others — Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad alHawsawi and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali— are accused of orchestrating the attacks that killed 2,973 people on Sept. 11. SAYS page 79

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U.S. to Seize Mosques, Skyscraper Linked to Iran (FOXNews.com)

prevail. He said the foundation has been cooperating with the government's investigation for NEW YORK F e d e r a l the better part of a year. prosecutors have taken steps to "Obviously the foundation is seize four U.S. mosques and a disappointed that the government Manhattan skyscraper owned by has decided to bring this action," a nonprofit Muslim organization Winter told The Associated long suspected of being secretly Press. c o n t r o l l e d b y t h e I r a n i a n It is extremely rare for U.S. law government. enforcement authorities to seize a In what could prove to be one of house of worship, a step fraught the biggest counterterrorism w i t h q u e s t i o n s a b o u t t h e s e i z u r e s i n U . S . h i s t o r y , constitutional right to freedom of p r o s e c u t o r s f i l e d a c i v i l religion. complaint Thursday in federal The action against the Shiite c o u r t a g a i n s t t h e A l a v i Muslim mosques is sure to F o u n d a t i o n , s e e k i n g t h e inflame relations between the forfeiture of more than $500 U.S. government and American million in assets. Muslims, many of whom are T h e a s s e t s i n c l u d e b a n k fearful of a backlash after last a c c o u n t s ; I s l a m i c c e n t e r s week's Fort Hood military base c o n s i s t i n g o f s c h o o l s a n d shooting rampage, blamed on a mosques in New York City, Muslim American major. M a r y l a n d , C a l i f o r n i a a n d "Whatever the details of the Houston; more than 100 acres in government's case against the Virginia; and a 36-story glass owners of the mosques, as a civil office tower in New York. rights organization we are Confiscating the properties concerned that the seizure of would be a sharp blow against American houses of worship Iran, which has been accused by could have a chilling effect on t h e U . S . g o v e r n m e n t o f the religious freedom of citizens bankrolling terrorism and trying of all faiths and may send a to build a nuclear bomb. negative message to Muslims FLASHBACK: 5th Avenue w o r l d w i d e , " s a i d I b r a h i m Skyscraper Center of Iranian Hooper, spokesman for the Mystery Council on American-Islamic A telephone call and e-mail to Relations. Iran's U.N. Mission seeking The mosques and the skyscraper comment were not immediately will remain open while the answered. forfeiture case works its way John D. Winter, the Alavi through court in what could be a Foundation's lawyer, said it long process. What will happen intends to litigate the case and to them if the government Submitted at 11/12/2009 11:47:44 PM

ultimately prevails is unclear. But the government typically sells properties it has seized through forfeiture, and the proceeds are sometimes distributed to crime victims. "No action has been taken against any tenants or occupants of those properties," U.S. attorney's office spokeswoman Yusill Scribner said. "The tenants and occupants remain free to use the properties as they have before today's filing. There are no allegations of any wrongdoing on the part of any of these tenants or occupants." Prosecutors said the Alavi Foundation managed the office tower on behalf of the Iranian government and, working with a front company known as Assa Corp., illegally funneled millions in rental income to Iran's stateowned Bank Melli. Bank Melli has been accused by a U.S. Treasury official of providing support for Iran's nuclear program, and it is illegal in the United States to do business with the bank. The U.S. has long suspected the foundation was an arm of the Iranian government; a 97-page complaint details involvement in foundation business by several top Iranian officials, including the deputy prime minister and ambassadors to the United Nations. "For two decades, the Alavi Foundation's affairs have been directed by various Iranian officials, including Iranian ambassadors to the United

Nations, in violation of a series of American laws," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. There were no raids Thursday as part of the forfeiture action. The government is simply required to post notices of the civil complaint on the property. As prosecutors outlined their allegations against Alavi, the Islamic centers and the schools they run carried on with normal activity. The mosques' leaders had no immediate comment. Parents lined up in their cars to pick up their children at the schools within the Islamic Education Center of Greater Houston and the Islamic Education Center in Rockville, Maryland. No notices of the forfeiture action were posted at either place as of late Thursday. At the Islamic Institute of New York, a mosque and school in the city's Queens borough, two U.S. marshals came to the door and rang the bell repeatedly. The marshals taped a forfeiture notice to the window and left a large document sitting on the ground. After they left a group of men came out of the building and took the document. The fourth Islamic center marked for seizure is in Carmichael, California. The skyscraper, known as the Piaget building, was erected in the 1970s on posh Fifth Avenue under the shah of Iran, who was overthrown in 1979. The tenants include law and investment firms

and other businesses. The sleek, modern building, last valued at $570 million to $650 million in 2007, has served as an important source of income for the foundation over the past 36 years. The most recent tax records show the foundation earned $4.5 million from rents in 2007. Rents collected from the building help fund the centers and other ventures, such as sending educational literature to imprisoned Muslims in the U.S. The foundation has also invested in dozens of mosques around the country and supported Iranian academics at prominent universities. If federal prosecutors seize the skyscraper, the Alavi Foundation would have almost no way to continue supporting the Islamic centers, which house schools and mosques. That could leave a major void in Shiite communities, and hard feelings toward the FBI, which played a big role in the investigation. The forfeiture action comes at a tense moment in U.S.-Iranian relations, with the two sides at odds over Iran's nuclear program and its arrest of three American hikers. But Michael Rubin, an expert on Iran at the American Enterprise Institute, said the timing of the forfeiture action was probably a coincidence, not an effort to influence Iran on those issues. U.S. page 77

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Sarah Palin goes after McCain camp in new book (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)

night, how she'd been kept "bottled up" from reporters during the campaign and NEW YORK – Sarah Palin's prevented in many ways from new memoir describes heart- just being herself. She also wrenching anguish about her teen contends she was prepped to give daughter's pregnancy playing out non-answers during her debate before a national audience. But with Joe Biden. the 413-page tome doesn't The book, which has a first contain a single reference to the printing of 1.5 million copies, has father of her grandson, soon-to- been at or near the top of be Playgirl model Levi Johnston. Amazon.com and other bestIn "Going Rogue," which will be seller lists for weeks, ever since released Tuesday, Palin also p u b l i s h e r H a r p e r C o l l i n s laments about everyone in her announced it had been completed entourage being forced to wear ahead of schedule and moved its fancy clothes she couldn't afford release date up from next spring. — preferring simpler, cheaper The Associated Press was able to garb. But it's as if Johnston, who purchase a copy Thursday. was among those hastily spiffed Interviews with Oprah Winfrey u p t o a p p e a r a t t h e 2 0 0 8 and Barbara Walters will be Republican National Convention televised next week to coincide in St. Paul, Minn., had never left with the book's release. Palin said Wasilla, Alaska. on her Facebook site that she's The tactic does appear to have hoping to schedule interviews merit; Johnston, who has sparred with others, including Rush repeatedly with his former Limbaugh and four Fox News mother-in-law-to-be, continues to Channel personalities: Bill warn that she should leave him O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn alone, or he might dish some Beck and Greta Van Susteren. serious dirt that "will hurt her." All but Van Susteren have their While the book — which own radio programs. contains 68 color photos but no The tour, which will skip major index — stays away from cities in favor of smaller J o h n s t o n , t h e f o r m e r v i c e localities, starts Nov. 18 at a presidential candidate digs in B a r n e s & N o b l e i n G r a n d when it comes to those who ran Rapids, Mich., where Palin and Sen. John McCain's campaign. McCain made a campaign She confirms that there was appearance last fall. Other parts substantial tension between her of the tour will mirror the 2008 advisers and McCain's. She race. On Dec. 7, Palin is booked bitterly details how she was for the Mall of America in prevented from delivering a Bloomington, Minn., not far from concession speech on election last year's Republican National Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:05:00 AM

Convention, where Palin's speech — in which she likened herself to a pit bull — made her a national sensation. The tour will last about three weeks, with a break for Thanksgiving, and will end around Dec. 10, according to HarperCollins. Palin will travel by bus for much of the time, likely accompanied by family and by aide Meg Stapleton. While the book follows Palin's life from her birth in Sandpoint, Idaho, to wondering about the next stop in her future, Palin, who received an advance of at least $1.25 million, saves her strongest words for run-ins with McCain staffers and her widely panned interview with CBS anchor Katie Couric. She describes Couric as condescending, biased and "badgering." She contends the anchor chose "gotcha" moments while leaving the candidate's more substantive remarks on the cutting room floor. Palin takes another dig at Couric while asserting her expertise on energy matters. She writes that she was shocked Couric had asked her which newspapers and magazines she read; given what she called Couric's lack of knowledge about energy issues, Palin wondered whether she should have asked the news anchor what she read. The closest Palin comes to naming names occurs in the passages about chief McCain campaign strategist Steve

Schmidt. Quoting another campaign official, she writes that Schmidt felt she wasn't prepared enough on policy matters and even wondered if she was suffering from postpartum depression following the April 2008 birth of her son Trig, who has Down syndrome. She says Schmidt was also upset if anyone in her personal circle tried to correct — without approval from the McCain camp — what they perceived to be incorrect portrayals of Palin's record as Alaska governor. Palin comes across as particularly upset about being stuck with $50,000 in legal bills that she says were directly related to the legal vetting process for the VP slot. She says she was never informed that she would have to personally take care of expenses related to the selection process, and jokes that if she'd known she was going to get stuck with the bill, she would have given shorter responses. According to the book, Palin asked officials at the Republican National Committee and what was left of the McCain campaign if they would help her financially. She says she was told that if McCain had won, the bills would have been paid, but since he lost, the bills were her responsibility. Trevor Potter, the McCain campaign's general counsel, told the AP the campaign never asked Palin to pay a legal bill. "To my knowledge, the campaign

never billed Gov. Palin for any legal expenses related to her vetting and I am not aware of her ever asking the campaign to pay legal expenses that her own lawyers incurred for the vetting process," Potter said. If Palin's lawyer billed her for work related to her vetting, the McCain campaign never knew about it, Potter said. Written with Lynn Vincent, "Going Rogue" is folksy in tone and homespun. She writes in awe about how the McCain campaign had hired a New York stylist who had also worked with Couric. Taken aback by the fussing, she wondered who was paying for the $150,000 worth of clothes the campaign gave to her and her family. Palin did not like the forced makeover and said she wondered at the time if she and her clan came across as "that" unpresentable. Family members were told the costs were being handled, or were "part of the convention." The designer clothing, hairstyling and accessories later grew into a controversy. Palin shares behind-the-scene moments when the nation learned her teen daughter Bristol was pregnant, how she rewrote the statement prepared for her by the McCain campaign — only to watch in horror as a TV news anchor read the original McCain camp statement, which, in Palin's view, glamorized and endorsed SARAH page 78

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'Balloon Boy' Parents Head to Court to Plead Guilty in Hoax (FOXNews.com)

Heenes maximum prison time. Richard Heene could get up to 90 days in jail and Mayumi up to 60, The Colorado father of a 6-year- Lane said. o l d d u b b e d " b a l l o o n b o y " Without the deal, the charge p l e a d e d g u i l t y F r i d a y t o against Richard Heene, 48, attempting to influence a public carries up to six years in state servant, a felony, in what prison and a fine of up to authorities say was an elaborate $500,000. The charge against his hoax for publicity. His wife also 45-year-old wife carries a sixentered a guilty plea. month jail term and a maximum Richard and Mayumi Heene are $750 fine. a c c u s e d o f c o n c o c t i n g a Mayumi Heene's attorney, Lee spectacular ruse by reporting Christian, said he expects her to their son was aboard a runaway serve any jail time in a workballoon. release program that would Mayumi was pleading guilty to a involve some detention and some misdemeanor charge of false time at home. reporting. Lane said the Heenes' children, They will avoid more spectacle ages 6, 8 and 10, would remain in — and a trial — Friday by the parents' custody under what entering the pleas to charges that he called a "package deal" that could bring some jail time and was compelling his client to enter probation. Sentencing was set for a plea. a later date. Richard Heene has denied any SLIDESHOW: 'Balloon Boy' hoax, though Mayumi Heene Hoax Case allegedly confessed it was a stunt The pleas are part of an to drum up publicity for the agreement to avoid possible family — and that the boys were deportation of Mayumi Heene to told to lie about it all. her native Japan should she be "He feels like he's got to do what convicted in court of greater he's got to do to save his wife charges, Richard's attorney David from being deported," Lane said Lane said. Sentencing will be at a of his client. later date. On Oct. 15, the world watched The agreement would spare the with astonishment and terror as Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:20:34 AM

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"Suspicion about the Alavi Foundation transcends three administrations," Rubin said. "It's rescuers chased the homemade is not a restitution case," he said. taken ages dealing with the nuts balloon for 50 miles after the T h e H e e n e s f a c e a c i v i l and bolts of the investigation. It's Heenes reported their 6-year-old investigation by the Federal not the type of investigation son Falcon may have been A v i a t i o n A d m i n i s t r a t i o n . which is part of any larger trapped inside. The balloon Possible penalties range from a strategy." landed in a dusty farm field — no letter of reprimand to a fine. The Legal scholars said they know of Falcon inside — and the Heenes balloon briefly forced some only a few cases in U.S. history later announced they found the planes to switch to a different i n w h i c h l a w e n f o r c e m e n t boy hiding at home. runway for takeoff at Denver authorities have seized a house of worship. Marc Stern, a religiousThe Larimer County Sheriff's International Airport. Office pressed its investigation Dean Askew, a neighbor who liberty expert with the American after Falcon looked at his father took care of two of the boys at Jewish Congress, called such during a cable news interview the request of authorities while cases extremely rare. and declared: "You had said that the balloon saga unfolded, had The Alavi Foundation is the we did this for the show." some harsh words Thursday for successor organization to the Pahlavi Foundation, a nonprofit Business associates of Richard Richard Heene. Heene said he was trying to pitch "I think he took his family down group used by the shah to a TV series based on science. a bad road, and I also think he's a advance Iran's charitable interests The Heenes are amateur storm c o w a r d b e c a u s e h e d i d n ' t in America. But authorities said chasers and had twice appeared apologize to America and the its agenda changed after the fall on the ABC reality show "Wife people who came to his aid," of the shah. In 2007, the United States Swap." Askew said. D e f e n s e a t t o r n e y s e x p e c t Of the anticipated plea, Askew accused Bank Melli of providing prosecutors to seek restitution for declared: "I would hope that's a services to Iran's nuclear and the chase. Local and federal crack of humanity. But with ballistic missile programs and put authorities spent at least $62,000 Richard, you're never really the bank on its list of companies whose assets must be frozen. p u r s u i n g t h e b a l l o o n a n d sure." searching for Falcon after it More at KDVR.com: Could W a s h i n g t o n h a s i m p o s e d landed. ' B a l l o o n B o y ' M o m B e sanctions against various other Iranian businesses. Lane said he would fight any D e p o r t e d ? effort to recoup costs, adding T h e A s s o c i a t e d P r e s s This content has passed through authorities have yet to show the c o n t r i b u t e d t o t h i s r e p o r t . fivefilters.org. c h a s e d i v e r t e d f r o m o t h e r This content has passed through emergencies. fivefilters.org. "A bunch of cops chasing a balloon instead of sitting around

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Coastal flooding a concern as storm moves up coast (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)

Duska said he drove up and down the central New Jersey coastline a few days ago and ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The looked at beaches, knowing a remnants of Tropical Storm Ida storm was coming, hoping to pounded the East Coast on compare them with what would Friday, flooding coastal areas of be left after the storm. New Jersey and New York and " T h e b e a c h e s a r e s m a l l e r eroding beaches in New Jersey already," he said. "You can see after slamming the Carolinas and it." Virginia. Farther south, on Long Beach The wind and waves were strong Island, the angry surf was along the New Jersey shore, but chewing up what was left of the rain was not as heavy as already narrow beaches and some predicted. The storm peaked in protective sand dunes in Harvey New Jersey by midmorning, said Cedars, which is hoping to start a N a t i o n a l W e a t h e r S e r v i c e beach replenishment project soon meteorologist Lee Robertson. after a yearslong battle with Many streets were under water oceanfront property owners over in Cape May County, where a access to their land. state of emergency was issued. Traffic was backed up over a Although officials suggested m i l e o n t h e A t l a n t i c C i t y voluntary evacuations of low- Expressway because flooding lying areas late Thursday, there closed other major highways into was no word of any mandatory the gambling resort. evacuations. But officials were School buses and SUVs in unable to deliver meals to elderly Freeport, N.Y., on Long Island's shut-ins Friday due to the southern shore, had to navigate flooding. streets with knee-high water. "It's a big nor'easter," said Joe Crews attempted to stabilize a Duska, a 66-year-old retiree who 5 7 0 - f o o t b a r g e c a r r y i n g was photographing 15-foot containers of chemicals that waves that were smashing against grounded in Virginia Beach after an inlet rock jetty in Manasquan. it broke free Thursday night from "I don't think I've seen one this a tugboat that was towing it from bad in quite a few years." Puerto Rico to New Jersey. Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:38:55 AM

Flood warnings remain in effect in parts of western Virginia, where the Danville River at South Boston was more than 7 feet above flood stage. The Roanoke River crested nearly 4 feet above flood stage at Randolph and more than 3 feet above flood stage at Brookneal early Friday. Dominion Power reported that more than 155,000 customers remained without electricity early Friday in Virginia and parts of North Carolina. All but about 10,000 of those customers were in southeast Virginia. Hundreds of roads were closed in Virginia. The storm forced more than a dozen schools in southern New Jersey not to open or delay opening. Schools in southern Delaware, Worcester County, Md., and Accomack County, Va., also were closed. Light rain was expected throughout the day in New Jersey and coastal flooding was possible at high tide Friday afternoon, Robertson said. The storm has been blamed for five deaths across three states. The Coast Guard halted the search for three missing New Jersey fishermen whose boat sank in rough seas Wednesday

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her daughter's situation. She writes that the incident made it clear to her that McCain headquarters was in charge of her night. Officials in Norfolk, Va., were message. She said when she tried waiting to assess damage once to find out what the McCain flood waters recede after nearly 8 camp would and would not allow inches of rain drenched the her to say, Schmidt told her to coastal city and major port. simply "stick with the script." Health officials closed all Palin laments that she wasn't tributaries to the Chesapeake Bay allowed to bring all her family in Virginia to shellfish harvesting members to the stage while because of the potential of McCain gave his election night c o n t a m i n a t i o n f r o m t h e concession speech, having found nor'easter. The ban does not out minutes earlier that she wouldn't be permitted to give her include crabs or fish. Three motorists died in weather- own speech. In limited excerpts of the related crashes in central and prerecorded Winfrey interview, eastern Virginia. In New York City, a 36-year-old surfer died Palin says Johnston is still part of after getting caught in pounding the family. Johnston was quoted surf churned up by the storm. In as saying that any attempts at North Carolina, an elderly man reconciliation are fake. standing in his yard was killed This content has passed through when a pine tree was snapped off fivefilters.org. by strong wind and fell on him. ___ Associated Press writers Geoff Mulvihill in Mt. Laurel, N.J., Steve Szkotak in Norfolk, Va., Zinie Chen Sampson in Richmond, Va., and Pam Ramsey in Charleston, W.Va., contributed to this report. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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New York trial for 9/11 suspects (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 11/13/2009 8:13:43 AM

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is to be sent from Guantanamo Bay to New York for trial in a civilian court, the US has confirmed. Attorney General Eric Holder said he would be transferred from the US prison camp in Cuba with four other suspects. Mr Mohammed has admitted planning the 9/11 attacks, the US military says. The move is part of US President Barack Obama's effort to close Guantanamo, but some relatives of 9/11 victims say they oppose a federal court trial. Responsibility for the case will go to the Southern District of New York, with proceedings taking place near Ground Zero. The five men have until now been facing prosecution at US military commissions in Guantanamo. The government had faced a 16 November deadline to decide how to proceed in their cases. Speaking in Tokyo ahead of Mr Holder's announcement, Mr Obama said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would face "most exacting demands of justice". Deadline looming Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been described by US investigators as "one of history's most infamous terrorists".

They say he has admitted being responsible "from A to Z" for the 9/11 attacks. Believed to be the number three al-Qaeda leader, he was captured in Pakistan in March 2003. He told a pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo in December 2008 that he wanted to plead guilty to all charges against him. But intelligence memos released earlier this year revealed he had been subjected to harsh interrogation techniques including water-boarding on multiple occasions since his capture - potentially rendering some evidence inadmissible. The other four men - the two Yemenis, a Saudi and a Pakistani -born Kuwaiti who have shared hearings with him at Guantanamo

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Mohammed admitted to interrogators that he was the mastermind of the attacks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he allegedly proposed the concept to Osama bin Laden as early as 1996, obtained funding for the attacks from bin Laden, oversaw the operation and trained the hijackers in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mohammed and the other defendants in the Sept. 11 case are all held in a section of Guantanamo known as Camp 7 that is considered so sensitive that it's location on the base is classified and no journalists have been allowed to see it. When they arrive in New York, the detainees will almost certainly be held at a grim prison tower near the courthouse. The Bay - are also accused of helping to any attempt to try their alleged Metropolitan Correctional Center has been a temporary home for plan and finance the attacks. architect in New York. The decision to try them in a Are you in New York? How do mobsters, terrorists, and Wall New York court appears to be you feel these suspects will be Street cheats, most recently part of Mr Obama's efforts to received? Do you think New Bernard Madoff. close Guantanamo by 22 January York is the appropriate place to The four other detainees headed 2010. hold the trials? Send us your to military commissions in the His administration says it will comments using the form below. United States are: Omar Khadr, try some detainees in US courts A selection of your comments Ahmed Mohammed al Darbi, and repatriate or resettle others may be published, displaying Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al who are not perceived as a threat. your name and location unless Q o s i , a n d N o o r U t h m a n However, questions remain over you state otherwise in the box Muhammed. Their cases are not specifically connected but two of the fate of those assessed as below. dangerous but who for legal T h e B B C m a y e d i t y o u r them are accused of plotting reasons could not be prosecuted comments and not all emails will against or attacking U.S. military in a US court - prompting be published. Your comments personnel. suggestions that the deadline will may be published on any BBC The transfer decisions are likely to only intensify the legal debate slip. media worldwide. over military commissions. And, says the BBC's Jonathan Print Sponsor Beale, some families of those This content has passed through Some civil libertarians hailed the decision as a long overdue who died in the 9/11 attacks have fivefilters.org. SAYS page 80 already voiced strong opposition

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Warrant: Bloody sock links Yale suspect to victim (AP)

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both Le and Clark was on the bloody sock found hidden in a ceiling. NEW HAVEN, Conn. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DNA The document also says Clark evidence on a bloody sock found moved a box of wipes to hide hidden in the ceiling and an ink that it had blood splattered on it. pen found under the body of a Clark had a scratch on his face Yale graduate student links an and left bicep that he said came animal research technician to her from a cat, according to the killing, according to an arrest affidavit. warrant released Friday. A message was left for Clark's The body of 24-year-old Annie public defender Friday. Le (LAY') was found stuffed Clark, 24, is charged with behind a Yale research lab wall murder. Le vanished Sept. 8 from in September. the Yale medical school research Authorities say in the warrant building where she and Clark that the green-ink pen found worked, and her body was found under Le's body had her blood on five days later on what was to be it as well as DNA from suspect her wedding day. Raymond Clark III on its cap. Clark has not yet entered a plea, Police have said Clark signed but his attorney has said he will into the secure building with a plead not guilty. green pen on Sept. 8, the day Le The warrant, which does not disappeared. offer a motive, describes a The warrant says DNA from bloody crime scene and Clark's Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:13:19 AM

efforts to scrub floors. Two days after Le disappeared, a graduate student showed a Yale police officer a box of "wipe alls" on a cart in a lab that had what appeared to be blood splatter on it. The officer watched Clark move the box of wipes and turn the box so that the blood splatter was no longer visible, authorities said. "Once Clark moved the box of wipes, he then leaned up against the cart and made small talk" with the officer," the affidavit states. Clark later came back into the room and began scrubbing the floor with SOS pads and cleaning solution even though the floor appeared clean, according to the affidavit. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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victory. "Eight years ago we were told justice would be done for the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks. Today we took a long overdue but critically important step toward that goal," said Princeton University professor Deborah Pearlstein. But there were critics as well. "I think the military commissions are built on a base that in my opinion is so legally deficient

that any efforts to return them to the right track would be questionable in my mind," said Gary D. Solis, a former Marine Corps judge advocate and judge who ran the law of war program for six years at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Eric M. Freedman, a Hofstra University professor of constitutional law who has been assisting the Guantanamo detainees, suggested the

government may be sending some cases to the military commissions because "there is insufficient evidence to convict in a fair trial in civilian court," said Freedman. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

in New York City, Maryland, California and Houston, as well as a 36-story office building on Submitted at 11/12/2009 4:56:17 PM New York's Fifth Avenue. US prosecutors have begun legal The Alavi Foundation owns a action to seize four mosques and 60% stake in the tower, also a New York city skyscraper that known as the Piaget building, the are owned by a non-profit Dow Jones news service reports. Muslim organisation. Last December, the government Lawyers say the Alavi filed suit against Assa Foundation has been helping to Corporation, which owns the illegally funnel money to Bank other 40% stake in the building, Melli, which is owned by the and which is also accused of Iranian government. being under Iranian government The bank is accused of funding control. I r a n ' s n u c l e a r w e a p o n s In court papers filed last month, programme. US citizens are Assa asked for the case to be banned from dealing with it. dismissed, saying US prosecutors The mosques and the office were attempting to "broaden the tower will remain open while the scope of the US forfeiture laws case continues. beyond Congress' intent", Dow The government's forfeiture Jones said. action was filed in a federal court Also on Thursday, US President in New York. Barack Obama renewed the Any seizure has to be authorised longstanding US economic by the court, and it may take a sanctions against Iran for another long time for the case to come to year, the White House said. fruition, says the BBC's Adam Mr Obama sought to reach out Brookes in Washington. diplomatically to Iran soon after Sanctions renewed taking power in January, but little Prosecutors are seeking more progress has been made over than $500m (ÂŁ300m) in assets I r a n ' s d i s p u t e d n u c l e a r belonging to the Alavi programme. Foundation, in what could prove Print Sponsor to be one of the biggest counter- This content has passed through terrorism seizures in US history. fivefilters.org. They include four Shia mosques

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Fort Hood suspect 'is paralysed' (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:28:50 AM

The US Army psychiatrist accused of murdering 13 people at Fort Hood is paralysed, his lawyer says. Maj Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, was shot by police during the incident at the Texas military base on 5 November. Lawyer John Galligan told reporters his client had no feeling in his legs and doctors had told him the condition may be permanent. Maj Hasan could face the death penalty after being charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder. Police shot Maj Hasan four times, ending the gunman's rampage through the base an

hour and a half after the incident began. It was was reported at first that he had been killed. 'Extreme pain' This was the first time Mr Galligan had been able to speak to his client, who is still in hospital. "He understands who I am. We can talk," he said. "But I was only there for an hour and towards the end of the onehour session, I could tell I was kind of pushing him in terms of my ability to keep him fresh and alert in a discussion with me." Mr Galligan added Maj Hasan was suffering "extreme pain" in his hands. Who fired? Meanwhile, doubts have emerged over who exactly fired the shots that brought down Maj

Hasan. Earlier this week Police Sgt Kimberly Munley, 34, appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show from her hospital bed where she was recovering from being wounded by Maj Hasan. She said it was her shots that stopped the gunman. But now Sgt Mark Todd says he was the one who "neutralised" Maj Hasan. "I drew his attention toward me, and then he opened fire and then I neutralised him and secured him," Todd told CBS's Early Show. They were the first shots Sgt Todd had fired at a human being in his 25 year career, he said. Print Sponsor This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Cleveland accused denies attack (BBC News | Americas | World Edition)

charges and continued Mr Sowell's $5m bond from last week, when he was charged with Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:58:52 AM five counts of aggravated murder. A convicted US sex offender He also appointed a lawyer for from Cleveland has pleaded not Mr Sowell. The lawyer, Brian guilty to an attack that led to a McGraw, had no immediate search of his house and the comment. discovery of 11 bodies. Funerals Anthony Sowell pleaded not Dressed in an orange prison g u i l t y t o c h a r g e s o f r a p e , jumpsuit, with his hands cuffed kidnapping, attempted murder in front of him, Mr Sowell a n d f e l o n i o u s a s s a u l t , t h e appeared engaged and alert, at A s s o c i a t e d P r e s s r e p o r t s . times bouncing slightly on his The charges were made after Mr feet, AP reported. Sowell's arrest last month. Gayle Williams, assistant county The 50-year-old suspect spent 15 prosecutor, said the woman who years in prison after being accuses him of rape remains very convicted of attempted rape. fearful of him and is concerned Judge John O'Donnell set a bond CLEVELAND page 82 of $1m (ÂŁ600,000) on the

US swine flu deaths 'near 4,000' (BBC News | Americas | World Edition)

toll from the H1N1 virus in the US was 672. Latest figures show about 22 Submitted at 11/12/2009 3:55:37 PM million Americans contracted the Swine flu has killed nearly 4,000 virus in six months with some people in the US, including 540 98,000 hospitalised. children, officials said after "This is just the first six months devising a new counting method. and I am expecting all of these The Centers for Disease Control numbers, unfortunately, to and Prevention (CDC) said the continue to rise," said Dr Anne new system is based on more Schuchat of the CDC. precise figures provided by 10 She said that, although still states. imprecise, the new statistics The previous estimated death provide "a bigger picture of what

has been going on in the first six months of the pandemic". The CDC now estimates that 3,900 people in the US have died from the virus in the past six months. Four times higher Dr Schuchat said that in children under 18, an estimated eight million have had swine flu, with 36,000 hospitalised and 540 deaths. The new estimated death toll for children is four times higher than

the previous estimate. "We will be updating the toll that the pandemic has taken... about every three to four weeks," she said. Dr Schuchat added that 41.6 million more doses of swine flu vaccine had been made available on Thursday for distribution around the country. However, delivery remained far below initial estimates and expectations, she said. The global death toll from the

flu pandemic passed the 6,000 mark last week according to figures from the World Health Organization. The virus emerged in Mexico in April and was declared a global flu pandemic on 11 June. Cases are currently surging in the northern hemisphere with the onset of colder weather. Print Sponsor This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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for her safety. "She was only breaths away from becoming another victim of Mr Sowell," the assistant prosecutor alleged. Remains from 10 of the 11 bodies found at Mr Sowell's home have led to identifications and funerals for the women are to continue this weekend. Most appear to have been poor black women with drug addictions.

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Tech.view: Computer-aided crash? (The Economist: Daily columns) Submitted at 11/13/2009 1:36:22 AM

Tech.view Nov 13th 2009 | SAN FRANCISCO From Economist.com How to stop a car when it accelerates out of control EVER had your car’s throttle stick wide open? It is an

unnerving experience. You try frantically to get your toe under the accelerator pedal to flip it back up, while straining to avoid other road users. Seconds later, when you start thinking straight, you slip the transmission into neutral, coast carefully to the side of the road, apply the handbrake and switch off the roaring engine. The first, and only, time it happened to your correspondent,

the cause was a broken returnspring on the carburettor’s butterfly valves. A quick roadside fix—a rubber band to keep the throttle open just wide enough to potter along—allowed him to limp home by judiciously slipping the clutch and applying the brakes. Stopping a runaway car is rather TECH.VIEW: page 83

This week's top stories [13 November 2009] (The Economist: News analysis) Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:00:38 AM

Protests in Iran Nov 5th 2009 From The Economist print edition Iran's opposition takes to the streets again THIRTY years ago, the world was mesmerised by pictures of 52 blindfolded Americans being taken hostage in their embassy in Tehran by Iranian students. This week’s anniversary provided more gripping scenes, as Iranians used the official celebration of that event to take to the streets once again, this time to protest against their own government and their country’s controversial president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose re-election in June they still hotly dispute. The green movement, as the opposition calls itself, had held no big rally since Jerusalem Day

in mid-September, when protesters turned an officially sponsored event into an antigovernment one. On November 4th they did it again. Thousands came on to the streets, despite dark warnings from the authorities. There were big demonstrations in Tehran, and reports of others in provincial cities such as Arak, Isfahan, Mazandaran, Rasht, Shiraz and Tabriz. The internet hummed with tales of opposition protests, replete with videos and photographs. It was hard, however, to assess the size of the crowds. Mehdi Karroubi, a cleric who ran for president and has since been one of the most outspoken critics of Mr Ahmadinejad’s government since his disputed reelection, made an appearance in Tehran but left swiftly as his car and guards were attacked by security forces. Other opposition

leaders were unable—or were not allowed—to appear. Mir Hossein Mousavi, who is popularly thought to have really won the election, was said to have visited a cultural centre but was surrounded by security forces. Muhammad Khatami, a former reformist president who backs the opposition, was unseen. All the same, without the backing of bigwigs, the government’s foes poured on to the streets. Death to nobody! As before, the police and the baseej, a vigilante force that backs Mr Ahmadinejad and answers to the powerful Revolutionary Guard, came out in strength too. Protesters were beaten, arrested and drenched with tear gas. Some chanted “death to the dictator”, often shouting accusations that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, was a murderer. Others, in a new twist of

sloganeering, cried “Death to nobody!” At the official rallies celebrating the taking of the American hostages, American and Israeli flags were burned as usual. But footage of the opposition demonstrations shows posters of Mr Khamenei’s bearded face being stamped on. So the image of Iran’s official leaders is still being tarnished in the lingering post-election turmoil. The protests are unlikely to bring the government down, but its legitimacy is being questioned in a way that was once unthinkable. The top echelons of politics and the clergy are riven with dissent. The day before the celebration of the siege, Hossein Ali Montazeri, a grand ayatollah now aged 87 who was once the heir apparent of the Islamic republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, said that the occupation of the American embassy in 1979 had

been a mistake. Such divisions may partly be causing Iran’s government to equivocate in the face of the West’s latest proposals for solving the dispute over Iran’s nuclear plans. In a statement issued on the anniversary, Barack Obama said America did not wish to interfere in Iran’s internal affairs. But he stressed that, while his fist was still unclenched, the onus was on Iran to grasp it. Instead, Mr Khamenei once again lambasted America for its attitude to Iran’s nuclear programme. Back to top ^^ Readers' comments The Economist welcomes your views. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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more difficult nowadays. Not only do the vast majority of vehicles on the road in America have automatic transmissions rather than manual gearboxes, they also have electronic throttle controls. Some even have electronically controlled transmissions that mimic manual gearboxes, which can make it hard to disengage the gears in a hurry. Invariably, the brakes and the steering are now powerassisted, which can cause further complications. Indeed, the only part of the car not to have received “drive-by-wire” technology has been the braking system, because of the unforgiving nature of any failure. The technology comes from the aircraft industry, where it long ago replaced the rods and cables or hydraulic linkages used to activate ailerons, flaps and rudders. Though not cheap, using digital processors to send electronic signals down a wire to servo motors that mechanically actuate the control system in question reduces the number of moving parts that can break, get jammed or simply wear out. The result is less maintenance as well as less weight. As a bonus, it permits finer and more flexible control adjustments to be made. Applied to a car’s throttle, the result is increased responsiveness and a consistent pedal feel, irrespective of the conditions. Drive-by-wire smoothes out the fuel delivery and acceleration, improving both the vehicle’s acceleration and fuel economy.

In a car fitted with an electronic throttle, the engine’s electronic control unit (ECU) computes the required opening of the throttle from data supplied by sensors that track the position of the accelerator pedal, the speed and temperature of the engine, the car’s road speed and altitude, and the overall load on the engine. Signals sent by wire from the ECU then tell an electric motor inside the throttle to open by the appropriate amount. With the ECU managing the throttle this way, it becomes easier to integrate such features as cruise control, traction control and stability control—all of which require subtle adjustments in engine torque to be made independently of the position of the driver’s foot on the accelerator pedal. But drive-bywire controls are only as good as their programming. When new, your correspondent’s off-road vehicle always started jerkily from rest, no matter how gentle he was on the gas. Then, a software update at a dealership transformed the beast into a model of docile behaviour. Clearly, some engineer had finally squished the bug in the throttle software. Though nowhere near as bad as with mechanical throttles, dirt and wear can still bedevil electronic versions. To a point, the ECU can compensate for dirt or wear accumulating in the throttle body—by making incremental adjustments that bring the performance back to

normal. However, if the sensor on the accelerator pedal stops talking to the ECU, or the electronic throttle itself falls silent, the system should go automatically into its limp-home mode—the digital equivalent of your correspondent’s rubber band. But it is also possible for compensations made by the ECU to cause the engine to surge—or even to open the throttle unintentionally. If, in such circumstances, the engine starts racing, the last thing to do is turn it off. Unassisted, the steering and brakes could then become too heavy for the average motorist to handle. Without power-assistance, it takes at least five times the normal pedal pressure to achieve a similar braking result—something beyond most drivers’ capacity in a sitting position. There is also the danger of the steering wheel becoming locked in its parking position if the ignition key is turned completely to its off position. Another instinctive thing to avoid is pumping the brakes. That only depletes the vacuum used to provide their powerassistance. A racing engine then has no spare power to generate more vacuum. Result: the brakes again become too heavy to be effective. Even with the power-assistance working properly, the brakes on today’s cars are no match for a powerful engine racing flat out. Most are likely to be incinerated

from the intense heat generated through trying to restrain a runaway vehicle. For that reason, many cars in Europe that are fitted with electronic throttles nowadays have an automatic mechanism that lets the brakes override the throttle if the engine starts racing. The best advice is to read the car’s manual thoroughly before ever venturing out on the road—especially if the vehicle is a luxury model with powereverything, keyless ignition, a start/stop button and a “floppypaddle” gear change. Learn the procedure for switching the engine off safely in an emergency, and how to disengage the transmission in a hurry. If disaster strikes, press as hard as you physically can on the brake pedal, put the transmission into neutral and switch off the engine only after the vehicle has come to a stop. But what if you cannot get the car into neutral? The only option then is to go through the emergency routine for shutting down the engine while in motion. Normally, that means turning the ignition key carefully to its midposition. In cars fitted with a start/stop button, that usually involves holding the button down for at least three seconds for the electronic throttle to get the message. Though difficult to resist when panicking, on no account keep stabbing the start/stop button repeatedly: it will have no effect whatsoever. Meanwhile, a vehicle travelling

at 120mph (200kph) will cover a further 176 feet (54 metres) for every second wasted. That is allegedly what happened last August when a Lexus ES 350 driven by an off-duty Californian highway patrolman accelerated out of control in San Diego county. All four occupants of the Lexus were killed when the runaway car eventually slammed into another vehicle and careered into an embankment. Though not the first time such a runaway accident has happened, the deadly San Diego crash has been a wake-up call for the motoring world—especially as the driver in question was an experienced patrol officer who specialised in safety issues. Toyota has since issued a voluntary safety recall on some 3.8m Lexus and Toyota vehicles sold in America over the past five years or so—the biggest recall in the company’s history. Toyota blamed a loose floor mat for fouling the accelerator pedal and jamming the throttle wide open, and issued a video disputing news reports that the unintended acceleration may have been caused by other factors, including the vehicle’s electronic throttle control. Last week, however, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sharply rebuked the carmaker for issuing “inaccurate and misleading” statements that asserted no underlying defect existed in the TECH.VIEW: page 84

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3.8m vehicles being recalled. “The matter is not closed until Toyota has effectively addressed the defect by providing a suitable vehicle-based solution,” said the regulatory agency. “It goes beyond floor mats,” an NHTSA spokeswoman added. As a temporary measure, anyone with a Toyota or Lexus affected by the recall is advised at least to check that the driver’s rubber floor mat is installed correctly. Better still, remove it altogether

until Toyota comes up with a “suitable vehicle-based solution”—whatever that may be. Back to top ^^ Readers' comments The Economist welcomes your views. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Global printing and more with Snapfish By Zack Sheppard (Flickr Blog) Submitted at 11/12/2009 1:30:36 PM

Why hello Snapfish! We’ve always wanted to extend printing services to more of our members around the world and today we’re happy to do just that, just in time for the holidays! Please welcome Snapfish as our go to partner for all your printing needs. Now, all Flickr members can create photo prints, books, collages, calendars and more and get them shipped to most anywhere in the world. We’re thrilled that Snapfish has direct local facilities in 22 countries for fast,

simple and affordable printing. To get started with Snapfish you can use the “Order Prints” button above any of your photos or sets. There’s also a new Print & Create section in the Organizr where you can batch select multiple photos to do more and create cards, calendars, books, photo

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MediaDailyNews: Agencies In Arms Over Nielsen Local Ratings Move: Call TVB's High-Five A Low-Blow (MediaPost | Media News) Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:26:51 AM

In what is tantamount to a media trade association's high-five over a successful lobbying effort, the Television Bureau of Advertising has sent emails to the nation's TV stations congratulating them for influencing Nielsen Co.'s decision to scrap live audience ratings for the local TV advertising marketplace. "Congratulations! You did it!," reads the email, a copy of which was obtained by MediaDailyNews, and is reproduced here. The email comes as Madison Avenue is up in arms over Nielsen's decision to pull the plug on its live local TV ratings, and to replace them with estimates that embed time-shifted viewing from DVRs as the new local TV advertising currency. Big spot TV buying agencies such as WPP's GroupM, and Publicis' SMGX, are particularly disturbed by the decision, because live audience ratings have been the basis of their negotiations with stations, and they have many advertising deals extending into next year that are based on them. But Nielsen will no longer supply live local TV audience ratings beginning in January. GroupM has already gone public with its frustration and its Chief

Investment Officer Rino Scanzoni told MDN it is considering legal action against Nielsen to overturn its decision. Other big spot TV shops are equally up in arms and are exploring their options, and the Media Policy Committee of the American Association of Advertising Agencies also is expected to come out with a position, and possibly a course of action, soon, according to agency executive familiar with those plans.

Meanwhile, agency executives say the TVB's communication effectively is a "smoking gun" pointing to a concerted lobbying effort by hundreds of TV stations, the primarily source of revenues for Nielsen's local TV ratings services, to sway Nielsen's decision to scrap the live audience data. "Many of you took the time to contact Nielsen to express your opinions on this important issue; many of you did so several times, and in numerous forums. Thank

you . . . all of your hard work paid off!," the TVB wrote. Madison Avenue is now calling the TVB's lobbying effort a lowball, because they focused their communication strategy through trade associations such as the AAAA and the Association of National Advertisers. "We did talk to many agencies," a Nielsen spokesman said Thursday about the input the company used to make its final decision. "We weren't just talking to the trade associations. There

were many conversations with parties across the spectrum of the industry." He said that Nielsen is confident that it had "investigated this thoroughly and talked to all parties exhaustively. We made the decision based on the feedback that we've gotten. And we're committed to that decision." Asked why Nielsen decided to limit the number of data streams MEDIADAILYNEWS: page 87

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Online Media Daily: They Save Whales, Don't They? (MediaPost | Media News)

disappearing species. How do you weigh the societal value of a Submitted at 11/13/2009 4:00:31 AM solid piece of investigative A Tuesday New York Times reporting against, say, retraining Science section story about a auto salesmen, addled former huge floating garbage patch in NFL players -- or more urgently, the Pacific was written by a it seems, magazine publishers? freelance journalist. Not in itself Let me state for the record that I unusual, since the Times taps lots like journalists. I used to be one of freelancers. But in this case, before coming to the dark side. the reporter's expenses were paid Every time there is another round by hundreds of donors in an of layoffs, I often drop e mails to experiment in "crowd-funded" reporters I like to make sure they journalism. Spot.Us, which weren't taken out by the latest describes itself as a "nonprofit pink slips. But like NFL players, project to pioneer 'community they have chosen to be part of a funded' reporting" (part of San perilous profession. Darwinian Francisco-based non-profit evolutionary biology dictates that Center for Media Change) lists they learn XML and Java or die. among its donors Web luminaries Let's think more broadly about such as Craig Newmark, the 501(c)(3)'s, where the need is just founder of Craigslist; Wikipedia as urgent. founder Jimmy Wales; and eBay Investment Bankers: historically, founder Pierre Omidyar. if you couldn't cut it on Wall One might dispassionately S t r e e t , y o u b e c a m e a c a r admire the nobility of those who s a l e s m a n o r a j o u r n a l i s t seek to salvage traditional who, (especially if you couldn't get what, when, where and how into law school), but now they journalism in an era of wander the earth (well, repurposed press releases and Greenwich and Bedminster) social media-powered opinion. waiting for someone to invent But it raises the question of something derivatal to sell. whether we should start non- S u r e l y t h e p u b l i c w o u l d p r o f i t s f o r l o t s o f o t h e r contribute to a foundation to keep

them at the country club taking golf lessons so they don't occupy all the bus stop benches while checking their BlackBerries for resume responses? Magazine Sales Reps: There was a time when "I don't want to carry a rate card anymore" was code for: "They didn't make me publisher, so I'm gonna try this Internet thing." These days, there are hundreds who would beg for one more chance to sell something "far forward, righthand page, facing edit." I can see a non profit that supports safe driving for teens at night, but also picks up at midtown watering holes between 4 and 6, or until the last "they didn't know what they had" is declared before pitching face first into the corn nuts. Media Buyers: As technology renders the little human thought that went into media buying in the first place irrelevant, I should think the public would contribute to a fund that gives out-of-work media grunts a VIP pass that gets them into the cocktail parties and pre Broadway dinners they fed off back when they counted. An annual spa trip, a logoed shoulder

bag or tickets to the NCAA regionals would also help perpetuate the line. Internet Pioneers: While the Internet has held up better than other media throughout the downturn (now an upturn, we are told), there is nevertheless a generation of early-stage Internauts who never had sufficient equity to retire and invest in something with a more promising future like a Cold Stone Creamery franchise or synthetic body parts. Even they know the lingo and say inane things like "Yeah, Wenda and I go way back," they cannot get "traction" as social media and mobile replace Web visits. Unless you want these guys sending you Linked In appeals or "just doing a little networking" e mails, it is in your best interest to help underwrite a charity that runs a 24-hour loft where they can play table hockey and spin yarns about the good old days at Prodigy, Pathfinder and Softbank. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Research Brief: PR Pros Split; Riding Both Horses (MediaPost | Media News) Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:15:45 AM

According to recent poll of corporate communicators conducted by Ragan Communications and PollStream, 49% of today's professional communicators say they think press releases are "as useful as ever," but a third of the respondents said the press release is "a necessary evil that won't go away soon." A corollary paper by Lindsey Miller from Ragan pointed out that 45% of respondents said If press releases are losing relevance, it's because of the growth of social media. Though, 23% and 24% respectively blamed the demand for a more trustworthy and/or engaging information source and the decline of the newspaper and magazine industry. According to the study, one of the main reasons for the decline of the press release, besides the recent explosion of the use of social media in public relations is the perception that releases are less relevant in those venues. 64% of respondents who issue releases say they target them most often to print outlets, while 23% send them to online news and financial sites. The poll also found that many PR pros often forego writing a RESEARCH page 87

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available for local TV, and to exclude live-only estimates from its ratings reports, the spokesman said it was due to the fact that local stations and some local agencies said they "already had too much data." But in the national TV marketplace, Nielsen makes many more streams of data available to buyers and sellers, even though the standard currency for national TV advertising deals is its so-called C3 ratings, which stands for live average minute commercial ratings, plus three days of timeshifted viewing. Agencies say they were willing to compromise on the timeshifted standard - and scrap liveonly ratings - for national TV deals, because of the shift to commercial audience ratings. When Nielsen credits commercial audience viewing, it edits out any viewing that

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includes so-called "trick viewing" such as fast-forwarding through commercials. But that's not the case in local TV ratings, in which Nielsen does not report commercial exposure, but only average program viewing estimates, so media buyers say they have no way of knowing how much of their client's TV commercials local viewers are actually watching. "They just raised the price of local TV advertising," said John Muszynski, chief investment officer of Publicis' SMGX unit. Muszynski estimated that the shift away from live audience ratings would effectively inflate the costs of local TV advertising by "3% or 4%" initially, but that over time, as more local TV viewing occurs on a time-shifted basis, that number would grow. "We've got deals that go through next year on live. Now what do

we do," he asked rhetorically. Muszynski said he and other big media buyers, and their trade associations, would continue to put pressure on Nielsen to appeal its decision, and that if unsuccessful, might consider using alternative methods and/or sources for valuing the basis of their local TV advertising buys. Ultimately, he said, it is their client's advertising budgets that agencies like SMGX and GroupM are investing, and if they lose confidence in the value of the ratings currency, they would either shift to a different form of currency, or would shift budgets out of local TV and into media that are more accountable for the value they are delivering to advertisers. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

release unless it's for a specific reason or if they aren't confident they can reach their audience any other way. 45% see the ability to target reporters and editors in more personalized, direct ways. 23% blame the waning interest in the press releases on the demand for a more trustworthy and/or engaging information source and 24% blame it on the decline of the newspaper and magazine industry. In the Lindsey Miller paper, she quoted one respondent as saying "As news sources become more obviously biased and decrease in size and content, publics are turning to other sources of information," while another said "...companies have become too self-protecting in their releases. Everything has been tossed into the legal CYA blender, and what comes back is bland and overprocessed." Vanessa Horwell, chief visibility officer for ThinkInk, said, in the Miller paper, "There may be good reason for a more direct approach. Most communicators surveyed send their press releases

to print sources, which means newspapers and other publications receive hundreds, perhaps thousands, of press releases per day. Some surveys estimate that from 55% to 97% of press releases sent to media outlets are never acted upon." According to the 2009 Edelman Trust Barometer, quoted in the Paper, consumer trust of news coverage on the radio, television, Internet, and in newspapers ranked significantly higher than corporate communications such as press releases, a company's Web site, and social media. Communicators who responded to the Ragan/PollStream survey trusted social media the most, followed by corporate communications, and company Web sites. For additional information and follow-up, please visit Ragan here. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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PRINCETON, NJ -- More Americans now say it is not the federal government's responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage (50%) than say it is (47%). This is a first since Gallup began tracking this question, and a significant shift from as recently as three years ago, when two-thirds said ensuring healthcare coverage was the government's responsibility. Gallup has asked this question each November since 2001 as part of the Gallup Poll Social Series, and most recently in its Nov. 5-8 Health and Healthcare survey. There have been some fluctuations from year to year, but this year marks the first time in the history of this trend that less than half of Americans say ensuring healthcare coverage for all is the federal government's responsibility."Both Republicans and Democrats since 2006 have become less likely to choose the 'government responsibility' option, though Democrats' views have remained steady over the past year while Republicans' support has declined further." The high point for the "government responsibility" viewpoint occurred in 2006, when 69% of Americans agreed. In 2008, this percentage fell to

54%, its previous low reading. This year, in the midst of robust debate on a potentially imminent healthcare reform law, the percentage of Americans agreeing that it is the government's responsibility to make sure everyone has health insurance has fallen even further, by seven points, to 47%. Half of Americans now say this is not the government's responsibility. The reason behind this shift is unknown. Certainly the federal government's role in the nation's healthcare system has been

widely and vigorously debated over the last several months, including much focus on the "public option." These data suggest that one result of the debate has been a net decrease in Americans' agreement that ensuring all Americans have healthcare coverage is an appropriate role for the federal government. There are major differences in views on this issue by partisanship, as would be expected given the major partisan differences on most issues

relating to the role of government in the U.S. today. The views of Republicans and independents who lean Republican about the government's healthcare role are almost a precise mirror image of the views of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic. More than 7 out of 10 Republicans say it is not the responsibility of government to see that all Americans have healthcare coverage, while more than 7 out of 10 Democrats say it is.

A look at the trends on this question shows that both Republicans and Democrats since 2006 have become less likely to choose the "government responsibility" option, though Democrats' views have remained steady over the past year while Republicans' support has declined further. The percentage of Republicans choosing the "government responsibility" option fell 20 percentage points between 2006 and the current survey, compared to a 13-point drop among Democrats. From a longer-range perspective, however, Democrats' views today reflect essentially a return to the sentiment seen early in the decade, while Republicans now express significantly lower support. Replace the Current System? A second question Gallup tracks each November asks Americans directly about "replacing the current healthcare system with a new government-run health care system." Throughout this decade, a plurality of Americans have consistently favored maintaining the current system, although support has fluctuated. In November 2007, the edge for the private system over the government-run system was just 7 points, vs. a 31-point gap in MORE page 89

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2004. The current 29-point gap is thus at the high end of the historical range. Almost 9 out of 10 Republicans and Republican leaners favor maintaining the current healthcare system based mostly on private health insurance. Democrats and Democratic leaners favor the concept of replacing the current system with a government-run system, but Democratic opinion is less monolithic than Republican opinion; more than a third of Democrats would favor maintaining the current system. The alternatives outlined in this question are not directly a part of the current debate; there has been no serious discussion on the part of those advocating healthcare reform of the possibility of dismantling the current system and turning it into one run completely by the government. Still, the trend line gives a good perspective on the larger issue of

shifting to a more European-style healthcare system, something that the majority of Americans at this point would clearly oppose. Bottom Line The wording of the healthcare bill the House passed last Saturday explicitly states that one of the bill's purposes is to provide "affordable, quality healthcare for all Americans." The current poll results indicate that, with the renewed healthcare debate since Obama took office, Americans have become less convinced that it is an appropriate goal for the federal government to take on the responsibility of ensuring that all Americans have healthcare coverage. It is possible that the current debate has increased the average American's awareness as to the nuances of the various roles the government could play in the healthcare system, helping make the generic "make sure all Americans have healthcare

coverage" sound less appealing. Plus, the current debate may have produced more skepticism among Americans that the government's role in healthcare could or should be this broad. Most polling shows that Americans tend to favor a "public option" in which the government would provide a healthcare plan that would not be mandatory but one of several options for those seeking healthcare insurance. Americans apparently do not equate this with government's guaranteeing that all Americans have healthcare coverage. Finally, the current data confirm the basic premise that all in all, Americans do not support the idea of a government-run system as a full replacement for the current system based on private insurance. Sign up for Gallup e-mail alerts or RSS feeds Get Gallup news on Facebook and Twitter

Survey Methods Results are based on telephone interviews with 1,008 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted Nov. 5-8, 2009. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is Âą3 percentage points. Interviews are conducted with respondents on land-line telephones (for respondents with a land-line telephone) and cellular phones (for respondents who are cell-phone only). In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.