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Dad, did you have to? By Patricia Zengerle (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 11/4/2009 2:01:08 PM

There are certain upsides to life as a first daughter — travel on Air Force One, White House sleepovers, your new dog Bo — but there are definitely downsides, like when you are 11 years old and your dad tells the world about how you got a C on your science test. Parents could imagine the groans when President Barack Obama veered away from his prepared remarks during a speech at a Wisconsin middle school on Wednesday to talk about his own sixth-grade daughter and her 73. “So Malia came home the other day. She had gotten a 73 on her science test,” Obama said. “Now, she’s a 6th grader. There was a time a couple years ago when she came home with like an 80-something and she said, ‘I did

pretty well.’ And I said, ‘No, no, no. That’s’ — I said, ‘Our goal is — Our goal is 90 percent and up.’” For our international readers, in most U.S. school systems, 90 percent and above is an A, the highest mark; 80 to 89 percent is a B, considered “good;” 70 to 79 percent is a C, for work deemed merely average; 60 to 69 is a D, for “just passing,” and below 60 is an F, for failure. Malia, the elder of Obama’s two daughters and a student at an elite Washington private school, came home with the 73 more recently, Obama recalled. “So she came and she was depressed,” he said, and then recounted a conversation in which he asked his daughter what happened and she explained that the study guide the teacher had handed out had not conformed to the material on the test. “So what’s your idea here?” the

president asked. Obama told the story of how Malia had taken her setback to heart, by deciding on her own not to rely on teacher’s study guides, but to study the entire chapter. “I’m going to change how I study, how I approach it,” she

said, according to her father, who added, “So she came home yesterday, she was — ‘I got a 95 - right? - so she’s high-fiving,” Obama said. “But here’s the point,” the proud parent added, using the conversation to make his point

that children must succeed on their own, but need their parents’ support. “She said — she said, ‘I just like having knowledge.’ That’s what she said. And what was happening was she had started wanting it more than us.” The crowd in Madison, Wisconsin, cheered, but maybe somewhere a certain middleschooler was wishing dad had stuck to his text. Click here for more Reuters political coverage PHOTO CREDIT: U.S. President Barack Obama is welcomed by his daughters Sasha (L) and Malia, who is holding their dog Bo, on his return to Washington after a day trip to Ohio and Pennsylvania, where he participated in labor and economic rallies, September 15, 2009. REUTERS/Mike Theiler

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The First Draft: Limbo Day By Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 11/5/2009 5:53:21 AM

It’s the day before the allimportant employment report for October. ( Expectation is for a 175,000 drop in payrolls and an uptick in the unemployment rate to 9.9 percent, which would be a 26-year high). It’s the day after the New York Yankees won the World Series. (Condolences Phillies fans). It’s the day before the House of Representatives might send healthcare overhaul legislation to the floor for debate with the goal of a Saturday vote. (Have learned never to bet on the timing of legislation on the Hill). It’s the day after President Barack Obama didn’t comment on the previous night’s elections. (We’re still on POTUS election comment watch). It’s the day before FRIDAY!!!! (Although some of us are working on the weekend). It’s the day after both parties spun Tuesday’s election results

PayPal on track to lead eBay, opens doors to outside developers for more growth By Tom Johansmeyer (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 11/5/2009 9:00:00 AM

Filed under: Internet, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Apple Inc (AAPL), eBay (EBAY), Amazon.com (AMZN), Technology While eBay(NASDAQ: EBAY) has been working hard to manage its marketplace in a trying economy, its PayPayl business every which way to suit them. with representatives of the has been growing comfortably (Democratic House Speaker Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and could become the company's Nancy Pelosi says it was a win, and meets with Secretary of State biggest earner. For the past two Republican National Committee Hillary Clinton(probably to get a years, eBay has focused on Chairman Michael Steele says it fill on her recent trip to Pakistan improving the look of its website and helping buyers and sellers to was the sign of a ‘Republican and the Middle East). Renaissance’). Click here for more Reuters get along in a virtual world built entirely on trust. As for today, Obama hosts a political coverage White House Tribal Nations Photo credit: Reuters/Ray In the background, though, the Conference, meets with Treasury Stubblebine (New York Yankees segment of the business that Secretary T i m o t h y players after winning World moves money from Point A to Point B has been on fire. Even Geithner, meets with President Series) with payment processing Ian Khama of Botswana, meets competition from

Amazon(NASDAQ: AMZN) and Google(NASDAQ: GOOG), PayPal has been able to do more than hold its own. Continue reading PayPal on track to lead eBay, opens doors to outside developers for more growth PayPal on track to lead eBay, opens doors to outside developers for more growth originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

News Corp. beats forecasts, but television business is weak By Steven Mallas (BloggingStocks)

News Corp.(NASDAQ: NWS), the big media conglomerate that competes with Disney(NYSE: Submitted at 11/5/2009 8:30:00 AM DIS), Time Warner(NYSE: Filed under: Earnings reports, TWX), and General Electric's General Electric (GE), Time (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal, Warner (TWX), Walt Disney issued Q1 data on Wednesday (DIS), News Corp'B' (NWS), after regular trading was over. Media World Revenues declined 4%, but

It goes without saying that the newspaper industry is having a earnings per share went up 10% rough time, so it's not so hard to t o 2 2 c e n t s . A c c o r d i n g t o understand why the news groups Bloomberg, that was enough to experienced a significant decline beat analysts by four pennies. in operating income. That's pretty decent for the Continue reading News Corp. company, but there are a couple beats forecasts, but television of spots in need of serious help. business is weak

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Why the west fears China in Africa | Peter Guest By Peter Guest (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

naive. China's models have been in flux since the new wave of investment began at the start of this century and Beijing is Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:30:00 AM surprisingly sensitive to criticism. We still like to see ourselves as The rate at which China has saviours, and anxiety about evolved domestically is testament Chinese investment is bound up to its ability to learn. with the politics of aid There is a more persistent theme The reasons why China invests to the debate, though, which I in Africa have been much think says more about us than discussed, and while there have a n y o t h e r . D o e s C h i n a ' s been some very coherent and investment undermine human nuanced explanations given on rights? Does China, with its these pages and elsewhere, the record on curtailing freedom, prevailing sentiment still seems transfer its values to the African to be one of unbridled fear. states that it invests in? Does it Likewise, we are engaged in a have a pernicious influence that post Dead Aid discussion about will tear Africa away from the efficacy of western aid. western values? Is China building As Rwandan president Paul a "Beijing consensus" to displace K a g a m e ' s a r t i c l e o n C i f Washington? demonstrated, the two are not I am not even convinced that the discrete issues. However, the US, barring a few cold warriors, public discussions on both have sees this element of danger. The been alarmingly one-dimensional last administration saw threats and highlight and a surprisingly everywhere, but the Bush-era retrograde notion of both Africa's assistant secretary of state for self-determination and what Africa, Jendayi Frazer, rightly constitutes influence in 21st- scolded me a few months ago for century global politics. using the word "influence" when There have been valid criticisms talking about the interplay of the of the way that China has international actors on the invested in Africa, notably in continent. terms of the import of labour in International relationships in the the early days. (Arms, too, but 21st century are not exclusive, China is far from alone in and neither is there the cold war supplying questionable regimes, expectation that countries align to to put it mildly). However, to a dominant power then act at think that China is a monolith is their beck and call – if that was

ever a true paradigm. The US has been the biggest single investor and the biggest trade partner to the continent for decades. Why did this not translate into "influence"? The US has asked for African nations' support on the UN security council as recently as 2003. China's most persistent campaign for a say in Africa centred on its desire to get on to the security council in place of Taiwan. This was achieved in 1971, well before Beijing amassed its giant surplus of dollars. And yet the fear seems to be durable. Why? Because it stands in stark contrast to the relationship we think we think we are supposed to have with Africa. We cannot separate this debate on China from the parallel one on aid and aid effectiveness. If anything is about influence, it is aid, and nowhere is this demonstrated better than Brussels. I have just come back from European Development Days in Stockholm, the EU's annual aid community get-together. Here you can get to see what next year's fashion in development will be, and meet with the new donors on the scene. There were sizeable displays from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia, for example, who have recently begun to operate national

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development agencies. Accession countries do not give aid entirely for altruistic reasons, nor do they do so simply because they have bought into the global self-interest. They do it with at least one eye on Brussels, and probably both. Aid gives a disproportionate amount of influence – not in Africa, but in Europe. Aid gets you a seat at the table within the UN. Aid is not designed to be efficient, it is designed to be influential. This is why our own development agency, the Department for International Development, has been so committed to European multilateralism. It is thus inevitable that there are hypocrisies. That is why subsidies – particularly in agriculture – destroy what aid builds and why donor cash is used for elaborate ceilings in Geneva. It is why vast amounts of money are spent on the proliferation of isolated projects that have little or no system-wide impact on poverty alleviation. I am not a believer in Dambisa Moyo's thesis that aid is dead, but I feel we need to inject more realism into what we expect of it. Distilling the debate to "aid is bad, China is good" or vice versa, and not examining the complexities and the nuances of the two interlocking themes will leave us in a weak position to

adjust to the new global paradigm. We still like to see ourselves as the saviours, and African nations as places dangerously liable to fall under the sway of seductive foreign powers. This is patronising at best. As President Kagame has said, Africa is not a marginal player squeezed between two great giants. The cold war is over and the new world, while it might seem bipolar, is not. Africa – the whole developing world, in fact – is building relationships with a multitude of partners, some who subscribe to our values and some who do not. We are only ever going to be one of them, and unless we understand the full context and the interrelation of all of these factors, we are going to be a partner of waning relevance. If that happens, we have no right to begrudge anyone for stepping into the vacuum. • International aid and development • China Peter Guest guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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Religious stock and the belief crunch | Mark Vernon By Mark Vernon (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:00:00 AM

Buy Buddhism, sell Anglicanism? Be careful, because, just as in financial markets, shocks and bubbles can test your faith Faith markets are perhaps like financial markets. After all, religions have become global: opinions and beliefs are traded every day in the world's cosmopolitan cities, much like stocks and shares. Faith markets might even have their own kind of securities, as people hedge against overpricing in their main faith holding by buying into the practices of a different philosophy – the Christian who reads the astrology columns, the Buddhist who interprets meditation through neuroscience. Moreover, theologians appear to hold to the faith equivalent of the efficient market hypothesis. They tend to assume that their beliefs can withstand the external shocks of encountering other traditions, and further, that the eternal truth will out – perhaps as economists have believed that markets tend towards equilibrium. Then again, that last point could be wrong. Rather like the economists who failed to foresee

the credit crunch, sociologists failed to see that secularisation would not destroy faith but rather reinvigorate it. So perhaps we can refine the analogy by borrowing some of the insights put forward by George Soros, that master of markets. He might help us better understand today's faith markets. Soros proposes two key doctrines. First, that market prices always distort the underlying fundamentals, his doctrine of fallibility. Second, that this mispricing itself affects reality, his doctrine of reflexivity. Take the doctrine of fallibility. You might feel that Anglicanism has the best assets, at least in the UK, what with its glorious cathedrals and seats in the House of Lords. What fallibility warns is that such pricing does not necessarily make it a stock with a future. Add in the doctrine of reflexivity, though, and the picture changes again, for it may be the case that those assets themselves convince the market that Anglicanism is, in fact, worth investing in. It all depends upon cultural feedback mechanisms and whether the owners of the assets can leverage them to their greatest advantage – whilst watching that they don't become over-leveraged, of course, and so precipitate a faith

crunch. Soros suggests that there are two types of feedback in financial markets. Negative feedback tends towards equilibrium. Positive feedback tends to distort. In the sphere of faith markets, negative feedback is more commonly called critique. In Christianity, negative feedback takes the form of Biblical criticism, ethical reform, and doctrinal changes that convert past beliefs and practices into junk bonds. Ditching the doctrine of hell would be a case in point: it had a high yield in the Middle Ages, and may still be a good speculative investment when dealing with badly behaved children, but generally speaking it now runs a high risk of default. Positive feedback in faith markets can be associated with powerful expressions of religiosity. If you place the bones of a saint in a cathedral, say, it is likely to cause big swings in the market price of the tradition to which the saint belonged. There will be upswings, as the pious flock; and downswings, as sceptics mock. Alternatively, if one denomination unexpectedly adopts an aggressive policy of buying shares in another, then the resulting volatility will make it hard accurately to assess the underlying reality.

Soros notes that positive feedback mechanisms are also dangerous because they are subject to bubbles and bursts. Bubbles start to inflate when they reflect both something that is true about reality and a misconception about the importance of that element of reality. Western Buddhism might be an example here. Many contemporary purchasers of faith stocks want a stake in Buddhism as it promises to yield future happiness. The stock is on the up too, so it is only rational to buy, hence the bubble grows. However, inherent in the Buddhist bubble is also a misconception about the importance of happiness. When people's perception of what Buddhism delivers becomes shaky, because they realise that to meditate is to open a Pandora's box of psychological trouble, the bubble will burst. Earnings will collapse as a result. Another difficulty in highly liquid faith markets – such as are enjoyed in deregulated societies that are plural and free – concerns the cheapness of credit. It is easy to purchase a little bit from this religion, and a little bit from another. There's a serene Buddha on my windowsill, a striking crucifix on the wall, and some thumbed volumes of Nietzsche on my bookshelves

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too. When credit's good, it feels wise to diversify thus. But should I become disillusioned by the ease with which I can buy religious and anti-religious stock, then I may feel forced to sell my conflicting positions. That disillusionment may next turn into an existential panic, as I realise that for a long time I've been living on nothing but faith credit. Soros stresses that his theories about markets need further testing. Fallibility and reflexivity may themselves be flawed, or incomplete. But he believes that now is the time to examine them. For to live in a period during which inherited doctrines are being questioned, and new ones have yet to emerge, is to live in invigorating, if risky, times. They will test your faith. • Religion • Buddhism • Philosophy • Atheism • George Soros Mark Vernon guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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Mahmoud Abbas will not seek re-election as Palestinian president By Rory McCarthy (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

him from stepping down. It is not clear if Abbas intends to go ahead with his decision or whether it is an attempt to Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:30:55 AM encourage the US administration Leader of Fatah movement, seen to apply more pressure on Israel as a moderate by the west, to sit so that peace talks can resume. o u t f o r t h c o m i n g e l e c t i o n Presidential and parliamentary according to reports in West elections are scheduled for Bank January next year, but are widely The Palestinian president, expected to be delayed until June Mahmoud Abbas, has decided at the earliest because of a deep not to run for the presidency in rift between the West Bank, run elections next year, according to by Abbas's Fatah movement, and reports from Ramallah. Gaza, run by its Islamist rival, Abbas, who was elected nearly Hamas. An election in both areas five years ago, had been expected i s u n l i k e l y w i t h o u t a to run again, despite the deep r e c o n c i l i a t i o n b e t w e e n t h e factional divisions among his factions, but that has proved own people and the deadlock in increasingly elusive. returning to peace talks with the If Abbas does not run in the next Israelis. elections that might open the way "The president insists on not for Marwan Barghouti, a popular r u n n i n g i n t h e u p c o m i n g leader from the same Fatah party election," an official from the who is now serving five life executive committee of the terms in an Israeli jail. Barghouti, Palestine Liberation Organisation who was elected to Fatah's told Reuters. Abbas announced central committee this summer, his decision today at a meeting of has always balked at running the PLO, which he chairs. against Abbas, but is widely He was expected to give a regarded by Palestinians as one speech later in the day, but some of their most popular leaders. He senior Palestinian figures said w a s j a i l e d i n 2 0 0 2 f o r they were still trying to dissuade involvement in the killing of four

Israelis and a Greek monk during the Palestinian second intifada. Abbas is a moderate who has tied his political career, first as prime minister then as president, to a negotiated two-state peace agreement. He has refused to resume talks with the Israelis until all settlement construction is halted, an Israeli obligation under the 2003 US road map, which remains the basis of Middle East peace talks. Earlierthis year, Washington also insisted Israel stop all settlement activity, but has since significantly softened its position, asking instead for Israeli "restraint". That change in approach culminated last weekend in when Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, provoking Palestinian and Arab anger by praising as "unprecedented" a partial settlement freeze offer from Israel. Israel says it will offer a temporary freeze but with significant caveats, including the continued construction of 3,000 settler homes, as well as continued building in east Jerusalem settlements and of all

public projects in settlements. The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, leads a rightwing cabinet that is largely supportive of the settlement project. Yesterday, the Palestinian chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said the Israeli proposal effectively meant more settlement homes would be built in the next two years than in 2008 and 2009. There are now nearly 500,000 Jewish settlers living in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, although settlement on occupied land is illegal under international law. Erekat said the international community faced a "critical moment" in the Middle East and that it may be time for the Palestinians to start arguing in favour of a one-state solution, a bi-national state of Jews and Arabs on the same land. Israel bitterly opposes such an idea. "President Abbas will have to come to his moment of truth and tell that to his people, tell them that we tried but now it's not an option to talk about two states because Israel destroyed it with settlements and walls," Erekat said. He said the Palestinians

were not walking away from negotiations, but wanted the US to create a "realistic political track" for two-state peace talks. Abbas has seen his credibility among Palestinians damaged in recent months. First, he agreed to meet Netanyahu in New York in September, just days after insisting there would be no meeting without an Israeli settlement freeze. Then last month, under US pressure, he withdrew Palestinian support for a UN human rights council resolution endorsing a report into the Gaza war, by the South African judge Richard Goldstone. Within days, Abbas reversed his decision and the report was endorsed by the council and is also likely to be endorsed by the UN general assembly this week. • Palestinian territories • Middle East • Israel Rory McCarthy guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Launch Trailer (it’s epic) By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/5/2009 5:22:07 AM

Put all the Modern Warfare 2 Forget about the lack of PC controversy crap behind of you dedicated server support and that for just a minute and a half. you *might* kill civilians in the

game. Just watch the official Seriously. launch trailer and tell me you aren’t stoked about this game.

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Hezbollah, Iran and Syria disown arms By Ian Black (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 11/5/2009 5:57:43 AM

Israel displays hundreds of tonnes of weapons it says were bound for Lebanese militia disguised as bulldozer parts Hezbollah and its Iranian and Syrian backers have flatly rejected Israeli claims that a shipment of arms and ammunition intercepted at sea was destined for the Lebanese militia group. As Israel moved quickly to exploit the propaganda value of the find to highlight the role of Iran, Hezbollah "categorically" denied any connection to the case. The Israeli government spokesman, Mark Regev, said he hoped the weapons seizure would be a "wake-up call to those few in the international community who up until now have still held illusions about the true character of the extremist, radical regime in Tehran". Arab commentators and Iran suggested Israel's announcement

of the weapons find was an attempt to undermine or divert attention from the Goldstone report, which accuses Israel of war crimes in its attack on Gaza this year. Israel is working to highlight the danger of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons that could challenge its own nuclear monopoly. Israel on Wednesday announced that its naval commandos had boarded the Francop, a cargo vessel carrying dozens of containers holding several hundred tonnes of weapons concealed in crates marked "parts for bulldozers". It has not provided any documentary evidence that the arms were meant for Hezbollah. Speaking in Tehran, Syria's foreign minister, Walid alMuallim, and his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki, dismissed the Israeli version of the story. The German -owned, Antiguan-flagged ship was intercepted off Cyprus and escorted to the Israeli port of Ashdod where its cargo of shells, rockets, grenades and small-arms ammunition was unloaded and

displayed to the media. Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, said: "Those who needed further proof that Iran is continuing to supply weapons to terror organisations got it today in a clear and unequivocal manner." Foreign ambassadors stationed in Israel have been invited to inspect the weapons. Muallim confirmed the Israeli navy had seized a ship with Syrian cargo but denied it was carrying arms. It was not clear how this squared with pictures of the cargo broadcast around the world. "Unfortunately there are official pirates disrupting the movement of goods between Iran and Syria," he told reporters. "I stress, the ship was not carrying Iranian arms bound for Syria, nor was it carrying material for manufacturing weapons in Syria. It was carrying [commercial] goods from Syria to Iran." Iran and Syria both support Hezbollah's resistance to Israel but deny giving it military assistance, which would be in breach of UN resolutions. The Lebanese group is reported to

have rearmed since its war with Israel in 2006. Reports from Israel said the shipment left the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas 10 days ago and was transferred to the Francop in the Egyptian port of Damietta. It was scheduled to dock in Cyprus before heading to the Syrian port of Latakia. Israeli officials said they believed the weapons would have then been transferred to Hezbollah by land. The seizure, apparently based on prior intelligence, was said to be the largest in Israel's history, 10 times more than was found on the Palestinian arms ship Karine A in 2002. • Israel • Lebanon • Syria • Iran • Arms trade Ian Black guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

Daily Crunch: Trilobite Tamer Edition By Bryce Durbin (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/5/2009 12:00:49 AM

Wherein we discuss Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony The Beatles remastered catalogue will be released on an apple-shaped USB drive The Electrobite makes it fun and exciting to be handicapped In an age of free and abundant wi-fi, Starbucks takes a stand My new watch podcast

These Are the Bikini Princess Leias You Are Looking For [Image Cache] By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:16:13 AM

Did you know Princess Leia had a twin sister? And that they

sunbathed on Jabba barge's deck, half-naked and oily under the torrid light of Tatooine's twin suns? Neither did I, but I wish I knew when I was 11.

It's never too late, though.

Here you can see Carrie Fisher in her metal bikini alonside Tracy Eddon, her stunt double in Return of the Jedi. Both are suntanning between takes on the

deck of Jabba's Sail Barge, on location in Tunisia's desert. Yes, Han, this shot is one in a million. [ fukung via@Kottke]

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Shinawatra takes Cambodian job By Adam Gabbatt (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

Thai officials said today that the country would recall its ambassador in Cambodia and "review all of the agreements" Submitted at 11/5/2009 5:59:26 AM between the two countries Former Thai prime minister following the announcement of accepts role as economic adviser S h i n a w a t r a ' s a p p o i n t m e n t amid diplomatic row between y e s t e r d a y . countries State television in Cambodia During his tenure as Thai prime confirmed last night that King minister, he was accused of Norodom Sihamoni had officially corruption and later convicted of approved Shinawatra to take up allowing his wife to buy state h i s n e w r o l e . T h e f o r m e r land at a discount price. In his Manchester City chairman, who s o l e s e a s o n i n c h a r g e o f was convicted of violating a M a n c h e s t e r C i t y t h e c l u b conflict of interest law in 2008, recorded a loss of nearly £30m. w a s o u s t e d a s T h a i p r i m e But now Thaksin Shinawatra has minister in 2006 in a military a new job – as an economic coup. He has been living in selfa d v i s e r t o t h e C a m b o d i a n imposed exile ever since. government. Shinawatra is still a deeply Cambodia announced that the divisive figure in Thailand, former Thai prime minister – where officials claim he is trying who last year was sentenced in t o u n d e r m i n e t h e c u r r e n t a b s e n t i a t o t w o y e a r s ' government to regain power. And i m p r i s o n m e n t i n h i s h o m e Chavanont Intarakomalsut, a country – will serve as an adviser secretary to the Thai foreign on economic matters to both its minister, confirmed that the government and prime minister, c o u n t r y w o u l d r e c a l l i t s in a move that has immediately ambassador from Cambodia "to raised tensions in Thailand. express our dissatisfaction" with

the appointment. "We will also review all of the agreements between the two countries along with any other cooperation with them," he said. Cambodia's seeming adoption of Shinawatra represents the most severe diplomatic action so far amid ongoing tensions with Thailand. The two countries have been involved in a series of small but sometimes deadly skirmishes over the demarcation of their border in recent months. Hun Sen, the Cambodian prime minister, angered his Thai counterpart, Abhisit Vejjajiva, ahead of a summit meeting of Asian leaders in Thailand last month by declaring that Shinawatra was welcome to take refuge in Cambodia. Thailand responded by saying it would seek to extradite Shinawatra if he went to Cambodia, who countered that such a request would be rejected, as Shinwatra's prosecution and conviction had been politically motivated. His supporters in Thailand claim the country's political elite is

ignoring the fact Shinawatra was twice democratically elected because it feels its own privileges are threatened. The new Cambodian economic adviser, who purchased Manchester City for £81.6m in 2007, made his fortune in telecommunications before entering politics in 1994. He was elected prime minister in 2001 and served for five years before being deposed. Shinawatra – whose wife, Pojaman, was sentenced in absentia to three years in jail for tax fraud in 2008 – had his UK visa revoked in November last year. • Thailand • Cambodia • Manchester City

The World's Wittlest 320GB Hard Dwive [Storage] By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/5/2009 5:18:11 AM

Toshiba has just squeezed 320GB of storage into their 1.8inch 5400RPM line of SATA drives. (That's enough to double the storage of the iPod Classic.) Available this December for an undisclosed price. [ Toshiba via I4U]

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Personal bankruptcies skyrocket 9% in October By Connie Madon (BloggingStocks)

Research Center reported that there were 135,914 bankruptcies in October, up 9%. One third of Submitted at 11/4/2009 6:20:00 PM the bankruptcies were filed under Filed under: Forecasts, Bad Chapter 13. Chapter 13 requires news, Consumer experience, that the court set up a five year Money and Finance Today, repayment plan for debts owed. Economic data, Personal finance, In addition business Housing, Financial Crisis bankruptcies were up 7% for the 1.4 million bankruptcies in 2009, T h e N a t i o n a l B a n k r u p t c y same period.The forecast is for the highest since 2005. In that

year Congress revamped the bankruptcy laws to make it more difficult to wipe out all of a person's debts. There was a rush of filings in the months just before the new law was enacted. Continue reading Personal bankruptcies skyrocket 9% in October Personal bankruptcies skyrocket

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local tribunal to deal with the worst crimes, as recommended by the official inquiry into the violence, were asked to request Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:40:31 AM that the ICC take over the ICC may look into murders of prosecution. This would have 1,133 people after Kibaki and allowed Ocampo to immediately O d i n g a s h y a w a y f r o m proceed with his investigation. e s t a b l i s h i n g l o c a l c o u r t However, in an apparent attempt T h e p r o s e c u t o r o f t h e to appease powerful allies in their international criminal court will parties who may face indictment, ask for a formal investigation to the leaders issued only a vague be launched into Kenya's post- promise to co-operate with the election violence after failing to court. secure a deal with the country's Without a referral from the leaders. Kenyan government, Ocampo Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the must now request authorisation international criminal court from the ICC's pre-trial chambers prosecutor, met President Mwai in The Hague to open a formal Kibaki and the prime minister, investigation – a step he said he Raila Odinga, in Nairobi to would take in December. discuss how to bring the main "I explained to [Kibaki and i n s t i g a t o r s o f l a s t y e a r ' s Odinga] that I consider the b l o o d s h e d t o j u s t i c e . T h e crimes committed in Kenya were suspects are thought to include c r i m e s a g a i n s t h u m a n i t y , several sitting cabinet ministers therefore the gravity is there. So from both sides of the coalition therefore I should proceed," government. Ocampo told a news conference. Kibaki and Odinga, who have so At least 1,133 people were killed far failed to establish a special either during ethnic clashes or in

attacks by the police following Kibaki's dubious election victory at the end of 2007. Hundreds of thousands of others fled their homes. The violence echoed the politically inspired chaos around the 1992 and 1997 elections, and Kenya's tradition of high-level impunity ensured that no senior figures were ever punished. Despite international pressure, the government's efforts to pass legislation establishing a special local tribunal have proved halfhearted at best. Frustrated by the lack of progress, Kofi Annan, who brokered the peace deal between Kibaki and Odinga, handed a list containing the names of the dozen main suspects to Ocampo in July, along with several boxes of evidence collected during the official inquiry. In a statement released by Kibaki and Odinga after the meeting, they said the government "remains fully committed … to establish a local judicial mechanism to deal with

the perpetrators of the postelection violence". Ndung'u Wainaina, head of the International Centre for Policy and Conflict, in Nairobi, described the Kenyan leaders' decision not to refer to the case to the ICC as "an unacceptable betrayal of the victims of the violence". "The easiest way to get justice for Kenyans was self-referral, but Kibaki and Odinga are acting only for themselves and their surrogates. It is now up to Ocampo to prove he means business in ending impunity." • Kenya • Human rights • Protest Xan Rice guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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Stephanie Migot writes in to let us know how UK law firm Wragge & Co has decided to set up a special "cyber tracing" team, whose job it will be to scour the internet for anyone making negative anonymous comments about any of their clients and then take action. Of course, the law firm says it's really looking for people leaking confidential information (such as disgruntled employees), but, as you probably know, defamation laws in the UK are significantly more draconian than those elsewhere. Thus, the line is a lot more blurry, and will almost certainly lead to these sorts of activities targeting mere criticism and complaints, rather than true defamation. The unfortunate end result is a series of chilling effects on any concept of free speech. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

Verizon DROID ERIS officially announced for $99 after $100 rebate and contract By Doug Aamoth (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:22:22 AM

The HTC-built DROID ERIS

will go on sale tomorrow at Verizon stores for $99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and two-year contract agreement. Equipped with HTC’s “Sense” user

interface, the ERIS “offers

customers the opportunity to customize a seven-panel wide home screen with a wide variety of widgets designed to bring the most important information to the

surface.” On sale tomorrow at Verizon’s retail stores and website.

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HTC Droid Eris: Last Month's Killer Android, Now 99 Bucks on Verizon [Smartphones] By Dan Nosowitz (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/5/2009 5:45:00 AM

HTC's Droid Eris, one of the worst- kept secrets in recent memory, is coming to Verizon November 6th for $99. Essentially a rebranded Hero, it shows just how fast time flies: Last month's Android champion is this month's killer budget option. The Droid Eris is very closely related to the Hero, which currently costs $180 at Sprint, sharing mostly the same internals and a slightly redesigned shell. So it's got the same decent 5MP camera, the same 528MHz Qualcomm processor, and the same 3.2-inch capacitive multitouch screen. However, the Hero's 1500 mAh battery has been replaced with a 1300 mAh battery, presumably for thinness's sake—we don't know if it'll reduce battery life noticeably, since HTC says they've made helpful optimizations, but it might. It'll be Verizon's first phone with HTC's Sense UI, but underneath that pretty interface it's still running Android 1.5, which means you won't be getting any of Android 2.0's sweet new features like turn-by-turn Google Maps. Yet. HTC told me they'll upgrade to 2.0 once they've worked out all the bugs between 2.0 and Sense.

On the plus side, it's thinner and lighter than the Hero, and the four key buttons have been rearranged into a straight line of touch buttons rather than the Hero's square layout. The Hero's blobby design has been changed to a, well, different-looking blobby design. It's even more understated than the Hero, with textured plastic replacing the Hero's brushed aluminum front,

and while it isn't an ugly phone, it's also not very eye-catching. However: It feels good in the hand, it's still quite snappy and Sense UI is as slick as ever. At $99 (with 2-year contract, after $100 rebate that comes back as a debit card, like the Droid), with an 8GB microSDHC card included, it's an enticing deal. Press release below. [ Verizon] DROID ERIS by HTC Debuts

with Verizon Wireless with HTC Sense Experience and an UltraAttractive $99.99 Price BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and BELLEVUE, Wash. – Beginning Nov. 6, DROID ERIS™ by HTC will invade Verizon Wireless Communications Stores across the United States, bringing the power of the Android™ platform and the Verizon Wireless network together. DROID ERIS

by HTC combines the popular Android platform with HTC Sense™, a user experience from HTC that makes it easy for customers to stay close to one another and create an individualized mobile experience tailored specifically to their needs. DROID ERIS by HTC offers customers the opportunity to customize a seven-panel wide home screen with a wide variety of widgets designed to bring the most important information to the surface. DROID ERIS by HTC also includes the innovative "Scenes" feature, which allows customers to create multiple home screens, each with different widgets and shortcuts, to transform DROID ERIS by HTC from a "work" phone to a "play" phone with just a touch of a finger. DROID ERIS by HTC also organizes interactions by person, which makes it possible to access text messages, e-mails, phone calls and even Flickr streams and Facebook updates from a single contact card. The unique HTC Sense experience found on DROID ERIS by HTC is supported by an array of the latest mobile features, including: o 3.2 inch capacitive touch screen and trackball interface HTC page 13

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Olympus E-P2 gets official – but will it sell? By Devin Coldewey (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/4/2009 9:59:52 PM

Yeah, that leak did a number on the official “release moment” of Olympus’ new micro four-thirds camera. All the stats are there, but I forbore from weighing in on the thing. I’m cautious but bullish about the M4/3 phenomenon; they’re legit to be sure, but this first generation isn’t going to break any sales records. They’re too expensive and too limited at the moment — but that’s how DSLRs were back in the day, and now everyone wants one. I suspect the non-SLR interchangeable-lens camera (AKA the EVIL system) will replace the point and shoot, and the phone or PMP will fill that snapshot role. But until they get that price down it’s not going to happen.

The E-P2 looks like an interesting camera. The problem I see right off the bat is that it’s almost the exact same camera that Peter found so underwhelming six months ago. Maybe he didn’t give it a chance, and maybe it was just in need of stuff like this accessory port to make it worthwhile, but the fact

is that it’s not bringing a lot for the money. You can get a fantastic DSLR and a lens or two for the price of an E-P2, or buy an incredibly slick point and shoot and have enough money left over to take a short vacation. It doesn’t mean the M4/3 style is bad, just that it’s new and doesn’t offer the

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o 5.0 megapixel auto focus camera o Expandable memory with preinstalled 8 GB microSD™ card (up to 16 GB supported) o Supports USB mass storage o Bluetooth®, Wi-Fi and 3.5 mm headset connectivity o Integrated GPS and a digital compass with a sensor that enables the phone to know what direction it is facing

o Smart dialer for simplified dialing by name, number or initials o Full HTML browser with Flash Lite capabilities o Seamless compatibility with Google services like Google Maps, Gmail, Google Search and more DROID ERIS by HTC will be available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and

o n l i n e a t www.verizonwireless.com on Friday, Nov. 6, for $99.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement on a voice plan with an e-mail feature or e-mail plan. Customers will receive the mail-in rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted.

the accessory port it fits into makes the E-P2 a tasty little gadget. Maybe you want a crossover device for home videos but the EVF isn’t really necessary. Okay, here’s decent 720p video with great sound through a real mic. Maybe you want a party cam, but don’t trust a point-and-shoot’s crappy little flash. Hey, it’s got a hot shoe and you’ll probably get some other stuff for the accessory port anyhow. We may see the new Pen cameras (among their M4/3 same value proposition as the brethren) grow into an interesting established technologies. $1100 platform, but until they cost less is a lot to spend on a camera — than, say, a Rebel T1i or some enough that even early adopters such, the only thing they have to will think twice. Especially recommend them is their size. c o n s i d e r i n g h o w q u i c k l y But this isn’t the last you’ll be Olympus improved on the E-P1. hearing of micro four-thirds, not by a long shot. Why not wait? Olympus is very proud of its electronic viewfinder, and I think

Wednesday Afternoon Video: 'The Astronomer's Dream'

For more information about Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless (Little Green Footballs) Communications Store, call 1Submitted at 11/4/2009 3:11:17 PM 800-2 JOIN IN or go to w w w . v e r i z o n w i r e l e s s . c o m . A highly unusual animated short film by Malcolm Sutherland, who helpfully explains the plot: When a hungry astronomer falls asleep while working on a problem, he discovers a solution not in outer space, but in the surreal food-chain of his subconscious mind.[Video]

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LG Chocolate Touch, BlackBerry Curve 8530, and Samsung Convoy: Verizon's Second-String Lineup [Cellphones] By Dan Nosowitz (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:30:00 AM

The Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris may get all the buzz, but what about Verizon's less glamorous new phones? The LG Chocolate Touch, BlackBerry Curve 8530 and Samsung Convoy were all introduced today, and they too deserve a look. The LG Chocolate Touch is the latest iteration of the Chocolate line, and brings with it some new music features: FM radio, dedicated key for favorites, Dolby Mobile sound enhancements, and an unexpected and downright weird "Join the Band" feature. Join the Band features a virtual drum kit and scrolling 88-key keyboard so you can tap along with your music. Of course, it also offers Twitter, Facebook and MySpace integration, a 3.2MP camera and one-touch uploading. It's not a super exciting phone like the BL40, but at least it's odd enough to be sort of interesting. It's

Toshiba announces world’s first 1.8-inch HDD with 320GB Capacity By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/5/2009 2:04:15 AM

Just in September this year, Toshiba proudly announced a 1.8 -inch HDD with 160GB capacity, which was pretty impressive already ( their new SSDs aren’t too shabby either). But today, not even two months later, Toshiba available today and costs $80 8900. If you're still following me, push-to-talk flip-phone that unveiled another 1.8-inch HDD after a $50 mail-in rebate. great, because this is one of the meets military specification, with 320GB capacity[press On the BlackBerry side of best Curves out there: It's got Wi- unlike me. It's got a 1300 mAh release in English]. things, we have yet another Fi, 3G and GPS. It's the only battery, which is bigger than The MK3233GSG features a 'Berry with the Curve moniker (if Curve with 3G, and improves on some smartphones, and is built to 3Gbps SATA interface and y o u ' r e c o n f u s e d a b o u t t h e its GSM brother by offering withstand shock, dust, vibration, 16MB puffer, produses just 19dB multitude of identically-named GPS. Other than that, it's the salt fog, humidity, and solar of seek noise and spins at 5,400 but different-numbered Curves, same 85xx Curve that Matt radiation. It'll probably survive rpm. Needless to say it’s the only check out this handy chart). The already reviewed. It'll cost $100 until the end of the Iraq War. The 1.8-inch HDD with 320GB Curve 8530 is the followup to after a $100 mail-in rebate when S a m s u n g C o n v o y w i l l b e capacity out there. Verizon's Curve 8330, and has it's released on November 20th. available November 15th for $50 Toshiba says mass production features more in line with the And bringing up the rear, we've after a $50 mail-in rebate. [ will start in December this year. In the past few months, the GSM Curve 8520 than the Curve got the Samsung Convoy, a burly Verizon] company has announced one high-capacity HDD after the other.

Google tries its own take on customer service By Tom Krazit (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/5/2009 4:00:00 AM

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Myka ION brings Intel Atom and ION graphics into the living room By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)

The company claims that the Myka ION has enough juice to power Boxee, Hulu, and other Think of the Myka ION as a Internet sites as well as playback nettop built for your HDTV. The HD content encoded at a high bit little media streamer utilizes an rate. After peeking the specs, 1.6 GHz Intel Atom 330 CPU which includes 2GB of DDR2 and an NVIDIA ION GPU to memory and the aforementioned provide your TV with quality hardware, I don’t see why it high-definition content. Actually, couldn’t. Video can be outputted the Myka ION is more computer to a display via VGA, DVI, or than dedicated media playback HDMI and the audio can ride on device, which is good thing. either optical or dig-COAX Well, a Linux-powered computer digital channels or over analog with Boxee and XBMC installed, outputs. There is even a wireless that is. network option, along with a Blu Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:13:57 AM

-ray drive and various hard drive size options. But it’s the software that makes a streamer successful and this guy is stacked. It has everything:

Boxee, XBMC, Hulu Desktop and it’s own GUI powered by a full version of Ubuntu 9.10. Needless to say that the Myka ION can probably play back any

video file you throw at it. All this nerdy goodness doesn’t come cheap. The base model Myka Ion without wireless or a Blu-ray drive and only a 160 GB hard drive, costs $379 and will take 4 – 6 weeks to ship. Once you add all the options, the price climbs to a $769, which is on par with media centers from Dell and HP. But Dell and HP don’t ship with what looks like to be a killer software suite.

Sungale's 7-inch Cyberus ID700WTA is neither a PMP nor an ereader, really By Darren Murph (Engadget)

display (800 x 480), the Cyberus ID700WTA can handle most popular multimedia and ebook Sungale isn't exactly the biggest, formats -- from PDF to DivX, it's m o s t w e l l - k n o w n n a m e i n (pretty much) all covered. It also consumer electronics, but it's sure touts integrated WiFi, support for trying to make a run with the big streaming media from a home b o y s . A f e w m o n t h s a f t e r network and a built-in clock / i n t r o d u c i n g i t s o w n W i F i calender. There's also the ability digiframe, the company is hitting to fetch "online news, weather back with a hybrid ereader / PMP reports, stock prices and charts, device that just seems to be maps and traffic routes, YouTube caught somewhere in the middle. clips, internet radio, Picasa and Boasting a 7-inch color LCD Gmail," so we're going out on a Submitted at 11/5/2009 9:21:00 AM

limb here and suggesting that some sort of web browser or cadre of inbuilt apps are also included. It's available now

around the web for $279, and yes, that snazzy leather case is bundled in. Continue reading Sungale's 7-

inch Cyberus ID700WTA is neither a PMP nor an ereader, really Filed under: Displays, Handhelds Sungale's 7-inch Cyberus ID700WTA is neither a PMP nor an ereader, really originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

Video: Steele on NY-23 (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 11/4/2009 11:25:34 AM

Here’s video of RNC chairman Michael Steele’s statement this morning, with some pointed

comments aimed at Sarah Palin, that the NY-23 loss was a Tim Pawlenty, and RedState “victory:” Steele Throws Elbow blogger Erick Erickson’s claim to Palin, Pawlenty on NY-

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Sony Ericsson Kurara suffers leakage, reveals HD label? By Vladislav Savov (Engadget) Submitted at 11/5/2009 7:10:00 AM

Is Saygus' VPhone V1 Verizon's Next Android Phone? [Rumors] By Danny Allen (Gizmodo)

how the Open Development program is designed to make it quick and easy to get devices I've never heard of Saygus onto Verizon's CDMA network. either, but their CDMA-ready V1 The phone has decent specs, and has just cleared the FCC, and definitely looks better than the looking at Saygus' own Website, cheapy Motorola "Calgary" you could get the impression that Android phone. If the Saygus is it's the mysterious third Verizon actually headed for Verizon, it'll smartphone submitted through be interesting to see which the carrier's Open Development arrives first. [ AndroidPhones via program. SlashGear] On its site, Saygus mentions the 800x480 3.5 inch capacitive "mystery third Verizon Android touchscreen; device" article, which reiterates - 624 MHz Marvell processor Submitted at 11/5/2009 5:10:59 AM

(PXA 310); - 512 ROM / 256 RAM; - 5 MP AF camera with flash; - Front facing camera for video calling; - GPS; - accelerometer; - compass; - FM radio; - USB; - MicroSD up to 32GB; - WiFi; - Bluetooth; - 1500 mAh battery.

Boy, we sure do love our early glimpses of pre-release hardware, and today we have not one, but two sources of purported pictures of the Sony Ericsson Kurara. Touted as a sibling to the Satio, the Kurara is mooted to have a 3.5-inch AMOLED touchsensitive screen, 8.1 megapixel camera and, wait for it, 720p video recording. The image above seems to confirm this with a big "HD" inscription next to the camera lens, but that label is missing in the gallery below. We'll just put that inconsistency down to the extremely early

samples on show, and start getting all frothed up in excitement over the possible UX inclusion on this Symbian S60 device when it starts selling in the first half of 2010. Gallery: Sony Ericsson Kurara leaks out [Via My Sony Ericsson and SlashPhone] Read- PhonesDB Read- Sony Ericsson Club Filed under: Cellphones Sony Ericsson Kurara suffers leakage, reveals HD label? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Tango Autonomous Vacuum Has A Built-In Upskirt Camera [Vacuums] By Rosa Golijan (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/5/2009 5:03:38 AM

Tenori-on Orange: Yamahaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new, cheaper model of its musical instrument By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/5/2009 4:01:17 AM

Yamaha launched its so-called Tenori-on, an electronic musical instrument with a built-in sound module, in 2007 for a recommended retail price of $1,200. The device, which consists of a touch screen and lets you play music by running your

fingers over a 256 LED grid, is being sold world-wide, but the price is obviously a problem for many potential customers. It took a while, but today Yamaha in Tokyo announced the Tenori-on Orange[JP], which will cost less than $780 (at least in Japan). I am not sure if the new model will attract masses of people, with Yamaha saying they had to

remove the magnesium casing of the original and use ordinary plastic instead to push down the price of the instrument. Another minus: You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use the TenoriOn with batteries anymore so there needs to be a power source anywhere you use it. The LEDs are orange now (instead of white), but Yamaha says both versions are absolutely

identical as far as making music on them is concerned. Both the new and the old Tenori-On can be networked, too. The Tenori-On Orange will go on sale in Japan on December 1. Yamaha has yet to say anything about their international sales plans.

Is it really necessary to stick 13 sensors, a camera, extra gyroscopes, and crash sensors into these vacuuming robots? I'm all for improved gadgets, but I just plain don't want my vacuum able to take photos of my knickers. Granted, there's at least the peace of mind that this pervy lil' vacuum has enough sensors to avoid me properly after making me feel violated. [ Akihabara News]

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EMI Sues Music Site Offering Beatles MP3s By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 11/4/2009 4:45:00 PM

Michael Arrington's ViewSonic's VMP70 CrunchPad still not available, media player does 1080p maybe never will be? By Tim Stevens (Engadget)

product unprofitable) to the somewhat less likely (it's waiting Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:48:00 AM for Chrome OS). We wouldn't be Here's a report mixed with a cold the least surprised if the promised h a r d f a c t a n d s o m e w i l d sub-$300 price-point just isn't speculation. We'll start with the feasible, but neither would it be a factual bit: despite promises of an shock to learn that it's simply on August unveil and November hold until this whole economy availability, and despite lots of thing finally picks up some leaks over the summertime, s t e a m . O r m a y b e i t ' s t h e Michael Arrington's CrunchPad Illuminati; you never know just MID tablet thing still isn't upon what they're up to. us, and on top of that we haven't Filed under: Handhelds heard a thing about it in months. Michael Arrington's CrunchPad The wild speculation relates to still not available, maybe never the question of why, with Silicon will be? originally appeared on Alley Insider conveying a string Engadget on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 of possibilities ranging from the 06:48:00 EST. Please see our l i k e l y ( w i l d l y e s c a l a t i n g terms for use of feeds. Read| hardware costs making the Permalink| Email this| Comments

for less than a hundie By Tim Stevens (Engadget)

(DivX,Xvid,H.264) along with some slightly less usual ones (RM/RMVB, DTS, OGG). It's all The WD TV is still more or less a v a i l a b l e f o r a n M S R P o f the king of the tiny media player $129.99, but order now and you'll boxes, but now Viewsonic is get special holiday pricing of getting into the game at a lower $98.99. Operators are standing price point -- and minus the by... somewhere... probably. whole network compatibility bit. Gallery: Viewsonic's VMP70 The VMP70 is a "direct connect" Media Player media device, so it will play Filed under: Home content from your choice of USB E n t e r t a i n m e n t -compatible storage, pumping it ViewSonic's VMP70 media at up to 1080p to your display player does 1080p for less than a over HDMI or component cables, hundie originally appeared on also sporting composite for lower Engadget on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 -def fare. It packs an S/PDIF port 07:41:00 EST. Please see our to get clean audio, and supports a terms for use of feeds. Read| slew of formats including the Permalink| Email this| Comments u s u a l s u s p e c t s Submitted at 11/5/2009 7:41:00 AM

Last last week, a bunch of music blogs started noticing that a previously unknown site called Bluebeat.com was selling MP3s for $0.25, including numerous acts that still haven't officially authorized online sales -- such as The Beatles and AC/DC. There was a lot of headscratching among bloggers and reporters who wondered how this could possibly be legal. The answer, of course, is that it wasn't. The site didn't even make any attempt whatsoever to claim that they had licensed this music. They just said they thought that $0.25 was a better price for music. Not surprisingly, it took just a few days before EMI sued the site, and I'd imagine other lawsuits will quickly follow as well. It's not clear what the folks at Bluebeat were thinking -- other than that they were about to get a ton of publicity in the form of lawsuits, but it's hard to see what good that publicity is if the site is forced out of business. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

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Verizon's DROID ERIS by HTC does Android and keeps it cheap By Chris Ziegler (Engadget) Submitted at 11/5/2009 8:45:00 AM

Verizon is making no secret about which Android device it wants to make waves this week -that'd be the DROID from Motorola -- but there's another model that'll be available the same day with one-tenth the fanfare: HTC's DROID ERIS. Codenamed Desire ahead of launch, the phone is essentially Verizon's custom remix of the venerable Hero as found on Sprint and various GSM carriers around the world, featuring a 5

megapixel camera, 3.2-inch capacitive display, WiFi, 3.5mm headphone jack, and microSD expansion up to 16GB. Check it

out in your local store hiding somewhere in the shadow of the DROID starting Friday for $99.99 on contract after a $100 mail-in rebate, which -- if you can forgo a physical keyboard, faster processor, and high-res display -- works out to a cool hundred less than Moto's entry. Filed under: Cellphones Verizon's DROID ERIS by HTC does Android and keeps it cheap originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

Swedish Pirate Party Gets A Second EU Parliament Seat By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

joining Christian Engstrom in the EU Parliament, representing the Pirate Party and the rights of When the election results first consumers. I've seen Amelia came in for the EU Parliament speak in the past, and, like back in June, it initially looked Christian, I think she does an like the Swedish Pirate Party excellent job explaining the would get two seats, though it position of the Pirate Party and was later downgraded to just one. t h e c i v i l r i g h t s i s s u e s i t However, it looks like they're r e p r e s e n t s . back up to two due to a recent Permalink| Comments| Email treaty agreement. This means This Story that Amelia Andersdotter will be Submitted at 11/4/2009 8:25:00 PM

Garmin EcoRoutes ESP module turns your GPS into car sentinel By Vladislav Savov (Engadget) Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:15:00 AM

Get ready to tech up your driving experience, as Garmin has unveiled a new accessory for its nuvi line of GPS devices that lets you add a number of customizable gauges and monitoring utilities. The new

ESP module tucks into the OBDII diagnostics port on your car and communicates (via Bluetooth) all-important data like intake air temperatures and the fuel efficiency of your driving to the nuvi up top. Yea, it's been done before, but Garmin is ( for the time being) a major force in navigation devices and could truly popularize this should there

be enough interest. For our money, it's both a neat and geeky way to expand the functionality

of the now threatened satnav species. The full dish on price and availability can be expected

Google Dashboard lifts curtain on stored data By Tom Krazit (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/4/2009 1:12:00 PM

A new page off user's Google Account settings lets them review and make changes or delete data. all the data the company has Originally posted at Relevant stored regarding that account,

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LEAKED: Microsoft Courier Tablet User Interface Details By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)

left screen to take a photo. You can drag the viewfinder handle to adjust the size and position of the Two still mythical tablet devices, image, and browse your photo the Microsoft Courier and the library in the right pane of the Apple Tablet, are probably the device. hottest and most coveted devices Lastly, some more details that do not yet officially exist. To emerge about the “Cloud” which, further fuel the anticipatory where you can sticky your most like its name suggests, is how the gadget lust, Gizmodo has scored important apps and projects in Courier is able to provide weban in-depth look at the former’s one place. based access to your Journal. user interface and overall design. Also detailed is the Browser You can share portions of your As we were clued into by earlier (pictured below), allowing you to J o u r n a l o n l i n e a n d a l l o w leaks, the Infinite Journal is the easily clip content from the web collaborators to comment. They key metaphor for Courier. It’s into your journal. You can also show up instantly in your Infinite like an enormous notebook for flip through your history with a Journal, with notifications collecting pretty much any kind vertical Cover Flow-like index showing up in your Smart of content: clippings from the card system. Another handy Agenda. Plus, you can access a sense of direction, and crash web, your own notes, diagrams organization metaphor is the your own Journal from any web sensors that now can detect and drawings, photos from the on ability to “tuck” items into the browser to view items or make furniture and feet from up to 2cm -board camera, etc. Each item device’s spine to temporarily changes. away. Prices will range from gets a timestamp and geotag, and store something and move it from Armed with all that information, 500,000 to 700,000 and, though you can add more tags for better one section of your journal to we have to admit being more another. that equates to between $425 and searchability as well. than a little bit hot and bothered $600 American, the stores these Several key “views” into your The included Pen is not simply a over the Courier. If and when this will be available in probably Journal are detailed in the leaked plain old stylus. It comes with and Apple’s device are officially won't take dollars. document, including a Smart two buttons, an eraser, and unleashed, it could be a seriously Filed under: Household Agenda that acts as a sort of a d i f f e r e n t d r a w i n g m o d e s juicy competition for our hearts Samsung's Tango robot vacuum Cliff Notes representation of your activated by a twist mechanism. and wallets, and perhaps yours uses cameras to clean your floors, entire journal, making important The rear button is an Undo — are you tempted by the duvet covers originally appeared items visible at a glance. The action, while the front button is a Courier? We know it’s all still on Engadget on Thu, 05 Nov Journal Overview is another style quick-select that is tailored to the speculation at this point, but what 2009 08:14:00 EST. Please see of at-a-glance window into the drawing mode you’re in. You can are your thoughts on the device? our terms for use of feeds. Read| j o u r n a l c o n t e n t s , w i t h a n also use several finger gestures to [ Images courtesy of Gizmodo] Permalink| Email this| Comments integrated search interface. The interact with the device as well. Tags: Apple Tablet, courier, C o u r i e r h a s a d e d i c a t e d journal, microsoft, microsoft Library is the main file browser m e t a p h o r t h a t o r g a n i z e s hardware button to call up the courier, tablet pc, UI, user everything by type. The left camera mode. Point the front of interface screen acts as a “favorites” tray the device at a scene and tap the Submitted at 11/4/2009 4:52:20 PM

Samsung's Tango robot vacuum uses cameras to clean your floors, duvet covers By Tim Stevens (Engadget) Submitted at 11/5/2009 8:14:00 AM

Just because a Samsung vacbot never cleaned your floors doesn't mean they're not out there somewhere, attacking dust on hardwood and carpet -- and apparently Egyptian cotton too if the above picture is anything to go by. This Tango is the latest from the company, following in the tracks of the Furot and Hauzen and sharing their dual spinny brush design. Tango is said to use a 30fps camera to tell where he's going, a gyro to keep

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Google tries its own take on customer service (CNET News.com) Submitted at 11/5/2009 4:00:00 AM

How will Google manage growing demand for support for its free products, as people rely more and more on its services?(Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET) If you rely on a compelling service that happens to be free, what level of customer support are you entitled to receive? Google is trying to figure that out. Known for using brilliant engineers, complex algorithms and speedy servers to organize online information in a simple and accessible fashion, Google is learning how to add the human touch to its repertoire as customers look for answers that can't be found on an FAQ. Not surprisingly, not everyone is happy with the results. Some advertisers have been complaining about Google's Web -page-first approach to customer service issues for years, with the most common gripe that they find it exceedingly difficult to reach a real live human being when they have a problem that isn't answered on a product Web page. More recently, Katie Braband, who reported problems with Google Checkout's handling of transactions at her company, Datto, was just as frustrated by Google's response to her issues as she was the issues themselves. "The only e-mails we've received response to are pre-generated, it's very clear there's no person

writing the e-mail," she said in September. Google is aware that customer service will play a large role in its growth as it offers more paid services, and seems committed to improving services for those kinds of customers over time. "The first thing a CIO is going to say is, 'where is that person and how do I wring their neck?'" said Google CEO Eric Schmidt in an interview earlier this year. Schmidt knows a thing or two about traditional enterprise customer service: he ran corporate software maker Novell before joining Google. And before Novell, he was an executive at Sun Microsystems. For many users of Google's free

services, support is limited to a series of Web pages, FAQs, and user forums. That's not that surprising, since Google can't realistically offer phone support to every Gmail user who can't figure out the conversation-based design. But as Google continues to push forward with free advertisingsupported services that people and small businesses increasingly rely on in their personal and professional lives, the company appears to be banking on its ability to train those users to expect a healthy dose of relatively low-cost support. Web pages with hints, troubleshooting tips, and discussion forums are the first level of support across

virtually all of Google's products and are pretty much the end of the line for those who do not pay to use products or services. That's not unusual in technology; even businesses that charge customers for their products have moved in that direction in a bid to cut support costs. When it comes to Google's main profit engine--the AdWords search keyword ads--there are two basic kinds of customer service, said Deanna Yick, a Google representative. Highroller customers enjoy access to a personal sales team they can reach out and call, but almost everyone else relies on Webbased resources like the AdWords Help Center.

For a while, Google also offered phone support to a proportion of those advertisers without sales team connections. However, it recently reduced the amount of phone support it provides for those not supported by the sales team, leaving e-mail as the sole contact method for a larger segment (Google won't say exactly how many) of its most important customers. "AdWords is an effective, selfservice online advertising platform for advertisers of all sizes worldwide," Google said in a statement regarding the reduction in phone support. "Some clients work with our GOOGLE page 25

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Intel's James Reinders on parallelism: Part 1 (CNET News.com)

In part 1 of this discussion we talked about how to think about performance in a parallel Multicore processors are here to programming environment, why stay and the number of cores that s u c h e n v i r o n m e n t s g i v e we'll see packed onto a single developers headaches, and what chip is only going to increase. can be done about it. That's because Moore's Law is Reinders began by noting that o n l y i n d i r e c t l y a b o u t developers fall into roughly two performance; it's directly about groups when it comes to parallel i n c r e a s i n g t h e n u m b e r o f programming: those who are still transistors. And, for a variety of c o n c e r n e d a b o u t u l t i m a t e reasons, turning those transistors performance even in a parallel into performance today largely world and those who are just depends on cranking up the core looking for a way to deal with it count. at all. There's a downside to this The challenge is understanding approach though. Programs that what we're trying to introduce, consist of a single thread of how to use parallelism, but with instructions can only run on a programmer efficiency. Because single core. This in turn means programmers don't need yet that they're not going to get much another thing to worry about. faster no matter how many cores There's plenty of those out there. a chip adds. Running faster And we need to be a little more means going multi-threaded-- relaxed about the performance. splitting up the task and working The people who start asking me on the different pieces in parallel. about efficiency in every last The problem is that programming c y c l e u s e d a n d s u c h - - I multi-threaded applications characterize them as people we introduces complications that need to talk to more about our don't exist with single-threading. high-performance computingThese complications and ways to oriented tools that give you full overcome them was the topic of control. And other people are "I my conversation with James don't even know how to approach Reinders at the Intel Developers parallelism." I think there is a Forum in September. Reinders is different set of ways to talk about the director of marketing and the problem. business for Intel's Software The problems with this second Development Products. He's an group comes down to the fact expert on parallelism and his that most programmers are used most recent book covered the to dealing with something called C++ extensions for parallelism " s e q u e n t i a l s e m a n t i c s . " A provided by Intel Threaded d e t a i l e d d e s c r i p t i o n o f Building Blocks. programming semantics is a Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:00:00 AM

complex computer science topic but, at a high level, sequential semantics means more or less what it sounds like it sounds; instructions follow one after another and execute in the order that they are written. If you store the number "1" in variable A, then store the number "2" in variable B, and then add them together in a third instruction, you can be confident that the answer will be "3." It won't depend on timing vagaries that might have caused the addition to happen before the stores. Most people start out programming sequentially using languages designed for that purpose. Parallel programming, on the other hand, introduces concepts like data races(the answer is dependent on the timing of other events) and deadlocks(in which two threads are each waiting for the other to complete so that neither ever does). Here's Reinders: If you've ever managed and got a bunch of people working on a project together, one of the headaches you get is coordinating with each other. What did Fred say to Sally? They're doing things out of order or whatever. Parallel programming can give you that same sort of headache. The programming terminology you'll hear the compiler people use is "sequential semantics." One of the interesting areas is what can we do if we ensure sequential semantics. We

recently acquired a team in Massachusetts who were working for a company called Cilk Arts. Our hope is that Cilk can do a subset of what Threaded Building Blocks [TBB] can but preserve sequential semantics. We think we can do sequential semantics, do a subset of what TBB does, since we're introducing keywords into the compiler--that has some disadvantages because it's not as portable--but we think we might be able to magically give you sequential semantics and not give up performance. That's a big if. Now why would we invest in that? Because there are a lot programmers who have been getting along just fine with sequential programming. But when you tell them to add this or that for parallelism, a big thing that trips them up is that you no longer obey sequential semantics; you have more than one thing running around and you get data races, deadlocks, and it doesn't feel comfortable. Now some people will argue that you need to do these things to get good performance. We have the feeling that in some cases you don't need to take that big of a leap to get pretty good performance. And no one's going to criticize your app on a quad core for being only 70 percent efficient. From there we moved on to data parallelism which focuses on distributing data across

processing elements. It contrasts with the task parallelism that we commonly associate with the term parallel programming. Pervasive DataRush is one commercial product based on a data parallelism model. APL, the language with the strange symbols (for those with long memories), is often considered the first data parallel language. There have been a variety of others, often extensions to more conventional languages like C and FORTRAN, but none were widely used. The other thing we're looking at is data parallelism. And that's where we acquired the RapidMind team and combined them with our Ct[C for Throughput Computing] team. Data parallelism just takes it one step further. Data parallelism is all about the parallelism in the data. So you're talking about the data when you program. And once you start talking about the data, the tools underneath can move the data around. Leaving the data management up to the programmer [as with Cilk and TBB] turns out to be a terrific headache. This applies equally to a cluster where they don't share memory or a GPU and a CPU in the same system. But a language like RapidMind or Ct can address that problem. And CUDA and OpenCL can too [frameworks primarily oriented towards heterogeneous INTEL'S page 23

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Lenovo profit surges on cost cuts, notebook shipments (CNET News.com) Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:35:53 AM

After three quarters of losses, Lenovo has turned a profit again. The computer maker announced Thursday that its fiscal secondquarter earnings more than doubled to $53 million versus $23 million a year ago. Profit for the quarter ended September blew way past estimates of only $24 million from analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Despite a 5.2 percent sales decline to $4.1 billion from $4.3 billion in the year-ago quarter, Lenovo achieved its profits through extensive cost cuts and a record leap in market share. The company had previously kick-started a major restructuring program designed to trim expenses and streamline business operations. As a result, Lenovo was forced to lay off a sizable number of employees and take a one-time restructuring charge of $3 million in the second quarter. But the company now expects to save around $300 million annually.

During the quarter, Lenovo says it also saw its worldwide PC shipments surge 17 percent over the prior year, dramatically outpacing the industry average of only 2.3 percent. "In the last quarter, our share in the global market climbed to a historic high and we returned to profit," said Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing in a statement. "At the same time, our expenses-torevenue ratio improved notably, reaching the best level since the acquisition of IBM's PC division. These achievements bear witness to the clear strategies we set at the beginning of the year and our effective execution of those strategies." Lenovo's quarterly results were powered by its notebooks, which contributed 63 percent to overall revenue. Though notebook sales dipped 1 percent from the prior year, shipments shot up 37 percent, compared with an industry average of 16 percent. During the quarter, the company unveiled a few new products, including the IdeaPad U450p, a thin and light consumer laptop, and SimpleTap, an application to

help users navigate the touchscreens on Windows 7enabled machines like the ThinkPad X200 Tablet and ThinkPad T400s. Desktop sales, however, fell 13 percent from the prior year's quarter, kicking in only 35 percent to Lenovo's overall revenue. Desktop shipments fell 2 percent, but outpaced the industry average of a 12 percent decline. The company said it has reacted to the PC market shift from desktops to laptops by introducing new entry-level lowcost desktops and revamping its product line for small and medium-sized businesses. Lenovo enjoyed a stellar second quarter in its home base of China where sales jumped 9 percent to $2 billion. Shipments in the country jumped 28 percent compared with the average of only 0.1 percent. Already the leading PC vendor in China, the company boosted its market share there to 29.4 percent. Earlier this year, Lenovo said that it would refocus its efforts on China and other emerging markets, a strategy that appears

to have paid off. "Our results are moving in the right direction and we are particularly pleased with our performance in China and in the transactional business model," said Lenovo Chairman Liu Chuanzhi in a statement. The year had been a volatile one for Lenovo. The company was hit a string of quarterly losses, leading to the resignation of President and CEO William Amelio in February. Job cuts and the restructuring also took their toll. But based on its second quarter, Lenovo is optimistic about the near term. "In the coming quarters, we will continue to reinforce our leadership in China, improve the sustainability and profitability of mature markets, seize growth opportunities in emerging markets and our transactional business, continue to strengthen cost structure, and innovate with raising efficiency and customers' needs in mind," said Chuanzhi. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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processing that uses graphics cores for computing tasks] but RapidMind and Ct are at a much higher level of abstraction which means that we're betting on the

William Shatner Performs Poetic Reading of Levi Johnston’s Tweets [VIDEO] By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!) Submitted at 11/4/2009 11:06:58 PM

You may remember earlier this year when William Shatner went on The Tonight Show to offer up a poetic reading of Sarah Palin’s tweets. Not surprisingly, the result was a hilarious viral hit — so much so that Shatner actually made a second appearance on Conan O’Brien’s show to do it again. After a bit of a hiatus, Shatner is back, this time to do a poetic reading of another Wasilla, Alaska based character who has taken to Twitter – Levi Johnston. Once again, the outcome is comedic gold. Check it out in the video below: Who would you like to see Shatner take on next? Share your picks in the comments. Reviews: Twitter Tags: conan o'brien, levi johnston, tonight show, video, William Shatner

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FAQ: Buying the right Windows 7 upgrade (CNET News.com)

restoring the data and reinstalling all applications. All users of XP will have to go When I wrote on Monday about this route, as will those moving the ins and outs of what counts as from a 32-bit version of Vista to proper licensing of Windows 7, I a 64-bit version of Windows 7 was worried that it might turn (or vice versa), as well as those into a flame war. But, instead, who are moving from a higherreaders sent in a whole bunch of end version of Windows Vista to really good questions on the a lower-end version of Windows intricacies of licensing Windows 7. 7 that went beyond the basics I Those moving from Windows had covered. Vista to the same version of Things like dual-boot machines Windows 7 (or to Ultimate) can and systems with beta versions of do what is known as an "inthe operating system raise all place" upgrade, which preserves sorts of interesting licensing files and applications. challenges. Anyway, on to the tough cases. Before we dive into the edge Here are some of the questions cases, though, here's a recap of that readers sent me, as well as the basics on Windows 7. the answers I heard back from For those upgrading their PC, Microsoft. they can choose from Home Q: I installed the release P r e m i u m , P r o f e s s i o n a l o r candidate version of Windows 7 Ultimate editions. There is also a on a reformatted hard drive that family pack that includes three previously had Windows Vista upgrade licenses for Windows 7 installed. Can I use the Windows Home Premium. 7 Home Premium Upgrade Many people will have to do version to install a licensed copy? what is known as a custom or A: Yes. You can do a custom "clean" installation, which installation ("clean install") to involves backing up one's data, Windows 7 using the upgrade. installing Windows 7, then The Windows 7 installer will Submitted at 11/5/2009 4:00:00 AM

detect you have the RC installed, enabling you to do this. Q: Try as I might, I haven't been able to find any reliable information on whether I can upgrade from Vista Home Premium Edition (that came with my HP Laptop) straight to W i n d o w s 7 Professional/Ultimate, or whether it is only possible to upgrade from "Vista Home Premium" to "Windows 7 Home Premium." A: You can do an in-place upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate, provided you aren't switching from 32-bit to 64-bit or vice versa. Going from Home Premium to professional, however, requires a custom installation. (For a chart of which versions can be done via in-place upgrades, check out this Microsoft Web page.) Q: I have Vista Basic on two computers and XP on the other one. So all I would have to do is use a Windows 7 upgrade disc on all three computers? Does one disc do one computer or will it do all three? I live in Canada, not the U.S. A: In both the U.S. and Canada,

An unofficial way to 'dislike' things on Facebook By Josh Lowensohn (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/4/2009 3:59:00 PM

Finding Facebook's "like" button

a little too cute and happy? Try the Facebook dislike extension on for size. It lets you mark posts

you don't like. Originally posted at Web Crawler

your best bet is probably the Windows 7 family pack, which offers a license to upgrade up to three PCs. Q: Can you use an upgrade disk to run XP (or Vista) in dual-boot (meaning that one partition or hard drive has the older operating system and the other partition or drive has Windows 7? A: Microsoft treats a dual-boot machine as if it were two PCs, so you can only use the upgrade if you are installing over an existing Windows partition. So, unless you have two licenses already on that system, you will need a full copy of Windows 7. Q: What about upgrading a Mac? A: In order to qualify to use the upgrade version, Mac owners need to be running a previously licensed full copy of Windows (not just a beta version). That applies whether one they are using Windows in Boot Camp or using a virtualization product like Parallels or VMWare's Fusion. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

How-to: Preview search results in Google, Bing By Jessica Dolcourt (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/4/2009 2:08:00 PM

If all the text on a search results page is overloading your brain, this free Firefox add-on brings relief in the form of thumbnail previews. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Fads aside, IT is not a fashion industry By Jonathan Eunice (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/4/2009 1:50:00 PM

We're not as subject to flights of fancy and style whims as Larry Ellison and others may think. Beyond hype, there is a will to progress--and remain practical. Originally posted at Apps Meet Ops

Mozilla: Firefox 3.6 won't be late By Stephen Shankland (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/4/2009 1:02:00 PM

The first beta of Firefox 3.6 may

have crossed the finish line weeks late, but Mozilla says the final version should still be done this year. Originally posted at Deep Tech

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sales teams, while others prefer to manage their accounts independently. We also provide email and phone support to some advertisers, and have worked hard to build out a robust set of online resources (such as the AdWords Help Center, AdWords Learning Center and user forums) to help advertisers find the answers to their questions around the clock wherever they might be located." Is this an issue? Google argues that in many cases e-mail and Web support can be faster than sitting on hold waiting for the next customer service representative to answer your call in the order in which it was received. The company can track the most common queries and therefore answer the most commonly asked questions on the Web much more quickly than a telephone-based system would allow, while also developing fixes for commonly reported problems as to cut down on the need for support in the first place. But on the Google Apps side of the world, the company knows it

doesn't have the luxury of pulling back on phone support with its most important customers, said Matthew Glotzbach, director of product management for Google Enterprise. Here, as well, Google tries to encourage its users to solve their issues through forums and troubleshooting pages. It turns to the solution Google employs for just about everything--an algorithm--to get the most relevant information regarding support issues on those pages and before the people who need detailed answers, and fast. But Google Apps Premium users --who pay $50 a year per user-can also talk to live Google support personnel anytime day or night when they encounter issues. Years of phone-based IT support has trained system administrators and IT executives to expect the human touch when it comes to advanced support, Glotzbach said, echoing Schmidt's comments last month. Glotzbach--like any true Googler --believes there are efficiencies just waiting to be discovered that

could be greatly improve the customer support experience for both Google and its customers. "I think this is a fascinating technology and innovation challenge that's properly underappreciated as such," Glotzbach said. "When people think of support, they think of large call centers. But underneath that there is a massive opportunity to innovate." Left unmentioned were the cost savings that accompany automated support. With innovation comes friction, however, as new ways of thinking about old problems grate on the status quo. Google is pushing into a whole host of businesses in which it is a newcomer, such as Google Apps, Google Voice, and now Google Maps Navigation. In many cases, those products are free, which reduces expectations for premium support (usually). But those products compete against paid products and services that do provide some level of support. As more and more people rely on these free services--and

Google crowds out competitors who can't compete with free-support issues will grow. Even products that "just work" fail from time to time, and those failures present opportunities for companies to build loyalty if they handle the support encounter the right way, and resentment if they don't. Can Google train those customers to expect a passive Web-based support experience? Or will Google's free strategy evolve into two groups, those willing to tolerate passive support for free, and those willing to pay a little extra for more service? Either way, managing the customer experience has been a relatively easy task for Google up until now; basic search requires little customer support. It's about to get a lot more difficult. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

“I can guarantee you the political world hasn’t seen the last of me,” Submitted at 11/4/2009 10:34:15 AM the Conservative Party candidate Meet the next hero of the tea told Washington Wire today, party movement: In NY-23, after losing the closely watched Hoffman Vows to ‘Continue This special House election in upstate Fight’. New York to Democrat Bill

Owens. “I’m going to make sure that going forward, either I will decide to run again for something or I will help other people to get involved and run to make sure that we continue this fight,”

Conservatives Furiously Spinning (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 11/4/2009 9:29:10 AM

Over at RedState, the all-spin zone, CEO Erick Erickson is trying his best to take the NY-23 loss, dress it up in a cheap suit, and call it a “victory:” In NY-23, Conservatives Win. Erickson’s “point,” if it can be called that, is that the far right “sent a message,” scared the hell out of the GOP, and “crushed” the official GOP NY-23 candidate Dede Scozzafava. Therefore it’s a victory, even though their candidate, uh, lost. Meanwhile, Michael Steele enthusiastically declares a‘Republican renaissance’.

'Half-Life' Visuals Supercharge Sci-Fi Short 'Escape From City -17' By Hugh Hart (Wired Top Stories)

Hoffman Vows to Continue Storming the Castle (Little Green Footballs)

Hoffman said by telephone from his campaign headquarters in Saranac Lake, N.Y.

Submitted at 11/4/2009 3:20:00 PM

By mixing imagery from the classic videogame with realworld acting, Canadian filmmakers David and Ian Purchase create a five-minute flick for $500 that manages to get Hollywood's attention. Video and stills offer a peek at the eyegrabbing City-17.

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Snow Leopard quirk prevents opening groups of recently downloaded files By Michael Jones (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

from Finder, as most of the applications I use have the ability to select multiple files from their Open dialog. I can easily see Submitted at 11/4/2009 6:00:00 PM where this might pose significant Filed under: Snow Leopard problems, however. For example, Reports of an odd bug affecting if you do a lot of work with downloaded files in Snow graphics, you might download a Leopard have been circulating several photos from a client, Apple's discussion boards highlight them and open them recently. As reported by with a custom tool that TidBITS, the issue appears to be automatically resizes and affecting all computers running processes for you. With this bug Snow Leopard. in play, that task would become While different users have much more difficult if you had to reported varying symptoms and open each file individually. differing circumstances, it So what about you? Is this bug essentially boils down to this: if bugging you, or is it a non-issue? you download a group of files, imposing restrictions on what application was downloaded If you are affected, feel free to and then attempt to open the you can and can't do with a from the Internet" confirmation chime in with your experiences entire group of files at once newly downloaded file. before the application is allowed on the discussion boards, and be (rather than opening each file Of course, that's just my theory, to continue launching. This is sure to let us know in the individually), chances are either but I'm apparently not the only nothing new in Snow Leopard, comments! some or all of the selected files one who has explored that but it would seem that the TUAW Snow Leopard quirk will not open. possibility -- a reader on the Mac a d d i t i o n a l p r o t e c t i o n s a n d prevents opening groups of My initial response to this was OS X Hints forum discovered scanning that were added to r e c e n t l y d o w n l o a d e d f i l e s that it could possibly be one of some hard evidence supporting Snow Leopard most likely originally appeared on The those "it's not a bug, it's a that theory. In OS X, newly prevent opening multiple files so U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g feature" ordeals. We have already downloaded files are flagged that each file can be individually (TUAW) on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 seen some indications that Apple with a "quarantine" attribute, checked before it is launched. 18:00:00 EST. Please see our is working on enhanced security which remains until the file is Whether or not this is a serious terms for use of feeds. and virus protection in Snow opened. If this attribute is set bug or a minor inconvenience Read| Permalink| Email this| Leopard, so it stands to reason when the file is launched, and the d e p e n d s e n t i r e l y o n y o u r Comments that the operating system may be file is an application, you would workflow. Personally, I find that simply trying to prevent what it r e c e i v e t h e t y p i c a l " T h i s I don't often open multiple files thinks is malicious activity by

Has Research In Motion's BlackBerry Lost Its Edge? By Priya Ganapati (Wired Top Stories)

The BlackBerry handset has had little innovation in the last three years. Developers complain that

it's difficult to create applications competition from aggressive new for the BlackBerry network. So, rivals? how will it stack up to the

DIY Secret Knock Detector Grants You Entrance with the Right Cadence [DIY] By Sarah Rae Trover (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/4/2009 2:00:00 PM

DIYer Steve Hoefer has been hard at work making every 6 year old's dream come true: A device that unlocks your door whenever someone seeking entrance taps out the secret knock. His device, which fits easily over the inside of your doorknob and lock, counts the time between successive knocks and can be reprogrammed to whatever knock-pattern you see fit. If the wrong series of knocks is tapped out, the device simply ignores it and waits for the appropriate pattern to allow entrance. Hit up Steve Hoefer's weblog Grathio for the full tutorial, or just stick to opening your doors by keyfob instead. Physical keys are so 2008. Secret Knock Detecting Door Lock[Grathio via Make]

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Logos brings free Bible study tools to the iPhone By TJ Luoma (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 11/5/2009 8:00:00 AM

Filed under: App Store We've mentioned Logos for Mac before, but now there is Logos Bible Software for iPhone( iTunes link), a free app providing access to several translations of the Bible and other Bible study books ( most of the ones a v a i l a b l e a t http://bible.logos.com). That's pretty good. If you create a free account at Logos.com, you gain access to even more free resources. That's even better. The app also lets you set up reading lists, which is an excellent idea. I've read through the Bible twice in the past few years, and used Mobile Safari on my iPhone to keep up with online lists. This app would have been much easier to use. Many of the free resources are older, but the English Standard Version (ESV) is a good and fairly modern translation. There are also comparison tools available, as well as dictionaries. I'm almost hesitant to mention this next feature. Here's the good news: the new Logos version 4 will work with the iPhone app, giving you access over the Internet to books that you have

purchased. That's a pretty killer feature. Here's the bad news: the Mac version of Logos 4 is not finished. (That sound you just heard was an angry mob of Mac users grabbing their pitchforks off the wall and looking for the kerosene to light their torches.) Logos is developed both for Windows and Mac, and the Windows version beat the Mac version out the door.

The developers explain that the underlying "core" works on both Windows and Mac, and that the pre-release version "reads and indexes the exact same resources and data files as the Windows version. It synchronizes with the server and even uploads and downloads notes, settings, and other data. It can automatically update itself over the Internet. It just needs work at the user interface level, and we're doing

that as fast as we can." They go on to explain that the Windows and iPhone versions are both ready, and delaying "wouldn't speed up the Mac product, it would just delay access for the larger group of users." They describe version 4 as "a completely new product." All of which is fairly reasonable, but unlikely to soothe the nerves of some Mac users who will no doubt feel like second-class citizens. The iPhone app still offers a lot of functionality, even without Logos 4 integration, and it is completely free. Do you have a favorite iPhone Bible study app? If so, please let us know in the comments. I realize a lot of you are not religious and may not have any use or affinity for this particular app, but it would be appreciated if you'd let others have a chance to discuss this. TUAW Logos brings free Bible study tools to the iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

Quicken Online to Shut Down Next Year, Users Moved to Mint [Personal Finance] By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:00:00 AM

No more than two months after Quicken maker Intuit acquired Mint.com, CEO Aaron Patzer of the latter personal finance site tells TechCrunch that Quicken Online will be discontinued in six to nine months. Users of Quicken Online will have their data transitioned to Mint, although numbers show only 100,000 of the 1.5 million registered are active users. The really good news? Patzer says he might incorporate one key feature of Quicken Online into Mint: manual cash transaction and uncleared check entry. [ TechCrunch via Consumerist]

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Kwanzoo: Instant Landing Pages for Perfect Pitch Accused Social Media Marketers [Invites] Of DMCA Abuse To Censor Criticism By Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable!)

invitation, and then enter “Mashable” in the “Where did you hear about us?” box. The Submitted at 11/4/2009 8:00:59 PM first 500 people will be notified This post is part of Mashable’s via email with account Spark of Genius series, which information starting tomorrow highlights a unique feature of early afternoon. Sponsored by startups. If you would like to Microsoft BizSpark have your startup considered for BizSpark is a startup program inclusion, please see the details create and brand your poll, easier that gives you three-year access here. The series is made possible to make the content shareable, t o t h e l a t e s t M i c r o s o f t by Microsoft BizSpark. and simpler to measure campaign development tools, as well as Name: Kwanzoo results. connecting you to a nationwide Quick Pitch: Create something The three step process lets you n e t w o r k o f i n v e s t o r s a n d interesting that will be talked select a quiz or poll template, incubators. There are no upfront about online – and then shared customize it, and then publish it costs, so if your business is a m o n g s t p e e r s o n s o c i a l as a landing page to your site that privately owned, less than three networks: That’s Kwanzoo’s you can then promote via social years old, and generates less than proposition to marketers who media channels like Facebook U.S.$1 million in annual revenue, want to tap social networks for and Twitter. You can also embed you can sign up today. friendly referrals amongst peers it in blog posts, use them in lieu Entrepreneurs can take Genius Idea: Kwanzoo, currently of banner ads, or share the polls advantage of the Azure Services in private beta, offers marketers, and quizzes in email newsletters. platform for their website hosting advertisers, and small businesses When respondents engage with and storage needs. Microsoft a potentially powerful and viral the content, they can also share recently announced the“new way to leverage social media t h e r e s u l t s o n T w i t t e r o r CloudApp()” contest– use the channels for quick and easy Facebook, and you can capture Azure Services Platform for campaigns. lead information and measure the hosting your .NET or PHP app, Say you want to try and engage social results with campaign and you could be the lucky your fans on Facebook, followers metrics. winner of a USD 5000* ( please on Twitter, blog readers, or The service is not yet available see website for official rules and customers in an email newsletter to the general public, but you can guidelines).” Reviews: Facebook, with a quiz or poll. You could try it free using one of the 500 Mashable, PHP, Twitter use various tools and widgets free beta test accounts that Tags: kwanzoo, social media made for each service, but Kwanzoo is offering to Mashable marketing Kwanzoo’s all-in-one, plug-and- readers. Head over to their site, play solution makes it faster to click the button to request an

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its search index. But, of course, that makes no sense. Nothing on the page Michael Scott points us to yet v i o l a t e s t h e c o p y r i g h t o f another (yes, another) case of Boucherle at all. There isn't any copyfraud, where someone sends content from his website. There a DMCA takedown notice to stop is just a reference to it (and it's criticism, rather than actual basically an aside, rather than a infringement. In this case, the direct discussion). From what's party accused of misusing the presented, it's difficult to see how DMCA in this manner (which is this isn't a violation of the illegal) is whoever is behind the DMCA with Boucherle claiming website PerfectPitch.com, who copyright on content that he has offers a fee-based training no rights (at all) over, in attempt program that is supposed to help to remove from Google's index a people learn to have (surprise, webpage that suggests that there surprise) perfect pitch. Mac are free alternatives that are Donn had put up a blog post on better than paying for expensive TheSession.org, asking about the courses. general concept of having perfect We see this kind of abuse of the pitch(not the course specifically) DMCA all too frequently, as leading to a relatively tame various parties use it as a discussion in the comments. sledgehammer to censor content However, one comment sorta they dislike, rather than for kinda maybe referred negatively anything having to do with ( b a r e l y ) t o t h e w e b s i t e copyright infringement. It's a PerfectPitch.com, suggesting that m a s s i v e p r o b l e m w i t h t h e that there are plenty of free DMCA's notice and takedown resources to help train your ears. process, which puts tremendous In response, it certainly appears pressure on services like Google that the owner o f to simply remove the content P e r f e c t P i t c h . c o m , G a r y first, before there's any actual B o u c h e r l e , s e n t a D M C A evidence of infringement. takedown request to Google, who Permalink| Comments| Email removed all links for that This Story supposedly-offending page from Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:20:00 AM

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MYTH BUSTED: Internet Use Doesn’t Lead to Isolation By Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)

example, people call each person in their circle of closes friends on 195 days in a year, but they also Submitted at 11/5/2009 1:54:20 AM see each of them face to face 210 Imagine this: once a happy child days in a year. Same goes for with a lot of friends, little Jack Facebook and MySpace, as 71% has started spending many hours of users have listed at least one per day on social networking member of their core network of sites such as Facebook, which friends as a friend on one of these has turned him into a pale asocial more likely to contain people services. freak. Oh, if only he’d never from different backgrounds. For Here’s the fun part: internet touched that cursed box we call instance, frequent internet users, users are far more likely (45%) to the computer, he’d be a healthy and those who maintain a blog visit a café or a coffee shop than young man now! are much more likely to confide p e o p l e w h o d o n ’ t u s e t h e This is the picture we’ve been in someone who is of another internet. And not only that; the fed a lot by the media (did you race. Those who share photos myth that frequent internet users see the movie Gamer? I rest my online are more likely to report hang out mostly at home is also case), but according to a study that they discuss important busted, as people have started conducted by the Pew Internet matters with someone who is a using it many public spaces, such and American Life Project, it’s member of another political as libraries, bars, coffee shops, simply not true. party.” restaurants and the like. Quite the contrary: online Yes, social isolation is still a The full report is a very a c t i v i t i e s s u c h a s s o c i a l problem for some 6 percent of interesting read; you can find it networking, sending e-mails and the population, but it’s simply here. blogging can lead to larger, and not related to the Internet, and Image courtesy of iStockphoto, (perhaps even more importantly) hasn’t changed much since 1985. webphotographeer Reviews: more diverse social networks. For the most part, the study Facebook, MySpace, iStockphoto From the study: conducted on 2,512 adults simply Tags: internet, isolation, social “Social media activities are confirms what most of us know networking associated with several beneficial already: people use all this new social activities, including having technology to get in touch with discussion networks that are their family and friends; for

Tim Berners-Lee Sees Promise, Challenges in HTML5 By Michael Calore (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/4/2009 4:00:00 PM

The web's inventor is excited that HTML5 is transforming his creation into a computing platform. But he also there's

work to be done to make sure the latest web apps operate in a secure and safe way.

Google Dashboard: Now You Know What Google Knows About You By Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) Submitted at 11/5/2009 3:47:25 AM

There’s no two ways about it: if you use a lot of Google services, then Google knows a lot about you. Google has received a solid amount of criticism because of this, and they’ve decided to alleviate the issue by launching Privacy Dashboard; a one-stopshop with all the information that Google knows about you and your online habits collected in one place. Dashboard covers more than 20 products and services, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, Latitude and others. It’s quite a scary list; personally, I’m using all of these, and I was quite interested to see what exactly I’ve told Google about myself without even knowing. Google calls the “scale and level of detail of the Dashboard unprecedented,” but I was a bit disappointed. The dashboard is nothing more than a selected list of privacy-related settings from the services listed above. You can find some interesting tidbits of info about your various Google account that you may have forgotten. For example, you

can see which calendars you’ve shared with other people. But all of this info was already available in the Calendar settings. Sure, it’s nice to have all these in one place, should you ever want to review all your private information stored at Google at once, but there’s nothing really new about this list; you could even call it a privacy-related compilation. Unfortunately, it’s also an unpleasant reminder of just how much data you’re giving out to Google (and other online services). You can find the dashboard over at google.com/dashboard, or by login into your Google account, clicking on Settings, choosing “Google Account Settings” from the dropdown, and then clicking on the link next to “Dashboard”. Check out an introductory video for Google Dashboard below. Do you think Google is doing enough to protect your privacy? Please share your thoughts in the comments. Reviews: Gmail, Google, Orkut, Picasa, YouTube Tags: Google, Google Dashboard, privacy

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TUAW Gift Guides: Gifts for techsavvy women By Erica Sadun (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

Trust me. I'm a woman. Results are not typical or representative of all real women's buying habits. Please check with Submitted at 11/4/2009 7:00:00 PM a lawyer before deciding whether Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, purchasing Mac peripherals are Humor right for you. Side effects, Holiday time is drawing near, including being kicked out of with Black Friday just over the your home and/or marriage, may horizon. So have you started occur. Peripherals are not a thinking about what to get your substitute for fine jewelry. Do favorite gal? You might want to not attempt to offer technology subscribe to a Monoprice e-mail when the spouse is pregnant or alert to catch the latest restocks nursing. Consult a physician for your beloved's iPhone or iPod should a piece of technology touch. Last night, they sold out of make an accelerated impact with their 2200 mAh charge boosters the morning financial news. your head. In case of technology within minutes. I snagged mine Whatever floats your boat. overdose, seek professional One of my female TUAW assistance, or contact a family just in time. Because, gentlemen, you need to colleagues writes, "Last year I counselor immediately. face it: cables, remotes, and got earrings and returned them TUAW TUAW Gift Guides: batteries are made of holiday for a MacBook. My husband also Gifts for tech-savvy women w i n . W h y n o t c o n s i d e r a knows that on Black Friday originally appeared on The miniDisplay cable to give your morning, in the dark, I will be at U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g lady that second Mac mini Radio Shack or MicroCenter -- (TUAW) on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 monitor she's been dreaming elbows out to fend off other 19:00:00 EST. Please see our about? Those redesigned Apple customers -- hissing at the terms for use of feeds. r e m o t e s m a k e t h e p e r f e c t sunlight and hoarding hard Read| Permalink| Email this| accompaniment to the treadmill, drives, enclosures, and spindles Comments when watching "The View." Or, of DVDs." for that matter, when watching Face it: Chicks love technology.

Your Favorite Sci-Fi Flicks, From 'Metropolis' Through the '50s By Lewis Wallace (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/4/2009 5:00:00 PM

Wired.com readers rattle off some classics and re-school us on

some forgotten science fiction gems as they reveal their most cherished movies about robots, aliens and other fascinating creatures. Part 1 in a series.

OK, Hollywood Learns A Scary Lesson From 'Paranormal Activity' By Michael Ho (Techdirt) Submitted at 11/5/2009 4:35:16 AM

A few weeks back, I noted that the low-budget (but highlyprofitable) Paranormal Activity movie might teach Paramount a thing or two about how the business of making movies could succeed without spending millions on big stars and overlyexpensive sets. However, it doesn't look like that was the lesson learned here. Paramount's CEO Philippe Dauman was recently interviewed about the success of the movie and talked about plans to make a sequel that he said would require the right marketing to ensure a benefit to Paramount. There's also the following insight into Dauman's strategy: Asked by an analyst if the "Paranormal" model of a lowcost, high-box office film could be easily replicated with other releases, he said no, pointing to how much time passed between similar surprise hit "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal." So apparently, the decade that passed between Blair Witch and Paranormal makes for some kind

of justification that low-budget movies can't be made profitably at will. Um. But couldn't that decade also be interpreted to mean that a studio should want to try more low-budget productions, more frequently? I can certainly understand that Paramount might not want to adopt a "throw everything at the wall to see what sticks" kind of business model for its movies. However, the existence of two huge box office hits that were produced for a pittance sounds more like proof that such a business model could work -- not a "lightning sometimes strikes twice" argument against making lowcost movies. But on the other hand, looking at the returns from the $15 million sequel Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, that release grossed almost $48 million worldwide... and there's talk of another sequel for Blair Witch on the way. The scary ending to this story appears to be an endless cycle of horror movie sequels. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

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iPhone user survey gives excuses to dump gadget-undesirable romantic partners By Megan Lavey (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

RealNetworks to lay off 4 percent (CNET News.com) Submitted at 11/5/2009 5:40:00 AM

The Seattle area is going to get another jobless jolt Thursday, with RealNetworks planning to Submitted at 11/4/2009 5:00:00 PM lay off 4 percent of its workforce, sources said. Filed under: Cult of Mac, iPhone That's a small number--just My beloved fiancĂŠ, about 70 people out of its 1,700It is with great sadness that I person staff--but the move comes write you at home to your Gmail on the heels of layoffs of another account to inform you that I am 800 employees at nearby intending to sell your ring on Microsoft on Wednesday. The Ebay and we will part ways. You software giant has cut thousands see, ours was a mixed of jobs over the last year, part of relationship to begin with. You a move to eliminate 5,000 have your Windows 7, your positions by mid-2010. Linux, your original Android While the dismissals--which are phone from T-Mobile in the UK. likely to be announced to I have my iPhone, my iMac and affected RealNetworks everything good that's Apple history between us, the months of gadget preferences. Love you, employees sometime Thursday (and even a few pieces that separation due to our being in honey! morning by managers--will be aren't). two different countries, and the TUAW iPhone user survey gives global, both RealNetworks and That's why I know it'll never fact that you are a wonderful, e x c u s e s t o d u m p g a d g e t - Microsoft are tech leaders with work out between us. According kind, sweet, and intelligent man undesirable romantic partners headquarters in the Pacific to a recent study from Retrevo, with a bright future ahead of you. originally appeared on The Northwest. iPhone owners believe that a I have someone else I think the U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g According to sources, the "cool gadget" makes a person far world of, and it is my iPhone. (TUAW) on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 r e a s o n s f o r t h e l a y o f f s a t more attractive than the measly Now if you'll excuse me, I must 17:00:00 EST. Please see our RealNetworks are, as was the doctorate you've spent years go watch adult material and post terms for use of feeds. case at Microsoft, to realign the studying for. Every time we are up an ad at Match.com for Read| Permalink| Email this| together, I can't help but shudder someone with a 3GS. Comments over the fact that your Android Much love, phone is not of the latest Your dear departed Megan generation. P.S. This letter is satire, I'm not So forget the four years of dumping my fiance over his

work force after the recent economic downturn and to control costs. But RealNetworks could also hire back some of the laid-off employees, as other parts of the company are expanding. The company had signaled the possibility of staff cuts previously, but had not been specific. The last staff cuts at the company, which makes digital media software and tools, were larger, with about 130 employees sacked about a year ago. RealNetworks announced betterthan-expected third-quarter earnings last week, barely returning to profitability by cutting costs to make up for weaker revenue. (Digital Daily's John Paczkowski contributed to this report.) Story Copyright (c) 2009 AllThingsD. All rights reserved. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Google Launches Commerce Search for Retailers By Ben Parr (Mashable!)

gains adoption is its conversion rate. If (as we suspect) more Submitted at 11/4/2009 11:27:41 PM users buy products through While Google may have its Google Commerce search than Google Checkout payment the custom interfaces many platform, it’s not really a player retailers have, those companies in the ecommerce space. will switch. Just a 1% Considering the billions of conversion upgrade on $1 million dollars being exchanged on in sales is significant, though the thousands of retail websites every is meant to help consumers exact cost of using the search year, that’s a big market that search and sort through the items engine isn’t clear yet. Google isn’t monetizing. a retailer is selling online. The If you’re interested in learning Perhaps that’s why we’re interface can be customized, more, Google as usual has surprised that it took them this searches can be filtered, and created a useful YouTube video long to launch Google Commerce results can be tracked via Google that explains the basics. Let us Search, a new search engine that Analytics. It’s hosted on the know what you think in the online retailers can install on Google cloud, which means that comments: their websites to provide Google- holiday traffic spikes won’t take Reviews: Google, Google style speed and efficiency for it down, but that retailers have to Analytics, YouTube customers when they search for give up some control over search. Tags: Google products. While the features are great, the The product is straightforward: it key to whether Commerce Search

Copyright Treaty Is Policy Laundering at Its Finest By David Kravets (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/4/2009 4:59:00 PM

The United States wants the international community to allow ISPs to disconnect copyright scofflaws from the internet, a controversial move that would allow internet service providers

NY Attorney General Sues Intel for Bribing PC Makers By Ryan Singel (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/4/2009 4:00:00 PM

Why Is NY, Not The FTC Or DOJ, Filing Antitrust Claims Against Intel? By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

Attorney General, filing antitrust charges against the company, rather than the federal I have no idea if Intel is really government. The DOJ and the guilty of antitrust violations or FTC have been investigating not at this point -- though, Intel for a while, and haven't yet considering the fact that its filed charges. Europe has -- but products keep getting faster and Europe seems to do that against cheaper, it's not as if there's been any successful American tech some obvious huge monopoly company eventually, as the rents handed out somewhere. European standard for "antitrust" However, I do find it quite odd o f t e n a p p e a r s t o b e " b i g that it's Andrew Cuomo, NY's successful American company" Submitted at 11/4/2009 6:24:00 PM

rather than any proof of antitrust behavior. To have Cuomo file such a case just seems misplaced. What does it have to do with New York? Given Andrew Cuomo's rather long history of silly grandstanding to bully companies for the sake of getting his own name in the headlines, rather than any actual legal basis, it feels like more of the same. Pick a big target, don't worry about the legal specifics, but get

"safe harbor" protection from copyright liability. But such a proposal under the AntiCounterfeiting Trade Agreement is a back door approach to alter U.S. copyright law and place the onus of detecting infringement on ISPs instead of rightsholders.

headlines to build up the name of Andrew Cuomo. It's pretty sad that Cuomo seems to keep attacking innovative tech companies solely for the sake of building up his own political reputation. Tangling up innovation in pointless lawsuits doesn't help the economy in the slightest. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

Intel, the world's dominant chip maker, is hit by New York's attorney general, who says the company illegally pays off computer makers to keep its rival's chips out of the world's computers.

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Maryland Testing E-Voting N64 emulator for System That Lets People jailbroken iPhones on Verify Their Votes Counted the way? By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 11/4/2009 10:26:00 PM

For many years, David Chaum has been pushing for a voting system that he claims will be a lot more reliable. Basically, after you vote, you get a coded number, and then after the election, you can go to an election website, punch in your code and make sure that your vote counted, and was for whom you meant to vote. On top of this, there's a system for auditors to check to make sure that votes were counted accurately, with information released publicly so people can "audit" the election without being able to connect voters to their votes. This system tends to generate a lot of controversy (though some of it appears to be from people who just don't like David Chaum,

rather than because they really have a problem with his system). However, the system hasn't been really tested in an actual US election... until now. The municipal elections in Takoma Park, Maryland used the system, despite the state recently signing a big deal with Diebold. It's not clear how the overall election went yet -- or how many people actually checked their votes online (approximately 30% in an exit poll said they copied down the code). However, it's good to see that some gov'ts are not just accepting what the big e-voting firms give them, and are willing to explore more sophisticated voting systems that aren't based on pure faith in the e-voting company to get the system right. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

Wade's 40 too much as Heat beat Arenas, Wiz By Associated Press (ESPN.com)

nine points shy of 10,000 for his career. • The Wizards lost to the Heat for Submitted at 11/4/2009 8:38:06 PM the fifth straight time and 20th in Fast Facts their last 25 meetings. • Dwyane Wade had 40 points, -- ESPN Stats & Information the 25th 40-plus game of his This content has passed through career. fivefilters.org. • Gilbert Arenas scored 32 and is

By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

Twitter's SUL as a list (Scripting News) Submitted at 11/4/2009 7:09:36 AM

Here's the Suggested User List as a list. http://twitter.com/davewiner/twitt er-s-sul How I produced it. I created a fake account, gristmillie, visited the Suggested Users page, checked them all and followed them. Then, from my own account, I went to the page of people she follows, went through each one and checked it, adding it to my list. A caveat, this will go out of date when they add more people to the list. Here's the listbrowser.org rendering, and the OPML version.

Submitted at 11/4/2009 4:00:00 PM

Filed under: Gaming, Software, iPhone, iPod touch There's an exciting announcement at All Tech Related this week that has us saying, "We can't wait!" ZodTDD, the developer behind GpSPhone(a Nintendo Gameboy Advance emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch), announced the development of an N64 emulator for the iPhone and iPod touch. Zodttd believes that the current generation iPhone and iPod touch have the graphic CPU horsepower necessary to run those games. "...I can't promise it will run games top notch just yet, as things are too early to say. There's hope though, with a 3D accelerated graphics plugin, as well as an ARM dynarec." As iPhone Savior points out, the toughest challenge could be fitting the controls onto the screen in an unobtrusive yet usable way. That was my main complaint about Resident Evil for iPhone [ iTunes link] -- my hand is often in the way of what I'm trying to see. Note that this will require an

jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch. [Via iPhone Savior] TUAW N64 emulator for jailbroken iPhones on the way? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

The Shocking & Outrageous Styles of Lady Gaga! (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/5/2009 3:00:00 AM

From studded masks to barely there, lace get-ups and wild wigs, outrageous performer Lady Gaga constantly keeps her fans on their toes with her fantastical fashions! Take a gander at the many looks of Lady Gaga, as well as all the magic and mayhem that is music's hottest rising star!

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Developers report a moment of upside-down app rankings, now returning to normal

Twitter Testing New Tweet Notifications on Homepage

By Michael Rose (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

By Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable!)

quickly everyone reacted to send a heads-up about the problem... when your monthly revenues depend on that Top Paid ranking Submitted at 11/4/2009 8:00:00 PM slot, even a few minutes of Filed under: App Store It seems confusion will get your attention to be back to status quo ante in a hurry. now, and we're not sure exactly Thanks to everyone who sent what was going on, but this in. something apparently slipped off TUAW Developers report a the crazy shelf and whacked the moment of upside-down app App Store firmly in the noggin. rankings, now returning to Multiple users and developers normal originally appeared on emailed to let us know that the The Unofficial Apple Weblog Top Paid rankings in the store (TUAW) on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 were completely jumbled up, fritzy, but other tipsters report 20:00:00 EST. Please see our with unfamiliar apps taking over that the Australian store was terms for use of feeds. the rankings from long-standing affected as well. Now that things Read| Permalink| Email this| champs. iGlowStickPro? 301+ seem to be returning to normal, Comments Short Stories? That ain't right. it's interesting to note how The US store was definitely

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A select group of Twitter users have been granted a new feature that’s been a long time coming. Twitter is testing “tweet notifications” that will automatically call out new tweets since your last refresh, from the people you follow, on your Twitter.com homepage. Think of it as the next best thing to the auto-refresh. Although we haven’t been gifted with the new feature, we can see it in the wild courtesy of Twitter user@stephromanski, who noticed the change and posted a very clear TwitPic of the tweet notification update. Here’s what Twitter’s Status blog has to say about the new addition to the Twitter

experience: “We’re starting a limited test of notifications on twitter.com for when you have new tweets. So if one of the folks you follow has tweeted since you loaded your homepage, you’ll get a little notice saying “1 new tweet” that, when clicked, will display the new content. We think it improves the tweet consumption experience and hope to roll it out to everyone as soon as we can.” Reviews: Twitpic, Twitter Tags: twitter

Perhaps Apple won't block Atom support after all By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

have been used in netbooks by MSI, Dell and ASUS for their low cost and modest energy Submitted at 11/5/2009 9:00:00 AM consumption. Hackintosh owners Filed under: Hardware, OS, were disappointed. Hacks, Snow Leopard There was Shortly after that report was a report this week that Mac OS X published, Electronista noted that 10.6.2 will block Atom support, a newly-released build of 10.6.2 leaving Hackintosh owners stuck (10C535) brought it back. Of at 10.6.1. Intel's Atom processors course, we're talking about

"support" for hackintoshes in a developer build of the OS, so

keep that in mind. The moral of the story: Apple can kill this when ever they please, so have fun while you can. [Via Engadget] TUAW Perhaps Apple won't block Atom support after all originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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'When the Captain's Crazy, It's Time for a New Ship' (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 11/4/2009 4:33:50 PM

Michele Bachmann’s (R-Mars) chief of staff is bailing out, and declines to say why. The aide who helped turn Rep. Michele Bachmann into a controversial mainstay of cable news has informed colleagues that she’s quitting — just as the firebrand Republican congresswoman prepares for her biggest media moment yet. Multiple sources have confirmed that Michelle Marston, a veteran Hill aide, is leaving Bachmann’s office. In an e-mail exchange with POLITICO, Marston declined to say why she’s going. “I’m just not talking about it, and frankly I don’t think there’s a story here,” Marston wrote. “Now, the thousands of people calling our office to tell us

[they’re] coming to Capitol Hill tomorrow — that’s a story.” Marston was referring to the prolific Bachmann’s latest political brainstorm, a “house call” on the Capitol Thursday to which she’s invited Fox News viewers and other conservatives to march with her through House office buildings, “find members of Congress, look at the whites of their eyes and say, ‘Don’t take

away my health care.’” Oh, for Pete’s sake. Meanwhile, anonymous sources muttered: A conservative Republican House member, speaking on the condition of anonymity, suggested that Bachmann’s views — and her willingness to state them — make it hard for her to keep staff. “When your captain’s crazy, it’s time to find a new ship,” the lawmaker said. UPDATE at 11/4/09 5:11:20 pm: Judge Andrew Napolitano warns Michele to watch out for Nancy Pelosi and her schemes, because she controls the capital and might do anything at all to stop the populist glory of Michele’s “house call.”[Video] UPDATE at 11/4/09 5:16:26 pm: Yay! It’s the “ Super Bowl of freedom!”[Video]

Submitted at 11/5/2009 9:30:00 AM

The ongoing plot this season on 30 Rock is the search for a new cast member for TGS. A certain NBC personality guest stars on

tonight's episode to audition for Liz, which brings back memories of when she auditioned for commercials years earlier. [Watch clips and episodes of 30 Rock and other shows at SlashControl.]

By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/5/2009 5:30:00 AM

Windows/Mac/Linux: XBMC media center has dropped a 9.11 alpha release for all platforms, with quality fixes on all three computer platforms and more powerful skinning abilities. If you're not afraid of a bug or two, it's yours to grab. From the outset, not a whole lot looks new, but XBMC has made some real improvements under the hood. From the developer's Filed under: Video, 30 Rock, release notes: • DirectX has replaced OpenGL Reality-Free P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | | for Windows • Numerous skinning engine Comments updates which allow for use of some fancy new skins • Many improvements to the video player which allow for much smoother playback

Sneak Peek: Tonight's 30 Rock By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)

XBMC 9.11 Alpha Improves Playback and Skinning Powers [Downloads] • Switch to Core Audio on OSX • Many VDPAU improvements under linux • Many platform-specific customizations There's a promise for "much much more" to be revealed as the final release approaches, but core video and audio improvements is always welcome among media fans. Looking to get set up with XBMC? We went on a home theater PC kick last week, showing you, step by step, how to build a silent, standalone media center on the cheap and customize the heck out of XBMC. XBMC 9.11: Alpha1 ready for testing[XBMC via Kabatology]

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From the Tips Box: Soap Scum, Excel Charts, and Cell Phone Baby Monitors [From The Tips Box] By Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/4/2009 5:00:00 PM

Readers offer their best tips for using scum-free soap, easily switching rows and columns in Excel charts, and using cell phones as remote baby monitors without using minutes. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasonsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it inâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption. Got a tip of your own to share? Add it in the comments or email it to tips at lifehacker.com. Easily Switch Rows and Columns in Excel Charts Purna shows us how to save time with a one-click axis-switching solution: Often we make charts only to realize that the boss wants us to switch the rows and columns. For example, we might show sales

and profits year-wise, but the big guy asks us to show the chart grouped by sales and profits. There is a handy little trick in Excel where this can be done without a panicky run to the espresso machine or nearest excel guru. We can use the "switch rows / columns" button in Excel 2007 Design tab to do just this. (In Excel 2003, the button is in the toolbar area). Use Cell Phones as a Baby Monitor Joe shows us how to save money on baby monitors by making your own: I have a small child, and live in an apartment - so I never had much need for a baby monitor (since you can pretty much hear

the kid anywhere in the apartment when she's screaming). However, I have had occasions where I'm alone with a sleeping child - where I'd like to be able to run downstairs (to accept a delivery), or out to my car, or even to a neighbor for a minute. In the past, I would hesitate to do it, since I couldn't hear the baby if she woke up. I have a cellphone with speakerphone - which also happens to have a friends & family allowance (unlimited calling to 5 numbers), my home phone being one of them. I have a cordless handset, that also has a speakerphone. Now, if I need to run out for a minute - I'll call my cellphone from my home phone,

put the cordless phone in the baby's room, put both phones on speaker and mute the cellphone. That way, if the baby cries, I'll hear her. I realize that this isn't a legendary hack, but it is quick, and clever - and the range I get using this hack is far greater than the range of most baby monitors. Of course, I don't recommend leaving a sleeping child alone, and going far enough where it will take a long time to get back but thought that this hack was pretty cool - and saved me the money I would have spent on a baby monitor for the rare occasions that I actually need one. Put Your Calendar in Your

Signature for Easy Scheduling ThePioneer shows us how he keeps other people on top of his schedule: Create a Link in your email signature that links to your GCAL. To make it look nice, use Bit.ly (or other site) and shorten it up and make it personal. Mine says "School Calendar" and it has gotten many compliments from people that I email. It's really handy for people to take a quick look and see when I'm available to meet. Note that any calendars you want to share will have to be public on Google Calendar. Avoid Soap Scum with Bath Gel Photo by Andy Butkaj. njefferson tips us off to a way to keep soap scum out of the bathtub: If you use bath gel instead of bar soap, you will not have soap scum, at all! Synthetic soap does not have the ingredient that creates the soap scum, and reportedly all liquid soaps are synthetic. We have tried this for five months, after my wife made me start using Irish Spring gel instead of bars, and we have NO soap scum, at all!

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Remains of the Day: MSN.com: Extreme Makeover Edition [For What It's Worth] By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/4/2009 4:00:00 PM

MSN.com gets its first serious makeover in years (and you can preview it), the iTunes App Store officially gives you over 100,000 apps to choose from, and Mozilla Weave updates Firefox's browser -syncing tool. • The Madeover MSN.com Preview MSN.com is one of the most popular sites on the internet (that's what happens when you're the most popular operating system's default browser's default homepage), and after years of the same old blue, they're switching things up a bit, integrating with Twitter and Facebook, among

other things. [MSN] • Worcestershire Sauce Secret Recipe Found in Trash A 170year-old recipe for Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce surfaces in a dumpster. They should've used Evernote. [Slashfood]

• Windows Live Sync Now Supports Snow Leopard I can't imagine all that many Mac users want to use Live Sync, but for those few of you out there, Snow Leopard is now supported. [jkOnTheRun]

• Weave 0.8 Released Mozilla's browser sync extension, Weave, continues pushing toward a 1.0 release. There's not a ton of major changes in this release beyond bug fixes and a better interface, but if you're a Weave user, you'll certainly want to update. [Mozilla Labs] • 100,000 Apps Now Available for the iPhone/iPod touch We're not sure why anyone would actually brag about the fact that their notoriously difficult to navigate App Store now has over 100,000 apps to fumble through, but there you have it. [Gizmodo]

Submitted at 11/4/2009 3:00:00 PM

AT&T has been dragging its feet on data tethering for months now, so if you're fed up waiting for official support and desperate to tether your iPhone's internet connection, weblog MobileCrunch details how to do it on the latest iPhone OS. The multi-step process isn't all that difficult, but you'll want to set aside a little bit of time. In the brief overview, enabling

tethering works like so: • Jailbreak your iPhone with blackra1n(available for Windows and Mac). • Unlock your phone with blacksn0w—which you can do through the blackra1n icon on your iPhone post-jailbreak. • Install a custom IPCC file via mobile Safari. • Turn on tethering in your iPhone settings. The MobileCrunch post walks through each step in excellent

detail, so if you're eager to tackle tethering, it's a great guide for accomplishing that. Keep in mind

By Robert Seidman (TVbytheNumbers) Submitted at 11/4/2009 4:16:45 PM

Will this be the last season for Numb3rs? With the order cut to 16 episodes and what sounds like fairly expensive production costs for a show in its sixth season, the end does seem near or at least nearer… via THR: Are “Numbers’” days numbered? CBS has opted to cut back the order for the veteran crime procedural from 22 to 16 that jailbreaking isn't all that e p i s o d e s . encouraged by Apple, but if Friday nights have taken a big anything were to go wrong, you r a t i n g s h i t t h i s f a l l , a n d can simply restore your phone “Numbers,” now in its sixth and be just fine. (Trust me, I've season, has been no exception. done it a lot over the past few Last week, the drama starring years.) Also, we can't make any R o b M o r r o w a n d D a v i d promises should AT&T decide to K r u m h o l t z a v e r a g e d a 1 . 7 get all upset over your tethering, rating/6 share among adults 18but so far we haven't had any 49 and 7.9 million viewers problems. Tutorial: How to overall. Tether on an iPhone 3G or 3GS Read the full story running OS 3.1.2[MobileCrunch] This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Enable Tethering on Your iPhone 3G or 3GS Running 3.1.2 [IPhone] By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)

Is this Numb3rs last season? Order cut to 16 episodes

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Second Life Goes Behind The Firewall By Alex Williams (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 11/4/2009 5:18:17 PM

Google Dashboard Provides a Top-Down Look at Your Google Use [Google] By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)

Second Life is introducing a behind the firewall service for enterprise customers, another sign that the very definition of collaboration is changing as more companies seek ways to do their work in virtual environments. In addition, Second Life will unveil a marketplace in the first quarter of 2010 where people may purchase templates and other 3D environments for their Second Life Enterprise world. Sponsor We hear so much about how "people," are at the center of a world where social technologies have an increasingly important role. The reality is that the very definitions of time and place are changing in the enterprise and what it means to be present as a person is becoming increasingly abstract. We see this with the advent of augmented reality,

secondary settings, like changing your personal information in Submitted at 11/5/2009 4:30:00 AM apps that use that data. Those Ever wanted to take a step back with privacy concerns also get and look at all the Google apps quick links to the policies of and data you're hooked into? every app they're using. Google's offering that top-down Here's how Google explains view with Google Dashboard, a their Dashboard in animated central clearinghouse for app video form: settings, privacy information, and What features would you want use statistics. to see added to a Google The main value to the average Dashboard? Personally, I'd like to user at the Dashboard, reachable see a single, secure place to at google.com/dashboard when suspend or recover passwords signed into a Google account, is a from certain accounts, assuming peek at all the services you use, you could log in with strongerthe data Google's acquired from t h a n - n o r m a l v e r i f i c a t i o n . you, and quick links to each app's Transparency, choice and control (ETonline - Breaking News) settings. You also get direct links - n o w c o m p l e t e w i t h a Submitted at 11/5/2009 12:01:00 AM to your Google calendars, your Dashboard![Official Google Chills and thrills abound as ET most recent Gmail messages and Blog] joins Cameron Diaz, James Google Docs documents, and Marsden and writer/director Richard Kelly on Wednesday night at the New York premiere of their new psychological

for eight regions that also run concurrently. The security component is a must for most large enterprises. Second Life Enterprise provides LDAP integration for creating and authenticating accounts. According to Second Life, the m arketplace will include which provides ways to layer our physical world with digital collaboration tools and features markers. In a 3D world, the that fit in a 3D world. This may applications for business allow i n c l u d e e n v i r o n m e n t s f o r for an "always on," world where meetings, events and training. people may have meetings, go Users may purchase business sailing in a virtual sea and use 3D avatars and business oriented objects for training and other environments. Second Life Enterprise will purposes. eventually provide the capability The Second Life Enterprise environment provides users an t o i n t e g r a t e c o l l a b o r a t i v e added layer of security and the applications, meaning if a a b i l i t y t o s c a l e a n a v a t a r company wanted to integrate community. Servers are installed Sharepoint they could do so. in a company's data center, The Second Life platform providing the 3D experience. The compares to a service like Proton service can support up to 800 Media. Proton Media has a concurrent avatars. Second Life number of integrations already in is made up of regions. Second place, including its fit with Life Enterprise has the capacity Sharepoint. Discuss

Cameron Diaz Unleashes 'The Box' thriller, 'The Box.' "They [had] really wonderful chemistry," Richard says of Cameron and James, "and it's rare to find two actors who just fit together like that, almost instantaneously." In 'The Box,' opening this Friday, the stars play a couple

who receive a mysterious wooden contraption: One that can grant them instant riches with the push of button, but will take a complete stranger's life in exchange.

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The Age of Mega Content Sites - Answers.com and Demand Media By Richard MacManus (ReadWriteWeb)

Views, Money Answers.com, which we reviewed in August, garnered Submitted at 11/5/2009 1:15:02 AM 56.4 Million monthly unique Two companies that produce visitors in the United States in massive quantities of new content September (83M worldwide). For every day, Answers.com and context, that puts it on a similar Demand Media, are rapidly level as CBS Interactive (#12 moving up the list of top U.S. with 58M uniques in U.S.) and web properties, as measured by Apple (#11 with 60M). Demand comScore. Answers.com has Media, which we also reviewed risen from #26 to #13 in just two in August, was close behind with months, and Demand Media has 52.5M uniques in September. risen from #24 to #15 in the same Answers.com announced its Q3 time period. Answers.com has 2009 financial results today. It nearly 38 million pages of made $4.99 million in revenue in content on the Web so far; that quarter, including $1.9M in Demand Media produces 2000 September alone. The Q3 09 new pieces of content a day. result was an increase of 40% Is the fact that these sites compared to $3.56 million in Q3 produce so much content, and are 2008. Most of the 09 revenues quickly gaining in popularity as a were from WikiAnswers, which result, cause for concern about reported $3.42 million in Q3 the future of the Web? Will it 2009 - an increase of 75% lead to the same uniformity and compared to $1.96 million in Q3 lowest common denominator 2008. content that afflicts the television WikiAnswers is the main reason industry? for Answers.com's popularity. It Sponsor is a Q&A site driven by userIn this post we take a closer look generated content. And it's at how Answers.com is becoming growing fast. Bob Rosenschein, so successful - and what this may Founder, Chairman & CEO of mean for the Web. In a follow-up Answers.com, left a comment on post, we will dive deeper into our earlier post saying that "the Demand Media's model, based on growth in our traffic is almost an interview I conducted with entirely from our WikiAnswers s e v e r a l D e m a n d M e d i a site." executives (including founder In September, WikiAnswers Richard Rosenblatt) at the Web garnered 46.3 million U.S. 2.0 Summit in September. u n i q u e v i s i t o r s a n d Answers.com Rolling in Page ReferenceAnswers 21.4 million

out hundreds of pages of content every day- preferably thousands. Now, this is nothing new. We've known for a long time that blog success is more easily gained (gamed?) by producing far more U.S. unique visitors (note there is posts per day than any one some crossover between the two person can read. This has led to sites, hence those numbers are m a n y p r o f e s s i o n a l b l o g s greater than the unduplicated competing with each other on total of 56.4M). how many posts they can put up Low-Cost Content Production every day - usually accompanied On A Massive Scale by a slide in quality. There are two interesting aspects As well as producing as much to the success of Answers.com. content as possible, Answers.com Firstly, it has a huge number of and Demand Media also have a pages on the Web now: 38 low cost structure in common million as of today. Much of that with blogs. But they are taking is user-generated content, so very the 'quantity rules' approach to a low cost. whole new level. This is low-cost Secondly, Answers.com's page content production done on a view and financial success is huge scale. almost entirely created off the Just how much content do these b a c k o f G o o g l e . I n d e e d , two sites have on the Web? Answers.com announced recently There's an easy way to find out: that it has renewed its Google search Google. Here is the Services Agreement- extending amount of content each has, its access to Google AdSense for along with some other sites for t w o m o r e y e a r s . B o b comparison: R o s e n s c h e i n , C E O o f • wikipedia.org: 56,000,000 Answers.com, is quoted as • answers.com: 37,700,000 (of saying that "we earn the vast w h i c h w i k i . a n s w e r s . c o m majority of our ad revenue from a c c o u n t s f o r 3 4 , 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 ) Google's sponsored links." • nytimes.com: 13,200,000 Now consider the implications • washingtonpost.com: of this for the future of content 1 2 , 5 0 0 , 0 0 0 on the Web. The recent rapid • ehow.com: 4,850,000 (this is ascensions of Answers.com and Demand Media's lead site) Demand Media can only really • huffingtonpost.com: 4,740,000 lead to one conclusion: to • mashable.com: 210,000 succeed in the content business • techcrunch.com: 124,000 on the Web, you should pump

• readwriteweb.com: 37,700 Answers.com has nearly 38 million pages of content on the Web. Much of it is discovered via Google; and monetized via Google. Wikipedia still has more content, but it is a non-profit world encyclopedia. Answers.com is a commercial company, out to make money. Demand Media is well behind Answers.com (and Wikipedia), but there's reason to believe it will ramp up fast. In August the company told us that it produces 2,000 pieces of content per day, across its network of sites. It also has a slick content production 'studio' system, which we will explore in our next post. Interesting to note that Huffington Post is really the closest the blog world has to a player in this 'mega content' space - but then most of the site's content comes from aggregating it from other sites. Huffington Post has been criticized by the New York Times in particular for this practice. A note on New York Times and Washington Post. Clearly they both have a lot of content too but they also have a lot of wellpaid staff. Answers.com and Demand Media are producing content at a fraction of the price NYT and WP pay for it. The Age AGE page 43

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eBay Launches Trend-Spotting Site Based on User Data By Jolie O'Dell (ReadWriteWeb)

can login through Facebook Connect, although this feature appeared to be unusable at press Submitted at 11/4/2009 4:10:22 PM time. The Inside Source is eBay's Here's a rather scripted video l a t e s t a n n o u n c e m e n t . T h e from editorial director Meredith searching, buying, and selling Barnett: habits of its 88 million active According to emails we've users have added up to an exchanged with an Inside Source enormous dataset, one that could representative, the site's staff is have easily been hoarded and working closely with eBay's sold to marketers, brands, and analytics team to cull information others with a vested interest in on trends. The trends examined online retail and trends. are as broad as correlation Although eBay isn't releasing between events and increased raw stats into the wild, it is s e a r c h e s f o r a t e r m ( e . g . , publishing editorial content and celebrity wears knee-high boots news on trends as well as a tag at red carpet shindig; users start cloud of most popular searches looking for knee-high boots on right now. Coming soon are eBay) and as narrow as data such multimedia galleries and real- as were used for a recent post on time visualizations of current a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame eBay searches. Can we get an concert: For kicks, we decided to open API? Read on to find out. do a comparison of all the Hall of Sponsor Famers participating in the The consumer-focused site is concert series (there's a second broken up into several sections of show at MSG tonight that articles by topic as well as a includes U2, Metallica, Aretha general blog. In addition to Franklin, Lenny Kravitz, Ozzy getting information on fashion Osbourne, Lou Reed, and more) and pop culture, users can also to see which names popped up browse articles on "green" most frequently on eBay over the products and tech gadgets. Users past week.

features a widget on the left side of the page, a thumbnail gallery T h e r e s u l t s w e r e p r e t t y of most watched items featuring fascinating: in terms of keyword auctions from around the site. searches, Metallica was far and Clicking the thumbnail directs away the most sought after band the user straight to the auction among the bunch (more than page for purchase decision 86,000 searches!)... Second to making. And the post we linked M e t a l l i c a i n f r e q u e n c y o f to above ends in a series of k e y w o r d s e a r c h e s w a s U 2 recommended auctions. (75,190), followed by Bruce While it's nice to know about S p r i n g s t e e n ( 3 2 , 6 9 0 ) . T h e trending topics, the site is also number of search per artist d e f i n i t e l y g e a r e d t o w a r d dropped off significantly from encouraging positive user actions there, with but Ozzy Osbourne - by which we mean that eBay is coming in fourth (5,290) and still directing attention in ways Sting rounded out the top five at that will increase sales. It would 4,570... The supply of concert be really interesting to see more tees correlates pretty well with of the data released in a raw, less the demand, with the top five live g l o s s y - c o n s u m e r - m a g - s t y l e l i s t i n g s f o r t h e c o n c e r t format. Currently, eBay offers performers and the term "shirt" o n e r e s e a r c h - f o c u s e d A P I , as follows as of this afternoon: powered by AERS, for retrieving M e t a l l i c a ( 1 , 7 5 9 ) , O z z y pricing information for a given O s b o u r n e ( 3 2 7 ) , B r u c e search term. AERS offers a suite Springsteen (376), U2 (680), BB of tools for retrieving and parsing eBay user data, as well. Their King (61). The editorial nature of the site API includes calls for popular also puts eBay in a unique items, trends, keywords, and position as both a retail outlet and more. Discuss a recommendation source. For example, The Inside Source

Lakers get 41 from Kobe, edge Rockets in OT By Associated Press (ESPN.com) Submitted at 11/4/2009 11:15:03 PM

Fast Facts • Kobe Bryant scored 16 of his

41 points in the fourth quarter and overtime, helping the Lakers to their fifth straight regular season win against the Rockets. • Wednesday's win marked the 98th 40-point game of Bryant's

career, which is third all-time -- ESPN Stats & Information behind Wilt Chamberlain and This content has passed through Michael Jordan. fivefilters.org. • The loss snapped the Rockets' seven-game home win streak and three-game streak overall.

CBS adds to NCIS and subtracts from Numb3rs By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/5/2009 8:10:00 AM

Michael Ausiello is reporting that CBS has reduced the number of episodes of Numb3rs for this season from 22 to only 16. What does this mean for the show? Well, it means that sometimes numbers aren't good even on Numb3rs. It also means that this pretty much guarantees that this will be the last season for the show. Ausiello thinks that CBS will put Flashpoint in the time slot when the episodes run out. So, are all of you people who tried to save Southland going to mount a similar campaign for this show? I didn't think so. Continue reading CBS adds to NCIS and subtracts from Numb3rs Filed under: Industry, Programming, NCIS, RealityFree Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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Study Finds Social Media is Actually Social By Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 11/5/2009 5:53:47 AM

In our society, there's an image of a computer nerd as this sad, pale, and lonely guy sitting in the dark gazing at a glowing screen. As it turns out, that's just an image and it's far from the truth. The reality is that most technology users are perfectly well-adjusted and social creatures. In fact, those who surf the web and use their mobile phones may actually be more social and better connected to the world at large than those who don't. Sponsor According to a new study from Pew Internet and American Life Project, technology does not lead to social isolation, as many often suspected. Instead, researchers found that online participation and mobile phone usage leads to people having larger and more diverse core discussion networks. (Discussion networks are defined as being the places where we can discuss "important matters" with friends and confidants.) Internet

Use and Social Media That's not to say that there aren't some technology addicts that aren't social isolated - around 6% of the adult online population would fit in this category, having no one with whom they can talk about those important matters and who say they don't have anyone "especially significant" in their life. However, this figure (the 6%) has not grown as access to technology has grown over the years - it has remained virtually unchanged since 1985. This points to the fact that perhaps those who are socially isolated individuals would be so anyway, regardless of what sorts of tools are provided to them, be those mobile phones, PCs with internet access, etc. For the majority of the online population, technology - and especially social media - has led to more diverse networks than we've ever had before. The report notes that those who participate in social networking services such as Facebook for example, are more likely to interact with people from different backgrounds, different races,

opposite. On average, a person spends 195 days of the year having mobile phone contact with others, but face-to-face interactions occur on about 210 days per year. In addition, mobile users have around 15% more family members with whom they can discuss important matters and tend to have 25% more core network members who are not family members. Overall, those who use mobile phones have core different political parties, etc. networks that are 12% larger than S p e c i f i c a l l y , b l o g g i n g a n d those who don't. general internet use was tied to Despite all this good news about having more racially diverse how technology leads to having networks while online photo larger, more diverse networks, sharing was tied to having more the researchers also found that diverse political discussion our networks' size has actually shrunk over the years. Since partners. Those who use the internet tend 1985, there has been a decrease to have 15% more network ties of about 1/3 in their size. The who aren't family members and researchers don't suggest any those who use instant messaging s p e c i f i c r e a s o n s f o r t h i s services have 19% more non-kin shrinkage, but they do point out members in their core networks. that they can now rule out one possibility for sure: technology. Mobile Phone Use Along these same lines, the Discuss ubiquity of mobile phones hasn't led to decreased face time with family and friends, but just the

Dancers from Michael Jackson's 'This It It' Visit ET (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/5/2009 12:05:00 AM

Dancers from the current No. 1 film in America, ' Michael Jackson's This Is It,' descended upon ET and opened up about working with the late King of Pop. The young men universally had nothing but praise for Michael, explaining that for them, working with the music icon was their "highest aspiration" and that it was a "beautiful moment." Dancer Daniel Celebre told ET, "Every single person that saw Michael just gave the same energy back, so the love was flying all over the place. And to see the myth, the legend, right in front of you was just ... a blessing -and-a-half."

Review: America's Next Top Model - Dive Deeper By Michael Pascua (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/5/2009 2:36:00 AM

( S13E09) We're down to the final five on America's Next Top Model and one thing that Top Model is doing better this season

than Project Runway is capitalizing on their location. Sure, Laura may look like a tomato during interviews, but at least Hawaii is being represented through their beaches and sugarcane plantations. basically recycled from previous This week's challenges were

seasons. A falling challenge (similar to Season Six's Falling Fairytale photoshoot) and an underwater challenge (which was done in a pool in Season Two for Quench Water). Both proved to be more interesting because of the beautiful location.

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Novell Pulse: Security and Backup to Google Enters Google Wave Customizable News Dashboard Market By Dana Oshiro (ReadWriteWeb)

advantages over Google Wave. When asked about the scenario of an employee going wild and Submitted at 11/4/2009 5:37:26 PM vandalizing Pulse docs, says Fox, Earlier today Novell demoed it's "We're not just offering point Google Wave-like product to the backup. We've got versioning on enterprise world. Pulse is the every single system keystroke." latest workplace collaboration Pulse also offers a higher degree platform to announce at this of privacy for group settings and year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference profiles where IT admin and and ReadWriteWeb was lucky general users set customized enough to catch up with Novell's admin settings and privileges. VP of Engineering Andy Fox for tool provisions groups and According to Fox you can even a demo of the new tool. The beta workmates from an enterprise customize the privacy on profile product is expected early next identity system. This means that form fields to ensure that year. new employees are already set up headhunters are not prospecting Sponsor to start. From here users can your staff from outside of the In late June we offered our first follow team and employee feeds, organization. Meanwhile the impressions of Google Wave. edit and send real-time messages social aspect of a Yammer-like W h i l e W a v e ' s c l a i m t o and collaborate on documents in employee feed is enough reason "reinventing email" has met with real-time. to keep staff interested and h e a v y c r i t i c i s m i n t h e While users can work on Novell engaged. And for those groups blogosphere, Pulse appears better templates within the system, they who are still committed to Wave, -equipped to serve work-related can also collaborate on 3rd party Pulse will also offer Wave users. spreadsheets and documents with integration via Google Wave's One of the great selling points real-time syncing to desktop Federated protocol. For more for Pulse is the fact that instead folders. This attention to backup info on Pulse check out the demo of forcing users to add individual i s y e t a n o t h e r o f P u l s e ' s site. Discuss teammates for collaboration, the

Fed spells out stance on rates (Financial Times - US homepage)

factors that could lead to earlier rate rises. In a shift foreshadowed in the Submitted at 11/4/2009 4:48:41 PM Financial Times, the US central T h e F e d e r a l R e s e r v e o n bank tweaked guidance in its Wednesday signalled that it still policy statement that had been expected to keep interest rates unchanged since March, edging near zero for at least six months, away from a simple forecast that but for the first time identified it expects to keep rates at

“exceptionally low levels” for an “extended period” – commonly understood to mean at least six months. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

By Jolie O'Dell (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 11/4/2009 4:38:17 PM

Like some of our favorite news dashboard services, such as Lazyfeed and Guzzle.it, Google News has decided to allow users to create and save customizable news searches and consume that news in their own " sections." Part dashboard, part feed reader, and all user-friendly, this service promises to be both popular and useful. Users can create sections based on keywords and then publish their sections to directories for sharing with others. Sponsor Multiple sections can be added to a user's Google News homepage, creating a customized, keyword-based digest. this feature is turning Google News into the infinitely segmented, infinitely remixable modern newspaper; and with all the sources Google indexes, it's just what users need. Unfortunately, it also deals yet another blow to suffering old media publications, many of whom aren't too happy about the distribution of their content in the first place. According to a blog post today by Google News engineers Sharad Jain and Nilesh Agrawal,

"One of the great things about online news is the ability to filter by topics. Google News has long recognized this, so we've allowed users to track articles based on keywords of their choice. But it has been a little tricky at times. For example, to follow news about topics related to outer space, you would have to create a pretty complex filter. "Now, if you're using Google News and can't find the perfect section, just create your own! You can do that by adding the relevant keywords. Then, if you are happy with the resulting section, you can publish it to a directory so others can benefit." Currently, the directory includes such sections as Space, NFL, Day in Photos, and about 270 other sections and counting. And just for you, we've created a section all about the real-time web, one of our favorite topics at RWW: What do our readers think? Is this new feature nifty, or what? Discuss

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of Mega Content Sites - Where Is This Headed? On the Web, traditionally success has been measured by page views. This isn't always the case - there's certainly a place for quality over quantity, a philosophy which we at ReadWriteWeb firmly believe in! But by and large, big page views usually means big revenue... or at least the promise of it (e.g. in Facebook's case). Both Answers.com and Demand Media are onto a good thing. They have different approaches Answers.com is largely usergenerated content combined with Wikipedia and other sources;

Demand Media has created a low -cost content factory, by employing thousands of freelancers. Google is largely keeping both companies in business - it is the source of most of their traffic (because a lot of it is reference or resource content) and certainly in Answers.com's case it provides the bulk of its revenue. I can't help but think that the rapid rise of these two companies may be bad news for the Web. If a small number of companies come to dominate a content market, usually blandness and lowest common denominator fare follows. The network television

and radio markets in almost any country in the world is evidence of that. Likewise, if you search Google for a reference article and the first page of results is littered with Answers.com and Demand Media articles, is that crowding out the real topic experts? Are these mega content sites a good or bad thing for the Web? Is quality taking too much of a back seat to quantity? Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Discuss

IMS Health nears $4bn private equity sale (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:38:03 AM

IMS Health, a provider of prescription-drug data, is close to a sale to TPG and Canada Pension Planâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s investment board for more than $4bn in cash. An agreement could be announced as earlier as today, people familiar with the matter said. This content has passed through By Jonathan Toomey (TV fivefilters.org. Squad)

Review: Nip/Tuck Jenny Juggs Submitted at 11/5/2009 9:01:00 AM

Google Ho's for the Holidays, Introduces Commerce Search By Jolie O'Dell (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 11/4/2009 10:30:55 PM

Halloween's barely over, but it's already the most wonderful time of the year! Brace yourselves for the onslaught of holiday-themed money-grubbing, folks. The tech sector is subjected to the same indignities, beginning with a new enterprise search product from our friends at Google, who insist that users will stay on your pathetic website for about eight seconds unless they find exactly what they're looking

for. And how ever shall they find it? Google Commerce Search, of course! Sponsor Google Commerce Search was engineered with the online retail experience in mind. It purports to allow visitors to quickly find the products they seek; to filter results by category, price, brand or other attributes; to increase conversions and sales; to increase sales of specific products within search results; to conduct crosssale and promotional offers; and to scale without glitches because of holiday-related traffic spikes.

And all of these results are to be delivered alongside Google's analytics offerings for optimized performance and conversion. Here's a prematurely festive and depressingly commercial demo

video: Sure, it'll make users happier by decreasing the keystrokes between rabid greediness and commercial satiety, but at what cost? That's a factor you'll have to contact Google to actually learn about; pricing is not available online. It's dirty electronic retailer ROI powered by Google - happy holidays. Webinars are coming to a monitor near you on November 12, November 17, and December 3. Discuss

( S06E04)"Yes! She punched me in the face with her breasts!" Christian This is really starting to shape up into one of Nip/Tuck's best seasons in quite some time. Not only did "Jenny Juggs" put an excellent twist on the season's main plot (Teddy's plan), but it also added life to a plot that has, up until now, been pretty stupid (Matt, the bandit mime). Add in the laughs from Christian and Jenny and you've got some vintage McNamara/Troy action. Remember that? Nip/Tuck always used to be this good. Continue reading Review: Nip/Tuck - Jenny Juggs Filed under: OpEd, Nip/Tuck, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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Command & Conquer: Red Alert Brings the Red Menace to Your iPhone By Darrell Etherington (TheAppleBlog) Submitted at 11/4/2009 11:02:36 AM

It’s a game series that’s gotten much love over the years, despite, or perhaps because of, the cheesy live action cut scenes featuring actors like Tim Curry. Now, Command & Conquer comes to the iPhone with Command & Conquer: Red Alert ($9.99, iTunes link), named after its PC and console counterpart released in 1996. How well does the beloved RTS translate to the iPhone platform? That depends on what you’re looking to get out of the game. EA Mobile has clearly tried to faithfully translate the experience, but as with any translation, no perfect one-to-one relationship can exist. What does come through, however, is definitely worth looking at. Graphics & Audio Perhaps just to make me sad, EA chose not to go with live action mission briefings for this installment of the series, opting instead to brief you with static cartoon images and scrollable text. It’s not nearly as pleasant as hammy acting, but it does get the job done and prepare you adequately for the in-game action. In-game graphics look great, and are probably a bit of an improvement over their original

counterparts in the PC version. Units are clearly distinguishable from one another, animations are smooth, and the visual special effects look good. My sole complaint for the in-game look of things is that units can tend to stack, which renders some of them invisible. It’s confusing and can hamper effective unit management. Sound is good, with music from Red Alert 3, which is the latest game in the series for the PC and consoles. In-game voices are well -recorded and clear, as are most

sound effects. Again, the lack of audio in briefings and other between-action components is a little disappointing, but not terribly so. Gameplay As with any real-time strategy port for the iPhone, the key to enjoyable gameplay lies in making sure the controls are well -designed and intuitive. This can be particularly challenging even when porting RTS games to consoles from the PC, so EA has its work cut out for it with Command & Conquer on the iPhone.

Selecting and commanding individual units on the iPhone is simple enough. You touch a unit to select it, and touch somewhere else to tell it where to go or what to attack. To select multiple units, you have to activate a selection tool by clicking an icon in the lower left-hand corner. At first it wasn’t clear (I hadn’t reached that part in the tutorial yet) and I tried tapping and dragging and two-finger pinch and zoom type gestures. Once you have selected a group of units, though, you can assign

them to a command group using another icon at the lower left of the screen. This assigns them to one of three slots on the left, and allows you to re-select that group at any time with a simple tap. It’s the saving grace of the game, control-wise, and I wish there were more than three spots available to assign unit groups to. The campaigns are fun, and not too challenging. There is both a Soviet and an Allied campaign, each of which contains five chapters, and there’s a skirmish mode with customizable starting resources and different maps, which really adds to the replay value of the game. All told, EA Mobile does a great job skirting the limitations of the iPhone’s controls, and provides ample gameplay while still retaining a fairly casual feel, so that you can pick it up and put it down as necessary between meetings or while commuting. Verdict For an iPhone game, Command & Conquer: Red Alert feels polished and professional, but it leaves me wanting something more. I can’t help but yearn for the easier controls and richer storyline and gameplay of the PC version, which may in fact be what EA was intending. Perhaps the iPhone game is meant as a sort of teaser demo to attract new COMMAND page 45

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The iPhone’s Other Killer App By Charles Jade (TheAppleBlog)

interface of the iPhone. Without exception, the iPhone wins every time. Submitted at 11/4/2009 7:41:02 AM Even better, from Apple’s point Looking at the latest data on of view, the smartphone with the smartphone market share from worst touch interface — besides research firm Canalys, it would beleaguered Windows Mobile on appear that while Apple is doing HTC phones — has been RIM’s well, RIM is doing better. BlackBerry Storm and Storm2. According to Canalys, over 41 Further, what is arguably the million smartphones shipped last closest competitor, the Motorola quarter, and of those Apple sold Droid will lack multi-touch, at 7.3 million, up from 6.9 million a least in the U.S. Motorola year ago, a 6.7 percent increase. obfuscated something about That’s the good news. The bad “differentiated consumer news is for HTC, the only major experiences on our mobile smartphone maker to lose market devices” based on “region, share, down 5.6 percent, but the carrier preferences and consumer best news is for RIM. RIM sold needs,” but another theory is 8.5 million phones, up from 6 wariness concerning Apple’s million last year, a super-sized 40 patents on multi-touch. percent increase. Based upon sales of touchscreen phones were are at 3.6 and 3.1 percent, eerily familiar, not at all unlike Let’s hope so. A vigorous these numbers, it would seem up 159 percent from a year ago, respectively. Mark Donovan of p r e d i c t i o n s a b o u t i P o d defense of that mutli-touch logical to conclude RIM is the an even larger increase than comScore believes the iPhone competitors in 2004. Back then, experience is one half of what big winner among smartphone touchscreen smartphone sales, “set the trend in the industry for the iPod’s success was attributed could be a plan for world makers, but these numbers only which were up 63 percent. Of the touchscreen devices, so it’s no to everything from the iTunes domination by Apple in the touch the surface of the situation, l a t t e r , t h e i P h o n e i s t h e surprise that it has the largest ecosystem to Apple marketing, phone market. The other half is or rather they don’t. undisputed leader. share of the market.” However, but what really set the iPod apart the end of carrier exclusivity and While conventional wisdom says The iPhone accounts for a third he also believes “competitors was the interface, especially the the launch of a carrier-subsidized the killer application for the of the touchscreen smartphone have entered the touchscreen patented click wheel. What we “free” iPhone nano, a media iPhone has been the App Store, a market in the U.S., with no other market with compelling devices, are seeing now is that in every player and phone with the best new survey from comScore competitor in double digits. The competition is clearly heating review from the Palm Pre to the interface on the planet, Apple’s suggests that touch is quickly Blackberry Storm is at 7 percent, up.” Motorola Droid there is a golden touch. becoming the must have feature the T-Mobile G1 and HTC Touch That latter comment sounds comparison to the multi-touch for smartphones. For the U.S.,

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customers to the PC/console line. less before picking this one up. Either way, despite solid gameplay, Red Alert left me underwhelmed. I’d wait for the inevitable price drop to $6.99 or

US Jobs data provide boost for equities (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:40:40 AM

Wall Street put the disappointment of the previous

session’s post-Fed swoon behind it on signs the labour market is improving. On the opening bell the S&P 500 rose 9 points, or 0.9 per cent gain, with a good earnings report

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App Store Hits 100K in 481 Days By Charles Jade (TheAppleBlog)

first great platform for mobile applications and our customers are loving all of the amazing apps Submitted at 11/4/2009 7:53:44 AM our developers are creating.” 481 days. That’s how long it The amazing thing is that it’s took the App Store to go from likely not even Apple knew just opening its virtual doors with 500 how successful the App Store applications on July 11, 2008 to a and SDK would be or how it catalog of more than 100,000 w o u l d s p a w n s o m a n y applications downloaded more c o m p e t i t o r s ( G i g a O M P r o , than 2 billion times. subscription required). Not surprisingly, the folks at In June 2007, it was Apple CEO Apple are pleased. Steve Jobs talking up a different “The App Store, now with over method application development 100,000 applications available, is for the iPhone: clearly a major differentiator for “Our innovative approach, using millions of iPhone and iPod Web 2.0-based standards, lets touch customers around the developers create amazing new world,” said Philip Schiller, applications while keeping the Apple’s senior vice president of iPhone secure and reliable.” Worldwide Product Marketing. Imagine for a moment if Apple “The iPhone SDK created the had stuck to that ideal of a web-

based platform. I believe it would be called the Palm Pre. Of course, it’s possible that Apple knew all along that there would be a real SDK for the iPhone OS, almost assuredly so

release, saying that the App Store has “forever changed the mobile gaming industry and continues to improve.” You can bet Nintendo and Sony believe at least the first part of that statement, much to their chagrin. What you didn’t find in the press release was what, exactly, is being done to improve the flawed approval process. While Apple talks about addressing issues, there is no evidence of real, systemic change. As the App Store moves inevitably towards for major partners like game 500,000, and then its millionth developers. Apple again pushed application, you have to wonder that gaming concept for iPhone if the App Store can withstand OS with today’s announcement, the stress of its own incredible too. EA Mobile VP Travis success. Boatman chimed in on the press

Let The World Change You (Scripting News)

because he had no clue who he was and how he got that way. Change The World? Good thing I h a v e a p r o b l e m w i t h that didn't happen! entrepreneurs who say they want As someone who just watched to Change The World. his father die, I don't think any of Isn't that a lot to take on? How us have the first clue how the do you know your idea for world works. My father was a changing the world is what the smart man, spent a lot of time world needs? What if you thinking, and at the end, he may Change The World and instead of have understood 1 percent of 1 making it better you make it percent of 1 percent of how the suck. What then? world works. And some of that I am a former young person who was based on faulty assumptions. wanted to Change The World Yet my father would always give himself. I look back at that young a couple of bucks to anyone who person, and think -- he was asked for it. And if you wanted to put on a smile and let you take it, lovely in many ways but he made take a picture of him, no matter and if you asked why, he shrugged it off, as if there was a pretty good mess of his life, how old or sick he got, he always Submitted at 11/4/2009 3:47:25 PM

any reason to care. A week before he died, I tried to teach him to use Twitter, but he said he didn't have time. He was right. So I've recently seen the end. I don't think too many people get much further than my dad did. He lived to be 80, grew up in Europe, fled from a war, fought in a war, raised a family, was married 55 years, got an education, taught, went to museums and the ballet and opera, traveled everywhere, and I don't think he would have said, at the end, he had any idea how to Change The World. It's only youth that figures it knows, but that's because of strong

chemicals and not knowing what you don't know. It's an illusion. Change is made by all of us, over many generations. The best we can do is make a few other people happy for a while, make ourselves happy, and if you do that, and leave the place a little nicer for having been here, I say - Job Well Done! Maybe instead of changing the world, relax, and Let The World Change You. That's closer to what actually happens in life, no matter how rich or famous (or not) you are. See also: Transcendental Money.

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Cable News Ratings for Tuesday, November 3, 2009; Fox Has Huge Off Year Election Night By Bill Gorman (TVbytheNumbers)

HLN – 221,000 viewers 35-64 Prime Time FNC –1,923,000 viewers Submitted at 11/4/2009 4:25:53 PM CNN – 374,000 viewers Live + Same Day Cable News MSNBC –465,000 viewers Daily Ratings for November 3, CNBC – 53,000 viewers 2009 HLN –414,000 viewers P2+ Total Day Morning programs (6:00AMFNC – 1,672,000 viewers 9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64) CNN – 515,000 viewers FOX & Friends- 1,052,000 MSNBC –401,000 viewers viewers (419,000) (676,000) CNBC – 178,000 viewers American Morning- 376,000 HLN –394,000 viewers viewers (129,000) (204,000) P2+ Prime Time Morning Joe- 279,000 viewers FNC – 4,043,000 viewers (94,000) (177,000) CNN – 826,000 viewers Squawk Box- 169,000 viewers MSNBC –974,000 viewers (62,000) (101,000) CNBC – a scratch w/99,000 Morning Express w/ Meadeviewers 329,000 viewers (251,000) HLN –842,000 viewers (239,000) 25-54 Total Day 5PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64) FNC –448,000 viewers Glenn Beck – 2,936,000 viewers CNN –127,000 viewers (711,000) (1,393,000) MSNBC –122,000 viewers Situation Room—620,000 CNBC – 56,000 viewers viewers (88,000) (180,000) HLN- 202,000 viewers Hardball w/ Chris 25-54 Prime Time Matthews—640,000 viewers FNC – 1,130,000 viewers (201,000) (302,000) CNN – 227,000 viewers Fast Money—233,000 viewers MSNBC –308,000 viewers (a scratch w/45,000) (115,000) CNBC – a scratch w/41,000 Prime News–363,000 viewers viewers (145,000) (247,000) HLN – 341,000 viewers 6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64) 35-64 Total Day Special Report with Bret Baier– FNC – 813,000 viewers 2,582,000 viewers (576,000) CNN – 224,000 viewers (1,115,000) MSNBC – 195,000 viewers Situation Room—560,000 CNBC – 94,000 viewers viewers (81,000) (195,000)

Ed Show—520,000 viewers (129,000) (226,000) Mad Money —180,000 viewers (a scratch w/45,000) (81,000) Prime News — 452,000 viewers (234,000) (263,000) 7PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64) The Fox Report w/ Shep –2,841,000 viewers (720,000) (1,344,000) Lou Dobbs Tonight—700,000 viewers (140,000) (268,000) Hardball w/ C. Matthews—733,000 viewers (209,000) (369,000) Kudlow Report — 161,000 viewers (54,000) (79,000) Issues– 668,000 viewers (241,000) (373,000) 8PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64) The O’Reilly Factor– 4,165,000 viewers (1,109,000) (1,867,000) Campbell Brown – 727,000 viewers (199,000) (311,000) Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 1,119,000 viewers (293,000) (523,000) Your Money Your Vote – a scratch w/122,000 viewers (a scratch w/36,000) (77,000) Nancy Grace – 1,211,000 viewers (416,000) (577,000) 9 PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64) Hannity –4,224,000 viewers (1,200,000) (2,055,000) Larry King Live —919,000 viewers (236,000) (392,000) Rachel Maddow Show

—1,022,000 viewers (337,000) (492,000) Executive Vision 1– a scratch w/42,000 viewers (a scratch w/13,000) (a scratch w/21,000) Joy Behar- 609,000 viewers (262,000) (311,000) 10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64) On The Record w/ Greta Van Susteren —3,720,000 viewers (1,067,000) (1,833,000) Anderson Cooper 360 — 830,000 viewers (247,000) (419,000) Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 777,000 viewers (295,000) (382,000) Scam Century: Punishment – 133,000 viewers (73,000) (61,000) Nancy Grace –757,000 viewers (361,000) (374,000) 11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64) America’s Election HQ —2,636,000 viewers (841,000) (1,414,000) Anderson Cooper 360 — 736,000 viewers (225,000) (377,000) Rachel Maddow Show —514,000 viewers (163,000) (239,000) Mad Money – a scratch w/89,000 viewers (a scratch w/33,000) (a scratch w/34,000) Showbiz Tonight– 516,000 viewers (256,000) (296,000) -

For other days cable news ratings click here. P2+ = viewers over the age of 2 (25-54) = Adults 25-54 viewing (35-64) = Adults 35-64 viewing Prime Time = 8-11pm LIVE+SD: The number that watched a program either while it was broadcast OR watched via DVR on the same day [through 3AM the next day] the program was broadcast. For more information see Numbers 101. Scratch = when a show’s audience fails to meet minimum Nielsen reporting levels. For more information go here. Nielsen Cable Network Coverage Estimates(as of September, 2009) CNN/HLN: 99.098 million HHs CNBC: 96.78 million HHs FNC: 96.26 million HHs MSNBC: 92.64 million HHs Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Personal attacks in the comments will be deleted. Political comments will be deleted. If I have to delete your comments more than once, I will just block your commenting. Bill This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Cable Ratings: Sons of Anarchy averages 3.5 million and a 1.8 adults 18-49 rating By Robert Seidman (TVbytheNumbers) Submitted at 11/4/2009 3:21:51 PM

Not that I need an excuse to write about my new favorite show, but with all the 472 posts today on V(and I’m not knocking it, I posted 468 of them) people are probably starting to think we are V bytheNumbers rather than TVbytheNumbers. I did like the V pilot, but I still like Sons of Anarchy more. Much more. I’m a science fiction loving guy too. Good science fiction and even bad science fiction I generally embrace it all. But hands down SOA is the best drama on TV right now for my viewing pleasure. SOA made big news a couple of weeks back, and sadly it wasn’t for being the best freaking show on television, but rather for beating The Jay Leno Show and The Forgotten. Last week it slipped back behind its 10pm broadcast competition, but was still the #1 scripted drama on cable for the week(so long as you exclude Monday

Night Raw, and I know some of you believe that is a scripted drama!) Last night with a 1.8 adults 1849 rating (same as last week) and 3.5 million viewers (up a touch from last week) SOA again came in behind The Jay Leno Show(2.0 A18-49) and The Forgotten(1.9). But it will again be the #1 scripted drama on cable barring some big surprise. And it

Monica: Still Standing - 1.141 million viewers - 0.8/1 HH - 0.6/2 A18-49 Kathy Griffin: Balls of Steel - 0.922 million viewers - 0.6/1 HH - 0.5/1 A18-49 Sons of Anarchy (62 minutes) - 3.516 million viewers - 2.2/4 HH - 1.8/5 A18-49 Sherri (10pm) - 0.849 million viewers - 0.5/1 HH - 0.3/1 A18-49 The Hills - 1.985 million viewers - 1.4/2 HH also i s still doing better with So I won’t be too hard on FX for - 1.2/3 A18-49 - 2.8/8 W18-34 adults 18-49 than Kate Gosselin. being numskulls. Due to crazy and brutal B.S. The renewal (good) news will The City Hollywood negotiating and come, and in the meanwhile we - 1.513 million viewers posturing tactics, amazingly FX still have four more episodes in - 1.1/2 HH hasn’t announced a season three season two to go. As an extra - 0.9/3 A18-49 pick up of its NUMBER ONE bonus, two out of the next four - 2.2/7 W18-34 SHOW yet. I don’t think FX episodes will be 90 minute This content has passed through really has any leverage here, but I airings, including next week’s. fivefilters.org. understand the human nature of Here are some other Tuesday wanting to feel like you’re in cable numbers via our friend “ control, even when you’re not. Travis Yanan“:

Victoria's Secret Angel Boot Camp: ET's V.I.P. Tour! (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/5/2009 12:02:00 AM

Have you ever wanted to know what it would really be like to

live with 10 gorgeous models in an uber-swank Manhattan penthouse? ET's got your exclusive tour of the Victoria's Secret Angel Boot Camp!

"The experience for all of us has been crazy, phenomenal. I think it's a bigger-than-life opportunity for every girl here," says Alicia, a beautiful brunette originally from

Las Vegas. "This has been my dream since whenever," says Tika, originally from Montenegro. "All the girls are nice, and beautiful, of course

-- that's why we're here -- no fights yet."

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Fox News has best election night ratings By Robert Seidman (TVbytheNumbers)

NYTimes.com: The cable channels each added hours of live coverage to their Submitted at 11/4/2009 3:38:23 PM schedules; CNN declared it to be for whatever reason, we didn’t “Election Night in America.” But get our normal cable news data for all the ballyhoo, only Fox ratings for yesterday yet, and I’m News showed significant ratings guessing we won’t see it until gains. tomorrow. We need a better Mr. O’Reilly added more than a backup strategy! million viewers, but the biggest Better late than never. Our gains came later in the evening, regular cable news ratings data as votes were counted and the for Tuesday, November 3 has R e p u b l i c a n c a n d i d a t e s f o r arrived. governor, Robert F. McDonnell In the meanwhile you can find in Virginia and Christopher J. the night’s results on TV Newser Christie in New Jersey, delivered and the original TV Newser, victory speeches. Brian Stelter has a write-up on The conservative commentator

Sean Hannity, whose 9 p.m. program averages 2.5 million viewers, had 4.2 million viewers on Tuesday. Greta Van Susteren, the 10 p.m. anchor, had 3.7 million viewers, up from an average of 2 million this year. An extra hour of election coverage at 11 p.m., with the Washington anchor Bret Baier, drew 2.6 million viewers, up from the time period’s average of 1.5 million. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

New Pics: 'How I Met Your Mother''s Barney in a Fat Suit (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/5/2009 12:03:00 AM

When the gang realizes that Barney ( Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin ( Cobie Smulders) are miserable together, Ted ( Josh Radnor) and Marshall ( Jason Segel) request Lily's ( Alyson Hannigan) help in breaking them up. Lily devises the perfect plan,

Submitted at 11/5/2009 1:22:00 AM

(S01E06) Something big is going to happen with Axl, and I can't wait for it. Yes, he's doing the same bored, sleeping, lazy teenager act that we've seen a million times before, but I like the way he works off of both Neil Flynn and Patricia Heaton. And I think there's real potential for him to break out into something unique; like when he put his clothes on for the bus in two seconds. The writers have already crafted

both Brick and Sue into wholly unique, and bizarre, children. By comparison the only thing odd about Axl so far is his name. He's just so ... ordinary! Ordinary was enough, though, for him to be

part of a pretty funny storyline that pitted him at odds with his father. It also makes me terrified of the upcoming teen years. Maybe I'll just ship mine out to some other

calling in help from Robin's famous friend, Alan Thicke, playing himself. "The Rough Patch" episode of "How I Met Your Mother" airs Monday, Nov. 9 at 8 p.m. on CBS. These "fat" photos are from a fantasy in which Barney has been "eating" his feelings, and Robin is losing her hair from stress.

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(Financial Times - US homepage) family to deal with. Maybe he can move to Orson, Indiana and I'll just let Mike and Frankie take care of him. Better send him with an extra coat. You never know when a door might go missing. Continue reading Review: The Middle - The Front Door Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality -Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee voted on Thursday to expand its vast programme of pumping cash into the UK economy by £25bn, in a sign it remains worried about the outlook in spite of incipient signs of recovery. As expected, the Bank left interest rates unchanged at 0.5 per cent. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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(S01E07) I love more and more every week that we have these three different families we can pull from for our main focus. On most family shows, you're limited by the one family dynamic you're dealing with, and by the age of the kids involved. Here, in one show, we have a gay couple with a baby, a traditional couple with kids ranging from pre-teen to teenager, and an older man married to a younger woman with her young son. That's like at least three different shows worth of material they can pull from each week. How can they possibly not find simply tons of moments of funny with that much to work with? So far, they've managed to pack every minute of each episode, and this week was no exception. The main story was Manny's fencing tournament; of course it

Someone on YouTube has smuggled a clip of the new Doctor Who CGI adventure that the BBC will be airing later this year titled "Dreamland". It's still the David Tennant version of the Doctor, so he gets one more go as the character before he becomes Rex. And it looks... well, frankly, not that good. Oh, the story is great, would be fencing Manny would I'm sure, and Tennant is as spot excel at ... why not? From there, on as the Doctor as he ever was. we extrapolated into the general It's the CGI. It looks primitive by parenting desire to have children today's standards. Topless Robot who are great at something, and wrote the the style of the clip the desire of children to receive reminds them of the Reboot CGI praise from their parents. cartoon from the 90's, and I have Continue reading Review: to agree. I recognize the BBC Modern Family - En Garde Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Modern Family Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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isn't Pixar, and I'm all for Doctor Who in other non-filmed forms, whether it's CGI, primitive animation or just plain old audio adventures. But if it's done, I'd rather it be done better than this. However, I leave it to you to judge for yourself. What do you think of the clip? Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Video, Doctor Who, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

Even though, once again, Payless has altered Christian Sirianoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original runway shoes ( that heel!) to please those who just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in a 5-inch heel, the final FW09 retail collection is still pretty great, especially given its $29.99 to $49.99 price point. The Elisa Strippy Strappy Sandal seen here is the perfect year-round buy: bare legged or paired with an opaque tight, this cone heeled, back zippered, ankle cuffed black patent sandal will just as easily complement an LBD as it will a moto jacket and skinny jeans. And at that ferosh a price, you have little more than a skipped happy hour to lose. Gift yourself some Siriano this season (click here to purchase) Photos: Payless.com

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Charlize Theron and Viggo Mortensen reflect on life at the American Film Institute's premiere of 'The Road' on

Wednesday night in Los Angeles. Based on the Cormac McCarthy tale of a widower (Viggo) and his son ( Kodi Smit-McPhee), the movie follows the two as they struggle to survive in a postapocalyptic world. Viggo, who

was honored by the AFI at the event, said of his young co-star, "I felt such affection for the boy who I didn't know before this. Now he is like my son." Reflecting on what he gained by portraying this role, Viggo said,

"I think telling the story made me value just being alive and having family members who are alive, having friends. It's a simple thing, really, but it's like in any work of art, great painting, piece of music, a movie, that in the end

tells you something that you already knew...A movie that tells you that and earns that like this one does, it's worth its weight in gold."

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Getty Images Yankees players celebrate the team’s first World Series title since 2000 and 27th overall. The Journal provides minute-byminute analysis of the New York Yankees’ 7-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 of the World Series that clinched their first title since 2000 and Major League Baseball-record 27th overall. Journal staffer Matthew Futterman offers commentary from Yankee Stadium, while Journal staffers Bill Power (Phillies) and Brian Fitzgerald (Yankees) give a fan’s perspective. 5:44 pm | Pregame | by Matthew Futterman If ever a stage was set for an aging lion to have a triumphant final star turn, this would be it, as Andy Pettitte takes the mound to try to clinch the World Series for the Yankees for a record 27th time. The only problem for Pettitte and the Yankees is that another old lion, Pedro Martinez, is taking the mound for the Philadelphia Phillies looking for his own triumphant final turn. Oh, and by the way, Pedro goes on a full four days rest, while Pettitte is pitching on just three. If you had $1,000 to bet, which pitcher would you put your money on? And, on top of that, doesnât it seem like every time everything

looks to be set up for the aging star, the old lion simply doesnât roar? At this moment, itâs hard not to be reminded of Brett Favre against the Giants in the frigid NFC Championship game in Green Bay two years ago. By the middle of the second quarter, the Giants had already knocked around Favre plenty, and on the sidelines, he basically looked old and cold. The most comforting news for the Yankees may be that they have their ace CC Sabathia waiting to pitch in Game 7 while the Phillies may have to call on the disappointing Cole Hamels, though they seem just as likely to ask Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell to throw a few innings, considering the sad state of their bullpen. Ace Cliff Lee couldnât

start on two daysâ rest, could he? But those questions will have to wait until tonightâs affair is over. Phillies centerfielder Shane Victorino will play after getting hit on the right index finger on his first at bat in Game 5. The Yankees are without their regular centerfielder Melky Cabrera for the rest of the series and have to resort to reserve Brett Gardner. Gardner plays fine in the field and could probably sub onto the Jamaican 100-meter relay team, but it seems like his last hit came sometime in July. With Robinson Cano hitting .208 for the postseason (and a âsoftâ .208 at that) the Yankeesâ bottom of the order is as weak as it has been in a while. The good news for the Yanks is they get the DH back in their lineup now that they are at

home. Meanwhile, the Phillies have their own issues, beginning with slugger Ryan Howard, who has 20 strikeouts in 50 at bats in the postseason. Of course if Chase Utley keeps hitting home runs seemingly every time he steps to the plate, (he has five in this series â- three off Sabathia) that just might be enough for the Phillies to force a Game 7. And isnât that what is supposed to happen? There hasnât been a World Series Game 7 in the Bronx since 1957. A match-up between these two clubs tomorrow night with everything on the line just might prove to be worth the 52-year wait. Â 5:46 pm | Pregame | by Matthew Futterman

A few other notes from Joe Girardi in his pregame press conference: -- Despite starting Jerry Hairston, Jr. in Game 2 against Pedro Martinez because of his decent numbers against the selfdescribed "old goat," Girardi has gone back to Nick Swisher, stating that Swisher's at-bats have been good since he had that game off last week and he deserves to start. -- A.J. Burnett, who didn't get out of the third inning Monday night in Philadelphia is available to work in relief tonight. That could prove helpful given the poor performances of several Yankee relievers in this series. -- Though Mark Teixeira his WORLD page 52

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hitting barely more than a dollar, Girardi thinks he is "really going to get going." Isn't that what Joe Torre used to say about A-Rod? As for Phillies manager Charlie Manuel, he said he gave no consideration to dropping Howard down in the batting order because of his slump, but that it had nothing to do with Howard's feelings. "If I thought dropping Howard down in the lineup would win the game for us, I'd do it." -- Raul Ibanez will DH and Ben Francisco will play left field, which improves the Phillies' defense. 6:52 pm | Pregame | by Brian Fitzgerald I am excited. There is a whiff of nostalgia with tonight's game. Andy Pettitte, a member of the Old Guard (a k a "True Yankee" if you buy into that sort of stuff), is on the mound in a game that can bring the World Series home to New York. What's more, he goes up against Pedro Martinez, the ultimate foil. This could be a script written by Steinbrenner the Elder: As if all those playoff games against Boston weren't enough, somehow the Yanks have to go through Petey on the ultimate stage to wrest the title from the defending champions. And to boot, the game has put the fans of the crosstown rival Mets in the position of rooting for a hated division opponent of the past few years. I am a little nervous, too. A loss here puts the Yanks on the clear defensive, even if the stats are on

their side. The Phillies will carry all the momentum into game seven. I like CC Sabathia if it goes one more, but I want a check mark in the win column for Andy Pettitte tonight. 7:34 pm | Pregame | by Bill Power Phillies fans are pretty juiced up (uh, perhaps a bad phrase these days). Even with last year's fun, it would have been a disappointment to have lost this year's Series in Philly. But now there's hope. Last year had a "magic" feel and this year is more like a fight. Glad they've made it to Nov. 4 baseball and are slugging it out. Tonight I'm angering my Phillies -fan colleagues at the WSJ (yeah, they somehow allow us in the building), since the Phils are 0-3 when I do this blog, and 2-0 when I don't, including Game 5, when I was at the Phillies' win and it was Jim Pensiero's turn. But I'm not superstitious. (Just 'cause Utley wears 26 doesn't mean the Yankees are doomed to be stuck on 26 rings, does it?) 7:35 pm | Pregame | by Brian Fitzgerald I speak for all Yankees fans when I offer a hearty, muchanticipated "Welcome Back" to Mr. Power. 7:52 pm | Pregame | by Brian Fitzgerald An excellent rendition of the National Anthem from Mary J. That one gets filed under "chill inducing." For comparison's sake, there's this.

7:57 pm | Pregame | by Matthew Futterman A-Rod is jumping around outside the dugout, getting ready for the one thing he does which is pretty cool -- the running pass play out to third base where he catches the ball from the dugout like a wide receiver. Pettitte took a surprisingly quiet walk in from the bullpen. Crowd seems more nervous than anything. Still haunted by 2004. They've seen leads disappear before. Still, it's another crisp fall night in New York. Air is still. Flags are droopy. Time to play ball. 8:01 pm | Pregame | by Matthew Futterman Pedro made it all the way from the bullpen to the dugout without engaging a fan in conversation. 8:01 pm | First inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Happy to see Shane Victorino in the lineup. No one should have to miss out on the Fall Classic because they got hurt. Here we go. 8:02 pm | First inning | by Matthew Futterman Rollins hits a sharp grounder to short for solid putout by Jeter, followed by Victorino with a cheap-hop base hit. Girardi said he was going to keep close track of the kinds of outs Pettitte was getting. Keep that in mind. 8:03 pm | First inning | by Brian Fitzgerald I donât mean to harp on the broadcast, but who can remember the last time one of those "Keys to Victory" graphics had something useful in it? One of

tonight's Home Depot Tools to Victory: "C'mon You're Kidding Right?" Thankfully Tim McCarver informed us that, of course, they have to win. So a key to victory is having to have a victory. Isn't this like defining a word by using the word in the definition? I digress. 8:05 pm | First inning | by Matthew Futterman Utley gounds into a double play to end the inning, which has to make the Yankees feel good about themselves. THEY ACTUALLY RETIRED UTLEY!!! Pettitte pitched him high and inside. Utley will be looking for that next time. No score, Yanks coming to bat. 8:06 pm | First inning | by Brian Fitzgerald With a man on base, Chase Utley hit into a double play. He actually looks stunned, like the clock struck midnight but no one told him that was part of the deal. Pedro looks like he was cheated, somehow. 8:07 pm | First inning | by Bill Power One thing about having Pedro start for your team: Takes pressure off everyone else. He draws in the attention like a vacuum. 8:08 pm | First inning | by Matthew Futterman 50,000 people chanting "Who's Your Daddy " really is something to behold. 8:11 pm | First inning | by Matthew Futterman Another thing about Pedro starting for your team -- he's a

first-ballot Hall-of-Famer. He looks like he's throwing a wiffle ball his ball moves so much. Jeter flies to left. 8:12 pm | First inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Bill, you're right. And he revels in it. I wonder what he thought of this N.Y. Post cover? 8:13 pm | First inning | by Bill Power I guess the "You Took Steroids" chant from Philly isn't allowed? 8:14 pm | First inning | by Matthew Futterman Pedro gets Damon on a changeup for the second out. TeixeiraÂ took Pedro to a full count and sent the ball to the right-field warning track. Pedro's balls aren't getting out of the mid -80s but early on, it looks like the baseball isn't carrying in the cold air. 8:17 pm | Second inning | by Matthew Futterman Howard grounds to first for the first out. His swing remains out of sync, like he's not confident enough to swing hard anymore, and Howard is one of the game's great hard-swingers. 8:18 pm | Second inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Wonder if Ryan Howard is celebrating on the inside that his out didnât involve a K. 8:19 pm | Second inning | by Bill Power Would be nice if Pedro had a few more MPH available from his engine -- maybe when he gets warmed up -- but he sure knows WORLD page 53

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how to pitch. Wonder if guys like Pedro and Pettitte are born with the ability to be cold-blooded and poised in such hostile situations or they learn it? 8:20 pm | Second inning | by Matthew Futterman Pettitte goes away away away on Werth and walks him. Can't blame Pettitte, Werth has some of the longest arms I have ever seen on a baseball player. 8:20 pm | Second inning | by Brian Fitzgerald And Werth knocked two over the wall off Pettitte in Game 3. I don't think Andy wanted to come close. 8:21 pm | Second inning | by Bill Power Classic at-bat from Werth. Fans at one point thought he should lead off; he's so patient usually. 8:25 pm | Second inning | by Matthew Futterman Ibanez flies out, continuing a pretty poor World Series. Then Feliz leaves a man on scoring position after a wild pitch. Pettitte is pitching very carefully, barelly touching the edges of the plate. You wonder if the Phillies have it in them to start taking some pitches. Scoreless after 1 1/2 innings. 8:26 pm | Second inning | by Matthew Futterman Very early on, no score, heading to the bottom of the second, and both starters look sharp. But this is going to be two different games. One with the starters, and another when the bullpens start emptying. It's hard to see Pettitte being able to hand this game to

Rivera. 8:28 pm | Second inning | by Matthew Futterman Pedro is being as careful with Rodriguez as Pettitte was with Utley. Walks him. 8:29 pm | Second inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Fox just showed a clip of Pedro walking by Alex Rodriguez before the game, and Alex giving a "glove bump" to Pedro. Personally, I donât have a problem with this. But I am sure there are a couple hundred Yankees fans who planned to spew bile in A-Rod's direction if he made an out. Fortunately, he walked. 8:30 pm | Second inning | by Bill Power Are the breaks between innings twice as long in the World Series? Felt that way when I went to Game 5, that's for sure. And then the mound meetings...like football. 8:35 pm | Second inning | by Bill Power Could see that coming. 8:36 pm | Second inning | by Matthew Futterman Matsui takes Pedro over the right field fence on a 3-2 fastball, after nearly doing it twice before in the at-bat. 2-0 Yankees. Two points here. Matsui kills Pedro, always has. In-person, Pedro looks like a college pitcher tonight. His ball just isn't coming out of his hand with any kind of fire. 8:41 pm | Second inning | by Matthew Futterman Nice job by Pedro fanning

Posada after the homer, but Cano's out was expensive, a sharp liner, before Swisher's pop to left. Pedro needs some more of those cheap ones if he is going to survive tonight. It's an elimination game and Manuel's leash is going to be short -- but who does he go to? 2-0 Yanks after two. 8:43 pm | Third inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Bill, how long should Charlie Manuel give Pedro? Is that J.A. Happ character on speed dial? 8:43 pm | Third inning | by Matthew Futterman Odd, even after the home run, this crowd is remarkably quiet. Perhaps the new stadium has priced out all the loud-mouths. Still it's a strange constrast to the nine-inning party that is wondrous Citizens Bank Park. 8:44 pm | Third inning | by Matthew Futterman What is it with the substitute outifielders? Francisco and Gardner can't buy hits. One away. 8:45 pm | Third inning | by Bill Power I don't think Charlie speed-dials. 8:47 pm | Third inning | by Matthew Futterman Triple by Ruiz, after the ball caroms away in left-center. It's astonishing the way the weakhitting catchers have destroyed the Yankees in the postseason. First Mathis and then Ruiz. 8:49 pm | Third inning | by Brian Fitzgerald That was a really unfortunate bounce off the wall. If Brett

Gardner wasn't planning to catch it at the wall, then I wish he didnât stand so close to the warning track to catch it off the bounce. He was caught off-guard by the weird angle the ball took, and then he couldnât seem to chase the ball down. 8:50 pm | Third inning | by Matthew Futterman Like most pitchers, Pettitte rages when he can't make a lead stick and he's seriously pissed about the triple and the sac fly from Rollins that brought in Ruiz with the Phillies' first run.Â Still most of his outs have been soft. 2-1 Yanks in the bottom of the second. 8:50 pm | Third inning | by Bill Power Ruiz hit well in 2008 Series too. Weird how some guys do that, and struggle in the summer. Was big that Phillies got that run in. Game on. 8:52 pm | Third inning | by Brian Fitzgerald For anyone who had followed all of our World Series live blogs: Yes, my brother-in-law exited stage right just after Matsui's homer. Third time this series he has done that. And, yes, he actually sat down to watch at the beginning of that at-bat. True story. 8:54 pm | Third inning | by Matthew Futterman Gardner stikes out leading off the bottom of the third.Â Do rules allow managers to DH for weak substitute outfileders? 8:54 pm | Third inning | by Matthew Futterman

First time I think I have ever seen Victorino misplay a ball. Jeter reaches, but that was another sharp drive. Scary part of the lineup on the way. 8:58 pm | Third inning | by Bill Power Yes, Victorino is such a good fielder -- a season full of "wow" plays -- but a couple balls in this Series surprised me that he didn't get. 8:59 pm | Third inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Is it me, or is Pedro one of those hard-luck pitchers that routinely has these misplays happen to him? Does this ever happen to Cliff Lee? 9:04 pm | Third inning | by Matthew Futterman A walk to Damon and movement in the Phillies bullpen. Bullpen has a 5.40 ERA this series. Do the math. That's bad news, especially with Teixeira getting hit by a pitch loading the bases. 9:06 pm | Third inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Phillies dugout brass just made the call to get the bullpen going. Random question: Why are they still using phones from the Get Smart era in the dugout? They have to open what looks like a Con Ed utility box to get the phone. I think a cellphone would work just as well. 9:06 pm | Third inning | by Matthew Futterman Bases loaded for A-Rod with a chance to perhaps put the series WORLD page 54

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nearly away -- or close to it, and he strikes out looking. 9:07 pm | Third inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Break out the Fox Trax for that punchout pitch on A-Rod. It was a strike -- if the strike box was in the on-deck circle. 9:08 pm | Third inning | by Bill Power Pedro's obviously toying with Matsui. Ahem. 9:09 pm | Third inning | by Matthew Futterman Pedro can't get Matsui out. Great piece of hitting by Matsui, who completely changed his swing from the previous pitch and merely served the ball into centerfield for two runs. 4-1 Yanks. 9:13 pm | Fourth inning | by Matthew Futterman Yankees are losing outfielders. Damon leaves with a pulled calf. That hurts. Hairston replaces him in left. The pitching now has to come through. 9:14 pm | Fourth inning | by Bill Power Never did like that DH rule. 9:16 pm | Fourth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Johnny Damon was pulled because he strained his calf running home. I was about to complain that the lineup now includes Jerry Hairston and Brett Gardner, and we may as well put Jose Molina in for good measure. Then I realized that lineup is still more powerful than most in the majors. 9:18 pm | Fourth inning | by Matthew Futterman

With Utley striking out and Howard lining to Cano, Pettitte moves to Werth, who looks like the most dangerous hitter in the lineup, even if he isn't. 9:21 pm | Fourth inning | by Matthew Futterman Posada lets up a passed ball that allows Werth to move to second. With Matsui's contract expiring, Posada may be spending a lot of time at DH next season. 9:25 pm | Fourth inning | by Matthew Futterman Pettitte goes after Feliz with men on first and second and two out and retires him. He did not want to face Ruiz with the bases loaded. 4-1 Yanks in the bottom of the fourth. 9:26 pm | Fourth inning | by Bill Power My prediction: No complete game tonight. 9:28 pm | Fourth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald What an odd moment. Pettitte was shaking off Posada, pulled the glove away from his mouth and said "backdoor slider." And that is what he threw. I am not going to pretend that Feliz gets the same "Face Cam" view of Pettitte that I do, but I am also not going pretend he couldnât read those lips. Surprised Feliz didnât take a cut at that pitch. 9:29 pm | Fourth inning | by Matthew Futterman With Damon out, Cano's got to start provinding some offense if this goes to a seventh game. He has one of the quickest bats but can't get on track as he flies out to left.

9:35 pm | Fourth inning | by Matthew Futterman Gardner finally makes solid contact and Utley stabs the liner after Swisher's strikeout. Onto the fifth with the Yanks up 4-1. Nine outs from Rivera time -and every fan here is counting. 9:36 pm | Fifth inning | by Bill Power Wish Joe West was behind the plate for Game 2 when A.J. Burnett was working the corners, or just off the corners... Glad that Phillies' main hitters will probably get to bat at least once against a non-Mo reliever. 9:37 pm | Fifth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Brett Gardner should bunt every at bat. If he gets on, he is practically an lock to swipe second, and has a good chance to steal third. Itâs worth the chance, since the alternative is an automatic out. 9:39 pm | Fifth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald You know Joe West is consistent behind the plate since we've seen Alex Rodriguez, Andy Pettitte and Ben Francisco all give him the stink eye over some of these calls. 9:39 pm | Fifth inning | by Matthew Futterman Francisco strikes out. I talked to him the other day in the locker room and he seemed uncomfortable with the spotlight of the World Series.Â He's a better player than what he is showing here. 9:40 pm | Fifth inning | by Bill Power

Is it just me or why aren't fans on their feet for nearly every pitch now that Yankees are halfway there? I don't mind, as a Phillies fan, but seems pretty low -key. 9:40 pm | Fifth inning | by Matthew Futterman Ruiz walks, a safe move for Pettitte the way things are going. 9:41 pm | Fifth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald There is clearly some inequity in Team Live Blog. Futterman talks to ballplayers in the locker room. I talk to myself since no one else in my family likes the Yankees. 9:43 pm | Fifth inning | by Matthew Futterman Rollins has a nice at-bat against Pettitte after being down 0-2, but then hits into the pitcher's best friend, the sharp liner to third for the 5-4-3 DP.Â It's 4-1 going into the bottom of the fifth, but I can promise you the Phillies are not nervous. Loosest, calmest team I have ever covered. They believe they will win this game. 9:45 pm | Fifth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Camera just cut to a dad and his son cheering on Pettitte. Wow, two seats at the Stadium during the World Series. I didnât know home-equity loans were available anymore. (Yes, I am bitter cause I canât ever afford to sit there.) Meantime, Andy just got the Yankees one step closer to Mo time with a DP. Phils don't look like they have much in them. 9:52 pm | Fifth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Love the sacrifice bunt by

Hairston. Right up the line, and placed so well that Hairston almost got on base. I am a big fan of small ball and would have been thrilled if a sac fly from Teixeira brings Jeter home. A single is good, too. I am about ready to call this one. 9:53 pm | Fifth inning | by Matthew Futterman The biggest hitting team in the majors plays small ball off reliever Chad Durbin. Jeter's double followed by Hairston's sacrifice bunt and Teixeira's single. 5-1 Yanks. Mission 27 is looking more and more likely. 10:10 pm | Fifth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald I donât want to get ahead of myself, and I mean no disrespect to the Fighting Phils, but my mind is wandering to questions about which Yankee would win the World Series MVP. Derek Jeter had to be the frontrunner, since he has practically become a squatter on the basepaths. Damon is a close second -- his World Series batting average is in the same realm as Jeter's, while the rest of the team lags behind. And Damon had the definitive at-bat duringÂ Game 4,Â in which he followed by stealing second and outright pilfering an open third base. Maybe if CC tossed a victorious Game 7, or if Mo had a chance to save this game. But for now, I call it Jeter's. 10:12 pm | Fifth inning | by Matthew Futterman Matsui is making a hard push for WORLD page 55

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a new contract. Knocks a double to right field that scores two runs. He has six RBIs tonight. 7-1 Yanks. The party is on. 10:12 pm | Fifth inning | by Bill Power Savvy strategy by Phils to let lead build up to keep Rivera out. Seriously, obviously this isn't looking good, but as a Phils fan you're looking for some of their usual fight here. 10:14 pm | Sixth inning | by Matthew Futterman Utley nearly knocks his sixth homer of the series before working a one-out walk. It's best not to pitch to him. But then Ryan Howard cuts the lead to 7-3 with a homer. You knew he would wake up. 10:18 pm | Sixth inning | by Matthew Futterman Pettitte's night is over after five and two thirds.Â Not a bad outing but serviceable under the circumstances.Â With Ibanez on second and Feliz coming up, the Phillies are plotting a great comeback here. They do not quit. 10:20 pm | Sixth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald No matter how this Series turns out, I have decided to use Chase Utley's name to scare my children when they are acting up. Ryan Howard, meanwhile, just brought the game back within reach for the Phils. It may be too late for such heroics from Howard. But I think he gets a free pass. (Do Phillies fans give those out?) 10:22 pm | Sixth inning | by Bill Power

Proud the Phils chipped away there. Took longer than expected to finally starting hitting Pettitte during his two games, but give him credit. 10:23 pm | Sixth inning | by Matthew Futterman Joba induces Feliz into a groundout to third. One number counts right now: three. That's how many outs the Phillies get until Rivera. 10:26 pm | Sixth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Jason Gay, author of the WSJ's Couch and its sister Twitter feed,Â asks: "In the event of a Yankees win, do the fans in the 'Legends' section get complimentary Dom and goggles?" An excellent question. For those prices, they should be invited into the clubhouse to spray down the players. Since I will never get to sit in those seats, I am not really qualified to answer. But we do know they will have all the Snickers bars, Good 'N Plenty, M&Ms and other confectionery goodness that they can stuff in their pockets. 10:28 pm | Sixth inning | by Bill Power To answer Mr, Yankees' earlier question, yes, some Phillies fans give out free passes.Â 2008 was so great that I am an easy grader on the whole team. Other fans are tougher -- if you hear that clichÃ© about "If we get one championship, I won't care if we stink for 10 years," it is a total fallacy. Phillies won one, then back to the World Series the next year, but some Philly fans will

still rip them. Most of us are more reasonable, I think. 10:31 pm | Sixth inning | by Editor Reader Phil Dagosto from Hamden, Conn., emails in about Matthew Futterman's earlier comment of "With Matsui's contract expiring, Posada may be spending a lot of time at DH next season." Dagosto says: "And who would catch? Molina? Cervelli? Posada is not a good defensive catcher and likely to get worse but the drop off in offense between him and any likely replacement is too large to carry on a regular basis. Besides, if Matsui is nontendered the Yankees have no shortage of DH candidates: Damon (if he's back), A-Rod and Tex can all be used in that spot to give them a bit of rest. Same thing with Posada but if he's spending "a lot of time" there the lineup will be weaker than it needs to be." Matthew responds: "My sense is the Yankees are going to re-make their outfield in the off-season. Matsui is too old to re-sign. Posada will catch plenty but he's only going to get worse. Hitters will be available, especially with the economy still listing and lots of teams looking to cut payroll." 10:31 pm | Sixth inning | by Matthew Futterman After the Swisher walk, Garnder not being able to move him to second is reasonably inexcusable. If Damon and Cabrera weren't hurt, he'd be on the bus to Trenton by now.

10:32 pm | Sixth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Let the second-guessing begin: Should the Phillies have started Happ this game? 10:32 pm | Sixth inning | by Matthew Futterman Chan Ho Park in to pitch. He's been lights-out this series. 10:35 pm | Sixth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Just saw someone hold up the worst Yankees jersey ever. "I Liv For This," with number 27 on the back. Clever. This is a good segue to mention my Yankees fan pet peeve: The Yankees do not put names on the back of their jerseys. Therefore, the fans shouldnât. Every "Jeter - 2" makes me cringe. You should know better. 10:35 pm | Sixth inning | by Matthew Futterman Jeter grounds weakly to first. At this point, I'm willing to say the Phillies should have started Chan Ho Park. 10:36 pm | Sixth inning | by Bill Power Phillies should have taken an extra starter and had him lock Matsui in the clubhouse; that would have been helpful. 10:37 pm | Sixth inning | by Matthew Futterman Hairston flies to right to end the sixth. Another great showing by Park. Is he signed for next year?Â He will be by next week. 10:41 pm | Seventh inning | by Matthew Futterman Francisco goes down on strikes to Joba. He may want to get on the bus to minors with Gardner.

10:43 pm | Seventh inning | by Brian Fitzgerald I want Joba Chamberlain to put a few men on base so he can get a strikeout for the third out and do that spinning-fist-pump-primalscream thing. That will get the stadium rocking. 10:44 pm | Seventh inning | by Matthew Futterman Jimmy Rollins hits a roller just slow enough to avoid getting doubled up. Two down, one out to Rivera. 10:45 pm | Seventh inning | by Bill Power • "I want Joba Chamberlain to put a few men on base so he can get a strikeout for the third out and do that spinning-fist-pumpprimal-scream thing. That will get the stadium rocking." Yeah, that's an endearing thing to the rest of the country, too. 10:46 pm | Seventh inning | by Matthew Futterman Someone explain to me a stolen base with two out and down four runs. 10:47 pm | Seventh inning | by Matthew Futterman Two on, two out for Utley in the seventh. The Phillies comback plot is still working. The team never quits. 10:47 pm | Seventh inning | by Brian Fitzgerald I take it all back! I do not want two men on base with Utley at the plate. Can we get a do-over here? 10:48 pm | Seventh inning | by WORLD page 56

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Bill Power I actually remember some seemingly out-of-kilter steals like that in postseason games that ignite things; it's audacious.Â It says "we're still playing to win." We'll see if it matters. 10:50 pm | Seventh inning | by Brian Fitzgerald I am guessing Rollins went on his own. And if the season wasnât possibly ending tonight, I am sure Manuel would have a lot more to say about it. But Rollins is a near-lock to take that base. If you are down four, you're desperate to get even one run back before heading into the eighth. A single gets you that. 10:55 pm | Seventh inning | by Matthew Futterman Utley can't hold up and the Yanks have gotten to Mariano time.Â Howard leads off the next inning.Â Long way to go from here if the Phillies bullpen can keep it within a grand slam. 10:56 pm | Seventh inning | by Matthew Futterman Not sure how well that came across on television, but the singing of "God Bless America" was borderline magical. Nearly everyone so keyed up for the victory, it was like a 50,000member church choir going at it. 10:58 pm | Seventh inning | by Bill Power Not sure it was on TV at all, unless I missed it.Â But got to see the Joe Carter HR on the highlight reel again. That was a nice touch (not) for Phillies fans.... 11:00 pm | Seventh inning | by

Brian Fitzgerald I think, now that Irish tenor Ronan Tynan has been relieved of his seventh-inning duties, the networks don't feel hostage to showing it. People watching from home got nothing. 11:03 pm | Seventh inning | by Matthew Futterman Park gets Hairston and then attacks A-Rod, who gets a lucky dribbler through the infield. That makes A-Rod 5-for-20 in the series with 6 RBIs, and 18 RBIs for the postseason. A-Rod has gone underground for the press this season. He speaks in canned sentences and then disappears out the back door of the locker room. I miss the tabloid A-Rod who was always on the verge of getting himself into trouble and running around with Madonna. But this persona obviously works for him. 11:04 pm | Seventh inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Joe Buck just mentioned that Hideki Matsui is a triple shy of the cycle. Let's let go of that idea right now. If he hits a triple, I will wear a Phillies hat at work tomorrow. (If Bill brings one in.) 11:07 pm | Seventh inning | by Matthew Futterman Eyre K's Matsui. For the record, Eyre may be the nicest guy on the Phillies -- and that's saying something. 11:08 pm | Seventh inning | by Bill Power And the nice guys finished first (in the NL at least)! 11:11 pm | Seventh inning | by Matthew Futterman

Cano is auditioning to become trade bait with this post-season performance. Remember what the Yankees did to Soriano after 2003. Strikes out again. Onto the eighth, 7-3 Yanks. 11:16 pm | Eighth inning | by Matthew Futterman Howard's down in what is likely his final at-bat of a postseason, which ends fittingly with his 21st K in 54 at-bats. 11:18 pm | Eighth inning | by Matthew Futterman Rivera is on his way in with a four-run lead. For anyone looking for symmetry, this is the eight-year anniversary of his blowing Game 7 in Arizona in the ninth inning. 11:20 pm | Eighth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald I am happy to see Marte come out to start the inning. There is no reason to have Mariano in the eighth with a four-run lead. Although, here comes Rivera now. A part of me wonders whether this was a bid to get Rivera to walk out mid-inning to rousing applause. A diversion while waiting for Mariano to warm up: Of all the pop culture shoved my way during the commercials this Series -- Dragon Age, DJ Hero, Rock Band and Avatar -- Avatar scares me the most. They ought to not use the word "Titanic" in the commercial. But the most underrated commercial is the State Farm one where the dude is rocking out to Kansas in his car with not only air drum but air violin as well. Thatâs bold.

11:21 pm | Eighth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Nice, Matt. How long have you been holding that one back to rub in the wound? 11:25 pm | Eighth inning | by Matthew Futterman Great at-bat by Ibanez to lift a double to center with two outs. Phillies are just trying to get Ruiz to the plate with men in scoring position. 11:26 pm | Eighth inning | by Bill Power Boy, that ball carried. It seems as if Rivera is the only Yankee that gets the crowd on its feet. 11:26 pm | Eighth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Where exactly was Brett Gardner playing? Second base? Ibanez hit nearly 35 home runs in the regular season. I donât understand what made anyone think to play him shallow. 11:28 pm | Eighth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Three outs until New York City has to decide when to throw tickertape down the Canyon of Heroes. I am undecided whether I will attend. I went in 1998 and in 2000, and it can be crazy. I am getting too old. In 1998, I watched a woman get hit in the side of the head with a roast-beef sandwich. Someone threw a sandwich with mayo. True story. 11:31 pm | Eighth inning | by Matthew Futterman The bleacher creatures have their euro-soccer chant going but Swisher goes down on a dribbler to third.

11:40 pm | Eighth inning | by Matthew Futterman Jeter gets a single, but then Madson gets Hairston on a lazy fly. Three outs to go. 11:41 pm | Ninth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald The Yankees fans feel it. I hear their chants of "Twenty-seven." I have a nervous tingle as the Yankees near the title. I donât want to be one of those guys who says "it's been so long since tasting victory." That's ridiculous -- I am at a loss when thinking about what Cubs fans go through. But it has been long enough that this feels fresh again. I remember the frantic pile-on in 1996, where Paul O'Neill's legs were straight in the air like he was standing on his head. By 2001, had they won, I thought they might come out, shake hands, and head into the dugout. Should the Yankees pull this out, I will feel a little regret for Don Mattingly, who improbably bookends the Yankee years without a World Series victory. I wish he was still a batting coach so he could win a ring. But I will be happy for Matsui, who has waited seven long years in quiet servitude for this victory. I will be happy for Jeter, Pettitte and Posada, of course. I feel like I grew up with them. Heck, I will even be happy for Rodriguez, who deserves some measure of genuine happiness. I think there will be a massive pile-on this year. And woe to the WORLD page 57

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person beneath Sabathia. 11:44 pm | Ninth inning | by Matthew Futterman Matt Stairs pinch hits for Francisco. Nearly knocks one out to right but then lines to Jeter. 11:46 pm | Ninth inning | by Matthew Futterman Ruiz, the second most dangerous Phillie of the series, draws a oneout walk. Top of the order up. 11:48 pm | Ninth inning | by Matthew Futterman Rollins down. Two out. 11:48 pm | Ninth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Good grief, Rivera is making us sweat. It is not possible to sweat when up by four. 11:49 pm | Ninth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Rivera almost hit Victorino in the knee. Down by four, with a man on and Utley and Co. coming up, should Shane have moved out of the way? 11:50 pm | Ninth inning | by Brian Fitzgerald Shane Victorino is battling Rivera like a man who does not want to be the last out in the World Series. 11:52 pm | Final | by Matthew Futterman Victorino, amid flashing bulbs, grounds to second. Yankees win 7-3. 11:58 pm | Postgame | by Bill Power Congratulations to Fitzy and to all Yankees fans. As a Phillies fan, it hits me that it has been 2007 since the season ended with a go-home loss. They'd won five straight

postseason series. It's still an empty feeling, temporarily, but nothing close to other Philadelphia postseason losses like the Eagles' NFC championship losses. The Phillies got back to the championship round after winning it, which nearly no team does in any sport, and they'll probably will be in the hunt for years. To fans of all teams: Everyone's 0-0 now.Â Seeya in 2010. 11:59 pm | Postgame | by Brian Fitzgerald Three quick thoughts about the celebration: 1) No pile-on. This is an older, more mature group of players. 2) Watching the opposing team stare down the celebration in grim disbelief is tough to watch. 3) Nothing kills the moment like seeing the intern run out to the pile and desperately try to hand out championship T-shirts. Never miss a marketing opportunity. 12:09 am | Postgame | by Brian Fitzgerald Congrats to Bill and all the Phillies fans. A streak of nearly two years of dominance does not happen often. I have a better appreciation for this Phillies team, and just hope baseball's economics work out so that Philly can keep the core together. I'll go watch the postgame celebrations for an hour. Then I will move on to fretting about whether the New York Giants will lose four in a row this Sunday. 12:12 am | Postgame | by Brian

Fitzgerald I wish George Steinbrenner could have been there tonight. It's well documented how he went from villian to hero for New York Yankees fans. In the end, he will be remembered as an owner who wanted to deliver a title to the fans more than anything. And congrats to Hideki Matsui (and his translator!) for winning the World Series MVP as a DH, the first to do so. He really earned it this game. Does the free agent want to come back to New York? Yes. And the fans sound like they want him back. 12:13 am | Postgame | by Matthew Futterman His knees are creaky now, his fielding can fairly be described as a farce, and at times this season, the bat has seemed heavier than a railroad tie. But in the last game of what may be his final season in pinstripes, âGodzilla,â as Hideki Matsui is known in his native Japan, finally did what giant movietone sea monsters are supposed to do. He roared. By the time it was over, the Yankees had won the game 73, and Mr. Matsui ended the season tying a World Series single-game record with six RBIs. Andy Pettitte pitched 5 2/3 innings of three-run ball before turning the game over to the Yankeesâ bullpen, culminating in five outs from Mariano Rivera, who solidified his reputation as the greatest reliever of alltime. The Yankees got a towering tworun home run from Mr. Matsui in

the bottom of the second inning and never looked back on their way to a record 27th championship. In the end, it was familiar sight for baseball fans, Mr. Rivera embracing his longtime teammates Derek Jeter, and Jorge Posada in a celebration in the infield. With the former mayor (Rudy Guiliani) and the newly reelected one (Mike Bloomberg) sitting in the new stadiumâs front row, the Yankees threw their first big party for New York City in nine years. The championship was sweetest for the Yankees star -crossed third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who admitted using steroids from 2001-2003 in February, had hip surgery a month later and didnât even join the team until May. And yet the mercurial Mr. Rodriguez, who had a reputation for shrinking under the pressure of the postseason, finished the series on top of the world, with 18 runs batted in during the games that matter most. Mr. Pettitte faced his stiffest trouble in the sixth inning, when he issued Chase Utley a one-out walk, and the slumping Ryan Howard knocked an oppositefield home run over the left-field fence. A two-out double from Raul Ibanez drove him from the game. At 37, this may have been his last. Sensing the end of a sterling career, home-plate umpire Joe West tossed him the ball as he left the field. For Mr. Pettitte, the championship is part of his own redemption. Deeply

religious, he, too, got caught up in baseballâs steroid scandal and admitted before the 2008 season he had used steroids to recover from an injury. The championship could also be the last for Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who is ailing and aging and rarely appears in public, a stark contrast from his blustery tenure at the helm of the countryâs most famous franchise. But while the Boss has receded, sons Hal and Hank continued to field the best team money could buy. The team spent $423 million last offseason to bring in pitchers CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett and first baseman Mark Teixeira. After years of spending that failed to produce championships, the Yankees finally hit the mark. The signs that this would not be the Philliesâ night started early, when their self-described âold goat,â Pedro Martinez, showed from the first inning on that he had little life left in his 38-yearold arm. A limb that once slung balls 98-miles per hour with little effort struggled to produce an 85 mph fastball, and Mr. Martinez resembled a college pitcher who is afraid to put the ball over home plate to hitters carrying aluminum bats. (It was Mr. Matsui who started the infamous eighth-inning rally off Mr. Martinez in 2003 when the Yankees came back to beat the Red Sox in the seventh game of the American League WORLD page 60

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Nick Watney ties course record to take early lead in HSBC Champions; Tiger Woods 3 back By Associated Press (ESPN.com)

Ryan Moore, who signed a new equipment deal Thursday, was in a group at 66 that included Shane Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:04:36 AM Lowry of Ireland and Martin SHANGHAI -- Making the first Kaymer of Germany, who is of two trips to China this month, second in the Race to Dubai and Nick Watney made an immediate facing a big week at this $7 impression Thursday in the m i l l i o n W o r l d G o l f HSBC Champions by tying the C h a m p i o n s h i p . course record with an 8-under 64 Lin Wen-tang of Taiwan stirred to build a two-shot lead. the Chinese crowd with a 67, Washburn: Differing Realities which left him tied with Woods, The cavalcade that followed Anthony Kim and Paul Casey. Tiger in Round 1 of the HSBC Still, it was Woods they came to Champions created a circus see -- and to photograph. a t m o s p h e r e . D e s p i t e t h e It started on the opening hole, attention, Woods' star isn't nearly w i t h h u n d r e d s o f f a n s as high in China as one might surrounding the tee. Woods was expect. flinching as he swung his 3-wood Dan Washburn and dropped the club at impact. As hundreds of cameras inside The shot was so short and to the and outside the ropes tagged right that his caddie, Steve along to see Tiger Woods open Williams, had to walk 40 yards to with a 67, Watney quietly went find the yardage. about his business on a sunny "The guy in the grandstand a f t e r n o o n a t S h e s h a n basically did almost a photo International Golf Club with an sequence," Woods said. accidental eagle and four straight It was a frenzy for the opening birdies. hour, with marshals barking at He was 9 under through 13 holes the gallery not to take pictures, until settling into a string of pars and Thongchai Jaidee's caddie and ending his round with a 3- having to walk up to a grassy hill putt bogey from the fringe. and escort one photographer to "The greens are so good that if the side of the ropes so his player you hit a putt on line, it's could hit the shot. definitely going to go in," Woods is ultra sensitive to Watney said. "I was putting very cameras, and handled this day well. Just tried to give myself as better than most. More frustrating many chances as possible, and I was not knowing which way his was able to make a few." ball was going, although he

managed to take care of the par 5s and make enough putts for his 67. "I got it around today," he said. "It wasn't my best ball-striking round for sure, but I made some putts, which was nice." Phil Mickelson opened with two straight birdies and made the turn in 32, although he didn't make another birdie the rest of the way and had to settle for a 69. Defending champion Sergio Garcia made only one birdie in his round of 75. Woods played the HSBC Champions twice, before it became a World Golf Championship, and both times he was runner-up. Mickelson is making his third straight appearance. In some respects, Watney is the face of American involvement this week. For those who thought Americans would stay home this week because it doesn't count as official on the PGA Tour, he is among 13 players who made the long flight. And the leaderboard was filled with Stars & Stripes -- Watney, Moore, Kim around the top, Pat Perez at 68 and Brian Gay and Jason Dufner at 69. Jerry Kelly tried playing with new grooves for the first time and ground out a 71. "Got my first shank out of the way," Kelly said with a laugh.

HSBC Champions Leaderboard 1. Watney (-8) 2. Moore (-6) 3. Kaymer (-6) 4. Dougherty (-6) â&#x20AC;˘ Complete scores Sean O'Hair walked over to the side of the ropes to find out a World Series score. Upon learning the New York Yankees had won the title over his hometown Phillies, he made birdie on the par-5 eighth, although that didn't keep him from a 74. Watney signed up earlier this year for the World Cup the week of Thanksgiving at Mission Hills Golf Club near Hong Kong. He tried to find something to do in the Far East during the two-week break between the HSBC Champions and the World Cup, then figured he might as well go home to Las Vegas and get some rest. His game appears sharp at the moment. All but two of his birdies were inside 10 feet, and he made eagle on the par-5 14th by hitting it where he wasn't aiming. Watney meant to go toward the left side of the green, away from the flag and the water, but pushed his hybrid. It worked out fine, leaving him a 30-foot putt that he made for eagle to get his round going. The 28-year-old American certainly has no qualms about

traveling so far to play. "The coolest thing about golf is being able to travel all around the world," Watney said. "And to get this opportunity to come here and then back to Hong Kong, I didn't think twice about it." A cab ride into Shanghai's massive city center? That's different. Watney went Tuesday and hung on for life as his cabbie weaved in and out of traffic and around bicycles on the road. And what did he find to eat in Shanghai? "We actually went in to eat Texas barbecue," he said. "I felt a little bad about coming to China and eating Texas barbecue." Kim was among the last to qualify through one of two spots from the world ranking, and he almost didn't make it. He spent all day Tuesday in Hong Kong trying to get a visa and missed the pro-am. He doesn't know his way around Sheshan that well, which might have helped him. Aggressive by nature, he dialed back on some of the par 5s and picked up birdies. Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Finally, an Interesting World Series (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Submitted at 11/4/2009 7:18:15 AM

Drama and suspense took a vacation from the past five World Series. Sure, the Red Sox and White Sox each ended almost a century of futility, while the Cardinals and Phillies earned their first titles since the 1980s. But those championships were won in either sweeps or five games, hardly riveting stuff. Reuters Pedro Martinez doesn’t want any balls to go in this direction tonight in the Bronx. For the first time since 2003, baseball has a Game 6. And this one has plenty of juice surrounding Wednesday’s improbable starting pitchers and batters who haven’t delivered. Many Boston fans are rooting for Pedro Martinez, now with Philadelphia, to keep the Phillies’ season alive. “[H]e is the only thing standing between the Evil Empire and its 27th world championship,” the Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy writes. “In his role as Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher, Pedro knows he is carrying the colors for Sox fans around the world — just as he did in 2003 when Grady Little left him on the mound too long in the ancient ballpark across the street.” In the Philadelphia Inquirer, Phil Sheridan calls the Martinez-Andy Pettitte matchup “baseball

history, waiting to be written.” At Fox Sports, Jon Paul Morosi thinks Martinez will win to force a seventh game, because he’s had five days’ rest to Pettitte’s three. In the New York Daily News, Mike Lupica says manager Joe Girardi’s gamble with a threeman rotation had better pay off. As much as the Phillies need strong pitching, Ryan Howard must bust out of his World Series slump that includes a recordtying 12 strikeouts, Sports Illustrated’s Ted Keith writes. Howard isn’t the only slugger being paid big bucks who hasn’t delivered. Mark Teixeira is batting a puny .105 for the Yankees, Tim Brown writes at Yahoo Sports, but has escaped criticism. Most Philadelphians are solidly behind the Phillies, but not everyone. In the New York Times, William C. Rhoden finds out why Bernard Diggs, a 61year-old Philadelphian and Eagles fan, has no rooting interest in the Phillies. The Philadelphia Daily News’s Sam Donnellon has had enough with the constant trips to the mound. Finally, Slate’s Brian Palmer has the history behind baseball players’ use of chewing tobacco. Remember to come back Wednesday evening as the Journal’s Matthew Futterman live-blogs Game 6.* * *

A strong running game doesn’t guarantee success in the modern NFL. More often it’s a top-notch quarterback who leads a team to victory. At least that’s the conclusion of the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Nick Canepa. “The Jets lead The League in rushing,” Canepa writes. “They’re 4-4 after a 3-0 start. Once unthinkable, they even lost a game in which they ran for more than 300 yards. The Titans rank No. 2. They’re 1-6. The Colts rank 30th. They’re 7-0.” In Chicago, the Bears haven’t looked as polished on offense under new quarterback Jay Cutler as many had hoped. The Chicago Tribune’s David Haugh lists 10 ways to improve Chicago’s attack. The 2-5 Seattle Seahawks are only four years removed from their first trip to the Super Bowl, but their downfall to also-ran status has been swift, Jerry Brewer writes in the Seattle Times.* * * Some players insist that playing college hoops provides the best prelude to a career in the NBA. Until 2005, when the NBA

instituted a minimum age for Americans, players routinely jumped to the pros right out of high school, including LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. Playing in Europe is looking like a moreviable third option for young American basketball players thanks to the first days of Brandon Jennings’s NBA career. As Yahoo Sports’s Dan Wetzel writes, the guard played in Rome for a year and so far this season is averaging 22 points per game for the Milwaukee Bucks.* * * Coach Al Groh’s ninth season at Virginia could be his last. The Cavaliers stand 3-5 and are heading toward their third losing season in four years. In the Daily Press of Newport News, David Teel wonders whether it was worth it for the Cavs to delay firing Groh to save $2 million on his severance package. In women’s soccer, the Washington Post’s Steve Yanda delves into why Katie Carr, a two -sport star in high school, isn’t playing much at UVa.* * * At age 67, many men would retire to a life of rest and relaxation. Not basketball coach Charlie Coles, who this year signed on for three more years at Miami University in Ohio, where he’s coached since 1967. Even a host of health issues hasn’t slowed him down, Rory Glynn writes in the Cincinnati Enquirer.* * *

Sports betting is big business in Britain, thanks to liberalization of the laws by the government and the Internet. But there’s a downside. Horse racing faces increased chances of corruption for profit, Paul Kelso writes in the Telegraph, but is working hard to stay clean.* * * A sports editor I worked for years ago once remarked that “Every night is election night in sports.” How true. Writers and copy editors are always scrambling to get error-free stories and columns into as many papers as possible. But earlier deadlines and reduced staffing can lead to horrendous mistakes appearing in print. That’s what happened to one of the Fix’s favorite writers, Thomas Boswell of the Washington Post. While the online copy was clean, the print version of his Monday column was “a mess,” the Post’s ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, writes. – Tip of the Fix cap to reader Don Hartline and to Fixer emeritus Carl Bialik. 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 Garey at ris84rap@gmail.com.

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Florida coach Urban Meyer says SEC officials missed late hit on quarterback Tim Tebow By ESPN.com news services (ESPN.com) Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:09:49 AM

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida coach Urban Meyer believes Southeastern Conference officials missed a late hit on Tim Tebow in Saturday's game against Georgia. Meyer said Wednesday the crew calling the game should have flagged Bulldogs linebacker Nick Williams for knocking his quarterback to the ground well after he had gotten rid of the football. SEC blog ESPN.com's Chris Low writes about all things SEC in his conference blog. â&#x20AC;˘ Blog network: College Football Nation Meyer sent video of the play to Rogers Redding, the league's coordinator of officials. Meyer declined to reveal what the SEC told him, saying he didn't "want to step out of line."

Last week the SEC changed its discipline policy about coaches publicly criticizing officials, making the punishment either a fine or a suspension and doing away with the reprimands. SEC associate commissioner Charles Bloom told ESPN on Wednesday that SEC commissioner Mike Slive was traveling. But he is aware of Meyer's comments and reviewing them. Bloom said there would be an announcement made on possible punishment Thursday or Friday. Meyer told reporters on the weekly SEC conference call the play was directly in front of the referee and should have been penalized. Tebow handed off to running back Jeff Demps, took a few steps to his right and wasn't looking when Williams came unblocked off the right edge and slammed into his chest. "That should have been a penalty, in my opinion," Meyer

said. "Obviously, it should have been. You've got to protect quarterbacks. That's the whole purpose. It's right in front of the referee. I'm not sure how they're going to handle that, but ... that was one of the plays we did send in." Meyer didn't mention the play until asked about it Wednesday, possibly trying to avoid drawing punishment from the league. He also prefaced his comments by saying he has "great respect" for SEC officials and the way the league handles complaints. The SEC decided to stop handing out reprimands for ripping officials after three coaches in less than a week were reprimanded last month. Slive was given full discretion by the league's athletic directors and presidents to hand out the punishment. He will determine the amount of fines and lengths of suspensions on a case-by-case basis.

The SEC's officiating, and public complaints by Tennessee's Lane Kiffin and Mississippi State's Dan Mullen, has drawn plenty of unwanted attention for the league. An officiating crew was suspended last month after it called penalties the league said were not supported by video evidence in the LSU-Georgia game Oct. 3 and the ArkansasFlorida game Oct. 17. The SEC publicly announced the suspensions, an unprecedented move by the conference. When told of Meyer's comments Wednesday, Kiffin wondered what would happen to his league counterpart. "Urban Meyer? Criticized the officials?," Kiffin said. "That will be interesting. We'll see." The Associated Press contributed to this report. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Championship Series.) For the Yankees, a season that started in shame ended in glory. In the winter there was Mr. RodriguezĂ˘ steroid admission. In the spring, the glitzy but overpriced new ballpark opened, but the team could not sell the most visible seats behind home plate in a recession. By the fall though, the ballpark was full and the World Series trophy was theirs again.

Van Gundy: NBA Rules Penalize Howard By Tim Povtak (FanHouse) Submitted at 11/4/2009 11:35:00 PM

by Tim Povtak Filed under: Magic ORLANDO -- Coming to the defense of his All-Star center, Magic coach Stan Van Gundy didn't criticize the officials Wednesday night -he didn't want another fine -- but

he was clearly critical of the way Dwight Howard is being officiated this season. Howard, the biggest, strongest, best center in the NBA, is being unfairly penalized, according to Van Gundy. "He gets penalized for being so s t r o n g . W e g i v e g u y s a n quick, but we penalize them for advantage in this league for being being strong like Dwight,'' Van

Gundy said after Howard finished with 11 fouls in the last two games combined. "If you hit a perimeter guy on a drive the way they are allowed to hit Dwight all the time around the basket, it would be a flagrant foul.'' Van Gundy: NBA Rules Penalize Howard originally

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The Count: The Underpaid Rajon Rondo (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Submitted at 11/4/2009 2:33:43 PM

Do NBA teams overvalue scoring? The protracted contract negotiations between the Boston Celtics and point guard Rajon Rondo suggest they might. Rondo recently signed for a fiveyear, $55 million extension. That’s not chump change, but it also isn’t commensurate with Rondo’s status, according to Southern Utah University economist David Berri. Berri’s player-rating system incorporates all elements of the box score, and while Rondo isn’t a great scorer, he shoots at a high percentage, racks up rebounds, assists and steals, and rarely turns the ball over or commits fouls. It all added up to making Rondo the most valuable Celtic last season, and the seventh most valuable NBA player. Reuters Was Rajon Rondo the most valuable Celtic last season? So Rondo, by that measure, is underpaid, and may well be unhappy about that. Yet Celtics officials may feel they overpaid, since Rondo’s contributions aren’t valued highly in the NBA

marketplace. How to make everyone happy? Berri cheekily suggests Rondo focus on scoring more while aiming to turn the ball over and make fewer steals, so that both he and his team can feel the contract is fair. Outside the box score, plusminus — or how good teams are with and without players on the floor — can provide additional insight into players’ value. The stat stirred controversy when it indicated that Kevin Durant is overvalued. And now it’s indicating the same about another high-scoring, low-rebounding, poor-defending forward. On Basketball Reference, Neil Paine points out that the Denver Nuggets have been better without the NBA’s leading scorer, Carmelo Anthony, on the floor. Commenters caution that the season is young, the sample size

is small and the case against Anthony is far from settled. Along with the Rondo signing, another transaction turned heads among statistically minded sports analysts this week. The Tampa Bay Rays traded second baseman Akinori Iwamura to the Pittsburgh Pirates for righthanded reliever Jesse Chavez. On its face, this is a one-sided deal — Iwamura is worth far more than Chavez. But as FanGraphs’ R.J. Anderson and Beyond the Boxscore’s Michael Jong point out, the Rays made the deal because they had to, and getting something for Iwamura is better than nothing. Sticking with baseball, there’s a game tonight involving teams other than the Rays and Pirates. Keith Olbermann names the nine smartest plays in World Series history, and in light of the topheavy rotations for this year’s World Series teams, Beyond the Boxscore’s Tommy Bennett points out that a top-heavy rotation memorialized in verse was not so top-heavy after all.

Not the American Dream, but Give Yankees Props By Jay Mariotti (FanHouse)

haters as much as force-fed into them like skunk oil. Look, President Obama might by Jay Mariotti say, "This is corporate America Filed under: MLB at its bloated, ignorant worst. The N E W Y O R K - - T h e r e i s White Sox have a better business something arrogantly American plan." about it, I know. The $210- "We're supposed to win," said million Yankees have won a Yankees manager, Joe Girardi. World Series amid a destructive "We know that every day we recession, doing it for Boss come to work." FanHouse World George Steinbrenner in the first Series Coverage: Fletcher| Price| season of their $1.5-billion Moore| Olson edifice of excess, where a $275- Game 6: Yankees 7, Phillies 3| m i l l i o n l i g h t n i n g r o d j u s t Box Score| Matsui MVP happened to overcome a steroids Not the American Dream, but crisis and finally deliver the Give Yankees Props originally postseason we've long demanded. appeared on Fanhouse - Jay None of those elements are Mariotti on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 universally endearing to the 01:05:00 EST . Please see our masses, yet all converged on a terms for use of feeds. festive, rocking November night Permalink| Email this| Linking when Championship No. 27 Blogs| Comments wasn't welcomed by the pinstripe Submitted at 11/5/2009 1:05:00 AM

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Wild East Shootout: Dwyane Wade Outguns Gilbert Arenas By Chris Tomasson (FanHouse)

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by Chris Tomasson Filed under: Heat, Wizards WASHINGTON -- Peel off the cobwebs. Get out the dust pan. One of the NBA's best shootouts is back. There was a time in the middle of this decade when Dwyane Wade and Gilbert Arenas conjured up some Wild West battles even though both play in the East. In 2005-06, in the four games the two met, Washington's Arenas averaged 32.3 points to 31.3 for Miami's Wade. Arenas had a 47-point game against the Heat and Wade had games of 41 and 40 points against the Wizards. But then injuries hit both hard. Wade missed 62 games in 200607 and 2007-08 due to shoulder and knee problems. For Arenas,

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it was even worse as he missed 149 combined games in 2007-08 and 2008-09 because of knee trouble. So when the two squared off Wednesday night at the Verizon Center, it was their first meeting since April 8, 2006. Wild East Shootout: Dwyane Wade Outguns Gilbert Arenas originally appeared on Fanhouse NBA Blog on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

Fast Facts • The Yankees' 27 World Series titles are the most in MLB history. • Wednesday's clincher marked the sixth time New York has defeated the defending champ in the World Series. • The Yankees are the first team to lead the majors in runs and homers and win the World Series since the 1984 Tigers. • Yankees designated hitter By FanHouse Newswire winning three straight from 1998 Hideki Matsui drove in six runs, (FanHouse) - 2 0 0 0 . M a r i o t t i : N o t t h e tying Bobby Richardson's record American Dream, but Give for most RBIs in a World Series Submitted at 11/4/2009 11:50:00 PM game. Yankees Props by FanHouse Newswire Fletcher: Phillies Abdicate • Ryan Howard struck out Filed under: Phillies, Yankees, Throne| Moore: Yanks Quit s w i n g i n g a g a i n s t Y a n k e e s MLB Playoffs, World Series reliever Damaso Marte in the Playing Games NEW YORK (AP) -- Paint the Price: Uncertain Future for N.Y. eighth inning Wednesday night, town in pinstripes! Nearly a Trio| Olson: Phillies Fade Into setting a record with his 13th decade after their dynasty ended Night strikeout of the World Series. on a blooper in the desert, the Box Score| Matsui MVP| A-Rod • It was the third time Mariano New York Yankees are baseball's Finally a Champ| Fans Rejoice in Rivera has pitched in all three of best again. the Yankees' series-clinching Victory Hideki Matsui tied a World Yankees Capture 27th World wins in a single year. He also Series record with six RBIs, Series Title originally appeared pitched in all three games of the Andy Pettitte won on short rest on Fanhouse MLB Blog on Wed, Yankees' World Series wins in a n d N e w Y o r k b e a t t h e 04 Nov 2009 23:50:00 EST . 2000 and 1998. Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 in Game Please see our terms for use of -- ESPN Stats & Information 6 on Wednesday night, finally feeds. This content has passed through seizing that elusive 27th title - the Permalink| Email this| Linking fivefilters.org. most in all of sports. Blogs| Comments It was the team's first since

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Assassin's Creed 2's Ezio is a really popular guy By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) Submitted at 11/5/2009 2:31:00 AM

Phillies Fade Into New York Night By Lisa Olson (FanHouse)

Jimmy Rollins made one of his many extemporaneous observations, saying on the Jay by Lisa Olson Leno Show, of all places, "If Filed under: MLB we're nice, we'll let it go six. But NEW YORK - Finally, there I'm thinking five. Close it out at was life in Ryan Howard's bat, home." So here's the first lesson, energy in his words. "Come on to any budding big leaguers: try man, let's go," he shouted upon not to mouth off when playing crossing the plate, as if adding a the wealthiest, hungriest, most hardy exclamation point to his talent-stacked team on the planet. two-run homer in the sixth inning Phillies Fade Into New York w o u l d s p a r k w h a t e v e r t h e Night originally appeared on defending champions had been Fanhouse - Lisa Olson on Thu, missing since they took a brief 05 Nov 2009 03:33:00 EST . World Series lead way back in Please see our terms for use of October. feeds. The Philadelphia Phillies Permalink| Email this| Linking brought the bravado, for sure. On Blogs| Comments the eve of the Fall Classic, Submitted at 11/5/2009 3:33:00 AM

We can just see Ezio now, dashing from one social circle to the next like a dĂŠbutante on her coming out party. And how could we picture anything else after watching the latest developer diary for Assassin's Creed 2, where the game's main character is depicted as a card-carrying socialite. So what if one of those groups happens to be full of vicious By Tom Herrera (FanHouse) the Yankees with the keys to the mercenaries? They'll help him learn how to fight! And sure, city. Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:00:00 AM All pretty standard stuff. But of another group might be made up by Tom Herrera course, there's also the mayoral of "courtesans" (see: ladies of the Filed under: Yankees, World b e t t o b e s e t t l e d . A n d i f night), but they'll teach him all Series Philadelphia mayor Michael about sneaking! And another The New York Yankees parade Nutter doesn't want to get dirty, group is full of ... well ... you get for 2009 will be held Friday he better bring his apron to the the gist, right? The game's morning, New York City mayor Bronx. Photos: Yankee Fans handful of factions will assist Michael Bloomberg announced Celebrate in the Streets| Celebrity Ezio as he murders his way after the Yankees wrapped up Appearances through Renaissance Europe. t h e i r 2 7 t h W o r l d S e r i e s Yankees Parade 2009: Here's the One final thing: even if you don't championship. Friday's ticker- Plan originally appeared on care about each group, make sure t a p e p a r a d e w i l l b e g i n o n Fanhouse MLB Blog on Thu, 05 you stick around for the surprise Broadway at Battery Place at 11 Nov 2009 06:00:00 EST . Please treat nestled after the end splash AM ET and continue northbound see our terms for use of feeds. screen. You'll thank us. up the Canyon of Heroes to Permalink| Email this| Linking Gallery: Assassin's Creed 2 Chamber Street. After that, Blogs| Comments Assassin's Creed 2's Ezio is a Mayor Bloomberg will present really popular guy originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Few Mysteries as Phils Abdicate Throne By Jeff Fletcher (FanHouse) Submitted at 11/5/2009 3:15:00 AM

by Jeff Fletcher Filed under: Phillies, MLB Playoffs, World Series NEW YORK -- This was not the type of World Series that the Phillies are going to spend much time replaying in their minds. Not long after they watched the Yankees celebrate on the field, taking the title that they won last year, the Phillies were already in full shoulder-shrug mode. Regrets? Not really. "They got the hits and we didn't," Jimmy Rollins said. "Simple. There's no science other than that. Get a hit or you don't. And they did." FanHouse World Series Coverage: Price| Mariotti|

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Possible free Lego Rock Band with $20 Old Navy purchase on Black Friday

China faces WTO inquiry over exports (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/5/2009 2:10:02 AM

The US, European Union and Mexico have asked for a World Trade Organisation dispute panel By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) but the fact that Old Navy will to investigate Chinese restrictions also be selling Rock Band 2 on exports of specialised raw Submitted at 11/5/2009 9:35:00 AM bundles, and giving away guitar materials used in industry, the We're going to approach this controllers with said bundles, latest indication that the global scanned Old Navy Black Friday makes this doorbuster deal seem slowdown is leading to greater ad with as much skepticism as we more likely. But it's still crazy to international action against can muster, both because there hand out a $50 video game with Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trade policies. are a lot of variables and because $20 worth of clothes. The request to the WTO claims we, personally, are trying to If you want to check it out for that Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restraints on exports convince ourselves not to join the yourself, Old Navy stores will be of bauxite, magnesium and other Black Friday crowds at Old open at 3AM that day. Have fun! raw materials, which are used to Navy, of all places. [Thanks, Kneon!] make steel, aluminium and some According to the ad, the retailer Possible free Lego Rock Band chemicals, is driving up the price will be offering free " Lego Rock with $20 Old Navy purchase on of those end products. B a n d v i d e o g a m e s " w i t h Black Friday originally appeared This content has passed through purchases of $20 or greater on on Joystiq on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 fivefilters.org. Friday, November 27. "Your 09:35:00 EST. Please see our preferred platform may not be terms for use of feeds. a v a i l a b l e , " t h e a d w a r n s , Read| Permalink| Email this| presumably due to limited overall Comments supply. We're wary that it could be a demo or something like that,

Dark Void dev diary focuses on that guy in front of the jetpack By David Hinkle (Joystiq)

jetpacking. Airtight Games wants us to know there's more to like about the guy and aimed to make For us, the worth of protagonist Will more in line with the typical Will in Dark Void isn't measured Japanese game protagonist -by his strengths as human being, more believable and less of a but really just his awesome "caricature." Submitted at 11/5/2009 6:30:00 AM

The above video diary also shows us how Nikola Tesla ended up in the game. Tesla is just one cool dude, whether he's being played by David Bowie, building super awesome defense towers for the Russians, or -- in

the case of Dark Void-spearheading an entire rebellion by inventing jetpacks and gigantic airships. Dark Void dev diary focuses on that guy in front of the jetpack originally appeared on Joystiq on

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GameStop creates additional digital media executive position By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) Submitted at 11/5/2009 4:27:00 AM

EA announces Mass Effect 2 Collector's Edition By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) Submitted at 11/5/2009 9:05:00 AM

Do you want your copy of Mass Effect 2 to have more mass? EA has you covered with the newly announced Mass Effect 2 Collector's Edition, available for $69.99 on Xbox 360 and $59.99 on PC. It includes pretty much what you'd expect from a collector's edition: a tin box, an art book, a DVD with making-of footage, and Issue 1 of the Mass Effect: Redemption comic. It also includes some unique weapons and armor for the game that are limited to this package. Of course, if you've bought Dragon Age's collector's edition,

this will be the second set of exclusive Mass Effect items you'll have earned from fancy game boxes! Mass Effect 2(and this classy variant) will be out January 26 in North America and January 29 in Europe. Check out the full box art and the armor in our gallery. Gallery: Mass Effect 2 Collector's Edition (PC, Xbox) EA announces Mass Effect 2 Collector's Edition originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

GameStop is serious about digital distribution-- and it's proved that by hiring another person to be in charge of it. Shawn D. Freeman will be the company's new senior vice president and general manager of digital business, taking a position By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) now calm down. You're panting. that the company has just created. It's going to be alright. After you Freeman has previously worked Submitted at 11/5/2009 5:29:00 AM pick up your copy of Band Hero as president of Ticketsnow.com If you're anything like us, you tonight, slowly remove the and senior vice president of threw off your Taylor Swift instruction manual from the resale for Ticketmaster, in comforter this morning, changed inside of the game box and a d d i t i o n t o p o s i t i o n s w i t h o u t o f t h o s e T a y l o r S w i f t simply enter the code from its Hotels.com and Handango. He'll jammies, and thought to yourself, back at this website. According be "responsible for overseeing "Today is one more day to win a to the site, you could supposedly and cultivating the company's chance to meet Taylor Swift." w i n s o m e o t h e r s t u f f o r d i g i t a l b u s i n e s s s t r a t e g y , " Thankfully, Activision and s o m e t h i n g , b u t w h a t e v e r . a c c o r d i n g t o G a m e S t o p ' s upcoming family-friendly music Allow Activision to introduce statement. He'll presumably be game Band Hero are teaming up you to Taylor Swift originally working closely with the general to make that dream a reality. appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 05 manager of digital media, who is If you purchase a copy of Band Nov 2009 05:29:00 EST. Please "developing and executing" the company's "digital acquisition Hero in the month of Novemeber see our terms for use of feeds. (why, that's this month!), you can Read| Permalink| Email this| strategy." [Via GamesIndustry.biz] enter for a chance for two to meet Comments GameStop creates additional Taylor Swift. Alright, alright, digital media executive position originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Alec Baldwin to Host the Oscars By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog)

Ratchet & Clank's primary audience isn't kids, but 20-somethings By Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) Submitted at 11/5/2009 3:22:00 AM

It probably comes as no surprise to you -- our well-informed and educated audience -- but the Ratchet & Clank series isn't just designed for the kids. Edge spoke with Insomniac writer TJ Fixman, who expressed that the primary audience for the weaponindulgent platformer is the "male 18-34" demographic. He notes that teens who played the first game back in 2002 are now in their twenties and stayed fans of the series. Fixman notes that males under 18 could be the "interchangeable

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“I realize that I’m the first man to host ELLE’s Women in Hollywood event, but I want to assure you that I didn’t steal this role from a more qualified woman—there was an audition process,“ insisted Alec Baldwin at ELLE’s star-studded affair two weeks ago. “Fortunately, the script called for me to move a couch, fall asleep in front of the TV, and open a particularly stubborn jar of pickles.” We primary-secondary market," but imagine the dapper 30 Rock star that the PS3 user base skews underwent a similarly rigorous older. He compares the Ratchet test to earn hosting duties at this s t y l e t o t h e S h r e k s e r i e s , season’s 2010 Oscars on March explaining that Insomniac tries to 7, which he’ll share with Steve find the right blend of humor Martin (the actors also team up that'll appeal to a large audience. f o r n e x t m o n t h ’ s I t ’ s Now the question remains: When Complicated, with Meryl Streep will we see Ratchet & Clank again? Ratchet & Clank's primary audience isn't kids, but 20somethings originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 (FOXNews.com) 03:22:00 EST. Please see our Submitted at 11/4/2009 7:14:26 AM terms for use of feeds. LOS ANGELES A former Read| Permalink| Email this| employee is suing the pastor of a Comments Los Angeles County church, claiming he sexually abused her over a period of years. Rev. Brenda Lamothe says in a complaint filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court that

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The Wall Street Journal is unveiling a San Francisco Bay Area edition today (Nov. 5.) NASDAQ OMX is the launch's official sponsor through the end of the year. The Bay Area news and events section will appear every Thursday in print in the A section and online on the paper's home page. The local edition is covering not only business, technology and economics, but also culture, sports, politics and education. The top story at launch is about the rising home prices in the upscale Silicon Valley town of Atherton. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Los Angeles Pastor Sued Over Alleged Sexual Abuse Rev. John J. Hunter of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church repeatedly demanded sex as part of "God's will." The lawsuit alleges Lamothe was fired in 2009 after she began to refuse his sexual demands. Hunter's attorney, Robert W. Brockman Jr., told the Los Angeles Times the allegations are categorically untrue.

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Azzaro: Young and Chic? By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 11/4/2009 11:43:12 AM

Azzaro has popped up in a new and chic incarnation. The Parisbased brand has typically been less of a contemporary line and more targeted towards a conservative customer. But for spring, Azzaro took a sharp turn and embodied a younger, fresher take on things, with short dresses, flapper-inspired shifts, and light, flirty frocks while still keeping the materials rich. And the crystal embellishments that they have used to accent their clothing for years were still there, but in a different way— for example, buttons being used down the side of a dress rather than for front closures. It's this little silver dropped-hem,

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Off To Asia for Lulu Guinness By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog)

the emerging Asian market and roll out the brand across Asia (excluding Japan.) Submitted at 11/4/2009 11:54:50 AM The Hong Kong-based Lulu Guinness, the designer best investment group bought a 15% known for her quirky handbags stake in the overall company, but and accessories, is about to take it's the whopping 50% interest in Asia by storm. Lulu is beloved in Lulu's Asian rollout that makes Britain; the Queen even bestowed you think this project is going to an OBE (Order of the British be a great success. Empire) on her, but it's her recent Lulu Guinness' iconic Perspex success in Japan that's brought Lips handbag about a joint venture with the —Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin First Eastern Investment Group. Follow ELLE on Twitter. The plan is to take advantage of Become our Facebook fan!

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What does it mean if you’re an Aquarius and he’s a Capricorn? Find out whether you and your significant other are compatible using our eerily accurate (and addictive) Love Chart, which tests the romantic potential for every astrological pairing and offers relationship advice (and don’t forget to check your daily horoscope). —Erin Clements Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become our Facebook fan!

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DVF's Cool Winter Whites By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog)

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The type of show in which a commercial airs can hinder or help the effectiveness of that advertising, says new research from the ANA Alliance for Family Entertainment. Sounds like common sense, but not for mass-market brands that need reach. The research suggests that advertisers may want to "give up on reach rather than go into a mediocre program," says Barbara Bacci Mirque, executive VP of the ANA Alliance. ,br> Running an ad in a show that matches its tone and provides appropriate context can boost ad effectiveness by more than 30%, per the ANA. In addition, brand equity scores for all commercials tested were negative when viewed in adult content. "Adultoriented brands need to be in adult context," says Jim Bechtold, a consultant who helped with the study. The ANA Alliance consists of blue-chip advertisers ranging from Coca-Cola, IBM Corp. and Walmart to Procter & Gamble. The group's collective advertising represents approximately 30% of all advertising spending in the U.S. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.