1. Google Patents Displaying Patents 1 hour ago   permalink

Timothy / Slashdot

Theodp writes "Google has actually managed to patent displaying patents. The USPTO issued US Patent No. D603,866 to six Google inventors for their Graphical user interface for display screen of a communications terminal. Among the six inventors is the guy who introduced Google Patents. Ironically, Google Patents can't seem to find the new Google ...

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News.cnet.com GrandCentral Web site to jump the tracks   —  Google sent out an e-mail to GrandCentral users Saturday announcing that it will be closing down the GrandCentral Web site on December 31. Google Voice, of course, is the new version of the GrandCentral technology Google acquired in July 2007. Under the service, people pick a phone number from Google Voice; when others call it, Google can ring ...

Soulskill / Slashdot Chrome OS and Android "Will Likely Converge" In the Future   —  Xchg writes "When Google first announced that the company would be pursuing development of two distinct operating systems, many questioned Google's motivation. 'Google executives, including CEO Eric Schmidt, have downplayed the conflict ever since, asking for time to let the projects evolve. And a few days after Chrome OS was revealed, Android ...

2. Senate Democrats at odds over health care bill 18 minutes ago   permalink

Yahoo! News

AP - Senate Democrats on Sunday sparred with each other over how to fix the nation's troubled health care system, the moderates threatening to scuttle legislation if their demands weren't met and more liberal members warning their party leaders not to bend.

3. Search the Database 29 minutes ago   permalink

Www.elec.state.nj.us

Search for Contributions to Candidates or Committees

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Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf :   New Online Databases from the State of Louisana and State of New Jersey

4. Lethal injection creator fine with 1 drug in Ohio 32 minutes ago   permalink

Yahoo! News

AP - The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one — as his home state of Ohio has proposed — as long as the drug works efficiently.

5. Iraq: 1,000 Sacrificial Iraqis 2 hours ago   permalink

Amira Al Hussaini / Global Voices Online

Iraqi Layla Anwar comments on news from Iraq which says that 1,000 Iraqis may be executed on Eid Al Adha - an upcoming Islamic holiday.

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Arabwomanblues.blogspot.com 1000 Sacrificial Lambs for the Eid.   —  Who am I ? The eternal Question . Have not figured it out fully yet . All you need to know about me is that I am a Middle Easterner, an Arab Woman - into my 40's and old enough to know better. I have no homeland per se. I live in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Egypt simultaneously...All the rest is icing on the cake. Copyrights ... Amira Al Hussaini / Global Voices Online :    Iraq: 1,000 Sacrificial Iraqis

6. High-tech baby sitters get drivers off phone 1 hour ago   permalink

Www.mercurynews.com

Dede Haskins' cell phone has been her constant companion for more than a decade. And she has always considered herself a careful driver — even using a hands-free set so she could keep both hands on the wheel.

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Yahoo! News :   Newspaper circulation may be worse than it looks

7. Waste firm values have plenty room to rise: report 1 hour ago   permalink

Yahoo! News

Reuters - Current valuations of waste managers such as Waste Connections Inc , Waste Management Inc and Republic Services Inc give the company's shares a lot of room to rise, according to a Barron's story.

8. Library Fights Porn by Making Sites Load Slowly Using a “Bandwidth Shaper” 1 hour ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Article: Neerman says Internet filters don’t work, and that a large part of objectionable material derives from popular social networking sites such as YouTube or Facebook, or attachments to e-mail, which would not be practical for the library to block. So until recently, the Greensboro system relied solely on monitoring by staff ...

9. Library Users and Non-Users – A Bibliography from the OCLC Library 1 hour ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

This bibliography contains 50 entries and was compiled by Tam Dalrymple, Senior Information Specialist in the OCLC Library. The OCLC Library has begun a collection of studies on how libraries fit into people’s information-seeking behavior. Right now we are concentrating on published books, reports or dissertations, rather than articles, and are ...

10. It's not a Football match for God's Sake 2 hours ago   permalink

Notgr33ndata.blogspot.com

During the early days of the internet, the Egyptians were surprised to know that people living in Europe and the US believe that we live in tents and travel by camels. I am sure that the internet has helped western people now to be more reasonable and they only need few strokes on their keyboards to know that we started using cars more then one ...

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Amira Al Hussaini / Global Voices Online :   Egypt: It's not the football

11. Bahrain: Wedding Questions 2 hours ago   permalink

Amira Al Hussaini / Global Voices Online

If you were living in Bahrain and planning a wedding, where would you want to hold it? Find out the answer at London2Bahrain.

12. Jordan: The London Circus 2 hours ago   permalink

Amira Al Hussaini / Global Voices Online

Lama J from Jordan writes about her visit to the UK and then Canada in this post.

13. Dirty Secrets of Black Friday 'Doorbusters' 2 hours ago   permalink

Finance.yahoo.com

Here are a few things bargain-hungry consumers need to know before they hit stores before dawn the day after Thanksgiving. Here's a Black Friday reality check: Of the hordes of pre-dawn shoppers who line up for hours outside stores on the day after Thanksgiving, most will not bag the best bargains that appear in merchants' circulars.

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CNET :   The Black Friday deals that aren't

14. It's a Girl! Astronaut's Daughter Born While He's in Space 4 hours ago   permalink

SPACE.com

Talk about one proud papa. Astronaut Randy Bresnik is beaming with joy at the arrival of his new baby daughter, who was born late today while he circled the Earth.

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The Earth Times Online Newspaper Shuttle astronaut becomes father in space   —  Washington - An astronaut aboard the US shuttle Atlantis was over the moon after becoming the father of a baby girl hours after completing a spacewalk on Saturday. Randy Bresnik had waited with bated breath for two days until he was given the news th...

SPACE.com Astronauts Unfazed by False Alarms in Space   —  Astronauts on the linked shuttle Atlantis and International Space Station said Friday that they're not worried about recent false alarms that disrupted their sleep with erroneous reports of calamity.

15. Has Twitter peaked? 2 hours ago   permalink

News.cnet.com

I was just sending a tweet about some excellent chicken livers I'd eaten when I espied some information that made my acid perform a refluctive motion. According to eMarketer, three different digital actuaries declared that Twitter traffic has performed a slight plummet.

16. No More Fair-Price Refund For Declining XP EULA 2 hours ago   permalink

Timothy / Slashdot

Mark0 writes "Getting a fair-price refund from Amazon or Asus after declining the Windows XP EULA appears to be a thing of the past. In contrast to reports from the US and the UK from earlier in the year, Amazon simply refuses and provides information to contact Microsoft. Asus is offering US$6. Despite being confronted with publicly available ...

17. 2009 H1N1-Related Deaths, Hospitalizations and Cases: Details of Extrapolations and Ranges: United States, Emerging ... 4 hours ago   permalink

Shirl Kennedy / Docuticker

2009 H1N1-Related Deaths, Hospitalizations and Cases: Details of Extrapolations and Ranges: United States, Emerging Infections Program (EIP) Data (PDF; 34 KB) Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (HHS) In order to provide a fuller and more accurate picture of the burden of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic on the United States, CDC has ...

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Shirl Kennedy / Docuticker Public Fund Survey Summary of Findings for FY 2008   —  Public Fund Survey Summary of Findings for FY 2008 (PDF; 245 KB) Source: National Association of State Retirement Administrations The Public Fund Survey is an online compendium of key characteristics of the nation’s largest public retirement systems and is sponsored by the National Association of State Retirement Administrators and the ...

18. Movie Review: A Christmas Carol - When Effects and Story Work 4 hours ago   permalink

Video reviews articles at Blogcritics

Some well animated movies have poor scripts and lack quality. A Christmas Carol has both and makes the grade.

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Video reviews articles at Blogcritics Movie Review: 2012   —  You might as well rent one of Roland Emmerich's other movies - in the end you'll get the same effect.

19. Promoting Healthy Skepticism in the News: Helping Journalists Get It Right 3 hours ago   permalink

Jnci.oxfordjournals.org

Affiliations of authors: Center for Medicine in the Media, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Hanover, NH (SW, LMS); VA Outcomes Group (111B), Veteran Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, VT (SW, LMS); Office of Disease Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (BSK)

20. TV Review: White Collar - "The Portrait" 4 hours ago   permalink

Video reviews articles at Blogcritics

What happens when a crime is committed? For those who wear a badge, everyone becomes a suspect. The only tricky part is narrowing the list down to the right person. Evidence generally helps in that arena. A good forensic technician can find the specific piece of evidence which fits one person out of the tiniest part.

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Video reviews articles at Blogcritics TV Review: Did the Mob Kill JFK? and JFK: The Ruby Connection on The Discovery Channel   —  One of the most enduring mysteries in modern America continues to baffle investigators and history buffs.