20 Nov 2009 04:12 pm
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Jewishworldreview.com
Sarah Palin and the Future of Conservatism
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| I'm sure I would like Sarah Palin if I got the chance to meet her. We share many things in common. She is still married to her first spouse, as am I. She has a Down syndrome son. I have a brother with Down syndrome. We share the same faith and we both like the outdoors. She is conservative on economic and social ...
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Scriptingnewsmail
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Scripting News
I had an interesting but somewhat disturbing exchange with a Google guy on Twitter today. It reveals a bunch of disconnects, that I'm going to try, in this post, to address. 1. Please take these statements at face value. 2. I am just a person, I am not in competition with Google. 3. I am a Google user. My primary email account is on GMail. I just ...
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Www.insideria.com
Google Closure: A New Way of Developing in JavaScript
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Every day million people make use of Google products and these products are written mainly using one well known language: JavaScript! What makes this online software stable, fast and responsive is a good use of the language and an excellent system of data compression and asynchronous loading. Today this power is available to everyone, since ...
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Www.onpointradio.org
Google vs. Murdoch
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Murdoch’s target is the biggest kid on the Internet block: Google. The News Corp chief says Google has essentially been stealing the news from companies like his and giving it away for free. It’s got to stop, he says.
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Scriptingnewsmail
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Scripting News
Where is RSS?
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I watched the morning session of TechCrunch's second realtime conference, including the half hour interview with Dick Costolo, the COO of Twitter. Of course Mike Arrington asked him the "Is RSS Dead?" question, and thankfully Costolo didn't want to go there. It would be ingracious of him, of course, because he made $100 million with RSS. He said ...
Www.onpointradio.org
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google
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We had a rousing -- at times heated — discussion this morning on Rupert Murdoch’s threat to block news content from Google, and what it means about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill.
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That's the trouble with populism: the populace can get mad if they don't get all their books signed. My favorite insult yelled at Palin in Indiana: "Quitting on the job right there!":
Programming is more fun when you keep score. The extreme programming (XP) development model popularized the idea of test-driven development (TDD) with professional programmers in mind. But TDD turns out to be even more useful for lone amateur programmers, because it provides much needed motivation in the form of more visible rewards for your work.
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Jake
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LWN.net
Fedora 12 was released on November 17 with the usual pile of new packages and features. By the sounds, it is a solid, well-received release. But one feature—unpublicized, undocumented, and turned on by default—has a number of Fedora users up in arms, leading to a huge thread on fedora-devel, in the bugzilla entry , and here at LWN . ...
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Jake
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LWN.net
Fedora 12 to remove unprivileged package installation
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Fedora project leader Paul Frields has announced that the PackageKit policy that allowed non-root users to install packages will be changed. " After more discussion and thought, though, the package maintainers have posted to the fedora-devel-list mailing list agreeing to provide an update to Fedora 12's PackageKit. The update will require local ...
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Steven Sinofsky may not be talking about Microsoft's future Windows plans, but the Windows Server team appears to see more value in letting customers know its roadmap.
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Msftkitchen.com
Windows 8: More Roadmaps
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Any usage of the terms Microsoft, MSFT, and any products or images derivative thereof, are trademarked by Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Kitchen is not affiliated with Microsoft Corporation in any way, shape or form.
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Video of Angry Wingnuts Booing Sarah Palin, Calling Her a “Quitter” & Chanting “Sign Our Books” Teabaggers just aren’t happy about anything these days. I guess the Noblesville, Indiana Going Rogue book signing didn’t go very well yesterday because 300* or so of the 1000 people with wristbands were asked not ...
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Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
The Fundamentalist Era, Ctd
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The day Palin's book came out I wrote the original review on Amazon that you quoted from buzzfeed ("So what if Sarah Palin didn't write this book? Even God used early scribes to write the Bible,"), although someone named "Moe Lang" later came along and quoted me. The scary thing is, I don't know if Moe was ...
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U.S. electric-car maker Tesla Motors plans to go public soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, amid growing interest in green technology and battery-powered vehicles.
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Reviews.cnet.com
Tesla turns a profit
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Upstart Tesla Motors proved the time is ripe for a new car company, reporting a profit of approximately $1 million on revenue of $20 million for the month of July. Tesla reduced its cost to build its electric sports car, while introducing the more expensive Roadster Sport model to its model line-up. The company shipped 109 cars in July, its ...
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From various bat squeaks I’ve put together a view of what I think lies behind the surprising — and damaging — deficit squeamishness of the Obama administration. So here’s what I think they’re thinking — and why it’s wrong-headed. (Fairly wonkish stuff after the jump).
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Gawker
Nikki Finke OWNS the Oprah Winfrey story. She broke the news that Winfrey would leave the show three weeks ago. And she got the transcript of Oprah's announcement up on her site bright and early this morning. By stealing it. Finke posted embedded video of a small portion of Winfrey's remarks at 9:45 a.m. California time, roughly an hour and forty-
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BRIAN STELTER
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NYT
A Tearful Winfrey Explains Her Departure
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Oprah Winfrey confirmed to viewers what she told her staff members on Thursday afternoon: that she is ending her successful daytime talk show in September 2011.
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Hamilton Nolan
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Gawker
From Rhett & Link, the guys who brought you the ad that all ads should probably be like , comes this new spot for the Central Florida Zoo. Their relentless honesty requires it to focus totally on excrement. [ Adfreak]
When the Marines of "America's Battalion" first arrived in Afghanistan, they were eager to get into the fight against the Taliban. Now, as they wrap up their seven-month deployment — and after the loss of a dozen comrades — they see warfare in a different light.
 
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Slashdot
Ricky writes "Many wonder why Microsoft doesn't offer nightly builds of Internet Explorer — or at least something more frequent than months-to-years. Ars talks with Microsoft's general manager for IE, who says the IE9 development cycle will look much the same as previous versions. Not a great idea." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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LWN.net
Sam Ravnborg, long-time maintainer of the kernel build (kbuild) subsystem, has announced his intention to step down from that role. " I have done this solely on a hobbyist basis and family (3 kids etc) + job require me so the kbuild maintainer job was becoming a duty and not that fun suddenly. " It's not clear who the replacement will be. Thanks ...
Patenting podcasting? You've got to be kidding. Yet a company called Volomedia just got the Patent Office to grant them such exclusive rights. EFF and the law firm of Howrey, LLP aren’t willing to just sit by and watch. This patent could threaten the vibrant community of podcasters and millions of podcast listeners. We want to put a stop to it, ...
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Brian Moylan
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Gawker
The Tinz just wrapped shooting for her reality show and it looks like her showmance, Prince Casimir Wittgenstein-Sayn , has gotten the boot for a new beau. Who's the lucky guy? Former American Idol contestant Constantine Maroulis . What?! Maroulis is currently starring in hair band jukebox musical Rock of Ages on Broadway. Tinsley went to see ...
This week two panels of medical experts recommended fewer screening tests for breast and cervical cancer. The idea of evidence-based medicine is that the decisions made between doctors and patients should be based on scientific studies. Yet people don't always want to do what the data say to do — whether it be about screening, or treatment.
 
GUY TREBAY
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NYT
THINK globally, act virally. Like a cartoon thought bubble, that notion seems to hang in the mild afternoon air here, as school lets out early on parent-teacher conference day at Alexander Hamilton High School. At two o’clock precisely, students flood from a 1930s brick building evocative of Andy Hardy movies. If you are 130 years old, you ...
 
Rob Beschizza
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Boing Boing
Behold! The Rings of the Earth....
A band of right-wing activists ransacked an Indian television station in the country's financial hub of Mumbai in an assault their party said was an act of retaliation against the channel's "bias" against their veteran leader.
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