As if voters don’t have enough to be angry about this election year, the government is expected to announce that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through another year without an increase in their monthly benefits. (Oct. 10)
Continue reading …Don Surber has the eye-opening poll results : It was a simple, straightforward question from the Rasmussen Poll: “Whose Judgment You Trust More on Economic Issues?” The choices were yourself or President Obama. From mainstream America came the reply: 77% of likely voters said themselves. Only 16% are weenies. But among the political class — our moral and intellectual superiors — only 5% trust their own judgment over the president’s. 92% said Obama. It is easier to fool the people who think they know everything, which explains the establishment’s embrace of this rookie. We need a new political class.
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Sydney’s Harbour Bridge was transformed into a massive picnic site on Sunday morning for the second annual Breakfast on the Bridge event. (10 Oct 2010)
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Self portrait from Coupland.com The Globe and Mail publishes author and artist Douglas Coupland’s 45 predictions for the future, and they include some real bummers. A few picks: 1) It’s going to get worse No silver linings and no lemonade. The elevator only goes down. The bright note is that the elevator will, at some point, stop. 2) The future isn’t going to feel futuristic It’s simply going to feel weird and out-of-control… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Outraged city leaders say New York won’t tolerate the “vicious” hatred that had apparently caused a gang to allegedly beat and torture 2 teenage boys and a man inside an abandoned home over the course of several hours because they were gay. (Oct. 10)
Continue reading …How bad do the Dems want to retain control of the House?
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Photo: Steve & Jemma Copley via Flickr We know that deconstructing huge industrial ships for parts (ie. shipbreaking ) can have a huge negative environmental and health impact in developing nations, but what about smaller water craft? In the so-called “Holy Island” of Lindisfarne , a windswept tidal island located just off of the north-east coast of England, there’s a local custom where retired ships are turned upside d… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …The NY Times 538 Blog is one of many sites handicapping the midterm election and rating each district according to the likelihood of a takeover by the opposing party.
Continue reading …Angry Birds developer claims Microsoft jumped the gun, Rovio ‘not committed’ to Windows Phone 7
October 10, 2010 No Comment
Software developers make or break a platform, as Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer once famously stressed, but that shiny new Windows Phone 7 site has angered a mildly important one of them. Rovio Mobile, developer of the wildly popular Angry Birds game for iPhone, Android and webOS, tweets that it’s presently ‘not committed’ to bring the game to Windows Phone, and that the above icon is being used in Microsoft marketing completely without permission. While it’s possible this is just some sort of mix-up and Rovio just wanted to make its own announcement (“nothing to do with if we do or don’t, it’s just that we decide that ourselves,” the company added in a later tweet), it’s not the first time Microsoft’s engaged in shady business to inflate its new app store. Angry Birds developer claims Microsoft jumped the gun, Rovio ‘not committed’ to Windows Phone 7 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A Russian capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, bringing three new residents. The two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut are joining three others at the space station. Their mission will last 5-and-a-half months. (Oct. 10)
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