As White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs prepares to assume the vaguely defined role of outside consultant to President Obama’s next campaign, the president has picked Gibbs’ replacement in Jay Carney, who has already run in Obama’s close circles. Related Entries January 25, 2011 Life Sentence for Embassy Bomber January 16, 2011 With Friends Like These, Who Needs Democracy?
Continue reading …Motorola Atrix 4G goes up on AmazonWireless, $150 on February 11th — mistake? (update: Inspire 4G, too)
January 28, 2011 No Comment
We suspect the boys and girls over at AmazonWireless threw their Atrix 4G product page up early, because — among other red flags — the buy button doesn’t work, but one important detail we can glean from it is that they seem interested in selling it for $149.99 on a new contract or $599.99 off-contract. Now, there are a couple of possibilities here; first off, since the page likely isn’t supposed to be online, these prices might just be guesses or placeholders, but furthermore, keep in mind that AmazonWireless and other third-party wireless resellers typically charge less for devices on contract than carriers do, so we’d expect this to be at least $50 more directly from AT&T. Oh, and one other tidbit: searching for the phone on Amazon reveals a possible release date of February 11th, which would be even more aggressive than Moto’s end-of-February guidance . Again, possibly another guess or placeholder on Amazon’s part… but it’s a date to keep in the back of your head nonetheless. [Thanks, Roman] Update: Turns out the Inspire 4G is listed , too, for $99.99 on contract or $499.99 contract-free. Thanks, Justin S.! Motorola Atrix 4G goes up on AmazonWireless, $150 on February 11th — mistake? (update: Inspire 4G, too) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Alberto Contador is expected to lose his title as the winner of the 2010 Tour de France and be banned from cycling for a full year, the Telegraph reports. The decision is not yet official, but the Spanish Cycling Federation has recommended the punishment, meaning that Contador has 10 days…
Continue reading …Mike Mills’ ‘Beginners’ Trailer Starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent
January 28, 2011 No Comment
[1] Mike Mills is a famous New York graphic artist who designed promotional material and album covers for such acts as Beastie Boys, Beck, Sonic Youth, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. He moved on to directing music videos for such artists as Moby, Yoko Ono and Air, and became a very successful commercial director. Mills made his feature directorial debut in 2005 with a big screen adaptation of Thumbsucker,… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 28/01/2011 01:00 Number of articles : 3
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In Arizona, everyone is freaked out about the violence by Mexican drug cartels south of their border, which was one of the reasons we repeatedly heard from leading state officials as one of their excuses for passing SB1070. But then it turns out that the ease with which you can buy a gun in Arizona is fueling that violence directly : The seizure of more than 700 guns and the indictments of 34 people announced on Tuesday are further confirmation that Arizona has become an iron highway for weapons into Mexico, according to federal authorities. Many legal purchases by straw buyers at Arizona gun stores are being financed and orchestrated by Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, federal officials said. The cases announced Tuesday involved the purchases of many AK-47s, .50-caliber rifles and other semiautomatic weapons in single-day transactions at gun stores by straw buyers paid by the cartel, U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke said. “This is a huge problem in this state. It is a strange phenomenon,” Burke said at a news conference at the Phoenix office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives. “Drug cartels go shopping for their war weapons here in Arizona.” At least 17 people were arrested Tuesday in five cases involving a joint crackdown by the ATF, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the Internal Revenue Service and the Phoenix Police Department. Gee, I can remember when, a couple of years ago, Obama administration officials pointed out that many of the guns being used by the Mexican drug cartels were being originating in the USA — and the NRA and Glenn Beck exploded in angry denial, implying that such imprecations upon the fine name of American arms sellers was an attack on the Constitution itself! Click here to view this media [H/t Jamie]
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This Is Smile-Inducing, You Should Watch It of the Day: Precious elderly couple does a daring interpretive dance number to Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody”; retroactively wins every dance contest ever forever. [ popwatch .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 28/01/2011 00:56 Number of articles : 3
Continue reading …Hubble telescope sees furthest galaxy, 13.2 billion light years from Earth
January 27, 2011 No Comment
If you think Star Wars took place in a galaxy far, far away, you should probably prepare to have your perceptions of distance rocked. NASA astronomers believe they’ve laid their eyes what appears to be the most distant object ever spotted by humans… in the history of mankind, no less. The galaxy was first peeked back in 2009, but NASA has just confirmed (via that trusty Hubble contraption) that what it saw is actually the oldest known galaxy in existence. At a distance of 13.2 billion light years away, this galaxy is a staggering 150 million years older than the previous record-setting collection of stars. The cluster of blue stars is just a tiny galaxy, though — NASA says you’d need hundreds of these little groups to make up our Milky Way. Head past the break for a closer shot of the constellation, otherwise known as a nondescript red pixel. Continue reading Hubble telescope sees furthest galaxy, 13.2 billion light years from Earth Hubble telescope sees furthest galaxy, 13.2 billion light years from Earth originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Scratch one off the list: Mike Pence says he won’t run for president in 2012. The conservative congressman from Indiana told supporters of his decision in a letter, reports the Indianapolis Star . “In the choice between seeking national office and serving Indiana in some capacity, we choose Indiana,” wrote Pence…
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Yes, the composer of such children’s song classics “Baby Beluga” and “Down by the Bay” is worried about future generations — and rightfully so. As he writes in an essay for Child Honouring : Are we tweeting while Earth burns? Is climate collapse our new collective Titanic? How do we best describe the survival struggle of 7 billion in a way that connects with the public and with decision makers? The scienc… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …The Illinois Supreme Court put Rahm Emanuel back on the ballot for Chicago mayor today, reviving his campaign to lead the country’s third-largest city. In the unanimous ruling, the justices called the appeals court’s basis for deciding that Emanuel could not be on the ballot “without any foundation in Illinois…
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